| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Sickness benefit claimants, and 'New Society' 50 years on. Presented by Laurie Taylor. 00:45The bells of St David's Church, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Simon Garfield starts his journey through maps in the Great Library of Alexandria. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5After the brilliant theories of Alexandria, the world fell into a cartographic dark age. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Simon investigates why America was named after a man who got there a year after Columbus. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Simon Garfield discovers how a map of London helped a Victorian doctor conquer cholera. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Simon Garfield asks if the cliche that women are less good at navigating than men is true. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A Georgian poet staying in Berlin isn't expecting to hear shattering news from home.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 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 Tina Beattie of Roehampton University 05:45Wind turbines on the Orkney Islands are producing too much energy. With Charlotte Smith. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina Beattie. 05:4510,000 Irish farmers take to the streets to 'fight for the future of family farming'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina Beattie. 05:45Farmers in Northern Ireland will get an extra 15 million on next year's support payments.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina Beattie. 05:45Concern for Scottish farmers as Schmallenberg disease found on farms in north of England.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina Beattie. 05:45Reported cases of the potentially fatal livestock parasite liver fluke, are up this year.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45'I weep 19 years after my abortion.' A pro-choice listener reflects on her experience.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of Sheffield Cathedral. 05:45Claire Bolderson profiles US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00David Cameron on the EU, welfare, Boris and more, plus Miranda Hart on life and comedy.
| 06:00Are we facing higher food prices? Plus William Hague; Hilary Mantel on the Booker Prize.
| 06:00Should 16-year-olds vote? Plus care homes' accountability and Tim Burton on his new film.
| 06:00Gas price rise, badger culls and a French 'attack' on UK fishing boat.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks with actor and passionate birdwatcher Samuel West. 06:30What future for the UK's small farms? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully explores the ethics of the relationship between employer and employee. 06:35Adam Henson meets the first of the contenders for this year's BBC Farmer of the Year award 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00BBC Savile inquiries, Pakistan reacts to shot girl, plus is Ireland the new Dallas?
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Harriet Walter presents an appeal for Prisoners Abroad. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Mark D'Arcy.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Mark D'Arcy.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Alicia McCarthy.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Coventry Cathedral celebrates its golden jubilee with alumni from the past 50 years. 08:50Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to understand contemporary China.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to Diana Athill, Wendy Cope, Philip Hensher and Nigel Warburton. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Johnston McKay.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor Hugh Montgomery about the gene for fitness. 09:30Kate Silverton explores how our fear of failure can limit your life choices. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Steven Benson.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets cartoonist Steven Appleby and folk singer Sam Lee. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Fashion designer Celia Birtwell is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:45An act of worship led by the Rev Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Hugh Masekela's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Former beauty queens, Down's syndrome, being boss - a lonely job? Presented by Jane Garvey 10:451/5Bev and Shirley go mobile, when the salon is closed down by environmental health.
| 10:00Sexual harassment at work. Teenagers and drugs. Molly Ringwald. 10:452/5Bev and Shirley take their unique hairdressing style to an old people's home.
| 10:00Sexual harassment; Idina Menzel, star of Wicked and Glee; women at the Royal Academy. 10:453/5Bev and Shirley use their mobile salon to pervert the course of justice.
| 10:00Michelle Ryan as Sally Bowles; Judy Finnigan's first novel; presented by Jenni Murray. 10:454/5Bev and Shirley take their mobile salon to the police station.
| 10:00Shy children - what should parents do? Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:455/5With the heat still on, Bev and Shirley resort to discrediting the hit and run victim.
| 10:30Paul Gambaccini looks back to Carnegie Hall 1955 with Pete Seeger and two other Weavers.
| 10:00Ed is down in the dumps. Meanwhile Alistair offers some constructive criticism.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Andy Kershaw explores the post-war golden age of British micro-cars 11:306/6Justin has to cope with the build-up to the wedding of the year.
| 11:006/24Autumn is a time when the animal world is on the move with specific threats to survival. 11:30Katie Derham delves into the fascinating world of musical life during the Second World War
| 11:00The longest commute in the UK, on the longest train - Alan Dein joins the sleepers. 11:303/6Local headmistress Mrs Temple tackles Ramesh over a new range of sweets.
| 11:00Kate Adie presents reports from India, Kenya, China, Algeria and New York. 11:30Nick Fraser makes the case for rediscovering the work of Richard Yates.
| 11:00Michael Bird explores Cornwall's beautiful, tiny flower fields. 11:303/6Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Ginny Fox pursue DH Lollipop, who writes naughty books.
