| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Shoes: a cultural history. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from Westminster Abbey(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Heather Jones argues that the armistice of 1918 marked a pause, not an ending, to the war.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Santanu Das explores impact of the armistice on the victorious Allies' colonial subjects.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Patricia Clavin explores the practical approach to peace taken after the 1918 armistice. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Mustafa Aksakal explores the Ottoman armistice of 1918 and its legacy in the Middle East.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Jörn Leonhard explores the German experience of the 1918 armistice.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30It’s monsoon season and a woman is trapped in her home. But is she really alone? 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 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45A report this week will highlight the use of vaccines in farming to reduce antibiotic use. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde is inspired by the spectacle of migrating barnacle geese.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Badger culling is making a 'modest but real' difference to the spread of bovine TB. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45UK farmers will have to stop growing crops for biofuel in favour of using waste instead. 05:58The stonechat's punctuating call reminds writer Melissa Harrison of walks in Dartmoor.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45How do you stop pigs from biting each other's tails? 05:58Rower and Olympic gold medallist Alex Gregory on the house sparrow for Tweet of the Day.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45What does the government's EU withdrawal agreement mean for farming and the environment? 05:58The BBC's Frank Gardner recalls the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise for Tweet of the Day.(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 Guvna B. 05:45A listener on how adoption affected her family.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from the Church of All Saints, Writtle 05:45One of the world's most dangerous and powerful men is on trial in New York.
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| 06:00 | 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
| 06:00Radio 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. 06:07How did an Indian Maharajah end living and being buried in a quaint rural Suffolk village? 06:30Anna Hill talks all this sweet, at Cantley Sugar Factory in Norfolk. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Mark Tully explores bitterness in all its forms – as a taste and as an emotion. 06:35Caz Graham goes to Shropshire to meet farmer Stephen Jones, who loves to experiment. 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 presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Matt Baker makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of BBC Children in Need 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Poet Stewart Henderson leads a reflection on endurance. 08:48Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away? 08:58For Carry Akroyd, illustrator of the Tweet of the Day book, birds are part of a landscape.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski. 09:45Heather Jones argues that the armistice of 1918 marked a pause, not an ending, to the war.
| 09:00Mike Stratton talks about searching for cancer genes with Jim al-Khalili. 09:30Lynne Truss asks why travel can both delight and disappoint with travel writer Geoff Dyer 09:45Santanu Das explores impact of the armistice on the victorious Allies' colonial subjects.
| 09:00Poet Don Paterson meets composer Thomas Adès. 09:30In a political state where even the winners stay angry, what will our future be? 09:45Patricia Clavin explores the practical approach to peace taken after the 1918 armistice.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus. 09:45Mustafa Aksakal explores the Ottoman armistice of 1918 and its legacy in the Middle East.
| 09:00Hella Pick, veteran journalist, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne 09:45Jörn Leonhard explores the German experience of the 1918 armistice.
| 09:00Bisi Alimi on coming out in Nigeria, wood carving and a 72-year-old weightlifting academic
| 09:00Fraser Nelson and Ayesha Hazarika have the Brexit scoops in the Sunday papers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00As Michelle Obama releases her memoir, we discuss her impact on women around the world 10:451/5Skye is going on a school trip, if she can trust her mum with Dexter.
| 10:00Why laughter's vital to children. Photojournalist Lynsey Addario. Mothers and knife crime. 10:452/5Skye has three days to get the kit together for the trip. And the nits out of her hair.
| 10:00Women's health, Patricia Highsmith, child carers and Dorothy Wordsworth 10:413/5Skye's getting stressed about leaving Dexter with Jak when she goes on her school trip. 10:55The first of the week's conversations from good causes supported by Children in Need.
| 10:00Comedian Jessie Cave. Crime writer Cath Staincliffe. Support for pregnant women in prison. 10:454/5Skye's a horrible person, that horrible things happen to. And she knows she deserves it.
| 10:00Actor Lea DeLaria, Ruth Coppinger & Irish rape case, writer Judy Tate, Leeds and sex work 10:455/5Skye wants to stop the thoughts in her head.
| 10:30The search for a story in a randomly generated postcode.
| 10:00Helen gives out the wrong signals and Lexi drops a bombshell
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| 11:00 | 11:00More than half of British people say they have no religion. What do they mean by that? 11:301/6Sara Cox interviews Joe Lycett in the return of the hostless chat show.
| 11:00Martin and Christopher on one final visit down memory lane - is it time to call it a day?(R) 11:30Bells made by artist Peter Shenai from Hurricane Katrina data are rung in New Orleans.
| 11:00Do universities have enough diversity of political opinion? Matthew Flinders investigates. 11:302/2A lonely old man receives an unexpected visitor with a story which changes his life.
