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Reactive features from Radio 4, exploring what's really happening behind the headlines and unearthing untold stories, both at home and abroad.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Garden of England

    Last Sunday

    A summer on a fruit farm in Kent reveals the human stories behind a punnet of blueberries.

  • The Split

    Sun 5 Oct 2025

    A Jewish journalist explores his community鈥檚 relationship with Israel.

  • Flag Town

    Sun 28 Sep 2025

    Jonny I鈥橝nson visits the Yorkshire suburbs where flags are flying high.

  • Scotland Wants You

    Sun 21 Sep 2025

    Nick Eardley asks if attitudes to migration are shifting in Scotland.

  • Corn Belt People

    Sun 7 Sep 2025

    Anna Jones visits the Iowa state fair to test the mood of the rural Midwest

  • Germany: United and Divided

    Sun 24 Aug 2025

    Historian Katja Hoyer investigates East German disillusion 35 years after reunification.

  • White Coats v the White House

    Sun 10 Aug 2025

    Roland Pease looks at how breaking an 80-year-old deal in US science may affect us all.

  • Turn Right for Wales

    Sun 27 Jul 2025

    Will Hayward asks if Wales could become the setting for Reform鈥檚 biggest breakthrough yet.

  • The Dark Enlightenment

    Sun 20 Jul 2025

    Is a radical political philosophy guiding the actions of the Trump administration?

  • Out for Delivery

    Sun 13 Jul 2025

    The story of the multi-drop parcel courier industry, as told by the drivers themselves.

  • The Great British Trade-Off

    Sun 6 Jul 2025

    Nine years since Brexit: what's it like to trade with the EU?

  • Crossing the Line

    Sun 29 Jun 2025

    Are the actions of a climate campaigner heroic self-sacrifice or reckless fanaticism?

  • One Week in Gaza

    Sun 22 Jun 2025

    The daily realities and private thoughts of a young woman living through war.

  • Ireland's Pot of Gold

    Sun 15 Jun 2025

    Spend now or save 鈥� a dilemma for the Irish government, enriched by huge tax revenues.

  • Excluded

    Sun 8 Jun 2025

    Why are school exclusions rising, and what happens to children who are excluded?

  • Madeira's Drugs Crisis

    Sun 1 Jun 2025

    Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.

  • The Three Babies Mystery

    Sun 25 May 2025

    The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.

  • NHS: Painful Decisions

    Sun 18 May 2025

    Dominic Hughes explores the decisions facing NHS leaders as they try to balance the books.

  • The Big Mortgage Time Bomb

    Sun 11 May 2025

    Vicky Spratt investigates the thousands of people trapped in high interest mortgages.

  • The Landscape Revolution

    Sun 4 May 2025

    Charlotte Smith on the current reform of agricultural policy and spending across the UK.

  • Russia's New War Elite

    Sun 27 Apr 2025

    How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia.

  • The Choice: How Assisted Dying Works

    Sun 6 Apr 2025

    Fergus Walsh goes to Canada and California to see two different models for assisted dying.

  • The Price of Equality

    Sun 30 Mar 2025

    Anushka Asthana investigates why illegal pay discrimination is still happening in Britain.

  • Britain鈥檚 Shrinking Army

    Sun 23 Mar 2025

    Ash Bhardwaj finds out why the British Army is shrinking.

  • Welcome to Currently

    Fri 14 Mar 2025

    Reactive features from Radio 4, exploring what's really happening behind the headlines.

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