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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Harry Baker. Show more
Farming Today
13/08/21 - Buying Welsh farmland for offsetting, Local Nature Recovery Strategies, Where the red squirrels eat
13 minutes
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Farms in Wales are being bought by large investment companies for afforestation - planting trees to offset carbon emissions. But there are concerns it could damage local heritage. Show more
Chris Packham presents the North American blue jay. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Kirsty Wark brings together gay rights campaigners, politicians and journalists to remember the fight to legalise same-sex marriage in Britain. Show more
Woman's Hour
Singer-songwriter Joy Crookes, Maternity discrimination, Data-driven parenting, Hot Girl Summer
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Singer-songwriter Joy Crookes on her music; Dr Katie Lidster and maternal discrimination; Emily Ostler on data-driven parenting; and discussion of the phrase 'hot girl summer'. Show more
Helen Lewis interviews people offering solutions for our times. Science journalist Ehsan Masood explains what's wrong with GDP as a measure of success - and how it can be changed. Show more
Ellie Taylor shares controversial opinions, her dislike of exercise, and tries to convince the audience to avoid it. From 2021. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
As Aycayia continues to change, David struggles to keep her presence in St Constance a secret from nosy neighbours. Show more
New research suggests a shift among workers towards a preference for going back to work in offices as opposed to working from home. 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
The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD)
Durer's Rhinoceros
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
This week Neil MacGregor is describing empires around the world 600 years ago. Today he tells the story of the fledgling empire of Portugal through Durer's famous image of a rhino. Show more
The Aldridge family attempt to hold everything together and Lynda makes a shocking discovery. Show more
Robert Bathurst plays a writer with a compulsion to find mountain snowbeds. Dramatisation of the writer Christopher Nicholson’s non-fiction book, Among the Summer Snows. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Allotment Plots and Happy Hollyhocks
42 minutes
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Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Show more
Inside the storerooms of a museum, a recently bereaved woman finds an unexpected connection to her lost lover in the artworks she’s now taking out of storage. Show more
Last Word
Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs
28 minutes
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Matthew bannister on poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE, stockbroker Sir Nicholas Goodison, Muslim teacher Abdalqadir as-Sufi, military observer Joyce Shrubbs. Show more
Listener reaction to Front Row's interview with Sarah, Duchess of York. And outgoing New York correspondent Nick Bryant discusses the BBC's reporting of America, Trump and Biden. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
13/08/2021 Police name victims of Plymouth shooting
30 minutes
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Police in Plymouth have named the five victims of the UK's worst mass shooting in more than a decade. They include the gunman's mother and a three year old girl.
Henry Tobin is Britain's shortest serving and least popular postwar prime minister. So what next? Stars Miles Jupp. Show more
Front Row
Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.
41 minutes
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Vikingur Olafsson performs live in the studio. The publishing industry, power and the critical voice. Museum of the Year nominee The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Show more
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
Manto: The Unsentimentalist
14 minutes
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Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of India's master of the short story Saadat Hasan Manto. Show more
Any Questions?
Eddie Hughes MP, Lisa Nandy MP, Lemn Sissay, Anna Soubry
47 minutes
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Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Leigh with Eddie Hughes MP, Lisa Nandy MP, Lemn Sissay and Anna Soubry. Show more
Adam Gopnik ponders a new aspect of our era - the principle of 'Absolute Adjacency.' Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus
Episode 15: The Threshold of the Modern World (AD 1375-1550)
1 hour
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Neil MacGregor returns with an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week: the great empires that dominated the world around the 15th century. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Taliban “may regain control of Kabul before September 11”
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
As Aycayia continues to change, David struggles to keep her presence in St Constance a secret from nosy neighbours. Show more
Violinist Tasmin Little nominates Sir Yehudi Menuhin - once the most famous boy in the world. Show more
Conspiracies: The Secret Knowledge
The Secret Knowledge
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Documentary-maker Phil Tinline continues his series exploring how conspiracy theories and fictions work as stories, and what they claim to tell us about how power works. Show more
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Giles Terera concludes his behind-the-scenes account of his time in the iconic musical, Hamilton. Today: the show finally opens, and the audience is hungry... Show more
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