| 00:00 | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Land struggles: from Bolivia to Britain. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Giles Church in Ashtead, Surrey. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:301/5Bill Bryson begins his fascinating, witty and surprising journey around the human body. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:302/5Bill Bryson looks at the head and the reason for our facial expressions. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:303/5Bill Bryson delves down further, through the mouth and into the throat. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:304/5Bill Bryson's anatomical adventure continues in the dissecting room. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:305/5Bill Bryson concludes his journey around the human body with a look at sleep. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30The haunting story of a remarkable encounter with two mysterious strangers on a train. 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 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 Emma Scrivener. 05:45A new variety of grape is set to transform the UK wine industry according to scientists. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls hearing an emperor penguin chick for the first time.
| 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 Emma Scrivener. 05:45A new report says farming companies' modern slavery statements are not up to scratch. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounters with snow petrels in Antarctica.
| 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 Emma Scrivener. 05:45We hear why paying for results is getting farmers on board with wildlife. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounter with snowy sheathbills in Antarctica.
| 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 Emma Scrivener. 05:45The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls a very close encounter with wandering albatrosses.
| 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 Emma Scrivener. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks chair of Natural England Tony Juniper about the badger cull. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounters with giant petrels in Antarctica.
| 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 writer and broadcaster Mark Dowd. 05:45Rachael Gibbons discusses class, social mobility and Imposter Syndrome.
| 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 Christ Church, Radyr in Cardiff. 05:45The president of Turkey who has sent troops into northern Syria.
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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. 06:07David Blunkett takes Clare Balding for a walk across Beeley Edge in the Peak District. 06:30Charlotte Smith visits an East Sussex vineyard for a rather wet grape harvest. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news headlines. 06:05Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski explores attitudes towards the unexpected. 06:35Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies discuss stone curlews from the Living World archive 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. 07:54Imelda Staunton makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Music as Therapy International 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:31Sean Curran reports as parliament is suspended ahead of the Queen's Speech next week.
| | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A celebration of the Canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman at the Birmingham Oratory. 08:48Margaret Heffernan argues that, in the world of technology, nothing is inevitable. 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Lenny Henry, Tessa McWatt, Matthew Syed and Keon West with Kirsty Wark 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Professor Anne Magurran on how nature is going the same way as our high streets. 09:30Male Infertility - the female experience. Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Terri Clothier 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Paul Matole.
| 09:00Writer Tracy Chevalier meets ceramicist Edmund de Waal at his studio. 09:30Rachael Gibbons discusses class, social mobility and Imposter Syndrome. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Rev Dr Calvin Samuel
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorp.
| 09:00Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Archbishop George Stack.
| 09:00The Inheritance Tracks of Gok Wan and cooking recipes from fiction with Kate Young.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:451/5Dr Andrew Manson and his wife are expecting a big event.
| 10:00Sonita Alleyne first woman to lead Jesus College & first black leader of Oxbridge Colleges 10:452/5Christine is ill. Manson and Denny are very concerned.
| 10:00Extinction Rebellion and mothers taking their babies to mass protests. 10:413/5A brutal solution is applied to Christine's situation. Manson and Denny are appalled. 10:55Friends and sea swimmers talk about the therapeutic effects of swimming in the sea.
| 10:00Chanel Miller, Fushsia Dunlop, safer social media feed, Bronzefield investigation 10:454/5Denny and Manson bring Christine back home.
| 10:00Domestic abuse programme, Whistle-blower Katharine Gun, Michael Rosen, Singer Beth Hart 10:455/5Denny and Manson are brought to court.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Woking, Surrey.
| 10:00Ed manages to strike a deal and there's a sad goodbye for Eddie
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| 11:00 | 11:00David Cannadine argues that history misses vital accounts of religious tolerance. 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:00Has diplomacy had its day? James Landale learns what diplomats must do to adapt. 11:30Mary Portas: On Style - the new Radio 4 series where style meets substance.
| 11:00Shappi Khorsandi is disorganised. Can the professionals help get her life in order? 11:301/4Three vicars, three parishes, one year. What keeps them working for the man upstairs?
| 11:00The wedding banquet put on hold by protests and emergency legislation in Hong Kong. 11:30Clemency Burton Hill presents the series celebrating priceless music manuscripts.
| 11:00The Corrections is the series which looks at how journalists tell news stories. 11:45Historian Kasia Tomasiewicz discusses how to commemorate war.
| 11:00Paul Waugh of HuffPost UK looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Double trouble for President Trump - Ukraine and Syria.
