| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor looks at how the internet lets us encounter strangers, as well as friends. 00:45The bells of Westminster Abbey. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Late 19th century. Russia races towards industrialisation, and the people want change. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The dying days of the tsarist empire see the aristocracy partying their way into history. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5In the Bolshevik coup, the rich, landowners and those in authority became 'former people'. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Hundreds of thousands of former people were imprisoned and executed, many others fled. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The death of Lenin and rise of Stalin saw a fuelling of the savage quest for class enemies 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3In the war of the rats, snipers like Anatoly Chekhov reigned.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45It's make or break for turkey farmers as they prepare for the Christmas rush. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45Huge numbers of migrating birds flocking to the UK will find very little winter food.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45A mysterious disease affecting Christmas trees is causing big problems for some growers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45Goose farmers fatten up the birds ready for the Christmas dinner table.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45A farmer's heartbreak as his sheep are slaughtered by criminals. With Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45Marking the 70th anniversary of a daring, but largely unknown, World War II operation.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip, Somerset. 05:45Mark Coles profiles radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark finds surprising wildlife in the city of Brighton. 06:30Charlotte Smith hears how important Christmas has become for many British food producers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Irma Kurtz considers the origins and uses of clichés. 06:35Living World this week is in search of centipedes and millipedes in Oxfordshire. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Is the Middle East on the brink of war? Plus the PCC elections and Churchill's family ties
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Sir Terry Wogan presents an appeal on behalf of Children in Need. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10I Am Not the Same: Prisons Sunday from Bedford with the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir. 08:50Mary Beard reflects on the arbitrary nature of some laws, including the age of consent.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to Kevin Macdonald, Roger Graef, Jenny Uglow and Aman Sethi. 09:451/5Late 19th century. Russia races towards industrialisation, and the people want change.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland compares airport expansion now with the Victorian battle of the ports. 09:302/4Alvin Hall visits Pittsburgh and a baseball game at Chicago's historic Wrigley Field. 09:452/5The dying days of the tsarist empire see the aristocracy partying their way into history.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Olympian Ian Thorpe and penguin expert Pablo Garcia Borboroglu. 09:453/5In the Bolshevik coup, the rich, landowners and those in authority became 'former people'.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil. 09:454/5Hundreds of thousands of former people were imprisoned and executed, many others fled.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to theatre critic Blanche Marvin. 09:455/5The death of Lenin and rise of Stalin saw a fuelling of the savage quest for class enemies
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Val McDermid and Glenn Tilbrook's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Power List and politics, perfectionism, Beth Orton, absent dads. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Jess needs help when worry about exams becomes an overwhelming obsession.
| 10:00Nick Clegg on extending rights to flexible working. 10:452/5Jess is struggling to understand why she is at the school, when a new friend arrives.
| 10:00How could the workplace be better for women? Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:453/5Jess's recovery is progressing well, until new friend Maddie has a plan.
| 10:00Impact of Savita Halappanavar's death, Monica Galetti, Heather McGregor and Flavia Coelho. 10:454/5Jess's recovery is progressing again, after her trip to the sea with Maddie.
| 10:00Susan Morgan - Navy Wren, Men in Hats, and Manchester's radical women. With Jenni Murray. 10:455/5Jess's recovery is progressing so well that there is talk of her going home.
| 10:30Ian McMillan discovers how Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant became a Thanksgiving anthem.
| 10:00Romance is in the air, and Emma hits rock bottom.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Laurie Taylor seeks out the local censors who privately vetted controversial films 11:301/4Ray and Jane's marriage is hit by a late-life crisis. Stars Juliet Stevenson.
| 11:0011/24Brett Westwood reports on goliath groupers in the Caribbean and the Asiatic Lion of India. 11:304/4Stuart Maconie examines The Smiths' final album, Strangeways, Here We Come.
| 11:001/2Peter White returns to his blind boarding school to find out what it's like for pupils now 11:302/4At Annabelle's mum's 60th birthday party, Will faces his straight talking father-in-law.(R)
| 11:00Is Mogadishu on the mend? A day in the life of the new Somali/British mayor of Mogadishu. 11:30Mike Greenwood talks to a number of writers about their literary fascination with fishing.
| 11:00Moving insight into the experience of teenagers arriving alone to seek asylum in Britain. 11:302/6Dr Hugh Thornton and his brother Roy clash over a new online diagnostic system.
