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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. Show more
'Princess Margaret's boyfriend picked us up.' Listeners share tales of hitchhiking. Also Miss Wales reads Your News. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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The Wye was once England's greatest salmon river. Today stocks have declined but barbel thrive. Richard Uridge goes in search of these hard fighting fish and for peaceful times. Show more
The UK imports about 40 per cent of the food its consumes. Charlotte Smith learns how farmers and scientists are trying to increase production, as challenges to food security grow. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Sarah Montague: Should rioters be prevented from claiming benefits? Plus Robert Robinson remembered. Show more
Saturday Live
Richard Coles with Tom Dyckhoff, Matt Hampson, Toyah Willcox, Kenneth Grange, Steve James and Kate Fox
1 hour
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Richard Coles with critic Tom Dyckhoff, poet Kate Fox, paralysed rugby star Matt Hampson, designer Kenneth Grange, Toyah Willcox's Secret Life and Steve James' Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Excess Baggage
Phoenician ship voyage - The British seaside
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Sonia Deol hears about the re-enactment of a historical voyage round Africa from Philip Beale and looks at the British seaside with Brian Viner and Jane Struthers. Show more
Interrail Tales
Episode 1: The Early Years: 1972-1990
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
4 Extra Debut. Miranda Sawyer explores the history of interrailing around Europe. For many young people it's a rite of passage. From August 2011. Show more
Coverage of the fourth day of the third Test between England and India, from Edgbaston. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Peter Curran is joined by Laurence Cane-Honeysett, Akala, Sally Lindsay, John Michael McDonagh and Jo Bunting. With music from Raghu Dixit and Louise and the Pins. Show more
Simon Cox profiles Home Secretary, Theresa May, said to have a Thatcheresque work ethic - as well as a passion for shoes - now dealing with the aftermath of riots across England. Show more
Bidisha and her guests comedian David Schneider, novelist Deborah Moggach and theatre writer David Benedict review the week's cultural highlights including Anna Christie. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Arthur Smith scours the archives for the best and worst after-dinner speeches. Is there a winning formula? From August 2011.
By Mervyn Peake. David Warner and Luke Treadaway star in 'Titus Abroad', the fifth part of a new dramatisation of the life and times of Titus Groan. Titus has left Gormenghast. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Professor Gordon Graham argues that democracy is overrated. The live discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. Show more
Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Ardal O'Hanlon, Brian Sibley, Shelagh Fogarty and Martin Jarvis. From August 2011. Show more
The poet Wordsworth had a secret affair in France in 1792, and 10 years later travels to Calais to meet his former lover and a daughter he'd never seen, as John Worthen discovers. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
By Claire Griffiths. A painter's talent has so far kept him alive in Auschwitz. But a new painting puts him in great danger. Read by Nicholas Farrell. Show more
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