| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the origins and meaning of the welfare state.(R) 00:45Church bells from All Saints, Stand, Whitefield, Greater Manchester.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Philip Pullman on how Oxford provided inspiration for the setting of His Dark Materials.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Philip Pullman remembers the impact of reading Paradise Lost aloud for the first time.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Philip Pullman reflects on the power of fairytales on a child's imagination.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Philip Pullman reflects on how he writes and how stories tell themselves.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Philip Pullman recalls discovering William Blake as a teenager, via Alan Ginsberg's Howl.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A story of twin sisters and midnight feasts from Irish writer-performer Eva O'Connor.(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 short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Charlotte Smith finds out if milk is a healthy and ethical source of iodine. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Actor Samuel West on the call of the dipper.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Brexit could mean three times the workload for vets to sign off trade certificates. 05:58Actor and birdwatcher Samuel West on the wheezy song of the stocky bullfinch.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45It's the season for autumnal UK produce, so why are some retailers importing squash? 05:58Actor Samuel West enjoys the call from a party of long-tailed tits.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45The owner of the Two Sisters chicken processor appears before a parliamentary inquiry. 05:58Actor Samuel West is especially fond of ducks, especially the eider.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Caz Graham asks if more can be done to cut antibiotic use in livestock. 05:58Actor and birdwatcher Samuel West laments the lost call of the turtle dove.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Elaine Storkey. 05:45A listener on what she cannot tell her husband or her friends.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from All Saints Church, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire. 05:45England women's football player - and FA whistleblower - Eniola Aluko.(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. 06:07Helen Mark asks why the largest battle fought on Scottish soil has been largely forgotten.(R) 06:30Autumn harvest including apples, walnuts, crab apples and wild mushroom foraging. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the spirituality of the car. 06:35Charlotte Smith heads to a Worcestershire farm to help out with the hop harvest. 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 Emily Buchanan. 07:54Nicholas Farrell makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Myotubular Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Bishop Nick Baines in Wittenberg marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. 08:48Will Self on why he loves space.(R) 08:58Actor Samuel West on the call of the dipper.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Neil MacGregor, Jennifer Sliwka, Dan Jones and Caspar Henderson. 09:45Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs begins with the Lion Man.
| 09:00Ellen Stofan, former chief scientist at NASA, talks to Jim Al-Khalili. 09:30Broadcaster Peter Curran talks to guests about the Northern Ireland they left behind. 09:45Neil MacGregor on the fire of Vesta in Ancient Rome, and the Parsi fire temple in Gujarat.
| 09:00The risks and rewards of stage performance. Narrated by the actor Noma Dumezweni. 09:45Neil MacGregor on water's purifying powers, and the significance of the Ganges for Hindus.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds. 09:45Neil MacGregor experiences the winter solstice in the passage tomb at Newgrange, Ireland.
| 09:00Campaigner Edna Adan Ismail is interviewed by Kirsty Young.(R) 09:45Neil MacGregor focuses on our relationship with the natural world and seasonal changes.
| 09:00Producer, DJ and artist Goldie joins Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00105-year-old Diana Gould, men's behaviour, Ibibio Sound Machine's Eno Williams. 10:45Pliny and his eccentric household are subject to the whims of an unstable emperor.
| 10:00Islington came bottom of our research into the best place to be a woman - why? 10:45Pliny is commanded by the Emperor to hold a banquet for returning hero General Agricola.
| 10:00Shami Chakrabarti (photographer Roddy Paine) talks about her new book, Of Women. 10:41The welcome party for General Agricola ends in disaster - and an arrest.
| 10:00Anne-Marie Duff, Lola Olufemi, Rosemary Brown, Chetna Makan and Christin Wismann. 10:45Venta meets a fellow prisoner, a dwarf who reveals the terrible fate that awaits them.
| 10:00What life is like for women in rural Wales in our Best Place to be a Woman series. 10:45Venta the slave is forced to fight in the Colosseum.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the panel visit Ipswich.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Wired Love, published in 1879, is a story of long-distance love over the telegraph wire. 11:303/4John Finnemore takes Susan Calman on a spontaneous holiday to help her learn to unwind.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood meets a rhinoceros nose to nose and is blown away by the experience. 11:30Performance poet Bohdan Piasecki asks what defines home and our sense of place.(R)
| 11:00Early-bird poet Ian McMillan investigates why people are early or late.(R) 11:304/4Meera Syal stars as Slough's Miss Marple, as she finally solves the Lapsley Hall mystery.
| 11:00The rules of the game for women in Egypt, plus balls, bails and bats in Rwanda. 11:30Follow portrait artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints ballet dancer Edward Watson.
| 11:00Maria Margaronis explores the life and legacy of right-wing thinker Savitri Devi. 11:302/4Helen looks at our perception of women from the past and in the present.
