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Spiritual reflection to start the day from the Festival City of Edinburgh with the Rev Lezley Stewart of Greyfriars Kirk. Show more

Caz Graham hears how changing weather patterns caused by climate change will lead to more fertiliser run-off into rivers. Show more

In this Tweet of the Day, BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner recalls the song of a golden oriole in a Bahrain date grove. Show more

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Jan Morris records her thoughts on the United States of America. The 90-year-old author looks back over a lifetime of writing about, visiting and living in the USA. Show more

Why are we drawn to hope? Bettany Hughes visits a Buddhist temple, the Palace of Westminster and the UK's largest food bank to find out why we are hard-wired to hope for the best. Show more

Maternity failings; Cressida Bonas plays Sonia Orwell; what to wear on holiday; parenting when you're disabled. Show more

Starring Meera Syal. Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell comforts Karla, who is grieving over the suspicious death of her husband. Show more

Summer is icumen in - loud sing cuckoo. We love the bird as a harbinger of spring and fear it for its unsettling parasitism. Brett Westwood explores the cuckoo. Show more

Alan Carr presents highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, with guests including Antony Sher, Mary Portas, Olly Alexander, Christine and the Queens and Will Young. Show more

On this day in 1917, at the Conference of Modern Churchmen, Canon Glazebrook described socialism as sharing Christian virtues. In Folkestone, Alice feels less than charitable. Show more

Consumer phone-in. How much of their lives do people share online, and why? Show more

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Series exploring the art and politics of the artists' manifesto. From the Futurists to Fluxus, from Dada to the present - a story of modern art through the written word. Show more

Alistair's mind is elsewhere, and Kirsty fears the worst. Show more

1968. Two Manchester teenagers travel to a Soviet pioneer camp for a week of sun, sea and international solidarity, but will their political summer be too hot to handle? Show more

Jay Rayner and the culinary panel answer questions from the National Space Centre in Leicester. Show more

Documentary. Can a shaman cure writer's block? Playwright David Greig, artistic director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, goes on a personal quest in an attempt to find out. Show more

Actress Frances Barber is one of six children, her dad a bookie and her mum a dinner lady. With Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester, she explores the Wolverhampton of her childhood. Show more

Actor and writer Stephen Fry chooses the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, PG Wodehouse. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

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New research has highlighted a stark difference between the number of premature deaths among young people living in northern England and those in the south.

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller shares The Perfect Fit, plus there’s an audience Q&A. From 2017. Show more

Oliver receives an invitation, and Shula starts to wonder. Show more

Philippa Gregory on her latest novel, The Last Tudor; singer-songwriter Regina Spektor performs live in the studio; Elizabeth Day reviews TV's Eden plus Rebecca Root's Queer Icon. Show more

Starring Meera Syal. Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell comforts Karla, who is grieving over the suspicious death of her husband. Show more

Matt McGrath investigates serious flaws in national greenhouse gas emission sums which could prove a bigger threat to the Paris climate deal than president Donald Trump. Show more

In Touch hears from Vanessa Potter, who lost her vision over 72 hours. Also, how easy is it to get the information you need, in the format you need, from the NHS? Show more

Breast density, a major risk factor for breast cancer that you've never heard of; health education for children; switching outcomes in clinical trials. Show more

Jan Morris records her thoughts on the United States of America. The 90-year-old author looks back over a lifetime of writing about, visiting and living in the USA. Show more

A special report from Nairobi spending the day among the voters and the queues. What do young people expect from the election? Show more

Quentin distracts himself from his increasing woes by investigating Oliver Randall's murder. Show more

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian Katy Brand and neuroscientists Professor Uta Frith and Professor Sophie Scott to look at our minds and brains. Show more

We seem to be living in an age of anger and nowhere is that more apparent than certain parts of the internet. Aleks Krotoski explores if digital media is a symptom or the cause. Show more

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Now grown up, as an accomplished artist, Thomas begins to attract important portrait commissions. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Show more

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