The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
The bells of York Minster.
James Silver profiles Andy Coulson, who has resigned as David Cameron's director of communications, blaming coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Show more
The latest national and international news.
Mark Tully considers that, for some, creativity is only possible when normal boundaries are abandoned. He asks whether creativity is enhanced or obstructed by lack of control. Show more
Ten years on from the Foot and Mouth crisis, Caz Graham visits two farming brothers whose lives went in opposite directions after they lost all their animals to the disease. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and unfamiliar. Show more
Michael Rosen presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the Meningitis Research Foundation. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Award-winning composer of radio, TV and film scores Steven Faux explores the Psalms, live from Bath Abbey. With Prebendary Edward Mason and the Bath Abbey Girls' choir. Show more
Alain de Botton gives a philosopher's take on our ecological dilemmas. He argues that fear of environmental destruction has changed for ever our relationship with nature. Show more
News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
Jill is getting anxious and Pat broaches a delicate topic. Show more
Veteran Coronation Street actress Betty Driver joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Show more
Sheila Dillon investigates developing trends in the shellfish trade, plus its sustainability, and asks why we don't make more use of molluscs and bivalves in Britain. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
A look at events around the world.
Matthew Sweet asks how the mobile phone is transforming the way we watch and make movies. From January 2011. Show more
Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs join call-centre staff in Warrington, Cheshire for a horticultural Q&A. Eric Robson is the chairman. Show more
Ian Marchant meets five 'completists', each of them driven by the need to tick off the entire collection. Show more
Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's detective masterpiece from 1868, starring Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder and Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff. Show more
Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday about his new book, and writer Jay Parini discusses the life of Herman Melville. Show more
Roger McGough returns with a new series of poetry requests, including work by Bertolt Brecht, Rudyard Kipling and Kate Scott. The readers are Jon Strickland and Phyllida Nash. Show more
Legal cases brought by patients who have been harmed by drugs are notoriously difficult to win. Is the government making it almost impossible for them even to be heard in court? Show more
James Silver profiles Andy Coulson, who has resigned as David Cameron's director of communications, blaming coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the week's radio. Show more
Elizabeth and the children share a thoughtful moment. Meanwhile Kenton's busy in the kitchen. Show more
With no licence fee, US public broadcasting still makes it happen. How? As some in Congress are calling to end its federal funding, Americana asks what that money does and why. Show more
4 Extra Debut. A woman finds a strange baby in her shopping trolley. No one believes it's not hers so she must take it home. Read by Jackie Morrison. Show more
Is Britain's healthcare falling behind that of our European neighbours, as the Government suggests? Show more
Matthew Bannister on Laotian General Vang Pao, footballer Nat Lofthouse, literary critic John Gross, actress Susannah York and stock car racing champion Stu Smith. Show more
Paul Lewis and the Money Box team bring you the latest news from the world of personal finance. Show more
Michael Rosen presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the Meningitis Research Foundation. Show more
Peter Day talks to Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter about radical changes to the way corporations think about their relationships with society. Show more
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. Show more
Hugo Rifkind takes a wry look at how the broadsheets and red tops have treated the week's news. Show more
Francine Stock tries to set up her own pop-up cinema, enlisting the help of Ken Loach along the way. Show more
Mark Tully considers that, for some, creativity is only possible when normal boundaries are abandoned. He asks whether creativity is enhanced or obstructed by lack of control. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Why do young delinquents in Belfast carry on despite terrible punishments dished out by paramilitaries? Also - why people donate more money to natural disasters than human ones. Show more
The bells of York Minster.
The latest shipping forecast.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
