| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Men 'dressing up'. Also, the male 'suit'.(R) 00:45Church bells from St John the Baptist, Burford.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3By Helen Dunmore. Marion is used to long-haul flights, but never gets used to the food.(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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. 05:45Charlotte Smith looks at criticism of a new cattle-grading system used by abbatoirs. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. 05:45A wet spring has delayed the year's apple harvest. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the brambling.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. 05:45Yet another threat to honey bees - an Asian hornet invasion. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Pink-Footed Goose.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. 05:45There's been a rise in the cost of insurance claims for fires on farms. 05:58Chris Packham presents the brent goose.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. 05:45Do neonicotinoids kill bees? The hedge-laying season begins. 05:58Chris Packham presents the lesser white-fronted goose.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45The listener who fought for her pacemaker to be turned off.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mary's, Lamberhurst in Kent. 05:45We profile Emma Walmsley, set to become Britain's most powerful business woman.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes 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.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding takes this ancient way to discover the power and popularity of pilgrimage.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith meets some future farmers at an agricultural college near Gloucester. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Writer and priest Malcolm Doney cooks up a storm as he explores our relationship with food 06:35What happens when 42 people farm a single field? Paul Murphy finds out. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and 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. 07:54Sybil Ruscoe makes an appeal on behalf of Signal. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow, with the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth. 08:48John Gray assesses what lies behind the Trump phenomenon.(R) 08:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster. 09:451/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper
| 09:00Claudia Hammond looks at the brain at rest, and mind wandering and its role in creativity. 09:452/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper
| 09:00Garden writer and broadcaster Monty Don and journalist Ian Hislop join Libby Purves. 09:453/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper
| 09:00Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno 09:454/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites founders of Britain's first national museum of modern art. 09:455/5The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard by award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper
| 09:00The illusionist Derren Brown joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles to discuss happiness.
| 09:00Jonny Dymond looks at what's next for the Labour Party plus a review of the Sunday papers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Liv Tyler on her new capsule collection, how to make job sharing work at a senior level. 10:451/5George Allen's 1904 diary of his record attempting walk, freely adapted by Stephen Wakelam
| 10:00Hattie Collins, author of This Is Grime, talks about women in the Grime scene. 10:452/5George is finding Plymouth difficult to leave.
| 10:00Set designer ES Devlin who created a giant tongue for Miley Cyrus to slide down on tour. 10:413/5Inspired by his encounter with Scrumpy Jack, George has a new attendant for his journey. 10:55Friends whose lives have been very different find they still share a lot.
| 10:00Little black dress, football ballet, housing after prison, autumn poetry, Labour MPs. 10:454/5It is day ten, and the terrain, weather and inner doubts are challenging.
| 10:00Paralympian Kadeena Cox, limiting women's access to health services, Greta Scacchi. 10:455/5The possibility of breaking the record is in sight as George approaches Birnam Wood.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Londonderry.
| 10:00Joe celebrates his 95th birthday, and Usha calls on Alan's support.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline. 11:305/6Frank Skinner and guests David Mitchell and Steve Hall ponder history's funniest moments.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood encounters Devil’s Darning Needles as he goes in search of Dragonflies 11:30A portrait of the Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyen, in her own words and recordings.
| 11:00Tarek Osman tells the story of the Sunni-Shia split in the early years of Islam.(R) 11:305/6Josh employs handyman Dean to get the flat ready for the baby.
| 11:00Kate Adie presents a new series with dispatches from Iraq, South Africa, France and Egypt. 11:30Alvin Hall explores an LP of African-American soldiers discussing fighting in Vietnam.
| 11:00Leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves - Ian Sansom is searching for the diminutive other. 11:303/4Australian-born Deborah recalls the true tale of her struggle with visa issues.(R)
| 11:00The extraordinary impact of balloons on human society. 11:30Kate Adie introduces reports on French deradicalisation, Syrian refugees and Switzerland.
| 11:15Joyce DiDonato is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Florrie Wilson gets interesting news from Mrs Crayford. 12:15Uber are testing driverless taxis on American roads. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Alec Poole grows weary of his double life. 12:15Winifred Robinson asks: What's it like being a foster carer today? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Dorothea deploys a surprise strategy for her father's memorial. 12:15Vets say the fashion for flat faced breeds is causing a life of pain for some dogs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Hugh and Juliet Cavendish try to create a perfect day. 12:15Gerard Manley Hopkins: Hurrahing in Harvest. Read by Simon Russell Beale. 12:20A look at standards in the permanent make-up industry. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Dennis Monk is plagued by his own past. 12:15A super-complaint calls for banks to better protect customers against bank transfer fraud.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Looking at a sugar tax, a bank fraud super-complaint, and energy suppliers. 12:303/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Lucy Porter and Zoe Lyons.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:047/8Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino updates how Syrians are managing to eat amidst ongoing conflict. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:451/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00The UN has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after trucks were bombed near Aleppo. 13:452/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:453/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:454/10Adrian Moore’s series asks how humans make sense of infinity.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/10Adrian Moore’s series asks how humans make sense of infinity.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:30Listeners have their say on the Labour leadership result. Presenter Julian Worricker.
