| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor talks to speakers at the 2012 British Sociological Association conference. 00:45The bells of Worcester Cathedral. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A moving and humorous selection of letters from a despairing father to his wayward son. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Charlie is regretting his impetuous decision to join the Coldstream Guards. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Roger despairs of ever writing a serious letter to his wayward son, Charlie. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5As Charlie drifts from job to job, his dad writes with admonishment and amusing tales. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Despairing Roger's letters to his son. Read by David Horovitch. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3By Gerard Woodward. It was the pride of the American railroad - if you could find it.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection presented by the Rev Gillean Maclean. 05:45Local butchers warn that they will go out of business because of red tape. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection presented by the Rev Gillean Maclean. 05:45Anna Hill hears what's being done to tackle Britain's bee diseases, including varroa.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection presented by the Rev Gillean Maclean. 05:45Fruit growers in some regions of the UK are seeing the worst crop in decades.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection presented by the Rev Gillean Maclean. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears about plans to grow twice as much food on UK farms within 20 years.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection presented by the Rev Gillean Maclean. 05:45Robotic farms in the future - agricultural engineers say they will be able feed the world.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ranjit Singh Dhanda. 05:45'I grew up in a factory making explosives.' A listener remembers wartime munitions work.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. 05:45Sir Terry Farrell says architects can solve the problems of Britain's public spaces.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Is Italy next in line for a euro bailout? Plus the gangs of Brixton, and cyber-bullying.
| 06:00The C of E and same sex marriage, EU fishing policy, London's GAS gang and Martin Amis.
| 06:00Affordable housing, a woman who fought and won against a London gang, and modern gentlemen
| 06:00Child poverty, online monitoring, Syria death toll, mental health and gang branding.
| 06:00Economic stimulus, banking reform, London gangs and Falklands sovereignty.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare walks with veteran long-distance walker Scott Cunningham and his 'best mate', Travis 06:30Bees to butterflies - Charlotte Smith investigates the threats faced by UK pollinators. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully improvises on the spirituality of jazz, one of his favourite forms of music. 06:35Charlotte Smith meets the founder of Open Farm Sunday, in Hertfordshire. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Campbell on Murdoch's phone call to Blair, plus should we force-feed people with anorexia?
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Head teacher Matt Dickson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Place2Be. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A Mass celebrating Leeds Cathedral's new choir school in Chapeltown, Leeds. 08:50Adam Gopnik celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, Niall Ferguson and Juliet Gardiner. 09:451/5A moving and humorous selection of letters from a despairing father to his wayward son.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili meets John Pickett, whose recent work on GM wheat caused a public debate. 09:30Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Charles Hanson about being convicted for the murder of his wife 09:452/5Charlie is regretting his impetuous decision to join the Coldstream Guards.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by author Lynda La Plante and seahorse expert Amanda Vincent. 09:453/5Roger despairs of ever writing a serious letter to his wayward son, Charlie.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses. 09:454/5As Charlie drifts from job to job, his dad writes with admonishment and amusing tales.
| 09:00Campaigner Doreen Lawrence is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Despairing Roger's letters to his son. Read by David Horovitch.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Natalie Haynes in London and Mark Lawson in Dublin. 09:108.00am on the 16th June 1904. Stephen Dedalus looks out over Dublin Bay. 09:308.15am. Stephen, Mulligan and Haines share breakfast before a walk along the strand.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Kevin Connolly.
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| 10:00 | 10:00What's the impact of winning Olympic gold? Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Eugenia. 10:451/5Diane Samuels' story of Joan Allen and her solo flight from England to Singapore in 1948.
| 10:00Sex and disability; new lesbian writers; stillbirths. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Joan is about to begin her solo flight half way across the world. First stop is France.
| 10:00Featuring olympic football hopeful Alex Scott and horticultural pioneer Joy Larkcom. 10:453/5After an unscheduled stop in gorgeous Cannes, Joan attempts to make up for lost time.
| 10:00Celebrating the father daughter relationship. How our dads shape our lives. 10:454/5Hoping the technical problems are behind her now, Joan heads for Baghdad.
| 10:00More than a quarter of people in employment in the UK are in part-time jobs. 10:455/5Singapore is within sight, and Joan's flight is bringing back happy and painful memories.
| 10:1510.00am. Stephen collects his wages from the headmaster, Mr Deasy. 10:308.00am. Leopold Bloom cooks himself a pork kidney for breakfast.
| 10:00Jamie makes a conquest. Meanwhile Alan worries for Amy's safety.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Tim Franks measures the impact of taking part in one memorable Olympic event in 1972. 11:301/6Mark Steel visits the Northumberland town to find out what makes it distinctive(R)
| 11:00Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer. 11:30Cerys Matthews indulges her passion for the seminal British blues record label.
| 11:00Alan connects with a 66-year-old Texan widow and an 18-year-old poker player in London. 11:302/4June Whitfield is a retired politician engaging with TV.
| 11:00Kate Adie gathers despatches from Spain, Burma, Libya, Poland and India. 11:30The origins of Maurice Sendak's children's classic "Where the Wild Things Are" revealed(R)
| 11:00Katie Derham celebrates synchronised swimming, from Busby Berkeley to the 2012 Olympics. 11:304/6The team are horrified that the media have been invited to Malcolm's citizenship ceremony.
