| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor hears about research into workplace conflict, and travellers versus tourists 00:45The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe, Devon. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The untold story of Mao's Great Famine, during which 36 million Chinese starved to death. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5When Yang Jishen's father died of starvation, he thought it was just a personal tragedy. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Xinyang was a lush grain-producing region and yet the Chinese famine hit hardest there. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5How Xinyang as a main producer of grain was hardest hit by famine. Read by David Yip. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5How food shortfalls were blamed on 'right deviationist thinking'. Read by David Yip. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Martin Jarvis directs Joanne Whalley in a tale of loneliness and mysterious pilfering.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45After a poor harvest, livestock farmers will struggle to feed their animals this winter. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45A warning that the global trade in plants lays the UK wide open to new diseases.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45The government's Environment Research Agency sets out plans for containing ash dieback.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45Schmallenberg virus has been discovered in Northern Ireland for the first time.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45Scientists say feeding turnips to sheep can help reduce E.coli in the livestock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells. 05:45'Tina's been walloped a fair few times.' What it's like to work in a care home.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Thomas's Church, Norbury, Stockport. 05:45Tim Franks profiles the Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Discussing patient abuse, one-in-five below 'living wage', and the Brothers Grimm.
| 06:00Storm Sandy, unnecessary cancer treatment, and swapping MPs with scientists.
| 06:00Heseltine's growth report, Obama visits Sandy sufferers, and can computers write novels?
| 06:00Osborne on the EU, plus donations to the Met, and Mitt Romney's foreign policy.
| 06:00London's airports, plus GCSE marking, and the importance of novels.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits a restored open cast mine in Leicestershire, now a haven for wildlife. 06:30With ash dieback now in the wild in the UK, Anna Hill reports on our threatened woodlands. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks why people hold and participate in vigils. 06:35Chris Sperring looks for the Manx shearwater and storm petrel on Skomer Island. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Includes Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by William Crawley. 07:55Terry Waite presents an appeal on behalf of Emmaus UK, a charity for homeless people. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Remembering Hidden Lives: A service for All Souls from St Martin-in-the-Fields. 08:50How can the undemocratic Chinese state enjoy authority in the eyes of its population?
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with guests Ian Cobain, David Anderson, Clare Bayley and MR Hall. 09:451/5The untold story of Mao's Great Famine, during which 36 million Chinese starved to death.
| 09:002/2Prof Michael Sandel discusses the philosophy of welfare benefits with a Boston audience. 09:452/5When Yang Jishen's father died of starvation, he thought it was just a personal tragedy.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Gina Campbell, daughter of Donald, and Rod Davis of the Quarrymen. 09:453/5Xinyang was a lush grain-producing region and yet the Chinese famine hit hardest there.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war. 09:454/5How Xinyang as a main producer of grain was hardest hit by famine. Read by David Yip.
| 09:00Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5How food shortfalls were blamed on 'right deviationist thinking'. Read by David Yip.
| 09:00Richard Coles and JP Devlin with actress and impressionist Jan Ravens.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paul Mason.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The global picture for women on boards, and Sophie Wright cooks on a shoestring. 10:451/5Jeanne de Lamare leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance.
| 10:00Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List - Jenni Murray talks to judges' chair Eve Pollard. 10:452/5Jeanne has married a small-minded landowner and begins to adapt to life's disappointments.
| 10:00The appeal of the vampire, plus Julia Bradbury, and powerful women. With Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Jeanne begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her.
| 10:00Neuroscience and gender, women and 'soft power', and changing rules for childminders. 10:454/5Jeanne believes having a second child will heal heartache caused by a loveless marriage.
| 10:00Team sports v Solo Sport, Karen Edwards and The Power List. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:455/5The coda to the detailed story so far of Jeanne de Lamare.
| 10:301/2Martha Kearney tells the story of Britain's GI years during the Second World War.
| 10:00The pressure mounts for Emma and Ed. Meanwhile alarm bells are ringing for Brenda.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Alex Bellos visits Japan to discover why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths. 11:303/4What to donate to the harvest festival and interesting things to put on a bonfire.
| 11:009/24Brett Westwood explores the growing phenomenon of citizen science. 11:302/4Story of the last album to feature full contributions from Richey James Edwards.
| 11:00Why is the Church of Scotland funding a luxury boutique hotel in the Holy Land? 11:306/6Ramesh decides it is time to ponder retirement from the corner shop game.
| 11:00Kate Adie presents reports by BBC correspondents in Jordan, Moscow, California and Libya. 11:302/3Can Lenny Henry be convinced to go Method?(R)
| 11:00Nihal Arthanayake on fathers and daughters in the South Asian Community. 11:306/6Vera braces herself for Henry's departure on a Foreign Office posting to Romania.
