Download the best satirical comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, Catherine Bohart: TL;DR and Dead Ringers.
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The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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Award-winning current affairs documentary series investigating major issues at home and abroad
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Brighten your week with the latest BBC Radio 4 comedy.
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Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes.
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The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
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Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations. Introduced by Vanessa Kisuule.
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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
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New research on how society works
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A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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Best-selling author Matthew Syed explores the ideas that shape our lives with stories of seeing the world differently.
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Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.
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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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In-depth conversations with some of the world's leading artists and creatives across theatre, visual arts, music, dance, film and more. Hosted by John Wilson.
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Intelligent and challenging quiz games on BBC Radio 4. Featuring Round Britain Quiz, Counterpoint and Brain of Britain with Quizmasters including Paul Gambaccini, Kirsty Lang and Russell Davies.
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future
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Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Americast is the authoritative US news and politics podcast from the BBC. Each week we provide audiences with the best analysis from across the BBC, with on-the-ground observations and big picture insights about the stories which are defining America right now. The podcast is hosted by trusted BBC journalists including the BBC’s North America editor, Sarah Smith, BBC Radio 4 presenter, Justin Webb, the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring, and BBC North Americ ...
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Series focusing on foreign affairs issues
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David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news
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Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. Uncharted with Hannah Fry will lead us through ten captivating mysteries to reveal the power of numbers behind each one. Along the way we discover the remarkable people who followed the data and unearthed something extraordinary.
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Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
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Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
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Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Join comedians Sunil Patel (Alice and Jack, Channel 4) and Chris Cantrill (Icklewick FM, BBC Radio 4) as they try to maintain a long-distance friendship in the face of countryside-grade internet speeds (Cantrill) and staggering apathy (Patel). Produced by Egg Mountain for A Lovely Time Productions.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Presenting the biggest legends of Hollywood starring in "Suspense," radio's outstanding theater of thrills! Each week, we'll hear two chillers from this old time radio classic featuring one of the all-time great stars of stage and screen.
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The series that investigates the latest ad-hyped products and trending fads promising to make us healthier, happier and greener. Are they really 'the best thing since sliced bread'? Science presenter Greg Foot finds out. Greg speaks to experts on a bunk-busting mission to test the latest consumer trends chosen by listeners. Do they live up to the hype? Or are they just marketing BS? Greg chats to the experts, dives into the data, performs tests and crunches the numbers before putting his fin ...
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The home of RadioLeMans
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Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.
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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
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The latest news from the world of personal finance plus advice for those trying to make the most of their money.
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Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and major breaking news from a global perspective
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Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.
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Listen to selected highlights from the Today programme.
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Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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Reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news.
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Neil Delamere, Lucy Porter, Mark Steel, and Marie Le Conte join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news In this first episode of a brand new series, Andy and the panel catch up on the events of Labour's first Brat Summer, take a look at a Tory leadership election, and have a brief check in on the rest of the world to make sure it's still there. Written by A…
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No time to read the news? Catherine Bohart does it for you in TL;DR. This week - Elon Musk thinks there should be regulation around AI. Is he right? Can AI really change the world, or are we just training our future robot overlords? Times journalist Hugo Rifkind navigates the ethical minefield of artificial intelligence, while Professor Gina Neff b…
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Matt and Steve are back looking at the latest sim racing news from Gamescom 24. They look at the new Endurance Racing Series game with some very unique features as well as some awesome new taster images from iRacing’s rendition of Cadwell Park. This leaves them with a question… which of the three UK tracks coming poses the biggest challenge?…
