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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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Matthew Syed explores how inspiring teachers can change the world, one student at a time.
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Bells on Sunday comes from the parish church of St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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1/5 Adrian Dunbar reads an eloquent account of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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2/5 Teaching in California, Seamus Heaney finds a new perspective on events back in Ulster.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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3/5 Settled outside Dublin, Heaney is working up to his longest, most audacious poem yet.
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00:48
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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4/5 Critically acclaimed poet Seamus Heaney is about to be recognised on the global stage.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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5/5 In the wake of his Nobel Prize, Heaney struggles to balance the many demands on his time.
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The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
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John Kearns pulls up his sleigh to share recordings of family Christmas dinners gone by.
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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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TEST MATCH SPECIAL: Men's Ashes. Australia v England, The 2nd Test from the Adelaide Oval.
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TEST MATCH SPECIAL: Men's Ashes. Australia v England. Commentary on the 2nd Test.
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TEST MATCH SPECIAL: Men's Ashes. Australia v England. Commentary on the 2nd Test.
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TEST MATCH SPECIAL: Men's Ashes. Australia v England. Commentary on the 2nd Test.
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05:00
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:30
The latest news from BBC Radio 4
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05:43
A reflection and prayer to start the day with Catherine De Souza.
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05:45
Could payments for improving your soil end up as a ‘postcode lottery’?
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05:56
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
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05:58
Wildlife cameraman Neil Anderson recounts a golden eagle encounter for Tweet of the Day.
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05:20
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:30
The latest news from BBC Radio 4
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05:43
A reflection and prayer to start the day with Catherine De Souza.
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05:45
Can GPS technology be used to smooth trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
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05:58
Environmentalist Tony Juniper describes the joy of seeing and hearing corn buntings.
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05:20
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:30
The latest news from BBC Radio 4
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05:43
A reflection and prayer to start the day with Catherine De Souza.
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05:45
UK farmers are planning to grow less fruit and veg, because of a lack of labour.
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Wildlife photographer John MacPherson recalls the herring gull for Tweet of 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, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament.
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All the news from the UK's Parliaments.
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Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
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Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Mark Tan.
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6/9 Strange Tales from the Culture Wars with Jon Ronson.
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09:30
Tara Munroe reveals what she learned when she rescued some badly damaged paintings.
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Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
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3/4 What will artificial intelligence mean for the future of work?
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Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Mark Coffey.
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What's the impact of providing childcare for your grandchildren?
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Actor Tamsin Greig. Pregnant women and the booster jab. Volunteering. Miss World at 70.
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What's the impact of missing out on traditional teen experiences because of Covid?
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The staff of Cornwall Airport prepare to receive President Biden for the G7 summit.
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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 unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese python.
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A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
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3/4 The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
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1/2 The irrepressible Maureen Lipman delivers her comic monologues in the BBC Radio Theatre
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Hector faces a health assessment. Stars Jamie Sives.
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1/5 Local coal merchant Bill Furlong prepares for Christmas with his wife and five daughters.
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Consumer Minister Paul Scully on calls for tighter regulation of online marketplaces.
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The latest weather forecast
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Eileen tells Furlong the latest news from around town.
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How easy is it for you to get a vaccine or booster jab? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk
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The latest weather forecast
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3/5 Whilst out on his deliveries, Furlong has an unexpected encounter.
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The growing trend for collecting vintage make up.
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4/5 A visit to Wilson’s prompts Furlong to reconsider his childhood.
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Alternative hearses and is it time for more protection against dodgy builders?
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The latest weather forecast
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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12:04
On Christmas Eve, Furlong is faced with an impossible decision.
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12:18
Animal charities call for mandatory first aid training for pet professionals like groomers
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12:57
The latest weather forecast
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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12:04
Two energy suppliers demand payment for the same gas usage.
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2/3 For the first time, recorded live to air.
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The latest weather forecast
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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3/6 Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games.
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12:32
Big names in the food world join Dan and Sheila with their favourite Christmas dishes.
