| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15What are restaurants for? Laurie Taylor explores the many functions of dining out.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Martins, Worcester.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Sarah Millican describes the life-changing moment she discovered her talent for comedy.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Comedian Sarah Millican takes an impassioned stance on the subject of having children.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Sarah Millican waxes lyrical about her boobs, wearing glasses and marriage a second time.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Sarah Millican's CV spans WHSmith, audiobook producer and internationally famous comedian.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Sarah Millican's recipe for her favourite cake - aka a rescue plan for old, dead bananas.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Short story by Ruth Thomas, read by Alexandra Mathie.(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 Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45The President of the World Farmer's Organisation reflects on the G7 Agriculture talks. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder recalls rescuing redwings struggling in snow.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45With a 'no deal' Brexit, could farmers just 'grow more'? 05:58Birdwatching's irreverent commentator YOLOBirder on his love of hipster-quiffed waxwings.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45US secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue shares his take on the future of world farming. 05:58Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder tells how he became hooked on peregrines.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45In Africa, an agricultural revolution is placing new emphasis on domestic food production. 05:58Musician Joe Acheson recalls recording starling to use in his work as Hidden Orchestra.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45French farmers threaten legal action over the future of glyphosate. 05:58Musician Joe Acheson recalls hearing the scraping call of corncrake on Inishbofin island.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Jenny meets the American man who helped cure her son's leukemia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from All Saints, Stand, Whitefield, Greater Manchester. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the man who some say really runs Europe, Martin Selmayr.(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.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Clare Balding joins five friends who are walking the Two Saints Way, Chester to Lichfield.(R) 06:30What are the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the world's farmers? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Sarah Goldingay argues that as adults we need to recapture the playfulness of childhood. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is in Dorset with Dr Anita Diaz, for the sika deer rut. From 2009. 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. 07:54Clare Balding makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Village Water. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Marking the anniversary of the Reformation at St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews University. 08:48Mary Beard ponders why email is governed by so few rules and conventions.(R) 08:58Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder recalls rescuing redwings struggling in snow.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Peace and War: Oona Hathaway, Mona Juul, Elisabeth Kendall and Philip Collins. 09:456/10Reed visits the revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief.
| 09:00Sex, guillemots and the virtuoso finch. 09:30What is it like finding out you have got half-siblings? Does it change your life? 09:457/10Bryant is caught up in a vicious street battle.
| 09:00For the painter Lucian Freud, every brush stroke was a risk. 09:458/10Trotsky claims victory over the Cossacks.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15. 09:459/10The revolutionaries' own bombardment has destroyed the Kremlin.
| 09:00Jane Gardam, novelist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:4510/10The Bolsheviks have defeated the counter-revolution.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by Rick Stein.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jessie Ware talks about how becoming a mother has influenced her music. 10:451/5Sarah Millican describes the life-changing moment she discovered her talent for comedy.
| 10:00Hillary Clinton gives her verdict on why she lost the USA presidential election. 10:452/5Comedian Sarah Millican takes an impassioned stance on the subject of having children.
| 10:00Gothic folk; Diversify; exposing sexual abuse; what's the point of good table manners? 10:413/5Sarah Millican waxes lyrical about her boobs, wearing glasses and marriage a second time. 10:55Friendship is strengthened by acceptance and never judging.
| 10:00Natalie Dormer; women leaving prison; Scarlett Moffatt; Nagwa Ghorab, and online abuse. 10:454/5Sarah Millican's CV spans WHSmith, audiobook producer and internationally famous comedian.
| 10:00Craig Revel Horwood on playing Miss Hannigan in Annie. Childcare costs. Dynasty rebooted. 10:455/5Sarah Millican's recipe for her favourite cake - aka a rescue plan for old, dead bananas.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and panel visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
| 10:00Lilian receives a shocking proposition, and there is serious trouble at the vets.
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| 11:00 | 11:00How did the Great War shape the life of historian Arnold J Toynbee? 11:301/4Susan Calman tries to learn how to unwind, by going hillwalking with Muriel Gray.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores how the venerable, ancient turtle has influenced human culture. 11:30Libby Purves follows the story of the Bridge, London's ambitious new-built theatre.
| 11:00Martin Rosenbaum explores how events in London played a role in the Russian Revolution.(R) 11:303/4Meera Syal stars as the Indian aunty sleuth. What the butler saw is weirder than fiction.
| 11:00Continued confusion has taken its toll on Catalonia since the disputed referendum. 11:30How did Momtaza Mehri go from net savvy sixth-former to successful millennial poet?
| 11:00The brutal war a century ago which transformed Russia's relations with the west. 11:301/4Natural resources are dwindling. How can we make sure everyone is fed?
| 11:00Sam Coates of the Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Twisted metal, smashed concrete and anger on the streets of Mogadishu.
