| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Creativity re-examined. Has it become a meaningless buzz word for our times?(R) 00:45The bells of St Maunanus and St Stephen, Mawnan in Cornwall.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Michael Palin's new book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Michael Palin's new book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30When should you run away and when should you hide in a phone box? 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 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 Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Farmers want exemption from Scottish government plans for a plastic bottles deposit scheme 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the common crane.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Leaked documents show Natural England is due to miss its SSSI targets. 05:58The Little Egret - Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Anna Hill hears why UK food producers might be facing a double-whammy of tariffs. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the oystercatcher.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Charlotte Smith hears about what can be done to offset market volatility in agriculture. 05:58Actor Samuel West recalls how a riddle in Hamlet was unpicked on a bird-watching trip.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45More than 12,000 acres of green belt land has been released for development in 2017/18. 05:58Writer and wildlife programme-maker Stephen Moss recalls the first time he saw a bittern.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard Reddie. 05:45A listener on what happened when she bought medicine for her child online
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from St John the Baptist, Burford in Oxfordshire. 05:45Mark Coles profiles children's author and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman.
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Walking the Whithorn Way in south west Scotland 06:30Steffan Messenger finds out about farm produce which isn't grown for consumers to buy. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Sarah Goldingay examines our ongoing relationship with our ancestors. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is with Ian Wallace looking for caddis in Lake Windermere. From 2007. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News headlines and sport.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, with William Crawley 07:54Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Medical Aid Films 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | 08:57Matthew Bannister makes an appeal on behalf of the DEC Indonesia Tsunami Appeal
| | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Bishop James Jones reflects on the York Mystery Plays, with extracts from the 2018 cast. 08:48Val McDermid on why mass tourism is destroying the very thing we crave when we travel. 08:58Theatre maker Tom Bailey on marsh warbler migration in his Tweet of the Day takeover.
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| 09:00 | 09:00The author of Sapiens and Homo Deus in conversation with Andrew Marr 09:45Michael Palin's new book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845
| 09:0055,000 people completed the BBC Loneliness Experiment: the results reveal who gets lonely. 09:45Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845
| 09:00Gemma Cairney takes Charlotte Church to Georgia for a musical collaboration. 09:30Alan Dein asks five families revealing questions about leisure time, the past and future. 09:45Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age. 09:45Michael Palin's new book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845
| 09:00Diver Tom Daley is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. 09:45Michael Palin's book follows the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS Erebus in 1845
| 09:00Football star Kevin Keegan, comedian Romesh Ranganathan and designer Zandra Rhodes.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Melissa Laveaux, Canadian-Haitian singer, songwriter and guitarist 10:451/5Maya Angelou's third volume of memoirs, covering her tour of Porgy & Bess
| 10:00Jacqueline Wilson on her new book, Tory women and Brexit and mental health in the young. 10:452/5Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar.
| 10:00Young female poets; Iraqi women; Scarlett Curtis; premature babies and crocheted octopuses 10:413/5Maya auditions for Gershwin's world-famous opera, Porgy and Bess. 10:55The guts, hard work and staying power that lie behind a successful curry restaurant
| 10:00Jenni Murray talks to author Jessie Burton about feminist fairy tales 10:454/5Maya tours internationally with Porgy and Bess
| 10:00The Sweet Science of Bruising: four Victorian women boxers in 19th-century London. 10:455/5Maya returns home after a long international tour with Porgy and Bess.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Newcastle.
| 10:00Elizabeth stuggles to accept the truth and there's a shock for Fallon
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| 11:00 | 11:00The heartbreaking stories of Syrians living and dying in besieged cities. 11:301/6Return of comic Josh Howie trying to come to terms with the birth of his first child.
| 11:00Why are Mexican nuns breeding a rare salamander? Could they save this remarkable species? 11:30Verity Sharp connects musical stories along latitudinal lines around the globe.
| 11:00Claudia Hammond reveals the results of the BBC Loneliness Experiment 11:302/2Amid Brexit, Zoe Lyons grabs a new Irish passport and explores history and identity.
| 11:00Inside the room where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is picked. 11:30Art on the US-Mexico Border
| 11:00Andrew McGibbon talks to Edwin Dawes, biochemist and beloved magician to Philip Larkin. 11:305/5As concerns grow for a missing person, just how far can the police go to track him down?
| 11:00The life and works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery 11:30Life inside the rebel groups fighting for independence for Cameroon's Anglophone regions.
