The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Baroness Julia Neuberger, Rabbi of West London Synagogue. Show more
Farming Today
30/01/20 Raptor persecution and the approach of Brexit day
13 minutes
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Five of the main organisations representing shooting and countryside sports in England and Wales have signed a declaration to try and stamp out raptor persecution. Will it work? Show more
John Aitchison presents the lesser spotted woodpecker. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cleric, educator and poet from York who put learning for its own sake at the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance Show more
Woman's Hour
Breaking damaging relationship patterns, 50 years since the first women's liberation conference
45 minutes
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50 years since the first Women's Liberation conference; breastfeeding and coercive control in Uganda; and, breaking the pattern of damaging relationships. Show more
Colman and Sophie travel to Glasgow to interview people from Joss Moody's childhood - when Joss was a girl called Josephine. Jackie Kay's novel is dramatised by Tanika Gupta. Show more
How is China coping with the Coronavirus outbreak? Stephen McDonnell was recently in Hubei province where the disease was first identified and has been quarantined at home. Show more
Andrew McGibbon meets novelist Anthony Frewin who outed two of Stanley Kubrick's impersonators while working as the legendary director's assistant. Show more
By Robert Harris. When Fairfax is compelled to visit Lady Durston regarding Father Lacy’s death, he makes another astonishing discovery. Read by Michael Maloney. Show more
You and Yours
Mobile Phone Coverage, Hairdressing, Smelly Paint.
39 minutes
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Ending patchy mobile phone coverage. The success of hair and beauty salons on the high street. Complaints from people who claim a paint they've bought from B&Q smells of cat wee. Show more
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Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Japan - Revising the past
14 minutes
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Historian Priya Atwal explores the global pitfalls in telling textbook national history. Japan's 20th-century war, empire and conquest has often been a fault line at home & abroad. Show more
Kate’s idea looks set to cause ructions and Gavin continues to make his presence felt. Show more
Award-winning writer and actress Eve Steele stars in this emotional drama, penned by herself, about a mother reconnecting with her child. Show more
At Tintagel a new bridge restores an old route and more archaeological remains have been found but does marking King Arthur's story distract from the true Cornish history. Show more
Gail Porter makes the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Emmaus UK. Show more
Open Book
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, Ann Petry's The Street, gay love in 1980s Poland
28 minutes
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Jeanine Cummins on her powerful new novel American Dirt, Tayari Jones and Luan Goldie discuss Ann Petry's forgotten classic The Street, and Editors' Pick Swimming the Dark Show more
The Film Programme
Seamus McGarvey on A Matter Of Life And Death
28 minutes
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Seamus McGarvey on A Matter Of Life And Death. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
37 minutes
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The latest on the coronavirus outbreak; infamous asymptomatic disease carrier Typhoid Mary; and the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
30/01/2020 British nationals in Wuhan to be flown home
30 minutes
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A plane carrying British people who've been stranded in China by the coronavirus outbreak has been given permission to take off tonight.
Sara Pascoe, Jen Brister, Sally-Anne Hayward and Gearoid Farrelly decide who’s Average Jolene or Maverick Matilda. From 2019. Show more
Neil faces a dilemma and Jim defies expectations. Show more
Front Row
Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women
28 minutes
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Robert Pattinson on his new Oscar nominated film The Lighthouse, a black and white thriller about two lighthouse keepers. Plus Greta Gerwig on Little Women. Show more
Colman and Sophie travel to Glasgow to interview people from Joss Moody's childhood - when Joss was a girl called Josephine. Jackie Kay's novel is dramatised by Tanika Gupta. Show more
For the first time in decades the UK will now negotiate its own trade deals. David Aaronovitch explores our options and likely outcomes. Show more
Online will account for 50 per cent of retail within a decade - it is described as a consumer-led revolution. How will this change affect retailers? Show more
BBC Inside Science
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
37 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The latest on the coronavirus outbreak; infamous asymptomatic disease carrier Typhoid Mary; and the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cleric, educator and poet from York who put learning for its own sake at the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency.
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
By Robert Harris. When Fairfax is compelled to visit Lady Durston regarding Father Lacy’s death, he makes another astonishing discovery. Read by Michael Maloney. Show more
Ian and Chloe’s wedding day is here and Chloe’s estranged parents are testing patience. Stars Richard Herring. From 2019. Show more
Sean Curran and the team report from Westminster, where Labour says the government should not have welcomed President Trump's plan for the Middle East:
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Siobhan Redmond reads the late Deborah Orr's powerful memoir of a childhood in the Scottish steel town of Motherwell with a mother who didn't always mother well. Show more
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