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A reading and a reflection to start the day, with George Craig.
A proposed celebration of farming will not be allowed to take part in Hyde Park. Organisers accuse the Royal Parks of reneging on a deal to bring farming into the heart of the city. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs, presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Featuring Scotland's referendum, plus calls for a change to UK drug laws, and Bryan Ferry on Gaga. Show more
Start the Week
Richard Ford on the US Elections
43 minutes
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Andrew Marr discusses the state of the US with American authors Richard Ford and Lionel Shriver, journalist Edward Luce and chair of Republicans Abroad UK Thomas Grant. Show more
Woman's Hour
Alison Balsom; The End of Men and the Rise of Women
58 minutes
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Alison Balsom, the award-winning trumpeter, talks about her new album The End of Men, plus Hanna Rosin on her book and the impact of the recession on vulnerable children. Show more
A forensic insight into the corrosive impact of tabloid press journalism on one young woman. Stars Nicola Schossler. Show more
Kate Williams explores the history of the modern winning smile - from a sign of madness to a political weapon. From 2012. Show more
Spring cleaning and more. Pam Ayres' poetry and sketches with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From September 2012. Show more
You and Yours
Cosmetic surgery changes, Sikh poppies and how to run our railways
55 minutes
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Consumer news with Julian Worricker. Including reforms to cosmetic surgery, dispute over Sikh poppies for Remembrance Day and listener input on how UK's railways should be run. 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.
China: As History Is My Witness
Episode 6: Qin Shi Huangdi: The Emperor
15 minutes
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The Emperor who built a unified China but enslaved nations and buried scholars in the process. Hero or villain? Show more
Kenton is getting impatient and Pip is on a spending spree. Show more
By Mike Walker. Demands for increased production from an oil well result in a calamitous loss of life and an environmental disaster. Show more
For the second time in this series, Marcus Berkmann and Marcel Berlins, for the south of England, take on Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock, representing the Midlands. Show more
Tristram Stuart reports on the latest ideas to tackle our growing mountains of food waste. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Reece Shearsmith meets the female screen stars of horror and charts their changing roles in this genre. From 2012. Show more
Aleks Krotoski asks how digital devices are changing our memories and our perception of intelligence. Show more
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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Jimmy Carr welcome objects from Humphrey Ker, Dr Pamela Stephenson-Connolly and Professor Sir Andre Geim. From October 2012. Show more
Jim tells a little white lie. Meanwhile Kenton is having a bad day. Show more
Front Row
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, David Walliams, US TV series Girls
30 minutes
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Presented by Mark Lawson. Featuring Tim Burton's new animated film Frankenweenie, David Walliams on his memoir Camp David and a review of US TV series Girls. Show more
A forensic insight into the corrosive impact of tabloid press journalism on one young woman. Stars Nicola Schossler. Show more
Master interrogator of the Luftwaffe Hanns Scharff was solicitous and kind to his US POWs, and got results. Julian Putkowski asks if modern inquisitors can learn from his tricks. Show more
Analysis
Manuel Castells: Alternative Economic Cultures
30 minutes
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Sociologist Prof Manuel Castells talks to Newsnight's economics editor Paul Mason about the rise of alternative economic cultures since the financial crisis. Show more
Material World speaks to three of this year's Nobel Laureates and to other scientists working in similar areas of research about the legacy of the achievement. Show more
Start the Week
Richard Ford on the US Elections
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Andrew Marr discusses the state of the US with American authors Richard Ford and Lionel Shriver, journalist Edward Luce and chair of Republicans Abroad UK Thomas Grant. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The Scottish independence referendum gets the go-ahead - but how will the campaign be fought? Show more
4 Extra Debut. Terrible nightmares about her dead daughter makes Violet Dimond wonder if the dream is not strictly her own. Read by Joanna Tope. Show more
Every day novels, film scripts, poems and business plans are written in the British Library. Robin Hunt discovers the people that inhabit perhaps the best-read office in the world. Show more
Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as Andrew Mitchell comes under fire from Labour MPs and the BBC faces criticism over the scandal involving Sir Jimmy Savile. Show more
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Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
1. The Virginian
15 minutes
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The fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament in 1919. Read by Anna Maxwell Martin. Show more
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