| 11:15Thea Musgrave, composer, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15New rules for phone companies, food shopping online, comfy fashion and painting coffins. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15Call You & Yours - how has loneliness affected you? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15Housing association tenants in the Midlands offered the chance to buy their home. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15The new law that will affect care homes, vegan food trends, and cosmetic surgery figures. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15A decade after the online sellers onslaught how are book shops faring? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Thousands sign up to a new banking service to help control addiction 12:30Jo Brand takes the guest host chair this week. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/6John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Lucy Beaumont, Dr Kat Arney and Benjamin Zephaniah. 12:32It’s freshers' week, and The Food Programme wants to know what students are eating! 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Journalist Lucy Kellaway charts her new start as a trainee teacher at the age of 58.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Journalist Lucy Kellaway charts her new start as a trainee teacher at the age of 58.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Journalist Lucy Kellaway charts her new start as a trainee teacher at the age of 58.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Journalist Lucy Kellaway charts her new start as a trainee teacher at the age of 58.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Journalist Lucy Kellaway charts her new start as a trainee teacher at the age of 58.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell 13:30More than half of British people say they have no religion. What do they mean by that?
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| 14:00 | 14:15Two-part thriller set in California. A group of eco-terrorists is infiltrated by the FBI.
| 14:00There's a near miss for Johnny 14:15Two-part thriller set in California. A group of eco-terrorists is infiltrated by the FBI.
| 14:00Freddie's behaviour causes concern 14:15Sarah and Frank are called in to represent clients involved in a cold case investigation
| 14:00There's a shock for Fallon 14:15A podcast from the heart of darkness. Livvy's on the hunt for crime, corruption and fame.
| 14:00Kenton tries to make amends 14:15Three interlinked short dramas about loneliness. Sue Johnston and Siobhan Finneran star.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts a special correspondence edition from Birmingham Botanics. 14:45On cricket, on divorce, and on starting a curry restaurant
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the wide-ranging music quiz. 15:30Meat-free meat is on the up, but what is it? Vegan cook Rachel Ama investigates
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel are in Welwyn Garden City. 15:30Is it time to buy an electric car? Peter Gibbs takes the plunge.
| 15:00What are the legal ways to reduce the inheritance tax due on your assets when you die? 15:30Umbilical cord clamping, Natural Cycles and do pedometers help long term?
| 15:00Walking the Whithorn Way in south west Scotland 15:27Gyles Brandreth makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. 15:30Mariella Frostrup and guests celebrate 20 years of reading, writing and Open Book
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts a special correspondence edition from Birmingham Botanics. 15:45When should you run away and when should you hide in a phone box?
| 15:15Adrian Laing has an imagined chat with his late father, pioneering psychiatrist RD Laing. 15:30Verity Sharp connects musical stories along latitudinal lines around the globe.
| 15:001/3Charlotte Stant walks back into Prince Amerigo's life. Stars Luke Pasqualino.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Photographer Nick Danziger travels to Armenia, revisiting isolated elderly people. 16:30Why do we sometimes remain silent when others need help? Aleks explores why we hold back.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk Multicultural London English with Ismail Einashe. 16:30Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Push buttons: pleasure, panic and the politics of pushing. 16:30How Theresa May deals with the press - and the outlets who claim she avoids them
| 16:00Bradley Cooper on A Star Is Born 16:30Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer 16:30Tim Harford on a BBC loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners. 16:55Capturing the nation in conversation in partnership with the British Library.
| 16:00Dame Jacqueline Wilson on her new Tracy Beaker novel; vegetarian samosas; young poets
| 16:00Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses A Death in the Family with James Naughtie and readers 16:30A special episode, recorded live at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull.
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| 17:00 | 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Luke Jones with coverage of the day's news. 17:30Do the rules governing business need rewriting? Evan Davis and guests discuss. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Lucy Adams investigates care for the learning disabled seven years after Winterbourne View 17:40Mark Coles profiles children's author and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Mass burials take place in Indonesia as it emerges tsunami detectors weren't working 18:301/6John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Lucy Beaumont, Dr Kat Arney and Benjamin Zephaniah.
| 18:00Boris Johnson has rubbished the Prime Minister's Brexit plans at the Tory conference. 18:306/6Hit sit com about 3 marriages in various states of disrepair.
| 18:00The Prime Minister warns that splits over Brexit could derail the UK's exit from the EU 18:304/4Mixing stand-up comedy and sketches, Rob Newman tackles the world of philosophy.
| 18:00Britain, the Netherlands and the USA have accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks 18:27Matthew Bannister makes an appeal on behalf of the DEC Indonesia Tsunami Appeal 18:301/6Hardacre's advertising agency lands its biggest-ever account.
| 18:00Trump's SCOTUS pick wins preliminary vote Pound rises on news of Brexit deal progress 18:30Jo Brand takes the guest host chair this week.