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Neil Delamere, Lucy Porter, Mark Steel, and Marie Le Conte join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news In this first episode of a brand new series, Andy and the panel catch up on the events of Labour's first Brat Summer, take a look at a Tory leadership election, and have a brief check in on the rest of the world to make sure it's still there. Written by A…
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A man who targeted a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years.由BBC Radio 4
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No time to read the news? Catherine Bohart does it for you in TL;DR. This week - Elon Musk thinks there should be regulation around AI. Is he right? Can AI really change the world, or are we just training our future robot overlords?Times journalist Hugo Rifkind navigates the ethical minefield of artificial intelligence, while Professor Gina Neff br…
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Matthew Bannister on Claire Lomas MBE, who was paralysed from the chest down after a riding accident and went on to complete the London Marathon wearing a bionic suit. Phil Swern, the music producer known as “The Collector” because he owned millions of records. Ken Bruce pays tribute. Countess of Airlie, the American heiress who married into the ar…
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Daisy Johnson is a multi-award-winning short story writer whose debut novel Everything Under was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In The Stranger she weaves a gentle romantic story beginning with an unusual flatshare to save money, then twists it into a suspenseful thriller all in the space of 14 minutes - read by Saffron Coomber. Saffron Coom…
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The Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died, after being doused with petrol and set on fire. She is the third female athlete to be killed in Kenya in the past few years. To find out more about what's going on, Krupa Padhy is joined by the BBC's Deputy Africa Editor Anne Soy and Joan Chelimo, a fellow athlete of Rebecca's. Carol Klein is o…
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Thought for the Day由BBC Radio 4
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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Greg Jenner is joined in the eleventh century by Dr Eleanor Barraclough and actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe to learn about legendary Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Leif was possibly the first European to reach the Americas, nearly half a millennium before Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean. According to the stories told about him, he was a lucky e…
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To the Batcave! In this bonus episode, we'll hear five Suspense stars who played Gotham City bad guys opposite Adam West and Burt Ward on Batman. We'll hear Vincent Price (Egghead) and Ida Lupino (Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft) in "Fugue in C Minor" (originally aired on CBS on June 1, 1944), Roddy McDowall (Bookworm) in "One Way Street" (originally aire…
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The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most powerful women. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as well as …
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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Thousands of prisoners will be released early from Tuesday to relieve over-crowding in Britain's prisons. Sima Kotecha gained access to HMP Pentonville to witness the toll the over-crowding is taking on prison guards and the prisoners themselves. A former prison officer who now helps inmates to find employment says he fears the early releases could…
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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by academic and critic John Mullan and Elodie Harper, the bestselling author of The Wolf Den Trilogy for the Front Row review show. They discuss Jeff Goldblum as a modern-day Zeus in the series Kaos, Rachel Kushner’s thriller Creation Lake, which has been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, and the historical drama Fire…
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This week is all about predictions, polling and risk taking - what do current polls tell us about who might win the 2024 presidential race? We get a behind the scenes look at how statisticians make their predictions, and how accurate they are. Our guest Nate Silver developed a forecasting system which correctly predicted the outcome of the presiden…
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The former Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has taken over as France's prime minister.由BBC Radio 4
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05 SEPT 2024由BBC Radio 4
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Today we will be going for gold in more ways than one. Inga Doak, the Head of Sustainability at The Royal Mint, reveals how the company plan to ‘urban mine’ gold from household electronic waste and turn it into jewellery. But with tens of millions of tonnes of e-waste piling up every year, the environment policy adviser at the Royal Society of Chem…
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The growth of wildlife documentaries and social media has boosted our interest in wildlife. Footage of whales, birds and mammals shot by keen nature lovers around the British Isles has alerted us to the presence of apex predators such as the Orca in the waters around northern Scotland. It's not surprising that people visit the island of Mull in the…
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Colonel Chris Hadfield is a veteran of three spaceflights. He crewed the US space shuttle twice, piloted the Russian Soyuz, helped build space station Mir and served as Commander of the International Space Station. Getting words and language right in as clear and a concise way is a matter of life and death for astronauts. Crews are traditionally ma…
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Last month the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, warned that "things would get worse before they got better". The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already said that there's a £22 billion black hole in the government's finances left by the Conservatives. The budget at the end of October, we're told, will be "painful". But just how bad a state is the UK …
