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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. Show more

Anna Hill is at the NFU Conference in Birmingham where farmers were hoping for more details of a post-Brexit agricultural policy from environment secretary Andrea Leadsom. Show more

Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the great black-backed gull. Show more

Two hundred peers conclude a marathon discussion on the Brexit Bill. Susan Hulme covers the debate and has the best of the rest of Tuesday in the Commons and the Lords. Show more

Libby Purves is joined by actor Sir Patrick Stewart, comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi, medic Oscar Duke and charity worker Mischa Pearson. Show more

Spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music. Led by the Rev Dr Janet Wootton. Show more

Why pink is the colour of the season for men and women. How do siblings share the care of their parents in old age? Aid workers and sexual violence. Show more

Unexpected travel and adventures are in store for Irene, while her husband lets Bertie have a few treats. Stars Crawford Logan. Show more

Fi Glover introduces conversations between members of a film-making club who bring WB Yeats and more to their holiday videos. Show more

Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? A tough question for Matthew Sweet and the drinkers at The Philosopher's Arms, a pub offering both beer and philosophy. Show more

Why do we buy and sell gold all around the world? Why do we continue now we have paper money? With Tim Harford. From May 2014. Show more

Adriaan Vlok was minister for Law and Order in apartheid-era South Africa. After the segregationist system was dismantled in 1990 he set about apologising for his crimes. Show more

Consumer news, presented by Winifred Robinson. Including the Uber users charged for taxi journeys they never made, pay-per-bid auctions and working with arthritis. Show more

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When a woman's partner disappears she sets out to find him. The police tell her he is safe and well, but she does not believe them. Grace Dent presents her story. Show more

Roy is taken by surprise, and Lilian uses her contacts. Show more

Rida, a Glasgow Asian teenager, was radicalised and travelled to Syria. Now she has returned and been arrested. How will she deal with the past, and what future can she expect? Show more

Record numbers of people are self-employed. Analysis shows a greater proportion of the disabled workforce are in self employment than the non-disabled workforce. A good option? Show more

Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify perplexing health issues. Topics include Vitamin D, an air ambulance blood trial and phantom limb pain. Show more

Laurie Taylor explores the origins, meaning and future of work that is managed via online platforms in the 'sharing economy'. Show more

Andrea Catherwood presents a celebration of the journalism of Steve Hewlett, the presenter of The Media Show. Show more

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Ian Stewart killed Helen Bailey for her fortune. Cressida Dick, first woman head of the Met Police. Tony Blair rejects criticism over former Guantanamo prisoner who joined IS.

Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien. Includes a break-up, a flirty dentist and a street magician showing off skills. From 2017. Show more

Kenton enacts his scheme, and Harrison has his work cut out. Show more

David Tennant on the final series of Broadchurch. Plus finding the nation's favourite second novel and at Brits and Oscars time, we ask who cares about awards? Show more

Unexpected travel and adventures are in store for Irene, while her husband lets Bertie have a few treats. Stars Crawford Logan. Show more

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the morality of fake news, with Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. Show more

Astrid Alben explains how only art and science together can help us understand complicated phenomena like moonlight. Show more

Yasuni National Park in Ecuador is known as the most biodiverse place on earth yet the Ecuadorian government is allowing drilling for oil there. Tom Heap finds out what is at stake. Show more

Libby Purves is joined by actor Sir Patrick Stewart, comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi, medic Oscar Duke and charity worker Mischa Pearson. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Cressida Dick is named the first female Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Show more

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about slavery in America. Read by Clarke Peters. Show more

The comic poet ruminates on the subject of sleep, through the medium of his poetry. With Tom Basden. From 2015. Show more

The unacknowledged geniuses in the comic but factually accurate history of space exploration. With Helen Keen. From April 2014 Show more

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster where MPs and Peers debate the NHS, the gig economy, child migrants and an Ethiopian girl band.

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Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley interrogate the myth of the doomed poet. Today they explore the lives - and deaths - of Stevie Smith and Louis MacNeice. Show more

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