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A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Lesley Carroll. Show more
Farming Today
The price of food, TB testing for goats, knowledge of the countryside.
13 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
When it comes to the price of food - too low for many who produce it, too high for many who consume it - what's the right balance? Farming Today considers the influencing factors. Show more
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
Nadia Archer of the RSPB recalls volunteering in Manchester on a peregrine watch at the Arndale Centre for Tweet of the Day. Show more
News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, British Asians and the Colonial British who witnessed the violence tell their stories. Show more
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Book of the Week
A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music. Led by Bishop David Walker. Show more
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Woman's Hour
Woman's Hour
Ruth Nabembezi, Being Bisexual, Yemen
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
More than two years of civil war in Yemen have left thousands dead and many more at risk from cholera and starvation. We discuss the impact of the crisis on women and children. Show more
Test Match Special
England v South Africa: Third Test, The Oval - Day 5
8 hours, 20 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Commentary on day five of the third Test between England and South Africa, from the Oval, with Jonathan Agnew, Simon Mann, Michael Vaughan, Geoff Boycott and Phil Tufnell. Show more
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Home Front
Test Match Special
England v South Africa: Third Test, The Oval - Day 5
8 hours, 20 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Commentary on day five of the third Test between England and South Africa, from the Oval, with Jonathan Agnew, Simon Mann, Michael Vaughan, Geoff Boycott and Phil Tufnell. Show more
Paul Gambaccini welcomes competitors from the London area and the south coast of England to the latest heat of the eclectic music quiz. Show more
Sheila Dillon is joined around the campfire by Cerys Matthews and some of the UK's leading outdoor food experts to celebrate camping and cooking. Show more
Simon Callow charts the emergence in the 50s and 60s of a new wave of openly queer artists whose defiant work wowed the art world while practising homosexuality was still illegal. Show more
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Phill Jupitus, Prof Nick Bostrom and Prof Anil Seth to ask if we are simply the product of an advanced computer simulation. Show more
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PM
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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Six O'Clock News
31/07/2017 Marine bomb maker jailed
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Royal Marine sentenced to 18 years for making pipe bombs for the Continuity IRA
A return visit to the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham for regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Jeremy Hardy and Jan Ravens on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more
Anisha is drawn in, and Alistair frets about the past. Show more
Front Row
David Walliams, Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered, Zinzi Clemmons, Jukebox musicals
30 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
David Walliams on his play Gangsta Granny; Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered; Zinzi Clemmons's novel What We Lose; jukebox musicals. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Winterbourne is torn between desire and propriety when he falls in love with Daisy Miller. With Jack Lowden. Show more
Historian Professor Fara Dabhoiwala explores the origins of religious freedom of speech, with extracts from key flashpoints in the past. Show more
Crossing Continents
Inside Transgender Pakistan
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Pakistan's Hijra, or third gender, community are resisting a new and emerging transgender identity which they believe threatens their long-established culture. Show more
Aristotle described them as the 'intestines of the earth'. They captivated Charles Darwin. Brett Westwood explores our relationship with the earthworm. From 2017. Show more
To mark the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, British Asians and the Colonial British who witnessed the violence tell their stories. Show more
The World Tonight
Maduro branded 'dictator' as US announces new sanctions
45 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's plans for a new Assembly have been condemned around the world. Show more
Amanda Craig's suspenseful, state-of-the-nation black comedy that highlights the growing disconnect between life in London and the rest of the country. Read by Amanda Lawrence. Show more
An intimate portrait of Andy Partridge, songwriter, singer and frontman of the new wave rock band XTC. From 2017. Show more
Josie Long presents stories for those far from home - unsent postcards, a last message and the journey for home. From 2017. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book telling the as-yet-untold stories of the Russian women who had fought in the Second World War. Show more
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