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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Richard Littledale. Show more

Author Germaine Greer tells Charlotte Smith why it will be so important to protect our pollinators and habitats as the UK enters negotiations for post-EU trade deals. Show more

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Kate Humble presents the willow warbler. Show more

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Cultural discussion programme. Tom Sutcliffe at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng. Show more

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music. Led by David Waters. Show more

Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. Jane Garvey speaks to a woman who fell for an online dating scam and then helped the police to catch one of the men. Show more

The lawyer detective, and assistant Barak, hunt a ruthless killer through the streets of Tudor London. Starring Justin Salinger. Show more

Fi Glover takes a personal look at a growing trend - egg freezing offered as a corporate work benefit. She speaks to women who have done it, doctors and employers. Show more

TV host and comedian Harry Hill chats to fellow comedian and actor Tim Vine in the talk tag show. From March 2017. Show more

Tim Harford introduces inventions, ideas and innovations that have helped to create the modern economic world. How Rudolf Diesel died in mysterious circumstances. Show more

Spring poems: Charlotte Mew's In the Fields, read by Juliet Stevenson, and Philip Larkin's The Trees, read by Alex Jennings. Show more

Calls on the government for better rights for leaseholders. We look at the costs and standards at residential care homes. And do tougher tests spell the end for diesel cars? Show more

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A poem for the first day of spring as part of a day of seasonal poetry. Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf. Show more

A journey into the human multi-sensory experience, with philosopher Barry Smith and sound artist Nick Ryan. Show more

Lilian seeks another point of view, and Brian gets a telling off. Show more

John Houston commissioned the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre to write a film about Sigmund Freud. Little did he know the nightmare he was letting them both in for! Show more

Russell Davies hosts the general knowledge quiz, this week from Salford, with competitors from Cheshire, Nottingham, Merseyside and West Yorkshire. Show more

It could be you. Judges including Giorgio Locatelli, Joanna Blythman, Gill Meller and Stefan Gates help reveal their choices of finalists in the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2017. Show more

A poem for the first day of a new season: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Ray Fearon. Show more

First Bus runs a writing competition for their drivers. This programme introduces several who have taken part, including Lou, who wants to write a novel based on her experiences. Show more

Robert Beckford and guests discuss the purpose of interfaith worship. Show more

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The government says it will formally start the process of Brexit on Wednesday next week

Nicholas Parsons presents the 77th series of the iconic panel show. His guests in this episode are Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth. Show more

Alistair deals with an emergency, and Tom returns revitalised. Show more

Ray Mears reviews the film The Lost City of Z. Patience Agbabi has apoem for the Spring Equinox. Ekow Eshun discusses sitting for the late Howard Hodgkin. Chuck Berry remembered. Show more

The lawyer detective, and assistant Barak, hunt a ruthless killer through the streets of Tudor London. Starring Justin Salinger. Show more

Helena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our politics, law, media and digital lives. Show more

Has Marine Le Pen detoxified the Front National, founded by her father 40 years ago? Anand Menon asks if it is a right-wing protest movement or a party preparing for power. Show more

Documentary. Timandra Harkness explores the devices and technologies being developed that allow the perception of previously un-sensed information about the world around us. Show more

Cultural discussion programme. Tom Sutcliffe at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.

Sarah Pinborough's best-selling psychological thriller. Single mum Louise meets the man of her dreams in a bar - but there's a catch. Show more

Jarvis Cocker rides in the driver's cab of a late-night tube train and hears tales of nocturnal travellers across London. Show more

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.

Three poems for the new season: Christopher Marlowe's Come Live with Me, William Wordsworth's Lines Composed in Early Spring and Louis MacNeice's Nuts in May. Show more

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Howard Cunnell's story of a fatherless man, trying to be a father to his daughter who is now becoming his son. Show more

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