| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The strip industry - why is it growing? Also, the cultural meaning of 'blue jeans'. 00:45The bells of St Thomas's Church, Norbury, Stockport. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Michael's family has always struggled to tame the motorcar, often with hilarious results. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00James Naughtie and Bridget Kendall host coverage of the US presidential election. 00:302/5Michael finally learns to drive, thanks to a colourful array of instructors. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Michael Holroyd's first car may have been easy to drive, but this was during the Troubles. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Michael Holroyd recalls how motor cars delighted the Bloomsbury Set. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5George Bernard Shaw was a driver best avoided, while Michael is defeated by sat nav. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Miss Clarence's visit to Greenwich Village gives her an insight into other people's lives.(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.
| 01:00James Naughtie and Bridget Kendall host coverage of the US presidential election.
| 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. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells. 05:45Anna Hill hears concerns that village greens could be lost under new government plans. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells. 05:45Invasive American signal crayfish cause concern for the Scottish salmon industry.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:32James Naughtie and Bridget Kendall host coverage of the US presidential election. 05:57Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells. 05:45Livestock farmers welcome a supermarket plan to tie the price of meat to feed costs.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells. 05:45Charlotte Smith reports on how the genetic history of Britain's ash trees may save them.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Chris Bennett. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of Westminster Abbey. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the controversial Conservative MP Nadine Dorries.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Ash tree disease, university funding, and the US elections.
| 06:00Theresa May on PCCs, election day in the US and great voiceovers.
| 06:00Obama re-elected, children in care and the 'elixir of life'.
| 06:00China's leadership, university funding and why we all need silence.
| 06:00Cyberspace and democracy, Police and Crime Commissioners, Alan Bennett on his new play.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark is looking for adventure in the Lake District. 06:30What to make of mushrooms? The third most popular 'vegetable' in supermarkets. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05On Remembrance Sunday, Mark Tully remembers those wounded in action. 06:35Harvestmen are a classic creepy crawly to be found in our countryside, but what are they? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00BBC DG on Newsnight apology. Can Syria opposition unite? And remembering the dead of WWI.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Charlene White presents an appeal on behalf of Bowel Cancer UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:31Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:31Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:31Rachel Byrne presents the best of Thursday's debates in the Commons and the Lords.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports as the Lords debate plans to protect children from online porn.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service for Remembrance Sunday live from Brecon Cathedral in Powys, Mid Wales. 08:50Mary Beard on the long history of the rich looking down their noses at the poor.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Mary Robinson, Michael Ignatieff and Amos Oz. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland looks at graduate employment today and in the 16th century. 09:301/4Alvin Hall travels through the USA revisiting Alistair Cooke's Letter from America. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Tony Burnham.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley and opera singer Bryan Hymel. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music. Led by John Forrest.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the sacred texts of Hinduism. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Dr Mark Wakelin.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to castaway Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential. 09:45An act of worship led by the Rev Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles talk to tenor Alfie Boe.
| 09:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 09:15Fallon steps up to the plate, and will Ed relent?
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| 10:00 | 10:00Women's votes in the US election, Malala's blog, and the Power List. With Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Jane Purcell tells the remarkable true story of indomitable sisters Ida and Louise Cook.
| 10:00Gaming, Malala's blog and Alexandra Shulman on fashion. Presented by Aasmah Mir. 10:452/5Ida Cook becomes novelist Mary Burchell, and a trip to Salzburg opens the sisters' eyes.
| 10:00Kirstie Allsopp, Helena Kennedy, children going hungry, Malala. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Ida and Louise travel to Berlin as rescuers but find themselves leaving as smugglers.
| 10:00Jessica Ennis, one of the golden girls of London 2012, joins Jenni Murray. 10:454/51938. A secret weekend in Frankfurt becomes a race against time.
| 10:00Helen Fielding, Martha Payne and the Power List Expert Witness on campaigning. 10:455/5August 1939. Days before the borders close, Ida and Louise strive to rescue two young men.
| 10:302/2Martha Kearney tells the story of Britain's GI years during the Second World War.
| 10:30Nicholas Witchell is the commentator at the Ceremony of Remembrance at the Cenotaph.
