| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor and guests explore the origins of this wealthiest of elites.(R) 00:45Church bells from St. Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors in Hampshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5How the announcement of a university seminar in Germany led to the division of Europe.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Diarmaid MacCulloch on why the Virgin Mary is a problem in the Protestant Reformation.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the Vatican's response to Protestant ideas. From 2017.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals the importance of the Book of Common Prayer.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the Reformation's journey from Europe to America. From 2017.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Ian Fleming's account of his 1959 trip to the world's most exotic cities.(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 Tony Macaulay. 05:45Poultry keepers count the cost of the extended Avian Flu Housing Order. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the great tit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with Tony Macaulay. 05:45A new study shows liver disease in rats that have ingested very low levels of glyphosate. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the carrion crow.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with Tony Macaulay. 05:45New research shows how dementia may be affecting farmers suffering from isolation. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the brambling.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with Tony Macaulay. 05:45Ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments costs the EU industry 900m euros, a new report claims 05:58David Attenborough presents the collared dove.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with Tony Macaulay. 05:45How planning rules affect housing in the UK's National Parks. 05:58John Aitchison presents the wren.(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 Terry Waite CBE. 05:45A woman explains what it is like to be the 'other woman'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from All Saints, Maidstone. 05:45Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Arlene Foster.(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 discovers why flooded clay pits make up the landscape of Barton-upon-Humber.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith is in the Brecon Beacons National Park meeting farmers and staff. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Malcolm Doney reflects on how the earth builds us and how we in turn shape the world. 06:35Meet the Radwan family, raising halal lamb and poultry in Oxfordshire. 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. 07:10Peterborough Cathedral cash crisis; Church security; Did God create humanism? 07:54Author Victoria Hislop makes an appeal on behalf of Lepra. 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 from Wade Street Church, Lichfield, led by the Rev Ian Hayter. 08:48Will Self argues for the re-introduction of National Service.(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the great tit.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Martin Sixsmith, Chibundu Onuzo, Laurence Cockcroft and Oladipo Agboluaje 09:451/5How the announcement of a university seminar in Germany led to the division of Europe.
| 09:00Michele Dougherty tells Jim Al-Khalili why she diverted the Cassini mission to Saturn. 09:30Julia Bradbury discusses the challenges of emergency medicine with Dr Martin McKechnie. 09:452/5Diarmaid MacCulloch on why the Virgin Mary is a problem in the Protestant Reformation.
| 09:00Presenter and producer Richard Osman and campaigner Peter Willcox join Libby Purves. 09:453/5Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the Vatican's response to Protestant ideas. From 2017.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality. 09:454/5Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals the importance of the Book of Common Prayer.
| 09:00Businesswoman Pinky Lilani is interviewed by Kirsty Young.(R) 09:455/5Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the Reformation's journey from Europe to America. From 2017.
| 09:00Martin Clunes, Nick Knowles and Nadiya Hussain shares her Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A look at the Women's March on Washington taking place on 21 January. 10:451/5Siblings Rebeka and Dardan return to Kosovo after a mass grave is discovered.
| 10:00Swimming for your life, Boosting numbers of female MPs, Becoming an optimist, Ray BLK. 10:452/5Fin Kennedy's drama inspired by PJ Harvey's Kosovan notebooks, with unreleased song demos.
| 10:00Hormonal contraceptives and mental health. Isla Rowntree on her company Islabikes. 10:413/5Fin Kennedy's drama inspired by PJ Harvey's Kosovan notebooks, with unreleased song demos. 10:55Will the insightful 11-year-old inevitably grow into the self-absorbed teenager?(R)
| 10:00A Woman of Substance; tooth extraction; silent relationships; good habits; working women. 10:454/5Rebeka and Dardan are forced to confront the truth of what happened to their parents.
| 10:00Woman's Hour Craft Prize. Diana Henry cooks the perfect seared tuna. 10:455/5Rebeka and Dardan must reconcile themselves with their past to forge a path for the future
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his panel take a trip to Southampton.