| 11:00Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine news developments. 11:30Amber Butchart talks to embroidery artists about their complex, political, dynamic artwork
| 11:00Sayeeda Warsi explores how to be a Muslim woman in 21st-century Britain. 11:306/6Vera, Henry, Ginny and Lionel are in Paris attempting to recapture their youth.
| 11:00Helen Lewis of The New Statesman looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Tears over Brexit, a lost passport and a party for a bunch of Russian spies.
| 11:15Tracey Thorn, musician and writer, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss different ideas of morality.(R) 12:15Hiding debt from your other half, email angst and gearing up to get on your bike. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Giles Fraser on moral character and Aristotle's Virtue ethics(R) 12:15Call You and Yours hears from disabled people about their shopping experiences. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on moral decisions and the brain. 12:15Complaints about care home top-up fees. Diamond fraud. Home blood test concerns. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Lawyer Harry Potter examines whether the law should enforce good morals.(R) 12:15British holidaymakers are returning to Tunisia following the terror attacks in 2015 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the value of conscience and moral intuition.(R) 12:15The 'furniture orchard' where they are growing the ultimate in sustainable chairs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How have this week's Brexit developments affected financial markets? 12:304/6Hugh Dennis presents 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. 12:0470th series of the multi-award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.(R) 12:32Carbohydrates - friend or foe?(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Masham Town Hall in Ripon.(R)
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including the latest on Brexit policy and the Conservative Party. 13:30A Yorkshire Goth weekend, a Western Isles tragedy remembered and Strawberry Field forever.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Johnny receives a lesson in life.(R) 14:15A real day at war, exactly 100 years ago, based on eye-witness accounts.
| 14:00Emma hatches a cunning plan 14:15Morally complex story about authorship. By Thomas Eccleshare.
| 14:00Emotions run high on Peggy's birthday(R) 14:15A white beat cop tries to protect a picked upon black teenager in a troubled area of DC.(R)
| 14:00Helen gives out the wrong signals 14:153/9Part 3 of the conspiracy thriller. Written by Matt Hartley and starring Hattie Morahan.
| 14:00Lexi drops a bombshell(R) 14:15Comedy as Ronald Pickup stars as John Hector standing fast against any change in his life
| 14:00The withdrawal agreement - Theresa May defends herself from leavers and remainers. 14:30Composer Monteverdi faces trial by the Inquisition for Blasphemy.
| 14:00Eric and the panel are in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.(R) 14:45A week of conversations illuminating the work of Children in Need. Fi Glover presents.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Quote … Unquote, the popular celebrity quotations quiz with Nigel Rees. 15:30Genevieve Taylor tells the story of the forgotten Cambodian food being rediscovered today.
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel visit Dover Castle in Kent. 15:30Our sewerage system is grinding to a halt. The culprits are wet wipes.
| 15:00What is your experience of the biggest change ever made to the benefits system? 15:30Emotionally unstable personality disorder, agreeableness and money, and emodiversity.
| 15:00How did an Indian Maharajah end living and being buried in a quaint rural Suffolk village? 15:27Dev Patel makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Railway Children 15:30Exploring literary responses to the Great War in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice.
| 15:00Eric and the panel are in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. 15:45It’s monsoon season and a woman is trapped in her home. But is she really alone?
| | 15:001/3Naval adventure set in 1812 when Britain was at war with America and France.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Underwater artists who paint, sculpt and dance beneath the sea. 16:30Ernie Rea discusses the place of religion in modern China.
| 16:00The extraordinary case that rewrote the way America is governed 16:30Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer join Harriett Gilbert to talk favourite books.
| 16:00Architecture, housing and health. 16:30Special edition of the show recorded at News Xchange 2018.
| 16:00Luca Guadagnino on his plans to turn Call Me By Your Name into a long-running saga. 16:30Bovine TB and badger culling; shrimp hoover CSI; shark-skin and Turing patterning.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator. 16:30Roger Bolton with listener comment on Brexit, BBC Sounds and University Unchallenged. 16:55A week of conversations from good causes supported by Children in Need.
| 16:00Actor Lea DeLaria, women having babies in prison and divorce after expensive weddings.
