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Farming Today
27/05/21 - New international trade deals, shopping local and meat processing staff
13 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
As the government launches consultations on new trade deals with Canada and Mexico, Charlotte Smith grills Minister for International Trade, Ranil Jayawardena. Show more
Brett Westwood presents the great shearwater. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unstable rule in England between the execution of Charles I and restoration of Charles II and the impact in Scotland and, infamously, Ireland Show more
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Daily Service
Mary McAleese, the former President of Ireland, reads from her memoir. Today, recollections of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's historic visit to the Republic of Ireland. Show more
Woman's Hour
Gemma Arterton, Care Homes, The Astronomer Royal
58 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Caught in the crossfire along the Thai-Myanmar border
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Ethnic minority villages suffer as Myanmar's military hunts down rebels; a forced landing in Minsk; Spain and Morocco at odds in Ceuta; Chad's elite; Chile's pensions provocateur. Show more
Music journalist Jude Rogers speaks to musicians, neuroscientists and researchers to discover why music helps us through crisis and change in adulthood. Show more
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After making a shocking discovery, Debbie must reconsider her assumptions about her family and learn to address her own behaviour. As read by Louisa Harland. Show more
You and Yours
Renting Gardens, Ocado Zoom, Teletext Holidays
39 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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A new website dubbed the Airbnb for gardeners will allow people to rent space from other people's gardens. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
The very start of this story of friendship is captured in a photograph, taken in Piccadilly 1965. Fresh from newly independent British colonies the men featured look full of hope. Show more
Ruairi attempts to help and chaos reigns at Beechwood. Show more
In 1944, British spy novelist Eric Ambler and Hollywood film director John Huston were paired to make a film to support the Allied war effort. It wasn't plain sailing. Show more
Ramblings
Tales of International Adventure on a Walk in Somerset
24 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Bex Band of Love Her Wild takes Clare for a loop around King Alfred's Tower near the Stourhead Estate in Somerset. Show more
Rapper Guvna B makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of International Justice Mission UK. Show more
Open Book
New Irish Writing, Book Dedications, Mary Gaitskill on Madame Bovary
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell about contemporary writing both north and south of the Irish border Show more
Actor and writer Toby Jones discusses the film that still resonates with him almost 30 years after he first saw it, In The Soup. With Francine Stock. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.
36 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Vic Gill and guests take a look at human impacts on the earth over thousands of years. Also, thinking about future meat consumption, and monkeys learning their neighbours' lingo. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
27/05/2021 Prime Minister refutes Cummings criticism
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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The Prime Minister rejected criticism made by his former special advisor Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday. The Health Secretary also strongly refuted allegations that he lied.
John Finnemore presents a ninth series of his award-winning sketch show, with Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin, Carrie Quinlan, and music by Susannah Pearse. Show more
The pressure gets to Neil and Lee unveils a surprise. Show more
Front Row
Chris Addison on Breeders; Nadifa Mohamed's new novel; BBC Proms 2021 debuts
29 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Chris Addison discusses the new series of his show, Breeders. Nadifa Mohamed on the journey to publishing her novel, The Fortune Men. Three artists on their BBC Proms 2021 debut. Show more
A Big Disease with a Little Name
The AIDS Denialists
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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How conspiracy theories and denial about the causes of AIDS had devastating consequences in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Show more
Ransomware attacks by cybercriminals have grown exponentially in number. What are they, how do they work and how much of a threat do they pose? Show more
The pandemic has given a nudge to the decline of cash. But what is the future for our payments system? Could a new world of digital currencies beckon? Show more
BBC Inside Science
Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.
36 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Vic Gill and guests take a look at human impacts on the earth over thousands of years. Also, thinking about future meat consumption, and monkeys learning their neighbours' lingo. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unstable rule in England between the execution of Charles I and restoration of Charles II and the impact in Scotland and, infamously, Ireland Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Biden asks US intelligence to assess origins of pandemic
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
After making a shocking discovery, Debbie must reconsider her assumptions about her family and learn to address her own behaviour. As read by Louisa Harland. Show more
Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and interviewed hundreds of people. What were his first impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter? Show more
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Mary McAleese, the former President of Ireland, reads from her memoir. Today, recollections of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's historic visit to the Republic of Ireland. Show more
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