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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Bishop Jo Bailey Wells Show more
Farming Today
19/12/19: Rural mobile phone signal, Broiler sensors, Reindeer, Fish quotas.
14 minutes
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A farmer who was seriously injured in an accident describes how the lack of rural mobile phone signal could have cost him his life. And what happens to fish quotas after Brexit? Show more
Tweet of the Day
Alison Steadman - The Twelve Tweets of Christmas 2 of 12
2 minutes
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Alison Steadman provides a seasonal offering from Tweet of the Day for the Christmas period. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and poetry from Europe before WWII, reflecting on his travels to Spain, China and Germany and the rise of totalitarianism. Show more
Woman's Hour
50:50 Parliament. Women and wargaming. Developing language skills. Christmas social burn out.
45 minutes
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50;50 Parliament. The woman on a mission to make women more visible in the world of wargaming. Plus Professor Usha Goswami, an expert on children’s language development. Show more
Bill Nighy & Anna Calder Marshall return in A.L. Kennedy's drama about love in later life.
John is convinced that Maggie is having an affair. Show more
Crossing Continents
Finland's Race to Go Carbon Neutral
29 minutes
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The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change: battling the peat extraction industry and re-wilding peat fields. But can he overcome vested interests? Show more
Sketches: Stories of Art and People
Come Together
28 minutes
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The writer Anna Freeman presents a showcase of true stories about the meaning of arts in people's lives. Show more
“When men know they won’t be found out, they will do anything”. Michelle Paver's 1930s ghost story read by Lee Ingleby. Show more
You and Yours
Fashion and Gaming; Packaged Bank Accounts; Cornishware Revival;
40 minutes
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The entrepreneurs who bought the ailing Cornishware company after the crash. Ten years on the distinctive blue and white pottery is thriving and production is back in the UK. Show more
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Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.
James Naughtie finds the heartbeat of history in the front page small ads of old UK newspapers. The Oxford Times, 7 May 1926. Show more
Phoebe tries to make amends and Brian issues some home truths. Show more
A little Jewish girl's unorthodox belief in Santa Claus is threatened by her panicking father. Adam Usden's heartwarming comedy drama stars William Ash and Ophelia Lovibond. Show more
Open Country
Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade
25 minutes
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Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley examines how the transatlantic slave trade has shaped Bristol and meets some of the people who are redressing how the city's story is told. Show more
Grace Dent makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Prisoners' Education Trust. Show more
Open Book
Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse, Family rows in novels and child prodigies
28 minutes
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Benjamin Markovits talks about his latest novel Christmas in Austin, an intimate and multi-layered story of one family's conflicts, love and enduring loyalty. Show more
Florence Pugh on Little Women. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
30 minutes
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Citizen science platform Zooniverse is 10 years old; imaging the aftermath of volcano Anak Krakatau's dramatic collapse and a look at how we visualise maths and physics Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
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Six O'Clock News
19/12/2019 Queen's Speech: Johnson promises new golden age for UK
30 minutes
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Proposals include delivering Brexit, NHS funding & long jail terms for violent criminals.
Tom Allen's calm and collected exterior image has collapsed, and he has finally realised that he is actually not very nice. Show more
Tom discovers some worrying information and there’s an early Christmas present for Kirsty. Show more
Front Row
Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
28 minutes
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Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze and Robert De Niro on reuniting with Martin Scorsese in The Irishman Show more
Bill Nighy & Anna Calder Marshall return in A.L. Kennedy's drama about love in later life.
John is convinced that Maggie is having an affair. Show more
'Get Brexit Done' was the slogan that helped the Tories win the election. David Aaronovitch explores how the government might achieve this aim and how long that could take. Show more
The area around Chernobyl was once home to large, prosperous and lively collective farms, until the reactor's explosion in 1986. How's the local economy now recovering? Show more
BBC Inside Science
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Citizen science platform Zooniverse is 10 years old; imaging the aftermath of volcano Anak Krakatau's dramatic collapse and a look at how we visualise maths and physics Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and poetry from Europe before WWII, reflecting on his travels to Spain, China and Germany and the rise of totalitarianism. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Queens Speech: “strengthening the union” a central theme
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
“When men know they won’t be found out, they will do anything”. Michelle Paver's 1930s ghost story read by Lee Ingleby. Show more
Ian brings home a new girlfriend. His family all have their own thoughts and hopes about her. Stars Alison Steadman. From 2017. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Tove has been in a relationship with politician and newspaper editor Atos Wirtanen for over a year. Read by Sarah Lambie. Show more
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