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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas, Vicar of Christ Church in Carmarthen

The British beef industry says it is in crisis. And scientists are analysing pollen DNA. Show more

Chris Packham presents the purple martin from eastern North America. Show more

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Language can unlock memories but it can also tamper with the truth, as Stephen Fry discovers with guest Sir Simon Russell Beale. Show more

James Naughtie finds the heartbeat of history in the front page small ads of old UK newspapers. The Hampshire Advertiser, 9 August 1856. Show more

Talking to your kids about race. HRT shortages. We visit a community launderette in Anfield and find out why the bonkbuster novel has gone out of fashion. Show more

By Ben Cottam. Dace meets a young mum anxious about being summoned for jury service but discovers a deeper source of her problems. Show more

Lucy Cooke discovers why animals are the size they are, and finds out why it can pay to be small. Show more

Keisha Thompson investigates art and artists who use and examine body hair in their work to ask if art can help us unpack our complicated emotions around women and their body hair. Show more

As the photographer continues to catalogue her photographic plates, we gain further insight into the past lives of Ulverton's villagers. Show more

A survey of almost a thousand doctors has found the average wait for a routine GP appointment is now more than two weeks, for the first time ever - at 15 days. Show more

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Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. What does the US gain from a piecemeal UK trade deal? Protests at Hong Kong airport, and latest employment figures. Show more

Ruth Sanderson tries to find out what really happened during the week in August 1969 when law and order broke down and the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began Show more

Susan struggles to put things right and the pressure is on for Freddie. Show more

Too many people are living longer costing the Government too much money. Jon Canter's dark comedy has a radical solution, with Tony Robinson and Haydn Gwynne. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Josie Long presents stories on our experience of time, from a repeated solar eclipse to a life marked out in books. From 2019. Show more

Peter White, who has been blind since birth, interviews people in the public eye who have triumphed over disability and can talk frankly about how they have dealt with challenges. Show more

Michael Rosen meets London-born writer Gabriel Gbadamosi, to talk Dickens and dialect. With historical linguist Laura Wright. Show more

Folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling chooses the first female psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salomé. With Matthew Parris. From 2019. Show more

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Boris Johnson and President Trump are negotiating a partial trade agreement for November. Wages in the UK rise to their fastest rate for eleven years.

As a middle-class child of working-class parents, Andy considers class, recalling some bumps up against the system. From 2019. Show more

Emma attempts to face the future and Will feels guilty. Show more

Henning Wehn, German Comedy Ambassador, on his show Get On With It, Chris Brookmyre and his wife Marisa Haetzman write as Ambrose Parry; performance artist Travis Alabanza Show more

By Ben Cottam. Dace meets a young mum anxious about being summoned for jury service but discovers a deeper source of her problems. Show more

Phil Tinline explores what the century-old ideas of two little-known geopolitical thinkers, Alfred Mahan and Sir Halford Mackinder, can tell us about global tensions today? Show more

Why a case about a blind man who couldn't build his pizza online might end up in the US Supreme Court. Show more

Philip Ball tells the story of Galileo’s lost letter and the new light it sheds on the old story of how Galileo challenged the Church over how the Earth moves around the Sun. Show more

Language can unlock memories but it can also tamper with the truth, as Stephen Fry discovers with guest Sir Simon Russell Beale. Show more

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As the photographer continues to catalogue her photographic plates, we gain further insight into the past lives of Ulverton's villagers. Show more

Ghosts from Phil's past catch up with him, when he discovers Parbold is hosting the World Pinball Championships. Show more

When Kirsty's youngest son goes to university, she decides to go in search of adventure - she buys an old plasterer's van, and moves into it. Show more

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There are areas of the Thames shoreline that are not often accessible to the committed mudlark, but when the tide recedes far enough they give up their secrets. Show more

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