| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor takes a sociological look at everyday life. Plus cafe society.(R) 00:45Bells from the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Wilfred, Ripon, North Yorkshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Diana Athill debunks the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 50s was dreary.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Diana describes the miscarriage that almost killed her, aged 43, in the early 1960s.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Diana Athill explains how she relinquished her independence and moved into a care home.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Approaching her 98th birthday, Diana Athill shares her thoughts and feelings about death.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Diana Athill looks back on the things that have brought her simple pleasure through life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Glenn Patterson. A couple grab a moment of passion in their bedroom cupboard.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. 05:45This week the programme is investigating livestock rustling as thieves target farm animals 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the diminutive spoon-billed sandpiper of the high Russian tundra.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. 05:45Farmers in Cumbria face the floods, with livestock under water and land inaccessible. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the blue rock thrush, perched high on a Spanish castle.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. 05:45A look at how farmers can be part of the solution to prevent flooding. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents brown skua hunting over an Antarctic landscape.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. 05:45Food security expert demands greater policing to keep stolen livestock from the food chain 05:58Liz Bonnin presents Montserrat oriole from the Caribbean island of Montserrat.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. 05:45Livestock theft cost £6.6m in the UK last year - farmers are now fighting back. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the displaying raggiana bird-of-paradise from Papua New Guinea.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45A listener describes her experience of being sectioned.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells from the Church of St Augustine, Brooklands, Kent. 05:45Chris Bowlby profiles the outspoken world heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits the Lincolnshire Coast to find new life and regeneration in the winter.(R) 06:30A look at the growing problem of organised livestock rustling. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05During Advent, Mark Tully asks what we learn from Christmas myths. 06:35Micro cress, baby veg and edible flowers. Meet the farmer who specialises in the tiny. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news. Includes Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Jon Bentley presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Third in an Advent series, Learning to See, live from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. 08:48Howard Jacobson reflects on his lifelong passion for buying second-hand books.(R) 08:58Liz Bonnin presents the diminutive spoon-billed sandpiper of the high Russian tundra.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Madawi Al-Rasheed, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Morris and William Patey. 09:451/5Diana Athill debunks the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 50s was dreary.
| 09:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great theory. 09:303/5What do fairy tales teach girls about what a woman should be?(R) 09:452/5Diana describes the miscarriage that almost killed her, aged 43, in the early 1960s.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets photographer Don McCullin and triathlete and coach Fiona Ford. 09:453/5Diana Athill explains how she relinquished her independence and moved into a care home.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor. 09:454/5Approaching her 98th birthday, Diana Athill shares her thoughts and feelings about death.
| 09:00Atul Gawande, surgeon and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Diana Athill looks back on the things that have brought her simple pleasure through life.
| 09:00The children's author Michael Morpurgo joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Lily Tomlin, The Chain with Samantha Morton, South African women challenging sex myths. 10:451/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.
| 10:00National Front MP Marion Marechal-Le Pen and her appeal to the far right in France. 10:452/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.
| 10:00Aimee Mullins is the latest interviewee in The Chain. 10:413/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India. 10:55The Troubles still cast a long shadow in Northern Ireland, but there is light, too.
| 10:00Teaching the next generation the art of costume construction. Jenni Murray presents. 10:454/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Singer Annie Lennox talks about who inspires her. 10:455/5by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.
| 10:30Bridget Kendall asks why the Russians are one step ahead in the world of ballroom dancing.
| 10:00Helen is paid a special visit, and will someone help restore some Grundy 'pluck'?
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| 11:00 | 11:00Stephen Evans goes deep into the Milky Way to look at the phenomenon of StarCraft. 11:303/5Hancock needs to get married to get a job. A 1955 original re-recorded in in 2015.
| 11:00The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.(R) 11:30The Brecht/Weill song Mack the Knife written for The Threepenny Opera in 1928.
| 11:00Sanjeev Kohli visits a Chinese-owned castle in the Scottish glens. 11:301/4As he prepares to leave Barra for ever, an old man remembers the times of his life.
