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Apr 2023
28m 38s

14/04/2023

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

The chilling investigative BBC podcast A Very British Cult is top of the podcast charts for the second week running, Andrea Catherwood is joined by presenter Catrin Nye to explore its success and and we hear what listeners have to say.

Glaswegian Bhangra aficionados Hardeep Singh and Bobby B pay homage to Archive on 4’s The British Bhangra Explosion in the Vox Box.

And BBC Ireland correspondent Chris Page discusses reporting from his home turf in a week when Northern Ireland has been in the news with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and the visit of President Joe Biden.

A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

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