| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Transgender body modifications and latent nationalism, subjects of two prize-winning books 00:45The bells of St Mary's Church, Andover, Hampshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5By Andrea Stuart. Exploring the painful contradictions of race, money and class. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5By Gary Younge. Despite having only spent four days there, 'home' was Barbados for Gary. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Gary Younge on his relationship to Stevenage and how the place he grew up in has evolved. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A young couple flee Belarus where their theatre has been shut down. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5By Kapka Kassabova. A Bulgarian Kiwi novelist finds her sense of home in Scotland. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Strange things happen when Henrik falls asleep on the train from Copenhagen.(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 with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Moira Hickey is in Skye to find out if crofting has a bright future. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Sarah Swadling discovers why it's just too wet for waders.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Anna Hill meets a family forced to sell their pedigree herd because of milk price cuts.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45After a decade of debate, plans for a supermarket adjudicator are finally revealed.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45How growing plants under LEDs could lead to farming in skyscrapers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea Rea. 05:45'They sing racist songs on the school bus' - John Humphrys' son on Greece's far right.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St George's Church, Poynton, Cheshire. 05:45The brash young leader of Greece's far left-wing bloc mobilising the anti-bailout vote.
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| 06:00 | 06:00John Humphrys in Athens and Evan Davis in Paris report on elections in Greece and France.
| 06:00Debating Aviva, underwear bomb plot and the coalition, with Ken Livingstone and Mike Leigh
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Debating police protests and strikes, Heathrow queues, social care and marriage equality.
| 06:00Debating Spanish banks, school budgets, adoption, espionage and tweeting to space.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Jules Hudson explores how the role of the farm vet has changed in recent years. 06:30Charlotte Smith hears from young farmers and students about a farming career. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully despairs for the state of modern architecture in his home city, New Delhi. 06:35Joanna Pinnock visits a display of one of Britain's most beautiful wild flowers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Samira Ahmed. 07:55Tommy Walsh presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Tools with a Mission. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From St Bartholomew's Church, Stranmillis, Belfast. Led by the Rev Dr Ron Elsdon. 08:50Will Self asks what can drive political leaders into the arms of the military.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Nick Harkaway, Anab Jain, Charles Arthur and Simon Ings. 09:451/5By Andrea Stuart. Exploring the painful contradictions of race, money and class.
| 09:00James Lovelock on elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and Gaia. 09:30Fi Glover talks to the founders of the new tech companies in Silicon Roundabout, Hackney. 09:452/5By Gary Younge. Despite having only spent four days there, 'home' was Barbados for Gary.
| 09:00With guests Dr Rodrigo Medellin, Hannah Rothschild, Michael Ashton and Sir Roger Carrick. 09:453/5Gary Younge on his relationship to Stevenage and how the place he grew up in has evolved.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making 09:454/5A young couple flee Belarus where their theatre has been shut down.
| 09:00Musician and comedian Tim Minchin is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5By Kapka Kassabova. A Bulgarian Kiwi novelist finds her sense of home in Scotland.
| 09:00Sian Williams, Richard Coles and historian Peter Hennessy; Joan Baez's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Lone parenting, Siobhan Benita, and the art of exaggeration. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Maddie publicly identifies the man who raped her but soon regrets involving the police.
| 10:00Gok Wan cooks Chinese food; Sapphire's new novel; taste gurus. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Naively, Maddie hopes for the quick conviction of her attacker.
| 10:00Tamsin Greig on the new series of Episodes; Lone Parent Week; Mrs Robinson's Disgrace. 10:453/5Maddie begins to regret having involved the police in the rape case.
| 10:00Penny Junor on her latest book about Prince William, and dating if you're a single parent. 10:454/5Maddie's decision to identify her rapist divides her friends.
| 10:00Jenni Murray takes your calls about single parenting in the regular phone-in. 10:455/5The rapist's tear-stricken testimony makes an impression on an already credulous jury.
