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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Rick Hill Show more
We hear warnings of a shortage of farm vets which is leaving some farmers without cover. Show more
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean cock-of-the-rock from Peru. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Desert Island Discs
Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinary surgeon
36 minutes
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Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinary surgeon, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
Woman's Hour
Bronwen Lewis, Football Racists Ban and 'The Three Hijabis', Pregnancy & the Covid Vaccine, The Joy of Skating
58 minutes
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Welsh singer songwriter Bronwen Lewis, 'The Three Hijabis' on racism in football, Pregnant women & the Covid vaccine, The Joy of Skating Show more
Bristol's reputation is for being cool and woke but it also has poverty and political polarisation. Neil Maggs and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley search for the city beyond the headlines. Show more
New comedy from Ashley Blaker about his unusual home life. In episode two, Ashley tells the story of how the Blakers came to adopt a two-year-old girl with Down Syndrome. Show more
Pinkie's nemesis draws near. But even now is there a chance to escape his fate? Show more
You and Yours
Tufting; Weight loss adverts; Cladding
39 minutes
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A new generation are finding the world of tufting - that's rug-making if you don't know. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD)
Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island statue
14 minutes
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This week Neil MacGregor is with the gods between AD 1200 -1500. Today he tells the story of one of the astonishing giant sculpted figures from Easter Island. Show more
The truth comes out for Helen and the future is looking bright at Brookfield. Show more
Craig has decided to go back home to help disadvantaged kids transform their lives. Two problems - they don't want his help and he's got the wrong keys to unlock their potential. Show more
Chinese Characters
Factory Girls: Modern Girls, Modern Dreams
1 minute
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The women who made modern China, but whose names are scarcely remembered - the hard-working, hard-living factory girls behind China's industrial revolution. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Hostas and Heucheras
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Kathy Clugston and her panel of experts answer gardening questions. Show more
Series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news Show more
Last Word
Jehan Sadat (pictured), Michael Horovitz, Richard Ernst, Dilip Kumar
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on Egypt’s First Lady Jehan Sadat, poet Michael Horovitz, chemist Richard Ernst, actor Dilip Kumar. Show more
How impartial should sports commentators be during home nation games? Some listeners think they are too biased, Roger Mosey, the former director of BBC Sport, gives his views. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
16/07/2021 Big rise in UK covid cases
30 minutes
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Weekly covid cases surge by 60%; with daily infections at highest level since mid January
As freedom day approaches, Professor Chris Whitty has a tiny bit of good news. Show more
Front Row
Quentin Tarantino, YA Fiction, Report from Cannes, The Vegetable Seller
41 minutes
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Quentin Tarantino in his only UK broadcast interview for the novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Readers of the future and YA fiction. Jason Solomons reports from Cannes. Show more
The Northern Bank Job
Episode Five: Cash by the Trolley Load
13 minutes
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It was the biggest bank heist in British and Irish criminal history. Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery Show more
Any Questions?
John Elliott, Chi Onwurah MP, Guy Opperman MP, Dame Nicola Stephenson
47 minutes
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Chris Mason presents political debate from the Church of St James and St Basil, Newcastle, with John Elliott, Chi Onwurah MP, Guy Opperman MP and Dame Nicola Stephenson. Show more
Sara Wheeler sings the praises of the indoor municipal pool and explains why she, for one, prefers to do her lengths between four walls. Show more
4 Extra Debut. American satirist Joe Queenan follows up his archive programmes on Anger and Blame with Shame. From 2015. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Flooding death toll grows
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Pinkie's nemesis draws near. But even now is there a chance to escape his fate? Show more
The comedian and author discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
The proliferation of "Prodigy" books and the first book to detail insects - Micrographia. The shortest poem in history and the longest, largest and smallest books. Show more
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