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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. Show more
Jennifer Tracey talks to Philip Rankin, the man who built Scotland's first chair lift.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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It has been 20 years since the Flat Holm Project was launched to establish the island as a nature reserve. Helen Mark investigates if it is working. Show more
With around 130 different breeds of UK farm animals and poultry on the at risk list, Charlotte Smith investigates what is being done to help make rare breeds less of a rarity. Show more
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With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Saturday Live
Jarvis Cocker, Elvis McGonagall, Garreth Smyth, Zuhal Sultan, Salvador Dali, Roger Lloyd Pack
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Richard Coles with Jarvis Cocker, poet Elvis McGonagall, a man who'll freeze his brain, an Iraqi piano prodigy, a ski-jump in 50s London, and Roger Lloyd Pack's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Sandi Toksvig goes to Reykjavik to look at tourism in Iceland, and discovers that the volcanic eruptions and the financial crash there may not have been so bad for the country. Show more
Will Gompertz examines how the monarchy has dealt with a series of dynastic crises, and explores its artistic legacy. From March 2012. Show more
The Bradford West by-election, scandal over party donations, and adjusting representation in the Commons. Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Show more
Insight, wit and colour, this week from Togo, Manhattan, Mozambique, Tripoli and Mexico City. Show more
Last show of the current series of topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, dissecting the week's news with Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and John Finnemore. Show more
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Otley, West Yorkshire, with Angela Eagle, Haleh Afshar, Doug Richard and Sir George Young. Show more
Call Jonathan Dimbleby on 03700 100 444, email any.answers@bbc.co.uk, tweet #bbcaq. Topics include George Galloway's by-election win, panic about petrol and 'pasty-gate'. Show more
By Adrian Mitchell. The story of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, who, in the years after the abolition of slavery in the US, brought their Sorrow Songs to Europe. Show more
Robert Winston looks at the story of Chopin, whose struggle with lung disease has become the archetypal version of the theory that tuberculosis stimulated creativity in artists. Show more
Karren Brady on being a 'Strong Woman', your views on marriage and civil partnerships, and what a leading food writer found lurking in Jane Garvey's fridge. Show more
Carolyn Quinn presents a fresh perspective on the day's top news stories, with sports headlines.
Evan Davis and his executive panel swap ideas on the pros and cons of ruthlessness as a management style. They also discuss investing and selling in deprived areas. Show more
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Loose Ends
Julian Clary, Robert Powell and Max Hastings. Nikki Bedi chats to Amelia Bullmore. With music from Shearwater and Stush
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Clive Anderson presents live from the Radio Theatre in London. He's joined by Julian Clary, Robert Powell, Max Hastings and Amelia Bullmore, with music from Shearwater and Stush. Show more
As the threat of strike action by fuel tanker drivers looms, Mukul Devichand profiles Len McCluskey, general secretary of their union Unite, the UK's biggest union. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Gillian Slovo, Kathryn Hughes and David Benedict review the week's cultural highlights including The Chemistry of Tears. Show more
Writer Maria Margaronis asks if the spectre of Greece's unstable past is haunting its current nightmares. Show more
It's now 1956 and a crisis with her mother means Anna must go back to Berlin. Stars Anna Madeley and Adjoa Andoh Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Are social networks and digital technology cheapening and brutalising human relationships? Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. Show more
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from the University of Warwick take on three professors. From March 2012. Show more
Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the explosion of the 'sciences of the mind'. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. Alfred Molina performs Miller's brilliant New York story on the hateful pleasure of fame for playwright Meyer Berkowitz. Show more
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