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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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Matthew Syed explores ideas that shape our lives, making us see the world differently.
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Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church, Harpole in Northamptonshire.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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1/5 Actor, director and gourmand Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a culinary life.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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2/5 Actor and epicure Stanley Tucci makes the case for tradition when pairing pasta and sauce.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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3/5 Stanley Tucci remembers the television cooks who inspired him to follow in their footsteps
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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4/5 Actor Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a life lived with food at its heart.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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A reflection on the meaning of Christmas with broadcaster and journalist Adrian Chiles.
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On Christmas Day, Mark must adjust to a new festive routine at his sister's house.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston.
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Import rules and getting jabbed at the mart.
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05:56
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
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Ruth Cromie of the Slimbridge Wetland Centre on the eider duck.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston.
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05:45
Farmers have been left picking up the pieces after the collapse of Farmdrop.
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Writer Paul Evans has an unnerving encounter with a barn owl in this Halloween tale.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:43
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston.
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05:45
Why are puffins washing up dead on UK beaches?
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Fermanagh-based bird blogger Dara Mcanulty on the whooper swan for Tweet of the Day.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:43
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston.
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05:45
The UK oysters still not going to Europe.
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Chris Packham presents the wild turkey.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston.
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05:45
Charlotte Smith spreads Christmas cheer with a feast of festive farming stories.
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Chris Packham presents the blackbird.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rev Azariah France-Williams.
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05:45
Beth Stevens talks about the brain cells most people have never heard of.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:43
Bells on Sunday comes from Coventry Cathedral.
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Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.
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David Attenborough presents a seasonal reflection of the robin.
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Helen Mark explores the parkland and green spaces of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
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A chatty farmer, his wife Helie, and 300 farm animals put on a panto for the world to see.
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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06:05
Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort.
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Brett Westwood explores the nature and culture of oysters.
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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Kathy Clugston hosts a Christmas edition of the gardening panel show.
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5/5 Stanley Tucci delights in reconnecting with his sense of taste after treatment for cancer.
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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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07:10
William Crawley looks at the ethical and religious issues of the week.
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07:54
Catherine Jessop makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Encephalitis Society.
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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Barry Humphries exchanges poetry and prose with Miriam Margolyes and Rob Brydon.
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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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A meditation on the Power of Light for St Stephen's Day, with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir.
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08:48
Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
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Paul Evans encounters a pair of ravens.
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Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
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1/5 Actor, director and gourmand Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a culinary life.
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7/9 Strange Tales from the Culture Wars by Jon Ronson.
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Beth Stevens talks about the brain cells most people have never heard of.
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2/5 Actor and epicure Stanley Tucci makes the case for tradition when pairing pasta and sauce.
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4/4 Stuart Russell suggests a way forward for human control over artificial intelligence.
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09:00
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
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4/5 Actor Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a life lived with food at its heart.
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Dame Prue Leith, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
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5/5 Stanley Tucci delights in reconnecting with his sense of taste after treatment for cancer.
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From Bethlehem Bible College, a community committed to peace and reconciliation.
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Consumerism and Christmas have gone hand in hand for a surprisingly long time
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Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.
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The award-winning actor Claire Foy on her role as the Duchess of Argyll in a new BBC drama
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Poet Carol Ann Duffy and folk musician Kathryn Williams on their new collaboration.
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Countdown Star and lexicographer Susie Dent on festive words.
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The acting legend Dame Joan Collins on her life and seven decades in showbusiness.
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The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club. A Musical Family Christmas. Volunteering.
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Mark Strong and Patricia Hodge's Inheritance Tracks.
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Usha’s not feeling the Christmas vibe and Susan’s got the green eye.
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David Baddiel hears from people who have sent their relatives abroad for dementia care.
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Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish
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A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
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4/4 The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
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2/2 From screen-washers to the spirit of Christmas. More comic monologues from Maureen Lipman.
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A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia.
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Sir James MacMillan considers composer Mahler’s complex faith life.
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A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become.
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How long will Count Arthur last in the role of Father Christmas this year?
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Poor Moomintroll wakes from hibernation, and finds himself in a strange frozen world.
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Richard Osman, broadcaster, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
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2/2 The letters of Sandy (a camel) and Martha (a donkey). A comic perspective on the Nativity.
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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12:04
1/5 Alex Jennings reads Brian Sibley's imaginative retelling of the Christmas story.
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Pig culls; Wild Water; Swimming; Private Dentists; Furniture Delivery
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The latest weather forecast
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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12:04
2/5 Poor Joseph! An ordinary man caught up in extraordinary events.
