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The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Tibetan Buddhist, writer and editor Alison Murdoch. Show more
Farming Today
Flood update, Mental health awareness, Academic Archers conference
13 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Farming news. Two and a half months after floods devastated large parts of Cumbria, Caz Graham goes to meet a dairy farmer who is slowly trying to get his farm back on track. Show more
Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the great spotted woodpecker. Show more
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Edward Stourton presents extracts from newly discovered letters that chart a deep 32-year friendship between Pope John Paul II and a married woman. Show more
A look at why the government has rejected MPs' calls to make sex-and-relationship education compulsory in all schools. Plus writer KM Peyton and gender theorist Kate Bornstein. Show more
Luke desperately wants to communicate with his comatose twin sister somehow. Moving family tale starring Tyger Drew-Honey. Show more
The Listening Project
Louise and Ivor - Negative Attitude
5 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Fi Glover with a conversation between a retired photographer and his daughter about the preservation of his archive of half a million negatives into the digital age. Show more
Verdun - The Sacred Wound
Episode 1: The Battle
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Verdun, 1916. For ten months, German and French troops died in equal numbers in an increasingly symbolic battle that neither side could be seen to lose. David Reynolds explores why. Show more
Hardacres, London's worst advertising agency, sets out to win back a whisky account it once had. Stars Nigel Havers. From 2015. Show more
Why do people shout on their mobile phones? Science sleuths Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford set out to uncover the truth. Show more
You and Yours
Charity call centres, Pay-day loans, Gardening
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Charities have been exposed for using commercial call centres to call elderly and vulnerable people. We speak to a former telephone fundraiser about the bad practices in her firm. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. Show more
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach has her first meeting with Jo, a new patient and an out-of-work actress. Show more
Pat gets some reassurance, and is Kirsty still feeling the romance of Valentine's Day? Show more
Mr Matekoni is on a quest for self-improvement while Mma Makutsi is hiding a secret from her best friend. Stars Claire Benedict. Show more
Money Box
Money Box Live: Is the Isa on its last legs?
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Louise Cooper and guests ask whether the Isa is on its last legs. Show more
Inside Health
E-cigarettes, Asherman's syndrome, Rugby
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
With Dr Mark Porter. The UK's first licensed e-cigarette, owned by a tobacco company, has been classed as a medicine. Robert West and Margaret McCartney debate the issues. Show more
Thinking Allowed
Museums and nationalism, Imagining utopias
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Laurie Taylor asks what can be learnt about nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions. Plus discussion on imagining utopias. Show more
The Media Show
Independent moves online, Editor-in-chief of Huffington Post UK, Genre-led divisions at the BBC
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
A look at the media world, including whether only being available online will secure the Independent's future and a comparison of channel-led v genre-led divisions at the BBC. Show more
Six O'Clock News
17/02/2016 Merkel backs Cameron
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says David Cameron's EU demands are justified.
Adventuring comedian, Tim and nemesis Alex Horne recreate a 19th century bet with a horse and a piece of paper. From 2015. Show more
Bert gets a proposition. And who is the mystery suitor? Show more
Front Row
Freeheld review, Anna Hope, Jack Garratt, Unexpected Eisenstein
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope on her new book, and singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt. Show more
Luke desperately wants to communicate with his comatose twin sister somehow. Moving family tale starring Tyger Drew-Honey. Show more
Combative, provocative and engaging debate on the topic of banning boycotts, chaired by Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox and Jill Kirby. Show more
The Rev Dr Emma Loveridge takes listeners to her own private wilderness, which she has created in east Devon to reflect on Jesus's 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. Show more
Tom Heap tells the story of coal, from Industrial Revolution to its apparent demise. As the world begins to fall out of love with coal, is it too early to write its obituary? Show more
Midweek
Rob Askins, Dr Dean Burnett, Mark Lockyer, Ellie Crossley
43 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Libby Purves talks to playwright Rob Askins, actor Mark Lockyer, neuroscientist and stand-up comedian Dean Burnett and cattle warden Ellie Crossley. Show more
The World Tonight
Ankara car bomb kills 28 people
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Featuring the latest from Ankara, where a car bomb has killed 28 people. Show more
Jonathan's working life is greatly improved by the arrival of a wise new office manager, Greeley. But then Julie floors him with a commercially sensible proposition. Show more
Scientists give machines judgement. More secrets of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution. With William Beck. From 2016. Show more
The funny, sad and bewildering interactions of a community psychiatric nurse's rounds. Stars Esther Coles. From March 2014. Show more
America in Black and White
The Future of Black America
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Rajini Vaidyanathan examines how black Americans are represented. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Franklin's achievements in the field of physics, and specifically that of electricity, have won him an international reputation. Show more
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