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Prayer and reflection with Quaker and author Alastair McIntosh. Show more
With Charlotte Smith. Demands for farmers to reduce their use of antibiotics on animals. Calls for Chinese lanterns to be banned. National hay yields could be down by 30 per cent. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and Justin Webb, debating elderly home care in England, plus John Simpson meets Aung San Suu Kyi. Show more
Andrew Marr talks to Tim Harford about success, Andrew Adonis about training Ministers, Priyamvada Gopal on university education and Eli Pariser on internet personalisation. Show more
Presented by Jane Garvey. Is crying in the office really a sign of weakness? Show more
In 1970, journalist Wesley Kerr won a bursary to the elite Winchester College. What happened to other lucky pupils? From 2011. Show more
Grandad Sandy has started snooping on his daughter-in-law Victoria, hiding in a car boot and climbing a tree. With Ronnie Corbett and Liza Tarbuck. From May 2010.
Visit Britain unveils its latest international TV ad campaign, fears that academies won't admit children with additional needs and when having a smartphone gets too much. Show more
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With Martha Kearney. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Paul Gambaccini welcomes three former winners, for the semi-finals of the 2011 search to find the nation's musical mastermind. Show more
David finally hears from his sister. Meanwhile the Snells plan a celebration. Show more
When Hollywood picked up Ray's low-budget film, he thought he had left England behind for good. But then he finds the past coming back to bite him. Stars Geoffrey Streatfeild. Show more
Music journalist Paul Morley explores the rise and mysterious fall of light orchestral music in Britain in the 1950s. From 2011. Show more
Ian Marchant meets five 'completists', each of them driven by the need to tick off the entire collection. Show more
Cornish chef Sanjay Kumar goes on a mission to Italy to save the Cornish sardine. The UK has lost interest in the species, so Sanjay seeks ideas from Italian fisherman and cooks. Show more
Robin Ince, Brian Cox and guests ask whether cosmology can really be classified as a science when it's impossible to test so many of its theories. Show more
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Stephen Fry, Sue Perkins, Paul Merton and Fi Glover play the game for chatty types this week. Nicholas Parsons is chair as ever, handing out subjects on which the panel must speak. Show more
Shula faces a tricky conversation and Ruairi's getting excited. Show more
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Mark Lawson talks to film director Stephen Frears on his 70th birthday and meets the woman in Folkestone who responded to an advert in the local paper wanting a mermaid. Show more
In 1968, a mysterious child is born into the bleakly beautiful environment of remote coastal Labrador: a baby with both male and female sex organs. Show more
Giles Fraser looks at the history of Christian attitudes to money and how they continue to influence the way we consider money today. This week: what's the problem with being rich? Show more
Popular uprisings from Cairo to Damascus shook the West's longstanding foreign policy. Edward Stourton asks Foreign Secretary William Hague what the West will do next. Show more
Quentin Cooper presents his weekly round-up of science news. He looks at ocean drilling, new materials for planes, new science words and why we dream. Show more
Andrew Marr talks to Tim Harford about success, Andrew Adonis about training Ministers, Priyamvada Gopal on university education and Eli Pariser on internet personalisation. Show more
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With Ritula Shah. President Assad of Syria calls protestors 'saboteurs' but promises reform. Changes to care of the elderly. And the tramp in Utah who has inherited a fortune. Show more
Renko is approached by an oligarch in distress and discovers that even multi-millionaires have their problems in modern day Moscow. And we hear what's become of Maya's baby. Show more
Dominic Arkwright explores the idea of the quick fix with Jane Freear-Wyld, Matt Beaumont and Sathnam Sanghera. From June 2011. Show more
Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as MPs debate Government plans to make women wait longer for their state pension. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. We don't approve of lying, but we all do it. How did humans get to be such good liars? Tim McInnerny reads Ian Leslie's book. Show more
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