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A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea.
Farming Today takes a look at some traditional festive foods. Ben Jackson visits a farm in Leicestershire that has been producing geese for nearly 30 years. Show more
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Chris Packham presents the ivory gull from the northern polar seas. Show more
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Tom Sutcliffe talks to writer James Crawford, conductor Semyon Bychkov, linguist Julia Sallabank and sculptor Peter Randall-Page. Show more
Tina Fey, women voting in and standing for election in Saudi Arabia for the first time, and the treatment of severe anorexia. Show more
When Zoe's husband Ben leaves her for another woman, she is determined that the family will get on just fine without him. Show more
Sukhdev Sandhui in Woodstock and San Francisco tells the story of a book of hippy philosophy that defined the 1960s and intimated how the internet would grow long before the web. Show more
With East/West relations in crisis, Tony launches a diplomatic mission. Stars Kevin McNally. 1955 episode re-recorded in 2015. Show more
Following comments made by the Nobel scientist Sir Tim Hunt, the hashtag #distractinglysexy started a worldwide debate on sexism. Show more
You and Yours
Charity Christmas cards, Recycled teenagers, Safeguarding adults in care
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How much money goes to good causes from charity Christmas cards? Plus the Recycled Teenagers Club for lonely elderly people, and the confusion over safeguards for adults in care. Show more
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A look ahead to the EU summit - we ask a Conservative MEP and a Polish former minister what kind of deal David Cameron can get. Plus a bluffer's guide to Star Wars. Show more
British Liberalism: The Grand Tour
Millicent Fawcett and Votes for Women
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Anne McElvoy retraces a votes for women march, led by the non-violent Suffragist movement, to rediscover the story of its liberal leader, Millicent Fawcett. Show more
Warning: stags in pub. Roy and Kirsty go over their lines. Show more
By Timothy X Atack. Nine-year-old Harry goes on a mysterious Christmas Eve road trip with a very unusual and very dangerous Santa. Show more
Teams from the south of England and Northern Ireland join Tom Sutcliffe for the contest of cryptic clues and convoluted connections. Show more
The Food Programme
Juliet Harbutt: A Life Through Food
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As she prepares to move back to her native New Zealand after 30 years in the UK, Juliet Harbutt, cheese educator and campaigner, shares her life in food with Sheila Dillon. Show more
Frances Fyfield returns to the Austrian National Library to examine the score of Beethoven's beautiful sonata for violin and piano that became known later as the 'Spring' sonata. Show more
Ernie Rea discusses issues around childlessness with Islamic scholar Khola Hasan, Rabbi Dovid Lewis and senior lecturer Dr Dawn Llewellyn. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
14/12/2015 Man convicted of plotting knife attack inspired by IS
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Man convicted of plotting Remembrance Day terror attack
Nurses jailed for faking results
A visit to York for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, plus Sandi Toksvig on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more
Adam and Ian are getting married, and Lynda faces a casting crisis. Show more
Front Row
We're Doomed, The Dazzle, The Waterstone's Book of the Year, The impact of touring musicals on original regional theatre
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Kirsty Lang sees We're Doomed, a programme about the making of Dad's Army. She also talks to Coralie Bickford-Smith, who won the Waterstones Book of the Year. Show more
When Zoe's husband Ben leaves her for another woman, she is determined that the family will get on just fine without him. Show more
The Philosopher's Arms asks how we can, at the same time, both want and not want a cream cake. In the pub there is a philosopher, neuroscientists and a champion dieter. Show more
Crossing Continents
Malaysia's Runaway Children
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Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Lucy Ash reports on how their deaths have provoked an anguished debate about education and what it means to be Malay. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Journalist Prince Casinader and Father Lorio search to see if an elusive wonder survived Sri Lanka's civil war. From 2014. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe talks to writer James Crawford, conductor Semyon Bychkov, linguist Julia Sallabank and sculptor Peter Randall-Page. Show more
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The World Tonight
South China Sea - BBC Exclusive
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. Plus - was the defeat of Front National 'democratic'? Show more
Nathan is dragged to Slade House by his pianist mother, who is desperate to make the right impression on her potential patron Lady Grayer. Read by James Anthony Pearson. Show more
Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition leads him to Soho. Below street level, he finds drama and delirium as clubbers play out their lives after dark. Show more
Susan Hulme reports as the government comes under fire for deferring a decision on airport capacity and MPs call for action over minimum wage allegations against Sports Direct. Show more
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It is 1936, and four-year-old Antonia is given Our Island Story. Already a keen reader, who knew what it would portend for her future? Show more
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