| 00:00 | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The religious right in the US - an exploration of their route to power. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the medieval church of St Nicholas, Sandhurst in Kent. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:301/5Diana Quick reads the autobiography of Lucy Malleson, a detective writer of the 1930s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:302/5Diana Quick reads the autobiography of Lucy Malleson, a detective writer of the 1930s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:303/5Diana Quick reads the autobiography of Lucy Malleson, a detective writer of the 1930s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| | 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:305/5Diana Quick reads the autobiography of Lucy Malleson, a detective writer of the 1930s. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 00:30A modern-day twist on The Christmas Story, by Vanessa Kisuule. 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.
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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 Revd Dr Calvin T Samuel 05:45James Peck tells Charlotte Smith about the impact the wet weather is having on farmers. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the snow goose.
| 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 Revd Dr Calvin T Samuel 05:45Report shows a quarter of people surveyed don't trust organic certification.
| 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 Revd Dr Calvin T Samuel 05:45We hear the dispute over access in the Lake District. 05:58Debbie Pain of the Slimbridge Wetland Centre on the marsh harrier.
| 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 Revd Dr Calvin T Samuel 05:45A new outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk has led to 27,000 chickens being culled. 05:58Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder recalls rescuing redwings struggling in snow.
| | 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 Bishop Jo Bailey Wells 05:45Novelist Louise Doughty discovers her own past sheds light on the experience of others.
| 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 Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield in London. 05:45Mark Coles profiles Finland's new Prime Minister, Sanna Marin.
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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. 06:07Charles Hamilton's Painshill in Surrey was nearly lost. Helen Mark discovers more. 06:30After a year of extreme weather, how are farmers faring? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news headlines. 06:05Mark Tully discusses the power of the court of public opinion in the era of social media. 06:35Hannah Stitfall and Billy Clarke discuss a winter jackdaw roost from 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. 07:10Edward Stourton with the weeks religious and ethical news. 07:54Grace Dent makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Prisoners' Education Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Revd Dr Stephen Wigley preaches in an Advent service from Llanishen Methodist, Cardiff. 08:48Will Self on why - for the first time in his life - he didn't vote. 08:58Wildlife artist Jane Smith listens in the fog to a great northern diver.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with David Lerner, Edward Platt, Tania Kovats and Leaf Arbuthnot.
| 09:00Labour spending plans, Conservative claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record. 09:304/40Who controls your thoughts and actions? You, or the things that live inside you? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Canon Rachel Mann
| 09:00The continuing impact of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Boxer. 09:30Novelist Louise Doughty discovers her own past sheds light on the experience of others. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Canon Steve Williams
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact 09:45Rev Michaela Youngson reflects on the Advent Antiphons.
| 09:00Professor Russell Foster shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Becky Silver
| 09:00Author and journalist Justin Myers and Jeff Goldblum's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including election aftermath and the art of Christmas shopping.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The longstanding issue of sexual violence against women in India 10:451/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:452/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy
| 10:00Women in space; High profile women & the general election; Amsterdam's red light district 10:413/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy 10:55School friends talk about how stressful exams are and about growing up in Scarborough.
| 10:00Unpicking the relationship between power and sex during Elizabeth I's reign. 10:454/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive Country Girls trilogy
| 10:00General Election 2019, HRT shortages, Patricia Ward Kelly 10:455/5Final episode of the dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's frank, funny & subversive trilogy
| 10:30Comedian James Veitch attempts to deepfake his producer.
| 10:00David makes an intervention and the rewilders are thrown into disarray.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Lacey is a drag queen. The dictionary says drag is for men only. Can she change it? 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:00The poet TS Eliot was a famous poetry editor, too. Hannah Sullivan explores this role 11:30Stories of people with Parkinson's finding balance in the steps of the Argentine tango.
| 11:00Navigating the world of sex and relationships for people with learning disabilities. 11:303/4Lemn Sissay explores what charity means when it comes to presents.
| 11:00Life in Lebanon is a daily battle to beat the power cuts. Now people have had enough. 11:30True stories of life-changing encounters with art in all its forms.
| 11:002/3Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians. 11:306/6Damien and Anthony finally get hitched. But all does not go entirely to plan...
| 11:00The essential guide to the 2019 UK general election. 11:30The despair over India's failure to confront sexual violence. Why are the victims blamed?
