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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Zahid Hussain. Show more
Farming Today
13/04/21 - UK Trade and Business Commission, Exports to the EU, Selling brown wool
13 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
A cross-party independent commission has been set up to suggest ways to improve the new EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and smooth current difficulties. Show more
Large numbers of visitors come to Skomer just to see puffins, however for seabird zoologist Tim Birkhead puffins are monumentally dull birds, in this Tweet of the Day. 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.
The Life Scientific
Theresa Marteau on how to change behaviour
27 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Prof Dame Theresa Marteau tells Jim Al-Khalili why she changed her mind about how to change behaviour. Show more
One to One
OCD: Tuppence Middleton talks to Gazal Jones
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Actress Tuppence Middleton talks to clinical psychologist Dr Gazal Jones about her OCD. What's going on in the brain? And what's the best way to get treatment? Show more
Woman's Hour
Shirley Williams, New Mums & Jury Service, Flexible Working
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Show more
Moon and Gnac from Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo, dramatised by Toby Jones and starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. Show more
Our modern comfortable way of life is only made possible by burning through a finite stock of fossilised chemical energy. Show more
Renowned baritone Roderick Williams picks his highlights from over three centuries of opera in Britain and discovers what our opera story can tell us about British identity. Show more
Sameer is relaxing into the rhythms of Ugandan life with wealthy family friends, the Shahs.
Read by Sacha Dhawan and Vincent Ebrahim Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours: What is it like trying to buy or sell a home at the moment?
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Tell us what it's like just now if you're trying to move house, or get on to the property ladder for the first time.
Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk and leave your number. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
The Northern Bank Job
Episode Seven: Burning Embers
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
It was the biggest bank heist in British and Irish criminal history. Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery. Show more
Jazzer’s out to impress while christening plans leave Alice ragged.
Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. Written by David Ashton.
Episode two: A Man Of Honour. Mulholland is challenged to a duel. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more
How well protected is Britain's coast and its wildlife after Brexit? Chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall joins Peter Gibbs to examine the health of our seas. Show more
Michael Rosen and BBC presenter Ben Boulos talk about how we change names. Show more
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart. 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
13/04/2021 Johnson & Johnson suspends rollout of Covid vaccine
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
The rollout of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine is put on hold due to safety concerns
Collection of lockdown recordings pondering questions around birth. Do twins share a soul or get one each? From 2021. Show more
Kate demands to be heard while Harrison offers an ear. Show more
Front Row
Ammonite; Jack Holden's play Cruise; Voices from the Peak
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Review of Ammonite, which stars Kate Winslet as Mary Anning; Jack Holden's play Cruise, set in 1980s Soho; Mark Gwynne Jones celebrates the Peak Districk through word and sound. Show more
Innsmouth is not what Kennedy expected. Heawood gets a surprise in Iraq. Stars Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter. Show more
Emily is a wheelchair-user deciding if she wants a baby with her partner, CJ. The pair go looking for advice, including from the UK's highest-profile disabled parent, Alison Lapper. Show more
Why large numbers of children are missing out on learning daily living skills. And the blind footballer who's turning his passion for the beautiful game into a business. Show more
Chris van Tulleken on the human behaviours that are causing pandemics, paying the price for getting too close to animals by degrading their territory and allowing viruses to jump. Show more
The Life Scientific
Theresa Marteau on how to change behaviour
27 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Prof Dame Theresa Marteau tells Jim Al-Khalili why she changed her mind about how to change behaviour. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Russian military build-up on Ukrainian border
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Sameer is relaxing into the rhythms of Ugandan life with wealthy family friends, the Shahs.
Read by Sacha Dhawan and Vincent Ebrahim Show more
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane
‘A burst of hamstery energy’, with Dame Esther Rantzen
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Dame Esther Rantzen, ‘proper legend’ of broadcasting, is whisked into a private room in Broadcasting House for a chat with Fi and Jane. From November 2018. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
Ep 2 - In Which Miss Pym Tours Germany
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LW
In Paula Byrne's shrewd new biography of one of the twentieth century's wittiest novelists, Barbara Pym's broken heart is mended in 1930s Germany. Hattie Morahan reads. Show more
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BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.
