| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Racial segregation in the United States. Also, hairdressing for people with dementia.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Wilfred's, York.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Carlo Rovelli's provocative account of how science affects our understanding of the world.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5In 1905, Albert Einstein formulates the most famous equation of modern science.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Carlo Rovelli explores 20th-century discoveries in the fields of quantum science.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5How scientists are exploring quantum gravity to solve mysteries about the physical world.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Carlo Rovelli's account of scientific discovery examines what happened before the Big Bang(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Tat Usher. Quirky tale about a downtrodden baker living on a Scottish island.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Charlotte Smith. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the Cetti's warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Welsh lamb producers say a hard Brexit could spell disaster for the industry. 05:58David Attenborough presents the black-necked grebe.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Brexit, sterling and pork exports: Anna Hill hears the outlook for UK pork producers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the bar-tailed godwit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Can Britain ever be food self-sufficient? 05:58David Attenborough presents the reed bunting.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Will the Rural Payments Agency make their payments to farmers on time? 05:58Bill Oddie presents the goldeneye.(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 Dr Stephen Cherry. 05:45How finger wagging can help victims of bullying. iPM@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from Exeter Cathedral. 05:45Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive.(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, 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.
| 06:00Including 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 explores the completed 'Capability' Brown gardens at Belvoir Castle.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith visits Leeds University's Pig Research Farm, receiving new investment. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy explores the therapeutic benefits of watching the river flow. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is by a Cotswold river on the lookout for native crayfish. 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. 07:10The Forever Project; Cosmo Lang and the abdication; the deaf organist who can hear again. 07:54The Rev Dr Sam Wells makes the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal for St Martin-in-the-Fields. 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 marking 90 years of the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal with St Martin-in-the-Fields. 08:48Adam Gopnik reflects on Bob Dylan's predictable lack of gratitude towards his Nobel Prize.(R) 08:58Bill Oddie presents the Cetti's warbler.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Staley, Anne Johnson, Peter Horby and Louise Welsh. 09:451/5Carlo Rovelli's provocative account of how science affects our understanding of the world.
| 09:00Professor Dame Julia Higgins shares her passion for polymers with Jim Al-Khalili. 09:30Miranda Rae, single mum, meets a single dad with three children and hears his story. 09:452/5In 1905, Albert Einstein formulates the most famous equation of modern science.
| 09:00Actor Bradley Walsh and novelist Salley Vickers join Libby Purves. 09:453/5Carlo Rovelli explores 20th-century discoveries in the fields of quantum science.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week. 09:454/5How scientists are exploring quantum gravity to solve mysteries about the physical world.
| 09:00Emma Bridgewater, pottery designer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs(R) 09:455/5Carlo Rovelli's account of scientific discovery examines what happened before the Big Bang
| 09:00Lesley Joseph joins Aasmah Mir & Richard Coles, with Inheritance Tracks from Phil Collins.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell. 09:45Aasmah Mir reports on how the money from the 2015 appeal has been spent.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A new series on women in their 50s and long-term relationships. 10:451/5Lucy Catherine's new re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.
| 10:00Dina Asher-Smith, social care, the Trump family women, Grace Wilson and women in their 50s 10:452/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.
| 10:00Will Marine le Pen become the first female president of France? With Jenni Murray. 10:413/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. 10:55A childhood with some unusual features required a lot of explaining.
| 10:00This House about Ann Taylor; Hitting 50; Women and Aids; Why so few women sports coaches? 10:454/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.
| 10:00India Willoughby, the first transwoman to be a panellist on an all-female talk show. 10:455/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.
| 10:30Musician John Grant on Reykjavik, a city he fell in love with on tour.
| 10:00Brian shares his vision, and Ruth fires a warning shot.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Kira is a teenage carer for her mother. Can she find a way to leave her for university? 11:301/4Beattie Edmondson stars in a comedy inspired by Katharine Whitehorn's cookery classic.
| 11:001/3Two female composers reveal how there is far more to listening than hearing. 11:301/3The series celebrating music manuscripts returns with Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
| 11:00Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from the 17th Century to now.(R) 11:305/6Henry finally gives up his job at the Foreign Office for a career as a writer.(R)
| 11:00Investigating Albania's 'green gold'. 11:301/3First episode of a major three-part series exploring the contemporary culture of Australia
| 11:00Sushma Puri asks if the supply teacher system is failing teachers, schools and children. 11:301/4Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth never far from a murder. Oh yes he is!
