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British pigs are getting too fat, and that’s not a good thing. We’ll be hearing why a double whammy of Covid and Brexit delays is causing havoc for some pig farmers. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the gannet. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of Champollion in deciphering the hieroglyphs on The Rosetta Stone, when the written culture of ancient Egypt opened to the modern world. Show more

Children's minister Vicky Ford on children's mental health; Scottish care homes; and novelist Daisy Buchanan discusses writing about sex. Show more

It's 1946 and Gloria goes to Tilbury to meet her husband Clement, an academic, returning from Paris where he has been teaching. Show more

Reflections on Egypt's revolution ten years ago, and the army's prevailing hold on power. Show more

Mary-Ann Ochota meets the people who are bringing sounds of the past to life through the technology of the present. Show more

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It’s 1979 and, fifteen years after being discharged from a mental hospital, Ben is a bus conductor. But he’s still pursued by fear and battles daily with internal voices. Show more

Make-up sales have plummeted but we're buying more skincare to treat ourselves during the pandemic. Show more

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Cultural historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan talks to Andrew Poole, manager of the Pavilion Cinema in Galashiels, about life under lockdown and the future of the cinema industry. Show more

Shula questions her future and two residents dig for information. Show more

by Annamaria Murphy. Dr Jelena Petrovic heads to Weston-super-Mare to investigate recent sightings of a Sea Serpent in the Severn, and asks: why do we still believe in monsters? Show more

Anneka Rice shares her favourite Thames-side route with Clare Balding in the first of a new series. Show more

Actor Stephen McGann makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Haemochromatosis UK. Show more

Tana French, acclaimed crime writer, discusses The Wych Elm with James Naughtie and a group of her readers. Show more

The Lord Of The Rings 20 years on. Antonia Quirke revisits her encounter with Christopher Lee in 2001 and hears from London Voices, the choir who sang Elvish on the soundtrack. Show more

Victoria Gill, Dr Anna Hogg and guests discuss the signs and symptoms of melting ice and anthropogenic climate warming, illicit CFC production and the racket we make in the seas. Show more

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Meghan Markle has won her privacy claim against the Mail on Sunday, with the High Court ruling its publication of a letter to her father was "manifestly excessive".

Sarah Millican's hit panel show returns, using surveys to discover who on her sparkling panel is the most Average Jolene and who is the most Maverick Matilda. Show more

Kirsty is on a mission and Emma waves the white flag. Show more

Ben Hopkins's new novel Cathedral, radio drama Faith, Hope and Glory by Roy Williams, Rex Obano and Winsome Pinnock, and Luke Jerram gets creative. Show more

Jeremy's interviewee, Skeptic Dr Fay Sullivan, suspects that, as a sensitive and gullible believer in the paranormal, Jeremy might be an interesting case to study. Show more

According to one of its MPs the SNP is in unprecedented turmoil at a time when its goal, an independent Scotland, may never have been closer. So what’s going on? Show more

Government debt is the highest it has ever been, especially due to Covid. How will we pay down the debt and what does it mean for government tax and spending plans? With Evan Davis Show more

Victoria Gill, Dr Anna Hogg and guests discuss the signs and symptoms of melting ice and anthropogenic climate warming, illicit CFC production and the racket we make in the seas. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of Champollion in deciphering the hieroglyphs on The Rosetta Stone, when the written culture of ancient Egypt opened to the modern world. Show more

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It’s 1979 and, fifteen years after being discharged from a mental hospital, Ben is a bus conductor. But he’s still pursued by fear and battles daily with internal voices. Show more

Comedy writer, producer and poet Henry Normal takes us on a curious journey of time and space as he looks at our relationship the universe. Show more

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Henry Goodman reads from John Preston’s gripping biography. Today, Maxwell’s success is uncontested but cracks are soon to appear. Show more

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