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Cleopatra
One big role. Actors who have played the part tell their stories. This time: Cleopatra
19/02/2026
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Episode 3: Being a woman
A writer’s journey through the experience of otherness.
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
81. The Story My Sister Told Me
How one childhood story helped change the course of many lives.
Good Morning Sisters!
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Angad Kaur.
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
John Keats
How one of the great Romantic poets produced so much in his brilliant but short life.
Michael Gove joins Armando and Natalie Haynes.
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Surrogacy
Sonia Sodha explores thorny ethical debates around the start and end of human life.
Episode 4: Language and belonging
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
The business conversation show with people at the top giving insight into what matters.
Baby Sleep Products
Can any nests or docks, gadgets or blinds, really help babies sleep better?
The latest weather forecast
News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4
Impulsive
4. Big Pharma, Big Secret
Noel discovers a shocking report from inside the UK company that makes one of the drugs.
18/02/2026
Brookfield’s guest continues to stir the pot.
Good People
2. The Left Behind
Project Hope gets its biggest break yet. But there's a catch. Will they take the deal?
The Mourne Mountain Fires
How this landscape, often shrouded in cloud and rain, is affected by recurrent fires.
Samaritans
Ambassador Scarlett Moffatt makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Samaritans.
Language Extinction
Michael Rosen talks to Sophia Smith Galer about the languages we're losing.
Should the Government ban social media for young people?
What evidence is there that social media is harming young people?
Wood, Smoke and Science: Cooking over fire
The science of barbecue recorded at Abergavenny Food Festival 2025.
News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Randy Feltface
2. Fire
Randy Feltface shares his burning passion.
Tom has reservations.
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Who's in the news for all the wrong reasons? With David Yelland and Simon Lewis.
MTV’s legacy, the new Lucy Letby documentary on Netflix and the ad industry in crisis
MTV’s pop‑culture revolution, 'True Crime' boom, winners and losers in the ad industry.
Tim Firth, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Operation Mincemeat, Lois, Stuart Maconie, Tom Hodgkinson
Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
9: War
The next part of Percival Everett's Pulitzer-winning novel, read by Rhashan Stone.
Conversations about tomorrow, from Today.
Fagin
One big role. Actors who have played the part tell their stories. This time: Fagin.