| 11:15Heidi Thomas, screenwriter, 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. 12:041/10A recording of Jack Miller’s journal written in 1937, documenting his Arctic expedition. 12:18Trapped in an expensive mortgage, toning down charity adverts and disabled parking bays. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:042/10Kill or be killed. Jack learns about the law of the Arctic. 12:18What, if anything, are you changing about Christmas this year to be a bit greener? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:043/10Against all odds the expedition arrives at Gruhuken. 12:18Care homes are accused of over-ordering medicines which then get destroyed. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:044/10Has Gruhuken a dark history? 12:18How will you be decorating your Christmas table? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04The David v Goliath legal fight for the right to buy your freehold at a fair price. 12:301/3The Election Special: Written at dawn, recorded at lunchtime, edited in a hurry. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:045/6The 72nd series of the multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee 12:32Sheila Dillon explores how attitudes towards food and diet have changed in ballet 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4. 13:45During El Salvador's civil war, soldiers abducted children in rebel areas
| 13:57The latest weather forecast
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Chris Mason presents political debate from Saffron Walden in Essex.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell.
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| 14:00 | 14:152/7Mira Hamermesh's real-life story of her escape from Nazi-occupied Poland to Palestine.
| 14:153/7Stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown.
| 14:154/7Avin Shah's comedy celebrates his East African heritage.
| 14:155/7Stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown.
| 14:156/7Yusra Warsama reflects on the end of a refugee child's journey: growing up in a new land.
| 14:00What will happen to the Labour party? Why do you think they got it so wrong? 14:451/2Chekhov for the 21st century. Three sisters with varying degrees of D/deafness.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston looks through the GQT archives for a special house plant edition. 14:45Three conversations about the big wide world of adulthood.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sir Tim Rice, Robin Stevens and Shazia Mirza. 15:30Cerys Matthews and Lia Moutselou join Sheila Dillon to review 2019 in cookbooks.
| 15:005/6Josie Long presents short documentaries about desire, love and heartbreak. From 2019. 15:30Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.
| 15:00If you're borrowing money to buy a car, how well do you understand the small print? 15:30Lawyers' wellbeing; sociable brains; young peoples' mental health advisory group
| 15:00Charles Hamilton's Painshill in Surrey was nearly lost. Helen Mark discovers more. 15:27Jon Snow makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal. 15:30Books of 2019, André Aciman, Bowie's Books
| 15:00Kathy Clugston looks through the GQT archives for a special house plant edition. 15:45A modern-day twist on The Christmas Story, by Vanessa Kisuule.
| 15:45Male Infertility - the female experience. Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Terri Clothier
| 15:007/7Stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown. 15:45R.M. Sánchez-Camus describes how art can help us to talk about death and dying.
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| 16:00 | 16:001/2Naomi Beckwith celebrates Black cultural figures who should be more central to history. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss friendship.
| 16:00Emma Dabiri meets three exciting, emerging photographers. 16:30Lindsey Hilsum on the extraordinary life of Lee Miller.
| 16:00A Thinking Allowed special on 'romantic love'. 16:30How the Pulitzer winner picked a fight with an untouchable Hollywood mogul
| 16:00My Crazy Year: Mark Jenkin and Dexter Fletcher 16:30Earliest prehistoric hunting scene; fox domestication study flaw
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a botanist, a circus owner, a prime minister, a conductor 16:30The Editorial Director of BBC News answers listeners' questions on BBC election coverage. 16:55Daughter quizzes mother about why higher education for her children was important to her.
| 16:00Alison Lapper on her painting of her son Parys, HRT Shortage & Women in Space
| 16:00Benjamin Markovits on his novel Christmas in Austin. 16:30Kevin Crossley-Holland reflects on the magic and the menace of the Norfolk tides
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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. 17:30Should extreme wealth and the system that enables billionaires to retain money be curbed? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The heart-breaking story of one Grenfell flat. 17:40Mark Coles profiles Finland's new Prime Minister, Sanna Marin. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Row erupts over Boris's reaction to photo of sick child sleeping on hospital floor 18:305/6The 72nd series of the multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee
| 18:00Jonathan Ashworth was secretly recorded saying voters couldn't stand the Labour leader. 18:301/2Comedian Rhys James tries on some opposite political opinions to see how they fit.
| 18:00Party leaders have been making their final appeals ahead of tomorrow's general election. 18:304/4Susan explores why animals bring her such happiness.
| 18:00Aung San Suu Kyi calls for charges of genocide against Rohingya Muslims to be thrown out. 18:302/4Exploring what happens when Tom Allen's calm and collected exterior collapses.
| 18:00Johnson urges unity after election victory, Calls for Corbyn to quit as Labour leader 18:301/3The Election Special: Written at dawn, recorded at lunchtime, edited in a hurry.
