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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Bishop John Inge Show more

Monisha Rajesh says the romance of train travel is not dead, just reincarnated. Show more

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Helen Mark visits the Cotswold village of Cranham and its surroundings, and considers how composer Gustav Holst's younger years living in the area influenced his work. Show more

On the Isle of Iona, Nancy Nicolson meets a farmer who has to work around ancient religious monuments and cope with thousands of tourists. Show more

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News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. Journalist & author Charles Moore guest edits the programme.

Writer and poet, Michael Rosen; incurable romantic, William Cash; Christmas tree eater, Julia Georgallis; and Frank Skinner's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Ludlow. Show more

Nick Buckley has spent 15 years working directly with rough sleepers, and he wants the British public to stop handing out food to people on the streets. Show more

Our correspondents reflect on the meaning of home - a place where you live permanently or somewhere you feel safe? We talk to exiles from a Syrian radio station now in Turkey. Show more

Ruth Alexander revisits two households who took part in The Money Clinic last summer. Show more

A look back at the highs and lows of the decade with the characters (!) who made it so memorable. Show more

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Lyse Doucet is joined by Jon Sopel, Gabriel Gatehouse, Katya Adler, Rebecca Morelle and Faisal Islam to discuss what global issues are likely to dominate in 2020. Show more

Mark Hodkinson ponders the nature of our personal book collections, why and how we gather books, what it says about us, and how we ever expect to find time to read them all. Show more

Ed Byrne, Pauline McLynn and Barry Cryer star in Spike Milligan's classic madcap satire. An Irish town falls victim to bureaucratic stupidity when divided by a new border. Show more

Scientist and musician Emer Maguire learns how music and technology can help reduce anxiety for people living with dementia and those who care for them. Show more

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including Edna O'Brien, Christmas Traditions, Women In Law and Joanna Scanlan Show more

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.

It’s nearly 20 years since the deadline passed to wipe out polio globally. Despite some incredible success in combatting it, this crippling disease continues to blight lives. Why? Show more

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The home addresses of counter terrorism officials, a prison governor and the former director of public prosecutions are among those accidentally posted on a government website.

Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi pick their Loose Ends highlights from 2019. Conversation, comedy and music comes courtesy of an eclectic line up. Show more

Mark Coles looks at one of Britain’s most celebrated storytellers, Michael Morpurgo. A writer who has written 180 books over the last half century. Show more

Listeners' cultural highlights of 2019. We asked you what you'd enjoyed this year and you told us about things we'd missed and some things we chose and which delighted you too Show more

Novelist Deborah Levy assesses the life and work of Susan Sontag, the American writer and intellectual whose ideas shaped how we think today. Show more

The mystical, timeless man tracks a missing person and finds himself an unwilling guest at a sinister hotel. Stars Paul Hilton.

Rabbit is reunited with his wife, his old basketball coach and his in-laws, and turns over a new leaf. Read by Toby Jones. Show more

Satirist, scientist and theatre director Sir Jonathan Miller reflects on his life via the BBC Archives. From August 2010. Episode 2 of 3. Show more

Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with comedian Ken Cheng, author Helen Lewis and dance critic Luke Jennings. From 2019. 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

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Looking to the future in the company of some of Britain's nearly 15,000 centenarians. Show more

Old friends meet up to discuss their love life as one re-embarks on the dating scene later in life. Read by Adjoa Andoh. Show more

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