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The New Zealand born opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the world's greatest sopranos. She enjoyed a 50 year career singing lead roles in opera houses around the globe, and on dozens of studio recordings. Since retiring in 2017 she has focussed on leading her Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation which supports young opera singers from her home country…
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Eluned Morgan, Female right-wing US campaigners, The history of understanding women's bodies
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Eluned Morgan is the first woman in history to be first minister of Wales. She was appointed earlier this summer after her predecessor, Vaughan Gething, resigned. What does her appointment mean for women in Wales? What policies will she be focusing on? She joins Anita Rani to discuss all this and more. From spongy flesh to wandering wombs, there ha…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1921 - 2002) which has been called the most influential book in twentieth century political philosophy. It was first published in 1971. Rawls drew on his own experience in WW2 and saw the chance in its aftermath to build a new society, one founded on personal liberty and fair equali…
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Lots of people use a foam roller, either before after exercise. It's not usually a very comfortable experience - as Greg finds out in this episode - but is worth the pain? Can they really increase flexibility before exercise, and ease our muscles afterwards? Is it any better than stretching? As you'd expect, there are plenty of claims around these …
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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John Dickson Carr - one of the giants of the golden age of mystery fiction - penned dozens of scripts in the early years of Suspense with stories ranging from historical crime drama to international espionage to good old fashioned murders. We'll hear a tale of spies and sorcery in "The Lord of the Witch Doctors" (originally aired on CBS on October …
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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Motorsport legend Dick Bennetts talks about everything from being Ayrton Senna’s team owner before the Brazilian superstar got to Formula One to running Nigel Mansell in a Ford Mondeo. Derek Drinkwater met up with Jim Roller at Watkins Glen and they talked about Derek’s epic coast-to-coast-and-back-again trip across the USA in his Cadillac Le Monst…
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The final Grenfell Tower Inquiry has blamed a chain of failures by governments and private companies for the fire that claimed 72 lives. We speak to the Grenfell resident whose warnings were ignored - and ask whether the survivors will now get the justice they want. Also tonight: A first round defeat for Priti Patel in the Tory leadership contest -…
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John Hindhaugh reports on a new race car from Jaguar, Shea Adam reviews Indycar’s return to Milwaukee, and there’s Nick Daman’s team by team review of the Italian Grand Prix.由Radio Show Ltd
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Members of Scotland's cultural community discuss the controversy around a cut to vital funding. Ahead of his third year performing at the Lammermuir Festival of classical music, leading American pianist Jeremy Denk talks about his passion for musical maverick Charles Ives, whose 150th birthday he is celebrating with a special concert and a new albu…
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04/09/2024 Grenfell Tower inquiry blames 'dishonest' companies and failures by successive governments
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The final report on the 2017 Grenfell fire, which killed 72 people, has been published.由BBC Radio 4
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We hear about the thousands of women suing the breast implant manufacturer Allergan over alleged links with a rare cancer. We have an exclusive interview with a woman who has received a payout from the company after falling sick. Susan Axelby tells our reporter Melanie Abbott that she ended up being diagnosed with cancer after having an operation w…
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04 SEPT 2024由BBC Radio 4
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Do half of children in Wales have special educational needs?Are permanent exclusions at the highest ever level in England?Labour are talking about a £22bn black hole. Is that a new black hole in the finances?Are there more Ghanaian nurses in the UK than in Ghana?Can you divide one by zero? Tim Harford looks at some of the numbers in the news. Prese…
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping由BBC Radio 4
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A pregnant woman and six children are among the dead after a small boat capsized in the Channel in the worst tragedy of its kind this year. We're live on the French coast - and ask whether the new government's plan to "smash the gangs" will help to prevent future tragedies. Also tonight: The final report into the Grenfell Tower fire is published to…
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Following the international success of SIX the Musical, writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are in the studio to discuss their new work Why Am I So Single? They discuss maintaining their creative momentum after writing a global phenomenon. We hear from the creators of the award winning Australian comedy Colin From Accounts. Harriet Dyer and Patrick B…
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Following her first interview since entering the presidential race, where does Vice-President Kamala Harris stand on the issues that matter to Americans? And, is campaigning a family affair? We take a look at whether a single person could run for the White House, or whether a candidate could lose the race because of a media-shy partner. HOSTS: * Sa…
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Scotland's finance secretary has announced 500 million pounds of spending cuts, saying the country faces enormous financial pressures.由BBC Radio 4
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03 SEPT 2024由BBC Radio 4
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Do today's power brokers correspond to the familiar caricatures of old? Laurie Taylor talks to Aaron Reeves, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford, who has delved into the profiles and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today, as well as interviewing over 200 leading figures fr…
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