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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Rev Mary Stallard, Bishop of Llandaff. Show more

Martha Kearney invites ten leading figures of today to the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery to champion a favourite picture from the Gallery's star-studded collection. Show more

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Carolyn explores this Suffolk seaside town, a place she's visited often over the years, and discovers how the enormous container port has shaped so much of the local area. Show more

Defra promises to fast-track new support payments, with applications opening to some on Monday. Show more

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Clive Myrie reveals the man behind the master mind with new memoir 'Everything is Everything' - and describes what it takes to report from the frontlines of a warzone. Show more

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Emma Southon and comedian Cariad Lloyd in first-century Rome to explore the life of empress and murderess Agrippina the Younger. Show more

Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Southend-on-Sea. Show more

Paul Waugh, chief political commentator for the i paper, assesses the latest developments at Westminster. Show more

Our correspondent visits Amizmiz, a town in the Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh where homes were destroyed and several lives were lost after the earthquake in Morocco last week. Show more

New research suggests 1 in 5 UK adults have had to ration things like heating or electricity to keep up with their debt repayments. Show more

Lucy Porter, Tom Ballard, Anushka Asthana, and Mark Steel join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the week's news. Show more

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James Cook presents political debate from Cowley Sixth Form in St Helens, Merseyside with a panel including Dame Meg Hillier MP, Sir Phil Redmond, Mark Spencer MP and Sharon Todd. Show more

Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week

Neurologist Dr Jules Montague and William Miller meet Gill and her daughter Natalie who are facing the rare genetic dementia, Huntington’s disease. Show more

Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters - LYR - compose music for a new radio ballad in which the people of Barnsley tell the story of the iconic Eldon Street. Show more

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Nick Robinson talks to former prime minister Theresa May about why she wants to call out abuses of power and takes us behind the scenes of 3 years in the top job. Show more

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The actor and comedian Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse over a seven-year period, which he denies.

Danny Wallace and Janey Godley are joined by Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Abir Mukherjee and Jenny Colgan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

TV presenter and former Big Brother host who has been on our screens for decades, Davina McCall. Show more

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo talks to John Wilson about her formative cultural influences. Show more

A hundred years after Sigmund Freud wrote The Ego and the Id, David Baker explores the ego's journey from a way of thinking about the mind to how AI is developing an ego of its own Show more

Detective series starring Hugo Speer as DCI Stone. Stone and his team follow leads that take them into investigating violent crime among young people. Written by Carol Russell. Show more

Returning from a torrid holiday in Spain, a young woman dreams of an exciting new future beyond the bounds of her life in Bathgate. Poignant and comic short story by Annie Griffin. Show more

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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode delve into the relationship between gaming and the movies, with help from a crack squad of video game experts. Show more

Russell Davies chairs the general knowledge contest from MediaCityUK in Salford, with four competitors bidding to become Brain of Britain 2023. Show more

Singer, storyteller and seven-times Radio 2 Folk Awards winner Karine Polwart brings together her love of science, history and the natural world with stories themed around light. Show more

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Seamus Heaney wrote a dozen books of poetry. But throughout his life he also translated poems from other languages. Theo Dorgan considers its range and its effect on his own work. Show more

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