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BBC Radio 4: Able To Parent

Our BBC Radio 4 documentary Able To Parent follows wheelchair-user Emily and her partner CJ as they decide whether they want to try for a baby. Producer: Leeanne Coyle. Listen in full: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v2t4

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Journey Through a Cow

A farmer, a cheesemaker, a philosopher and a scientist take us on a guided tour through a cow.

Told in five acts, this programme weaves together the voices of our four guides - artist-philosopher Samar Nasrullah Khan, cheesemaker Peter Dixon, farmer Nikki Yoxall and Professor of Animal Science and Microbiology Sharon Huws.

They take us on a journey from deep in the soil, through a plant, into a cow’s mouth, through her four stomach compartments – home to vast civilisations of bacteria, protozoa and fungi – and, of course, out the other end.

Part documentary, part creative interpretation, the programme uses field recordings to immerse us in the multi-species communities we encounter along the way.

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Tequila with the bat man

Conservationist Rodrigo Medellin is working to protect Mexico's bats and its iconic spirits - tequila and mezcal. Can tequila become “bat friendly”?

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Hey World, What's the Craic?

Patrick Kielty on Ireland's 1994. Patrick and producer Ruth Sanderson on how 1994 was an extraordinary faultline in Irish life, for Radio 4's Archive on 4. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Nicola Sturgeon for BBC Sounds

The story of Scotland's longest-serving and first ever female First Minister. Available on BBC Sounds