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie presents stories by the BBC's foreign correspondents from around the globe.
| 11:15Egyptian novelist and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Doctors' tribunals, dads of disabled children and tackling annoying noises. 12:45James Naughtie assesses the mountaineer who conquered Mount Everest. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00What's the best way to help troubled families? 12:45James Naughtie on the food writer who brought European cuisine to British tables. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Contractors 'down tools' on Green Deal and the rise and rise of the own label food brand. 12:45James Naughtie on the novelist who was a master of moral guilt and cold war intrigue. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Debt collectors who are hounding people for money they don't owe. With Winifred Robinson. 12:45James looks at the energetic and innovative founder of Which? and the Open University. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Regenerating our towns and 200 years of gas in our homes - consumer news with Peter White. 12:45James Naughtie sees how Vladimir Raitz pioneered the package holiday. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:0011.00am. Stephen walks on Sandymount Strand. 12:302/7Jon Holmes, Ava Vidal, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
| 12:005/12Nicholas Parsons chairs the game where no hesitation repetition or deviation is allowed. 12:32Sheila Dillon launches the search for the winners of the 2012 BBC Food and Farming Awards. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:4511/20Richard Holloway discusses the work of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:4512/20Richard Holloway looks at how four Victorian believers struggled with doubt.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:4513/20Richard Holloway focuses on 'the forensics of doubt'.
| 13:00National and international news and analysis with Martha Kearney. 13:4514/20Richard Holloway focuses on writer Thomas Hardy and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment presented by Edward Stourton in London and Shaun Ley in Greece. 13:4515/20Richard Holloway discusses the possibility of morality in a godless world.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Bishop's Stortford.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Miles Jupp investigates the appeal of mind-bending crime novels set in locked rooms.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Jamie makes a conquest at the Single Wicket Competition. 14:15Who is the mysterious Page of Wands and will Peggy's life change forever? Comedy drama.
| 14:15A young Iranian student must try to prove he is gay to claim asylum in the UK.
| 14:00Iftikar is under pressure. 14:15A London family discover that digging another room under their flat isn't so simple.
| 14:00Alan worries for Amy's safety. 14:15A blinded man tries to come to terms with his disability by joining a blind cricket team.(R)
| 14:00Usha's patience wears thin and Neil can't believe his eyes. 14:15By Alan Pollock. Philip Larkin and his father holiday in Germany in 1937.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Stephen, seeking paid work, explains his theory of Hamlet at the National Library.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the team are garden trouble-shooting in South Gloucestershire. 14:45Encounters from Scotland, Cheshire and a British Library view of the Project.
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| 15:00 | 15:008/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon explores the world of the modern British tomato. Has flavour made a return?
| 15:00Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history magazine. 15:30Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss truth, lies and honesty.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests take calls on charitable giving. 15:30The senior executive and her female stalker; babies as jokers; sports participation.
| 15:00Clare walks with veteran long-distance walker Scott Cunningham and his 'best mate', Travis 15:27Surgeon Steven Mannion presents an appeal on behalf of the charity CBM UK Ltd. 15:30The best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost classics.
| 15:00Eric Robson and the team are garden trouble-shooting in South Gloucestershire. 15:452/3AL Kennedy on the warmth of the reception she met on a slow train across to California.
| 15:30Cerys Matthews indulges her passion for the seminal British blues record label.
| 15:001/2Drama looking at the last days of Jerusalem from two very different perspectives.
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| 16:00 | 16:00If all the world's a stage, how do actors face old age dramas? Simon Fanshawe investigates 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores whether serendipity can exist in the digital world?
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg asks why in Britain and the US judges and politicians are at loggerheads. 16:30Michele Hanson and Roger Highfield discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00A special programme linked to a landmark study of 'kinship'. 16:30Reporting from Syria; Greg Dyke on BBC Breakfast in Salford; NewsCorp forced to sell Sun?
| 16:00David Cronenberg on his latest, Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson. 16:30Quentin Cooper looks at how mathematical genius Alan Turing helped form the digital age.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Jean McFarlane, Phillip Tobias, Warda Al Jazairia and Barry Unsworth. 16:30The secret life of a continuity announcer, and what went wrong at Choral Evensong? 16:55Mark tells his daughter Sophie about taking part in the Moscow and LA Olympic Games.
| 16:00Being brought up by dad, and what it's really like to win Olympic Gold. With Jane Garvey.
| 16:00How London has inspired writing and writers across the centuries. 16:30Roger McGough presents poetry requests, including readings by the Irish poet Paul Durcan.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair 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.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports headlines. 17:265.00pm. Bloom has an argument with the Citizen which climaxes in a mock-heroic battle. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Jane Deith asks if the official figures for hospital waiting times can be trusted. 17:403/8Eoin McNamee responds to this week's news in a drama set against the backdrop of Euro 2012 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/12Nicholas Parsons chairs the game where no hesitation repetition or deviation is allowed.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Lifejacket, camera, action! Stardom beckons for one of the crew of MJN Air.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Susan Calman, Miles Jupp and Shaun Pye present the best in terrible ideas.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Yorkshire poet Geoff Allerton and his amateur journalist pal Duncan are at the Mallard.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/7Jon Holmes, Ava Vidal, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by the actors Niamh Cusack, Jaime Winstone and Tony Hawks.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Mark Lawson reports on an exhibition of invisible art, and meets actor Janet Suzman. 19:451/5Diane Samuels' story of Joan Allen and her solo flight from England to Singapore in 1948.
