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With the Rev David Arnott.
Charlotte Smith asks how rural communities will be affected by the bonfire of the quangos. Defra will scrap more than 50 bodies, and radically reform the Environment Agency. Show more
Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Agency, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Show more
Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever measure up to real ones? Should IVF be funded on the NHS? Janet Suzman on Antony & Cleopatra; and WW1 nurse Edith Cavell. Show more
Clara Glynn's dramatisation of Guy McCrone's novel. After her exhausting attempt to rescue Wee Arthur, Phoebe is sent to recuperate on the family farm in Ayrshire. Show more
Despite enormous advances in gay rights, Jane Hill discovers that institutional homophobia is making some dread the prospect of old age residential care. Show more
Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse
The Haunting of Mr Bickersdyke
30 minutes
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The indomitable Psmith hatches a plan to take revenge on bullying manager, Mr Bickersdyke. Stars Nick Caldecott. From 2008. Show more
Forty years ago the Jumbo Jet took to the skies, Concorde was close to entering service and the package holiday industry was in its heyday. We look at the changing face of travel. Show more
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Do programmes have a sell-by date? And message board mayhem - with Roger Bolton. Show more
Kenton gives a helping hand and Peggy decides to branch out. Show more
Social worker Joanne has been suspended from her job and her name plastered over the tabloids, but she can't resist getting back involved in a controversial case. Show more
Gardening in unusual urban locations. Eric Robson is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew in Hulme, Manchester. Show more
Big Bang Day: Five Particles
Episode 5: The Next Particle
15 minutes
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Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles. A symmetric partner to all the known particles could provide the key to understandinging them and their interactions. Show more
Matthew Bannister on the agony aunt Claire Rayner, the operatic soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, and the football manager Malcolm Allison. Show more
Welcome To Sarajevo scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce, Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy and Tamara Drewe adapter Moira Buffini reveal some secrets of screenwriting. Show more
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Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical news quiz. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. Show more
Vicky has high hopes for her meeting and Brenda plots to oust her lodger. Show more
Front Row
Simon Pegg; Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra
30 minutes
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Comedian and screenwriter Simon Pegg; Kim Cattrall takes on Antony and Cleopatra; a new film about Carlos the Jackal; and Tate Modern rope off their new Turbine Hall exhibit. Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD)
Suffragette-defaced penny
14 minutes
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Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things arrives in the 20th century. Today he chooses a British penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women". Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Radley College in Oxfordshire with questions for the panel including former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Show more
Sarah Dunant owns up to being a member of the greediest generation - the baby boomers. She wonders if after asking for freedom, they are now asking for the right to die? Show more
Clara Glynn's dramatisation of Guy McCrone's novel. A tale of social ambition and family love set in the boom town of Glasgow in the 1870s. Show more
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News and analysis. London Zoo special: Ritula Shah chairs a debate from London Zoo asking what can be done to prevent the extinction of many forms of life on Earth. Show more
July 1964: Sunday evening and Esther returns home to find Black Pat waiting for her. Read by Miriam Margolyes. Show more
A Good Read
Tim Mackintosh-Smith and Philip Norman
30 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Philip Norman and Sue MacGregor on books by Adam Nicolson, Truman Capote and JM Coetzee. From 2010. Show more
Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the weeks parliamentary news.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD)
Suffragette-defaced penny
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things arrives in the 20th century. Today he chooses a British penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women". Show more
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