| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Shoes - a journey through our lives. Also, young Muslim subcultures in Europe.(R) 00:45The bells of All Saints Church, Allesley.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Margaret is born in the front bedroom of a sparkling new council house in Carlisle.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The studious young Forster makes it to Oxford, and a 'room of one's own'.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5How a wreck turns into a family home. Read by Sian Thomas.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5After the thrills of 60s London living, a fairytale cottage offers refuge.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5As Forster's struggle with cancer continues, she reflects on the importance of home to her(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/2By Sarah Salway. George Donald is invited to visit the sick children at an open air school(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. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45Could farmers be producing more of the energy we use in the future? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents a true global ocean going mariner, the red-billed tropicbird.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45This edition looks at fracking, young farmers, and turkeys for Thanksgiving. 05:58Chris Packham presents the flightless cormorant adapted to its Galapagos world.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45Food fraud costs the UK £11bn per year in lost profits. Anna Hill hears what can be done. 05:58Chris Packham presents the superbly camouflaged great snipe of Eastern Europe.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45There are fears that farmers will be targeted this Chirstmas by fraudsters for CAP money. 05:58Chris Packham presents the wild turkey.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45What can be done about food poisoning from chicken infected with campylobacter? 05:58Chris Packham presents the Madagascan Harrier-hawk from Madagascar.
| 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 Alison Jack. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners. 'I have been a hermit now for 8 years.'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of the Church of St Mary and St Benedict, Buckland Brewer in Devon. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the refugee from Bosnia as she takes her seat in the House of Lords.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Felicity Evans is on Brownsea Island, exploring one of Britain's most popular reserves.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe meets some of the next generation of farmers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy uses Dylan Thomas's Fern Hill to explore timelessness in childhood. 06:35The end of an era for a Shropshire farming couple as they say goodbye to their dairy herd. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Caroline Wyatt reports from Istanbul on the Pope's visit to Turkey. 07:55Michael Palin presents an appeal for Motivation 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10First in our Advent series on St Andrew's Day from the University of St Andrews. 08:48John Gray argues that 'thinking the unthinkable' means exaggerating fashionable beliefs.(R) 08:58Chris Packham presents the superbly camouflaged great snipe of Eastern Europe.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with William Gibson, Michel Faber, Judy Wajcman and Dominic Sandbrook. 09:451/5Margaret is born in the front bedroom of a sparkling new council house in Carlisle.
| 09:001/4Surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande explores the nature of fallibility in medicine. 09:452/5The studious young Forster makes it to Oxford, and a 'room of one's own'.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets concert pianist Janina Fialkowska and tailor Edward Sexton. 09:453/5How a wreck turns into a family home. Read by Sian Thomas.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka. 09:454/5After the thrills of 60s London living, a fairytale cottage offers refuge.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to the home secretary, Rt Hon Theresa May MP.(R) 09:455/5As Forster's struggle with cancer continues, she reflects on the importance of home to her
| 09:00Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Diversity and women in the media and the effect of porn on a relationship. 10:451/5There is tension among the aid workers: Jamil is old school and Hassan is a maverick.
| 10:00Day Two: Refuge closures, social work, big feet, adult children - time to leave home? 10:452/5Hassan is testing out the contents of one of the food parcels.
| 10:00Is there too much pressure on women to breastfeed? The presenter is Jenni Murray. 10:413/5The school where Samara was teaching has been bombed, and Hassan has gone Awol. 10:55Volunteering on the world's first preserved steam railway comes with surprising benefits.
| 10:00Money - what we earn, what we spend and how we really feel about it. 10:454/5Jamil has been taken prisoner.
| 10:00Listener Karel Lush and tribute band Sing Baby Sing celebrate live music. 10:455/5Jamil has had a visit from Khaled, pretending to be his son. Hassan has a plan.
| 10:305/6A look back at radio comedy in the late 1990s, with Paul Schlesinger and Meera Syal.
| 10:00David and Ruth have a big decision to make, and a weight is lifted from Helen's shoulders.
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| 11:00 | 11:00There are many horses on the Holme Wood estate, but Bradford Council wants rid of them. 11:303/8Cathy is pregnant, Alice can't get pregnant, and Fiona doesn't want to get pregnant again!
| 11:00Are we being short-sighted when it comes to conserving long-lived species? 11:303/4The Latin American anthem to life is explored through personal stories.
| 11:00Leah Marks, a Bristol renter who is considering buying, visits Berlin to meet its renters. 11:301/4Sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO, and Britain's laziest, make quite a pairing.
| 11:00Gabriel Gatehouse goes in search of Annie, an Ebola victim in Liberia. 11:30Samira Ahmed explores the life and work of writer Arnold Bennett.(R)
| 11:001/2Geoff Watts explores the origins and the science behind our love and loathing of gossip. 11:305/5Tony has a new neighbour, whose night-time routine is very, very suspicious...
