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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day from the Greenbelt Festival, with Julie Siddiqi. Show more
Farming Today
Dairy nutrition, PMQs, International tractor auction, E coli O157, Seaweed harvesting
13 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FM
Farming Today hears about the nutrition of dairy products and asks if it is just the older generation now drinking milk. Show more
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Yellow-Browed Warbler. Show more
The Matter of the North
Episode 9: The 20th-Century North
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Melvyn Bragg explores the north's radical impact on 20th-century culture. Show more
Beulah Garner explores the life of the pioneering entomologist, Evelyn Cheesman. From October 2015. Show more
Woman's Hour
Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, Novelist Eimear McBride
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Two-time Olympic gold medal winning boxer Nicola Adams, Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, on her new novel, 150 years of Barnardos, and new zika advice. Show more
Sam has a visit from Christopher Wren, and learns of the death of an old friend, Robert Hooke, who played a key role in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. Show more
David Baker travels to Israel to meet the new breed of high-tech Haredim. How do they reconcile taking part in the so-called Start-up Nation with traditional Torah life? Show more
Antony Gormley challenges the mission of the British Museum. If it is truly a museum of the world for the world, where is Oceania or the Americas? Why is Africa in the basement? Show more
The Daily Mirror features amputee soldiers fitted with new limbs, and Dennis Monk tries to re-enter Folkestone life. Show more
You and Yours
Minimum hour contracts, Cat cafes, Antibiotics in farming
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
New statistics on zero hour contracts. Are staff on zero and minimum hours having their employment rights protected? And cappuccinos with kitty - we visit a cat cafe. Show more
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Analysis of news and current affairs.
Paul Howard-Jones looks at the links between knowledge and conflict and visits the Talheim death pit in Germany, perhaps the earliest evidence of organized violence found in Europe. Show more
Contemporary drama in a rural setting. Helen is challenged, and Pat is determined to show her support. Show more
Geoff is a busy pest control technician. Then Mystic June tells him something to alter his life. Stars Julian Lewis Jones. Show more
Open Country
Bellaghy - Seamus Heaney's Homeplace
25 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Poet Seamus Heaney is Bellaghy's most famous son, Helen Mark discovers the place that he wrote about and meets the people who live there today. Show more
Amanda Mealing makes an appeal on behalf of Breast Cancer Care. Show more
American novelist Don DeLillo gives an account of writing his modern masterpiece Underworld. With James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more
The Film Programme
Kubo And The Two Strings, Hell Or High Water
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The spirit of Ray Harryhausen is invoked in a new stop-motion animation Kubo And The Two Strings, which boasts the largest stop-motion puppet in animation history. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Microbead impact, Remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Following the government ban on micro plastics in personal beauty products that end up in the oceans, Gareth Mitchell assesses the real impact of minuscule plastic on marine life. Show more
Six O'Clock News
08/09/2016 New grammar schools 'not a return to past'
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The government has insisted its grammar school plans are 'not a return to the past'.
Tom's Dad offers some unwanted assistance. The trials and tribulations of the Wrigglesworth clan, with Paul Copley. From 2016. Show more
Ian makes a quick exit, and Shula grows increasingly uncomfortable. Show more
Front Row
Sharon Maguire, Liz Carr, Ann Patchett
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Actor and activist Liz Carr on her new show Assisted Suicide: The Musical, director Sharon Maguire on the return of Bridget Jones, and Ann Patchett on her new novel, Commonwealth. Show more
Sam has a visit from Christopher Wren, and learns of the death of an old friend, Robert Hooke, who played a key role in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. Show more
The Briefing Room
Trotsky, Trotskyism and Trotskyites
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
With accusations of Trotskyists taking over the Labour Party by stealth, who was Trotsky and what is his legacy? Show more
In Business
Making Babies: The Business of Fertility
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Matthew Gwyther looks at the multi-billion pound fertility business, which is booming both in the UK and globally. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Microbead impact, Remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Following the government ban on micro plastics in personal beauty products that end up in the oceans, Gareth Mitchell assesses the real impact of minuscule plastic on marine life. Show more
The Matter of the North
Episode 9: The 20th-Century North
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Melvyn Bragg explores the north's radical impact on 20th-century culture. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The World Tonight
Eastern European states set out their post-Brexit demands
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Eastern Europeans countries say they will press for treaty change at next week's summit. Show more
Craving independence and frustrated with her dysfunctional family, 15-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job at Paradise Lodge, a nursing home for the elderly. Show more
Victoria Coren Mitchell dares Miles Jupp, Sue Perkins and Richard Osman to commit heresy. From June 2013. Show more
Sean Curran reports from Westminster on grammar school plans. Show more
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When Beryl met Alan. Brendan King’s biography of novelist Beryl Bainbridge is read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond. Show more
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