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A dying father explains why he will be an 'incurable optimist' to the end, mature students baulk at running up bigger debts, and trad jazz goes high tech. ipm@bbc.co.uk. Show more

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The River Thames was recently announced as the winner of an international environmental award. Helen Mark hears about the river's dramatic transformation. Show more

Caz Graham looks at winter on farms around the country. While most people are tucked up in bed, spare a thought for the farmers out in the cold, the dark, the wet and the snow. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah Montague, debating the year 2010, the crisis in Ivory Coast, and how to increase organ donation. Show more

Fi Glover is joined by comedian Jon Holmes and poet Luke Wright. Crime writer Patricia Cornwell reveals her Secret Life, and singer Annie Lennox OBE shares her Inheritance Tracks. Show more

John McCarthy talks to Peter Tatchel about hiking in Tasmania and Madeira, Richard Sale about walks in Europe and to Jason Florio and Helen Jones about going round Gambia on foot. Show more

Author Michael Dobbs explores 60 years of politics in the fictional world of The Archers with contributions from fans including Glenys Kinnock, Michael Howard and David Blunkett. Show more

Amid the ructions within the Tories and Liberal Democrats, what lessons can today's ministers learn from earlier coalitions? Will politics be re-shaped or just re-branded? Show more

Special edition hosted by Kate Adie recalling the extraordinary events, people and places from the past year. Show more

Paul Lewis and guests look at the key personal finance themes for 2011. Show more

The News Quiz team take a look back at 2010. Sue Perkins, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, and Francis Wheen make up the panel dissecting a year's events. Presented by Sandi Toksvig. Show more

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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they give their predictions about what will shape our world in 2011. Show more

Stephen Sackur hosts a phone-in during which listeners have the opportunity to air their views on the events which will dominate the news in 2011. Show more

A radio version of Alan Bennett's celebrated autobiographical stage play about a woman who takes refuge in his Camden garden for three months, and ends up staying fifteen years. Show more

Jane Garvey celebrates inspirational women who have appeared on the programme in 2010, with the journalist Joan Smith and two young knife crime campaigners from North London. Show more

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.

A dying father explains why he will be an 'incurable optimist' to the end, mature students baulk at running up bigger debts, and trad jazz goes high tech. ipm@bbc.co.uk. Show more

The latest shipping forecast.

The latest weather forecast.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Clive Anderson welcomes in the New Year from the BBC Radio Theatre with Arthur Smith, Tamsin Greig, Clive Rowe, Adrian Lester and The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Show more

Prince William's wedding this year will hugely increase his global status and image. So who and what has shaped him and his royal role since the trauma of his mother's death? Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests discuss the future of funding for the arts and ask if the new austerity is a problem - or an opportunity. Show more

Mariella Frostrup, mother and advice columnist, looks at how sex education has been tackled in British schools over the last century. Why are we still getting it so wrong? Show more

Robin Brooks' dramatisation of Robert Graves' scandalous histories of Roman political vice. How the Sibyl's prophecy came true for the most unwilling Emperor of them all. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.

Clive Anderson and guests discuss how proposed Government cuts in the legal aid budget could affect our access to justice. Show more

Russell Davies chairs the tenth heat in the competition for the 58th Brain of Britain, from Manchester. Show more

Peggy Reynolds asks why one of the most popular poems of the 19th century, Longfellow's 'Wreck of the Hesperus', has subsequently fallen out of fashion. Show more

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Alexander Armstrong explores the lasting appeal of action hero Biggles and examines the life of his creator, Captain WE Johns. Show more

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