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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Rosa Hunt. Show more
Sybil Ruscoe finds out why Britain's Young Farmers' Clubs are facing a financial crisis. What will it mean for young people in the countryside? Show more
John Aitchison presents the long-eared owl. Show more
Reports from Westminster.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem Beowulf, one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature. Show more
Woman's Hour
Sexism in Football, Post-Adoption Breakdown, Desiree Akhavan
58 minutes
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Why sexism in football continues, post-adoption breakdown when children contact birth family, actor Desiree Akhavan, women in secret services and male feminists. With Jane Garvey. Show more
Burden neglects his duties as he becomes obsessed with Klara’s disappearance and he and Lisa grow closer. Stars David Caves. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Please Don't Kill My Boy
30 minutes
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Reports from writers and journalists around the world, including a wave of executions in Indonesia and despatches from Tunisia, Mexico, India and Senegal. Presented by Kate Adie. Show more
Writing a New South Africa
Episode 3: Cape Town: Place and Contested Space
30 minutes
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Performance poet Thabiso Mohare talks to writers and poets in Cape Town about place, contested space and the legacy of apartheid and slavery. Show more
Rosamund Marshall and Peter Samuel Lumley are welcomed into the church, but some of the congregation feel a lot less welcome. Show more
John Waite explores London's street gangs, simply part of life for thousands of teenagers, where violence, or its threat, is an everyday reality and sex is used as a weapon. Show more
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Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
Promises, Promises: A History of Debt
Episode 4: The Theology of Debt
15 minutes
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David Graeber considers how the world's great religions pepper their texts with the language of debt. From March 2015. Show more
Pip is trying to cope, and Charlie needs help. Show more
4 Extra Debut. The roving commissioner for local government, Mrs Joyce Pickwick, gets involved in a rubbish escapade. Stars Annette Badland. Show more
Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics, who have all suffered, as they put it, a 'cardiac event'. Show more
Mariella Frostrup presents an appeal on behalf of African Initiatives. Show more
Wilbur Smith discusses his novel When the Lion Feeds with James Naughtie and a group of readers.
The Film Programme
Chappie, Short films, Final films, Neil Brand on Morricone
28 minutes
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Francine Stock covers the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. With Chappie creator Neill Blomkamp, Neil Brand on Ennio Morricone, plus short films and final films. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres
30 minutes
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Adam Rutherford on new insights into how the brain encodes memory, and on the eve of Nasa's Dawn spacecraft arriving at Ceres, what can be expected as its 14-month orbit begins? Show more
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Ed Byrne hosts as Britain’s Hal Cruttenden and Zoe Lyons take on Henning Wehn and Tony Law from overseas. From 2015 Show more
David is having to wait, and Roy confides in Elizabeth. Show more
Front Row
Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with John Wilson
30 minutes
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John Wilson talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his new novel The Buried Giant and how his career as a writer was made possible by his unfulfilled dreams of being a singer-songwriter. Show more
Burden neglects his duties as he becomes obsessed with Klara’s disappearance and he and Lisa grow closer. Stars David Caves. Show more
The Report
Anti-Semitism in the UK: Is It Growing?
28 minutes
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Simon Cox investigates the changing face of prejudice against Jewish people after lethal attacks elsewhere in Europe. Show more
Some companies dominate the high street, the supermarket shelves and even the financial world then disappear from view. Evan Davis and guests explore their fortunes. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Adam Rutherford on new insights into how the brain encodes memory, and on the eve of Nasa's Dawn spacecraft arriving at Ceres, what can be expected as its 14-month orbit begins? Show more
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem Beowulf, one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The World Tonight
Cameron defends decision not to take part in head-to-head televised debate with Miliband
45 minutes
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Political opponents of the Prime Minister accuse him of "cowering from the public"
Axl and Beatrice continue their quest accompanied by the Saxon warrior and a young boy in peril. Read by David Suchet. Show more
Missing for six years, Brian has stories to tell. He relives his experiences in Hermicia. Stars Neil Pearson. From July 2012. Show more
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the row over the televised leaders' debates continues in the Commons. Show more
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Remission and cautious forays into a twilit world in Anna Lyndsey's account of a rare chronic illness. Read by Hattie Morahan. Show more
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