| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Intersections - how violence impacts some people more than others. 00:45Bells on Sunday, comes from Minster Church of St Mary’s in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:30How to succeed in professional sport and improve our potential in amateur sport. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:30When potential to learn meets opportunity to access knowledge, wonderful things can happen 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:30How potential in music crosses cultural and geographical boundaries. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Many employers say they will help you fulfil your potential, but what do they mean? 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:30How will human potential change in the future? 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean melts into the glorious unreality of Nights at the Circus. 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.
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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 reflection and prayer to start the day with Iwan Russell Jones. 05:45How does trail hunting work? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Pink-Footed Goose.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Iwan Russell Jones. 05:45Northern Ireland meat plants may have to close because of government vet strikes. 05:58Writer Paul Evans encounters a crow in a cemetery.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Iwan Russell Jones. 05:45A government review into fairness and transparency in the egg supply chain. 05:58Natural history writer, speaker and tour leader Dominic Couzens reveals the moorhen.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Iwan Russell Jones. 05:45Insect farmers want to be allowed to feed processed maggots to pigs and chickens. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the pied wagtail.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Iwan Russell Jones. 05:45Flooded farms and the Lynx effect on rams. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the black drongo of Southern Asia.
| 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 begin the day with Nadiyka Gerbish, a Ukrainian writer. 05:45Martha Kearney hosts British celebrities past and present at the National Portrait Gallery
| 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 Matthew’s Church in Ipswich, Suffolk 05:45The pop superstar, Taylor Swift, who’s reached billionaire status totally through music.
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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 out about the hutting movement in Scotland. 06:30Charlotte Smith brings you a round up of the week's rural news. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Mark Tully investigates the resurgence of interest in Mother Julian of Norwich. 06:35Farmer Will in the Chilterns with some muscly pedigree pigs and some boxy Beltex rams. 06:57The latest weather reports and 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. 07:10William Crawley looks at the ethical and religious issues of the week. 07:54Sir Richard Stilgoe makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Rescue Nepal. 07:57The latest weather forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers. 08:10The Parliament Choir marks Guy Fawkes Day and the State Opening of Parliament. 08:48John Connell reflects on our changing relationship with rain. 08:58Chris Packham presents the roaring southern cassowary of Australia's Queensland.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Stef Benstead.
| 09:00Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'. 09:30Can the cities of the future be fairer for everyone? And are flying cars the answer? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Ann Easter.
| 09:00Police officer Clodagh is used to dealing with emergency situations — until it’s her own. 09:30Why striding out for a walk after rainfall could improve your mood and immune system! 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Stewart Rapley.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Rev Richard Littledale.
| 09:00Lesley Regan, gynaecologist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Michella Youngson.
| 09:00Ross Kemp left EastEnders and found his métier making award-winning documentaries
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00Athlete Bianca Williams on her stop and search ordeal.
| 10:00Families call for a public inquiry into maternity care in England.
| 10:00The growing role of artificial intelligence in child sexual abuse imagery.
| 10:00Covid Inquiry, Child-free friends, Afghan refugees, Sarah Ditum's Toxic, Grief... a Comedy
| 10:00Cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson on her collaboration with the LSO Percussion Ensemble.
| 10:00Greg Jenner and guests present a special edition from the Shakespeare North Playhouse. 10:30James Taylor's song of suicide, loneliness and addiction, which somehow remains hopeful.
| 10:00Tensions boil over for one family.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Dr Chris van Tulleken discovers how we changed chicken, and how chicken changed us. 11:30When bad things happen in business, why do some leaders pretend they haven't?
| 11:00Actor Steve Coogan and the advice he would give his younger self. 11:30Poet laureate Simon Armitage's last days in the Arctic in search of facts and new poems.
| 11:00America on the edge: is this the most divisive presidential election ever? 11:30Any Questions is 75. Alex Forsyth explores how debate about the environment has changed.
| 11:00An Irish Palestinian talks about daily life in Gaza and an Israeli returns to his Kibbutz. 11:30Children's writer Cressida Cowell and restaurateur Romy Gill choose favourite books.
| 11:002/3East versus west, secular versus religious, how the empire came to the point of collapse. 11:304/4Exploring what happens when Tom Allen's calm and collected exterior collapses.
| 11:00Can a tattoo capture the highs and lows of a life spent in the military? 11:30Four weeks after the Hamas attacks, Israelis are wrestling with the consequences.
