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Andy Zaltzman and the News Quiz satirise the week's news from the UK and beyond.This week Andy is joined by Alice Fraser, Chris McCausland, Daliso Chaponda and Hugo Rifkind. They try to make sense of a week of big dogs, pork pies and red meat.Chair's Script: Written by Andy ZaltzmanAdditional Material: Written by Heidi Regan, Cameron Loxdale, Steph…
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This week, 5-4 is inviting you to check out an episode of Scene on Radio, from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Scene on Radio asks big, hard questions about who we are, and how we got this way. This season, "The Repair," they're focusing on the climate crisis, and in this episode they're looking at the creative ways we can us…
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Isabel Allende on her new novel Violeta, Freya McClements on the play The White Handkerchief, William Sitwell and Façade,
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Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and raised in Chile. Most famous for her novel The House of the Spirits, her works have been both bestsellers and critically acclaimed, translated into more than forty-two languages and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Her latest book, Violeta, is a fictional account of one woman’s lif…
Boris Johnson refuses to resign as he waits for a report into parties at Downing Street.By BBC Radio 4
Charmaine Cozier, listeners and experts discuss the impact of rising energy prices.By BBC Radio 4
Extremism: Laurie Taylor talks to Julia Ebner, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, about her experience of going undercover amongst political extremists, including neo Nazis, Islamic jihadists and anti feminists. Also, Daniel Koehler, founding Director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studi…
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The Corona Lisa, Dr Koshka Duff, Magistrates and Revolutionary women
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Chloe Slevin, a 3rd year nursing student at University College Dublin has been painting well-known masterpieces - with a Covid-19 twist. First came 'The Girl with the Surgical Mask' after the famous 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' then she did a version of one of Michaelangelo's famous works. But her most recent painting is that of the 'Corona Lisa' …
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
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Food writer Jack Monroe sparked national debate this week when she tweeted about food price hikes on the cheapest goods in supermarkets - but does inflation really hit low income households hardest?Social media and some news outlets have spread claims this week that only around 17,000 people have actually died of Covid. We debunk.We test the truth …
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Met Police to investigate Downing Street parties
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Jimi Olaghere feels like he’s been reborn after a pioneering new treatment for sickle cell disease. Scientists have engineered his blood to overcome the disease that left him in constant pain. I speak to Jimi about his experience and to his doctors about what this could mean for people with sickle cell around the world. Then we explore the headline…
Record ambulance delays are leaving patients waiting hours for emergency care to arrive with waiting times increasing every month. Some patients wait hours at home, many wait outside the hospitals for a bed to become available, but for a small number, ambulances are arriving too late and patients are dying while waiting for help to arrive. In this …
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Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up
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The Responder, a five-part BBC drama broadcast on consecutive nights this week, was written by ex-police response officer Tony Schumacher. He joins Samira along with Martin Freeman, who stars as the disillusioned police responder Chris Carson.A cross party group of MPs from the north of England have just made the case for cultural levelling up in a…
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25/01/2022 Police to investigate Number 10 lockdown gatherings
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Boris Johnson said he welcomed the inquiry, saying it would "give the public the clarity it needs" over the allegations.By BBC Radio 4
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Another party in Downing Street is uncovered
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Henry Normal reckons Spike Milligan changed his life, in particular with his 1973 poetry collection, Small Dreams of a Scorpion. Spike's other work - The Goons, the books about the war (Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall and Rommel? Gunner Who?) these were important, but it was the poetry that really made Henry Normal think again.Spike was born …
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It's language, Jim, but not as we know it
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Could aliens 'speak' in chemicals? Could they converse in electricity? Would they be able to hear us? In the absence of a Star Trek-style universal translator, how would you talk to an alien newly arrived on Planet Earth?Dr Hannah Little is a science communicator, linguist and comedian. She joins Michael Rosen for some fascinating thought experimen…
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Six the Musical, Author Hannah Jewell on 'snowflakes', Women in Ukraine
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Six the Musical is currently on stage at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The show follows Henry VIII’s six wives, as they take the microphone for the first time in a ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ style sing-off. Originally written by two Cambridge University students and showcased at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, it has since taken London’s Wes…
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In this ongoing case, the Court holds that requirements that employees mask and test weekly, or get vaccinated, cannot be enforced while a challenge makes its way through the judiciary. It's good news for … I don't know, hermits living in caves who never interact with humans, or people who are already dead? For everyone else, it's not so great. Fol…
Fifty years ago on 30 January 1972, a day that came to be forever known as “Bloody Sunday”, soldiers of the First Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, shot dead 13 civil rights marchers in Londonderry/Derry. Peter Taylor tells the story of that day with a mix of his own unique archive and new interviews from those on all sides about what the events m…
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Olly Alexander, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Rigoletto
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The singer and actor Olly Alexander discusses his new album, Night Call, and playing the central role in the Russell T Davies drama acclaimed television drama, It's A Sin; Theatre director Femi Elufowoju Jr. on making his opera debut with a new transformed production of Verdi's opera, Rigoletto; and the American poet Honorée Fannone Jeffers on expa…
