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Miles Jupp s the team of elves at Santa's post office in the Arctic Circle.
BBC Radio 4
One mans' (sorry, man's) secret battle against sloppy punctuation on Bristol's shop signs.
Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Winifred Robinson follows misbehaving children and the work being done to help them.
The life and works of JS Bach
BBC World Service
Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud?
America's relationship with guns - told through archive.
Mumbai-based comedian Aditi Mittal presents a guide to her home country.
Michael Symmons Roberts explores the changing faces of atheism in modern Britain.
Charting the early years of the AIDS crisis, as told by the people who lived through it
A short series about people of different cultures around the world enjoying a night out.
Jane Garvey examines the topic of menstruation and asks if attitudes are finally changing.
A young policeman gets sucked into some dodgy dealings.
Zareer Masani on the new love for, and controversy over, Western classical music in India.
There's no end to man's fascination with infinity
Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations.
American satirist Joe Queenan asks what is progress and has it run out?
Lynne Truss explores the history of the Speaking Clock. With Professor Stephen Hawking.
Nadim Ednan-Laperouse reflects on his extraordinary religious experience.
Alexandra Harris tells how the weather has been reflected in British culture.
The story of phone phreaking: the teenagers who hacked the US phone system.
Series exploring protest art in Latin America.
Musician and producer Harmony Samuels reveals how to have a successful career in music.
Clare Jenkins explores the emotional challenges faced when clearing out her parents' home.
Greg Proops looks back at the life of Bob Hope, whose career spanned the 20th century.
Christine Lampard hosts a gala concert to mark 100 years of the BBC in Northern Ireland.
BBC One Northern Ireland
Groundbreaking series following Julia Grant through her life as a transgender person.
BBC Two
Emily Buchanan explores the dilemmas of sponsoring children in developing countries.
The classic ghost story by Charles Dickens.
School Radio
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge needs some CBeebies magic to help him share the joy of Christmas!
CBeebies
Read by Sean Baker. Produced by Anne Bunting.
BBC Sounds
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society hijack a BBC production of A Christmas Carol.
BBC One
Mark Gatiss's fantastic theatrical production of Dickens’s classic winter ghost story.
BBC Four
William Crawley explores the decline of the Catholic church's authority in society.
How London has grown in size and spread into the surrounding country. (1964)
BBC
A recollection of Derry/Londonderry, written and narrated by the late Gerry Anderson.
A reappraisal of Raymond Chandler, the Englishman who invented the PI as we know him.
Tristram Shandy guides viewers through the epic tale of his life.
The Martha Graham Dance Company's US State Department tour of Southeast Asia, 1974.
Celebrity chefs try out different recipes from around the world.
Patients and doctors in a Lake District village fight to save their GP surgery.
The sounds of nature - all over the world
Douglas Alexander asks how we can overcome the forces that divide us.
Tom Chivers considers the moral and ethical dilemmas around our response to coronavirus.
A dance star (Fred Astaire) pursues an aristocratic heiress (Joan Fontaine).
First deaths and last dances - when a dancer's body begins to change.
The inside story of a family dynasty at the heart of one of the world's biggest problems.
The theatre of justice: how Crown Courts work
An entertaining glimpse of most populous creatures on the planet
A day in the life of the busiest international airport in the world
Even through lockdown boatloads of refugees made the dangerous crossing by boat to the UK.
Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound trade in fake essays and dissertations
How one community dentist is navigating the biggest crisis in dentistry in a generation.
Mary-Ann Ochota visits Bangladesh and India to ask why 2.3bn people lack adequate toilets.
What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? Lara Lewington explores AI territory.
Facing his own mortality, an artist collaborates with a farmer to transform toxic dyes.
Tim Brooke-Taylor views Chaplin's legacy in the theatre of his grandson James Thierree.
How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity
The stories of three women in a touching exploration of what it means to be childless.
How five boys and one fandom changed things forever.
An American serving as an ambulance driver during World War I falls in love with a nurse.
Angela Hartnett investigates why we eat so little of the fish and seafood we catch.
Melanie Phillips explores the limits of free speech.
A look at the challenges and opportunities facing Africa
Justin Rowlatt tells the story of how our planet was made
Mark Gatiss presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter’s night.
Five years ago, a schoolgirl was murdered by her boyfriend. Case closed. Or is it?
BBC Three
A story of remarkable bravery from the Rwandan genocide of twenty years ago.
Find reading inspiration with favourite books chosen by our guests.
The natural world
Jane Garvey's world of knitting - full of rebels, musicians, jailbirds and reality TV.
Brett Westwood and Phil Gates present a guide to some of Britain's coastal wildlife.
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?
How to recognise birds of the British countryside from their appearance, calls and songs
Brett Westwood and Phil Gates present a guide to some of Britain's common garden wildlife
Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss offer a guide to Britain's upland birds
Neil Oliver's epic story of how Britain and its people came to be
Andrew Dilnot investigates the patterns and trends that have transformed Britain
Experimental psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
Kirsty Logan explores the evolution of Ghost Lore.
How history went global
Allan Little explores how hatred has been stoked and manipulated throughout history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.
Series looking at political thinkers and sets of political beliefs throughout history
Dr Geoff Bunn journeys through 5,000 years of human understanding of the brain
Adrian Moore journeys through philosophical thought on infinity over thousands of years.
Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects
The British Museum's Neil MacGregor tells A History of the World in 100 Objects.
The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.
The British enthusiasts and their undying ions
Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through ten homes and their owners.
An early film by Ken Russell about the tenants of a house in Bayswater. (1960)
Sitcom about a family who go back in time for a TV show, which can barely afford it.
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now.
Marcia Warren stars in a tale of a woman who notes signs of life in a derelict house
Life of Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake, on the centenary of his birth, by his children.