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster this week. 11:30Reporters' dispatches from around the world, including jails in Russia and El Salvador.
| 11:15Comedy producer John Lloyd is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Getting more people on trains, the Food and Farming Awards, and the living wage. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Julian Worricker wants to hear your views on the BBC - how can trust be regained? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The signs that clutter rural roads and the rise of the 'own label'. With Winifred Robinson 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00'Poor' students denied free school meals, and the challenge of travel if you are disabled. 12:52Fi Glover introduces a conversation between people helped by Children in Need funding. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Banks criticised after CPP fine, mobile roaming, investment funds and cash cards for kids. 12:302/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and sketches. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/6Fifty-eighth series of the award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee. 12:32Tom Parker Bowles discovers the joys of the gourmet hot dog. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news presented by Edward Stourton. 13:451/5Matthew Oates meets Andy Foster, a man obsessed by a rare and elusive water beetle.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:452/5Ecologist Matthew Oates meets Rob Lambert to find out more about the benefits of twitching
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/5Matthew Oates discovers some spectacular hybrid orchids with very rare parents.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/5Biologist Mary Seddon explains why she finds the study of molluscs so compelling.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:455/5Matthew Oates meets a man for whom the purple emperor butterfly is a lifetime obsession.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political debate programme from Dulverton in Somerset.
| 13:00Global news and analysis with Norman Smith. 13:303/3Misha Glenny explores the end of the Spanish empire.
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Katie Hims. Viola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age.(R)
| 14:00Rhys feels surplus to requirements. 14:15By Phil Gladwin. The voices in 15-year-old Rose's head come to a noisy climax one weekend.
| 14:152/2Sandy's trip back to his birthplace in Greenock reveals a life changing surprise.
| 14:153/3A man agrees to deliver a briefcase for a stranger he meets on a train.
| 14:00Lynda holds a tense rehearsal. 14:151/4Warwick dreams of expanding the restaurant to obtain romantic views over the river.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:304/10A mass shooting on a bus leaves nine dead, and Beck's trail leads him to an unsolved case.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Bishops Castle, Shropshire. 14:45Fi Glover presents conversations between people who have been helped by Children in Need.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Northern Ireland take on the Welsh, in the penultimate clash of the current series. 15:30Valentine Warner and Charles Campion eat with the Food Award's 'Best Takeaway' finalists.
| 15:00What next for archaeology on TV? Tony Robinson joins the discussion with Helen Castor. 15:305/14Paul Weller talks to John Wilson and a live audience about the last Jam album, The Gift.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer listeners' calls on banking. 15:30How 'gaydar' works, narcissism and the Me Generation, IQ tests and learning disabilities.
| 15:00Helen Mark finds surprising wildlife in the city of Brighton. 15:27Charlene White presents an appeal on behalf of Bowel Cancer UK. 15:30Jeremy Bowen discusses his book The Arab Uprisings and his experiences in the Middle East.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Bishops Castle, Shropshire. 15:454/4By Ross Raisin. A woman stands at the end of a cliff, which is at the end of her garden.
| 15:304/4Stuart Maconie examines The Smiths' final album, Strangeways, Here We Come.
| 15:002/2As Rebus investigates an unsolved murder, someone kidnaps his brother.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Comedian Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russia's greatest short stories. 16:30Aleks Krotoski looks at whether our online lives are transforming our experience of death.
| 16:00Tottenham MP David Lammy meets African Caribbean fathers who are serious about parenting. 16:30Tax havens, Brian Clough and a Regency romance are discussed by Harriett Gilbert's guests.
| 16:00Steve Hewlett presents an extended Media Show on the crisis at the top of the BBC.
| 16:00Bradley Cooper on Silver Linings Playbook, Beau Bridges on Hal Ashby. With Francine Stock. 16:30Quentin Cooper looks at the idea of converting power stations to burn wood from trees.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Sir Rex Hunt, Valerie Eliot, Duke Vin, Susan Jeffers, Joe Melia. 16:30How well did the BBC cover its own crisis? And is the BBC's past ripe for satire? 16:55Fi Glover hears a conversation between people helped by Children in Need funding.
| 16:00Nick Clegg on women's 'route back' into the workplace. Presented by Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Rachel Johnson on her novel Winter Games, prequels and sequels, and Dashiell Hammett. 16:303/4Ruth Padel works with poets at Stalybridge Station buffet bar. Tough love for poems.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 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.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Evan Davis and guests consider how developing new products can help the economy. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What effect are so-called zombie companies having on the UK economy? Hugh Pym investigates 17:40Mark Coles profiles radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada. 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. 18:301/6Fifty-eighth series of the award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6When Doreen is mugged, Adam and Rudy react very differently.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Arthur casts off on Spiggy Lakes with long-suffering friends Sally, Geoffrey and Wilf.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Stand-up and song in a comic exploration of health.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and sketches.
| 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. 18:15Simon Parkes makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Rhys feels surplus to requirements. 19:15Quentin Blake on his career as he approaches 80, and the dark charisma of Adolf Hitler. 19:451/5Jess needs help when worry about exams becomes an overwhelming obsession.
| 19:15A Bigger Splash, plus a new play about Edward Thomas, and photography from the Middle East 19:452/5Jess is struggling to understand why she is at the school, when a new friend arrives.
| 19:15The Effect, a new play by Lucy Prebble starring Billie Piper, plus the final Twilight film 19:453/5Jess's recovery is progressing well, until new friend Maddie has a plan.
