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Criminals are employing new tactics to commit rural crimes according to a new report out today, including using silent electric scooters to carry out surveillance. Show more

Conversational voices of those inspired by birds. Mark Cocker remembers a childhood encounter with a ring ouzel, a bird with a blackbird-like call that winters in Morocco. Show more

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

Sangita Myska meets Baljeet Sandhu MBE, who believes ‘knowledge equity’ and reinventing leadership can make policy-making more progressive. Show more

Evolutionary biologist and comedian Simon Watt wonders if we could upgrade our wonky human body, with a little help from the animal kingdom. Show more

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Show more

Professor Matthew Cobb concludes his history of genetic engineering by looking at the fears and hopes raised by CRISPR gene editing. Show more

John Wilson discovers the extraordinary light-bulb moments that have inspired some of our best known artists on their creative journey. Show more

It's 1960 and Ulysses is well established in Florence. He often thinks of Evelyn but, in spite of several near-misses, the friends haven't met since the war.
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Call You & Yours: Do people treat you differently because of your accent?
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The trauma of losing her family in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, shaped Alice Musabende's life. In this series, she wrestles with telling her children about it. Show more

Events spiral out of control for Shula while David feels uneasy Show more

In Paul Sellar's drama, self-made tycoon Max Silver sets out to build an iconic new London skyscraper. Starring Robert Glenister. Show more

Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body and put their hands together for… the hands. Show more

Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell on the language used by cults that has permeated other, more unexpected, areas of life. Show more

Michael Booth picks Hans Christian Andersen with a little help from Michael Rosen, author of many children's books, including We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Show more

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A day of thrills, records & emotion at the Tokyo Games with more medals for Team GB

Simon Evans presents another comedy lecture on economics and in this episode he looks at the impact of the pandemic on the stand-up and theatre worlds. Show more

Neil tries to pick up the pieces and Josh admits to an oversight Show more

Booker Prize shortlisted writer Elif Shafak on her novel The Island of Missing Trees. Jonathon Heyward on his conducting debut for the National Youth Orchestra. Stillwater review. Show more

Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the Bengali writer and thinker Rabindranath Tagore, India’s first Nobel Prize winner. Show more

Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud? Show more

The Tech for All scheme, launched by charity Guide Dogs, aims to provide blind and visually impaired children with technology to help their school work and overall independence. Show more

James Gallagher asks could people with normal blood pressure benefit from medication to lower it further? And what exactly is long Covid in children? Show more

Sangita Myska meets Baljeet Sandhu MBE, who believes ‘knowledge equity’ and reinventing leadership can make policy-making more progressive. Show more

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It's 1960 and Ulysses is well established in Florence. He often thinks of Evelyn but, in spite of several near-misses, the friends haven't met since the war.
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Comedian Shappi Khorsandi joins Fi and Jane for their 200th episode, with a live and socially-distanced audience at London's Royal Festival Hall. Show more

Paul Weller is quizzed by John Wilson and the audience about the last album by The Jam in 1982, 'The Gift'. From 2012. Show more

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