| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Higher education - crisis or change?(R) 00:45Church bells from St. Helen's Sefton.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Powerful memoir of hope and loss by the Booker Prize-nominated Libyan author Hisham Matar.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Hisham Matar's memoir of loss and exile. A football match unites his scattered family.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Khalid Abdalla reads from the powerful memoir by Libyan novelist Hisham Matar.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Hisham Matar's memoir detailing the search for his father, imprisoned by Gaddafi's regime.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Hisham Matar meets Uncle Hmad, who witnessed the massacre at Abu Salim, Tripoli, in 1996.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3By Helen Cross. The female Alpha-Eaters of the Kingdom want the bees to come back.(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. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45Electronic pulse fishing by Dutch boats raises concerns over fish stocks. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the whooper swan.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45Andrea Leadsom addresses the Tory Party Conference on the future of agriculture. 05:58Chris Packham presents the long-tailed duck.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Anna Hill. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the twite.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45Meat processors warn of business closures if they're unable to recruit post-Brexit. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the common crane.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Steve Chalke. 05:45Former suppliers to Bernard Matthews say they're losing out in the sale of the company. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the curlew.(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 Kate Bottley. 05:45iPM investigates why there are not more usable drinking fountains in the UK.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of Holy Cross, Daventry. 05:45Becky Milligan profiles the 2016 Nobel prize winner for Physics.(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 walks from Ripon to Ripley remembering the men of the Jarrow Crusade.(R) 06:30Farm workers past and present across the UK. Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Theologian Jane Williams examines the relationship between learning and language. 06:35Explore the exotic world of the heritage potato with Caz Graham. 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 Edward Stourton. 07:54Jane Garvey makes an appeal on behalf of Build Africa. 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 Battle Abbey School, marking the 950th anniversary of the historic battle. 08:48Howard Jacobson deplores the fashion for 'whooping' as a mark of approval.(R) 08:58Chris Packham presents the whooper swan.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough. 09:451/5Powerful memoir of hope and loss by the Booker Prize-nominated Libyan author Hisham Matar.
| 09:00Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever. 09:30Sir Trevor McDonald asks former armed robber John McAvoy how he found redemption. 09:452/5Hisham Matar's memoir of loss and exile. A football match unites his scattered family.
| 09:00Nicholas Parsons, Ken Hom and Jacqueline Wilson join Libby Purves. 09:453/5Khalid Abdalla reads from the powerful memoir by Libyan novelist Hisham Matar.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi. 09:454/5Hisham Matar's memoir detailing the search for his father, imprisoned by Gaddafi's regime.
| 09:00Christiane Amanpour, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Hisham Matar meets Uncle Hmad, who witnessed the massacre at Abu Salim, Tripoli, in 1996.
| 09:00With McFly singer and author Tom Fletcher, and the inheritance tracks of DJ Trevor Nelson.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Entrepreneur Jo Malone, women in Colombia, comedian Bella Younger, and group texting. 10:451/5Suffering from TB, 12-year-old Alan is admitted to Stannington Sanatorium.
| 10:00Anna Mudeka on the music of the traditional Mbira. 10:452/5With Marjorie's help, Alan comes to terms with life in the sanatorium.
| 10:00Anne Darwin talks about her part in the 'canoe fraud'. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:413/5Aided by Marjorie, Alan secretly visits brother Ken. 10:56An immigrant from apartheid South Africa is an inspiration to her grandson.
| 10:00Anne Robinson, author of Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother, offers her views on parenting. 10:454/5Alan wants to see his brother Ken but finds his room empty.
| 10:00A feature and playlist for our 70th, breastfeeding discrimination, Lisa Dwan, Cassa Pancho 10:455/5Marjorie fears for young Alan when he goes missing from the ward at night.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Pontefract.
| 10:00Helen faces a problem head on, and Tom is reminded of old memories.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Clare Jenkins explores the emotional challenges faced when clearing out her parents' home. 11:301/4Lemn discusses his experiences as a foster child and draws comparisons with Harry Potter.
| 11:00Brett Westwood burrows into our complicated relationship with the rat. 11:30Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Strauss ever wrote.
| 11:00Peter White asks if blind children who go to mainstream schools get too much support.(R) 11:301/4The madcap schemes of three kids to find their mum a new man.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Russia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Morocco and Sweden. 11:30Doon Mackichan asks if we need a moratorium on glossy TV dramas with female victims.
| 11:00Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers the exponential rise in tattooing. 11:301/4Award-winning writer and comedian Deborah Frances-White searches for her birth father.
| 11:00Stephen Barber calls on politicians to resist the urge to act and instead do nothing. 11:30Kate Adie introduces reports from Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, Italy and South Korea.
