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  1. 🙄

    "China [is behind us in the technology] and so hasn't seen rogue AI swarms yet ..."

    (paraphrase quote) some guy from Anthropic

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCTheWorldTonight

  2. Medea #Medea #Euripedes

    Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
    Series 12
    Episode 7 of 7

    Natalie tells the story of Euripides' Medea, the sorceress who enacted the ultimate revenge on the husband who betrayed her, to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.

    'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.

    Producer Beth O'Dea

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  3. Crossing Continents

    Ukraine: Fighting Russia, Fighting Russian
    Crossing Continents

    Russian is the first language of millions of Ukrainians, including many of the country’s frontline troops. But it’s also the language of their enemy. And its public use is increasingly restricted by law, with ever more measures to enforce communication in Ukrainian. Ukrainians are allowed to speak Russian in private conversations. But they can be fined for playing a Russian language song in the street, if the singer or composer is a Russian citizen. The state says Russian must be policed because Russia uses the language as a weapon to spread its influence. But in primarily Russian-speaking places such as Odesa, Ukraine’s third-largest city, many are unhappy about the language laws. One popular entertainer says they’re beyond Kafkaesque. Tim Whewell reports on the arguments dividing a city under constant Russian bombardment, as one side calls the Russian language a colonial hangover, while the other says cultural diversity is what Ukraine should be fighting for.

    Producer: Tim Whewell
    Sound engineer: James Beard.
    Assistant producer: Serhiy Solodko
    Security adviser: Jack Bleach
    Production coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Keshia Agyei
    Editor: Penny Murphy

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  4. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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  5. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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  6. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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  7. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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  8. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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  9. (Irvine swears throughout this then beats up Jim ...)

    Irvine Welsh
    Bookclub

    The award-winning Scottish writer Irvine Welsh speaks to Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, about his era-defining 1993 debut, Trainspotting.
    Following a non-linear plot and written in Scots and Scots English, the novel is more of a collection of interconnected stories told from multiple viewpoints, all centred around a group of friends, who have become household names - Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie - as they battle, among other things, heroin addiction, poverty, and a burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis. The novel had sold well over a million copies in the UK by the year 2015 and has been translated into thirty languages. The novel was turned into a 1996 film, often described as a modern classic, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner and Kelly Macdonald. This episode was recorded at the Edinburgh International Books Festival in August 2026.

    Producer: Dominic Howell
    Editor: Gillian Wheelan
    This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316t6

  10. (boils down to nuclear or renewables)

    Can Britain’s Broken Energy System Be Fixed?
    Currently

    Britain has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. As of last year, nearly two and half million people live in fuel poverty, and it’s crippling our industries too. How did we get here?

    In 2024, a record 50.4% of our electricity came from renewable sources. We don’t need to pay for the wind to blow and the sun to shine, and solar panels have been getting less expensive every year. But creating an electricity grid that can cope with the challenges of renewable energy isn’t cheap – and it’s certainly not straightforward either.

    Yet as we emerge from another summer of record temperatures, wild fires and global fossil fuel price shocks, the question of how we manage our transition to clean energy has never been more important or more complicated.

    Journalist Jonathan Ford speaks to economists, policy makers and industry leaders who shed light on the past, present and potential future of the UK’s electricity system, and finds out what can be done.

    Presenter: Jonathan Ford
    Producer: Artemis Irvine
    Executive Producer: Robert Nicholson
    A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

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    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031h8j

  11. (i'm not (yet) a fan of this show but the last 6 maybe 8 minutes of this episode are good)

    2. Something for Everyone
    Unspeakable
    Series 4 Episode 2 of 6

    In this episode we hear Jenny Eclair’s word for pride-induced highs, Charlie Higson's description for the sense of relief when your personal trainer cancels your class, and Ria Lina’s newly invented word for throwing someone under the bus.

    Ever struggled to find the right word for a feeling or sensation? Unspeakable sees comedian Phil Wang and lexicographer Susie Dent invite celebrity guests to invent new linguistic creations, to solve those all too relatable moments when we're lost for words.

    Hosts: Phil Wang and Susie Dent
    Guests: Jenny Eclair, Charlie Higson and Ria Lina
    Created by Joe Varley
    Writers: Matt Crosby and Katie Storey
    Recorded by Jerry Peal
    Producer: Jon Harvey
    Executive Producers: Joe Varley and Akash Lockmun

    A Brown Bred production for BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316r2

  12. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031882

  13. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

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  14. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

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  15. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

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  16. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

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  17. #ArchiveOn4

    First Contact
    Archive on 4

    Horatio Clare explores the idea of First Contact.

    It begins with a news item.

    A group of indigenous people living around the border between Brazil and Peru emerge from the depths of the forest, cross a river and make what is described as first contact with the outside world.

    The film of this encounter is fascinating and uncanny.

    Within it we can discern a dim shadow of encounters that stretch back through history. James Cook in Botany Bay, Hernan Cortez in Mexico, Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean. Centuries of history seem to show us first contact as conquest – a prelude to catastrophe for the contacted people.

    But what do we mean by “first contact” anyway? Can there really still be uncontacted people in this day and age? Uncontacted by whom?

    The news clip that fascinates Horatio Clare cuts off as the indigenous people seemingly return back across the river to the edge of the forest – a border of sorts, between one world and another.

    But what happened next? And what should happen next?

    Is there always a winner and a loser when we make first contact?

    Featuring Mark Anstice, Julia Blackburn, Wade Davis, Felipe Milanez and Sarah Shenker.

    Readings by Sagar Arya and Sumaiya Chaudhary.

