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Podcast Directory

Enjoy BBC audio on the move - a wide range of programmes and highlights are available as podcasts for you to download for free.

Podcasts from BBC Radio 4

1968 - Day by Day Omnibus
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 30 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sun, 31 Aug 2008
  • Available in the UK only

Every day for 6 months, Radio 4 will be recreating 1968 in sound - drawing on the...

Analysis
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 30 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Analysis makes sense of the ideas that change the world. What made Islam political...

Best of Natural History Radio
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Tue, 02 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

World On the Move: throughout 2008 the Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood are j...

Best of Today
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 10 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Insight, analysis and expert debate as key policy makers are challenged on the lat...

Beyond Belief
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 27 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Debates exploring the place of religion and faith in today's complex world. Ernie ...

Broadcasting House
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 55 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sun, 07 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

News, discussion & a few gags. The Sunday papers & the BH quiz. Broadcast every Su...

Crossing Continents
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

On the ground reporting from around the world which focuses on the human dimension...

Excess Baggage
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Travellers' Tales from home and around the world: their destinations, experiences ...

Farming Today
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 14 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

All rural life is here: daily news of food, farming, the countryside and the envir...

File on 4
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 37 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

A podcast offering Radio 4's award winning, flagship investigative series File on ...

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Multi Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Bringing you both The Now Show and The News Quiz from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satiric...

From Our Own Correspondent
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Insight, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look a...

Front Row Highlights
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 30 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Interviews with leading novelists, musicians, film directors, artists and more, fr...

Great Lives
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Tue, 02 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Biography series exploring the greatest people who ever lived. Matthew Parris inte...

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 42 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, s...

In Touch: News for Blind People
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 20 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

News, views and information for people who are blind or visually impaired. Present...

iPM: Share What You Know
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 24 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Weekly podcast featuring passionate debate from across the web with Eddie Mair. Al...

Law in Action
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Sharp, insightful and witty reporting on the week’s legal news in language everyon...

Material World
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacu...

Medical Matters
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Multi Programme
  • Typical Duration: 25 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Tue, 02 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

The latest medical information and advice from Radio 4's health programmes. In Ca...

Midweek: Diverse conversation
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 42 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Diverse conversation with Libby Purves and her four guests. The focus of Midweek i...

Money Box
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

All that matters about money with Paul Lewis. News of savings and investments, cre...

More or Less: Behind the Stats
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

More or Less makes sense of the numbers that surround us and that rule our world. ...

NewsPod
  • BBC Radio
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 35 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Daily programme highlights from BBC Radio News. Interviews and reports from BBC Ra...

Peter Day's World of Business
  • BBC Radio
  • Multi Programme
  • Typical Duration: 25 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Insights into the business world with Peter Day - featuring content from his Radio...

Profile
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 14 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Broadcast on BBC ...

Radio 4 Choice
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 30 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Fri, 29 Aug 2008
  • Available to all listeners

A weekly podcast of the best documentaries from Radio 4.

Ramblings with Clare Balding
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Clare Balding discovers why and where we walk. In each programme she walks with a ...

Saturday Live
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 58 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available in the UK only

Real life but not as you know it. Radio 4's Saturday morning show is full of the s...

Start the Week with Andrew Marr
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 42 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Start The Week sets the cultural agenda for the week ahead, with high-profile gue...

Sunday: Religious News
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 40 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sun, 07 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Roger Bolton presents religious news and analysis into the top stories from the UK...

The Archers
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 15 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Contemporary drama in a rural setting from the world's longest running radio soap ...

The Bottom Line with Evan Davis
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 25 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Insights into business from the people at the top; Evan Davis meets 3 or 4 powerfu...

The Film Programme
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 27 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Fri, 29 Aug 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Interviews and analysis from the world of cinema. Francine Stock talks to director...

Thinking Allowed
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 27 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Wed, 03 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works and discusses cu...

Thought For The Day
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 3 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

A unique reflection from a faith perspective on topical issues and news events. S...

Today in Parliament
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

BBC correspondents report from Westminster on the most significant of the day's st...

Tracing Your Roots
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Wed, 03 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Inspirational family history stories and key genealogy advice. Sally Magnusson an...

Weekly Political Review
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 28 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Sat, 06 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Top political commentators reflect on the week's political events in discussion wi...

Woman's Hour Health
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Whole Programme
  • Typical Duration: 15 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Thu, 04 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Health matters of concern to women and their families from BBC Radio 4's Woman's H...

Woman's Hour Kids and Family
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 15 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Parenting, family matters and relationships: topical subjects in the news affectin...

Woman's Hour News and Politics
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 10 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Topical subjects in the news affecting women around the world from BBC Radio 4's W...

You and Yours - Disability
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 10 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: none
  • Available to all listeners

Latest news on legislation, public policy and social trends and their impact on p...

You and Yours - Environment
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 10 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Wed, 03 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Latest news on 'green' consumerism from taxes on aviation to food miles to availab...

You and Yours - Health
  • BBC Radio 4
  • Programme Highlights
  • Typical Duration: 15 Mins.
  • Latest Episode: Wed, 03 Sep 2008
  • Available to all listeners

Latest news on how changes in the NHS affect patient care. Private medicine, scien...



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