| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Shyness: a cultural history. Also, the relationship between names and identity.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Mary's, Lamberhurst in Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Gary Younge tells the story of the children and teens shot dead on an average American day(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Kenneth Mills-Tucker was shot dead just three days before his twentieth birthday.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5At a sleepover in rural Michigan, a 12-year-old boy shoots his best friend dead.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5No-one knows who shot Tyshon Anderson in the head on a stairway in South Chicago.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Samuel Brightmon was shot aged 18. His death was counted. It just didn't count for much.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Edson Burton. Bandele chooses death over enslavement. But the gods do not let him go.(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 short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Charlotte Smith discovers how different farm livestock are bred commercially in the UK. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the barnacle goose.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Shadow environment secretary Rachael Maskell on Labour plans to help agricultural workers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the snow bunting.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45How uphill schemes to 'slow the flow' are helping cut water bills. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sanderling.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Exploring the growing pig semen exporting business for UK agriculture. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Shore Lark.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Charlotte Smith discusses the ethics of genome editing and the latest study on bovine TB. 05:58David Attenborough presents the purple sandpiper.(R)
| 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 Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45A listener has decided to quit his job to live and work in Antarctica.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St. Helen's Sefton. 05:45Mark Coles profiles Theresa May's influential chiefs of staff.(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 joins a family from Hebden Bridge for whom walking is a vital experience.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith visits a South Devon bull stud exporting cattle semen worldwide. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy gazes back fondly and argues that nostalgia has a lot to offer us. 06:35Meet the farmers struggling to survive the latest great Australian drought. 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. 07:10Trevor Barnes reports on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. 07:54Jordan Bone makes an appeal on behalf of Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Harvest thanksgiving from West Presbyterian Church, Ballymena, Co Antrim. 08:48John Gray reflects on the controversial 'space spaces' policy in universities.(R) 08:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the barnacle goose.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool. 09:451/5Gary Younge tells the story of the children and teens shot dead on an average American day
| 09:00Claudia Hammond and guests reveal the rest test results and analyse how the UK relaxes. 09:452/5Kenneth Mills-Tucker was shot dead just three days before his twentieth birthday.
| 09:00Lord David Owen and Paul Jones join Libby Purves. 09:453/5At a sleepover in rural Michigan, a 12-year-old boy shoots his best friend dead.
| 09:00All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. 09:454/5No-one knows who shot Tyshon Anderson in the head on a stairway in South Chicago.
| 09:00Joyce DiDonato is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Samuel Brightmon was shot aged 18. His death was counted. It just didn't count for much.
| 09:00Footballer and presenter Ian Wright, comedian David O'Doherty and writer India Knight.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including Conservative conference latest and newspaper review.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jo Brand talks about her new social work sitcom. 10:452/7The ongoing feud between Fleur and fellow socialite Marjorie Ferrar takes a new turn.
| 10:00Actress Letitia Wright on Urban Hymn. Women and gender specific mental health services. 10:453/7A chance encounter in America reawakens old passions for Soames.
| 10:00Teen pregnancy rates are down - why the fall and will it continue? 10:414/7It is 1926, and the General Strike brings Fleur face to face with her past. 10:55Finding a way forward after the devastation of a stillbirth.
| 10:00Maddy Hill, women in local politics, emotionally distant fathers and Meg Rosoff on horses. 10:455/7Fleur is playing a dangerous game when she revisits an old haunt.
| 10:00Emily Blunt and Paula Hawkins discuss Girl on a Train. 10:456/7The Forsytes gather to watch the family horse in its debut race at Ascot.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Windsor.
| 10:00Adam keeps his distance, and Toby is caught out.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Charlotte Higgins explores the work of the UN's peacekeeping agency. 11:306/6Frank Skinner on funny moments in history. With Josh Widdicombe and Roisin Conaty.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood follows the elephant through human history, from battlefield to big top. 11:30An imaginative portrait of the elusive musician Arthur Russell.
| 11:00Tarek Osman looks at the causes of the Sunni-Shia divide in the Middle East today.(R) 11:306/6Josh and his wife Monique's big day finally arrives.
| 11:00Kate Adie presents reports from Iran, Mauritania, Venezuela, Normandy and the Seychelles. 11:30What is the appeal of ponies and pony books to girls - and some post-menopausal women?
| 11:00What is wrong with being black and curvy? Bridgitte Tetteh investigates. 11:304/4Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells the true story of her search for her real father.(R)
| 11:00Nick Robinson examines Theresa May's political beliefs and underlying philosophy. 11:30Kate Adie presents reports from Israel, Syria, Hungary, Tibet and the Basque country.
| 11:15Christiane Amanpour, journalist, 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. 12:04Esme Macknade has captured Oscar's interest. 12:15Reporting your bank card as stolen may not protect you from losing money. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, the Cavendish family face another parting. 12:15New research shows parents are shouldering an extra "hidden" burden of university costs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04At the Pleasure Gardens Theatre, a small miracle occurs. 12:15Nursing homes in England are shutting beds because of a shortage of nurses. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Isabel Graham summons her resolve. 12:15A food waste charity says it's receiving tonnes of over-produced supermarket bread. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04It is a day of secrets and unexpected joy in Folkestone. 12:15Peter White on new business rate values. What could they mean for failing high streets?
