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Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Abergavenny Show more
Mark Coles discovers the story behind the two doctors involved with the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Show more
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Mark Tully explores weaving as a metaphor for how we should live our life, beginning in Gandhi's house. He believed that weaving was a necessary spiritual discipline. Show more
Nancy Nicolson meets the daughters holding the fort at the family's Perthshire farm while their father's time is taken up by his role in the National Farmers' Union. Show more
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Sunday
Beirut Statue; Catholic Abuse Report; Who should get the vaccine first?
44 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Edward Stourton takes a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week Show more
Presenter Matt Baker makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Children in Need. Show more
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Rev Drs Doug Gay, Principal of Trinity College, Glasgow and Carolyn Kelly, Chaplain to Glasgow University
explore mixed feelings when faith must reckon with life's complexities Show more
Sara Wheeler ponders whether lockdown can help us better understand people like her profoundly disabled brother, living a kind of "perpetual lockdown." Show more
Actor Samuel West on the variations of call of the dipper. Show more
The Sunday morning news magazine programme, presented by Paddy O'Connell. We discuss goings on inside Number 10, and speak to a Hong Kong activist living in exile. Show more
Ruairi makes a shocking discovery and Jennifer faces a ghost from the past. Show more
An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the two godwit species found in Britain featuring Martin Hughes-Games and Tony Juniper. Show more
Desert Island Discs
Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition
37 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury he would take if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly
Gifts to the Corinthians
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
From St Paul's coining of the word to the present - Francine Stock on the alluring yet elusive quality of charisma. From 2015. Show more
Nicholas Parsons hosts the award-winning panel show. Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Fern Britton and Gyles Brandreth play the game, with Hayley Sterling blowing the whistle. From 2017. Show more
The Food Programme
Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Raymond Blanc has spent decades growing an orchard at Le Manoir. It is filled with rare trees. He explains to Dan Saladino why the 2500 trees might end up being his greatest legacy. Show more
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News with Jonny Dymond including improving the carbon footprint of shipping plus what it is like to explore the deep sea.
Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today as we adjust to the 'new normal' and preserve it for future generations. Presented by Fi Glover. Show more
Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Perennials and Fennels
42 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Show more
The Creation of an Icon
Doors Between Two Worlds
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
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World-renowned iconographer Aidan Hart paints an icon of the angel Gabriel revealing to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus. Show more
Ellen Wilkinson's political romance, set during the General Strike, looking at the clash between North and South, work and life, tradition and emerging roles. Starring Kate O'Flynn Show more
Open Book
Jonathan Coe, Radical Fairy Tales, Alex Wheatle
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Chris Power talks to Jonathan Coe about bringing actor Billy Wilder to life in new novel Mr Wilder & Me. Also Kamila Shamsie on reclaiming fairy tales and Alex Wheatle on CLR James. Show more
Through interviews and a new series of poems, poet Caleb Femi explores the pressures on teenage boys around virginity and sex. Show more
Two years ago, File on 4 reported on the case of an autistic teenager who was locked in a hospital room on her own. What happened to her and are others still in the same situation? Show more
Mark Coles discovers the story behind the two doctors involved with the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Show more
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Peter Curran chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. Show more
Every Thursday evening a young woman finds herself waltzing with a stranger at the Pink Lemon Dance Studio. Written by Bethan Roberts and read by Nelly Harker. Show more
It’s Simon's big day, but whatever happens, his friends will be there to pick up the pieces, won’t they? Stars John Hannah. From 2019. Show more
Anne-Marie Duff continues Daisy Johnson's series of deliciously unsettling ghost stories, set in a remote hotel on the Fens. Today: the night shift... Show more
A former editor of the Today programme responds to BBC radio listeners with concerns about the cuts to BBC News and local radio. Show more
Last Word
Lord Sacks, John Sessions, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Jim Radford
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Matthew Bannister on Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, actor John Sessions, podcaster Joanna Harcourt-Smith, singer Jim Radford. Show more
Eligibility lottery for Warm Home Discount Scheme, why a 'nudge' is not enough to make sure people get guidance on their pension and investors money 'locked' with no end in sight. Show more
Presenter Matt Baker makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Children in Need. Show more
The West intends to be more circumspect in dealing with China. But Isabel Hilton asks: who takes the decisions in Beijing, how are they made and how resilient is the system there? Show more
Carolyn Quinn dissects an eventful week in politics with Conservative Claire Coutinho, Labour's Stephen Kinnock and Irish Ambassador Adrian O'Neill, plus journalist Kate Proctor Show more
Four directors under the influence of A Bout De Souffle. Show more
Mark Tully explores weaving as a metaphor for how we should live our life, beginning in Gandhi's house. He believed that weaving was a necessary spiritual discipline. Show more
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
Corruption - Laurie Taylor explores the meaning of corruption, from Afghanistan to the United States and the UK, and the ways in which it can be tackled. Show more
Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Abergavenny Show more
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