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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Carolyn Skinner Show more
Farming Today
09/08/2022 Deer management, Harvest weather, Protein ice-cream
13 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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With deer numbers in the UK now estimated to be the highest for 1,000 years, Caz Graham talks to the British Deer Society about government plans for a review of deer management. Show more
Liz Bonnin presents the North American black-chinned hummingbird. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
How have Labour leaders in opposition dealt with mass strike action in the past? Show more
Rummaging around in a lifetime's possessions, two sisters discover an exercise book. As they open it up and sift through the pages, a poem unearths buried memories. Show more
Woman's Hour
Brit and Mercury Prize-winning singer Heather Small, Chronic illness, Abortion
55 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Brit and Mercury Prize-winning singer Heather Small talks about her first album in 16 years. Also on the programme, living with chronic illness. Show more
Eddie Nestor looks at the health crises caused by air pollution. Show more
Ian Hislop visits the land between city and country where the majority of the population now live, and challenges the established myth that Suburbia is a cultural desert. Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours - What's the luxury you won't give up?
53 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
What's the luxury you won't give up? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem Love Songs in Age. Show more
Pat has a revealing chat with Peggy, and Jazzer wants to help. Show more
Comedy drama set in a Salford Academy Trust. Show more
Jay Rayner and his panel of food experts take a trip to Oxford. Show more
Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body. Show more
Michael Rosen talks to Matt Sewell about the weird and wonderful collective nouns of the animal world. Show more
His work includes a book in a box and a book with a hole ... so you can see what's coming up. But BAFTA winning writer Holly Walsh says it is his anger that appeals most to her. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Six O'Clock News
09/08/2022 Energy Bills May Top £4,000
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Analysts warn household energy bills could exceed £4,000 a year from January
A new series looking at the world of work from stand-up comedian Andrew Maxwell. In this final episode, Andrew contemplates the future of work. Show more
Chelsea feels fiercely protective. Natasha suffers a set back. Show more
Front Row
Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Matt Forde, Anne Sofie von Otter, Exodus
42 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Live from the Edinburgh Festival, with comedian Matt Forde, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, and playwright Uma Nada-Rajah on her political play Exodus. Show more
Documentary following children and their parents who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, as they adjust to a new life living in Manchester. Show more
In Touch
A Gap in the Market, Para-cyclist Libby Clegg
19 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
We hear from one of In Touch's listeners, Alex Scott, about a service that is missing in the market: LGBTQ+ community groups for people who are also blind or visually impaired. Show more
Inside Health
A good death with friends and family
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
James Gallagher explores how friends and family are being trained to administer medications, to ease loved ones' symptoms at the end of life. Show more
How have Labour leaders in opposition dealt with mass strike action in the past? Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Pressure on Tory leadership candidates over cost of living
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
As he unravels the mystery of the mural Tom meets some villagers, including the vicar’s lovely wife, Alice. Read by Will Howard Show more
A third series of Malawian comedian Daliso Chaponda's funny, informative and thought provoking Rose D'Or nominated series in which he explores divisive global issues. Show more
Collection of lockdown recordings pondering questions around birth, death and the afterlife, with some interruptions. From 2021. Show more
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Roald is in Tanganyika working for Shell when war breaks out. He joins the RAF, but a terrible accident leaves him eventually unfit for active duty. Show more
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