| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the changing middle classes.(R) 00:45Bells on Sunday from Winchester Cathedral(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Philosopher and polar adventurer Erling Kagge explores the power of silence.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30In an attempt to be more present in his own life, Erling Kagge goes in search of silence.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30In search of silence, philosopher Erling Kagge journeys to the city that never sleeps.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Erling Kagge explores how philosophers throughout history have thought about silence.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Philosopher and explorer Erling Kagge examines the important role of silence in music.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A new short story by acclaimed American author Kirstin Valdez Quade.(R) 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.
| 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 spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks, Will food prices go up or down in the event of a no deal Brexit? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the bar-tailed godwit.(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 Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:45We hear what could happen to farmers exporting lamb in the event of a 'no-deal Brexit'. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the firecrest.(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 Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:45Anna Hill considers where the latest Brexit activity leave the UK's farmers. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the Australian magpie.(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 Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:45The union Prospect claims Natural England is in crisis - how do they respond? 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the jackdaw.(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 Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:45Anna Hill considers the impact of a new vegan campaign focusing on dairy farms. 05:58Kate Humble presents the woodcock.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43With Canon Simon Doogan, Church of Ireland rector of Ballyholme in Bangor, Co Down 05:45Having an affair saved my marriage.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43The bells of St John the Baptist, Bollington, Cheshire. 05:45Edward Stourton profiles Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido.(R)
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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
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Thought for the Day
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Helen Mark learns what it takes to run a pub on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale.(R) 06:30Anna Jones visits a pig farm in Gloucestershire that's drastically cut its antibiotic use. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Mark Tully asks how religious belief can affect business and financial theory. 06:35In a new approach to dairy farming the Finlays keep their calves with their mothers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News headlines and sport. Including Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Emily Buchanan with the week's religious news and current affairs. 07:54Comedian Doon Mackichan makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of CLIC Sargent 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10When Simeon looked into the eyes of Jesus he saw the future of humanity in a baby 08:48Stella Tillyard argues that the sea - long forgotten - is beginning to reassert itself. 08:58Actress and keen birdwatcher Trudie Goodwin has a lifelong love of the hoopoe.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani. 09:45Philosopher and polar adventurer Erling Kagge explores the power of silence.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland compares inventions by inventors Elon Musk and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 09:30Women in the City talk about how becoming a mother has impacted on their career. 09:45In an attempt to be more present in his own life, Erling Kagge goes in search of silence.
| 09:00The artist Richard Long meets the musician Nitin Sawhney. 09:30What if happiness isn’t about the self at all?(R) 09:45In search of silence, philosopher Erling Kagge journeys to the city that never sleeps.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century 09:45Erling Kagge explores how philosophers throughout history have thought about silence.
| 09:00Wendy Cope, poet, shares her eight track choices with Lauren Laverne.(R) 09:45Philosopher and explorer Erling Kagge examines the important role of silence in music.
| 09:00Author Kimberley Chambers, netball champion Eboni Beckford-Chambers, writer Natasha Gordon
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00We team up with Radio Sheffield for a series looking at how women feed their babies. 10:451/6Lorna may be on holiday but why won't she speak? Stars Lesley Sharp.(R)
| 10:00Your experience of feeding your baby. We unveil the findings of our poll. 10:452/6Jenny Eclair's stories of the secrets of six women read by leading actresses.
| 10:00Jane Garvey and Paulette Edwards take your calls on your experience of feeding your baby. 10:413/6Beverley, once an avid traveller, now watches baking shows. Why? Stars Samantha Spiro.(R) 10:55A couple explore the impact his being 19 years older than her makes on their lives.
| 10:00Sarah Ewart abortion case, Janice Galloway's short stories, body hair, and family secrets. 10:454/6Gail takes her husband's car and embarks on a surprising journey. With Sarah Hadland.(R)
| 10:00Skin, online tracking of Saudi women, Tobi Kyeremateng and Tanika Gupta, Clodagh McKenna 10:455/6Tessa Peake-Jones plays a dressmaker whose latest commission comes at a cost.(R)
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the panel are in Kendal.
| 10:00Lexi is guilt ridden and Johnny struggles with an emergency
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| 11:00 | 11:00A restaurant owner in Wales loses his staff after he's found employing them illegally. 11:301/4Are you ready for Armageddon? Get prepared!
| 11:00How safe are the drugs used to delay puberty in transgender children? 11:30Photographer Nick Danziger travels to Armenia, revisiting isolated elderly people.
| 11:00Jim Muir investigates secret contacts between the Americans and Ayatollah Khomeini. 11:301/4Comedian Rob Newman sets his sights on the world of philosophy.(R)
| 11:00How Farc's former rebel commanders are adapting to life in the Colombian congress 11:30Novelist Eimear McBride looks at the way writers have depicted sexual consent.
