| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Palaces for the People: the decline in civic life. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary Bentley, Hampshire 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The story of how fabrics have shaped the world we live in - from cloth to garment. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The secrets of the silkworm - how fabrics have shaped our world. Reader Francesca Dymond. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Story of cotton including the ever popular Levi blue jeans. Reader Francesca Dymond. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The dangers involved in producing synthetic fabrics like rayon. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The fabrics used to dress astronauts and champion swimmers. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Katie Thistleton presents a showcase of the shortlisted entries for this year's award. 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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Dowd 05:45Sustainable Food Trust calls to keep land-based subsidies, and a photo booth for ponies. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58After a bad day at work, Joe Harkness recalls an encounter with a woodlark.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Dowd. 05:45A report says better public policies are needed to change our eating habits. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the world's most numerous bird: red-billed quelea.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Dowd. 05:45A discussion between landowners and environmentalists on the best way to manage moorland. 05:58Environmentalist Tony Juniper describes the curious roding flight of the woodcock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Dowd. 05:45A gamekeeper fears his industry is failing to communicate properly with the public. 05:58Penny Anderson had to stop work on her house when the spotted flycatchers moved in.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Mark Dowd 05:45A case of BSE has been confirmed in Scotland. Restrictions have been put in place 05:58For nature writer Mark Cocker spring has not arrived until he hears his first wood warbler
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster the Rev Dr Johnston McKay. 05:45The residents trying to protect their Yorkshire town from flooding. ipm@bbc.co.uk
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from St Giles, Cripplegate 05:45Mark Coles profiles Esther McVey, the minister defending universal credit.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Clare Balding joins a group of recent graduates on the Speyside Way 06:30A gamekeeper in the Cotswolds defends his right to raise and shoot birds. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Bertrand Russell and Winnie the Pooh help Mark Tully decide if anxiety is good for us. 06:35Peter France joins Erica Towner and David Harper on Dungeness in Kent. From 1990. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News headlines and sport.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Dame Louise Casey makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Depaul International 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The best of Monday in the Commons and the Lords with Sean Curran.
| 08:31The best of Tuesday in the Commons and the Lords with Susan Hulme.
| 08:31Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster - and beyond.
| | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A reflective journey from loss to hope with the Rev Richard Littledale. 08:48Howard Jacobson on the end of mooching as a way of life. 08:58Author James Henry picks the yellowhammer for his Tweet of the Day.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Andrew Graystone
| 09:00Claudia Hammond looks at the role of health, society and culture in loneliness. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Rev Nick Bundock.
| 09:00The painter and print-maker Norman Ackroyd meets the writer Robert Macfarlane. 09:30What in our biological and social evolution made us so angry? Oliver Burkeman finds out. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Fr Phil Sumner.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2). 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Rev Richard Littledale
| 09:00Musician Nile Rodgers is interviewed by Lauren Laverne. 09:45A spiritual reflection with prayers led by the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths
| 09:00Adam Hills and the Inheritance Tracks of Paul Jones from Manfred Mann
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Award-winning director Marianne Elliott on her new Sondheim production, Company 10:451/5Jackie Hartwell is family liaison officer for a woman assaulted in her own home.
| 10:00Should it be easier for trans people to have their gender recognised in law? 10:452/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell begins to build a profile of Denise’s attacker.
| 10:00Award-winning actor Sally Field. WH Power List 2018: Vick Bain. Women prison officers. 10:413/5Jackie Hartwell learns Denise’s attacker is more dangerous than they previously thought. 10:55He said we were the hardest people to tell.
| 10:00Training to be a prison officer, the menopause and sex, and decluttering. 10:454/5Jackie Hartwell fears Denise’s attacker has chosen yet another victim.
| 10:00Sofi Jeannin, Afghan girls' education, adoption, Baroness Hollis, and women in comedy. 10:455/5Jackie Hartwell continues to question Keith about his wife’s disappearance.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the panel are at Senate House in North London.
| 10:00Elizabeth struggles to cope and Josh makes a terrible mistake
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| 11:00 | 11:00Gavin Haynes explores the rebirth of classical liberalism online. 11:303/6Josh tries to convince a mohel that Monique was born Jewish.
| 11:00Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup. 11:30How is modern music changing striptease? Burlesque stars reveal their soundtrack secrets.
| 11:00MP and historian Kwasi Kwarteng on the legacy of Empire. 11:302/4A whodunnit set on the great Flying Scotsman in the days of steam.
| 11:00The jihadist group offering men and women a taste of power and an escape from poverty. 11:30Lenny Henry on how to get more young working-class and BAME actors into the industry.
| 11:00Are President Trump's relations with Evangelicals reshaping American politics? 11:302/6Henry and Vera are on a lecture tour of the USA.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Fuel shortages are nothing to worry about, says the government in Zimbabwe.
