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Bells on Sunday
St Michael’s Church in Kingsteignton, Devon
2 minutes
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Bells on Sunday comes from St Michael’s Church in Kingsteignton, Devon. Show more
Is the controversial trade secretary and equalities minister a future PM? Show more
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Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Westminster, in Westminster cathedral, as part of an exploration of the contemporary purpose of church buildings.
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On Your Farm
BBC Food & Farming Awards finalist: Overbury Farms
22 minutes
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Charlotte Smith is judging the "Farming for the Future" category in this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards. In this programme she visits the third of her three finalists. Show more
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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Sunday
Same-Sex Marriage and the Church of England; Meat-Free Fridays; Bellringing for the King
44 minutes
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A look at the religious and ethical issues of the week with Edward Stourton. Show more
Liz Chaplin who with her daughter Ava is a beneficiary makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Soundabout. Show more
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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
In the third of four programmes marking the BBC's centenary, Bishop Mary Stallard reflects on life's physical and spiritual journeys from Snowdon, Wales's highest peak. Show more
AL Kennedy reports from upstate New York on a strange turn of events. No longer are the Brits making fun of the Americans... instead, she finds, Americans bewildered by us. Show more
John Aitchison presents the long-eared owl. Show more
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
Chelsea is thinking of her future, and will someone’s temper get the better of them? Show more
Richard E Grant, actor, shares the eight discs, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
In this week’s episode, copper turned stand-up Alfie Moore is called to a camping site to investigate a suspected break-in. Show more
Leyla Kazim explores responses to the growing anxiety around avocado production. Show more
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Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world
A new diabolical enemy emerges as the mid-terms loom. Show more
Kathy and the team are in Forfar for this week's Gardeners' Question Time. Show more
What Really Happened in the Nineties?
7. Hong Kong
15 minutes
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Robert Carlyle returns to the Hong Kong Handover in 1997 to see how an opportunity was lost. Show more
By Studs Terkel, adapted by Sarah Wooley. An adaptation of the oral history classic that brought us the fascinating, thought-provoking voices of working America in the 1970s. Show more
Bookclub
Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling
28 minutes
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez answers audience questions about The Sound of Things Falling Show more
The Language Exchange
Fiona Sampson and Tara Shears
28 minutes
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The poet Fiona Sampson travels to CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva to talk antimatter with Professor Tara Shears - and to create a new work inspired by her research. Show more
File on 4
High Anxiety: The Deadly Trade in Street Valium
37 minutes
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From the Clyde to Cornwall, File on 4 investigates the growing trade in illegal benzodiazepines behind a rise in overdose deaths across the country. Show more
Is the controversial trade secretary and equalities minister a future PM? Show more
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Six O'Clock News
06/11/2022 COP-27 climate conference opens in Egypt
15 minutes
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The head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, warns the planet is sending a "distress signal"
Broadcaster Peter White with a personal selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
David and Ruth face a challenge, and George thinks it’s time to grow up. Show more
Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn
The Invisible Sibling Problem
29 minutes
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Reached an age where everything annoys you? Have you become invisible to your family? Why is your one-night-stand ignoring you at the school gates? Marian and Tara have views. Show more
1782: Two Barrowbeck villagers are accused of the murder of a young woman, and the courtroom is awash with rumours about her unnatural death... Show more
Andrea Catherwood with listener responses to BBC Local Radio cuts, Nigel Farage on The World at One, Radio 3's Soundscape of a Century, and Chelsea's pregnancy in The Archers. Show more
Last Word
Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on campaigner Baroness Blood, musician Jerry Lee Lewis, journalist Ian Jack and ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson. Show more
Money Box
Landlords, Heat Networks and Happiness
27 minutes
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How is happiness linked to our income? Show more
Liz Chaplin who with her daughter Ava is a beneficiary makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Soundabout. Show more
Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to win the November 8 Florida midterm election comfortably. But what's next? James Naughtie profiles the man who may be eyeing the presidency. Show more
Carolyn Quinn is joined by Conservative MP Harriett Baldwin, Labour's Anneliese Dodds, Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper, plus journalist Hugo Gye, for topical political chat . Show more
Loose Ends
Richard Herring, Thaddea Graham, Simon Garfield, Dominic Dromgoole, Tawiah, Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra, David Morrissey
43 minutes
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Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Richard Herring, Thaddea Graham, Simon Garfield and Dominic Dromgoole for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Westminster, in Westminster cathedral, as part of an exploration of the contemporary purpose of church buildings.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
Examining the strange spread of illness through social networks, Matthew Syed explores how our desire to explain things can lead to us explaining them away. Show more
Bells on Sunday
St Michael’s Church in Kingsteignton, Devon
2 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 LWAvailable for over a year
Bells on Sunday comes from St Michael’s Church in Kingsteignton, Devon. Show more
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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