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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mike Ford. Show more

Anna Hill finds out how the garden designer Bunny Guinness manages to be almost self-sufficient on her eight-acre smallholding in Cambridgeshire. Show more

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The Little Egret - Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound. Show more

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Discussion programme that sets the cultural agenda for the week. Tom Sutcliffe talks to writers Vikram Seth, Nick Groom and Olivia Laing and ecologist Nick Davies. Show more

6 Music's Cerys Matthews, with Nancy Sinatra, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Emily Eavis, Nadine Shah, Ed Sheeran songwriter Amy Wadge, and festival director Fiona Stewart. Show more

Two families who arrived in the village many years ago to avoid the fighting now fear they must flee again. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Matthew Sweet explores audio description - a cinematic universe created by using evocative and poetic language. From 2015. Show more

Australian-born comic Deborah tries to find her real father, but can her birth mother remember who he is? From May 2015. Show more

Dominic Lawson interviews the snooker star Steve Davis, who dominated the green baize for much of the 1980s. Show more

Consumer affairs programme. Can gazumping ever be stopped? Plus holiday car rentals, whether private tutoring is only for the rich, pickpockets and house removals. Show more

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News and current affairs presented by Martha Kearney, plus Election Call with UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Show more

It is Dawn Chorus Day, and the plot thickens for David. Show more

A day of rest behind the lines is not easy for Mickey Bliss and his Signals colleagues. A time not only for parcels, a haircut and a drink or two, but also for bad temper. Show more

Sheila Dillon presents the ceremony that honours the people who have done the most to promote the cause of good food in Britain in 2015. Show more

Maya Angelou faces dragons, Ted Hughes wrestles goblins, Charles Bukowski interrupts, Susan Sontag gets drunk on books, and Elizabeth Bowen catches a bad case of Henry James. Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores the basic human impulse of people watching. We are aware how we perform when we know we are being looked at online but hear little about those watching.

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Sue Perkins sets ethical and moral conundra for Nathan Caton, Celia Pacquola, Dan Snow and Natalie Haynes. From May 2015. Show more

It is May Day on the village green, and David helps out. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews. John Wilson talks to the American composer Philip Glass about his life and music. Show more

Two families who arrived in the village many years ago to avoid the fighting now fear they must flee again. Show more

Many thousands seem to suffer from extreme physical reactions to everyday man-made chemicals. Jane Little sets out on a global road trip to explore their illness. Show more

In India, a wrestler in the family can mean a ticket out of poverty. Rupa Jha meets the young fighters determined to get to the top and overcome India's complex caste system. Show more

Linda Geddes investigates concerns that specialist techniques are dying out and that cuts to police budgets are putting forensic testing in jeopardy. Show more

Discussion programme that sets the cultural agenda for the week. Tom Sutcliffe talks to writers Vikram Seth, Nick Groom and Olivia Laing and ecologist Nick Davies. Show more

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Labour considering possibility of minority coalition with Liberal Democrats

County Clare, Ireland, 1980. Rosaleen Madigan, on hearing that golden boy Dan is to join the priesthood, takes to her bed in a fit of pique. Show more

The Now Show gang present a series of election specials. Hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, with Sarah Kendall, Andrew O'Neill, Laura Shavin, Philip Collins and Mitch Benn. Show more

Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at the names people give to family relationships, like step, half or 'blended', with Dr Wednesday Martin. What effect do the words chosen have? Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Antony Sher recounts creating and performing his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff – an iconic role he never intended to take. Show more

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