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How do companies selling us drinks, gambling and entertainment fare during tough times? Evan Davis and his guests also discuss mergers and acquisitions.

Sandi Toksvig talks to Amazonian jungle survivor Yossi Ghinsberg about the joys and perils of jungle travel. And Brad Hall from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission explores the 150 countries worldwide that have Commonwealth war graves. Writer Nigel Jones joins him to talk about visiting war cemeteries. All on Excess Baggage.

New depositor protection measures are proposed. Banks call to shareholders as the credit crunch continues, as does the downturn in the housing market. Plus: inheritance without a will.

We talked to two Nobel laureates,Professor Sir John Sulston and Professor Joseph Stiglitz about the impact of commercial pressures on scientists.

Is a task force targeting gang members the answer to knife crime?

Martin McGuinness and other politicians go to Iraq as part of efforts to use the Northern Ireland peace process as a model for reconciliation between Sunnis and Shias

The International Criminal Court has been hearing its first cast

Most of us probably think of the NHS as the place we go when we are sick but what other services can they provide

The Lords debate the treatment of retired Gurkhas.

We look at the future of health care and speak with Sir Clive Sinclair about computing and the internet.

David and Ruth go out to grass, Fallon and Ed hit the rocks in Devon.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a mix of stand-up, sketches and songs, with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke.

Betancourt in France / Charles Wheeler dies / Muslim country western singer

Alex Cox pontificates; Peter Berg reveals the pressures of making Will Smith blockbuster Hancock to Francine Stock; Guy Maddin on what his mother thought of his autobiographical documentary

Phil Redmond comments on the half way mark of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture programme; Natalie Haynes reviews Kung Fu Panda satrring Jack Black; Roy Mitchell and Alun Armstrong discuss cop drama New Tricks; and the Front Row relay team (made up of Mark Lawson, Stephen Deuchar, Rachel Campbell-Johnston and the artist Martin Creed) run around the Tate Britain

Jolyon Jenkins tells the story of how the seaside town of Shoreham became convulsed for several months in 1995 when animal welfare hit the headlines and stopped being a minority issue as seasoned protesters were joined by ordinary people to protest against the export of live sheep and veal calves to the Continent.

Rev Roy Jenkins

The government has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle, BBC News has learned. For decades farmers in this country have been telling the government that badgers spread a form of TB that infects their cattle. Lord Krebs, designer of the trials, and the government's former chief scientist Sir David King debate the issue.

MPs have voted to keep their £24,000 second home allowances, but have decided not to award themselves above-inflation pay rises. Labour MP and former minister Peter Kilfoyle and Liberal Democrat MP Nick Harvey discuss the issue.

The government is to say 'no' to a cull of badgers. And the Royal Show faces another difficult year - last year it was rain, this year it's bluetongue.