The Prime Minister praises minette batters for being ‘fair thoughtful and forceful’ #NFU24 hear more from him tomorrow Farming Today

Just been chatting live BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell and guests about the challenges facing farmers and Rishi Sunak's speech at #NFU24 National Farmers' Union

#NFU24 minette batters leaves the Conference for the last time as President, to warm applause - you can hear her personal story in On Your Farm BBC Radio 4 This Sunday 0635

This week Anna Hill meets the most powerful woman in British agriculture. minette batters stepped down as president of the NFU this week. She talks frankly about successes, failures, farming and family. Sunday 6.35am, or any time on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Today’s office (with giant)

In tmw’s Farming Today we’re outside the Senedd with Steffan Messenger & thousands of discontented Welsh farmers; protests about a huge battery farm on a greenfield site; + I’m wading about in a Lancashire beck with Ribble Rivers Trust to see NFM in action. Love a leaky dam!

Seeing the positives of farming on the floodplain. The Archers advisor @sybilruscoe meets a farmer who’s embracing flooding on her Glos farm. Sunday 6.35 or any time on BBC Sounds. Debbie Wilkins FWAG SouthWest Nicola Cannon Royal Agricultural University bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Why are farmers protesting ? Find out tomorrow morning at 11 on BBC Radio 4 as I join protests across the country.

New series starts today! I've always been fascinated by stories about animal tracking. Following wild creatures into the places only they know about. Today on radio 4, I'm telling some of those stories... bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

If you missed this lovely conversation about what galaxies are made of and whether aliens created the Antikythera Mechanism (!) the special extended podcast edition is now available on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We are thrilled to have won at the Fortnum & Mason Awards last night for best audio. Congratulations to all the finalists! #fandmawards

Tune in this Sunday morning 0635 on Radio 4 when charlotte smith visits Jeremy Clarkson on his farm in the Cotswolds - of course she speaks to Kaleb and Lisa too...

“Everybody thinks they know you because they’ve seen you on television – they don’t know you! This is me – the quiet man putting up kestrel boxes when nobody’s looking.” Jeremy Clarkson speaking to charlotte smith for this Sunday's On Your Farm on BBC Radio 4 at 0635

Lovely day for the #FarmtoForkSummit - just a reminder of the weather farmers have been facing … hear the PM Farming Today tomorrow BBC Radio 4 0545

Great to hear Martha Kearney at Gibraltar Point #OpenCountry BBC Radio 4 wild and watery!

A bat safari by punt which may not be top of news agenda just now…but was amazing

Tomorrow in Farming Today Louisa Butcher shows me her flower business Brunstead Blooms running on the family arable farm in Norfolk - the last report in a whole week on flowers! BBC Radio 4 0545 and on BBC Sounds

This week ⁦Helen Mark⁩ explores the chalk hill figures of Wiltshire. Here she is at one of the county’s 8 (yes, eight!) white horses. Join her Thurs 3pm, Sat 6am or any time you like on ⁦BBC Sounds⁩

Deep condolences to David, David Walston on the passing of your father Oliver. He was a brilliant radio presenter - sure of his facts, eager to confront, and managed to get serious answers to sometimes cheeky questions. He taught me a great deal.

‘Food Addiction’? A 3rd helping of spring cabbage? Or the biscuits you only wanted 2 of & are now all gone? What Barry C Smith calls “advanced designed food…very very clever stuff” Dr Jen Unwin Overeaters Anonymous Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Michael Moss Susan PeirceThompson Maggie Westwater, PhD The Food Programme