| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:17Vanessa Feltz and David Hepworth debate their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 00:45Church bells from parish churches and cathedrals around the country.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Author Robert McCrum reflects on how we approach and accept death.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Robert reflects on how his attitude to life changed after his stroke at a young age.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Robert reflects on life and death with a neurosurgeon and Clive James.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Robert tries coming to terms with the impending decline of close friends, and his own.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Despite thoughts of decline and death, Robert finds new hope through a new love.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Short story by Emma Flint, author of acclaimed debut novel Little Deaths.(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 writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph. 05:45Tim Lamyman has smashed the world record for a pea harvest. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Actor Samuel West describes gathering with his family at dusk to listen for nightingales.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph. 05:45Why is the shelf life of Welsh lamb up to 22 days, when New Zealand lamb lasts 60? 05:58Actor Samuel West recalls how a riddle in Hamlet was unpicked on a bird-watching trip.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph. 05:45Incidents involving rural rail crossings during harvest have risen sharply. 05:58Samuel West laments how the beautiful collared dove has a call like a bored footie fan.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph. 05:45How leaked plans to reduce numbers of low-skilled EU workers might affect farming. 05:58Samuel West describes the snooker ball and champagne cork sounds of the capercaillie.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph. 05:45The world's first hands-free harvest has been gathered thanks to drones and robots. 05:58Actor Samuel West remembers one of his proudest birdwatching moments for Tweet of the Day.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with Bishop David Chillingworth. 05:45More students are reporting mental health issues. Should parents be told? ipm@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Austell, Cornwall. 05:45Nikki Haley - why the US ambassador to the UN is such an intriguing figure.(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.
| 06:00Including 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.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07How will the 200 acres at Tughall Mill change now it is owned by the National Trust?(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith finds out what relevance countryside crafts like blacksmithery have today. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Writer and priest Malcolm Doney examines the sacred power of the objects we hold dear. 06:35Dan Saladino goes far below the London streets, to a farm in a forgotten tunnel complex. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including 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 William Crawley. 07:54Trevor McDonald makes an appeal on behalf of Maytree Respite Centre. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The 6th century saint Deiniol provides inspiration for live worship from Bangor Cathedral. 08:48Monica Ali reflects on the recent surge in moped crime after her son was attacked.(R) 08:58Actor Samuel West describes gathering with his family at dusk to listen for nightingales.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Stephen Fry delights in language made by hand.(R) 09:30Oliver Burkeman asks if our problem might not be lack of time but lack of head space.(R) 09:451/5Author Robert McCrum reflects on how we approach and accept death.
| 09:00Stephen Fry links Oh! and Bang! The sounds made by people and things.(R) 09:30Why does our past hold the key to our future? Bettany Hughes explores our need to remember(R) 09:452/5Robert reflects on how his attitude to life changed after his stroke at a young age.
| 09:00Stephen Fry gets the dinkum oil on Australian English. With Adam Hills.(R) 09:305/5Ivan Hewett examines the chord of C major as found in Terry Riley's In C.(R) 09:453/5Robert reflects on life and death with a neurosurgeon and Clive James.
| 09:00Stephen Fry probes the Krazy language of madness. With Jo Brand.(R) 09:30Do we still believe in Mother Earth? Bettany Hughes examines our relationship with Gaia.(R) 09:454/5Robert tries coming to terms with the impending decline of close friends, and his own.
| 09:00Former leaders of Solidarity recall the bitter struggle for democracy in 1980s Poland.(R) 09:455/5Despite thoughts of decline and death, Robert finds new hope through a new love.
| 09:00Jeremy Vine, Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles talk about listeners and Strictly.
| 09:00The Sunday morning magazine programme with Britain's best newspaper review.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Making money on social media: a gender pay gap in favour of women? 10:451/5Francois Chedid has been thinking about his will. And so have his children!
| 10:00What do you think about the amount of homework your child has to do? 10:452/5Comedy drama. Baklava king Francois Chedid must decide how to share out his fortune.
