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With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes.
Caz Graham hears about the latest in bovine bling: cow pedometers. Plus, more detail will be announced today about Government plans to improve rural broadband. Show more
Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and James Naughtie, debating exemplary justice for rioters, rail fare rises and stabilising the eurozone. Show more
Peter Hennessy, the leading Whitehall watcher, tells the story of British state secrecy and explores the tension between official secrecy and more openness. Show more
Woman's Hour
Camping; Women in Egypt; the End of Antibiotics?
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Glamping versus camping; lost gardens of Heligan; Egyptian women campaigners. Presented by Jane Garvey. Show more
Pepys makes his will, says goodbye to his wife and sails across the dangerous waters of the English Channel to Holland, on a secret mission to bring back the King. Show more
In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity
Episode 1: Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
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Adam Rutherford asks how our ability to talk, travel and develop technology - our unique human culture - affects human genetic evolution. Show more
The businessman and broadcaster Sir Gerry Robinson presents extracts of some of his favourite readings. Recorded with an audience in Londonderry, at the University of Ulster. Show more
What changes would you make to mend Britain's broken society? David Cameron blames bad behaviour for last week's riots, but how do you stop people being selfish and irresponsible? Show more
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With Martha Kearney. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
An exploration of the impact on people of Mendelssohn's Octet and the healing power of music around the world. From August 2011. Show more
Things are looking up for Eddie. Meanwhile Chris has an important meeting. Show more
Satire by Joyce Bryant on tertiary education. With three departments being restructured, one of the Deans faces the sack. Starring Sophie Thomson and Jonathan Keeble. Show more
Market towns have been the centres of British commerce for centuries. How will they rise to the challenges of a modern, competitive, connected world? Show more
Mel makes a new friend and learns about different types of ghosts. Then the theories are tested out. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman. Show more
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 on winter pastures. Show more
Chris Ledgard explores the world of voice recognition and finds out how the technology is changing the way we use language. Show more
A look at the life and work of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson - the choice of fellow poet, Gwyneth Lewis. With Matthew Parris and Lyndall Gordon. From August 2011. Show more
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The human chameleon's host of comic characters, from deluded teen to nonagenarian diva. With Philip Pope. From August 2011. Show more
Pat and Tony face a harrowing experience, while Brian hears of a surprising discovery. Show more
Front Row
Inbetweeners cast interviewed; Seven Dwarves reviewed
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Kirsty Lang talks to the cast of the hit comedy The Inbetweeners as they move from TV to film. Rachel Cooke reviews the TV documentary series Seven Dwarves. Show more
Pepys makes his will, says goodbye to his wife and sails across the dangerous waters of the English Channel to Holland, on a secret mission to bring back the King. Show more
By 2050 about two billion people will live in slums in the developing world. Paul Mason is in Manila to look at their rapid growth and see what benefits there are to life in slums. Show more
In Touch
Future for Rehabilitation Services / Icelandic Diary. 16/08/2011
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The visually impaired people deemed 'not disabled enough' to need social care, and the joys of singing your way across Iceland. With Peter White. Show more
The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life
Episode 1: In the Womb
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Could adult health be determined by our environment and nutrition in the first thousand days of life, or even many years earlier? Dr Mark Porter investigates. Part 1: In the Womb. Show more
Peter Hennessy, the leading Whitehall watcher, tells the story of British state secrecy and explores the tension between official secrecy and more openness. Show more
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With Ritula Shah. How high up did phone hacking go at The News of the World? Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy discuss the eurozone crisis. Climate change protests in Australia. Show more
Alan Bennett continues his wicked 'unseemly story' from his recent novella Smut. Graham spends the night before his wedding in circumstances that might astonish his mother. Show more
Glenn Mitchell pays tribute to the master of comic confusion, Harry Worth, one of the most popular - and subsequently most neglected - comedians of the 1960s. Show more
Lady Tresselian is discovered murdered in her bed, leaving everyone in the house party very distressed. Stars Hugh Bonneville. Show more
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Poet Edward Thomas's final years. Meeting Robert Frost marks the start of a life-changing friendship. Read by Tobias Menzies. Show more
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