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Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson.

A British farm robot firm fights for survival after a major investor pulls out and highlights the difficulties of raising investment in the agritech sector to expand a business. Show more

Tweet of the Day begins with a call or song, followed by a story of fascinating ornithology inspired by the sound. Show more

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

What's the difference between a gigachad and a sigma wolf? Helen Lewis enters the Manosphere to find out. Show more

Erica McAlister on the innocuous wasp-like black soldier fly, a crown jewel of a fast-growing insect farming industry that's addressing the urgent need to find cheap clean protein. Show more

Bel Powley on playing Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank. Show more

Professor Ben Garrod tries his hand with new technology aimed at allowing us become more digitally intimate. Show more

Great music can come from great change. In this series, we tell the origin stories of some of the UK's most vital musical movements. First up, Newport... Show more

Today we're asking - how have bank closures affected you and the place where you live? Which? says 54 banks and building society branches have closed each week since January 2015. Show more

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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

The most contentious story Jeremy Bowen has covered: Israelis and Palestinians. Show more

There’s panic at Beechwood and Lynda digs herself a hole. Show more

by Tessa Gibbs
Part one of a darkly funny family drama about love, loss and legacy - and why doing the right thing can seem like the wrong thing to do. Show more

Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more

Botanist James Wong asks if the way we garden could protect us against the effects of climate change, and if we can protect our gardens against more unpredictable weather. Show more

Michael Rosen speaks with Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor at Yale University, and author of How Fascism Works. They discuss propaganda, slogans and ‘vermin terminology’. Show more

Ian Hislop presents the great life of Edward Coke, chief prosecutor at the trial of the Gunpowder plot conspiracists. Show more

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

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has defended his officers' actions, after anti-monarchy protesters were detained for hours, then released without charge

Dawn French and Edward Rowe star in a new sketch show with a Cornish flavour. Park the clichés and open your eyes to the reality of this wondrous funny and feral land. Show more

There's bad news for Tracy and Freddie stands accused. Show more

Dennis Potter’s newly discovered play, music writer Cathi Unsworth on goth culture, srtist Isaac Julien on his exhibition What Freedom is to Me, at Tate Britain. Show more

File on 4 investigates claims that children are being taught graphic and age-inappropriate material as part of their Relationship and Sex Education. Show more

We hear about a visually impaired woman who had a credit on her energy account of nearly five thousand pounds, but she was not aware of it due to a lack of large print statements. Show more

Claudia Hammond has recently received some peculiar invitations to write research articles. With quick turnaround times and questionable grammar, how legitimate are these requests? Show more

What's the difference between a gigachad and a sigma wolf? Helen Lewis enters the Manosphere to find out. Show more

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15 dead after Israeli attack on Islamic Jihad.

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Imran Khan arrested.

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Pampa Kampana attempts to make good on the task that Parvati set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. Show more

Stephen Mangan asks his guest Shaparak Khorsandi to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. From 2021. Show more

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Rebecca Struthers began studying to be a silversmith but was drawn to the craft of watchmaking which blended a delicate kind of engineering with the art of decoration and design. Show more

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