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| 11:00 | 11:00A portrait of life in Gaza through the eyes of a group of young Palestinian surfers. 11:304/4The magic combination of cold weather and broken boilers and the art of comparing ailments
| 11:0010/24A look at two rare species - the Scottish wildcat and the bearded tooth fungus. 11:303/4Stuart Maconie looks at Big Country's final album with Stuart Adamson, Driving To Damascus
| 11:00Traffic police, tourists and farmers talk about life in Cornwall on one busy summer's day. 11:301/4Feuding Will and Annabelle tell their marriage counsellor about a disastrous dinner party.(R)
| 11:00The hidden clues to the US election result, and war beckons in Mali. With Kate Adie. 11:302/3Lenny Henry sets out to rectify his lack of appreciation of Samuel Beckett's work.(R)
| 11:00Sangita Myska with a witty and insightful exploration of names in contemporary Britain. 11:301/6The return of the satire on an NHS in terminal reform, starring Nigel Planer.
| 11:00Iain Martin of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster this week. 11:30Filling in the spaces between the headlines - foreign correspondent reports with Kate Adie
| 11:45Mark Whitaker looks at some of the lesser-known ways the arts responded to the Great War.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Behind the scenes of the hair extension industry, and stopping the cowboy builders. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Why are so many children missing out on adoption? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Could a multi-fuel stove help reduce your heating bills? Winifred Robinson investigates. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Are interest-only mortgages the next mis-selling scandal? With Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Peter White discusses the man who lived without money and wants more of us to do the same. 12:52An English girl and an Indian Brahmin fall in love over a spaghetti bolognese breakfast. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis on Orange broadband deal row, the risks of bank transfers, and income investing 12:301/6With Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests Andi Osho and Tina C. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:046/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sara Pascoe, Marc Abrahams and Buzz Aldrin. 12:32Valentine Warner and Charles Campion eat with the Food Award's 'Best Takeaway' finalists. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news presented by Edward Stourton. 13:4511/15German writer Jakob Arjouni's Turkish sleuth, Kemal Kayankaya, reflects a reunited Germany
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4512/15Mark Lawson meets Ian Rankin, whose crime stories reflect social changes in Scotland.
| 13:00National and international news presented by Edward Stourton. 13:4513/15Mark Lawson investigates how Swedish society reflects in the novels of Larsson and Mankell
| 13:00National and international news presented by Edward Stourton. 13:4514/15How does Jo Nesbo's Norwegian detective reflect changes in Scandinavian society?
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:4515/15Russian and Ukrainian crime writers Akunin and Kurkov. Is Dostoevsky still an influence?
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents from the National Railway Museum at Shildon in Co Durham.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by James Robbins.
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| 14:00 | 14:00James revels in all the attention. 14:15By Oliver Emanuel. A 14-year-old girl spends seven days in a refuge for runaways.(R)
| 14:00Fallon steps up to the plate. 14:15A young assemblyman is poised to become 'the Republican Obama' but his past haunts him.
| 14:00Nic offers the voice of reason. 14:151/2Sandy and William solve the mystery of a newborn baby abandoned at the Old Beeches.
| 14:152/3Emile's peace of mind is shattered, when he overhears his neighbours' conversations.
| 14:00Rhys receives an offer out of the blue. 14:15The last dramatic weeks in the life of EJ Moeran, unsung genius of English composition.(R)
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions. 14:303/10Who is killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm? Beck battles to catch the killer.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts a postbag edition from the GQT potting shed in Sparsholt. 14:45Fi Glover proves that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Teams from the south and the north of England compete in the fiendish quiz. 15:30Tim Hayward learns to love lard, discussing our complicated relationship with animal fat.
| 15:00History magazine programme. 15:303/14Suzanne Vega talks to John Wilson about her platinum album Solitude Standing.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on planning ahead for when you die. 15:30Cognitive Behavioural Therapy trial for psychosis, plus US elections and mental health.
| 15:00Helen Mark is looking for adventure in the Lake District. 15:27Terry Waite presents an appeal on behalf of Emmaus UK, a charity for homeless people. 15:30James Naughtie talks to David Almond about his prize-winning novel Skellig.
