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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Rachel Mann Show more

A new report says releasing game birds during an avian flu outbreak increases the risks to wild birds - what will that mean for shoots?

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

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Jennifer Homans, Wayne McGregor and Cassa Pancho discuss the enduring legacy of choreographer George Balanchine and the inspirational power of dance to challenge convention. Show more

Actor Jane Horrocks on her new Radio 4 drama about her relationship with musician Ian Dury. Show more

Kwame runs his East London club with a strong sense of community... but as the cost of living starts to bite can he keep it open while staying true to his values? Show more

Michael Morpurgo travels to the heart of some of the greatest songs ever composed. Show more

Did Steve Jobs’ personal quest for enlightenment also help create the modern guru? Helen Lewis investigates. Show more

Do more expensive razors with multiple blades really make a difference to your shave? Show more

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Oliver Burkeman argues that not only is the way we've come to consume news bad for us, it actually distorts our ability to be informed, hindering society rather than enabling it. Show more

Who needs to get something off their chest? Alice faces the end of an era. Show more

Kenneth Branagh, Daisy Ridley, Adrian Lester and David Morrissey star in Tracy-Ann Oberman’s new play about the making of the groundbreaking movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Show more

Sue Perkins shows and tells nature with zoologist Lucy Cooke, ethnobotanist James Wong and comedian Felicity Ward. From 2022. Show more

Dan Saladino and food historian Ivan Day explore lost flavours of Christmas past with a feast that includes chestnuts from an Italian forest and a cheese from the Yorkshire Dales. Show more

The sounds of the sea and people listening - a visually impaired surfer, a fisherman in a boat with no engine, a wave energy expert telling the life story of a wave; and new poetry. Show more

Scientific ideas are threaded through the dark story of eugenics. What were they - and what choices does the science open up today? Show more

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

The High Court has ruled that a plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. And, a global pact to protect biodiversity has been agreed at landmark UN summit.

A return visit to the Theatre Royal Newcastle, featuring panellists John Finnemore, Pippa Evans, Fred Macaulay and Rory Bremner and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

Ruth shares a painful memory, and Emma feels under pressure. Show more

Acclaimed playwright Lucy Prebble on I Hate Suzie Too. Laurence Scott and Rachel Campbell-Johnson ask if we’ve reached peak immersion. Where will English National Opera go next? Show more

Under increasing pressure on the Ukrainian battlefield, can the Russian president find a way out of a morass he’s created? Show more

Should Hungary continue to rely on Russia to fund its nuclear power industry? Show more

How deep brain surgery helped a doctor whose obsessive compulsive disorder became so bad, he wouldn't eat or drink during 30-hour shifts, to avoid using hospital toilets. Show more

Jennifer Homans, Wayne McGregor and Cassa Pancho discuss the enduring legacy of choreographer George Balanchine and the inspirational power of dance to challenge convention. Show more

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High Court rules in favour of government's Rwanda policy.

COP 15 UN biodiversity summit reaches landmark deal.

Dutch apology for role in colonial slavery.

Christie's iconic detective is reimagined by Elly Griffith as an author travels to the Amalfi coast with murder on his mind. Read by John Heffernan. Show more

Protest and prison. The women who 'embraced the base' at RAF Greenham Common 40 years ago put themselves on the line for their cause - but at what price? Show more

Sean Curran reports as the Home Secretary says the Rwanda policy has been vindicated after the High Court ruled that the plan to send some asylum seekers there is lawful.

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Agatha enjoys blissful years in Torquay until a family tragedy marks the end of her idyllic childhood, as Lucy Worsley continues her biography of the life of the 'Queen of Crime'. Show more

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