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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Hope Lonergan Show more

A tomato producer on salad shortages and what help the sector needs; Defra secretary Therese Coffey at the NFU conference; and re-introducing rare hoverflies in Scotland. Show more

Children's author Michael Morpurgo recounts how his daily walk in the Devon countryside is enlivened by the call of buzzards. Show more

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the highly prolific, itinerant 20th century Hungarian mathematician, who enjoyed an unrivalled reputation for problem-solving. Show more

Averil Mansfield the UK’s first woman vascular surgeon. South African choreographer Dada Masilo on her latest project. The benefits of an older sibling. Online child abuse images. Show more

From the heart of the conflict zone in Ukraine's East, to the military calculations in Moscow and among Nato countries, BBC correspondents speak about what they have witnessed Show more

One big dramatic role. Stories and reflections from actors across the world about what the role means and what it means to them. A new series for Radio 4.
This week: Peter Pan. Show more

Today’s Gap Finder is Tunde Okewale, founder of Urban Lawyers, a charity helping young people from disadvantaged and ethnic minority backgrounds. Show more

Does conditioner really make your hair softer and shinier? Can it reduce ‘frizz’ and help to detangle your hair? And can sprays and creams really prevent heat damage? Show more

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Matthew Syed traces the evolution of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate. In this episode, how a viral photo at a protest helped change the word 'woke' forever. Show more

Adil has some tough love for Roy, and Lynda is about to up the ante. Show more

The story of how, in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to become the dominant force in German politics. Show more

The walk takes them along the Four Waterfalls route in the Brecon Beacons. Show more

International trumpet soloist and educator Alison Balsom OBE presents the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Show more

Chris Power talks to Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon about The World and All That It Holds, his expansive new novel set in the aftermath of World War One. Show more

Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the monkey cage to Australia where they are joined by Ross Noble as they explore the southern hemisphere night sky. Show more

Antarctic warming - experts explore what the new record-breaking sea ice minimum means for the continent and the rest of the globe. Show more

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

Three people have been arrested after the attack in County Tyrone. The officer remains critically injured in hospital.

This instalment from the Sedaris files includes his essay Happy Go Lucky and extracts from his extensive diaries read to a packed house at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill, London. Show more

Is Brian ready to play host? There’s a real character coming to stay at Brookfield. Show more

Reviews of the new immersive Hockney art exhibition and Korean film Broker. Installation artist Mike Nelson's new retrospective. Plus the magazine swamped by AI-generated stories. Show more

A private army run by the so-called Wagner group is fighting on Russia's behalf in Ukraine. Are its leader and its soldiers becoming a problem for Vladimir Putin? Show more

What's the business potential of ChatGPT and the new era of machine learning? Evan Davis and guests discuss. Show more

Antarctic warming - experts explore what the new record-breaking sea ice minimum means for the continent and the rest of the globe. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the highly prolific, itinerant 20th century Hungarian mathematician, who enjoyed an unrivalled reputation for problem-solving. Show more

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Overwhelming vote at UN against Russian war in Ukraine.

Off-duty police officer seriously injured in County Tyrone.

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It's some months since Tatyana wrote her letter to Onegin. Lensky persuades him to come to Tatyana's name day celebration. Read by Rhashan Stone. Show more

All the news from today's sitting at Westminster. Show more

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Today - a relationship that fuelled some of the most desire-filled poetry in English in Katherine Rundell’s lively new biography of John Donne. Read by Blake Ritson. Show more

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