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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lynne Gibson. Show more
The SNP calls on the Government to provide financial support to help the pig industry. Show more
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Tailed Godwit. A black-tailed godwit in its summer finery is a stunningly attractive bird, russet brown with a long orange and black bill. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the discovery of nuclear fission in Germany led quickly to the development of the first atom bomb in the USA and its lethal use over Japan Show more
Our specially commissioned poll to celebrate Woman’s Hour at 75 looks at women and equality today. Also, Diana Gayford a producer on Woman’s Hour when it first came to air. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Bumps in the Road for the Czech Republic
28 minutes
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The Czech PM Andrej Babis fights his corner; stories from an Afghan family in the UK, a giant French insect farm, the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea and Kenya's culinary heritage. Show more
Engineer and author Roma Agrawal explores how the built environment shapes us and what we might ask from the architects and designers who make our cities. Show more
A love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is at the heart of this parable about the post-WWII generation in Germany grappling with the horrors of the Holocaust. Show more
You and Yours
Care Home Credit Crunch, Supermarket Awards, Data Sharing
39 minutes
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Care homes credit crunch with banks reluctant to lend.
The "Oscars for shopkeepers". We speak to winners.
Do new data laws really help us take control of our personal details? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
A Home of Our Own
Black's Gate Crescent, Belfast
14 minutes
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Lynsey Hanley visits 28-year-old Katrina who's just moved into her brand new house in west Belfast, an affordable home built on a brownfield site. Show more
Vince is in the doghouse and Jazzer seeks an escape. Show more
A hilarious, unorthodox love story set on the night shift at a petrol station. Alex and Keith build a customer out of the recycling during a storm. What could possibly go wrong? Show more
In this five-part series specially written for Radio 4, Mary Paulson-Ellis tells the story of a life in five objects. Read by Alexandra Mathie. Show more
Clare crosses the famous Bridge over the Atlantic for a ramble on the island of Seil. Her guide is the writer and director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics Norrie Bissell. Show more
Garden historian Advolly Richmond makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Village Water. Show more
Bookclub
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
28 minutes
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Anthony Doerr answers readers questions about his sweeping, epic novel All the Light We Cannot See which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Show more
How do guide dogs know where they're going? It's not like their handler whispers in their ear and asks to go to the pharmacy, maybe the toothpaste aisle. So how does it work? Show more
BBC Inside Science
Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
32 minutes
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Nobel prizes: surprising choices in a pandemic year? BepiColombo snaps Mercury. How will mature trees react to increasing carbon? Suzanne O'Sullivan on psychosomatic illnesses. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
07/10/2021 Saudi led takeover of Newcastle United.
30 minutes
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Premier League approves controversial Saudi led takeover of Newcastle United despite anger of human rights groups.
An unexpected bus ride gives Jeff a trip down memory lane, teaching Andy what oubliette means. Stars Philip Jackson. From 2020. Show more
Tensions mount at the BL board meeting while Jazzer plays it cool. Show more
Front Row
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
42 minutes
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Cush Jumbo as Hamlet is up for discussion with Ekow Eshun, Vanessa Kisuule and Sarah Crompton, Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature and poet Simon Armitage. Show more
Campaigners say the state of Britain's rivers is worsening. Over half of them polluted by sewage. There's also a problem with agricultural run-off and chemicals. What can we do? Show more
The Bottom Line
Labour shortages and the new model economy
28 minutes
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Labour shortages, particularly in hospitality and HGV sector have been dominating the news cycle. But in a post-Brexit, post pandemic world, how do we plug these gaps? Show more
BBC Inside Science
Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
32 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Nobel prizes: surprising choices in a pandemic year? BepiColombo snaps Mercury. How will mature trees react to increasing carbon? Suzanne O'Sullivan on psychosomatic illnesses. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the discovery of nuclear fission in Germany led quickly to the development of the first atom bomb in the USA and its lethal use over Japan Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Newcastle United taken over by Saudi-backed consortium
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
A love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is at the heart of this parable about the post-WWII generation in Germany grappling with the horrors of the Holocaust. Show more
Evelyn Mok and Ken Cheng star in a sketch show with an all writing and acting cast of East Asian talent. Show more
Noel Gallagher revisits ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ with John Wilson and an audience ask him questions. From 2014. Show more
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Andrew Roberts' new biography of this most maligned sovereign reveals a monarch to admire. Read by Ben Miller. Episode 4: The King falls ill, again. Show more
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