| 11:15Lea Salonga, singer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04As first-time buyer woes mount up, is home owning just for elites? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Call You and Yours - covering the cost of Christmas? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04What does the U-turn on the planned closure of rail ticket offices mean for passengers? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Winifred Robinson hears from Layla Sargent, founder of The Seam, an online repair service. 12:32Is eco-friendly toilet paper 'the best thing since sliced bread'? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Stories and songs from restless American highways by way of a Greyhound bus. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04New report reveals the record of individual banks on reimbursing victims of fraud. 12:301/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:049/10Can a machine set a better quiz than a human? Paul Sinha finds out. 12:322/2Sheila Dillon presents more stories from the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment. 13:45A mother embarks on a quest for answers.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment. 13:45An organic farmer turned self-taught scientist investigates his own BSE theories.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment. 13:45Campaigners claim cows have been unfairly blamed for BSE.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment. 13:45One of the most disturbing BSE theories so far causes an international incident.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment. 13:45A new animal madness emerges in North America as history repeats.
| 13:00The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4 13:10Alex Forsyth presents topical discussion from Harston Village Hall in Cambridgeshire.
| 13:00Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world 13:304/7What a modern execution might tell us about the future of the death penalty.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Brian has some difficult news to deliver. 14:15German film-maker and writer Werner Herzog on his cultural inspirations.
| 14:00Opportunity knocks for Jazzer 14:15Phyllis Logan and Brian Vernel star in new drama about finding redemption.
| 14:00There’s a Halloween revelation for Alistair. 14:15For the 70th anniversary of the Samaritans, a drama about its visionary founder Chad Varah
| 14:00Tensions boil over for one family. 14:153/4By Matthew Broughton. Dan has vanished only days before Jess's new exhibition.
| 14:00Harrison faces a difficult negotiation. 14:153/5Dan is on the trail of the Hare Witches and about to be joined by a new ally. 14:45Martha Kearney hosts British celebrities past and present at the National Portrait Gallery
| 14:00Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week 14:45What does it take to get crews to some of the most remote areas of the planet?
| 14:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 14:45John Yorke explores the Italian 19th century classic novel The Betrothed.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies 15:301/2The winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023 are announced.
| 15:00Josie Long presents creature features and creepy crawly short documentaries for Halloween. 15:30Lucy Worsley asks if a 16-year-old Irish immigrant was forced into a murder plot.
| 15:00Struggling with your mortgage or rent? We're live in Lancaster to explore housing costs. 15:30Showing off might be on trend, but practising humility could bring benefits beyond praise.
| 15:00Helen Mark finds out about the hutting movement in Scotland. 15:27Actor Tom Conti makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Inside Justice. 15:30Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts discuss AI and the Novel.
| 15:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 15:45An original short story by Carys Shannon. Read by Sharon Morgan.
| 15:00The story of the mistake that caused one of the crucial turning points of the 20th century
| 15:00Two lovers want nothing more than to marry. But it's not that simple.
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| 16:00 | 16:00A musician’s-eye view of classical music’s best-loved works. 16:30Aleks Krotoski traces the origin of an iconic internet curse - Smile Dog.
| 16:00The length of prison sentences; the state of prisons; US gun laws; new Scots human rights. 16:30Children's writer Cressida Cowell and restaurateur Romy Gill choose favourite books.
| 16:00Is the customer always right? Matthew Syed delves into the world of online reviews. 16:30The role played by the Qatari outlet in bringing news from Gaza.
| 16:001/6Joni's story begins in a small prairie town in Saskatchewan, Canada. 16:30How disused mines are having a harmful effect on our rivers.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor. 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience.
| 16:00Science writer Alex O'Brien on what life lessons she's learned from playing poker.
| 16:00Katherine Heiny answers readers' questions about her novel Standard Deviation. 16:30Comedian and poet Rob Auton shuffles through BS Johnson's 1969 novel, The Unfortunates.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news 17:30Labour's campaign chief on healing divisions in his party and being its 'great survivor'. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 17:57The latest weather forecast
| 17:00Krupa Padhy asks how safe are our maternity services. 17:40The pop superstar, Taylor Swift, who’s reached billionaire status totally through music. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 17:57The latest weather forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00One of the hostages has criticised her country's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu 18:309/10Can a machine set a better quiz than a human? Paul Sinha finds out.
| 18:00A diary entry from a former advisor said Mr Johnson was "obsessed" with the idea 18:30Micro-robots and the immune system are among the medicines championed in this episode.
| 18:00Nearly 400 foreign nationals and injured Palestinians have been allowed to leave Gaza 18:304/4A fourth series from Malawian comedian Daliso Chaponda.
| 18:00Gusts of up to 100mph have battered southern England and the Channel Islands 18:304/4Kevin presents the sound of flamethrowers, God and an archivist being flung onto a lorry.