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Existing customers cut off from attractive energy deals. 12:304/8Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Frankie Boyle, Baron Finkelstein and Angela Barnes.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:048/8Nicholas Parsons with Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Josie Lawrence and Katherine Ryan.(R) 12:32Dementia turns lives upside down, but where does food fit? Sheila Dillon investigates. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:456/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:457/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:458/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:459/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:4510/10Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Hardeep Singh Kohli travels the UK cooking lunch for people with remarkable stories.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Dark comedy about a counsellor and a kebab shop owner. By Christine Entwisle.
| 14:00Adam keeps his distance.(R) 14:158/9Eighth in a nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:00Rex is back in Ambridge.(R) 14:151/2Trevor Preston's sci-fi crime thriller set in a world where blood is currency.(R)
| 14:00Emma hopes to clear the air.(R) 14:152/2Turner is caught in a corrupt world where power lies in blood and body parts.(R)
| 14:15By Sarah Buckley. Schoolgirl Chloe likes to party but she also talks to God.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:307/7Soames fears history will repeat itself, as Fleur rushes headlong towards Jon.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are at the University of Bath.(R) 14:45Conversations about stillbirth, single parent families and running.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees quizzes Arnold Brown, Lissa Evans, Christopher Frayling and Erica Wagner. 15:30Dan Saladino updates how Syrians are managing to eat amidst ongoing conflict.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Londonderry.(R) 15:30The warmer climate is extending the growing season, Peter Gibbs asks if this is good news.
| 15:00Louise Cooper and guests discuss executive pay packages. 15:30Breast cancer and bisphosphonates, alcoholism and Baclofen, CRPS, generics.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding joins a family from Hebden Bridge for whom walking is a vital experience. 15:27Sybil Ruscoe makes an appeal on behalf of Signal.(R) 15:30Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs on their new collection of short stories Sex and Death.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are at the University of Bath. 15:45At the age of four, Montreal discovers his passion in life: to steal.
| 15:30An imaginative portrait of the elusive musician Arthur Russell.(R)
| 15:00Elliot Cowan is Peter the Great in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Scything, scrumping and swimming - experience harvest time with Bruegel. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Turkey.
| 16:00Michael Rosen talks to psychotherapist Philippa Perry about the importance of small talk. 16:30Cyrus Todiwala picks Dadabhai Naoroji who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP.
| 16:00Higher education - crisis or change? 16:30Andrea Catherwood discusses the story that brought down the England football manager.
| 16:00Francine Stock enters Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton. 16:30Adam Rutherford hears about the end of Rosetta's two-year mission around comet 67P.
| 16:00Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard. 16:30Roger Bolton discusses neutrality in war reporting and finds out about making Tracks. 16:55In the 1980s being from a single parent family still carried a stigma.
| 16:00Emily Blunt and author Paula Hawkins on book-turned-film The Girl on the Train.
| 16:00Helen Macdonald talks to James Naughtie and readers about her memoir H is for Hawk. 16:30Roger McGough marks 50 years since Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Theresa May wants a bigger role for government in business. Will it happen? Can it work?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Is the UK's alternative investment market, known as 'little brother', open to fraud?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles Theresa May's influential chiefs of staff.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, has set out Labour's economic agenda. 18:308/8Nicholas Parsons with Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Josie Lawrence and Katherine Ryan.
| 18:00The England manager, Sam Allardyce, fights for job only months after being appointed 18:306/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity and promises 'socialism for the 21st century' 18:304/6Mark Steel visits the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and performs for the locals.
| 18:00The Trade Secretary says a post-Brexit UK will lead the world in free and fair trade. 18:301/4Joe Lycett discovers how well a panel of celebrity guests know their nearest and dearest.
| 18:00The Rosetta probe ends its historic mission by crashing into the comet it's been studying 18:304/8Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Frankie Boyle, Baron Finkelstein and Angela Barnes.
