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Mark Coles looks at the life and career of one of the world's best-loved children's illustrators: Raymond Briggs, who has become a part of Christmas. Show more
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Chris Packham relives programmes from the Living World archives. In this programme recorded in 1999, Lionel Kelleway is in Scotland looking at the diminutive wren. Show more
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Sunday
A Christmas special from Hampton Court Palace
54 minutes
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In a special Christmas Day edition from Hampton Court, Edward Stourton goes back to Christmas 1516 and explores the religious, political, cultural and social climate of the time. Show more
Alexander Armstrong makes an appeal on behalf of MapAction. Show more
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Mishal Husain introduces Christmas dispatches on a special partridge, driving at Christmas, traditional Welsh carols, Jesus and Mary in Islam and pantomime as political comment. Show more
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Crested Tit. Show more
A service for Christmas from Durham Cathedral. Canon Angela Tilby encounters the Angel of the North and reflects on the north east's industrial past. Show more
Fi Glover introduces conversations about Christmas in a hospice, whether you are ever grown up enough to let go of Woody, and just how far your big sister has to travel to school. Show more
Jennifer tries to keep the peace, and Lynda fears for her reputation.
Gareth Malone, choirmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Show more
A return visit to the Theatre Royal in Bath for regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Jeremy Hardy and Miles Jupp on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more
For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates the Wild Boar Feast, an ancient Viking tradition which still survives in Britain. Show more
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Nicholas Parsons hosts a special edition. With Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and other regulars. From 2016. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
Number 10 Downing Street
43 minutes
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Eric Robson chairs a special, festive edition recorded inside Number 10 Downing Street, including an exclusive interview with head gardener Paul Schooling. Show more
Television executive Peter Bazalgette talks to Jane Davis, founder of The Reader, about the power of shared reading aloud in developing empathy, and how books can transform lives. Show more
The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the nation, followed by the national anthem.
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Rumpole encounters Father Christmas and recounts some seasonal legal cases. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars in John Mortimer’s drama. Show more
A special edition of Open Book - literary postcards from around the world. Show more
For the week of the winter solstice, an anthology of seasonal poems old and new, read by actors and poets. Show more
The Listening Project
The Listening Project on the Road
1 hour
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Fi Glover reflects on the conversations gathered during the Listening Project Booth summer tour with the producers who recorded them as it travelled from Bexhill. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
25/12/2016 Black Sea plane crash
15 minutes
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A recovery operation is taking place after a Russian plane crashed into the Black Sea.
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Alexander Armstrong makes an appeal on behalf of MapAction. Show more
Helen has an early start, and Toby and Pip abandon tradition. Show more
After causing confusion with his nut selection, Arthur attempts to round up reindeer and build Mount Fuji for his own Japanese themed Christmas wonderland. Show more
By George Mackay Brown. A resonantly beautiful seasonal story. In Orkney, a father's lack of compassion is redressed years later by his three sons. Read by Robert Jack. Show more
For the last programme of the year, More or Less is mixing up the format and holding a Christmas Quiz. Show more
Last Word
Michael Nicholson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lord Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Pauline Oliveros
28 minutes
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Julian Worricker on TV journalist Michael Nicholson, actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, politician James Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, composer Pauline Oliveros. Show more
With the fallen star in danger from dark forces, Tristran sets out to rescue Yvaine before it’s too late. Stars Sophie Rundle. Show more
With Great Pleasure
With Great Pleasure at Christmas: Armstrong and Miller
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FM
Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller are back together for a special edition of With Great Pleasure choosing their favourite bits of writing, music and song for Christmas Day. Show more
Documentary exploring Glenda Jackson's return to the stage for the first time in 23 years playing King Lear. With contributions from Jane Horrocks, Rhys Ifans and Celia Imrie. Show more
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Having turned 24 this year, poet and spoken word artist Harry Baker looks back on his own advent calendar of Christmases so far. Show more
"Perhaps we should try, before the year's out", writes Howard Jacobson, "to agree on the International Word of 2016". Show more
Church bells from Durham Cathedral. Show more
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