| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores tensions at the heart of contemporary struggles against enslavement(R) 00:45Bells from St Leonard's Church, Hythe in Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism on Orkney.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5After hitting rock bottom, Amy seeks treatment before the lambing season.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5An RSPB job sees Amy scouring the islands nightly for rare Corncrakes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Amy has moved to one of the smallest inhabited Orkney islands.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Amy questions why she became an alcoholic.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3The hellish trials and tribulations Tess experiences living in bedsit land.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Padraig O Tuama. 05:45Holland has houses that can float on floodwater. Should the UK be considering the idea? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona desert.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Padraig O Tuama. 05:45The government has designated 23 new Marine Conservation Zones - but will they work? 05:58Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan cavern(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Padraig O Tuama. 05:45A new report highlights the contribution of rural businesses to the UK economy. 05:58Michael Palin presents the black sicklebill of New Guinea.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Padraig O Tuama. 05:45Charlotte Smith has an update on plans for land reform in Scotland. 05:58Michael Palin presents the kea from a windswept mountain in New Zealand.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Padraig O Tuama. 05:45Defra looks at plans to pay farmers to let their land flood. Charlotte Smith presents. 05:58Michael Palin presents the red-eyed vireo from North America.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia Neuberger. 05:45One listener on how audiobooks stopped their insomnia. Robin Lustig reads Your News.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe in Devon. 05:45Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their users, not wait to be found.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and 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. 06:07Helen Mark uncovers why peat makes the Somerset Levels a special place to visit.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith reports from the UK's biggest agricultural machinery show, Lamma. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers social, religious and personal attitudes towards poverty. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is joined by roosting rooks. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news, with Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10A portrait of a bishop, a review of Spotlight and 100 years since WWI conscription. 07:54Jon Snow presents an appeal on behalf of children's charity I CAN. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on the ministerial statement about the steel industry
| 08:31An MP cries while questioning the sister of a Briton believed to be an IS executioner.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko.
| 08:15Commentary on day two of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria. 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Canon Chris Chivers leads worship from All Saints Church, Cambridge. 08:15Commentary on day three of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Alaa Al Aswany, Wendell Steavenson, Hugh Kennedy and Tarek Osman. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland examines the rise of Donald Trump through the prism of the past. 09:30A dramatic eyewitness account of the events in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets novelist Gerald Seymour and adventurer and comedian Tim FitzHigham. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by John Forrest.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776. 09:45Spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
| 09:00Commentary on day one of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria. 09:45An act of worship and music, led by Leslie Griffiths.
| 09:00Commentary on day two of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Call us with your pension questions today. 10:451/5How did the boy in boxers become the wanted man in an armed siege?
| 10:00Harvard's president, Drew Gilpin Faust. And why the UK stillbirth rate is still too high. 10:452/5Liz's decisions lead to an official complaint.
| 10:00Margaret Drabble discusses a favourite author. How serious is sleeplessness after birth? 10:413/5Devon's mother has a surprise for him. 10:55Two friends united by their love of the sea.
| 10:00Protected prostitution, friends and chronic illness, living waste free and farming puppies 10:454/5Devon's hopes for the future meet the reality of his past.
| 10:00Commentary on day one of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Grace Dent presents a series documenting the untold stories of 21st-century Britain. 11:303/6Comedian Mark Steel explores reggae, riots and white supremacist gardening in Handsworth.(R)
| 11:00How stimulating the brain could be used to treat severe and enduring anorexia nervosa. 11:30Folk singer Eliza Carthy discovers Manchester's 19th-century broadside ballads.(R)
| 11:00From Nepal to Kenya via Stonehenge, Miles Warde discovers the power of roads. 11:302/4Marco's sister is less than impressed by Terri, and Jill is still wavering.
