| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The growing worldwide industry of global payday loans. Plus the aftermath of redundancy.(R) 00:45The bells of St Michael's Church in Kingsteignton, Devon.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Peter Hennessy asks Robin Butler how further devolution will change the UK's constitution.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Peter Hennessy is joined by David Hope, a former senior Scottish judge.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Peter Hennessy is joined by the philosopher Onora O'Neill.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Peter Hennessy is joined by Alistair Darling MP, the former chancellor of the Exchequer.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Peter Hennessy talks to William Hague MP, leader of the House of Commons.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Romesh Ranganathan reads his comic story in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe.(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 Judy Merry. 05:45British fishermen brace themselves for cuts as European ministers negotiate fish quotas. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the Nene, or the endemic and rare Hawaiian goose.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Judy Merry. 05:45Nearly half of the fish caught under the UK's quotas are caught by non-British vessels. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the advancing, leaping and queuing male blue manakin of Brazil.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Judy Merry. 05:45As the 2015 EU fishing quota is set, we hear about the confusion over the discard ban. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the formerly widespread saddleback of New Zealand.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Judy Merry. 05:45A scheme helping farmers feed their animals in a crisis is set to become a charity. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the greater racket-tailed drongo of South-East Asia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Judy Merry. 05:45As Defra releases the badger cull figures, we ask how successful the operation was. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents the eastern orphean warbler in an olive grove near Athens.
| 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 Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Peter's Church, Congleton. 05:4577/3Jeffrey Sachs argues that many global problems were caused by mistakes at the end of wars.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Caz Graham visits Castle Howard, where Christmas tree sales are in full swing.(R) 06:30How EU fishing quotas will effect UK coastal industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05On the shortest day of the year, Mark Tully presents a celebration of the winter solstice. 06:35Sybil Ruscoe meets Shropshire's Freda Bracecock - the Dame Edna of the farmyard. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10First woman bishop, the Pope and Cuba, 60 years of Carols from Kings. 07:55Adjoa Andoh presents an appeal for Opportunity International. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Joanna Shinn reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The last service in a series for Advent, from Methodist College, Belfast. 08:48What constitutes real art, as opposed to kitsch or that based on fake emotions and cliche?(R) 08:58Liz Bonnin presents the formerly widespread saddleback of New Zealand.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, Armand Leroi, John Barrow and Misbah Arif on invention 09:45Christian worship from St German's Church, Cardiff, led by Canon Edwin Counsell.
| 09:00Commentary on Sri Lanka v England in the seventh One Day International from Colombo. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Barry and Bob Cryer and choirmaster Andrew Gant. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Bishop David Walker.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Sarah Millican, comedian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs(R) 09:45An act of worship and music, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Journalist Jon Snow joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Including writer Anna Krien, transgender children, Sharia law for wills, and woman MPs. 10:451/5Amy and her parents meet the doctor to work out if hormone blockers are the right choice.
| 10:00Commentary on Sri Lanka v England in the seventh One Day International from Colombo.
| 10:00We join folk musician Kate Rusby backstage as she prepares for her Christmas tour. 10:413/5Amy's desperation to get on the hormone blockers begins to worry her family. 10:55Friends talk about the dangers of being gay in a culture which demonises homosexuality.
| 10:00June Mottershead on Our Zoo. Maddy Prior. What is being done to get more women elected? 10:454/5A sleepover for Amy with new friends brings things to a head between her parents.
| 10:00Including domestic abuse law, special guardianship and a report into US Catholic Nuns. 10:455/5Gary finally comes to terms with the hormone blockers, but Charlotte has shocking news.
| 10:302/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Salisbury.
| 10:00Carol and Jim go under cover, and Jill gets a shock.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Alan Dein meets the oyster fishermen of the Fal whose livelihoods are threatened by E coli 11:306/8The couples go on a date night together, and Evan is a surprise convert to French cinema.
| | 11:00Comedian Colm O'Regan reports from the Kilkenomics festival in Ireland. Davos with laughs. 11:304/4Can Britain's longest serving and laziest PCSOs catch a mystery hand-cream thief?
| 11:00The Russian volunteers fighting in eastern Ukraine for their dreams of empires past. 11:30The name is Isaev, Maxim Maximovich Isaev. Miles Jupp uncovers the Soviet James Bond.
