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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop David Walker. Show more
Farming Today
16/04/21 Peak District turns 70. Dealing with visitors to Scottish countryside. Welsh fishermen. The stink beetle pest.
13 minutes
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The Peak District National Park turns 70, rural communities in Scotland brace themselves as lockdown eases, insects to control bugs, and the impact of Brexit on fishermen in Wales. Show more
Tweet of the Day
Tristan Gooley on the Wood Pigeon
2 minutes
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Writer Tristan Gooley on the wood pigeon. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
The latest news from Westminster as the ex Cabinet minister who advises former ministers before they take up jobs in the private sector calls for an urgent change to the rules.
Kirsty Wark brings together some of those who fought to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a catastrophic blowout in 2010. Show more
Woman's Hour
Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May
44 minutes
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Imelda May- an Irish singer-songwriter discovered by Jools Holland. Jury free rape trials in Scotland? Choosing to live in a van. Show more
Smoke, Wind and Soap-Bubbles from Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo, dramatised by Toby Jones and starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones Show more
The Prime Minister at 300
A job for the fourth century
28 minutes
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Sir Anthony Seldon examines how the role of prime minister has changed in 300 years. Show more
A showbiz journey from the great American songbook to the biggest-selling single to have never been a hit Stateside. From 2019. Show more
Echoing an earlier generation, Sameer returns to Uganda to be with the woman he loves.
Read by Vincent Ebrahim and Sacha Dhawan Show more
You and Yours
Bank Fraud Failure, Offline Shopping, Disabled Transport
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
The bank that warned a man he was being defrauded but still allowed him to send money to criminals. Alternative ways to shop for people who aren't online. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
The Northern Bank Job
Episode Ten: This Country
15 minutes
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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
Alice crosses a line and Lee is a model son-in-law. Show more
Drama by Henry Darke. Jay is on his first posting as an observer on a deep sea trawler off South America. It is a dangerous world where nothing is quite what it seems. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Perfect Holes and Motivating Goals
42 minutes
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Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural Q&A with a virtual audience. Show more
Continuing the Swipe Right series of love stories, We'd Need To Manage It by Naoise Dolan is set at a Dublin house party where old friends reconnect. It's read by Evanna Lynch. Show more
Last Word
Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on politician Baroness Williams, Nasa flight director Glynn Lunney and historian Lyn Macdonald. Show more
Criticism of the BBC for programme changes made after the death of HRH the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is unprecedented. Did the corporation get its response badly wrong? 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
16/04/2021 Head of Britain's military disappointed at US decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan
30 minutes
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The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, has expressed disappointment at President Biden's decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.
Andy Zaltzman is back for a new series of news quizzing with guests this week, Hugo Rifkind, Susie McCabe, Daliso Chaponda and Lucy Porter. Show more
Front Row
Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, Helen McCrory remembered, Mare of Easttown
42 minutes
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Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, Susannah Clapp remembers Helen McCrory, Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown reviewed, Cyber crime in the publishing world. Show more
Can Heawood believe the startling new information from Melody Cartright? Stars Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter. Show more
Any Questions?
Andrew RT Davies, Jane Dodds, Vaughan Gething, Delyth Jewell
47 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from BBC Wales Central Square in Cardiff with Andrew RT Davies, Jane Dodds, Vaughan Gething and Delyth Jewell. Show more
Michael Morpurgo reflects on what the Duke of Edinburgh's legacy teaches us about investing in young people. Show more
Helen Skelton looks back at the history of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Spotlight on US policing
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Echoing an earlier generation, Sameer returns to Uganda to be with the woman he loves.
Read by Vincent Ebrahim and Sacha Dhawan Show more
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
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The Archbishop of York leads a meditation on the eve of the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Show more
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