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Paul Gambaccini chairs the nationwide music quiz, with questions on music of all eras.By BBC Radio 4
A look back on some of the best bits of News Quizzing from 2022.In this compilation episode Andy Zaltzman casts his satirical eye over the highs and lows of the year, in which the UK has had two monarchs, three Prime Ministers and countless debates over whether a party can technically be called a party.Hosted and written by Andy Zaltzman.Producer: …
An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 written by Jan Carson and read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children's Children (2016), and two flash fiction a…
We’re back! Greg Jenner previews some of the topics and guest coming up in the new series of You're Dead To Me which starts on Friday 10 February, 2023.By BBC Radio 4
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03/02/22 Dental deserts, forestry training, PCN resistant potatoes.
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The dental deserts in the UK's rural and coastal towns. Recent research showed that 90% of NHS dental practices in England were not accepting new adult patients. The All Party Parliamentary Health and Social Care committee is now investigating this struggle people are having finding a dentist.The Government is to spend £700,000 training people in f…
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The government wants hundreds of thousands of over 50's to return the workforce as Britain mounts an economic recovery. More than half million people in that age bracket have left work since 2019. Will the promise of a 'midlife MOT' encourage people to come back to work? And do employers want them?Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:…
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TV drama Nolly and film The Whale reviewed, director M Night Shyamalan
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Noele Gordon was the star of Crossroads, the soap that ran on ITV from 1964 to 1988, attracting audiences of 15 million in its heyday. She was sacked from the show in 1981, returning briefly a few years later. What happened? And what was the role of TV soap at that time, with women at the heart of its casts and audience? Russell T Davies' new drama…
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02/02/2023 The Bank of England raises interest rates again
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates again but has hinted that the recession might not be as bad as forecast.By BBC Radio 4
The UK's first satellite launch faced several delays in 2022, but Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl is prepped for imminent take off. BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos has been following the activity in Newquay and, alongside Melissa Thorpe head of Spaceport Cornwall, describes the potential this launch has to promote and bolster the UK's space indu…
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The Hills are Alive! Commoners Choir in Calderdale
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Boff Whalley is best known for Tubthumping with the band Chumbawamba but now he’s a core member of the Leeds based Commoners Choir which he founded. They sing about the world around them, about inequality and injustice, and they also love to walk. Cath Long, a fellow member, wrote to Ramblings to ask Clare to join them on a hike in the South Pennin…
02 FEB 23By BBC Radio 4
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Alex Kingston plays Prospero at the RSC; Captain Preet Chandi; Alcohol, sexual assault & recall; Folic acid; All good friends?
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Women are able to recall details of sexual assault and rape with accuracy, even if they have drunk – moderate amounts of alcohol .A study conducted at the University of Birmingham demonstrated that women who had drunk alcohol up to the legal limit for driving were able to recall details of an assault in a hypothetical scenario, including details of…
In this episode presenter Greg Foot investigates three products that promise to make washing your laundry better for the planet.Listener Clare wants to know if the Ecoegg she’s using really is a greener alternative to liquid detergent and whether the cleaning pellets inside are harmful to the environment.Another listener, Jane, got in touch about l…
Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan Ukraine, Gibraltar, Uzbekistan and NamibiaMore than 100 people were killed in an attack targeting police in a high security mosque in the northern city of Peshawar in Pakistan earlier this week. An investigation is now underway as to how the bomber managed to enter the high-security zone. Caroline Davies wen…
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02/02/2023 Fruit growers; Rural poverty; Record crops
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Apple and pear growing in the UK is on a knife-edge, according to a survey of apple and pear growers by the British Growers Association. More than a third of orders for new trees have been scrapped by farmers who say the sums just don’t add up. They say costs have risen by around 23% compared to an increase in the price they’re paid by supermarkets…
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The World Tonight
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The biggest public sector strikes in a decade
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Also tonight:Actor Christopher Biggins on the Oldham Coliseum Theatre cancelling all its shows this yearAnd the scientists hoping to bring the dodo back from the deadPhoto by NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockBy BBC Radio 4
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Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum
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Sonia Boyce’s exhibition, Feeling Her Way, won the top prize at the Venice Biennale international art fair. As the sound, video and wallpaper installation arrives at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, Sonia tells Samira why she wanted to form her own girl band and help them to achieve imperfection through improvisation.Director Colm Bairéa…
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01/02/2023 The UK sees its biggest day of industrial action for a decade.
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The biggest day of industrial action for a decade has seen walkouts by up to half a million train drivers, university lecturers, civil servants and teachers.By BBC Radio 4
Museums - Laurie Taylor talks to Adam Kuper, most recently Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economic, about their history and future. Originally created as colonial enterprises, what is the purpose of these places now? How do we regard the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthr…
01 FEB 23By BBC Radio 4
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Woman's Hour
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Helena Bonham Carter, Power List judges Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Ebony Rainford-Brent, Update on Ian Paterson
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Helena Bonham Carter is one of our best known actors – she’s played everyone from Princess Margaret in The Crown and Elizabeth the Queen Mother in The King's Speech, to Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films, and more recently Enola Holmes’ formidable mother in the Netflix films with Milly Bobby Brown. Helena is now taking on a very differen…
Most of us in the UK use our phones for over 3 hours/day! They are incredibly useful - but using them just a little bit less can have big benefits for your health and wellbeing. Studies have shown that reducing your phone use by one hour each day can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. It can also increase life satisfaction, reduce smoking a…
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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
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Has trade with the EU increased since Britain left the European Union? Tim Harford and the team look at a claim suggesting just that. There’s a row over the renaming of a street in North London previously called Black Boy Lane – but how much has it really all cost? Also are there more pensioners in “millionaire households” than pensioners in povert…
Matthew Syed introduces season six, which explores stories about letting your guard down and making a leap of trust, reaching the peaks of our powers, and finding what truly motivates us to do good things.By BBC Radio 4
As the calendar page turns, so many of us also think of turning over new leaves, re-assessing what we're doing and how we are doing it. In this podcast, we are looking at the finances of happiness, in particular, whether there are lessons about the way we manage our money which can make us happier and improve our mental well-being. On the panel of …
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01/02/2023 - Land Use report; Potatoes; Oil central heating.
