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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Revd Dr Emma Whittick, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Chaplain at Lampeter and Carmarthen.
Farming Today
07/02/2023 River pollution and poultry farming; Peat; Eco homes.
13 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for years
The biggest producer of chickens in the Wye Valley and its plans for poultry manure. Growing without peat in the commercial horticulture sector. Eco homes for locals. Show more
Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the kingfisher. 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
Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
How a once-derided approach to statistics paved the way for AI. Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering mathematician Professor Sir Adrian Smith. Show more
One to One
Critics and the Criticised: Luke Jones meets Simon Godwin
14 minutes
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What's it like when your new show is about to be exposed to the acid wit of the critics? Top theatre director Simon Godwin bares his soul on the weird experience of being reviewed. Show more
Woman's Hour
David Carrick sentencing, Shamima Begum story, Danielle Deadwyler, Carmel McMahon
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Danielle Deadwyler talks to Nuala McGovern about her portrayal of the civil rights activist Mamie Till Mobley in Chinonye Chukwu's Till and we hear more about Shamima Begum Show more
Rutherford and Fry investigate how anaesthetics work and what can they tell us about different states of consciousness. Show more
The story of The House of the Rising Sun, based on a 17th-century broadside ballad travelling nearly 350 years to the present day. Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours - What are you spending your money on this year?
53 minutes
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What are you spending your money on this year? Call us on 03700 100 444. Lines open at 11.00 am on Tuesday 7 February. You can also email us now at youandyours@bbc.co.uk Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
How we use credit can either grow the economy, or crash it. Show more
Freddie needs to manage a tricky conversation, and Alice offers some support. Show more
Three stories, three lives, three journeys to find a place to call home. Weaving three languages - Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and created from Chinese migrants' real stories. Show more
Jay Rayner and the team travel to Slough for this week's food show. Show more
Nick Wallis investigates a high seas hoax that became connected to a murder. Show more
Karli Witkowska is the subtitler behind TV shows including Stranger Things. She tells Michael how subtitles enhance the experience of Deaf listeners as well as being entertaining. Show more
An eclectic mix of fact and fiction reading. 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
07/02/2023 Turkey's President declares a state of emergency after a devastating earthquake
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Rescue efforts continue across Turkey and Syria following a catastrophic earthquake that rocked the region.
Phil is tasked by the mayor of Parbold to find out if her husband is having an affair, leading Phil, Johnny and Polly across town to investigate Parbold's seedy underbelly. Show more
Susan may be a bit quick to judge, and Kate feels she is making a difference. Show more
Front Row
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl
42 minutes
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Les Dennis and Mina Anwar on bringing 1960s classic play Spring and Port Wine to the stage in a new production at the Bolton Octagon. Show more
A young British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate Show more
In Touch
The New Principal of New College Worcester, Smaller Guide Dog Organisations
19 minutes
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New College Worcester is a residential school for pupils who are blind or partially sighted, and they have appointed a new principal. We ask her about her ambitions for the role. Show more
Inside Health
What soaring food prices are doing to our health
28 minutes
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The cost of everything is soaring but what toll is that taking on our health? At the Pantry in Coventry we meet Danielle and Ellie finding sustainable ways to feed their families. Show more
The Life Scientific
Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
How a once-derided approach to statistics paved the way for AI. Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering mathematician Professor Sir Adrian Smith. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Turkey/Syria earthquakes – 7000 now dead
45 minutes
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Microsoft’s big move into AI.
Biden State of the Union address.
Twenty years after the events of Christmas Eve 1943, Sam Derry is interviewed by the BBC as research for an episode of This is Your Life. Show more
The story of stand-up Tudur Owen's father opening a zoo in the 1980s and how it rather predictably got out of hand. From 2020. Show more
Sean Curran reports as the foreign secretary answers MPs' questions about UK aid for victims of the Turkish earthquakes.
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Joan Didion reflects on a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and a trip to San Simeon; "La Cuesta Encantada" previously observed from Highway 1. Show more
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