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02/06/2025
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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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
Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman
Matthew Bannister on a BBC executive, a physicist, a psychoanalyst and a doctor.
The Waters Engulf
A reflection and prayer to start the day with Canon Simon Doogan.
02/06/25 - Possible DEFRA budget cuts, falcon breeding and farm innovation
Will England's farming budget survive the spending review?
The latest weather reports and forecasts for farmers
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
The uses and abuses of the atom
Shahidha Bari talks to Frank Close, Tim Gregory and Baroness Natalie Bennett.
Cassandra
Lucy Easthope explores the history of risk.
Intimacy co-ordinator Ita O'Brien, Heart disease trials, Celebs & beauty brands
The world-renowned intimacy co-ordinator discusses her new book, Intimacy.
Longframlington, Northumberland
The thousands of falcons being bred in the UK destined for falcon races in the Middle East
Episode 1
A lone wolf’s journey through Europe highlights our conflicted relationship with nature.
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Singing Waiters, Shopping with AI and Preppers
An Insolvency Service investigation confirms what you told us about a singing waiter firm.
The latest weather forecast
Starmer says UK moving to 'war-fighting readiness'
Starmer says UK moving to 'war-fighting readiness'.
The Smuggler
6. The Vietnamese Connection
Nick is paid thousands of pounds to bring Vietnamese migrants into the UK.
01/06/2025
The guilt eats away for Alice.
Series 6
3. Moving On
Roger and Joanna decide to move - but will anyone buy the house?
Episode 10
With her confession roundly ignored, Barbara has no choice but to pick up her pen again.
Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana
Notable guests pick a great life they ire.
Series 23
Nano Sharks
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain discover that sharks could help us invent faster cars
Madeira's Drugs Crisis
Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.
Series 48
Postbag Edition
Jay Rayner hosts a culinary show packed full of tasty titbits.
News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Major review of the UK's military unveiled
A review of the UK's armed forces calls for a national shift to war-fighting readiness
Series 9
2. Freedom of Expression
Alfie explores the limits of freedom of expression, with another comic look at the law.
Azra offers her professional opinion.
Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage
Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Rethink...social housing
What's stopping the UK from building the social housing we need?
Your science questions answered
We answer a selection of fascinating science questions, from Nikola Tesla to microplastics
Irish Sea
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Dogger, Irish Sea, Wight, Lundy and Forth.
Will extra defence spending boost UK economy?
The government unveils findings of major review of the UK's defence capabilities.
1. Functional Fixedness
Disco investigate the murder of a military bandsman in Burnley. By Nick Walker.
Death by Hanging
After 216 days in the courtroom, the judges must arrive at their verdicts.
Alicia McCarthy reports as the government sets out its Strategic Defence Review.
03/06/2025
