| 00:00 | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong talk to John Wilson(R) 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Wilfred’s Roman Catholic Church in York(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Political historian Peter Hennessy reads from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Political historian Peter Hennessy reads from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Political historian Peter Hennessy reads from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Political historian Peter Hennessy reads from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30Political historian Peter Hennessy reads from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30An original short story by Daisy Johnson, the youngest ever Booker Prize nominee.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 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 Rania Hafez 05:45Who owns Britain? We start a week-long look at land ownership. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the New Zealand Kakapo(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rania Hafez 05:45One of the country's biggest farming enterprises is sold. 05:58Michael Palin presents the Venezuelan horned screamer(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rania Hafez . 05:45Anna Hill asks Christine Watts why schools need help to teach their pupils about farming. 05:58Michael Palin presents the red-eyed vireo from North America.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rania Hafez . 05:45Charlotte Smith asks Ben Briggs what has happened to the Agriculture Bill. 05:58Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona desert.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rania Hafez 05:45Defra's Theresa Villiers admits there is a risk for UK farmers in a no-deal Brexit. 05:58Michael Palin presents the scarlet macaw from Costa Rica.(R)
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Reflection with Fr Dermot Morrin, Dominican friar and university chaplain in Edinburgh. 05:45Historian Kasia Tomasiewicz discusses how to commemorate war.
| 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 St Mary the Virgin, Chislet in Kent. 05:45Edward Stourton looks at the life of an unlikely rebel.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Jarvis Cocker’s love affair with Edale and Kinder Scout.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith visits Mark Tufnell on his Calmsden estate in Gloucestershire. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news headlines. 06:05Rabbi Harvey Belovski discovers the creative power of uncertainty.(R) 06:35JB Gill joins a farmer in Essex who mills his own wheat to bake bread. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Andy Airey makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of PAPYRUS - Prevention of Young Suicide. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:31MPs reject Boris Johnson's call for a general election.
| 08:31Reports on yesterday's stories at Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff
| 08:50News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service celebrating the witness of people with disabilities in churches and communities. 08:48Sarah Dunant on why this year's September malaise has a different feel to it.(R) 08:58Liz Bonnin presents Montserrat oriole from the Caribbean island of Montserrat.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Dr Marika Rose
| 09:00Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain. 09:30James Naughtie explores history through front page small ads. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Canon Steve Williams
| 09:00Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe.
| 09:00Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Mark Dowd
| 09:00Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Sharon Grenham-Thompson.
| 09:00Richard Ayoade, dancer Kevin Turner, actor Amanda Abbington and writer Isabel Vincent.
| 09:00Paddy O'Connell with analysis of the power struggle between Downing Street and parliament.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Why is having sex when you've got your period such a taboo subject? 10:45Martha vainly hopes that Richard Fallon MP has seen the recent tabloid reports about him.
| 10:00Jen Brister on being the non-biological lesbian mum. Parliamentary women to watch and CMV. 10:45Tony the restaurateur is being pursued by a woman with a cleaver.
| 10:00Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder; Carrie Gracie's book Equal; youth work. 10:25The Ashes: England v Australia. Commentary on the fourth Test from Old Trafford.
| 10:00National Poet for Scotland Jackie Kay on a new production of her 1980s play Chiaruscuro. 10:30The Ashes: England v Australia. Commentary on the fourth Test from Old Trafford.
| 10:00How much power and responsibility do women consumers really have? 10:30The Ashes: England v Australia. Commentary on the fourth Test from Old Trafford
| 10:30The Ashes: England v Australia. Commentary on the fourth Test from Old Trafford.
| 10:00Peggy's got some exciting news and Emma breaks down. 10:30The Ashes: England v Australia. Commentary on the fourth Test from Old Trafford.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Reverends Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser swap curate shoptalk. 11:30Nikki Bedi and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.(R)
| 11:00Dr Josie Barnard investigates the deep social divides created by the digital world. 11:30The art world is awash with corporate money and brand partnerships. Should we be worried?
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:046/10Robert makes an unexpected discovery. 12:18Benefit delays, high interest student loans, singing complaints and getting fit online. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:047/10Dulcie explains the significance of the poems Robert has found. 12:18How do you complain effectively? 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45Jim Waterson explores a single moment that inadvertently shaped modern history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. 13:45Jim Waterson explores a single moment that inadvertently shaped modern history.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Peggy's got some exciting news(R) 14:15Robert Glenister stars in Paul Sellar's drama about raising a brand new London skyscraper.
| 14:00Lexi's thrilled to be back(R) 14:15Robert Glenister stars in Paul Sellar's drama about raising a brand new London skyscraper.
