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Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Hale, Cheshire. Show more

Humza Yousaf, new leader of the Scottish National Party and first minister of Scotland, as well as the first Muslim to lead a major UK party. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Mark Tully considers the spiritual inspiration poets and musicians have found in birds. With poetry by Thomas Hardy, George Herbert and Isaac Rosenberg. Show more

How did we get from the gorgeous red junglefowl scratching away in the jungles of south-east Asia to the chicken now eaten in its millions? With Brett Westwood and Joanna Pinnock. Show more

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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Emily Buchanan explores the ethical and religious issues of the week. There's Ramadan recipes, an update on Pope Francis' health and we meet Christian nudists in Florida. Show more

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of AfriKids. Show more

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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers.

From the Message in Wythenshawe, South Manchester, a church which grew out of a community grocery initiative bridging foodbanks and supermarkets. With preacher Andy Hawthorne. Show more

Megan Nolan says millennial adulthood feels just as uneasy as her teenage years. Short term jobs and expensive housing has left her generation with a permanent sense of insecurity. Show more

David Attenborough presents the wood warbler. Show more

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

The Bridge Farm Archers face a big opportunity, and Jim leaves no stone unturned. Show more

The British record-breaking runners of the 1980s are reunited. Kirsty Wark puts Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram, Brendan Foster and David Moorcroft through their paces. Show more

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, insect champion Bridget Nicholls and explorer Levison Wood. Show more

Are we still a nation of pudding lovers? Sheila Dillon asks if and why good pudding matters with cooking from some of the UK's best pudding makers. Show more

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Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world.

Forensic psychologists Sally Tilt and Dr Kerensa Hocken interview former prison officer Sinem, to understand her life and the backdrop to her crimes. Show more

Kathy Clugston and the panel are at Morden Hall Park, Shropshire. Show more

The series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke examines Victor Nekrasov’s novel Kira Georgievna, a subtle critique of the Soviet regime. Show more

Soviet bestseller by Viktor Nekrasov. When her first husband returns after twenty years in a labour camp, Kira's forced to question her life as a privileged artist in Moscow. Show more

Writer Tan Twan Eng talks to James Naughtie and a group of readers about The Garden of Evening Mists. Show more

Christopher Frayling visits Vienna to uncover the forgotten Jewish roots of Walt Disney's Bambi - as a brutal parable of life in the forest by Austrian writer Felix Salten. Show more

Today presenter Mishal Husain will be joined by an expert panel to consider how trust can be restored in the police. Show more

Humza Yousaf, new leader of the Scottish National Party and first minister of Scotland, as well as the first Muslim to lead a major UK party. Show more

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Home Secretary criticises authorities who turn "a blind eye"

Chris Hawkins with a personal selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. Show more

There’s another shock for the Aldridge family and Helen makes her feelings clear Show more

Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love. In part tribute to her larger-than-life father, and with the help of the audience, she packs herself a fantasy coffin. Show more

A grieving young woman has the shock of her life, in the first in another series of brilliantly funny stories set on one street in Trinidad. Show more

The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience

Matthew Bannister on entertainer Paul O’Grady, tech entrepreneur Gordon Moore, snooker player Vera Selby, musician Simon Emmerson. Show more

As the financial year comes to an end and a new one begins - what does it mean for personal finances? Show more

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of AfriKids. Show more

In the wake of the Casey Review, Margaret Heffernan asks what the Metropolitan police can do to transform its culture and organisation. Show more

Nick Watt discusses the government's Rwanda plan and policies to tackle child grooming gangs, with Conservative MP Edward Timpson, Labour's Meg Hillier and Lib Dem Munira Wilson. Show more

Clive Anderson and Bidisha Mamata are joined by Kathy Kiera Clarke, Nadine Shah, Gabby Best, Barnaby Jameson and Grace Savage for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

Mark Tully considers the spiritual inspiration poets and musicians have found in birds. With poetry by Thomas Hardy, George Herbert and Isaac Rosenberg. Show more

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Hugh Schofield tells the story of the forgotten jazz pioneer from the British Caribbean. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Hale, Cheshire. Show more

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BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.