The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
The bells of Solovetsky Monastery, Russia.
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of Wadjda and Saudi Arabia's first female film director. Show more
The latest national and international news.
Mark Tully considers the metaphorical concept of heat in discussions of psychology and spirituality. With music by Liszt and readings from Brendan Kennelly and Christopher Marlowe. Show more
Chris Sperring travels to near Marlow in Buckinghamshire, where he meets Robin Scagell on a night-time safari for the enigmatic glow worm. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by William Crawley. Show more
Joanna Lumley presents an appeal for Children in Crisis. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Festival Mass sung to Mozart's Missa Brevis in D by the Buxton Madrigal Singers in St John's Church, Buxton, with soloists from the Buxton Festival's Young Artists Programme. Show more
A Point of View
Machiavelli's Summer in Tuscany
10 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Sarah Dunant on why Niccolo Machiavelli, diplomat and adviser, wrote his seminal work 'The Prince' 500 years ago this summer at his family's country estate in Tuscany. Show more
Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the kestrel. Show more
Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
Things are looking up for Lilian, and Tony speaks his mind.
Bafta-winning production designer Eve Stewart is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Show more
A welcome visit to Leicester's De Montfort Hall for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden plus Rob Brydon on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more
The Food Programme
The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Series that investigates every aspect of the food we eat. Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend.
David Loyn looks at why US food aid policy is not working and investigates attempts to reform it. He travels to Kenya to see how more hungry people could be fed for the same money. Show more
Eric Robson chairs a programme from Midlothian, Scotland, with panellists Bob Flowerdew, Carole Baxter and Anne Swithinbank. Show more
In August 1964, US pilot Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces. He was imprisoned for more than eight years - one of the longest-held American POWs. Show more
The prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote for the sisters without fortune nor connections. Stars Amanda Hale. Show more
Deborah Moggach discusses her novel Tulip Fever, a story about art, love and greed in 17th-century Holland, with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more
Poet Daljit Nagra explores the often overlooked Indian element to TS Eliot's poetry. Show more
Should suicides among psychiatric patients be subject to the same level of independent investigation as deaths in prison or police custody? Gerry Northam investigates. Show more
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of Wadjda and Saudi Arabia's first female film director. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
The best of the previous seven days of BBC Radio, chosen by Gerry Northam. Show more
Caroline's on the mend, and Neil does a favour for Kathy. Show more
Lloyd Langford explains about his rather unusual first day at work. With Nathan Caton, Keir McAllister and Jason Cook. From August 2013. Show more
By Atar Hadari. A young blade working as a hired hand in a kibbutz kitchen offers friendly advice on love, but his motives are far from clear cut. Read by Philip Arditti. Show more
Is the director of the Proms a Wagnerite? And should Radio 3 and Radio 4 swap presenters? Roger Wright answers listeners' questions. Show more
Last Word
A sex therapist, an archeologist, a modelling agent, a meditation teacher and a guitarist and songwriter
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Jane Little remembers sex therapist Virginia Johnson, archeologist Mike Morwood, modelling agent John Casablancas, meditation teacher Sonia Moriceau and songwriter JJ Cale. Show more
John Waite investigates how an outdated licensing framework that provides us with cheap water is costing rivers dearly. Show more
Joanna Lumley presents an appeal for Children in Crisis. Show more
Peter Day reports from Aberdeen, where Britain's energy revolution began under the North Sea almost 40 years ago. Investment is up but production is down - so what's the future? Show more
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
Tom Newton Dunn, the Sun's political editor, looks at how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
The Film Programme
Only God Forgives; The Heat; My Father and the Man in Black
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Robbie Collin talks to the director Nicolas Winding Refn about Only God Forgives, a film that has split critics, and to Bridesmaids director Paul Feig about cop comedy The Heat. Show more
Mark Tully considers the metaphorical concept of heat in discussions of psychology and spirituality. With music by Liszt and readings from Brendan Kennelly and Christopher Marlowe. Show more
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The bells of Solovetsky Monastery, Russia.
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