Download the best satirical comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, Catherine Bohart: TL;DR and Dead Ringers.
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The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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The home of Marianna Spring's social media and disinformation investigations for BBC Radio 4, with new series 'Why Do You Hate Me? USA'
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Award-winning current affairs documentary series investigating major issues at home and abroad
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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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Brighten your week with the latest BBC Radio 4 comedy.
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From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
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New research on how society works
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A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain tackle listeners' conundrums with the power of science!
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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
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Kirsty Young asks fascinating people what advice they would give their younger self.
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Intelligent and challenging quiz games on BBC Radio 4. Featuring Round Britain Quiz, Counterpoint and Brain of Britain with Quizmasters including Paul Gambaccini, Kirsty Lang and Russell Davies.
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Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.
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Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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In-depth conversations with some of the world's leading artists and creatives across theatre, visual arts, music, dance, film and more. Hosted by John Wilson.
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Hannah Fry follows the numbers on thrilling journeys of data and discovery. Along the way we meet the remarkable people who dug into the data and unearthed something extraordinary.
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Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes.
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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
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If time is tight, what's the one thing that you should be doing to improve your health and wellbeing? Michael Mosley reveals surprisingly simple top tips that are scientifically proven to change your life.
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Americast is the authoritative US news and politics podcast from the BBC. Each week we provide audiences with the best analysis from across the BBC, with on-the-ground observations and big picture insights about the stories which are defining America right now. The podcast is hosted by trusted BBC journalists including the BBC’s North America editor, Sarah Smith, BBC Radio 4 presenter, Justin Webb, the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring, and BBC North Americ ...
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Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
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Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future
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David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news
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Join comedians Sunil Patel (Alice and Jack, Channel 4) and Chris Cantrill (Icklewick FM, BBC Radio 4) as they try to maintain a long-distance friendship in the face of countryside-grade internet speeds (Cantrill) and staggering apathy (Patel). Produced by Egg Mountain for A Lovely Time Productions.
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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
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Radio 4 for woke people.
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and major breaking news from a global perspective
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The series that investigates the latest ad-hyped products and trending fads promising to make us healthier, happier and greener. Are they really 'the best thing since sliced bread'? Science presenter Greg Foot finds out. Greg speaks to experts on a bunk-busting mission to test the latest consumer trends chosen by listeners. Do they live up to the hype? Or are they just marketing BS? Greg chats to the experts, dives into the data, performs tests and crunches the numbers before putting his fin ...
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Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.
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Reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news.
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The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
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Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
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Series focusing on foreign affairs issues
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image revealing fascinating links and hidden gems from cinema and TV to streaming and beyond.
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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Alasdair Beckett-King, Zoe Lyons, Scott Bennett, and Cindy Yu join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news. This week on The News Quiz the panel look for the solution to world peace, check in with the Conservative final four, and tackle Everest (not literally). Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Cody Dahler, Dee Allum, and Pe…
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Laurie Taylor talks to Helen Sampson, Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, about her voyage into the lives and work of seafarers. 25 years of fieldwork on merchant cargo ships has given her an unusual insight into the changing realities of life onboard and the gap between romantic notions of sea travel and the harsher r…
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Lesley Manville, Brain injuries in childbirth, Strictly Come Dancing
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The actress Lesley Manville is currently starring alongside Mark Strong in Robert Icke’s adaptation of Oedipus. She plays Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife. Lesley joins Nuala McGovern to tell us more about the play, what it’s like being back on stage for the first time since 2020, and why she thinks women's stories are being featured more. Every year thousan…
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Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises! Written and presented by Danny RobinsAssistant producer and researcher: Lara MonahanResearcher: Nancy BottomleyEditing …
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Kirsty Young asks physician and trauma specialist Gabor Maté what advice he would give his younger self. Maté was born to Jewish parents in terrible circumstances in Hungary in 1943. His grandparents were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp, his father was in forced labour and his mother was suffering from jaundice. He reveals how his own un…
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Sunil meets a horse, Chris relives his high octane stag do and Producer James has some pertinent thoughts about Malteasers. Meanwhile, Sunil is still making his way through all that flapjack. Do you have a Rural Concern or city related query? Drop us an email at christopher@alovelytime.co.uk and we’ll discuss it respectfully and in great detail! Th…
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Rare air strike in northern Lebanon attributed to Israel
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Lebanon is blaming Israel for an air strike in northern Lebanon that left 21 people dead. The strike hit the mostly Christian village of Aitou, far from the hotspots of the current conflict in southern Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to ease regulations in some parts of the economy as he welcomed bi…
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Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage
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Forty years ago Bronski Beat released Age of Consent, a record so loud and proud that it become an era-defining moment of gay liberation. We look back at the record's music, legacy and politics with novelist Matt Cain and Laurie Belgrave, who has produced the new 'The Age of Consent 40' concert at the Southbank Centre. Samira talks to Percival Ever…
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14/10/2024 The government has given details of more than 60 billion pounds invested in the UK at today's business summit
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Americanswers... on 5 Live! How likely is a repeat of the January 6 attacks?
