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Tea lovers, this one's for you 🫖 This week, Greg and guests discuss the origins of the word 'tea'! You're Dead To Me | Listen on BBC Sounds #Tea #HistoryTok #ChaiTea

A masterclass in offending the entire panel in under a minute 🎙️ Sue Perkins challenges Julian Clary, Desiree Burch, Tony Hawks and Cariad Lloyd to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Just A Minute | Listen on BBC Sounds

'Tourette's doesn't have to be a curse that takes over your life' When Dr Amanda Cole found out she had Tourette syndrome in her 20s, she thought it would destroy her life.  Now, she's a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Cambridge, and the subject of a new BBC report about her experience with the condition. Speaking to Woman’s Hour, Amanda shared her experience of disclosing her condition to her students and how being diagnosed has influenced her personal and professional life.

"It was treated as a homicide... But we didn't have enough evidence to get to a charge." Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley responds to criticisms that the first murder by Simon Levy was not treated as murder in the first instance. Today programme | Listen on BBC Sounds

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, an impromptu tutorial from Johnny Marr of The Smiths. Johnny Marr is one of the guests in Artworks: The Guitar Story, in which John Wilson explores the story of the guitar as a driver of social and cultural change – powering youth movements and counter-cultures from blues and folk to punk, rock and indie to Disco and funk. But where does its extraordinary legacy stand now? Series guitarists include Johnny Marr, Pete Townshend, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Bragg, Gr

"Why are people illegally releasing wild animals?" Farmer and rewilder Derek Gow tells John Burn Murdoch why some people have taken it into their own hands to release beavers and other species in the UK. Radical | Listen on BBC Sounds

Horse football?! 👀🐴 Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Louise Broadway explore the surprising world of horse football and uncover how horses can recognise human emotion. Best Medicine | Listen on BBC Sounds

"The government is really missing a trick not investing in the arts and in young people, and storytelling." Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance calls the lack of investment in the arts 'a really stupid thing'. PM | Listen on BBC Sounds

If you've seen the Tom Hanks film, you might have a head start! Test your knowledge of Apollo 13 with this spotlight round. 🧑‍🚀 #BrainOfBritain #Apollo13 #nasalazadayan

'We're very lucky that this even happens... it's very much a cosmic coincidence' One of the most spectacular solar eclipses the UK has seen for decades will take place tonight. Large parts of the country will be able to see the Moon cover more than 90% of the Sun, weather permitting 🔭 🌒 But did you know that it’s only ONE of the celestial events taking place tonight? 👀 After the partial solar eclipse, which is set to be the most dramatic event of its kind since 1999, the Perseid meteor shower w