Kirsty Young interviews chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Show more

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips welcome comic Stephen K Amos, nanochemist Dr Suze Kundu and author Victoria Hislop. From 2018. Show more

Yasmin Khan knows saffron. Her favourite spice inspired a trip across her mother's native Iran to document a food culture. But she's never considered its British story, until now. Show more

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Mishal Husain presents items on a 50-year-old housing scheme that has lessons for today, Bolton's shops, Anglicans and Down's syndrome, yoga in jail and the wobbly stiff upper lip. Show more

Peter Gibbs and the panel are in Lambeth. Anne Swithinbank, Matt Biggs and Pippa Greenwood field the horticultural questions. Show more

Fi Glover introduces conversations between parents and children, and between children, covering a broad range of topics, providing some surprising insights. Show more

The long-awaited return of Mustafa brings the Kanzaci household to breaking point. Stars Lara Sawalha and Philip Arditti. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to German writer Dirk Kurbjuweit, whose book Fear is based on his own experiences of being stalked and threatened by a neighbour. Show more

Roger McGough is joined by Hollie McNish, who picks her favourite poems for the programme. Show more

An investigation into concerns that the residents of sheltered housing schemes can be vulnerable to abuse and neglect, which is not picked up or monitored by the authorities. Show more

Edward Stourton profiles the football legend turned politician and charts his remarkable rise from the slums of Monrovia to president of Liberia. Show more

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Emma demands answers, and David proves a sympathetic ear. Show more

Jeff and Andy win a posh meal, opening a Pandora's Box of envy, hate and hazelnut yoghurt. Stars Philip Jackson. From 2016. Show more

Lucy Ribchester's story, inspired by Thomas Hardy, takes a sidelong glance at a potential romance. Read by Catriona McFarlane. Show more

Investigating the numbers in the news. Challenging the claim that one in three girls' first sexual experience is rape. And how long can a shark go without eating? Show more

Matthew Bannister on trumpeter Hugh Masekela, writer Ursula K Le Guin, computer pioneer Mary Lee Berners-Lee, theatre director John Barton and musician Mark E Smith. Show more

The latest news from the world of personal finance. Credit scores don't include rent - the founder of The Big Issue thinks they should. Show more

Suranne Jones makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Mango Tree. Show more

Many fees and charges in the investment industry have been hidden for decades. Lesley Curwen meets the transparency 'detectives' intent on reform. Will their efforts be rewarded? Show more

Ellie Price previews the week ahead at Westminster with Conservative Vicky Ford, Labour's Stephen Kinnock, think tank director Henry Newman and The Times journalist Sam Coates. Show more

Julie Delpy explains why she thinks there are so few female directors in film and Florence Pugh discusses the parts she has been offered since her breakthrough in Lady Macbeth. Show more

The 14th-century mystic Mother Julian of Norwich has been gaining new admirers in recent years. Mark Tully asks what this visionary medieval theologian has to offer society now. Show more

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Sociological discussion programme. Countercultural seekers. Laurie Taylor explores the hippy trail to Kathmandu. Also, slum tourism in Mumbai. Show more

Church bells from St Erme, Cornwall. Show more

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