| 10:30Will Young explores the hidden world of industrial musicals(R)
| 10:00There's a homecoming in the village. Meanwhile Usha tries to make amends.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Peter and Dan Snow on how the Royal Flying Corps went from balloons to long-range bombers. 11:305/6What will happen to his family when Harvey's racist mum, Lou, has to move in?
| 11:00Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II. 11:30The extraordinary story of how classic Irish folk songs were saved from extinction.
| 11:00Alan Dein delves into the mysterious deaths of five dogs in the same West Yorkshire street 11:301/4The bizarre (and untrue) celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.
| 11:00Lucy Ash visits Russia's Arctic where reindeer herders and gas companies compete for land. 11:30Jonathan Glancey explores how libraries in Europe and the USA are being reinvented.
| 11:00When is typical teen angst something more serious? Miranda Sawyer investigates. 11:305/6Milton leaves the world of theatre and dance to pursue his dream of becoming a miner.(R)
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie introduces reports from the BBC's foreign correspondents across the world.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews professor of psychiatry Baroness Sheila Hollins.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Designer Paul Costelloe joins Julian for a live shopping special from Westfield Stratford. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Julian Worricker looks at cancer care - attitudes, treatments and cost affects care. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The Ofsted inspectors paid by schools for advice and the pitfalls of renting out your home 12:30Why PHS Wastetech, a leading workplace services firm, is in legal dispute with 92 clients. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Cheaper roaming charges for mobiles, failing academies, and spoof reviews on the internet. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Singer Billy Bragg on whether England should have its own national anthem. 12:52Darren and Jeremy from Cardiff discuss love, marriage and football. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis looks at a PPI refund, Which's Big Switch, savings rates and HMRC call costs. 12:306/9Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Fred Macaulay and Bridget Christie join Sandi Toksvig. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:006/6With Miles Jupp, Susan Calman, Marcus Brigstocke and Alan Davies. David Mitchell hosts. 12:32What is the future for one of the world's most successful and controversial crops, soya? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:4516/20A striking clock reveals the changing relationship Shakespeare's audiences had to time.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:4517/20Early 17th-century proclamations reveal the impact of the 1603 plague outbreak.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:4518/20Neil MacGregor surveys the triumphal arches created for James I's entry into London.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:4519/20A human eyeball in a silver setting gives a striking insight into the theatre of cruelty.
| 13:00National and international news and analysis with Edward Stourton. 13:4520/20How a folio of collected plays in 1623 began the creation of a global phenomenon.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
| 13:00Edward Stourton presents the latest national and international news. 13:30The creator of longest running strip 'Bristow' is celebrated by fellow cartoonists.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Usha puts her foot in it. Meanwhile Alice has to change her plans. 14:15Comedy drama about John Le Mesurier, Arthur Lowe and the making of Dad's Army.
| 14:00There's a homecoming in the village. Meanwhile Alan offers some comfort. 14:15The son of a renowned Nazi hunter attempts to retrieve a stolen Matisse painting.
| 14:00David hears of a development and Pip gets an offer. 14:15A young mother tries to make sense of her father's abuse of her in the past.
| 14:00Tracy considers relative values. Meanwhile Pat wants to pull back. 14:15Emma is happy hiding behind her postcards until new temp Maxine arrives at the office.(R)
| 14:00Ifty does some talent-spotting but is Will going to be jealous? 14:15LS Lowry's obsessive relationship with his bed-ridden mother. Stars Lynda Baron.
| 14:00Call Jonathan Dimbleby on 03700 100 444, email any.answers@bbc.co.uk or tweet #bbcaq. 14:30Northern Broadsides theatre company's version of Shakespeare's tragedy of love turned sour(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel are garden trouble-shooting at Malvern Spring Gardening Show. 14:45Fi Glover presents encounters from Cardiff, Lincolnshire and Reading, via Northern Ireland
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| 15:00 | 15:003/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Nutritious, tasty but overlooked, Sheila Dillon asks if seaweed is the food of the future?
| 15:00Tom Holland presents the popular history magazine programme. 15:30Coal is the dirtiest fuel, but consumption is rising. Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:00The finances of childcare - Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer your calls. 15:30Claudia visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe that runs as a therapeutic community
| 15:00Jules Hudson explores how the role of the farm vet has changed in recent years. 15:27Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Bag Books. 15:30Ross Raisin and James Naughtie discuss Ross' debut novel, God's Own Country.
