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Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Neil Gardner. Show more
Julian Lloyd Webber delves into birth order and finds out if the sequence in which we are born really can influence who and what we are. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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Fair Isle is famous for its knitting, but is it a dying tradition? Moira Hickey travels there to find out how important it is to island life. Show more
Reporting on the busiest time in the farming calendar as the harvest begins and all over the country crops are ripening and the combines are firing up. Anna Hill presents. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Fi Glover is joined by lyricist Sir Tim Rice. With poetry from Kate Fox. Show more
Sandi uncovers the secrets of Florence and Naples with author Lucretia Grindle and photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd. She also hears about a musical exploration of Welsh Patagonia. Show more
Author Jake Arnott marvels at metrosexual males and the new cafe culture. With Mark Simpson and Kathryn Flett. From 2010. Show more
Kate Adie introduces reports on the asbestos workers of India, the Polish town overshadowed by Auschwitz, Russia's heatwave, Ghanaian exuberance and French schools.
Series in which financial guru Alvin Hall helps four different generations plan for an uncertain future and explores the economic bonds that tie them together. Show more
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news, with help from Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests. Show more
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St Mary's Church, Sandwich in Kent. The panellists are Chris Grayling MP, Rosie Winterton MP, Lord Digby Jones and AN Wilson. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
David Pownall's play explores George Orwell's time in Wigan during the early months of 1936. Show more
Prof Robert Winston investigates how hypnotherapy helped save Rachmaninoff's career, and a theory to explain a problem for performers of his piano music: his enormous hand span. Show more
Presented by Bidisha. Victoria Wood on her new TV show about Morecambe and Wise, Women who don't want to be mothers, Deportment, Stoning, author Barbara Kingsolver. Show more
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
A look at the street pastor movement, a listener describes her visit to an asylum detention centre, and James Landale reads Your News.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Peter Curran is joined by US cult phenomenon Ronna and Beverly, the architectural historian Dan Cruickshank, controversial comic Brendon Burns and The Jolly Boys from Jamaica. Show more
Nigel Thompson profiles Julian Assange, the controversial frontman of the website WikiLeaks, now accused of having blood on its hands after publishing Afghan military reports. Show more
Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests writer Paul Morley, historian Kathryn Hughes and poet Cahal Dallat review the week's cultural highlights including the film Gainsbourg. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Felicity Finch - 'Ruth' in the Archers -returns home to witness the end of 170 years of steelmaking on Teesside. From 2010. Show more
Joseph Knecht's doubts about the Castalian way of life are compounded by his newly acquired position. Starring Derek Jacobi. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Debates on topical issues, bringing together experts in a particular field with people at the sharp end. Justin Rowlatt asks how much young children should be tested at school. Show more
Nigel Rees chairs the quotations quiz with Dr Phil Hammond, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Miles Jupp and Robert Lacey. From July 2010.
Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including verse by Simon Armitage, Denise Levertov and John Keats. The readers are Kenneth Cranham, Annette Badland and Jonjo O'Neill. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
New and classic tales that reveal the best and worst aspects of the British abroad. This new story by Christopher Matthew, set in occupied France, is based on real events. Show more
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