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A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Lesley Carroll. Show more
Cumbria has had its first TB outbreak in almost 30 years. David Gregory Kumar asks if Scottish farmers should be concerned the disease will spread over the border 30 miles away. Show more
Tweet of the Day
Tiffany Francis on the Yellowhammer
1 minute
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Tiffany Francis recalls her encounters with yellowhammers at the Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. Show more
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Show more
Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by the Rev Roy Jenkins. Show more
Test Match Special
England v South Africa: Third Test, Old Trafford - Day 1
8 hours, 20 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
Commentary on day one of the fourth Test between England and South Africa, from Old Trafford, with Jonathan Agnew, Alison Mitchell, Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell and Graeme Smith. Show more
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Test Match Special
England v South Africa: Third Test, Old Trafford - Day 1
8 hours, 20 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWCommentary on day one of the fourth Test between England and South Africa, from Old Trafford, with Jonathan Agnew, Alison Mitchell, Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell and Graeme Smith. Show more
John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan welcome comic Phill Jupitus, criminologist Roger Graef and Bake Off’s Prue Leith. From 2017. Show more
Oliver decides it is time to move on, and Alistair shows his hand.
Front Row
Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues
30 minutes
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Irvine Welsh, bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon Stone Butch Blues. Show more
When Winterbourne discovers Daisy alone with Giovanelli at the Colosseum, he must confront her. With John Lynch as the author. Show more
Any Questions?
Stella Creasy MP, Nigel Evans MP, Owen Jones, Kate Andrews
48 minutes
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Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London with a panel including Kate Andrews, Stella Creasy MP, Nigel Evans MP and Owen Jones. Show more
Adam Gopnik reflects on why musical theatre makes its makers miserable. He should know - he's just finished an eight week run of a musical he wrote! Show more
Home Front - Omnibus
Episode 80: 31 July - 4 August 1917 (Season 11 start)
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for years
The first omnibus of Season 11, Broken and Mad, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when the battle of Passchendaele began. Show more
The World Tonight
Leo Varadkar expresses frustration at the pace of the Brexit negoitiations
45 minutes
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An Irish senator says the answer to Brexit is not hard, not soft, just reunification. Show more
Despite the long hours and low pay working in the pie factory, Xan is finding new purpose as a wage-earner. Amanda Craig's state-of-the-nation novel, read by Amanda Lawrence. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Maxine Peake nominates her working class hero the Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more
Josie Long presents stories about pausing from a house stopped in time to difficulties watching your child grow up. From 2017. Show more
The Listening Project
Clare and Ruth - Climbing the Ladder
5 minutes
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They met on the first brick-laying course for women and have supported each other through life in the construction industry ever since. Fi Glover presents. 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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