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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop David Walker. Show more

Step into the Brundish countryside to explore the UK's only licensed forge with young entrepreneur and Blacksmith Paul Stoddart. Show more

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

Today's programme is guest edited by Lord Botham, Ian 'Beefy' Botham, former England cricket all-rounder, cross-bench peer and UK trade envoy to Australia. Show more

Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker are filled with wonder, with Tom Sutcliffe Show more

Claudia Hammond gives a ‘Prescription for Rest’; the Rev. Lesley Jones and historian Anna Schaffner discuss the day of rest and the ‘rest cure’; with music from Debbie Wiseman. Show more

Michael Rosen chooses festive poems and stories, read by Henry Goodman and Yasemin Özdemir. With live music from traditional folk band Shovel Dance Collective. Show more

David Fuller was enthralled by Jordan Peterson, the provocative preacher of the Intellectual Dark Web. So how did his guru let him down? Show more

Greg shines a light on whether SAD lamps and wake up lights can really help improve our mood. Show more

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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

How the film Sliding Doors changed our vocabulary. Show more

Will it be a Merry Christmas at Brookfield? Jazzer has an idea. Show more

It's the evening before Will Stanton’s 11th birthday, but something is very wrong, and Will soon finds himself drawn into an ancient struggle between Light and Dark. Show more

Sue Perkins shows and tells nature with conservationist Jaclyn Pearson, lepidopterist Marcus Rhodes and Edward Rowe. From 2022. Show more

Delia Smith, the woman who taught the UK to cook speaks to Sheila Dillon about her long career in food, and what she did next. Show more

Michael Symmons Roberts examines the lasting appeal and resonance of Robert Frost’s masterpiece, a century on from the poem’s creation. Show more

Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season with novelists Lucy Foley, Abir Mukherjee, historian Mark Aldridge and Knives Out director Rian Johnson. Show more

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

Police say the woman who died in a shooting at a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve was Elle Edwards. Her family and friends have laid flowers at the scene of the attack.

Six-year-old control freak Violet Elizabeth Bott has been listening to William’s money-making plans. 'In a Night Club there must be a police-raid,' she decides. Could it work? Show more

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary and Anna Maxwell Martin to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more

Tony receives a gift from his sister, and Chelsea takes the initiative. Show more

Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye with the opening episode of the most recent series with studio guests - songwriter and lyricist Richard Stilgoe and harpist Alina Bzhezhinska. Show more

It was during the pandemic that Imogen's parents realised cooking could help with signs of autism: a food delivery to their Yorkshire home sparked chatter and quickly led to change Show more

How Spain's most iconic music and dance tradition has suffered as a result of the Covid lockdowns, and what performers and club owners are doing to revive its fortunes Show more

Kirsty is 26 years old when she suddenly becomes paralysed from the waist down. After many tests and scans, nothing physically wrong is found. So what has caused her symptoms? Show more

Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker are filled with wonder, with Tom Sutcliffe Show more

Also tonight:

100 days of anti-government protests in Iran.
President Xi speaks for first time since Covid policy relaxed.

Jane Marple is spending Christmas at Gossington Hall. As the Bantry's guests eagerly await their sumptuous Christmas feast, a theft is discovered. Read by Georgie Glen. Show more

Clive Anderson with the first of two programmes showcasing some of the best music performances on Loose Ends this year, including Janis Ian and Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler. Show more

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Emily Knight celebrates 60 years of James Bond on the big screen, with an alternative cast of Bond characters... from the animal kingdom. Show more

In a frank and unflinching portrait of her early years, first published in 2003, Hilary Mantel moved from writing fiction to seize the copyright in her own narrative. Show more

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