| 19:00Lynda holds a tense rehearsal. 19:15Ben Elton, Danny Boyle on regional theatre funding cuts, and early computer art. 19:454/5Jess's recovery is progressing again, after her trip to the sea with Maddie.
| 19:00It's party time for Daniel. 19:15Jimmy Page interview; 60 years of natural history on TV; The Secret of Crickley Hall. 19:455/5Jess's recovery is progressing so well that there is talk of her going home.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada. 19:15Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.
| 19:00Things take an unexpected turn at Jaxx. 19:152/3Tharb and Lord Reith have to help the King overcome a bizarre speech impediment. 19:451/4A sudden change in circumstances leaves zookeeper Matthew Scott with a mountain to move.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson investigates the role of the BBC Hungarian Service in World War II. 20:30How the Arab Spring has affected the mindset of ordinary people in the Middle East.
| 20:00What effect are so-called zombie companies having on the UK economy? Hugh Pym investigates 20:40Blind and partially-sighted media people talk about the way they got into radio and TV.
| 20:00What is it acceptable to say on social media? Engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Ismail Einashe reflects on the causes of violent gang culture among young Somali men.
| 20:003/3Misha Glenny explores the end of the Spanish empire. 20:30Evan Davis and guests consider how developing new products can help the economy.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political debate programme from Dulverton in Somerset. 20:50Mary Beard reflects on the arbitrary nature of some laws, including the age of consent.
| 20:00Steve Hewlett explores the fraught history of attempts to regulate the British press.
| 20:00How well did the BBC cover its own crisis? And is the BBC's past ripe for satire? 20:30Matthew Bannister on Sir Rex Hunt, Valerie Eliot, Duke Vin, Susan Jeffers, Joe Melia.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Coffee extinction, evidence of the earliest human society, and migratory birds dying. 21:30Andrew Marr talks to Kevin Macdonald, Roger Graef, Jenny Uglow and Aman Sethi.
| 21:00How 'gaydar' works, narcissism and the Me Generation, IQ tests and learning disabilities. 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares airport expansion now with the Victorian battle of the ports.
| 21:00Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing. 21:30Libby Purves meets Olympian Ian Thorpe and penguin expert Pablo Garcia Borboroglu.
| 21:0011/24Brett Westwood reports on goliath groupers in the Caribbean and the Asiatic Lion of India. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
| 21:00An investigation into the current crisis in newspapers - in the words of the journalists.
| 21:001/2Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder.
| 21:00Banks criticised after CPP fine, mobile roaming, investment funds and cash cards for kids. 21:26Sir Terry Wogan presents an appeal on behalf of Children in Need. 21:30How the Arab Spring has affected the mindset of ordinary people in the Middle East.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. 22:451/10Years after the storming of Jerusalem's walls, a mother mourns her preacher son's death.
| 22:00UN's 'grave failure' to protect civilians in Sri Lankan civil war. With Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Miryam puts her village of Nazaret in danger by continuing to shelter the young man Gidon.
| 22:00Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Miryam remembers a Jewish rebellion, to which the Romans responded with savage brutality.
| 22:00Gaza-Israel clashes escalate - could a ground offensive follow? With Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Iehuda of Qeriot remembers his first encounter with Yehoshuah and their ensuing friendship
| 22:00Election of Police Commissioners is largely ignored by voters. With Ritula Shah. 22:455/10Iehuda of Qeriot remembers the events that lead to his loss of faith in Yehoshuah.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15What is it acceptable to say on social media? Engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45George Parker of the FT analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:004/14Suzanne Vega answers questions about her platinum-selling album, Solitude Standing. 23:30Sean Curran reports on criticism of the payout to the outgoing BBC Director-General.
| 23:004/4South Londoner Arthur invites Stewart Lee and Reginald D Hunter round.(R) 23:30The energy secretary tells MPs anyone involved in gas price rigging will be prosecuted.
| 23:003/4Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea bring to life some of Ireland's most popular folklore. 23:153/4Tilly and Pip up sticks and move to the seaside, against Pip's will, of course. 23:30Sean Curran reports on the day's sitting of the House of Lords.
| 23:003/6Could a viral outbreak threaten the happiness of the Smile5 call centre? 23:30The blog of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai voiced by British girls her age.
| 23:00Tax havens, Brian Clough and a Regency romance are discussed by Harriett Gilbert's guests. 23:27Mike Greenwood reports from Paraguay on the battle for one of the last wildernesses.(R) 23:55Fi Glover hears the horror of cyber-bullying from a teenage victim and her mother.
| 23:00Northern Ireland take on the Welsh, in the penultimate clash of the current series. 23:302/4Ruth Padel works on poems in progress with a group of poets from East Suffolk.
| 23:00Bradley Cooper on Silver Linings Playbook, Beau Bridges on Hal Ashby. With Francine Stock. 23:30Irma Kurtz considers the origins and uses of clichés.
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