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Georgie Fienberg believes that endless fundraising by overseas aid charities is not sustainable, and she argues that charities should want to close. Show more

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A glimpse of the angelic in the everyday can surprise, delight and unsettle us at any moment. Alan Hall reflects on those moments 'when an angel passes'. Show more

On Your Farm is in Cornwall today for Truro's Primestock Show. The show is held right in the city centre and is where farmers sell their livestock for the Christmas market. Show more

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Inspired by the General Synod's vote against women bishops in the Church of England, Edward Stourton looks at the question of whether religions discriminate against women. Show more

Richard Wilson presents an appeal on behalf of Contact the Elderly. Show more

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Advent Expectations - Expectant Mothers: Worship from the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast. With preachers the Rev Dr Richard Clutterbuck and the Rev Diane Clutterbuck. Show more

Will Self warns against the false prophets of the new priesthood of economics, who base their analyses and predictions on 'spurious notions of human behaviour'. Show more

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

Jim is disgruntled, and Lilian faces an awkward encounter. Show more

Kirsty Young talks to comedian, actress and writer Dawn French. Show more

A return visit to the Charter Theatre in Preston for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden with Victoria Wood on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

Sheila Dillon hears from leading chefs and writers on their necessary Christmas pleasures. Show more

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Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend.

Hardeep Singh Kohli cooks for Ben and Kongosi Mussanza who fled the violence of the Congo to settle in Bradford. From December 2012. Show more

Eric Robson hosts a special Christmas edition from Muncaster Castle, Cumbria. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson join in the seasonal fun on the panel. Show more

Fi Glover presents conversations about babies, Christmas and loved ones remembered, in the Sunday Edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Beautiful Lizzie Eustace must fight to retain the dazzling diamonds which she believes are rightfully hers. Stars Pippa Nixon. Show more

Colin Firth shares his five of the best books - The Sound and the Fury, Coming Through Slaughter, The Leopard, The World as I Found It, and The Power and the Glory. Show more

Roger McGough presents a warm but slush-free selection of Christmas poetry requests. The readers are John Mackay, Ian McElhinney and Eleanor Tremain. Show more

Allan Little looks at the changing dynamic of the European Union whose centre of gravity - and power - has moved dramatically east following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Show more

The problem of US gun ownership and why the American constitution doesn't actually guarantee a right to bear arms, as examined by broadcaster and journalist Alistair Cooke in 1993. Show more

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

Lilian lives it up. Meanwhile Kenton is in Lynda's good books. Show more

William wants to impress Dorinda. Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Winchester, and performed by Martin Jarvis. From December 2012. Show more

Fires burning a week after the false apocalypse, a bereaved wife returns alone to her looted home. Read by Lindsay Duncan. Show more

Tim Harford investigates gun crime statistics in the US. Plus, questioning the average age of first-time buyers, whether chocolate makes you clever and the maths of juggling. Show more

Matthew Bannister on house builder Sir Lawrie Barratt, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, union official Jack Hart and design pioneer Tommy Roberts. Show more

Is the end nigh for packaged accounts? Plus carbon discredits, the taxman cometh but not on the phone, and cooling off. Personal finance news with Paul Lewis. Show more

Richard Wilson presents an appeal on behalf of Contact the Elderly. Show more

The Co-operative movement is 168 years old and the Co-op brand is a presence in food, funerals, travel and banking. Peter Day reports on its relevance to the 21st-century consumer. Show more

Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.

Leading journalists analyse how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond.

The latest news from the world of film. Francine Stock meets with Ang Lee to discuss Life of Pi, and Ewan McGregor reveals his reluctance to take on The Impossible. Show more

A glimpse of the angelic in the everyday can surprise, delight and unsettle us at any moment. Alan Hall reflects on those moments 'when an angel passes'. Show more

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Military Migrants. Laurie Taylor explores the meaning and impact of our increasingly multinational armed forces. Also female jockeys and the horseracing world. Show more

The bells of St Mary's Church, Ilmington, Warwickshire. Show more

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