The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
Church bells from St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe in Devon.
Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their users, not wait to be found. Show more
The latest national and international news.
Following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about the problem of hunger in the UK, Mark Tully considers social and personal attitudes towards poverty. Show more
Chris Packham relives programmes from the Living World archives. In this programme recorded in 2008, Lionel Kelleway is joined by roosting rooks. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Sunday
Portrait of a Bishop, Hollywood spotlight on Catholic sex abuse, 100 years since WWI conscription
44 minutes
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The Sunday morning religious news programme, presented by Caroline Wyatt, explores a portrait of a bishop, a review of the film Spotlight and 100 years since WWI conscription. Show more
Jon Snow presents an appeal on behalf of children's charity I CAN. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Tom Shakespeare is concerned by the growth in cosmetic surgery and the pressure more and more women and girls in particular feel to conform to a face and body type. Show more
Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona desert. Show more
Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell. Show more
The week's events in Ambridge.
Kirsty Young interviews publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
The Food Programme
Cardiff: The Story of a City through Its Food
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Sheila Dillon travels to Cardiff to hear the stories behind the city's food scene. She hears how its multicultural history is shaping the food and drink available today. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Global news and analysis.
David Cowling explores why opinion polls got the last general election result so badly wrong. Show more
Eric Robson and the panel answer gardening questions from Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire. The panellists are Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. Show more
Fi Glover introduces conversations from Northern Ireland, Jersey and Manchester about the beauty of the sea and the cost of academic success. Show more
Thomas More's classic work of fiction and political philosophy, published in 1516. Dramatised by poet Michael Symmons Roberts. Show more
Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Gail Jones, whose latest book, A Guide to Berlin, is about six characters who share a fascination with the works of Nabokov. Show more
Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by Robert Burns, Ben Okri and Gerard Manley Hopkins and readings by Sir Ian McKellan and Liz Lochhead. Show more
Simon Cox examines allegations of match-fixing in tennis and asks if the sport's governing bodies have done enough to investigate repeated warnings about cheating. Show more
Hardeep Singh Kohli's fictional response to the week's news imagines a future when a certain presidential candidate is flying into a private airfield in Scotland. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
Six O'Clock News
24/01/2016 UK may accept thousands of refugee children
15 minutes
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Government is considering calls to take unaccompanied children who've arrived in Europe. A clear up under way in the US after the giant snow storm.
Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights. Show more
Adam seems to have forgotten something. And who are locking horns at Bridge Farm? Show more
Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong side of life, with guests Graham Linehan, Matthew Crosby and Helen Zaltzman competing to suggest the best in bad ideas. Show more
In this amusing sonata of bizarre commands by the award-winning author Padgett Powell, three voices give seemingly random instructions to a soundtrack of American music. Show more
Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population? Show more
Last Word
Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on Glenn Frey of the Eagles, publisher Lord Weidenfeld, lesbian campaigner Jeanne Cordova, cinematographer Haskell Wexler, amateur conductor Gilbert Kaplan. Show more
Money Box
Bad news for drivers as car insurance soars
30 minutes
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Why the cost of car insurance is on the rise, what a cap on pensions exit fees really means and councils consulting on a support cut for the least well-off council tax payers. Show more
Jon Snow presents an appeal on behalf of children's charity I CAN. Show more
Norway is not a member of the European Union but does business with the EU. Is it a model for other countries? Jonty Bloom finds out. Show more
Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
Julia Hartley Brewer analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
True stories told live in the USA.
Tom Shakespeare is concerned by the growth in cosmetic surgery and the pressure more and more women and girls in particular feel to conform to a face and body type. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Thinking Allowed
Con Men in New York, Iconography of punishment
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Laurie Taylor reveals the little-known world of the urban hustler and looks at artistic depictions of punishment: how have they changed? Show more
Church bells from St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe in Devon.
The latest shipping forecast.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
