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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Rev Cheryl Meban. Show more

A roadmap has been drawn up on how to make the UK an appealing prospect for ‘nature-based’ investments. Show more

Musician Joe Acheson of Hidden Orchestra describes how slowing down the song of the diminutive wren sounded like the morning calls of gibbons across the rainforest. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how so much in the Universe, and much of our understanding of it, depends on changes in stars as they die after millions or billions of stable years Show more

Oscar-winner Dame Emma Thompson on her new film: 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.' Abortion access in Northern Ireland. The cost of childcare. Commemorating artist Dame Paula Rego. Show more

Life under Russian occupation, what Americans think of Ukraine, plus the bravery of Falkland civilians, a Frenchman searches for his British father, and birdwatching in Costa Rica. Show more

Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer is with her big brother Ricki on an Australian beach. He turns his back and she disappears. A mystery begins...Ricki's guilt...his search for answers. Show more

How Joshi Herrmann, founder of digital news service The Mill, found a gap in the market to form a company that brings in-depth local news to your inbox. Show more

Brands are planting forests to offset their carbon emissions, but how effective is it? Greg Foot finds out. Show more

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Justin Rowlatt discovers how global warming may trigger irreversible changes to our planet, including changes in Antarctica that will flood coastal cities for centuries to come. Show more

Vince is surrounded, and Brookfield is taking stock. Show more

Adam Usden has written a new tenth episode, set in Newcastle 2021, with echoes of the past, marking the end of Peter Flannery’s rewritten classic television serial. Show more

This week Clare Balding walks on the island of St Marys. Show more

Educator and historian Sir Anthony Seldon makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of DrugFAM. Show more

Diana Evans talks to Bookclub listeners about her novel Ordinary People and answers their questions. Show more

What does style with substance mean in a digital world? Mary Portas finds out how an estate agent became an Instagram sensation and speaks to Glassette's Laura Jackson. Show more

Problems with accounting for renewable energy usage, UK projects on the precipice with EU partnership, and the secrets of the jubilee royal hologram revealed. Show more

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Two British men and a Moroccan - captured while fighting for Ukraine - have been sentenced to death, accused of being mercenaries.

In an effort to save the High Street and show off the town's historic heritage, Milton decides to make an exhibition of himself. Show more

Is Brian feeling flexible? Tracy has a domestic. Show more

Reviews of the Andrew Gaynord film All My Friends Hate Me and Howard Brenton's play Cancelling Socrates, plus an interview with the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki. Show more

The UK spends nearly £200bn on health and social care. Yet the perception has been that things have got worse. Have they? If so, how much worse? And what might we do differently? Show more

The 'crust' of living: Evan Davis looks at the spiralling costs of baking bread. On top of rising energy bills the industry is having to meet huge increases in the price of wheat. Show more

Problems with accounting for renewable energy usage, UK projects on the precipice with EU partnership, and the secrets of the jubilee royal hologram revealed. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how so much in the Universe, and much of our understanding of it, depends on changes in stars as they die after millions or billions of stable years Show more

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The filming of 'Fedora' is almost finished. Now in Paris, Callista bumps into Matthew and their interrupted relationship looks set to continue. Show more

Bridget explores politically disengaging for a week, but does that make her happier or will life still be rubbish? From 2018. Show more

All the news from the Commons and the Lords with Susan Hulme.

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Public and private calls in the United States were calling for the removal of statues of Confederate generals. David Freedberg investigates. Show more

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