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Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Amazing stories from Oxfordshire.

Original stories from across the UK, news, sport, and exclusive interviews.

Interesting people, interesting places and interesting things to do.

Rosie Kane hears now teenage mums are calling for more support tailored to their needs.

Busnesu a sgwrsio, chwerthin a chrio. Chat, laughter and tears with Nia.

The brightest, liveliest and most thought provoking West Midlands magazine.

Real life in the two counties.

5/5. A salutary tale warning against messing with the path of true love.

A man who spent most of his adult life sleeping rough leaves an estate of 35,000 pounds.

Stephen Duffy presents music and arts highlights in a brand new Zone.

3/4. A look at Elvis's inner world, his personal qualities and frailties, and his early death.

Suzi travels to Memphis to explore her life-long fascination with Elvis Presley.

Maziar Bahari; Venezuela 10 years after the mudslides; India's top female wrestler.

Donald Morrison is in conversation with the writer and broadcaster Mary Anne Macdonald.

Mark looks at what makes the people and places of Coventry and Warwickshire tick.

Amazing stories from Oxfordshire.

Jonathan Ross leaves the BBC. Reaction from Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC.

Interesting people, interesting places and interesting things to do.

Charles Haviland asks: can the government and army that won the war, now win the peace?

Busnesu a sgwrsio, chwerthin a chrio. Chat, laughter and tears with Nia.

The brightest, liveliest and most thought provoking West Midlands magazine.

Real life in the two counties.

Contemporary life on Barra compared with how it was seen in 1964.

4/5. Willie's father made his last match a month before he died - finding a wife for his son.

The team races to find heirs of Christopher Bett, who was adopted after his mother died.

2/4. This part focuses on family life and Elvis's return to life as a performer on the road.

Murder at sea; Angolans on the Africa Cup of Nations

John Bennett talks to comedy actor and author Pauline McLynn about her life and career.

Mark looks at what makes the people and places of Coventry and Warwickshire tick.

Amazing stories from Oxfordshire.

Interesting people, interesting places and interesting things to do.

Busnesu a sgwrsio, chwerthin a chrio. Chat, laughter and tears with Nia.

The UDA announce they have decommissioned all weapons under its control.

Real life in the two counties.

The brightest, liveliest and most thought provoking West Midlands magazine.

3/5. Pennie Taylor finds out what Tony Bullimore learned from being lost at sea.

3/5. How the cultural and social changes of the 1960s began to impact on life in rural Ireland.

Investigators attempt to untangle Roy Read's complicated family tree.

Gary Robertson introduces his pick of the best history programmes from the past year.

2/6. Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles gets unexpectedly emotional as he goes back to his Irish roots.

2/2. Paul Gambaccini explores Elvis Presley's undiminished fame and power as an American icon.

1/4. A look at Elvis and Priscilla's early life together and their secret marriage in Vegas.

1/5. Jon Ronson looks at one of our deepest fears.

Martin Sheen tells the story of Elvis Presley's 1970 meeting with President Nixon.

Documentary following 13-year-old Hannah, who turned down a heart transplant.

Trauma in Pakistan; Angola kicks; Kuwait's first female MPs.

Mark looks at what makes the people and places of Coventry and Warwickshire tick.

5/9. Christopher Biggins champions the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Amazing stories from Oxfordshire.

The man who became the body double for Saddam Hussein's notoriously brutal son Uday.

Reaction to today's survey about GPs prescribing antidepressants too easily.

Interesting people, interesting places and interesting things to do.

Busnesu a sgwrsio, chwerthin a chrio. Chat, laughter and tears with Nia.

The brightest, liveliest and most thought provoking West Midlands magazine.

Real life in the two counties.

Melanie McFadyean investigates the mysterious life and diary of Opal Whiteley.

2/5. Willie is inducted into the family business by his grandfather.

The team races to find descendants of a recluse whose estate is worth 30,000 pounds.

1/6. Davina McCall makes some shocking discoveries as she delves into her family's past.

1/2. Paul Gambaccini explores Elvis Presley's undiminished fame and power as an American icon.

Iraqi poet - Nabeel Yasin; stand-up comedy in Jordan; desertification in China

Olivia Giles, a quadruple amputee, establishes a charity to help amputees in Africa.

