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  1. 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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    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003187y

  2. 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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  3. 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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  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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    #FlorynceKennedy #GloriaSteinem

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027bny

  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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    #FlorynceKennedy #GloriaSteinem

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027bny

  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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    #FlorynceKennedy #GloriaSteinem

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  8. (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

  9. (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

  10. (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

  11. #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

  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

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031882

  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

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031882

  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

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031882

  16. #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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    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031gz7

  17. ( ... 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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    #BBCRadio4 #DavidSedaris #BBCTakeFourBooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00301w4

  18. Intimacy (Radio Version)

    1. Did You Just Dribble on Me?
    2. I Like Being Naked

    Episode 1 of 4

    Intimacy coordinator Liza lands a major film on a Greek island, but old tensions resurface. As she meets the cast, setting boundaries proves harder than expected.

    Lena Headey as Liza
    Tia Bannon as Ruby
    Hannah Waddingham as Lou
    Alison Steadman as Mum
    Simon Kassianides as Rob
    Thaddea Graham as Kate
    Tom Goodman-Hill as Gary
    Maisie Williams as Bunny
    Matthew Broome as Alex

    Additional Voices:
    Dempsey Bovell, Tom Glenister, Mark Kilcawley, James Nicolaou, Paul Panting, Finlay Paul, Nigel Pilkington, Josh Singh Sian, Sam Stafford, Sarah Whitehouse

    Based on an original idea by Erika Lust
    Executive Producers: Sharon Horgan, Faye Dorn
    Executive Producer for the BBC: Dylan Haskins
    Assistant Commissioner for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna
    Written, created and directed by Lena Headey
    Constultant Audio Director: Celia De Wolff
    Series Producer: Emma Morgan
    Story Producer: Maddie Beautyman and Megan Heverin
    Production Manager: Archan Mohile
    Production Coordinator: Marlene Beauquis Smith
    Production Runner: Tobias Davies
    Script Assistants: Liis Miik and Jo Troy
    Casting Director: Lauren Evans
    Intimacy Coordinator: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Recorded at Sound Node
    Sound Designer: Martin Schulz
    Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Daniel Jaramillo
    Recording Engineers: David Crane and Giancarlo Granata
    Music and Score composed by Max Perryment
    Merman Television Managing Director: Rebecca Parkinson
    Merman Finance Director: Jackie Sidey
    Merman Television Head of Production: Amanda Wasey
    Merman Television Finance Manager: Gemma Wilson
    Legal and Business Affairs: Mark Rogers and Georges Villeneau
    Artwork Photography: Stevan Keane
    Behind the Scenes: Michas Vanni

    A Merman Television Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

    28 minutes

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    Today
    23:00
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    #LenaHeadey #BBCRadio4 #BBCDeama
    #BBCIntimacy
    #AlisonSteadman #MaisieWilliams

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zqmg

  19. Mr Jefferson's Library (5 part series)

    Michael Goldfarb visits the Library of Congress and Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello in Virginia to see how Jefferson's reading shaped the beginnings of American history.

    #MichaelGoldfarb
    #LibraryOfCongress
    #ThomasJefferson
    #Monticello

    #BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBOTW #BBCBookOfTheWeek

    (15 minute episodes) (very fast reading presentation style)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybb7

  20. #AndyBurnham #UlamSpirals #AirCon #Whales #WernerHerzog

    Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’

    More or Less

    Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:

    (00:23) Andy Burnham may not be Prime Minister yet, but he’s setting out his economic agenda, and its based on his old stomping ground, Greater Manchester. We ask whether the official figures that seem to show an economic miracle can be fully believed, and how much credit he deserves.

    (10:09) As our towns and cities get hotter, would turning to air conditioning really drive outside temperatures up by 10 to 12 degrees celcius? We learn about the fascinating world of ‘urban heat islands’.

    (15:40) We turn to homophones in an attempt to continue a running joke. This week, we follow six items about Wales with an item about whales - are our cetacean friends the carbon sinks of our dreams? Will we ever write a stranger paragraph?

