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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Julia Neuberger Show more
Battle of the stats: we bring Oatly together with the NFU to discuss the oatmilk producers' controversial marketing campaign. Show more
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the redshank. Redshanks spend the winter on the UK's estuaries and wetlands. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Start the Week
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
42 minutes
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Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik discuss mission-orientated economics with Amol Rajan. Show more
Woman's Hour
Jane Goodall; Female cabinet ministers on TV; Coercive control
43 minutes
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The world famous expert on chimpanzees and conservation Jane Goodall speaks to Emma Show more
6/10. Drama based on the best-selling novel by C.J. Sansom. In 1546, Catholic and Protestant factions vie for power at the court of Henry VIII. Show more
Journalist Leah Sottile asks what’s next for America’s far right and anti-government movement now that the first President they’ve ever supported has been defeated. Show more
How to Vaccinate the World
Vaccination Strategies
28 minutes
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The development of new vaccines for Covid 19 is a huge scientific achievement. Now we some a cunning plans to get them out of vials and into billions of arms around the world. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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In a peaceful Kent retirement village, four residents investigate unsolved murders.
Richard Osman's bestselling crime novel, read by Haydn Gwynne. Show more
You and Yours
Housing Market; High Street Report; Young Bridge
39 minutes
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The traditional card game getting a new lease of life during lockdown. Show more
The latest weather forecast
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
Bodies
Episode 6: Irreconcilable Opposites - The Medieval Body
14 minutes
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Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more
New series of Roy Williams's crime drama. In this series detectives Matthews and Armitage interview four suspects: a vicar, a teacher and two schoolgirl friends. 1/3 Sandra. Show more
Science fiction is filled with malign machines. Some are faster than us, some are smarter. Mike Williams asks if we have reason to fear the rise of the robots. Show more
Competitors from Cambridge, Reading and Somerset join Paul Gambaccini for the wide-ranging quiz of musical knowledge. Show more
The Food Programme
All at Sea? Fishing after Brexit
28 minutes
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Dan Saladino finds out what Brexit means for the fishing industry. Fishers are seeing problems along the supply chain into Europe. Is this just a glitch or a long term problem? Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy reveals its 21st-century meanings to BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler as she travels to Paradiso with Dr Vittorio Montemaggi.
With Michael Sheen as Dante. Show more
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Alan Davies, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Tori Herridge to learn about our much misunderstood, early human cousins, the Neanderthals Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Six O'Clock News
25/01/2021 No guarantee schools in England will reopen before Easter
30 minutes
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The PM also confirmed the government is looking at requiring people arriving in the UK from high risk countries quarantine themselves in hotels on arrival.
David Mitchell gets three celebrity comedic couples to lie with some truths. With Sarah Millican and Gary Delaney. From 2021. Show more
Pip drops a bombshell and Freddie has an admirer. Show more
Front Row
Jonzi D and Pawlet Brookes on Black dance, TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil, portraying politicians
29 minutes
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Jonzi D on the state of Black dance; TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil; the dramatisations of contemporary political moments; Darran Anderson on The Seventh Seal. Show more
6/10. Drama based on the best-selling novel by C.J. Sansom. In 1546, Catholic and Protestant factions vie for power at the court of Henry VIII. Show more
How the Irish Shaped Britain
The Long Road to Peace
28 minutes
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The final episode of Fergal Keane's exploration of the influence of the Irish on Britain, from post-WW2 reconstruction, the hard road to peace, to the uncertainty posed by Brexit. Show more
Crossing Continents
Europe’s Most Dangerous Capital
28 minutes
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Bucharest’s crumbling and neglected buildings are still full of life despite the frequent earth tremors. Show more
Cole Moreton presents a deeply personal series telling the story of what it’s like to have and to be triplets, as Ruby, Josh and Grace face living apart for the first time. Show more
Start the Week
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik discuss mission-orientated economics with Amol Rajan. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Hotels may be used to quarantine people arriving in UK
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
In a peaceful Kent retirement village, four residents investigate unsolved murders.
Richard Osman's bestselling crime novel, read by Haydn Gwynne. Show more
Loose Ends
Stewart Lee, Angela Hartnett, Salena Godden, Sleaford Mods, KT Tunstall, Arthur Smith, Clive Anderson
38 minutes
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Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Stewart Lee, Angela Hartnett and Salena Godden, for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
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I Want You To Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Ep 1 - A Revelation
14 minutes
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Esther Safran Foer tells the story of her quest to uncover how her family endured the Holocaust, and how she keeps the flame of memory alive. Read by Sara Kestelman. Show more
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