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With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Show more

As investors from the UK and across the world snap up British farmland, Anna Hill ask why fields are the current hot property. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the fall-out from Monday's vote on UK membership of the European Union. And the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke on sentences for knife crime. Show more

Libby Purves is joined by Richard Rycroft, Sir Terry Wogan, Matt Croucher and Sona Jobarteh. Show more

Joely Richardson on playing Queen Elizabeth I with her mother Vanessa. Can dyslexia be an advantage? Plans to improve child protection. Eva Braun: a life with Hitler. Show more

Long-distance single parent couple Rosie and Tom both have difficult decisions to make and they confide in different online pals. Show more

As the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency returns to BBC Radio 4, Jon Silverman uncovers the real story of crime investigation in Botswana and finds that truth is stranger than fiction. Show more

Inspector Lestrade introduces Sherlock Holmes's rivals: the brilliant Professor SFX Van Dusen. Stars Paul Rhys. Show more

Why washing laundry at low temperatures might not kill bugs, will electronic NHS records be able to deliver all they promise and how Prince Charles came to the rescue of a Victorian pottery. Show more

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With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.

Andrew Mullins on what the i's success means for The Independent, X Factor's falling audiences and why are payment companies blocking WikiLeaks? Show more

Mike voices his objections. Meanwhile there is domestic bliss at Woodbine Cottage. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Robert Louis Stevenson sets off with a donkey across France, keeping a journal that became a travelogue. Stars David Tennant. Show more

Stephanie Flanders asks George Soros and top economic thinkers - who is to blame for the global financial crisis: the bankers or the economists? Show more

William and the Outlaws set out to right wrongs - a shilling for big ones and sixpence for little ones. Show more

In deep sleep, where the places we go and things we see are almost unlimited, but does dream interpretation matter? Show more

Is globalisation really a threat to indigenous culture? Henrietta Moore tells Laurie Taylor we are being overly pessimistic. Also, Muslim women's basketball. Show more

Claudia Hammond finds out how a good night's sleep can improve memory, why hysteria is not a thing of the past, and she meets the carers getting involved in mental health research. Show more

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Marcus Brigstocke invites Frank Skinner to try 4 new things, including a spray tan and eating Jugged Hare. From September 2011. Show more

Tom has a bee in his bonnet and Lynda is full of high hopes. Show more

With Mark Lawson, who meets Jeanette Winterson as she publishes a memoir. Plus a review of George Clooney's new film, and David Attenborough on his latest series Frozen Planet. Show more

Long-distance single parent couple Rosie and Tom both have difficult decisions to make and they confide in different online pals. Show more

Clive Anderson and top legal experts discuss how press coverage of court cases can result in trial by media and jeopardise defendants' rights to be presumed innocent. Show more

Novelist and former paediatric nurse Christie Watson asks whether there are some things worse than death for children so seriously ill that they are technology dependent. Show more

Planes grounded, airports shut, chaos on the roads: Tom Heap investigates ways to keep Britain moving if there is another harsh winter, and asks if future winters will be as bad. Show more

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Ruth Becker recalls her marriage, Dora's love affair and the night in the TicTacToe Club in Berlin. Readers include Samuel West. Show more

Celery rears its ugly head again as Neil attempts his Androcles and the lion tactic. Stars Frank Skinner. From October 2011. Show more

With Letchington Arts Centre on the brink of closure, Nigel's roped in for a protest song. Stars Richie Webb. From June 2010. Show more

Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from Westminster. PM David Cameron faces the opposition leader Ed Miliband at Prime Minister's Questions. Show more

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Political commentator Agnes Poirier contemplates the view from France. Show more

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