| 00:00 | 00:01The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Working-class actors, Class and classical music.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Petroc, South Brent in Devon.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Alan Taylor's memoir of his friendship with the writer Muriel Spark. Read by Paul Higgins.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Journalist Alan Taylor tackles rumours about author Muriel Spark's domestic arrangements.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Caz Graham joins Henry Plumb at home on his Warwickshire farm. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls hearing an emperor penguin chick for the first time.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45As the New Year's resolutions kick in, it is all about 'embracing change' in farming. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounters with snow petrels in Antarctica.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45A new report tells UK farmers to shape-up in order to compete with foreign competitors. 05:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounter with snowy sheathbills in Antarctica.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Jonny Dymond and a panel of guests discuss the big news stories of 2018.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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| 07:00 | 07:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| | | | 07:30News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:30News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:30Britain's youngest railway chaplain and president Putin's Christmas. 07:54Actress Adjoa Andoh makes an appeal on behalf of Opportunity International UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | 08:30Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A meditation for Epiphany from Holy Name Church, Manchester. 08:48Howard Jacobson on why we need to preserve Bohemia. 08:58Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls hearing an emperor penguin chick for the first time.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Monica McWilliams talks to Lyse Doucet about her role in the Good Friday Agreement. 09:30Does the sports psychologist agree that comedy and sport are kind of the same?(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Frances Finn.
| 09:00Lyse Doucet talks to Madeha Al Ajroush about Saudi women's battles for the right to drive. 09:30Are the skills you need for stand-up comedy the same as those you need for sport? Really?(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Bishop David Walker.
| 09:00Lyse Doucet meets Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland, the first elected female head of state 09:30A former Scientologist for 28 years tells why he quit what some see as a dangerous cult.(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Angela Tilby.
| 09:00Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Afghan politician and diplomat Shukria Barakzai. 09:30Primrose Granville asks chef Henroy Brown how he came back from serious illness.(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Lyse Doucet meets Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state. 09:303/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about narcissism through time.(R) 09:44Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by the Rev Roy Jenkins.
| 09:00Actor Phil Daniels, Paralympian Stefanie Reid and Sharleen Spiteri's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Woman's Hour meets young women who will all be 18 in 2018. How do they see their future? 10:451/10Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries.
| 10:00Taking a break from alcohol. What's your side-line? And netball with a twist. 10:452/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
| 10:00Are ideas of masculinity changing - and what are the consequences? We hear from listeners. 10:413/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake. 10:55Losing their wife and mother put a father and son's relationship on the line.
| 10:00Writer Lisa McGee talks to Jenni Murray about her new sitcom Derry Girls. 10:454/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
| 10:00Women's Christmas, domestic homicide and witch-finding in the 17th century. 10:455/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
| 10:30Jay Rayner takes his culinary panel to Worcester.
| 10:00Noluthando uses her initiative, and Pip prepares for a big night.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Mary is 86 and faces losing her driving licence if she fails her next eye test. 11:30Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as a couple who have been married for over 40 years.
| 11:00How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to. 11:30Frances Fyfield is in Milan to explore the manuscript of Puccini's last opera Turandot.
| 11:00Frances Barber, stage and television star, explores the Wolverhampton of her childhood.(R) 11:301/6Ed Byrne kicks off Series 11 by interviewing the creator of the Pub Landlord, Al Murray.(R)
| 11:00How black Brazilians are asserting their rights thanks to a controversial education law. 11:30Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.(R)
| 11:00How a bitter dispute over Israel's future in 1967 split a country and divided a family.(R) 11:301/3A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest.(R)
| 11:00Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the life and inventions of engineer Nikola Tesla. 11:30From a clifftop village in China, a Ukrainian bunker and a former slave port in Tanzania.
| 11:15Charlie Brooker, satirist and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Duncan Chadwick tries to make a new start. 12:15Why should I exercise, doctor?