| 11:15Baroness Arminka Helić shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:041/10Why did Elise Morceau disappear in the early 80s, leaving behind her baby daughter? 12:18Smart motorway safety, fruit flies and psychiatric care. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:042/10Rose reads Connie's novels, searching for clues about her mother's disappearance. 12:18When have you felt strongly enough to protest? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:043/10Connie is riding high on the success of her book, but Elise is struggling in LA. 12:18Irene Hays of Hays Travel on her plans for the Thomas Cook high street shops. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:044/10Rose starts her new job with novelist Connie, the last person to see her mother. 12:18The rise of begging online and the criminals using your phone number to commit scams. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:045/10When Connie's agent turns up, Rose fears her true identity is about to be exposed. 12:18Problems with special needs education in England. The retailers linking up to boost sales. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04How teenagers are being recruited by criminals to help launder money. 12:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by guest host Phil Wang. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:042/6John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Sarah Kendall, James Wong and Sir Chris Evans. 12:32From bootcamps to book deals: Joe Wicks explains his phenomenal success to Sheila Dillon 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on the furious artistic reaction to WW1 mechanised warfare
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on anxieties of production control in the industrial age
| 13:00News with Sarah Montague including Parliament's proposed Saturday sitting on Brexit. 13:45Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on encounters between sculptors and stringed maths models
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on iconic imagery in the race to break the sound barrier
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including latest from Brussels Brexit talks and Nobel Peace Prize. 13:45Tilly Blyth on atomic design décor at the 1951 Festival of Britain
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Edward Stourton presents political debate from High Storrs School in Sheffield.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Redzi Bernard recreates her mother's journey to Lalibela in Ethiopia fifty years on
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| 14:00 | 14:00Ian’s concerns come to the forefront. 14:15By Jeremy Hylton Davies. Gwyn runs the Marathon des Sables - 150 miles across the Sahara.
| 14:15A deadly explosion has ripped through a school. All eyes are now on the public inquiry.
| 14:00Ed manages to strike a deal 14:15More stories from Manchester's mean streets
| 14:00Kirsty finds herself out in the cold 14:15By Daniel Thurman. Rosemary Brown, the psychic dinner lady has classy musical connections.
| 14:00Eddie bids a sad farewell. 14:152/4Deadly plots, murderous politics and a possible assassination. Another day in Elsinore.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Chesham. 14:45Three conversations about belonging - about place, about people and about things.
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| 15:00 | 15:006/13The general knowledge music quiz chaired by Paul Gambaccini 15:30Dan Saladino explores the tastes and temptations of sourness, in our evolution and cooking
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are on the Isle of Wight. 15:30The Orkney Islands are pioneering a zero carbon approach to energy.
| 15:00Can I get a good return on investments that do good? 15:30High-dose statins over the counter, amyloidosis, and gene silencing.
| 15:00David Blunkett takes Clare Balding for a walk across Beeley Edge in the Peak District. 15:27Anita Rani makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of FRANK Water 15:30Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad.
| 15:00Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Chesham. 15:45The haunting story of a remarkable encounter with two mysterious strangers on a train.
| 15:15Film-maker Michael Jenkins explores fatherhood at a young age. 15:30Mary Portas: On Style - the new Radio 4 series where style meets substance.
| 15:002/2Platonov seems to gain the admiration of all the women he knows. Who will he end up with?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Andrew McGibbon meets Anthony Frewin who outed two of Stanley Kubrick's impersonators. 16:30Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table.
| 16:00Ruth Barnes continues her series exploring the changing world of work. Is the office dead? 16:30Edith Bowman and Harry Baker join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.
| 16:00Council estates - then and now. Laurie Taylor explores the concept of the 'sink estate'. 16:30The role of AI in the lives of young people, recorded at the BBC Blue Room conference.
| 16:00Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict go behind the scenes of the London Film Festival. 16:30XR protest – how best to reach net zero emissions? And science and culture of Nobel Prizes
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an activist, a drummer, an editor and an actress. 16:30The new presenter of Any Questions explains how he intends to chair the programme 16:55Friends discuss their passion for helping young people in care transport their belongings.
| 16:00Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College Cambridge, Why we need to play, Beth Hart performs
| 16:00Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, plus a discussion of the best fiction spies 16:30Roger McGough is joined by Manchester poet Mike Garry
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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
| 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
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. 17:30Will Facebook's entry into the world of cryptocurrency be a game changer? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Can sex offenders and violent criminals be rehabilitated in prison? 17:40The president of Turkey who has sent troops into northern Syria. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Kurdish forces, who've been US allies in fight against IS, accuse Washington of betrayal. 18:302/6John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Sarah Kendall, James Wong and Sir Chris Evans.
| 18:00A source inside Number Ten has said a deal on Brexit is essentially impossible. 18:303/6Clare's got tickets to Any Questions? Starring Sally Phillips
| 18:00Turkey has launched a military strike against Kurdish fighters in North East Syria 18:305/6The professor receives a call from his future self with a dire warning.
| 18:00Civilians flee Turkish forces in Northern Syria 18:301/6Everyone's sensitive around widower Mitch on his anniversary but he's preoccupied...
| 18:00UK and EU describe latest Brexit meeting as "constructive." 18:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by guest host Phil Wang.
