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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Jonathan Romain Show more
Farming Today
29/05/23 Young Farmers Clubs come together for the highlight of the year - the county rally.
11 minutes
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Young farmers from across Wiltshire come together for the highlight in their calendar: the YFC county rally. Show more
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The Marsh Warbler - Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Start the Week
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
42 minutes
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Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes discuss Dickens and adaptations with Tom Sutcliffe, live from the Hay Festival. Show more
Woman's Hour
Why we lie, The Traitors star Amanda Lovett, Lies told by families, Lying to your partner
59 minutes
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Why do we tell lies in our personal life? What impact do they have? And what is happening in our brain when we do it? Show more
While peace transforms the country, the twists continue in the story. Belfast is moving on, but Darren’s brother Scott has an encounter he will never forget. Show more
The gripping tale of a London schoolboy, Kim Gordon, trapped in Peking during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Show more
You and Yours
Insulation Conundrum, Suez Waste and Cost of Living Panel
53 minutes
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Why is it so hard to persuade homeowners to insulate their properties, and is visiting a theme park a treat or a rite of passage for a child?
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
Oliver Burkeman's Inconvenient Truth
Other People
14 minutes
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Oliver Burkeman explores our obsession with convenience which results in our lives becoming easier but less meaningful. Show more
There’s trouble at the cricket, and Oliver offers some words of encouragement. Show more
Fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi talks to John Wilson about the influences on her creative life. Show more
Kirsty Lang chairs a contest between Scotland and the North of England in the latest heat of the cryptic quiz. Show more
Jaega Wise meets Thomasina Miers, the head judge of the 2023 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Nominations open on May 28th and this years awards have a climate first focus. Show more
Jonathan Glancey considers the future of aviation with the world's principal architect of airports - Lord Foster. How can flying and airports evolve while cutting emissions? Show more
Aleks Krotoski looks from the screen to the heavens and asks if we're entering a democratisation of space technology akin to the one that brought us today's digital world. 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
29/05/2023 Met Police to stop attending mental health emergencies if no threat to life
30 minutes
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Charities say the plans threaten patients' and the public's safety
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. Show more
Helen puts her foot down, and Brian makes a surprising discovery. Show more
Front Row
The 75th anniversary of the Windrush - the cultural legacy of a generation
42 minutes
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A snapshot of some of the ways in which the arrival of a generation from the Caribbean shaped the cultural life of the nation, from literature, stage and screen to music. Show more
As the government prepares a major reorganisation of Britain's railways, Daniel Brittain asks what are they for. Show more
Analysis
We know how to stop knife crime, so why don’t we do it?
28 minutes
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Since 2017, more than 100 children have died from knife wounds in the UK. Jon Yates looks at schemes that have reduced knife crime and asks why they haven’t been scaled up. Show more
AI technologies have been developing faster than anyone expected. How worried should we be? Show more
Start the Week
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes discuss Dickens and adaptations with Tom Sutcliffe, live from the Hay Festival. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Anti-homosexuality laws come into force in Uganda
45 minutes
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Jeremy Paxman’s last University Challenge.
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Mars Bars get a paper wrapper.
From Africa, 1947, Lesley is transported back to Penang, 1921, and a visit from the writer Somerset Maugham, in Tan Twan Eng's novel of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire Show more
Gaby Roslin hosts the film quiz with impressions by Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona. Team captains John Thomson and Ellie Taylor are joined by Hugh Dennis and Amanda Redman. Show more
In the first of the latest series of The Spark, Helen Lewis meets Rory O'Connor, author of When It Is Darkest, who sets out his radical new approach to suicide prevention. Show more
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Sociologist Jonathan Kennedy explores how infectious diseases have impacted human society, politics and economics, from earliest times to the present day. Read by Gunnar Cauthery. Show more
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