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08/08/2026
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
What’s in a name?
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Richard Reddie.
Corsewall
Richard King visits Corsewall lighthouse with keeper Barry Miller.
Tracey Emin
Dame Tracey Emin introduces Martha Kearney to the landscape and the wild waves of Margate.
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
The latest weather reports and forecast
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
What Happened to Counter-Culture?
3. Beauty in the Streets
Stewart Lee explores the story and ideas of counter-culture and its importance today.
How hydrated should you really be?
Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore hydration.
Emperor Constantine the Great: Christianity and the Roman Empire
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the Roman emperor, Constantine the Great.
Series 53
Episode 7
Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
Votes for Six-Year-Olds: Could Child Suffrage Revive Democracy? (David Runciman)
A former Cambridge politics professor has a bold proposal: lowering the voting age to six.
Insight and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Toast - Series 7
EasyCinema
Stelios, the EasyJet founder, tells Sean why his low-cost movie theatres didn't take off.
Episode 3
Lucy Porter gets current-ish with Vittorio Angelone, Jake Bhardwaj and Susie McCabe.
The latest weather forecast
07/08/2026
Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities
Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding edition of Any Questions?
Keira makes a surprising discovery.
August in Manchester
A chance encounter reunites Leigh with Rick, the man she never stopped wondering about.
Highlights from the Woman's Hour week
Full coverage of the day's news
Sliced Bread - Series 17
Pillows
What makes the perfect pillow?
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
Michael Fry, Emma Southon, Olivia McVeigh, Dónal O'Connor, Clare Sands
Stuart Maconie and guests from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All-Ireland Fleadh) in Belfast.
Lay this body down
Matthew Bannister on changing attitudes to dying, death and how we memorialise our dead.
Episode 2: Gibraltar - Online betting's birthplace
How Gibraltar became the tech, data and innovation capital of the online gambling industry
Writing Our Mothers
A journey into the ways women writers have written the mother.
Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: Omnibus 1
Stories of conflict that forged a movement.
The Dark Arts of Affinage
Sheila Dillon explores the weird and wonderful world of maturing cheese.
Series 2
2. Intelligence
In this episode, Olga tackles intelligence.
Heat 2, 2026
General knowledge quiz. Spotlights on A Song of Ice and Fire and county cricket.
09/08/2026
Janice Hallett
The award-winning writer speaks to a Bookclub audience about her debut novel, The Appeal.
