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Chris Bowlby presents a profile of Dilma Rousseff, who could become one of the world's most important political leaders, if she succeeds in becoming Brazil's new President. Show more

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The writer Sarah Cuddon examines the way the game of Snakes and Ladders mirrors our experience of life and our attitudes towards fate and morality. Show more

Venison can now easily be found in supermarkets but much of it is farmed rather than wild. Caz Graham visits Round Green Deer Farm in Barnsley to ask if farmed can be better. Show more

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Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. Show more

Glenys Kinnock presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity One World Action. Show more

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Harvest Festival service from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, led by Rev Nicholas Holtam with Claire Foster, Chief Executive of The Ethics Academy. Show more

Lisa Jardine reflects on the upcoming spending cuts through the prism of Dutch historian, Johan Huizinga, and argues that the human cost of the cuts must not be overlooked. Show more

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

The week's events in Ambridge. There's an unpleasant encounter for Kenton, and Hayley's blood is boiling. Show more

Entertainer Johnny Vegas joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Show more

Sheila Dillon looks at some of the latest developments in airline food, including innovative producers from the north east of Britain winning contracts to supply leading airlines. Show more

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A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.

2/3. Robin Denselow reports from Mali, in the 50th anniversary of its independence, and finds hope amongst poverty with a new project from Malian music star Rokia Traore. Show more

Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are guests of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in Edinburgh. Show more

Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison highlights the beauty of nature. It's April, and John travels to India to film tigers hunting. Show more

Tina Pepler's dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Germany. Isherwood arrives in Berlin and joins a motley crew of lodgers. Show more

Irish writer Roddy Doyle joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his Booker Prize winning novel Paddy Clarke HA HA HA, which is written in the voice of a ten-year-old Dubliner. Show more

'Home' is the theme for National Poetry Day 2010. Roger McGough shares poems by TS Eliot, AA Milne and RL Stevenson. Show more

Why do foreign students come to study in Britain and how does the dream measure up against the reality? Show more

Chris Bowlby presents a profile of Dilma Rousseff, who could become one of the world's most important political leaders, if she succeeds in becoming Brazil's new President. Show more

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Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. Show more

Things take a surprising turn for Jill and Pat offers a shoulder to cry on. Show more

Recalls and recollections: Matt Frei talks to the mayor of North Pole, Alaska; and the photojournalist, Ruth Gruber, now 99 years old, looks back on her adventure-packed career. Show more

By Roy Apps. With her husband in prison for a white-collar crime, Eleanor must find new ways to pay her granddaughter's school fees. Should she break the law herself? Show more

Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine the micromort measure of risk and official statistics on sexual identity. Show more

Matthew Bannister remembers Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, Princess Diana's favourite fashion designer Catherine Walker and the self styled King of the Buskers, Don Partridge. Show more

Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Show more

Glenys Kinnock presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity One World Action. Show more

Anne McElvoy examines the little-known origins of David Cameron's Big Society idea and asks what they tell us about how the Coalition government will do less and society do more. Show more

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Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.

James Forsyth of The Spectator takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news. Show more

Francine Stock talks to Murray Melvin, the star of A Taste of Honey, about the British New Wave 50 years after the movement made a splash in national cinema. Show more

The writer Sarah Cuddon examines the way the game of Snakes and Ladders mirrors our experience of life and our attitudes towards fate and morality. Show more

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Laurie Taylor looks at the experiences of au pairs in the UK and examines the relationship between Liverpool Football Club and the city of Liverpool itself. Show more

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