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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Krish Kandiah. Show more
Farming Today
18/01/22 - Dairy bull calves, preventing slurry run off and potato scab
13 minutes
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Around 60,000 newborn male dairy calves are killed each year on farms in Great Britain - according to the AHDB. Show more
Martin Hughes-Games presents the bar-tailed godwit. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
The Political Butterfly Effect
Did the Vietnam War Break America's Food System?
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Jim Waterson investigates how the politics of the Vietnam era changed agriculture in the US and pushed the country towards a national diet of highly processed foods. Show more
The internet walks into a pizza parlour and it’s got a gun. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. Show more
4 Extra Debut. As 26-year-old Proinsias O'Coinn goes on a mission to find a piece of art that can make him cry. From 2015. Show more
The sultan Chatu is in no mood to let the caravan pass. He believes he has been exploited by previous merchants and is determined to exact vengeance. Show more
You and Yours
Call You & Yours: Have you noticed you're drinking more since the pandemic?
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned that more of us are at risk of problem drinking, drinking at home means we're drinking more and longer. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
Naturebang
Bull Elephants and the Importance of Dads
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
A herd of elephants, a murder mystery, and a lesson on the importance of fatherhood. Becky Ripley and Emily Knight investigate. Show more
Kenton unleashes his inner dragon and Phoebe has reservations. Show more
Constance Sterling will make an announcement of whom she is to bequeath her family business's shares, at her 90th birthday party. Only there's a death, a murder. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more
Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces. This episode - the Sherborne Missal. Show more
Kathryn Mannix, author and palliative care specialist, talks to Michael Rosen about how to listen well in conversations filled with strong emotion. Show more
Mrinalini Sarabhai was a revolutionary Indian classical dancer who became known as the 'Hindu atomic bomb'. The engineer and author Roma Agrawal chooses this remarkable life. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
18/01/2022 - Boris Johnson denies he was warned an event he attended in the garden at Downing Street would breach covid rules.
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Boris Johnson has denied categorically that he was warned a gathering he attended in the garden at Downing Street would breach the coronavirus rules he had imposed.
Another chance to hear this episode from 2018. Faced with a vulnerable young man, Alfie asks how far he can go to protect the man's life without his consent. Show more
Alice causes concern and Leonard makes a pitch Show more
Front Row
Tilda Swinton, secrecy in screen casting, proposed cuts at Stoke museums
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Tilda Swinton on her new film Memoria, the use of gagging contracts in screen casting and Stoke museum budget cut proposals Show more
File on 4
Mental health rehab - the forgotten patients
37 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Adam Eley speaks to patients with the most complex mental health needs who were sent by the NHS to specialist rehabilitation units, where they say their condition got worse. Show more
Drag reaches far beyond just drag queens and has a rich and long history here in the UK. We spoke to two visually impaired drag performers about the history and their art form. Show more
Inside Health
Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
James Gallagher explores the carbon footprint of the UK’s most commonly used asthma inhaler. Could a greener alternative be kinder to the planet and better for your health? Show more
‘It was unbelievably painful - I probably used a few Anglo-Saxon words.’
Jon is at Peppa Pig World with his family when he notices something very unusual about his body. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Tonga suffering an "unprecedented disaster"
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
The sultan Chatu is in no mood to let the caravan pass. He believes he has been exploited by previous merchants and is determined to exact vengeance. Show more
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane
218. Mind the Camembert! With Liza Tarbuck
48 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Fi and Jane kick off a new series with actor and broadcaster Liza Tarbuck. Show more
Susan Hulme reports as a Tory MP brands plans to use the Navy to deal with migrant boats "a dog's dinner". Also, ministers face questions about fraud in covid support schemes.
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A young Felix White tries to reconcile passions for cricket and Oasis against a backdrop of his mum's illness. Show more
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