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Bells on Sunday comes from the freestanding bell tower of the Church of All Saints and Saint Lawrence, Evesham in Worcestershire. Show more

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It makes us laugh, helps us learn and sometimes endangers lives. Mark Tully considers the many repercussions of embarrassment, from comic accidents and shyness to health and shame. Show more

Can you really make money from a small Lake District farm? John Atkinson and Maria Benjamin succeed by running a portfolio of micro-businesses. Caz Graham meets them. Show more

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

Mariella Frostrup makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust. Show more

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Fr Dermot Preston SJ preaches live from St Aloysius' RC Church, Glasgow, with the Schola Cantorum of St Aloysius' College.
Director of Music: Ann Archibald. Organist: Hugh Reid. Show more

Howard Jacobson on why he’s abandoned his extravagant ways and taken to folding plastic bags on his hands and knees! Show more

John Aitchison presents the parrot crossbill. Show more

News with Paddy O'Connell including post-Brexit trade negotiations and live coffee tasting. Reviewing the Sunday news coverage: Paul McNamee, Suzanne Evans and Mark Damazer. Show more

There’s chaos at Brookfield and Kirsty faces a shock. Show more

Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College Cambridge, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would want to take if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

David Mitchell gets Susan Calman, Graeme Garden, Sindhu Vee and Lloyd Langford to lie with some truths. From 2020. Show more

Sheila Dillon sits down with baking guru Mary Berry, to learn more about her passion for home cooking - and her determination to succeed as a woman in the world of food... Show more

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Gavin Haynes heads into the eye of two unlikely moral storms. He discovers bitter rows over diversity and racism in the world of Young Adult literature and Instagram knitting. Show more

Peter Gibbs and the team are in the Cotswolds answering the audience's questions. Show more

Three conversations about the art of making lasting friendships through helping others. Fi Glover presents. Show more

Charles Dickens’ most political novel, the iconic Oliver Twist, is updated for today as a young Nigerian orphan goes on an epic search for family and home. Show more

James Meek discusses his novel The People's Act of Love. Presented by James Naughtie and including an invited group of readers who ask the questions. Show more

Naomi Beckwith invites artists to suggest Black cultural figures who should be better known – including the visual artist Charles White and a union of creative musicians. Show more

Facial recognition technology is being rolled out across Britain. But is it a vital tool in the fight against crime - or a threat to the innocent? Show more

The US Secretary of State caught up in the Ukraine impeachment scandal. Show more

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Armed police have shot dead a man who's suspected of attacking passers-by on a busy high street in south London. Detectives are treating it as a terrorist-related incident.

The best of BBC Radio this week with John Waite. Show more

Kirsty attempts to keep the peace and Pip reaches the end of her tether Show more

From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you've never heard it before.

Lynn is en route to the childhood home of her old schoolmate Angel with an enthusiastic Amber in tow.
Read by Maryam Hamidi. Show more

Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and emotion and an answer to author Bill Bryon's question about guns and homicide rates. With Tim Harford. Show more

Matthew Bannister on broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, writer Mary Craig, politician Lord Maclennan, basketballl star Kobe Bryant Show more

Brexit and benefits, the long wait for serious complaints to the DWP to be looked at and the campaigner trying to get Google to take action on adverts for unregulated investments. Show more

Mariella Frostrup makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust. Show more

The Economist's Philip Coggan asks whether businesses are serious about getting woke or whether it's all smoke and mirrors and merely designed to part us with our money. Show more

Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.

Radiolab explores strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. Show more

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Hidden gay lives: Laurie Taylor explores the history of Polari, Britain's secret gay language, & the way in which 20th c crime reports uncover anti-gay violence prior to Stonewall. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from the freestanding bell tower of the Church of All Saints and Saint Lawrence, Evesham in Worcestershire. Show more

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