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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Amanda Khozi Mukwashi. Show more
National Parks are nearly 70 years old - Farming Today explores their future. A mini-farm that has become a special school, and new enforcers to stop slurry polluting Welsh rivers. Show more
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Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the common sandpiper. Show more
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Start the Week
Shame, Status and Self-invention
43 minutes
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Amol Rajan with former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, French sociologist Didier Eribon, author Miranda France and director Timothy Sheader. Show more
4 Extra Debut. The birth of surrealism in this racy, rackety Paris quarter: Pablo Picasso moves to Montparnasse. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman. Show more
The Truth Project has been established to begin a national conversation about child sexual abuse. Today we hear from those involved. Show more
Val McDermid's crime series, starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Jane Hazlegrove, returns to Cranby, where it seems losing weight really can be murder! Written by Shelley Silas. Show more
Grace Dent presents a series documenting the untold dramas of 21st-century Britain. Show more
England, 1952. Brian Nylon finds time is behaving very oddly. Can Professor Quanderhorn help? Stars Ryan Sampson. From 2018. Show more
On this day in 1918, the term 'Spanish Influenza' was recorded for the first time, while at Staverley Court, Hector is sick and tired of his son's elusive correspondence. Show more
You and Yours
Garden waste charges, Buy-to-let, Grocery code
45 minutes
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The walls have ears - and eyes: the new development that checks on residents' health. Plus why the big rise in councils charging to collect garden waste?
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When a new deadly disease, lung cancer, began to grip the nation, the NHS was forced to consider its role - should it just treat the illnesses of its patients, or prevent them too? Show more
Lilian makes a mistake, and Pat is on the warpath.
Toby Jones stars as Joseph Olinska - gangster turned MP - achieving success by any means. It's the 1980s and his stepson Brian Oldman is back in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Show more
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as students from Newcastle University take on their professors. From June 2018. Show more
The Food Programme
What's Eating The Restaurant Trade?
30 minutes
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The restaurant trade is in trouble with many small and large chains closing their doors. Grace Dent asks restaurateurs and food critics what is going wrong. Show more
Documentary. In the light of the film Black Panther, Emma Dabiri explores the resurgence of Afrofuturism in arts and in music, from Sun Ra to the syncopated beats of Jungle. Show more
Can technology help tether or untether us from the self? Aleks asks how important the body and mind are in creating a sense of self and how technology can adapt to this. Show more
Six O'Clock News
25/06/2018 Grenfell fire chief 'untrained' in high-rise evacuation
30 minutes
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Michael Dowden tells the public inquiry into the blaze he was 'out of his comfort zone'
Radio 4's antidote to panel games sees regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer joined on the panel by Tony Hawks and Caroline Quentin plus Jack Dee in the chair. Show more
Tom looks to the future, and David needs a favour. Show more
Front Row
Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer
30 minutes
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John and Roger Taylor on 40 years of Duran Duran, the Bradford Literature Festival, Brian Clarke, a stained-glass artist on working with light, and poet Alison Brackenbury. Show more
Val McDermid's crime series, starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Jane Hazlegrove, returns to Cranby, where it seems losing weight really can be murder! Written by Shelley Silas. Show more
Iain Watson looks at how the Labour party is changing across the country. Show more
Can the Big Four - Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple - be reined in, forced to play by the rules society sets, rather than imposing their own rules on society? Show more
Why is the age range 16-25 such a crucial time for mental health? Sally Marlow investigates. Show more
Start the Week
Shame, Status and Self-invention
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Amol Rajan with former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, French sociologist Didier Eribon, author Miranda France and director Timothy Sheader. Show more
The World Tonight
President Erdogan returned to power in Turkey for 5 more years
45 minutes
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EU says the campaign was skewed in Mr Erdogan's favour. Show more
As winter approaches, the library roof remains unfixed and a friendship is about to cross a line forever. Read by Barbara Flynn. Show more
When is a gentleman's urinal not a urinal? When its a work of art. 100 years after Duchamp's created Fountain, Steve Punt wonders whether it was actually by someone else. Show more
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as MPs approve a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. The birth of surrealism in this racy, rackety Paris quarter: Pablo Picasso moves to Montparnasse. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman. Show more
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