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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Noel Battye. Show more

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The rural view of high-speed rail - a blight on the landscape or an engine of growth? With Charlotte Smith. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Bridget Kendall discusses the spread of al-Qaeda style terrorism with William Dalrymple, Nadeem Aslam, Christina Hellmich and Imad Mesdoua. Show more

Eve Ensler discusses her campaign against violence against women; Susannah Cahalan, the author of Brain on Fire; the falling number of women politicians in Scotland and Wales. Show more

4 Extra Debut. San Francisco, 1976. Mary Ann and Mouse are on the high seas and Mona's on the highway. Stars Kate Harper and Lydia Wilson. From February 2013. Show more

Jolyon Jenkins explores a new motorway service station (MSA) - the Gloucestershire Gateway on the M5 that promises more than most. Show more

Damien and Anthony throw one of their 'famous' dinner parties, but the evening is fraught. Stars Miles Jupp. From January 2013. Show more

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

Dominic Arkwright talks to John Gillatt, who set off for a gentle stroll in the Malaysian jungle, and got lost for five days. His only hope was a call home to his wife Noelene. Show more

Peggy is lost for words, and Vicky takes things to heart. Show more

By Mike Walker. In September 1938 Eric and Eileen travel to Morocco for his health. In Marrakech Eric imagines a meeting with Georges Kopp. With Joseph Millson and Lyndsey Marshal Show more

Russell Davies asks the questions in the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Contestants from Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, North Yorkshire and Leeds face questions. Show more

Sheila Dillon investigates the food lives of people living on the basic state pension. Wearing an 'aging suit', reporter Andrew Webb becomes his 80-year-old self to shop and eat. Show more

Inspirational prose and poetry chosen by comedian and critic Natalie Haynes, read by Tracy Wiles, Dan Mersh and special guest Julian Barnes. Show more

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious dimensions of the crisis in Mali. Show more

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David Mitchell hosts as John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Holly Walsh and Arthur Smith talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, Beards, Camels and Simon Cowell. Show more

Bert flexes his creative muscles, and Elizabeth faces an uncomfortable meeting. Show more

With Terry Jones and Bill Jones on Graham Chapman, Chiwetel Ejiofor on playing a jazz musician in Stephen Poliakoff's TV drama Dancing on the Edge, the new film I Give It a Year. Show more

4 Extra Debut. San Francisco, 1976. Mary Ann and Mouse are on the high seas and Mona's on the highway. Stars Kate Harper and Lydia Wilson. From February 2013. Show more

Foreigners are settling here in record numbers. But how easy is it for them to integrate? Mukul Devichand asks newcomers sometimes difficult questions about fitting in. Show more

Owen Bennett Jones looks at Syria's Alawis, the secretive Shia sect to which President Assad belongs. Who are the Alawis, and why are many fearful of a post-Assad future? Show more

Quentin Cooper discusses the engineering of high-speed rail, the storage of radioactive nuclear waste, quantum biology and how our evolution is linked to that of the universe. Show more

Bridget Kendall discusses the spread of al-Qaeda style terrorism with William Dalrymple, Nadeem Aslam, Christina Hellmich and Imad Mesdoua. Show more

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Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. George Osborne sets out banking reforms, but would they prevent another crash? Show more

After several months slaving as a dishwasher in Paris, Orwell returns to England. But when the job he was promised fails to materialise, he finds himself down and out once more. Show more

Matthew Parris uncovers amusing diplomatic despatches, including the curious tale of Sir John Major's horse and its precarious railway journey. Show more

The best of the day in the Commons and the Lords with Sean Curran. Show more

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Biography of the English composer by Paul Kildea, published in the year that marks his centenary. Read by Alex Jennings. In this programme, the early years. Show more

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