The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day, with Canon Angela Tilby. Show more
R.M. Sánchez-Camus describes how art can be used as a language with which to communicate the fear of death and dying. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.
Open Country
Family Monsters Garden in Swaffham and Chelsea
25 minutes
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Helen Mark visits the Escape Project from Swaffham in Norfolk to find out why a group of volunteers are helping create a garden full of monsters for the Chelsea Flower Show. Show more
Charlotte Smith visits Rothamsted Research to discover how a statistician in the 1920s, Sir Ronald Fisher, transformed the experiments that were conducted on cereals. Show more
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News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Chef and TV presenter Ainsley Harriott, Petra Velzeboer, who grew up in the Children of God group, and author Ella Dove, who fell while jogging and had to have her leg amputated. Show more
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Infinite Moonkey Cage
58 minutes
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Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings and are joined by some of the key players from the extraordinary Apollo program. Show more
George Parker of the Financial Times looks at the week in Westminster: the Irish border issue, Tory leadership hustings and Sir Vince Cable standing down as Lib Dem leader. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
A world of brandished kippers
28 minutes
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Jacob Zuma waves off allegations and issues veiled threats as South Africa reckons with its past. He has been live on television responding to allegations at a judicial inquiry. Show more
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Money Box
The challenge of charging an electric car
33 minutes
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Electric cars, win a home competitions, landlords and tenant groups debate evictions and more bank customers qualify for historical debt collection compensation. Show more
A young political editor at a clickbait website tries to make sense of the madness. Starring Yasmine Akram. From 2019. Show more
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Any Questions?
Iain Dale, Nusrat Ghani MP, Jess Phillips MP, Pete Wishart MP
47 minutes
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Shaun Ley presents political debate from the Melton Theatre in Melton Mowbray with a panel including Iain Dale, Nusrat Ghani MP, Jess Phillips MP and Pete Wishart MP. Show more
Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? Show more
4 Extra Debut. When Kelly, a young political writer, meets a famous US Senator at a party something goes terribly wrong. Stars Lydia Wilson. 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
Woman's Hour
Black maternal health, Netball World Cup, Imposter Syndrome
57 minutes
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Black women are five times more likely to die in childbirth compared to white women, Candice Brathwaite and Remi Sade tell us their stories. Imposter syndrome and Netball World Cup. Show more
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.
How did Silicon Valley's first female billionaire, Elizabeth Holmes manage to dupe the world with the promise of her revolutionary blood testing company, Theranos? Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
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Six O'Clock News
20/07/2019 Hunt urges Iran to release British flagged tanker
15 minutes
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Britain says it will do everything it can to defend shipping after Iran seizes tanker, BA cancels flights to Cairo
Loose Ends
Eve Myles, Michael Dapaah, Doon Mackichan, Richard Strange, Aldous Harding, Lady Sanity, Arthur Smith, Nikki Bedi
36 minutes
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Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Eve Myles, Michael Dapaah, Doon Mackichan and Richard Strange for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
Ihlan Omar is the 37-year-old Somali-born US congresswoman - one of only two Muslim women ever elected to Congress - who's become a thorn in President Trump’s side. Show more
Saturday Review
Making Noise Quietly, Night of the Iguana, The Moon, Laura Cummings, I Am Nicola
48 minutes
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Dominic Dromgoole's debut film Making Noise Quietly, Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, The Moon at the Royal Maritime Museum, Laura Cummings On Chapel Sands, I Am Nicola Show more
James Burke, the key voice for the BBC coverage of the moon landings in 1969, revisits the momentous event in front of a live audience. Show more
Florence, 1570. Just when Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari (Tom Conti) is about to start his fresco of The Last Judgement in the Duomo, his prayer for aid gets a surprise answer. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Anne McElvoy, Matthew Taylor, Mona Siddiqui and Tim Stanley. Show more
Russell Davies hosts the grand final of the 2019 general knowledge tournament, from the Radio Theatre in London. Show more
Andrew McGibbon explores the poetry, song and yoiking of the indigenous Sámi people who live across the Western European Arctic - a region including Russia, Finland and Norway. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
A powerful original story of love and family told by a grandfather as he sits on a bench, waiting. Read by Ian McElhinney. Show more
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