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The latest news from BBC Radio 4.

Spiritual reflection to start the day with Muslim academic Dr Yahya Barry.

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

Historian Annie Gray, urban planner Vicky Payne and food writer Angela Hui explore the changing face of the high street, with Adam Rutherford.

Volunteer at Chicken Rescue UK, Jenny Betts, tells Rachel Burden about her work helping ex-commercial chickens find their forever homes.

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

An investigation into Britain's county lines crisis, where criminal gangs systematically groom young people to traffic drugs across the country.

Radio 4's fraud investigator Shari Vahl opens up five stories from her casebook - and offers simple tips on how to keep safe.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

News and discussion of consumer affairs.

The latest weather forecast.

Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment.

1/5. Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. From the International Space Station six astronauts contemplate Earth, as continents and oceans pass below. Ep 1/5: The crew wake to a new 'day'.

Jakob finds himself on the spot, and some new arrivals cause chaos in Ambridge.

Bill Bailey stars as a stressed-out businessman, whose life is unexpectedly turned upside down by someone he hasn't seen for 45 years - his imaginary childhood friend, Hennikay.

Bridget plans a dinner party and receives troubling news about her mother.

A cult classic Japanese detective book, a love story from the middle ages and an intriguing novel on the Spanish Civil War. Three books in translation, what will they make of them.

Lucy Worsley is at the Royal Academy investigating the story of Ann Mary Provis, a young artist in Georgian London who has the leading painters of her day eating out of her hand.

Charlotte Smith explores the thinking behind Labour's 2024 budget and asks why farmers are so cross about it.

Jay Raynor and the panel are answering questions in Wolverhampton. Lerato Umah-Shaylor, Rob Owen Brown, Sumayya Usmani and Melissa Thompson discuss Desi pubs and more.

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

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Paul celebrates his 50th stand-up show for Radio 4 with questions about anniversaries, 2011, and his home borough of Croydon.

Jazzer attempts to help, and the collective nightmare continues.

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

Britain has the highest number of prisoners per head of population in western Europe.

How significant is the climate impact of conflicts around the world? Also, the future of the Big Physics of tiny particles, thawing a sabre-tooth tiger and a Christmas menace.

Historian Annie Gray, urban planner Vicky Payne and food writer Angela Hui explore the changing face of the high street, with Adam Rutherford.

Volunteer at Chicken Rescue UK, Jenny Betts, tells Rachel Burden about her work helping ex-commercial chickens find their forever homes.

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

Fiona confides in her daughter about her early life in London. As read by Derbhle Crotty.

3/5. By Helen Cross. Rose has come from Whitby to New York to work as a nanny. Baby Gulliver is... unusual. And so is Rose. The body count is rising.

News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.