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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Myriam François, journalist and research associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS University of London Show more

Fast food chain KFC publish a warts and all chicken welfare report. Show more

RSPB warden Heather Bennett recalls how the lapwing began her love affair with nature. Show more

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

Sharon Horgan, writer, actor and producer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

How to End a Relationship, Alice Oseman, Mother and Baby Units in Prison.

In the final episode, we end up back where we started with Jonas Beck holding the Babelsberg Studio boss Otto Lenz at gunpoint. What's tipped him over the edge? Show more

Ben Wright examines how American electoral democracy has become increasingly partisan, and how the fight for voting rights will affect the 2020 election. Show more

Ian takes Chloe and baby Don away, hoping a relaxing weekend at a spa hotel will help. Stars Emily Berrington. From 2020. Show more

Booker-winning Anne Enright continues her new novel about fame, sex and a daughter's search for truth. Today: Norah finds herself dealing with her own 'Daddy' issues. Show more

How what we're wearing and the clothes we're buying has changed since lockdown. Show more

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As the world’s scientists come together and agree humans are having an impact on the climate, the oil companies come together to form their own coalition. Show more

Harrison faces a race against time and Tony has his mind made up for him. Show more

Emma Jane Kirby investigates the mystery of a US Air Force mechanic who stole a 60-tonne transporter aircraft from his base in East Anglia and disappeared mid-flight. Show more

Kathy Clugston presents the horticultural panel show with gardening experts. Show more

Hannah Lavery’s meditative story inspired by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s poem on what being idle might actually teach us. Show more

Matthew Bannister on financier Stuart Wheeler, author Josephine Cox, politician Miloš Jakeš, guitarist Peter Green. Show more

The executive in charge of the News Quiz discusses comedy under coronavirus, and whether Just a Minute will return in the absence of late, legendary presenter Nicholas Parsons. Show more

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The re-opening of casinos and bowling alleys is postponed due to Covid-19 concerns

Jo Brand is the curator for this week's Summer Comedy Festivals and she hosts a virtual poetry shindig featuring some of her favourite performers. Show more

Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; Disney producer Don Hahn on his documentary about lyricist Howard Ashman; Beyoncé film Black is King; Natasha Trethewey. Show more

In the final episode, we end up back where we started with Jonas Beck holding the Babelsberg Studio boss Otto Lenz at gunpoint. What's tipped him over the edge? Show more

Chris Mason presents political debate from Broadcasting House in London with a panel including Professor Mary Beard, Paul Johnson, Bob Seely MP and Emily Thornberry MP. Show more

Linda Colley suggests Britain could benefit from coming to terms with "our inescapable geographical smallness." Show more

From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how to manufacture doubt. Show more

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Booker-winning Anne Enright continues her new novel about fame, sex and a daughter's search for truth. Today: Norah finds herself dealing with her own 'Daddy' issues. Show more

Journalist and author Nicholas Lezard and former Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams introduce their favourite reads to Harriett Gilbert. Show more

Greg James, host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and self-confessed 'proud radio nerd', rummages through the BBC's vast archives, using current stories as a springboard into the past Show more

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When Rob Lawrie volunteered at the Calais Jungle he didn't think it would lead to smuggling charges: worse follows when he finds out that the man he tried to help has deceived him. Show more

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