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With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes.
Caz Graham talks to the owner of a prize-winning bull given a reprieve from slaughter for TB. And how garlic can reduce methane emissions from cows. Show more
With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner against forced marriages, returns to her Sikh childhood in Derby. She ran away from home aged 15, causing a family rift which never fully healed. Show more
At the annual Royal Statistical Society Awards, Peter Curran counts up the statisticians. Show more
Woman's Hour
Tuition fee rises and women, Actress Tara Fitzgerald
45 minutes
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Victorians and the symbolism of flowers. Will tuition fee rises stop women going to university? Tara Fitzgerald; and the stately home of Jane Carlyle. Show more
Rob Walker visits the sleepy Ghanaian city of Takoradi as a massive oil boom gets underway. Can the city, and the country, escape the 'oil curse' of violence and corruption? Show more
Michael White explores the career of the British soprano singer Jennifer Vyvyan, who died in 1974. From 2011. Show more
The impact of the riots on the high street, student rents increase and Ofcom fine Talk Talk for incorrectly billing tens of thousands of consumers. With Winifred Robinson. 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.
Stewart Henderson presents the programme that answers listener questions on just about everything. He looks into why the swallow sometimes flies high and sometimes low. Show more
Brian's blood pressure is rising and Peggy confides in Ted. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Unable to carry her own child, Amy convinces her mother to act as her surrogate. Stars Kath Howden and Shauna MacDonald. Show more
The Wye was once England's greatest salmon river. Today stocks have declined but barbel thrive. Richard Uridge goes in search of these hard fighting fish and for peaceful times. Show more
Sir Trevor McDonald presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Handicap International UK. Show more
By Adam Thorpe. Howard is alone when he visits the deserted playground. Then something starts making a squeaking noise. Read by Kenneth Cranham. Show more
With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss explain how to identify the birds which you're likely to see and hear in farmland copses. Show more
Dreda Say Mitchell talks to Ruth Rendell about Vault, her 23rd Inspector Wexford novel and discusses the way in which the city becomes a character in fiction with Martyn Waites. Show more
Quentin looks at tactile surgery, brainy bees, the evolution of jaws, viviparous sea monsters and our split-second perception of time. Show more
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Milton is the world's most successful lorry driver, with an annual turnover somewhere on the M25. With Dave Lamb. From August 2011. Show more
It's results day for Pip and Nic counts her blessings. Show more
Front Row
Streisand songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman; David Mach
30 minutes
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Mark Lawson meets Barbra Streisand's songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Artist David Mach on collages made with the King James Bible, and a review of a TV drama about Hitler. Show more
Samuel Pepys has the builders in but they make lots of noise and mess and leave early, much to Sam's annoyance. He tries a new drink, tea, but cannot imagine it catching on. Show more
The Report
The Hacking Scandal and the Murder of Daniel Morgan
30 minutes
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With Adrian Goldberg. Tom Watson MP asks the government to look again at the links between the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan and the phone and email hacking scandal. Show more
In the 90s, India became a world class computer outsourcing centre. Peter Day returns to the country 16 years after his first visit to find out what is driving business today. Show more
In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity
Episode 1: Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
30 minutes
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Adam Rutherford asks how our ability to talk, travel and develop technology - our unique human culture - affects human genetic evolution. Show more
Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner against forced marriages, returns to her Sikh childhood in Derby. She ran away from home aged 15, causing a family rift which never fully healed. Show more
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With Felicity Evans. National and international news and analysis.
Alan Bennett continues his wicked 'unseemly story' from his recent novella Smut. The whole precarious facade of Graham's new marriage threatens to topple. Show more
Vicky decides to defend her father on a charge of international war crimes. Matt has flu. Stars Jody Latham. From August 2011. Show more
In the Tower of Tests, Sam loses a pal. But is death the end? Fantasy comedy starring Darren Boyd and Dave Lamb. From May 2009. Show more
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The momentous final years of poet Edward Thomas. As the 1914 war continues, Thomas wrestles with the conundrum of whether to enlist. Read by Tobias Menzies. Show more
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