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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Coffey.

Bad news for broccoli, as growers could lose a third of their crop. Plus, meet the UK's largest blackcurrant producer to the growing jam market. With Dave Howard. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin Webb, including whether the most expensive social housing should be sold off, and the man with the deepest singing voice.

Amanda Vickery explores the 18th-century lover - from irresistible seducer to lusty husband. Show more

Edward Stourton revisits broadcast debates from the archives. At the height of Women's Lib, a radical feminist and a Tory reformer clash over the route to equality. Show more

Jane Garvey presents a Woman's Hour phone-in on infidelity. How important is being faithful, and what constitutes cheating anyway? Show more

The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb exhibits objects from the end of love affairs. With Cathy FitzGerald. From 2012. Show more

Pip and Harry pursue the evil Mister Benevolent to France. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From December 2010. Show more

Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. Is prison the right place for inmates with severe physical disabilities? Plus a fund for asbestos vistims, and Google's tablet problems. Show more

James Naughtie profiles the British Indian novelist, writer of Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children and the controversial The Satanic Verses. Show more

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National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.

Alison Steadman tells the story of why and how so many birds that make up the avifauna of Britain are aliens from elsewhere. Programme one: pheasant. Show more

Mike is evasive and Adam tries to move on. Show more

Comedy drama by award-winning film maker Carine Adler about an eccentric Romanian mother and her three bickering daughters. Show more

Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Louise Doughty, Natalie Haynes, Nicholas Owen and Hugo Rifkind. From August 2012. Show more

Series investigating the world of food. Sheila Dillon embarks on a journey through the spice world, starting with the clove, from harvest in Zanzibar to its use by chef Jeremy Lee. Show more

The biggest selling German author Hermann Hesse's influence extends from anti-Nazi pacifism to 1960s counterculture, New Age-ism and modern gaming. His legacy is re-evaluated. Show more

Ernie Rea discusses the link between African churches, witchcraft and child abuse with Pastor Mahele Tangata, Romain Matondo and Dr Richard Hoskins. Show more

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Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Janey Godley and Hannibal Buress to speak for 60 seconds. From 2012.

Vicky faces a difficult decision. Meanwhile Darrell feels cornered. Show more

Tom Stoppard on his TV adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and his screenplay for Anna Karenina. Plus Tony Scott, Ben Stiller in The Watch, and cellist Natalie Clein. Show more

Tina Pepler's gripping story about an international aid worker posted to South Sudan. Martha has arrived in Agok, to find the situation worse than she had been briefed to expect. Show more

Prof Tanya Byron invites a group of victims of violent crime into Brixton Prison to come face to face with men serving sentences for similar crimes - with powerful results. Show more

BBC Seoul correspondent Lucy Williamson explores the growing popularity of South Korean Host Bars where female customers select and pay for male companions. Show more

A brain-controlled suit is being developed that could enable a child with total paralysis to kick off the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Top science stories presented by Quentin Cooper. Show more

Amanda Vickery explores the 18th-century lover - from irresistible seducer to lusty husband. Show more

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As Greece asks for more time to meet austerity targets, is it time for Germany to accept it will have to pay out more? Round-up of the day's news with Ritula Shah. Show more

Paris, 1785. A young engineer from Normandy waits in an anteroom in the Palace of Versailles for a meeting with the minister. Read by John Sessions. Show more

Chris Ledgard listens to the ways in which different preachers use the power of language to move their followers. In churches and in mosques, modernising forces are at work. Show more

Micky Flanagan on his life in the 1980s told through stand up comedy and interviews with family. He tells us about running away to New York and becoming the playboy of East End. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Daniel Tammet explores the different ways in which cultures across the world approach and describe numbers. Read by James Anthony Pearson. Show more

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