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National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Matthew Bannister on broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray, author Len Deighton, footballer Lynda Hale and philosopher Jurgen Habermas.

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.

Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection.

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

The latest weather reports and forecasts for farmers.

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

The historian David Torrance, academic and union activist Jane Holgate and journalist Isabel Berwick explore the legacy of the 1926 General Strike, and the future of work.

YouTube has reshaped the world, from fame to freedom. Now, AI threatens to erase the human connection that fuelled it. What's next.

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Have the Balkans always been unstable? Misha Glenny returns to the powder keg of Europe to find out.

1/5. Astrophysicist Emma Chapman takes us on an electrifying voyage through the cosmos using one of the most powerful, yet overlooked, tools in science - the radio wave.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

News and discussion of consumer affairs.

The latest weather forecast.

News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.

1/5. For 25 years, eight-foot-high walls separated the residents of an Oxford council estate from their middle class neighbours. This is the story of Cutteslowe nearly 70 years on.

Brian tries to straighten things out with Miranda, and money problems loom for Natasha and Tom.

4/4. Are you prepared? Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it. Award-winning comedy by Caz Moran, starring Sue Johnston and Lydia West.

Flight by Walter White concerns the complex issue of 'passing'. John Yorke investigates and asks if this is why the book as largely been forgotten.

More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota.

Greg Jenner is joined in Ancient China by Professor Julia Lovell and special guest Phil Wang as they take a closer look at The Terracotta Army.

What is it that drives ordinary people to condone political violence, and some to commit it, and what can we do to prevent it.

6/6. Jay Rayner and the panel discuss fluffy omelettes, whether puff pastry is better homemade or shop-bought, stick-based dishes and hot cross bun abominations.

News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

3/6. Phil Wang and Susie Dent challenge guests to invent new words and help create the new ultimate Unspeakable dictionary. With guests Ivo Graham, Harriet Kemsley and Nish Kumar.

Pip's doing some gardening, and Henry's goats are going off to Market.

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

8/10. The back-story of the Middle East conflict, explored by leading experts. This episode covers the 1987 Palestinian uprising, the 1993 Oslo Accords, and the 2000 Camp David Summit.

This week NASA proposed an ambitious plan, to build a moon base and a new spacecraft, one capable of travelling further and faster than ever before.

The historian David Torrance, academic and union activist Jane Holgate and journalist Isabel Berwick explore the legacy of the 1926 General Strike, and the future of work.

YouTube has reshaped the world, from fame to freedom. Now, AI threatens to erase the human connection that fuelled it. What's next.

In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective.

1/10. 20 year old Thomas Flett comes home, exhausted from dredging the sands for shrimp, to find his mother has an unusual visitor.

3/5. In his prison cell, William Burke confesses to 16 murders in the space of ten months. Jamie Wilson, a young boy living on the streets of Edinburgh, is one of his victims.

From electricity generated off the north coast of Scotland to the power socket in your living room, Douglas Fraser examines the scale and the challenges of rewiring Britain.