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30A political crisis, lifting the veil in Saudi and what vegetable would you vote for?
| 11:15Kay Mellor, writer and producer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Jay Owens argues that we should pay more attention to dust.(R) 12:15What are you spending your pension on? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Benedict Wilkinson challenges how we think about terrorism.(R) 12:15Winifred Robinson asks listeners about their experience of sexual harassment. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Lucy Hurst-Brown asks why so many learning disabled people are so lonely.(R) 12:15NHS warned 'treat people with costly care packages at home if that's what they want'. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04VV Brown explains why she has embraced her natural hair.(R) 12:15The Fundraising Regulator says most of the complaints they get are about charity mailshots 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Hannah Jane Walker makes the case for being a bit sensitive.(R) 12:15Tidal power, film memorabilia auctions and are universities good value? With Peter White.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04As BrightHouse prepares to pay £14.8m to customers, a former branch manager speaks out. 12:30Miles Jupp is joined by Simon Evans, Angela Barnes, Hugo Rifkind and Zoe Lyons.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.(R) 12:32Following years of reporting on UK chicken scandals, Dan Saladino looks at the latest. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Philip Pullman on how Oxford provided inspiration for the setting of His Dark Materials.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/5Philip Pullman remembers the impact of reading Paradise Lost aloud for the first time.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Philip Pullman reflects on the power of fairytales on a child's imagination.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Philip Pullman reflects on how he writes and how stories tell themselves.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Philip Pullman recalls discovering William Blake as a teenager, via Alan Ginsberg's Howl.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby with political debate from Solomon Browne Memorial Hall in Mousehole.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Can history unlock the secret to a better old age?
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| 14:00 | 14:151/2Louise remembers and relives her childhood experiences after the tragic loss of her mother(R)
| 14:00Shula's suspicions are aroused and Emma gets her mojo back.(R) 14:152/2When tragedy strikes her family again, Lou concocts a desperate plan.(R)
| 14:00Matt makes a new enemy.(R) 14:15By Vashti MacLachlan. A love story about multiple sclerosis and a fridge of vegetables.(R)
| 14:15By Daniel Thurman. Rosemary Brown, the psychic dinner lady has classy musical connections.
| 14:00Shula struggles to remain calm.(R) 14:15Two strangers collide in the bread aisle of the local supermarket. So too do their lives.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. 14:30Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unmade Hammer Horror script.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel pay a visit to Exeter.(R) 14:45Redheads, football, Eastern Europe and siblings with Down's - a child's eye view.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees quizzes Simon Brett, Michele Hanson, Vanessa Feltz and Henry Normal. 15:30Sheila Dillon explores the reality and the myth of eating as a family.
| 15:00Jay Rayner and panel visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.(R) 15:30Tom Heap finds out if fish farming can really feed the planet without trashing our oceans.
| 15:00Rent controls are common across Europe - could they work in the UK? 15:30Antibiotic apocalypse, statins and treating pneumonia, and neurosurgery for epilepsy.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark asks why the largest battle fought on Scottish soil has been largely forgotten. 15:27Clare Balding makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Village Water.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup celebrates the 40th anniversary of In Patagonia.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel pay a visit to Exeter. 15:45A story of twin sisters and midnight feasts from Irish writer-performer Eva O'Connor.
| | 15:00Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the rulers of Russia reaches the Soviet era and Lenin.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Laura Elsworthy tests out the interactive artwork that is learning to speak Hullensian. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explain how pubs got their names. 16:30Alice Lowe and Andrew Hunter Murray talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the history of 'easeful death'. Also, life in an English hospice. 16:30Ashley Highfield runs Johnston Press, one of the UK's largest regional publishers.
| 16:00Francine Stock explores the connection between Norse mythology and Marvel Comics. 16:30Where have all the insects gone?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a musician, a union leader, a virologist, an actress. 16:30Should the World at One have dedicated a whole show to one subject? 16:55Whether your sibling with Down's is older or younger, they have a lot to teach you.
| 16:00Lola Olufemi on being a 'Feminist Killjoy'. Presented by Jenni Murray.
| 16:00Graeme Macrae Burnet joins Alex Clark to discuss his novel The Accident on the A35. 16:30Sarah Howe's poetry echoes tales told to Anna Scott-Brown on a bench in Chinatown, London.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Evan Davis talks to three agents, in the fields of show business, football and books.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The urban gangs using children to flood rural Britain with drugs and violence.(R) 17:40England women's football player - and FA whistleblower - Eniola Aluko.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The CBI joins four major business groups calling for urgent progress on transition deal 18:304/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Chinese Communist Party vote gives leader greater power 18:301/6Ed Reardon returns with a new idea for a novel and an exciting new home.
| 18:00Downing Street forced to clarify whether MPs will get to vote on Brexit deal 18:302/4Funny man Andy Hamilton looks at his lifetime relationship with politics.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Lemn examines how he hid his feelings and identity to fit in with the world around him.(R)
| 18:00Catalonia's parliament declares independence, before Madrid imposes direct rule. 18:30Miles Jupp is joined by Simon Evans, Angela Barnes, Hugo Rifkind and Zoe Lyons.
