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National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
A reading and a reflection to start the day with Father Christopher Hancock, a Catholic priest working in the Archdiocese of Cardiff
Farming Today
Vet shortages, farmers fight 'anti-red meat agenda' and salad pickers
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
Vets go back on list of occupations facing shortages. Salad farmers say they still struggle to find pickers. Scottish meat industry fights what it sees as 'anti-red meat agenda'. Show more
Michaela Strachan presents the golden eagle. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in rebuilding America in the decade after the Civil War and his impact on African-Americans and Native Americans. Show more
Award-winning writer and comedian Deborah Frances-White continues her global search for her birth father. From 2016. Show more
Jim puts his foot in it and Alistair offers support Show more
Front Row
Aladdin composer Alan Menken, Amitav Ghosh, Georgia boycott
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Alan Menken on creating the music for Aladdin and many other Disney classics, and Amitav Ghosh discusses climate change and displacement in his latest novel, Gun Island. Show more
Sigrid and Canute manage to escape their Saxon captors but their fate hangs in the balance. Starring Hollie Burgess. Show more
A premiere of Bob Chilcott’s Samba Mass live from St Martin-in-the-Fields. The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Rev Stephen Cottrell is the preacher. Show more
Dr Adam Rutherford discusses how mathematics underpins science with mathematician Steven Strogatz, climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh and molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in rebuilding America in the decade after the Civil War and his impact on African-Americans and Native Americans. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Tory leadership contest: too many candidates ?
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Boris Johnson one of 12 MPs who now think they can be Prime Minister Show more
1976, Johannesburg: times are changing fast. 100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman. Show more
Jo Brand hosts the show looking back on all those VIPs who are RIP this week, such as film producer Chip Brockleman, Instagram star Olivia Eating and scientist Virginia Dunt. Show more
Steph was adopted and has never met her birth family. Now for the first time she has decided to try and find them. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Anne Frank would have been 90 this year had she survived the Holocaust. Readings from her diary by Georgia Groome. Show more
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