Jonathan Charles considers the innocence of children and reflects on the charm of those adults who still retain something of the child within. Show more

Adam Henson visits a dairy farm in the USA that milks over three thousand cows three times a day. Show more

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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Edward Stourton with a special Boxing Day edition of the programme. E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Martin Bell presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Street Child Africa. Show more

The latest weather forecast.

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

The Revs Ricky Yates and Petra Elsmore lead a service from St Clement's Church, Prague, reflecting on the life and death of St Stephen and tenth century Duke Wenceslas of Bohemia. Show more

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

Helen struggles to forgive and forget, while Chris and Alice serve up a dose of Christmas spirit. Show more

Singer Sandie Shaw joins Kirsty Young to choose her eight Desert Island Discs. Show more

In this one-off special, host Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) gives a little tinselly attention to the unsung heroes who make Britain great. Show more

Danish chef Rene Redzepi of Noma, the 'world's best restaurant', forages for food in Lapland and London. Show more

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Includes the Bishop of Winchester, Michael Scott-Joynt, in discussion with the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, on the relationship between faith and the law.

4 Extra Debut. Fergal Keane takes a journey through the letters, diaries and notebooks of Nelson Mandela's extraordinary archive. From December 2010. Show more

A mighty get-together of all the Gardeners' Question Time panellists. A look back at all the GQT year and of course a selection of varied and entertaining gardening queries. Show more

Dominic Arkwright meets the senior citizens who have used their bus passes to take to the high road. The lifeboatman who took a national tour of RNLI stations. Show more

Robin Brooks' dramatisation of Robert Graves' scandalous histories of Roman political vice. How the Sibyl's prophecy came true for the most unwilling Emperor of them all. Show more

Barry Humphries talks to Mariella Frostrup about five of his favourite books. Show more

Peggy Reynolds asks why one of the most popular poems of the 19th century, Longfellow's 'Wreck of the Hesperus', has subsequently fallen out of fashion. Show more

Nearly one quarter of the 2 billion Christians worldwide are Pentecostals - and the number is growing. Philip Dodd explores what has made Pentecostalism so attractive. Show more

Stephen Smith profiles the extraordinary rise of Stefani Germanotta, a girl from New York's Lower East Side whom the world now knows as Lady Gaga. Show more

The latest shipping forecast.

The latest weather forecast.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio. Show more

Nigel makes an intriguing discovery and there's a disappointment in store for Tony. Show more

25-year-old US Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Guinta explains what it means to wear America's highest military honour, awarded for his actions in Afghanistan. Show more

A young murderer's confession, on the eve of his hanging, has far reaching consequences. By Reginald Hill, read by David Ryall. Show more

Tim Harford narrates 'A More or Less Christmas Carol', in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of banking past, present and future. Show more

Is it possible to start a new career in your fifties? Is it feasible to escape the 9 to 5 straight jacket and find greater fulfilment? Midlife Relaunch asks people who've tried. Show more

Ben Schott charts the history of a pocket-book encyclopedia that rivalled the Bible as a bestseller. From July 2010. Show more

New places are leaping to prominence in the world of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the leading figures behind the hunger for luxury goods in Asia. Show more

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Carolyn Quinn looks back on 2010. This was a year of profound political upheaval, with a new coalition government arriving and wielding a knife to benefits, pensions and jobs. Show more