| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Matthew Syed explores ideas that shape our lives, making us see the world differently. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church, Harpole in Northamptonshire. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Actor, director and gourmand Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a culinary life. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Actor and epicure Stanley Tucci makes the case for tradition when pairing pasta and sauce. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Stanley Tucci remembers the television cooks who inspired him to follow in their footsteps 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Actor Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a life lived with food at its heart. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A reflection on the meaning of Christmas with broadcaster and journalist Adrian Chiles. 00:30On Christmas Day, Mark must adjust to a new festive routine at his sister's house. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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| 01:00 | 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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| 05:00 | 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston. 05:45Import rules and getting jabbed at the mart. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Ruth Cromie of the Slimbridge Wetland Centre on the eider duck.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston. 05:45Farmers have been left picking up the pieces after the collapse of Farmdrop. 05:58Writer Paul Evans has an unnerving encounter with a barn owl in this Halloween tale.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston. 05:45Why are puffins washing up dead on UK beaches? 05:58Fermanagh-based bird blogger Dara Mcanulty on the whooper swan for Tweet of the Day.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston. 05:45The UK oysters still not going to Europe. 05:58Chris Packham presents the wild turkey.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston. 05:45Charlotte Smith spreads Christmas cheer with a feast of festive farming stories. 05:58Chris Packham presents the blackbird.
| 05:34The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rev Azariah France-Williams. 05:45Beth Stevens talks about the brain cells most people have never heard of.
| 05:34The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from Coventry Cathedral. 05:45Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages.
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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. 06:05David Attenborough presents a seasonal reflection of the robin. 06:07Helen Mark explores the parkland and green spaces of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. 06:30A chatty farmer, his wife Helie, and 300 farm animals put on a panto for the world to see. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort. 06:35Brett Westwood explores the nature and culture of oysters. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Kathy Clugston hosts a Christmas edition of the gardening panel show. 07:455/5Stanley Tucci delights in reconnecting with his sense of taste after treatment for cancer.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10William Crawley looks at the ethical and religious issues of the week. 07:54Catherine Jessop makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Encephalitis Society. 07:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | 08:00Barry Humphries exchanges poetry and prose with Miriam Margolyes and Rob Brydon.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A meditation on the Power of Light for St Stephen's Day, with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir. 08:48Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'. 08:58Paul Evans encounters a pair of ravens.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley. 09:451/5Actor, director and gourmand Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a culinary life.
| 09:0019/22Strange Tales from the Culture Wars by Jon Ronson 09:30Beth Stevens talks about the brain cells most people have never heard of. 09:452/5Actor and epicure Stanley Tucci makes the case for tradition when pairing pasta and sauce.
| 09:004/4Stuart Russell suggests a way forward for human control over artificial intelligence.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age. 09:454/5Actor Stanley Tucci shares his intimate memoir of a life lived with food at its heart.
| 09:00Dame Prue Leith, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:455/5Stanley Tucci delights in reconnecting with his sense of taste after treatment for cancer.
| 09:00From Bethlehem Bible College, a community committed to peace and reconciliation. 09:45Consumerism and Christmas have gone hand in hand for a surprisingly long time
| 09:00Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The award-winning actor Claire Foy on her role as the Duchess of Argyll in a new BBC drama
| 10:00Poet Carol Ann Duffy and folk musician Kathryn Williams on their new collaboration.
| 10:00Countdown Star and lexicographer Susie Dent on festive words.
| 10:00The acting legend Dame Joan Collins on her life and seven decades in showbusiness.
| 10:00The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club. A Musical Family Christmas. Volunteering.
| 10:00Mark Strong and Patricia Hodge's Inheritance Tracks.
| 10:00Usha’s not feeling the Christmas vibe and Susan’s got the green eye.
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| 11:00 | 11:00David Baddiel hears from people who have sent their relatives abroad for dementia care. 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:00Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish 11:30A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
| 11:004/4The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures. 11:302/2From screen-washers to the spirit of Christmas. More comic monologues from Maureen Lipman.
| 11:00A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia. 11:30Sir James MacMillan considers composer Mahler’s complex faith life.
| 11:00A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become. 11:30How long will Count Arthur last in the role of Father Christmas this year?
| 11:00Poor Moomintroll wakes from hibernation, and finds himself in a strange frozen world.
