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Currently

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

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Welcome to Currently
Reactive features from Radio 4, exploring what's really happening behind the headlines.
14 Mar 2025,1 min
Britain’s Shrinking Army
Ash Bhardwaj finds out why the British Army is shrinking.
23 Mar 2025,28 mins
The Price of Equality
Anushka Asthana investigates why illegal pay discrimination is still happening in Britain.
30 Mar 2025,28 mins
The Choice: How Assisted Dying Works
Fergus Walsh goes to Canada and California to see two different models for assisted dying.
06 Apr 2025,28 mins
Laila Soueif: A Mother's Life
A mother goes on hunger strike to protest the continued imprisonment of her son.
13 Apr 2025,28 mins
Of Budgets and Bond Markets
Duncan Weldon explores the political and economic reality of relying on the bond markets.
20 Apr 2025,28 mins
Russia's New War Elite
How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia.
27 Apr 2025,28 mins
The Landscape Revolution
Charlotte Smith on the current reform of agricultural policy and spending across the UK.
04 May 2025,28 mins
The Big Mortgage Time Bomb
Vicky Spratt investigates the thousands of people trapped in high interest mortgages.
11 May 2025,28 mins
NHS: Painful Decisions
Dominic Hughes explores the decisions facing NHS leaders as they try to balance the books.
18 May 2025,28 mins
The Three Babies Mystery
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
25 May 2025,28 mins
Madeira's Drugs Crisis
Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.
01 Jun 2025,28 mins