| 11:00Helen Lewis of the New Statesman looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie with correspondents' stories from Russia, Tunisia, Germany, Ecuador and France.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews actor Damian Lewis.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss different ideas of morality. 12:15Mobile phone customers with no 3G service and Billy the Horse kept in a garden in Bradford 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Giles Fraser on moral character and Aristotle's Virtue ethics 12:15Have you struggled with loneliness or managed to work with it? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on moral decisions and the brain. 12:15Who hears healthcare complaints? Plus would you buy a house that's the scene of a murder? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Lawyer Harry Potter examines whether the law should enforce good morals. 12:15Report names supermarkets selling 'dirty chicken'; and a crackdown on fixed odd betting. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the value of conscience and moral intuition. 12:15Unicom: An MP raises concerns about the telecoms company and the ombudsman system. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Falling savings rates, new tax powers for Scotland, plus an official credit card inquiry. 12:306/9Rebecca Front, Hugo Rifkind and Andrew Maxwell join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:042/6A return visit to Richmond for the regulars, plus guest Jo Brand and Jack Dee in the chair(R) 12:32In New York's south Bronx, Sheila Dillon finds out how food is transforming communities. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45The extraordinary history of Mossad, Israel's international security agency.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Fergal Keane reveals how governments have used terrorists for their own ends.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Fergal Keane on the first stirrings of Islamic fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Fergal Keane visits Sri Lanka to reassess the suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers.
| 13:00David Cameron seeks EU support for new migration curbs. Presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Fergal Keane on the peace deal that brought the long conflict with the IRA to an end.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby hosts Natalie Bennett, Alan Johnson, Mark Reckless MP, Baroness Stowell.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Hardeep meets the Kemps, a family more connected than most.
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| 14:00 | 14:00David and Ruth have a big decision to make.(R) 14:151/2Two-part drama about two British girls on the wrong side of the law in Mexico.(R)
| 14:152/2Friendship is tested, as Sally and Rachel await trial in Mexico for insurance fraud.(R)
| 14:00Adam consorts with the enemy.(R) 14:15The women who trained as astronauts but were never allowed to go into space.
| 14:00David has news for his siblings.(R) 14:15Dark thriller by Kellie Smith. Kate and Mark get a shock when moving into their new home.(R)
| 14:00The Grundys pardon a turkey.(R) 14:15Maxine Peake writes and stars in this tale of teenage angst, mid-life crisis and drumming.
| 14:00Featuring opinions on David Cameron's immigration speech and the cost of green energy. 14:303/4Leonardo Padura's award-winning Cuban detective series featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde
| 14:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are in North Wales.(R) 14:45Conversations about caving, starting 'big school' and volunteering on a steam railway.
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| 15:00 | 15:0010/13Paul Gambaccini is back for the semi-finals of the lively general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Diana Henry provides a guide to an Eastern Christmas with Bee Wilson and Sally Butcher.(R)
| 15:002/4Tom Dyckhoff explores the history and the practice of design in protest. 15:306/12Angélique Kidjo talks to John Wilson about her 1994 breakthrough album 'Ayé'
| 15:00Financial phone-in, answering calls about help and support for carers. 15:30Upgrading airport security; Psychosis; Happy walking.(R)
| 15:00Felicity Evans is on Brownsea Island, exploring one of Britain's most popular reserves. 15:27Grandmother Chris Leaves makes the Radio 4 Appeal for Family Rights Group.(R) 15:30Featuring Mirza Waheed on his new novel The Book of Gold Leaves.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are in North Wales. 15:452/3A video clip goes viral, with unforeseen consequences.
| 15:303/4The Latin American anthem to life is explored through personal stories.(R)
| 15:004/6Full of zeal for Arthur's new chivalric order, Lancelot rides into Camelot.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Liz Lochhead explores the extraordinary life of the Scottish poet William Soutar. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theology and digital reinterpretation of avatars.
| 16:003/4Michael Scott spins the globe in 323BC, the year in which Alexander the Great died. 16:30Dawn O'Porter, Graham Fellows and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books.
| 16:00The rise and fall of Creative Britain. Plus sexology re-visited. 16:30Sun editor on white van man, the National launches in Scotland, and local TV in Birmingham
| 16:00Francine Stock explores the hidden wonders of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a special edition. 16:30The Food Standards Agency reports that 70 per cent of supermarket chicken is contaminated.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer. 16:30PM's editor defends Buerk updates. And how funding changes may affect the World Service. 16:55Friends compare notes on how small and lonely you can feel when starting secondary school.
