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A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea.

Fishing quotas have been set for the year ahead but what does the future hold post Brexit? And we join hunt monitors in Northamptonshire. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean cock-of-the-rock from Peru. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster where Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn trade blows over the funding for social care as ministers prepare to allow an increase in council taxes. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the economic and social factors that led to the craze for gin in the 18th century and the moves to control it Show more

Grayson Perry discusses his book The Descent of Man, asking what would happen if we rethought conventional ideas of manhood. What might be in it for men? Show more

Writers James and Timmie Hanley receive shocking news and urgently have to counsel their son Liam in this episode, dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. Show more

Jill McGivering on how India is being gripped by a rising tide of extremism, from a stifling of free speech to brutal attacks on religious minorities, all in the name of radical. Show more

Corin Throsby explores the rich cultural life of Australia. Corin explores the extent to which the Australian landscape has an effect upon the country's artists. Show more

On this day in 1916, the Women's Imperial Defence Council discussed fears of "the hidden hand", and at Marshall's, Martha Lamb is determined that the women's voices are heard. Show more

Hepatitis C patients buying drugs from India to avoid long waits on the NHS. How can parents protect their children from online groomers? The cost of superb Christmas decorations. Show more

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The evacuation of Aleppo is underway; Rupert Murdoch's Fox has reached an agreement to buy the whole of Sky; fertility treatment using DNA from three people goes ahead. Show more

Simon Barnes continues his series challenging conventional thinking about sport, and argues that sport produces narratives worthy of a novel. Show more

Pat gives Susan a warning, and Helen treads a delicate path. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Rebecca misses her Dad. What if she could have him back as he was? Magical family comedy about dementia. Stars Raquel Cassidy. Show more

In 2015, floods devastated much of Cumbria. Helen Mark visits the Lake District to hear how the landscape celebrated by Wordsworth is being reclaimed for the 21st century. Show more

Bill Turnbull makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bees for Development. Show more

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes talks to Mariella Frostrup about her novel Nineveh, the story of a humane pest controller. Show more

Cinema magazine programme. Francine Stock talks to Gareth Edwards, director of the first Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One. Show more

Gareth Mitchell talks to the astrophysicist who's worked out the weather on a distant planet, 1,000 light years from us. Show more

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Hundreds have been taken out of eastern Aleppo in a convoy of ambulances and buses.

Acclaimed Indian comedian Aditi Mittal takes a look at her patriarchal home nation. In this episode, she explores the options open to women in modern India. Show more

Johnny prepares to strike a pose, while David is not in the Christmas spirit. Show more

Moomins creator Tove Jansson remembered by her niece Sophia, the challenges of performing Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the ROH, and Stephen Armstrong reviews TV drama Quarry. Show more

Writers James and Timmie Hanley receive shocking news and urgently have to counsel their son Liam in this episode, dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. Show more

Yemen is in crisis. The Disasters Emergency Committee has launched a major appeal for donations. But who is fighting in this civil war and why is it a global issue? Show more

What does Brexit mean for the future of British farming? Jonty Bloom looks at the challenges ahead. Show more

Gareth Mitchell talks to the astrophysicist who's worked out the weather on a distant planet, 1,000 light years from us. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the economic and social factors that led to the craze for gin in the 18th century and the moves to control it Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective, as the UN dubs the fall of Aleppo 'a black chapter in the history of international relations'. Show more

The members of Martine and Phillipa’s church gather for the special meal in memory of the Dean. Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel. Show more

Laughter, poetry, music and audience creativity in the company of Matt Harvey and guests, with this comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret. Show more

A breakthrough in the crisis in the funding of social care. Sean Curran reports on events in the Commons and has the best of the rest of Thursday in Parliament. Show more

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The death of Shelley in July 1822 is one of the most powerful of all Romantic legends. How does the story of the end of a life alter our perception of all that has gone before? Show more

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Commentary on the first day of the fifth Test between India and England, from Chennai, with Jonathan Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Henry Blofeld, Sunil Gavaskar and Geoff Boycott. Show more