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Prayer and reflection with Bishop Steven Croft.

Emilia Fox, Rory Kinnear, Diana Rigg and Kenneth Cranham read short stories inspired by listeners' lives and written by listener Calum Kerr. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Show more

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In 1951, a project began to research the largest English colony of grey seals. Jules Hudson visits the Farne Islands to find out how the seals have changed the landscape. Show more

Caz Graham visits the Brisbourne family farm in Shropshire as 500 of their geese and turkeys are collected by customers ready for their Christmas dinners. Show more

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With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Sian Williams with adventurer Steve Backshall, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a surrogate mum to a baby gorilla, a Band Aid famine relief pilot, and Julian Lennon's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

John McCarthy discusses travel biography at this year's Cheltenham Literature Festival with Sir Christopher Ondaatje, Sara Wheeler and Alexander Maitland. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Stage and science collide to show how laboratory research may one day make panto fantasies a reality. With Sharon Ann Holgate.

George Parker of the Financial Times chairs a round-up of the political year, discussing the most significant events of 2011 and the expectations for 2012. Show more

Kate Adie compiles correspondents' stories from South Africa, Nepal, France, Ukraine and Serbia. Show more

A festive review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with guests Alexei Sayle, Susan Calman, Miles Jupp and Jeremy Hardy. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Can agent 007 halt an international criminal mad man’s murderous scheme to get rich? Stars Ian McKellen and Toby Stephens. Show more

Robert Frost considered his poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening his 'best bid for remembrance'. Poet Kenneth Steven visits Frost's Vermont home to trace the poem's origins. Show more

Live from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge, and based around nine Bible readings interspersed with Christmas hymns and carols sung by the famous chapel choir. Show more

Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Rebecca Ferguson, North Korea update, Sports Personality Award: where are all the women? Sex and the Single Girl and first night with a new baby. Show more

Ritula Shah presents a fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines.

Emilia Fox, Rory Kinnear, Diana Rigg and Kenneth Cranham read short stories inspired by listeners' lives and written by listener Calum Kerr. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Show more

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Christmas cheer from Loose Ends as Clive Anderson and Emma Freud talk to some very seasonal and special guests who could not be squeezed in throughout the year. Show more

Emily Buchanan profiles Rowan Williams, poet and scholar, thought by some to be the most talented and intellectual archbishop of Canterbury for the past 1,000 years. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests historian Kathryn Hughes, writer Kevin Jackson and Canon Giles Fraser review the week's cultural highlights. Show more

Mariella Frostrup and her line up of comedians and authors, including Jo Brand and Tony Parsons, debate their funniest book. From Waugh to Mole, which one will get the most laughs? Show more

Gargantua's son Pantagruel and his morally dubious friend Panurge try to discover if marriage is for them. Stars David Troughton and Justin Edwards. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.

Every year UA Fanthorpe wrote a Christmas poem. Sheila Hancock reads a selection, introduced by UA's partner Rosie Bailey, who designed and printed the cards they sent. Show more

A psychiatrist wakes a child from a coma by describing chocolate pudding. Award-winning Julia Blackburn reads her own story. Show more

Nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies. With four contestants from the North of England. Show more

The first Mass of Christmas live from York Minster, led by the Most Rev Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, and sung to Richard Shephard's Nativity Mass. Show more

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