| 11:002/2Bethany, Emma and Tanya, raised male, are seeking treatment as trans women. 11:302/2Martin Jarvis performs the second of two comic classics at the Cheltenham Festival.(R)
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Grieving and determination in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to the Most Rev Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A surprise visitor at Folkestone Town Hall shakes Hilary Pearce's easy confidence. 12:15Are private equity firms suitable owners for care homes? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on Sri Lanka v England in the seventh One Day International from Colombo.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The recruitment drive takes a new and charming turn on the streets of Folkestone. 12:15Consumer news, including an interview with Dermot Nolan, head of energy regulator Ofgem. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Maisie Plackett takes very seriously the question 'Is your best boy in khaki?'. 12:15Christmas delivery delays, Audi oil consumption, and Facebook removal of 'gripe site'. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A surprise turn of events in the Macknade household heralds a change in their fortunes. 12:15Ads for broadband deals, how good are smart meters, and are Christmas markets worth it? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis reveals the workings behind a fraud perpetrated on people booking hotels online 12:309/9Sandi Toksvig is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Bob Mills, Mark Steel and Rebecca Front.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/6Susan Calman and Tony Hawks join regulars John and Graeme, with Jack Dee in the chair.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon uncovers the food stories of those away from home on Christmas. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:451/5Bettany Hughes examines her psyche by lying on Sigmund Freud's famous couch.
| | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/5Bettany Hughes examines irony in her archaeology of philosophy.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/5Bettany Hughes pursues nemesis on the streets of ancient Athens.
| 13:00Mixed picture in war against Islamic State in Iraq. Presented by Mark Mardell. 13:455/5Bettany Hughes considers virtue in her archaeology of philosophy.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby with Giles Fraser, Tessa Jowell MP, Norman Lamb MP and John Redwood MP.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:301/3Matthew Sweet asks how human longevity shifted from an indicator of progress to anxiety.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00David and Ruth face the music.(R) 14:15By Bethan Roberts. Charlie likes wearing dresses. Will bodybuilding make him a new man?
| | 14:00Carol and Jim go under cover.(R) 14:15By Mateusz Dymek. A couple attempt to raise their child gender-neutrally, but why?(R)
| 14:00Justin is hosting the local farmers.(R) 14:15The true story of the 1976 discovery of the deadly Ebola virus in the jungle of Zaire.
| 14:00Charlie needs a bit of help.(R) 14:15It's nearly Christmas and 12-year-old Dean has been left home alone. So where's Mum?
| 14:00Your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Charles Dickens's classic story, adapted for actors, singers and orchestra by Neil Brand.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Dalston.(R) 14:45Conversations about farming, birth marks and being gay in Nigeria, introduced by Fi Glover
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| 15:00 | 15:0013/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the exciting 2014 final of the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30The story of one shop which is changing the way we think about food waste and food poverty(R)
| | 15:00Have you been a victim of fraud or identity theft? With Paul Lewis and guests. 15:30Claudia Hammond investigates a hidden condition - perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder.(R)
| 15:00Caz Graham visits Castle Howard, where Christmas tree sales are in full swing. 15:27Sian Williams presents an appeal for Hearing Link.(R) 15:30Evie Wyld and Peter Walker discuss writing about the Vietnam War.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Dalston. 15:451/3Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton and others pay tribute to the King of Belgium in 1914.
| | 15:00The arrival of the handsome Adolphus Crosbie causes quite a stir at Allington.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Lisa Dwan takes a trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays to the Brooklyn Academy of Music 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss church and race relations in the United States of America.
| | 16:00Fat gay men - resisting the stigma. Also, the masculine world of the butcher. 16:30BT's EE talks; journalism and PR; Ofcom's review into C4; London weeklies launch.
| 16:00Angelina Jolie on her new career as film director; recreating the Kon-Tiki expedition. 16:30Tiny plastic particles have been found polluting the deep ocean sediment.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a showgirl, a doctor, a photographer and a conservationist. 16:30Listeners talk directly to the controller of Radio 4 about The Archers and budget cuts. 16:55Her birthmark has always made Monica stand out, but it's only a tiny part of who she is.
| 16:00Bette Midler, women MPs, families with transgender children, Maddy Prior on Steeleye Span.
| 16:00A celebration of the best, and funniest, writing about Christmas. 16:304/4Paul Farley introduces a new poem for the year's midnight from Alice Oswald.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 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. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Joan Bakewell asks what she might expect, and how she should prepare, if she had dementia.(R) 17:401/8The Heebie Jeebies by Marcy Kahan. A fictional response to a story in the week's news.(R) 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. 18:305/6Susan Calman and Tony Hawks join regulars John and Graeme, with Jack Dee in the chair.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Tom finds himself on a Derbyshire moor in search of a dreadful family secret.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Paul's story of the telephone takes in electro-shock therapy and an exploding boat.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Robert Newman's diaries reveal him going to a CND rally and falling in love on the bus.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:309/9Sandi Toksvig is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Bob Mills, Mark Steel and Rebecca Front.