| 10:00Tom needs to offload his concerns, and Toby is quick to react.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Craig has spent most of his life locked up: can he finally put his offending behind him? 11:302/6Tom's family are coming to London, and giving the term 'flying visit' a whole new meaning.(R)
| 11:00What do human beings and honeybees have in common? More than you would think. 11:30Why do older people take up instruments and put themselves through music exams?
| 11:00Young victims of knife crime are helped by hospital-based teams tackling risky behaviour.(R) 11:303/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Russell Davies and Sue Limb.(R)
| 11:00One night of terror at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery in July 2016. 11:302/2John Godber meets the people who will keep Hull's cultural heart beating into the future.
| 11:00Poet Kamal Kaan explores the impact of flooding on lives in Bangladesh and the UK.(R) 11:303/4An unexpected death leads all four of the family to consider what is really important.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks back at the political week. 11:30Pollution in China, cats in Cuba and other stories from the US, Svalbard and Congo.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to another castaway, choreographer Wayne McGregor.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Despite efforts to smooth the waters, tensions continue to run high at Marshall's. 12:15Doctors in Northern Ireland are threatening to quit the NHS. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Tynemouth, Mr Saltz is feeling insubordinate. 12:15Call You & Yours: What's your experience of the NHS in winter? Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Lester Reed continues to point the finger at Tynemouth's enemies within. 12:15Chips with everything: What is the Internet of Things and do we want it in our homes? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Riots erupt in Hamburg over food shortages, and there is unrest in Tynemouth too. 12:15The tradition of asking a father's permission to marry his daughter. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Alan Lowther struggles under a burden of responsibility. 12:15A new documentary debunks the health benefits of the clean eating diet trend.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A fraud victim is refunded by the bank that the scammers moved his cash to. 12:302/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/6John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Helen Arney, Thomas Thwaites and Captain Aseem Hashmi.(R) 12:32Giorgio Locatelli launches 2017's 'Oscars' of food and in 2017, the search goes global. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Theresa May pledges to deal with the "hidden injustice" of mental illness in England. 13:451/5Ivan Hewett examines a chord from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/5Ivan Hewett examines Wagner's Tristan Chord.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Ivan Hewett examines a chord from Mahler's 10th Symphony.
| 13:00Donald Trump calls a dossier which makes embarrassing claims about him 'false'. 13:454/5Ivan Hewett examines a chord from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Ivan Hewett examines the chord of C major as found in Terry Riley's In C.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the National Space Centre in Leicester.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30What is hiding in the undergrowth of Rachel Ruysch's brilliant, beautiful flower painting?(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Tom needs to offload his concerns.(R) 14:151/10It is 1971, and Joseph Oldman (Toby Jones) is desperate to get his son Brian out of jail.
| 14:00Toby is quick to react.(R) 14:152/10Third series of the criminal family saga, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:00Justin's diary needs attention.(R) 14:153/10Joseph Oldman (Toby Jones) is expanding his business doing deals with a Colombian cartel.
| 14:00David tries to make amends.(R) 14:154/10Jack and Brian are back in prison after a kilo of cocaine was found in Jack's flat.
| 14:00Helen picks her moment.(R) 14:155/10Joseph Oldman (Toby Jones) continues to juggle his life around two Margarets.
| 14:00Anita Anand takes calls on the NHS. Could this bleak NHS winter have been forecast? 14:30Bet wins a break in Paris, and drags a reluctant Al with her for their first trip abroad.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts a correspondence edition of the horticultural panel programme.(R) 14:45The challenges of dyslexia, puberty and violence are more easily faced with your mum.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Sheila Dillon explores the thriving new food culture of Northern Ireland.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel are at Banqueting House on Whitehall.(R) 15:30Graham Nash responds to questions from the audience about his album Songs for Beginners.
