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A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye.

Scotland debates land reform, but is it land reform or a land grab? A Somerset man is injured by giant hogweed and Sir Jim Paice stands down as chairman of dairy co-op First Milk. Show more

Kate Humble presents the willow warbler. Show more

Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster, where David Cameron faces challenges over plans to cut welfare spending, and the home secretary responds to the disruption at Calais. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles, the organisms thriving in very harsh conditions on Earth and providing clues to life forms on other planets. Show more

Kellie Maloney discusses a career in boxing before and after gender realignment surgery, plus engineer Tamsin Smith, and how girls are learning about periods. With Jane Garvey. Show more

Darleen continues her GCSE English course with difficulty. The couple also struggle with the impending eviction notice and rising debt. Show more

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Charleston in the US, Corfu, Nepal, Madagascar and Malta, where loving birds and shooting them is not a contradiction. Show more

Writer Ken Hollings examines how an artistic device called the 'cut-up' has been employed by artists and satirists to create new meanings from pre-existing recorded words. Show more

Ivy goes for a quiet lunch with Hilary Pearce. Show more

Consumer affairs programme. Airbnb fake emails, haulage problems, student complaints, 'black box' car insurance, Dutch care, and environmental data to be made public. Show more

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Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. Show more

Veterans of the First World War from the Anzac Corps and the British Army recall the chaos and aftermath of the landings at Gallipoli in April 1915. With Dan Snow. Show more

Is there hope for the Fairbrothers? There is despair for Kenton. Show more

A stage magician arrives in town just before a jewel robbery at Edinburgh Castle. Show more

Clare Balding joins the Red Ramblers, members of the local Labour party, as they enjoy walking in the countryside after weeks of trudging pavements in the run-up to the election. Show more

Katie Derham presents an appeal for Music in Hospitals. Show more

Sunjeev Sahota talks about his startling new novel The Year of the Runaways, and Janice Galloway discusses her new collection of short stories. Mariella Frostrup presents. Show more

With Francine Stock. Lisa Simone discusses a new documentary about her mother Nina, and Peter Bogdanovich on why he is finishing an Orson Welles film started four decades ago. Show more

Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to treat malaria that offers possibilities of both a prevention and treatment, and how new technology sheds light on our voice box. Show more

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The government's 38 billion pound plan to modernise the railways is in doubt.

Policeman turned comic Alfie Moore asks what is 'reasonable force'? How far can you go to defend yourself? From 2015. Show more

Roy has a party to plan, and Brian is feeling rattled. Show more

Arts news, including Asif Kapadia on his Amy Winehouse documentary, Paul Weller investigating an exhibition about the Jam, and the Escher retrospective reviewed. With John Wilson. Show more

Darleen continues her GCSE English course with difficulty. The couple also struggle with the impending eviction notice and rising debt. Show more

As justice secretary Michael Gove says the courts are failing the poor, Joshua Rozenberg brings together an expert panel to discuss how the system could do better. Show more

How to spot the next Google, Paypal or LinkedIn. Three successful entrepreneurs tell Evan Davis how they use their own money to kick-start promising new businesses. Show more

Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to treat malaria that offers possibilities of both a prevention and treatment, and how new technology sheds light on our voice box. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles, the organisms thriving in very harsh conditions on Earth and providing clues to life forms on other planets. Show more

Mandatory quotas have been rejected, but will they agree to share the load? Show more

After the Wall Street crash depression hits New York City, Mazie has her work cut out as the Venice serves a different need. Show more

Joe and Terry want to throw Stuart a birthday party while Nicola meets a very handsome man. Stars Mathew Horne. From 2015. Show more

Susan Hulme and team report from Westminster on the railway projects to be cut or delayed and the latest figures on child poverty. Show more

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With reference to Claes Oldenburg and his exaggerated works, Julian Barnes considers the jolly japes of pop art and what they actually achieve. Show more

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