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London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge

Knife is Salman Rushdie’s memoir about surviving a near-fatal knife attack in August 2022 and the...

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Our Accidental Universe

Professor and presenter, Chris Lintott, talks about his new book Our Accidental Universe; a tour...

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What does Iran want?

David Aaronovitch and guests explore the thinking behind Iran's decision to attack Israel and ask...

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Kingfishers on the River Frome with Nadeem Perera

Nadeem Perera is not your conventional image of a birdwatcher. In fact growing up in inner city...

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Walking at Night on the South Downs near Seaford

When author Annabel Abbs suffered a series of bereavements she found herself unable to sleep....

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Postal Paths and Corpse Roads

Up until the 1970s, postmen and women in rural areas walked their delivery rounds - taking routes...

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Julian the Apostate

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after...

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Yesterday in Parliament 18 Apr 24

PMQs and ping-pong

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Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, Tyrell Williams on Red Pitch

Lionel Shriver on her latest novel Mania, in which she creates an alternative USA where the...

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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Talking to Aliens

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are on a mission to discover whether extra-terrestrials exist. But if...

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Money Box Live: Mortgages and Debt

Mortgage customers face rising rates, vanishing deals and latest figures have shown more people...

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Yesterday in Parliament 17 Apr 24

MPs back government's smoking ban

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Audio Description: New Ofcom Guidelines & Application in the Theatre

The communications regulator Ofcom has just made changes to its guidelines surrounding audio...

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Lasting Legacy: What went wrong at a Hull funeral home?

The discovery of 35 bodies and an unknown quantity of unidentified human ashes at a Hull funeral...

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Sir John Akomfrah, bicentenary of Byron's death and sped-up music

Lord Byron died 200 years ago on Friday. Lady Caroline Lamb described him as 'mad, bad and...

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We go on a tick hunt

Scientists are worried about ticks. They say they’re starting to pose more of a health risk...

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Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain

With 86 billion nerve cells joined together in a network of 100 trillion connections, the human...

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Yesterday in Parliament 16 Apr 2024

Middle East: Sunak appeals for restraint.

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The Book of Clarence, Liberation Squares, Northern Ireland's filming location boom

British director Jeymes Samueals discusses his new film The Book of Clarence, a Biblical comedy...

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Power to the people

2024 has been dubbed the year of elections, as at least 64 countries – including the UK – are...

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