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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah Joseph.

Farming minister George Eustice gives more details on Defra's decision to allow farmers to use controversial neonicotinoid seed treatments on 5% of the oilseed rape crop area. Show more

John Aitchison presents the wigeon. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster.

Kirsty Young talks to Noel Gallagher, musician, songwriter and former Oasis lead guitarist. Show more

Tansy Davies talks about creating new work for the Proms. Are protests outside abortion clinics affecting the provision of services to women? With Jenni Murray. Show more

When her boss offers her a promotion lawyer Rachel must decide where her loyalties lie. Stars Tamara Kennedy. Show more

Jenny Clayton meets experienced nurses who have carried on training throughout their careers and who fill different roles in a busy hospital. What do we want from our nurses? Show more

Social worker Clare Barker and her estranged sister are forced to co-operate with one another. Stars Sally Phillips. From 2015. Show more

Timothy Secret explores the Confucian practice of ancestor worship and argues that if we are to live well together we must first take proper care of the dead. Show more

Consumer affairs. The remote buildings where you can stay for free, and how reliable is the help offered to disabled people travelling by train? Presented by Andrea Catherwood. Show more

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Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun Ley. Turkish military aircraft carry out air strikes inside Syria. Show more

As Bulgarians come to the UK, Sarfraz Manzoor meets the British retirees who are moving to Bulgaria, where they can have a good life on their pensions. Show more

Pip gets some friendly attention, and Brian gets the benefit of Charlie's wisdom. Show more

Rumpole defends Tony Timson, charged with the attempted drowning of his wife while sharing a bath. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch. Show more

Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the Summer Garden Party at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Show more

Our relationship with computers is an intimate one. What would they say about us if they could speak? Read by Samuel Barnett. Show more

Matthew Bannister on space scientist Claudia Alexander, bookie Ron Pollard, author E.L. Doctorow, BMX pioneer Scot Breithaupt, actress Magali Noel.

Spiritualism and scepticism - should ghosts be on Radio 4? Plus thoughts and views on the BBC's future, and Noel Gallagher casts listeners' minds back to the 1990s. Show more

Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and her nine-year-old son. Being home-schooled is preferable to his experience at school, but he knows what would suit him better. Show more

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Six men found guilty of repeatedly abusing two schoolgirls over several years
Turkey to continue attacks against Islamic State
And the new bomb-proof "flybag" for planes

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches, with Gemma Whelan, Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn. Show more

Kenton is keen to shake things up, and Adam is put on the spot. Show more

Arts news with John Wilson, including The Legend of Barney Thomson, Annie Nightingale and Pete Tong, Michael Morpurgo's 946 and York galleries charging for entry. Show more

When her boss offers her a promotion lawyer Rachel must decide where her loyalties lie. Stars Tamara Kennedy. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Exeter Further Education College with Frank Field MP, Claire Fox, Robert Halfon MP and Michael Morpurgo. Show more

Peter Aspden thinks the powerful influence of Greece, both ancient and modern, on European sensibilites makes the current economic crisis full of emotionally charged symbolism. Show more

Economist Kate Barker, historian Justin Champion and philosophers Timothy Secret and Angie Hobbs discuss the history of ideas around how to live together. Melvyn Bragg presents. Show more

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New Climate Secretary says Conservatives committed to taking action

Events reach a thrilling conclusion as Rachel remembers who it was who attacked her that Saturday night. Megan confesses all to Scott and storms out of the house. Show more

Harriett Gilbert, Adam Hart-Davis and Sue Blackmore discuss books by Chiara Frugoni, Rachel Joyce and Diana Athill. From 2015. Show more

Football fan Clive Anderson looks at the growth of Chinese football. He explores how the country's love for the game is playing out on the global stage. Show more

Fi Glover with a couple whose happy relationship was put at risk by his relapse into addiction, but who are making tentative steps to rebuild what was lost. Show more

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The writer and physician Oliver Sacks finds love. He also confronts his own ill health and the effects on his eyesight, which are disabling but also 'enthralling'. Show more

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