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This week, the Parish's favourite Troubadour loses a short battle with electricity and health and wellbeing officer Janice Fever swims in effluent!", "start_date": "2026-07-26T06:00:00+00:00", "title": "Parish Matters"}, {"desc": "Simon Reeve hosts a geography quiz where two teams race across a virtual map, travelling from country to country by answering questions about the world ahead.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T06:30:00+00:00", "title": "Around the World in 80 Ways"}, {"desc": "National and international news from BBC Radio 4.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T07:00:00+00:00", "title": "Midnight News"}, {"desc": "The Irish writer on her latest book, The Truth About Ruby Cooper, and, together with presenter James Crawford, they explore the novel's connections to three other literary works.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T07:15:00+00:00", "title": "Take Four Books"}, {"desc": "The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T07:48:00+00:00", "title": "Shipping Forecast"}, {"desc": "BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T08:00:00+00:00", "title": "World Service"}, {"desc": "National and international news from BBC Radio 4.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T12:30:00+00:00", "title": "News Summary"}, {"desc": "The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T12:34:00+00:00", "title": "Shipping Forecast"}, {"desc": "Bells on Sunday comes from the Church of St Stephen in Old Radnor in Powys, Wales.", "start_date": "2026-07-26T12:43:00+00:00", "title": "Bells on Sunday"}, {"desc": "In Touch discusses some new projects by visually impaired comedy writers. 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Tristan Redman and guests discuss the first decade after the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a doctrine on state intervention.", "start_date": "2026-07-27T16:30:00+00:00", "title": "How Did We Get Here: No World Order"}, {"desc": "Cyclist Lizzie Deignan; fiction and murdered women; swingers website update.", "start_date": "2026-07-27T17:00:00+00:00", "title": "Woman's Hour"}, {"desc": "Giles Fraser is a priest in the Church of England anxious about declining numbers. He talks to experts and returns to his parishes from the past to work out where we are.", "start_date": "2026-07-27T18:00:00+00:00", "title": "Church Going, with Giles Fraser"}, {"desc": "1/5. 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