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Mishal Husain introduces dispatches on Southern trains, Aberfan, Royston Cave and Dovecot.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Joe celebrates his 95th birthday.(R) 14:15By Phil Porter. An unlikely love affair combining voyeurism, urban solitude and healing.(R)
| 14:157/9Nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:15By Hugh Costello. When the financial sector is out of control, why bother being honest?(R)
| 14:00The Bull has an unexpected guest.(R) 14:156/6Life's complicated for simple soul Harper. Then the ground starts to shift - literally.(R)
| 14:00Emma offloads her worries to Peggy.(R) 14:153/3A man agrees to deliver a briefcase for a stranger he meets on a train.(R)
| 14:001/7Soames Forsyte overhears socialite Marjorie Ferrar gossiping about Fleur.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel visit the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum near Belfast.(R) 14:45Conversations between male friends about similarities and differences.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees quizzes his guests on their knowledge of quotations. 15:30By Hilary Mantel. Comic tale full of unlikely memories, lost lives and the odd bad joke.
| 15:00Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids. 15:30By Tahmima Anam. An impoverished woman pays a high price for seeking a better life.
| 15:00Financial phone-in. Are tax and benefits systems keeping up with the way people work now? 15:30By Claire-Louise Bennett. The rhythms of the everyday lead a young woman to sanctuary.
| 15:00Clare Balding takes this ancient way to discover the power and popularity of pilgrimage. 15:27Frank Gardner makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Calvert Trust.(R) 15:30By Lavinia Greenlaw. A teenage girl on a deep dark moor is drawn into a different darkness
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel visit the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum near Belfast. 15:35By KJ Orr. Reinvention and disguise offer a retired professional another way to be.
| 15:30A portrait of the Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyen, in her own words and recordings.(R)
| 15:00Will Howard is the young Peter the Great in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the role of the clergy during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
| 16:00Michael Rosen uncovers how people talk and think about directions in different languages. 16:30AA Gill nominates Arthur Neville Chamberlain as his great life.
| 16:00Shyness: a cultural history. Also, the relationship between names and identity. 16:30Steve Hewlett talks to Bal Samra about the BBC shows going out to independent producers.
| 16:00W. B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole. Read by Sinead Cusack. 16:05A soundtrack special with composer David Arnold's notes on Independence Day. 16:30What's left to explore? Adam Rutherford with a special edition from New Scientist Live.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a physicist, a health administrator and a zoologist. 16:30Roger Bolton hears views on the Waterside Ape and discusses Radio 1's phone-first strategy 16:55Incomers to a seaside town have brought the songs of the sea with them.
| 16:00Who are the women we should be taking notice of in the UK music grime scene?
| 16:00Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs on their new collection of short stories Sex and Death. 16:30Poems old and new are read by actors and poets to mark the equinox and the new season.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Rebel-held areas of Aleppo have been targeted in the heaviest air strikes in months. 17:58Robin Robertson reads his autumnal poem Fall. It is a version of a poem by Rilke.(R)
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30The listener who fought for her pacemaker to be turned off.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are allegations of sex crimes made by elderly victims being ignored?(R) 17:40We profile Emma Walmsley, set to become Britain's most powerful business woman.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Suspect arrested following a shoot-out with police in New Jersey. 18:307/8Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game.
| 18:00The UN has stopped delivering aid to Syria after 20 killed in convoy attack. 18:305/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.
| 18:00A coroner has ruled that failures by a mental health trust contributed to a boy's death. 18:303/6Mark Steel visits the Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge and performs for the locals.
| 18:00UN aid convoy reaches rebel-held Damascus suburb; Bake Off's Mary Berry shuns Channel 4 18:30Britain's only national local radio station returns to the airwaves in a one-off special.
| 18:00Syrian warplanes are pounding the city of Aleppo. 18:303/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Lucy Porter and Zoe Lyons.