| 11:00Reports from Finland, Iraq, Norway, Cuba and Germany. Presented by Kate Adie. 11:30Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04On the day of the battle of Sheik Sa'ad, Ralph Winwood has a mission of his own. 12:15Consumer affairs programme. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The stalled Montenegro and Austria negotiations parallel events in the Winwood household. 12:15What was it that led you to feel less foreign and more British? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Kitty has a moment of hope for her missing brother. 12:15An investigation into why Store First investors are not getting promised returns. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Former factory workers Marion and Edie are feeling even more liberated. 12:15Investigating a dental clinic that has left customers angry, in pain and without refunds. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on day one of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on day two of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on day three of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, from Pretoria
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| 13:00 | 13:00Baroness Warsi discusses English lessons for Muslim women. Presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Bishop Richard Holloway on learning how to forgive ourselves as well as others.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Ed Stourton. 13:45Bishop Richard Holloway argues death is our friend and we should reach out our hand to it.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Bishop Richard Holloway reveals why the picture of a skeleton can stun him to tears.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45Bishop Richard Holloway asks if life's best lesson is when to let others take over.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pip fancies a little trip.(R) 14:152/3The realities of war strike home for Lees-Milne, when Tom Mitford returns on leave.(R)
| 14:00Fallon has a brainwave.(R) 14:15Zoe Tapper and Lacey Turner star in Nell Dunn's Sixties classic set in Battersea.(R)
| 14:00Lynda is ready for a grand reopening.(R) 14:158/10Epic historical saga set in the richest, most powerful city on earth.
| 14:00Ian is thinking about the future.(R) 14:15By Sarah Hehir. A first play for radio by a winner of the BBC Writer's Prize.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies asks the questions in the prestigious general knowledge quiz. 15:30Leeds is a city on the rise when it comes to food and drink. Dan Saladino finds out why.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Stoke-on-Trent.(R) 15:30Bellowhead respond to audience questions about their 2010 album, 'Hedonism'
| 15:00Exploring how the shake-up in local government finances could affect the public. 15:30Do more people die in hospital at the weekend? Dr Mark Porter examines the evidence.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark uncovers why peat makes the Somerset Levels a special place to visit. 15:27Natasha Kaplinsky presentsan appeal on behalf of The National Holocaust Centre and Museum.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling author Janice YK Lee.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Rebecca Front takes the Radio Theatre audience through her life in reading and comedy. 16:30Brian and Robin talk artificial intelligence with Jo Brand, Anil Seth and Alan Winfield.
| 16:00What is slang? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright thrash it out with Jonathon Green. 16:30Nitin Sawhney champions the life of American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley
| 16:00A look at con men in New York and the iconography of punishment. 16:30Discussing the future of ITV and the British public's increasing trust in the media.
| 16:00With Francine Stock. Anchorman writer and director Adam McKay talks about The Big Short. 16:30Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
| 16:15Matthew Bannister on a rock star, a publisher, a lesbian campaigner, a cinematographer. 16:30Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population? 16:55Two recent graduates reflect on the unrelenting pressure to succeed academically
| 16:15As the prime minister urges more Muslim women to learn English, does it help integration?
| 16:15Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Gail Jones about her book A Guide to Berlin 16:30Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by Robert Burns.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage 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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News presented by Shaun Ley including Google tax, China expansion and punk rock. 17:30One listener on how audiobooks stopped their insomnia. Robin Lustig reads Your News.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Have the tennis authorities done enough to investigate allegations of match-fixing?(R) 17:40Hardeep Singh Kohli pictures a future where Donald Trump flies to a private airfield.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Tata Steel is cutting over a thousand jobs in the UK - most of them at Port Talbot 18:302/6John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Ken Dodd, Dr Hannah Fry and Greg Jenner.
| 18:00The Governor of the Bank of England has ruled out an immediate rise in interest rates. 18:304/6Milton launches a job agency, but his best client goes ballistic.
| 18:00Concerns about oil send share prices plummeting 18:304/4Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien.
| 18:00Public inquiry into former spy's killing concludes senior Russian officials were involved 18:303/6A look back at a career in accounting.