| 19:00Iftikar is under pressure. 19:15Alan Howard interviewed; a visit to the Hepworth Gallery; TV drama True Love reviewed. 19:452/5Joan is about to begin her solo flight half way across the world. First stop is France.
| 19:00Alan worries for Amy's safety. 19:15Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages; Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Afghan War fiction. 19:453/5After an unscheduled stop in gorgeous Cannes, Joan attempts to make up for lost time.
| 19:00Usha's patience wears thin and Neil can't believe his eyes. 19:15Artist Rachel Whiteread; Dallas is back; Watts Gallery competes for the Art Fund Prize. 19:454/5Hoping the technical problems are behind her now, Joan heads for Baghdad.
| 19:00Darrell thinks his days are numbered. 19:15Kirsty Lang reports from Exeter on a shortlisted contender for the Art Fund Prize. 19:455/5Singapore is within sight, and Joan's flight is bringing back happy and painful memories.
| 19:003/8Eoin McNamee responds to this week's news in a drama set against the backdrop of Euro 2012 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Open Farm Sunday goes with a bang. 19:152/6With guest panellists, crime writer Mark Billingham and journalist Jane Thynne.(R) 19:452/3Bill Burtenshaw finds he is put off drink for life by the ghost of an old shipmate.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/4Michael Portillo discovers the Georgian period was not as elegant as we tend to believe. 20:30Paul Johnson asks why young school leavers face such difficulty finding stable jobs.
| 20:00Jane Deith asks if the official figures for hospital waiting times can be trusted. 20:40The closure of Dorton School, and the increasing number of attacks on guide dogs.
| 20:00Michael Buerk and guests look at the morality of money. 20:45Sir Terry Farrell says architects can solve the problems of Britain's public spaces.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg asks why in Britain and the US judges and politicians are at loggerheads. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss temptation marketing and the psychology of competition.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Bishop's Stortford. 20:50Adam Gopnik celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles.
| 20:00Between 8.00pm and the hour after midnight. Bloom rescues Stephen from a street brawl.
| 20:00The secret life of a continuity announcer, and what went wrong at Choral Evensong? 20:30Matthew Bannister on Jean McFarlane, Phillip Tobias, Warda Al Jazairia and Barry Unsworth.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Legionnaires' bacteriology, why Venus is good for science and the true illusion of stripes 21:30Andrew Marr with Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, Niall Ferguson and Juliet Gardiner.
| 21:00The senior executive and her female stalker; babies as jokers; sports participation. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili meets John Pickett, whose recent work on GM wheat caused a public debate.
| 21:00Andrea Sella on the race to find a cheap inorganic way to mimic nature's green stuff. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by author Lynda La Plante and seahorse expert Amanda Vincent.
| 21:00Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.
| 21:003/4Richard moves into the 19th century, looking at the work of some of the Romantic poets.
| | 21:00Peter Day looks at the investment possibilities of 'diaspora bonds'. 21:26Head teacher Matt Dickson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Place2Be. 21:30Paul Johnson asks why young school leavers face such difficulty finding stable jobs.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/10Hurricane Katrina is forming. In rural Mississippi, Skeetah's dog China is giving birth.
| 22:00Only two days after its bailout, financial markets turn up the heat on Spain. 22:452/10Skeetah, Big Henry and Esch buy dog food, but Esch needs to steal something from the store
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:453/10One of China's puppies is sick. The boys meet in the woods and Esch reaches out to Manny.
| 22:00News and analysis from a global perspective with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Esch endures seeing Manny with his girlfriend, and her father worries about the hurricane.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:455/10Emotions run high at Randall's basketball game, when Manny discovers that Esch is pregnant
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Mark Lawson and his guests discuss the powerful influence of James Joyce's Ulysses.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Andrew Grice of the Independent analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss the idea of heaven on Earth. 23:30Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:004/4In the late 1940s, the master dupes two brothers entranced by Lenin, Marx and Trotsky.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Scientist Ben loses his watch and logs on to a dating website. With Reece Shearsmith. 23:151/4Bernard the Blue enlists Mordrin to help tackle a fiery meteor that is heading for Earth. 23:30Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:00Comedy sketch show starring Daniel Rigby, Henry Paker, Mike Wozniak and Sara Pascoe. 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Michele Hanson and Roger Highfield discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster. 23:55Nick and Philip on how changing attitudes to gay men mean they can now declare their love.
| 23:00It is well after midnight when Bloom takes Stephen home and offers him cocoa.
| 23:00David Cronenberg on his latest, Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson. 23:30Mark Tully improvises on the spirituality of jazz, one of his favourite forms of music.
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