| 18:00Thousands of people have taken part in a rally in Madrid - calling for unity. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Theresa May says MPs' staff should be better protected from harassment 18:15Anna Foster chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Shula's suspicions are aroused and Emma gets her mojo back. 19:15Armistead Maupin's memoir, Logical Family; choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's legacy. 19:45Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs begins with the Lion Man.(R)
| 19:15Taika Waititi takes on the Marvel universe in his new film, Thor: Ragnarok. 19:45Neil MacGregor on the fire of Vesta in Ancient Rome, and the Parsi fire temple in Gujarat.(R)
| 19:15Have the Harvey Weinstein revelations created a watershed moment? 19:45Neil MacGregor on water's purifying powers, and the significance of the Ganges for Hindus.(R)
| 19:00Shula struggles to remain calm. 19:15Richard Bean on his new play Young Marx, and Stranger Things 2 reviewed. 19:45Neil MacGregor experiences the winter solstice in the passage tomb at Newgrange, Ireland.(R)
| 19:15Annie Leibovitz on her photographs of a turbulent decade. 19:45Neil MacGregor focuses on our relationship with the natural world and seasonal changes.(R)
| 19:00England women's football player - and FA whistleblower - Eniola Aluko. 19:15Young Marx, Call Me By Your Name, Art since 9/11, Susie Boyt, and Alias Grace on Netflix.
| 19:00We delve into The Archers’ archive and it’s the night of the Hunt Ball at Grey Gables. 19:15Fearless adventurer Tony Law encounters a lost tribe of Amazonian women. 19:455/15A story of a disappearance - told backwards. The next in Jon McGregor's gripping series.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Inside the world of the anti-fascists known as 'antifa' and their far-right opponents. 20:30What does the dangerous state of the Houses of Parliament tell us about our politics?
| 20:00The urban gangs using children to flood rural Britain with drugs and violence. 20:40Peter White reports on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Katharine Birbalsingh reveals why she declared Britain's state education system broken.
| 20:00Drug resistant infections cause 700,000 deaths a year - how can this be averted? 20:30Evan Davis talks to three agents, in the fields of show business, football and books.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby with political debate from Solomon Browne Memorial Hall in Mousehole. 20:50Will Self on why he loves space.
| 20:00Film-maker Mike Figgis explores the age of the edit.
| 20:00Should the World at One have dedicated a whole show to one subject?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a musician, a union leader, a virologist, an actress.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood explores how the venerable, ancient turtle has influenced human culture.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Neil MacGregor, Jennifer Sliwka, Dan Jones and Caspar Henderson.(R)
| 21:00Antibiotic apocalypse, statins and treating pneumonia, and neurosurgery for epilepsy. 21:30Ellen Stofan, former chief scientist at NASA, talks to Jim Al-Khalili.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap finds out if fish farming can really feed the planet without trashing our oceans.(R) 21:30The risks and rewards of stage performance. Narrated by the actor Noma Dumezweni.(R)
| 21:00Where have all the insects gone?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.(R)
| 21:001/2Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time.
| 21:00Mike Walker's epic chronicle continues with the downfall of the Romanov dynasty.(R)
| 21:00As BrightHouse prepares to pay £14.8m to customers, a former branch manager speaks out.(R) 21:26Nicholas Farrell makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Myotubular Trust.(R) 21:30What does the dangerous state of the Houses of Parliament tell us about our politics?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Amid calls for a transition period, an examination of what it means to trade on WTO rules. 22:451/10Across the river, the nuns at Godstow Priory have a mysterious new guest.
| 22:00There is confusion over the apparent release of Gui Minhai. 22:452/10A meeting at the University of Uppsala leads to a deadly encounter.
| 22:00Chinese president Xi Jinping introduces his new leadership team. 22:453/10Malcom begins his work for Dr Relf.
| 22:00President cites widespread addiction to painkillers, heroin and other opiates 22:454/10Malcolm finds an unexpected visitor at the Trout: a man whose dæmon is a snow leopard...
| 22:00Madrid dissolves Catalan parliament and announces new elections. 22:455/10Malcolm discovers Bonneville and his terrifying hyena-dæmon lurking round the priory.
| 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 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to Steve Jones about language and our genes.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as the prime minister updates MPs on Brexit talks.
| 23:002/6From Edinburgh - Fred MacAulay with more top comedy talent. 23:30Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/4Doon Mackichan stars as a woman intent on revenge in Jenny Eclair's comic monologue. 23:151/4Sam Bain's comedy of a man so obsessed with celebrity trivia, his own life passes him by. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4After graduating, Liam Williams has returned to his parents' house. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Lauren and guests reflect on how we can find the right balance between work and rest. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Looking after Mum and staying true to yourself, even if you are in the Premier League.
| 23:00Nigel Rees quizzes Simon Brett, Michele Hanson, Vanessa Feltz and Henry Normal.(R) 23:30A poem by Janette Ayachi echoes stories told to Anna Scott-Brown on a bench in Edinburgh.(R)
| 23:005/8Radiolab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination.
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