| 10:00Shrabani Basu; child trafficking; anonymous voting; You've Got to Laugh. 10:413/5Can the Chedids persuade their father to keep his fortune within the family? 10:55Leaving home for uni brings up all sorts of anxieties.
| 10:00Actor Hermione Norris talks about how life has changed for her both on and off the screen. 10:454/5The family turn detective when rich widower Francois' eye is turned.
| 10:00Queen of home-making Kirstie Allsopp, writer Maggie O'Farrell, and soprano Nina Stemme. 10:455/5The Chédids share dinner in memory of their mother's passing.
| 10:30A hoard of gold coins in a piano. Who put them there, a mystery. Steve Punt investigates.
| 10:00Tony's offer isn't enough, and Lexi learns more about Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Matthew Syed explores the vexed role of money at the pinnacle of contemporary sport.(R) 11:302/4Local psychic Keith Futures has trouble finding a buyer for his Komodo dragon.
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores our complex relationship with the snail. 11:30Don McCullin, photographer and 'sky stalker', on the landscape around his house.
| 11:00Journalist Ayshea Buksh looks at the complex picture behind the rise in acid attacks.(R) 11:301/4Richard Herring's comedy with Alison Steadman about four generations of a family.
| 11:00What's it like to live in the country with the fastest-shrinking population in the world? 11:30What can art mean for people and communities as they face life's great challenges?
| 11:0030 years on from its launch, Ian Sansom asks: what's the real point of PowerPoint? 11:303/4Geoff faces all the bewildering novelty of a Swedish Wedding - his own!
| 11:00Tom Newton Dunn of the Sun looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30On the Bangladeshi border, we meet the Rohingya fleeing violence in Mynamar.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor's guests remember the 2007 collapse of Newcastle-based bank, Northern Rock.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Maisie Harris is fearful about the war coming home. 12:15Fixed odds betting terminals, making money on Instagram, how love affects student income. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15What are the pros and cons of growing up in a big family? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15The crowdfunding sites used by fraudsters to take money destined for good causes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, a traumatised soldier has the Grahams in disarray. 12:15Why succulents are the plant of the moment, and how fraud victims could get money back. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15Consumer news and issues.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04HSBC 'sorry', is the Bank of England fuelling the debt crisis & retirement housing losses. 12:30Jeremy Hardy, Zoe Lyons, Simon Evans and Helen Lewis join Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/7Nicholas Parsons challenges Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Andy Hamilton and Paul Merton.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino travels into the Caucasus in search of zero-compromise natural wine makers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Lynsey Hanley explores the era of council housing defined by one thing - high rise living.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Lynsey Hanley tells the story of social housing in Britain.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Lynsey Hanley explores how the right to buy changed council housing forever.
| 13:00News with Edward Stourton including Brexit Bill in Parliament and Hurricane Irma latest. 13:45Lynsey Hanley explores how council housing has become diminished in the 21st century.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Lynsey Hanley looks at the future of social housing after the fire at Grenfell Tower.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Author Steven Camden investigates why there are so few love stories for teenage boys.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Tony's offer isn't enough.(R) 14:15Quirky comedy about a very unusual house renovation. By Toby Hadoke.
| 14:00Grey Gables staff learn their fate.(R) 14:15Benedict is a recovering alcoholic. His late father leaves him an unsettling last request.
| 14:00Contemporary drama in a rural setting. Lilian lends an ear.(R) 14:153/3What looks like a horrific mugging, when investigated, reveals a strange love story.(R)
| 14:00Lexi learns more about Ambridge.(R) 14:15A control freak, a tale of revenge and intriguing moral dilemma set in the Australian bush
| 14:00Roy has to break things up.(R) 14:15James's new novel has just been published, but an ex-pupil has issues with his story.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Showcasing the best crime fiction from contemporary Australia. DI Challis needs a lead.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and his panel are hosted by Brockley's Street Trees for Living project.(R) 14:45Starting at uni, dealing with the empty nest, and long-distance love.