| 11:15Campaigner Edna Adan Ismail is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04If managers often have a bad reputation, what about those who tell them how to manage? 12:13Winifred Robinson looks at debt among younger people and the trend of Ikea hacking. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Property rights for the world's poor could unlock trillions in 'dead capital'. 12:13Winifred Robinson presents a phone-in on house prices. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Do welfare states boost economic growth, or stunt it? It's not an easy question to answer. 12:13Advice on travelling to Dubai, electric car charging, and artists selling online. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Refrigeration revolutionised the food industry, and other industries too. 12:13How reforms by the regulator could make switching mobile phone companies easier. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The plough kick-started civilisation - and ultimately made our modern economy possible. 12:13Bogus running events, Triumph motorbikes and reducing sugar in food.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Is Universal Credit a missed opportunity to make work pay? 12:30Miles Jupp is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Desiree Burch, Jeremy Hardy and Suzi Ruffell.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon explores the reality and the myth of eating as a family. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Sian Williams analyses the importance of physical exercise to brain health.(R)
| 13:00News with Martha Kearney including increase in hate crime and inflation rise. 13:452/5Sian Williams finds out why keeping cool boosts your brain power.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Sian Williams explores the importance of mental exercise to brain health.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Sian Williams finds out why a good night's sleep boosts brain power.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Sian Williams analyses the importance of diet to brain health.(R)
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Brockenhurst College in Hampshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30What to do with a diesel car, bureaucracy frustrates remembrance and cleaning up a flood.
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| 14:00 | 14:151/2Greed, fear and fraud. Thriller starring Robert Glenister.(R)
| 14:00Shula's day goes from bad to worse.(R) 14:152/2Joe's life is in danger following his investment in a Ghanaian gold mine.(R)
| 14:00Tony is put in an awkward position.(R) 14:15By Jeremy Hylton Davies. Gwyn runs the Marathon des Sables - 150 miles across the Sahara.
| 14:00Robert has victory in mind.(R) 14:15In 1942 a doctor and a policeman try to recover a vital memory from a woman with amnesia.
| 14:00Toby battles with his feelings.(R) 14:15A murder has occurred. But who is the victim and who is the murderer?
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials. Read by Simon Russell Beale.
| 14:00Horticultural advice from GQT's Garden Party Potting Shed.(R) 14:45You can rely on your women friends, whether they are new or long-standing.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees quizzes Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone. 15:30Sheila Dillon talks to people who eat according to very strict rules.
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the panel visit Pangbourne College in Berkshire.(R) 15:30Where do the contents of our bins end up? Tom Heap lifts the lid on recycling.
| 15:00Louise Cooper asks how Universal Credit is affecting the lives of those who claim it. 15:30Dr Google; GPs told to ask about your sexual orientation; hypermobility; surgery for COPD.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding joins five friends who are walking the Two Saints Way, Chester to Lichfield. 15:27Michael Palin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Farm Africa.(R) 15:30Omar El Akkad talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel American War.(R)
| 15:00Horticultural advice from GQT's Garden Party Potting Shed. 15:45Short story by Ruth Thomas, read by Alexandra Mathie.
| | 15:00Mike Walker's epic chronicle continues with the downfall of the Romanov dynasty.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Peruvian-born chef Martin Morales explores the link between food and music in the Andes. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores the world of spam, scams and caches of forgotten gold.
| 16:00Michael Rosen talks to Steve Jones about language and our genes. 16:30Georgia Lewis Anderson and Owen Jones discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the origins and meaning of the welfare state. 16:30The murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Rungano Nyoni, director of I Am Not a Witch. 16:30Astronomy enters a new age as gravitational waves locate the collision of neutron stars.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a comedian, an architect, a prince, a diplomat and a surfer. 16:30Roger Bolton airs listener criticism of a Today programme interview on sexual harassment. 16:55How not to let a man come between friends.
| | 16:00Mariella Frostrup celebrates the 40th anniversary of In Patagonia. 16:30A poem by Janette Ayachi echoes stories told to Anna Scott-Brown on a bench in Edinburgh.
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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. 17:30What is the business case for having a diverse workforce? Evan Davis and guests discuss.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Questions remain about alleged police misconduct in a 15-year-old murder investigation.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the man who some say really runs Europe, Martin Selmayr.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00People in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland warned of threat to life and property. 18:303/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00The cost of living is rising faster than average wages - but pensioners will be protected 18:306/6Tim visits Greenwich and chats to a museum curator about airport security.
| 18:00But claimants will no longer have to pay to use an expensive telephone helpline 18:301/4Andy remembers his favourite childhood sounds and recalls being an overcautious parent.
| 18:00The number of crimes in a year in England and Wales passes the five million mark. 18:302/4Lemn looks at the children at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.(R)
| 18:00EU rejects calls to begin trade talks with UK, but agrees to prepare for discussions. 18:30Miles Jupp is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Desiree Burch, Jeremy Hardy and Suzi Ruffell.
