| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Industrial ruination - a global study into urban decline. Also, gang labour in the UK. 00:45The bells of Worcester Cathedral. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Simon Morrison's biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Simon Morrison's biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3On a Scottish loch, an academic does a lot of rowing and has a proper talk with his son.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. 05:45Dairy companies have been given until April 1st to comply with the Voluntary Dairy Code. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. 05:45Tweets from the tractor cab - Sarah Swadling explores farmers' use of social media.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. 05:45'Worse than Foot and Mouth' - a Welsh hill farmer tells of the devastation wrought by snow
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. 05:45After tens of thousands of sheep perish in the snow drifts, will lamb go up in the shops?
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. 05:45Bee deaths and neonicotinoids - politicians call for pesticide companies to share research
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual comment and prayer to start the day 05:45'The great certainty' - why we don't talk about death and how we should.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Stephen's Church, Brannel, Cornwall. 05:45Amazon has changed the world. Now its founder Jeff Bezos has his sights on the stars.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark is in Scottish Dumfries and Galloway for their 10th annual Wild Spring Festival 06:30A new fairness code for the dairy industry comes into force. Will it really help farmers? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy explores the significance of the Pietà in art and life. With Antony Gormley. 06:35Welsh hill farmers' desperate fight against snowdrifts, as they try to save their sheep. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. 07:55Ronni Ancona presents an appeal for the Environmental Investigation Agency. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service from St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth. Preacher: Canon Stuart Bell. 08:50Topical issues. Every nation has a core irrationality, or so says Adam Gopnik.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray. 09:451/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife.
| 09:001/3What is news? From sensation to public service, bulletins to the culture of rolling news. 09:301/5Jan and Evie were reunited through Facebook, after being separated for 60 years. 09:452/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the Francis Report into NHS failings at Stafford 09:30Ian McMillan goes in search of how to write a memoir and exactly where to start.(R) 09:453/5Simon Morrison's moving biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation. 09:454/5Simon Morrison's biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife.
| 09:00Sir Sydney Kentridge QC is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Simon Morrison's biography of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's remarkable wife.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Imogen Stubbs and Mick Fleetwood's Inheritance Tracks
| 09:00The Sunday morning magazine programme with Britain's best newspaper review.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey looks at the position of women in the Christian faith. 10:451/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell supports a man whose wife has just been abducted.
| 10:00The views of teenage fans of US sitcom Friends, and a discussion on the appeal of running. 10:452/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell is helping Martin deal with his wife's abduction.
| 10:00Trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, author Daisy Waugh, and Naomi Gryn on giving birth after 40. 10:453/5The kidnappers demand that Jackie delivers the ransom money in person.
| 10:00Tanika Gupta's new play explores the lives of women who worked as ayahs. 10:454/5Jackie has to make Martin realise that he is going to have to tell his wife all he knows.
| 10:00PowerLister Sue Ion goes back to school, plus Jenny Pitman on the Grand National. 10:455/5Jackie Hartwell finally gets Martin to reveal the awful truth.
| 10:30As Tom Lehrer celebrates his 85th birthday, we celebrate his witty and influential songs.
| 10:00Brenda feels under pressure, and Elizabeth is taken by surprise.
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| 11:00 | 11:003/3Who do you want to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy? 11:301/4American comedian Rita Rudner's sitcom. She returns to the UK with chaotic results!
| 11:00The neglected and gripping story of the founder of Behaviourism, Dr John Watson. 11:30Julie Fowlis is on a mission to celebrate and preserve her culture through Gaelic song.
| 11:00Adrian Goldberg tries to work out what the Black Country is - and where it is. 11:301/6Milton Jones, Susie Dent, Alun Cochrane and Natalie Haynes vie for verbal supremacy.
| 11:00Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the brutal civil war in Nepal are still raw. 11:30Jarvis Cocker explains his love for one of literature's most extraordinary figures.(R)
| 11:00We bring to light the musicality, rituals and personal stories of the spring clean. 11:301/4Recently widowed Tony is introduced to dating website FindthePerfectPartner4u.com.
