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Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at UCL, picks five elements that enhance our lives. Today it's aluminium, once fashionable as cutlery but now used in cans, bicycles and tinsel Show more
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Helen Mark rediscovers her local landscape on the shore of Lough Foyle, overlooked by the dramatic peak of Binevenagh, and marvels at its winter wildlife spectacles. Show more
Farming Today
02/01/21 Farming Today This Week: Rewilding to create a private nature reserve
25 minutes
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Jonathan Thomson grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand, now in retirement, he's created a nature reserve - Underhill Wood in Wiltshire. It's a place of ecology and education. Show more
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Saturday Live
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
1 hour, 27 minutes
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TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, thriller writer CJ Daugherty, spoken word poet Isi the Scribe, baker Lynsey Bleakley and the Inheritance Tracks of author Andrew O’Hagan. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science
39 minutes
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Dr Adam Rutherford, Prof Alice Roberts and Prof Brian Cox look back on a decade of science that has transformed perceptions of our medicine, our history and our universe. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Key moments of 2020 reported by our correspondents
28 minutes
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Reflecting on key moments of 2020 with some of the most thought provoking dispatches by our correspondents. Show more
The future of our finances over the next 20 years. Can low interest rates continue? Will property become more affordable? And will Covid have a lasting impact on the way we work? Show more
Andy Zaltzman looks back at 2020 in a 'Best of the Worst Year' episode of the satirical news show. Show more
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Correspondents' Look Ahead
Looking Ahead to 2021
47 minutes
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After a year dominated by a global pandemic and the US election, BBC correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2021 might have in store. Show more
Comedian Doc Brown activates the flux capacitor back to the world of 21 January 1981, when the first DeLorean car rolled off the assembly line in Belfast. Show more
As Spider struggles to stay alive, Fat Charlie travels across the world in search of help. However both brothers, and the ones they love, are in more danger than they know. Show more
Woman's Hour
A farewell to Jane Garvey, Women on the moon, Ageing well
56 minutes
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Elizabeth Day gives Jane Garvey an exit interview. Plus, what are the qualities women need to succeed as astronauts? Show more
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Great Lives
Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson
28 minutes
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Acclaimed author and screen-writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce champions Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
02/01/2021 Pressure grows for English schools to stay shut
15 minutes
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Teaching unions have told primary school staff it is unsafe to return to work, and called for remote learning.
Loose Ends
Cerys Matthews, Adjoa Andoh, Melissa Johns, Tanita Tikaram, David Morrissey, Clive Anderson
38 minutes
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Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined, amongst others, by Cerys Matthews, Adjoa Andoh and Melissa Johns for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
The activist tennis star set to light up the Tokyo Olympics this year - featuring an exclusive interview with tennis legend Billie Jean King. Show more
Poet and author Michael Rosen is reunited with the intensive care staff who cared for him during his battle with coronavirus - a harrowing experience which has changed them all. Show more
Historian David Kynaston explores the way the villagers of Ambridge and beyond have reflected the seismic shifts in British society across the last seven decades. Show more
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Pilgrim discovers that an old friend is being haunted by a malevolent spirit. Meanwhile, homeless people are disappearing from a local shelter. Show more
Why do countries have an age of consent? If it's to protect young children from predatory adults, why isn't it set universally across the globe? Show more
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Grounded with Louis Theroux
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1 hour, 15 minutes
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Comedian, writer and mental-health campaigner Ruby Wax talks to Louis Theroux about meeting Donald Trump, turning her back on television and how Louis's face put Ruby off her food. Show more
Paul Gambaccini hosts the wide-ranging music quiz with contestants from around the UK Show more
Ian's choice of poems ranges through George Mackay Brown, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, and Roger reads a poem he composed especially for Ian. Show more
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Peter White on the search for 'miracle cures' in his history of disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries. From May 2013. Show more
An original short work for radio by Merryn Glover.
A mathematician shares her New Year rituals with a young visitor.
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