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David Baddiel tries to understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam. Show more

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In an increasingly public world, does the approach to private space need re-evaluating? Mark Tully considers the need for privacy with design historian Penny Sparke. Show more

Brett Westwood joins Andy Beal at Morton's Leam, a 15th Century river drainage channel that is home to the spined loach; one of Britain's rarest vertebrates. Show more

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Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid. Show more

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What does it mean to 'seek the peace and prosperity of the city'?. The outworking of God's command is the theme of a service from Lisburn Cathedral in Co Antrim. Show more

Will Self laments our growing lack of physical contact with one another and with the natural world as a result of the rise of technology. Show more

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Kirsty Young talks to Angie Hobbs, professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Show more

David Mitchell asks Lloyd Langford, Josh Widdicombe, Susan Calman and David O'Doherty to hide truths in lies. From January 2015. Show more

Dan Saladino discovers a global movement rethinking the most widely cultivated food plant on Earth - wheat. Show more

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Giles Fraser explores the tricky personal moral dilemmas involved in responding to the fact that some other people are poorer than you are. Show more

Peter Gibbs is at the University of Reading for a correspondence edition of the programme. The panel answers horticultural questions sent in by post, email and social media. Show more

Fi Glover introduces conversations between mothers and daughters, who talk about art, blindness and the importance of conversation. Show more

Tensions within the town grow as Chris and Robert help the spinners prepare for strike action. But nothing can prepare the family for the tragic events that are about to unfold. Show more

Judith Kerr discusses her classic novel for children When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, based on her childhood experience of her family's flight from Nazi Germany. With James Naughtie. Show more

Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems from Ted Hughes, WH Auden, Gillian Clarke and others.

Where have all the nurses gone? In the middle of a winter crisis, why is the NHS so short of staff and how much is it costing to plug the gaps? Jane Deith reports. Show more

Peter Bradshaw imagines Henry VIII travelling forward 500 years to seek out Wolf Hall, but the king becomes far more interested in Greece and the bishop of Stockport. Show more

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Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights. Show more

Helen is torn. Meanwhile, David is feeling the strain. Show more

Plagued by writer's block, novelist Ginny Fox visits Vera at the castle. But their tranquil idyll is shattered by the explosive arrival of Venus Traduces. From October 2012. Show more

4 Extra Debut. The discovery of a body turns an archaeological dig into a crime scene. But who is the murderer? Read by Conleth Hill. Show more

Tim Harford on the Conservatives' employment claims, farmers losing money on milk, unhappy teachers, teen pregnancies, using maths to find a partner, and pregnancy due dates. Show more

Matthew Bannister talks about businessman Sir Jack Hayward, mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova, novelist Robert Stone, social worker Jean Stogdon and Greek singer Demis Roussos. Show more

The new fraud of telephone number spoofing, more compensation for bank customers, comparison websites under fire, and are pension providers ready for April's pension revolution? Show more

Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid. Show more

Lucy Ash explores the Russian military strategy of deception - maskirovka - from its use against invading Mongols in the 14th century to the current crisis in Ukraine. Show more

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John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses his Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice. Stephen Daldry on filming in the favelas of Rio. The ABC Minors and Odeon Film Club remembered. Show more

In an increasingly public world, does the approach to private space need re-evaluating? Mark Tully considers the need for privacy with design historian Penny Sparke. Show more

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Laurie Taylor asks how severe headaches came to be seen as a by-product of femininity. Also, 'chavs and 'pramfaces': Prof Anoop Nayek discusses the denigration of the working class. Show more

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