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A reading and a reflection to start the day, with George Craig. Show more
'I weep 19 years after my abortion.' She championed abortion rights in her youth, but a listener says it wasn't until she terminated a pregnancy that she questioned her ideas. Show more
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Clare Balding walks with actor and passionate birdwatcher Samuel West around one of his favourite birding spots, the RSPB reserve at Rainham Marshes in Essex. Show more
As 20,000 Irish farmers demonstrate in Dublin in support of small family farms, Charlotte Smith discusses the future for small farms in the UK. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Justin Webb, featuring: BBC Savile inquiries, Pakistan reacts to shot girl, plus is Ireland the new Dallas? Show more
Saturday Live
Robin Ince, John McCarthy in the Wye Valley, Hugh Masekela's Inheritance Tracks
1 hour, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Richard Coles and Sian Williams talk to broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince, hear Hugh Masekela's Inheritance Tracks and explore psychiatrist RD Laing's Kingsley Hall experiment. Show more
Paul Gambaccini relives Christmas Eve 1955 and the Weavers sell-out reunion concert, 3 years after Pete Seeger's blacklisting for communist sympathies had forced them to break up. Show more
Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Show more
Mounting concerns in Zimbabwe as the nation prepares for another election season. Tough cats! Kevin Connolly learns to rub along with the feline population of Jerusalem. Show more
Paul Lewis with coverage of the NatWest 'Get Cash' mobile app fraud problem, RPI changes, energy price rises and the collapse of the sell-off of RBS/NatWest branches to Santander. Show more
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Nick Doody. Show more
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
4 Extra Debut. In the countdown to the Cuban Missile Crisis, two Americans trapped in London are thrown together. Stars Miranda Raison. Show more
Woman's Hour
Weekend: Michelle Ryan, Julia Gillard, Abortion
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Workplace harassment, Michelle Ryan does Cabaret, beauty queens, abortion in Northern Ireland, Julia Gillard's speech, Cook the Perfect Bombay Potatoes. Presented by Jane Garvey. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick O'Connell.
Evan Davis asks his guests about the importance of quality in business - how they get it high and why it might end up low. They also compare notes on their relative weaknesses. Show more
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Loose Ends
Barry Cryer, Karl Wallinger, Joanna Scanlan, Nicholas Coleridge and John Shuttleworth
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
Clive Anderson is joined by musician Karl Wallinger, Barry Cryer, Joanna Scanlan, Nicholas Coleridge. With music from Sheffield's finest Yamaha organist John Shuttleworth. Show more
Claire Bolderson profiles US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the film Ruby Sparks, the drama Enquirer, a new Thomas Kenneally novel, another television Sherlock and Richard Hamilton at the National Gallery. Show more
The Solway Harvester disaster brought tragedy and huge media attention to a community. Geoff Bird meets Rev Alex Currie to find out what it was like to become their spokesman. Show more
One man proves constant in his love for Bathsheba, as she gives up on hopes of happiness. Stars Shaun Dooley and Alex Tregear. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Moral Maze
The Morality of Public Service Broadcasting
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Is public service broadcasting a moral good? Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the latest contest of the cryptic quiz, featuring the teams from the north of England and Scotland. Show more
Roger McGough presents Alex Jennings reading Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy
Episode 2: The Wurst Express From Kakheti
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
It is summer 2008, and an impoverished Georgian poet is living in Berlin for three months. He is not expecting to hear shattering news from his homeland. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. Show more
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