| 15:00Adam Shaw and guests explore alternatives to passwords to keeping our information secure. 15:30Evidence suggests paracetamol is not as effective as previously thought for chronic pain.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark discovers why flooded clay pits make up the landscape of Barton-upon-Humber. 15:27Singer Corinne Bailey Rae makes an appeal on behalf of Pump Aid.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to Nadeem Aslam about his new book The Golden Legend.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts a correspondence edition of the horticultural panel programme. 15:45A former footballer is writing a book about his life, but things don’t quite go to plan.
| 15:30Why do older people take up instruments and put themselves through music exams?(R)
| 15:001/2Second novel in Elena Ferrante's acclaimed series about a friendship that lasts a lifetime
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| 16:00 | 16:00Comedian Sara Pascoe presents her favourite funniest readings at the BBC Radio Theatre. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion's obsession with numbers.
| 16:00Alan Dein hears from a man in Pennsylvania accused of bewitching and killing his wife.(R) 16:30One of the UK's leading choreographers nominates the Indian mathematician Ramanujan.
| 16:00Sexual violence in the Bangledeshi War of Independence. Also, global danger and risk. 16:30Steve Hewlett discusses what lies ahead for the man set to be chair of the BBC.
| 16:00La La Land and Manchester By The Sea. 16:30Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist. 16:30Marian Keyes and Nikki Bedi discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 16:55Going to live with your neighbour's family can change your life for the better.(R)
| 16:00Alexandra Heminsley talks about becoming an open-water swimmer.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to James Lasdun. 16:30Poet Sean O'Brien reflects on the waterscape and landscape of Hull, 2017 City of Culture.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30A woman explains what it is like to be the 'other woman'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The plight of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Greece. Is the EU doing enough?(R) 17:40Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Arlene Foster.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00NI Deputy First Minister resigns forcing snap election; A&E wait time commitment queried 18:301/6John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Helen Arney, Thomas Thwaites and Captain Aseem Hashmi.
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn has attempted to reposition the Labour party on Brexit. 18:303/6The worst of the bad coppers, a one hit-wonder and the return of Patsy Straightwoman.
| 18:00Trump suggests that US intelligence may have leaked damaging claims about him 18:303/4Stand-up Elis James continues his tour of the UK with a visit to The Empire in Belfast.
| 18:00Donald Trump's nominees for Defence Secretary and CIA chief defend US intelligence agents 18:303/4Swedish 'Midsommerafton' approaches, and Geoff is forced to be Lord of the Dance.(R)
| 18:00Nearly half of hospitals in England declared a major alert in the first week of the year. 18:302/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Doctors say government is scapegoating them Man killed in cliff collapse 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Several hospitals are cancelling cancer operations as pressures mount on the NHS. 18:15Stewart Henderson chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Samira Ahmed on the huge artwork installed above Hull. Plus the film Manchester by the Sea 19:451/5Siblings Rebeka and Dardan return to Kosovo after a mass grave is discovered.(R)
| 19:00Justin's diary needs attention. 19:15Bafta nominations, Common Sense, 250 years on from Mozart's first opera, Look North. 19:452/5Fin Kennedy's drama inspired by PJ Harvey's Kosovan notebooks, with unreleased song demos.(R)
| 19:00David tries to make amends. 19:15Dev Patel on Lion; a new Bobby Moore drama; Our Dancing Town choreographer Steve Elias. 19:453/5Fin Kennedy's drama inspired by PJ Harvey's Kosovan notebooks, with unreleased song demos.(R)
| 19:15Cellist Natalie Clein; Lemony Snicket TV drama; The OA; Laura Cumming on Velazquez. 19:454/5Rebeka and Dardan are forced to confront the truth of what happened to their parents.(R)
| 19:15Ben Affleck on his new film Live by Night, and today's V&A announcement. 19:455/5Rebeka and Dardan must reconcile themselves with their past to forge a path for the future(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Arlene Foster. 19:15La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Michael Chabon, Katherine Soper, Charles Avery.
