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A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.
'I had to stop the police lynching him.' A listener who trained police family liaison officers explains the sometimes difficult relationship between journalists and detectives. Show more
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Open Country
The South Downs - An Inspirational Landscape
27 minutes
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Helen Mark takes a musical journey across Sussex and the South Downs talking to some of the people who have been musically inspired by this chalk hills and rolling landscape. Show more
Charlotte Smith helps clear up after the Great Yorkshire Show, and asks whether the show helps its tens of thousands of visitors appreciate the value of the countryside. Show more
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Saturday Live
Dreda Say Mitchell, Mr Gee, Bury St Edmunds, Mandela's friend Paul Goldreich, former model Caroline Christensen, Jacqui Smith
1 hour
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Richard Coles with writer Dreda Say Mitchell, poet Mr Gee, a former page 3 model, a man who hide Nelson Mandela, a Crowdscape and politician Jacqui Smith's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Sandi Toksvig explores Cape Town in the company of two very different experts and revists the joys of interailing with journalist Miranda Sawyer. Show more
Barry Humphries, close friend of great Australians Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson, takes us back to Berlin of the 20s and 30s to share his love of the music and satire of the age. Show more
Peter Riddell asks how well Parliament is tackling the phone-hacking scandal. And he talks to the first Speaker of the House of Lords as she steps down after five years in the job. Show more
Kate Adie with correspondents' stories from Libya, Somalia, India, the Gambia and the Seychelles. Show more
Paul Lewis presents a special programme looking at problems in the UK's housing market and tries to answer a simple question - why can't we build more houses? Show more
Steve Punt presents an assortment of topical stand-up sketches and songs, with Jon Holmes, Danielle Ward, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin.
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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. Sheila Hancock reads extracts from her teenage diaries out in public for the first time. With Rufus Hound. From December 2010. Show more
Andrew Davies' rip-roaring adaptation of WH Hudson's epic Uruguayan adventure. Richard Lamb (David Tennant) elopes with Paquita and tries to survive in this revolutionary land. Show more
Woman's Hour
Frida Kahlo; Christine Rice mezzo soprano; Helen Walsh
1 hour
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With Jenni Murray. A major new Frida Kahlo exhibition in the UK; mezzo soprano Christine Rice; sleep deprivation with a new baby; the end of modular GCSEs. Show more
With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines.
Evan Davis asks his guests about the limits of automation. They also swap thoughts on the benefits of the corporate awayday. Show more
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Clive Anderson is joined by Duncan McNab, Marcus du Sautoy, Mark Mason and Arthur Smith. With music from Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and the Soul Rebels Brass Band. Show more
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation and at the centre of the political and public storm over phone hacking and the payment of police officers. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests comedian Natalie Haynes, academic John Mullan and musician Pat Kane review the cultural highlights of the week including The Hour. Show more
From The Female Eunuch to the Big Brother house, Germaine Greer relives her life and career through the BBC Sound Archive, in conversation with John Wilson. Show more
A baby is born: Titus Groan, heir to crumbling stone and ancient ritual, only son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of Gormenghast. Show more
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Matthew Engel explains why, as a former Washington correspondent, he thinks the growth of Americanisms is now a serious problem for the English language. Show more
Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas. He goes to Athens and the site of Aristotle's Lyceum, where economics as a discipline began. Show more
Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sian Phillips, James Richardson, Edward Stourton and Rebecca Front. From July 2011. Show more
Pearl is another poem in the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript. This feature reveals the beauty and the power today of this overshadowed 14th-century masterpiece. Show more
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By Julia Butler. A young boy struggling to adapt to a new environment comes alive on the football pitch. Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. Read by Simon Tait. Show more
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