| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Post-truth - what is it and how did we get to this point? 00:45The bells of the Parish Church of St Leonard, Bledington in Gloucestershire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Ben Macintyre’s book about the Cold War and a KGB double agent(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5M16 gets a lucky break.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5London calls in the double-agent drama.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Moscow wants a meeting in the double-agent drama.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5A game of cat and mouse ensues in the double-agent drama.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30PK Lynch's enchanting story inspired by WB Yeats.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Miriam Swaffield. 05:45National Resources Wales has banned the shooting of pheasants on public land. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the starling.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Miriam Swaffield 05:45Michael Gove commits to supporting more diversity in agricultural and rural communities. 05:58Paul Evans encounters a pair of ravens.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Miriam Swaffield 05:45The Food and Drink Federation reacts to the government's no-deal Brexit planning papers. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Nigel Bean on the water rail for Tweet of the Day.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Miriam Swaffield. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks if farmers have been unfairly claiming compensation for culled cows. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the golden plover.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Miriam Swaffield. 05:45Jacuzzi-grown tomatoes; why young farmers are leaving Guernsey; Labour's post Brexit plans 05:58Chris Packham presents the avocet.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable. ipm@bbc.co.uk
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Maunanus and St Stephen, Mawnan in Cornwall. 05:45Mark Coles looks at the life of one of the most successful golfers, Tiger Woods(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07This is the uplifting story of how walking helped a young man recover from a brain injury.(R) 06:30Hartpury University and Hartpury College share a rural campus in Gloucestershire 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Suryagupta, chair of the London Buddhist Centre, asks if kindness can be cultivated. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is in Dartmoor looking for the ash-black slug with John Walters. From 2008 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, with Edward Stourton 07:54Gyles Brandreth makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines, including a look at the papers. 08:10Harvest Thanksgiving from Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, Co Antrim. 08:48Val McDermid on Sadiq Khan's plans to tackle knife crime.(R) 08:58Kitty Macfarlane finds inspiration in the birds she sees in the countryside for her music.
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| 09:00 | 09:44William Boyd, Sue Prideaux, Adena Jacobs and Peter Biskind with Amol Rajan. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Steven Benson.
| 09:44Singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør on Oslo, a city of solitude and solace. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe
| 09:00Gemma Cairney takes Kojey Radical to Ghana, West Africa for a musical collaboration. 09:44Alan Dein asks five families revealing questions about politics and social class.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Fr Andrew Martlew.
| 09:44Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Dr Joe Aldred.
| 09:44Kirsty Young interviews Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon and writer.(R) 09:45Christian worship for BBC Music Day led by the Rev Alex Robertson.
| 09:00Bonnie Langford and Karen Gibson of the Kingdom Choir.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Politician Ruth Davidson on her own challenges and life lessons from groundbreaking women 10:451/5When a young pianist marries a wealthy aristocrat she discovers a grisly secret.
| 10:00Shadow minister for women and equalities, Naz Shah, at the Labour Party conference. 10:452/5A girl encounters the bewitching Erl-King and finds him irresistible.
| 10:00Elle Wright explains why it is important to speak about the experience of losing a baby. 10:413/5A young girl found in a wolf's den goes to work for a dreadful patron. 10:55A cleft palate is only a problem if people perceive it as such.
| 10:00Rape prosecutions, Mary Queen of Scots, and widows and food 10:454/5A father stakes his daughter in a game of cards. His adversary is known as the Beast.
| 10:00We reveal our judges' top forty women influencing and shaping the music we listen to. 10:455/5Red is a brave girl but she is warned not to stray from the path to her granny's house.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the panel are in Welwyn Garden City.
| 10:00Freddie faces the music, and it's all change for Tom.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Radio 4 becomes art in a unique blending of creativity and technology. 11:304/4Richard decides to invite his friends to the meal of a lifetime.
| 11:00Series celebrating the infinite variety of the natural world and its depiction in culture. 11:30Verity Sharp connects musical stories along latitudinal lines around the globe.
| 11:00How personal insecurity is used to drive exceptional performance in elite City workplaces.(R) 11:301/2Amid Brexit, Zoe Lyons grabs a new Irish passport and explores history and identity.
| 11:00How rebel violence is making it harder to tackle the latest outbreak of the virus. 11:30Artist Nye Thompson asks how the creative world is reflecting the state of surveillance.
| 11:00How instant noodles went global with the help of students, travellers and prisoners. 11:304/5Faced with a vulnerable person, Alfie asks ‘can the police take his decision making away?’