| 18:00Charities welcome the scrapping of benefits re-tests for those with long-term conditions. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Theresa May has put Britain on course to leave the European Union by the middle of 2019. 18:15John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Actor Dominic Cooper discusses The Libertine, a tour of the Turner Prize shortlist. 19:452/7The ongoing feud between Fleur and fellow socialite Marjorie Ferrar takes a new turn.(R)
| 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to Gillian Anderson about the new series of The Fall. 19:453/7A chance encounter in America reawakens old passions for Soames.(R)
| 19:00Emma hopes to clear the air. 19:15As he approaches his 80th birthday, composer Steve Reich looks back over his career. 19:454/7It is 1926, and the General Strike brings Fleur face to face with her past.(R)
| 19:15Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg on Deepwater Horizon, pianist Melvyn Tan, author Maria Semple 19:455/7Fleur is playing a dangerous game when she revisits an old haunt.(R)
| 19:15David Greig, Van Gogh, Westworld, medieval embroidery, David Bintley and Sally Beamish. 19:456/7The Forsytes gather to watch the family horse in its debut race at Ascot.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Theresa May's influential chiefs of staff. 19:15Free State of Jones, Abstract Expressionism, Transit, Crisis in Six Scenes and Villette.
| 19:152/4Isy Suttie present comedy groups, Clever Peter, Hennessey and Friends, and In Cahoots.(R) 19:451/3An exhausted mother contemplates her sleeping newborn baby in Czechoslovakia in 1945.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Tarek Osman looks at the causes of the Sunni-Shia divide in the Middle East today. 20:30Is it time for British politics professors to bin their old lecture notes and start again?
| 20:00Is the UK's alternative investment market, known as 'little brother', open to fraud? 20:40David Haynes on Action hotels, TV licence concessions and blind comedian Chris McCausland.
| 20:00Journalists debate terrorism in the news. Does the media need a new approach? 20:45Nick Ivins explains how the pull of the land turned him into a homesteader.
| 20:00Why has the Bank of England started creating new money to buy government debt again? 20:30Theresa May wants a bigger role for government in business. Will it happen? Can it work?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. 20:50John Gray reflects on the controversial 'space spaces' policy in universities.
| 20:00Alexei Sayle on the cultural impact of the Dada movement, 100 years since it was founded.
| 20:00Roger Bolton discusses neutrality in war reporting and finds out about making Tracks.(R) 20:30Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood encounters Devil’s Darning Needles as he goes in search of Dragonflies(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool.(R)
| 21:00Breast cancer and bisphosphonates, alcoholism and Baclofen, CRPS, generics. 21:30Claudia Hammond and guests reveal the rest test results and analyse how the UK relaxes.(R)
| 21:00The warmer climate is extending the growing season, Peter Gibbs asks if this is good news.(R) 21:30Lord David Owen and Paul Jones join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford hears about the end of Rosetta's two-year mission around comet 67P.(R) 21:30All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.(R)
| 21:00It is a week of parting and small miracles in Folkestone.
| 21:00Will Howard is the young Peter the Great in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.(R)
| 21:00Existing customers cut off from attractive energy deals.(R) 21:26Jordan Bone makes an appeal on behalf of Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation.(R) 21:30Is it time for British politics professors to bin their old lecture notes and start again?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00We discuss the significance of the event with veteran US watcher Harry Evans 22:451/10Nurse Wright arrives in Athlone, Ireland, to witness a 'miracle' called Anna O'Donnell.
| 22:00Sam Allardyce leaves his post as England manager after one match and 67 days in charge. 22:452/10Nurse Wright begins her watch over Anna by examining the child and her bedroom.
| 22:00Jeremy Corbyn addresses the Labour Party conference and tackles the immigration issue. 22:453/10Nurse Wright appeals to Dr McBrearty to enforce the supervision of her fasting patient.
| 22:00Is the International Trade Secretary right to say free trade is essential to prosperity? 22:454/10Nurse Wright finds her motivation for maintaining the watch challenged.
| 22:00The US dismisses claims it supports Islamist rebels in Syria. 22:455/10Nurse Wright stumbles into a surprising discovery about the O'Donnell family.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Journalists debate terrorism in the news. Does the media need a new approach?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen uncovers how people talk and think about directions in different languages.(R) 23:30Poet Daljit Nagra presents readings of his favourite pieces of poetry and prose.(R)
| 23:002/6Stephen K Amos, Susan Murray, Tom Craine and Josie Long present a guide to breaking up.(R) 23:30Brandon is battling to make it into England's football team. Brandon is also blind.(R)
| 23:004/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show 23:153/4Graham teaches Ben to abseil and the bathroom lock in the unit base is broken.(R) 23:30The pregnant fiancee of a white-collar criminal tries to organise their prison wedding.(R)
| 23:002/4A pair of long-lost brothers meet for the first time, and a moth runs amok.(R) 23:30Will teenagers Mohammed and Jess both get into the National Youth Theatre?(R)
| 23:00Where does private space for women end and public space begin? 23:30Cyrus Todiwala picks Dadabhai Naoroji who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP.(R) 23:55Running can improve your mental as well as your physical health
| 23:00Nigel Rees quizzes Arnold Brown, Lissa Evans, Christopher Frayling and Erica Wagner.(R) 23:30An intimate portrait of the iconic but elusive English folksinger Annie Briggs.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock enters Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton.(R) 23:30John McCarthy gazes back fondly and argues that nostalgia has a lot to offer us.(R)
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