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79. Future Gran Emma Grundy and legal advice for Brian
Emma Freud talks to Emma Grundy and gets legal advice on the Home Farm succession chaos.
10 Apr 2026,·35 mins
The Reading Recession: Are We Making Ourselves Less Intelligent? (James Marriott)
Tracing the historical relationship between reading, intelligence and democracy.
09 Apr 2026,·58 mins
The Guides and single sex organisations
The Girl Guides says that trans girls will have to leave but do we need single sex groups?
10 Apr 2026,·53 mins
Classic Desert Island Discs - Dr Jane Goodall
Sue Lawley talks to primatologist Dr Jane Goodall in a programme first broadcast in 2000.
05 Apr 2026,·36 mins
Telephones
Ellen and Mark trace the history of the cinematic call, from stick phones to smartphones.
10 Apr 2026,·42 mins
Danielle de Niese
Soprano Danielle de Niese reveals her cultural influences and formative experiences.
09 Apr 2026,·43 mins
Has Blake Lively really “lost” the case against Justin Baldoni?
Retaliation claims survive despite sexual harassment claims being dismissed.
09 Apr 2026,·25 mins
Review: The Stranger and Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother
Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch.
09 Apr 2026,·42 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
6. F For Fake
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next – but can you tell which is which?
15 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep
How evidence eventually showed front sleeping was linked to sudden infant deaths
11 Apr 2026,·9 mins
All Day Breakfast
Happy Birthday Tom
Ronan Farrow on investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman, Misha Glenny, Bel Trew & Madhumita Murgia
Ronan Farrow on investigating OpenAI & Sam Altman, Misha Glenny, Bel Trew & Madhu Murgia.
08 Apr 2026,·42 mins
Broadcasting House, and When It Hits the Fan
Andrea Catherwood gets a behind-the-scenes look into Broadcasting House.
09 Apr 2026,·28 mins
The Experiments
An investigation into widespread medical abuse in German children's homes.
07 Apr 2026,·37 mins
The Burbs | Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen | Dear Killer Nannies | Imperfect Women
Hayley, Scott and Naga review the week’s biggest new TV and streaming releases.
12 Apr 2026,·70 mins
Don't Panic!!!
David Yelland and Farzana Baduel discuss how to keep the public calm in a crisis.
01 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Cui Bono?
It's not who, or how, but why.
08 Apr 2026,·18 mins
Claudia Hammond
Claudia Hammond presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.
12 Apr 2026,·41 mins
Series 4
Graham Greene
Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Jonathan Myerson and Jane Thynne on the literary quiz.
18 Apr 2001,·30 mins
Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota
More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests.
30 Mar 2026,·28 mins
Ralf Little, Nina Gilligan, Sam Riley, Janet Devlin, Will Brown, Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Kiri Pritchard-McLean and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
11 Apr 2026,·42 mins
Neil Brand and Matilda Lloyd celebrate the mambo
Matilda Lloyd and Neil Brand join Jeffrey and Anna to add the last 5 tracks in the series
27 Mar 2026,·42 mins
Filmmaker Olive Nwosu
Nigerian British filmmaker Olive Nwosu on her debut feature, Lady
11 Apr 2026,·50 mins
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution
4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine.
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
16 Dec 2025,·57 mins
Writer & Performer Christopher Brett Bailey: ‘I got married at Lewisham Bowling Alley!’
It’s definitely not the big London sights that excite this Listed Londoner.
10 Apr 2026,·23 mins
Zoos, sex and conservation
Adam Rutherford on the origins of zoos and sex.
06 Apr 2026,·41 mins
Curtain Up: Classical Stories of Musical Theatre
From operetta to Oklahoma!
Nicky Spence explores the classical music roots of musical theatre.
05 Apr 2026,·59 mins
4. The end of the beginning
What happens when one side of the nature nurture equation is a mystery?
10 Feb 2026,·23 mins
The Lives of Hildegard of Bingen
Episode 5
Now 80, Hildegard of Bingen has one last battle. Performed by Juliet Stevenson.
03 Apr 2026,·14 mins
Dorothy Koomson
Dorothy Koomson talks to a Bookclub audience about her 2010 novel The Ice Cream Girls.
05 Apr 2026,·28 mins