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel are garden trouble-shooting at Malvern Spring Gardening Show. 15:453/3Ceri would like to give her two young children toys, but their father has other plans.
| | 15:002/2Nick's neighbour, Gatsby, asks him to engineer a meeting with his lost love Daisy.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Ian Kelly explores the drama and architecture of food. 16:30Is control over one's digital life an illusion? And what happens if control is lost?
| 16:00Michael Rosen tackles the language of chuggers and street vendors. Which words work best? 16:30Eric Pickles chooses Hollywood director John Ford.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the fortunes of Hebden Bridge. Also, a social history of neighbours 16:30BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch - join the Twitter conversation on #r4mediashow.
| 16:00Francine Stock interviews Jonny Lee Miller, Nigel Havers, Paul Laverty and Julie Delpy. 16:30Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Vidal Sassoon, Angelica Garnett, Maurice Sendak and Lloyd Brevett. 16:30Executive pay, chess and trouble on the Greek railway. 16:55Thirteen-year-old Millie chats with her grandfather, Douglas, about his travelling past.
| 16:30Being a single parent, Gok Wan cooks chinese, and Tamsin Greig on kissing Matt LeBlanc.
| 16:00Jackie Kay on her new collection of short stories, Reality, Reality. 16:30First in a new series. Roger McGough is joined by Wendy Cope.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports headlines. 17:30'They sing racist songs on the school bus' - John Humphrys' son on Greece's far right. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Tom Mangold investigates a murder in Kentucky that local police couldn't or wouldn't solve 17:40The brash young leader of Greece's far left-wing bloc mobilising the anti-bailout vote. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6With Miles Jupp, Susan Calman, Marcus Brigstocke and Alan Davies. David Mitchell hosts.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Stan is to rent out Ed's flat for the Olympics, despite being nowhere near the stadium.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Somewhere, over the rainbow, there is a bunch of idiots from Woodstock.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Tom asks if low-cost airlines are all they are cracked up to be.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/9Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Fred Macaulay and Bridget Christie join Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Russell Watson and Lesley Sharp, with music from JD McPherson.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Catherine Bott makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00There's a homecoming in the village. Meanwhile Alan offers some comfort. 19:15John Wilson meets musician Damon Albarn in his studio, as he prepares for a busy summer. 19:4516/20A striking clock reveals the changing relationship Shakespeare's audiences had to time.
| 19:00David hears of a development and Pip gets an offer. 19:15With Mark Lawson. Mel Gibson on screen; pianist Mitsuko Uchida; actress Maxine Peake. 19:4517/20Early 17th-century proclamations reveal the impact of the 1603 plague outbreak.
| 19:00Tracy considers relative values. Meanwhile Pat wants to pull back. 19:15Trainspotting screenwriter and playwright John Hodge; Naxos Records; Edward VIII deposed. 19:4518/20Neil MacGregor surveys the triumphal arches created for James I's entry into London.
| 19:00Ifty does some talent-spotting but is Will going to be jealous? 19:15Hilary Mantel on her sequel to Wolf Hall, Tim Burton on Dark Shadows, and 56 Up reviewed. 19:4519/20A human eyeball in a silver setting gives a striking insight into the theatre of cruelty.
| 19:00Brian looks to the future. 19:15Anish Kapoor's giant Olympic sculpture, the Coronation Street musical, and the Proclaimers 19:4520/20How a folio of collected plays in 1623 began the creation of a global phenomenon.