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12:18
Call You and Yours: How has your Christmas changed because of Covid?
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The latest weather forecast
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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12:04
3/5 Cool Gabriel reminds us Joseph was chosen for his humility.
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Darts is gaining popularity with new audiences. We hear how the sport is evolving.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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12:04
4/5 Back in Nazareth the baby, Jesus, starts to grow up.
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12:18
Santa hears from listeners about poor service from one delivery company.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast
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12:00
National and international news from BBC Radio 4, including the shipping forecast.
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12:04
5/5 Joseph is ill. Mary is there. Gabriel watches over them both.
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12:18
What's changed for the better for you in 2021?
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12:57
The latest weather forecast
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National and international news from BBC Radio 4, including the shipping forecast.
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12:04
On Christmas Day, Mark must adjust to a new festive routine at his sister's house.
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12:18
3/3 A special where the team look back at 2021 in various alternate earths in the multiverse.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast
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12:00
National and international news from BBC Radio 4
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12:04
4/6 Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games.
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12:32
Leyla Kazim dives into the world of rapid grocery delivery - could it change how we shop?
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The latest weather forecast
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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6/10 Biella tells the story of how two teen hackers rattled South American governments.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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7/10 Biella Coleman discovers how Piracy and Open Source have impacted hacking.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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8/10 Biella Coleman discovers how people, not tech, are targets of malicious actors.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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9/10 Biella discovers the different reasons people hack their own bodies.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
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10/10 Biella discovers why simply repairing your own device may make you a hacker.
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Greg Jenner and guests explore Christmas in medieval times.
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It's nearly Christmas and Ed needs a room at the inn. But he's got to deal with Scrooge.
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Radio 4’s look at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world.
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Fi Glover presents a selection of powerful conversations gathered this year.
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Lynda seeks divine justice.
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Forty years on, the dramatic story of the Penlee lifeboat disaster.
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Susan’s got the green eye.
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3/4 Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance return in seasonal drama set on a Norfolk nature reserve.
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Oliver offers words of wisdom.
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When Stephen wishes life could be simpler, the unexpected happens!
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Jazzer’s got stage fright.
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7/7 Sometimes love can be traumatic. Sometimes it can be fatal.
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Someone comes knocking for Alan
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2/2 Pilgrim searches for the mysterious Mrs Bronson as a fierce blizzard hits Melcombe.
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A special concert celebrating the stories of Dame Jaqueline Wilson in words and music.
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Kathy Clugston hosts a Christmas edition of the gardening panel show.
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Lynsey Hanley tells the cautionary tale of two leaseholders of a Georgian style property.
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Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz.
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Big names in the food world join Dan and Sheila with their favourite Christmas dishes.
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Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.
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Reverends Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser - back for a Christmas Day special.
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Louise Cooper and guests explore how you trace lost and forgotten financial assets.
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Fish Oils for depression, Pain pleasure and a good life, kindness, and memory for comedy.
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Helen Mark explores the parkland and green spaces of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
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Nozandulela (Nozi) Samela makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of mothers2mothers.
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Laura Barnett on her novel Gifts, and recommended non-fiction books of 2021.
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A service of carols, hymns, and readings live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
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The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the nation.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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William Goldman’s witty cult classic of true love and high adventure.
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1/2 1/2 The Nativity. The Archers present a magical version of the medieval dramas.
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James MacMillan considers Mozart’s complex faith life at a time of reform and revolution.
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The enduring appeal and spiritual meaning of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.
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1/3 Psychotherapist and writer Philippa Perry attempts to unpick the tangled idea of desire.
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Nina Sosanya picks Jeanne Baret, first woman round the globe.
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Matthew Syed asks whether thinking musically could bring us more harmony in our lives.
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The scientists and journalists who have become characters within the Covid story.
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Should we eat, drink and be merry or make sacrifices now to benefit our future selves?
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Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain.
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Julian Worricker on a writer, a conservationist, an entertainer, a film director.
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Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll
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Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts look back at the highlights of their first year at the helm.
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Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Fi and Jane are joined by Clare Balding and Alice Arnold for their Christmas Day Special.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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17:57
The latest weather reports and forecast
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How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity
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17:40
Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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17:57
The latest weather reports and forecast
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Boris Johnson decides against an immediate introduction of new measures against Omicron.
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18:30
4/6 Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games.
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18:00
The Government confirms no new Covid restrictions will be imposed in England before Xmas
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7/8 Hancock throws a Christmas party and finds himself in court.