| 11:15Venki Ramakrishnan, scientist, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15Loneliness, empty old bank buildings and what's the cost of a bag of chips? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15How has adoption changed your life? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15Where will supermarkets close if the Sainsbury's and Asda merger goes ahead? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15Universal credit. Dutch cycling. The growing crisis in home care. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War. 12:15At a time when other retailers are struggling, TK Maxx is opening new stores. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04Do the finances of buying an electric or hybrid car still stack up? 12:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:043/6John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Karen Dunbar, Professor John Wood and Shaun Keaveny. 12:32Susie Barrie joins the harvest at the end of a landmark growing season for homegrown wine. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Otto contracts a strange illness and Charlotte rushes to Rome to be by his side.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Who was the Bishop who protected Otto in Rome?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Philippe and the team work out the identity of the mysterious man Otto had lunch with.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Philippe travels to Albuquerque to meet, the son of the CIA agent who recruited Karl Hass.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Charlotte Wachter finally brings Otto home.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Chesham in Buckinghamshire
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell, including a possible return of the nuclear arms race. 13:30A student loan paid off, nuclear entrepreneurs, growing up with HIV and lavender farming.
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| 14:00 | 14:15St Anthony’s Festival this year is the setting for the story of a 40-year old secret.
| 14:151/2Meet Bob Trench, undercover agent, fighting to save his reputation on a tough mission.
| 14:15Sarah and Frank unwittingly become involved in a neighbourhood dispute.
| 14:00Elizabeth struggles to cope 14:15Britain 2056: Following the collapse of the information age, a grandfather takes action.
| 14:00Josh makes a terrible mistake 14:15Agents at GCHQ struggle to find the source of a complex cyber-attack on the National Grid.
| 14:00What do you make of the Gender recognition act? 14:30Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of The Republican Party.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are in the New Forest. 14:45Reflections on the death of parents and on getting older.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The wide-ranging nationwide music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini. 15:30A brewer's guide to modern cider.
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel are in Sheffield. 15:30Lucy Siegle and Tom Heap ask which gender is worse for the environment and why it matters.
| 15:00Debt and bankruptcy - advice for those who feel they're losing grip on their finances. 15:30France delists Alzheimer's drugs, quality of life after hip fracture and prostate cancer.
| 15:00Clare Balding joins a group of recent graduates on the Speyside Way 15:27Richard Harrington makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Tenovus Cancer Care. 15:30Colombian novelist Hector Abad joins Mariella Frostrup.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are in the New Forest. 15:45Katie Thistleton presents a showcase of the shortlisted entries for this year's award.
| 15:15Artist Isaac Julien has an imagined chat with former collaborator Professor Stuart Hall. 15:30Don McCullin, photographer and 'sky stalker', on the landscape around his house.
| 15:003/3Prince Amerigo and Charlotte's betrayal is exposed. Stars Luke Pasqualino.
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| 16:00 | 16:00In their workshops Verity Sharp meets people dedicated to making fine musical instruments 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores the unexpected advantages of average.
| 16:00Michael Rosen finds out how best to communicate with people with dementia. 16:30Ben Miller and Danny Wallace join Harriett Gilbert to talk favourite books
| 16:00Rich Russians. Also, millionaire tax flight. 16:30Facebook announces new rules on political ads, and Tortoise promises 'open journalism'.
| 16:00Composer Neil Brand on John Carpenter's score for his 1978 horror classic Halloween. 16:30The dogs of Neolithic farmers and rocket science.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator. 16:30Reporting breaking news on Brexit. 16:55The fact that we were all there helped
| 16:00Sally Field on her rise to fame. Raising mixed-race children. Plus tips for decluttering.
| 16:00Liane Moriarty, best-selling author of Big Little Lies, joins Alex Clark. 16:30Carol Ann Duffy shares poems from her final collection as Poet Laureate.
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| 17:00 | 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30What do businesses do when their supply chain fails? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Does Britain’s green energy strategy stack up?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles Esther McVey, the minister defending universal credit.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Theresa May insists a deal with the EU is still achievable. 18:303/6John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Karen Dunbar, Professor John Wood and Shaun Keaveny.
| 18:00The Commons Speaker, John Bercow, will stand down next summer. 18:302/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.
| 18:00PM to urge EU colleagues to show flexibility to end the deadlock in the Brexit talks 18:302/2Comedians Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal explore Kolkata for the physical remains of Empire.
| 18:00Theresa May faces a tory party backlash as she tries to break Brexit deadlock 18:303/6Hardacre's ad agency compete for a dating app account called Befriendr. With Nigel Havers.
| 18:00A gang of men, who raped and abused girls as young as 11, given lengthy prison sentences 18:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp
| 18:00Organisers claim 700,000 people attended a march demanding another referendum on Brexit 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Ex Soviet leader Gorbachev condemns President Trump's plan to leave nuclear treaty. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with Sindhu Vee.