Mark looks at what makes the people and places of Coventry and Warwickshire tick.

Amazing stories from Oxfordshire.

Live coverage of David Cameron's speech outlining Conservative plans for health policy.

Interesting people, interesting places and interesting things to do.

Busnesu a sgwrsio, chwerthin a chrio. Chat, laughter and tears with Nia.

The brightest, liveliest and most thought provoking West Midlands magazine.

Real life in the two counties.

1/5. Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish matchmaker Willie Daly.

The team seeks heirs of a Cheshire farm labourer with a surprisingly large estate.

The story of animator Gene Deitch, who lived in Prague during the years of communist rule.

Nick Ravenscroft sits in for Stephen Nolan with fierce and feisty topical phone-in debate.

How Elvis Presley transformed Las Vegas in the 1970s and how Vegas helped to destroy him.

1/4. Brothers Mark and Wynne Evans meet siblings who are in the same profession.

5/6. Huw Williams walks along a disused railway line, collecting people's stories along the way

ELO'S Bev Bevan looks back on his long career in rock music.

John Bennett talks to former war correspondent Fergal Keane about his life and career.

Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley.

Sgyrsiau gyda phobl diddorol. Interviews with interesting people.

Sally Magnusson meets actor, director, charity worker and campaigner David Hayman.

Best of The Interview in 2009 with Owen Bennett-Jones.

2/4. A wet and windy summer is threatening the livelihoods of the fishermen of Lleyn.

Gareth Jones provides a unique insight into the life of Rhodri Morgan.

Nick Ravenscroft sits in for Stephen Nolan with fierce and feisty topical phone-in debate.

Physicist Brian Foster explores the role of music in the life of Albert Einstein.

Rob Brydon explores the time Elvis spent in Las Vegas and his influence upon the city.

Chris Bowlby profiles the England football manager Fabio Capello.

Eileen Younghusband from Sully in South Wales tells of her crucial role in WWII.

4/6. Huw Williams walks along a disused railway line, collecting people's stories along the way

6/6. Tanni Grey Thompson talks to Paralympic star Danny Crates.

Music, stories and places. John Gillmore recalls the memories of your favourite year.

Fi Glover is joined by Mark Radcliffe. With poetry from Kate Fox.

Enjoy Berkshire's weekend to the full.

The best way to start your weekend, packed with ideas of things to do.

1/4. The first object out of the box takes Margaret back to a soiree in Vienna in 1895.

Phil Gibbons and Joanne Scholfield bring you the best of Bristol's community radio.

After battling mental illness, ex-Fleetwood Mac frontman Peter Green is recording again.

Documentary profiling Les Paul, creator of the solid-body electric guitar.

Nick Ravenscroft sits in for Stephen Nolan with fierce and feisty topical phone-in debate.

Five Ukrainian sailors tell their story about being captured by Somali pirates.

Another chance to hear about 'The King', in the words of his fans.

John Wilson presents the obituary series.

The Hager family own a dairy farm in the USA. We follow their lives through the year.

Peter Allen listens to soldiers talking about the realities of warfare in Afghanistan.

Best of 2009: Katie Piper, Swat valley, Fritzl psychiatrist, climbing blind, your eyes.

2/5. Pennie Taylor talks to Neil Butler, who was in Sri Lanka when the Asian tsunami struck.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation - stories of hope in the face of conflict.

4/9. Munira Mirza discusses the life of the influential political philosopher Hannah Arendt.

Donato Francisco Mattera, the celebrated South African journalist and poet

Fi Glover is joined by Brian May. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.

The unlikely friendship that survived the bombs of Baghdad.

A look at the service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Cambridge.

Remembering Chico Mendes, Bethlehem orphanage, A carpet ride to Uzbekistan

3/9. Neil Innes discusses the life of his colleague and friend Vivian Stanshall.

Knife Crime, Stuck in Dubai, Peace walks in Pakistan, Bolivian Skulls

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her generation.

Fi Glover is joined by sports reporter Garry Richardson. With poetry from Susan Richardson

Sentenced to death for sorcery; Zimbabwean nurses and Mormon comic looking for love.

The lives of Paul Samuelson, Yegor Gaidar, Bobby Jaye, Sir John Quicke and Ken Wlaschin.

