| 00:00 | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Borders: from Calais to Mexico. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Matthew’s Church, Stretford, in Greater Manchester 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:301/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:302/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir set in the Scottish steel town of Motherwell. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:303/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:304/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:305/5Deborah Orr's memoir about growing up working-class in Motherwell, south-east of Glasgow. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30A funny and forlorn tale about working in a bar. 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.
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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 Baroness Julia Neuberger. 05:45The UK leaves the EU at the end of the week... but what will change? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the raven.
| 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 Baroness Julia Neuberger. 05:45With three days to go until Brexit, Anna Hill asks what farmers are expecting. 05:58David Attenborough presents the black-necked grebe.
| 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 Baroness Julia Neuberger. 05:45Calls for new legislation to limit the use of antibiotics in meat production in the UK. 05:58David Attenborough presents the snow bunting.
| 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 Baroness Julia Neuberger. 05:45Can education help solve the problem of raptor persecution? 05:58John Aitchison presents the lesser spotted woodpecker.
| 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 Baroness Julia Neuberger. 05:45Today the UK leaves the EU. We ask how environmental regulation will work post-Brexit. 05:58John Aitchison presents the golden pheasant.
| 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 Dr Rachel Mann. 05:45Alice Moloney discusses how best to express negative emotions in the digital realm.
| 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 All Saints and Saint Lawrence, Evesham in Worcestershire. 05:45The US Secretary of State caught up in the Ukraine impeachment scandal.
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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. 06:07With storms and high winds will Helen Mark be able to cross Tintagel's new bridge? 06:30Anna Hill and guests discuss what the next 11 months mean for food, farming and fishing. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news headlines. 06:05Embarrassment teaches, amuses and can even kill us. Mark Tully studies its repercussions. 06:35Can you really make money from a small Lake District farm? Caz Graham meets two innovators 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. 07:10Emily Buchanan presents the week's religious, moral and ethical news and current affairs. 07:54Mariella Frostrup makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from St Aloysius', Glasgow; Fr Dermot Preston, Schola Cantorum of St Aloysius College 08:48Howard Jacobson on why he’s taken to folding plastic bags. 08:58John Aitchison presents the parrot crossbill.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan 09:451/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell.
| 09:00How Peter Fonagy changed the way we treat our mental health. 09:30Is being idle the answer to information overload? With psychoanalyst and idler Josh Cohen. 09:452/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir set in the Scottish steel town of Motherwell.
| 09:001/3The making of the radical poet William Wordsworth 250 years after his birth. 1. The Lakes 09:30Alice Moloney discusses how best to express negative emotions in the digital realm. 09:453/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th 09:454/5Siobhan Redmond reads Deborah Orr's memoir about the Scottish steel town of Motherwell.
| 09:00Anne Enright, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:455/5Deborah Orr's memoir about growing up working-class in Motherwell, south-east of Glasgow.
| 09:00Artist Charlie Mackesy on his surprise bestseller and Inheritance Tracks from Emeli Sande.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including post-Brexit trade negotiations.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Auschwitz survivor, Edith Eger; Falling in love with boxing aged fifty. 10:451/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 10:00Goop and the psychology of wellness; French #MeToo; Emma Jane Unsworth; Tolson judgement 10:452/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 10:00Breaking patterns in relationships. The funding crisis in domestic abuse services. 10:413/5Millie and Colman struggle to come to terms with the fall-out from Joss's death. 10:55Friends and Extinction Rebellion members discuss why they are fighting for their cause.
| 10:001970 Women's Liberation conference; breastfeeding in Uganda; damaging relationships. 10:454/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:455/5Colman opens the letter left to him by his dead father - his father who used to be a woman
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts a film-themed edition of the culinary panel show.
| 10:00There’s chaos at Brookfield and Kirsty faces a shock.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Grace Dent tells the story of a long distance romance played out via karaoke duets. 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:00Ian Acheson examines whether the London Bridge attack could have been prevented. 11:30Emma Critchley meets the artists turning smog, landfill and sewage into challenging art.
| 11:00An individual with a story to tell, and some answers to find, in today's Britain. 11:302/4Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple with a broken-hearted house guest
| 11:00Stephen McDonnell describes the atmosphere in China while he is quarantined at home. 11:30Andrew McGibbon meets Anthony Frewin who outed two of Stanley Kubrick's impersonators.
| 11:003/3V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums are changing 11:30Businessman Craig wants to help disadvantaged kids. Problem is they don’t want his help.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz overshadowed by rows over history.