| 18:00Kurdish forces say Americans have moral obligation to defend them against Turkish attack. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Pentagon announces withdrawal of a thousand US troops from northern Syria 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with broadcaster Sheila McClennon.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco. 19:451/5Dr Andrew Manson and his wife are expecting a big event.
| 19:00Ed manages to strike a deal 19:15Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, The King, Dada Masilo 19:452/5Christine is ill. Manson and Denny are very concerned.
| 19:00Kirsty finds herself out in the cold 19:15Salman Rushdie answers listeners’ questions about his Booker shortlisted novel Quichotte. 19:453/5A brutal solution is applied to Christine's situation. Manson and Denny are appalled.
| 19:00Eddie bids a sad farewell. 19:15More controversy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Goldie on Drum'n'Bass, Es Devlin 19:454/5Denny and Manson bring Christine back home.
| 19:00The Grundys are united in grief. 19:15Sienna Miller on American Woman, and Elif Shafak is the guest for the Front Row book group 19:455/5Denny and Manson are brought to court.
| 19:00The president of Turkey who has sent troops into northern Syria. 19:15The Day Shall Come, Man In The White Suit, Zadie Smith, and Hogarth - Place and Progress.
| 19:00Emotions run high at Grange Farm 19:15A personal, funny and impassioned look at society's relationship with fat people. 19:4510/12Cynan Jones' gripping series set in a near future in which water is commodified.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Shappi Khorsandi is disorganised. Can the professionals help get her life in order? 20:30The reverse gender gap: why boys are failing at school and what can be done about it.
| 20:00Can sex offenders and violent criminals be rehabilitated in prison? 20:40Managing food allergies with no sight.
| 20:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 20:45Rachael Gibbons discusses class, social mobility and Imposter Syndrome.
| 20:00What difference would it make to climate change if we reduce meat consumption? 20:30Will Facebook's entry into the world of cryptocurrency be a game changer?
| 20:00Edward Stourton presents political debate from High Storrs School in Sheffield. 20:50Margaret Heffernan argues that, in the world of technology, nothing is inevitable.
| 20:00From book publishers to Radio 4 commissioners, why are we so interested in anniversaries?
| 20:00The new presenter of Any Questions explains how he intends to chair the programme 20:30Matthew Bannister on an activist, a drummer, an editor and an actress.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Can long-term relationships survive the move to Uni and is it worth trying to keep them? 21:30Lenny Henry, Tessa McWatt, Matthew Syed and Keon West with Kirsty Wark
| 21:00High-dose statins over the counter, amyloidosis, and gene silencing. 21:30Professor Anne Magurran on how nature is going the same way as our high streets.
| 21:00The Orkney Islands are pioneering a zero carbon approach to energy. 21:30Writer Tracy Chevalier meets ceramicist Edmund de Waal at his studio.
| 21:00XR protest – how best to reach net zero emissions? And science and culture of Nobel Prizes 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
| 21:00Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on how art and science have inspired each other
| 21:007/10Marcel Proust’s allegorical contemplation on time, memory, art and love.
| 21:00How teenagers are being recruited by criminals to help launder money. 21:25Imelda Staunton makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Music as Therapy International 21:30The reverse gender gap: why boys are failing at school and what can be done about it.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ankara warned not to take advantage of decision to pull US forces out of north-east Syria 22:451/10Why did Elise Morceau disappear in the early 80s, leaving behind her baby daughter?
| 22:00President of European Council accuses Boris Johnson of playing "stupid blame game" 22:452/10Rose reads Connie's novels, searching for clues about her mother's disappearance.
| 22:00Turkey aims to drive Kurdish fighters from the area beyond its southern border 22:453/10Connie is riding high on the success of her book, but Elise is struggling in LA.
| 22:00Widespread international condemnation of Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia 22:454/10Rose starts her new job with novelist Connie, the last person to see her mother.
| 22:00Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar agree they can see "pathway to a possible deal" 22:455/10When Connie's agent turns up, Rose fears her true identity is about to be exposed.
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00George explores the roles of family and formal education in the lives of young people. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table. 23:30All the news from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
| 23:001/4Charlotte has met a new man, prompting Lillian to offer her best dating advice. 23:152/5Patrick Marber and Peter Curran lie in the darkness, sharing a bunk bed and wondering. 23:30Aleks Krotoski explores the thin line between passion and obsession online.(R)
| 23:003/4Current affairs parody and stupidly feasible visit to the 24-hour Hall Of Opinion Mirrors. 23:30Aleks Krotoski explores the tension between storytelling and privacy online.(R)
| 23:00Edith Bowman and Harry Baker join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books. 23:25Aleks Krotoski takes a look at the space between us. 23:55Married couple on what's made their relationship work and how attitudes are changing.
| 23:006/13The general knowledge music quiz chaired by Paul Gambaccini 23:30Roger McGough invites Welsh poet Owen Sheers to select favourite poetry.
| 23:00Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict go behind the scenes of the London Film Festival. 23:30An in-depth look at Jeremy Deller's new People's Monument to the Peterloo Massacre.
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