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04At Collingwood, Cressida Marshall remembers her late husband. 12:15How hard have listeners found it to lose weight? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Tynemouth, Alan Lowther is despondent. 12:15Why holidays will be different this year - less time, wider horizons. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Tynemouth, old friends arrive seeking safety. 12:15More help for gambling addicts, more on Christmas sales and the new threat to UK gardens. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Tynemouth, Edie Chadwick is still holding on to the past. 12:15Why the Co-op is expanding; Rock n Roll makes a comeback; Paying for services after death.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paying for a holiday by credit card? From next week you may not be able to. 12:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Merton interviews Nicholas Parsons about his time as host of the popular panel show.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon explores porridge. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/10Paul Seabright's exploration of our trading past: Adam Smith and World War I
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/10Paul Seabright's exploration of our trading past: what human childcare teaches us.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/10Paul Seabright discusses the history of trade and violence.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/10Paul Seabright investigates what distance does to our willingness to trade.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/10Consumer protectors or greedy monopolists? Paul Seabright explores the role of the guilds.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:15DJ Trevor Nelson uncovers what it is like to discover you have got half-siblings.(R) 13:30Randy Newman talks to John Wilson about Sail Away, the classic album of 45 years ago.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Hardeep Singh Kohli travels round the UK cooking lunch for people with remarkable stories.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Alice is determined to have a good time.(R) 14:151/4Prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, imagining the turbulent world of the Danish court.
| 14:00Will is on tenterhooks.(R) 14:152/4Deadly plots, murderous politics and a possible assassination. Another day in Elsinore.
| 14:00Noluthando uses her initiative.(R) 14:153/4Mystery and magic weave their way into the deadly political realities of the Danish court.
| 14:00Jolene gives some good advice.(R) 14:154/4Dangerous, desperate love meets betrayal and murder in the turbulent world of Elsinore.
| 14:00Ian has a lot on his mind.(R) 14:15In 1944, the young Muriel Spark worked in the ‘Black Propaganda’ Department of MI6.
| 14:00Randy Newman talks to John Wilson about Sail Away, the classic album of 45 years ago.(R) 14:30Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set amongst 1960s Thames Barge-dwellers.
| 14:00Eric Robson and his panel of experts are joined by gardeners in Essex.(R) 14:45Three exceptionally honest and revealing conversations.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Champagne sceptic Dan Saladino heads to the French region in search of mavericks of fizz.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his panel of cooking and eating experts are in Dumfries.(R) 15:30The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
| 15:00What key financial skills do we need to get through life, and where should we learn them? 15:30Mark Porter investigates the evidence for whether dogs can accurately smell cancer.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark finds football and fairy stories in the landscape around Bradford. 15:27Kenneth Branagh makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Over The Wall.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss dystopian novels.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and his panel of experts are joined by gardeners in Essex. 15:45Writer Hugo Rifkind creates a short story in response to a topical news story.
| 15:30Janice Forsyth looks at Glasgow's vibrant theatre scene.
| 15:002/2As the Cuckoos' powers grow, so fears grow for their safety and the safety of others.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Laura Barton presents a brief history of trousers, from function to fashion.(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss differing concepts of time in religious traditions.
| 16:00Cole Moreton searches for the unique but vanishing East End voice of his Nan’s generation.(R) 16:30Helen Arney, scientist and geek songstress, nominates pioneer physicist Hertha Ayrton.
| 16:00The housing crisis. Also, squatting in Amsterdam. 16:30Who were the TV winners and losers over the festive period?
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to director Joe Wright about his Churchill bio-pic The Darkest Hour. 16:30Strange star seeks an explanation that doesn't involve alien civilisation
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a designer, a businessman, a model, a writer, a producer. 16:30John Niven and Sali Hughes discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 16:55Sometimes being apart brings happiness you can't generate when you're together.
| 16:00Sobriety - a trend for 2018 or new way of life? Plus celebrating women's Christmas.
| 16:00James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to travel writer Colin Thubron about In Siberia 16:30Matthew Hollis follows Edward Thomas's 1913 journey into the south west and towards poetry(R)
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Eddie 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 with Luke Jones. 17:30Listeners with a new identity in 2018. ipm@bbc.co.uk.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00How do young Germans imagine a future after Angela Merkel?(R) 17:40Mark Coles looks at the life and career of President Hassan Rouhani.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Twelve dead in protests in Iran. Four killed in separate stabbings in London. 18:15Paul Merton interviews Nicholas Parsons about his time as host of the popular panel show.
| 18:00Iran's supreme leader has spoken about the protests in which 22 people have died. 18:305/6Mark Steel visits Hull and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents.
| 18:00Theresa May has rejected claims that the health service is in crisis 18:304/4Jeremy Hardy is feeling hopeful. He not only seconds that emotion, but explains it too.
| 18:00Radical shake-up rewards environmental improvements 18:301/6An awkward phone call and the importance of good manners. The award-winning sketch show.
