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Is Russian an enemy language in Ukraine? Or just the language of millions of citizens?
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Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary the Virgin Staunton on Wye.
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1/5 Best-selling historian Ben Macintyre's remarkable story of Cold War espionage.
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2/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book the Iranian Revolution opens up a new front in the Cold War.
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3/5 In Ben Macintyre’s new book a KGB spy makes a momentous decision in revolutionary Iran.
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4/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book a KGB double agent makes a perilous journey.
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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5/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book his Cold War story of espionage in 1980s Iran concludes.
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The Irish writer speaks about his latest novel, The Newer World, and its three influences.
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Susan Hulme reports as MPs debate a bill to allow assisted deaths.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Siȃn Wyn Rees.
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Calls for more ‘cooperative working’ amongst farmers.
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News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Siȃn Wyn Rees.
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Calls for a complete rural reset - a new countryside campaign.
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Alicia McCarthy reports as MPs study an inquiry into Lucy Letby's crimes.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Siȃn Wyn Rees.
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How will drought affect 1000s of newly planted young trees?
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Tim Harford investigates kids’ teeth, Israeli drugs, NEETs and the chances AI kills us all
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Siȃn Wyn Rees.
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Violent clashes as shepherds in Romania protest over export ban of sheep.
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Is the UK ready for the challenges of modern war?
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Siȃn Wyn Rees.
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The Liberal Democrats want greater funding, and less red tape, for on-farm reservoirs.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Fiona Stewart.
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2/6 What happens when Banksy paints on your wall? Things kick off in Margate and Lowestoft.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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Bells on Sunday comes from St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield in London.
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In Touch hears about how visually impaired people get involved with Live Action Role Play.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Musician Kate Stables explores the landscapes around her home city of Winchester.
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Calls for more farming co-ops; Farmer protests in Romania; International sheep dog trials.
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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Personal approaches to spirituality from around the world.
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How the OxFarmtoFork initiative is building short veg supply chains around Oxford.
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William Crawley takes a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week.
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Writer Armando Iannucci makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Poverty Action Group.
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Holy Coasts - Northumberland Pilgrimage.
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In 1962, first lady Jackie Kennedy took the cameras on a tour of the restored White House
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Comedian Susan Calman has gone to great lengths to entice goldfinches into her garden.
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Xand van Tulleken, Lani Watson and Daniel Mason on certainty and doubt.
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How one social enterprise helps people recover from addiction one bar of soap at a time.
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Epigeneticist Edith Heard on decoding the details of how X chromosomes are expressed.
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How can music impact life with Parkinson’s? And the All in the Mind Awards are back.
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Tim Harford investigates kids’ teeth, Israeli drugs, NEETs and the chances AI kills us all
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In the chaos after the Syrian regime’s downfall, the hunt for Austin Tice is on.
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How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.
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Armando and Natalie look back over a busy summer of political language.
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Cast members from landmark Scottish films Gregory's Girl and Local Hero are reunited.
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Adrian Chiles with extraordinary stories and remarkable people.
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Ukraine launch their biggest attack on the city ever.
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Could AI put women’s jobs at greater risk than men’s?
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Why has a new ad featuring Sydney Sweeney provoked such a strong reaction from athletes?
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The latest film adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
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Writer and actor Dame Meera Syal talks about the publication of her memoir.
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World champion and Olympic medalist Georgia Hunter Bell on new all-female event Athlos.
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Join Greg Jenner and his guests to learn about the early history of fandom.
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Greg James returns to the BBC archives using today's stories as a portal to the past.
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Reflecting on the education reforms of the Blair government.
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1/4 Ros Atkins asks whether technology has triggered a crisis in what we value.
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1/5 Best-selling historian Ben Macintyre's remarkable story of Cold War espionage.
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Emma Rawicz and Arsha Kaviani join Anna and Jeffrey to add five more tracks
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2/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book the Iranian Revolution opens up a new front in the Cold War.
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Examining Chinese state influence in UK public life.
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Fascinating, surprising and eye-opening stories from the past, brought to life.
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3/5 In Ben Macintyre’s new book a KGB spy makes a momentous decision in revolutionary Iran.
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American photographer Joel Meyerowitz reveals his formative cultural influences.
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4/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book a KGB double agent makes a perilous journey.
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Sheila Dillon and Paula McIntyre meet this year's Best Food Producer finalists.
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5/5 In Ben Macintyre's new book his Cold War story of espionage in 1980s Iran concludes.
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A prepper argues everyone has a duty to be better prepared for a crisis.
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Houthi fighters captured two port cities, consolidating their grip on a key shipping route
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Harrison has a confession to make, and there’s a race against time for Anna.
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A sharp rise in energy bills is forecast if the Iran war drags on.
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Are you having a "September reset" this year?
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Inflation rises to 3.1 per cent in the year to August - much of it down to fuel prices.
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How criminals target scam victims with false offers of help.
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Could advances in AI help us have conversations with our pets? Greg Foot investigates.
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How can the legal system protect the environment? Tom Heap and Helen Czerski investigate.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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What might the Pensions Commission recommend to improve retirement saving?