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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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1/10 Biella Coleman explores the earliest hacking subculture - Phone Phreaks.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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2/10 Biella Coleman tells the story of the first global internet worm.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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3/10 Biella Coleman discovers how hackers created the security industry.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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4/10 Biella Coleman discovers how France once forced hackers to work for the government.
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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
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5/10 Biella explores the legacy of Aaron Swartz on the hacker community.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
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13:10
Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from St Luke's School, Redbourn.
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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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Skip diving and foraging, playing Santa and financial hardship at Christmas and beyond.
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Tom receives an unexpected gift.
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7/3 By Roy Williams. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
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Mia’s making a bold statement
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5/3 By Winsome Pinnock. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
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Tom gets a load off his mind
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3/3 By Rex Obano. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
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14:00
Will begins to smell a rat.
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6/7 How do you survive when everything you love is at risk?
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14:00
Ruth gets herself worked up.
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1/2 Magic, mystery and malevolence for the immortal wanderer.
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Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?
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14:45
Faced with selling her house Carys unsurprisingly opts for a world of perpetual Christmas.
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Peter Gibbs and the team are at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex.
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14:45
Lynsey Hanley tells the story of Steve whose one bedroom flat has plummeted in value.
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Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz.
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15:30
In search of the meaning of cod, Dan Saladino travels to the Norwegian island of Lofoten.
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Josie Long presents short documentaries on the days after your life changes.
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15:30
Ben Wright asks whether a privileged education is under threat.
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Felicity Hannah looks at the financial world of NFTs, non-fungible tokens.
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The power of expectation, buildings and neurodiversity, and music therapy for Parkinson's.
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Inspired by Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, our relationship with walls is explored.
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15:27
Sally Hurst makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bone Cancer Research Trust.
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Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.
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Peter Gibbs and the team are at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex.
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15:45
An ill-timed attempt to kick a football leads to a trip to the hospital.
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Kamran Abbasi considers the roots of Yorkshire County Cricket Club's problems with racism.
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Michael Palin stars in the Terry Jones/Douglas Adams sci-fi comedy.
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Comedian Daliso Chaponda unravels the myriad personas of Vonnegut's Mother Night.
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Why does Christianity play such a big role in the corners of so many fighters?
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Nadine Shah embarks on a personal journey into the controversial fitness phenomenon Barre.
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16:30
Advertising guru Rory Sutherland on the founder of the New York punk band, the Ramones.
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Matthew Syed explores ideas that shape our lives, making us see the world differently.
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The Channel 4 News presenter on politicians, impartiality and a flight with Idi Amin.
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16:00
Are some thoughts too evil to think?
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16:30
A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe.
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16:00
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.
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16:30
Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations
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Actor Tamsin Greig on her latest role as the legendary theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay.
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16:00
Laura Barnett on her novel Gifts, and recommended non-fiction books of 2021.
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Geoff Bird charts the sadness and excitement of children growing up and flying the nest.
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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17:54
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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17:00
Full coverage of the day's news
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17:30
Nick Robinson talks to the chair of the Social Mobility Commission Katharine Birbalsingh.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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The story of an extraordinary mass fraud that gripped Albania in the 1990s.
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The academic who left GlaxoSmithKline to become the government‘s chief scientific adviser.
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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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The latest weather reports and forecast
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Long queues at vaccination centres after the PM speeds up coronavirus booster programme.
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3/6 Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games.
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A woman has been convicted of murdering her partner's 16-month-old daughter.
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4/4 Richard Wilson stars as the private eyes investigate a sinister-looking retirement home.
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The UK has reported a record daily total of new coronavirus cases, more than 78,500
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Fi Glover presents a DEC Afghanistan Crisis Appeal.
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3/3 Mark travels to the North Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby.
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Nearly 90,000 daily infections recorded as Omicron wave rises.
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6/6 Can a brief appearance from Richard Osman lighten the mood?
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The Prime Minister said he took responsibility for North Shropshire loss to Lib Dems
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2/3 For the first time, recorded live to air.
