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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Frank Sellar. Show more
'It's hard to give up on your voice' - an iPM listener and her ten-year-old daughter, who has cerebral palsy, talk about what it is like to talk through a computer. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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Clare Balding walks a section of the West Highland Way, north from Balmaha, with twin sisters Pauline Walker and Fiona Rennie. Show more
Charlotte Smith fights rural crime, from hare coursing to tractor thefts. Is it time for country dwellers to protect themselves? Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and James Naughtie, including GCHQ 'snooping' allegations, plus Amr Moussa on Syria, and the art of worm charming. Show more
Saturday Live
Viv Groskop's comedy marathon; Paul Nicholas's Inheritance Tracks
1 hour, 28 minutes
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Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer and comedian Viv Groskop, the Inheritance Tracks of actor Paul Nicholas and author Sara Wheeler's first attempt to learn Russian. Show more
Will Gompertz meets Martin Mills, co-founder and co-owner of independent music powerhouse the Beggars Group. Show more
Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Show more
There's something still splendid about air travel, plus correspondents' despatches from Russia, Turkey, South Africa and Egypt, presented by Kate Adie. Show more
Money Box
State Pension loss for part timers; concern over guarantor loans; Co-Op bondholders
30 minutes
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The latest news from the world of personal finance. Presented by Paul Lewis.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Marcus Brigstocke and Pippa Evans for a comic scramble through the week's news. Show more
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Any Questions?
Alistair Burt, Oona King, Bronwen Maddox, Joan Smith
48 minutes
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Jonathan Dimbleby presents live political debate and discussion from Purley in Croydon, with Bronwen Maddox, Alistair Burt MP, Joan Smith and Baroness Oona King. Show more
Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Would you welcome Turkey joining the EU? Show more
4 Extra Debut. Composer Will Byrd is charged with coding papist messages in the music of the Chapel Royal. Stars Simon Russell Beale. Show more
Acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscripts of George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad song settings and orchestral rhapsody. Show more
Jenni Murray conducts the BBC Philharmonic. Feminist writing. Women and non-custodial sentences. Civil rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa. Folk music and female friendships. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news.
Food company CEOs tell Evan Davis how they balance demand for locally sourced produce with consumers' taste for something exotic. Show more
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Loose Ends
Grayson Perry, Simon Russell Beale, Ruth Goodman, Jen Brister, Scottee, Tom Odell, JP Cooper
45 minutes
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Clive Anderson is joined by Grayson Perry, Simon Russell Beale, Ruth Goodman, Jen Brister, Scottee, Tom Odell and JP Cooper for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
As the G8 pledges to make international tax affairs more transparent, poets Kate Fox and Salena Godden take a satirical look at that stuff which makes the world go around. Show more
Saturday Review
Conor McPherson's play The Night Alive; new film Before Midnight
45 minutes
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Conor McPherson's new play The Night Alive opens at the Donmar Warehouse, and Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke reunite for Before Midnight. Show more
Susannah Clapp talks to authors born in the late 1940s and early 1950s - the last to grow up in the radio age - about what they listened to on the wireless. From June 2013. Show more
JG Ballard's story of a scientific mission surveying drowned cities. This is a future where the Earth's atmosphere, and human consciousness, has eroded. Adapted by Graham White. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Combative debate chaired by Michael Buerk examining the moral issues behind pornography and the internet. With Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. Show more
Paul Gambaccini chairs heat seven of the general knowledge music quiz, with competitors from London, Oxfordshire and Hampshire. Show more
Roger McGough presents poems to make you glad to be awake, alive and not in prison, by South Korean poet Kim Kwang-kyu, Polish poet Piotr Kniecicki and Turkish poet Nazim Hikment. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Written in 1934, the strange story of a young girl's visit to a northern dance hall. Why doesn't she want to dance? And why is she nervous? Read by Moira Quirk. Show more
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