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The bells from the Church of St. David, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire.

Edward Stourton profiles the Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, who has announced he is quitting music to pursue a career in politics. Show more

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With the help of the choir of Winchester Cathedral, Mark Tully investigates the role of choral music as an integral part of worship. Show more

Caz Graham meets a man with a herd of 'cows for hire'. It is moving day for the animals, which graze nature reserves and other conservation areas in the North West. Show more

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Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. Show more

The Rev Richard Carter presents the Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. To give, call 0800 082 8284 [free from BT landlines] or visit the Radio 4 website. Show more

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Searching for Light: A service for Advent from Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, led by Monsignor Peter Leeming, with an address by Dr Susan O'Brian. Show more

The historian Lisa Jardine welcomes recent moves to promote the teaching of history in schools and finds herself converted to family history after making a chance discovery. Show more

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

Libby Purves on how the money from last year's appeal has helped homeless and vulnerable people across the UK. To give call 0800 082 8284 or donate online at the Radio 4 website. Show more

Pat is unable to resist and things look black for Brian. Show more

Kirsty Young's latest castaway is businessman Sir Martin Sorrell. Show more

From Sage Gateshead, with regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, plus Marcus Brigstocke on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

Sheila Dillon talks to Food Award judges Jeremy Lee and Kath Dalmeny about some of the exciting grassroots developments in local markets around the country. Show more

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The latest national and international news, with Shaun Ley. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend.

We remember the defeat of the Spanish Armada as a triumph for the English underdog. But we forget that England sent a fleet of similar strengh back to Spain the very next year. Show more

Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Hailsham Pavillion, East Sussex. Joining him, on the panel are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. Show more

At the age of 17, as a newly qualified driver, Kelly knocked down an elderly woman on a pedestrian crossing. For 40 years, she has lived with the trauma and guilt of what happened. Show more

What had seemed to Hofmiller to be merely a social blunder sets him on a most perilous course of deception. With Ronald Pickup and Michael Jayston. Show more

Sebastian Barry talks to James Naughtie and readers about his Costa prize-winning novel The Secret Scripture. Show more

Poet Daljit Nagra visits the Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway, to explore why generations of writers have been drawn here. He speaks to fellow poet Seamus Heaney and others. Show more

Alan Yentob investigates a 2,600-year-old community, now almost disappeared. Once they thrived as a third of Baghdad's population, now only seven Jewish people remain. Show more

Libby Purves on how the money from last year's appeal has helped homeless and vulnerable people across the UK. To give call 0800 082 8284 or donate online at the Radio 4 website. Show more

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

Pat can barely contain her emotions. Meanwhile Jim lends a hand. Show more

Sue Perkins sets moral and ethical posers for Susan Calman, Greg Proops, Simon Evans and Louise Wener. From December 2011. Show more

Byng explains how he began playing risque female characters and became the darling of 'the smart set' at London's Cafe de Paris. Show more

Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. Featuring public sector pensions, eurozone statistics, affordable housing, and can the whole world fit on the Isle of Wight? Show more

Matthew Bannister on film director Ken Russell, football manager Gary Speed, Stalin's daughter Lana Peters, Biafran leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and soprano Sena Jurinac. Show more

On Money Box with Paul Lewis. How some banks are charging the equivalent of thousands of per cent APR for lending us small sums over a short period. Show more

The Rev Richard Carter presents the Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. To give, call 0800 082 8284 [free from BT landlines] or visit the Radio 4 website. Show more

Peter Day asks if Europe's problems can be helped by looking to Argentina. Show more

Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts. Show more

Dennis Sewell of the Spectator analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. Show more

Martin Scorsese talks to Francine Stock about the future of cinema, his passion for its history and the way he has used 3D to bring them both to life in his new film Hugo.

With the help of the choir of Winchester Cathedral, Mark Tully investigates the role of choral music as an integral part of worship. Show more

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Laurie Taylor explores opera fanatics in Buenos Aires, and the popularly held notion that grammar schools aid social mobility. Show more

The bells from the Church of St. David, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire.

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