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With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes.
Two thirds of people support farmers receiving European subsidies for food production and supporting wildlife according to a new survey. Charlotte Smith asks why they are needed. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Sarah Montague, debating zero tolerance policing, university places and how Gorbachev became a reformer. Show more
Peter White interviews high profile disabled people about the obstacles they have faced. Diplomat Jane Cordell explains how her deafness has affected her career. Show more
Edward Stourton revisits broadcast debates from the archives. Isaiah Berlin and John Vaizey discuss whether too much equality is a bad thing and less freedom a force for good. Show more
Woman's Hour
French actor Audrey Tautou, Big Feet, Family Businesses
45 minutes
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French actress Audrey Tautou on her latest movie and her success since Amélie; caring for a child with diabetes; keeping businesses in the family; are bigger feet embarrassing? Show more
4 Extra Debut. Samuel Pepys was 26 in January 1660, when he decided to record his daily life and innermost thoughts. Kris Marshall stars in Hattie Naylor's adaptation. Show more
Lyse Doucet asks diplomats and politicians who have negotiated with the worst tyrants in modern history whether it is always good to talk. Show more
The award-winning American essayist on how no two families are ever alike, and a peep into the caustic mind of the author. From July 2011. Show more
We report on the Fair Fares Now Campaign. Rail Minister Theresa Villiers responds to concerns that prices are becoming prohibitively high. With Julian Worricker. Show more
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National and international news with Martha Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
The first contest in the new series of the evergreen cryptic quiz, with teams from the South of England and the North of England joining chairman Tom Sutcliffe. Show more
Tom thinks strategically and Nic lends a hand. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Two bungling self-employed plasterers try to win the day by stealing the Queen's wedding certificate. Stars Johnny Vegas and Ricky Tomlinson. 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.
With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss explain how to identify the birds which you're likely to see and hear in arable fields. Show more
With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy, introduced by the SNP, to try and join up every aspect of food production and health in the country. Show more
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the effects of globalisation on religion, asking whether religion will become homogenised as it spreads across national boundaries. Show more
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The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, and played this week by Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus and the ex-rocker Rick Wakeman. Show more
Things are looking up for Eddie. Meanwhile Chris has an important meeting. Show more
Front Row
Jonathan Lynn; Brendan Gleeson in The Guard; Andre Dubus
30 minutes
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With Mark Lawson. Jonathan Lynn on writing comedies such as Yes Minister; a review of Brendan Gleeson in The Guard; and Andre Dubus III on his memoir about troubled teenage days. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Samuel Pepys was 26 in January 1660, when he decided to record his daily life and innermost thoughts. Kris Marshall stars in Hattie Naylor's adaptation. Show more
Document
The collapse of the 'special relationship', 1973
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special relationship in 1973, via a revealing transcript of a phone call between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Show more
Crossing Continents
Murder, migration and Mexico
30 minutes
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Thousands of Central Americans travel to the US every year. Now Mexican drug cartels are kidnapping and killing them. Linda Pressly investigates their perilous journey. Show more
Quentin looks at the psychology behind riots, the genetics of multiple sclerosis, a classic study of chimpanzee communication and a shrunken head. Show more
Peter White interviews high profile disabled people about the obstacles they have faced. Diplomat Jane Cordell explains how her deafness has affected her career. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. David Cameron has declared 'all out war' on gangs; a former gang member gives his reaction. Show more
Alan Bennett reads one his delightful 'unseemly stories' from his recently-published novella Smut. Mrs Forbes is appalled that her son Graham is 'chucking himself away'. Show more
Chris Ledgard examines the production of talking newspapers for the blind. Show more
Much to Betty's horror, Hugh discovers a huge hole in the consortium budget. NHS satire stars Nigel Planer and Celia Imrie. From June 2011. Show more
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The momentous final years of poet Edward Thomas. The 1913 opening of the Poetry Bookshop sees the dawn of the New Poetry age. Read by Tobias Menzies. Show more
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