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Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. Show more
Alien Invaders: Charlotte Smith hears the killer shrimp has arrived in the Norfolk Broads. The Environment Agency explains how this inch-long predator could cause severe problems. Show more
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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Start the Week
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
43 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Andrew Marr talks to the Nobel prize-winner Nadime Gordimer, the Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, and the journalist Richard Dowden. Show more
Woman's Hour
Phone-in: Stay at home or go to work?
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A phone-in on the rewards of staying at home with your children or going out to work. Presented by Jane Garvey. Call 03700 100 444 [standard rates]. Show more
4 Extra Debut. A case of dangerous dogs and legal drugs is not enough to distract the tetchy team. Starring Maxine Peake as DCI Sue Craven. Show more
Successive UK governments have viewed teenage pregnancy and parenthood as a pernicious social problem, but is this really backed up by the research? Miranda Sawyer investigates. Show more
Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Susie Dent vie for wordy supremacy chaired by Gyles Brandreth. From 2012. 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.
Blind Man's Bete Noire
Episode 1: The Countryside
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Peter goes for a walk in Kent with keen rambler Janet Street-Porter, to explore the first of his betes noires - the countryside. 'It's all cowpats and ditches', he says. Show more
Emma's in for a treat. Meanwhile Helen and Tom are plotting. Show more
By Danny Brocklehurst. When a fellow police officer is found critically injured on the notorious Marinduque Estate, Stone is determined to find the attackers. Show more
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Swansea University take on three professors. From March 2012. Show more
Sheila Dillon investigates the rise in demand for 'free from' foods. Show more
Will Young learns how American companies motivated staff with unlikely show tunes about tractors and bath fittings. From 2012. Show more
Guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's world. Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious dimensions to Nigeria's current crisis. Show more
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Nicholas Parsons takes the show to Mumbai. With Paul Merton, Marcus Brigstocke, Anuvab Pal and Cyrus Broacha. From 2012.
Josh wants to get things straight and Emma looks to the future. Show more
Front Row
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton; Russell Banks
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Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball on Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the new Titanic adaptation is reviewed and author Russell Banks talks to host Mark Lawson about his new novel. Show more
A new dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home. Show more
In 1942, British troops were fighting the Vichy French. So why were the British Chiefs of Staff in secret contact with them, behind Churchill's back? Mike Thomson investigates. Show more
Could war with Iran be about to start? Israel could strike Iran's nuclear facilities; Syria is in revolt; the world is on edge. Edward Stourton probes the West's options. Show more
A new set of hominin remains from a cave in China are difficult to fit on the human family tree, while human-like 'Robots and Avatars' assemble at a new exhibition in Liverpool. Show more
Start the Week
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
43 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Andrew Marr talks to the Nobel prize-winner Nadime Gordimer, the Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, and the journalist Richard Dowden. Show more
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Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. The Toulouse school shootings, heavy fighting in the Syrian capital, and devolution in Shetland and Orkney. Show more
Stewart Gilmour has returned home to Stonemouth for a funeral, five years after fleeing the town, in fear for his life. Show more
Peter Andre is revealed as the most dangerous man on Earth by the 'one woman Fast Show'. With Philip Pope. From December 2010. Show more
Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster, where opponents of the Government's changes to the NHS in England have tried to stop them becoming law. Show more
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Tim Winton's memoir recalls his childhood and how his relationship with the sea has shaped his life. Read by Stephen Dillane. Show more
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