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With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom.
"You didn't have Playstations and TV. You didn't have a toilet." An ex-prisoner speaks about what ended his criminal career and his warnings to young offenders. With Eddie Mair. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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Why has a new scheme to encourage people onto our national trails upset some people? Helen Mark has her running shoes on along the South Downs Way to find out. Show more
As the main vegetable harvest gets underway in the UK Charlotte Smith asks if growers have to be large scale to survive in the future. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Morning news and current affairs, with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague, exploring power and the papers, the humanitarian crisis in East Africa and the sound of F1. Show more
Saturday Live
Cerys Matthews, Murray Lachlan Young, DeLorean, Paul Theroux, memory loss mum Naomi Jacobs, Picasso's playmate Antony Penrose
1 hour
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Richard Coles with Cerys Matthews, Murray Lachlan Young, a woman who lost all but her teen memories, a man who once played with Pablo Picasso and Paul Theroux's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Excess Baggage
Somali Pirates - Montserrat - Languages
30 minutes
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Sandi Toksvig meets Colin Freeman, kidnapped by pirates in Somalia, David Edwards, revisiting Montserrat after the volcanic eruptions and language teacher Elisabeth Smith. Show more
With Elinor Goodman. A look behind the scenes at Westminster. Show more
Stories from around the world. Kate Adie hosts despatches from Juba in South Sudan, Cyrene in eastern Libya, Rome, Uttar Pradesh in India and Algiers. Show more
The latest news from the world of personal finance.
Steve Punt hosts the topical comedy gangshow, with Jan Ravens, Gareth Gwynn, John Finnemore and Laura Shavin, plus songs and satirical Darth Vader impressions from Mitch Benn. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics from English Martyrs School, Leicester, with Caroline Spelman, Ken Livingstone, Steve Richards and Matthew Parris. Show more
Listeners have their say about the end of the News of the World and phone hacking. With Jonathan Dimbleby. Show more
The comedy trio tell the epic tale of the French Revolution. Co-starring Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins. From July 2011. Show more
In the 18th century, musical manuals circulated showing songbird keepers how to teach their birds to sing human tunes, 100 years before recorded sound. Sarah Angliss investigates. Show more
Woman's Hour
Arianna Huffington; domestic violence; presents for teacher
1 hour
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Arianna Huffington; a 'right to know' for those at risk of domestic violence; the tyranny of presents for teacher; and world-famous organist Dame Gillian Weir. Show more
With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines.
Evan Davis and his guests discuss the profits and pitfalls of running a rapidly expanding company. They also chew over the role of the business lunch. Show more
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Conversation, music and comedy. Clive Anderson is joined by Andy Kershaw, Gok Wan, Leaf Fielding and Emma Freud. Music from Wild Beasts. Show more
Jonathan Maitland profiles Nick Davies, the investigative journalist behind the story of the News of the World phone-hacking allegations that are dominating the headlines. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the historian Kathryn Hughes and the writers Kevin Jackson and Adam Mars Jones review the cultural highlights of the week including The Tree of Life. Show more
Meeting Myself Coming Back
Episode 2: Michael Heseltine
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From backbench novice MP to the challenger for the party leadership against Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine - now Lord Heseltine - relives his career through the BBC Archives. Show more
Haunted by his girlfriend vanishing at a petrol station, eight years on Rex tries to discover what happened. Stars Samuel West. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
The pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi examines what drives people to dissent in the second of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Michael Grade, Simon Munnery, Dr Sandra Scott and Ian McMillan. From July 2011. Show more
Roger McGough with another selection of listeners' requests, including readings by contemporary poets Imtiaz Dharker and Colette Bryce. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A selection of Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 poems that marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. Recorded on location in the landscapes that inspired them. Show more
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BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