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3/8 Is this the first time an Orangeman has called for a united Ireland?
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'Academic badass, track goddess'.
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Union chief brands donations “a crisis for our democracy”.
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1/11 21 April, 1945, Eastern Germany, a plane crashes. Rumours spread about Hitler's diaries.
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Report describes hospital's 'complete failure' to follow safeguarding procedure.
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2/11 Star reporter for Stern magazine, Gerd Heidemann, is entertaining old Nazis on his boat.
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The Prime Minister was responding to criticism from former Bank of England chief economist
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3/11 Andrew Hunter Murray travels to the scene of the crime where the forger ran his business.
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The King will urge companies 'not to lose control of our destiny' at AI summit.
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4/11 The forger Konrad Kujau and the journalist Gerd Heidemann are about to come face to face.
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The security service has accepted it gave evidence based on lies to three courts.
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5/11 Stern magazine is making frenzied preparations to launch its scoop of the century.
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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from St John's Methodist Church in St Austell.
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A new front in the Iran war brings more instability to the Middle East.
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Will the world go to war over Taiwan? Experts from Taipei, Beijing and Washington explain.
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Harrison has a confession to make.
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4/6 Comedy set in a Scots-Asian corner shop. Written by Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary.
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4/3 By Winsome Pinnock. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
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Carol makes her feelings clear.
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When Gareth heads out on a jog, he discovers his past has caught up with him.
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Tony attempts to get involved.
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4/5 Jess has left Dan. But something is pulling her back. Stars Holli Dempsey and Josef Altin.
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Alan is there for a friend in need.
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A chatty London cabbie becomes an accidental double agent caught between east and west.
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It’s action stations for Lynda.
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A new tutor arrives in a luxury bunker. What happened to her predecessor?
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2/6 What happens when Banksy paints on your wall? Things kick off in Margate and Lowestoft.
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Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding edition of Any Questions?
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There’s a race against time for Anna.
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Kathy Clugston hosts GQT from the Summer Garden Party 2026 held at RHS Garden Wisley.
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Can we take notes on democracy from a pack of sneezing wild dogs?
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Dr Tony Juniper picks the Biologist EO Wilson.
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1/5 The first contender for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award by Merryn Glover.
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4/11 How did a family of Jewish performers defy the odds and survive Auschwitz?
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2/5 Little Lands by Lucy Caldwell is the second story up for this prestigious award.
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Water bills are going up, but can you lower them and what help is there if you can't pay?
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3/5 Cherise Saywell’s ‘Ditto’ is up for the prestigious 2026 BBC National Short Story Award.
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Musician Kate Stables explores the landscapes around her home city of Winchester.
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Co-founder Dr Atul Gawande makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Lifebox Foundation.
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4/5 Caoilinn Hughes’ moving, humane story is up for the 21st BBC National Short Story Award.
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Kathy Clugston hosts GQT from the Summer Garden Party 2026 held at RHS Garden Wisley.
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5/5 Two Minutes to Midnight by Laura Beatty is up for this award for the short story.
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2/2 Pearl S Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of one family's fight for land in rural China.
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A Mohegan artist retraces ancestral journeys while studying Shakespeare.
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Britain has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. Jonathan Ford asks why.
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The enduring song of quiet courage and acceptance in the face of passing time.
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Ruth Millington celebrates the muse - the people who inspire and enable creative genius.
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Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore what diabetes is and how it affects the body.
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David Yelland and Lauren Beeching discuss how to spin the destruction of humanity.
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How social media is reshaping the right of reply in political journalism.
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Is the UK ready for the challenges of modern war?
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Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?
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Also, farmer Wendell Berry, historian Frances Stonor Saunders and producer Jeremy Thomas.
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Tim Harford investigates kids’ teeth, Israeli drugs, NEETs and the chances AI kills us all
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Dame Meera Syal talks about her new play and memoir.
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The Irish writer on his latest novel, Where Are The Kings, and its three key influences.
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General knowledge quiz. Spotlights on Nordic heavy metal and 'Macbeth'.
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Leaders of Scotland, Wales and N.I agree to press case for constitutional change.
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Government says it will bring in a key recommendation from the Lucy Letby inquiry.
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The prime minister dismisses criticism that his is a tax and spend socialist government.
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The Canadian prime minister says a closer alliance with the EU is a "positive process".
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More details emerge on the fault which left 2,000 flights cancelled.
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We ask what it means, and get reaction from the Deputy Speaker of the Danish Parliament.
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Tom Tugendhat on Trump's diplomacy, Afghanistan withdrawal and being sanctioned by China.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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In 1963, a giant sculpture of a Scotsman began one of the country's quirkiest phenomena
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Ian McMillan with elemental haiku, poetry that moves mountains, and the best new writing.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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British co-founder of Anthropic says the world must set limits on AI.
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3/6 Problematic packaging, beautiful outrageousness and zen fury.
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An inquiry finds some of babies murdered by Lucy Letby could have been saved
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6/6 Paul poses a Canterbury audience some arch questions about bishops.
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The government appears to have averted a strike in England's schools.
