| 00:00 | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15How a small island in the Caribbean became a haven for unregulated online gambling(R) 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the Church of St Peter in Ropley, Hampshire(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Lara Maiklem shares the delights of mudlarking on the foreshore of the River Thames. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Certain parts of the Thames are renowned for some particularly special finds. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Since she was a child, the author has been bringing home unusual objects for her 'museum'. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore is not without its challenges.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30The Thames foreshore can also be a place of respite and solace.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Pippa Goldschmidt's story of love and inheritance inspired by Blake's poem 'The Lamb'.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Today, a call from farmers for the government to back home-grown food. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the vegetarian tree finch on the Galapagos Islands.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45The British beef industry says it is in crisis. 05:58Chris Packham presents the purple martin from eastern North America.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45The RSPCA says welfare of livestock could nosedive if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. 05:58Chris Packham presents the superbly camouflaged great snipe of Eastern Europe.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Caz Graham is joined by Sean Rickard and Rupert Lowe MEP to discuss Brexit and farming. 05:58Chris Packham presents the South American toco tucan.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Patrick Thomas 05:45Are farmers being unfairly targeted in the climate change debate? 05:58Chris Packham presents the New Zealand bellbird.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rachel Gardner. 05:45Harriet Beveridge says we don't take humour seriously enough.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge 05:45Dalia Elmelige tells the story of her life as a Muslim in America after 9/11.(R)
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| 06:00 | 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.
| 06:00News 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.
| 06:00News 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 visits the Isle of Eels and joins their annual eel day parade(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe visits a farm in Herefordshire where they harvest for nine months a year. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news headlines. 06:05Remona Aly uncovers the tales of metamorphosis which reveal the story of human nature. 06:35Can the decline in curlew numbers be reversed? One shooting estate has some clever ideas. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and 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 Emily Buchanan. 07:54Dan Snow makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Poppy Factory 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Rev Canon Sarah Hills, Vicar of St Mary’s, Holy Island, explores pilgrimage and peace 08:48Will Self on why he has a problem with theory.(R) 08:58Brett Westwood presents the thrush nightingale.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Historian Peter Hennessy invites Norman Lamont to reflect on his life and times. 09:45Lara Maiklem shares the delights of mudlarking on the foreshore of the River Thames.
| 09:00Stephen Fry finds out how language can both unlock and muddy memories. 09:30James Naughtie explores history through front page small ads. 09:45Certain parts of the Thames are renowned for some particularly special finds.
| 09:00Roderick Williams uncovers what songs can reveal about our changing attitudes to love. 09:30Harriet Beveridge says we don't take humour seriously enough. 09:45Since she was a child, the author has been bringing home unusual objects for her 'museum'.
| 09:00As the Fringe becomes increasingly woke, can artists stay both entertaining and right on? 09:45Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore is not without its challenges.
| 09:00Jo Fairley, businesswoman, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne(R) 09:45The Thames foreshore can also be a place of respite and solace.
| 09:00Skin from Skunk Anansie, Lisa Faulkner, Joel Golby, Dean Burnett and George RR Martin
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00The long school summer holiday: child care, parenting and activities. 10:45By Ben Cottam. On Dace's first day in Cornwall she goes on the hunt for a patient.
| 10:00Talking to your kids about race, HRT shortages, and the demise of the bonkbuster novel. 10:45By Ben Cottam. Dace meets a young mum anxious about being summoned for jury service.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:41By Ben Cottam. After a hypochondriac steps through the door Dace is running late. 10:55Proud of being Vietnamese.
| 10:00Author Malorie Blackman, Prof Lisa Avalos, Dorothy L Sayers Society and Errollyn Wallen. 10:45By Ben Cottam. Whilst attempting to help a Romanian woman Dace makes a difficult choice.
| 10:00A new dramatization of The Country Girls, and hip-hop dance group Zoo Nation. 10:45By Ben Cottam. Dace endures the wrath of a local woman she has advised not to drive.