    Producer: Martin Williams

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  18. ( ... there are possibly some David Sedaris fans out in Fediverseland ... )

    David Sedaris
    Take Four Books

    Presenter James Crawford speaks to American author and humourist David Sedaris on his new collection of essays, The Land and Its People. From navigating the realities of ageing to reflecting on his personal relationships, Sedaris explores a wide range of experiences across the book's 28 essays.

    He also discusses the three works that inspired the collection: Raymond Carver's Cathedral (1981), Joy Williams's Taking Care (1982), and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (1988).

    Producer: Rachael O’Neill
    Editor: Gillian Wheelan
    This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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  19. Shadow World

    Breakin' the Cycle Episode 2 of 6
    2. A Hood Story

    As Colin and D begin turning their prison-written script into a real production, they recruit former pop stars and emerging actors, building a cast captivated by the promise of an authentic Black British crime story. Their film starts to feel like a genuine cultural moment. But most of the cast and crew are unaware of the true story behind the pair or their journey to becoming film-makers.

    Beneath the excitement of the production, the money, power, and instincts that built “Love of Money” are still very much in play. When D’s commitment to turning away from crime is tested, he is drawn back to familiar instincts.

    Gripping stories from the Shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.

    Presenter and Producer: Lewis Albrow
    Series Producer: Emma Barnaby
    Producer: Louis Hollis
    Assistant Editor: Georgina Savage
    Sound Designer, Composer, and Mix Engineer: Axel Kacoutie
    Script Editor: Jason Lewis
    Fact Checker: Jessica Hatcher-Moore
    Production Manager: Anna-Marie Batho
    Production Executive: Letisha Kidza
    Head of Production: Nicky Murphy
    Production Support: Emma Wood and Olivia Bouton
    Executive Producers for Raw: Deborah Dudgeon, David Waters, and Tim Wardle.
    Business Affairs: Amy Ofori-Attah, Clotilde Leroux, Damian Kent, and Emma Ong.
    Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
    Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    A Raw Production for BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCShadowWorld #BreakinTheCycleEpisode #StreetCream #MakinMovies #ProductionHell

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zsxg

  20. Now listening: Crossing Continents - Getting Gaza back online

    How amid the tents and the rubble Gaza is developing once again as an unlikely tech hub.

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002zrnw

    #BBCRadio4 #Radio4 #R4 #CrossingContinents #FreePalestine

  21. Claude didn't defeat the guardrails, it was simply meant to be operating in a sandbox but Anthropic hadn't actually configured it to be sandboxed. Reframing human incompetence as Ai super intelligence to leverage it as marketing fluff

    #BBCRadio4 #TheWorldThisWeekend #R4 @BBCRadio4

  22. Those looking for a bit of education with their funnies (of vice versa) could do worse than "Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics', this week's episode is well worth a listen, this episode is on Ancient Alexandria, but also includes a pretty good dig at the idiot near the end!

    BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics share.google/UeA9VrwZ9bhDqziia

    #radio #bbcradio4 #comedy #science #theidiot

  23. Tom Whipple has Beaver Anal Glands.

    Testing Testosterone Testing
    BBC Inside Science

    Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will be screening military personnel aged 30 and older for testosterone deficiency. Those found with low testosterone levels will be offered voluntary hormone replacement therapy. The secretary says this is to ensure “a healthy, capable, and decisively dominant fighting force”. Tom Whipple is joined by Professor Joe Herbert from the University of Cambridge to discuss why jacking soldiers up with testosterone may be the best idea. [NS1.1]

    Marine Biologist Kathryn Ayres, from the non-profit organisation Beneath the Waves, describes a newly observed behaviour in orcas in which they collaboratively swim so hard into a dead sunfish it explodes. Is it a teachable moment for their young or is it just for fun?

    Finally, we have Kit Yates, our resident mathematician, to reassure Tom that although AI might one day actually kill [NS2.1]us all, at least it can disprove an 87-year-old mathematics conjecture[NS3.1].

    Presenter: Tom Whipple
    Producer: Dan Welsh, Alex Mansfield, Imy Harper, Tabitha Taylor Buck
    Editor: Martin Smith
    Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

    2026-07-23 1630-1700

    ( ... would actually pay #BBCLicenceFee for this content ... maybe ...)

    #Hegseth #Orca
    #TomWhipple #InsideScience #BBCInsideScience #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct977x

  24. #BBCPolitically

    Ten Years After Brexit: Omnibus 1
    Politically

    It is 10 years since the Brexit referendum. Alex Forsyth, a BBC correspondent who’s covered Brexit from both Brussels and Westminster, looks at what impact the decision to leave the EU has had on various aspects of public and political life.

    In the first of two programmes, Alex and guests discuss Brexit's effect on the UK economy and trade and immigration, and how the referendum result impacted Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

    Producers: Ben Carter and Mhairi MacKenzie
    Editor: Richard Vadon
    Sound mix: James Beard
    Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley

    57 minutes

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    2026-07-11 2100-2200

    #BBCPolitically
    #TenYearsAfterBrexit
    #BBCTenYearsAfterBrexitOmnibus
    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yvlw

  25. Peter Singer

    50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
    Archive on 4

    In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.

    Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.

    Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.

    Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.

    Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.

    Producer: Luke Mulhall

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    Peter Singer

    2026-07-11 2000-2100

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  26. There was some bloke from a corporation on "the World this Weekend" on BBC Radio4 talking about Gaza and Israel.
    The RAND Corporation. Anyone hear of it before?

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    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kfjj

  27. #brexit #BBCRadio4 #TheWorldThisWeekend giving over large part of the programme to assessing post-Brexit situation. So the wall of silence crumbles. Straws in the wind and turn if the tide and other meteorological metaphors.