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie presents stories from Zimbabwe, Aleppo, Mexico, Angola and Jerusalem.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews opera singer Noah Stewart.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Council tenants taking in the homeless, mobile phone signals and Islamic branding. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in. Julian Worricker hears listeners' views on benefit cuts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news with Winifred Robinson, featuring government plans to combat metal theft. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why do we eat unhealthy food? Vodafone defends fixed contract price rise. 12:52Alan and Carol discuss the secret of a happy marriage. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis on the NatWest 'Get Cash' mobile app, RPI changes and energy price rises. 12:306/9Sandi Toksvig with Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Nick Doody. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6Astronomer Stuart Clark, former hostage Tom Hart Dyke and comedian Jo Brand donate items. 12:32Tristram Stuart reports on the latest ideas to tackle our growing mountains of food waste. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:451/10Death or castration: China's greatest historian Sima Qian faces a tough choice.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:452/10How Kublai Khan, the man from Mongolia, beat the odds and conquered the south.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:453/10In a society built around ancestor worship, Carrie Gracie meets the ultimate ancestor.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:454/10Carrie Gracie explores why China's children still quote two drunkards from the 8th century
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:455/10It is said that one sister loved money, one loved power and one loved her country.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political discussion from Wimborne in Dorset.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Katie Derham delves into the fascinating world of musical life during the Second World War
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| 14:00 | 14:00Jazzer offers an inspired solution. 14:15A man arriving at the bedside of his unwell elderly mother can't sit with her. Why?(R)
| 14:15Frank's new pet rabbit Bobby starts causing an unexpected stir at home.(R)
| 14:00Alistair offers some constructive criticism. 14:15By Nick Warburton. Poet David witnesses the dark underbelly of an East European city.(R)
| 14:152/4DCI Stone opens up an investigation into the death of a war veteran.(R)
| 14:00There's a surprise arrival at Lynda's auditions. 14:15A fantastical tall tale of sea, surf and ambition in a small seaside town. By Vicky Meer.
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions. 14:30by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. A love story set during the Cuban missile crisis.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from west Wales. 14:45Fi Glover hears there is strength in numbers when it comes to meeting life's challenges.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Teams from the north of England and Scotland do battle in the game of lateral thinking. 15:30Sheila Dillon finds out why new British blue cheeses are pushing their way into the market
| 15:005/6Nina Garthwaite hears about the cuts we make and how we learn to recover from them. 15:301.5 million tonnes of debris from the Japanese tsunami is heading towards North America.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on working part-time. 15:30Dr Mark Porter asks if stem cell research is making a difference to patients.
| 15:00Clare Balding walks with actor and passionate birdwatcher Samuel West. 15:27Jon Snow presents an appeal on behalf of Find Your Feet. 15:30American writer Marilynne Robinson talks to James Naughtie about her novel Gilead.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from west Wales. 15:452/3By Marina Lewycka. A teenager wonders how to make the most of her last four minutes.
| | 15:001/2The original vampire horror tale of Count Dracula's reign of terror in Victorian Britain.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Irish novelist Patrick McCabe explores the Irish influences on Bram Stoker's Dracula. 16:30How has the digital world changed the way opinions are voiced and shaped?
| 16:004/4Michael Portillo reconsiders the uncomfortable facts behind The Glorious Revolution.(R) 16:30Harriett Gilbert, Andy Cave and Ed Douglas discuss three favourite books. From 2012.
| 16:00The 'new' Arab man; elite club membership in the House of Lords. 16:30BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten talks to Steve Hewlett about the Jimmy Savile scandal.
| 16:00Veteran actor Martin Landau on working with Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock. 16:30The Nobel Prizes for 2012; the science and the glory.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on India's milkman, a lost dialect, and two contrasting women writers. 16:30Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton. 16:55Fi Glover with a harrowing conversation from Cumbria.
| 16:00Workplace harassment; Michelle Ryan's Cabaret; abortion in NI. Presented by Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup interviews Michael Chabon about his latest novel, Telegraph Avenue. 16:30Roger McGough celebrates the bicentenary of Edward Lear's birth.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Includes Weather. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick O'Connell. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss quality and compare notes on their relative weaknesses. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Alcohol smuggling is costing more than a billion pounds in lost taxes. Allan Urry reports. 17:40Claire Bolderson profiles US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Astronomer Stuart Clark, former hostage Tom Hart Dyke and comedian Jo Brand donate items.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Rudy and Doreen are enjoying married life - unlike his son Adam.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4The aspiring politicians get their first radio interview ahead of the by-election.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Some moth-based lunacy and a heartwarming tale of the days before health and safety.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/9Sandi Toksvig with Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Nick Doody.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Karl Wallinger, Barry Cryer and Nicholas Coleridge.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of the past seven days of BBC Radio, chosen by Val McDermid.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Ruby Sparks, from the directors of Litte Miss Sunshine; playwright Roy Williams. 19:451/5Bev and Shirley go mobile, when the salon is closed down by environmental health.
| 19:00Alistair offers some constructive criticism. 19:15Pete Townshend reflects on the highs and lows of his career, as he publishes a memoir. 19:452/5Bev and Shirley take their unique hairdressing style to an old people's home.
