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A reflection and prayer to start the day, with the Rev Dr Lesley Carroll. Show more

The Welsh farmers swapping lamb for fruit and veg, and how social media is proving a perfect marketing platform for some farms. Show more

RSPB community and volunteer development officer Danielle Meyer recalls working with gannets on Bempton cliffs in Yorkshire. Show more

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Does language order thought? What about the giving of orders? Why alphabetical order? David Sedaris helps Stephen Fry find out about linguistic order. But not in that order. Show more

James Naughtie finds the heartbeat of history in the front page small ads of old UK newspapers. The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 14 April 1827. Show more

Homefront girls and the women who worked in the Yardley lipstick factory during the Second World War, breast milk donation, and wrestler Heather Bandenburg aka La Rana Venenosa. Show more

Diane makes a decision that will impact everyone in Glan Don. Magical drama starring Emma Sidi and Ifan Huw Dafydd. Show more

Lucy Cooke discovers why honesty is not always the best policy in the animal kingdom, whether you are a squid, a chimp or even a human. Show more

Clara Amfo meets the staff and artists at The Embassy, a ground-breaking music studio in New Orleans' 8th and 9th district. Show more

It's 1743 and a young wife and new mother is confined to her room in Ulverton House. What seems like accepted medical practice may have more sinister motives. Show more

Call You and Yours: Why is a family holiday worth all the money? Show more

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Chris Anderson talks to some of the most interesting TED stage speakers: Monica Lewinsky argues for a bully-free world. Show more

Kate makes her feelings clear and things don't go to plan for Kirsty Show more

Anna's looking for comedy material, George is looking for love. When two people inhabit completely different emotional worlds, can there ever be a happy ending? Show more

Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Macclesfield. Show more

In No Triumph No Tragedy Peter White, who has been blind since birth, interviews other disabled people in the public eye about challenges they have faced: this week - Isaac Lidsky. Show more

Michael Rosen looks at philosophy in English, from 17th century ideas to modern corporate slogans, via the daffodils of William Wordsworth. With author and philosopher Jonathan Rée Show more

4 Extra Debut. Former MP Ed Balls chooses the 20th-century English composer, Herbert Howells. With Matthew Parris. From 2019. Show more

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An independent report on the sexual abuse of youth players at Chelsea during the 1970s has described the chief coach, Eddie Heath, as a prolific and manipulative paedophile.

Atheist choirboys, playing Satan and which deity might be good at sport as Andy ponders all things religion. From 2019. Show more

Ed has a confession to make and Susan is desperate to make things right Show more

Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the Nobel prize winning American writer Toni Morrison, whose death was announced today. Show more

Diane makes a decision that will impact everyone in Glan Don. Magical drama starring Emma Sidi and Ifan Huw Dafydd. Show more

David Baker investigates if Facebook can survive its recent troubles intact. Show more

A listener is taking legal action against his local hospital for failing to provide him with letters in large print. And we report on a festival for visually-impaired young people. Show more

Dr Mark Porter explores singing to help breathlessness, exercising with an aneurysm, the evidence for sunscreens protecting against skin cancer, and myasthenia gravis Show more

Does language order thought? What about the giving of orders? Why alphabetical order? David Sedaris helps Stephen Fry find out about linguistic order. But not in that order. Show more

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It's 1743 and a young wife and new mother is confined to her room in Ulverton House. What seems like accepted medical practice may have more sinister motives. Show more

Comedy and alcohol have often been linked down the years, but why do the two go hand-in-glove? Writer Louis Barfe explores the connections and the changes. Show more

First-hand accounts of the turmoil and violence in the immediate weeks after India's partition, told by British Asians and the Colonial British. Show more

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Edna Ismail recalls her nursing training in London and the mixed reactions from the people she meets. Seven years later she returns to a newly independent Somali Republic. Show more

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