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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. Show more
The programme that starts with its listeners.
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Helen Mark meets the sisters (and sheep) of the environmentally-friendly Stanbrook Abbey in North Yorkshire. Surrounded by the springtime landscape, they reflect on new beginnings. Show more
Charlotte Smith is in East Coker, Somerset, where there are plans to build 2,500 homes on agricultural land. This week the rules governing what can be built in rural areas changed. Show more
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News and current affairs with James Naughtie and Evan Davis, including teachers' concerns at new pay model, and are we too posh to push for growth? Plus great unmade speeches. Show more
Saturday Live
Sebastian Faulks; Kerry Katona's Inheritance Tracks
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Suzy Klein and JP Devlin with author Sebastian Faulks, resuscitation doctor Sam Parnia, traveller Olly Burton on Senegalese music, and Kerry Katona's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Roger Law, the co-creator of Spitting Image, heads to Cape Town to meet South Africa's satirical puppets. From 2013. Show more
Round-up of five short works by artists broadcast throughout the week at on BBC Radio 4. Front Row's John Wilson hears their works and meets the artists. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
The Jihadi Vegetable Patch
30 minutes
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Marching through the Mali desert with the French Foreign Legion, and other despatches from BBC foreign correspondents, presented by Kate Adie. Show more
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin to present the week via topical stand-up, sketches and song. Show more
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Any Questions?
Angela Eagle, Lord Trimble, Clare Gerada, Tom Newton Dunn
50 minutes
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Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from Chatham in Kent on Good Friday, with Angela Eagle MP, Lord Trimble, Tom Newton Dunn and Clare Gerada. Show more
Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
4 Extra Debut. Homesteader Marian is caught between her dependable husband, and a mysterious stranger she is relying on. Stars Joshua Stamberg. Show more
Matthew Oates follows in the literary cycle tracks of writer Edward Thomas, who, over Easter 1913, set off on a journey of self-discovery across Southern England. Show more
Being a lady in the 21st century; foreign secretary William Hague; has feminism forgotten older women? Saira Shah on her novel The Mouse-Proof Kitchen; and Emma Brockes. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news.
Education and how to make a profit from it is the focus: from low-cost private schools in Ghana to no-frills law courses and a Liverpool University campus in China. Show more
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Loose Ends
Nikki Bedi, John Simm, Howard Marks, Andrew Motion, Sheila Hancock, Jacob Banks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
45 minutes
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Nikki Bedi is joined by Maxine Peake, Howard Marks, Andrew Motion and Sheila Hancock for conversation and comedy. Music from Jacob Banks and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Show more
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Lucy Winkett, a former Canon of St Paul's, who many think could become the Church of England's first female bishop. Show more
Saturday Review
Judi Dench in Peter and Alice and Danny Boyle's film Trance
45 minutes
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Judi Dench in Peter and Alice; Life and Death at Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum; Taiye Selase's debut novel Ghana Must Go; and Danny Boyle's film Trance. Show more
Daniel Finkelstein listens to the world's greatest unmade speeches. Through the many voices of impressionist Jon Culshaw, forgotten speeches are brought to life. Show more
Paul Farley's playful updating of Charles Kingsley's 1863 novel. Young Tomi is part of the UK's illegal labour market, but his life is changed forever when he falls into a river. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Education secretary Michael Gove's history syllabus is the story of Britain in sequence. Is this overdue rigour, or nationalistic rote-learning at the expense of analysis? Show more
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Anglia Ruskin University take on their professors. From March 2013. Show more
Irma Kurtz tells the story of Ursula Vaughan Williams, second wife of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, creative collaborator, published poet, muse, organiser and brilliant hostess. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Nick has lost both legs in a car crash. His son Jamie helps him regain confidence to go sailing again. Read by Kenneth Cranham. Show more
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