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Farming Today
21/02/23 Salad shortages; Wheat disease; Juniper reintroduction
13 minutes
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Bad weather in southern Europe leads to salad shortages in British supermarkets.
Scientists draw on bank of old wheat varieties to tackle disease.
Re-introducing juniper. Show more
Sir David Attenborough presents the New Zealand wrybill. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez about defying expectations and becoming a world expert on cosmic dust. Show more
One to One
Gaming and Me: Ellie Gibson speaks to Andrew Przybylski
14 minutes
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Having spent her life playing and writing about video games, Ellie Gibson meets Professor Andrew Przybylski to talk about the impact video games might have on the mind. Show more
Woman's Hour
Nicola Bulley, tearing during childbirth, black women swim, tweakments gone mad?
58 minutes
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We discuss the events surrounding the death of Nicola Bulley and the issues faced by families of victims. Show more
Ukrainian teacher Olga asks where next for refugees a year on from the outbreak of war. Show more
What's more valuable - first-hand experience or second-hand expertise? Professor Abigail Williams explores the history of facts versus feelings. Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours: What's your experience of social media, for good and bad?
53 minutes
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What's your experience of social media, for good and bad? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
Woke: The Journey of a Word
2. If You're Woke You Dig It
14 minutes
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Matthew Syed traces the evolution of 'woke', a term that's now synonymous with angry debate. In this episode, the story behind one of the first uses of 'woke' in print, in 1962. Show more
David is doing his research, and Susan has a surprise for Alice. Show more
1968. Joy is fully immersed in Birmingham's hippy scene. Her childhood admirer, Hopeton, wrestles with his faith in God and the temptation to dive into her world. By Rex Obano. Show more
Jay Rayner and the team travel to Cardiff, Wales, for this week's culinary panel show. Show more
Electroconvulsive therapy is one of the most controversial treatments in psychiatry. But for some people with severe depression, ECT can be the only treatment that works. Show more
Richard Osman talks in depth to Michael Rosen about his life in language: from growing up loving TV and sports, to working on Pointless and then writing The Thursday Murder Club. Show more
The Past by Tessa Hadley, Border Country by Raymond Williams and A Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt are this week's book choices. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Six O'Clock News
21/02/2023 President Putin suspends nuclear arms treaty with America
30 minutes
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In Poland, the US President insisted Russia would never win the conflict
Multi-award winning comedian Mark Watson, aided by the sardonic musical merit of Flo & Joan, looks at the week as a metaphor for our lifetimes. With special guest Angela Barnes. Show more
Have Helen and Lee come to a decision about the future? Kirsty and Roy have company. Show more
Front Row
Michael Douglas, culture in Ukraine a year after invasion, visual effects and animation in the UK
42 minutes
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Michael Douglas on Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania; culture in Odessa a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the future of visual effects and animation in the UK. Show more
File on 4 investigates claims of racism, sexism, bullying and abuse in the fire service and asks if it's time for radical reform of the emergency service. Show more
In Touch
Financial Aid for Ukraine; The Royal College of Ophthalmology on the Delivery of Medical News
19 minutes
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The European Blind Union have sent financial aid into Ukraine to help the visually impaired. We hear from their Executive Director, Lars Bosselmann on where this money went. Show more
James Gallagher investigates whether there is a decline in male sperm including the results of his own sperm count analysis. Show more
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez about defying expectations and becoming a world expert on cosmic dust. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation address
45 minutes
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Nurses call off strike.
And the SNP’s “civil war”.
Bored of St Petersburg's bright lights, Onegin moves to his newly-inherited country estate. Read by Rhashan Stone and translated by James E Falen. Show more
Alex views his relationship with materialism and ownership. Peer group guests include Alfie Brown and David Burstein. From 2018. Show more
Sean Curran reports as MPs question ministers about the police response to a mass shooting in Plymouth 18 months ago.
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Katherine Rundell’s brilliant new biography explores Donne’s early years, the family’s religious dissent, and a rumour about Thomas More’s pickled head. Read by Blake Ritson. Show more
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