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| 15:00 | 15:0010/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the first semi-final of the wide-ranging music quiz. 15:30Dan Saladino travels to a country now considered to be an undiscovered food gem, Georgia.(R)
| 15:004/7Josie Long explores how machines effect our humanity. 15:30Can beautiful places welcome mass tourism without environmental destruction?
| 15:00The Death of Retirement: Final programme in series looking at what we've learned. 15:30Dr Kevin Fong examines why meeting the needs of our ageing population is such a challenge.(R)
| 15:00How will the 200 acres at Tughall Mill change now it is owned by the National Trust? 15:27Anna Ford makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Teach a Man to Fish.(R) 15:30Patrick McCabe discusses his modern classic novel The Butcher Boy with James Naughtie.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and his panel are hosted by Brockley's Street Trees for Living project. 15:45Short story by Emma Flint, author of acclaimed debut novel Little Deaths.
| | 15:004/5The Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 changes Saleem's life forever.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Anindita explores the 'Renaissance' that came about through printing in India.(R) 16:30Will Ernie Rea and guests sing William Blake's Jerusalem at Last Night of the Proms?
| 16:00Martin and Christopher on one final visit down memory lane - is it time to call it a day? 16:30British spacewoman Helen Sharman chooses scientist Elsie Widdowson as her great life.
| 16:00Sarfraz Manzoor asks if it is better to specialise or build a portfolio career.(R) 16:30Coleen Rooney has appealed for photographers to stop following her family.
| 16:00Antonia Quirke raids the storeroom of foley artist Sue Harding. 16:30Did North Korea test a hydrogen bomb?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a doctor, a cardinal, a musician. 16:30Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school? 16:55A mother and daughter anticipate their lives apart now the daughter's off to Cambridge.
| 16:00Maggie O'Farrell, anonymous voting, migraines and Kirstie Allsopp.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Daryl Gregory. 16:30Ian Sansom reaches diminuendo as he explores the meaning of falling in literature and art.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30More students are reporting mental health issues. Should parents be told? ipm@bbc.co.uk.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are profits polluting the UK water industry? Michael Robinson investigates.(R) 17:40Nikki Haley - why the US ambassador to the UN is such an intriguing figure.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The US and China have failed to agree on how to confront the North Korea nuclear crisis. 18:305/7Nicholas Parsons challenges Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Andy Hamilton and Paul Merton.
| 18:00Four serving soldiers detained as part of an investigation into a banned neo-Nazi group 18:304/4A poet, a bottle of Calpol and Roman bathing methods cause trouble for Snoo and Alice.(R)
| 18:00Firms warn draft immigration proposals could be "catastrophic" 18:302/3The bath has sprung a leak. Gruff wants to book an ethical plumber, much to Bob's disgust.
| 18:00"Devastating" Hurricane Irma hits Caribbean 18:301/4Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Sheila Hancock about cars.
| 18:00Florida governor says 20 million people must prepare to leave their homes 18:30Jeremy Hardy, Zoe Lyons, Simon Evans and Helen Lewis join Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Cuba is being pounded by Hurricane Irma; it has already caused power cuts and flooding 18:15Nikki Bedi and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00One per cent pay cap to be lifted for police and prison officers. 18:15Peter Curran chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Grey Gables staff learn their fate. 19:15Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker. 19:451/5Francois Chedid has been thinking about his will. And so have his children!(R)
| 19:00Contemporary drama in a rural setting. Lilian lends an ear. 19:15Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the V&A; poets John Ashbery and Karen McCarthy Woolf. 19:452/5Comedy drama. Baklava king Francois Chedid must decide how to share out his fortune.(R)
| 19:00Lexi learns more about Ambridge. 19:15Roddy Doyle, Stephen King's IT film, heroes in TV dramas and the art of sports commentary. 19:453/5Can the Chedids persuade their father to keep his fortune within the family?(R)
| 19:00Roy has to break things up. 19:15Marian Keyes on her new novel The Break, and Tim Roth on Tin Star. 19:454/5The family turn detective when rich widower Francois' eye is turned.(R)
| 19:00Ian can't hold in his excitement. 19:15Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky. 19:455/5The Chédids share dinner in memory of their mother's passing.(R)
| 19:00Nikki Haley - why the US ambassador to the UN is such an intriguing figure. 19:15Follies, The Golden House, Wind River, Tin Star, Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?
