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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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Working-class actors, Class and classical music.
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Church bells from St Petroc, South Brent in Devon.
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The latest shipping forecast.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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1/5 Alan Taylor's memoir of his friendship with the writer Muriel Spark. Read by Paul Higgins.
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The latest shipping forecast.
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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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2/5 Journalist Alan Taylor tackles rumours about author Muriel Spark's domestic arrangements.
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The latest shipping forecast.
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01:00
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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05:00
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The latest shipping forecast.
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05:43
A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh.
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05:45
Caz Graham joins Henry Plumb at home on his Warwickshire farm.
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05:56
The latest weather forecast for farmers.
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05:58
Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls hearing an emperor penguin chick for the first time.
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05:20
The latest shipping forecast.
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05:43
A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh.
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05:45
As the New Year's resolutions kick in, it is all about 'embracing change' in farming.
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05:58
Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounters with snow petrels in Antarctica.
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05:20
The latest shipping forecast.
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05:43
A reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh.
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05:45
A new report tells UK farmers to shape-up in order to compete with foreign competitors.
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Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls his encounter with snowy sheathbills in Antarctica.
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06:00
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06:00
Jonny Dymond and a panel of guests discuss the big news stories of 2018.
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06:00
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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06:00
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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07:30
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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07:30
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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07:30
Britain's youngest railway chaplain and president Putin's Christmas.
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07:54
Actress Adjoa Andoh makes an appeal on behalf of Opportunity International UK.
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07:57
The latest weather forecast.
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08:00
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08:30
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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08:00
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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08:10
A meditation for Epiphany from Holy Name Church, Manchester.
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08:48
Howard Jacobson on why we need to preserve Bohemia.
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08:58
Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan recalls hearing an emperor penguin chick for the first time.
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09:00
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09:00
Monica McWilliams talks to Lyse Doucet about her role in the Good Friday Agreement.
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09:30
Does the sports psychologist agree that comedy and sport are kind of the same?
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09:44
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Frances Finn.
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09:00
Lyse Doucet talks to Madeha Al Ajroush about Saudi women's battles for the right to drive.
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09:30
Are the skills you need for stand-up comedy the same as those you need for sport? Really?
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09:44
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Bishop David Walker.
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09:00
Lyse Doucet meets Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland, the first elected female head of state
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09:30
A former Scientologist for 28 years tells why he quit what some see as a dangerous cult.
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09:44
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Angela Tilby.
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09:00
Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Afghan politician and diplomat Shukria Barakzai.
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09:30
Primrose Granville asks chef Henroy Brown how he came back from serious illness.
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09:44
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
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09:00
Lyse Doucet meets Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.
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09:30
3/5 Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about narcissism through time.
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09:44
Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by the Rev Roy Jenkins.
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09:00
Actor Phil Daniels, Paralympian Stefanie Reid and Sharleen Spiteri's Inheritance Tracks.
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09:00
Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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10:00
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10:00
Woman's Hour meets young women who will all be 18 in 2018. How do they see their future?
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10:45
1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries.
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10:00
Taking a break from alcohol. What's your side-line? And netball with a twist.
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10:45
2/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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10:00
Are ideas of masculinity changing - and what are the consequences? We hear from listeners.
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3/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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10:55
Losing their wife and mother put a father and son's relationship on the line.
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Writer Lisa McGee talks to Jenni Murray about her new sitcom Derry Girls.
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4/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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10:00
Women's Christmas, domestic homicide and witch-finding in the 17th century.
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10:45
5/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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10:30
Jay Rayner takes his culinary panel to Worcester.
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10:00
Noluthando uses her initiative, and Pip prepares for a big night.
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11:00
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11:00
Mary is 86 and faces losing her driving licence if she fails her next eye test.
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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as a couple who have been married for over 40 years.
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How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to.
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Frances Fyfield is in Milan to explore the manuscript of Puccini's last opera Turandot.
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Frances Barber, stage and television star, explores the Wolverhampton of her childhood.
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1/6 Ed Byrne kicks off Series 11 by interviewing the creator of the Pub Landlord, Al Murray.
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How black Brazilians are asserting their rights thanks to a controversial education law.
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Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
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11:00
How a bitter dispute over Israel's future in 1967 split a country and divided a family.
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1/3 A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest.
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11:00
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the life and inventions of engineer Nikola Tesla.
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11:30
From a clifftop village in China, a Ukrainian bunker and a former slave port in Tanzania.
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Charlie Brooker, satirist and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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12:00
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
Duncan Chadwick tries to make a new start.
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12:15
Why should I exercise, doctor?
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
At Collingwood, Cressida Marshall remembers her late husband.
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12:15
How hard have listeners found it to lose weight?
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12:57
The latest weather forecast.
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
In Tynemouth, Alan Lowther is despondent.
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12:15
Why holidays will be different this year - less time, wider horizons.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast.