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| 19:00 | 19:15One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what's changed? Daniel York Loh 19:451/5Jackie Hartwell is family liaison officer for a woman assaulted in her own home.
| 19:15Playing Linda Loman, Informer review, art inspired by geology, Ciarán Hodgers 19:452/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell begins to build a profile of Denise’s attacker.
| 19:00Elizabeth struggles to cope 19:15Gerard Butler and the male body in movies - is bigger always better? 19:453/5Jackie Hartwell learns Denise’s attacker is more dangerous than they previously thought.
| 19:00Josh makes a terrible mistake 19:15Python Eric Idle on his autobiography. The 11th film in the Halloween franchise reviewed. 19:454/5Jackie Hartwell fears Denise’s attacker has chosen yet another victim.
| 19:15Author Heather Morris on her novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story 19:455/5Jackie Hartwell continues to question Keith about his wife’s disappearance.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Esther McVey, the minister defending universal credit. 19:15They Shall Not Grow Old, Oceania, Sally Rooney, Nina Raine : Stories, Sally4Ever
| 19:151/2Neil Brand's fast-talking musical comedy set in a 1932 Chicago Radio Studio. 19:45Twelve flights. Twelve travellers. Twelve stories. David Szalay's new short story series.
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| 20:00 | 20:00MP and historian Kwasi Kwarteng on the legacy of Empire. 20:30Northern Ireland could soon face a huge decision - whether to leave the UK.
| 20:00Does Britain’s green energy strategy stack up? 20:40Pharma company Novartis appeals against a recent court judgement.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Richard Johnston explains how images can start conversations about research.
| 20:00The prejudices, politics and pride of the multi-billion pound world of migrant money 20:30What do businesses do when their supply chain fails?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Chesham in Buckinghamshire 20:50Howard Jacobson on the end of mooching as a way of life.
| 20:00Lyse Doucet reflects on how women reporters have covered war and atrocities.
| 20:00Reporting breaking news on Brexit. 20:30Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions? 21:30Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr.
| 21:00France delists Alzheimer's drugs, quality of life after hip fracture and prostate cancer. 21:30Claudia Hammond looks at the role of health, society and culture in loneliness.
| 21:00Lucy Siegle and Tom Heap ask which gender is worse for the environment and why it matters. 21:30The painter and print-maker Norman Ackroyd meets the writer Robert Macfarlane.
| 21:00The dogs of Neolithic farmers and rocket science. 21:30Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
| 21:00Epic drama series set in Great War Britain.
| 21:00Caught up in the surprise British retreat of 1918, signallers face a terrifying choice. 21:45Nick Baker on the unusual jobs that speak volumes about the modern world we live in.
| 21:00Do the finances of buying an electric or hybrid car still stack up?(R) 21:25Dame Louise Casey makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Depaul International 21:30Northern Ireland could soon face a huge decision - whether to leave the UK.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Donald Tusk says it is more likely than ever that Britain will leave EU without a deal. 22:456/10The Tranquillum House guests discover they are being drugged as part of a programme.
| 22:00John Bercow has told friends he will stand down next summer. 22:457/10The owner of Tranquillum House decides to play a very dark game with her guests.
| 22:00EU 27 says there will be no November summit. 22:458/10The guests are locked in a room for 38 hours without food as part of Masha’s dark games.
| 22:00American military commander who'd been meeting them escapes unharmed. 22:459/10Can the nine guests escape from the locked room as the threat of fire creeps ever closer?
| 22:00Migrants confronted by Mexican police in riot gear - as they try to reach the US. 22:4510/10The nine guests escape Masha’s clutches. Their lives will never be the same again.
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests preview another difficult week for the prime minister over Brexit
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen discusses slogan T-shirts with Amber Butchart and Caryn Franklin. 23:30Susan Hulme reports on today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:003/4Josie questions whether her dream of one day having a family is now unrealistic. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Wesminster.
| 23:00Ken Cheng explores British Chinese culture and attitudes to family values. 23:151/3Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets in this modern ghost story. 23:30Susan Hulme reports on today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:003/6Will any of the team at Edinburgh's Cafe Culture find their prince at a ball in Leith? 23:30Sean Curran reports from Wesminster
| 23:00Ben Miller and Danny Wallace join Harriett Gilbert to talk favourite books 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster 23:55There's something about turning sixty; there's less left ahead than behind
| 23:00The wide-ranging nationwide music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini. 23:30Fiona Benson shares poems from her forthcoming collection, Vertigo & Ghost
| 23:00Composer Neil Brand on John Carpenter's score for his 1978 horror classic Halloween. 23:30Bertrand Russell and Winnie the Pooh help Mark Tully decide if anxiety is good for us.(R)
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