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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie Griffiths.

Scientists in Nottingham have recorded the sounds bees make in the hive - and they're featuring in a live orchestral concert. Show more

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Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the robin. Show more

Fi Glover reflects on the conversations gathered during the Listening Project Booth summer tour with the producers who recorded them as it travelled from Bexhill. Show more

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Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr looks at medieval manuscripts at the Parker Library, Cambridge, with Christopher de Hamel, Lucie Skeaping and Edward Brooke-Hitching. Show more

The Rev Sally Muggeridge presents a service of prayers and carols from St Stephen Walbrook and reflects on the meaning of St Stephen's Day and the tale of Good King Wenceslas. Show more

Kate Tempest and musical highlights from Woman's Hour this year. Show more

Henry enraptures Catherine with his tall tales but before long, she suspects there may be truth in them. With Miriam Margolyes. Show more

Grace Dent follows Anthony, one of 11,000 BHS staff made redundant in 2016, as he hunts for a new job. Aged 50, Anthony finds the search more difficult than expected. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Can cricket's king of sleaze save sport's damaged image? Maybe - if there's money in it. Stars Christopher Douglas. From 2016. Show more

On this day in 1916, 400 soldiers' children were entertained at Windsor Castle, and at Marshall's factory too, Boxing Day is a festive occasion. Show more

How mobile phone numbers are being used to steal money from people's bank accounts. Don't fancy a care home? We hear about the carers who'll move into your own home. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Paddy and Bob are on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne which is cut off from the mainland twice a day due to the tides. From 2016. Show more

Helen has an early start, and Toby and Pip abandon tradition. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Hitchcock and Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss. A blind Jazz pianist is given an eye transplant from a murder victim. Stars Hugh Laurie. Show more

"Perhaps we should try, before the year's out", writes Howard Jacobson, "to agree on the International Word of 2016". Show more

Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller are back together for a special edition of With Great Pleasure choosing their favourite bits of writing, music and song for Christmas Day. Show more

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Remarkable letters between Sandy (a camel carrying a wise man following a star) and Martha (a donkey carrying a pregnant lady to Bethlehem). A comic perspective on the Nativity. Show more

Tim Vine and the British public offers up a sleigh-full of Yuletide joke, songs and preposterous seasonal games. From 2016. Show more

Lilian's plans are scuppered, and Ed feels upstaged. Show more

Front Row tests knowledge of 2016's cultural events. With quiz master John Wilson are Boyd Hilton, Ekow Eshun, Charlotte Higgins and Rhianna Dhillon. Show more

Henry enraptures Catherine with his tall tales but before long, she suspects there may be truth in them. With Miriam Margolyes. Show more

Boxing Day sales in the UK in 2015 amounted to 3.7 billion pounds. Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion and consumerism. Show more

Malaysia's Banksy, Fahmi Reza, is capturing the public mood with his street art aimed at a government mired in financial scandal. Can art and activism can bring about change? Show more

Evolutionary anthropologist Volker Sommer goes on a journey from the wilderness to the laboratory and the courtroom to explore the battle over personhood rights for great apes. Show more

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr looks at medieval manuscripts at the Parker Library, Cambridge, with Christopher de Hamel, Lucie Skeaping and Edward Brooke-Hitching. Show more

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The World Tonight examines the political acts of George Michael, a man who was more than just a pop star. Show more

The Elliot family, finding themselves in debt, are forced to rent out their baronial home to an admiral of the Navy, and Anne Elliot finds old connections come back to haunt her. Show more

Paul McCartney joins John Wilson to discuss songwriting, his career post-Beatles and to answer questions from an audience that includes Paul Weller and Brad Pitt. Show more

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examines the powerful drama of a marriage between the Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona. Show more

After moving to a chalet in the French Alps, Marcus Sedgwick revisits a childhood of snowy Kent winters. Read by Jonathan Firth. Show more

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