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A major incident has been declared in London, amid a surge in cases of Omicron
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Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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The Foreign Secretary will become the lead negotiator on the Northern Ireland Protocol
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Nicola Beckford chooses the best of BBC audio this week.
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Mia’s making a bold statement
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Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, and BBC TV's drama series A Very British Scandal.
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Tom gets a load off his mind
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Covid-related theatre closures and a dance round-up with Sarah Crompton.
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Will begins to smell a rat.
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Derek Jarman Protest opens at the Manchester Art Gallery and Benjamin Cleary on Swan Song.
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Ruth gets herself worked up.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up reviewed.
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3/5 Lemn Sissay explores the biggest innovation in poetry of the last 50 years - the slam.
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Ellen and Mark explore the big and small screen precedents for Netflix's biggest shows.
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The academic who left GlaxoSmithKline to become the government‘s chief scientific adviser.
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Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson reveals the creative turning points of his life.
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Lynda seeks divine justice.
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It's Christmas Eve at Alcoholics Anonymous and Andy is waiting for the others to turn up.
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8/10 Tracy-Ann Oberman continues by Eley Williams series set in a village gripped by chess.
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80 years after female conscription, the final few tell their extraordinary WW2 stories.
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A battle of wills between Belarus and the EU leaves a border community divided.
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The story of an extraordinary mass fraud that gripped Albania in the 1990s.
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We explore access requirements when applying for British citizenship.
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Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
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20:45
3/5 Settled outside Dublin, Heaney is working up to his longest, most audacious poem yet.
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Russian troops are amassed close to the Ukrainian border - what's happening and why?
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Shipping strategist Mark Williams on decarbonising shipping and the future of trade.
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Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from St Luke's School, Redbourn.
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Will Self on our fetishisation of property.
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Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.
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Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations
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Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.
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Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
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Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
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The power of expectation, buildings and neurodiversity, and music therapy for Parkinson's.
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6/9 Strange Tales from the Culture Wars with Jon Ronson.
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2/3 Giving voice to the trials and triumphs of young farmers.
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The Channel 4 News presenter on politicians, impartiality and a flight with Idi Amin.
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A new giant space telescope that will show us the first stars that shone in the universe.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
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The story of one man's toxic obsession and the battle for South Africa's future.
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6/6 Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly
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1/2 The Bard of Salford performs classic and unheard poems at the BBC's Radio Theatre.
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Two energy suppliers demand payment for the same gas usage.
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Nozandulela (Nozi) Samela makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of mothers2mothers.
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3/4 The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
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Long waits at some centres providing jabs
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1/5 Local coal merchant Bill Furlong prepares for Christmas with his wife and five daughters.
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99 Tory MPs vote against mandatory Covid passes
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22:45
Eileen tells Furlong the latest news from around town.
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22:00
CMO says more infection records likely to be broken
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22:45
3/5 Whilst out on his deliveries, Furlong has an unexpected encounter.
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88,000 cases confirmed in latest 24 hour period
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4/5 A visit to Wilson’s prompts Furlong to reconsider his childhood.
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Cabinet Secretary steps back from Christmas parties inquiry
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22:45
On Christmas Eve, Furlong is faced with an impossible decision.
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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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Carolyn Quinn hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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Jarvis goes into hospital, and the anaesthetic gives him some very strange visions.
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All the news from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
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Geoff Bird charts the sadness and excitement of children growing up and flying the nest.
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Sean Curran reports on a huge rebellion by Conservative MPs against the new Covid rules.
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1/4 Ruby is joined by a neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk to talk about being human.
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7/7 Jon Holmes remixes the news into a disturbing, satirical, current affairs concept album.
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News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
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8/8 Stand-up comedy with Fred MacAulay and guests, from The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle.
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News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
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23:00
Advertising guru Rory Sutherland on the founder of the New York punk band, the Ramones.
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23:30
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
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23:00
Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz.
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23:30
Can a house record the tragic events of the past and replay them every night?
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23:00
Are some thoughts too evil to think?
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During Advent, Mark Tully asks what we learn from Christmas myths.
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