BBC Radio Programmes A to Z - W

Wah Yan Jee Sing

The Wah Yan Jee Sing team bring you the latest on health and social issues in Cantonese

BBC Radio Ulster

Waiting for Independence Day

As Scotland awaits a referendum on Independence, what has Quebec's experience been?

BBC Radio 4

Wake Up to Money

News and insight from the business world

BBC Radio 5 live

Wales and Everest

Documentary exploring the link between Wales and the highest mountain in the world.

BBC Radio Wales

Wales at Work

Programme covering the world of work, debunking jargon and talking about business

BBC Radio Wales

Walk Right Back

Steve Line presents a mix of music and chat

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Walking on Planet C

After a cancer diagnosis, musician Nile Rodgers walks the streets of New York.

BBC Radio 4

Wally Webb

The early show for the East, including the early years, sport, travel, weather and music.

BBC Radio Norfolk

The Walpole Chronicle

Eric Robson asks why the bestselling author Hugh Walpole has been forgotten.

BBC Radio 4

The War Brides Return

Testimony from the women who sailed across the Atlantic to join their servicemen husbands.

BBC Radio 4

The War of the Whales

Roz Kidman Cox looks at the continuing conflict over the pursuit of whales

BBC Radio 4

The War over Syria

Barbara Plett examines how the Syria conflict could shape the future of the Middle East.

BBC Radio 4

Warding of the Germs

Winifred Robinson investigates what more could be done to prevent infections in hospitals

BBC Radio 4

Was Dracula Irish?

Irish novelist Patrick McCabe explores the Irish influences on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

BBC Radio 4

Was Gertrude Stein Any Good?

I am a genius. Gertrude Stein. A genius. A genius. I. Gertrude Stein. Am I a genius?

BBC Radio 4

Wasting Away in the Outback

The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.

BBC Radio 4

The Wedding Gold Thefts

The high price of gold has led to Asians being targeted for their wedding jewellery.

BBC Radio 4

Week in Westminster

Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster

BBC Radio 4

Weekend

A review of the week with the latest news.

BBC World Service

Weekend Breakfast

The big sports stories, news and weather plus previews of the weekend's sporting events

BBC Radio 5 live

Weekend Extra

The weekend begins. Kerry McLean presents fun guests and fantastic tunes to start the day.

BBC Radio Ulster

Weekend Kick-Off

All the latest from Reading FC ahead of this weekend's matches.

BBC Radio Berkshire

The Weekend News

News, entertainment updates and sport, plus a look at what's making the next day's papers

BBC Radio 5 live

Weekend Sports Preview

A look ahead to the weekend's sporting action in North Yorkshire.

BBC Radio York

Weekend Wogan

Weekend Wogan returns to Sunday mornings, broadcasting live from Radio 2's Western House

BBC Radio 2

Welsh's Scottish Journey

Louise Welsh updates the 1930s trail blazed round Scotland by Orkney poet Edwin Muir

BBC Radio 4

Wes Butters

Join Wes Butters on BBC Radio Leeds.

BBC Radio Leeds

The West Midlands Football Phone-In

Have your say on Blues, Baggies, Aston Villa, Wolves and Walsall

BBC WM

West Yorkshire Sport

Featuring local sports coverage.

BBC Radio Leeds

Westenders

Jonathan Parker and Carl Wheatley with show tunes and news from musical theatre land.

BBC Radio Humberside

Westminster Hour

Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme

BBC Radio 4

Westwood

Hot joints from the Big Dawg.

BBC Radio 1Xtra

What Are the Police For?

Mark Easton asks what the UK public wants from its police force

BBC Radio 4

What Does Ed Miliband Really Think?

Steve Richards talks to Ed Miliband, his friends and critics about his political ideas.

BBC Radio 4

What Happened at Copenhagen?

A year after the Copenhagen climate summit, Roger Harrabin explores what really happened.

BBC Radio 4

What If...

A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.

BBC World Service

What Thatcher Did Next

Elinor Goodman explores Margaret Thatcher's life after she ceased to be prime minister.

BBC Radio 4

What the Papers Say

The country's leading political journalists analyse the newspapers

BBC Radio 4

What the Scandinavians Know about Children's Literature

Mariella Frostrup looks at Scandinavian children's literature.

BBC Radio 4

What's Eating the Museum?

The battle to save museum collections from insect pests.

BBC Radio 4

What's in a Name?

Sangita Myska with a witty and insightful exploration of names in contemporary Britain.

BBC Radio 4

What's the Benefit?

Tom Heap aims to get behind the tabloid headlines on the UK's unemployed

BBC Radio 4

What's the Point of ...

Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought-provoking look at some great British institutions

BBC Radio 4

When Hollywood Met Halifax

Liza Tarbuck discovers how Jayne Mansfield shook up the northern club scene in 1967.

BBC Radio 4

When Washington Came to Brum

How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham.

BBC Radio 4

Where Did All the Comrades Go?

How the Communist Party's money and ideas influenced British politics after its collapse.

BBC Radio 4

Whispers

Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz about scandal, gossip and slander

BBC Radio 4 Extra

The White Lady

Two sisters, one lover and a haunting tale; The White Lady is a new show.

BBC Radio Devon

Who Found Machu Picchu?

Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.

BBC Radio 4

Who Goes First?

Richard Uridge explores the pros and cons of self-experimentation by medical researchers.

BBC Radio 4

Who Killed the Cockney Sparrer?

Nature detective Tom Heap investigates who, or what, is killing the common sparrow.

BBC Radio 4

Who Needs Scientists?

Mark Miodownik challenges the conventional wisdom that more scientists are essential.

BBC Radio 4

Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister?

How children conceived through a sperm donor can make contact with their half-siblings.

BBC Radio 4

Who's the Pest?

Entomologist Erica McAlister takes listeners on an adventure in insect world

BBC Radio 4

Whose Health Is It Anyway?

Barbara Myers examines the health trainers initiative.

BBC Radio 4

The Why Factor

Why do we do the things we do? Join Mike Williams in this new series.

BBC World Service

Wil Morgan

Wil Morgan gyda cheisiadau nos Sadwrn. Wil Morgan plays late-night requests from listeners

BBC Radio Cymru

Wild Arabia: The Natural History of the Middle East

Tessa McGregor explores the natural history of the Middle East

BBC Radio 4

Will Gompertz

Join Will Gompertz on BBC Oxford.

BBC Oxford

William Wright

All the news, travel, weather and sport served up with a distinctive Lincolnshire flavour.

BBC Lincolnshire

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys

Barbara Windsor tells the story of the popular variety act Wilson, Keppel and Betty.

BBC Radio 4

Wind Down Zone

Music to help you unwind.

BBC Guernsey

Wireless Nights

Jarvis Cocker explores the human condition after dark, with stories of night people

BBC Radio 4

With us or against us

The story of the coalition set up following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

BBC Radio 4

Witness

Series looking at key events in history, as told by the people who were there

BBC Radio 4

Witness

The stories of our times told by the people who were there.

BBC World Service

Woman's Hour

The programme that offers a female perspective on the world

BBC Radio 4

The Wonder Cure?

Matthew Hill investigates the drug Champix and its possible links to psychiatric illness.

BBC Radio 4

Word of Mouth

Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them

BBC Radio 4

Wordaholics

Comedy panel game all about words, hosted by Gyles Brandreth

BBC Radio 4

Words and Music

A sequence of classical music mixed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose

BBC Radio 3

Words to Wine

Walter Love talks to Alan Brady, Ulster journalist turned acclaimed New Zealand winemaker.

BBC Radio Ulster

World at One

Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Martha Kearney

BBC Radio 4

World Book Club

World Book Club invites the globe's great authors to discuss their best known novel.

BBC World Service

World Business Report

World Business Report provides analysis of the big global business and economic issues.

BBC World Service

The World Cup for Writers

Joe Dunthorne's England Writers Football Team plays against the Scotland Writers Team.

BBC Radio 4

World Cup, Have Your Say

BBC World Service

The World Debate

The programme that puts the important questions to those in the spotlight.

BBC World Service

World Football

A look at what's happening in the world's most popular sport with World Football.

BBC World Service

World Have Your Say

The global news programme where you set the agenda.

BBC World Service

World Heritage: Curse or Blessing?

Emily Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for good or ill.

BBC Radio 4

The World in His Ear

Philip Sweeney finds out about the pioneering composer of African Sanctus David Fanshawe.

BBC Radio 4

World on 3

Radio 3's world music programme

BBC Radio 3

World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations

Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet

BBC Radio 4

World Routes

Explore music from around the world, with presenter Lucy Duran.

BBC Radio 3

The World This Weekend

Shaun Ley looks at the week's big stories and previews the week to come

BBC Radio 4

The World Today Weekend

* This programme is no longer on-air but please listen to our archive of episodes online *

BBC World Service

The World Tonight

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

BBC Radio 4

World Update

The latest breaking stories, features and business news from around the world.

BBC World Service

Wrestling with Words

Exploring the process of speaking and the causes of stammering.

BBC Radio 4