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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shaunaka Rishi Das. Show more
A Norfolk farmer with a stark message about safety at work, the secret life of Scotland's midges under the microscope and Britain's multi-billion pound forestry industry. Show more
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Miranda Krestovnikoff presents Australia's satin bowerbird. Show more
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Start the Week
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by classicist Mary Beard, film director Stephen Frears, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker and theatre director Mehmet Ergen. Show more
Woman's Hour
Women Breadwinners, Best of the Best, Stacey Dooley
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Women breadwinners, Women's Prize for Fiction, cyber sex in the Philippines, fathers on sharing parental leave and pay. Presented by Emma Barnett. Show more
Italy 1943: Chiara now lives in a farmhouse where she shelters deserters and a small Jewish boy. Stars Juliet Aubrey. Show more
Journey of a Lifetime
2015: Rhiannon Adam. Three Months on Pitcairn
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Rhiannon Adam visits one of the remotest communities on earth. In this personal account of the isle of the Bounty, she explores the romance and the reality. Show more
Sue Perkins sets moral and ethical posers for Josie Long, Owen Jones, Clare Grogan and Andrew Maxwell. From February 2013. Show more
Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria, and Lilian Frost tries to make amends. Show more
You and Yours
Winter in a park home, Rural right-to-buy
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Consumer affairs programme. Winifred Robinson asks how the government's new 'right to buy' scheme could affect the supply of affordable homes in rural areas. Show more
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The latest news, including a possible tax credit rebellion by Conservative MPs, refugees gathering in the Balkans, and why some people in Stoke don't vote. With Martha Kearney. Show more
Nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to 1662 to witness the extinction of the dodo. Show more
Everybody seems to have a theory, and Susan has a taste for more than apples. Show more
Repertoire for a mountain by Maria Fusco, recorded live inside Scottish Power's Cruachan Power Station, sited deep inside one of the highest peaks on the West coast of Scotland. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cultural quiz. Scots Val McDermid and Roddy Lumsden take on the Welsh team of Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards. Show more
When was the last time you drank a simple glass of milk? Sheila Dillon asks if we treat cows' milk as a commodity and how we might value it more with tips from a 'milk sommelier'. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Novelist Bernardine Evaristo explores the life of the man at the heart of the USA's 1960s Black Arts Movement. From 2015. Show more
Aleks Krotoski delves into vigilantism on the web and looks at the moral and philosophical implications of fighting the good fight in a digital space. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
19/10/2015 China's President declares UK in prime position to be main trading partner at start of state visit
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China's President declares UK in prime position to be main trading partner at start of state visit. Steel firm Caparo goes into administration. Jamie Oliver tells MPs 'tax sugar'.
Andy Hamilton, Sue Perkins, Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth join host Nicholas Parsons as they try to speak without deviation, hesitation or repetition. Show more
Adam feels the need to help, and Toby says seize the day. Show more
Front Row
Young Chekhov, Robert Seethaler, Mississippi Grind review
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Director Jonathan Kent and actress Olivia Vinall on the Young Chekhov season, Skins creator Bryan Elsley on new TV writers and novelist Robert Seethaler on A Whole Life. Show more
Italy 1943: Chiara now lives in a farmhouse where she shelters deserters and a small Jewish boy. Stars Juliet Aubrey. Show more
Ahead of the state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Carrie Gracie examines the past and future of the relationship between his country and Britain. Show more
With a republican as leader of the opposition, Edward Stourton asks how long the monarchy can endure with British society in a state of flux. Show more
Brett Westwood explores how hornbills have influenced art, religion and feminism. Their bizarre looks, strange breeding behaviour and carvable beaks have thrust them into society. Show more
Start the Week
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by classicist Mary Beard, film director Stephen Frears, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker and theatre director Mehmet Ergen. Show more
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The World Tonight
Caparo steel plant goes into administration.
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Workers in London, Wales and the Midlands are among those affected. Show more
A labourer rescues a dying goatherd and carries him towards the village below the mountain. But something happens on the way which will stay with Egger for the rest of his life. Show more
Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright take us through the A-Z of the alphabet, with the help of Professor Nils Langer. How do we come to have the letters we do? Show more
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
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How the best-selling novelist's remarkable father, Ronnie, cast a long shadow over the family. Read by Stephen Boxer. Show more
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