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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Mary Stallard, director of the St Giles RE Centre, Wrexham. Show more

Winter is the hind-culling season in the Scottish Highlands. Moira Hickey spends a day with keepers as they set about their work on the Reay Forest estate in Sutherland. Show more

Sir David Attenborough presents the hyacinth macaw of the Brazilian Pantanal. Show more

Commentary on the fourth day of the first Test between South Africa and England in Durban.

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Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford answer audience questions about Squeeze's 1981 album, 'East Side Story'. From 2015. Show more

Yotam Ottolenghi. He introduced UK cooks to sumac, za'atar and pomegranate molasses. He elevated the vegetable to new heights. He shares his life through food with Sheila Dillon. Show more

Scientist Precious Lunga chooses the environmental activist and Nobel winner, Wangari Maathai. With Matthew Parris. From 2015. Show more

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Married couple convicted of planning 7/7 anniversary attacks
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The greatest story never told or sung. Julian Assange's story is wiki-leaked in this overly melodramatic 15 Minute Musical. Show more

Milton is a responsible sober-suited financial adviser and fights off a Swedish invasion with his trusty hamster. From 2015. Show more

Helen and Rob have a proposition, and there is a welcome face at Lower Loxley. Show more

At the piano with his guitar, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Elvis Costello looks back over a musical career which spans almost four decades as he publishes his new memoir Show more

Rebecca Front introduces us to the government's new special adviser to schools, Maria Webber, with the help of her brother, interviewer Jeremy Front. Show more

Stories of unaccompanied child migrants. Presenter Hashi Mohamed, once a child migrant himself, meets those heading north from Sicily in search of a better life. Show more

Peter White and two guests have a lively debate about three of their favourite books. They also debate the pros and cons of different audio versions. Show more

A bioacoustics scientist, an echolocation scientist and an acoustic engineer are among those who listen to spaces and places and study how we can see with sound. Show more

Jonathan Freedland examines current debates about ethical shopping and production in the light of early 19th-century campaigns to boycott goods which involved slave labour. Show more

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Heavy rain expected in northern England, southern Scotland and Northern Ireland. Show more

Our Lady and the family head to Brittany on holiday but, rather alarmingly, there’s no sign of the sea. Read by Claire Skinner. Show more

Sketches written by the public. Stars Jason Manford, Janice Connolly, Gavin Webster, Fiona Clarke and Darren Kuppan. From 2015. Show more

Marie-Louise Muir dusts down her cello and rediscovers how music shaped her life as a member of a youth orchestra during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Show more

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Fierce storms and dense sea ice provide more challenges to a film crew trying to reach a tiny Antarctic island to film a colony of Gentoo penguins. Show more

With Hitler now chancellor, Jewish families, including the Alexanders, have been forced to flee Germany. The lake house is to become home to a new family, the Meisels. Show more

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