What's in a name?
What do our first names really say about us? More than you might think, according to Dr Jane Pilcher, Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. She claims that our names often reveal importa...
31 Dec 202042min
Getting old
More and more of us are living longer but we don’t talk enough about what it means to be old, according to Consultant Geriatrician Dr Lucy Pollock. The author of ‘The Book about Getting Older’ tells u...
30 Dec 202048min
Women and Space: Nasa's Holly Ridings, the psychology of space travel, Rocket Women and the cultural significance of space
Holly Ridings is the first woman to be NASA's chief flight director. She was appointed in 2018 and is responsible for missions to the International Space Station, the Orion spacecraft and commercial s...
28 Dec 202058min
Oti Mabuse's second Strictly win; Virtual child protection conferences; Liz Berry's poetry
Labour MP Stella Creasy joins us to discuss buy now pay later services, and whether they should be regulated. Oti Mabuse and partner Bill Bailey have been crowned Strictly Come Dancing champions as th...
26 Dec 202055min
Christmas Day on Joy
Christmas Day programme about Joy. Jane Garvey is joined by the Rev. Kate Bottley, who brings the Christian perspective of joy at Christmas, and talks about her personal passion for ice water swimming...
25 Dec 202045min
Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Katherine Hepburn on NYE on R4
‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ was a famous 1967 film about an inter-racial marriage in the US. Filmed against the backdrop of race riots that took place the same year, it starred Sidney Poitier, Spen...
24 Dec 202043min
Oti Mabuse, Domestic Abuse and Kinship Care, Quarry Bank Cotton Mill, Samantha Evans, Fire fighter.
Oti Mabuse and partner Bill Bailey have been crowned Strictly Come Dancing champions as they took the 2020 glitter ball trophy home on Saturday. Oti Mabuse is the first professional to win the compe...
23 Dec 202044min
Being diagnosed with ASD at 27; Parlour songs; Child protection conferences
We heard earlier in the pandemic that in-person meetings for vulnerable children had become mostly impossible. But now child protection professionals feel that face-to-face conferences are unlikely to...
22 Dec 202052min
