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Bells on Sunday comes from Sheffield Cathedral Show more

How a Peckham schoolboy became a Hollywood star. Mark Coles explores the life and career of actor John Boyega. Show more

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Mark Tully explores the strengths and limitations of small ponds, examining the idea that it is not where you live that matters so much as who you are and how you behave. Show more

For this Living World, Joanna Pinnock wonders what makes jackdaws roost together. To find out she joins corvid scientist Dr Alex Thornton to watch the birds at a roost at dawn. Show more

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Edward Stourton brings you news and analysis of the religious, moral and ethical stories of the week. Show more

Dame Ellen MacArthur makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. Show more

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From Fisherwick Presbyterian Church Belfast with an introduction by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby and music from the Chapel Choir of Methodist College. Show more

John Gray ponders why the belief that an end to history is imminent, never goes away. Show more

Alison Steadman provides a seasonal offering from Tweet of the Day for the Christmas period. Show more

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Phoebe tries to make amends and the noose tightens on David. Show more

Stephen Merchant, writer, comedian and actor, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury he would want to take to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

The 72nd series of the multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee

Sheila Dillon visits London restaurant Le Gavroche, to speak to chef Michel Roux Jr about food, family, festive inspiration - and what it means to be part of a dining dynasty Show more

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News with Mark Mardell including Britain's future place in the world discussed by Elisabeth Brawn of RUSI and former diplomat Lord Ricketts. Plus the changing face of pantomime. Show more

Mishal Husain presents dispatches on: training to be Santa, being a seasonal volunteer, bereavement at the festive season, Christmas ale and reflections on once being a wise man. Show more

Kathy Clugston and the team are at Levens Hall in the Lake District for a correspondence edition of the show. Show more

Fi Glover presents the omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen with three conversations about family, friendship and fitting in. Show more

Adrian Scarborough is Mr Pye, a man who may be too good to be true. Poet Glyn Maxwell adapts a comic tale of demonic possession written by Mervyn Peake, the author of Gormenghast. Show more

Mariella Frostrup curates a special programme of Open Book interviews from 2019.
Authors include Ali Smith, Bernadine Evaristo, Robert Harris and Candice Carty-Williams. Show more

Poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year. With Jay Griffiths, Tim Gregory and Lia Leendertz. Show more

Angela Saini investigates the lethal spread of alternative facts and discovers that the very architecture of the web amplifies dangerous pseudoscience online Show more

How a Peckham schoolboy became a Hollywood star. Mark Coles explores the life and career of actor John Boyega. Show more

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Tesco investigates claims that inmates in China were forced to produce its charity cards.
Man United have been beaten by the Premier League's bottom placed club, Watford.

The best of BBC Radio this week with Antonia Quirke Show more

Rex gets an answer and Kenton has another sleepless night. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Mary has cancelled Christmas in the Shuttleworth household, so a forlorn John is busy taking down the tree. Show more

As Yana runs along the river, she realises that she must confront the tragedy she's been running from since the refugee camp in Lebanon. Show more

As the government boycotts Radio 4's Today programme, the editor, Sarah Sands, gives her view and discusses how she will respond. Show more

Matthew Bannister on journalist Chris Moncrieff, author Kate Figes, producer Branko Lustig, singer Kenny Lynch Show more

Wise ways to invest for children at Christmas, government action on the 'loan charge' and changes to how you check if a financial adviser is registered. Show more

Dame Ellen MacArthur makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. Show more

The area around Chernobyl was once home to large, prosperous and lively collective farms, until the reactor's explosion in 1986. How's the local economy now recovering? Show more

Critic, TV personality and poet Clive James reflects on his life through the BBC archives. With John Wilson. From June 2012. Show more

True stories told live in the USA: Dame Wilburn from the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko Nevada. Show more

John Gray ponders why the belief that an end to history is imminent, never goes away. Show more

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James rummages through the BBC's archives, taking some of this week's stories and themes as a jumping off point into the past. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from Sheffield Cathedral Show more

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