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28/05/2026
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
27/05/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life
Prisoners of Conscience
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Mark Oakley.
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
The Welsh Marches
How the Norman invasion of Britain created semi-independent warlord territories in Wales.
Armando Iannucci and guests decode the utterly baffling world of political language.
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Award-winning actor Kristin Scott Thomas on her career and cultural influences.
Episode 4
The vast numbers of caribou that have sustained so many for so long are in decline.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
The Instagram Takeover Scam
Why wouldn't you trust an old friend?
Toast - Wilko
What went wrong at Wilko? Sean Farrington hears how the retail chain ended up toast.
The latest weather forecast
News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4
Thursday
Phil Tinline charts the working week in five days. On today's agenda: overworking.
Alice tries to get to the bottom of recent events.
Artan and Jordan
A Wiltshire-Albanian bromance, by Florence Espeut-Nickless.
Fetternear, Aberdeenshire
Clare strolls with the Garioch 50+ Men’s Walking Group.
Reprieve
Actor Adjoa Andoh makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Reprieve.
Words to Love the Living World
Michael Rosen and Ella Frances Sanders on her dictionary of language, landscape and life.
Rethink... the Humanities
Should we be rethinking the humanities for a digital age?
A weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.
Full coverage of the day's news
Series 3
2: Reality TV
Comedian Ellie Taylor explains why she thinks reality TV is culturally significant.
Natasha makes plans for the future.
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
Who's in the news for all the wrong reasons? With David Yelland and Simon Lewis.
This is the programme about a revolution in media.
Hay Festival, Athena Kugblenu, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Keith Cameron, Robin Morgan, Georgina Hayden, Cerys Hafna
Clive Anderson and guests, recorded at the Hay Festival.
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
Episode 4 - a ceithir
Douglas Stuart's epic novel about belonging.
I Say a Little Prayer for You
Stories about the Burt Bacharach classic.
29/05/2026