| 19:15Roy Hattersley reviews Westminster drama This House; Jo Nesbo; a biography of Prince. 19:453/5Bev and Shirley use their mobile salon to pervert the course of justice.
| 19:00There's a surprise arrival at Lynda's auditions. 19:15Peep Show's David Mitchell, the Nobel Prize for literature and how actors learn accents. 19:454/5Bev and Shirley take their mobile salon to the police station.
| 19:00Kenton makes an unexpected proposal. 19:15On the Road in the cinema; American Idiot the musical; Agyness Deyn; the memoir industry. 19:455/5With the heat still on, Bev and Shirley resort to discrediting the hit and run victim.
| 19:00Claire Bolderson profiles US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests with sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.
| 19:00Kenton is getting impatient. 19:153/6Childhood memories of competitive parenting and imagining life as ruler of the world. 19:451/5A prolonged stay with her uncle and aunt changes a young girl's understanding of the world
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| 20:00 | 20:00Ruth McDonald investigates the crisis in the Irish Catholic church.(R) 20:30Jamie Whyte defends free market ideas in apparently troubled times for capitalism.
| 20:00Alcohol smuggling is costing more than a billion pounds in lost taxes. Allan Urry reports. 20:40People providing support to visually impaired workers go unpaid.
| 20:00The 90th anniversary of the BBC. Is public service broadcasting a moral good? 20:45Writer Mark Vernon says narcissism should be rehabilitated as a positive form of self-love
| 20:00Simon Cox investigates the battle for influence over free schools. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss quality and compare notes on their relative weaknesses.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political discussion from Wimborne in Dorset. 20:50Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to understand contemporary China.
| 20:00The minister who became the reluctant spokesman for a fishing community suffering tragedy.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton. 20:30Matthew Bannister on India's milkman, a lost dialect, and two contrasting women writers.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Retractions - what happens when published research is wrong? With Quentin Cooper. 21:30Andrew Marr talks to Diana Athill, Wendy Cope, Philip Hensher and Nigel Warburton.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter asks if stem cell research is making a difference to patients. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor Hugh Montgomery about the gene for fitness.
| 21:001.5 million tonnes of debris from the Japanese tsunami is heading towards North America. 21:30Libby Purves meets cartoonist Steven Appleby and folk singer Sam Lee.
| 21:006/24Autumn is a time when the animal world is on the move with specific threats to survival. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal.
| 21:00Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history.
| 21:003/3One man proves constant in his love for Bathsheba, as she gives up on finding happiness.
| 21:00Paul Lewis on the NatWest 'Get Cash' mobile app, RPI changes and energy price rises. 21:26Harriet Walter presents an appeal for Prisoners Abroad. 21:30Jamie Whyte defends free market ideas in apparently troubled times for capitalism.
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| 22:00 | 22:00The chancellor is to cut another £10 billion from benefits. Presented by Ritula Shah. 22:451/5An author goes to the first night of his play with Therese, who is not his girlfriend.
| 22:00Presented by Ritula Shah. Scotland Yard says Jimmy Savile was a predatory sex offender. 22:452/5The playwright's girlfriend is not pleased to discover his deception.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:453/5In spite of his little infidelities, the playwright claims he loves his girlfriend.
| 22:00With Shaun Ley. Turkey intercepts plane en route to Syria. 22:454/5A man sits beside a stranger on a flight to Frankfurt and tells him the story of his life.
| 22:00Investigation into police behaviour at Hillsborough; chief whip in trouble; Colombia. 22:455/5Read by Bill Nighy. A stranger asks his seatmate for help on a night flight to Germany.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15The 90th anniversary of the BBC. Is public service broadcasting a moral good?
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Sir Harold Evans looks at how the newspapers are covering the US elections from New York.
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| 23:00 | 23:00The News Quiz gets a US makeover with an all-American panel. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the House of Lords returns from its summer break.
| 23:003/4The team of brilliantly stupid scientists try to make war a little gentler. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Janet Street-Porter revisits the days when she was seeing three men at the same time.(R) 23:30Peers discuss referendum on Scottish independence and West Coast Main Line contract.
| 23:002/4The wisdom of crowds, the joy of deregulated advertising and Bigipedia throughout history.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Harriett Gilbert, Andy Cave and Ed Douglas discuss three favourite books. From 2012. 23:27The extraordinary story of how classic Irish folk songs were saved from extinction.(R) 23:55Fi Glover with Karen and Mark from Northern Ireland.
| 23:00Teams from the north of England and Scotland do battle in the game of lateral thinking. 23:30Roger McGough presents Alex Jennings reading Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
| 23:00Veteran actor Martin Landau on working with Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock. 23:30Mark Tully explores the ethics of the relationship between employer and employee.
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