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Cilla's hits remastered. Sex and Gender Part 1. Brexit from a woman's point of view. Show more

Jeremy Front spends five days with "Incredible Woman" Jessica Kennedy, head of the Zinoviev School of International Relations, to try to find out more about her complicated past. Show more

Entrepreneur Simon fights to become his teenage niece's legal guardian after she was placed in care. Grace Dent presents. Show more

Comedian and TV host Joe Lycett chats to Canadian stand-up star Katherine Ryan in the talk tag show. From February 2017. Show more

4 Extra Debut. A state-of-the-nation comic novel trying to make sense of Brexit Britain. Starts with bigotgate. Read by Jeff Rawle. From 2018. Show more

Universal credit delays - and how they push you to the edge. Also, more confusion over PPI claims, the stigma of mental health care for the elderly and how to buy your own village. Show more

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Rory Sutherland pokes a stick at received wisdom, beginning with an exploration of whether society should aim to have less, not more, higher education Show more

Lily takes the strain and Roy struggles to adapt. Show more

An opposition activist returns home to Hay El Matar. Syrian writer Hozan Akko provides a rare glimpse of how life is lived in contemporary Damascus. Show more

Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Dead Ringers' Jan Ravens, author Monica Ali, and broadcaster Henry Kelly. From 2018. Show more

The Food Programme invites a panel of four to discuss the merits of a low versus high carbohydrate diet. Show more

Swordsmiths and blacksmiths, Dead Rats and butcher boys - musician Nathaniel Mann creates an orchestra worthy of the underworld, in a secret bronze age smelting foundry. Show more

Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place of faith in today's complex world. Show more

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Jack Dee chairs Radio 4's 'antidote to panel games' with regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer joined by guests Tony Hawks and John Finnemore. Show more

Neil confronts the enemy and David is unhappy with his new role. Show more

Marianne Faithfull on her new album, and how Holly Willoughby and Declan Donnelly fair sharing I'm a Celebrity presenting duties. Show more

Jeremy Front spends five days with "Incredible Woman" Jessica Kennedy, head of the Zinoviev School of International Relations, to try to find out more about her complicated past. Show more

The political drama and long-term repercussions of the crucial 1971 Commons vote to back Edward Heath's plan to join what was then the European Economic Community. Show more

What could cause a future financial crash? Ian Goldin talks to some of the world's leading economists about whether we have learnt lessons from 2008. Show more

Artist Ken Currie's paintings of the human body have been described as 'arresting and intensely visceral'. Now he accepts an invitation to visit Dundee University's Anatomy Centre. Show more

Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill discuss no-platforming, political correctness and retrospective punishment with Amol Rajan Show more

Democratic Unionist MPs fail to back government on a number of Finance Bill votes. Show more

4 Extra Debut. A state-of-the-nation comic novel trying to make sense of Brexit Britain. Starts with bigotgate. Read by Jeff Rawle. From 2018. Show more

A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now' through encounters with philosophers, scientists and artists. Show more

Sean Curran with all the news from Westminster where new work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd promises to improve the government's flagship welfare policy. Show more

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Michelle Obama reads from her eagerly awaited memoir. A young woman from Chicago's South Side is on her way to Princeton.. Show more

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