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Bells on Sunday comes from the Parish Church of St Mary Ilmington in Warwickshire. Show more

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Parliament holds its first Saturday sitting this century as Boris Johnson tries to persuade MPs to back his Brexit deal.

Wiltshire's dry arableland is home to the stone curlew. For this weeks' Living World, Joanna Pinnock joins Nick Adams as dusk begins, as they search for this banshee of the night. Show more

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Westminster Abbey at 750, on being gay and Sikh and the controversy around a statute of Gandhi to be erected in front of Manchester Cathedral. Show more

Christine Sharp, who suffers from osteoporosis, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Royal Osteoporosis Society. Show more

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A service exploring Christian support of adult victims of modern slavery, live from Regent Hall Salvation Army in Central London. Show more

David Goodhart suggests that the best way to tackle political tribalism is through not allowing political brands to dictate our thinking. Show more

David Attenborough presents the purple sandpiper. Show more

Paddy O'Connell analyses what the prime minister's letters to the EU mean for Brexit. Has he obeyed the Benn Act? And how will the EU respond? Show more

Emotions run high at Grange Farm and the past returns to haunt Jennifer. Show more

Dame Glenys Stacey, former Chief Inspector of Probation, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie welcome comic Ahir Shah, historian Dr Fern Riddell and physicist Professor Bobby Acharya. From 2019. Show more

Chef Romy Gill visits a holiday club in Croydon where Indian NGO Akshaya Patra are piloting a new way of delivering hot meals to UK children in the school holidays. Show more

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Mishal Husain presents pieces on traditional Somerset cider-making, teenagers leaving home, being a non-binary child, village newsletters and being a postie at a music festival. Show more

Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Lincolnshire. Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Wilson answer the audience's questions. Show more

Three conversations about running the marathon, Rubik’s cubing and racism. Fi Glover presents. Show more

Early 1990s Shanghai. Chen cannot turn down a lucrative translation job for a rich developer. But he must also find the murderer of a dissident writer. Crime drama by Qiu Xiaolong. Show more

As the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA prepares to turn 50, staff and students discuss its impact. Plus a visit to an exhibition marking Doris Lessing's centenary. Show more

Roger McGough talks to Malika Booker as she chooses her favourite poems. Her selection includes work by Warsan Shire, Sharon Olds and Jean 'Binta' Breeze. Show more

File on 4 hears the untold story of girls trapped in the violent world of cross-country drugs gangs. Show more

Bernardine Evaristo is the first black British woman to win the Booker Prize. Show more

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Government insists Brexit on track
Double murder investigated in Milton Keynes

Author and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili makes his pick of the best of this week's BBC Radio. Show more

Tempers flare at Grange Farm and Jim is on a mission. Show more

Olga Koch gives us an insight into growing up in the Russian Federation. Show more

Anne-Marie Duff continues Cynan Jones' timely series set in the very near future. Today: the wife of police marksman John Branner writes to him... for the last time. Show more

In Feedback this week, has BBC Radio given enough coverage to the issues being raised by the Extinction Rebellion protesters? Some listeners think not. Show more

Matthew Bannister on cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, photographer Sally Soames, biochemist Kary Mullis and producer Reg Watson. Show more

Listener questions after Woodford funds wound down. What FCA's plans to tackle car finance commission mean for consumers. And awarding yourself a pay increase. Show more

Christine Sharp, who suffers from osteoporosis, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Royal Osteoporosis Society. Show more

How should museums deal with contentious legacies? Show more

Carolyn Quinn discusses Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with Conservative MP Tim Loughton, Labour frontbencher Nick Thomas-Symonds, Lib Dem Layla Moran and journalist Isabel Hardman. Show more

Behind the scenes of Singin' In The Rain. Show more

From Papua to Accra - the sound of rain on tin roofs unites the world - three hundred years since the invention of this most humble, yet practical shelter from the storm. Show more

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Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes, from the Moors Murderers to Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Show more

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