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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. Show more

Andrea Leadsom addresses the Tory Party Conference on the future of agriculture. Asparagus growers dependent on migrant workers look ahead to an uncertain future post-Brexit. Show more

Chris Packham presents the long-tailed duck. Show more

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever. Show more

Sir Trevor McDonald explores the idea of redemption. A former prisoner talks about finding redemption through sport. Show more

Anna Mudeka on the music of the Mbira, the Great Repeal Bill and women's rights, the unmasking of Elena Ferrante, Sheila Rowbotham on feminism and Julie Burchill on sloth. Show more

With Marjorie's help, Alan comes to terms with life in the sanatorium. Margaret Wilkinson's drama inspired by TB nurse Marjorie Wilson's interviews about Stannington Sanatorium. Show more

Brett Westwood burrows into our complicated relationship with our constant but mostly unwelcome companion: the rat. From 2016 Show more

Rainer Hersch champions Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz, heard everywhere, from ringtones to airport muzak. Goebbels loved it for the wrong reasons, Rainer finds the right ones. Show more

Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries. The doctors look at how being left-handed affects your brain and behaviour. Show more

The number of tenants facing accelerated eviction proceedings is increasing. How have rule changes brought in a year ago affected the market? Show more

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Defence secretary Michael Fallon speaks live from the Conservative Party conference. Plus the falling pound against the dollar and the British Nobel Prize winners for physics. Show more

Gretchen Gerzina explores the life of a butler who rose to the top of 18th-century society and became famous for his letters and his musical compositions. Show more

Jill puts her foot down, and it is feeling cramped at Bridge Farm. Show more

Helen and Freddy head to China to find the secret of ‘life without end’. Final episode of the conspiracy thriller, starring Romola Garai. Written by Matthew Broughton. Show more

Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Windsor. Show more

Tom Heap drops in on the 50th anniversary celebrations of the green magazine Resurgence and takes stock of what half a century of green activism has - and hasn't - achieved. Show more

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright on the words children invent and reimagine. With writer Nicola Skinner and linguist Dr Kriszta Szendroi. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Vince Cable, Ann Widdecombe and Harriett Gilbert pick books by Robert Harris, Jonathan Dimbleby and Ernest Hemingway. From 2016. Show more

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The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has outlined new measures to try to reduce immigration -- and change what she called the tide of public opinion on the issue.

Author Ed is in unfamiliar territory returning to full-time education at 'Uni'. Stars Christopher Douglas. From 2016. Show more

Helen faces a problem head on, and Johnny surprises Tom, twice. Show more

Shortlisted authors Tahmima Anam, Claire-Louise Bennett, Lavinia Greenlaw, Hilary Mantel and K J Orr find out which of them has won the 2016 BBC National Short Story Award. Show more

With Marjorie's help, Alan comes to terms with life in the sanatorium. Margaret Wilkinson's drama inspired by TB nurse Marjorie Wilson's interviews about Stannington Sanatorium. Show more

As staff and victims' families warn the probation system is at breaking point, File on 4 asks if Transforming Rehabilitation has risked public protection. Show more

Magazine show for people who are blind or partially sighted. Quizzer Nicki Cockburn, why PIPs forms are proving an issue and the Room Mate that makes using the loo more convenient. Show more

Ministrokes used to be seen as a lucky escape, but now they are medical emergencies. Dr Mark Porter meets the leading stroke consultant who helped transform treatment. Show more

Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. As Russia deploys new weapons, Washington says it is not abandoning the search for peace. Show more

With no choice left, Nurse Wright disobeys her employers in an effort to save her ailing patient. However, in doing so, she uncovers the shocking truth about Anna O'Donnell. Show more

Stephen K Amos, plus Wil Hodgson, Gavin Webster and Shazia Mirza present a guide to belief and opinion. From 2014. Show more

Jarvis Cocker encounters an unlucky trucker, a hopeful hitchhiker and a host of Scottish ghostbusters. Show more

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Powerful memoir of hope and loss by Libyan Hisham Matar, whose activist father Jaballa was kidnapped in 1990 and made to 'disappear' by Gaddafi's regime. Read by Khalid Abdalla. Show more

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