| 11:00Bridget Kendall and guests explore how a remote desert town in Mali became world famous 11:30A look at Jair Bolsonaro, the controversial front-runner in Brazil's presidential election
| 11:15Diver Tom Daley is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national, international news and shipping forecast from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Adam is steaming towards the harbour. 12:15High interest council loans, online fashion, and pig farming 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national, international news and shipping forecast from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Isabel returns in a defiant mood. 12:15Call You and Yours: Have you found love after bereavement? 12:56The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national, international news and shipping forecast from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Somewhere in the North Downs, Phyllis and Johnnie are still quite far from Folkestone. 12:15Thousands of PPI claimants may have been misled by their bank, plus excess fashion stock. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national, international news and shipping forecast from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Jack has something controversial to tell Florrie and Adam. 12:15New threats from scammers, complaints about Goldcar, mental health and travel insurance. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national, international news and shipping forecast from BBC Radio 4. 12:04At St Jude's, Kitty and Victor attend a christening which is anything but harmonious. 12:15Bank transfer fraud, and the power of music in helping people with dementia.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A consultation to reform leasehold law launches in England, how did Scotland abolish it? 12:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by guest host Bridget Christie.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation?(R) 12:32Meat-free meat is on the up, but what is it? Vegan cook Rachel Ama investigates 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Two very different families join together to raise a baby - and change each others' lives.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Two very different families join together to raise a baby - and change each others' lives.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Two very different families join together to raise a baby - and change each others' lives.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Two very different families join together to raise a baby - and change each others' lives.
| 13:00News with Sarah Montague including a call for changes to allergy warnings. 13:45Two very different families join together to raise a baby - and change each others' lives.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Brooklands College in Weybridge, Surrey.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Gyles Brandreth extols the virtues of of learning poetry by heart.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Shula attempts to bring the family together(R) 14:15Samuel West plays Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in a mesmerising encounter with Anne Lindbergh.(R)
| 14:00Elizabeth fears the worst(R) 14:15How the 1968 Backing Britain campaign became a political storm in a very English teacup.
| 14:00Freddie considers his options.(R)
| 14:00It's all change for Tom.(R) 14:15By Simon Crowther. A darkly comic tale of North Wales meets South in a Cardiff back yard.(R)
| 14:00Elizabeth makes a surprising decision 14:15By Vickie Donoghue. Carol looks after vulnerable young mothers but life is about to change
| 14:00Headteachers were out on the streets of London this week. Were they wrong to have marched? 14:30Pearl - the anonymous medieval poem, translated and adapted by Simon Armitage.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and his panel make a return visit to the John Innes Centre in Norwich.(R) 14:45The experience of having dyslexia or a cleft palate, or being unable to breast feed.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Gambaccini chairs the wide-ranging music quiz. 15:30Stories of harvest from around the UK to celebrate the autumn equinox.(R)
| 15:00Louise Morris explores the growing interest in ephemeral art - witnessed but not kept.(R) 15:30Jheni Osman asks what environmental factors may be affecting human and animal fertility.
| 15:00How to manage a cash flow to ensure a new club survives for the future 15:30How one stroke robbed a man of speech and four years later another stroke brought it back(R)
| 15:00This is the uplifting story of how walking helped a young man recover from a brain injury. 15:27Felicity Kendal makes an appeal on behalf of TB Alert.(R) 15:30Gail Jones on her new novel The Death of Noah Glass, and new life for Marlowe and Holmes.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and his panel make a return visit to the John Innes Centre in Norwich. 15:45PK Lynch's enchanting story inspired by WB Yeats.
| 15:30Verity Sharp connects musical stories along latitudinal lines around the globe.(R)
| 15:00Angela Carter's raucous, fantastical story of circus star, the winged Sophie Fevvers.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Artist Bob and Roberta Smith examines how text and language are used in art. 16:30Aleks Krotoski discovers how the information others have about you affects your life.
| 16:00Economist Johnson language columnist Lane Greene talks to Michael Rosen and Laura Wright. 16:30Christina Lamb, author and journalist nominates Benazir Bhutto as her great life.
| 16:00Creativity re-examined. Has it become a meaningless buzz word for our times? 16:30A BBC team uncovered the truth behind a video the Cameroon government called fake news.
| 16:00Paul King on the influence of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on his Paddington films. 16:30Hayabusa2, the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, WW2 bombing and the ionosphere, the teenage brain
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer. 16:30Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home. 16:55When your body fails your child, you feel grief, not just disappointment.
| 16:00Powerlist 2018 Women in Music - the women campaigning to make the industry fairer
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup and guests celebrate 20 years of reading, writing and Open Book 16:30In search of the musicality and sonic landscape of Virginia Woolf's world.(R)
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| 17:00 | 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:30A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable. ipm@bbc.co.uk(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Helen Grady investigates the high cost of bankruptcy.(R) 17:40Mark Coles looks at the life of one of the most successful golfers, Tiger Woods(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00A public inquiry has heard from victims of the "worst treatment scandal" in NHS history 18:30How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation?
| 18:00Shadow Brexit secretary says any future referendum could include option to remain in EU 18:305/6Money woes for Barney and Cathy, Evan and Fiona argue and David causes a stir...(R)
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn has outlined his vision for a transformed Britain under a Labour government 18:303/4Rob navigates the wonders and pitfalls of genetics and internationalism.
| 18:00Woman who accused Trump's nominee for US Supreme Court of sexual assault testifies 18:306/6Peter agrees to Plum House being used as a location in a period drama.(R)
| 18:00The government's facing calls to review food labelling laws after the death of a girl. 18:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by guest host Bridget Christie.
