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The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom.
"You didn't have Playstations and TV. You didn't have a toilet." An ex-prisoner speaks about what ended his criminal career and his warnings to young offenders. With Eddie Mair. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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Why has a new scheme to encourage people onto our national trails upset some people? Helen Mark has her running shoes on along the South Downs Way to find out. Show more
As the main vegetable harvest gets underway in the UK Charlotte Smith asks if growers have to be large scale to survive in the future. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Morning news and current affairs, with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague, exploring power and the papers, the humanitarian crisis in East Africa and the sound of F1. Show more
Saturday Live
Cerys Matthews, Murray Lachlan Young, DeLorean, Paul Theroux, memory loss mum Naomi Jacobs, Picasso's playmate Antony Penrose
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Richard Coles with Cerys Matthews, Murray Lachlan Young, a woman who lost all but her teen memories, a man who once played with Pablo Picasso and Paul Theroux's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Excess Baggage
Somali Pirates - Montserrat - Languages
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Sandi Toksvig meets Colin Freeman, kidnapped by pirates in Somalia, David Edwards, revisiting Montserrat after the volcanic eruptions and language teacher Elisabeth Smith. Show more
Conversation, music and comedy. Clive Anderson is joined by Andy Kershaw, Gok Wan, Leaf Fielding and Emma Freud. Music from Wild Beasts. Show more
Jonathan Maitland profiles Nick Davies, the investigative journalist behind the story of the News of the World phone-hacking allegations that are dominating the headlines. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the historian Kathryn Hughes and the writers Kevin Jackson and Adam Mars Jones review the cultural highlights of the week including The Tree of Life. Show more
Meeting Myself Coming Back
Episode 2: Michael Heseltine
58 minutes
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From backbench novice MP to the challenger for the party leadership against Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine - now Lord Heseltine - relives his career through the BBC Archives. Show more
Haunted by his girlfriend vanishing at a petrol station, eight years on Rex tries to discover what happened. Stars Samuel West. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
The pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi examines what drives people to dissent in the second of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Michael Grade, Simon Munnery, Dr Sandra Scott and Ian McMillan. From July 2011. Show more
Roger McGough with another selection of listeners' requests, including readings by contemporary poets Imtiaz Dharker and Colette Bryce. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A selection of Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 poems that marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. Recorded on location in the landscapes that inspired them. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
