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09/06/2025
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Susan Hulme reports on an emotional debate about babies born too early.
Desiderata: The Thief of Joy
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Julia Loveless.
09/06/25 Onshore salmon farm plans, breeding wheat, dual-purpose poultry.
Plans for onshore salmon farm can go ahead after legal battle to block them fails.
The latest weather reports and forecasts for farmers
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Hidden spaces and dangerous places
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.
The Great Tide
Lucy Easthope explores the history of risk.
Julianne Moore, Forced adoption in China, Nurses vote on pay deal
Julianne Moore discusses her latest film, the thriller Echo Valley.
Hungary
Hungary and Mohacs 500
Misha Glenny heads to Budapest to find where Hungary came from.
1. Born in the Bamboo
Separated twin girls are at the heart of this new book exploring China's one-child policy.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Bank of Son and Daughter, Trams, Midnight Product Releases
A new survey reveals the rise of the bank of son and daughter.
The latest weather forecast
Millions have winter fuel payment restored
Chancellor confirms U-turn, saying three-quarters of pensioners are now eligible.
Postwar
1. The Rejection
Why did Winston Churchill find himself so decisively rejected by the electorate?
08/06/2025
Bridge Farm faces disappointment.
Series 6
4. Georgia On My Mind
Roger’s grandson is getting married in America.
Episode 2 - Dance Move
Kate is concerned that her teenage daughter’s friend is a bad influence.
Jack Thorne and Peter Kosminsky
The creator of Adolescence and the Wolf Hall director nominate favourite books.
Series 23
Colossal Creatures
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain attempt to design the biggest creature that's ever lived
Excluded
Why are school exclusions rising, and what happens to children who are excluded?
Series 48
Shepherd's Bush
Jay Rayner and the are answering questions from a hungry audience in Shepherd's Bush
News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Millions of pensioners are getting their winter fuel payments back
Details of the policy's almost total reversal have been revealed
Series 9
3. Suspicious Death
A suspicious death leaves Alfie with a mystery to solve.
Henry makes an emotional offer.
Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth
Discussing the legacy of David Lynch's ground-breaking cult television series
Rethink...the civil service
Can the civil service be reformed or is it simply too old and unwieldy?
Can science save our oceans?
Inside Science heads to the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, .
Wight
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Dogger, Irish Sea, Wight, Lundy and Forth.
Three-quarters of pensioners to get winter fuel payment after U-turn
Chancellor Rachel Reeves provides details of a major policy U-turn
Episode 1
May 1st in the glorious Sussex countryside, a fractured family prepares for a funeral.
A Charles Paris Mystery - A Doubtful Death
1. Method in his Madness
Charles lands a role in an immersive production of Hamlet, and an actress goes missing.
Sean Curran reports as ministers set out the details of their winter fuel payments U-turn.
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