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National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Baroness Julia Neuberger, Rabbi of West London Synagogue. Show more
Farming Today
31/01/20 Environment Bill, Cheesemakers and Brexit, US Agriculture Secretary, Sustainable scallops.
13 minutes
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Today is the last day the UK is part of the EU. As the Environment Bill is back in Parliament, we ask what environmental regulation will look like post-Brexit. Show more
John Aitchison presents the golden pheasant. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
Anne Enright, writer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
Woman's Hour
Rachel Clarke, DBS Checks, Home Schooling
45 minutes
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Colman opens the letter left to him by his dead father - his father who used to be a woman. Jackie Kay's novel is dramatised by Tanika Gupta. Stars Adjoa Andoh and Maureen Beattie Show more
V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums and galleries around the world are responding to twenty-first century challenges. Show more
Craig has decided to go back home to help disadvantaged kids transform their lives. Two problems - they don't want his help and he's got the wrong keys to unlock their potential. Show more
By Robert Harris. Fairfax and Lady Durston finally encounter the heretic and scholar Nicholas Shadwell at a public meeting. Show more
You and Yours
Crowdfunded weddings; West Midlands trains; Debt advice
39 minutes
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Are some forms of debt advice leaving people worse off? Show more
The latest weather forecast
Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Northern Ireland-Healing History?
14 minutes
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Historian Priya Atwal concludes her examination of how national history is told across the globe with the story of Northern Ireland. Teaching during deep divisions to post conflict Show more
Neil faces a dilemma and Jim defies expectations. Show more
Eoin McNamee's thriller about the exploitation and trafficking of foreign migrants. Starring Denise Gough. Show more
Peter Gibbs and the team are in the Cotswolds answering the audience's questions. Show more
Short Works
Something Less Than Our Best by Max Sydney Smith
14 minutes
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4 Extra Debut. A funny and forlorn tale about working in a bar 'where something less than our best is more than enough'. Read by Rose Lucas. Show more
Last Word
Nicholas Parsons CBE, Mary Craig, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, Kobe Bryant
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, writer Mary Craig, politician Lord Maclennan, basketballl star Kobe Bryant Show more
Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and emotion and an answer to author Bill Bryon's question about guns and homicide rates. With Tim Harford. Show more
The Listening Project
Mandy and Sharon - The power of tea
4 minutes
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Friends discuss the power of tea and solace volunteering at the local community centre. Fi Glover presents. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
The UK will leave the European Union at 11pm tonight
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Nish Kumar Show more
Kirsty faces a shock and Josh holds his hands up. Show more
Front Row
Agnieszka Holland on Mr Jones, Risk Season - Failure, Timur Vermes
28 minutes
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Agnieszka Holland on film Mr Jones about the journalist who exposed Stalin's genocidal famine. German novelist Timur Vermes. And what happens when art fails? Show more
Colman opens the letter left to him by his dead father - his father who used to be a woman. Jackie Kay's novel is dramatised by Tanika Gupta. Stars Adjoa Andoh and Maureen Beattie Show more
Any Questions?
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Ken Clarke, Richard Holden MP, Lord Mann
47 minutes
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Chris Mason chairs political debate from Aston Parish Church in Birmingham with Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Ken Clarke, Richard Holden MP, and Lord Mann. Show more
A Point of View
Saving the planet - on hands and knees
9 minutes
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Howard Jacobson on why he’s abandoned his extravagant ways and taken to folding plastic bags on his hands and knees! Show more
This week's Archive on 4 goes backwards in time to find the roots and routes of Brexit. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
UK leaves the European Union
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster
Goodbye to the European Parliament, hello to Post-Brexit Westminster, and is it doomsday for doffing, the traditional hat-waving in parliamentary ceremonies - Mark D'Arcy reports Show more
The Listening Project
Eugene and Christopher- Being male social workers
4 minutes
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Friends and fellow social workers talk about how they might appear to the kids they help. Fi Glover presents. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Siobhan Redmond reads the late Deborah Orr's powerful memoir of a childhood in the Scottish steel town of Motherwell with a mother who didn't always mother well. Show more
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