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts a postbag edition from the GQT potting shed in Sparsholt. 15:453/4By Louisa Young. A mother arranges a birthday party, but this masks a family bereavement.
| 15:303/4Stuart Maconie looks at Big Country's final album with Stuart Adamson, Driving To Damascus
| 15:001/2Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Helena Kennedy QC explores the power of law in the pages of classic fiction. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks if we have all become cyborgs without even knowing it.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg asks how rows over extradition and votes for prisoners can be resolved. 16:30Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones discuss favourite books with Harriet Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor looks at how the internet lets us encounter strangers, as well as friends. 16:30The latest on Leveson, Channel 4 at 30, and is the public losing trust in the BBC?
| 16:00Ben Affleck on directing and starring in his Iranian hostage thriller. With Francine Stock 16:30Coffee extinction, evidence of the earliest human society, and migratory birds dying.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Clive Dunn, Elliott Carter, Lord Lofthouse, Han Suyin, Brian Cobby. 16:30Naked Scientists left out in the cold, and should you buy a digital radio for your car? 16:55Fi Glover presents a conversation between two friends born in Germany.
| 16:00Kirstie Allsopp on her vintage look, golden girl Jessica Ennis, and Bridget Jones returns.
| 16:00Jeremy Bowen discusses his book The Arab Uprisings and his experiences in the Middle East. 16:302/4Ruth Padel works on poems in progress with a group of poets from East Suffolk.
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| 17:00 | 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. Includes Weather. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 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. 17:30Evan Davis and guests consider how to reform financial services in the 21st century. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are people with learning disabilities dying unnecessarily because of poor care in the NHS? 17:40Mark Coles profiles the controversial Conservative MP Nadine Dorries. 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. 18:306/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sara Pascoe, Marc Abrahams and Buzz Aldrin.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Adam's surprise birthday present for his dad backfires.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Arthur and his best pal Barry Cryer lose their tickets for a Hammer Horror convention.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Sketches, stand-up and song in a comic exploration of clothing.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6With Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests Andi Osho and Tina C.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Fallon steps up to the plate. 19:15Anna Friel in Uncle Vanya, Kamila Shamsie on Nick Nickelby, the Mary Whitehouse archive. 19:451/5Jane Purcell tells the remarkable true story of indomitable sisters Ida and Louise Cook.
| 19:00Nic offers the voice of reason. 19:15Filmmaker Michael Haneke, the art of crying on stage and adult cartoon series Full English 19:452/5Ida Cook becomes novelist Mary Burchell, and a trip to Salzburg opens the sisters' eyes.
| 19:15Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood on life in The Rolling Stones. 19:453/5Ida and Louise travel to Berlin as rescuers but find themselves leaving as smugglers.
| 19:00Rhys receives an offer out of the blue. 19:15The verdict on Alan Bennett's new play People and Michael Winterbottom's film Everyday. 19:454/51938. A secret weekend in Frankfurt becomes a race against time.
| 19:00Lilian discovers that three is a crowd. 19:15Jeff Wayne on The War of the Worlds, the RSC's The Orphan of Zhao, and Crime Stories on TV 19:455/5August 1939. Days before the borders close, Ida and Louise strive to rescue two young men.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the controversial Conservative MP Nadine Dorries. 19:15Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural highlights with Tom Sutcliffe.
| 19:151/3Why are people dying in front of their wireless sets? The police visit the BBC. 19:455/5A young poet sets out across a continent and finds more than she imagined.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson discovers how close Britain's greatest cold war secret was to being exposed. 20:30Matthew Taylor examines Labour's interest in Catholic social teaching.
