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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Father Martin Magill
Farming Today
19/4/22 - Pig industry, glasshouses, SFI payments and farm diversification
13 minutes
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Pig prices are up and the backlog of animals stuck on farm is down - but is it too late? Show more
Writer and wildlife programme-maker Stephen Moss explains why the coot is so significant to him. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Sangita Myska meets Professor Darrick Hamilton, a US academic who thinks Baby Bonds hold the answer to solving wealth inequality. Show more
Author Jerry Brotton explores the four cardinal directions, where they came from and how they have shaped both how we define ourselves and how we understand the world. Show more
Woman's Hour
Fiona Hill, Baby loss, Why do we lie?
58 minutes
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Foreign policy advisor to three US presidents, Fiona Hill, on the war in Ukraine. Show more
Playing cat and mouse games with the world and using 'little green men' for masked warfare – what Russia's annexation of part of Ukraine in 2014 tells us about Vladimir Putin. Show more
Follow Jackie, Andy and June as they go about their work cleaning the nation’s cultural buildings and collections. Show more
You and Yours
Call You & Yours Are you struglling to Rent or Buy?
53 minutes
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Call You& Yours: Are you being priced out of a home to rent. Home prices are up and tenants are spending more on housing costs that ever.. how is that impacting you? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
The Museums That Make Us
The National Museum of NI, Belfast
14 minutes
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Today's hosts are the National Museum of Northern Ireland, Belfast, where the divisions of recent history are tackled and undercut by way of an iconic TV comedy prop. Show more
Ruairi finds himself in too deep and Roy has a bone to pick. Show more
Lucy Gannon’s two part drama about the arrival of a delightful single woman who deceives a village community into believing she has moved there to get her life back on track. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more
Costing the Earth
The World's Toughest Conservationists
28 minutes
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It's not easy fighting for nature in the former Soviet states. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent reports from Tajikistan, on the trail of the snow leopard and the people who protect them. Show more
Word of Mouth
The language we use about children in care
28 minutes
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Adoptive parent Margaret Reynolds talks about the language used around children in care Show more
Great Lives
Janet Ellis on Puffin editor Kaye Webb
28 minutes
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When Kaye Webb joined Puffin in 1961, the world of children's books was small and drab. Kaye blazed in, bringing colour, enthusiasm and a club that changed everything. 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
19/04/2022 PM apologises to MPs over lockdown parties
30 minutes
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MPs to decide if Boris Johnson should be investigated over lockdown party statements
Joe decides to become a Wellness Coach - working from Lisa and Rav’s home, so fun for all the family. Stars Philip Glenister. Show more
It’s an emotional day for Oliver and Tracy fears for the future. Show more
Front Row
Robert Eggers on The Northman, Oliver Jeffers, the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle
42 minutes
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The Northman director Robert Eggers; artist and writer Oliver Jeffers; David Benedict on The Olivier Awards; the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Show more
Mishal Husain and a panel of expert guests ask what it would take for Nato to confront Russia directly over Ukraine. Show more
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine still ongoing, we hear from a visually impaired couple about their evacuation from Ukraine to Poland; with a small child and... seven animals. Show more
Tim Hayward concludes his fungal adventures with a look at some fungal body snatchers and considers the potential of fungi to offer therapeutic treatments for the body and mind. Show more
Sangita Myska meets Professor Darrick Hamilton, a US academic who thinks Baby Bonds hold the answer to solving wealth inequality. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Boris Johnson to face Commons vote on “Partygate”
45 minutes
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Audrey gets engaged and Emma witnesses the air raid aftermath. Two sisters in wartime duress. Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg. Show more
Over the course of this mini series, Jayde is going to be asking what ‘feeling at home’ really means; why we leave home; and why some of us, at least, feel the draw to go back. Show more
Boris Johnson faces MPs for the first time since he was fined for breaking Covid regulations. Sean Curran presents.
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Professor Devi Sridhar traces the recent history of Covid-19, with tensions emerging across the nations of the United Kingdom. Written and read by Devi Sridhar. Show more
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