| 10:30Comedian Alex Edelman and his transatlantic guests try to make some connections.
| 10:00Susan struggles to put things right and Jazzer's frustrations get the better of him
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| 11:00 | 11:00Can society accept justice without imprisonment? 11:30Nikki Bedi and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.(R)
| 11:00Lucy Cooke discovers why being small can give you a step up on the evolutionary ladder. 11:30Can art help us unpack our emotions about body hair? Keisha Thompson investigates.
| 11:00Mark O'Connell makes the case for ambivalence. 11:302/4Maggie's in a flap after her free-spirited cousin Max arrives for a visit.(R)
| 11:00Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda? 11:30An in-depth look at Jeremy Deller's new People's Monument to the Peterloo Massacre.
| 11:00In Lozells Church, Birmingham, new and old refugees meet and compare experiences. 11:30New comedy set in a small biotech company where science and office politics collide.
| 11:00Katy Brand explores the life of the unsung hero of the cutlery world – the fork. 11:30Violence at Hong Kong's international airport: has it given China a propaganda coup?
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites those who saved York Minster from the devastating fire of 1984.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:047/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988. 12:18Abuse in care homes, tackling food waste and how romance fraud really works. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:048/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988. 12:18Call You and Yours - How easy is it to see your GP? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:049/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988. 12:18A national debt advice charity has stopped taking on new clients due to high demand 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:0410/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988. 12:18How people living in Northern Ireland are feeling about their spending and leaving the EU. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:0411/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988. 12:18Getting money back when you've been overcharged for insurance. Plus a new UK theme park. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In an honest and intimate discussion, a counsellor helps people talk about money. 12:305/5Sam has been nominated for a journalism award, but has she got a bigger decision to make?(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Tony Hawks, Phil Wang, Sheila Hancock and Paul Merton join Nicholas Parsons.(R) 12:32Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon on the 20th anniversary of 'The Naked Chef' Part I 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News with Mark Mardell including Hong Kong protests and Russia's new missile programme. 13:45How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began.
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell. What does the US gain from a piecemeal UK trade deal? 13:45How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including Unite leader Len McClusky's approach to Brexit. 13:45How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah presents topical debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Underpass woman, Dorset and Chernobyl, the wet Sahara, Welsh wine and Scottish headstones.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Alice hatches a cunning plan.(R) 14:15Mya visits her parents' home village in Bangladesh and discovers some dark family secrets.
| 14:00Susan struggles to put things right.(R) 14:15Jon Canter's dark comedy about the politics of dying with Tony Robinson and Haydn Gwynne.
| 14:00Emma attempts to face the future.(R) 14:15Rumpole defends in a dubious espionage trial and gets embroiled in a dodgy wine fraud.(R)
| 14:00The past returns to haunt Will(R) 14:15Timothy X Atack holds a satirical mirror up to an imaginary Britain.
| 14:00Kate faces the unexpected(R) 14:15Tanya Franks and Paterson Joseph star in this razor-sharp family comedy by Tamsin Oglesby.(R)
| 14:00Should we have a government of national unity? 14:3012/12Second of two dramas bookending a reading of Adam Thorpe's fictional historical novel.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the team of gardening experts are in Saltburn.(R) 14:45Whether it's being Vietnamese, a baptised Sikh, or an unwavering feminist
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| 15:00 | 15:004/6Students from St Catharine’s College Cambridge take on the dons in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Comedian George Egg considers how food became more than comedy's slapstick sidekick.(R)
| 15:001/7Josie Long presents short documentaries about our experience of time. 15:30Peter White meets disabled people who talk about motivation and their achievements to date(R)
| 15:00In an honest and intimate discussion, a counsellor helps people talk about money 15:30Galileo's lost letter questions how he challenged the Church. With Philip Ball.