| 11:00The stories that lie behind parents labelled abusers by society and the courts. 11:301/4Current affairs parody and stupidly feasible visit to the 24-hour Hall of Opinion Mirrors.(R)
| 11:00Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Face to face with Islamic State group fighters at the site of a US drone strike in Yemen.
| 11:15Comedian Bob Mortimer chooses the eight tracks he would take to a desert island.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what makes us human.(R) 12:15A brand new kind of nurse hits the wards - the nursing associate. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Simon Schaffer on botanist Carl Linnaeus who first classified humans among the apes(R) 12:15Call You and Yours - How do you keep your children safe online? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Only humans know they will die. Catharine Edwards on the Stoic philosopher Seneca(R) 12:15Reforms for vulnerable people in care, shops in shipping containers, charity fundraising. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Philosopher Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and human language(R) 12:15Which universities gave the most unconditional offers to students applying in 2018. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Theologian Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein and Blade Runner(R) 12:15No more letting fees for tenants in England. The cinema streaming its movies direct to TVs 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The cash of 14,000 investors at risk as London Capital & Finance Plc enters administration 12:30Andy Hamilton, Ayesha Hazarika, Tim Shipman and Lucy Porter join host Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:046/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Voices for change in the food system from across the UK launch a search for new talent. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Five interconnected couples tell all.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Five interconnected couples tell all.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Five interconnected couples tell all.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Five interconnected couples tell all.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Five interconnected couples tell all.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Altwood School in Maidenhead, Berkshire.(R)
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell, including how China's economy is affecting the rest of the world. 13:30An email from a stranger sparks a remarkable friendship.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Roy finds himself the centre of attention(R) 14:15An imagined and irreverent look at one potential Brexit outcome in Ireland.
| 14:15Drama about love and identity. By Jason Barker and Ellie Kendrick.
| 14:00Jolene takes the initiative(R) 14:15An ex-miner and a senior philosophy lecturer form an unlikely but intriguing partnership.(R)
| 14:00Johnny struggles with an emergency(R) 14:15Sian Owen's modern fairy tale explores heartbreak, healing, and a little loving magic.
| 14:00Jennifer faces opposition(R) 14:15Couple Mark and Fran take a package holiday back in time to reignite their relationship.
| 14:00Should 12-year-olds be given Crime Prevention Orders to get them off the streets? 14:30The story of Elizabeth Smart's fated and intense love-affair with the poet George Barker.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from South Lanarkshire.(R) 14:45The omnibus edition of a series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz. 15:30From 'preppers' to big brands, Dan Saladino gathers thoughts on a no-deal Brexit and food.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Colchester. 15:30Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.
| 15:00The UK has some of the highest motor insurance premiums in Europe - why? 15:30Unproven IVF add-ons; does rest help running injuries? DNA analysis on the NHS
| 15:00Helen Mark learns what it takes to run a pub on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale. 15:27Betty Jackson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Smart Works Charity 15:30Chloe Aridjis discusses her novel Sea Monsters, a coming of age story set in 1980s Mexico.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from South Lanarkshire. 15:45A new short story by acclaimed American author Kirstin Valdez Quade.
| | 15:00Contemporary drama on the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Amica Dall and Giles Smith look at our relationship with the material world. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince ask whether human beings are still evolving?
| 16:00John Olsson talks to Michael Rosen about how he uses authorship analysis to solve murders. 16:30Scarlett Curtis and Catherine Bohart talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay? 16:30Saudi Arabia is accused of stealing sports rights on an industrial scale.
| 16:00Seamus McGarvey: 50 Shades of Grey to The Greatest Showman 16:30Sprinting Neanderthals, geodynamo, spreading sneezes and dying hares.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on a comedian, an editor, a herald and a composer. 16:30Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers, food prices in Venezuela and dating app statistics. 16:55Friends talk about the gap between the expectation of motherhood and the reality of it.
| 16:00Experiences of baby feeding, Skin from Skunk Anansie and the heirachy of female body hair.
| 16:00Alice Oswald, Radio 4's Poet in Residence discusses her collection Falling Awake 16:30An ode to sharks by Irish artist Dorothy Cross.
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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.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Can the Internet of Things transform how we work and live? Evan Davis and guests discuss.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Students say drugs are as common as alcohol.(R) 17:40Edward Stourton profiles Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Theresa May has promised to try to renegotiate her EU withdrawal deal. 18:305/6What’s it like to go to a wedding as a recovering alcoholic?
