To give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. Review our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to learn more. Got it!

BBC Radio 4 Podcasts

BBC Radio 4 public [search 0]
More
Download the App!
Get it on App Store Get it on Google Play
show episodes
 
Artwork

1
Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
 Monthly
 
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
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

51
Sliced Bread

BBC Radio 4

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
 Monthly+
 
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 ...
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Arts & Ideas

BBC Radio 4

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
 Weekly+
 
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.
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Screenshot

BBC Radio 4

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
 Monthly+
 
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.
…   continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Artwork

1
The News Quiz - 5th July 28:13

Play Pause
28:13
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
28:13
 
Lucy Porter, Ria Lina, Simon Evans, and Hugo Rifkind join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news in this post-General Election special. It's official: Sir Keir Starmer will be the next Prime Minister of the UK. Join The News Quiz for this post-vote episode recorded on the Friday morning after the vote has come in. Covering the exit polls, results, the winn…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
A New Frontier: 2. For All Humankind? 29:04

Play Pause
29:04
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
29:04
 
Matthew Syed continues his four-part mini series exploring the ethics of space exploration, by returning to the origins of the space race, which saw America and the USSR battling for supremacy. He takes a hard look into the reasons why we go to space and whether it has really benefited all humankind. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on th…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
A Slogan and a Land (Part 2) 47:53

Play Pause
47:53
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
47:53
 
In this second part of his journey from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel, reporter Tim Whewell continues his exploration of the physical and human reality behind the slogan “From the River to the Sea”, a phrase which creates intense controversy. In this podcast he descends from the high rid…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
A Slogan and a Land (Part 1) 39:50

Play Pause
39:50
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
39:50
 
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last year, the cry “From the River to the Sea” has been heard more and more as a pro-Palestinian slogan. But what river? What sea? And what exactly does the phrase mean? It’s the subject of intense controversy. In this two-part series, reporter Tim Whewell travels from the River Jordan to the Medi…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Wales’ First Minister quits 37:31

Play Pause
37:31
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
37:31
 
Vaughan Gething resigned after 118 days in the role, will his exit give Welsh Labour a chance to reset? We speak to the first Labour politician to hold that job, Alun Michael, about how the party comes back together. Also in the programme: What could be in Labour’s first King’s Speech? And, the Oscar-nominated actress who just got her first leading…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Disco Prom, fast-food themed immersive art, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola remembered 42:19

Play Pause
42:19
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
42:19
 
As Disco makes its debut at the Proms, conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, who will be leading the BBC Concert Orchestra at Saturday’s Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco Prom, talks about the link between the music which dominated the 1970s pop charts and the orchestral world. Today the Welsh First Minister, Vaughan Gething and four of his cabine…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Spreading the Gospel 27:50

Play Pause
27:50
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
27:50
 
Street evangelist Marios Kaikitis tells Giles Fraser why he stands on Leicester Square with a sketch board, trying to engage passers-by with his message of Jesus Christ. And Giles explores how different religious groups, within Christianity and Islam, evangelise today. Perhaps crucially, does it work? He's joined by Daryl A Watson, a mission leader…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Jenna Russell & Hello, Dolly!, Historical fiction, Women in Myanmar, Air Pollution 57:21

Play Pause
57:21
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
57:21
 
One of the most iconic musicals of all time, Hello, Dolly!, has returned to the London Palladium, with Jerry Herman’s unforgettable score including Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Before the Parade Passes By, It Only Takes a Moment and Hello, Dolly! It’s a huge, no-expense-spared production, with a cast of 40, and the legendary Imelda Staunton as the w…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Raymond Schinazi on revolutionising treatments for killer viruses 28:39

Play Pause
28:39
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
28:39
 
In recent decades, we've taken huge steps forward in treating formerly fatal viruses: with pharmacological breakthroughs revolutionising treatment for conditions such as HIV, hepatitis and herpes. Raymond Schinazi has played a big role in that revolution. Ray was born in Egypt, where his mother’s brush with a potentially deadly illness during his c…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Child Rescue Con 43:13

Play Pause
43:13
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
43:13
 
Project Rescue Children claims to save children from trafficking and abuse, but the BBC has uncovered evidence of false and misleading social media posts. The charity's director, Adam Whittington, has raised thousands of pounds from sponsors and donors around the world. But the BBC has found that unsuspecting children are being used as props, and t…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Trump appoints JD Vance as his running mate 37:34

Play Pause
37:34
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
37:34
 
Two days after an attempt on his life, Donald Trump used the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to announce JD Vance as his running-mate for the 2024 Presidential election. Vance, Senator for Ohio, is a former US Marine and venture capitalist who rose to fame after writing Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about his family and whi…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Anne-Marie Duff, Al Murray, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art 42:22

