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In the wake of a major racism row, can new Yorkshire County Cricket chair Kamlesh Patel deliver the club from the biggest crisis in its 158-year history? Show more
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Mark Tully discusses acts of commemoration with campaigner and Ravensbruck survivor Selma Van de Perre and introduces music and readings inspired by the wars of the last 100 years. Show more
In Japan bamboo is farmed - both for bamboo shoots as food, and for use in architecture. Nick Luscombe visits a bamboo farm about an hour north of Tokyo, to find out how it's done. Show more
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Sunday
Europe's Best Cathedrals, FW. De Klerk's faith, and could Joe Biden be banned from Communion?
44 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
William Crawley explores the week's religious and ethical news. Show more
Voice coach Mark De-Lisser makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Belong: Making Justice Happen. Show more
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Rev Dr Rosa Hunt (Co-principal, Cardiff Baptist College) and Rev Jamie Washam (Pastor, First Baptist Church in America, Rhode Island) lead a transatlantic service of remembrance. Show more
Zoe Strimpel reflects on the 'paralysis of ambivalence' in relation to motherhood. Show more
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Hawfinch. The Hawfinch exerts 180 pounds per square inch with it massive bill to crack open tough seeds to get at the soft kernels inside. Show more
The walls close in on Kirsty and Oliver’s kindness knows no bounds. Show more
Officer AD Bridges and former Second World War prisoner, John Wyatt, reflect on the impact of the final bugle call. From 2000. Show more
Live coverage from Whitehall of the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifices made in the two world wars and in more recent conflicts. Commentator: Paddy O'Connell Show more
Angela Frazer-Wicks tells her extraordinary story of being a mother. Show more
John Lloyd and Holly Walsh welcome comedian Griff Rhys Jones, writer Mary Roach and poet Lemn Sissay. From 2021. Show more
The Food Programme
Best Shop or Market of the Year: Meet the Finalists
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Leyla Kazim visits 2021’s Best Shop or Market finalists – a food co-op, farm shop and market which are supporting local production and communities, and creating local food networks Show more
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Edward Stourton looks at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world.
Three powerful men-only chats about PTSD, how to be a modern man and racism in sport. Fi Glover presents. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT from the Archives: Winter Special
42 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Kathy Clugston has a look through the GQT archive for this special winter edition of the show. Show more
Lynsey Hanley looks at controversial proposals for a large housing development surrounding Ian and Angela's converted oast house in Tudeley, Kent. Show more
E*** comes to terms with their true identity after reading a genderless love story and discovering the gay club scene. Show more
Open Book
The diaries of Patricia Highsmith; Contemporary views of the American West
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Chris Power talks to Stella Duffy and Anna Von Planta about Patricia Highsmith's notebooks and diaries, published for the first time a century after the iconic author's birth Show more
What's the line of poetry that will live in your head forever? Vanessa Kisuule tells the stories of poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them again and again. Show more
How some businesses claimed furlough payments while employees carried on working. Show more
In the wake of a major racism row, can new Yorkshire County Cricket chair Kamlesh Patel deliver the club from the biggest crisis in its 158-year history? Show more
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Six O'Clock News
14/11/2021 PM hails "historic" climate deal
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Boris Johnson says Cop deal sounds death knell for coal
Sangita Myska chooses the best of BBC audio this week. Show more
Roy’s walking on egg shells while Jennifer’s feelings are bruised. Show more
Stephen Mangan asks his guest David Quantick to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. From 2021. Show more
The next story in a new series for Radio 4. Little Purlington might seem like an ordinary Essex village, but is anything but. Today: secrets and lies from the local teen rebel... Show more
As COP26 comes to a conclusion, listeners put their questions to the BBC’s outgoing Science Editor David Shukman. Show more
Last Word
Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Matthew Bannister on diplomat Sir Archie Lamb, record producer John Boyden, 'refusenik' Ida Nudel, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr. Show more
Money Box
Problems with eco-homes and equity release
31 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Can you borrow money against your environmentally-friendly house, problems with universal credit, and how crooks are stealing the one-time passcodes that should be protecting you. Show more
Voice coach Mark De-Lisser makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Belong: Making Justice Happen. Show more
Birth rates in many countries are getting lower and societies are aging. Clare McNeil asks if we should worry about this or welcome it to mitigate climate change Show more
Carolyn Quinn assesses the Cop summit with former Cabinet minister Robert Buckland, Labour frontbencher Sarah Jones, former government adviser Mo Hussein and journalist Jess Elgot. Show more
Will a venomous snake die if it bites itself? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate toxic animals. From 2021. Show more
Mark Tully discusses acts of commemoration with campaigner and Ravensbruck survivor Selma Van de Perre and introduces music and readings inspired by the wars of the last 100 years. Show more
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Matthew Syed examines what happens when we’re rendered speechless, and how we can find words when we need them most. Show more
Bells on Sunday comes from Worcester Cathedral Show more
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