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With Canon Stephen Shipley.
'My 12 years of back pain gone in a second.' Listener Anita Cross thinks a body piercing blighted her life. Now it's gone, how has she suddenly adjusted to pain-free living? Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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Clare Balding walks through the Glasgow Necropolis with a group of walkers from the Glasgow Women's Library. Show more
Charlotte Smith asks if people in the countryside will be harder hit by the Government's spending cuts than those in urban areas. She finds out how one village plans to cope. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with John Humphreys and James Naughtie. A UN special rapporteur on torture discusses leaked US documents on Iraq. Show more
Saturday Live's guest presenter is news anchor Mishal Husain. She's joined by physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, poet Matt Harvey and expert negotiator Stuart Diamond. Show more
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John McCarthy looks at the British landscape through its villages with Clive Aslet, Ordnance Survey maps with Rachel Hewitt and at Finland with John Murolo. Show more
Miranda Sawyer looks behind the scenes at Christie's auction house. Miranda examines how Christie's is coping with the recession, and where it's going next. Show more
Steve Richards looks behind the scenes in Westminster after a defining week for the coalition government. He talks to two former chancellors about George Osborne's spending cuts. Show more
Colour, analysis and wit from reporters around the world hosted by Kate Adie. Today, despatches from France, Uganda, Japan, Ireland and the Canadian Arctic. Show more
Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical news quiz. With Jeremy Hardy and Bridget Christie. Show more
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the University of Derby with questions for the panel including George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and Guardian columnist. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Show more
Fast-moving thriller by Gary Brown, set soon after the Second World War and based on real events as the Jewish underground plan to assassinate foreign secretary Ernest Bevin. Show more
American folk singer Peggy Seeger talks to Sara Parker about her loves, losses and a life full of music. From 2010. Show more
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, with Jane Garvey. Show more
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.
Evan Davis and his guests discuss the importance of raw materials for their companies. They also consider whether business is a place for emotion and sentimentality. Show more
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Clive Anderson is joined by Sir Michael Parkinson, Marcia Griffiths, Rufus Sewell, Simon Garfield and Arthur Smith. With music from Train. Show more
Ahead of the US mid-term elections, Mary Ann Sieghart profiles provocative talk show host and one of the spiritual leaders of the Tea Party movement, Glenn Beck. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, novelists Terence Blacker and Liz Jensen, and writer and broadcaster Paul Morley review the cultural highlights of the week. Show more
4 Extra Debut. In anticipation of his own stage Hamlet in 2011, Michael Sheen explores every actor's dream role. From October 2010. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Captain Ahab's obsessive sea chase across the high seas for the great white whale, as witnessed by sole voyage survivor Ishmael. Stars Trevor White. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Combative, provocative and engaging debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Chaired by Michael Buerk. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. Northen Ireland take on the Midlands, with all questions set by Round Britain Quiz listeners. Show more
Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's major transitions, from the cradle to the grave. Tessa Nicholson and Alun Raglan read works by Blake and others. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
By Mark Twain. 4 Extra Debut. Rediscovered, sharply ironic satire on the commercial aspects of funeral undertaking. Read by Hector Elizondo. Show more
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