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Bells on Sunday comes from Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk. Show more

The actor behind some of our favourite female leads, including the tough police officer in BBC drama Happy Valley. Show more

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John McCarthy reflects on the significance of the Pietà in art, and the act of carrying others in times of adversity. With sculptor Antony Gormley, as well as music and readings. Show more

Brett Westwood spots a chameleon and investigates how this master of disguise has led us to ask big questions about how we adapt to the environments we find ourselves in. From 2016 Show more

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In a special programme to mark the death of Pope Benedict XVI, Edward Stourton and guests discuss his life and legacy as spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics. Show more

Actor David Tennant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theirworld. Show more

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The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, preaches on the transforming power of grace, on the two-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the hymn Amazing Grace. Show more

Howard Jacobson considers whether he may have been a bird in an earlier life, and celebrates the way animals rescue us from self-importance. Show more

Michael Palin presents the scarlet macaw from Costa Rica. Show more

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

Christmas is a little different at Brookfield, and Brad and Chelsea are on a mission. Show more

Professor Jean Golding, epidemiologist, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary and Anna Maxwell Martin to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more

Jaega Wise investigates the science, history and culture around the hangover. Show more

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Comedian Natasha Hodgson gets entangled in the slippery world of Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, a novel about memory, performance and bafflement. So what's she meant to be doing again? Show more

Kathy Clugston sees in the new year with a panel of gardening experts in Upwell. 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

Award-winning comedy. Radio premiere. Director: Martin Jarvis. Star cast. Trevor and Susannah continue to wreak havoc in three separate bedrooms over one night. Complications! Show more

A literary trip to Florence in the company of Ross King, discussing his book Brunelleschi's Dome. Show more

Nikita Gill chooses poems of renewal from the listener requests. Show more

Reporter Paul Connolly investigates how families across the UK are facing the prospect of losing their children to the care system because they can't afford to look after them. Show more

The actor behind some of our favourite female leads, including the tough police officer in BBC drama Happy Valley. Show more

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Russia starts New Year with more drone attacks on Ukranian cities. Brazil swears in President Lula

Writer and podcast host Danny Robins presents his pick of the brilliant and fascinating shows that have come out in 2022.

There’s a New Year Party at the Bull, and a moment of reflection for Elizabeth. Show more

The award-winning comedian Maisie Adam worries about her relationship with the truth, as she tries to tell it to Stephen Mangan. She worries about psychopathic tendencies too. Show more

It is 2031, and two newcomers to the village of Barrowbeck struggle to make sense of its odd rituals, as Jessica Raine reads the final story in this series of folk horror tales. Show more

Having devoted decades of their lives to fighting for a better world, three activists in their 70s reflect on keeping going, hope and despair. Show more

Matthew Bannister on singer Terry Hall, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, Heather Iandolo, ex-offender Eric Allison, ballerina Dame Beryl Grey. Show more

How innovative projects are changing the way people heat their homes to bring bills down. Show more

Actor David Tennant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theirworld. Show more

An exploration of celebrity culture in the last 70 years through facets of Elizabeth Taylor’s life. Show more

A look back at the stories that hit the headlines in the past year: war in Ukraine, three prime ministers, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and more. With Adam Fleming and guests. Show more

Clive Anderson with the final programme showcasing some of the best music performances on Loose Ends this year, including Joss Stone and Vieux Farka Touré. Show more

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Betting and Investment - Laurie Taylor explores the connections and the differences between two apparently very different phenomena. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk. Show more

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