| 11:00Our ancestors can teach us a thing or two. Bridget Kendall and guests discuss. 11:30The debate over Japan's nuclear power industry, and other correspondents' stories.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five people who played key parts in the early years of Doctor Who.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Should we involve children and young people in decisions that affect them? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00How the new test for disability benefit will work. Plus, representing yourself in court. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Overcrowded housing and the impact of Amazon's purchase of Goodreads. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The garden centres kept alive by sales of coffees and flapjacks, plus silencing noisy cars 12:52A father and son reflect on the horror of a violent robbery that changed their lives. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Finance news with Paul Lewis. A record energy company fine, but who can get compensation? 12:308/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic run through the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:008/8Jason Manford, Paul Merton, Graham Norton and Sue Perkins try to talk for 60 seconds. 12:32Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, returns to India and tells her food life story. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:4511/30Prof David Hendy explores how the sound of the bell carries religion out into the world.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4512/30David Hendy explains how sound played a part in the medieval battle between good and evil.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4513/30David explores how medieval singers and preachers adapted to the acoustics of holy places.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4514/30Prof David Hendy tells the story of a medieval street party that lasted for eight weeks.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4515/30New codes of conduct in the 16th and 17th centuries outlawed noise of every kind.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30Spain's current economic crisis is seeing the return of flamenco as a form of protest.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Easter Day inspires rivalry. 14:151/2William and Sandy track down a missing dog and a philandering variety artiste.(R)
| 14:00Chris has a lot on his mind. 14:151/4Robbie used to be a professional jazz pianist. Now he is a miserable music teacher.
| 14:00Brenda feels under pressure. 14:152/4On the verge of the quartet's first gig, the lead singer's home-life collapses.
| 14:153/4As the band prepare for their gig, drummer Iain is given potentially life-changing news.
| 14:00Kathy shares her insights. 14:154/4As the band try to get a gig, bass player Stuart finds his home and livelihood in jeopardy
| 14:00Topics include welfare reform, North Korea, former HBOS bosses, and hate crime. 14:30Noel Coward's play follows a few days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine.
| 14:00In this special postbag edition, Peter Gibbs and the team visit Bob Flowerdew's garden. 14:45Fi Glover with the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
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| 15:00 | 15:002/6Three University of Exeter students take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon looks at the practice of fasting from a religious and medical perspective.
| 15:005/6Michael Blastland invites us to discover the way we think, behave and make decisions. 15:30Alice Roberts finds urban wasteland being transformed into productive agricultural sites.
| 15:00Getting a fair deal from your bank? Paul Lewis answers questions about personal banking. 15:30Dr Mark Porter reports on the latest health stories, including the new NHS 111 number.
| 15:00Helen Mark is in Scottish Dumfries and Galloway for their 10th annual Wild Spring Festival 15:27Thandie Newton presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Freedom from Torture. 15:30Patrick Ness talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel The Crane Wife.
| 15:00In this special postbag edition, Peter Gibbs and the team visit Bob Flowerdew's garden. 15:452/3By Mary Teague. Tender tale about the creation of a garden and the growth of a love affair
| | 15:002/2One wintery Saturday in wartime Britain, an exiled girl remembers a holiday romance.
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| 16:00 | 16:00If you could speak to a writer who changed your life, what would you say? 16:30On April Fool's Day, Aleks examines if mischief is an essential part of the online world.
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks who we are really talking to when we talk to ourselves. 16:30Peter Hitchens nominates George Bell, who condemned the bombing of Germany.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores gender and the military as women go into the frontline of battle. 16:30Melvyn Bragg talks to Steve Hewlett about arts coverage on TV. How important is it?
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Harmony Korine about his new film Spring Breakers. 16:30Are international treaties keeping up with new biological and chemical weapons?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister remembers Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henri Krug, Mabel Cooper and Moses Blah. 16:30Is Radio 4 an ageless beauty? And why was fantasy drama Neverwhere nowhere to be found? 16:55Two cousins remember the day when the Real IRA bombed their town of Omagh.
| 16:00Jane Garvey presents highlights from the Woman's Hour week.