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Scientists have approved Covid jabs for children as young as 5, at risk of severe illness
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18:30
The couple prepare to spend a quiet Christmas with friends, or so they think.
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The Health Secretary warns the NHS could be overwhelmed by a surge in Omicron.
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18:30
Tim Vine pulls a cracker with the great British Public
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Officials encouraged by data suggesting omicron is less likely to cause serious illness
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3/3 A special where the team look back at 2021 in various alternate earths in the multiverse.
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The Queen has spoken poignantly of the death of Prince Philip in her Christmas message.
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Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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Bella Mackie presents her pick of the best podcasts of 2021.
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Susan’s got the green eye.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal on her new film, The Lost Daughter.
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Oliver offers words of wisdom.
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Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride
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Jazzer’s got stage fright.
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Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film Licorice Pizza.
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Someone comes knocking for Alan
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Call the Midwife writer and creator Heidi Thomas on the art of the Christmas special.
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4/5 How have the rebel poets stormed the establishment? Lemn Sissay charts their rise.
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Ellen and Mark explore festive screen favourites It's A Wonderful Life and Second Coming.
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Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages.
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Sting reveals the experiences and influences that shaped his songwriting career.
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Susan’s got the wrong end of the stick
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Nigel Rees presents a compilation of the best quotations from Quote… Unquote’s history.
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9/10 A new short story series for Radio 4 by Eley Williams, set in a village gripped by chess.
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A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become.
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A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen.
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How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity
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Join our virtual Christmas party, with music and lots of stories.
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Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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3/5 Stanley Tucci remembers the television cooks who inspired him to follow in their footsteps
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Could space be the next frontier for conflict? And what would it look like?
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Evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven on the impact of testosterone. With Helen Lewis.
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Clive Anderson with a choice of some of the best Loose Ends music performances.
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Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
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What is the enduring appeal of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?
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Following the death of archbishop Desmond Tutu, Gerry Northam takes a look at his life.
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Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
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Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese python.
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Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
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Fish Oils for depression, Pain pleasure and a good life, kindness, and memory for comedy.
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7/9 Strange Tales from the Culture Wars by Jon Ronson.
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3/3 The trials and triumphs of young farmers.
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21:30
The scientists and journalists who have become characters within the Covid story.
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Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain.
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21:30
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
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21:00
Barry Humphries exchanges poetry and prose with Miriam Margolyes and Rob Brydon.
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Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot.
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21:45
The Bard of Salford performs classic and unheard poems at the BBC's Radio Theatre.
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Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot.
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21:45
Catherine Jessop makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Encephalitis Society.
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21:48
Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
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Cabinet meets – PM “reserves the possibility” of further action
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22:45
1/5 Alex Jennings reads Brian Sibley's imaginative retelling of the Christmas story.
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22:00
PM had been under increasing pressure to provide clarity
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22:45
2/5 Poor Joseph! An ordinary man caught up in extraordinary events.
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JCVI says at-risk children as young as five should be offered jab
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22:45
3/5 Cool Gabriel reminds us Joseph was chosen for his humility.
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22:00
People with Covid up to 70% less likely to need hospital treatment than with Delta
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22:45
4/5 Back in Nazareth the baby, Jesus, starts to grow up.
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Kirsty Wark reunites some of the stars of the 2003 Christmas film Love Actually.
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5/5 Joseph is ill. Mary is there. Gabriel watches over them both.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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22:15
Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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22:00
From Afghanistan to Sondheim, Adam Fleming and guests reflect on the stories of the year.
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An exploration of death from 1985 by Piers Plowright and Malcolm Clarke.
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1/3 Katy Long investigates 100 years of refugee politics.
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1986 documentary about mining community life by acclaimed radio producer Piers Plowright.
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2/3 Katy Long continues her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
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2/4 Ruby is joined by a neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk to talk about being human.
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1/4 Break-out comedy star Sophie Willan looks at how 'normal' we are as parents.
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3/3 Katy Long concludes her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
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Nina Sosanya picks Jeanne Baret, first woman round the globe.
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23:30
Comic poet Tim Key celebrates Christmas, via the medium of poetry.
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23:00
The carol that touched the lives of the former Archbishop of York and singer, Katie Melua.
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23:30
Midnight Mass with celebrant and preacher the Right Rev John Arnold, bishop of Salford.
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23:00
Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz.
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Two climbers experience the most terrifying night of their lives in the Scottish highlands
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1/6 A Christmas Day Zoom and attending a funeral as a five-year-old.
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Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort.
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