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4 Extra Debut. David Owen Norris explores Jane Austen's life through her favourite songs. With singer Gwyneth Herbert. From January 2010. Show more
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Sheila Dillon takes an irreverent look at baking, and the connection between baking and being a Good Wife and Mother. Show more
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For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates the Wild Boar Feast, an ancient Viking tradition which still survives in Britain. Show more
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Sheila Dillon travels to Loch Fyne to see how this rural Scottish community has preserved its food traditions. Show more
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Sheila Dillon visits food businesses round Belfast to explore the thriving new food culture of Northern Ireland. Show more
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Investigating every aspect of the food we eat. Sheila Dillon explores our national passion for crisps, 200 years since they were invented. Show more
Masih forms an underground political book group and begins to publish secret pamphlets calling for greater freedom in Iranian society - a dangerous occupation. Show more
Masih is still a teenager when she has to face the horror of an Iranian gaol, and separation from her fiance. Show more
A philosophical meditation on 21st-century reality, inspired by the death of the author Laurence Scott's parents. Read by Stephen Mangan. Show more
Bereavement forces you to consider how much things matter. The second episode of Laurence Scott's philosophical memoir. Read by Stephen Mangan. Show more
Stephen Mangan reads the third episode of Laurence Scott's moving philosophical memoir. Today - we are all photographers now. Show more
Masih Alinejad's account of her upbringing under the shadow of the Islamic Revolution. Today, she begins to rebel against the rules that she and other girls must follow in Iran. Show more
Masih is exiled during the Iranian election of 2009 and starts an online liberation movement opposing compulsory wearing of the hijab. Show more
Stephen Mangan reads the fourth episode of Laurence Scott's philosophical memoir. Today: how are you feeling? Show more
Stephen Mangan reads the final episode of Laurence Scott's philosophical memoir. Today - obsessive personal accounting. Show more
Masih begins a new career as a political journalist in Iran, exposing corruption in Iranian politics. Meanwhile, she faces divorce and losing custody of her son. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Sheila Dillon explores the history, and current fashionability, of porridge. Show more
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Sheila Dillon celebrates the power of food to comfort us in hard times: a feast of dumplings, marshmallows, chicken soup, fried chicken - and curried goat. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
4 Extra Debut. Samuel Pepys - diarist, politician and womaniser - as revealed in his favourite songs and reimagined by David Owen Norris. Show more
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Is Prince a feminist icon? The highs and lows of a shopping trip with your mum. And Vicki Wickham, music pioneer and editor of the iconic British music TV show Ready Steady Go! Show more
