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Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day, with the Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. Show more
Farming Today
Flood protection, Outsourcing food production, Mob grazing, OFC look-ahead
13 minutes
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The Environment Agency's chairman faces questions from MPs on flooding. Plus a Yorkshire farmer whose land has been inundated eight times since 2000. Show more
Chris Packham presents the nocturnal red-necked nightjar of the Spanish countryside. Show more
Sean Curran reports as David Cameron says ministers can campaign for either side in the EU referendum, and Labour challenges ministers over their response to the recent floods. Show more
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Thinking Allowed
The end of 'careers', Humour at work
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Laurie Taylor explores personal identity in an era of uncertain working lives and looks at how humour helps employees cope with change. Show more
The Media Show
Scotland culture minister Fiona Hyslop, Children's social media, Walter Presents
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Scotland's culture minister Fiona Hyslop discusses BBC spending in Scotland. Do journalists unfairly exploit children's social media? And a new foreign language TV channel. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
Labour reshuffle leads to resignations.
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Labour reshuffle leads to resignations. UK calls for more sanctions against North Korea.
Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien. Includes an awful shop assistant and a pair of terrible bedroom DJs. From 2016. Show more
Phoebe calls for moral support, and Helen feels hopeful. Show more
Front Row
Pierre Boulez obituary, Costa Biography winner, Tracy Ullman review; Bolshoi Babylon
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Pierre Boulez obituary with Nicholas Kenyon and George Benjamin; Andrea Wulf, winner of the Costa Biography Award; Tracey Ullman's TV show; behind the scenes at the Bolshoi Show more
Paul D's arrival at 124 Bluestone Road has rid the house of the ghost that had haunted it for years. But any sense of victory he might have is short-lived. Show more
Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live discussion with top journalists as they debate what three newspaper-style editorials should say about the main stories in the news. Show more
Michelle Madsen makes the case for life on Britain's rivers and canals. Show more
Philip Ball on the world's first submarine, invented by Cornelis Drebbel in 1621. How did the crew breathe underwater 150 years before oxygen was officially discovered? Show more
Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners
Looking at Your Phone
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for years
David Mitchell's inquiry into the state of modern manners leads him to an assertiveness class. Should he always say sorry? And Sherry Turkle discusses the death of conversation. Show more
The World Tonight
Siege warfare - are civilians being starved to death in Syria?
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Are people being starved to death in siege warfare in Syria? Are race relations worsening in Germany? The attacks in Cologne are discussed. And humanist chaplains in hospitals. Show more
The backpackers make it to the off-limit island in the Marine Park and travel overland to where they believe 'the beach' to be. Along the way they meet natural and human terrors. Show more
What do long term partners really argue about? Frank Skinner's sharp comedy with Katherine Parkinson. From 2016. Show more
Ian Leslie presents the spoof documenting the early literary efforts of famous writers, including the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Barbara Cartland. From November 2013. Show more
Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the first PMQs of 2016, including questions on floods and Shakespeare.
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