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the Isle of Eels and joins their annual eel day parade 15:27TV presenter Sean Fletcher makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Family Action(R) 15:30Colm Tóibín on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce's fraught relationships with their fathers(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the team of gardening experts are in Saltburn. 15:45Pippa Goldschmidt's story of love and inheritance inspired by Blake's poem 'The Lamb'.
| 15:30Can art help us unpack our emotions about body hair? Keisha Thompson investigates.(R)
| 15:00Crime drama set in modern China. The director of a chemical company has been murdered.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Reggie Chamberlain-King tells the strange tale of the search for the source of surrealism. 16:30Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world.
| 16:00Michael Rosen meets London-born writer Gabriel Gbadamosi, to talk Dickens and dialect. 16:30Laura Marling on the first female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé.
| 16:00Lily Allen talks about her fourth and most personal album, 'No Shame'.(R) 16:30How can reality TV and radio take better care of participants?
| 16:00Where to Begin With... Tilda Swinton 16:30UK power cut, huge dinosaur find in Wyoming and micro-plastics in Arctic snow
| 16:00Julian Worricker on a politician, a dancer, a designer and a lawyer. 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 16:55People ask if we shave our legs
| 16:00Edna Adan Ismail discusses FGM, composer Errollyn Wallen, and talking to kids about racism
| 16:00Benjamin Myers discusses his latest novel The Offing. 16:30A series of small poems by Holly Pester, set in the brief pauses of work-breaks.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. 17:30Humanity has many problems. Does the solution to some lie deep beneath our oceans' waves? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What can the ideas of two long-dead geopolitical thinkers tell us about the world today?(R) 17:40Dalia Elmelige tells the story of her life as a Muslim in America after 9/11.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Beijing threatens to use "iron fist" after pro-democracy activists paralysed HK airport. 18:30Tony Hawks, Phil Wang, Sheila Hancock and Paul Merton join Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00Boris Johnson and President Trump are negotiating a partial trade agreement for November. 18:304/4A series of potentially misremembered anecdotes on class from Andy Hamilton.
| 18:00Boris Johnson has accused MPs who want to block Brexit of collaborating with the EU 18:30Gaby Roslin hosts the film quiz with impressions by Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona.
| 18:00Rise in fatalities from illicit drug use Mixed response to Corbyn Brexit plan 18:30The live final in the search for the next comedy superstar.
| 18:0010 people aged between 13 and 30 arrested 18:305/5Sam has been nominated for a journalism award, but has she got a bigger decision to make?
| 18:00Police get more time to question 10 suspects about officer's death. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Government insists leaked Whitehall documents on no-deal Brexit are 'worst case' scenario 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with broadcaster Adrian Goldberg.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Susan struggles to put things right. 19:15Poet Lemn Sissay on his new memoir, and Queen Victoria's grand piano 19:45By Ben Cottam. On Dace's first day in Cornwall she goes on the hunt for a patient.(R)
| 19:00Emma attempts to face the future. 19:15Henning Wehn, Ambrose Parry, Travis Alabanza on stage at the Edinburgh Festivals 19:45By Ben Cottam. Dace meets a young mum anxious about being summoned for jury service.(R)
| 19:00The past returns to haunt Will 19:15Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on their film Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 19:45By Ben Cottam. After a hypochondriac steps through the door Dace is running late.(R)
| 19:00Kate faces the unexpected 19:15Who will be crowned winner in 2019 in Edinburgh? 19:45By Ben Cottam. Whilst attempting to help a Romanian woman Dace makes a difficult choice.(R)
| 19:00Jazzer's frustrations get the better of him 19:15The true story behind Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen, self-care at the Fringe. 19:45By Ben Cottam. Dace endures the wrath of a local woman she has advised not to drive.(R)
| 19:00Dalia Elmelige tells the story of her life as a Muslim in America after 9/11.(R) 19:15Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Actually, Dora Maurer, Tea Obreht and Sanditon on ITV.
| 19:00Emma's behaviour causes concern 19:152/4Trisha tries to impress Jill with her recipe for eggs. 19:452/12Cynan Jones' electrifying new series set in the very near future. Philip Arditti reads.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mark O'Connell makes the case for ambivalence. 20:30An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?(R)
| 20:00What can the ideas of two long-dead geopolitical thinkers tell us about the world today? 20:40Why has a discrimination case about a pizza gone to the US Supreme Court?
