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  1. Introducing ADA: a new way of finding Radio 4 programmes

    Radio 4 has an enormous archive of permanently available programmes just waiting to be discovered. We are offering a new way of finding our programmes.

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  2. James Acaster's Findings: the Bread Restaurant

    Comedian James Acaster proposes a new concept of diner; the 'Bread Restaurant', as a result of his research into bread for new comedy show, James Acaster's Findings.

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  3. Something Understood: Procrastination

    Why and how has procrastination, putting off action or decision, become a sin? It is referenced in the Book of Common Prayer and the word itself dates from around Shakespeare’s time. Are the Victorians really to blame? Was the Industrial Revolution what cemented the idea that we should never pu...

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  4. Tweet of the Day - Wildlife Cameraman, John Aitchison

    From the wildest Hebridean beach to a city supermarket car park, birds bring the world to life. Hear wildlife cameraman and photographer John Aitchison present Tweet of the Day from 10 to 28 February.

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  5. Peter Higgs on fame and the boson that bears his name

    Peter Higgs appears in the new series of The Life Scientific discussing the theory that has transformed particle physics.

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  6. Priming the pips in studio 40B

    I'm sitting in the Radio 4 Continuity studio - or 40B as it's officially known - counting the minutes till the final pips of my shift when an e-mail arrives from Anna, our message board . Someone's posted a comment about me: they've picked up on a couple of things I've said on air that ...

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  7. Can the world's population really fit on the Isle of Wight? More or Less is back

    "And, this week, that train of thought led us to try to squeeze as many Radio 4 presenters and producers into our studio as possible..." A bunch of attention seekers would be one way of describing the More or Less team. With the Financial Times' Undercover Economist Tim Harford at the...

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  8. The Coral Thief

    It's in the can! All ten episodes of Rebecca Stott's compelling new novel The Coral Thief, are recorded and edited and ready for broadcast. When I was searching earlier in the autumn for a Book at Bedtime to fill January's wintry evenings, my editor handed me The Coral Thief to see if it might ...

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  9. Radio 4's election bunker

    Imagine if you will a swan. Now think of the legs pumping away under the surface. Welcome back stage to BBC Radio's Election Night Special. We know the nation has never been less in love with those who represent us, so the looming General Election promises to be both brutal and dramatic. And w...

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  10. The Slanket of Con: Origins

    Martha Kearney in the Slanket of Con. Martha subsequently tweeted: "I have reached the pinnacle of my career thanks to Corrie Corfield..." Editor's note: Some of you will be familiar with the Slanket of Con, some of you will have no idea what's going on. I first saw it being discussed onli...

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  11. Editing The Now Show

    The producer of The Now Show explains how he decides what gags stay in the programme and what gets cut out during the editing process.

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  12. Falling for Françoise

    Picture the scene. A girl walks down the street, alone and unloved, while around her loving couples hold hands and gaze into each other's eyes. That was the theme of 'Tous Les Garcons et les Filles de Mon Age', a self-penned melancholic song which in the early 1960s catapulted Françoise Hardy to...

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  13. Home Front: The Changing Role of Women in WW1

    To mark International Women’s Day, we asked Professor Maggie Andrews, consultant historian to Radio 4’s Home Front to explore the changing role of women in WW1.

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  14. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster - Four years on

    Editor's note - In 2007 a young student, Sophie Lancaster suffered fatal injuries while protecting her boyfriend Rob from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. She later died on August 24th 2007. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama documentary marking the anniversary of he...

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  15. Christmas Diaries

    The Christmas story, day-by-day from the perspective of those it first touched.

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  16. Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate: Listen online, and keep

    Every episode of Life and Fate will be available as a podcast for 14 days after broadcast to and keep Another big Radio 4 moment has arrived: every drama slot across eight days (apart from The Archers, rest assured!) is being commandeered to bring you a dramatisation of an epic h...

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  17. A Forensic Look at Infidelity

    "If we had a pound for everybody who asks us to break into their partner's Facebook , we'd be millionaires" says Jo. We're sitting in the unassuming offices of a Private Investigator's agency on the top floor of a 1930s semi detached house on the outskirts of Nottingham. This is where...

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  18. Shortlisting for Brain of Britain

    Producer Paul Bajoria anticipates Monday's Brain of Britain final, and explains how contestants are selected for the show, now in its 60th season.

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  19. Introducing Inside Science

    Mohit Bakaya, one of Radio 4's Commissioning Editors, discusses new programme Inside Science, which will replace Radio 4's Material World.

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  20. Radio 4 Extra: 90 x 90

    Editor's note: At 5.33pm on Wednesday 14 November BBC Radio will be coming together to mark its 90th anniversary live with Simon Mayo from London's Science Museum. Here, Nick Baker, talks about how Radio 4 Extra will be ing the celebrations. PMcD For the last few months I have ...

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