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Millions of tonnes of perfectly edible food is wasted on farms each year because of the way it looks. Could smart technology help farmers meet supermarket specifications? Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why so many were vulnerable to the failure of the potato crops in Ireland in the 1840s, what relief was given and why so many died or left. Show more

Handling vulnerable mothers who face repeated child removals. Joanne Harris discusses The Strawberry Thief. Show more

Karen and the team play away and are seduced by the luxurious dressing rooms. And sweets. Show more

Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit tasked with safeguarding children in Nepal. Show more

Classical ballet has a notable lack of elite black dancers. Eric Underwood asks why- and whether the hip-hop/ballet fusion of Hiplet can encourage greater participation. Show more

By Kamila Shamsie. Eamonn knows that Aneeka has secrets, but he trusts her. Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar. Show more

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John Browne, former CEO of BP, explores the impact of the 1973 oil shock on 20th-century global politics and economics. Show more

It's a bad day for Tom, and Toby has a proposal in store. Show more

Contemporary crime drama by Roy Williams. Max has a hunch about someone who comes in to the police station to make a victim statement. Show more

Thurso’s surfing community in Caithness on why their barrelling reef break is one of Europe’s best cold water waves. Show more

Ben Okri makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Book Aid International. Show more

Taylor Jenkins Reid talks about her novel Daisy Jones & The Six. Also we discuss the best older characters in fiction and Reading Clinic suggests books for someone on death row. Show more

Jessie Buckley talks about Wild Rose, the story of a country and western singer from Glasgow, in which she stars and sings and writes her own songs. Show more

The effects of the Chicxulub asteroid crash seen in the fossil record, LIGO and Virgo detecting gravitational waves, corals in the lab and forensic shoeprint database. Show more

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A preliminary report on the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash - which killed everyone on board - appears to exonerate its pilots.

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller shares Father Time and extracts from his diary. From 2019. Show more

Shula's confidence is knocked and Freddie attempts to move on. Show more

New York's new arts venue The Shed opens, the acoustics at new Tottenham Hotspur stadium discussed, novelist Jonathan Lethem on his new book, 'lost' Marvin Gaye album reviewed. Show more

Karen and the team play away and are seduced by the luxurious dressing rooms. And sweets. Show more

As Brexit rumbles on, Britain appears more divided than ever. How deep is that division, and what would it take to unify the country? Show more

Ruth Alexander visits Northwich and Altrincham in Cheshire to examine two very different attempts to improve their fortunes. Show more

The effects of the Chicxulub asteroid crash seen in the fossil record, LIGO and Virgo detecting gravitational waves, corals in the lab and forensic shoeprint database. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why so many were vulnerable to the failure of the potato crops in Ireland in the 1840s, what relief was given and why so many died or left. Show more

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By Kamila Shamsie. Eamonn knows that Aneeka has secrets, but he trusts her. Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar. Show more

A late-night satirical river of sound from the mind of broadcaster, producer and audio-fiddler Jon Holmes of Listen Against and The Now Show. Show more

In a specially commissioned new comic story for Radio 4, the author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth presents his very own 90th birthday gift to the Queen. Show more

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