| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Matthew Syed explores how one act of generosity can have profound consequences. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The American comedian's fiercely tender memoir of losing his toddler son to cancer. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Rob’s professional gamble has paid off but he’s about to be needed at home more than ever. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5At Great Ormond Street, Henry makes friends all across his cancer ward. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Rob and Leah face a battle to bring Henry home to be with his brothers. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Reunited, the Delaney family make the most of the time they have left with Henry. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:153/10Gus Casely-Hayford explores the history of wax print fabric worn by Africans. 00:30A festive story about the angels we do and don't see throughout our lives. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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| 01:00 | 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard. 05:45A trial of Natural Flood Management finds it works - but is it just a way of saving money? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Debbie Pain of the Slimbridge Wetland Centre on the marsh harrier.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard. 05:45A Lords report calls for a Land Use Commission. Plus avian flu and cheese exports. 05:58Writer Amy Liptrot discusses how hooded crows in Berlin remind her of her youth.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard. 05:45Migration Advisory Committee report. Cheese made in the remotest of places. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the Little Auk.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard. 05:45‘Bold decisive action’ needed on England’s farm payment schemes. 05:58Michael Palin presents the greater roadrunner of south western North America
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard. 05:45We hear fresh pleas for more clarity on seasonal workers. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the adelie penguin on a windswept Antarctic shore.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Rachel Mann 05:45Rachel Genn describes her fascination with regret.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Helmingham, Suffolk. 05:45The Shadow Health Secretary, tipped by many as a future Labour leader.
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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. 06:07Helen Mark finds apple 'orchards' growing in the unlikely setting of Belfast's alleyways. 06:3045,000 visas for seasonal workers; Plans to ban Glyphosate on Guernsey; cheese industry. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Mark Tully asks when it is right to relinquish dreams, and how best to leave grief behind. 06:35Brett Westwood meets an octopus perhaps the closest thing to an alien life form. From 2017 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Emily Buchanan with a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week 07:54Nicki Durbin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Missing People. 07:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 08:00 | | 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:31Sean Curran reports on the latest clash between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer at PMQs.
| 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament
| 08:31Mark D'Arcy reports on events yesterday in parliament.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service for the 4th Sunday in Advent with the Chapel Choir of Methodist College Belfast. 08:48Sara Wheeler reflects on the myriad wintry metaphors in the English language. 08:58A seasonal offering from Tweet of the Day for the Christmas period.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Adam Rutherford with Johan Eklöf, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Dr Mark ZY Tan.
| 09:007/10On his childhood nightmares and the diagnosis that explained them. 09:30Emily Knight follows Scotland's ospreys as they reach Gambia. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Claire Campbell-Smith.
| 09:003/5Author and musician Darren McGarvey, delivers his Reith Lecture on 'Freedom from Want'. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Molly Boot.
| 09:00Cate Blanchett, actor, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Rev Haydon Spenceley.
| 09:00Crime author Alex Pine, ex-Marine Scotty Mills & Ukrainian Christmas from Nadiyka Gerbish.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00Marina Litvinenko on new TV drama on her fight to bring her husband justice.
| 10:00Hilary McGrady the DG of the National Trust. David Coulthard on women in F1. Nurses strike
| 10:00The Conservative peer on her frustration at progress since her report First Do No Harm.
| 10:00Claudia Winkelman on the small things she can't bear to be “wrong” in the domestic sphere.
| 10:00Naomi Ackie taking on the role of a lifetime for the film Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance.
| 10:30Stories of what this powerful Puccini aria means to people from around the world.
| 10:00The pressure mounts on Brookfield and there’s romance on the cards for the Grundys.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Zoe's story of the good, the bad and the ugly everydayness of life with Long Covid. 11:303/4Michael Morpurgo travels to the heart of some of the greatest songs ever composed.
| 11:00The doctor with OCD so extreme he drives 50 miles every day just to use the toilet at home 11:30The music writer presents a series of meditations on different aspects of music.
| 11:00Putin takes the biggest gamble of his career. 11:30Todrick Hall talks to Oti Mabuse about his dancing legend Debbie Allen.
| 11:00Should Hungary continue to rely on Russia to fund its nuclear power industry? 11:30The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.
| 11:00Clive Myrie charts how jazz became a tool of protest, politics and subtle US diplomacy 11:304/4Plans are going smoothly until Imogen is arrested on the eve of her wedding.