| 18:00Angela Merkel has warned EU partners against acting alone to deal with the migrant crisis. 18:303/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Osborne hints that others could follow Google, which is paying £130 million to HMRC. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Government is considering calls to take unaccompanied children who've arrived in Europe 18:15Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Including The Assassin, Peter May, Attacking the Devil, and Jack Thorne. 19:451/5How did the boy in boxers become the wanted man in an armed siege?(R)
| 19:00Lynda is ready for a grand reopening. 19:15Steve Carell on The Big Short and Fiona Barton on The Widow, plus diversity at the Oscars. 19:452/5Liz's decisions lead to an official complaint.(R)
| 19:00Ian is thinking about the future. 19:15Elton John tells John Wilson about returning to his rock roots and the school run. 19:453/5Devon's mother has a surprise for him.(R)
| 19:00Pat is rather taken by surprise. 19:15Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland on The Picture of Dorian Gray and utopias in fiction 19:454/5Devon's hopes for the future meet the reality of his past.(R)
| 19:00Lilian enjoys being back in the saddle. 19:15Featuring Michael Keaton on Spotlight and a review of Simon Stephens's play Herons. 19:455/5Liz walks into a siege.(R)
| 19:00Hardeep Singh Kohli pictures a future where Donald Trump flies to a private airfield. 19:15AS Byatt and Russell Kane review The Big Short, Julian Barnes, Champagne Life and HG Wells
| 19:00Adam seems to have forgotten something. 19:153/6Graham Linehan, Matthew Crosby and Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad ideas(R) 19:45An amusing sonata of bizarre commands by Padgett Powell featuring voices and music.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Elinor Goodman investigates how government ministers take decisions in the 21st century. 20:30Can Belgium solve the problems of the Brussels district dubbed Jihadi Central?(R)
| 20:00Have the tennis authorities done enough to investigate allegations of match-fixing? 20:40Symbols for partially sighted people and the counsellor who believes his blindness helps.
| 20:00Top journalists debate live with Andrew Rawnsley what leading opinion articles should say. 20:45Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their users, not wait to be found.
| 20:00The story behind the fatal poisoning in London of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko. 20:30Jonty Bloom learns how Norway does business with the European Union.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Pater Hall, Pembroke Dock, Wales. 20:50Tom Shakespeare is concerned by what the rise of cosmetic surgery says about society.
| 20:00Michael Symmons Roberts examines the book behind one of our most influential ideas: Utopia
| 20:00Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a rock star, a publisher, a lesbian campaigner, a cinematographer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Sathnam Sanghera asks, when we can know everything, are we better off not knowing things?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Alaa Al Aswany, Wendell Steavenson, Hugh Kennedy and Tarek Osman.(R)
| 21:00Do more people die in hospital at the weekend? Dr Mark Porter examines the evidence. 21:30Jonathan Freedland examines the rise of Donald Trump through the prism of the past.(R)
| 21:00The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years. 21:30Libby Purves meets novelist Gerald Seymour and adventurer and comedian Tim FitzHigham.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.(R)
| 21:00Folkestone's characters are all looking for release.
| 21:003/3John Steinbeck’s epic tale inspired by the story of Cain and Abel.(R)
| 21:00Car insurance on the rise, council tax support on the wane and pensions exit fees capped.(R) 21:26Jon Snow presents an appeal on behalf of children's charity I CAN.(R) 21:30Jonty Bloom learns how Norway does business with the European Union.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00After the nuclear deal, how durable is the thaw in US-Iran relations? 22:451/10A once wealthy landowner, Abd el-Aziz has fallen into penury.
| 22:00A BBC correspondent is threatened, the 'staggering' Iraq death toll, and Palin backs Trump 22:452/10Abd el-Aziz's wages from the Automobile Club are barely covering his costs.
| 22:00A special report on the battle between the Turkish government and Kurdish separatists. 22:453/10Abd el-Aziz gets a new job. With tragic repercussions.
| 22:00Russian government furious over claims that Putin approved murder of dissident in London. 22:454/10Abd el-Aziz's death triggers strong emotions at the Automobile Club.
| 22:00A mosquito-borne virus causes nearly 4,000 babies to be born with abnormally small heads. 22:455/10Kamel takes over his father's job in the storeroom, where he makes a powerful contact.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their users, not wait to be found.(R) 22:303/3Early pioneers to Britain from the Indian subcontinent in conversation with their children(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Julia Hartley Brewer analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Bellowhead talk to John Wilson about their 2010 album, 'Hedonism' 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Brian and Robin talk artificial intelligence with Jo Brand, Anil Seth and Alan Winfield.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. Labour tries to stop student grants being scrapped.
| 23:004/4Kim and Neil's return from a funeral involves a missed left turn and the planet Zobula. 23:151/6Paul Whitehouse's series follows a community psychiatric nurse on her rounds.(R) 23:30David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn clash over the axing of student grants.
| 23:003/4Comedian Mark Thomas and his studio audience consider proposals for a People's Manifesto.(R) 23:30A look at the government's response to the inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
| 23:00Nitin Sawhney champions the life of American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A father and daughter whose family business was fishing consider the beauty of the sea.
| 23:00Russell Davies asks the questions in the prestigious general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry on the subject of home.(R)
| 23:00True stories told live in the USA. 23:50Tom Shakespeare is concerned by what the rise of cosmetic surgery says about society.(R)
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