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests ask if the law on Misconduct in Public Office needs reform. 20:45Harriet Beveridge says we don't take humour seriously enough.
| 20:00Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.(R) 20:30What has gone so wrong at the new Berlin Airport?(R)
| 20:00Ritula Shah presents topical debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London. 20:50Will Self on why he has a problem with theory.
| 20:00Top names discuss today’s art of storytelling on radio and TV
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Julian Worricker on a politician, a dancer, a designer and a lawyer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Lucy Cooke discovers why being a bit sneaky may be an excellent evolutionary strategy.(R) 21:30Historian Peter Hennessy invites Norman Lamont to reflect on his life and times.(R)
| 21:00Galileo's lost letter questions how he challenged the Church. With Philip Ball. 21:30Stephen Fry finds out how language can both unlock and muddy memories.(R)
| 21:00Physicist Dr Jen Gupta and comedian Alice Fraser travel the worlds of science and sci-fi. 21:30Roderick Williams uncovers what songs can reveal about our changing attitudes to love.(R)
| 21:00UK power cut, huge dinosaur find in Wyoming and micro-plastics in Arctic snow(R) 21:30Frances Morris travels to Paris to meet mischievous French artist Sophie Calle.(R)
| 21:00Clinical psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
| 21:00Crime drama set in modern China. Inspector Chen investigates seemingly unconnected murders(R)
| 21:00In an honest and intimate discussion, a counsellor helps people talk about money.(R) 21:25Dan Snow makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Poppy Factory(R) 21:30What has gone so wrong at the new Berlin Airport?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Mass sit-in forces authorities to cancel all outbound flights 22:457/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988.(R)
| 22:00State media in Beijing broadcast video showing troops moving towards HK 22:458/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988.(R)
| 22:00Dow Jones index ends the day three per cent lower 22:459/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988.
| 22:00Tehran accuses US of “piracy attempt” 22:4510/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988.
| 22:00Hundreds of anti- government protesters dispersed in Harare 22:4511/12A multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's story of a fictional village from 1650 to 1988.(R)
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests ask if the law on Misconduct in Public Office needs reform.(R)
| 22:00Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen looks at philosophy in English, from John Locke to corporate slogans.(R) 23:30A tailor in Weston-super-Mare faces prom season.(R)
| 23:001/4Phil will solve your problems. Well, he'll try. Sitcom also starring Johnny Vegas. 23:30The story of what happened when Kirsty, 47, moved into an old plasterer's van.(R)
| 23:002/4John goes toe-to-toe with the law. Consumer law to be precise. 23:15Comedian Tez Ilyas returns for a third series of Tez Talks. 23:30Anoushka is smart, funny and mixed race: should she apply for a place at Cambridge Uni?(R)
| 23:00A comedy with music set in the competitive world of poetry slamming. 23:30Grace Dent tells the story of one street that contains a clash of two worldviews.
| 23:00Laura Marling on the first female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé.(R) 23:25Laura visits a death row inmate in Florida for answers about her late father's final years(R) 23:55Mammy never once made our packed lunch; Daddy got five of us out of the house each morning
| 23:004/6Students from St Catharine’s College Cambridge take on the dons in the upbeat quiz.(R) 23:30Carol Ann Duffy and other writers respond to the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre.(R)
| 23:005/8Tales about the family, from sibling high jinks to the difficulties of having children. 23:50Will Self on why he has a problem with theory.
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