| 11:00Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Despatches from Nigeria, Greece, India, Princeton and a Parisian chocolate shop.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to castaway Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Local food, health and safety, and rail franchising. Consumer news with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Julian Worricker. We're out of recession, but how does it feel for you? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson reports on new rules for teeth whitening. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The 'party' cities embracing alcohol-free bars and the rise in energy complaints. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer group demands protection for basic bank account, and what is a breakfast biscuit? 12:52Beth's birth mother was an alcoholic, and Beth has struggled with major health problems. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis on child benefit, car insurance auto-renewal complaints, and Comet customers. 12:309/9Sandi Toksvig with Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Justin Edwards and Lloyd Langford. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sean Hughes, Dr Helen Czerski and Dr Irving Finkel. 12:32Tim Hayward learns to love lard, discussing our complicated relationship with animal fat. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:456/15How PD James's Dalgliesh and Ruth Rendell's Wexford have charted changes in UK society.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:457/15Leonardo Sciascia created crime stories to depict the power of the Mafia in Sicily.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:458/15Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Pepe Carvalho novels dramatise tensions in post-Franco Spain.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:459/15Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison changed police procedurals, argues Mark Lawson.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:4510/15Andrea Camilleri's crime stories depict corruption, politics and power in Italy.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate programme from Cardiff.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:302/3Misha on flashpoints and fragmentation in the Spanish monarchy's territorial possessions.
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| 14:00 | 14:00The pressure mounts for Emma and Ed. 14:15By Rob Gittins. The true story of Gwynfor Evans, the man who took on Margaret Thatcher.
| 14:00Josh shows his enterprising streak. 14:15As 13-year-old Sophie faces her own mortality, she has some advice for her future self.
| 14:00Alarm bells are ringing for Brenda. 14:15By Jonathan Smith. Unexpected conflicts emerge on a school trip to the WWI trenches.
| 14:00Emma and George get a Halloween fright. 14:151/3A society gynaecologist's infatuation with a young girl throws his life into freefall.
| 14:00Will discovers the truth. 14:15Kate returns to South Africa to meet Gracey, the woman she betrayed 25 years earlier.(R)
| 14:00Topics up for discussion include the EU budget vote. 14:302/10Detective Inspector Beck is sent to Budapest to search for a missing journalist.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs the third episode of GQT's North of England tour, recorded in Humshaugh 14:45Fi Glover presents a Sunday Edition dedicated to mental health.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe puts his mind-bending questions to teams from Wales and the Midlands. 15:30John Inverdale on the way football is changing the relationship between food and sport.
| 15:00As Black History Month draws to a close, has the annual celebration served its purpose? 15:301/14Billy Bragg talks to John Wilson about his album 'Talking with the Taxman about Poetry'.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer listeners' calls about energy bills. 15:30Claudia Hammond reports on 60 years of the Anna Freud Centre and how it uses neuroscience.
| 15:00Helen Mark visits a restored open cast mine in Leicestershire, now a haven for wildlife. 15:27Tsering Passang presents an appeal on behalf of Tibet Relief Fund. 15:30Dawn French on her novel Oh Dear Silvia, and British history re-imagined by CJ Sansom.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the third episode of GQT's North of England tour, recorded in Humshaugh 15:452/4By Evie Wyld. A group of male barflies in Australia are unsettled by Mariella's appearance
| 15:453/5Ivan Hewett explores the key of E major with Professor Paul Robertson.(R)
| 15:002/2In the mountains, Frankenstein comes face-to-face with what he most hates and fears.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Artist Nicola Green charts her journey to capture images of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. 16:30Aleks Krotoski looks at whether how we tell stories has changed with the digital world.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg asks what it is like to represent yourself in court. 16:30John Finnemore and Peter Hitchens on favourite books by Michael Frayn and Josephine Tey.
| 16:00The strip industry - why is it growing? Also, the cultural meaning of 'blue jeans'. 16:30Former BBC executive Will Wyatt on Savile, plus another plan to save local papers.
| 16:00Jacques Audiard on Rust and Bone, and Chris O'Dowd on The Sapphires. 16:30Gareth Mitchell investigates energy storage solutions and the threats to our woodlands.
| 16:00John Wilson on Hans Werner Henze, Emanuel Steward, Jacques Barzun and Yash Chopra. 16:30Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton. 16:55Former soldier Paul tried to take his own life. Lorraine was there for him.
| 16:00Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List, Julia Bradbury, and cooking on a budget.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to David Almond about his prize-winning novel Skellig. 16:301/4Ruth Padel works on poems in progress with the Dove Cottage Poets in Grasmere.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Includes Weather.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the different strategies companies use to set their prices. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Ahead of elections for police commissioners, do we need so many separate police forces? 17:40Tim Franks profiles the Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sean Hughes, Dr Helen Czerski and Dr Irving Finkel.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Adam attends a business conference to network and is determined to leave his dad behind.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Disappointed with a guided city bus tour, Arthur decides to start his very own tour.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Comic explanation of communication via stand-up, song and sketch.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:309/9Sandi Toksvig with Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Justin Edwards and Lloyd Langford.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Josh shows his enterprising streak. 19:15Mark Lawson interviews American writer Tom Wolfe, as he publishes a new novel. 19:451/5Jeanne de Lamare leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance.
| 19:00Alarm bells are ringing for Brenda. 19:15Lionel Shriver on The Master, photography at the National Gallery; composer Thomas Adès. 19:452/5Jeanne has married a small-minded landowner and begins to adapt to life's disappointments.