| 19:00It gets awkward at Willow Farm. 19:152/4Rob Newman presents a witty, fact-packed A to Z of evolution, mixing stand-up and sketches(R) 19:45A tale of cleaning and clothes in a stylish Copenhagen apartment.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Young victims of knife crime are helped by hospital-based teams tackling risky behaviour. 20:30Women in Poland are angry with their government and with the Catholic church.(R)
| 20:00The plight of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Greece. Is the EU doing enough? 20:40Canute is the latest development in renewable Braille, and Amit Patel's videoing guide dog
| 20:00How city living could be transformed by the digital revolution. 20:45Franklyn Addo describes how witnessing a murder transformed his life.
| 20:00What happened after the buses left eastern Aleppo? David Aaronovitch finds out. 20:30With demand soaring and austerity continuing to bite, can the NHS do more for less?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the National Space Centre in Leicester. 20:50Will Self argues for the re-introduction of National Service.
| 20:00Geoffrey Robertson QC on the changing relationship between the courts and the government.
| 20:00Writer Patrick McGuinness asks what really is the inevitable. And must we accept it?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Could humans pull off the trick of hibernation to conquer long-term space travel?(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Martin Sixsmith, Chibundu Onuzo, Laurence Cockcroft and Oladipo Agboluaje(R)
| 21:00Evidence suggests paracetamol is not as effective as previously thought for chronic pain. 21:30Michele Dougherty tells Jim Al-Khalili why she diverted the Cassini mission to Saturn.(R)
| 21:00How William Fox Talbot captured a moment in time. 21:30Presenter and producer Richard Osman and campaigner Peter Willcox join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.(R)
| 21:00Emotions run high for those at Marshall's factory.
| 21:002/2Britt-Marie has to rely on the people of Borg to come through for her and the team.(R)
| 21:00A fraud victim is refunded by the bank that the scammers moved his cash to.(R) 21:26Author Victoria Hislop makes an appeal on behalf of Lepra.(R) 21:30With demand soaring and austerity continuing to bite, can the NHS do more for less?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Power-sharing government ends over green energy scandal. 22:451/10A global bestseller. An author's struggle to write about his childhood and his father.
| 22:00We hear from the President's supporters and a prominent critic of his legacy. 22:452/10A global bestseller. An author's struggle to write about his childhood and his father.
| 22:00Trump responds to allegations about relations with Russia in stunning press conference. 22:453/10A global bestseller. An author's struggle to write about his childhood and his father.
| 22:00New US defence secretary and CIA head applaud the intelligence community. 22:454/10A global bestseller. An author's struggle to write about his childhood and his father.
| 22:00US House of Representatives votes to start the process of repealing Affordable Care Act. 22:455/10A global bestseller. An author's struggle to write about his childhood and his father.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15How city living could be transformed by the digital revolution.(R)
| 22:00Carole Walker and guests discuss Donald Trump's forthcoming inauguration, and Brexit.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Graham Nash talks about his debut 1971 solo album, Songs for Beginners. 23:30The health secretary reports on plans to improve mental health services.
| 23:00A brand new sitcom, written by and starring Kieran Hodgson. 23:30News of the political crisis in Northern Ireland is given to MPs.
| 23:003/4Sam and Henry are in the Netherlands observing a chicken. 23:15Come join the Cabarexit! Cabaret meets Brexit in this sassy and sublime-sounding musical.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on a day dominated by the state of the NHS.
| 23:00A sitcom from Irish Comedy troupe Diet of Worms set a Nordic furniture company in Dublin. 23:30A former head of NATO has harsh words for Donald Trump.
| 23:00One of the UK's leading choreographers nominates the Indian mathematician Ramanujan.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55When you have dyslexia, exams can seem even more daunting.(R)
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.(R) 23:304/4Twin American poets Matthew and Michael Dickman read poems and talk about brotherliness.
| 23:00La La Land and Manchester By The Sea.(R) 23:30Malcolm Doney reflects on how the earth builds us and how we in turn shape the world.(R)
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