| 18:00The Israeli prime minister said there will be no ceasefire until Hamas releases hostages 18:301/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The Israeli military says it's investigating after a school that the UN runs was bombed. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The early evening national and international news from BBC Radio 4 18:15Roddy Woomble chooses audio highlights from the past week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Opportunity knocks for Jazzer 19:15Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, and National Theatre Wales.
| 19:00There’s a Halloween revelation for Alistair. 19:15Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984.
| 19:00Tensions boil over for one family. 19:15Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
| 19:00Harrison faces a difficult negotiation. 19:15Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies, new Beatles song.
| 19:00There’s more bad news for Alan. 19:15Matilda Lloyd and Leon Foster Thomas add five more tracks to the playlist.
| 19:00The pop superstar, Taylor Swift, who’s reached billionaire status totally through music. 19:15Dame Judi Dench on her pivotal moments performing Shakespeare on stage and screen.
| 19:00The Bull’s Bonfire Night goes with a bang. 19:15Catherine Bohart meets Stella Creasy to talk politics and how to curate a banging playlist 19:452/5Adrian Scarborough continues William Boyd's savagely funny short series on the art world.
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| 20:00 | 20:00America on the edge: is this the most divisive presidential election ever? 20:30Could Macron's centrist dominance lead France towards a constitutional crisis?
| 20:00Krupa Padhy asks how safe are our maternity services. 20:40The government cancels their plans to scrap ticketing offices at train stations in England
| 20:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
| 20:00The length of prison sentences; the state of prisons; US gun laws; new Scots human rights. 20:30Could long-distance trains become a serious competitor to the plane?
| 20:00Alex Forsyth presents topical discussion from Harston Village Hall in Cambridgeshire. 20:50John Connell reflects on our changing relationship with rain.
| 20:00Joni Mitchell's influential life and career, told in her own words.
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Writer and activist Naomi Klein on the advice she would give her younger self. 21:30Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
| 21:00Showing off might be on trend, but practising humility could bring benefits beyond praise. 21:30Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'.
| 21:00David and Simon discuss NatWest’s Alison Rose, Unilever and I’m a Celebrity... 21:30The role played by the Qatari outlet in bringing news from Gaza.
| 21:00How disused mines are having a harmful effect on our rivers. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
| 21:00The extraordinary story of a campaign to uncover a massive scandal at the Post Office.
| 21:004/8Toby Jones plays the corrupt politician and financier Joseph Oldman, now enobled. 21:454/8Jon Holmes' comedy current affairs concept album remixes the news into satirical shapes.
| 21:00New report reveals the record of individual banks on reimbursing victims of fraud. 21:25Sir Richard Stilgoe makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Rescue Nepal. 21:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out a ceasefire in Gaza. 22:45Three years on from Heawood's disappearance, Kennedy has exhausted all leads.
| 22:00The Israeli Defence Forces say the attack killed a senior Hamas commander 22:45Kennedy and Byron are in Essex. Will Philip Gibson's storage facility yield some clues?
| 22:00Hundreds of foreign nationals and injured leave Gaza as Rafah border opens 22:45The trail seems to lead from Philip Gibson into current politics and Tory MP Ashton-Heath.
| 22:00More dual nationals leave Gaza for Egypt via the Rafah crossing 22:45Can Aramis Levesque shed light on journalist Edwin Lillibridge and his connections?
| 22:00Israel's government tells the vehicle was being used by members of Hamas. 22:45Kennedy is in Suffolk following a lead on the 2010 Blake House disappearances.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Matilda Lloyd and Leon Foster Thomas add five more tracks to the playlist.
| 22:00Ben Wright and guests preview the King's Speech and discuss the Covid inquiry.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Textile artist Lyn Barlow comes to terms with the reckless activism of her past. 23:301/5Goodbye old world, the Russian doctor, a strange awakening…
| 23:001/2Stand-up comedian Darren Harriott examines why he's never been in love. 23:302/5Medical chips, the convict, the blind captain…
| 23:004/4Kenyan-born comedian Njambi McGrath’s dark take on the echoes of colonialism. 23:154/8Jon Holmes' comedy current affairs concept album remixes the news into satirical shapes. 23:303/5A beautiful day in Seattle, the lab, the girl in the old beer factory…
| 23:00Amol and Nick ask what difference a less chaotic approach to the pandemic would have made 23:304/5The Bill Gates Rest Home, the cure, a trade in body parts…
| 23:00Twelve months to the election, Americasters join the recording to ask some big questions. 23:305/5Straight roads in Montana, the free world, tell Suzie Zeek sent you…
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies 23:30Can a student bedroom in Belfast really contain 'pure, distilled evil'?
| 23:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
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