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With Matt Chorley in the US this week, the Americast team joined presenter Leila Nathoo for another round of Americanswers on 5 Live. With less than 25 days until the election and tensions escalating in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world, how much does foreign policy resonate with undecided voters? With the events of January 6 2021 stil…
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4. Doxxed and Blocked: ‘We’re distressed about war in the Middle East and now trolls are after us.'
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Few topics have caused as much division online as the deepening war in the Middle East. In this episode, Marianna is in New York investigating the experiences of students targeted on social media. They have been affected by doxxing – where their personal information is shared online triggering racist and misogynistic hate – by people wanting to mak…
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Women's magazines, Dawn Sturgess, Female funeral directors
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For generations of women and girls, glossy magazines have been a guide to clothes, lifestyles, relationships and, of course, sex. Titles like Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Own and Sugar were pored over by thousands of us and now there is a podcast that celebrates those beloved back issues. Every week the hosts of Mag Hags, Lucy Douglas and Franki Cookney, …
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Yuval Noah Harari’s best-selling Sapiens explored human’s extraordinary progress alongside the capacity to spin stories. In Nexus he focuses on how those stories have been shared and manipulated, and how the flow of information has made, and unmade, our world. With examples from the ancient world, to contemporary democracies and authoritarian regim…
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Lucy Worsley investigates the career of one of Sydney’s most notorious gangsters, Tilly Devine. Draped in furs and encrusted in jewels, she’s the madam of one of the most lucrative brothel networks the city’s ever seen. What brings Tilly from south London to Sydney? How does she rise to the top of the city’s ruthless, gritty 1920s gangster crime sc…
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Halloween Countdown. Case 14: Lanterns on the Lake
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Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises! Written and presented by Danny RobinsAssistant producer and researcher: Lara MonahanResearcher: Nancy BottomleyEditing …
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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are on a mission from Beer to Eternity, in this warm and witty new podcast that celebrates new and half-remembered trivia as they try to find entertaining links between random places, people and things. Could you make your way from The Starship Enterprise to the Air Fryer, armed only with A-Level Economics and a Geography…
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13/10/2024 Israel has asked the UN to immediately remove its peacekeepers from parts of southern Lebanon
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Israel has asked the UN to immediately remove its peacekeepers from parts of southern LebanonBBC Radio 4 による
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Russell Davies hosts the prestigious general knowledge quiz.BBC Radio 4 による
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Kirsty Young talks to Irish novelist, playwright and poet Edna O'Brien, in a programme first broadcast in 2007. Edna O'Brien died in July 2024, aged 93.BBC Radio 4 による
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Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. We’ll hear stories of haunted houses, hotels and hospitals; of terrifying encounters with spectral soldiers, creepy children and hounds from hell: every one sent in by listeners to the podcast. Countdown…
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The former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, dies aged 69.BBC Radio 4 による
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Kate Adie introduces stories from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Singapore, Oman and Vietnam. The Amazon rain forest in Brazil has suffered its worst fires in two decades, with most started illegally by humans looking to exploit the land for its resources. The world relies on the Amazon to absorb a lot of its carbon, but these fires mean…
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While chatting at the back of class, best mates Abi and Sofia got curious about bubbles. How do you make really giant ones? Could you even get one around the entire planet? Hannah and Dara set out to investigate. They hear from a renowned 'bubbleologist', and learn how NASA helped him blow his way to a world record. They coax a physicist to reveal …
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Halloween Countdown. Case 12: The Penshaw Monument UFO
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Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises! Written and presented by Danny RobinsAssistant producer and researcher: Lara MonahanResearcher: Nancy BottomleyEditing …
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Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter is one of the great communicators of probability and uncertainty. His new book, The Art of Uncertainty, explains how to approach uncertainty, luck, probability and ignorance. Tim Harford talks to Sir David about double yoked eggs, the Bay of Pigs, and his top tips for politicians who want to communicate evidence an…
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Catholic Archbishop's warning on assisted dying
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As MPs pepare to debate whether to legalise assisted dying, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in England and Wales has made a rare political intervention to urge people to oppose the change. Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been speaking to The World Tonight. Also on the programme: The Prime Minister has tonight rebuked his Transport Secretary afte…
