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The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Janet Wootton. Show more
Farming and countryside news with Charlotte Smith. The future of one of Britain's most popular crags - Stannage Edge, in the Peak District National Park - will be decided today. Show more
Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the jay. Show more
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Sue MacGregor reunites five women who created Spare Rib, a brand new kind of women's magazine, which caught the spirit of the 1970's women's liberation movement. Show more
Woman's Hour
Margaret Hodge; Dame Margaret Drabble; Casting the larger actress; Peace activist Isabella Ford
45 minutes
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Margaret Hodge MP on being chair of the Public Accounts Committee; Dame Margaret Drabble and Black Country women; Casting the larger actress; Peace activist Isabella Ford. Show more
The Cartwright family gather to scatter their mother's ashes and find themselves throwing a party. Starring David Warner. Show more
Journey of a Lifetime
Episode 2: The River Wild
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Having survived the death-defying waterfall where we left him last week, Will finds time to observe a troupe of Diana monkeys close-up and catch his first fish of the journey. Show more
A school fundraiser proves unusually challenging for the three couples. Stars Jack Docherty and Fiona Allen. From 2013. Show more
Phone providers offer early upgrades more often. Why do we need them? Plus the cost of the high street cup of coffee, and what is meant by 'unreasonable behaviour' during divorce? Show more
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National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Bettany Hughes investigates ideas of justice, via ancient Babylon, today's scenes of protest and the office of the Lord Chief Justice. From September 2013. Show more
David is celebrating his birthday, and Eddie and Joe are enthusiastic participants. Show more
A woman is brought in for drink-driving. She is the wife of an old school friend of Frank's. She also has a black eye coming up. How did she get that? Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
Ness Botanic Gardens, Wirral
43 minutes
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Peter Gibbs is joined by Matt Biggs, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and James Wong to answer questions from a local audience at Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Spurred on by the Suffragettes, a tale of radicalism, lust and teenage fervour at an all girls' school. Read by Harriet Walter. Show more
Last Word
An RAF air marshal, a cancer care centre founder, a chocolate maker, a singer and a broadcaster
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss, cancer care centre founder Pat Pilkington, After Eight mint creator Brian Sollitt, singer Joan Regan and broadcaster Tom Vernon. Show more
Tim Harford asks if the evidence proves that free school meals improve children's classroom performance. Plus, how risky was 1970s motor-racing, as portrayed in the film Rush? Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Rory Bremner and regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Doody are joined by environmental journalist George Monbiot and author Mark Stevenson. Show more
Ian is the voice of reason, and Caroline doesn't feel relaxed for long. Show more
Front Row
BBC Short Story Award; Jack Vettriano retrospective; poet John Cooper Clarke
30 minutes
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John Wilson reveals the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013, reviews a major Jack Vettriano exhibition in Glasgow, and interviews punk poet John Cooper Clarke. Show more
The Cartwright family gather to scatter their mother's ashes and find themselves throwing a party. Starring David Warner. Show more
Any Questions?
Dominic Grieve, Sir Menzies Campbell, Emily Thornberry, Martin Lewis
48 minutes
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Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Sunninghill in Berkshire with Dominic Grieve MP, Emily Thornberry MP, Martin Lewis and Sir Menzies Campbell. Show more
A Point of View
AL Kennedy: Someone to Watch Over Me
10 minutes
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AL Kennedy reflects on our tendency to behave badly when we think no-one is looking, or when we follow the wrong crowd. Show more
Adam Fould adapts his poem about a white family caught up in the Mau Mau time in 1950s Kenya. Tom comes home for his last holiday before university and acquires a taste for blood. Show more
The Listening Project
Lyn and Mary - Where Do We Go Now?
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Fi Glover introduces a startlingly honest conversation: Civil partners for nine years, Lyn and Mary reconsider their relationship, after Lyn served six weeks for drink-driving. Show more
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Thomas is set up with a new job which seems suspiciously easy to secure. Read by Tim McInnerny. From September 2013. Show more
TV presenter Konnie Huq chooses the mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace. With Matthew Parris. From 2013. Show more
Matthew Sweet looks at historic wrongs. Can we blame people in the past who held views that we now regard as abhorrent? Featuring philosopher Miranda Fricker. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Book of the Week
Sandra Hempel - The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
Episode 5
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
A real-life murder mystery from 1833 reveals the fear surrounding arsenic poisoning in Victorian Britain, and the hunt for a test to prove it. Show more
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