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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Cheryl Meban.
Farming Today
10/10/2023 Scottish floods; Mental health campaign; Agro-forestry.
13 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for 11 months
Severe flooding affects Scottish farmers.
#Walk with me - the mental health campaign that's gone global.
Planting trees to improve biodiversity on arable land. Show more
Chris Packham presents the avocet. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Building Soul - with Thomas Heatherwick
The Cult of Modernist Architecture
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Designer Thomas Heatherwick asks if one man, known as Le Corbusier, is really responsible for creating our age of boring buildings. Show more
How to Win a Campaign
3. Nailing the message and shooting the messenger
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Former Downing Street strategist, adviser to Boris Johnson, and Vote Leave insider Cleo Watson examines the building blocks and dark arts of political campaigning. Show more
Woman's Hour
Israel-Gaza conflict: Bereaved parents across the divide, musician Esther Abrami, Emily Hunt, Is the future of the Labour Party
55 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Parents across the divide - a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother who've lost children in previous violence - discuss how they feel about the the Israel-Gaza conflict Show more
Kirsty Young finds out what Daniel Kaluuya would say to his younger self, knowing what he knows now. Show more
Simon Armitage arrives in North Norway, inside the Arctic Circle where he hikes to the Steindalsbreen glacier with Jemma Wadham who has studied glaciology for over 25 years. Show more
You and Yours
Call You & Yours: Private health care
53 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
It's reckoned from surveys that half of us have paid for private health care, we'd like to know if you went private and how it worked out for you. Show more
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment.
An Almanac for Anxiety: In Search of a Calmer Mind
Episode 2 - Wood
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Exploring how interacting with the natural elements can improve mental wellbeing. Show more
Will gets more than he bargained for, and Adil sees the light. Show more
Julie Hesmondhalgh stars in a contemporary comedy drama about an inner city school Show more
Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming back to yourself. Show more
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
1. Florence Bravo
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Lucy Worsley investigates Florence Bravo, the focus of a sensational unsolved Victorian murder case, and asks whether she was a ruthless poisoner or an abused wife. Show more
Tom Bateman continues his series about the French and British mandates in the Middle East in the 1930s, and how they still reverberate today. Show more
The children's TV presenter and stand up comedian advocate for favourite books, including the hugely popular Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. 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
10/10/2023 Sir Keir Starmer says his party will fight next election on economic growth
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
He promised a "decade of national renewal" at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by Felicity Ward to explore sobriety, Kiri performs a virtual reality injection, and the panel looks at what happens when trust is lost in medicine. Show more
Pat is on the warpath, and it’s a big day for Susan. Show more
Front Row
Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?
42 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy performs.
Tracing museum items on the Art Loss register.
Author Christine Coulson on her novel 'One Woman Show' written in the form of art labels Show more
Europe’s largest local authority is facing financial meltdown. For File on 4, Adrian Goldberg investigates what’s brought Birmingham to its knees. Show more
In Touch
Izabela in the Forest; Can Blind People do That?
19 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Izabela Dłużyk is a blind female sound recordist from Poland. She tells Peter about her passion for sound, bird song and the Białowieża Forest. Show more
Inside Health
Inside a sexual assault referral centre
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
James Gallagher meets the people who help victims of sexual assault at a dedicated centre in Manchester. Show more
Building Soul - with Thomas Heatherwick
The Cult of Modernist Architecture
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Designer Thomas Heatherwick asks if one man, known as Le Corbusier, is really responsible for creating our age of boring buildings. Show more
The World Tonight
The mothers caught in Israel-Gaza conflict
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective Show more
Our lion considers whether a therapist could help solve their problems and encounters the man with the whip again. Ep 2/ 5 Show more
New episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you’re in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now – before anywhere else – on BBC Sounds. Show more
Keri and Barden’s balcony is covered in bird droppings which threatens to ruin their long awaited house warming. Can they negotiate a truce with the natural world around them? Show more
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Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
Book of the Week: Ep 2 - An Epiphany
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for 11 months
Today, in Michael Lewis's eye-opening account of the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto billionaire discovers high finance & has an epiphany. Jamie Parker reads. Show more
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