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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father Martin Graham.

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, presented by Charlotte Smith. Will English farmers do worse than their neighbours in the UK if CAP reform goes ahead? Show more

John McCarthy presents a Syria Crisis Appeal on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian pioneer of evolutionary theory Alfred Russel Wallace. Show more

Teenagers from Bartley Green School co-present with Jenni Murray, discussing safety on buses. Plus, school dinners with Henry Dimbleby, and athlete Hannah Cockroft talks sport. Show more

Not only is Tom working four days a week in London to pay the mortgage in Bolton, but now his mother has broken her arm in Hove. Show more

The black cowboy film star who wasn't black, and other stories from Pakistan, Western Sahara, India and Australia, presented by Kate Adie. Show more

Profile of Chicago's pioneering 1940s radio series, the first radio show to be written and produced by black people, a decade before the modern civil rights movement. Show more

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

Humans learn to control sound for rituals with impressive monuments. David Hendy hears bizarre effects while beating a drum in Orkney. Show more

David is angry, and Rosa tries to help. Show more

Countryside magazine. As Derry-Londonderry becomes the UK City of Culture, Helen Mark steps into the city's back garden to explore the hidden gems of the Inishowen Peninsula. Show more

Jane Garvey presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Comic Relief. Show more

Kate Atkinson talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book Life After Life, we discuss classic and modern Western novels and betting on literary prizes. Show more

Francine Stock talks to Francois Ozon about In the House, revisits 60s thriller Point Blank with director John Boorman, and discusses the unsettling Compliance with Craig Zobel. Show more

Adam Rutherford discusses new science results from the Planck space telescope, and the surprising family tree of the giant squid. Show more

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John McCarthy presents a Syria Crisis Appeal on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee. Show more

Jeremy explores how to speak, when to speak and when not to speak - via the medium of speaking. From March 2013. Show more

Tom is full of surprises. Meanwhile Darrell refuses to talk. Show more

John Wilson and violinist Nigel Kennedy on Fats Waller and Bach; a century of English rural life in TV drama The Village; Esther Wilson on turning homelessness into a drama. Show more

Not only is Tom working four days a week in London to pay the mortgage in Bolton, but now his mother has broken her arm in Hove. Show more

Simon Cox investigates the dangers of 'pension liberation' schemes in which people under 55 are told they can release money from old pensions without paying tax. Show more

It's said that the best way to make a small fortune in the wine business is to start with a large one. Evan Davis and guests explore the challenges and pitfalls of the wine trade. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian pioneer of evolutionary theory Alfred Russel Wallace. Show more

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National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing, including a possible new financial rescue deal for Cyprus. Show more

Lara decides to try and contact her father's children from his other family, meeting her step-brother. Read by Anne-Marie Duff. Show more

Bridget Christie on the self-image of women via a lap dance, TOWIE and a fish called Michael. With Fred MacAulay. From 2013. Show more

Sean Curran and the BBC parliamentary team report as a row breaks out over the Chancellor's Budget plan to help homebuyers get mortgages. Show more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond asks what traditional societies can teach us about dealing with our ageing populations? Read by Crawford Logan. From March 2013. Show more

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