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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh
Farming Today
28/06/23 Climate Change Committee report; tenant farmers; pig market.
13 minutes
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Climate Change Committee has published its annual report. Efra committee inquiry into tenant farmers.
Buying pigs for bacon at market. Show more
Welsh poet and playwright Gillian Clarke first saw a red kite in the Welsh mountains as a child, a bird which now has recovered and now Gillian regularly sees them over Reading. 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
More or Less
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
28 minutes
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Will Rishi Sunak's pledge to halve inflation happen? Show more
Ten coastal encounters. Richard King meets Ellie Deas in Anstruther harbour. Show more
Woman's Hour
Actor Rosamund Pike, childbirth and incontinence, Sharron Davies and her new book, Isabel Hardman on Daisy Goodwin
58 minutes
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Oscar-nominated for Gone Girl, actor Rosamund Pike has turned her acting skills to audio in a BBC adaptation of The People Who Knew Me. Show more
Test Match Special
England v Australia: Second Test, Day 1 - Lord's
1 hour, 35 minutes
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England v Australia. The Ashes. Commentary on the second men's Test from Lord's with Jonathan Agnew, Isa Guha, Jim Maxwell and Glenn McGrath. Show more
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Front Row
Playwright Kimber Lee, the art of pattern discussed, Elgan Llŷr Thomas on queer culture in classical song
42 minutes
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Kimber Lee on challenging Miss Saigon in her new play which opens this year’s Manchester International Festival, the art of pattern discussed, and Elgan Llŷr Thomas sings live. Show more
Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Tim Stanley, Ella Whelan, Ash Sarkar and Matthew Taylor. Show more
Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics
The Curse of Mendel
30 minutes
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Scientific ideas are threaded through the dark story of eugenics. What were they - and what choices does the science open up today? Show more
Why Yevgeny Prigozhin used Telegram to announce his rebellion - and how Putin is feeding the media with his own narrative as to what happened. Show more
Biggest Russian bombardment on Ukraine yet
Thames Water in talks with the government to avoid collapse
45 minutes
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Thames Water in urgent funding talks amid fears of collapse
Anger in France after shooting of teenage
Artists take responsibility for 'fake Banksy'
Claire shaves Connie’s hair as the chemotherapy takes hold, leading Connie to recall how a coin toss forced into her first job in New York and the start of her marriage breakdown. Show more
Maisie Adam: The Beautiful Game
2. 'There's just not enough demand for it sorry'
14 minutes
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Stand-up comedian Maisie Adam presents her stand-up special where she discusses her love of football and her experience of the women’s game ahead of the Women's World Cup 2023. Show more
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award winning satirical shapes. This week: Apocalypse Nyet, a Succession of sewage, and oh, those Russians... Show more
All the news from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
It’s easy to look back 10, 20, 100 years and explain abhorrent views as a product of their era. But it is clear that Wagner knew the arguments against anti-Semitism. Show more
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