Play Pause
42:22
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
42:22
 
Anne-Marie Duff talks about her role in the crime thriller Suspect and her career from Shameless to Bad Sisters, Al Murray and Matthew Moss on the ongoing fascination with World War II in festivals, podcasts and films, an interview with Melvyn Hayes, well known for It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and curator Bakul Patki and artist Dawn Woolley discuss A Rea…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Stoke-on-Trent 40:12

Play Pause
40:12
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
40:12
 
Mark Steel's in Town - Stoke-on-Trent This week, Mark is visiting the town of Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. This is the 13th series of Mark's award winning show where he travels around the country visiting towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness. After thoroughly researching each town, Mark writes and performs a bespoke evening o…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Wendy Joseph KC, Storm chasers, Remembering sex therapist Dr Ruth, Insta’s Fake Guru 57:32

Play Pause
57:32
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
57:32
 
Former Old Bailey judge, Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, lifts the lid on our legal system. Having worked in criminal courts for almost half a century, she is still asking: what is justice? She tells Nuala McGovern some of the ways women and children struggle through the legal system - and why she wanted to highlight these issues in her latest book, Ro…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Introducing Dough 1:30

Play Pause
1:30
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
1:30
 
Dough is a new series from BBC Radio 4 which looks at the business behind profitable, everyday products and considers how they might evolve in the future. In each episode, entrepreneur Sam White, futurist Tom Cheesewright and a host of technology experts take on a popular product, look at where the smart money's going now and then try to predict wh…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Me and the Farmer 14:40

Play Pause
14:40
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
14:40
 
Comedian and farmer Jim Smith is a proud teuchter. What is a teuchter? Well, Jim will tell you. Me and the Farmer is a stand up show chronicling Jim's life as a working farmer in rural Perthshire. This isn't an act. By day, Jim works the land and looks after his sheep and by night he performs stand up to sold out venues across Scotland. In each epi…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Clive Myrie, journalist 52:05

Play Pause
52:05
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
52:05
 
Clive Myrie is an award-winning journalist and news presenter who is one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents. In 2021 he took over from John Humphrys as Question Master of the quiz show Mastermind and has also presented travel programmes about Italy and the Caribbean. Clive’s parents are from Jamaica and he was born in Farnworth, n…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Harriet Harman, Southall Black Sisters, Author Cathy Rentzenbrink, Medium friends 57:35

Play Pause
57:35
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
57:35
 
A record-breaking number of women MPs have been elected following Labour's win at the general election. It's also the first time in parliamentary history that the proportion of women elected is more than 40%. Harriet Harman, the now ex-Labour MP and former Mother of the House, gives her reaction. Three women who say they were the victims of a racia…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
A daylight attack on Kyiv 28:59

Play Pause
28:59
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
28:59
 
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Australia, France, Nigeria and Costa Rica. There was international outrage after the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv was hit by a missile this week, during a barrage of Russian attacks on cities across Ukraine. James Waterhouse was returning to his base in the capital when news of the strike broke and …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Tax and the Election and Help with Bills 24:59

Play Pause
24:59
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
24:59
 
Nineteen days to go before your cross on a ballot paper will help decide who runs the country. You have been telling Money Box what matters to you. This week we'll discuss how much tax you already pay and whether that will change after 4th July. The head of the UK payment regulator has rejected calls to delay a new fraud reimbursement plan which is…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained 8:59

Play Pause
8:59
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
8:59
 
How can tennis star Roger Federer have won only 54% of the points he played, but been the best player in the world? Jeff Sackmann, the tennis stats brain behind tennisabstract.com, explains to Tim Harford how probability works in the sport. Presenter: Tim HarfordProducer: Debbie RichfordSeries producer: Tom CollsProduction co-ordinator: Brenda Brow…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Thousands of prisoners to be released early 38:28

Play Pause
38:28
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
38:28
 
Thousands of prisoners will be released early from September to ease overcrowding in English and Welsh prisons. The plans were announced by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who blamed the previous Conservative government for the situation, calling it a "disgraceful dereliction of duty". We spoke to one prisoner who has just been released. US Pres…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Western 42:32

Play Pause
42:32
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
42:32
 
The Great American Western is having a resurgence - from Yellowstone and Bass Reeves on TV, to Beyoncé's acclaimed country album Cowboy Carter. Kevin Costner is back in the director’s saddle too, with his Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 - the first in a planned series of epic Westerns - recently riding into cinemas. But has the cinematic Wester…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Postbag: Raby Castle 41:38

Play Pause
41:38
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
41:38
 
Is it worth using arborist mulch in the garden? Please could you advise on how to maintain large camellias? My wisteria has barely flowered this year, what’s gone wrong? Peter Gibbs and his team of horticultural experts have packed up their windbreakers and travelled to Raby Castle, Park and Gardens in County Durham for a postbag edition of GQT. Wh…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Southall Black Sisters, Audrey Powne, Dr Michael Mosley's exercise snacking 52:06