| 11:00Richard Osman, broadcaster, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. 11:452/2The letters of Sandy (a camel) and Martha (a donkey). A comic perspective on the Nativity.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 12:041/5Alex Jennings reads Brian Sibley's imaginative retelling of the Christmas story. 12:18Pig culls; Wild Water; Swimming; Private Dentists; Furniture Delivery 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 12:042/5Poor Joseph! An ordinary man caught up in extraordinary events. 12:18Call You and Yours: How has your Christmas changed because of Covid? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 12:043/5Cool Gabriel reminds us Joseph was chosen for his humility. 12:18Darts is gaining popularity with new audiences. We hear how the sport is evolving. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 12:044/5Back in Nazareth the baby, Jesus, starts to grow up. 12:18Santa hears from listeners about poor service from one delivery company. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4, including the shipping forecast. 12:045/5Joseph is ill. Mary is there. Gabriel watches over them both. 12:18What's changed for the better for you in 2021? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4, including the shipping forecast. 12:04On Christmas Day, Mark must adjust to a new festive routine at his sister's house. 12:183/3A special where the team look back at 2021 in various alternate earths in the multiverse. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 12:044/6Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games. 12:32Leyla Kazim dives into the world of rapid grocery delivery - could it change how we shop? 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:456/10Biella tells the story of how two teen hackers rattled South American governments.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:457/10Biella Coleman discovers how Piracy and Open Source have impacted hacking.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:458/10Biella Coleman discovers how people, not tech, are targets of malicious actors.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:459/10Biella discovers the different reasons people hack their own bodies.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond. 13:4510/10Biella discovers why simply repairing your own device may make you a hacker.
| 13:00Greg Jenner and guests explore Christmas in medieval times. 13:30It's nearly Christmas and Ed needs a room at the inn. But he's got to deal with Scrooge.
| 13:00Radio 4’s look at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world. 13:30Fi Glover presents a selection of powerful conversations gathered this year.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Lynda seeks divine justice. 14:15Forty years on, the dramatic story of the Penlee lifeboat disaster.
| 14:00Susan’s got the green eye. 14:153/4Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance return in seasonal drama set on a Norfolk nature reserve.
| 14:00Oliver offers words of wisdom. 14:15When Stephen wishes life could be simpler, the unexpected happens!
| 14:00Jazzer’s got stage fright. 14:157/7Sometimes love can be traumatic. Sometimes it can be fatal.
| 14:00Someone comes knocking for Alan 14:152/2Pilgrim searches for the mysterious Mrs Bronson as a fierce blizzard hits Melcombe.
| 14:00A special concert celebrating the stories of Dame Jaqueline Wilson in words and music.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts a Christmas edition of the gardening panel show. 14:45Lynsey Hanley tells the cautionary tale of two leaseholders of a Georgian style property.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz. 15:30Big names in the food world join Dan and Sheila with their favourite Christmas dishes.
| 15:00Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas. 15:30Reverends Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser - back for a Christmas Day special.
| 15:00Louise Cooper and guests explore how you trace lost and forgotten financial assets. 15:30Fish Oils for depression, Pain pleasure and a good life, kindness, and memory for comedy.
| 15:00Helen Mark explores the parkland and green spaces of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. 15:27Nozandulela (Nozi) Samela makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of mothers2mothers. 15:30Laura Barnett on her novel Gifts, and recommended non-fiction books of 2021.
| 15:00A service of carols, hymns, and readings live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
| 15:00The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the nation. 15:05The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 15:15William Goldman’s witty cult classic of true love and high adventure.
| 15:001/21/2 The Nativity. The Archers present a magical version of the medieval dramas.
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| 16:00 | 16:00James MacMillan considers Mozart’s complex faith life at a time of reform and revolution. 16:30The enduring appeal and spiritual meaning of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.
| 16:001/3Psychotherapist and writer Philippa Perry attempts to unpick the tangled idea of desire. 16:30Nina Sosanya picks Jeanne Baret, first woman round the globe.
| 16:00Matthew Syed asks whether thinking musically could bring us more harmony in our lives. 16:30The scientists and journalists who have become characters within the Covid story.
| 16:00Should we eat, drink and be merry or make sacrifices now to benefit our future selves? 16:30Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain.
| 16:30Julian Worricker on a writer, a conservationist, an entertainer, a film director.
| 16:15Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll
| 16:00Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts look back at the highlights of their first year at the helm. 16:30Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
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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.
| 17:00Fi and Jane are joined by Clare Balding and Alice Arnold for their Christmas Day Special. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 17:00How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity 17:40Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Boris Johnson decides against an immediate introduction of new measures against Omicron. 18:304/6Jack Dee hosts the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games.
| 18:00The Government confirms no new Covid restrictions will be imposed in England before Xmas 18:307/8Hancock throws a Christmas party and finds himself in court.
| 18:00Scientists have approved Covid jabs for children as young as 5, at risk of severe illness 18:30The couple prepare to spend a quiet Christmas with friends, or so they think.