| 18:00Senators expected to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh for US Supreme Court 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Beijing officials say Interpol president Meng Hongwei suspected of criminal activity 18:15Broadcaster John Waite picks the best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00There's a near miss for Johnny 19:15The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed 19:451/5Maya Angelou's third volume of memoirs, covering her tour of Porgy & Bess
| 19:00Freddie's behaviour causes concern 19:15We announce the winners of the 2018 BBC Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University 19:452/5Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar.
| 19:00There's a shock for Fallon 19:15The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious? 19:453/5Maya auditions for Gershwin's world-famous opera, Porgy and Bess.
| 19:00Kenton tries to make amends 19:15Alice Walker, artist Yayoi Kusama and a new poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street 19:454/5Maya tours internationally with Porgy and Bess
| 19:00Elizabeth struggles to accept the truth 19:15Jodie Whittaker on regenerating as the 13th Doctor, and the dark art of Quentin Blake 19:455/5Maya returns home after a long international tour with Porgy and Bess.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles children's author and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman. 19:15A Star Is Born, Harold Pinter x2, Javier Marias, Survey at The Jerwood, TV: The Bisexual.
| 19:00Lilian has serious concerns 19:15With the cast dropping like flies, Charles wonders if there's a murderer in the company? 19:45By Nick Walker. While in therapy, Annika has to solve a murder at the Oslo theatre.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Claudia Hammond reveals the results of the BBC Loneliness Experiment 20:30How power moved from west to east after the 2008 financial crisis
| 20:00Lucy Adams investigates care for the learning disabled seven years after Winterbourne View 20:40A look at the law around refusing guide dog owners access to commercial properties.
| 20:00Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel asks if a citizen of the world is a citizen of nowhere. 20:45Ewan Flynn argues that grassroots football is more than just a game on a Sunday afternoon.
| 20:00Scientists say air pollution harms the quality of our lives, and shortens them too. 20:30Do the rules governing business need rewriting? Evan Davis and guests discuss.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. 20:50Val McDermid on why mass tourism is destroying the very thing we crave when we travel.
| 20:00Gordon Brown tells the inside story of the bank bailout.
| 20:00Tim Harford on a BBC loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer
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| 21:00 | 21:00Series celebrating the infinite variety of the natural world and its depiction in culture. 21:30The author of Sapiens and Homo Deus in conversation with Andrew Marr
| 21:00Umbilical cord clamping, Natural Cycles and do pedometers help long term? 21:3055,000 people completed the BBC Loneliness Experiment: the results reveal who gets lonely.
| 21:00Is it time to buy an electric car? Peter Gibbs takes the plunge. 21:30Gemma Cairney takes Charlotte Church to Georgia for a musical collaboration.
| 21:00Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
| 21:00Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War.
| 21:00In 1917, the conflict in the First World War redrew the Middle East. 21:45Tim Atkin profiles Klein Constantia Vin de Constance, the New World's most historic wine.
| 21:00Thousands sign up to a new banking service to help control addiction(R) 21:25Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Medical Aid Films 21:30How power moved from west to east after the 2008 financial crisis
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| 22:00 | 22:00More than 800 people confirmed dead on island of Sulawesi. 22:45With the Trojans outside their camp, Agamemnon pleads for Achilles to return to battle.
| 22:00Theresa May says parts of the speech made her "cross" 22:45Furious and insulted, Achilles still won't fight. His friend Patroclus makes a plan.
| 22:00Ritula Shah reports from Tromso in Norway 22:45Frenzied by grief, Achilles devastates the Trojans on his return to battle.
| 22:00Moscow alleged to have targetted HQ of international chemical weapons watchdog. 22:45The final days of the battle for Troy. The Greeks prepare themselves for victory.
| 22:00Controversial Supreme Court nominee gets support of key senators. 22:45A ceasefire has been agreed while Hector's body is returned to his family.
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15A global audience joins Harvard's Michael Sandel to discuss the limits to free speech.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests preview the week in politics.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sarah Dunant delves into the past for stories of courtship to help us date better. 23:30Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about religion and transgender issues.
| 23:001/4Sitcom about a young woman trying to build a more fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. 23:30Is it a religious duty to give to beggars? Ernie Rea and guests discuss.
| 23:00Stand-up Ken Cheng takes a look at British Chinese culture. 23:15Kwame Kwei Armah tours his life and adopted city of Baltimore. 23:30Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about religion and the unmarried woman.
| 23:001/6An unexpected phonecall and a surprise invitation bring change to Edinburgh's Cafe Culture 23:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss if there is any place for God in a modern courtroom.
| 23:00Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:25Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion's obsession with numbers. 23:55All for the love of the wicket
| 23:00Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the wide-ranging music quiz. 23:30Two poets and a composer take to the skies over Bristol in a balloon full of hot air.
| 23:00Bradley Cooper on A Star Is Born 23:30Sarah Goldingay examines our ongoing relationship with our ancestors.
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