| 11:00Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected? 11:30Rome's famous Piazza di Spagna has a secret British history that still reverberates.(R)
| 11:002/3Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to Istanbul. 11:303/4An all-star cast led by Patricia Hodge with Michael Frayn's brilliant take on our world.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30The Americans who believe Donald Trump is the man for the US presidency.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to pop star Kylie Minogue.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Razia Iqbal talks to Hilal Sezgin about what it means to a Muslim in modern Germany.(R) 12:15Including a look at government plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% in early 2016. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Steve Backshall speaks to professional rock climber Leo Houlding.(R) 12:15Shari Vahl asks for listeners' experiences of flooding. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Victoria Derbyshire talks to fellow diarist Alastair Campbell about why he keeps a diary.(R) 12:15A look at the trend for kitsch Christmas decor - how much is too much? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Christina Lamb talks to Ziauddin Yousafzai, whose daughter Malala was shot by the Taliban.(R) 12:15Motoring journalist Quentin Willson explains why he regrets endorsing an investment scheme 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04David Schneider talks of his fear of death to palliative care consultant Kathryn Mannix.(R) 12:15Peter White asks why more cases of fraud in the UK aren't being investigated by the police 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04There has been a call to scrap Gift Aid, which boosts the value of charitable donations. 12:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:042/6Jack Dee, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by Tony Hawks.(R) 12:32Cheese educator and campaigner Juliet Harbutt shares her life in food with Sheila Dillon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism, starting with rebel thinker John Locke
| 13:00Iain Duncan Smith on Universal Credit, plus a floods update. Presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Anne McElvoy revisits the innovative ideas of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson on liberalism
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45A Jamaican rebellion rouses Victorian liberals against state violence. With Anne McElvoy.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:45Anne McElvoy explores how 'Gladstonian' liberalism came to dominate Victorian Britain.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents debate and discussion from Cardinal Wiseman School in Middlesex(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30The extraordinary story of the day an epic Holocaust documentary was premiered in Israel.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Debating David is down in the dumps.(R) 14:15By James O'Neill. Black comedy set in rural Ireland.
| 14:00Helen is paid a special visit.(R) 14:15Comic play by Ed Harris. A tattooist finds herself in a fairytale - with real fairies.(R)
| 14:00Phoebe is under the spotlight.(R) 14:152/10Epic historical saga set in the richest, most powerful city on earth.
| 14:00Old news is big news for Kirsty.(R) 14:15By Eve Davies. Powerful drama about historical child abuse.
| 14:00Will someone help restore some Grundy 'pluck'?(R) 14:15What would have happened to The Beatles if George Martin had turned them down?(R)
| 14:00Listeners' calls on unregistered schools and if Donald Trump should be banned from the UK. 14:301990s Shanghai crime drama. Chen pursues a Triad killing and a missing character dancer.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the New North London Synagogue.(R) 14:45Life after the Troubles, taking on a farm, and filling retirement with fund-raising.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The contest of cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe. 15:30With two new food museums in London and New York, Sheila Dillon asks how to exhibit food.(R)
| 15:00How does a school recover from failure after being put into special measures? 15:30Three graduates discuss their experience of university and whether it was the right choice
| 15:00Paul Lewis takes listeners' queries and views on all aspects of personal credit. 15:30Including a look at the dismantling of Europe's largest brain bank.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the Lincolnshire Coast to find new life and regeneration in the winter. 15:27The Rev Dr Sam Wells makes the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal for St Martin-in-the-Fields.(R) 15:30Colum McCann discusses his Man Booker-nominated novel TransAtlantic. With James Naughtie.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the New North London Synagogue. 15:45Aasmah Mir reports on how the money from the 2014 appeal has been spent.(R)
| 15:30The Brecht/Weill song Mack the Knife written for The Threepenny Opera in 1928.(R)
| 15:002/2An inventive adaptation by Glen Neath of wondrously entertaining and earthy tales.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Smetana's hymn to his native Czech land - Ma Vlast is the manuscript subject this week.(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the impact of the Vatican document Nostra Aetate.
| 16:00Michael Blastland examines the psychology of us and them and perceptions of 'the other'. 16:30Dickie Bird champions his hero Sir Leonard Hutton.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores forgotten acres and looks at creating a sense of 'home' at work. 16:30Including a look at the impact of the TV leadership debates.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to the child star of Carol Reed's Fallen Idol seven decades later. 16:30Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
| 16:00Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died. 16:30Radio 4's forum for listener comment. 16:55Moving to a farm was a leap in the dark, but the alpacas are helping it all work out
| 16:00The US comedy actress Lily Tomlin discusses her new film Grandma.
| 16:00The best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost classics. 16:30Paul Farley meets poet James Fenton, recipient of the 2015 Pen Pinter prize.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30A listener describes her experience of being sectioned.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Robert Peston investigates the future for secondary education.(R) 17:40Chris Bowlby profiles the outspoken world heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The number of homes flooded in Cumbria and Lancashire has doubled to five thousand. 18:302/6Jack Dee, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by Tony Hawks.
| 18:00Security agents missed an opportunity to capture the ring-leader of the Paris attacks 18:305/6Vera and Henry get into a stew about who should tell their sons the facts of life.(R)
| 18:00An NHS trust has been criticised for not carrying out proper investigations into deaths. 18:304/6The Wrigglesworths ponder a pet, while Tom plans a weekend getaway.
| 18:00Inspections into mental health trusts to be introduced following uninvestigated deaths 18:302/4Tina and the band look back at 1999, when she became a feminist icon. With Jenni Murray.
