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Roleplay
Fagin
One big role. Actors who have played the part tell their stories. This time: Fagin.
20/02/2026
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
Episode 4: Language and belonging
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.
Should the Government ban social media for young people?
What evidence is there that social media is harming young people?
Costumes and Identity
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.
Richard Young, photographer
Richard Young, photographer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Chefs, Creativity and the Cost of Living Crisis
Sheila Dillon talks to chefs about creativity in a cost of living crisis.
Episode 5: The myths of motherhood
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Adam Fleming helps you work out what the culture wars are really about.
The latest weather forecast
News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4
Impulsive
5. Restless
Lisa has new medication for her restless legs syndrome - then she meets a man online.
19/02/2026
Tom has reservations.
Wolf Valley
Episode 5
Dark revelations, revenge and a desperate race against time.
Life Without Rats
Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?
Chaldon
Peter Gibbs and the GQT team are in Chaldon.
Thief by Tahmima Anam
A specially commissioned short story by the award-winning writer Tahmima Anam.
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme
81. The Story My Sister Told Me
How one childhood story helped change the course of many lives.
News and current affairs, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
Series 119
Episode 7
Andy Zaltzman and panellists quiz the week's news.
It’s party time in the events barn.
Errollyn Wallen and Richard Stilgoe head to Nashville
Errollyn Wallen and Richard Stilgoe join Anna and Jeffrey to add five more tracks.
Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities
16th - 22nd February
Fascinating, surprising and eye-opening stories from the past, brought to life.
Crime and punishment medieval to modern
Matthew Sweet's guests include Lord Sumption and criminal barrister Joanna Susskind Hardy.
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
10: Angel of Death
The finale of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from one of the US's greatest writers.
Join Americast for insights and analysis on what's happening inside Trump's White House.
Blanche DuBois
One big role. Actors who have played the part tell their stories. Today: Blanche DuBois.