Reconciliation in Rwanda, 49 years as a US soap star, and learning at the laundry

Former heroin addict Urfan Azad, retraces his steps of rehabilitation back to Pakistan.

Khmer Rouge close up; Atlantic rising; Veil attack

Rape report in Cameroon; Angel of Queens; Tsunami photographer; my best listener.

2/9. Stand-up comedian Rich Hall discusses the life of playwright Tennessee Williams.

The doctor fighting abortion; women patrolling India's border; the Belarus activists.

8/14. Faced with soon having to leave, the Reverend David Easton slips off to find a new job.

Fi Glover is joined by journalist Lynn Barber, author of An Education.

Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa; Gay Iraqis; Museum of Broken Relationships.

The lives of Liam Clancy, Jim Brown, Barbara Cawthorne and Geoffrey Moorhouse.

Swimming to survive, Argentinian Gauchos under threat, from the stage to the streets.

An African-American man is facing his sixth trial for the same crime.

Sacked by phone; Cycling in the Americas; Ho Chi Monh's Green Lung; Gibbon matchmaker

War widow Christina Schmid; Climate change in Mekong; gay wedding in Argentina halted.

1/9. Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V.

Mekong Delta and climate change; Polio campaigner; Barbershop StoryCorps

Libby Purves hears the stories of people helped by the 2008 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal.

American neuroscientist, David Eagleman, talks about science, religion and afterlife.

The Rev Richard Coles is joined by Industry Leader for Technology at Google Sarah Speake.

Racism in Peru; South African footballing grannies and adventures in the Sahara.

Marking the lives of Richard Todd, Prof Humphrey Kay, Cecilia Vajda and William Miller.

Inside Osama Bin Laden's family; Victoria Climbié school; 'angels' of Golden Gate Bridge.

Homosexuality in Uganda; Sri Lanka's disabled dancers; the Tyranny of Email

Witch children in Nigeria; storycorps; Japanese pop star; photographer Joseph Rodriguez

Wife of the Washington sniper; Indian puppeteers colony

Fi Glover talks to author Justin Cartwright. With poetry from Luke Wright.

Guatemala bus drivers; StoryCorps and Women Of Zimbabwe Arise.

Marking the lives Max Robertson; Elizabeth Soderstrom; Lino Lacedelli; John Craxton.

Thai forensic pathologist; US story library; Commonwealth expeditions remembered.

After Mumbai attacks; Somali banker; Commonwealth expeditions; Zambia's champion boxer

Remembering Mumbai terror attacks; ritual cleansing in Uganda; Commonwealth expeditions.

Life after Lords Resistance Army; addiction in Afghanistan; families unite in US army.

Fi Glover is joined by the actor Robert Lindsay. With poetry from Kate Fox.

Peruvian child servants, Amazon road, Black New York cowboys.

Marking the lives Sir John Crofton, Edward Woodward, Jimmy Hoseason, Derek B, Ralph Bird.

Wang Zhiqui; NYC Jewish dating scene; white witch of Swaziland.

Brother of the "Veil Martyr"; Phnom Penh water festival and Katie Piper's surgeon.

China's 'oriental angel'; Bolivian child bullfighter; solar-powered flight.

Vanessa Collingridge investigates the life and times of Hildegard von Bingen.

Surviving Sierra Leone's civil war; Australia's Bush Fires, Obama's half brother.

Fi Glover is joined by writer William Boyd. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.

Australians prepare for forest fires; Annie Lennox; Puntland assassination; GDR jokes.

Marking the lives of Jeremy Morris; Nien Cheng; Stanley Ellis; Lady Tumim; Robert Rines.

Music comes back to Swat; 89 Squares; Iraqi kids; Returning to Vietnam

Fighting off Somali pirates; 89 Squares, Berlin; Queen of Mantas

From Mexican crop-picker to US astronaut; 89 Squares - Warsaw; living without money.

Investigating the impact of racial segregation in the US armed forces in Britain in WWII.

Al Gore on his crusade to save the planet, 89 Squares, Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez.

Fi Glover is joined by businessman Harvey Jacobson. With poetry from Susan Richardson.