| 11:15Stephen Hough, concert pianist, 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. 12:04What makes people left-handed? 12:15Can acupuncture help to improve fertility? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How being left-handed affects your brain and behaviour. 12:15A year since the law on evicting tenants was changed, is it making a difference? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Could we live on another planet? 12:15How the emerging fine wine market in China has led to a rise in counterfeit bottles. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04What causes middle-aged spread? 12:15Are the big six energy companies planning to drive smaller competitors out of the market? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04What is the strongest thing in the universe? 12:15Winter turbulence for low-cost airlines. And community groups building affordable housing.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04PM to clean up the energy market?; getting a better state pension; TalkTalk's data breach. 12:305/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Paul Sinha, Angela Barnes and Dane Baptiste.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon in conversation with Pete Brown on magic, mystery and Britishness of apples. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00News from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham with Martha Kearney. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
| 13:00Defence secretary Michael Fallon speaks live from the Conservative Party conference. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the life of a butler who rose to the top of 18th century society
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the story of two slaves brought from the West Indies to Bristol.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Professor Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black sailors in the British Navy.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the life of Olaudah Equiano, a traveller who bought his freedom.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Epsom in Surrey.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Hardeep is in the Yorkshire Dales to meet wrestler Connie Hodgson.
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| 14:00 | 14:15A taxi driver and a paramedic make real-time life-and-death journeys across London.(R)
| 14:00Jill puts her foot down.(R) 14:159/9Final episode in the conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:00Helen faces a problem head on.(R) 14:15A national storm is raging. It is getting ugly. With Rachael Stirling and Tobias Menzies.
| 14:00Alice hopes to impress.(R) 14:15Samina Baig's play tells the story of one man's search for his roots.
| 14:00In The Bull, the interview panel is waiting.(R) 14:15Based on the true story of Operation Julie, the biggest drug bust in British history.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30When a bank manager's body is found, McLevy has plenty of suspects.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel visit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.(R) 14:45Role models, friendship and a relationship in transition.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees quizzes Dan Antopolski, Janet Ellis, Kirsty Lang and John Sergeant. 15:30Dementia turns lives upside down, but where does food fit? Sheila Dillon investigates.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Windsor.(R) 15:30Tom Heap assesses 50 years of green activism with leading members of the movement.
| 15:00Banking is changing - is it for the better? 15:30This edition looks at ministrokes, a midwife study, and cyclic vomiting syndrome.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks from Ripon to Ripley remembering the men of the Jarrow Crusade. 15:27Jordan Bone makes an appeal on behalf of Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation.(R) 15:30Helen Macdonald talks to James Naughtie and readers about her memoir H is for Hawk.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel visit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. 15:45An unlucky princess seizes an opportunity to change her life in this playful fairy tale.
| 15:30Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Strauss ever wrote.(R)
| 15:001/2The Spanish civil war spills onto English soil in this tense thriller.
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| 16:00 | 16:00What is hiding in the undergrowth of Rachel Ruysch's brilliant, beautiful flower painting? 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in children's literature.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on the creative use and misuse of language by children. 16:30Ann Widdecombe and Vince Cable talk books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Political polarisation. Also, an anthropologist's guide to naming. 16:30Andrea Catherwood talks to Craig Oliver about the BBC and the EU referendum.
| 16:00Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. 16:30What controls our preference for fatty food?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an exorcist, a rower, a psychologist and a songwriter. 16:30Roger Bolton discusses personalisation of BBC iPlayer and binaural Beckett on Radio 3. 16:55When a woman transitions to a man, does a gay relationship become a straight one?
| 16:00Anna Mudeka performs Mbira music, and Anne Robinson discusses 21st-century parenting.
| 16:00Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa talks to Mariella Frostrup. 16:30Katrina Porteous's poem reflects tales told to Anna Scott-Brown on a Northumberland bench.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Presented by Rebecca Jones, including the latest on the Haiti hurricane. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss doing business in times of uncertainty.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Have major changes to the probation system put the public at risk?(R) 17:40Becky Milligan profiles the 2016 Nobel prize winner for Physics.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Chancellor abandons plans to eliminate the deficit. 18:301/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.
| 18:00The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has outlined new measures to try to reduce immigration 18:301/6Ed Reardon is back, this time in unfamiliar territory as he's become a student at 'Uni'.
| 18:00Theresa May says she wants to represent the interests of ordinary working people 18:305/6Mark Steel visits Lynton in North Devon and performs for the local residents.
| 18:00UKIP MEP taken to hospital after apparent punch-up with colleague 18:302/4Joe Lycett discovers how well a panel of celebrity guests know their nearest and dearest.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Paul Sinha, Angela Barnes and Dane Baptiste.
