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Reactive features from Radio 4, exploring what's really happening behind the headlines and unearthing untold stories, both at home and abroad.
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Highways to Hell
Sun 4 Jan 2026
Alex Forsyth on traffic jam Britain and why roadworks now disrupt our lives so often.
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Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it
Sun 21 Dec 2025
A look at the leftwards move of young women and why media and politicians are ignoring it
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Are You Ready?
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Lucy Easthope is on a mission to find out how we can become better prepared.
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Four Months in Gaza
Sun 30 Nov 2025
A raw and intimate perspective on the terror, anger, and hope of living through war.
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Playing Spies
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Gordon Corera investigates Russia's new front line of amateur espionage.
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If at First You Don’t Secede
Sun 23 Nov 2025
If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?
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Immigration: The Danish Way
Sun 9 Nov 2025
The big political gamble if Britain adopts Denmark's radical approach to immigration.
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From Anglesey with Love
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Former MEP Nathan Gill accepted Russia-linked bribes. Then he did this interview.
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Garden of England
Sun 26 Oct 2025
A summer on a fruit farm in Kent reveals the human stories behind a punnet of blueberries.
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Scotland Wants You
Sun 21 Sep 2025
Nick Eardley asks if attitudes to migration are shifting in Scotland.
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Corn Belt People
Sun 7 Sep 2025
Anna Jones visits the Iowa state fair to test the mood of the rural Midwest
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Germany: United and Divided
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Historian Katja Hoyer investigates East German disillusion 35 years after reunification.
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White Coats v the White House
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Roland Pease looks at how breaking an 80-year-old deal in US science may affect us all.
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Turn Right for Wales
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Will Hayward asks if Wales could become the setting for Reform’s biggest breakthrough yet.
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The Dark Enlightenment
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Is a radical political philosophy guiding the actions of the Trump administration?
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Out for Delivery
Sun 13 Jul 2025
The story of the multi-drop parcel courier industry, as told by the drivers themselves.
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The Great British Trade-Off
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Nine years since Brexit: what's it like to trade with the EU?
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Crossing the Line
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Are the actions of a climate campaigner heroic self-sacrifice or reckless fanaticism?
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One Week in Gaza
Sun 22 Jun 2025
The daily realities and private thoughts of a young woman living through war.
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Ireland's Pot of Gold
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Spend now or save – a dilemma for the Irish government, enriched by huge tax revenues.
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Excluded
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Why are school exclusions rising, and what happens to children who are excluded?
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Madeira's Drugs Crisis
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.
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The Three Babies Mystery
Sun 25 May 2025
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
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NHS: Painful Decisions
Sun 18 May 2025
Dominic Hughes explores the decisions facing NHS leaders as they try to balance the books.
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The Big Mortgage Time Bomb
Sun 11 May 2025
Vicky Spratt investigates the thousands of people trapped in high interest mortgages.
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The Landscape Revolution
Sun 4 May 2025
Charlotte Smith on the current reform of agricultural policy and spending across the UK.
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Russia's New War Elite
Sun 27 Apr 2025
How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia.
