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Fixing the economy: Tom Sutcliffe discusses how with former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, economist Mariana Mazzucato and FT journalist and author Patrick Foulis.

There are five million carers in the UK - but who cares for the carers? Through a mixture of stand-up comedy and interviews, comedian and carer Mary Bourke investigates.

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Stephen and Anita Mangan ask whether oldest children are always the golden ones, as they unpick sibling relationships with the help of researchers and scientists.

1/5. Specialist mental health nurse Dorcas Gwata tells the story of her client Amir, who is attacked outside a pupil referral unit in London.

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1/5. Who was the real Marilyn Monroe? Celebrating 100 years of an icon.

Tensions mount for Rex, and Martyn Gibson attempts to get to the bottom of recent events.

5/6. Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as a long-married couple. Joanna's occupied with seagull chicks on the roof until Ray brings a surprise guest with him who looks just like her.

Penelope Lively's enduring themes are the connections between memory and history. Nowhere is this more compelling than in Moon Tiger. John Yorke goes between the pages.

Mona Chalabi chooses Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist shot in London in 1987.

3/6. David Baddiel tackles the 'English disease' of hooliganism and looks at how it was, if not cured, then certainly treated.

UK prisons face overcrowding, staff shortages and violence. Unlocked: Britain's Prison Crisis explores how they're kept running, often by overseas officers, at growing cost.

2/5. From a Manhattan gutter to the lights of Newport, Clarke Peters charts Miles's brutal fight with heroin and the birth of the haunting, intimate sound that redefined jazz forever.

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6/6. David Mitchell asks Tony Hawks, Zoe Lyons, Mark Steel and Fern Brady to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as sausages, fish, table tennis and butterflies.

Tom considers his options, and Ian has ground to make up.

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Fewer students are choosing to study humanities courses such as philosophy, history, languages and literature. So should we be rethinking the humanities for a digital age.

From Hay Festival 2026, a dive into a big year for our oceans, with plankton specialist Vincent Doumeizel and physicist turned oceanographer Helen Czerski.

Fixing the economy: Tom Sutcliffe discusses how with former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, economist Mariana Mazzucato and FT journalist and author Patrick Foulis.

There are five million carers in the UK - but who cares for the carers? Through a mixture of stand-up comedy and interviews, comedian and carer Mary Bourke investigates.

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6/10. John drives North to Stornoway but when he gets there he cannot bring himself to ask the questions that he needs to ask.

3/5. Mary seems to have gotten everything she ever wanted but the people in her life are becoming increasingly concerned about her apparent memory loss.

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