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2/4 Stand-up series about big strong women who do unladylike sports.
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Daily Mail publishes extracts from Earl Spencer's book about his sister, Princess Diana
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2/4 Omid Djalili explores Iran, conflict and division.
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Princess Diana's brother has told the BBC that he is "telling the truth" in his book
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3/8 Is this the first time an Orangeman has called for a united Ireland?
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Danish and Greenlandic leaders welcome a new US agreement on the territory
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Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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German Chancellor Merz vows to stay on despite state election results
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Paulette Edwards presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.
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Carol makes her feelings clear.
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Samira talks to Hunter Davies, Juliette Binoche, Jack Thorne and Lucy Caldwell.
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Tony attempts to get involved.
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Plus Ian McCulloch on Echo & the Bunnymen's new album.
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Alan is there for a friend in need.
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Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Our Noble Selves.
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It’s action stations for Lynda.
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Plus film Queen at Sea starring Juliette Binoche and Thelma & Louise the musical.
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There’s a race against time for Anna.
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Rick Wakeman and Amanda Whiting add the final five tracks of the series.
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'Academic badass, track goddess'.
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American photographer Joel Meyerowitz reveals his formative cultural influences.
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Natasha throws a spanner in the works.
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Polish field-recordist Izabela Dłużyk, born blind, guides us into the rainforest of Peru.
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Ittai Gradel discovers a seemingly endless supply of precious gemstones.
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Is it time for a Tech-xit?
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Prof Stuart Russell offers some advice following a report into July’s Hugging Face hack.
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Examining Chinese state influence in UK public life.
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In Touch hears about how visually impaired people get involved with Live Action Role Play.
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Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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David Yelland and Lauren Beeching discuss how to spin the destruction of humanity.
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How social media is reshaping the right of reply in political journalism.
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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from St John's Methodist Church in St Austell.
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Fascinating, surprising and eye-opening stories from the past, brought to life.
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How did a small city in the North East of Scotland become the “Oil Capital of Europe”?
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Rob Drummond talks to Michael about the ways people talk in Manchester.
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Also, farmer Wendell Berry, historian Frances Stonor Saunders and producer Jeremy Thomas.
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Xand van Tulleken, Lani Watson and Daniel Mason on certainty and doubt.
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How one social enterprise helps people recover from addiction one bar of soap at a time.
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From jailed mayors to comedians, Emily Wither investigates Turkey's crackdown.
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Criminals help themselves to new tech - and you pay for it.
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Epigeneticist Edith Heard on decoding the details of how X chromosomes are expressed.
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How can music impact life with Parkinson’s? And the All in the Mind Awards are back.
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Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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Armando and Natalie look back over a busy summer of political language.
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Douglas Coupland examines how Nirvana’s Nevermind changed the outlook of a generation.
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Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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What might the Pensions Commission recommend to improve retirement saving?
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Writer Armando Iannucci makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Poverty Action Group.
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Houthi fighters captured two port cities, consolidating their grip on a key shipping route
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Staff falsified records and slept on the night one patient was killed by another
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1/10 A study of power and obsession, inspired by the world of the Young British Artists.
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Advances by Iran-aligned Houthi fighters have disrupted Saudi oil supplies
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2/10 As she settles into the flatshare, Rabble is inspired to take her art in a new direction.
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US central bank raises interest rate for the first time in three years
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3/10 Rab maintains an iron grip on the art for the New York retrospective.
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We explore whether China will agree to restrict AI development
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4/10 After a day chasing the decisive moment, Rab shares a tender evening with Duncan.
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Macron orders plan to protect France in latest warning from European leader
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5/10 The graduate show marks an ending as the young artists move on to an uncertain future.
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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Sheila Dillon and Paula McIntyre meet this year's Best Food Producer finalists.
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Andy Burnham goes to the UN and the Lib Dems gather in Brighton for their party conference
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4/5 The Thai Senator, an interrogation, a private jet…
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Alicia McCarthy reports as peers debate changes to the laws on political donations.
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Joe travels to Turkey where his great-grandfather was employed, it seems, making gas masks
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Susan Hulme reports as plans are announced for video monitors in hospital neonatal units.
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A client's insomnia is a puzzle for Nora this week, as she enjoys 14 hours sleep a night.
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3/5 WARNING: There is a 10% chance that this show will kill all of humanity.
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Lessons on love, and how to be faithful, from a rodent the size of a satsuma.
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The House of Lords takes centre stage.
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A prepper argues everyone has a duty to be better prepared for a crisis.
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How dwarf mongooses can help us figure out who to trust, and how to make friends.
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Susan Hulme reports as ministers insist defence spending v welfare is a false choice.
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Who wins in the rush to develop Artificial Intelligence, and at what cost?
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The '80s disco classic that tells a powerful story
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3/8 Laura Smyth hears about famous mums, punk eras and pranks that went too far.
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23:30
General knowledge quiz. Spotlights on Warhammer 40,000, Guernica and sea shanties.
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23:00
How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.
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23:45
Why do we help each other out? Even when it gets us nothing? Magpies might know.
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