| 11:15Sonita Alleyne shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/10By Robert Harris. A priest is despatched to bury Father Lacy. 12:18Buying a new bike, banks and refunds and retiring to the sun after Brexit 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:042/10By Robert Harris. Father Fairfax conducts the funeral of Father Lacy. 12:18Are you ready for Brexit? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/10By Robert Harris. Fairfax learns more about Father Lacy's Parish. 12:18Term-time holidays; Electric cars; University applications 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/10By Robert Harris. Fairfax has made an important discovery. 12:18Patchy mobile phone coverage. Success of hair and beauty salons. Smelly paint complaints. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/10By Robert Harris. The scholar Nicholas Shadwell holds a meeting. 12:18The couples asking their wedding guests to help fund their upcoming nuptials. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04What does Brexit mean if you receive UK benefits but live on the continent? 12:304/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Nish Kumar 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Sheila Dillon meets baking guru, TV judge and home-cooking champion, Mary Berry 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:451/5An exploration of the global pitfalls in telling textbook national history.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:452/5In Lebanon, the past is frozen - history lessons stop at 1943.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:453/5The impact of Hindu nationalist narratives on recounting India's story.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:454/5The controversial history lessons in Japanese schools.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:455/5In the 1970's, a new kind of history teaching began in Northern Ireland.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Chris Mason chairs political debate from Aston Parish Church in Birmingham
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Gavin Haynes heads into the eye of the moral storms gripping some unlikely communities.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Jim is surprised by an unexpected visitor 14:151/3Drama following the friendship of three radical lesbian feminists from the 1970s to today.
| 14:00There’s chaos at Brookfield. 14:152/3Drama following the friendship of three radical lesbian feminists from the 1970s to today.
| 14:153/3Drama following the friendship of three radical lesbian feminists from the 1970s to today.
| 14:00Kate’s idea looks set to cause ructions and Gavin continues to make his presence felt. 14:15Heartfelt, emotional drama about a mother reconnecting with her child
| 14:15Eoin McNamee's thriller starring Denise Gough
| 14:00Are smart motorways too dangerous? 14:45Written and performed by Vicky Foster with a sound score by Broken Orchestra.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the team are in the Cotswolds answering the audience's questions. 14:45Three conversations about the art of making lasting friendships through helping others.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish cryptic quiz 15:30Can science help us cook better? Dan Saladino asks Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc.
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from Bakewell. 15:30Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
| 15:00What are your consumer rights when holidays get cancelled or go wrong? Paul Lewis explores 15:30Coronavirus; Probiotics and gut health in early life; Pill Organisers; Haemophilia therapy
| 15:00With storms and high winds will Helen Mark be able to cross Tintagel's new bridge? 15:27Gail Porter makes the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Emmaus UK. 15:30Jeanine Cummins on American Dirt, and forgotten classic The Street with Tayari Jones
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the team are in the Cotswolds answering the audience's questions. 15:45A funny and forlorn tale about working in a bar.
| 15:30Emma Critchley meets the artists turning smog, landfill and sewage into challenging art.
| 15:003/3A radical updating of Charles Dickens' most political novel, Oliver Twist.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Naomi Gryn revisits the Holocaust novel The Last of the Just, published 60 years ago. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Marcus Brigstocke to talk about the magic of coral.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on how the NHS chooses words on its website and in consultants' letters. 16:30Nick Hornby and Carlo Rovelli talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Hidden gay lives, from Polari to true crime stories. 16:30How exiting the EU deprives some journalists of their favourite topic.
| 16:00Seamus McGarvey on A Matter Of Life And Death. 16:30Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a writer, a politician, a basketball star 16:30Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more. 16:55Friends discuss the power of tea and solace volunteering at the local community centre.
| 16:00The double discrimination faced by black parents with autistic children.
| 16:00James Meek on his novel The People's Act of Love. James Naughtie presents. 16:302/2Naomi Beckwith celebrates more Black cultural figures who should be central to history.