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A major report into land use by the Royal Society warns the government not to 'over promise' what the countryside can deliver. It says government ambitions to use our land to boost food production, protect nature and fight climate change may not be achieved because of disjointed policy-making and a lack of robust data. We speak to Sir Ian Boyd, pro…
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspectiveBy BBC Radio 4
Dawn had a heart attack but 'powered through' making the Christmas dinner before seeking help - because she put her symptoms down to anxiety and backache.Her interventional cardiologist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Professor Vijay Kunadian, sees many women like her who aren't seen quickly enough or given the right medication to improve their chances of …
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Beethoven's Für Elise, playwright Garry Lyons, film director Rajkumar Santoshi
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Beethoven’s love life has long fascinated music scholars primarily because so little is known about it despite some tantalising clues. In his new book, Why Beethoven, music critic Norman Lebrecht, identifies the dedicatee of Beethoven’s well-loved melody Für Elise, while Jessica Duchen has written a novel, Immortal, which provides one answer to the…
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Six O' Clock News
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31/01/2023 Police forces apologise to Hillsborough relatives
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Police forces in England and Wales have apologised for failing the relatives of people killed in the Hillsborough disaster and announced widespread changes in response.By BBC Radio 4
Also: At least 59 dead in Peshawar mosque blast. Attacks on the LGBT community in Egypt. And the story of the King’s Bed.By BBC Radio 4
31 JAN 23By BBC Radio 4
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Woman's Hour
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Emily Atack, Baroness Catherine Ashton, Sophie Duker
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Actor and comedian, Emily Atack has decided to stand up against the men who cyber-flash her daily. Having received unsolicited, unwanted, abusive messages, dick pics and crude images for years she has made a documentary “Emily Atack: Asking for it?” for BBC 2. Emily joins Nuala to discuss why men do this and why she's chosen to speak about it publi…
‘Can we bring back extinct species?’ wonders listener Mikko Campbell. Well, Professor Fry is pretty excited by the prospect of woolly mammoths roaming the Siberian tundra once more. And everyone is impressed with the science that might make it happen. But Dr Rutherford comes out STRONGLY against the whole thing. Can our expert guests win him over? …
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Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots
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Clifford Johnson's career to date has spanned some seemingly very different industries - from exploring quantum mechanics around string theory and black holes, to consulting on some of Hollywood's biggest movies; but it makes sense once you understand his ambition of making science accessible to all. A Professor in the Department of Physics and Ast…
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31/01/23 - Environment targets; Rural Poverty.
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The government has published its Environmental Improvement Plan. This outlines a raft of goals which it says lay the foundation stones to halt the decline of nature by 2030, and then reverse it. It includes targets to improve wildlife habitats; air and water quality; species protection; and an investment in creating 70 thousand jobs connected to th…
On the night of 31st January 1953, the combination of a high spring tide and a storm over the North Sea caused a devastating surge of water to sweep across the East Coast and up the Thames Estuary. It was one of Britain's worst natural disasters in the 20th century - 307 people lost their lives in England and over 1,800 in the Netherlands - and yet…
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Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV
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Director Sarah Polley discusses her latest film, Women Talking, nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Based on the true story of the women in a remote Mennonite colony who discovered men had been attacking the women in their community, the film focuses on their debate about what to do next. Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, the new ITVX comedy which us…
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30/01/2023 Firefighters across the UK have voted overwhelmingly for strike action
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Firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action, last ditch talks to avert Wednesday's teacher strike in England and Wales have failed.By BBC Radio 4
30 JAN 23By BBC Radio 4
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The Guilty Feminist
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343. Confessions with Jessica Fostekew and special guest Catherine Cohen
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The Guilty Feminist episode 343: Confessions Presented by Deborah Frances-White with Jessica Fostekew and special guest Catherine Cohen Recorded 29 January at Rose Theatre in Kingston. Released 30 January 2023. The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon. More about Deborah Frances-White https://deborahfrances-white.com htt…
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Hilary Grime on her daugher Phoebe, Catherine Lee on Section 28, Tidying up v mess
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Hilary Grime’s daughter Phoebe, a student at Newcastle university, took her own life in June 2021. Hilary has since come together with other bereaved families to form the Learn Network with the aim of preventing future deaths of students by suicide. One of their first targets is to ask the government to legislate for a statutory duty of care for st…
28 JAN 23By BBC Radio 4
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30/01/23 Welsh Agriculture Bill; Rural poverty; Giant Hedge.
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The Welsh Government should add more clarity to the bill bringing in the ‘made for Wales’ agriculture policy. That's according to the Senedd’s Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee which has scrutinised the bill, making 50 recommendations. It paves the way for a new Sustainable Farming Scheme - SFS - which is expected to come in 2025. It will …
Series 2, Episode 1 of the anarchic sitcom about a man desperate to succeed in a world he does not fully understand. When Phil discovers Parbold is hosting the World Pinball Championships, he sees a way to solve his money troubles by winning the big cash prize. But it's not just him who wants the money, as Phil's past catches up with him. Meanwhile…
Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the sacking of Nadhim ZahawiBy BBC Radio 4
Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Conservative Party chairman, after weeks of controversy about his tax affairs.By BBC Radio 4