| 11:00Helen Lewis of the New Statesman examines the result of the Richmond Park by-election. 11:30Extracting the truth: stories from Nigeria, Macedonia, Nicaragua, Austria and California.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to Sir Philip Craven, the International Paralympic Committee president.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How did a black American soldier end up living a privileged life in communist China? 12:15Ransomware, in-hospital injury lawyers and nursing home closures. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The dissident poet spent four years in Soviet prisons and labour camps. 12:15Companies could be forced to reveal the pay gap between CEOs and workers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How a schoolboy challenged the practice of daily Bible reading in US schools - and won. 12:15Hundreds of people mis-sold government Green Deal loans are still paying them back. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Tracking down Peru's public enemy number one, leader of the Maoist Shining Path rebels. 12:15Personal Independence Payment checks, text message charges and faulty tumble dryer repairs 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04One man's memories of a very public siege in a high security jail in the USA. 12:15Pharmacies threaten to counter government cuts with a legal challenge.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Betting investment collapse loses investors millions, demise of GB Energy, and bank fraud. 12:305/7Steve 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. 12:043/6Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Susan Calman and Richard Osman join Jack Dee.(R) 12:32A female takeover. Sheila Dillon speaks to ten women chefs coming together to fight hunger 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Will Self embarks on a 700-mile road trip in a Trabant, the iconic East German car.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:452/5Will Self continues his 700 mile road trip in the iconic East German car: Brussels
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Will makes it to the former East German border in his iconic communist car
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Will runs into gearbox problems in his East German car.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Will Self finally reaches the birthplace of the Trabant. His arrival causes a stir.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Quarry Theatre Bedford School.(R)
| 13:00Votes in Italy and Austria today will indicate how far the populist movement has spread. 13:30Peter White, blind since birth, meets disabled artist Alison Lapper in this new series.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Brian shares his vision.(R) 14:152/4Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst. Wishing Well by Alex Ganley and Dan Allum.
| 14:00Lilian puts Justin in the picture.(R) 14:15By Simon Crowther. A darkly comic tale of North Wales meets South in a Cardiff back yard.
| 14:00Ruth fires a warning shot.(R) 14:15The story of a missing student set against the rowdy May Day celebrations in Oxford.
| 14:00Lynda has some reluctant players.(R) 14:153/3Shoreham has been invited to discuss war game scenarios involving attacks on London.(R)
| 14:00Elizabeth turns down an offer.(R) 14:15British Indian Army soldiers discover the topsy-turvy world of a Turkish POW camp.
| 14:00Julian Worricker takes listeners' calls on political alliances, Brexit and NHS funding. 14:30Caryl Phillips dramatises his novel Crossing the River, set in Yorkshire during WWII.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel are in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.(R) 14:45Conversations about what's normal, what's inherited and how much is shared in family life.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of convoluted connections. 15:30Sheila Dillon and guests reflect on the year's food books, including works by new writers.(R)
| 15:001/3Three students take us behind the scenes of their final year at performing arts school. 15:30Twins Gillian and Tracy and one half of twin sisters, Jasmine, share their stories with Fi
| 15:00Lesley Curwen and guests answer calls on the NHS and its future finances. 15:30Claudia Hammond examines pathological demand avoidance.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark explores the completed 'Capability' Brown gardens at Belvoir Castle. 15:27Jo Brand makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Action on Poverty.(R) 15:30Charlotte Wood and Helen Garner.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel are in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. 15:45Top gardener Michael returns to Meridian Cliffs. Is he too tender a plant to survive?
| 15:301/3The series celebrating music manuscripts returns with Rossini's The Barber of Seville.(R)
| 15:001/2David Tennant stars as Wiltshire, a trader freshly arrived on a Samoan Island.
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| 16:00 | 16:007/8Josie Long hears stories of dreamers. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the relationship between Zionism and Judaism.
| 16:00Bobby Friction discovers the impact social media is having on his life. 16:30John Timpson and John Bird talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Foie gras and the politics of taste. Also, male Irish migrants recall the food back home. 16:30Steve Hewlett asks what the BBC is doing to improve diversity in the top jobs.
| 16:00Francine Stock revisits the manicured lawns and gothic horror of Blue Velvet. 16:30How well do we understand Alzheimers disease after the latest drug trial disappointment?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an actor, a revolutionary leader, a singer, the Queen's cousin. 16:30Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. 16:55Despite not growing up together, the family ties are strong
| 16:00Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Dina Asher-Smith, no-fault divorce, Disney's Moana.
| 16:00Jay McInerney discusses his debut novel Bright Lights, Big City with James Naughtie. 16:301/4Paul Farley hears new poems from Matthew Hollis and Fiona Sampson.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30How finger wagging can help victims of bullying. iPM@bbc.co.uk.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Alvin Hall tells the story of an African American travel guide during the segregation era.(R) 17:40Aasmah Mir reports on how the money from the 2015 appeal has been spent.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00President Assad is close to his biggest victory of Syria's civil war 18:303/6Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Susan Calman and Richard Osman join Jack Dee.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Clare and Brian are having some couples counselling, much to Clare's amusement.
| 18:00Chelsea is the latest football club to become embroiled in allegations of child sex abuse 18:301/4Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French about her life, and the cars she has known!
| 18:00Government acknowledges UK could pay EU after leaving 18:305/6Portraits and Poteen delight the Fair Intellectuals when Mr Hogarth comes to Edinburgh.
