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A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. Show more

Thousands of eggs from hens in illegal battery cages on UK farms could be getting into the food chain. And, the tricky business of counting wild birds and animals. Show more

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Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis.

Andrew Marr talks about the financial crisis with Detlev Schlichter, Philip Coggan, Angela Knight and Lord Glasman. Show more

Parents on academy schools, unregistered Muslim marriage, the neuroscience of optimism, and Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton. Presented by Jane Garvey. Show more

Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? What tragedy befell him over 20 years before? Tragic love story with Dominic Mafham. Show more

The new benefits system aims to get the 'Shameless' generation into work. Over the next two weeks Tom Heap meets the jobseekers and the agencies trying to get them into jobs. Show more

The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party try to grapple with law and order. Stars Tom Basden. From June 2011. Show more

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Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.

Hardeep meets Gerry, who is buying a mattress at an open-air market stall, Lauren Child, adaptor and illustrator of The Princess and the Pea, and bedbug exterminator David Cain. Show more

Pip is full of enthusiasm. Meanwhile Brenda slaves over a hot stove. Show more

4 Extra Debut. After 22 years of marriage and three kids, Mel discovers her husband is having an affair. Mel Hudson stars in her surreal comedy. Show more

Nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies. Quiz enthusiasts from Cheshire, the West Midlands and Edinburgh bid for a place in the semi-finals. Show more

Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012 and explores the history of food and athletics from the first London Games of 1948. Show more

Forty years after it ended, Penelope Keith revisits Mrs Dale's Diary, the popular BBC radio serial, and talks to original cast members to discover what made it so successful. Show more

Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the origin of the Protestant Work Ethic and its relationship to today's crisis in capitalism and the global financial markets. Show more

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David Mitchell invites Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme Garden to hide truths in lies. From January 2012. Show more

Caroline faces some communication difficulties and Tom is on a roll. Show more

John Wilson with a review of Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI director J Edgar Hoover, in Clint Eastwood's film; and the 2012 T S Eliot poetry prize winner, live from the ceremony. Show more

Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? What tragedy befell him over 20 years before? Tragic love story with Dominic Mafham. Show more

Going soft? The Bishop of Liverpool considers whether community sentencing is a viable alternative to prison. Show more

Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid? Show more

Quentin Cooper reports on teaching computer science, mapping dark matter, emerging garden pests and amateur science to investigate nasty noises. Show more

Andrew Marr talks about the financial crisis with Detlev Schlichter, Philip Coggan, Angela Knight and Lord Glasman. Show more

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Riley Purefoy, a North London working-class boy, gets his first taste of the war. Cold-shouldered by the mother of the girl he loves, he feels he has nothing to lose. Show more

Michael Rosen listens to traditional stories from around the world, told by the people from those cultures who are now passing the stories on to their own children. Show more

Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as the Education Secretary denies suggesting taxpayers' money be spent on a yacht for the Queen to mark her diamond jubilee. Show more

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It all begins with a simple flower on a hill. Asian opium poppies (as trafficked and traded by the British from India to China) arrive in Mexico with Chinese labourers in the 1860s. Show more

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