| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the cultural history and many meanings of the hood.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:306/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:307/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:308/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:309/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:3010/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A body is found frozen in a strangely familiar pose on the Oslofjord.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Gopinder Kaur Sagoo. 05:45We meet a farmer who grows 4 million pumpkins for Halloween - is it wasted food? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the golden plover.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Gopinder Kaur Sagoo. 05:45The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Anna Hill. 05:58Kate Humble presents the great grey shrike.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Gopinder Kaur Sagoo. 05:45The food industry is being advised to step up its game to combat food fraud. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Gopinder Kaur Sagoo. 05:45Farming minister George Eustice on post-Brexit agricultural policy. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Tailed Godwit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Gopinder Kaur Sagoo. 05:45Farming Today hears from a farmer about to leave for one of the world's most remote places 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the short-eared owl.(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 Claire Campbell Smith. 05:45Finding love at Hellfire Corner - how falling for a sailor changed Jenny Nater's life.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mark's, Swindon. 05:45The most powerful black person you've never heard of, entrepreneur Tom Ilube.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark has a close encounter with some wild boar in the Forest of Dean.(R) 06:30Who's leading the changes in food consumption, shoppers, supermarkets, or the farmers? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Journalist Remona Aly explores the experience of being both an insider and an outsider. 06:35Sybil Ruscoe meets the Chahal family, whose vineyard has won them international accolades. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, 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. 07:54Shappi Khorsandi makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Health Poverty Action. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A Service of Holy Communion from St Columba's Church, Knock, Belfast. 08:48Adam Gopnik reflects on why he believes a Trump victory would be a disaster for America.(R) 08:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the golden plover.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett. 09:456/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.
| 09:003/4Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for a world free of racial fixations.
| 09:00Chef Marcus Wareing and actor Adrian Edmondson join Libby Purves. 09:458/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. 09:459/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.
| 09:00Michael Bublé, singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:4510/10Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.
| 09:00Clare Balding joins Aasmah and Richard.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00US folk and indie singer Angel Olsen; treating long-term UTIs; Virago Press; lipstick. 10:451/5Darleen discovers she is pregnant. Life will never be the same again for the couple.
| 10:00Why we paint our nails, female deaths in custody, Cindy Holland of Netflix, Emma Hamilton. 10:452/5Sparks fly when Treena finds out inadvertently that daughter Darleen is pregnant.
| 10:00Jenni Murray talks to the MOBO founder Kanya King. 10:413/5Darleen has run away because it seems everyone is opposed to her having a baby. 10:55Escaping from the London commute means there is time for long walks with distant horizons.
| 10:00Nura Aabe, mother of son with autism; eyeliner; musical about cancer patients; culture. 10:454/5The more Darleen learns about the labour, the more terrified she becomes.
| 10:00Actor Claire Foy; Woman's Hour Power List; Protests by Latin America women; Foundation. 10:455/5Drama series about a young couple with learning disabilities. Darleen's having a baby!
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the panel of culinary experts visit Warwick.
| 10:00Adam struggles to be heard, and Rex has the final word.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Grace Dent follows listener Shirley as she finds out more about how her estranged son died 11:301/4Inspector Lestrade introduces Sherlock Holmes' rival Constance Dunlap. Stars James Fleet.
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores our relationship with crickets and tunes in to their songs. 11:30Exploring America's national anthem, set to the tune of an English social men's club song.
| 11:00Michael Goldfarb is in Pennsylvania hearing the reasons Americans are voting Trump.(R) 11:301/6A security breach at the foreign office means Henry sees spies everywhere at Sizzlinghurst(R)
| 11:00Correspondents' stories from the US, Hungary, Uganda, Georgia and California. 11:30Can a Shaman cure writer's block? Playwright, David Greig, tries to find out.
| 11:002/4Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe introduces a chopped up, looped up love letter to sound. 11:305/6Historian Lucy Worsley's diary reveals her love of the Girl Guides and collecting rocks.(R)
| 11:00Anushka Asthana of the Guardian looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Correspondents' stories from India, Russia, the US-Mexico border, France and Vermont.
