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The best-selling author Cressida Cowell takes Clare for a nostalgic walk near Chichester in West Sussex. Show more
Farming Today
27/05/23 Farming Today This Week: Animal welfare bill; Tenant farmers; Uplands; Wine; Global farming.
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Government drops bill which bans live export of animals. Payments to hill farmers. Tenant farmers criticise response to review of sector. Wine regulations. Global farming. Show more
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Saturday Live
Hay Festival - Lisa Snowdon, Fats Timbo, Horatio Clare, Sadiq Khan
57 minutes
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Model, presenter and writer Lisa Snowdon whose book 'Just Getting Started' urges women, especially those who’re menopausing, to seize their power. Show more
Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny
Adrian Chiles: Murter, Croatia
38 minutes
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Adrian Chiles tempts Shaun to the laid-back Croatian island of Murter with potent fig brandy and his mum's homemade biscuits. Show more
Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more
Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster
From Our Own Correspondent
Ukraine's Counter-Offensive
28 minutes
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Residents in Ukraine's cities, towns and villages endure routine Russian rocket attacks, as President Zelensky plans the next stage of the war. Show more
Money Box
Buy Now Pay Later and Mortgage Prisoners
25 minutes
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Rising interest rates are putting the squeeze on mortgage payers – but what does it mean for the mortgage prisoners who can’t even switch? Show more
Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news, in a special edition recorded at the Hay Festival. Providing the answers are Lucy Porter, Simon Evans, Kate Andrews, and Robin Morgan. Show more
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Any Questions?
Lord Callanan, John Elliott, Bridget Phillipson MP, Professor Mona Siddiqui
47 minutes
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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Felton Village Hall near Morpeth with Lord Callanan, John Elliott, Bridget Phillipson MP and Professor Mona Siddiqui. Show more
Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week
John Finnemore and the Souvenir Programme team return to Radio 4 with a one-off, forty-five minute episode packed with sketches and song. Show more
Meet Lavinia Co-op - transatlantic icon of the radical drag scene. Show more
Woman's Hour
Weekend Woman's Hour: Period Inequality, Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Electropop duo Let’s Eat Grandma
53 minutes
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Why are girls still struggling to access period products in school? Dr Katriona O’Sullivan on growing up in dire poverty and music from the electropop duo Let’s Eat Grandma. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
The Feargal Sharkey One
35 minutes
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Nick Robinson has a conversation with, not an interrogation of, the people who shape our political thinking about what shaped theirs. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
27/05/2023 E-passport gate fault causes long queues
15 minutes
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Huge queues form after e-passport gate fault, Turkey goes to the polls
Loose Ends
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Simon Day, Joseph Coelho, Dr Ranj Singh, Sweet Baboo, Panic Shack, Andrew O' Neill, Clive Anderson
43 minutes
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Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Simon Day, Joseph Coelho and Dr Ranj Singh for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
The co-writer of Peep Show and the creator of the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Succession TV series. Show more
Fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi talks to John Wilson about the influences on her creative life. Show more
Archive on 4
Marvel vs DC: Contest of the Champions
57 minutes
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Exploring the decades long, cosmic rivalry between Marvel and DC comics, and two different ideas of what it means to be a superhero. Are they like gods - or are they like us? Show more
Dirt by Martin Jameson. First drama of Stone series created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone Show more
Gwen's Silver Fox. The truth behind a rags-to-riches story set in seaside Barmouth. New short fiction by John Sam Jones. Read by Richard Elfyn. Show more
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore sport on screen, with help from Ted Lasso co-creator Brendan Hunt, baseball coach Justine Siegal and critics Ashley Clark and Simon Brew. Show more
The South of England and the Midlands clash once again in the cryptic quiz, with Kirsty Lang in the chair. Show more
Kitty moves into her new partner’s house, but someone else is already living there with him. Someone who doesn't want her there. Someone who isn't alive. Show more
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Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature - beginning with one of the most popular and personal genres of all, the memoir. Show more
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