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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Andrea Rea
Farming Today
07/09/21 Farmers welcome E10 biofuel at the petrol pumps, Hebridean sheep
13 minutes
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E10 biofuel at the petrol pumps - but can the balance between growing for fuel or food be maintained? Show more
Chris Packham presents the Atlantic canary, singing in the Tenerife treetops. 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
Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data
41 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Prof Hannah Fry tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life as a mathematician and why, in the Age of the Algorithm, humans have never been more important. Show more
One to One
Escapes: Anna Freeman talks to Brian Robson
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Writer Anna Freeman hears what led Brian Robson to airmail himself home, from where he was working in Australia, in a crate. Show more
Woman's Hour
Michaela Coel, Lockdown in paradise, Female HGV drivers, Tribunal win
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Michaela Coel, screenwriter, director, producer and actor. We meet Zoe Stephen who spent lockdown 'stuck' in Tonga in the South Pacific. Plus the women retraining as HGV drivers. Show more
How could we warn people 100,000 years in the future about buried nuclear waste? Poet Paul Farley explores the options - from pictures and monuments to Atomic Folk Tales. Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy reveals its 21st-century meanings to Katya Adler as she travels through the first region of the afterlife with Dr Margaret Keane. With Michael Sheen as Dante. Show more
Having left the canary with Mrs Haykin, the Stevens family finally heads off to catch the train to Bognor Regis for their annual two-week holiday by the sea. Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours - How do you feel about returning to the workplace?
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
How do you feel about returning to the office? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Tolerance and Intolerance (AD 1550-1700)
Miniature of a Mughal Prince
14 minutes
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Neil MacGregor is exploring the co-existence of faiths across the globe around 400 years ago. Today, he is with a miniature painting from Mughal India. Show more
Susan comes to a terrible realisation and Ben digs himself a hole. Show more
Frank Twist and Sarah Gold go into the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and encounter a tragedy. Show more
Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. Show more
Britain's rivers are in crisis, with only 14% in a good ecological state. Tom Heap takes a canoe trip along a waterway he knows well, the River Cam, to ask what's going on. Show more
Sam Lee reveals the folklore, music, ecology and lives lived along a 215-mile secular pilgrimage along the River Thames. Show more
Great Lives
Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl
28 minutes
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Peggy Seeger picks the man she was with for 30 years - Ewan MacColl, folk singer and labour activist. 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
07/09/2021 PM outlines social care plans
30 minutes
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The Prime Minister accepted the tax increase to fund the policy broke a manifesto pledge from 2019, but said the "global pandemic was in no one's manifesto".
Comedic quiz hosted by Richard Osman posing one question - do you know how old people are? Three guests battle to prove they're the best at working out ages. Show more
Neil attempts to do the right thing and Joy finds herself manipulated. Show more
Front Row
Photographer/film-maker Shirin Neshat, author Yaa Gyasi, Michael K Williams tribute
28 minutes
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Yaa Gyasi, shortlisted for this year's Women’s Prize for Fiction, on her novel Transcendent Kingdom. Tribute to actor Michael K Williams. Photographer/film-maker Shirin Neshat. Show more
David Cannadine visits Hughenden Manor, where Disraeli wrote his most famous novels, to explore how this prime minister merged fact and fiction in his life and work. Show more
Racism has moved from football terraces to online platforms. So what's being done to stop it? Show more
Social media keeps us connected and its popularity grows year upon year. But how easy is it to use when you're visually impaired? We assess this and offer some help if you need it. Show more
Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians. Kavita Puri hears stories of the pioneering migrants from the Indian subcontinent and their children. Show more
The Life Scientific
Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data
41 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Prof Hannah Fry tells Jim Al-Khalili about her life as a mathematician and why, in the Age of the Algorithm, humans have never been more important. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
National Insurance rises to pay for NHS and social care
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Having left the canary with Mrs Haykin, the Stevens family finally heads off to catch the train to Bognor Regis for their annual two-week holiday by the sea. Show more
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane
201. Submersible Eyebrows and Nipple Descriptions, with Robert Peston
56 minutes
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Fortunately is back after a summer break. On today's podcast, Fi Glover and Jane Garvey chat to ITV Political Editor Robert Peston. Show more
Sean Curran reports on the prime minister's announcement for social care in England and MPs' reaction to it
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
The town of Kobani is under siege from Isis. Azeema, Nowruz and the soldiers in the women’s units are locked in terrifying combat with their enemies, fighting from house to house. Show more
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