| 11:15Ali Smith, writer, 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. 12:04Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives. 12:15Changes to broadband deal advertising and why flamingos are big sellers in 2016. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives. 12:15There is a growing industry of sleep experts offering help. What have you tried? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives. 12:15Birth control for rats, insurance price hikes, disability support. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives. 12:15We report from the Childhood Obesity Summit on whether the government's plan will work. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives. 12:15Credit and debt, billboards, tenancy fraud, ear worms.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Energy prices, insurance on social media, interest-only mortgages and peer-to-peer lending 12:301/7Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.(R) 12:32How will British chef Gavin Chun and his team fare at the Olympics of Chinese Food? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00News with Mark Mardell including how to stop drivers using mobile phones. 13:45Selina Scott talks to Canon Paul Greenwell about ghosts.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Mark Mardell. 13:45Selina Scott talks to Yasmin Ishaq who doesn't believe in ghosts, but in jinn.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:45Selina Scott talks to ghostbuster Hayley Stevens, who does not believe in ghosts.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Actor and impressionist Jan Ravens talks to Germaine Greer, about her public image.(R)
| 13:00News with Shaun Ley including High Court Brexit fallout and Aleppo 'ceasefire' latest. 13:45Actor and comedienne Jan Ravens talks to BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet.(R)
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Wheatley Park School in Holton.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00There is a visitor at the Stables.(R) 14:15In GCHQ, agents are busy monitoring the G20 summit when a dangerous new threat emerges.
| 14:00Adam struggles to be heard.(R) 14:15Agents at GCHQ struggle to find the source of a complex cyber-attack on the National Grid.
| 14:00Toby searches high and low.(R) 14:15Agents at GCHQ get a surprise when they discover the source of a devastating cyber-attack.
| 14:00Brian offloads his concerns.(R) 14:15In 1940, an imminent Nazi invasion of Ireland means a choice: collaboration or resistance?(R)
| 14:00Rob needles at any opportunity.(R) 14:15A return to the world of Neil Gamain's Neverwhere in the company of the Marquis de Carabas
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Maxine Peake as Ruth Ellis and Siobhan Finneran in Amanda Whittington's hit stage transfer
| 14:00Eric Robson presents the show from Harthill, South Yorkshire.(R) 14:45Moving can bring peace or regret, but friendship and support always helps.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe returns with the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Sheila Dillon and special guests discover a delicious world of pumpkins and winter squash.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel of culinary experts are in Stockwell, London.(R) 15:30Britain's nuclear power stations are being pushed to run well past their planned lifespan.
| 15:00Financial phone-in. A new dispute resolution service for consumers - is it working? 15:30Taking pride, correct vocabulary in describing mental health, green exercise.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark has a close encounter with some wild boar in the Forest of Dean. 15:27Miriam Margoyles makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Stroke Association.(R) 15:30Sir Quentin Blake and Emma Chichester Clark on their collaboration, Three Little Monkeys.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson presents the show from Harthill, South Yorkshire. 15:45Two young girls find their holiday island has changed forever after huge winter storms.
| 15:30Exploring America's national anthem, set to the tune of an English social men's club song.(R)
| 15:001/2Fantasy classic about a band of rabbits on a quest to find a new home.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Josie Long hears tales of darkness and horror on a late night walk in the woods. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks if we are haunted by our technology, or are we haunting it?
| 16:00Interview with David Anderson QC - the Independent Reviewer of terrorism legislation. 16:30Harriett Gilbert invites Terry Christian and Dr Kevin Fong to talk favourite books.
| 16:00Drone warfare: from soldiering to assassination? Also, the world of fitness instructors. 16:30Steve Hewlett talks to Piers Morgan talks about Trump, the media and the presidency.
| 16:00Fashion designer and movie director Tom Ford discusses his film Nocturnal Animals. 16:30Italy's earthquakes: is there a pattern?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a political activist, an inventor, a literary agent, an opera singer. 16:30How the presidential hopeful has used statistics 16:55It is easier to have confidence in yourself when someone else has confidence in you.
| 16:00Kanya King on the Mobo Awards. Claire Foy on The Crown. Flatulence. The power of lipstick.
| 16:00James Naughtie and novelist Louise Welsh discuss Kidnapped by RL Stevenson 16:30Jean Sprackland visits the breweries and tap-rooms of her home town, Burton-upon-Trent.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news with Matthew Price. 17:30Evan Davis explores how companies are trying to sell their stuff to young people.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are local councils doing enough to provide accommodation for the homeless?(R) 17:40The most powerful black person you've never heard of, entrepreneur Tom Ilube.(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. 18:305/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Ed becomes involved in honouring plucky wartime songbird 'Beryl Bassett'.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Rich Hall follows the closing stages of the US presidential race.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6In pre-enlightenment Edinburgh, the Fair Intellectuals lead Newton to the laws of gravity.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/7Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Daljit Nagra with the best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Adam struggles to be heard. 19:15Sting on his new album; David Bowie's curator; Ian McDiarmid and Chris Hannan; Mark Haddon 19:451/5Darleen discovers she is pregnant. Life will never be the same again for the couple.(R)
| 19:00Toby searches high and low. 19:15Actress Amy Adams on sci-fi film Arrival and composer and conductor John Rutter. 19:452/5Sparks fly when Treena finds out inadvertently that daughter Darleen is pregnant.(R)
| 19:00Brian offloads his concerns. 19:15Our Loved Boy, Flaming June returns home, Kit de Waal's unread classic, fireworks as art. 19:453/5Darleen has run away because it seems everyone is opposed to her having a baby.(R)
| 19:00Rob needles at any opportunity. 19:15Stephen Daldry on The Crown, novelist Linda Grant, Francesca Simon on The Scarlet Letter. 19:454/5The more Darleen learns about the labour, the more terrified she becomes.(R)
| 19:15Actor Michael Fassbender on his new film, Neel Mukherjee reads Twain's Huckleberry Finn. 19:455/5Drama series about a young couple with learning disabilities. Darleen's having a baby!(R)
| 19:00The most powerful black person you've never heard of, entrepreneur Tom Ilube. 19:15Nocturnal Animals, Dead Funny, BBC's Black and British, Naomi Alderman, Emma Hamilton.
