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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie Griffiths.
We hear two stories from listeners who have very different upcoming Christmases, and highlights from Your News over the year. iPM@bbc.co.uk.
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Once a year during the winter solstice, the rising sun illuminates the inner passage at Newgrange in Ireland. Helen Mark visits this incredible prehistoric monument to learn more. Show more
Caz Graham takes a look at how farms are making and selling products for the Christmas market. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Morning magazine show, with guests Arabella Weir and Bruno Tonioli. Bill Bailey shares his Inheritance Tracks, and Rhodri Marsden discusses unusual Christmas sleeping arrangements. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Rajesh Mirchandani meets with Kevin Bacon to explore his fame, from stardom to flops to the invention of a game. From 2016. Show more
An improvised drama of the Nativity as 'written' by five- and six-year-old children, devised with Frank Cottrell Boyce. With Liam Neeson. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Hollywood Smiles and Sweet Memories
30 minutes
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Kate Adie introduces stories of Syrian dentists in Somaliland, independence moves in Catalonia, English biscuits in India, the wild 90s in Russia, and Paris' fairytale lights. Show more
Money Box
Guide to the Unprotected - personal finance past and present
30 minutes
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Be wary of schemes offering high returns, diversify investments and don't marry unless your cash is protected - personal financial advice from the nineteenth century. Show more
Tinselly satire. Adele may attempt to sing a happy song, and listen out for light-hearted Christmassy versions of your favourite shows from Crimewatch to The Fall. Show more
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Louiza Patikas, who has had a memorable year playing Helen in radio drama The Archers, introduces her radio highlights from 2016. Show more
The Lord of Lies, Baron Munchausen - celebrity, spy, soldier, diplomat and 231 years old. Alistair McGowan plays all 44 parts. Show more
From the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge, and based around nine Bible readings interspersed with Christmas hymns and carols sung by the world-famous chapel choir. Show more
How to record the events and people of 2016 in gingerbread. The Reverend Kate Bottley and palliative care nurse Simone Williams discuss working at Christmas. Poet, Liz Lochhead. Show more
We hear two stories from listeners who have very different upcoming Christmases, and highlights from Your News over the year. iPM@bbc.co.uk.
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Six O'Clock News
24/12/2016 Tunisian authorities uncover terrorist cell
15 minutes
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The Tunisian authorities say they've uncovered a terrorist cell linked to Anis Amri, the man suspected of killing twelve people at a Christmas market in Berlin.
Loose Ends
Frank Skinner, Sheila Hancock, Amanda Abbington, Matthew Parris, Nine Below Zero, Kathryn Williams and Anthony Kerr, Sara Cox
45 minutes
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Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Frank Skinner, Sheila Hancock, Amanda Abbington and Matthew Parris for special festive edition of Loose Ends. Show more
Mark Coles looks at the life and career of one of the world's best-loved children's illustrators: Raymond Briggs, who has become a part of Christmas. Show more
Saturday Review
Art at London's Old Vic, Scorsese's Silence, VR gaming, Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, Alan Bennett
45 minutes
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A revival of Yasmina Reza's Art at London's Old Vic, Martin Scorsese's newest film Silence, VR gaming, Yaa Gyasi's novel Homegoing, Alan Bennett Diaries on BBC2. Show more
Christopher Frayling explores why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has endured in pop culture for over 170 years. From 2016. Show more
Tristran Thorn leaves a sleepy English village to enter a mysterious land in pursuit of a fallen star. Stars Matthew Beard. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
Claudia Hammond explores our complex relationship with cash, from how our attitudes to money start to take shape early in life to why we think we're good at spotting a bargain. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of convoluted connections, this week between the North of England and the South of England. Show more
Midnight Mass, live from Westminster Abbey, on the 950th anniversary of the coronation of William the Conqueror. With the dean, the Very Rev Dr John Hall. Show more
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