| 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. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Alice makes a radical decision. 19:15Willy Russell's Front Row neon artwork, Kon-Tiki review, and dementia-friendly theatre. 19:451/5Amy and her parents meet the doctor to work out if hormone blockers are the right choice.(R)
| 19:00Carol and Jim go under cover. 19:15Ridley Scott's Exodus, serial podcast, The Shoemaker's Holiday and Quvenzhane Wallis. 19:452/5Gary and Charlotte struggle with very different approaches to hormone blockers.(R)
| 19:00Justin is hosting the local farmers. 19:15Double Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz discusses his new film, Big Eyes. 19:453/5Amy's desperation to get on the hormone blockers begins to worry her family.(R)
| 19:00Charlie needs a bit of help. 19:15Esio Trot on TV, author Robert Olen Butler, Richard Thompson and family. 19:454/5A sleepover for Amy with new friends brings things to a head between her parents.(R)
| 19:15Miranda Hart on the success of Miranda and the final episodes of the sitcom. 19:455/5Gary finally comes to terms with the hormone blockers, but Charlotte has shocking news.(R)
| 19:001/8The Heebie Jeebies by Marcy Kahan. A fictional response to a story in the week's news. 19:15V&A Cast Court, Big Eyes, City of Angels, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia.
| 19:00There is a crisis at Brookfield. 19:152/6Frank Skinner and guests discuss history's funniest moments. 19:451/3Will Leah catch the last kindertransport out of Vienna?
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Matthew Sweet asks how human longevity shifted from an indicator of progress to anxiety. 20:30A popular American football team is under pressure to change a name many say is racist.(R)
| 20:00Joan Bakewell asks what she might expect, and how she should prepare, if she had dementia. 20:40Pointless host Richard Osman joins Peter White and talks about his eye condition Nystagmus
| 20:00A panel of new Britons discuss what it is like to make a home in a new land. 20:4577/3Jeffrey Sachs argues that many global problems were caused by mistakes at the end of wars.
| 20:00Should women suspected of making false accusations of rape be prosecuted? 20:30Peter Day examines the business of running some of the country's most famous cathedrals.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby with Giles Fraser, Tessa Jowell MP, Norman Lamb MP and John Redwood MP. 20:50What constitutes real art, as opposed to kitsch or that based on fake emotions and cliche?
| 20:00Christopher Frayling explores the untold story behind the creation of Prokofiev's classic.
| 20:00Listeners talk directly to the controller of Radio 4 about The Archers and budget cuts.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a showgirl, a doctor, a photographer and a conservationist.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Can we share the planet with orangutans, and how can drones help us?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, Armand Leroi, John Barrow and Misbah Arif on invention(R)
| 21:00Claudia Hammond investigates a hidden condition - perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder. 21:30Sarah Richardson discovers a document which shows that women in Lichfield voted in 1843.(R)
| 21:00Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates. 21:30Libby Purves meets Barry and Bob Cryer and choirmaster Andrew Gant.(R)
| 21:00Tiny plastic particles have been found polluting the deep ocean sediment.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.(R)
| 21:00As Christmas approaches, a spirit of generosity and recklessness fills the air.
| 21:006/6Mordred uses Arthur's new laws against him, and long-held secrets are exposed.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis reveals the workings behind a fraud perpetrated on people booking hotels online(R) 21:26Adjoa Andoh presents an appeal for Opportunity International.(R) 21:30Peter Day examines the business of running some of the country's most famous cathedrals.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Sydney siege; Turkey media arrests; immigration protests in Germany. With Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Tess is left reeling in the aftermath of her brief affair with David.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:457/10In the wake of her decision, Tess vows never to explain herself again. Niamh Cusack reads.
| 22:00Cuba - a moment of history. In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:458/10Theo, now aged fourteen, has some tough questions for Tess. The reader is Niamh Cusack.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:459/10Close to retirement, Tess enjoys a new-found contentment - until fate intervenes.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:4510/10Tess returns to Ireland for the first time in forty years. Read by Niamh Cusack.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:154/4Atul Gawande calls for a new focus on systems to ensure doctors work more effectively.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45George Parker of the Financial Times analyses the newspapers.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sinéad O'Connor talks to John Wilson about her most personal album, 2007's 'Theology' 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/2Comedian and transvestite Andrew O'Neill gives his thoughts on gender identity. 23:30Joanna Shinn reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4The creator of the New York Antifolk scene meets another New York music legend. 23:151/4A white-knuckle adventure takes reporter Jane and her friends to the Guatemalan jungle.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster.
| 23:006/6Milton becomes Britain's best-known undercover journalist - not always a good thing.(R) 23:30Peter Mulligan reports from Westminster. 23:55A mother who was sent to boarding school and then did the same to her son has regrets.
| 23:00Laura Bates tells Matthew Parris why Louisa May Alcott of "Little Women" is her Great Life(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A love of the land and the hard graft and rewards of farming unite a redoubtable couple.
| 23:0013/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the exciting 2014 final of the general knowledge music quiz.(R) 23:303/4Paul Farley remembers the poet Michael Donaghy with other poets, ten years after his death(R)
| 23:00Angelina Jolie on her new career as film director; recreating the Kon-Tiki expedition.(R) 23:30On the shortest day of the year, Mark Tully presents a celebration of the winter solstice.(R)
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