| 18:00Prime Minister visits Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Attention is now turning to who'll take over when Jeremy Corbyn steps down. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this. 19:451/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy.
| 19:15A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick. 19:452/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy
| 19:15Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing 19:453/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive trilogy
| 19:15Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats 19:454/5The third book in Edna O'Brien's frank, funny and subversive Country Girls trilogy
| 19:00David makes an intervention 19:15Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction. 19:455/5Final episode of the dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's frank, funny & subversive trilogy
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Finland's new Prime Minister, Sanna Marin. 19:15Aquarela, Swive, Robert Musil, Theaster Gates at Tate Liverpool, Sticks and Stones on ITV
| 19:00Lilian attempts to keep the peace 19:155/8Fred MacAulay presents some of the UK's top stand-up comedians, recorded in Edinburgh. 19:457/10Brendan resolves to confront Angela about their impending wedding. Written by David Park.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Navigating the world of sex and relationships for people with learning disabilities. 20:30Emma Barnett presents a special edition of Question Time with an audience of under 30s.
| 20:00The heart-breaking story of one Grenfell flat. 20:40As Britain goes to the polls, what help can blind voters expect in the polling booth?
| 20:00Helen Lewis talks to economist Emily Oster about data-driven decision making in parenting. 20:45Novelist Louise Doughty discovers her own past sheds light on the experience of others.
| 20:00Protests have swept through Iran, Iraq and Lebanon - what lies behind the unrest? 20:30Iceland has a radical approach to the gender pay gap. What lessons can others learn?
| 20:00Chris Mason presents political debate from Saffron Walden in Essex. 20:50Will Self on why - for the first time in his life - he didn't vote.
| 20:00The history of a phantom fear -that automation will end work and leave us nothing to do.
| 20:00The Editorial Director of BBC News answers listeners' questions on BBC election coverage. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a botanist, a circus owner, a prime minister, a conductor
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| 21:00 | | 21:00Lawyers' wellbeing; sociable brains; young peoples' mental health advisory group 21:30Labour spending plans, Conservative claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record.
| 21:00Naomi Alderman tells the story of Mary Somerville, pioneer of popular science writing 21:30The continuing impact of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Boxer.
| 21:00Earliest prehistoric hunting scene; fox domestication study flaw 21:304/10Has Gruhuken a dark history? 21:45James Naughtie and Emma Barnett present full coverage of the election results.
| 21:00Leonie Gombrich and Rob Newman reveal the man who taught the world how to see art.
| 21:006/6Charles Dickens embroils The Herald in another dangerous investigation. 21:455/10Harry is obsessed with Ruth proving how much she loves him - even if it debases her.
| 21:00The David v Goliath legal fight for the right to buy your freehold at a fair price. 21:25Grace Dent makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Prisoners' Education Trust. 21:30Iceland has a radical approach to the gender pay gap. What lessons can others learn?
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| 22:00 | 22:00Boris Johnson criticised - image of child at Leeds General Infirmary widely circulated 22:451/10A recording of Jack Miller’s journal written in 1937, documenting his Arctic expedition.
| 22:00Hague court examining violent campaign against Muslim Rohingyas 22:452/10Kill or be killed. Jack learns about the law of the Arctic.
| 22:00Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make their final pleas to the electorate 22:453/10Against all odds the expedition arrives at Gruhuken.
| | 22:00Conservative majority of 80 - Labour collapse in Midlands and North - SNP win big
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Helen Lewis talks to economist Emily Oster about data-driven decision making in parenting.
| 22:00Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00The two competing parts of George’s brain - Contentment and Ambition - battle it out. 23:30Deep in an industrial estate in Bridgwater, a space machine is under construction
| 23:003/4All-star comic tour-de-force with Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen. 23:30Roni is 33 years old. She has never learned to ride a bike. Is it too late?
| 23:002/8Patrick Marber and Peter Curran's acclaimed talk show in the dark. With Kathy Burke. 23:30The test for tubercuslosis is a cattle farmer's most stressful time. Grace Dent presents.
| | 23:006/6Weekly topical show with an all-female panel brought to you by Jo Bunting. 23:30Lindsey Hilsum on the extraordinary life of Lee Miller. 23:55Mentor and mentee talk the benefits of a support service for young people.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sir Tim Rice, Robin Stevens and Shazia Mirza. 23:30Poet, playwright and performer Sabrina Mahfouz on contemporary working class poetics.
| 23:00My Crazy Year: Mark Jenkin and Dexter Fletcher 23:30Visually impaired musicians finding ways to flourish in the age of the touch screen.
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