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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Dr Ed Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute. Show more

Defra says gene-editing should not be treated the same as gene-modification, in a response to a letter from UK Scientists. Show more

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Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the osprey. Show more

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David Attenborough, Martin Rees, Philippa Mason and Michael Quetting discuss the evolution of life on earth and beyond with Andrew Marr. Show more

'Twinning' with your children, bestselling author Adele Parks, women potentially losing out on pensions when divorced and director and animator Nora Twomey. Show more

1926: the General Strike has ended yet the miners fight on, but Drs Manson and Denny disagree on this. Stars Richard Fleeshman. Show more

Award-winning documentary featuring intimate conversations with the patients and staff of Pilgrims Hospice, Margate. Presented by Cathy FitzGerald. Show more

Richard decides it really is time he went in search of true love - but where will he start? At his age? From September 2018. Show more

Cosmologist Carole Mundell, historian Justin Champion, theologian Giles Fraser and creation myth expert Jessica Frazier discuss how everything began. Melvyn Bragg presents. Show more

Tesco looks set to open a new discount supermarket, why some gym companies make it hard for you to cancel your membership, and an investigation into a rise in sales of canned food. Show more

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Who wins in the new world of ultra-fast financial transactions? Critics say high-frequency trading harms the interests of everyday investors. Show more

Elizabeth breaks down and an old enemy causes trouble for Harrison. Show more

Dark comedy about a friendship between a relationship counsellor and a kebab shop owner. By Christine Entwisle, winner of the 2015 BBC Writer's Room Prize. Show more

Paul Gambaccini hosts the latest heat of the wide-ranging music quiz, from the BBC's venerable Maida Vale studios. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Kerry Andrew's shortlisted story of a desperate man revived by the hospitality of strangers. Read by Tobias Menzies. Show more

The art world is in a crisis, an identity crisis. In this impassioned polemic, writer Sohrab Ahmari defends the art world from the threat of identity politics. Show more

Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the religious content in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which is often lost in its interpretation on the big screen. Show more

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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has warned leaving the EU without a deal would jeopardise the substantial progress Britain has made in the 10 years since the financial crash.

Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation. Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Zoe Lyons and Tony Hawks find out. Show more

Pip's gesture is rejected and Tom has a proposition. Show more

Christine and the Queens on her new album, Chris; Sarah Hall - BBC National Short Story Award nominee; and Tartuffe, set in a Birmingham Muslim community Show more

1926: the General Strike has ended yet the miners fight on, but Drs Manson and Denny disagree on this. Stars Richard Fleeshman. Show more

The story of knife crime, told in verse by the weapon itself, featuring Momtaza Mehri, Young People's Poet Laureate for London. Show more

Reports from around the world. The dark secrets of Chile's Catholic Church - one of South America's most devout congregations - continues to haunt the Francis papacy. Show more

Brett Westwood explores our relationship with orchids and uncovers a world of obsession, beauty, femme fatales, ghosts, sex and deception. Show more

David Attenborough, Martin Rees, Philippa Mason and Michael Quetting discuss the evolution of life on earth and beyond with Andrew Marr. Show more

Brett Kavanaugh denies allegations of sexual assault. Show more

Five commissioned short stories to celebrate the BBC National Short Story Award, beginning with White Squares by 2017's winner, Cynan Jones. A man is duck shooting. But why? Show more

Stephen Fry talks to presenter Michael Rosen about their mutual obsession with language: the particular joys they both find in speech and in writing and how language is developing. Show more

Helen Castor is joined by an expert on Victorian sex, suffrage and entertainment, Dr Fern Riddell, and Dr Bob Nicholson, historian of humour at Edge Hill University. Show more

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Five essays on the timely theme of truth and current challenges to it. Dr Kathryn Murphy on Sir Francis Bacon's 1620s essay On Truth and its striking contemporary parallels. Show more

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