The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury.
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Charlotte Smith finds out how British farmers are responding to the challenges posed by climate change. Show more
John Aitchison presents the Slavonian grebe. Show more
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Kirsty Young interviews Paul Hollywood, artisan baker and co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off. Show more
Food writer Rosemary Moon's passion for whisky, three women share their experiences of being brought up in care, and the young women who prefer to holiday alone. With Jenni Murray. Show more
Hanna's campaign is going wrong. No-one is listening and she's on her own. Stars Laura Dos Santos and Shaun Mason. Show more
The story of the worst volcanic eruption in recorded human history - Tambora in 1815. BBC weatherman John Hammond investigates its effect on global weather and its relevance today. Show more
Steve takes an eventful taxi ride to a louche Mayfair nightclub. 1946 remake starring Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson. Show more
Novelist Ayn Rand believes that people actually have a moral duty to be selfish, but Paul Broks asks if putting one's own interests first really is the route to personal fulfilment. Show more
You and Yours
Housing shortage, Bad airports, Smart meters
45 minutes
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Consumer news with Peter White. How do we unblock the housing supply? And the government is forced to pull pension advice adverts. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
Healthy Visions
Episode 5: A Health-Creating Society
15 minutes
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Former NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp argues that the NHS will only be sustainable if we build a health-creating society. Show more
Kenton is assertive. Meanwhile, the villagers count the cost. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Lester holds a childhood secret that has scarred his life, but he’s decided to write a tell all book. Stars Stephen Tompkinson. Show more
No Greater Love: Dr Nathalie McDermott tells the story of Good Friday, relating her own experience working with Ebola victims to that of the plague village of Eyam 350 years ago. Show more
Sophiatown was a vibrant multiracial suburb of Johannesburg. Black, White and Asian people lived side by side. But in 1955, the apartheid government began to dismantle it. Show more
A shy chanteuse and single mum puts more passion into a date with a wealthy Tartar. Does she succeed? Read by Hattie Morahan. Show more
Last Word
Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn
28 minutes
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Obituaries. Julian Worricker on Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John; barrister Anthony Scrivener; the man behind the Booker prize, Martyn Goff; and folk guitarist John Renbourn. Show more
How Radio 1 is engaging young voters ahead of the 2015 general election, and the strange sounds of toads and tea cups. Show more
The Listening Project
Celia and Mary-Jane - The Bucket List
5 minutes
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Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the many reasons against re-marrying and the many opportunities still to be seized after one reaches 100. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by Holly Walsh, Mark Steel and Romesh Ranganathan, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. Show more
It's all go at the Bull, and Heather comes to Brookfield. Show more
Front Row
Clive James talks about his new poetry collection Sentenced to Life
30 minutes
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Clive James talks to Kirsty Lang about his new poetry collection, Sentenced to Life, which looks back over his life and considers his situation as he manages his terminal illness. Show more
Hanna's campaign is going wrong. No-one is listening and she's on her own. Stars Laura Dos Santos and Shaun Mason. Show more
Any Questions?
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Vince Cable, Angela Eagle, Francis Maude
48 minutes
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Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, with Rhun ap Iorwerth, Vince Cable, Angela Eagle and Francis Maude. Show more
Howard Jacobson thinks the current focus of male fashion on the ankle region or 'mankle', revealed beneath skimpy suit trousers, shows men are suffering from a self-image crisis. Show more
Melvyn Bragg asks how to live a good life. A historian, a neuropsychologist, a theologian and a philosopher supply the answers. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The World Tonight
Iran nuclear deal: Rouhani says "we will not cheat"
45 minutes
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We ask if the agreement struck by Tehran and Washington will hold
Elderly Rita meets a punter in a Soho hotel room, unaware that her friend Annetta has gone missing again. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Ian Rankin, Joe Boyd and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Lesley Branch, Mohsin Hamid and Pascal Garnier. From 2015. Show more
Sir Terry Wogan chooses the prose and poetry that mean the most to him, with the help of special guests David Jason, Finbar Furey and Frances Tomelty. Show more
The Listening Project
Mike and Pip – Our Place in the Sun
5 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Fi Glover with a conversation about beginning again abroad, and whether there will be more to regret than just leaving the cat behind. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: children let loose in fields and forests. From 2015. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
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