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Farming Today
27/03/23 - Dartmoor management, farm waste and ammonia emissions
11 minutes
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MPs call for an independent process to balance farming and conservation on Dartmoor saying Natural England got it wrong. Show more
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Steve Backshall presents the little tern. Show more
Join Mishal Husain in Edinburgh and Justin Webb in London. A new SNP leader is due to be announced today as the race to become the successor to Nicola Sturgeon ends. Show more
Start the Week
Climate - past, present and future
42 minutes
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Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass discuss the long history, impact and future of climate change, with Kirsty Wark. Show more
What is being taught to children about sex and relationships in schools? Show more
Highland businesses have a massive headache - plenty of customers but no staff due to a rent crisis sweeping across the region. A radical solution is needed but what’s the answer? Show more
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
12. Margaret Garner - Icon of Tragedy & Resistance
28 minutes
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Lucy Worsley explores the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved mother in 1850s America, who commits a murder that transforms her into an icon of tragedy and resistance. Show more
What does the fall in used electric car prices mean for drivers thinking of switching? Also - is grow your own worth it? And why paying for your energy by cheque is so expensive. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
As the cost of rent continues to rise across the UK, Kirsty Lang looks for solutions. In the first of a series of five programmes, she explores some radical alternatives. Show more
Tom and Natasha get a tempting offer, and Brian just wants to be left alone. Show more
After a crushing tragedy, a family moves to the countryside to try a new way of life that is closer to nature. Show more
Three semi-finalists join Paul Gambaccini at Media City UK in Salford, to compete for a place in the Final of the eclectic music quiz Show more
The Food Programme
Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food
28 minutes
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Leyla Kazim explores the importance of food in building community, shaping identity and providing culturally appropriate spaces for refugees and asylum seekers in Glasgow. Show more
As property rents spiral, life on the road is attracting a new generation. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent meets the van dwellers hitting the highway to save cash and gain their freedom. Show more
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when a social or political change makes data, once freely given, dangerous and if it is possible to keep a secret in a world of data brokers. 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
27/03/2023 The Scottish National Party elects Humza Yousaf as its new leader
30 minutes
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It follows a hard-fought contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon.
John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, insect champion Bridget Nicholls and explorer Levison Wood. Show more
Jim is calling in the experts, and Oliver has a few tricks up his sleeve. Show more
Front Row
Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild
43 minutes
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Barbara Demick’s book 'Nothing to Envy' is short-listed for the Baille Gifford Prize; Dungeons and Dragons copyright controversy; Hack-Poets Guild's folk album Blackletter Garland Show more
As tenants desperately try and secure their application for a home, competition is fierce. What life is really like in the rental market - from every perspective. Show more
In the wake of the Casey Review, Margaret Heffernan asks what the Metropolitan police can do to transform its culture and organisation. Show more
Troubled Water
Are We Running Out of Water? Episode 3
28 minutes
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James Gallagher visits a town flooded in 2007 where people had to live without water for two weeks, he finds out how they coped and what is being done to prevent flooding today. Show more
Start the Week
Climate - past, present and future
42 minutes
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Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass discuss the long history, impact and future of climate change, with Kirsty Wark. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Humza Yousaf is new SNP leader
45 minutes
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Also:
Israeli PM Netanyahu postpones judicial reform bill.
And
The row over Michelangelo's famous sculpture of David.
In Luke Sutherland's five-part series, Perthshire man Archie Devine debates with incels in the murkier corners of the internet as he catalogues his romantic regrets. Show more
What's more valuable - first-hand experience or second-hand expertise? Professor Abigail Williams explores the history of facts versus feelings. Show more
Sean Curran reports on MPs' reaction to the home secretary's announcement of measures to tackle anti-social behaviour.
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Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
1. Petrarch and Boccaccio
14 minutes
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The new book by the prize-winning writer Sarah Bakewell is about humanist freethinking, enquiry and hope. It begins in the 1300s with Petrarch and Boccaccio. Emma Fielding reads. Show more
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