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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Dabinderjit Singh
Farming Today
25/04/2024 Illegal fishing, housing estate flock, ash dieback
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for 7 months
How the authorities are targeting illegal fishing. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two. Show more
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Try Flax Seeds
14 minutes
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Get your flax fix! Michael investigates how adding flaxseeds to your daily diet can lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as keeping your skin smooth and hydrated. Show more
Woman's Hour
BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Beaux Harris on preventative treatment after losing family to the gene mutation BRCA1. Show more
Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley talks to John Wilson about his formative creative influences and experiences. Show more
Knife by Salman Rushdie
4. On surviving and healing after a violent attack
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for 7 months
The renowned author's personal meditations on how he survived and healed after a brutal attempt on his life. Art Malik is the reader. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
You and Yours
Gap Finders – Chris Donnelly from Lottie
53 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Lottie is making the process of finding care for loved ones easy and transparent, saving customers both money and time Show more
Sliced Bread Presents
Toast - Green Shield Stamps
25 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Green Shield Stamps could be traded in for 'free' gifts so why did consumers abandon them? Sean Farrington and expert guests examine the rise and fall of the popular loyalty scheme Show more
The latest weather forecast
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment.
Max Cotton tries to complete a year of total food self-sufficiency on his tiny farm in Somerset. He wants to test to destruction our ideas of eating seasonally and locally. Show more
Alice has a mountain to climb, and Fallon supports a friend in need. Show more
Estranged parents fight a bitter legal case over the fate of their catastrophically sick child as a startling piece of new information is brought before the court. Show more
Martha Kearney gets up close to the iconic Bass Rock, a volcanic plug in the Firth of Forth, home to one of the largest gannet colonies in the world. Show more
Wildlife presenter Megan McCubbin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Beaver Trust. Show more
Feedback
Radio 3 Shake Up and The Now Show No More
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Sam Jackson, Radio 3 Controller, responds to your comments on recent schedule changes, and Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt talk about the end of The Now Show after 25 years. Show more
The Briefing Room
Are Britain's missing workers really a problem?
29 minutes
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David Aaronovitch and guests discuss the reasons why millions of people in the UK aged between 16 and 64 are neither working nor looking for work and what we can do about it. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Can we get plastic waste under control?
28 minutes
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The UN attempts a global treaty on plastic, and the science of heartbreak. Show more
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.
Six O'Clock News
25/04/2024 Humza Yousaf faces confidence vote
30 minutes
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Humza Yousaf faces a confidence vote by MSPs, after ending power-sharing with the Greens. And, the Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein, has had a rape conviction overturned.
What's the Story, Ashley Storrie?
Love, Death and A Box of Chocolates
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for years
Ashley's atypical account of amore includes cringeworthy crushes and hugging machines, while her appraisal of death gets side-tracked by grave robbers, 80s ghosts and Forrest Gump. Show more
There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Lilian, and Azra makes a friend. Show more
Front Row
Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition
42 minutes
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Pet Shop Boys on their 15th studio album Nonetheless; reviews of tennis film Challengers and Tate Modern's exhibition Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider. Show more
The Media Show
Ofcom, impartiality and elections
58 minutes
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Ofcom's Cristina Nicolotti Squires gives viewers' take on politician presenters. Show more
Loose Ends
Tim Peake, Helen Lederer, Phil Manzanera, Jess Fostekew, Michele Stodart and Geejay.
42 minutes
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Tim Peake, Helen Lederer, Phil Manzanera, Jess Fostekew, Michele Stodart and Geejay join Clive Anderson for conversation, music and comedy Show more
Why do we constantly put stuff off? Ella Al-Shamahi investigates if our palaeolithic minds are hardwired for procrastination… Show more
The World Tonight
Humza Yousaf faces no-confidence vote in Scotland
45 minutes
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Scottish Greens will vote to oust First Minister Humza Yousaf after agreement ditched Show more
Mona is ill. Dylan visits a deserted house. Rowenna shares a secret.
By Manon Steffan Ros, read by Gwïon Morris Jones and Rhian Blythe. Show more
The Today Podcast
Could an MP present the Today programme?
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Nick picks up on an important question asked on Today about which programmes MPs should be allowed to present. Show more
Alicia McCarthy with the latest from Westminster as MPs debate the Rwanda Bill becoming law, the split in the Scottish government and how to inspect England's schools. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Knife by Salman Rushdie
4. On surviving and healing after a violent attack
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for 7 months
The renowned author's personal meditations on how he survived and healed after a brutal attempt on his life. Art Malik is the reader. Show more
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