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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard Oppong Boateng, a Young Evangelism Officer at Cliff College, Derbyshire Show more
Farming Today
16/05/23 Food summit preview; glasshouse growers; rewilding former golf course.
13 minutes
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Prime minister invites people from food and farming industry to food summit at Downing Street.
Half of Lea Valley glasshouse growers not planting.
Former golf course rewilded. Show more
David Attenborough presents the reed bunting. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Sean Curran reports as ministers are defeated in the House of Lords over Brexit as peers call for Parliament to have a bigger say over which EU laws to keep or scrap.
The Long View
State-sponsored Assassination Attempts
28 minutes
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Jonathan Freedland takes The Long View of attempted state assassinations. Show more
Metamorphosis - How Insects Transformed Our World
Namib Fog Harvesters
14 minutes
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Erica McAlister unravels the mystery of the beetles that drink without water, whose fog harvesting techniques are inspiring a new generation of industrial water trapping systems . Show more
Woman's Hour
Calls for allergy tsar, Men and contraception, Judy Blume books
58 minutes
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Two mothers call for an allergy tsar to prevent what they say are unnecessary deaths and illnesses. They explain their demands to Hayley Hassall. Show more
Professor Ben Garrod plays with the wearable tech helping track to our health and meets pioneers of brain implants. Could all this technology help us learn more about ourselves? Show more
Great music can come from great change. These are the origin stories of some of the UK's most vital musical movements. In this episode, Fife's East Neuk... Show more
You and Yours
Call You and Yours: What's the rental market like where you live?
53 minutes
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What's the rental market like where you live? Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
Frontlines of Journalism
7. Open the door and you’re doomed
15 minutes
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Sources, spin and powerful people. Show more
Tempers flare at Bridge Farm and Brian finds himself with a problem. Show more
Nick Warburton's comedy drama, set in a river boatyard, stars Monica Dolan and Oliver Chris. At its heart is the chaotic relationship between the owner, Pat and his sister, Libby. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts this week's culinary panel show from the windy coast of Portstewart in Northern Ireland. Show more
Polar bears are the poster beasts of climate change but biologist Gillian Burke wonders if we should pay more attention to the bacteria and fungi at the base of earth's food chains. Show more
Ben Chu delves into one of the fastest-growing, but most under-scrutinised areas of finance - private equity. Show more
Great Lives
Jon Ronson picks Terry Hall of The Specials
28 minutes
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Jon Ronson picks his hero Terry Hall - he first met him as a small kid and never forgot 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
16/05/2023 Number of long term sick at record high
30 minutes
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The number of people not working due to extended sickness has reached a record high
Dawn French and Edward Rowe star in a new sketch show with a Cornish flavour. Park the clichés and open your eyes to the reality of this wondrous funny and feral land. Show more
There’s a dilemma for Neil, and the Aldridge sisters make their presence felt. Show more
Front Row
Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre
42 minutes
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Priya Khanchandani, the curator of The Offbeat Sari exhibition; the politics of museum labelling with critics Louisa Buck and James Marriott; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre Show more
US affirmative action policies are under scrutiny once again. Are they a helping hand or an unfair handout? Show more
In Touch
C'mon, Vogue; Haben Girma on The British Museum
19 minutes
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May's edition of British Vogue features people that have a wide range of disabilities and is available for the first time in braille and audio formats. Show more
All in the Mind
How much empathy should doctors have?
28 minutes
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There is a balance to strike between feeling and fixing in medicine. Claudia Hammond asks what level of empathy is needed for best patient outcomes Show more
The Long View
State-sponsored Assassination Attempts
28 minutes
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Jonathan Freedland takes The Long View of attempted state assassinations. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
AI hearings on Capitol Hill
45 minutes
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Sacklers dropped by Oxford University.
And
First Sudanese movie to show at Cannes Film Festival.
Robby is now comic book artist Trev-Vor, in 70s San Francisco. A flash from his past prompts a new story. Thirty years later, director Bill Johnson is searching for inspiration. Show more
Stephen Mangan asks his guest Konnie Huq to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. From 2021. Show more
All the news from Westminster with Sean Curran and the team.
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Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose
Episode 2 - Wearing the Helmet
14 minutes
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Matt Lloyd-Rose spent a year volunteering as a special constable in the south London borough where he lived and taught. He finds that alcohol is a 'superb producer of crime'. Show more
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