BBC Radio 4 Podcasts

Mehdi Hasan looks at how the papers covered bankers bonuses & beleaguered politicians.

Christopher has money matters on his mind. Meanwhile Brian craves a quiet life.

Art Spiegelman talks to James Naughtie and readers about his graphic novel Maus, the story of his father's life in Poland during the war and his survival of Auschwitz.

The inside story of the Euro crisis. In "Europe's Choice", Allan Little examines how the rules governing the nascent single currency were broken from the start.

Olympic medallist Denise Lewis is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

Joe tackles some DIY. Meanwhile Ruth feels betrayed.

As the UK freezes, polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks about cold baths. We hear how a Falkland Islander became an Argentine and how knights lost their spurs. And reviewing the Sunday papers: ocean rower Roz Savage, Anastasia De Waal of the social policy think tank Civitas and the Singing Detective star Bill Paterson.

Miranda Krestovnikoff visits the Brecon Beacons where she explores the watery world of the dipper, a bird shaped by the rivers on which it depends. Producer: Brett Westwood

A conference on clerical abuse is being held in Rome and supported by the Vatican…we find out what the Catholic church hopes to can learn from this.A World Vision report says we are all complicit in today’s trade in children, its author explains how The Church of England is formally giving its blessing to a growing number of communities which are inspired by monastic ideals. Trevor Barnes has a report. Iran is celebrating the 34th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution at a turbulent moment in its history. Adverts have appeared for a new Chief Rabbi, Ruth Gledhill of the Times discuses who might be in the running. Charles Dickens bicentennial is celebrated this week, we discuss his understanding of religion. And ahead of this week’s church of England synod, the issue of gay marriage comes under scrutiny again.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Natalie Haynes and Terence Blacker and anthropologist Kit Davis review the week's cultural highlights including Sean Durkin's film Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Joanna Trollope on the lot of the modern forces’ wife. What more can be done to safeguard the lives of children in custody - we talk to the father of a 17 year old who took his life while serving a 6 month sentence. Virginia Ironside ponders the joys of life after sixty. Toyah Wilcox discusses what punk did for women in the music industry. And should Woman’s Hour be doing cooking and recipes?

Pensioners diddled by annuities; new staff pay for checks; investment fund costs and problems for eBay sellers.

After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines finding out!

A week in which public trust in bankers and politicians is put to the test.

A lecture to be delivered at the Watershed in Bristol today, by the cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling, is to look at the Spaghetti Westerns which transformed movie music. Sir Christopher Frayling and Debbie Wiseman, a film composer, analyse the future of music in film.

Is the moral outrage against bankers justified? Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and the chief executive of the British Bankers' Association Angela Knight discuss.

Richard Coles in Leicester with journalist, broadcaster and political aide Alastair Campbell, songwriter and comedian Mitch Benn, 1970's popsters Showaddywaddy, Ugandan Asian exile Nisha Popat who came to Leicester in 1972, International Rescue fireman Ian Holden who helped out after the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand a year ago and fitness guru and Dancing on Ice star Rosemary Conley's Inheritance Tracks.

What needs to be done to help elderly people get through the winter? Reporter Nicola Stanbridge speaks to Nancy, a 89-year-old who is fighting the cold without the aid of central heating. And Mervyn Kohler, an advisor to Age UK, explains what can be done to save lives.

Charlotte Smith is at a farm with one farmer but 8,000 landlords to investigate why the price of UK farm land has bucked the trend and doubled over the past five years.

iPM:'It's never too late to re-train.'In response to last week's interviewee, a man struggling with self-emloyment, we discuss his benefit entitlements and hear from listeners who are sympathetic to his plight. One listener describes how he changed careers in his sixties and has never looked back.