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Saturday Live

From the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Your extraordinary stories from across the Commonwealth. Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are in Glasgow with the Queen's baton bearer Mark Beaumont to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Beaumont
Interviewed Guest:
Professor Geoff Palmer
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Martin
Interviewed Guest:
David Watson
Interviewed Guest:
Hamish Khayat
Interviewed Guest:
Damian Barr
Producer:
Alex Lewis

The News Quiz

Series 84

Episode 8

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest panellists Susan Calman, Bob Mills and Katherine Ryan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandi Toksvig
Panellist:
Jeremy Hardy
Panellist:
Susan Calman
Panellist:
Bob Mills
Panellist:
Katherine Ryan

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Duration: 57 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 2 months

Louise Wener (Sleeper) and Roy Boulter (The Farm) combine to tell the story of all-girl band Velveteens. Music business drama set in 1988 starring Shane Richie and Hannah Arterton. Show more

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: 80-year-old stand-up comic Lynne Ruth Miller.

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The octogenarian stand-up comic performing at the 2014 Fringe, being a young cancer survivor and breaking the cycle of having your babies taken into care. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Humphreys
Interviewed Guest:
Heather Alderson
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Coughlin
Interviewed Guest:
Brian Wilton
Interviewed Guest:
Amber Jane Butchart
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Davis
Interviewed Guest:
Cordelia Feldman
Interviewed Guest:
Lynn Ruth Miller

Saturday Review

Medea, Joe, Our World War, DBC Pierre, Imperial War Museum

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Medea at The National, Nicholas Cage's new film Joe, BBC WWI series Our World War, DBC Pierre's novel Breakfast with the Borgias, Imperial War Museum's multi-million pound refit. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Oliver Jones
Interviewed Guest:
James Walton
Interviewed Guest:
Susan Jeffreys
Interviewed Guest:
Kit Davies

Classic Serial

By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North West Frontier

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Michael Eaton. 4 Extra Debut. Winston Churchill's 1897 adventure as a war correspondent in the hostile Afghan-Pakistani border mountains. Stars Douglas Booth. Show more

Contributors

Railway Clerk:
Abdullah Afzal
Sikh Soldier:
Abdullah Afzal
Browne-Clayton:
Jonathan Bailey
Cpt of the 35th:
Jonathan Bailey
Winston Churchill:
Douglas Booth
Sir Bindon Blood:
Kenneth Cranham
Colonel Goldney:
Kenneth Cranham
Buffs Sergeant:
Kenneth Cranham
Major Deane:
Stephen Critchlow
Jennie Churchill:
Lorelei King
Duchess Lilly:
Lorelei King
Colonel Ramsey:
Toby Longworth
Staff Officer:
Toby Longworth
Auctioneer:
Toby Longworth
Beresford:
Toby Longworth
Director:
Dirk Maggs
Producer:
David Morley

Inside the Ethics Committee

Series 10

Episode 2: Organ Donation and Newborn Babies

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Elizabeth and Kenny are expecting a baby with a fatal abnormality. He will die before, or soon after, birth. Under what circumstances can they donate his organs after his death? Show more

BBC Radio 4 LW

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