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A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with the Rev Dr Karen Smith.
As European agriculture ministers try to rush through new rules on food labelling, one German MEP says although it will be difficult, it is necessary. Presented by Anna Hill. Show more
Susan Hulme reports on events in Parliament.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry in the dark decades post-Chernobyl, and why nuclear power has to be part of our energy mix for the future. Show more
Roger continues his journey through Shanghai, visiting a bank museum, a tobacco museum that does not allow its visitors to smoke on the premises, and an 'ancient sex museum'. Show more
Woman's Hour
Lara Croft; Betty Buckley; Women in South Africa
58 minutes
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Lara Croft and Rhianna Pratchett - the games designer who is reinventing the icon, plus Betty Buckley on life on Broadway, and violence against women in South Africa. Show more
Elizabeth Jane Howard's family saga, dramatised by Lin Coghlan. The Germans continue with their raids but Sybil must contend with an enemy even nearer to home. With Penelope Wilton. Show more
Listening is about more than hearing as we discover with people whose professional lives revolve around listening, in some cases to sounds beyond the human range of hearing. Show more
The impact of the 18th-century choral reworking of a 13th-century hymn about the Virgin Mary's sorrow at the cross. From 2013. Show more
Big profits for house builders suggest the sluggish housing market is on move. With government backed loans on offer, is it getting easier to buy a house? With Julian Worricker. Show more
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National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. Show more
Nick Robinson shows how the maverick Churchill and other critical voices were kept off the BBC in the 1930s, but how Churchill went on to rally people on the radio during the war. Show more
There's a tense atmosphere in the village shop. Meanwhile Ed has qualms. Show more
In the head office of an NGO in Europe, a group of junior strategists grapple with the fictional situation that one of their field agents has vanished and may have been kidnapped. Show more
Tom Holland and his guests interrogate past events through listeners' questions and the latest historical research. Show more
Costing the Earth
Electrifying Africa: The Power Beneath
30 minutes
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A geothermal revolution is set to electrify Africa. Tom Heap visits the Rift Valley in Kenya, the source of abundant energy waiting to be harnessed. Show more
Could international law permit 'drones' to be used by foreign nations against targets in the UK? Also, the illegal immigrants who can't be deported. Presented by Joshua Rozenberg. Show more
A Good Read
Alistair Appleton and Simon Baron-Cohen
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4 Extra Debut. Alistair Appleton, Professor Simon Baron and Harriett Gilbert discuss Patrick Gayle, Ian McEwan and Michael Innes. From 2013. Show more
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The Questers visit the legendary Fat Hog tavern and its glamorous owner Nigressa. Stars Stephen Mangan. From February 2013. Show more
Pip asserts her independence, and Jazzer uses his initiative. Show more
Front Row
Claire Foy, Dinos Chapman and The Bay
30 minutes
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John Wilson talks to Claire Foy about playing Lady Macbeth, and to artist Dinos Chapman about his debut album; a review of eco-horror film The Bay; the comedy of Beppe Grillo. Show more
Elizabeth Jane Howard's family saga, dramatised by Lin Coghlan. The Germans continue with their raids but Sybil must contend with an enemy even nearer to home. With Penelope Wilton. Show more
Has the government done enough to protect us from flooding? Allan Urry visits some of the worst hit parts of Britain to find out why they've been so badly hit by recent heavy rain. Show more
Why the RNIB thinks Work Capability Assessments are not suitable for visually impaired people, and how new facilities around the country will get us playing blind tennis. Show more
Inside Health
Clinical trials, Yellow cards, Chemo brain, Conduct Disorder
28 minutes
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Dr Mark Porter puts the pharmaceutical industry in the spotlight after clinical trials are criticised, and looks at if childhood adversity leads to structural changes in the brain. Show more
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry in the dark decades post-Chernobyl, and why nuclear power has to be part of our energy mix for the future. Show more
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Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and analysis. Europe jitters after Italy's general election produces a stalemate between the centre-right and centre-left. Show more
By Jami Attenberg. Bittersweet tragi-comedy about three generations of a Jewish family. Rachelle thinks her mother-in-law needs saving, and fast. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman. Show more
How trying to overcome her own depression convinced Susan that we all need to talk more. Strong opinions from February 2013. Show more
Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report as the government pledges to take 'profound steps' to deal with health tourism in Britain. Show more
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For a large proportion of people who are deaf, it is not a defect or pathology, but both a culture and an identity worth celebrating and defending. Read by Kerry Shale. Show more
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