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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. 17:30Were we wrong to think that recycling was the answer to our waste problem? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Facial Recognition: Who's watching you? 17:40The US Secretary of State caught up in the Ukraine impeachment scandal. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Survivors and world leaders attend service at Auschwitz to mark 70 years since liberation 18:305/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Ministers approve Huawei's involvement in the UK's 5G network. 18:30A special compilation edition celebrating 50 years of Just a Minute.
| 18:00Troubled rail company Northern is to be brought under government control. 18:304/4Joe is joined by Mary Berry and Holly Walsh.
| 18:00A flight from China will carry British people left stranded by the coronavirus. 18:305/13Sarah Millican's new panel show with two winners - Average Jolene and Maverick Matilda.
| 18:00The UK will leave the European Union at 11pm tonight 18:304/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Nish Kumar
| 18:00The university says the risk of the infection being passed to others on campus is low 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Police in London shoot dead a man, in what's being treated as a terror-related incident. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00There’s chaos at Brookfield. 19:15Martin Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition in St Ives. 19:451/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 19:15Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: Picard, Costa Book Award winner, New Arts Council strategy 19:452/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 19:00Kate’s idea looks set to cause ructions and Gavin continues to make his presence felt. 19:15Melina Matsoukas on her film about police violence starring Daniel Kaluuya. 19:453/5Millie and Colman struggle to come to terms with the fall-out from Joss's death.
| 19:15Robert Pattinson on his new film The Lighthouse, and Greta Gerwig on Little Women. 19:454/5The death of jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
| 19:15Director Agnieszka Holland on her film Mr Jones starring James Norton. 19:455/5Colman opens the letter left to him by his dead father - his father who used to be a woman
| 19:00The US Secretary of State caught up in the Ukraine impeachment scandal. 19:15Bergman, The Lighthouse, William Gibson, Mushrooms at Somerset House, Art on the BBC.
| 19:00Kirsty attempts to keep the peace 19:154/6From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you've never heard it before. 19:454/5No One Called Her Angel. A five-part reading for Radio 4 written by Louise Welsh.
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| 20:00 | 20:00An individual with a story to tell, and some answers to find, in today's Britain. 20:30Are businesses serious about getting woke or is it old capitalism with new lipstick on?
| 20:00Facial Recognition: Who's watching you? 20:40The blood donors who save sight. And one of the UK's top visually impaired surfers.
| 20:003/3The Fix looks at the issue of debt and why it's such an intractable problem for the UK. 20:45Alice Moloney discusses how best to express negative emotions in the digital realm.
| 20:00Bluffs, plays and tariff peaks, the UK enters the free trade world. 20:30Behind the economics of e-commerce.
| 20:00Chris Mason chairs political debate from Aston Parish Church in Birmingham 20:50Howard Jacobson on why he’s taken to folding plastic bags.
| 20:00Repetition is everywhere. Repetition is persuasive. Has Ross Sutherland been here before?
| 20:00Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a writer, a politician, a basketball star
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| 21:00 | 21:00Adam Buxton uncovers the mystery of the world’s weirdest scat singer, Shooby Taylor. 21:30Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan
| 21:00Coronavirus; Probiotics and gut health in early life; Pill Organisers; Haemophilia therapy 21:30How Peter Fonagy changed the way we treat our mental health.
| 21:00The people who think drilling a hole in the head can revitalise them and prevent dementia. 21:301/3The making of the radical poet William Wordsworth 250 years after his birth. 1. The Lakes
| 21:00Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
| 21:00This week's Archive on 4 goes backwards in time to find the roots and routes of Brexit.
| 21:003/4by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Pilgrim must save a community when a sleeping giant wakes. 21:45By Nick Walker. A journalist is found dead in Norway’s parliament building.
| 21:00What does Brexit mean if you receive UK benefits but live on the continent? 21:25Mariella Frostrup makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust. 21:30Are businesses serious about getting woke or is it old capitalism with new lipstick on?
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| 22:00 | 22:00Elderly survivors of Nazi death camp joined by world leaders at Polish ceremony 22:451/10By Robert Harris. A priest is despatched to bury Father Lacy.
| 22:00Trump meets Netanyahu at White House, Palestinians say plan is “nonsense” 22:452/10By Robert Harris. Father Fairfax conducts the funeral of Father Lacy.
| 22:00UK government chartering a flight from Wuhan, epicentre of coronavirus 22:453/10By Robert Harris. Fairfax learns more about Father Lacy's Parish.
| 22:00170 dead so far in China - 18 other countries affected 22:454/10By Robert Harris. Fairfax has made an important discovery.
| 22:00Prime Minister describes Brexit as "dawn of a new era"
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/3The Fix looks at the issue of debt and why it's such an intractable problem for the UK.
| 22:00Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to Professor Dawn Archer about how we might tell when someone is lying 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Paul Merton interviews Nicholas Parsons about his time as host of the popular panel show. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:004/6From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you've never heard it before. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4It's Ian and Chloe’s wedding day and Chloe’s estranged parents are testing patience 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament 23:55Friends and fellow social workers talk about how they might appear to the kids they help.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish cryptic quiz 23:30Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world, exploring what it means to belong.
| 23:005/8Radiolab explores strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray.
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