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Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Helmingham, Suffolk. Show more

As the largest nursing strike in NHS history begins, Mark Coles profiles Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting. Show more

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Mark Tully asks when it is right to relinquish our dreams and how best to leave grief behind. From sporting defeat to the loss of a loved one, when is it best to let go?
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Brett Westwood meets an octopus: perhaps the closest thing to an alien life form on earth. Three hearts, copper blood, autonomous arms and a formidable intelligence. From 2017 Show more

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The morality of striking. The case for offering clemency to people in prison. The Shoes Brothers - an unlikely clerical pop duo. Show more

Nicki Durbin, mother of missing person Luke Durbin, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Missing People. Show more

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A service for the fourth Sunday in Advent with the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast. Show more

Sara Wheeler remembers sledding on a tea-tray, and wonders how much longer we'll experience snowy winters, and what that means for a season so ingrained in our lives and culture. Show more

Alison Steadman provides a seasonal offering from Tweet of the Day for the Christmas period. Show more

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

The pressure mounts on Brookfield and there’s romance on the cards for the Grundys. Show more

Steven Spielberg, director, 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

A welcome visit to the Theatre Royal Newcastle which features panellists John Finnemore, Pippa Evans, Fred Macaulay and Rory Bremner, plus Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

Dan Saladino and food historian Ivan Day explore lost flavours of Christmas past with a feast that includes chestnuts from an Italian forest and a cheese from the Yorkshire Dales. Show more

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Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan considers Leonard Bernstein's complex faith life and religious roots as a 20th-century composer living at a time of great change. Show more

Peter Gibbs and the GQT team answer your questions from Bath. Show more

In a week of programmes for the BBC centenary, historian Robert Seatter selects three objects from the BBC’s archive store and tells the stories behind their creation. Show more

Jim Broadbent, Maggie Steed and Sophie Thompson star in award-winning dramatist Patrick Barlow’s take on the Christmas story, offering love, hope and light in a world of darkness. Show more

Katherine Rundell talks to Chris Power about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures. Show more

Writer Robert Macfarlane with actor and musician Johnny Flynn walk in Edward Thomas's footsteps with his Pocket Book of Poems and Songs for the Open Air, and read and sing from it. Show more

Lewis Goodall talks to Conservative insiders about the ideological tensions underlying the party's current state of turmoil. Show more

As the largest nursing strike in NHS history begins, Mark Coles profiles Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting. Show more

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A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio

Who needs to get something off their chest? Alice faces the end of an era. Show more

Actor and, it turns out, born story-teller Neil Dudgeon tells Stephen stories - by turns innocently hapless, toe-curling and eye-wateringly funny. Show more

As winter descends, a writer finds herself at a guest house run by two slightly odd sisters, as Tamsin Greig reads the next chilling tale from the folk-horror writer of The Loney. Show more

Andrea Catherwood discusses your views on coverage of Ukraine with Jeremy Bowen and puts comments on the new Radio 4 Extra schedule to the network's Controller. Show more

Matthew Bannister on singer Joyce Bryant, Squadron leader George 'Johnny' Johnson MBE, surgeon Dame Clare Marx, skydiver Joseph Kittinger. Show more

Millions of people will be getting a £25 cold weather payment – how does it work and who’s eligible? Show more

Nicki Durbin, mother of missing person Luke Durbin, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Missing People. Show more

Historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain, focusing on the final years of the Communist Party and the meaning of communism today. Show more

Carolyn Quinn discusses current politics with former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, Labour's Thangam Debbonaire and the director of the Institute for Government, Hannah White. Show more

Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Mackenzie Crook, Ben Miller, Nneka Okoye and Isata Kanneh-Mason for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

Mark Tully asks when it is right to relinquish our dreams and how best to leave grief behind. From sporting defeat to the loss of a loved one, when is it best to let go?
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Poet Luke Wright explores the city of Birmingham with four writers who have been inspired by it. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Helmingham, Suffolk. Show more

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