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Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints church in Steep Hampshire. Show more

The CEO of Timpson - best known for key cutting and shoe repair. Who is the businessman turned philanthropist, known for hiring ex-offenders and championing prison reform? Show more

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Chris Brookes reflects on how our identities change through the choices we make and the experiences we live through. Show more

Sarah Swadling visits the Apricot Centre in Devon, where they're combining psychological wellbeing with regenerative farming practices. Show more

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Israel set to advance into Rafah. Rochdale Labour candidate withdrawn from the electoral race.
'Silent Discos' in church sparks debate over 'appropriate' use of sacred spaces. Show more

Paralympic athlete Anne Wafula Strike makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of International Nepal Fellowship. Show more

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Live from the University of Glasgow on the first Sunday of Lent, with the chaplain, Rev Dr Carolyn Kelly, and Prof Alison Phipps, who considers what penitence means in these times. Show more

Rebecca Stott says the idea of 'going down a rabbit hole' is often characterised as a bad thing - a world full of conspiracies. Here, she makes the case for what's to be gained. Show more

David Rothenberg grew up in Connecticut at a time when mockingbirds moved north filling the air with a kaleidoscope of calls. Show more

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

Alistair jumps to conclusions, and Harrison has his hands full. Show more

Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and film-maker, 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

Sue Perkins challenges guests Tony Hawks, Eleanor Tiernan, Heidi Regan and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more

From old folklore to new scientific research, and from cooking to growing, Leyla discovers how there is plenty more to bitter flavours than meets the eye, or the taste bud. Show more

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Jason Mohammad on the perception and the reality of life in Ely, a large housing estate on the edge of Cardiff, where he grew up. Show more

Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Wensleydale to answer questions on growing celeriac, cleaning greenhouses and Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Grandiflora'. Show more

John Yorke on the book embraced by the 60s counterculture but written by a man who would have hated that – Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Show more

Full cast dramatisation of Hermann Hesse’s classic tale. Siddhartha is handsome, brilliant and well-loved. But unhappy. One man’s quest for spiritual wholeness in ancient India. Show more

Sheila Heti on her new experimental book, Alphabetical Diaries – made up of sentences taken from 10 years of journals, re-ordered from A to Z. Plus Holly Pester and Keiran Goddard. Show more

Vanessa Kisuule returns with a new series of The Poetry Detective, a show about the poems that go with us through life. Ep 1/3 Poems that people carry with them in physical form. Show more

Join Mishal Husain as she chairs a debate on the criminal justice system. Show more

The CEO of Timpson - best known for key cutting and shoe repair. Who is the businessman turned philanthropist, known for hiring ex-offenders and championing prison reform? Show more

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The World Health Organisation says the biggest hospital in southern Gaza is no longer working

Alex Lathbridge chooses audio highlights from the past week. Show more

Emma takes a step forward, and Vince presses Jolene. Show more

Phil Wang and Susie Dent challenge guests to invent new words to help create the new ultimate Unspeakable dictionary. With special guests Stephen Fry, Laura Smyth and Maisie Adam. Show more

In search of more songs to collect, Harry sets out to find the woman he betrayed. Yet is her song all that remains of her? Show more

What is the government’s rule on debt? Are international students stealing UK places? How much social housing is being built? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips? Show more

Matthew Bannister on radio DJ Steve Wright, politician Baroness Flather, Wimbledon referee Alan Mills and station announcer Angela Peberdy. Show more

New research suggests many of us don't know how much we're being charged on our pensions. Show more

Paralympic athlete Anne Wafula Strike makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of International Nepal Fellowship. Show more

Clive Anderson and Jayde Adams are joined by Sylvester McCoy, Peter Lord, Lucy Porter and Nancy Medina for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

Ben Wright discusses Gaza, recent by-elections and funding universities with MPs Vicky Ford and Karin Smyth, Sam Freedman from the Institute for Government, and journalist Hugo Gye. Show more

Michael Buerk examines the case for the moral value of marriage. Show more

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Laurie Taylor explores hidden and disguised identities, as well as those that are carefully crafted. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints church in Steep Hampshire. Show more

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