From CryptoPunks to Bored Apes to original artwork and more, there has never been so much interest in them. Even big traditional art galleries are getting in on the action.Felicity Hannah looks at the financial world of NFTs, non-fungible tokens. They have a boring, slightly odd sounding name but they are generating a lot of excitement. So what are…
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24/01/2022 NATO sends more ships & planes to member states in eastern Europe as Russia continues military build-up on Ukraine
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NATO sends more ships & planes to member states in eastern Europe, as Russia continues military build-up against Ukraine. The Kremlin accused the alliance of escalating tensionsBy BBC Radio 4
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290. Survivors Leading Essential Education and Change with Sara Pascoe, Megan Baker & Bryony Ball
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The Guilty Feminist presented by Deborah Frances-White and Sara Pascoe Episode 290: Survivors Leading Essential Education and Change with Megan Baker and Bryony Ball Recorded 12 January via Zoom. Released 24 January 2022 The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon. More about Deborah Frances-White https://deborahfrances-whi…
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Female Offender Strategy, Midwife shortage, Zara Rutherford, Annalena Baerbock
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Concerns that the criminal justice system is not responsive enough to the specific needs of women are longstanding. In June 2018 the government published its Female Offender Strategy. It sought to reduce crime, pressure on services and the cost of dealing with women in the CJS, and to improve outcomes for women at all points in the system. The Nati…
Creators of the hit Radio 4 Sci Fi comedy Quanderhorn, Rob Grant (Son of Cliché, Spitting Image, Red Dwarf) and Andrew Marshall (Burkiss Way, Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4children) invite you back for a deeper glimpse into the steaming primordial swamps of their hideously contorted imaginations, known only as The Nether Regions.Trapped with them in th…
Ben Wright and guests discuss the upcoming Sue Gray report and the Ukraine crisis.By BBC Radio 4
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23/01/2022 Cabinet ministers call for inquiry into Tory MP's sacking from government
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Nus Ghani says she was told she was dismissed - in part - because of her Muslim faithBy BBC Radio 4
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22/01/2022 Further concerns about activities of Conservative whips
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Commons Standards Committee chair warns attempts to intimidate Tory MPs may be illegalBy BBC Radio 4
Tessa Hadley, Richard Beard on Time and two pioneering female book sellers.By BBC Radio 4
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
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In early January several newspapers ran article claiming that ‘women are 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon. If true, this is a terrifying figure but is all as it seems? We dig into the data to find out whether women should really be worried about having a male surgeon.By BBC Radio 4
In this episode Sheila Dillon is joined by a chef, restaurateur, author and campaigner, Angela Hartnett, for another in the programme’s series of Lives told through Food. Angela Hartnett is seen as an icon in the food industry - she started out learning on the job in Cambridge - and later rose up working for Gordon Ramsey, first at The Aubergine, a…
John Caudwell is a businessman and philanthropist who founded the mobile phone company Phones 4U in 1996. It became the UK’s largest independent mobile phone retailer and made him one of Britain’s most successful businessmen. John was born in Birmingham and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent. He came up with his first business venture when he was five – he …
Box 13 - The Philanthropist / Our Miss Brooks - Boynton's Land Deal See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Newstalk770 / Curiouscast
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy
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Artist Tracey Emin shares why she wants an artwork she donated to the government’s art collection to be removed from display in Number 10 Downing Street. Last Wednesday afternoon, 23-year-old school teacher Ashling Murphy was killed while jogging along the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore, Ireland. The case has shocked the nation and revived c…
A Money Box investigation has discovered how a scam that saw criminals steal nearly £4m from 69 victims was barely investigated by the police – a response described by HMIC as “woeful”. Of the 69 cases, only 5 were passed on for investigation. We find out why.Twelve senior tax experts have asked the Chancellor to consider a new settlement opportuni…
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Searching for Mexico's Drug War Disappeared
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The drug-related violence in Mexico is sometimes described as being “like a war.” Certainly the death toll justifies calling it that, with three hundred thousand people killed in the past fifteen years, many of them innocent civilians. About a hundred thousand have simply disappeared, presumed dead, and with their families left to search for them. …
Radio 4's assessment of developments at WestminsterBy BBC Radio 4
Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Vicky McClure, star of Line of Duty and Made in England. Her latest role is in a new drama on bomb disposal, keeping us on the edge of our sofas. We also have Helen Naylor who grew up believing that her mother had a chronic health condition that made her so exhausted she had to spend most of her time in be…
22 JAN 22By BBC Radio 4
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Ukraine crisis:diplomatic efforts intensify
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In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspectiveBy BBC Radio 4
Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present or future, as shifting social attitudes colour our view of how the past is portrayed."What current historians share with those historians of the past whose vision we vehemently decry, is that they too thought they were right at the time...If we now find their views abhorr…
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21/01/2022 No breakthrough in crisis Ukraine talks between US and Russia
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Both sides described the talks as frank. Moscow insisted NATO was working against Russia, and the US warned of a swift and severe response if Russian troops crossed into Ukraine.By BBC Radio 4
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219. Slow Eaters' Tables and French Roundabouts, with Paris Lees
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This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane chat to the journalist and presenter Paris Lees. Paris tells them about her podcast The Flipside, which offers interesting insights on human nature through two stories that seem opposing, exploring topics such as extremism and forgiveness. She also discusses her book What It Feels Like for a Girl and how she is…
