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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with novelist and poet Zahid Hussain. Show more
Nick Robinson talks about what’s really going on in British politics.
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Clare gets lost in the rain as she walks to meet two extraordinary sisters in their 90s. Both were code-breakers during WWII, and one invented the TV classic, Ask the Family. Show more
To conclude Farming Today's week on salad, Anna Jones visits a farm in Warwickshire to see the lettuce harvest. Show more
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Saturday Live
Anneka Rice, Dustin Lance Black, Paul Young
1 hour, 27 minutes
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Anneka Rice on her fictional agent 'Clemmie Hart', Gail Renard recalls John and Yoko's famous Bed In for peace, Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black and Paul Young's Inheritance Tracks. Show more
Rewinder
Three: Two World Cups and a Sausage on a Stick
28 minutes
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Radio 1 Breakfast Show host and self-described 'radio nerd' Greg James rummages through the BBC's archives, using current stories as a portal to the past. Show more
The life of a prison camp survivor whose writing proved how inhumane life in the Gulag had been. With Solzhenitsyn scholars Daniel Mahoney, Elisa Kriza and Leona Toker Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
A Very Brussels Welcome
28 minutes
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New MEPS are given the lowdown on local apartments and Belgian tax returns and Maoist era loudspeaker systems are making a comeback in China. Show more
A ban on lettings fees comes into force, spotting the signs of elderly financial abuse, TSB's fraud guarantee and hopes of retrospective redress for fraud victims. Show more
Last in the series. And the last with the genial Miles Jupp in the chair. He is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons and Simon Evans. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. Show more
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Any Questions?
Lord Falconer, Belinda de Lucy MEP, Layla Moran MP, Jeremy Wright MP
47 minutes
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Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from The David Evans Court Theatre in Tring, Herts, with Lord Falconer, Belinda de Lucy MEP, Layla Moran MP and Jeremy Wright MP. Show more
Twelve hats are now in the ring for the Conservative leadership. But whoever wins, what do you think they will make of the task ahead? Show more
By James Fritz. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars in a powerful re-imagining of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's final moments as he hurtles towards earth. Directed by Becky Ripley. Show more
4 Extra Debut. A professor who has spent his career scanning distant galaxies, finally turns his gaze closer to home. Read by Grant O'Rourke. Show more
Comedian and music obsessive Gabriel Ebulue investigates a karaoke curse in the Philippines, where performances of Frank Sinatra’s My Way have been linked to multiple murders. Show more
Woman's Hour
Eve Ensler, Dress codes at work, Women's sexual desires
57 minutes
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Eve Ensler on why she's written her new book The Apology. Can having a dress code at work affect productivity? Kimberle Crenshaw on intersectionality. Changing ideas about women's sexual desires Show more
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.
Antibiotic resistance is a global problem. No new drugs have been produced since the 1980s. So who is to blame? The public's over-consumption or the economics of Pharma companies? Show more
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Six O'Clock News
01/06/2019 Migrant boats intercepted
15 minutes
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Nine boats carrying migrants have been intercepted in the Channel off Kent - in what a local MP has said is a record for a single day.
Loose Ends
Renee Fleming, Armistead Maupin, Rina Fatania, Chris Mullin, PP Arnold, Arthur Smith, Clive Anderson
38 minutes
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Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Renee Fleming for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from PP Arnold. Show more
Sonita Alleyne is the first black woman to lead an Oxbridge college. Show more
Saturday Review
Starry Messenger, Thunder Road, This Brutal House, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, Good Omens
51 minutes
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Matthew Broderick in The Starry Messenger, Award-wining film Thunder Road, Niven Govinden's This Brutal House, Hauser and Wirth Somerset: Unconscious Landscape, Good Omens Show more
Archive on 4
A Saga of Trying (and Failing) to Save the Planet
57 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. Professor Alice Roberts delves into the archives to find out how to save planet Earth from climate peril. From 2019. Show more
Comedian Al Murray plays his great, great, great grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray as the unreliable narrator in this new dramatisation by Jim Poyser. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Jonathan Sumption explains how democracy has the unique power to accommodate opposing opinions and interests. Show more
Four more competitors, this week from Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire, join Russell Davies for the general knowledge quiz Show more
Karen McCarthy Woolf, the award-winning poet of Jamaican-British heritage, joins Roger McGough. Show more
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A father frantically searches a busy high street after losing sight of his son. Read by Stuart Graham. Show more
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