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Can we still be idealistic about childhood? How do we square the impact of war, stories of sexual abuse, the impact of time spent on screens with the idea of children's experiences being about play, learning to be social, listening and creating stories ? Anne McElvoy's guests include:Katherine Rundell, author of the Waterstones book of 2023 Impossi…
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the impact of Saturday Night Live, or SNL, as the long-running US sketch show prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Just how important is SNL in the history of American comedy? And why have we never quite understood it over here? Ellen speaks to actor and former SNL writer Paula Pell about how it felt to…
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11/10/2024 Israel criticised after firing on UN peacekeeper positions in southern Lebanon
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Israel has come under international criticism for firing on UN bases in southern Lebanon. The UK government was among those to raise concerns, saying it was "appalled" by reports.BBC Radio 4 による
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Lord Ouseley, Norman Ackroyd, Lore Segal, Cissy Houston
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John Wilson on Lord Ouseley, the co-founder of the anti-racism football campaign ‘Kick it Out’ and former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. The landscape artist and printmaker Norman Ackroyd whose work celebrates some of the most remote and inhospitable areas of the UK. Lore Segal, the author whose book ‘Other People’s Houses’ told the s…
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Introducing two special Just One Thing programmes
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Sara Cox has news about an upcoming, two-part television series which is being broadcast this month in celebration of Michael Mosley’s life and legacy. The programmes will be shown at 8.30pm on BBC 1 on Monday 14 October and Monday 21 October. They will also be available on BBC iPlayer immediately after broadcast. More details about the programmes:…
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James Carville, the influential Democrat strategist, and man behind Bill Clinton’s successful ’92 presidential campaign, is on Americast. His message, ‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ is credited with some of that success. He tells Justin what he thinks Kamala Harris’s message should be in 2024, and why he thinks her party’s campaign needs to be more ag…
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Sharon D Clarke, SEND teacher training, Black nurses in history
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Sharon D Clarke is a triple Olivier award-winning actress currently starring in two separate TV series: My Loverman on BBC One and Ellis on Channel 5. In November she’s playing the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Lyttelton Theatre in London. Sharon joins Krupa Padhy to talk about her new roles and what black represe…
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by Clara Glynn It's been a year since Kirsten and Bill opened their home to a Ukrainian family. Now relationships have become strained, can mediation help them to find agreement? Murdo ..... Liam BrennanKirsten ..... Kirsty StuartBill ..... Michael NardoneLarissa ..... Vera GraziadeiMykola ..... Dmitry Everdeen Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane As the …
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Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises! Written and presented by Danny RobinsAssistant producer and researcher: Lara MonahanResearcher: Nancy BottomleyEditing …
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In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in 15th-century England by Dr Lydia Zeldenrust and comedian Robin Ince to learn all about the early history of book printing. 2024 marks the 550th anniversary of the first book printed in English: a history of Troy, produced in 1474 by William Caxton. In the decades that followed, numerous printing shops would…
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Alasdair Beckett-King, Zoe Lyons, Scott Bennett, and Cindy Yu join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the newsThis week on The News Quiz the panel look for the solution to world peace, check in with the Conservative final four, and tackle Everest (not literally).Written by Andy ZaltzmanWith additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Cody Dahler, Dee Allum, and Peter …
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The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most influential figures. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as wel…
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Twenty-two people have been killed and 117 injured in Israeli air strikes on central Beirut, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. BBC reporters heard loud explosions echoing from the site of a strike in Bachoura, a small Shia area in the Lebanese capital. A trail of destruction has been left in Florida after Hurricane Milton struck. The aftermath includ…
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Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer
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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests journalist Stephen Bush and theatre critic Kate Maltby review the latest cultural releases. These include Apple TV's thriller Disclaimer which stars Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen, Alice Lowe's comedy sci-fi film Timestalker and Alexander Zeldin's modern reworking of Antigone at the National Theatre, The Other Pla…
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