| 19:00The brash young leader of Greece's far left-wing bloc mobilising the anti-bailout vote. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests with sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.
| 19:00Alan ministers to one of his flock. 19:151/4Rory Bremner and team return for another series of topical satire. 19:451/3Things go awry for a traveller when his bags go missing at the airport.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Michael Palin introduces Humphrey Barclay, who has become an African chief. 20:30A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
| 20:00Tom Mangold investigates a murder in Kentucky that local police couldn't or wouldn't solve 20:40Peter talks to the blind Chineese dissident Chen Guangcheng in a Beijing hospital
| 20:002/3Journalists debate with Andrew Rawnsley what leading articles about the news should say. 20:45Matthew Syed says the importance of talent over effort should not be over-emphasised.
| 20:00Will charities be hit as hard as they claim by cuts to tax relief on donations? 20:30Britain's big four banks are being challenged by newcomers. Peter Day investigates.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Woodstock, Oxfordshire. 20:50Will Self asks what can drive political leaders into the arms of the military.
| 20:00Alan Dein tells the story of pioneering oral historian Tony Parker.
| 20:00Executive pay, chess and trouble on the Greek railway. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Vidal Sassoon, Angelica Garnett, Maurice Sendak and Lloyd Brevett.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Science magazine programme. 21:30Andrew Marr with Nick Harkaway, Anab Jain, Charles Arthur and Simon Ings.
| 21:00Claudia visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe that runs as a therapeutic community 21:30James Lovelock on elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and Gaia.
| 21:00Coal is the dirtiest fuel, but consumption is rising. Tom Heap investigates. 21:30With guests Dr Rodrigo Medellin, Hannah Rothschild, Michael Ashton and Sir Roger Carrick.
| 21:00Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
| 21:00By Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. Satirical look at the Wapping dispute.
| 21:001/2Nick Carraway arrives in wealthy Long Island.
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at a PPI refund, Which's Big Switch, savings rates and HMRC call costs. 21:26Tommy Walsh presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Tools with a Mission. 21:30Britain's big four banks are being challenged by newcomers. Peter Day investigates.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis, with Robin Lustig. 22:451/10The occasional reappearances of his wife help a widower come to terms with her death.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. 22:452/10Aaron Woolcott reveals how a freak accident claimed the life of his wife Dorothy.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10After his wife's death, Aaron returns to their home and throws himself into his work.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Aaron faces up to the extent of the tree's damage to his home.
| 22:00Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. 22:455/10Slowly, as the repairs to his home start to take shape, Aaron's grief begins to ease.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Matthew Syed says the importance of talent over effort should not be over-emphasised. 22:302/3Redeeming the irredeemable? The Bishop of Liverpool talks to offenders and victims.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dennis Sewell of the Spectator analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen investigates the world of interpreting. 23:30The new expanding sound world of Russian virtuoso balalaika player, Alexey Arhipovskiy.(R)
| 23:002/3The Anemone and the Goby Fish reveal the truth about life between the tides. 23:30Christopher Maltman debates the place of folk song in the classical recital repertoire.(R)
| 23:006/6A rival music teacher starts work at the arts centre. 23:156/6Phil Cornwell as a New York ex-pat with a special line of work in 'waste disposal'.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports on the reaction from MPs and peers to the Queen's Speech.
| 23:001/4Rory Bremner and team return for another series of topical satire. 23:30Sean Curran with the best of the day's debates in the Commons and the Lords.
| 23:00Eric Pickles chooses Hollywood director John Ford. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. 23:55A mother and son on how their family was torn apart in sectarian Northern Ireland.
| 23:003/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 23:30Paul Farley seeks out the famous visitor who interrupted Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan
| 23:00Francine Stock interviews Jonny Lee Miller, Nigel Havers, Paul Laverty and Julie Delpy. 23:30Mark Tully despairs for the state of modern architecture in his home city, New Delhi.
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