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Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with Church of Scotland minister the Rev Lezley Stewart.

The uncertainties over Brexit are feeding into farmers' stress. A charity working to help tells us why lack of progress on Brexit is having an impact on farmers' mental health. Show more

Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler. Show more

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Susan Hulme has the latest news from Westminster as MPs wrest control of business to insist on a series of votes to try to find a way forward with Brexit the Commons could back. Show more

Physicist Paul Davies talks to Jim al-Khalili about the origin of life, the search for aliens and the evolution of cancer. Show more

Euella Jackson talks to Dr Girdari Bhan, past president of the World Hindu Council UK, about the traditional practice of mourning in the Hindu faith. Show more

We discuss child marriage in Afghanistan with former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, as well as the recent mosque attacks. Plus the new book on Jack the Ripper's victims. Show more

By Nick Walker. Annika is sent to Sandefjord where a body has been found at the harbour front. Show more

Nature creates some of the most beautiful places to live, but can also bring destruction. Is it worth staying in paradise when you have lost everything in a disaster? 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

A new, dystopian novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. Episode 2: Joseph and Hifa grow closer. Show more

What's the best way to read - books, screens or audio books? How would you prefer to develop a child's literacy? How do you choose to read yourself? Show more

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The man from nowhere slides up the greasy pole. Show more

Tom discovers a surprising truth and Pip has reservations Show more

Sometimes scattering ashes stirs up more than just grief.

A witty and moving drama set on the Kintyre Peninsula by Donna Franceschild. Show more

Josie Long presents stories about adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem ‘Early Spring’. From 2019. Show more

Can fast fashion be forced to slow down? Lucy Siegle reports Show more

Investigative journalist Lara Whyte reports on the rise of the new wave of female hardline right-wing activists, a band of reactionary influencers gaining a huge online following. Show more

Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Show more

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Backbench MPs have explained how Parliament will go about indicating a new way forward for Brexit tomorrow. MPs will fill in paper ballots testing support for different ideas.

Robert Peston reads about his love for prog rock and loon pants and why he speaks the way he does. With Rufus Hound. From 2016. Show more

A business meeting ends badly for Pat and Leonard doesn’t think he's up to scratch Show more

A history of classical music in ten minutes with pianist Jeremy Denk, and does tragedy still has a place in contemporary British theatre? Show more

Robert Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th-century Japan. Lady Shonagon has disgraced herself in front of the new empress - who has sent her spies out to investigate. Show more

Anand Menon explores the role of towns in our national psyche and politics - both as sweet spots for understanding political change and as laboratories for social policy. Show more

Complaint over delays to Access to Work, and three guide dogs guide a visually impaired runner in the United New York half marathon. Show more

Fiddling figures in research - why it matters that outcomes aren't switched or goalposts moved; involving parents in the care of premature babies to improve recovery; and feedback. Show more

Physicist Paul Davies talks to Jim al-Khalili about the origin of life, the search for aliens and the evolution of cancer. Show more

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A new, dystopian novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. Episode 2: Joseph and Hifa grow closer. Show more

Semi-improvised comedy show in which couples all embrace the phenomenon of date night. Starring Marc Wootton. From 2019. Show more

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Starving and under siege from President Assad’s forces in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk, Aeham Ahmad decides to push his piano into the ruined streets and protest with his music. Show more

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