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Yesterday

London Bridge

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London Bridge
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By Nick Perry. In a dystopian future, London to the north of the Thames is a virtual police state and a lawless...

This Week

Zeitgeisters

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Zeitgeisters
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New series. BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz marks Radio 4's Year of Culture by meeting the entrepreneurs...

Born in Bradford

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Born in Bradford
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Winifred Robinson returns to Bradford for an update on one of the world's largest child-health studies, set up...

Radio 3 Live in Concert

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Aldeburgh Festival: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
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Live from Snape Maltings at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and...

Desert Island Discs

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Alexandra Shulman
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Alexandra Shulman, editor of the British edition of Vogue, talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight favourite...

Very British Dystopias

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Very British Dystopias
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Professor Steven Fielding examines bleak visions of the future lurking beneath the calm surface of British...

The Sleeper

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The Sleeper
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By Michael Symmons Roberts. The first in a season of dramas exploring contemporary interpretations of the...

Between the Ears

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Between the Ears: It's Just Where I Put My Words: A Voice Remembered
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Artist Sebastiane Hegarty explores voice, recording and memory in a sound portrait of his mother, who died in...

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

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The Testament of Jessie Lamb
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Written and dramatised by Jane Rogers. Thriller, set in a dystopian future, where an act of biological terrorism...

Sunday Concert

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Aldeburgh Festival
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Britten Sinfonia and soprano Sophie Bevan are conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival in...

This month

Tales from the Stave

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Appalachian Spring
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Frances Fyfield returns with another run of the programme that examines the creative process behind classical...

1913: The Year Before

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The Long Summer
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New series. Michael Portillo challenges the established historical view that, in the period immediately...

The First Time with Wilko Johnson

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The First Time with Wilko Johnson
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Matt Everitt meets Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, who discusses his life in music and ongoing battle with...

Oblique Strategies

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Oblique Strategies
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Simon Armitage explores the uses for the Oblique Strategies, sets of cards on which are printed abstract...

Disability: A New History

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The Only Dwarf in Liverpool
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New series. In Touch presenter Peter White examines the lives of physically disabled people in 18th and...

Ramblings

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Chilterns American Women's Club Hiking Group
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Clare Balding returns with a new schedule of walks, and in the first programme she joins the Chilterns American...

Unreliable Evidence

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Unreliable Evidence
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In the first instalment of a new run of the programme, Clive Anderson and a panel of senior judges, lawyers and...

Recycled Radio

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Power
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New series. The show made up of previously broadcast recordings returns, this time as a quartet of cultural...

Mastertapes

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Wilko Johnson (The B-Side)
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John Wilson presents as Wilko Johnson answers questions from a studio audience about Dr Feelgood's debut album...

Vertical Farming

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Vertical Farming
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As the population of the world increases, proponents of vertical farming believe growing food in cities would...

Wireless Nights

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The Darkest Hour
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Jarvis Cocker hears from horror-movie fans at Birmingham's Electric Cinema. He also learns about the National...

The First Time with Rod Stewart

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The First Time with Rod Stewart
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Matt Everitt talks to the veteran singer about his early passion for folk, soul and R'n'B music.

Britain in a Box

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Nationwide
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New series. Paul Jackson returns with the show exploring the origins of classic TV programmes, beginning with...

Living World

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Golden Pheasant
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New series. In the first of a new round of reports on Britain's countryside, Brett Westwood is joined by Paul...

File on 4

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File on 4
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Alan Urry investigates whether the NHS is able to cope with superbugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile,...

The Life Scientific

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The Life Scientific
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Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Nancy Rothwell about her research into obesity, her...

Don't Log Off

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Don't Log Off
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New series. Alan Dein returns as he discovers the real-life dramas behind people's social networking profiles,...

The Science of Music

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The Science of Music
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New series. Robert Winston explores human relationships with sound. The scientist assesses the mathematics of...

From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step

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From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step
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Anne Karpf revisits the parenting advice of Donald Winnicott, the pioneering psychoanalyst who made some 50...