Radio 4
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Introducing ADA: a new way of finding Radio 4 programmes
Radio 4 has an enormous archive of permanently available programmes just waiting to be discovered. We are offering a new way of finding our programmes.
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Professor David Cannadine on Prime Ministers' Props
Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object or prop, whether chosen deliberately or otherwise, can come to define a political leader.
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Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and Dame Hilary Mantel to deliver BBC Reith Lectures in 2016 and 2017
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and Dame Hilary Mantel to deliver BBC Reith Lectures in 2016 and 2017
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Inside the mind of Professor Stephen Hawking
Inside the mind of Professor Stephen Hawking is a short animation created by Aardman Studios. Rhian Roberts, Digital Editor for Radio 4 and Radio 3 talks about how animation can stir us to tackle difficult scientific ideas.
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Calling all Cat Lovers
Let's celebrate our feline friends - please send us your pictures of your moggies enjoying some Radio 4 time.
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Nigel Slater: Eating for England
Nigel Slater reflects the adaptation of his food memoir by dramatist Sarah Daniels
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Home Front: Who Signed Up For WW1 And Why?
Professor Maggie Andrews, consultant historian on Radio 4’s epic drama series Home Front talks about the series and theme of recruitment in WW1
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Philosophy Animated
Visual Thinker Andrew Park, talks about his work on animations to accompany A History of Ideas on Radio 4.
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Listener Week: Get Involved
Do you have a fantastic idea for Radio 4 that you’ve always wanted to hear on air? Listener Week is your chance to get involved.
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Bookclub - Allan Massie, A Question of Divided Loyalties
Jim Naughtie and a studio audience hear from Allan Massie about his novel A Question of Loyalties.
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Tweet of the Day - This Time It's Global
Tweet of the Day returns with a new series - this time it's global.
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Plants: From Roots to Riches
Plants: From Roots to Riches is a landmark series exploring our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years
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Feedback: Editorial Balance
Roger Bolton talks about editorial balance in this week's edition of Radio 4's Feedback.
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A History of the N-Word
Historically, the N-word – one of the most hated and hateful in the English language – has been associated with the USA. Archive Hour producer Colin Grant explores the legacy of this controversial and hateful word.
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Michael Palin to join Sir David Attenborough as BBC Radio 4's Award-Winning Tweet of the Day Travels the World
Tweet of the Day is Radio 4’s year-long celebration of the wonder and poetry of birdsong.
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Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man
Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.
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Speaking with your mouth full - Radio 4 at Bristol Food Connections
Radio 4 at Bristol Food Connections