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The US pop superstar, Taylor Swift, who's just become a billionaire entirely through music. Recent success includes a new re-recorded album, her live tour and accompanying film.

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The 14th-century mystic Mother Julian of Norwich has been gaining new admirers in recent years. Mark Tully asks what this visionary medieval theologian has to offer society now. Show more

Will Young, aka Farmer Will on social media and former TV Love Island contestant, is in the Chilterns to see some muscly pedigree pigs and some boxy Beltex rams. Show more

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Use of Scripture in war; Sikh barred from jury service; Church of England same-sex blessings. Show more

Sir Richard Stilgoe makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Child Rescue Nepal. Show more

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The Parliament Choir marks Guy Fawkes Day and the State Opening of Parliament from Methodist Central Hall Westminster. With Rev Dr Jamie Hawkey and Lord Griffiths of Burry Port. Show more

As his infant son feels rain for the first time, John Connell reflects on Ireland's relationship with rain. Show more

Chris Packham presents the roaring southern cassowary of Australia's Queensland. Show more

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Tensions boil over for one family, and there’s more bad news for Alan. Show more

Lea Salonga, singer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Can a machine set a better quiz than a human? Paul Sinha finds out with the help of his audience in Ipswich. Show more

Sheila Dillon presents more stories from the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023. Show more

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How can the death penalty process balance the idea of “an eye for an eye” with the United States constitution? Prison guards take us into the chamber to find out. Show more

Which fruit and veg would the panel recommend for novice gardeners to grow? Is gardening an art or a science? Kathy Clugston and her panel of experts are in Smethwick. Show more

The series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke explores the classic Italian novel The Betrothed. Show more

by Alessandro Manzoni, adapted for radio by Eileen Horne

Two lovers want nothing more than to marry but are prevented by a powerful lord and are forced to flee. Show more

Katherine Heiny answers readers' questions about her funny, compassionate novel Standard Deviation. Show more

Hirsute comedian and crumpled polymath Rob Auton shuffles through BS Johnson's 1969 novel The Unfortunates, a book published in a box with 27 sections to be read in a random order. Show more

Ten years ago, journalist Krupa Padhy lost her first child because of medical negligence. Now she wants to find out what, if anything, has changed in Britain's maternity wards. Show more

The US pop superstar, Taylor Swift, who's just become a billionaire entirely through music. Recent success includes a new re-recorded album, her live tour and accompanying film.

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Roddy Woomble chooses audio highlights from the past week. Show more

The Bull’s Bonfire Night goes with a bang, and Alan is feeling the pressure. Show more

Comedian Catherine Bohart meets Stella Creasy to talk politics and how to curate a banging playlist in the first part of her raucous new stand-up special. Show more

When Godfrey Wintle arrives at his dealer's edgy new gallery, he fears East London's art lovers might not take to his modest watercolours, in William Boyd's savagely funny series. Show more

Andrea Catherwood discusses BBC Sounds five years on with the people who launched it and BBC's director of Sounds, Jonathan Wall, tells us his ambitions for the future. Show more

Matthew Bannister on lawyer Benedict Birnberg, historian Professor Jose Harris, Mau Mau fighter Muthoni Wa Kirima and actor Matthew Perry. Show more

Millions of people, some with quite modest savings, now face the prospect of paying tax on the interest those savings earn. Show more

Sir Richard Stilgoe makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Child Rescue Nepal. Show more

Clive Anderson and Kofi Smiles are joined by Barrie Rutter, Richard Bean, Leah Brotherhead and Kat Hudson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

Ben Wright previews the King's Speech and discusses the Covid inquiry with former minister Steve Brine, senior Labour peer Baroness Angela Smith and Whitehall expert Hannah White. Show more

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. The panellists are Anne McElvoy, Melanie Philips, Mona Siddiqui and Matthew Taylor. Show more

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The customer is always right - or are they? Matthew Syed looks into the the story of a unique Italian restaurant and the world of online reviews. Show more

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