The third episode of Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat just went out on BBC Radio 4 - it’s about Slack meltdowns at workplaces.

It is named after four terrifying words: Several People Are Typing.

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Percival Everett on #James and ⁦Naomi Wood⁩ and Helen Simpson on short stories and making motherhood funny - includes some pen throwing. #OpenBook ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b…

Don’t miss the great Percival Everett in conversation with Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 on BBC Radio 4 Open Book at 4pm today. #JAMES
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Our second week of BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4! Give it a go, it’s your sort of thing.

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'useless fuck pigs, morons, cunts' - was Dominic Cummings wrong to use such language in WhatsApp messages during his time in No.10?

📻 listen to an exclusive interview with Dominic Cummings at 9.30am today on @bbcradio4 in Episode 2 of 'Helen Lewis Has Left The Chat' 📻

There’s a little village outside Birmingham called Frankley and this morning someone ‘enhanced’ the place name sign

Give me Nikki Bedi and Tom Shakespeare on BBC Radio 4 every morning please. #SaturdayLive

Tonight BBC Free Thinking crosses the streams to BBC Radio 4. Is Hobbes’ Social Contract about to expire? How coherent is ABBA’s Weltanschauung? Are these scones secretly woke? James Kirkup Sophie Scott-Brown Dr Joanne Paul & Barry C Smith on the case at 9pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I’m not usually a pod binger, but I’ve just binged 3 eps. Really brilliant on impact of group chat on media/politucs /life. from Helen Lewis via Craig T Smith. It’s left me less fond of Slack than ever.

🔔NEW PODCAST LAUNCH🔔

💬 today at 9.30am on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds our brand new series ‘Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat’
Helen Lewis 💬

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From WhatsApp group chat nightmares to Slack meltdowns at work, how instant messaging took over our lives …

Pranks, hoaxes, stunts, practical jokes - are they inevitably cruel? Do they have a purpose beyond amusing the prankster and their audience? Warning: contains rubber biscuits & priapic coffee mugs. Simon Brodkin Matthew Sweet bbc.in/3VD5bt1

Matthew Sweet BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 So. Farewell
Then 3 Thinking
As we always tried
Not to call it.

Now you have
A new home
On a new station
(Is this right? Ed.)

Maybe you should have
A new name.

4 Thought.

E.J.Shea (17.5 FM)

It’s the last ever BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 before our move to BBC Radio 4. Will Virginia Woolf convince the Navy she is an Abyssinian prince? Who will triumph in our game of rubber biscuit Russian roulette? Find out live at 10pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Goats. It's not ALL about goats, but they do provide an unexpected link between writers Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehman. Virginia Woolf's shopping lists are significant too. Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 Alexandra Harris Harriet Baker on BBC Radio 3 at 10.00pm bbc.in/3PDr4oz

‘Songwriting was my apprenticeship.’

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro tells Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 how his teenage songwriting years helped him hone his craft as a novelist.

Catch up with the full interview on @bbcsounds 🎧

How was Kazuo Ishiguro's latest project sparked by #DesertIslandDiscs ?

The Nobel Prize-winning author tells Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 about writing song lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent, 20 years after picking her track on the BBC Radio 4 show.

Listen now on @bbcsounds 🎧

Exciting news alert! 🚀

LCF's groundbreaking initiative, Making More Mischief, hits the headlines on BBC! 📰

Dive into the story and discover how we're shaping the future of fashion education ⬇️
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Lovely write up here of the Ismail Ferdous 10 Years After Rana Plaza exhibition in Dhaka last year.
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On tonight’s BBC Front Row: a songbook by Kazuo Ishiguro for jazz singer Stacy Kent, and we go mad for March hares with Fay Hield, Jane Russ & Sophie Ryder. Plus Larushka Ivan-Zadeh & Ian Christie on BBFC’s new guidelines and why Mary Poppins is PG rated. BBC Radio 4 7.15pm