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Nature writer Melissa Harrison muses on the mimicking sounds of starlings, particularly one that learned the ring of her family phone causing calamity in the house. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the disappearance of up to 70 per cent of species roughly 370 million years ago at the end of The Age of Fishes, and the range of possible causes. Show more

Nadine Dorries on Strep B infection, Dame Donna Kinnair talks about nurses' pay, Women's safety, and Felia Allum discusses organised crime, Neapolitan mafia and gender. Show more

Gudrun’s eyes are opened and she prepares to save her family. Viking epic of love, revenge and faith starring Kate Phillips. Show more

Ten years on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that destroyed villages and towns, we revisit Fukushima's nuclear zone. Show more

James Fox enters the virtual worlds of artists Anish Kapoor and Cai Guo-Qiang as he explores the new technology revolutionising the art world. Show more

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From Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a new novel exploring what it means to love. Today: Artificial Friend Klara takes an unsettling trip with the Mother. Show more

Kittens are in demand, and breeders are selling kittens that are underage and unwell. Show more

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A history of the world as told through objects. This week Neil MacGregor is exploring how many of the great religions began using images. Today, an early image of Christ. Show more

Tension mounts at the hospital and Jim extends the hand of friendship. Show more

One in a trilogy of plays by Lucy Caldwell about the ways families say goodbye to loved ones. Set in a near future with families fleeing from a Cholera-ridden London. Show more

Big Cats! Rick Minter takes Clare Balding for a walk in rural Gloucestershire to discuss why he's so sure big cats exist in the British countryside. Show more

Professor Peter Mortimer makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Lymphoedema Support Network (LSN). Show more

Kei Miller discusses his Forward Poetry Prize winning collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion with James Naughtie and a group of his readers. Show more

Mark Jenkin takes us on a scouting trip for his new film, Enys Men, going deep into an abandoned mine in Cornwall. With Antonia Quirke Show more

Gaia Vince asks how China's five year plan aligns with its climate ambitions; how a cloned ferret could save the species; and seals reveal hotter winter waters in Antarctica. Show more

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Prince William has said the Royals are 'very much not a racist family' in his first public comments about a television interview given by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Best-selling Irish author Marian Keyes reads selections from her non-fiction writing, in conversation with Tara Flynn. This week's theme is adulthood. Show more

Susan has concerns over a loved one and Clarrie lands herself in trouble. Show more

The wonderful world of audio cassettes - once a world-conquering technology; poet Luke Wright on his latest collection; film director Shaka King on Judas And The Black Messiah Show more

Gudrun’s eyes are opened and she prepares to save her family. Viking epic of love, revenge and faith starring Kate Phillips. Show more

Amy Jeffress, the US lawyer of Anne Sacoolas, speaks exclusively to Joshua Rozenberg. And could Scotland hold a second referendum legally against Westminster's will? Show more

Since Brexit, many firms have had to set up a subsidiary operation in the EU to continue trading. What are the rules, pitfalls and costs? Evan Davis hears from three businesses. Show more

Gaia Vince asks how China's five year plan aligns with its climate ambitions; how a cloned ferret could save the species; and seals reveal hotter winter waters in Antarctica. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the disappearance of up to 70 per cent of species roughly 370 million years ago at the end of The Age of Fishes, and the range of possible causes. Show more

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From Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a new novel exploring what it means to love. Today: Artificial Friend Klara takes an unsettling trip with the Mother. Show more

News presenter Jane Hill and writer Derek Owusu talk to Harriett about books, including two about real life murders a century apart, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel Show more

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Film critic Helen O'Hara celebrates women of colour in Hollywood who fought both sexism and racism to try to have their voices heard. Show more

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