BBC R4 FM BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. 2026-07-17 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-17 News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. 2026-07-17 The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 2026-07-17 Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection. 2026-07-17 The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. 2026-07-17 News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 2026-07-17 Paul Farmer, charity leader, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. 2026-07-17 Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. 2026-07-17 Soaring cacao prices broke all records and then they crashed. Dan Saladino explores the fallout, the impact on farmers, their communities, industry players and chocolate lovers. 2026-07-17 5/5. Alev Scott interviews women who carry babies for others, some making a living out of it. 2026-07-17 The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-17 Peace talks for the culture wars. In an era of polarisation, propaganda, and pile-ons, Adam Fleming helps you work out what the arguments are really about. 2026-07-17 The latest weather forecast. 2026-07-17 News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-17 5/5. A confession doesn't end once spoken. Beyond it lies the afterlife: what it means to hear and to hold someone else's truth. 2026-07-17 Helen provides a shoulder to cry on, and Susan waves an olive branch. 2026-07-17 1964. Britain's plan to sell buses to Cuba infuriates LBJ, testing the special relationship just as Cold War tensions rise in the Americas. 2026-07-17 Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King. Today: fishing for shrimp in Morecambe Bay with Michael and Joanne Wilson. 2026-07-17 Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 2026-07-17 Original story set on the Gower, south Wales. After her husband's sudden death, Sarah takes inspiration from the resilience of a group of women sea-swimmers. Read by Rhian Morgan. 2026-07-17 Radio 4's weekly obituary programme. 2026-07-17 Matthew Syed explores how the tiniest items can hold the biggest ideas, and why we shrink the most important people, monuments and icons down to pocket-sized replicas. 2026-07-17 Full coverage of the day's news. 2026-07-17 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-17 6/6. Satirical impressions from the team headed up by Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens. 2026-07-17 Lynda faces a shocking accusation, and Kate has a controversial suggestion. 2026-07-17 Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode revisit the decade that transformed Britain's image around the world, exploring how film and TV captured the Swinging Sixties. 2026-07-17 Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities. 2026-07-17 The Great Schism splits Christian churches in Europe, the Football War takes place in Central America, and a satirical magazine is launched in Britain. 2026-07-17 To mark the death of one of the BBC Radio's most celebrated correspondents, another chance to hear David Willey himself recalling 50 years as a broadcaster, 40 of them in Rome. 2026-07-17 In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective. 2026-07-17 5/5. A coming of age story by Edson Burton, set in an alternative version of 21st century Bristol, where slavery has never been abolished and a disturbing experiment is underway. 2026-07-17 Join Americast for insights and analysis on what's happening inside Trump's White House. 2026-07-17 News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. 2026-07-17 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-17 5/5. Alev Scott interviews women who carry babies for others, some making a living out of it. 2026-07-17 The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 2026-07-17 BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. 2026-07-18 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 2026-07-18 A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Steve Taylor. 2026-07-18 Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King. Today: fishing for shrimp in Morecambe Bay with Michael and Joanne Wilson. 2026-07-18 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 Aardman Animations co-founder Peter Lord takes Martha Kearney to the magical mediaeval Whitcliff Deer Park in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. It's his favourite place to walk in nature. 2026-07-18 The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. 2026-07-18 The latest weather reports and forecast. 2026-07-18 News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 2026-07-18 Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people. 2026-07-18 Greg Jenner is joined in the eighteenth-century Caribbean by Hannah Cusworth and comedian Kemah Bob to learn about the swashbuckling lives of pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. 2026-07-18 4/6. Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. 2026-07-18 Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster. 2026-07-18 Insight and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world. 2026-07-18 The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 The latest news from the world of personal finance. 2026-07-18 6/6. Satirical impressions from the team headed up by Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens. 2026-07-18 The latest weather forecast. 2026-07-18 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities. 2026-07-18 Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding edition of Any Questions. 2026-07-18 Lynda faces a shocking accusation, and Kate has a controversial suggestion. 2026-07-18 1/2. Tanya Moodie, Nicola Coughlan and Ray Fearon star in this dark and scandalously funny French masterpiece, in a brand new version by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre. 2026-07-18 Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. 2026-07-18 Full coverage of the day's news. 2026-07-18 Nick Robinson talks to people who shape our political thinking about what shaped theirs. 2026-07-18 The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 2026-07-18 The latest weather reports and forecast. 2026-07-18 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 Ruthie Henshall, Tez Ilyas and Joe Pasquale join Kiri Pritchard McLean with music from Mica Millar and Dave McCabe (of The Zutons). 2026-07-18 An insight into the character of an influential person making the news headlines. 2026-07-18 Nicky Campbell explores the codes of British boarding schools, how they shaped leaders, and for some, left life-long scars and deep emotional trauma. 2026-07-18 Jarvis Cocker explores the life, death and digital reincarnation of philosopher Alan Watts. 2026-07-18 Alex Forsyth and guests examine the effects of Brexit, ten years on. 2026-07-18 National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 2026-07-18 Soaring cacao prices broke all records and then they crashed. Dan Saladino explores the fallout, the impact on farmers, their communities, industry players and chocolate lovers. 2026-07-18 New comedy set in an Ulster Parish somewhere near the border. Chairperson Margot's son Diarmuid is kidnapped and an Health and Wellness officer gets into organised crime. 2026-07-18 From hidden wine cellars to unlikely sporting challenges and some of Europe's strangest museums, Simon Reeve hosts a geography quiz where two teams race across Europe. 2026-07-18