| 19:15It's Ashes time - again. Is Dave Podmore's reign as England's anti-hero finally over?(R) 19:4513/15Vic reveals his master plan to Natalie.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Journalist Ayshea Buksh looks at the complex picture behind the rise in acid attacks. 20:30A young Somali refugee tries to live the American dream.(R)
| 20:00Are profits polluting the UK water industry? Michael Robinson investigates. 20:40The Macular Society's Cathy Yelf on the Certificate of Vision Impairment; RNIB's RAH box.
| 20:00Will the teams impress the judges with their ideas to get people to reduce their drinking? 20:45David Baddiel tries to understand the Kardashians.
| 20:00What does the EU want from Brexit, and what would be its bottom line? 20:30Why do so many economic and business forecasts fail to correctly map the future?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. 20:50Monica Ali reflects on the recent surge in moped crime after her son was attacked.
| 20:00The Uses of Literacy - what can a book on class written 60 years ago tell us about today?
| 20:00Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a doctor, a cardinal, a musician.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood explores our relationship with one of our closest neighbours, the louse.(R) 21:30Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.(R)
| 21:00Dr Kevin Fong examines why meeting the needs of our ageing population is such a challenge. 21:30Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.(R)
| 21:00Can beautiful places welcome mass tourism without environmental destruction?(R) 21:30Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.(R)
| 21:00Did North Korea test a hydrogen bomb?(R) 21:30Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.(R)
| 21:00Epic drama series set in Great War Britain.
| 21:002/2Second novel in Elena Ferrante's acclaimed series about a friendship that lasts a lifetime(R)
| 21:00HSBC 'sorry', is the Bank of England fuelling the debt crisis & retirement housing losses.(R) 21:26Trevor McDonald makes an appeal on behalf of Maytree Respite Centre.(R) 21:30Why do so many economic and business forecasts fail to correctly map the future?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00The US ambassador to the United Nations accuses Kim Jong-un of 'begging for war'. 22:451/10Jane Harper's bestselling thriller set in a small Australian community ravaged by drought.
| 22:00The leaked Home Office paper is examined with a Brexiteer and a prominent economist. 22:452/10Falk begins to doubt the official explanation of the deaths.
| 22:00More than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled across the border. 22:453/10Old enmities flare up as Falk digs deeper into the Hadler deaths.
| 22:00As Irma continues to wreak havoc, should the British government do more to help? 22:454/10Falk rekindles an old friendship with Gretchen.
| 22:00Barbuda evacuated after 'complete devastation' of island. 22:455/10Falk is not the only one who has kept a secret for 20 years.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Will the teams impress the judges with their ideas to get people to reduce their drinking?(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn previews the week in politics with MPs and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Frances Fyfield and her team explore the manuscript of Ottorino Respighi's Roman Trilogy.(R) 23:30Poet Mab Jones explores the concept of hiraeth in the poetry of Wales.(R)
| 23:00As Parliament returns from recess, young political editor Sam Peakes needs a story - fast. 23:30Sean Curran reports as MPs are briefed on Brexit talks.
| 23:003/4John Moloney battles with being on kept on hold while changing his utilities provider. 23:152/6Featuring a valuable insight into the origins of Henry Longfellow's poetic success.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports on clashes at Prime Minister's Questions over low pay.
| 23:003/8Patrick Marber and Peter Curran talk through the darkness about Sir Kingsley Amis' teeth. 23:151/4What's so good about haute cuisine and celebrity chefs?(R) 23:30MPs begin the debate on the EU Withdrawal Bill.
| 23:00British spacewoman Helen Sharman chooses scientist Elsie Widdowson as her great life.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster as the Lords discuss modern slavery. 23:55The complications of a relationship that straddles London and Glasgow.
| 23:0010/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the first semi-final of the wide-ranging music quiz.(R) 23:30Richard Holmes explores the enduring echo of the life and poetry of John Keats.(R)
| 23:00Antonia Quirke raids the storeroom of foley artist Sue Harding.(R) 23:30Writer and priest Malcolm Doney examines the sacred power of the objects we hold dear.(R)
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