| 18:00The chairman of the Parole Board is to face MPs about rapist's release from prison. 18:30A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00An NHS trust cites extreme pressure after death of woman 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The prime minister has confirmed that she is about to reshuffle her Cabinet 18:15Broadcasters choose their BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15How arts organisations root themselves in their local communities. 19:451/10Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries.(R)
| 19:00Noluthando uses her initiative. 19:15The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row. 19:452/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.(R)
| 19:00Jolene gives some good advice. 19:15Neil Cross, creator of Luther, talks about his new BBC One series Hard Sun. 19:453/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.(R)
| 19:00Ian has a lot on his mind. 19:15Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Michelle Terry, and the Costa biography winner 19:454/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.(R)
| 19:00Pip prepares for a big night. 19:15Christopher Plummer on replacing Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World. 19:455/10CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life and career of President Hassan Rouhani. 19:15Digital arts: Crown Heights, The Boat, Google Cultural Institute, The Miniaturists.
| 19:00Ruth has a difficult question to raise. 19:151/6City boy Andy has come to his uncle's seaside home in search of a stress-free life.(R) 19:4515/15The story of a disappearance. Bertie Carvel concludes Jon McGregor's gripping story series
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| 20:00 | 20:00Brian Cox, Robin Ince and special guests explore the science of magic.(R) 20:30A journey up the 'suicidal' Pilcomayo river that separates Paraguay from Argentina.(R)
| 20:00How do young Germans imagine a future after Angela Merkel? 20:40Dr Fred and Etta Reid talk to Peter White about their long-lasting relationship.
| 20:00Anne McElvoy and Gabrielle Rifkind are joined by Charles Moore and Hugh Muir. 20:45Karen Chapple discusses gentrification and how to keep our cities diverse.
| 20:00How can we best understand the protests in Iran and how will Tehran respond? 20:30Can Russia diversify its economy beyond the energy sector?
| 20:00The local community on how Hull's UK City of Culture year has affected them and their city(R)
| 20:00The certainty of chance. Professor David Spiegelhalter investigates Luck.
| 20:00David Walliams on his life as a children's writer.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a designer, a businessman, a model, a writer, a producer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Broadcasting legend James Burke discusses the biggest change to humanity in 10,000 years.(R) 21:30Monica McWilliams talks to Lyse Doucet about her role in the Good Friday Agreement.(R)
| 21:00Mark Porter investigates the evidence for whether dogs can accurately smell cancer. 21:30Lyse Doucet talks to Madeha Al Ajroush about Saudi women's battles for the right to drive.(R)
| 21:00Amol Rajan asks if England's old Imperial guidance and governance of cricket is history.(R) 21:30Lyse Doucet meets Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland, the first elected female head of state(R)
| 21:00Strange star seeks an explanation that doesn't involve alien civilisation(R) 21:30Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Afghan politician and diplomat Shukria Barakzai.(R)
| 21:00The Kaiser declares, 'We face, with firm confidence and an iron will, the year 1918.'.
| 21:001/2Bold new version of John Wyndham's science fiction classic.(R)
| 21:00Paying for a holiday by credit card? From next week you may not be able to.(R) 21:26Actress Adjoa Andoh makes an appeal on behalf of Opportunity International UK.(R) 21:30Can Russia diversify its economy beyond the energy sector?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Protests continue across Iran after a police officer is shot dead during a rally. 22:456/10Written by Matt Haig. William Manning tracks Tom down to the Globe Theatre.
| 22:00UN Ambassador Haley says Washington wants to amplify the voices of protesters. 22:457/10Read by Tom Hollander. Nowhere is safe for Tom, Rose and Marion for long.
| 22:00President turns on Steve Bannon after ex-adviser accuses president's son of 'treason'. 22:30Commentary on day one of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
| 22:00Washington suspends most if its security assistance to Pakistan over terror networks. 22:45Commentary on day two of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
| 22:00As Wolff defends Fire and Fury, will it make any difference to Trump's presidency? 22:4510/10Written by Matt Haig and read by Tom Hollander. Who is the woman holding Tom at gunpoint?
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Anne McElvoy and Gabrielle Rifkind are joined by Charles Moore and Hugh Muir.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests look forward to the political year ahead.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Will Young presents his favourite bits of writing, music and art from Cabaret to King Lear(R)
| 23:00Liam celebrates heroically ill-conceived technology of land, sea, space and cyberspace.(R) 23:30Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
| | | 23:00Commentary on day three of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney
| 23:00Commentary on day four of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
| 23:00Commentary on day five of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
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