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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muneera Pilgrim, poet, writer and broadcaster. Show more

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Actress and keen birdwatcher Trudie Goodwin fell in love with the carib grackle's song. Show more

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Professor Jean Golding, epidemiologist, 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

She's appeared in nearly 2,000 different films and television programmes, but you've probably never heard of her. Show more

Historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain. Show more

To have or not to have. That's the question. About kids that is. Especially when you’re about to hit 40, single, and you've moved back in with your parents. Show more

The third in the series marking a hundred years of the BBC through a celebration of the archive, with today's focus on the impact and importance to the Arts in Britain. Show more

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In a week of programmes for the BBC centenary, historian Robert Seatter selects three objects from the BBC’s archive store and tells the stories behind their creation. Show more

Oliver seems to be held up tonight, and Elizabeth is playing host. Show more

The quest to unlock the secret of the Hare Witches continues in Lucy Catherine's supernatural thriller. Dan has started to find strange messages in his dreams and his online game Show more

Why do we constantly put stuff off? Ella Al-Shamahi investigates if our palaeolithic minds are hardwired for procrastination… Show more

The GQT team are in Banstead in Surrey for this week's horticultural programme. Show more

Catriona Innes’ bittersweet tale of a woman who has found her tribe on Twitter, at the expense of her real life. Show more

Matthew Bannister on entrepreneur Peter de Savary, occupation hero Bob Le Sueur MBE, campaigner Ela Bhatt and Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar. Show more

Andrea Catherwood on reporting conspiracy theories with BBC Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, recovering conspiracist Brent Lee and BBC Monitoring's Olga Robinson. Show more

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Jury rules errors by West Midlands Police 'materially contributed' to two murders.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. They're joined by Alfie Brown, Lauren Pattison and Jess Robinson. Show more

Eddie admires a bit of ingenuity, and is Leonard caught in the middle? Show more

London's Southbank Centre's Gillian Moore and composer Gavin Higgins travel from Texas to Portugal - via Belgium and Suffolk - with Cerys and Jeffrey as they add five more tracks. Show more

Alex Forsyth presents political debate and discussion from Cranfield University in Bedfordshire with Stephen Bush, Thangam Debbonaire MP, Paul Drechsler and George Freeman MP. Show more

David Goodhart explores what lies behind the apparent political consensus, on almost all big issues, between the two main parties. Show more

Emmett Till, 14 and black, was lynched in Mississippi on August 28 1955. Maria Margaronis travels through landscape and memory to explore stories around a black life that mattered. Show more

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Demon is in the early days of sobriety, living in a halfway house in Knoxville and afraid to return home to all too familiar temptations.
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The former US President says he will 'save' the US. The Americast team talk to one of his advisers. Show more

Mark D'Arcy reports on a clampdown on rogue landlords - and there's talk of a new Spanish Armada.

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After the discovery of an audacious tunnel, rumours fly about a possible a spy among the British officers, as Samuel West continues the story of the world's most infamous prison. Show more

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