| 19:00Emma and George get a Halloween fright. 19:15Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Aerosmith interviewed, and The First Cut. 19:453/5Jeanne begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her.
| 19:00Will discovers the truth. 19:15Mark Lawson presents John Goodman, Orhan Pamuk, and Andrew Rawnsley on Secret State. 19:454/5Jeanne believes having a second child will heal heartache caused by a loveless marriage.
| 19:00Will and Ed go head to head. 19:15Kirsty Lang on The Shining, Lucy Kirkwood, Colm Toibin and Some Girls. 19:455/5The coda to the detailed story so far of Jeanne de Lamare.
| 19:00Tim Franks profiles the Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.
| 19:00James revels in all the attention. 19:156/6The downsides of moving to the British countryside, and learning French in Paris. 19:454/5An old man remembers his past and a friendship that may have grown in other circumstances.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson returns with the investigative history series, starting in Dublin in 1922. 20:30Edward Stourton asks if Labour should re-evaluate its attitude to the EU.
| 20:00Ahead of elections for police commissioners, do we need so many separate police forces? 20:40How do charities portray visually impaired people in adverts without upsetting end users?
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the morality of drone attacks, with special guests. 20:45Anna Minton argues that higher security creates a sense of fear rather than safety.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg asks what it is like to represent yourself in court. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the different strategies companies use to set their prices.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate programme from Cardiff. 20:50How can the undemocratic Chinese state enjoy authority in the eyes of its population?
| 20:00Dominic Sandbrook tells the story of how British radio began.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton. 20:30John Wilson on Hans Werner Henze, Emanuel Steward, Jacques Barzun and Yash Chopra.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Six-year sentences handed to Italian earthquake specialists for bad L'Aquila advice. 21:30Andrew Marr with guests Ian Cobain, David Anderson, Clare Bayley and MR Hall.
| 21:00Claudia Hammond reports on 60 years of the Anna Freud Centre and how it uses neuroscience. 21:302/2Prof Michael Sandel discusses the philosophy of welfare benefits with a Boston audience.
| 21:00Chris Vallance explores the long-term results of the hacking of climate scientists' emails 21:30Libby Purves meets Gina Campbell, daughter of Donald, and Rod Davis of the Quarrymen.
| 21:009/24Brett Westwood explores the growing phenomenon of citizen science. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war.
| 21:002/3The mafia in Italy, UK policing and Spanish politics are investigated by Mark Lawson.
| 21:001/2While sailing through the Arctic wastes, Captain Walton picks up an unexpected passenger.
| 21:00Paul Lewis on child benefit, car insurance auto-renewal complaints, and Comet customers. 21:26Terry Waite presents an appeal on behalf of Emmaus UK, a charity for homeless people. 21:30Edward Stourton asks if Labour should re-evaluate its attitude to the EU.
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| 22:00 | 22:00America braces for Hurricane Sandy. 22:451/10There is something special about Agnes Morel the mysterious woman who cleans the cathedral
| 22:00Superstorm Sandy - counting the cost for the US economy. With Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Dr Deman discovers a baby adopted by a local celebrity bears a strong resemblance to Agnes
| 22:00Cameron faces MPs over EU; Portugal struggles with austerity; Savile revelations grow. 22:453/10Dr Deman reads of a vicious attack on a nanny with a young baby. He suspects Agnes.
| 22:00Obama resumes US election campaign after storm Sandy. Presented by Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Madame Beck accuses her cleaner Agnes of stealing a china doll from her apartment.
| 22:00Syrian 'war crimes', the US election campaign, and the Three Gorges dam. With Ritula Shah. 22:455/10Dr Deman takes Agnes to see Jean Dupere, and Professor Jones begins teaching her to read.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the morality of drone attacks, with special guests.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00The News Quiz gets a US makeover with an all-American panel. Presented by Andy Borowitz. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/4The Londoner welcomes Benjamin Zephaniah and Stephen K Amos to his own home.(R) 23:30A health minister says that abuse at care homes is a 'national scandal' that 'has to end'.
| 23:001/4Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram bring some of Ireland's most popular folklore to life. 23:151/4Naive singer Marlon enters a talent contest, despite warnings from his mother Helen. 23:30Sean Curran reports on Prime Minister's Questions and the day's events at Westminster.
| 23:001/6A new guy called Scott starts work, while a man calls to complain about a faulty bowl. 23:30Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00John Finnemore and Peter Hitchens on favourite books by Michael Frayn and Josephine Tey. 23:30Northern Ireland secretary's briefing to MPs on the shooting of prison officer David Black 23:55Peter talks to his son Ross about the impact psychosis has had on their relationship.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe puts his mind-bending questions to teams from Wales and the Midlands. 23:30Mike Greenwood visits Alamein on the trail of a unique anthology of World War Two poems.
| 23:00Jacques Audiard on Rust and Bone, and Chris O'Dowd on The Sapphires. 23:30Mark Tully asks why people hold and participate in vigils.
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