| 16:00Woman's Hour talks to listeners about their lives and the issues that interest them.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Mal Peet about his latest book The Murdstone Trilogy. 16:301/4Paul Farley listens to old and new poetry of extinction.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners. 'I have been a hermit now for 8 years.'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00A former British commander in Afghanistan examines what has been achieved by the campaign.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the refugee from Bosnia as she takes her seat in the House of Lords.(R) 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. 18:302/6A return visit to Richmond for the regulars, plus guest Jo Brand and Jack Dee in the chair
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Tom is invited on a stag weekend, and his dad signs up for the Sheffield marathon.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Paul's story takes in 15th-century explorers, the slave trade and mass immigration.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Terry Wogan's diary reveals his obsession with Subbuteo and love of eating lunch in bed.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/9Rebecca Front, Hugo Rifkind and Andrew Maxwell join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson, Emma Freud and guests with a mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Jude Law on his new film Black Sea, DJ David Guetta and Post Pop at the Saatchi Gallery. 19:451/5There is tension among the aid workers: Jamil is old school and Hassan is a maverick.(R)
| 19:00Adam consorts with the enemy. 19:15Barry Manilow; Diana Souhami; War photography exhibition; Jewish comedy. 19:452/5Hassan is testing out the contents of one of the food parcels.(R)
| 19:00David has news for his siblings. 19:15Actor Idris Elba on his new album, painter Howard Hodgkin, and V&A's Italian Courts reopen 19:453/5The school where Samara was teaching has been bombed, and Hassan has gone Awol.(R)
| 19:00The Grundys pardon a turkey. 19:15PD James remembered; William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Maggi Hambling. 19:454/5Jamil has been taken prisoner.(R)
| 19:00Roy has a painful conversation. 19:15Annie Lennox, James Franco on Fat Squirrels, Philippe Sands, and how to win an Oscar. 19:455/5Jamil has had a visit from Khaled, pretending to be his son. Hassan has a plan.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the refugee from Bosnia as she takes her seat in the House of Lords. 19:15William Gibson, Marco Polo, Chimera, Conflict Time Photography, Concerning Violence.
| 19:153/4Stay-at-home Hal becomes the victim of car crime and gets some unwanted security help. 19:451/3By Kit de Waal. Ulysses Tate has been away for a long time and is trying to get home.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Uuganaa Ramsay searches for the true meaning of the word Mongol. 20:30In Pakistan's port city, Karachi, police are fighting a desperate war against the Taliban.(R)
| 20:00A former British commander in Afghanistan examines what has been achieved by the campaign. 20:40The Royal College of Ophthalmologists calls for Avastin to be reviewed for use in the eye.
| 20:00David Aaronovitch hosts a debate on the ethical issues behind a topical news story. 20:4574/3Esther Woolfson controversially argues it may be time to stop owning pets?
| 20:00Will the Virgin brand survive the damage caused by the crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket? 20:30Peter Day asks companies how they cope with economic sanctions imposed by governments.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby hosts Natalie Bennett, Alan Johnson, Mark Reckless MP, Baroness Stowell. 20:50John Gray argues that 'thinking the unthinkable' means exaggerating fashionable beliefs.
| 20:00Jarvis Cocker remembers the long-running BBC radio programme, "Singing Together."
| 20:00PM's editor defends Buerk updates. And how funding changes may affect the World Service.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Can we share the planet with mangrove forest?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with William Gibson, Michel Faber, Judy Wajcman and Dominic Sandbrook.(R)
| 21:00Upgrading airport security; Psychosis; Happy walking. 21:30Gordon Corera travels to Stockholm to investigate the assassination of a prime minister.(R)
| 21:00Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area 21:30Libby Purves meets concert pianist Janina Fialkowska and tailor Edward Sexton.(R)
| 21:00The Food Standards Agency reports that 70 per cent of supermarket chicken is contaminated.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.(R)
| 21:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss different ideas of morality.
| 21:003/6Rebels led by King Lot and Queen Morgause of Orkney challenge Arthur's claim to the throne(R)
| 21:00Falling savings rates, new tax powers for Scotland, plus an official credit card inquiry.(R) 21:26Michael Palin presents an appeal for Motivation(R) 21:30Peter Day asks companies how they cope with economic sanctions imposed by governments.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:451/10At Croydon Aerodrome, Esmond says goodbye to his family and begins his journey to Florence
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10Esmond meets Fiamma Ricci and some of the British expatriate community in Florence.
| 22:00Ferguson and Obama. In-depth reporting and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:453/10The party to celebrate the coronation of King George VI does not go according to plan.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:454/10While Goad recovers, Esmond falls under the spell of Fiamma and Goad's son, Gerald.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:455/10Esmond, Gerald and Fiamma help Norman Douglas to flee from Florence.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/4Surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande explores the nature of fallibility in medicine.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dennis Sewell analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:005/12Angélique Kidjo, the "Queen of African music" discusses her breakthrough album Ayé. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4Kirsty Wark presents a documentary from the future. What if Britain legalised marijuana? 23:30David Cameron faces tough questions about the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
| 23:004/4Comedian James Acaster presents the results of his research into paint. 23:154/6The comic poet considers the concept of superstition via another of his poetic works.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/6Milton crosses stamens with a deadly rival in the vicious cut-throat world of gardening.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Dawn O'Porter, Graham Fellows and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Limestone landscape celebrated by a poet and a potholer, from above and below.
| 23:0010/13Paul Gambaccini is back for the semi-finals of the lively general knowledge music quiz.(R) 23:30Heartfelt poem by Stanley Cook about a girl's murder and a bruised and beautiful landscape(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock explores the hidden wonders of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a special edition.(R) 23:30John McCarthy uses Dylan Thomas's Fern Hill to explore timelessness in childhood.(R)
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