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National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rachel Gardner, director of a charity which specialises in innovative youth work. Show more
Harriet Beveridge says we don't take humour seriously enough and thinks it's a woefully misunderstood and underused tool. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.
Helen Mark visits the Isle of Eels in the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens for its annual eel day festival. Show more
Sybil Ruscoe visits Cobrey Farms in Herefordshire where they harvest for nine months a year and talks to owner Henry Chinn about sugar snap peas, blueberries and seasonal workers. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Shaun Keaveny and Aasmah Mir meet Skin from Skunk Anansie, actor Lisa Faulkner, writer Joel Golby and neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett. With Inheritance Tracks from George RR Martin. Show more
Saturday Review
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Actually, Dora Maurer, Tea Obreht
50 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Actually at Trafalgar Studios, Dora Maurer at Tate Britain, Tea Obreht: Inland and Andrew Davies' ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Sanditon. Show more
Line of Duty’s Jed Mercurio leads programme-makers, contributors and writers in a discussion of modern storytelling, from R4’s The Untold to TV’s Sex Education. Grace Dent chairs Show more
Inspector Chen has fallen from the Party's grace, but he is back on the case when a serial murderer is on the loose in the ever-thickening smog of Shanghai. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Unreliable Evidence
Misconduct in Public Office
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Clive Anderson and guests asks if the law against Misconduct in Public Office is ineffectual and in urgent need of reform. Show more
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as students at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge take on their professors. From August 2019. Show more
Outgoing poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and other writers respond to the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. Presented by Ian McMillan in front of an audience in Manchester. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, a moving story of love and inheritance. Read by Kay McAllister Show more
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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