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| 15:00 | 15:001/13The general knowledge music quiz chaired by Paul Gambaccini. 15:30Dan Saladino is at the Womad festival's Taste The World stage, where music meets foods.(R)
| 15:004/7Short documentaries about music and musicians presented by Josie Long. 15:30Encounters with the people of Calais and Dover finding out what unites and divides them.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Trevor Cox challenges Sarah Angliss to write a piece of music based on illusions in sound. 16:30Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world.
| 16:00Top surgeons reveal parallel lives as sculptors and musicians.(R) 16:30Psychotherapist Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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| 18:00 | 18:00Boris Johnson says MPs must vote against an attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit. 18:30Stephen Fry, Jan Ravens, Pam Ayres and Paul Merton join Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00Phillip Lee's move to the LibDems leaves the PM with no working majority 18:302/4Paul Sinha improves your general knowledge with fascinating facts and hilarious stories.
| 18:30Gaby Roslin hosts the film quiz with impressions by Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona.
| | | | 18:45The best of BBC Radio this week with James Walton.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Lexi's thrilled to be back 19:15BBC TV fake news thriller The Capture - we speak to the creator Ben Chanan. 19:45Martha vainly hopes that Richard Fallon MP has seen the recent tabloid reports about him.(R)
| 19:15Lucian Freud's biography, Booker Prize shortlist. The importance of arts to local identity 19:45Tony the restaurateur is being pursued by a woman with a cleaver.(R)
| 19:00Peggy's revelation causes concern 19:15Events last night in the House of Commons as theatre, and Chrissie Hynde sings jazz. 19:45Caroline has taken a fancy to Kier Starmer. Might he be the answer to her problems?(R)
| 19:30Margaret Atwood's long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - The Testaments - reviewed. 19:45Philip is back and has found a new career but ex-wife Rose is never far from his thoughts.(R)
| 19:30BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist revealed 19:45Richard Fallon has been taking a look at his life and doesn’t much like what he sees.(R)
| 19:00Edward Stourton looks at the life of an unlikely rebel. 19:15Rojo, Hansard, James Meek, Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor, Defending the Guilty
| 19:00There is tension at the Parish Council meeting. 19:151/4Romantic comedy set in a 1965 bedsit, inspired by Katharine Whitehorn's cookery classic.(R) 19:455/12Stephen Campbell Moore continues Cynan Jones' electrifying series set in the near future.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Sangita Myska investigates the secret story of Britons held as slaves. 20:30China's New Silk Road is changing lives in Kazakhstan.(R)
| 20:00Is a new era in Relationships and Sex Education set to begin in English secondary schools? 20:40What 12-year-old Hester thinks of Lego’s new accessible instructions?
| 20:00FT editor Lionel Barber and Blue Labour founder Lord Glasman debate profit and corruption. 20:45Jim Waterson explores a single moment that inadvertently shaped modern history.
| 20:00Can history help us make better sense of the political turmoil we are living through?
| 20:00Ed Stourton presents topical debate from Wilmslow Guild in Cheshire. 20:50Sarah Dunant on why this year's September malaise has a different feel to it.
| 20:00How did radical changes 50 years ago recast young people's engagement with UK politics?
| 20:00Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a president, a fashion buyer, a peace campaigner and a sportsman.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Richard Brooks examines the profound influence of management consultancy on modern life.(R) 21:30Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.
| 21:00Philip Ball tells the story of Ramon Llull, the medieval prophet of computer science. 21:30Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.(R)
| 21:00How could the latest science of placebo change the way we think about medicine?(R) 21:30Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.(R)
| 21:00Inventing GPS, carbon nanotube computer, RS Prize shortlisted books on calculus and skin.(R) 21:30Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.(R)
| 21:00Grant Ferret looks back at the divisive life of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. 21:30Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.(R)
| 21:002/10Marcel Proust’s allegorical contemplation on time, memory, art and love.
| 21:00Why are some Extra Energy customers receiving bills ten months after the firm collapsed?(R) 21:25Andy Airey makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of PAPYRUS - Prevention of Young Suicide.(R) 21:30Behind the economics of e-commerce.
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| 22:00 | 22:00PM to make move if MPs back legislation by opponents of no-deal Brexit. 22:456/10Robert makes an unexpected discovery.(R)
| 22:00Victory would pave the way for legislation that would block no-deal Brexit 22:457/10Dulcie explains the significance of the poems Robert has found.(R)
| 22:00Legislation passes to block no deal Brexit and reject general election next month 22:458/10Summer is in full swing, and Robert feels himself changing.(R)
| 22:00PM's brother - Jo Johnson - announces resignation as minister and MP 22:459/10A poem provides the key Dulcie has been searching for.(R)
| 22:0037-year rule characterised by violence, corruption and economic collapse 22:4510/10Life changes for both Dulcie and Robert with a discovery.(R)
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15FT editor Lionel Barber and Blue Labour founder Lord Glasman debate profit and corruption.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the origins of English in the Anglo-Saxon world.(R) 23:30Hear the secret, ancient music the Kaka’i people of Iraq risk their lives to play.(R)
| 23:004/4Phil will solve your problems. Well, he'll try. Sitcom also starring Johnny Vegas. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Michael Palin searches for lost Python sketches and finds them in very unusual places. 23:15Tez Ilyas talks about people's attitudes towards animals.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:002/4Kevin Eldon takes a stroll through the Eldon family archive and learns to wallow in mud. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Psychotherapist Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament 23:55Friends talk about mental health and the healing power of talking - and of laughing.
| 23:001/13The general knowledge music quiz chaired by Paul Gambaccini.(R) 23:30The globe-trotting poetry series returns, presented by poet Imtiaz Dharker.(R)
| 23:00The secret life of the stills photographer.(R) 23:30How did a single starling mentioned in Shakespeare cause ecological disaster in the USA?(R)
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