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A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.
Charlotte Smith hears from farmers keen to lead a trial cull of badgers. The government is planning the trial to help control TB in cattle. Show more
Moha desperately needs a transplant. His nephew offers to donate a kidney. But Moha has a secret, and his doctors feel his nephew has a right to know. Should he be forced to tell? Show more
Woman's Hour
A woman as head of the Met Police? Too important for school run?
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Presented by Jane Garvey. A woman at the top of the Met? Can long summer holidays lead to loss of learning? Author Amanda Coe; and is anyone too important to do the school run? Show more
Following the British doctor volunteering to help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps while the men fight Gaddafi's forces in the mountains south of Tripoli. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley explains why a horse racing track in California is so inspirational. From July 2011. Show more
You and Yours
Rating your solicitor, and your restaurant - we report
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Giles Coren adds a new score to his food reviews - sustainability. Is there an appetite? And should solicitors be more open to critical consumer ratings sites? Show more
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With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Stewart Henderson travels to Cornwall to explore the musical heritage of tin mining, investigates the origins of the collective nouns for birds, and asks how we recognise voices. Show more
Jennifer takes offence and Pip tries to be enterprising. Show more
A pregnant 14-year-old and her angry mother present the ante-natal team with some difficult decisions in a gripping medical ethics drama written by Tina Pepler. Show more
Open Country
The South Downs - An Inspirational Landscape
27 minutes
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Helen Mark takes a musical journey across Sussex and the South Downs talking to some of the people who have been musically inspired by this chalk hills and rolling landscape. Show more
Ben Fogle presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Campaign for National Parks. Show more
A lonely woman waits on a wind-swept Spanish terrace before the inevitable conclusion to her day. Read by Hannah Gordon. Show more
The murder of Sergei Kirov unleashes years of paranoia, terror and suffering for millions of people as Stalin begins his purges of political enemies, real and imagined. Show more
Open Book
Al Murray on Thackeray, and a History of Women's Writing Part Two
30 minutes
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With Mariella Frostrup. Comedian Al Murray on his great, great, great grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray; and the series A Hundred Years of Women's Writing continues. Show more
Quentin Cooper hears about the arrival of NASA's Dawn space probe at the asteroid Vesta, the last Space Shuttle flight, reducing animal experiments, and the physics of cricket. Show more
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
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Move over Brian Cox, the surreal Milton Jones is now a world-famous astronomer and Sagittarian. With Dave Lamb. From July 2011. Show more
There's shocking news in the 'Borchester Echo' and Pat receives an urgent phone call. Show more
Front Row
Maxine Peake in the new play, Loyalty
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John Wilson and Andrew Pierce review Maxine Peake in Loyalty, a new play about the build-up to the Iraq war, written by the wife of Tony Blair's former chief of staff. Show more
Tom McCann and his fellow Truth Seekers have come to the attention of the local police. Stars Jonathan Forbes. Show more
Simon Cox investigates whether the phone hacking scandal goes further than just the News of the World.
What is the Euro crisis doing to business in Europe? Peter Day finds out in Spain and Poland. Show more
Moha desperately needs a transplant. His nephew offers to donate a kidney. But Moha has a secret, and his doctors feel his nephew has a right to know. Should he be forced to tell? Show more
What happens when enemies agree to sit down and negotiate? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff, investigates. Show more
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National and international news and analysis.
As Mick starts to rebuild his life in London, painful news from Glasgow forces him to confront his past. Read by Alexander Morton. Show more
Catalogue company Smile5's team discover colleague Dan has died - and react callously. Stars Chizzy Akudolu. From July 2011. Show more
Poet Lemn Sissay explores the life of the influential activist, musician, writer and 'godfather of rap' Gil Scott-Heron, who died in May 2011. First broadcast in May 2009. Show more
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By Simon Stephenson. Ben runs the Sunflower Bar at Phi Phi. This is his story. Show more
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