Terrible choice, Revolution Square, Tuareg Rebel.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Youssou N’Dour, the man who makes music to benefit Africa.

Palestinian teenager arrest; building a ship of dreams; actress Leleti Khumalo.

Amazonian tribal leader; Everest hospital and the question of mixed race.

14 years on death row; 25th anniversary of anti-Sikh riots in India.

Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.

Hudson river crash hero - Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

Edward Stourton profiles the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso.

Fi Glover is joined by clinical psychologist and writer Dorothy Rowe.

5/5. Why the medieval monk the Venerable Bede is the great Free Thinker of the North East.

Bulgarian orphans, Pigs in Cairo, Palestinian comedienne, South African Polygamist.

Marking the lives of Norman Painting, Werner Heubeck, Dr Ignacio Ponseti, David Shepherd.

Top business people discuss the effect that their traumatic childhood had on them.

4/5. Poet Sean O'Brien charts the growth of Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society.

Under siege in Honduras; deforestation in Madagascar; bridge jumper; swine flu celeb.

3/5. Henrietta Heald on the achievements of inventor and industrialist William Armstrong.

Life after an acid attack; the man who's devoted his life to freeing dolphins.

2/5. Kitty Fitzgerald on the life of Gertrude Bell, author of the 1921 map of modern Iraq.

Srebrenica massacre; Bolivian prison; an English restaurant in Italy; the Currywurst.

Are some green lanes and place names in southern England a reminder of a Welsh invasion?

1/5. Graeme Rigby discusses T Dan Smith, former leader of Newcastle City Council.

Plight of Yemen's children; Australia's blind dance star and life in Saudi Arabia.

Mary Ann Sieghart profiles comedian and writer Armando Iannucci.

Fi Glover is joined by Dame Joan Bakewell. With poetry from Matt Harvey.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Escaping the Taliban, Ethiopian Famine, South Korean single mum, Ghana's Olympic skier.

Search for "disappeared son"; museum of African American memorabilia.

Gangs in Chicago; Bigamy case in Indian courts; Brian Keenan remembers his mother

Residents of Mildenhall remember the aviators who took part in an air race in 1934.

Evacuating the Carterets; German girl who was a boy; ANC soldiers; Internet Cafe Hobo.

Christian Poveda; victims of sex abuse in the US; Mongolian horse derby.

Chris Bowlby takes a look at the man at the centre of a political storm on MPs expenses.

Rev Richard Coles is joined by five-time Olympic gold medal winner Sir Steve Redgrave.

John Wilson presents the obituary series.

Nigerian corruption fighter, Borneo village goes electric, Marchioness survivor.

Refugee abuse in S African church, jobs for people with autism, piracy on the high seas.

Health insurance whistleblower; Bosnia tourism; children of Mumbai's prostitutes.

Is the skin that binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a listener's ancestor?

Brighton bomber; Bolivian sugar children; Internet hobo.

Orphans of Indian farmers; refusing to play ball; evacuating the Carteret Islands.

Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the owner of the London Evening Standard.

Fi Glover is joined by the creator and writer of Teletubbies, Andrew Davenport.

The lives of Marek Edelman, Robert S Baker, Dr Sula Wolff and Mercedes Sosa.

Venezuela mass graves, Asian hero, Plane hunter.

Iranian women; US immigration, BBC in Zimbabwe, L'Aquila 6 months on.

A British soldier in Afghanistan; life divided by a border; Wim Hof, the Ice Man

Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.

Memories of a Sarajevo Childhood, La Dolce Vita 21st Century, eye montage in Paris.

India's Maoists and security; the cult of celebrity in Italy; on making eye contact.

Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the prime minister.

Fi Glover is joined by author and broadcaster Kate Mosse.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Mentally ill refugees in Ethiopia, Ladies' train in Delhi, British arctic traveller.

'My father died in Mumbai attacks'; illegal logging in Siberia; troubled teens in London.

Chinese labour camp survivor; island tourism hit by Madagascar turmoil; Courtroom art.

9/9. John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to the British Empire.

Volunteer at Calais jungle camp; Living without money in a cave; mementos.

5/5. Listeners' stories about the process of researching the life of an adoptive relative.

Cambodia's crusader for the truth; Jeannette Gilderdale; 89 Voices in Czech Republic.

Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in the spotlight.

Fi Glover is joined by Alan Titchmarsh. With poetry from Susan Richardson.

The lives of John Wild, Troy Kennedy Martin, Willy Ronis, Jim Carroll, Leonie Cohn.

Euthanasia in Holland; female poker champion.

Post-conflict trauma in Pakistan; 89 voices in Poland; cell phone snapper Joel Grey.

India's Green Crusader, 89 Voices in Romania , the New York Times restaurant critic.

8/9. Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini, with help from biographer William Kalush.

Bereaved parents for peace; '89 voices in Hungary; US amputees help each other.

4/5. Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt explore the roots of Britain's immigrant families.

89 voices: born when the Wall came down; film maker Rebecca Cammisa; cleaning up Chad.

The men and women who founded the gay rights campaign group, Stonewall.

Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher Bailey.

Fi Glover is joined by musician and actor Gary Kemp. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.

The obituary series includes tributes to Brian Barron and Keith Floyd.

Khaled Hosseini returns to Kabul; Couples in adoption trouble; Online gaming addiction.

Brian Barron Remembered, Australian Road Rage, the music scholar with Cystic Fibrosis.

Mentally ill in India; Desperate Dreams; Tree frogs in Hawaii.

7/9. Kate Humble discusses the South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, Miriam Makeba.

Karban Mohammed; HIV campaigner Patricia Sawo; teenage pig farmer.

3/5. Sam Merry explores his great-grandmother's move from India to Mansfield over 100 years ago

Migration and Romanian family; Deaflympics; Treating an infection of jiggers.

Sue MacGregor reunites key players involved in the secret talks to free Nelson Mandela.

Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Fi Glover is joined by businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. With poetry from Matt Harvey.

Celebrating the lives of Keith Waterhouse, Baroness Chapman, Sergei Mikhalkov.

Police Reform in Venezuela; Collapse of Lehmans; Zimbabwe's blind cricket commentator.

Denmark deports Iraqis; 9/11 Widow and mother; child fund raiser Zach Bonner.

Somaliland's hard-won democracy; a sporting hero remembered; Campbell Bridges gem hunter.

6/9. Boris Johnson nominates Samuel Johnson, writer of the great dictionary.

Child abduction in China; transforming South Africa's wine industry; satire in Azerbaijan.

2/5. Lucille White finds about her great, great-grandmother - was she a daughter of Louis XVI?

South Korean fishermen reconciled; kids live on Lagos beach; 'Mother of judo' gets medal.

Sue MacGregor reunites those caught up in the 1980 siege at the Iranian Embassy in London.

Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister.

Fi Glover is joined by Hamish Anderson. With poetry from Kate Fox.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Tunnels under the Mexico border, Roma child crime in Milan, and the life of a City Girl.

6/6. As sea-levels rise, Dan Box witnesses one Pacific island community's climate change exodus

UK man faces death penalty in Iraq; meeting Mohammed Ali; BBC listener to the rescue

Typhoon in Taiwan; academic success in Bihar; photographer Tim Hetherington on Liberia.

5/9. Rolf Harris discusses the life of the Welsh painter Sir Kyffin Williams.

Children of Beslan, quadriplegic woman's solo sail, South African immigrants.

1/5. Stella Collis is united with her German PoW father's military records.

Sharon Mascall meets migrants who've crossed the globe to make Australia their home.

Key players in the relief effort mounted in response to the famine in Ethiopia in 1984.

Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister.

Fi Glover is joined by classicist Mary Beard. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.

Edward Kennedy; Campbell Bridges; Clive Parsons; Lawrence Lucie.

Kidnap in Mexico; Indian sex workers; Iraqi eye Doctor. With George Arney.

Surviving nuclear tests; Massachusetts farm; Nigeria's farming future. With George Arney.

Chicago kids off the block; North Caucasus bloggers; US monks. With George Arney.

4/9. Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses the life of another woman traveller, Freya Stark.

Swat valley teacher; Aborigine guides; Maryland farmer; Miami drag racers.

Indian abortion controversy; Tour de Timor; Hog farming in the USA. With George Arney.

Sue MacGregor reunites some of those involved in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.

Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey.

