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Harvest thanksgiving from West Presbyterian Church, Ballymena, Co Antrim. The preacher is the minister, the Rev Daniel Kane and the service is led by Phyllis Linton. Show more

John Gray argues that the 'safe space' policy of some universities not only threatens a fundamental liberal value but represents a demand to be sheltered from human reality. Show more

Martin Hughes-Games presents the barnacle goose. Show more

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Adam keeps his distance, and Toby is caught out. Show more

Christiane Amanpour, journalist and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Show more

Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. He is joined by Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Josie Lawrence and Katherine Ryan. Show more

Series investigating every aspect of the world of food. 850,000 families in the UK are living and eating with dementia. It's a global problem that is going to get bigger. Show more

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Hardeep Singh Kohli cooks lunch for people with remarkable stories. Hardeep cooks for Anne and Terry Panks, who have converted a police station into a hostel for vulnerable men. Show more

Eric Robson and his panel of experts are at the University of Bath. Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw answer the horticultural questions from the audience. Show more

Fi Glover hears about coming to terms with devastating loss, the stigma that used to be associated with divorce, and the health benefits - mental and physical - of running. Show more

Helen Macdonald talks to James Naughtie and readers about her memoir H is for Hawk which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2014. Show more

Roger McGough marks 50 years since Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist. Featuring interviews from Bellaghy, and archive recordings of the poet reading his work. Show more

Valued at £80bn, the UK's junior stock market is touted as the most successful growth market in the world - but is it doing enough to tackle fraud and mismanagement? Show more

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Theresa May has put Britain on course to leave the European Union by the middle of 2019.

John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights. Show more

Kaz has a visitor, and Rob wants to talk strategy. Show more

Isy Suttie with up-and-coming comedy circuit sketch groups, Clever Peter, Hennessey and Friends, and In Cahoots. From July 2015. Show more

4 Extra Debut. An exhausted mother contemplates her sleeping newborn baby in a clinic in Czechoslovakia in 1945. Read by Sian Thomas. Show more

Roger Bolton discusses neutrality in war reporting and considers concerns that news reports about The Great British Bake Off and The Archers are just shameless plugs. Show more

Matthew Bannister on Israeli president Shimon Peres, zookeeper Nathalie Evans, golfer Arnold Palmer, permaculturist Bill Millison. Show more

Some of the UK's biggest energy companies are ignoring their existing customers when offering lower tariffs. Show more

Jordan Bone makes an appeal on behalf of Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation. Show more

British politics has been going through a period of rapid and remarkable change. Rosie Campbell, a professor of politics, asks if it is time to bin her old lecture notes. Show more

Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.

Francine Stock enters Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton. Show more

Ethical and religious discussion examining some of the larger questions of life. John McCarthy gazes back fondly and argues that nostalgia has a lot to offer us. Show more

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Sociological discussion programme. Laurie Taylor explores the role, meaning and future of a university education in a globalised world. Show more

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