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When a carefully ordered life stops making sense, Matthew Syed asks whether the absurd is an occasional intruder or the hidden force shaping the world we live in.

Podcasting has made some people famous very fast. Look closely at how they got there, and you see something revealing about the world we now live in. Jamie Bartlett investigates.

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

What's behind the growing schism within the Make America Great Again coalition.

Mikhail Gorbachev was named the Soviet Union's new leader, Britain's first daily newspaper began publication, and Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators.

How spies sold the idea of threat from weapons of mass destruction.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

News and discussion of consumer affairs.

The latest weather forecast.

News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.

Clement Atlee's motor car. Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object or prop can come to define a political leader.

George gets a shock, and Josh is very low.

Pressure cooker drama set over one busy night shift in an understaffed, overworked Liverpool housing association call centre.

Conversation about the laws making headlines, and the laws that shape everyday life.

For generations, The Newfoundland Curse has caused young, seemingly healthy men to die suddenly. Can research stop this genetic mutation that's terrorised families for centuries.

Who's in the news for all the wrong reasons? With David Yelland and Simon Lewis.

Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.

News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Angela Barnes travels the UK to bring you the best stand-up acts from all across the country.

Brian meddles in his children's lives, and Ben and Azra have a plan.

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

Jim Ashworth-Beaumont spent years helping people adapt to life with artificial limbs and musculoskeletal supports - before a near-fatal accident left him relying on both.

Health Magazine show.

In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective.

3/5. Kayleigh Cooper, a 30-something London millennial, tries a more traditional route of introduction in her search for the perfect match. The recommendation of a friend.

4/6. In what Slim calls 'the sweet and sour' decade of his life, he tells of how he balanced making audiences laugh, and caring for his elderly father.

Stand-up comedian Aurie Styla takes an autobiographical look at technology history, through his own experience as a self-confessed tech nerd growing up in the 90s.

News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.