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Dr Sarah Goldingay looks to the natural world for 'noetic' experiences and encounters with the divine. Show more

Brett Westwood and Verity Sharp explore our fascination with ferns, which reached its peak in Victorian Britain when Pteridomania or ‘fern madness’ seized the nation. Show more

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Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrates Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi live from Westminster Cathedral Show more

David Goodhart discusses our changing attitude to authority and its impact on the government's handling of the pandemic. Show more

Chris Packham presents the ivory gull from the northern polar seas. Show more

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

Helen receives an unexpected invitation and Tony digs himself a hole Show more

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the woodpigeon with Hugh Thomson, Michaela Strachan and Tristan Gooley Show more

Joe Wicks, fitness coach, chooses the eight tracks, book and luxury item which he would want to take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Lucy Worsley explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters. Victoria's last significant friendship had deep ramifications for her relationships with her staff. Show more

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The antidote to panel games returns for its 65th series, with regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and Barry Cryer joined by Rory Bremner on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair Show more

Dan Saladino meets people who turned to seeds and grew food in the lockdown. As well as supermarket panic buying, seed sellers also saw huge spikes in sales. Dan finds out why. Show more

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Global news and analysis, presented by Jonny Dymond.

Fi Glover presents a longer weekly edition of the programme with voices past and present on the impact of the brutal murder in America of George Floyd at the hands of the police. Show more

Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Show more

Big Brother reframed surveillance as entertainment, and we were too busy being amused to notice reality TV was a Trojan horse for a new kind of deal between us and the screen. Show more

By Josh Azouz. The Orange Tree Theatre production, recorded under lockdown. With Alex Waldmann and Josh Zaré. Directed by Georgia Green. Show more

Alex Clark talks to Andrés Neuman about his new novel Fracture, the story of Japanese man piecing together fragments of his past after surviving Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. Show more

Poet and musician Roger Robinson brings us a selection of his favourite poems, from Fiona Benson to Caleb Femi, Robert Frost to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Producer Becky Ripley. Show more

Large numbers of migrants are crossing the Channel in small boats to reach the UK despite government pledges to crack down on crossings. File on 4 asks why so many are happening. Show more

Mark Coles profiles former NASA astronaut and oceanographer, Dr Kathy Sullivan, who's just become the first person to both walk in space and reach the deepest point in the ocean. Show more

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Non-essential retailers in England are re-opening for the first time since March. Thousands attend illegal raves in Greater Manchester, in breach of lockdown regulations.`

John McCarthy makes his pick of the best of BBC radio this week. Show more

Time spent working for an Australian colonel proves useful when Thomas answers the next TV quiz question. Stars Anand Tiwari. Show more

A very special passenger makes the crew of the tiny charter airline act very oddly. Stars Stephanie Cole. From July 2008. Show more

By Nick Walker. Annika is at her son’s school play when she is called to investigate a body in the Maridalsvannet lake. Show more

Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together? Can coronavirus antibody tests really be 100% accurate? Show more

Matthew Bannister on artist Christo Javacheff, tennis administrator Cathie Sabin, intelligence officer Dorothy Wakely, musician Jonathan Whitehead. Show more

Listeners' requests for lockdown motor insurance refunds falling on deaf ears. Show more

Volunteer Janet Moody makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Tools for Self Reliance. Show more

What does the management of the global pandemic by democracies and authoritarians reveal about their future prospects? John Kampfner considers the likely future political balance. Show more

Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.

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The religious right in the US - Laurie Taylor explores their route to political power. Show more

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