Presented by Jenni Murray. Twirling Tory Ann Widdecombe talks about her Strictly Come Dancing experience. Also, women and stress, and Eric Knowles on Pilkington Pottery. Show more
Lynne Truss's comedy drama set on a rainy golf course in Wales. The giant Golf Ball Rock has careered down the hill and into the bunker on the fourth. Is the curse finally over? Show more
Lost your job and need a bogus boss to fool your family that you're still in work? BBC correspondent Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing "rent a friend" service sector. Show more
Struggling print journalist Maddox takes a moral stance with disastrous results. Stars John Sessions. From December 2010. Show more
You and Yours presents an adapation of the book Delete This at Your Peril: The Bob Servant E-Mails, in which our fictional hero assists a Nigerian Prince. Show more
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Tim Harford and the More or Less team offer another numbers-eye view of the news. This week: council funding, inflation and the magic More or Less monkey. Show more
Helen is overloaded and Elizabeth handles a domestic crisis. Show more
The Other Simenon: Striptease. A dramatisation by Ronald Frame of Georges Simenon's novel "Striptease", set in a night club in Cannes in 1958. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society, Essex
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson are guests of the Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society in Essex. Peter Gibbs is the chairman. Show more
Edward Stourton revisits broadcast debates from the archives. Two philosophers- Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky - discuss the nature of power, oppression and civil disobedience. Show more
Matthew Bannister on US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, film director Blake Edwards, Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina and New York restaurateur Elaine Kaufman. Show more
Francine Stock talks to director Peter Weir, and hears from the directors of Catfish, one of the big hits of the Sundance Film Festival. Show more
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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. Guests include Marcus Brigstocke, Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes. Show more
Pat tries to mediate and Phoebe's keen to talk. Show more
Veteran comedian Ronnie Corbett, who celebrated his 80th birthday this month, talks to Mark Lawson about working with and without the late Ronnie Barker. Show more
A new dramatisation by Theresa Heskins of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of provincial life. The day of the Easter Charity Ball, and Cynthia receives a gift from a mysterious admirer. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from the Camphill Community in Milton Keynes with questions for the panel including Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin. Show more
Joan Bakewell contrasts our empathy for fictional charaters on the stage and on screen with a reported growing lack of sympathy for real people in need. Show more
By Andrew Whaley. When the President asks Aurelia to make a film about him she is flattered. But does she really think she can make a difference? Show more
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National and international news and analysis. Show more
Secret police Commissar Volkov gives Andrei a way out of execution, while Anna waits to give birth in hiding. Concluded by Sara Kestelman. Show more
Poet John Hegley chooses the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence. Author Geoff Dyer offers the expert's view alongside Matthew Parris. From December 2010. Show more
Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Richard Cohen ponders the possibility of the sun's demise. In Varanasi, he pays homage to a sunset. Concluded by Allan Corduner. Show more
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BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes at 5.20am.
Commentary on the third day of the third Ashes Test from the WACA ground in Perth, with Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Jim Maxwell and Simon Hughes. Show more