| 11:00George Parker looks back on the week in Westminster. 11:30Violent gangs have taken control of much of Haiti's capital, leaving locals living in fear
| 11:15Steven Spielberg, director, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Are female footballers injuring themselves by playing in boots designed for men? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Call You and Yours: How are the strikes and threatened strikes affecting you? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04The head of a new body to regulate bailiffs discusses clamping down on malpractice. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04We visit the Energy House and find out how our homes will be built to be energy efficient. 12:32Do more expensive AA batteries really last longer? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Christopher Frayling explores how Hollywood helped to create the modern global Christmas. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04All you need to know about the Scottish Budget. 12:302/3Topical satire show, featuring characters drawn from the worlds of celebrity and politics. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:045/6The multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee. 12:32Dan Saladino and food historian Ivan Day explore the lost flavours of Christmas past. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Abraham’s attempts to separate himself from his deepest fears are thwarted.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Abraham’s friends and family retrace the events of Sunday 25 March, 2018.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45The investigation begins.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Four years on… Abraham’s inquest takes place.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Abraham’s family and friends keep searching for justice.
| 13:00The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4 13:10Alex Forsyth presents political debate and discussion from Compton Verney, Warwickshire.
| 13:00Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world 13:30James MacMillan considers Leonard Bernstein’s complex faith life and religious roots.
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| 14:00 | 14:00The pressure mounts on Brookfield. 14:151/4After the confrontation with gang leader Joe Magner, Jess and Dan try to make a new start.
| 14:00There’s romance on the cards for the Grundys. 14:152/4Jess and Dan try to piece together what happened at the supermarket shooting.
| 14:00One resident makes a drunken admission. 14:153/4By Matthew Broughton. Dan has vanished only days before Jess's new exhibition.
| 14:00Neil resorts to surprising methods. 14:154/4By Matthew Broughton. Jess finally meets Blue Rider. Dan faces a life changing decision.
| 14:153/8Fourth Echelon agents, Sam and Sarah are on their way to Morocco to track down an asset. 14:45Are make-up trends purely a fad, or is there some deeper purpose to our love of lipstick?
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:45Batteries are powering the electric car revolution, but can we make them last longer?
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the GQT team answer your questions from Bath. 14:45Robert Seatter selects objects from the BBC's archive store and uncovers their stories.
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| 15:00 | 15:003/6Sue Perkins shows and tells nature with her guests. 15:30Sheila Dillon discusses the year's best food books from a library in Blackburn
| 15:00Short documentaries about how we express ourselves. Presented by Josie Long. 15:30The van Tulleken brothers explore what change is and how it happens.
| 15:00Dealing with financial matters after death. 15:30How much is social media behind a rise in involuntary tics in teens during the pandemic?
| 15:00Helen Mark finds apple 'orchards' growing in the unlikely setting of Belfast's alleyways. 15:27Rory Kinnear makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Revitalise. 15:30Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the GQT team answer your questions from Bath. 15:45A festive story about the angels we do and don't see throughout our lives.
| 15:00Two friends find themselves marooned on a haunted island in the Danube.
| 15:00Jim Broadbent stars in Patrick Barlow’s unique and loving take on the Christmas story.
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| 16:00 | 16:00The stories of some of Britain’s most iconic bells – and how they were cast and tuned. 16:30The Nazis build a eugenic state.
| 16:00Charlotte Smith investigates the outbreak, vaccines, and if bird flu will steal Christmas. 16:30Writer Olivia Laing nominates the gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd.
| 16:00America's relationship with guns - told through archive. 16:30British tabloids including the Mirror and Express plot US launch.
| 16:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover if we are living in a golden-age for conspiracy theories 16:30Editing DNA seems to have cured a teenager’s leukaemia
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver. 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience.
| 16:00Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman on how to hang the loo roll.
| 16:00Katherine Rundell talks about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures. 16:30Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn with Edward Thomas's Poems and Songs for the Open Air.
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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 of the day's news 17:30Do more expensive AA batteries really last longer? 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 17:00Lewis Goodall wonders what it means to be a Conservative in Britain today. 17:40The Shadow Health Secretary, tipped by many as a future Labour leader. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Three boys have died after falling through ice into a lake in the West Midlands. 18:305/6The multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00It's hoped it could one day lead to a near-limitless source of clean power 18:304/4Guy goes back home to where it all started to see if he can make sense of Hennikay.
| 18:00More than forty migrants were plunged into freezing waters when their boat capsized 18:304/4Granny Kumar is back! Meera Syal’s glorious comedy creation returns.
| 18:00The change will see Scotland move further from the tax policies of the rest of the UK 18:305/6Reincarnation comedy with Daniel Rigby, Ashley McGuire, Hammed Animashaun and Hugh Dennis.
