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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Jonathan Rea.
Abraham makes a decision - but what safety measures are there for the process he enters into? And how are decisions made about what makes someone vulnerable? Show more
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.
Norfolk has hundreds of abandoned villages and ruined churches. Lawrence D'Silva explores them, asks what led to their decline and finds out why the county has so many. Show more
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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Saturday Live
Cath Kidston, Stig Abell, Kylie Grimes, Rufus Wainwright
57 minutes
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The designer and business-woman Cath Kidston reveals the person beyond the patterns and why you should never use your real name for your business. Show more
Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny
Fatiha El-Ghorri: Larache, Morocco
43 minutes
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Comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri paints a evocative picture of her family's home town, the fishing port of Larache in Morocco. But will she persuade Shaun to brave the hungry mosquitoes? Show more
Greg Jenner and his guests Dr Corin Throsby and comic Cariad Lloyd discuss 18th-century feminism and the life and legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft. Show more
Soul Music
Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific
28 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Exploring the impact of Rogers and Hammerstein’s song about finding love, from their 1949 musical, South Pacific. From 2021. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Mexico's Clergy and the Cartels
28 minutes
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In Mexico the life of a priest comes with considerable risk, as clergy learn to navigate communities controlled by violent drug cartels. Show more
What you should do to protect your digital memories after you’ve died? Show more
Steve Punt presents the week via topical stand-up and sketches. He's joined by Alex Kealy, Ahir Shah & Rachel Parris. Show more
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Any Questions?
Dame Margaret Beckett MP, Adrian Ramsay, Tim Stanley, Lord Willetts
47 minutes
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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, with a panel including Margaret Beckett, Adrian Ramsay, Tim Stanley and Lord Willetts. Show more
Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities
Peggy Stanhope's literary executors, siblings Meg and Mitch, face tough decisions in order to secure re-publication of her children's books, written in a very different era. Show more
This started as a love story, but something clicked: this is not love. A poetic insight into a coercive relationship, adapted from real-life experiences, performed by Kate Dickie. Show more
Woman's Hour
Hadley Freeman, Baroness Warsi, Derry Girls' actors Siobhan McSweeney and Louisa Harland on the London stage, AI, Emma Booth
56 minutes
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Hadley Freeman on her memoir Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, and Derry Girls actors Siobhan McSweeney and Louisa Harland on reuniting for Dancing at Lughnasa. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news
From the team that brings you Sliced Bread. Sean Farrington investigates the big ideas which promised so much to consumers but ended up toast. This week it's the fake fat, Olestra Show more
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Six O'Clock News
15/04/2023 Protestors disrupt Grand National
15 minutes
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Grand National is won by the favourite after start is delayed by protestors on the track
Loose Ends
John Cooper Clarke, Harry Hill, Monica Ali, Suhani Shah, Supalung, Sam Brookes, George Egg, Clive Anderson
43 minutes
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Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by John Cooper Clarke, Harry Hill, Monica Ali and Suhini Shah for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
Dr Nicola Fox, the Hertfordshire-born physicist who's NASA’s new science chief. Show more
Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson talks to John Wilson about the influences and experiences that inspired his own creativity. Show more
Jonathan Freedland asks what the word fascism means in the 2020s and whether it is right to compare the politics or language of today with that of the 1930s. Show more
Toby Jones stars as the corrupt MP Joseph Olinska. Lionel Smith, the man who was ordered to set Joseph's flats ablaze, has finally emerged. But who ordered him? Show more
A recently retired woman moves back to the coastal town where she grew up and is inspired to try sea swimming. Read by Maggie Cronin. Show more
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Jeanne Dielman and the art of slow cinema
42 minutes
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Inspired by Chantal Akerman’s three-and-a-half-hour 1975 masterpiece - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels - Mark Kermode and Ellen E Jones explore slow cinema. Show more
The longest running radio quiz series of all time returns for a new series, with Kirsty Lang asking the cryptic questions. Show more
James moves with his parents to a new house, but the family are swiftly plunged into a maelstrom of terrifying, violent poltergeist activity which will tear the family apart. Show more
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A sonic portrait of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society, recorded on location during a field trip to Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire. Show more
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