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Daniel Rigby, Diane Morgan and Josh Widdicombe star in the sitcom about reincarnation.
| 18:00A suicide prevention charity reports a surge in calls from young people since last week. 18:303/6Mark Steel visits Carlisle in Cumbria and performs for the locals.
| 18:00Mother found guilty of FGM on three-year-old daughter 18:30Andy Hamilton, Ayesha Hazarika, Tim Shipman and Lucy Porter join host Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Nissan is understood to have decided to shelve its expansion plans. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Ministers have said Nissan's decision to scrap building a new car in the UK is a "blow". 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week
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| 19:00 | 19:15As she turns 80, Germaine Greer reflects on her life as a writer and public intellectual. 19:45Pliny and his eccentric household are subject to the whims of an unstable emperor.(R)
| 19:00Jolene takes the initiative 19:15Live daily magazine programme on the arts, literature, film, media and music. 19:45Pliny is commanded by the Emperor to hold a banquet for returning hero General Agricola.(R)
| 19:00Johnny struggles with an emergency 19:15Teletubbies and Moon and Me creator Andrew Davenport, and 'the voice of a generation'. 19:45The welcome party for General Agricola ends in disaster - and an arrest.(R)
| 19:00Jennifer faces opposition 19:15Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, Green Book reviewed, Sian Edwards on her Opera North debut. 19:45Venta meets a fellow prisoner, a dwarf who reveals the terrible fate that awaits them.(R)
| 19:00Joe offers some words of wisdom 19:15Comedian Tiffany Haddish on her latest role in Lego Movie 2 19:45Venta the slave is forced to fight in the Colosseum.(R)
| 19:00Edward Stourton profiles Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido. 19:15Can You Ever Forgive Me? You Know You Want This, A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight
| 19:00Brian faces the consequences of his decision 19:152/6It is Disability Awareness Day, so Clare has taken it upon herself to raise awareness.(R) 19:455/10Paul finds himself befriending and caring for the very girl he was accused of murdering.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jim Muir investigates secret contacts between the Americans and Ayatollah Khomeini. 20:30How influencers are trying - and succeeding - in changing our world views
| 20:00Students say drugs are as common as alcohol. 20:40The closure of an RNIB centre in Bristol, and a play inspired by life at a blind school.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Paddy O'Connell. 20:45How Venezuela and others challenged the global economic model(R)
| 20:00Why are so many people sleeping rough in Britain, and what can be done about it? 20:30Can the Internet of Things transform how we work and live? Evan Davis and guests discuss.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Altwood School in Maidenhead, Berkshire. 20:50Stella Tillyard argues that the sea - long forgotten - is beginning to reassert itself.
| 20:00Michael Goldfarb looks at the history of rude, violent debate that has marked US politics.
| 20:00Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers, food prices in Venezuela and dating app statistics. 20:30Julian Worricker on a comedian, an editor, a herald and a composer.
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| 21:00 | 21:00They work in the NHS, farming, industry, so why do Romanians get such a bad press?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani.(R)
| 21:00Unproven IVF add-ons; does rest help running injuries? DNA analysis on the NHS 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares inventions by inventors Elon Musk and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.(R)
| 21:00Historian Professor Fara Dabhoiwala explores the origins of political freedom of speech.(R) 21:30The artist Richard Long meets the musician Nitin Sawhney.
| 21:00Sprinting Neanderthals, geodynamo, spreading sneezes and dying hares. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century(R)
| 21:00Christopher Frayling explores Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction masterpiece.(R)
| 21:00Adaptation of Arthur Koestler's nightmarish portrait of a totalitarian state.(R)
| 21:00The cash of 14,000 investors at risk as London Capital & Finance Plc enters administration(R) 21:25Comedian Doon Mackichan makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of CLIC Sargent(R) 21:30How influencers are trying - and succeeding - in changing our world views(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:451/10Harry's son Nelson comes to visit the new Florida condominium. He doesn't look well.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10Harry’s off his golf game and his health has definitely seen better days.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:453/10Harry's diverting Sunfish expedition at the beach threatens to end in tragedy.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:454/10Following the Sunfish accident, the family visit Harry in hospital.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:455/10While Harry is recovering, Janice decides to pursue a new career.
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Paddy O'Connell.
| 22:00Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Family law barrister Lucy Reed talks to Michael Rosen about the language of the courtroom.(R) 23:30Sean Curran has all the latest news from Westminster.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince ask whether human beings are still evolving?(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:004/4Comic monologues by Jenny Eclair where women reach a breaking point in their lives. 23:153/4Mae Martin's cathartic storytelling is mostly about their biggest adolescent crush.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:004/4The gang must solve a murder on the Yorkshire Moors.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00Times reporter Ellen Coyne, gender historian Zoe Strimpel and Radio 1 presenter Clara Amfo 23:30Mark D'Arcy with all the news from Westminster. 23:55A couple on how life has changed since having a baby with a serious health condition.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz.(R) 23:30Poet Andrew McMillan takes us inside the world of the gym.(R)
| 23:001/8Radiolab explores ‘translation’ – how can it help led us to a deeper understanding?
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