| 18:00The Lib Dem say their victory in the Richmond Park byelection will terrify the government 18:305/7Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Chelsea Football Club offers its "profuse apologies" to Mr Johnson 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The far right leader hoping to become president of Austria has admitted defeat. 18:15Gerry Northam with the best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Lilian puts Justin in the picture. 19:15Rolling Stones new album reviewed, Miles Teller on Bleed For This, The Last Poets. 19:451/5Lucy Catherine's new re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.(R)
| 19:00Ruth fires a warning shot. 19:15A review of Clint Eastwood's 35th film as a director, and novelist Robert Olen Butler. 19:452/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.(R)
| 19:00Lynda has some reluctant players. 19:15Robert Rauschenberg at the Tate, the poetry of Philip Larkin, This is Us reviewed. 19:453/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.(R)
| 19:00Elizabeth turns down an offer. 19:15City Sculpture Projects 1972, Strictly Ballroom the Musical, Moana. 19:454/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.(R)
| 19:00Roy has some unwanted attention. 19:15Alison Steadman on Abigail's Party, Pride and Prejudice, and Gavin & Stacey. 19:455/5Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive. 19:15Seven Acts of Mercy, Chi-raq, Rauschenberg, Ben Lerner and Rachael Boast, and This Is Us.
| 19:00Kate needs to turn her ideas into reality. 19:153/4John Shuttleworth invites Nick Heyward to sing one of his songs. 19:453/4Annika wakes up after some serious partying to find herself in the boot of a car.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from the 17th Century to now. 20:30Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - master or pawn in the great game of chess?(R)
| 20:00Alvin Hall tells the story of an African American travel guide during the segregation era. 20:40The charity Look on 25 years supporting parents of blind children for 25 years.
| 20:00Joan Bakewell explores death and dying, confronting the very questions we fear the most. 20:45Jeremy Leslie explains why reports of magazines dying have been greatly exaggerated.
| 20:00What powers does the so-called 'Snoopers' Charter' give to the intelligence services? 20:30Ruth Alexander applies to become a virtual resident of Estonia.
| 20:00Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Quarry Theatre Bedford School. 20:50Adam Gopnik reflects on Bob Dylan's predictable lack of gratitude towards his Nobel Prize.
| 20:00Peter Hennessy tells how Lloyd George galvanised Britain as war leader a century ago.
| 20:00Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an actor, a revolutionary leader, a singer, the Queen's cousin.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood explores our relationship with the ‘churchyard tree’, the yew. From 2016(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Staley, Anne Johnson, Peter Horby and Louise Welsh.(R)
| 21:00Claudia Hammond examines pathological demand avoidance. 21:30Professor Dame Julia Higgins shares her passion for polymers with Jim Al-Khalili.(R)
| 21:00How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe. 21:30Actor Bradley Walsh and novelist Salley Vickers join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00How well do we understand Alzheimers disease after the latest drug trial disappointment?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.(R)
| 21:00Adrian Moore explores the philosophical, mathematical and cultural history of the infinite
| 21:002/2The conclusion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gripping tale of adventure set in 1752.(R)
| 21:00Betting investment collapse loses investors millions, demise of GB Energy, and bank fraud.(R) 21:26The Rev Dr Sam Wells makes the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal for St Martin-in-the-Fields.(R) 21:30Ruth Alexander applies to become a virtual resident of Estonia.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00White House says there is no evidence to back up Donald Trump's claim of illegal votes. 22:451/8Ian McEwan's modern-day take on Hamlet, told from the perspective of an unborn child.
| 22:00Red Cross anticipate surge as refugees flee Aleppo. 22:452/8Ian McEwan's modern-day take on Hamlet, told from the perspective of an unborn child.
| 22:00Is Aleppo at risk of becoming "one giant graveyard"? We report from Syria. 22:453/8Ian McEwan's modern-day take on Hamlet, told from the perspective of an unborn child.
| 22:00French president Francois Hollande decides not to stand for re-election. 22:454/8Ian McEwan's modern-day take on Hamlet, told from the perspective of an unborn child.
| 22:00Should it be a legal requirement to report all suspicions of child abuse? 22:455/8Ian McEwan's modern-day take on Hamlet, told from the perspective of an unborn child.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Joan Bakewell explores death and dying, confronting the very questions we fear the most.(R)
| 22:00As Austria and Italy go to the polls, Carole Walker and guests discuss the EU's future.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Marc Riley delves into the BBC archive to unearth interviews with Frank Zappa and Lou Reed(R) 23:30An appeal for British humanitarian intervention in war-torn Aleppo is made in the Commons.
| 23:003/4Alexei reveals the surprising reason he disappeared from our TV screens in the 1990s. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4A one-man comedy explosion from the mind of Terry Alderton. 23:154/4Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema piece together a high-concept sketch show.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on PMQs where Labour calls for extra NHS funding.
| 23:00Thom unearths the work of American twins the Olsens, comparing their journey with his own.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00John Timpson and John Bird talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Some strengths are inherited while others develop independently.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of convoluted connections.(R) 23:30Poet Mab Jones explores the concept of hiraeth in the poetry of Wales.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock revisits the manicured lawns and gothic horror of Blue Velvet.(R) 23:30John McCarthy explores the therapeutic benefits of watching the river flow.(R)
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