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
In Tynemouth, old friends arrive seeking safety.
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12:15
More help for gambling addicts, more on Christmas sales and the new threat to UK gardens.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast.
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
In Tynemouth, Edie Chadwick is still holding on to the past.
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12:15
Why the Co-op is expanding; Rock n Roll makes a comeback; Paying for services after death.
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
Paying for a holiday by credit card? From next week you may not be able to.
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12:30
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast.
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12:00
National and international news and the shipping forecast.
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12:04
Paul Merton interviews Nicholas Parsons about his time as host of the popular panel show.
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12:32
Sheila Dillon explores porridge.
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12:57
The latest weather forecast.
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13:00
Analysis of news and current affairs.
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13:45
1/10 Paul Seabright's exploration of our trading past: Adam Smith and World War I
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13:00
Analysis of news and current affairs.
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2/10 Paul Seabright's exploration of our trading past: what human childcare teaches us.
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13:00
Analysis of news and current affairs.
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3/10 Paul Seabright discusses the history of trade and violence.
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Analysis of news and current affairs.
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13:45
4/10 Paul Seabright investigates what distance does to our willingness to trade.
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13:00
Analysis of news and current affairs.
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13:45
5/10 Consumer protectors or greedy monopolists? Paul Seabright explores the role of the guilds.
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13:00
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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13:15
DJ Trevor Nelson uncovers what it is like to discover you have got half-siblings.
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13:30
Randy Newman talks to John Wilson about Sail Away, the classic album of 45 years ago.
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13:00
Global news and analysis.
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13:30
Hardeep Singh Kohli travels round the UK cooking lunch for people with remarkable stories.
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14:00
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14:00
Alice is determined to have a good time.
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14:15
1/4 Prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, imagining the turbulent world of the Danish court.
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14:00
Will is on tenterhooks.
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14:15
2/4 Deadly plots, murderous politics and a possible assassination. Another day in Elsinore.
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14:00
Noluthando uses her initiative.
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3/4 Mystery and magic weave their way into the deadly political realities of the Danish court.
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14:00
Jolene gives some good advice.
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4/4 Dangerous, desperate love meets betrayal and murder in the turbulent world of Elsinore.
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14:00
Ian has a lot on his mind.
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In 1944, the young Muriel Spark worked in the ‘Black Propaganda’ Department of MI6.
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Randy Newman talks to John Wilson about Sail Away, the classic album of 45 years ago.
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14:30
Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set amongst 1960s Thames Barge-dwellers.
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Eric Robson and his panel of experts are joined by gardeners in Essex.
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Three exceptionally honest and revealing conversations.
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Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.
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Champagne sceptic Dan Saladino heads to the French region in search of mavericks of fizz.
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Jay Rayner and his panel of cooking and eating experts are in Dumfries.
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15:30
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
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What key financial skills do we need to get through life, and where should we learn them?
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Mark Porter investigates the evidence for whether dogs can accurately smell cancer.
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15:00
Helen Mark finds football and fairy stories in the landscape around Bradford.
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Kenneth Branagh makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Over The Wall.
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Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss dystopian novels.
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15:00
Eric Robson and his panel of experts are joined by gardeners in Essex.
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Writer Hugo Rifkind creates a short story in response to a topical news story.
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Janice Forsyth looks at Glasgow's vibrant theatre scene.
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2/2 As the Cuckoos' powers grow, so fears grow for their safety and the safety of others.
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Laura Barton presents a brief history of trousers, from function to fashion.
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Ernie Rea and guests discuss differing concepts of time in religious traditions.
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Cole Moreton searches for the unique but vanishing East End voice of his Nan’s generation.
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Helen Arney, scientist and geek songstress, nominates pioneer physicist Hertha Ayrton.
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The housing crisis. Also, squatting in Amsterdam.
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Who were the TV winners and losers over the festive period?
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Francine Stock talks to director Joe Wright about his Churchill bio-pic The Darkest Hour.
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Strange star seeks an explanation that doesn't involve alien civilisation
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Matthew Bannister on a designer, a businessman, a model, a writer, a producer.
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John Niven and Sali Hughes discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Sometimes being apart brings happiness you can't generate when you're together.
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16:00
Sobriety - a trend for 2018 or new way of life? Plus celebrating women's Christmas.
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James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to travel writer Colin Thubron about In Siberia
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Matthew Hollis follows Edward Thomas's 1913 journey into the south west and towards poetry
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Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:00
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:00
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:00
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:00
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:00
Full coverage of the day's news with Luke Jones.
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Listeners with a new identity in 2018. ipm@bbc.co.uk.
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17:54
The latest shipping forecast.
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17:57
The latest weather forecast.
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17:00
How do young Germans imagine a future after Angela Merkel?
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Mark Coles looks at the life and career of President Hassan Rouhani.
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The latest shipping forecast.
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The latest weather forecast.
