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Saturday Live

Clare Balding

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at the world. Clare Balding, Sir David Tang and the inheritance tracks of Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Clare Balding
Interviewed Guest:
Giles Chapman
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Peyton
Interviewed Guest:
David Tang
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Shulman
Interviewed Guest:
Jeff Kinney

The Now Show

Series 49

Episode 1

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Andy Zaltzman, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Adam Kay and Gemma Arrowsmith to present the news via topical stand up and sketches. Show more

Drama on 4

The Thrill of Love

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Radio 4 FM

4 Extra Debut. The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis - and the role of women close to her in her final months. Stars Maxine Peake. Show more

Contributors

Ruth Ellis:
Maxine Peake
Jack Gale:
Joe Armstrong
Vickie Martin:
Phoebe Dynevor
Doris Judd:
Victoria Brazier
Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George:
Alan Williams
Director:
Kate Chapman

Genres

Woman's Hour

Kanya King, Claire Foy, Angel Olsen

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Kanya King on 21 years of the Mobo Awards. Claire Foy on her role in the Crown playing the young Queen Elizabeth ll. The power of lipstick. Angel Olsen on her new album My Woman. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Kanya King
Interviewed Guest:
Josie Bevan
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Raeside
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Jude Kelly
Interviewed Guest:
Anton Emmanuel
Interviewed Guest:
Angel Olsen
Interviewed Guest:
Claire Foy

Loose Ends

Alison Lapper, DJ Semtex, Jack Monroe, Norma Winstone, Orkesta Mendoza, Clive Anderson, Sara Cox

Duration: 37 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Alison Lapper, DJ Semtex and Jack Monroe for conversation, music and comedy. With music from Norma Winstone and Orkesta Mendoza. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Clive Anderson
Presenter:
Sara Cox
Interviewed Guest:
undefined DJ Semtex
Interviewed Guest:
Jack Monroe
Interviewed Guest:
Norma Winstone
Interviewed Guest:
undefined Orkesta Mendoza
Producer:
Sukey Firth

Saturday Review

Nocturnal Animals, Dead Funny, BBC's Black and British, Naomi Alderman, Emma Hamilton: seduction and celebrity

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, Dead Funny at the Vaudeville Theatre, BBC TV's Black and British season, Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, Emma Hamilton - Seduction and Celebrity. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Rowan Pelling
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Lewis
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives - Omnibus

Amir Khusro, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Mirabai

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Professor Sunil Khilnani focuses on four late-medieval poets who are still influential today. Show more

The Reith Lectures

Kwame Anthony Appiah - Mistaken Identities

Colour

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah appeals for a world free of racial fixations. Recorded in front of audience at the British Council in Accra, Ghana. Show more

Annika Stranded

Series 2

Episode 1: Into the Ice

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 3 months

4 Extra Debut. A body is found frozen on the Oslofjord. Can detective Annika Strandhed place where she has seen the person it belonged to? Read by Nicola Walker. From July 2014. Show more

BBC Radio 4 FM

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