(1 - 30 of 1961 programmes)
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On Your Farm
27/05/2012
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since today.
Charlotte Smith goes behind bars to visit a farm within a prison at HMP North Sea Camp.
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Farming Today
Farming Today This Week
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since yesterday with 6 days left.
Charlotte Smith meets gold medal winners at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Ramblings
Series 21, Flamborough Head to Bridlington
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Thursday.
1/6. Clare Balding meets Stuart and his dog Poppy, walking round England for charity.
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Book of the Week
Hedge Britannia, Episode 5
Listen now (15 minutes)
Available since Friday with 5 days left.
5/5. Hedge People - from the creators of stately home hedges to the modern campaigners.
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Farming Today
25/05/2012
Listen now (14 minutes)
Available since Friday with 4 days left.
France's ban on growing GM Maize is rejected, but it won't be forced to drop the embargo.
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Book of the Week
Hedge Britannia, Episode 4
Listen now (15 minutes)
Available since Thursday with 4 days left.
4/5. Hedge enthusiast Hugh Barker explores the legacy of Captain Leyland.
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Extinct!
Episode 2
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Tuesday.
2/3. Are humans causing the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth's history?
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Material World
24/05/2012
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Thursday.
Energy generation perceptions, light loving bugs, fast chips, and predicting earthquakes.
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Farming Today
24/05/2012
Listen now (14 minutes)
Available since Thursday with 3 days left.
New multi-million pound funding for bioscience - but how much will be spent on GM crops?
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Book of the Week
Hedge Britannia, Episode 3
Listen now (15 minutes)
Available since Wednesday with 3 days left.
3/5. Topiary was probably brought to these islands by the Romans - the controversy lingers on.
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It Is Rocket Science
Series 2, Episode 2
Listen now (13 minutes)
Available since Wednesday with 3 days left.
2/4. Funny, factually-accurate look at space travel and explosive nuclear propulsion.
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Costing the Earth
Jellyfish Invasion!
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tuesday.
Miranda Krestovnikoff examines claims that jellyfish are taking over the world's oceans.
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Thinking Allowed
Wine tasting; US philanthropy
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Wednesday.
US philanthropic foundations, and the changing language of wine tasting.
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Farming Today
23/05/2012
Listen now (14 minutes)
Available since Wednesday with 2 days left.
A merger of two dairy co-ops could mean better milk prices for some UK dairy farmers.
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Book of the Week
Hedge Britannia, Episode 2
Listen now (15 minutes)
Available since Tuesday with 2 days left.
2/5. How the Neolithic art of coppicing is renewing itself in 21st-century competitions.
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The Life Scientific
Episode 23
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Tuesday.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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Farming Today
22/05/2012
Listen now (14 minutes)
Available since Tuesday with 1 day left.
UK trials of GM crops could be in peril after protests over GM wheat, with Anna Hill.
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Book of the Week
Hedge Britannia, Episode 1
Listen now (15 minutes)
Available since Monday with 1 day left.
1/5. The checkerboard pattern of lowland Britain reveals a history of boundaries and enclosures
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Material World
17/05/2012
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Thu, 17 May 2012.
Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.
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The Digital Human
Episode 4
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Monday.
4/7. Aleks Krotoski looks at religious belief and the internet.
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Farming Today
21/05/2012
Listen now (12 minutes)
Available since Monday with 12 hours left.
Anna Hill hears allegations about cheating in the show ring to help cows win prizes.
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Thinking Allowed
Why Love Hurts
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Wed, 16 May 2012.
Laurie Taylor investigates the pain of love from a sociological perspective.
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The Living World
Lesser Horseshoe Bats
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since last Sunday.
Sarah Pitt visits the Usk Valley to see a population of lesser horseshoe bats.
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Open Country
Navigation Skills
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Thu, 17 May 2012.
Helen Mark is in Snowdonia to see if the walkers have enough navigation skills.
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Costing the Earth
Pushing Water
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 15 May 2012.
Drought in the south but plenty of water elsewhere. Why not move it? Tom Heap investigates
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Extinct!
Episode 1
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Tue, 15 May 2012.
1/3. Adam Rutherford asks why almost all of life became extinct 250 million years ago.
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The Life Scientific
Frances Ashcroft
Listen now (28 minutes)
Available since Tue, 15 May 2012.
Frances Ashcroft on a lifetime spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin.
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The Digital Human
Episode 3
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 14 May 2012.
3/7. What is the biggest threat to privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends?
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The Living World
The Pasqueflower
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 13 May 2012.
Joanna Pinnock views the beautiful wild pasqueflower at a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire
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Material World
10/05/2012
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Thu, 10 May 2012.
Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.