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Twelve dead in protests in Iran. Four killed in separate stabbings in London.
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Paul Merton interviews Nicholas Parsons about his time as host of the popular panel show.
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Iran's supreme leader has spoken about the protests in which 22 people have died.
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5/6 Mark Steel visits Hull and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents.
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Theresa May has rejected claims that the health service is in crisis
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4/4 Jeremy Hardy is feeling hopeful. He not only seconds that emotion, but explains it too.
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18:00
Radical shake-up rewards environmental improvements
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1/6 An awkward phone call and the importance of good manners. The award-winning sketch show.
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18:00
The chairman of the Parole Board is to face MPs about rapist's release from prison.
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A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
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18:00
An NHS trust cites extreme pressure after death of woman
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Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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18:00
The prime minister has confirmed that she is about to reshuffle her Cabinet
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Broadcasters choose their BBC Radio highlights.
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How arts organisations root themselves in their local communities.
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1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries.
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Noluthando uses her initiative.
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The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row.
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2/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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Jolene gives some good advice.
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Neil Cross, creator of Luther, talks about his new BBC One series Hard Sun.
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3/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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Ian has a lot on his mind.
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Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Michelle Terry, and the Costa biography winner
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4/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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Pip prepares for a big night.
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Christopher Plummer on replacing Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.
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5/10 CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.
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Mark Coles looks at the life and career of President Hassan Rouhani.
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Digital arts: Crown Heights, The Boat, Google Cultural Institute, The Miniaturists.
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Ruth has a difficult question to raise.
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1/6 City boy Andy has come to his uncle's seaside home in search of a stress-free life.
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15/15 The story of a disappearance. Bertie Carvel concludes Jon McGregor's gripping story series
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Brian Cox, Robin Ince and special guests explore the science of magic.
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A journey up the 'suicidal' Pilcomayo river that separates Paraguay from Argentina.
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20:00
How do young Germans imagine a future after Angela Merkel?
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Dr Fred and Etta Reid talk to Peter White about their long-lasting relationship.
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20:00
Anne McElvoy and Gabrielle Rifkind are joined by Charles Moore and Hugh Muir.
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Karen Chapple discusses gentrification and how to keep our cities diverse.
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20:00
How can we best understand the protests in Iran and how will Tehran respond?
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Can Russia diversify its economy beyond the energy sector?
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The local community on how Hull's UK City of Culture year has affected them and their city
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The certainty of chance. Professor David Spiegelhalter investigates Luck.
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David Walliams on his life as a children's writer.
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Matthew Bannister on a designer, a businessman, a model, a writer, a producer.
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Broadcasting legend James Burke discusses the biggest change to humanity in 10,000 years.
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Monica McWilliams talks to Lyse Doucet about her role in the Good Friday Agreement.
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Mark Porter investigates the evidence for whether dogs can accurately smell cancer.
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Lyse Doucet talks to Madeha Al Ajroush about Saudi women's battles for the right to drive.
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Amol Rajan asks if England's old Imperial guidance and governance of cricket is history.
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Lyse Doucet meets Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland, the first elected female head of state
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Strange star seeks an explanation that doesn't involve alien civilisation
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Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Afghan politician and diplomat Shukria Barakzai.
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The Kaiser declares, 'We face, with firm confidence and an iron will, the year 1918.'.
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1/2 Bold new version of John Wyndham's science fiction classic.
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21:00
Paying for a holiday by credit card? From next week you may not be able to.
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Actress Adjoa Andoh makes an appeal on behalf of Opportunity International UK.
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Can Russia diversify its economy beyond the energy sector?
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22:00
Protests continue across Iran after a police officer is shot dead during a rally.
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22:45
6/10 Written by Matt Haig. William Manning tracks Tom down to the Globe Theatre.
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UN Ambassador Haley says Washington wants to amplify the voices of protesters.
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22:45
7/10 Read by Tom Hollander. Nowhere is safe for Tom, Rose and Marion for long.
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22:00
President turns on Steve Bannon after ex-adviser accuses president's son of 'treason'.
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Commentary on day one of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
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Washington suspends most if its security assistance to Pakistan over terror networks.
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Commentary on day two of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
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22:00
As Wolff defends Fire and Fury, will it make any difference to Trump's presidency?
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10/10 Written by Matt Haig and read by Tom Hollander. Who is the woman holding Tom at gunpoint?
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22:00
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
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22:15
Anne McElvoy and Gabrielle Rifkind are joined by Charles Moore and Hugh Muir.
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22:00
Carolyn Quinn and guests look forward to the political year ahead.
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23:00
Will Young presents his favourite bits of writing, music and art from Cabaret to King Lear
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23:00
Liam celebrates heroically ill-conceived technology of land, sea, space and cyberspace.
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Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
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Commentary on day three of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney
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Commentary on day four of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
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Commentary on day five of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, from Sydney.
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