Fi Glover is joined by Madness frontman Suggs. With poetry from Kate Fox.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Japanese sex discrimination; Organic Family Farm; Running in South Africa.

Iraqi church refugees; Cirque du Soleil; Food crisis. With George Arney.

Women's rights in Afghanistan; Hopi farming family; Aid worker in South Ossetia.

3/9. George Galloway chooses British poet and political activist John Cornford.

Dramatic execution rescue; Japan's pregnant brides; prosthetic arm claim.

India school suicides; farming in Iowa; the father who ran Auschwitz.

Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan.

Fi Glover is joined by Professor Anthony Hollander. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.

Jane Little presents the obituary series.

Betty Yettaw; Beating the US health system; Being gay in China; German bravery medals.

Prosecuting war criminals; Cross-border friendship; Child birth defects in Corby.

Human rights in Chechnya; lost boys of Sudan; Iraq's new youth orchestra.

2/9. David Miliband discusses the life of Joe Slovo, a leading member of the ANC.

South Africa's white squatters; new face for a new job; Aerosol Arabic.

Education theft in China; Brazilian cuckolds; Sued for music sharing; Child hen farmer.

Clive Coleman profiles the media mogul James Murdoch.

Rev Richard Coles is joined by wildlife film maker Simon King.

Jane Little presents the obituary series.

Shooting in Tel Aviv; Swat goes back to school; Madagascar's sea nomads. With Lucy Ash.

1/9. Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate for over 40 years

Gujarati sailors; old age prisoners; fashionable burqas; RIP Benson the carp.

Gang busting granny; Hong Kong's oldest DJ; Banker turned biker. With Lucy Ash.

Clive Coleman hears about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is.

Fi Glover is joined by Alain De Botton. With poetry from Matt Harvey.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Shocking rape case in Syria; Scottish homecoming; Pregnancy in Kenya. With Lucy Ash.

Rabiah Hutchinson - the surf chick who married into Al Qaeda's inner circle.

Lady Jane Campbell fighting for the right not to die; an expectant mum in India.

Gambian journalists under pressure; Mum stories; blind teens climb Everest.

2/2. Following the barristers, clerks and staff of one of London's leading law chambers.

Malalai Joya; mum-to-be with a disability; and the Nigerian cardiologist.

Clive Coleman profiles the musician Peter Gabriel.

Fi Glover is joined by Sheila Hancock. David Peace recalls the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Return to the Swat valley; going bust in the USA; love triangles at the zoo.

Mennonite community shocked by rape; Kuwaiti American soldier; Birth in China.

Locked in car boot, American mum-to-be, African students in China. With Matthew Bannister.

Crime of the Century; Sexist baboons in Kenya; Living off rubbish. With Matthew Bannister.

1/2. Following the barristers, clerks and staff of one of London's leading law chambers.

Birth photo arrest; Apollo 11 at 40; and Bhopal 25 years on. With Matthew Bannister.

Claire Bolderson profiles Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court

Fi Glover is joined by Tobias Jones. With poetry from Lemn Sissay.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

South African construction workers on strike; saving the sibling and moon memories.

Gay US solider; Russian Cosmonaut moon memories; African in America.

Pirate negotiator; top restaurant in a prison; moon memories; eye to eye with sperm whale.

Abuse in marriage; Kyrgyz migrants; and born black to white parents.

James Silver examines the life of Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World.

Rev Richard Coles is joined by James Palumbo. With poetry from Kate Fox.

John Wilson presents the obituary series.

North Korea; Peruvian sweets; and inspired by the moon. With Ritula Shah.

Coping in Madagascar; one man and his dog; and starting again. With Ritula Shah.

In Guantanamo at 14; J8 not G8; and skyward glamour. With Jonathan Charles.

L'Aquila waits for G8; abandoned in South Africa; a $2.1 million lunch; India Coffee House

Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi.

Fi Glover is joined by Irish novelist John Boyne. With poetry from Luke Wright.

Matthew Bannister reflects on the lives of Mollie Sugden, Jean Hugel and Prof Tom Reilly.

New Australians; Ritula's London; and the World Wide Web wedding. With Ritula Shah.

Heroin in Zanzibar; New Australians; Death row artist; Save our sounds.

Late term abortion doctor; New Australians part 3; extreme poverty in Zambia.