| 18:00Hopes are growing of an agreement at the UN climate change conference in Paris. 18:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Delegates at climate change summit in Paris agree a deal to limit global warming. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay -- Shaker Aamer -- speaks to the BBC 18:15Catherine Bott chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Helen is paid a special visit. 19:15Jim Broadbent and Patrick Barlow discuss A Christmas Carol. Samira Ahmed presents. 19:451/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.(R)
| 19:00Phoebe is under the spotlight. 19:15Andrew Graham-Dixon discusses his TV documentary on the Mona Lisa. Samira Ahmed presents. 19:452/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.(R)
| 19:00Old news is big news for Kirsty. 19:15John Wilson talks to Peter Mullan about his new film Hector. 19:453/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.(R)
| 19:00Will someone help restore some Grundy 'pluck'? 19:15Literary critic Christopher Ricks discusses TS Eliot's annotated poems. With John Wilson. 19:454/5Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.(R)
| 19:00Ian and Adam have a wedding to plan. 19:15Including a review of Lily Tomlin's new comedy Grandma. Kirsty Lang presents. 19:455/5by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Booker award winning book set in two separate eras in India.(R)
| 19:00Chris Bowlby profiles the outspoken world heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury. 19:15Including a look at wonder.land, Damon Albarn's re-imagining of Lewis Carol's tales.
| 19:154/4Evelyn and Gertie try to be nice, and - there's been a murder! 19:45Lionel Shriver reads her short story inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Matthew Sweet asks if there is a moral difference between lying and misleading. 20:30Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful past.(R)
| 20:00Robert Peston investigates the future for secondary education. 20:40The way blind students get support is changing, so will it work?
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Alpa Shah argues that tribal people need a better development model.
| 20:00Investigating bullying allegations in the conservative youth movement. John Manel reports. 20:30The trucking industry has a staffing shortage, but why aren't more women behind the wheel?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents debate and discussion from Cardinal Wiseman School in Middlesex 20:50Howard Jacobson reflects on his lifelong passion for buying second-hand books.
| 20:00Richard Hollingham uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for listener comment.(R) 20:30Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00The care organisations pioneering new ways of looking after people in their own homes.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Madawi Al-Rasheed, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Morris and William Patey.(R)
| 21:00Including a look at the dismantling of Europe's largest brain bank. 21:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great theory.(R)
| 21:00Jake the spaceman crashes on a planet and has to eat the locals. Do they feel pain? 21:30Libby Purves meets photographer Don McCullin and triathlete and coach Fiona Ford.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor.(R)
| 21:001/2Anne McElvoy tours British liberalism from the 'Glorious' Revolution to the Edwardian era.
| 21:001/2An inventive adaptation by Glen Neath of wondrously entertaining and earthy tales.(R)
| 21:00There has been a call to scrap Gift Aid, which boosts the value of charitable donations.(R) 21:26Jon Bentley presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children.(R) 21:30The trucking industry has a staffing shortage, but why aren't more women behind the wheel?
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| 22:00 | 22:00Government delays Heathrow v Gatwick, FN's 'fantastic' elections, Trump 'Muslim ban' storm 22:456/10Carl is pushed to breaking point by his blackmailing tenant, Dermot.
| 22:00Donald Trump rejects criticism of his call for complete ban on Muslims entering US 22:457/10Dermot is gone but Carl's relief is fleeting.
| 22:00NHS Confederation chair Stephen Dorrell calls a report on deaths in the NHS 'depressing'. 22:458/10Sybil moves in - and Carl is powerless to stop her.
| 22:00The government has put off a decision about airport expansion at Heathrow or Gatwick. 22:459/10Carl decides he must rid himself of Sybil. Read by Patricia Hodge.
| 22:00The latest from the climate change summit in Paris. 22:4510/10Carl is forced to face up to what he has done.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dan Hodges of the Telegraph looks at how the newspapers are covering the week's stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jarvis Cocker finds himself snowbound in his nocturnal exploration of the human condition. 23:30MPs pay tribute to the emergency services following the flooding caused by Storm Desmond.
| 23:001/4The sketch show written by the public with Jason Manford and Janice Connolly. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/6Gail takes her husband's car and embarks on a surprising journey. With Sarah Hadland. 23:152/6Even the most successful writers have, at some point, had to take jobs to pay the bills.(R) 23:30George Osborne stands in for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions.
| 23:004/5Jon Ronson investigates why the least deserving people often get the richest rewards.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Dickie Bird champions his hero Sir Leonard Hutton.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster as Tony Blair gives evidence on Libya. 23:55Retirement has left time for charity and fund-raising.
| 23:00The contest of cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe. 23:30An exchange of villages inspires Romanian poet Ioana Ieronim and UK poet Fiona Sampson.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to the child star of Carol Reed's Fallen Idol seven decades later.(R) 23:30During Advent, Mark Tully asks what we learn from Christmas myths.(R)
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