| 19:154/6Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto.(R) 19:45Mark Haddon's story vividly imagines the world of the neanderthals.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Michael Goldfarb is in Pennsylvania hearing the reasons Americans are voting Trump. 20:30Should we place more trust in prisoners to help them change their lives?
| 20:00Are local councils doing enough to provide accommodation for the homeless? 20:40Including Fight for Sight's CEO Michele Acton and a review of an accessible smart speaker.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate, presented by Michael Buerk. 20:45Kerry Littleford argues that mothers who have children taken into care need help.
| 20:00Interview with David Anderson QC - the Independent Reviewer of terrorism legislation.(R) 20:30Evan Davis explores how companies are trying to sell their stuff to young people.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Wheatley Park School in Holton. 20:50Adam Gopnik reflects on why he believes a Trump victory would be a disaster for America.
| 20:00David Bramwell sets out to prove that anyone can be a good public speaker.
| 20:00How the presidential hopeful has used statistics(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a political activist, an inventor, a literary agent, an opera singer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Ugly, poisonous, warty Brett Westwood explores our relationship with the Toad. From 2016(R) 21:30Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett.(R)
| 21:00Taking pride, correct vocabulary in describing mental health, green exercise. 21:303/4Historian Diarmaid Ferriter explores the post-war period and the outbreak of the Troubles.(R)
| 21:00Britain's nuclear power stations are being pushed to run well past their planned lifespan.(R) 21:30Chef Marcus Wareing and actor Adrian Edmondson join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00Italy's earthquakes: is there a pattern?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.(R)
| 21:00A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives presented by Professor Sunil Khilnani.
| 21:00A look at four late-medieval poets who are still influential today.
| 21:00Energy prices, insurance on social media, interest-only mortgages and peer-to-peer lending(R) 21:26Shappi Khorsandi makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Health Poverty Action.(R) 21:30Should we place more trust in prisoners to help them change their lives?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Is it good news for the UK? We have reaction from a critic and a supporter. 22:451/10Thomas McNulty tells how he and John Cole came to join the US cavalry in Missouri, 1851.
| 22:00The Democrats urge the FBI to reveal what it knows about Trump's Russia ties. 22:452/10Riding out with the cavalry, Thomas and John Cole encounter brutal savagery.
| 22:00Pressure grows on South Africa's President Zuma to resign. 22:453/10Thomas and John Cole must do their best to maintain a fragile peace.
| 22:00The Brexit court setback prompts a row over the judiciary. 22:454/10Along with their fellow soldiers, Thomas and John Cole pursue Caught-His-Horse-First.
| 22:00Will the US and the EU have any influence over Turkey's increasingly repressive regime? 22:455/10Thomas McNulty, John Cole and Winona begin their new lives in Grand Rapids.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/4Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for a world free of racial fixations.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the latest developments over Brexit, and the US election.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Uncle Cornelius, Max and Ivan go on holiday, but things take a sinister turn. From 2016.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on NHS funding and the row over Orgreave.
| 23:00She lost six-and-a-half stone, now comedian Julia Sutherland has another shot at life.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4The Bard of Salford performs classic and brand new poems at the BBC’s Radio Theatre. 23:154/4Mae Martin's focus is on the impact of millennials on ideas of sexuality 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster where the prime minister criticises Fifa's poppy ban.
| 23:00Rich Hall follows the closing stages of the US presidential race.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Harriett Gilbert invites Terry Christian and Dr Kevin Fong to talk favourite books. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Sometimes the decision to move back to your roots can turn out to be a mistake.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe returns with the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.(R) 23:30Sierra Leonean storyteller Usifu Jalloh on the communities rebuilding after Ebola.(R)
| 23:00Guy Raz presents a journey through ideas, based on talks by the speakers on the TED stage. 23:50Adam Gopnik reflects on why he believes a Trump victory would be a disaster for America.(R)
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