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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Major Anne Read. Show more
Farming Today
RSA's Food, Farming and Countryside Commission report, the cost of food without pesticides, 100 years of wheat
14 minutes
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Should all UK farming be putting the environment before food production? Or will that make food too expensive? Show more
Liz Bonnin presents the red-crowned crane from Japan and Asia. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Jim Al-Khalili talks to geologist Katherine Joy about the second wave of lunar exploration. Show more
David Gregory-Kumar is a BBC journalist, and he's also a gay dad. For One to One he's exploring issues surrounding gay parenting. Today he meets the surrogate who carried his baby Show more
Live from Liverpool for the Netball World Cup, we're joined by BBC Sport's Hazel Irvine and former England Netball captain Ama Agbeze, and hear under 11s learning to play the game. Show more
Adapted by Anita Sullivan. Part two of Apollo 11's five day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama, performed by actors using the original NASA transcripts from the mission. Show more
Dallas Campbell looks at the imminent return of man to the moon - this time with a permanent base. Show more
Andrew McGibbon explores the sounds and music of the ice, meeting the composers, musicians and indigenous artists in the Arctic region who use the ice to make music. Show more
Looking back to the summer of his 16th year, Charlie Lewis recalls his first kiss with Fran Fisher. Read by James Norton. Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours: Have you changed your mind about shopping online?
40 minutes
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Call You and Yours - Have you changed your mind about online shopping? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk and leave a phone number so we can call you back. Show more
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Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.
Michael Crick finds out how lobbying works, with lobbyists Alex Deane and Lionel Zetter. Show more
Clarrie makes a shocking discovery and Natasha attempts diplomacy. Show more
Stuart Houghton’s semi-autobiographical story about having breast cancer, set in the period leading up to the 2016 EU referendum. Show more
Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are at the Black Country Living Museum. Show more
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Michael Rosen explores the strange history of 'The', the most influential word in English. How did a word which didn't even exist in Old English come to dominate our language? Show more
A Good Read
Dolly Alderton and Clare Mackintosh
28 minutes
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Dolly Alderton, presenter of The High Low podcast and crime writer Clare Mackintosh tell Harriett Gilbert about books they love. They include The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show which dares to commit heresy. Show more
It's an emotional day for Jim, and Ben goes to extreme lengths. Show more
Front Row
Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott, Political knitting, Black women in theatre, Statues of performers
28 minutes
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A new work from Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott, the power of knitting as protest and a huge statue of Ed Sheeran is unveiled in Moscow. Show more
Adapted by Anita Sullivan. Part two of Apollo 11's five day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama, performed by actors using the original NASA transcripts from the mission. Show more
File on 4
Hidden Figures? The True Scale of Military Sexual Allegations
37 minutes
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File on 4 investigates how the military handles complaints from female service personnel of sexual harassment, assault and rape, and whether the military police is fit for purpose. Show more
On World Emoji Day, we ask what they mean to blind people. And audio-description built in to a performance. Show more
Inside Health
Declining male fertility, Diagnosing urinary tract infections in the elderly, Guide to health websites
28 minutes
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Declining male fertility and evidence sperm counts have dropped over the last 40 years, diagnosing urinary tract infections in the elderly, and tips on health websites to trust. Show more
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Jim Al-Khalili talks to geologist Katherine Joy about the second wave of lunar exploration. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Ursula von der Leyen elected European Commission President
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Looking back to the summer of his 16th year, Charlie Lewis recalls his first kiss with Fran Fisher. Read by James Norton. Show more
Richie Webb stars as cocktail pianist Nigel whose hopes of a quiet life are thwarted by his entrepreneurial brother. From 2017. Show more
Susan Hulme with the lastest from Westminster, where MPs from across the Commons call for same-sex relationship education to be made compulsory in English schools. Show more
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Dr Monty Lyman explores the many layers and lives of our skin – the body’s largest, most visible and yet most misunderstood organ. Read by Gunnar Cauthery. Show more
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