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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father Luigi Gioia. Show more
Farming Today
21/02/22 Future of Farming, ELMs payments, and Scotland's forests
11 minutes
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All this week on Farming Today we’re talking about what the future of farming looks like. Show more
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
Tweet of the Day
Tiffany Francis on the Corncrake
1 minute
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Tiffany Francis recalls not realising she has seen a corncrake on Lunga for Tweet of the Day. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Start the Week
Wealth, influence and the global elite
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman discuss money, power and class, with Tom Sutcliffe Show more
Woman's Hour
Disabled children and exercise, Women escaping domestic abuse, and 'rent farming', Whistler's Woman in White
57 minutes
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Disabled children and their families help to develop new advice on physical activity guidelines from UK's chief medical officers. Show more
Catrin Nye investigates the glamorous design company that tricked its own staff into believing it was real - through an online universe of fake profiles,and stolen work. Show more
Loose Ends
Monica Dolan, Isis Davis, C.K. McDonnell, Tim Key, Anaïs Mitchell, K.O.G, George Egg, Clive Anderson
38 minutes
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Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Isis Davis, Monica Dolan, C.K. McDonnell and Tim Key for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
In this lyrical debut, two women navigate love, loss and motherhood in the closing days of the Second World War. Read by Lorna Nickson Brown and Morfydd Clark Show more
You and Yours
Gambling Reforms, Fake Eyelashes, Storm Update
39 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Luscious lashes are big business - from lash extensions, lash tinting, to false lashes. Have you tried lash extensions? Let us know youandyours@bbc.co.uk Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
How a wine bug that devastated France may have led to the Algerian War of Independence. Show more
Pip finds herself unstuck and Alice takes a step in the right direction Show more
Jack (Paul Copley) and Freddie (Lorn MacDonald) meet every Tuesday evening to dance. Or try to. Written by Miriam Battye and directed by Becky Ripley. Show more
Three competitors join Paul Gambaccini for radio's toughest music quiz, covering all genres and aspects of music. Show more
The Food Programme
Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World's Rarest Coffee
28 minutes
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Dan Saladino meets the plant hunters searching for the world's lost and forgotten coffee varieties and author Michael Pollan explains how caffeine helped usher in the modern world. Show more
Lindsay Johns looks back to the furious debate over the literary canon in the early 1990s, and asks what it can teach us about our own, contemporary, culture wars. Show more
Aleks Krotoski asks where did those kicked off mainstream social media platforms go after the Jan 6th riots go and what have they been doing in the year since? 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
21/02/2022 All Covid restrictions in England to end
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Boris Johnson has told MPs how people in England will learn to live with Covid
Sue Perkins challenges Dane Baptiste, Stephen Fry, Sheila Hancock and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more
Rex faces his accusers and Tracy is on a quest. Show more
Front Row
Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism
42 minutes
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Kit Harington and Max Webster on Henry V, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Trevor Nelson on Jamal Edwards, Matthew Gale and Chloe Aridjis consider Surrealism’s resonance. Show more
After 20 years of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Ophelia Byrne hears rare first-hand experiences of serving Catholic officers, and asks why more Catholics aren’t joining. Show more
How can the planning system adapt so we can build new homes without alienating voters? Barrister Hashi Mohamed investigates. Show more
A new movement and a prophecy. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. Show more
Start the Week
Wealth, influence and the global elite
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman discuss money, power and class, with Tom Sutcliffe Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Moscow recognises 2 eastern Ukraine areas as independent
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
In this lyrical debut, two women navigate love, loss and motherhood in the closing days of the Second World War. Read by Lorna Nickson Brown and Morfydd Clark Show more
Michael Rosen is joined by John McWhorter, author and linguist at Columbia University, to talk about his love of, and life working in, language. Show more
All the news from Westminster with Susan Hulme, including the ending of England's Covid restrictions.
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
Metaphysical Animals by Clare MacCumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
1. Elizabeth Anscombe Takes a Stand
14 minutes
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Out of the despair of WWII four brilliant women friends brought philosophy back to life and laid the foundation of today's ethical thinking. Fenella Woolgar reads. Show more
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