| 18:00The hospitality industry says it's "devastating" for the sector ahead of Christmas. 18:302/3Topical satire show, featuring characters drawn from the worlds of celebrity and politics.
| 18:00A woman has died after a crush outside a concert at the Brixton Academy in London. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The government says it will hold firm on public sector pay offers. 18:15A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio
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| 19:00 | 19:00There’s romance on the cards for the Grundys. 19:15Zadie Smith on The Wife of Willesden, David Tennant on Litvinenko and Rick Wakeman.
| 19:00One resident makes a drunken admission. 19:15Director Kasi Lemmons on I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a Whitney Houston biopic.
| 19:00Neil resorts to surprising methods. 19:15Neil Gaiman on The Ocean at the End of the Lane. China's art censorship in Europe.
| 19:15Celebration of Quentin Blake, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz.
| 19:00Rex faces a terrible dilemma. 19:15Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode investigate whodunnits and murder mysteries on screen.
| 19:00The Shadow Health Secretary, tipped by many as a future Labour leader. 19:15Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the monkey cage to Australia to visit the Deep Space Network
| 19:00Who needs to get something off their chest? 19:152/6Stephen Mangan asks actor Neil Dudgeon to spill guilty secrets in the confessional box. 19:45Tamsin Greig reads the next chilling strange tale from the folk-horror author of The Loney
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| 20:00 | 20:00Putin takes the biggest gamble of his career. 20:30Giving communities hit by the ‘war on drugs’ a share of the legal cannabis boom.
| 20:00Lewis Goodall wonders what it means to be a Conservative in Britain today. 20:40We talk about the role of the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer in diagnosing sight loss.
| 20:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze 20:45Rachel Genn describes her fascination with regret.
| 20:00As strikes continue across the UK, what's the government's strategy for dealing with them? 20:30Adventures into the night with writer Dan Richards.
| 20:00Alex Forsyth presents political debate and discussion from Compton Verney, Warwickshire. 20:50Sara Wheeler reflects on the myriad wintry metaphors in the English language.
| 20:00Tom Dyckhoff looks back through the archive at the life and work of Richard Rogers.
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver.
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| 21:00 | 21:00How psychiatric symptoms, like psychosis and paranoia, may not be all in the mind. 21:30Adam Rutherford with Johan Eklöf, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees
| 21:00How much is social media behind a rise in involuntary tics in teens during the pandemic? 21:307/10On his childhood nightmares and the diagnosis that explained them.
| 21:00The van Tulleken brothers explore what change is and how it happens. 21:30British tabloids including the Mirror and Express plot US launch.
| 21:00Editing DNA seems to have cured a teenager’s leukaemia 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
| 21:00Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
| 21:00A drama series set in a future flooded world. Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths. 21:451/2After years hiding behind the masks of made-up people, Graham Fellows tells his own story.
| 21:00All you need to know about the Scottish Budget. 21:25Nicki Durbin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Missing People. 21:30Historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tomorrow marks start of a wave of strikes over coming weeks 22:451/5Clara sees a strange man in Mrs Orchard’s house as she watches for her missing sister.
| 22:00The PM has outlined measures aimed at deterring migrants from crossing the Channel 22:452/5Elizabeth discovers she won’t ever be going home whilst Clara still longs for her sister.
| 22:00We speak to a Vice President of the European Parliament 22:453/5Liam can’t seem to leave Solace and finds himself helping the little girl next door, Clara
| 22:00A doctor from inside Iran describes the injuries he’s had to treat from protesters 22:454/5Rose is finally found, but it’s not exactly the happy homecoming Clara had hoped for.
| 22:00The country's second city Kharkiv suffers "colossal" damage in the attack 22:455/5Elizabeth finally accepts her past as we learn of the scandal that almost broke her.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss strikes, asylum policy and year of turmoil at Westminster
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| 23:00 | 23:00A dive into the ethics of buying and selling true stories. 23:30Susan Hulme reports as MPs tackle the government about strikes within the NHS.
| 23:001/2Comedian Rhys James tries on some opposite political opinions to see how they fit. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:002/5Bridget Christie and Clive Myrie join Sandi Toksvig to explore the Danish notion 'hygge'. 23:30Sean Curran reports on the latest clash between the prime minister and the Labour leader.
| 23:001/4The Room Next Door Man faces executive stress and election trauma as his fame expands. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00The online discussion continues... 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports on today's sitting of the House of Lords at Westminster.
| 23:003/6Sue Perkins shows and tells nature with her guests. 23:30Stories of the poems that go with us through life. With Vanessa Kisuule.
| 23:00Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. 23:30Mark Tully asks when it is right to relinquish dreams, and how best to leave grief behind.
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