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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC minister. Show more

Farming news with Anna Hill. Scientists at Dresden University are working on new technology to detect the sex of chicks before they hatch, in order to end the practice of culling. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the razorbill. Show more

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. Tensions run high as the Commons contemplates the approaching junior doctors' strike. Show more

Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America. Show more

Bettany Hughes examines her psyche in her archaeology of philosophy by lying on Sigmund Freud's famous couch and bartering in the Athens flea market. Show more

Beyonce, Alaska and female utopias. With Jane Garvey. Show more

Jack meets one of Southend's few on-off vegetarians, while her Grandma despairs of her granddaughter ever settling down. Show more

Oliver Burkeman explores the imposter phenomenon. That inexplicable feeling of fraudulence that plagues the working lives of so many people. Show more

How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives around the world. From 2016. Show more

On this day in 1916, an ILP conference resolved 'socialists of all nations should refuse support to every war'. Meanwhile, Emily is losing her resolve with Edwin. Show more

As the first all-out doctors' strike in the NHS's history begins in England, the programme asks listeners - patients and doctors - how they have been affected. Show more

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Full coverage with Shaun Ley of the Hillsborough inquest conclusions that the 96 Liverpool football fans who died in a stadium crush were unlawfully killed. Show more

Ellie Cawthorne on the infamous Brown Dog Riots of 1907, when anti-vivisectionists fought students in a row over how medical students are trained. Show more

Tom has got his hands full, and Jazzer is not having any luck. Show more

After a serious accident at a religious retreat in the Highlands, psychic Thomas Soutar struggles to cope with what will be his final investigation. Show more

Tom considers how we protect our personal space through design. Show more

When radioactive particles from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Germany's Black Forest, one woman decided to change her country's relationship with nuclear energy forever. Show more

Michael Rosen and Laura Wright talk PR with practitioner Hamish Thompson. He has collated the words used in PR that people find most annoying and is on a mission to root them out. Show more

Actress and playwright Sudha Bhuchar chooses one of Bollywood’s first great international stars, Zohra Sehgal. From 2016. Show more

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The Sparrowhawk team hold a leaving do, and take the opportunity to reminisce. Stars Sally Phillips and Alex Lowe. From 2015. Show more

Helen has a lot on her mind, and Lilian seeks support. Show more

Alain de Botton on The Course of Love, a review of Holocaust film Son of Saul, playwright Nick Payne and director Josie Rourke on Elegy, and Kevin Le Gendre on the jazz biopic. Show more

Jack meets one of Southend's few on-off vegetarians, while her Grandma despairs of her granddaughter ever settling down. Show more

Rory Cellan-Jones investigates the workings and impact of a powerful global force, the ever-changing, mysterious Google algorithm that dominates how we all obtain information. Show more

We visit New College Worcester as it marks 150 years of educating blind teenagers. Plus, the prosecutions of the Uber drivers who refused to pick up a passenger with a guide dog. Show more

Claudia Hammond meets one of the All in the Mind Awards finalists and discovers why bicycle maintenance in Glasgow helps mental health. Show more

Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America. Show more

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Reporting and analysis from a global perspective. The families of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster react to the inquest's conclusion of unlawful killing. Show more

It is the hottest summer on record and, when tensions rise with the temperature both in government and on the streets of London, the results will be fatal. Show more

Comedian Elis James talks about six years of festival with Josh Widdicombe, Tim Key, Josie Long, Rhod Gilbert, Nick Helm, Isy Suttie, Pappy's, Nish Kumar and Henry Widdicombe. Show more

Labour attack plans to put fire services under the control of police and crime commissioners, but the government insists services will not suffer. Show more

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The Mirror, the Sun and the miners. Journalist Lynsey Hanley explores class aspirations and social mobility through the lens of her childhood on a West Midlands council estate. Show more

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