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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner, a tutor at South Wales Baptist College. Show more
Farming Today
25/06/21 - The true value of commercial woodland, Farming in Protected Areas and strawberries for Wimbledon
13 minutes
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Over a timescale of a hundred years, commercial conifer forests could be two and a half times more effective at locking away carbon than new broadleaved woodlands. Show more
David Attenborough presents the storm petrel. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Desert Island Discs
Richard Wilson, actor and director
37 minutes
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Richard Wilson, actor and director, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
Woman's Hour
Bank Note designer Debbie Marriott, Protecting the title "nurse", Author Kate Moore & "Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner"
58 minutes
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Anita Rani with Bank Note designer Debbie Marriott, Protecting the title 'nurse', Author Kate Moore and Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. Show more
Descendants
James Cleverly MP and Deadria Farmer-Paellmann
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
James Cleverly, a British government minister, and Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, an American activist and lawyer, are connected through the same tribe in Sierra Leone. Show more
Are you prepared? Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it. Award-winning comedy by Caz Moran, starring Sue Johnston and Lydia West. Show more
Her cousin has 48 hours leave. Clare can sense a change in him. She wants to know what has happened to him during the war, but John William is not ready to tell her. Show more
You and Yours
Fake Facebook Adverts; Mere; Buy Now Pay Later
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Why won't Facebook take down fake adverts scamming customers and damaging businesses? And "The Russians are coming" and promising to deliver rock bottom food prices in the UK. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
In a week that explores the tangle of trade routes that crisscrossed the globe 1000 years ago, Neil MacGregor sifts through broken pot fragments from an African beach. Show more
Alistair raises concerns and Justin digs for dirt Show more
Jake’s given a new target. And it’s someone he knows. Show more
Chinese Characters
Wang Jingwei: Revolutionary Renegade
15 minutes
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He is condemned as China's worst traitor. Yet in his early life, he had been one of the great figures of the Chinese revolution, second only to the legendary Sun Yat-sen. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Tiny Pots and Floppy Crops
42 minutes
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Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Show more
Julia Blackburn creates a fictional response to this week's news of research into Broken Heart Syndrome. A love affair, an octopus trap, a broken heart. Read by Diana Quick. Show more
Last Word
Kenneth Kaunda, Janet Malcolm, Penny Kemp, Bob Swash
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Matthew Bannister on Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, writer Janet Malcolm, campaigner Penny Kemp, producer Bob Swash. Show more
More or Less
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
28 minutes
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Should we worry about the Delta variant? Plus how much do blue tits eat? 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
25/06/2021 Hancock urged to resign after kissing aide
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Health Secretary admits breaking Covid guidelines, but PM won't sack him. Nearly160 missing after building collapse in Miami. A new species of ancient human discovered in China.
Confused about Covid rules in football? Fear not: Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand make it all crystal clear. Show more
Front Row
Siân Owen on Under Milk Wood, Nick Broomfield, Essex stereotypes in culture
41 minutes
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Siân Owen on adapting Under Milk Wood for the National Theatre, Nick Broomfield's rap documentary Last Man Standing, Michael Landy and Sadie Hasler on tackling Essex stereotypes. Show more
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth end their series in the distant universe, to focus on the imaginative role artists can play in areas exceeding the limits of what we can conceive. Show more
Any Questions?
Robert Jenrick MP, John Nicolson MP, Alastair Stewart, Emily Thornberry MP
47 minutes
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Chris Mason presents political discussion from Christ Church in Winchester with Robert Jenrick MP, John Nicolson MP, Alastair Stewart and Emily Thornberry MP. Show more
Zoe Strimpel questions what's at stake in the culture war. Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus
Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (AD 800 - 1300)
57 minutes
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Neil MacGregor continues his global history as told through objects. This week: the traders, pilgrims and raiders who swept across Europe and Asia in the 9th - 13th centuries. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Health Secretary resisting calls to resign
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Her cousin has 48 hours leave. Clare can sense a change in him. She wants to know what has happened to him during the war, but John William is not ready to tell her. Show more
A page turner with a twist, and a dog called Howard. Actor and comedian Mel Hudson and comedian Janey Godley join Harriett Gilbert. Show more
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
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Kyle Soller reads the last episode of Lopez’s masterpiece of nature writing in which he meditates on humanity’s connection and responsibility to the fragile land of the Arctic. Show more
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