| 18:00Rescuers are struggling to reach an Indonesian city devastated by a tsunami. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Theresa May has urged the Conservatives to "come together" and back her plan for Brexit. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week chosen by broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake
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| 19:00 | 19:00Elizabeth fears the worst 19:15New Glenn Close film, Little Women in 2018, composer Jocelyn Pook, Chas Hodges remembered 19:451/5When a young pianist marries a wealthy aristocrat she discovers a grisly secret.(R)
| 19:00Freddie considers his options. 19:15The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede 19:452/5A girl encounters the bewitching Erl-King and finds him irresistible.(R)
| 19:15Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series 19:453/5A young girl found in a wolf's den goes to work for a dreadful patron.(R)
| 19:00Elizabeth makes a surprising decision 19:15Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art. 19:454/5A father stakes his daughter in a game of cards. His adversary is known as the Beast.(R)
| 19:00It's judgement day for Freddie. 19:15Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull 19:455/5Red is a brave girl but she is warned not to stray from the path to her granny's house.
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life of one of the most successful golfers, Tiger Woods 19:15Two For Joy, Poet In Da Corner, Sarah Perry, Space Shifters, Maniac/Counterpart
| 19:15Charles suspects foul play when the TV reality star playing Hamlet is severely injured.(R) 19:45By Nick Walker. Annika gets a nasty surprise investigating a death in Lillehammer.
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| 20:00 | 20:00How personal insecurity is used to drive exceptional performance in elite City workplaces. 20:30Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.(R)
| 20:00Helen Grady investigates the high cost of bankruptcy. 20:40The High Court rules against drug companies over a controversial treatment
| 20:00One decade on since the great crash, are we prepared for another financial meltdown? 20:45Julia Unwin asks if we have lost the human touch in a world of automation.
| 20:00Labour's plans for nationalisation - how would they work? 20:30Will artificial intelligence change how we shop and decide which retailers succeed?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Brooklands College in Weybridge, Surrey. 20:50Val McDermid on Sadiq Khan's plans to tackle knife crime.
| 20:00Julia Langdon tells the story of the 'cod wars' between Britain and Iceland.
| 20:00Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Penguins and us: from engaging funny figures to sentinels of change.(R) 21:30William Boyd, Sue Prideaux, Adena Jacobs and Peter Biskind with Amol Rajan.
| 21:00How one stroke robbed a man of speech and four years later another stroke brought it back 21:30Singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør on Oslo, a city of solitude and solace.(R)
| 21:00Jheni Osman asks what environmental factors may be affecting human and animal fertility. 21:30Gemma Cairney takes Kojey Radical to Ghana, West Africa for a musical collaboration.(R)
| 21:00Hayabusa2, the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, WW2 bombing and the ionosphere, the teenage brain 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler(R)
| 21:00Epic drama series set in Great War Britain.
| 21:00Mickey deals with the problem of remotely controlled German boats packed with explosives. 21:45Rebecca Gibb travels to the Tuscan coast to profile the Italian red wine Sassicaia.(R)
| 21:00A consultation to reform leasehold law launches in England, how did Scotland abolish it? 21:25Gyles Brandreth makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rainbow Trust Children's Charity.(R) 21:30Will artificial intelligence change how we shop and decide which retailers succeed?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00The shadow chancellor says a future Labour government would give workers more of a say. 22:45A brilliant and, at times, brutal retelling of Homer's The Iliad.
| 22:00President Trump reiterates his 'America First' agenda to the UN general assembly 22:45Briseis recalls the morning after her first night as Achilles' slave.
| 22:00A investigative website says the Novichok suspect is a Russian colonel decorated by Putin. 22:45An old man arrives in camp. The Greeks gather to hear what he has to say.
| 22:00Trump's Supreme Court nominee angrily denies allegations. 22:45Achilles assembles the Greek army and confronts Agamemnon about the plague.
| 22:00Full Senate vote delayed by a week to allow further FBI investigation. 22:45Briseis has been allocated as slave to Agamemnon, who is known for his cruelty.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15One decade on since the great crash, are we prepared for another financial meltdown?(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss developments at the Conservative Party Conference.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen and Laura Wright talk to Rob Eastaway about imperial and metric measurements(R) 23:30Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.(R)
| 23:002/2Aditi Mittal looks at her patriarchal home nation from the point of view of being young.(R) 23:30The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.(R)
| 23:004/4Bittersweet stories written and performed by Chris Neill with Martin Hyder and Isy Suttie. 23:15The West Wing star Richard Schiff presents a tour of his life and dreams.(R) 23:30Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.(R)
| 23:003/3Cats injected with nanobots, which form a neural lace, will almost certainly misbehave. 23:30Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.(R)
| 23:00Nocturnal, frank and funny conversations with Emma Barnett and guests. 23:25Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam. 23:55The repeated frustration when the computer tells you you've spelt it wrong again.
| 23:00Paul Gambaccini chairs the wide-ranging music quiz.(R) 23:30Huey Morgan travels to New York to examine the enduring appeal of blind musician Moondog.(R)
| 23:00Paul King on the influence of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on his Paddington films.(R) 23:30Suryagupta, chair of the London Buddhist Centre, asks if kindness can be cultivated.(R)
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