| 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. 18:15Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Tom Stoppard discusses his play Travesties and Brexit plus The Girl on the Train reviewed. 19:451/5Suffering from TB, 12-year-old Alan is admitted to Stannington Sanatorium.(R)
| 19:00Helen faces a problem head on. 19:15The winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writer's Award are announced. 19:452/5With Marjorie's help, Alan comes to terms with life in the sanatorium.(R)
| 19:15Picasso Portraits show, Phyllida Lloyd on The Tempest, and Mike Figgis on virtual reality. 19:453/5Aided by Marjorie, Alan secretly visits brother Ken.(R)
| 19:00In The Bull, the interview panel is waiting. 19:15Louis Theroux on My Scientology Movie, and PJ Harvey marks National Poetry Day. 19:454/5Alan wants to see his brother Ken but finds his room empty.(R)
| 19:00Helen makes a shocking discovery. 19:15Blood Father, Beyond Caravaggio, and Oasis documentary Supersonic. 19:455/5Marjorie fears for young Alan when he goes missing from the ward at night.(R)
| 19:00Becky Milligan profiles the 2016 Nobel prize winner for Physics. 19:15The Girl on the Train, Travesties, Picasso Portraits, Nicotine, Divorce.
| 19:00Oliver has a question for Shula. 19:154/4Thom Tuck reunites classic sketch group, Absolutely, in Glasgow.(R) 19:452/3Niven Govinden's tale of the uncertain benefits of rest. Read by Nicky Henson
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| 20:00 | 20:00Peter White asks if blind children who go to mainstream schools get too much support. 20:30Paul Johnson asks if the government should break pledges made to pensioners.
| 20:00Have major changes to the probation system put the public at risk? 20:40Nicki Cockburn on quizzes, PIPs form issues and talking toilets.
| 20:00Do we want to live in a world without Down's syndrome? Presented by Michael Buerk. 20:45Sally Bayley traces the art of diary writing from Pepys to today's culture of blogging.
| 20:00Right-wing ideas once found on the political fringes are becoming increasingly mainstream 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss doing business in times of uncertainty.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Epsom in Surrey. 20:50Howard Jacobson deplores the fashion for 'whooping' as a mark of approval.
| 20:00The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for American black insurgency.
| 20:00Roger Bolton discusses personalisation of BBC iPlayer and binaural Beckett on Radio 3.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an exorcist, a rower, a psychologist and a songwriter.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood follows the elephant through human history, from battlefield to big top.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough.(R)
| 21:00This edition looks at ministrokes, a midwife study, and cyclic vomiting syndrome. 21:30Frans de Waal tells Jim Al-Khalili why we should expect chimpanzees to be clever.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap assesses 50 years of green activism with leading members of the movement.(R) 21:30Nicholas Parsons, Ken Hom and Jacqueline Wilson join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00What controls our preference for fatty food?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.(R)
| 21:00Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
| 21:00Elliot Cowan is Peter the Great in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.(R)
| 21:00PM to clean up the energy market?; getting a better state pension; TalkTalk's data breach.(R) 21:26Jane Garvey makes an appeal on behalf of Build Africa.(R) 21:30Paul Johnson asks if the government should break pledges made to pensioners.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00US announces suspension of talks with Russia over Syria. 22:456/10As Anna's health deteriorates, Nurse Wright seeks out potential allies.
| 22:00As Russia deploys new weapons, Washington says it is not abandoning the search for peace. 22:457/10Nurse Wright takes a risk in order to grant Mr Byrne an interview with Anna.
| 22:00Theresa May makes a pitch for the centre ground and talks up the role of the state. 22:458/10Nurse Wright faces the Committee in the hope of stopping the Watch and saving Anna.
| 22:00The UN Syria envoy offers to personally escort Al-Qaeda-linked fighters out of Aleppo. 22:459/10With no options left, Nurse Wright takes drastic action to save Anna.
| 22:00Chancellor Philip Hammond calls for calm and says the economy remains strong. 22:4510/10Nurse Wright completes her watch and faces the committee over the fate of Anna O'Donnell.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Do we want to live in a world without Down's syndrome? Presented by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the day's political news and developments at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to psychotherapist Philippa Perry about the importance of small talk.(R) 23:303/4Jarvis Cocker goes on a city night walk to find out what goes on behind closed doors.(R)
| 23:003/6Stephen K Amos and friends present a guide to belief and opinion.(R) 23:30Jarvis meets an unlucky trucker, a hopeful hitchhiker and a host of Scottish ghostbusters.(R)
| 23:001/4Imelda Staunton stars as Penny who takes looking after her boss too far. 23:154/4Ben gets a new telescope, and Graham has some big news.(R) 23:30Jarvis Cocker finds himself snowbound in his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.(R)
| 23:003/4The cosmetic benefits of old men's legs and a witness protection conference.(R) 23:304/4Jarvis explores the battle between the forces of darkness and light.(R)
| 23:00Ann Widdecombe and Vince Cable talk books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:271/4Jarvis Cocker returns with his award-winning nocturnal exploration of the human condition.(R) 23:55The affectionate honesty of a long-established friendship.
| 23:00Nigel Rees quizzes Dan Antopolski, Janet Ellis, Kirsty Lang and John Sergeant.(R) 23:30Roger McGough marks 50 years since Seamus Heaney published Death of a Naturalist.(R)
| 23:00Guy Raz presents a journey through ideas, based on talks by the speakers on the TED stage. 23:50Howard Jacobson deplores the fashion for 'whooping' as a mark of approval.(R)
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