| 20:00Are people with learning disabilities dying unnecessarily because of poor care in the NHS? 20:40Barclays roll out talking ATMs, and we look at games for blind or partially sighted people
| 20:00Michael Buerk and guests debate the moral leadership of America. 20:45James Friel defends the values and virtues of the single life.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg asks how rows over extradition and votes for prisoners can be resolved. 20:30Evan Davis and guests consider how to reform financial services in the 21st century.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents from the National Railway Museum at Shildon in Co Durham. 20:50Mary Beard on the long history of the rich looking down their noses at the poor.
| 20:00Roger Bolton explores the genesis of 'Reithian' values at the BBC.
| 20:00Naked Scientists left out in the cold, and should you buy a digital radio for your car? 20:30Matthew Bannister on Clive Dunn, Elliott Carter, Lord Lofthouse, Han Suyin, Brian Cobby.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Gareth Mitchell investigates energy storage solutions and the threats to our woodlands. 21:30Andrew Marr with Mary Robinson, Michael Ignatieff and Amos Oz.
| 21:00Cognitive Behavioural Therapy trial for psychosis, plus US elections and mental health. 21:30Jonathan Freedland looks at graduate employment today and in the 16th century.
| 21:00Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson. 21:30Libby Purves meets philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley and opera singer Bryan Hymel.
| 21:0010/24A look at two rare species - the Scottish wildcat and the bearded tooth fungus. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the sacred texts of Hinduism.
| 21:003/3Mark Lawson looks at German, Scandinavian, Scottish and Russian modern crime fiction.
| 21:002/2In the mountains, Frankenstein comes face-to-face with what he most hates and fears.
| 21:00Paul Lewis on Orange broadband deal row, the risks of bank transfers, and income investing 21:26Charlene White presents an appeal on behalf of Bowel Cancer UK. 21:30Matthew Taylor examines Labour's interest in Catholic social teaching.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Madame Picot begins to feel guilty and Madame Beck is determined to blacken Agnes's name.
| 22:00Americans vote in presidential election. Presented by Owen Bennett Jones and Ritula Shah. 22:457/10A chance meeting with someone from Agnes's past threatens to destroy her life in Chartres.
| 22:00In-depth analysis of the US election results with Owen Bennett Jones. 22:458/10Robert finds a body in the river, and Madame Beck learns of Agnes's past.
| 22:00China's leadership meets, Cameron warns of gay 'witch hunt', and controlling the internet. 22:459/10Agnes has disappeared, and Alain heads for the cathedral crypt in search of her.
| 22:00Ex-N Wales care home resident sorry for abuse claims against Tory peer. With Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Madame Beck sees something shocking in Abbe Paul's deanery and Philippe confronts Brigitte
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk and guests debate the moral leadership of America.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:002/14Billy Bragg talks to John Wilson about his album, 'Talking with the Taxman about Poetry'. 23:30Ministers promise to 'scythe through reams of planning red tape' to rejuvenate the economy
| 23:003/4Arthur invites Micky Flanagan and Nat Luurtsema round to his place.(R) 23:30Keith MacDougall with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/4Comic modern reworkings of popular ancient Irish stories. 23:152/4Luke struggles to tell his paranoid mother about his long-term girlfriend. 23:30With David Cameron away, Nick Clegg deputises at Question Time in the Commons.
| 23:002/6Bernie is wildly angry over her missing lunch on Smile5's call centre floor. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones discuss favourite books with Harriet Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports as the Lords debate plans to protect children from online porn. 23:55A grandmother and granddaughter share the amazing story of Isabel's early achievement.
| 23:00Teams from the south and the north of England compete in the fiendish quiz. 23:301/4Ruth Padel works on poems in progress with the Dove Cottage Poets in Grasmere.
| 23:00Ben Affleck on directing and starring in his Iranian hostage thriller. With Francine Stock 23:30On Remembrance Sunday, Mark Tully remembers those wounded in action.
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