The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
A reflection and prayer to start the day with Rev Lynne Gibson. Show more
Farming Today
19/06/20 - Live exports in Scotland, Unlicensed killing of mountain hares, Orchids, Biopesticides
13 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FM
Charlotte Smith speaks to Peter Stevenson from Compassion in World Farming about their legal challenge to the Scottish Government over the live export of calves. Show more
Chris Packham presents the great bustard. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Desert Island Discs
Joe Wicks, fitness trainer and author
38 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Joe Wicks, fitness coach, chooses the eight tracks, book and luxury item which he would want to take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
Woman's Hour
Author Rachel Edwards, Equality in the home, Explorer Vanessa O’Brien
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Rachel Edwards on Darling a ‘Brexit thriller’. Could Covid-19 improve equality in the home? Plus Victims Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird QC. Show more
Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. But nothing can prepare her what she finds there. From best-selling novel The Accidental Apprentice. Stars Rasika Dugal. Show more
Is the West losing a technological race with China? Amid controversy over the role of Huawei, Western nations are scrambling to avoid dependency. But is it already too late? Show more
Ramesh is coining it in after the Lenzie House Of Wax proves to be a hit. Starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald Mcleary. From 2020. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
Jane Austen's classic comedy of young love and romantic meddling, read by Eve Best. 5/10 Emma finds she enjoys the company of Frank Churchill. Does she have feelings for him? Show more
You and Yours
Opodo and flight refunds, Video game simulators, Bookshops
37 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The customers having trouble getting refunds for cancelled flights through booking website Opodo. Show more
The latest weather forecast
Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.
A Big Disease with a Little Name
The End of HIV/AIDS?
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The 'triple cocktail' was a game-changer in treating HIV/AIDS when it arrived in 1996 - but there is still no cure. But could the drugs we have at hand still help eradicate HIV? Show more
Justin turns a corner and Lilian’s scheme does not go according to plan. Show more
Roy Hudd and Christopher Green discover the perils of applause in a comic conversation at Wilton's Music Hall, where they tell the lost story of music hall idol Fred Barnes. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT At Home: Episode Twelve
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel show. Show more
Acclaimed storyteller Xanthe Gresham Knight writes and performs this specially commissioned and beguiling tale about the god Apollo who reflects on love, loss and making amends. Show more
Last Word
Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Matthew Bannister on neurobiologist Geoffrey Burnstock, campaigner Larry Kramer, President Pierre Nkurunziza, singer Dame Vera Lynn. Show more
Listeners give their views on the new sound of The Archers, where internal monologues have been replacing the usual dramatic dialogue between characters. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Six O'Clock News
19/06/2020 All pupils in England to go back in September.
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Education Secretary suggests normal-sized classes will return full-time.
If there’s comedy in Covid, the team will find it. World leaders, the media, experts, celebrities, Michael Gove, no one is off limits. Recorded in five different kitchens. Show more
Front Row
Rebel Wilson, Ian Holm remembered, Bob Dylan, The Luminaries
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Australian actor Rebel Wilson on her TV series Last One Laughing, theatre critic Michael Billington on Sir Ian Holm, reviews of Bob Dylan's new album, and TV drama The Luminaries. Show more
Lynne Truss observes the inhabitants of Meridian Cliffs, a small wind-battered town on the south coast of England, where Alan Jeffreys has been receiving mysterious texts. Show more
Any Questions?
Katharine Birbalsingh, Lord Blunkett, Oliver Dowden MP, Robin Swann MLA
47 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Chris Mason presents political debate from London Broadcasting House with a panel including Katharine Birbalsingh, Lord Blunkett, Oliver Down MP and Robin Swann MLA. Show more
A Point of View
The end of university as we know it?
9 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Mary Beard ponders the future of the university lecture - that symbolic centrepiece of university life - in the aftermath of the pandemic. Show more
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, as told through the stories of people who lived through it - from AIDS activists to those who ran the black market Buyers Clubs. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Trump Tulsa rally given the green light
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Jane Austen's classic comedy of young love and romantic meddling, read by Eve Best. 5/10 Emma finds she enjoys the company of Frank Churchill. Does she have feelings for him? Show more
Actresses Pippa Haywood (Greenwing, The Bodyguard) and Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge) talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Show more
The digital spreadsheet: a technology which took the world of accountancy by storm in the early 1980s and made countless accounting tasks effortless. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
In 1922, Albert Einstein was invited to visit Tokyo. It was an extraordinary arrival. Since then, Katori Hidetoshi builds clocks that demonstrate Einstein’s central ideas. Show more
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