Sandi Toksvig visits the Human Library where you borrow a person instead of a book - designed to overcome prejudices. From 2010. Show more
A CIA man spends the day with Team Beagle. But will his past come back to haunt him? Starring Nina Conti. From December 2009. Show more
With Julian Worricker. Lord Stern's message to sceptics, the mystery of the three-pronged light bulb and getting your solar panel connected to the national grid. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
National and international news with Martha Kearney.
Nigel Rees quizzes Mary Beard, Marcel Theroux, Arthur Smith and Ariel Leve on the sources of quotations. From March 2010. Show more
Kate gets maternal on Mother's Day. Show more
4 Extra Debut. As Emma and Richard's wedding approaches, the in-laws-to-be are about to meet. With Frances Barber, Sylvia Syms and Stephen Moore. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Nixon and Kennedy's first presidential TV debate in 1960 was adopted globally. Reeta Chakrabarti probes their impact. From March 2010. Show more
Why Josiah Wedgwood began to use accounting to run his business, and how similar his 18th-century cost accounting system was to our modern management accounting. Show more
Richard Johnson's in Miami to hear the food story behind Super Bowl. It's second only to Thanksgiving in terms of how much food America consumes in one day. But what's being eaten? Show more
Ernie Rea and guests asks whether or not the use of apocalyptic language is helpful in the climate change debate, politics and media.
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Pam Ayres and Gyles Brandreth. From March 2010.
Lilian finds an unexpected source of support.
Mark Lawson interviews screenwriter and producer Alan Ball, whose credits include True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty. Show more
A poem by WB Yeats holds the key to an unexpected love affair for a young British diplomat on his first overseas posting. Show more
Mike Thomson investigates the story behind the German prisoners of war forced to work in Britain for three years after the Second World War had ended. Show more
What if science could read people's thoughts and intentions? That's the promise of the latest research from neuroscientists. Kenan Malik investigates. Show more
Tom Heap witnesses the international police operation against the trade in endangered species, following raids in the UK by Interpol's Operation Tram. Show more
Andrew Marr talks to Ian McEwan about his new novel, Patricia Fara about the history of science, Paul Davies about alien lifeforms and James Crabtree about the Twitter election. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
With Ritula Shah. British Airways publishes its 'strike' schedule as the prime minister calls Unite's action 'deplorable'. The EU condemns Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem. Show more
Michael Beard, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, finds that his fifth marriage is floundering. But this time it is different - she is having the affair. Show more
Rory Bremner's International Satirists
Episode 2: Ireland - Barry Murphy and Mario Rosenstock
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
Rory meets Barry Murphy, the Irish topical comic and satirist who has watched as his proteges Eddie Izzard, Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran went on to international fame. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A child piano prodigy, Frederic Chopin leaves his native Poland at age 19 for bohemian Paris. Read by Stephen Campbell Moore. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
Coverage of the fifth day of the First Test between Bangladesh and England in Chittagong. Commentary by Simon Mann, Simon Hughes and Shamim Chowdhury. Show more
