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Bells on Sunday comes from the Norman Tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the Cathedral Church for Suffolk. Show more

The right-wing leader who's on the verge of becoming Italy's first female prime minister. Show more

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Mark Tully explores homesickness - a yearning more complex than nostalgia for homeland. Show more

Owls are lovable cuddly creatures and wicked associates of witches and the dark: what prompted such contradictions? Brett Westwood investigates. From 2016 Show more

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A look at the religious and ethical issues of the week with Emily Buchanan. Show more

Comedian and TV host Adam Hills makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Lord's Taverners. Show more

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Persecution because of faith or even lack of it, is widespread and experienced by adherents of probably every religion. With Bishops Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani and Philip Mounstephen Show more

As the world decides how to respond to Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat, Zoe Strimpel explores the likely next moves in this deadly serious game of chess. Show more

Actor and birdwatcher Samuel West discusses the stocky almost brutish looking bullfinch and its rather wheezy complex high-pitched song. Show more

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Ambridge prepares to say a fond farewell, and Tracy has a riddle to solve. Show more

Jay Blades, presenter and furniture restorer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Mark Steel visits Newport in Wales and performs a bespoke stand-up show for a local audience. Show more

Sheila Dillon meets catering teams in pioneering NHS Trusts that are doing things differently with hospital meals, to find out how they’re building a model others can follow. Show more

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The internet walks into a pizza parlour and it’s got a gun. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. Show more

Kathy Clugston and her panel of gardening experts are in Preston. Show more

Cancel culture, Brexit, Levelling Up. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. And it happened in the 90s. Show more

Shaun McKenna’s gripping historical drama about the young Eleanor of Aquitaine returns. An ill-fated crusade which ends in disaster leaves Eleanor shipwrecked on foreign shores. Show more

In a tribute to Dame Hilary Mantel, another chance to hear her talking to James Naughtie about her Man Booker Prize-winning Bring Up the Bodies. From 2013. Show more

Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, talks in depth to Michael Rosen about her life in writing and language. Show more

Mishal Husain and a panel of experts examine the evolving role of the Royal Family. Show more

The right-wing leader who's on the verge of becoming Italy's first female prime minister. Show more

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Labour says it would bring back the top rate of income tax as its party conference begins

Claudia Hammond, broadcaster, author and Visiting Professor of Psychology at Sussex University with a personal selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.

Emotions run high for one Ambridge resident and Jolene’s interest is piqued. Show more

Ed resolves to take the more committed step of introducing Maggie to his children. Starring Christopher Douglas. From 2017. Show more

In Mrs Watts Goes Missing by Roy Apps, Janie Dee is the pioneering Shakespearian actress Dame Ellen Terry, who has just embarked on the performance of her life. Show more

Ukraine has reportedly recaptured nearly 10,000 square kilometres of territory that had been occupied by Russia. We ask where the numbers come from and what they mean. Show more

Kirsty Lang on film-maker Jean-Luc Godard, writer and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, war poet Dennis Wilson, and Welsh broadcaster Mavis Nicholson. Show more

Paul Lewis has full details of what the mini budget will mean for your finances including changing tax rates, stamp duty alterations and support for those on low incomes. Show more

Comedian and TV host Adam Hills makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Lord's Taverners. Show more

'Never mind the Spice Girls, here’s Caroline of Brunswick.' Anita discovers the scandalous princess of England who loathed her bigamist husband, King George IV. Show more

Carolyn Quinn hosts from the Labour conference in Liverpool with shadow minister Sarah Jones, Conservative MP Tom Hunt, journalist Paul Waugh and politics professor Jon Tonge. Show more

Danny Wallace and Sara Cox are joined by Stewart Lee, Denzel Westley-Sanderson, Charlotte Ritchie and Dr John Woolf for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

Mark Tully explores homesickness - a yearning more complex than nostalgia for homeland. Show more

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Gentrification revisited: Laurie Taylor explores the myth and reality six decades after the term was first coined by sociologist Ruth Glass. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from the Norman Tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the Cathedral Church for Suffolk. Show more

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