| 18:00National Trust members in England and Wales vote against a ban on legal trail hunting. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00A gunman has taken two members of staff hostage at a bowling alley in Nuneaton. 18:15John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Shula's day goes from bad to worse. 19:15Armando Iannucci's Death of Stalin, Kwame Kwei-Armah directs Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. 19:456/10Reed visits the revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief.(R)
| 19:00Tony is put in an awkward position. 19:15St Vincent on her new album Masseduction, and novelist Andrew Michael Hurley. 19:457/10Bryant is caught up in a vicious street battle.(R)
| 19:00Robert has victory in mind. 19:15Beth Ditto on her debut solo album; poet Jackie Kay, Scotland's makar, performs new work. 19:458/10Trotsky claims victory over the Cossacks.(R)
| 19:00Toby battles with his feelings. 19:15Daniel Radcliffe on filming in the jungle. 19:459/10The revolutionaries' own bombardment has destroyed the Kremlin.(R)
| 19:00Lilian receives a shocking proposition. 19:15Harry Hill's new children's novel, Liza Tarbuck on narrating television shows, and Yoshiki 19:4510/10The Bolsheviks have defeated the counter-revolution.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the man who some say really runs Europe, Martin Selmayr. 19:15The Death of Stalin, Philip Pullman, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Albion, Gunpowder on BBC1.
| 19:154/4Richard Wilson stars as the private eyes investigate a sinister-looking retirement home. 19:454/15The story of a disappearance - told backwards. The next in Jon McGregor's gripping series.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Martin Rosenbaum explores how events in London played a role in the Russian Revolution. 20:30What happens when a machine faces a moral dilemma? David Edmonds investigates.
| 20:00Questions remain about alleged police misconduct in a 15-year-old murder investigation. 20:40Joy Addo, Tom Skelton and Mani Djazmi join Peter White for Young Blindness for Beginners.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Former archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey explains his change of mind on assisted dying.
| 20:00Is President Xi Jinping China's most powerful leader since Chairman Mao? 20:30What is the business case for having a diverse workforce? Evan Davis and guests discuss.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Brockenhurst College in Hampshire. 20:50Mary Beard ponders why email is governed by so few rules and conventions.
| 20:00A look back at the culture of cars as the driverless era approaches.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listener criticism of a Today programme interview on sexual harassment.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a comedian, an architect, a prince, a diplomat and a surfer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood follows gulls away from the sea to landfill sites where birdwatchers gather(R) 21:30Peace and War: Oona Hathaway, Mona Juul, Elisabeth Kendall and Philip Collins.(R)
| 21:00Dr Google; GPs told to ask about your sexual orientation; hypermobility; surgery for COPD. 21:30Sex, guillemots and the virtuoso finch.(R)
| 21:00Where do the contents of our bins end up? Tom Heap lifts the lid on recycling.(R) 21:30For the painter Lucian Freud, every brush stroke was a risk.(R)
| 21:00Astronomy enters a new age as gravitational waves locate the collision of neutron stars.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.(R)
| 21:002/2Lynsey Hanley explores the history of social housing from 1945 to the present day.
| 21:003/3Elena Ferrante's story of a lifelong friendship between Lila and Lena comes to an end.(R)
| 21:00Is Universal Credit a missed opportunity to make work pay?(R) 21:26Clare Balding makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Village Water.(R) 21:30What happens when a machine faces a moral dilemma? David Edmonds investigates.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00The Mogadishu truck bomb is blamed on Al-Shabaab Islamists. 22:451/5A prison guard watches over a man sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife.
| 22:00Islamic State loses control of the Syrian city of Raqqa. 22:452/5In 1962, prison guard Thomas Scott begins to believe a condemned man is innocent.
| 22:00President Xi Jinping says it is time for China to take centre stage in world affairs. 22:453/5Scott discovers Telfer's wife was having an affair - was this a motive for murder?
| 22:00PM admits there have been difficulties - but tells them 'firm progress' is now being made. 22:454/5Scott and Gracie Cullen are convinced of Telfer's innocence.
| 22:00Iraqi military says its forces have seized the final district held by Kurds in Kirkuk 22:455/5Telfer's date with the hangman is imminent as Scott visits an Edinburgh crime boss.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Robert Macfarlane tells Michael Rosen about his 'word-hoard' of endangered nature words.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/6From Edinburgh - Fred MacAulay introduces top comedy talent. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Vicki Pepperdine stars in Jenny Eclair's comic monologue about a teacher's last day. 23:152/2Tom has acquired a healthy new lifestyle, a shiny new fridge and a terrifying new problem. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on MPs backing calls to 'pause' universal credit.
| 23:003/4Liam looks for love in all the wrong places as he tries to impress the ladies. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Georgia Lewis Anderson and Owen Jones discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Moving to a new town and making a new friend.
| 23:00Nigel Rees quizzes Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone.(R) 23:30Poet Bridget Minamore explores how women have created their own literary narratives.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Rungano Nyoni, director of I Am Not a Witch.(R) 23:30Sarah Goldingay argues that as adults we need to recapture the playfulness of childhood.(R)
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