| 16:00Best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel. 16:30Poet Leontia Flynn is travelling on the Belfast to Dublin train and back again
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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 full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Craft ales and small-scale distilled gins are popular but pricey. What is their appeal?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are companies ‘gaming’ the system of green subsidies designed to reduce farm pollution? 17:40One of the world's most dangerous and powerful men is on trial in New York.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Three people found guilty of belonging to the banned neo-Nazi group National Action 18:3070th series of the multi-award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00UK and EU negotiators reach draft agreement for MPs to approve 18:306/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Alice's mum has a new boyfriend, and Bob doesn't like him.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30A stand-up intervention with comedy sensation Tom Allen.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Hugh Dennis presents the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of BBC Radio chosen by poet and lyricist Stewart Henderson.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Emma hatches a cunning plan 19:15Joel and Ethan Coen on their homage to the western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 19:451/5Skye is going on a school trip, if she can trust her mum with Dexter.(R)
| 19:00Emotions run high on Peggy's birthday 19:15Fantastic Beasts 2 review, viruses turned into art, Fernand Léger, Heart of Darkness. 19:452/5Skye has three days to get the kit together for the trip. And the nits out of her hair.(R)
| 19:00Helen gives out the wrong signals 19:15Stig Abell chairs a debate about the current state of arts education in schools.
| 19:15Irish writing north and south of the border - a golden age of prose? 19:454/5Skye's a horrible person, that horrible things happen to. And she knows she deserves it.(R)
| 19:15Jane Fonda, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress, looks back at her 60-year career. 19:455/5Skye wants to stop the thoughts in her head.(R)
| 19:00One of the world's most dangerous and powerful men is on trial in New York. 19:15Macbeth at The Globe, The Workshop, My Brilliant Friend, Uwe Johnson, Penny Woolcock.
| 19:153/4Great works of fiction are upended when the comedy trio stumble into the plot.(R) 19:45Liz Sutherland-Lim continues David Szalay's new short story series.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Do universities have enough diversity of political opinion? Matthew Flinders investigates. 20:30Many key findings of psychological research are under question. What's going on?
| 20:00Are companies ‘gaming’ the system of green subsidies designed to reduce farm pollution? 20:40Behind the scenes on Remembrance Sunday.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45David Baddiel tries to understand global trade.
| 20:00The extraordinary case that rewrote the way America is governed 20:30Craft ales and small-scale distilled gins are popular but pricey. What is their appeal?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Masham Town Hall in Ripon. 20:50Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away?
| 20:00Former footballer Clark Carlisle tells story of British black players in the game.
| 20:00Roger Bolton with listener comment on Brexit, BBC Sounds and University Unchallenged.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Bridget Kendall asks why the international order built after 1945 is now in deep trouble.(R) 21:30Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.(R)
| 21:00Emotionally unstable personality disorder, agreeableness and money, and emodiversity. 21:30Mike Stratton talks about searching for cancer genes with Jim al-Khalili.
| 21:00Our sewerage system is grinding to a halt. The culprits are wet wipes. 21:30Poet Don Paterson meets composer Thomas Adès.
| 21:00Bovine TB and badger culling; shrimp hoover CSI; shark-skin and Turing patterning.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.(R)
| 21:00Neil MacGregor explores how communities explain their place in the grand scheme of things
| 21:00Susan has died. People who loved her visit her flat. But did they love the same woman?(R) 21:45Nick Baker on the ghost writers helping ordinary people tell their stories for posterity.(R)
| 21:00How have this week's Brexit developments affected financial markets? 21:25Matt Baker makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of BBC Children in Need 21:30Many key findings of psychological research are under question. What's going on?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Prime Minister acknowledges in speech that negotiations are immensely difficult. 22:45Adrian finds himself homeless again.
| 22:00Cabinet members being briefed tonight in Downing Street 22:45Adrian gets a new job and his love life finally takes off.
| 22:00BBC is told 9 senior government ministers spoke against agreement. 22:45Adrian and Bianca find themselves at odds with each other.
| 22:00After one of her toughest days in office, Theresa May vows to fight on and deliver Brexit. 22:45Adrian’s Grandma is admitted to hospital.
| 22:00Michael Gove and Liam Fox provide respite for embattled PM 22:45A new girl starts work at ‘Savages’. Adrian goes on a writing holiday to Greece
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests digest the latest political dramas.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:003/4Ross Noble presents a magazine show with studio guests and stories from around Britain. 23:30Sean Curran has the best of Tuesday at Westminster
| 23:003/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:151/4Comic monologues with a twist-in-the-tale, written and performed by Lenny Henry.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00Comedian Tez Ilyas returns for a third series of Tez Talks. 23:151/4Award-winning comedian Sam Simmons presents a show about birds.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports on a day of political turmoil at Westminster.
| 23:00Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer join Harriett Gilbert to talk favourite books. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster. 23:55The last of the week's conversations from good causes supported by Children in Need.
| 23:00Quote … Unquote, the popular celebrity quotations quiz with Nigel Rees. 23:30Darren Hayman on a musical mission to find hidden stories in Britain’s Thankful Villages
| 23:00Luca Guadagnino on his plans to turn Call Me By Your Name into a long-running saga. 23:30Mark Tully explores bitterness in all its forms – as a taste and as an emotion.
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