The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred.
'Hands off my bus pass!' iPM hits the road with OAP listeners. Plus our Your News bulletin sent from the mine in Chile. And can The Dam Busters March cheer up the nation? Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
The latest weather forecast.
Clare Balding walks with the Friends of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, a group who share a love of what the writer Robert Louis Stevenson referred to as 'the hills of home'.
Charlotte Smith visits a Leicestershire research centre to find out why one in five rivers in England and Wales do not meet European quality standards. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin Webb: Former defence chief Lord West examines the MOD budget, plus Chilean writer Isabel Allende on the mine rescue. Show more
Fi Glover with musician Edwyn Collins, poet Susuan Richardson, a woman who used to beat her husband, and a Welshman who's big in Japan. Inheritance Tracks from author Colm Toibin. Show more
John McCarthy talks to Doreen Tayler who explored the India of Kipling's novel Kim and to Mark Ellingham and Paul Smith about phone apps and tweeting for the traveller. Show more
Miranda Sawyer goes behind the scenes at Christie's auction house. She talks to specialists, dealers and collectors to discover how works of art are valued and sold. Show more
Peter Oborne of The Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Show more
Despatches from correspondents in Beirut, Kiev, Budapest, Katmandhu and Delhi are introduced by Kate Adie. Show more
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Show more
Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical news quiz. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Radley College in Oxfordshire with questions for the panel including former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Show more
By Bruce Chatwin. A British academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector who has spent years protecting a vast collection from both the Nazis and the communists. Show more
Keel Watson tells the story of the rise, heyday and ultimate decline of the company which brought grand opera to the provinces of Britain for over a hundred years. From Oct 2010. Show more
Presented by Jane Garvey. Actress June Spencer on sixty years as the indomitable Peggy in The Archers, and shadow minister Yvette Cooper on Ed, equality and elections. Show more
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.
Evan Davis and guests discuss the exacting business of logistics. They also discuss customer service - how far should a company go in trying to satisfy its consumers? Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Clive Anderson is joined by Simon Russell Beale, Chris Evans, Howard Jacobson, Jo Bunting, Tim Willis and Adam Hills. With music from Amit Chaudhuri and Duke & The King. Show more
Profile
Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, whose welfare reforms will be revealed in a White Paper after the Spending Review. Show more
Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests novelist Louise Doughty, poet Cahal Dallat and writer John Lanchester review the week's cultural highlights including The Social Network. Show more
The Man Behind the Mountains. 80 years ago author and fell walker Alfred Wainwright first visited the Lake District. Eric Robson re-evaluates this often misunderstood character. Show more
Tina Pepler's dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Germany. The Nazis begin to impact more and more on life in Berlin. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Mariella Frostrup and her guests share expertise and advice about how parents can help over-weight children. Why are so many of our children failing to eat healthily? Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The Wales team of Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards take on Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander of Scotland. Show more
Roger McGough introduces a miscellany of requested poems about autumn, rain storms and migrant birds. Anton Lesser and Eleanor Tremain read. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
When two sisters take a holiday together, a childhood memory causes older sister May to gradually recognise the truth of her standing with her younger sister. Read by Sorcha Cusack. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