Play Pause
52:06
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
52:06
 
Three women who were the victims of a racial attack have had the charges of assault made against them by their assailant discontinued by the CPS. Selma Taha, the executive director for advocacy group Southall Black Sisters, and Danae Thomas, two of the women, join Anita Rani to talk about what impact the charges being dropped has had, and how they’…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Just One Thing with The Food Programme 42:54

Play Pause
42:54
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
42:54
 
As part of Just One Thing Day on Radio 4, Sheila Dillon looks back at Dr Michael Mosley's legacy and comes up with 5 reasons why he mattered in getting us all to understand why eating better leads to living better. Through listening to the Just One Thing archive, and some of The Food Programme archive, we can see how his "just one things" were conn…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
A Vindication of Frankenstein's Monster 57:01

Play Pause
57:01
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
57:01
 
Episode 1 of 3 Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft’s ground-breaking feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and moving into a radical re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), through to the contemporary world of Artificial Intelligence, Linda Marshall Griffiths' drama asks what would happen if a woman created a woman? …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Mary Anning 56:19

Play Pause
56:19
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
56:19
 
In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in nineteenth-century England by Dr Michael Taylor and comedian Sara Pascoe to learn all about pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning. Born to a cabinet-maker father who collected and sold fossils to make extra money, Anning went fossil hunting from a young age. Over the course of her life, she discovered comp…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Shifting Soundscapes 29:03

Play Pause
29:03
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
29:03
 
“Sound is the barometer of the health of the planet.” It's almost 60 years since 11-year-old Martyn Stewart made his first recording near his house in Birmingham using a reel-to-reel machine borrowed from his older brother. From that day forward, he set out to capture all the natural sounds of the world, amassing nearly one hundred thousand recordi…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Biden under scrutiny at Nato summit 37:34

Play Pause
37:34
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
37:34
 
At a NATO summit, held in Washington, marking 75 years of the alliance, the focus is firmly on the health of the host - the US president Joe Biden. He's expected to speak at a press conference which is being described as a 'make or break' moment. Despite his insistence that his disastrous performance in that television debate with Donald Trump will…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Review Show: Theatre: Slave Play, Film: Fly Me To The Moon, TV: Sunny 42:24

Play Pause
42:24
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
42:24
 
Boyd Hilton and Dreda Say Mitchell join Samira to review the 12 time Tony nominated Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris which has just opened in London, having premiered, not without controversy, in New York in 2018.The film Fly me to the Moon starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum is a rom com set during the 1960s Space Race between the USA and…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Are implanted brain chips the future? 28:02

Play Pause
28:02
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
28:02
 
Elon Musk’s implanted brain chip, Neuralink, is coming to the UK for clinical trials. Is controlling computers with our minds a future reality or is it all hype? Neuroscientists Dean Burnett and Christina Maher weigh in. Zoologist Jules Howard ponders the strange effects drugs in our sewage have on frogs from his garden pond. How do we measure the …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Morality of Stepping Down 56:43

Play Pause
56:43
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
56:43
 
The idea of when to step down is front and centre in American politics as 81 year old Joe Biden continues in the Presidential race despite concerns about his mental agility. His performance in a recent TV debate has sown doubt among supporters with polls suggesting some are losing faith in his abilities. ‘Pass the torch Joe’ said one placard as he …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The future of the two-child benefit cap, Women of Windrush opera, what is next for Kamala Harris? 53:02

Play Pause
53:02
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
53:02
 
The Department for Work and Pensions has just published statistics on the number of people affected by the so-called two-child benefit cap, which restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households. Some campaigners have called the cap the biggest driver of the rise in child poverty in the UK and are demandi…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Fielding's Tom Jones 54:47

Play Pause
54:47
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
54:47
 
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Fielding's Tom Jones 54:47

Play Pause
54:47
Play Pause
  Play later
  Play later
  Lists
  Liked
54:47
 
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so …
…   continue reading
 
Loading …

Quick Reference Guide

Top Podcasts
The Bill Simmons Podcast
PTI
First Take
Marketplace
Comedy of the Week
The Bugle
How Did This Get Made?
Doug Loves Movies
Planet Money
TED Talks Daily
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
The World This Hour
Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching
Radiolab
Science Friday
This American Life
Criminal
Sword and Scale
In The Dark
Player FM logo
Help/FAQ | Upgrade | Advertise
Arts|Business|Comedy|Economics|Entertainment|News|Politics|Religion
Science|Soccer|Sports|Storytelling|Technology|True Crime
Copyright 2024 | Sitemap | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | | Copyright
Episode being played series thumbnail
icon icon
Speed
Series settings
1x
1x
Volume
100%
icon
icon icon
/

View Player FM in...
Player FM
Browser
Chrome
Safari
Firefox