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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Johnston McKay. Show more

Anna Hill hears about a voluntary beef code, introduced with the aim of giving more stability to the market and improving relationships between beef farmers and meat processors. Show more

Chris Packham presents the fieldfare. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's celebrated economic treatise The Wealth of Nations. Show more

Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial: what do French women think? Why are parents reluctant to access counselling for children? And diplomat-turned-novelist Jean Harrod. With Jenni Murray. Show more

Tabby attempts to hide the truth but Iona plays her at her own game. Starring Lyndsey Marshal and Olwen May. Show more

The reporter hurt by a suggestion he works for a boring broadcaster, plus reflections on the trade from a man who spent 27 years abroad and filed 10,000 news stories. Show more

Thabiso Mohare talks to Johannesburg-based writers and poets, including Ivan Vladislavic, who has documented the changing city in his novels and non-fiction work. Show more

Luke has low expectations of an assignment, until he meets Esther O'Leary. Show more

As Parliament passes a new law to abolish modern slavery, John Waite tracks down victims whose lives as slaves in Britain will continue unabated. Show more

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Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.

Andrew Dilnot charts the history of the British state through its numbers: the world of taxes. From 2015. Show more

Shula confides, and Rob has an answer to prayer. Show more

By Furquan Akhtar. Hard-hitting drama. Shabana's son has been arrested for a very serious crime. She is determined to be supportive and to clear his name. Show more

Clare Balding joins a men's group who meet every winter solstice to walk to the top of the Stiperstones in Shropshire as a way of bonding as a group of fathers. Show more

Sister Frances Dominica presents an appeal on behalf of React. Show more

Anne Tyler on her new novel A Spool of Blue Thread, Elizabeth Harrower on publishing again after four decades and a close reading of Muriel Spark's manipulative Miss Jean Brodie. Show more

The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Antonia Quirke talks to three Oscar nominees as they head off to the Academy Awards for the first time in their lives. Show more

Adam Rutherford examines how science is addressing the urgency for new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, plus a unique study with twins on the effects of long-term space travel. Show more

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Ed Byrne hosts as Britain’s Hal Cruttenden and Holly Walsh take on Henning Wehn and Fredrik Andersson from overseas. From 2015. Show more

It is the SAVE jumble sale, and David is exhausted with lambing. Show more

Including Johnny Vegas on going from potter to comic, former RSC artistic director Terry Hands remembers Alan Howard, novelist Javier Marias, and Julianne Moore talks about Oscars. Show more

Tabby attempts to hide the truth but Iona plays her at her own game. Starring Lyndsey Marshal and Olwen May. Show more

A six-year-old was excluded from school because of a salted snack in his lunch box. Can children be excluded because of their parents' actions? Presented by Joshua Rozenberg. Show more

Fake snow, a plastic hairbrush and a non-spill baby beaker: Three entrepreneurs discuss with Evan Davis how their ideas became multimillion-pound businesses. Show more

Adam Rutherford examines how science is addressing the urgency for new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, plus a unique study with twins on the effects of long-term space travel. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's celebrated economic treatise The Wealth of Nations. Show more

German, Greek leaders speak for nearly an hour on phone in attempt to reach compromise

After the death of her beloved mother, Zoe makes an unexpected choice. Postwar tale of love and freedom. Read by Pennie Downie. Show more

Missing for six years, Brian has stories to tell. He relives his adventures in Gravinia. Stars Neil Pearson. From July 2012. Show more

Josie Long presents stories of blackouts, late nights and bedtime stories from elderly erotica to post blackout love. From 2014. Show more

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Alexandra struggles to keep afloat, when it seems her risk-free life in the US was an illusion. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman. Show more

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Commentary on New Zealand v England in the ICC World Cup from Wellington with Jonathan Agnew, Bryan Waddle, Geoff Boycott and Jeremy Coney. Show more