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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Haydon Spenceley. Show more
Farming Today
29/05/24 - A new National Park for Scotland, horned cattle and biofluorescence
14 minutes
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Scotland is to get least one new national park by 2026 - but not everyone wants one in their neck of the woods. Show more
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
More or Less
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
28 minutes
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Is the UK economy is growing faster than Germany, France and the US? Show more
It's already late when the BBC team get a tip off that Scorpion's network of complicit lorry drivers might be operating from a new pick-up point. They stay hidden as events unfold. Show more
Woman's Hour
Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell, Perfume’s Darkest Secrets, the return of Loaded magazine
57 minutes
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The writer of Hadestown performs one of the songs from her hit musical. Show more
Around two million people in the UK have long Covid. Rachel Schraer investigates a controversial programme that claims to retrain patients' brains to stop their symptoms. Show more
The landings begin. Paddy O’Connell explores what it was like for those in landing craft approaching the shore, fighting for survival as they were targeted by enemy fire. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
You and Yours
Train Tickets, Cazoo and Family Planning
53 minutes
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A new report shows how the cost of living crisis is impacting young people's plans to start families. Show more
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Diane Abbott's political career hangs in the balance - will she stand for Labour again? Plus South Africa votes, thirty years since the end of Apartheid.
For Ittai, the clues finally fall into place. Has he identified the thief? Show more
Jakob has bad news to impart, and Lynda launches her latest scheme. Show more
D.I. Matthews and D.S. Armitage pride themselves on their confounding interrogation technique, but nothing has prepared them for Evie. Roy Williams' contemporary crime drama. Show more
The Law Show
Assisted dying, County court judgments, Drill music and ... nakedness
28 minutes
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Your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK. This week: assisted dying, county court judgments, and drill music as evidence in trials. Show more
The Artificial Human
Can AI Look After Me in Old Age?
29 minutes
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Artificial Intelligence is in our homes, schools and workplaces. How will this change our lives? This week, Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong ask: Can AI look after me in old age? Show more
Exploring how campaigning on social media influences the vote. Show more
PM is live from Derby, as the General Election Tombola picks its first destination. In other news, Gareth Southgate's fashion overhaul and the latest from the Trump trial.
Six O'Clock News
29/05/2024 Israeli official says war in Gaza likely to last rest of the year
30 minutes
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Tzachi Hanegbi also said Israel now ran the majority of the border between Egypt and Gaza
Writer, broadcaster, and comedian Robin Ince is back with his acclaimed series. This time he's talking about love, books, and his love of books. Show more
Ben struggles to say no, and Jolene makes an interesting discovery. Show more
Front Row
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
42 minutes
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Adrian Dunbar on curating a Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool, Degas exhibitions discussed, and Chigozie Obioma on his new novel set on the front lines of the Biafran War. Show more
Should the term Anglo-Saxon be dropped because it’s been adopted by racists? Adam Fleming and guests discuss. Show more
A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers something shocking. What happens when a system designed to help people harms them instead? Show more
Being Roman with Mary Beard
10. A Bag of Snails and a Glass of Wine
28 minutes
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Join Mary Beard for a Roman bar crawl through the streets of Pompeii. With all but the wealthiest urban Romans unable to cook at home it was the bars where life really went on. Show more
All in the Mind
Grief, summer seasonal affective disorder, and anxiety in older people
28 minutes
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We look at how keeping objects from deceased loved ones can help with grief, we hear from a listener with summer seasonal affective disorder and talk about anxiety in older people. Show more
The World Tonight
Diane Abbott vows to be MP 'by any means'
45 minutes
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Is there a purge of the left in the Labour Party? Show more
Long Island by Colm Toibin
3: 'My mother said you broke his heart.'
14 minutes
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Niamh Cusack continues Colm Toibin's heartrending sequel to Brooklyn. Today: Eilis returns to Ireland - to the shock of her best friend Nancy, and her old love Jim. Show more
Comedian Tom Mayhew and his tiny Mum explore jobs, life and ambition. What does it mean to have a successful life and is it even possible when there’s a cost of living crisis? Show more
A man, a Mouse and a morse key: the story of a radio amateur in Kyiv, sending and receiving signals during the blackout as the Russian invasion unfolds. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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