    (22:10) Cult director and maths fanboy Werner Herzog has been waxing lyrical about the intruiging mysteries of prime numbers. Tim cracks out a surprisingly decent impression and we learn about one of the most inscrutable problems in mathematics - what’s not to like?

    More or Less is the programme that looks at numbers and statistics in news and in life. We’re always looking for questions from listeners - you can contact us on [email protected].

    Guests:
    Paul Swinney - Chief Economist at The Data City
    Liam Sides - Associate Director at Oxford Economics
    Dimple Rana - Heat Resilience Leader at Arup
    Sue Grimmond - Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading
    Dr Olaf Meynecke - Marine Ecologist, Griffith University
    James Grime - Mathematician and star of YouTube channel Numberphile

    Special Guest Appearance:
    The Voice of Werner Herzog

    Presenter: Tim Harford
    Series Producer: Tom Colls
    Reporter: Nathan Gower
    Producers: Josh McMinn, Lizzy McNeill
    Editor: Richard Vadon
    Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown
    Sound Engineer: James Beard

    #MoreOrLess #BBCMoreOrLess #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybnf

  21. (idiot talks shite on serious political professionals panel programme with serious political professionals)

    #DarrenGrimes

    Darren Grimes, Rachel Millward, Baroness Stowell, Anna Turley MP

    Any Questions?

    Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Ponteland High School near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with Reform UK board member Darren Grimes, who is deputy leader of Durham County Council; Green Party of England & Wales deputy leader Rachel Millward, who is also deputy leader of Wealden District Council; Conservative peer Baroness Stowell; and Labour Party chair and Cabinet Office minister, Anna Turley MP.

    Producer: Paul Martin
    Assistant producer: Lowri Morgan
    Production co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano
    Lead broadcast engineer: Chris Weightman
    Editor: Glyn Tansley

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCAnyQuestions

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t2lj

  22. ( "first-passed-the-post-retaliatory-pre-emptive-deterencination" 😇 )

    Strong Message Here

    #BBCStrongMessageHere #BBCRadio4

    Get Real (with Hugo Rifkind)

    Journalist and Times Radio presenter Hugo Rifkind joins Armando this week.

    In another breakneck week, we look at the language of reality in politics. Are plumbers more 'real' than economists? Can Trump really 'manipulate reality'? And has he been watching Shrek?

    We also look at the parallels between Marco Rubio and the general in Dr Strangelove, Tony Blair powering down when talking to Alan Partridge, and whether 'Epic Fury' really means what Pete Hegseth thinks it does.

    #ArmandoIanucci #HugoRifkind #DrStrangelove #GeneralTurgidson

    downloadable 15 mins

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3dv

  23. It's kicking-off on Any Questions.

    (Well, just slightly shouty.)

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCAnyQuestions

  24. listener phone-in on Digital ID and Leadership

    "Any Answers" hosted by Anita Anand
    (sister show to "Any Questions")

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCAnyQuestions
    #DigitalID #UKPol

    (available for 29 days on Sounds)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k3bh

  25. Almost time for the hour of shouting and gnashing of teeth which I suspect will be spectacular today.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCAnyQuestions #BBCAQ

  26. Sut mae pawb
    Dw i'n dysgu #Cymraeg a #Ffrangeg a dw i'n mwynhau gwylio teledu Cymraeg ar #S4C, yn enwedig dramâu ac operâu sebon. Dw i hefyd hoffi gwrando ar #BBCRadio4 gan gynnwys #YrArchers. Dw i'n mwynhau defnyddio'r meddalwedd #Blender3D ac ar hyn o bryd dw i'n dysgu sut i ddefnyddio #GeometryNodes. Dw i'n darllen y cylchgrawn #NewScientist bob wythnos a dw i'n hoffi darllen nofelau hefyd, y rhan fwyaf yn Saesneg ond weithiau yn Gymraeg hefyd (yn araf iawn).