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A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day on Radio 4.
Why sunshine plus traffic and industrial fumes equals smaller European wheat crops. Charlotte Smith also discusses the increasing problem of illegal hare coursing in Lincolnshire. Show more
Children's author Francesca Simon is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Show more
Woman's Hour
Amy Rosenthal's adaptation of Bar Mitzvah Boy, Nevada Brothels and bomb disposal operator Maj. Nicola Roberts
45 minutes
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With Jenni Murray. Amy Rosenthal on adapting her father's award-winning play Bar Mitzvah Boy for Radio 4, and is legalising prostitution the best way to make sex workers safer? Show more
Torn between returning home to her family or staying with Ray in Egypt, Sara must make an agonising decision. Show more
The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Women who crossed the Atlantic to join their servicemen husbands during the 1940s tell their stories. From November 2011. Show more
Cookery writer Damien Trench finds himself reluctantly writing for a supermarket. Stars Miles Jupp. From November 2011. Show more
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Shaun Ley with national and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
A History of the Brain
Episode 5: The Spark of Being
15 minutes
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Dr Geoff Bunn examines the influence of the 18th-century preoccupation with electricity. Show more
It's a stressful day for Susan and feelings are running high at The Bull. Show more
A sequence of dramatic and new poems by Andrew Motion to mark Remembrance Day. The poems draw on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
Melrose, Scottish Borders
45 minutes
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Eric Robson leads the panel in a gardening Q&A recorded with gardeners in Melrose. Eric Robson finds out about Sir Walter Scott, the gardener. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Young Robert Thornber discovers strange goings-on in the science block, when he accidentally goes back to school a day early. Read by David Holt. Show more
Last Word
Wallace Cunningham, Lord Gould, Alfonso Cano and Joe Frazier
30 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on Battle of Britain pilot Wallace Cunningham, political strategist Lord Gould, Columbian guerrilla leader Alfonso Cano and boxer Joe Frazier. Show more
Radio 4's forum for audience comment, presented by Roger Bolton. What's in store for the new, longer World at One? And Eddie Grundy's ferret causes concern. Show more
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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are back for a new series of The Now Show, with Laura Shavin, John Holmes, Lloyd Langford and Mitch Benn. Show more
Brian is ambushed and Kylie makes a clear decision. Show more
With Kirsty Lang, including a review of new drama series Pan Am, and interviews with baritone Simon Keenlyside and Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Show more
Torn between returning home to her family or staying with Ray in Egypt, Sara must make an agonising decision. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live panel discussion of news and politics from Varndean College, East Sussex, with Toby Young, Andrew Mitchell, Maggie Atkinson and Liz Kendall. Show more
Mary Beard takes a peek at Miss World 2011 and ponders why, unlike her days as a radical feminist teenager, the whole occasion does not fill her with fury. Show more
Beginning his journey through 5000 years of human understanding of the brain, Dr Geoff Bunn moves from trepanation and Ancient Egypt to the 18th century and electricity. Show more
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Robin Lustig with national and international news and analysis. Show more
Unable to find any information about the mysterious House of Silk, Sherlock Holmes reluctantly calls upon his brother Mycroft. Derek Jacobi reads. Show more
A Good Read
Trevor Phillips and David Morrissey
30 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. David Morrissey, Trevor Phillips and Harriett Gilbert on books by James M Cain, Evelyn Waugh and Mario Vargas Llosa. From 2011. Show more
Mark D'Arcy with the news from Westminster.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, Wainaina finally returns home to Kenya and a memorable family reunion. Read by Freddy Macha. Show more
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