| 18:00The Health Secretary warns the NHS could be overwhelmed by a surge in Omicron. 18:30Tim Vine pulls a cracker with the great British Public
| 18:00Officials encouraged by data suggesting omicron is less likely to cause serious illness 18:153/3A special where the team look back at 2021 in various alternate earths in the multiverse.
| 18:00The Queen has spoken poignantly of the death of Prince Philip in her Christmas message. 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 18:15Bella Mackie presents her pick of the best podcasts of 2021.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Susan’s got the green eye. 19:15Maggie Gyllenhaal on her new film, The Lost Daughter.
| 19:00Oliver offers words of wisdom. 19:15Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride
| 19:00Jazzer’s got stage fright. 19:15Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film Licorice Pizza.
| 19:00Someone comes knocking for Alan 19:15Call the Midwife writer and creator Heidi Thomas on the art of the Christmas special.
| 19:004/5How have the rebel poets stormed the establishment? Lemn Sissay charts their rise. 19:15Ellen and Mark explore festive screen favourites It's A Wonderful Life and Second Coming.
| 19:00Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been called a spiritual album for the dark ages. 19:15Sting reveals the experiences and influences that shaped his songwriting career.
| 19:00Susan’s got the wrong end of the stick 19:15Nigel Rees presents a compilation of the best quotations from Quote… Unquote’s history. 19:459/10A new short story series for Radio 4 by Eley Williams, set in a village gripped by chess.
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| 20:00 | 20:00A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become. 20:30A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen.
| 20:00How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity 20:40Join our virtual Christmas party, with music and lots of stories.
| 20:00Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze 20:453/5Stanley Tucci remembers the television cooks who inspired him to follow in their footsteps
| 20:00Could space be the next frontier for conflict? And what would it look like? 20:30Evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven on the impact of testosterone. With Helen Lewis.
| 20:00Clive Anderson with a choice of some of the best Loose Ends music performances. 20:50Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
| 20:00What is the enduring appeal of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?
| 20:00Following the death of archbishop Desmond Tutu, Gerry Northam takes a look at his life. 20:30Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese python. 21:30Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
| 21:00Fish Oils for depression, Pain pleasure and a good life, kindness, and memory for comedy. 21:3019/22Strange Tales from the Culture Wars by Jon Ronson
| 21:003/3The trials and triumphs of young farmers. 21:30The scientists and journalists who have become characters within the Covid story.
| 21:00Archaeologists use ancient DNA to uncover an unrecognised mass migration into Britain. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
| 21:00Barry Humphries exchanges poetry and prose with Miriam Margolyes and Rob Brydon.
| 21:00Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. 21:45The Bard of Salford performs classic and unheard poems at the BBC's Radio Theatre.
| 21:00Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. 21:45Catherine Jessop makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Encephalitis Society. 21:48Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Cabinet meets – PM “reserves the possibility” of further action 22:451/5Alex Jennings reads Brian Sibley's imaginative retelling of the Christmas story.
| 22:00PM had been under increasing pressure to provide clarity 22:452/5Poor Joseph! An ordinary man caught up in extraordinary events.
| 22:00JCVI says at-risk children as young as five should be offered jab 22:453/5Cool Gabriel reminds us Joseph was chosen for his humility.
| 22:00People with Covid up to 70% less likely to need hospital treatment than with Delta 22:454/5Back in Nazareth the baby, Jesus, starts to grow up.
| 22:00Kirsty Wark reunites some of the stars of the 2003 Christmas film Love Actually. 22:455/5Joseph is ill. Mary is there. Gabriel watches over them both.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
| 22:00From Afghanistan to Sondheim, Adam Fleming and guests reflect on the stories of the year.
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| 23:00 | 23:00An exploration of death from 1985 by Piers Plowright and Malcolm Clarke. 23:301/3Katy Long investigates 100 years of refugee politics.
| 23:001986 documentary about mining community life by acclaimed radio producer Piers Plowright. 23:302/3Katy Long continues her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
| 23:002/4Ruby is joined by a neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk to talk about being human. 23:15Break-out comedy star Sophie Willan looks at how 'normal' we are as parents. From 2018. 23:303/3Katy Long concludes her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
| 23:00Nina Sosanya picks Jeanne Baret, first woman round the globe. 23:30Comic poet Tim Key celebrates Christmas, via the medium of poetry.
| 23:00The carol that touched the lives of the former Archbishop of York and singer, Katie Melua. 23:30Midnight Mass with celebrant and preacher the Right Rev John Arnold, bishop of Salford.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotations quiz. 23:30Two climbers experience the most terrifying night of their lives in the Scottish highlands
| 23:001/6A Christmas Day Zoom and attending a funeral as a five-year-old. 23:30Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort.
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