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The United States has accused Russia of acts of barbarism in Syria. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Emeli Sande, BBC National Short Story Award, Abstract Expressionism. 19:451/5George Allen's 1904 diary of his record attempting walk, freely adapted by Stephen Wakelam(R)
| 19:15Daniel Radcliffe on two new films; South African Artist William Kentridge on Thick Time. 19:452/5George is finding Plymouth difficult to leave.(R)
| 19:00The Bull has an unexpected guest. 19:15Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on her slave drama. 19:453/5Inspired by his encounter with Scrumpy Jack, George has a new attendant for his journey.(R)
| 19:00Emma offloads her worries to Peggy. 19:15Hull's City of Culture 2017 programme, Emma Donoghue's new novel, Ira Sachs, K J Orr. 19:454/5It is day ten, and the terrain, weather and inner doubts are challenging.(R)
| 19:15John Wilson talks to ballet star Tamara Rojo and former Vogue director Grace Coddington. 19:455/5The possibility of breaking the record is in sight as George approaches Birnam Wood.(R)
| 19:00We profile Emma Walmsley, set to become Britain's most powerful business woman. 19:15Robert Harris, When Father Comes Home From The Wars, Little Men, Damned, The Infinite Mix.
| 19:153/4Thom Tuck presents sketch groups McNeill & Pamphilon, Barbershopera and Wittank.(R) 19:45Mick escapes from his marriage and lack of a job.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Tarek Osman tells the story of the Sunni-Shia split in the early years of Islam. 20:30The people who are trying to stop the relentless road deaths in India's biggest city.(R)
| 20:00Are allegations of sex crimes made by elderly victims being ignored? 20:40Peter White talks to retiring RNIB CEO Lesley-Anne Alexander about her role at the charity
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests discuss the legal rights of prison inmates. 20:45Ayesha Hazarika explains why she thinks humour is so important in our political discourse.
| 20:00Why is it so difficult to find peace in Syria, and what is getting in the way of a deal? 20:30How has London's French business community fared since Brexit?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Pickering in North Yorkshire. 20:50John Gray assesses what lies behind the Trump phenomenon.
| 20:00Toby Jones celebrates the mercurial world of the villain.
| 20:00Roger Bolton hears views on the Waterside Ape and discusses Radio 1's phone-first strategy(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a physicist, a health administrator and a zoologist.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood examines our complex relations with an ocean icon, the wandering albatross.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster.(R)
| 21:00A new way of tracking cancer is exciting oncologists worldwide. 21:30Claudia Hammond looks at the brain at rest, and mind wandering and its role in creativity.(R)
| 21:00Can the growing of fashionable super fruits save the Amazon rain forest? 21:30Garden writer and broadcaster Monty Don and journalist Ian Hislop join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00What's left to explore? Adam Rutherford with a special edition from New Scientist Live.(R) 21:30Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno(R)
| 21:00The people of Folkestone find new life, new death and new love.
| 21:00Shaun Dooley is Boris Godunov in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.(R)
| 21:00Looking at a sugar tax, a bank fraud super-complaint, and energy suppliers.(R) 21:26Sybil Ruscoe makes an appeal on behalf of Signal.(R) 21:30How has London's French business community fared since Brexit?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00UN convoy bombed after Syrian ceasefire declared 'over'. 22:45A long distance lorry driver parks up overnight - but it's not the same old story.
| 22:00A US State Department spokesman says the ceasefire in Syria is not dead. 22:45Art history and the art of telephoning connect a mother and daughter.
| 22:00John Kerry proposes a no-fly zone over northern Syria. 22:45Five new tales to accompany this week's shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award
| 22:00US and Russia are in emergency talks in an attempt to revive the ceasefire in Syria. 22:45There's a body on a beach and the investigators are using their imagination.
| 22:00The future of the Labour party, the Somalian foreign minister and sounds from outer space. 22:45Anteaters and an algorithm as a father and son share a culling job.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests discuss the legal rights of prison inmates.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen on discovering lost words and finding hidden linguistic connections.(R) 23:30Maxine Peake, star of Shameless and Silk, presents favourite readings at the Radio Theatre(R)
| 23:001/6Stephen K Amos and his comedy friends compile an idiot's guide to multiculturalism.(R) 23:30Poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell introduces his favourite poetry and prose.(R)
| 23:003/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show 23:152/4Ben tests out a new coat suitable for the climate in the subantarctic.(R) 23:30Actress Stephanie Cole chooses her favourite words at Bristol Old Vic Theatre.(R)
| 23:001/4Symphonious sketch series with Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Sara Pascoe and Henry Paker.(R) 23:30Marian Keyes and Nikki Bedi discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:55An anthology of autumn poems, old and new, from Shakespeare, Liz Berry and George Ellis.
| 23:00AA Gill nominates Arthur Neville Chamberlain as his great life.(R) 23:27Singer-songwriter Ricky Ross presents readings of his favourite pieces of poetry and prose(R) 23:55The shared experiences of childhood have bound these friends closely through life.
| 23:00Nigel Rees quizzes his guests on their knowledge of quotations.(R) 23:30Roger McGough celebrates the autumn equinox.(R)
| 23:00A soundtrack special with composer David Arnold's notes on Independence Day.(R) 23:30Writer and priest Malcolm Doney cooks up a storm as he explores our relationship with food(R)
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