| 16:00Elif Shafak discusses her bestselling novel The Forty Rules of Love. 16:30Lakshmi Holmstrom introduces poetry from Sri Lanka's bitter three-decade civil war.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'The great certainty' - why we don't talk about death and how we should. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Matthew Hill asks what is happening to Britain's public services. 17:40Amazon has changed the world. Now its founder Jeff Bezos has his sights on the stars. 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. 18:308/8Jason Manford, Paul Merton, Graham Norton and Sue Perkins try to talk for 60 seconds.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Comedian Thom Tuck draws parallels between his own life and the work of Steven Seagal.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Alun takes us on a stand-up tour of his house.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Comedian and activist Mark Thomas heads to Dorset for some suggestions.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:308/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic run through the week's news.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson meets Lynda La Plante, Ian Anderson, Lembit Opik and Murray Lachlan Young.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Christopher Douglas chooses the best from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Chris has a lot on his mind. 19:15Kirsty Lang reports on how British cultural projects aim to find new markets in China. 19:451/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell supports a man whose wife has just been abducted.
| 19:00Brenda feels under pressure. 19:15Museum of the Year award contenders, Greg Bellow on his father Saul, and A Late Quartet. 19:452/5Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell is helping Martin deal with his wife's abduction.
| 19:15Julian Barnes discusses his new book Levels of Life, in conversation with Mark Lawson. 19:453/5The kidnappers demand that Jackie delivers the ransom money in person.
| 19:00Kathy shares her insights. 19:15Richard Bean on Smack Family Robinson; Olga Kurylenko on Oblivion; crime drama Arne Dahl. 19:454/5Jackie has to make Martin realise that he is going to have to tell his wife all he knows.
| 19:00Pat and Tony come to a decision. 19:15John Wilson reports on the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam after 10 years. 19:455/5Jackie Hartwell finally gets Martin to reveal the awful truth.
| 19:00Amazon has changed the world. Now its founder Jeff Bezos has his sights on the stars. 19:15Julian Barnes's novel Levels of Life; new film A Late Quartet with Christopher Walken.
| 19:151/4The bizarre (and untrue) celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.(R) 19:451/3A young girl picks up her father's binoculars and observes the neighbours across the road.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Embley looks at the alliance between teenage offenders and unwanted dogs. 20:30How will the world's fastest-growing economy manage its dramatic transformation?
| 20:00Matthew Hill asks what is happening to Britain's public services. 20:40Peter White and guests advise on ways for blind and partially sighted people to keep fit.
| 20:001/3Mariella discusses how we can best equip the next generation to deal with pornography. 20:451/3William Dalrymple introduces Ranjini Obeyesekere in Four Thought in Jaipur.
| 20:00Simon Cox travels to Cyprus to examine how the banks ended up in such a mess. 20:30Peter Day explains the UK economy's productivity puzzle and why it matters.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Abingdon in Oxfordshire. 20:50Topical issues. Every nation has a core irrationality, or so says Adam Gopnik.
| 20:00Samira Ahmed considers the British relationship with the western.
| 20:00Is Radio 4 an ageless beauty? And why was fantasy drama Neverwhere nowhere to be found? 20:30Matthew Bannister remembers Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henri Krug, Mabel Cooper and Moses Blah.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin talks about 'dangerous' ideas at Edinburgh's International Science Festival. 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter reports on the latest health stories, including the new NHS 111 number. 21:301/3What is news? From sensation to public service, bulletins to the culture of rolling news.
| 21:00Alice Roberts finds urban wasteland being transformed into productive agricultural sites. 21:30Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the Francis Report into NHS failings at Stafford
| 21:00The neglected and gripping story of the founder of Behaviourism, Dr John Watson. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
| 21:003/6David Hendy continues his six-week series on the history of sound.
| 21:001/2A young student arrives at Oxford and is drawn helplessly into his own imaginative world.
| 21:00Finance news with Paul Lewis. A record energy company fine, but who can get compensation? 21:26Ronni Ancona presents an appeal for the Environmental Investigation Agency. 21:30Peter Day explains the UK economy's productivity puzzle and why it matters.
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| 22:00 | 22:00The benefits shake-up. In-depth reporting from a global perspective, with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10The next step to becoming filthy rich in rising Asia - be prepared to use violence.
| 22:00North Korea, benefit cuts and regulating the arms trade. With Ritula Shah. 22:457/10The next step to becoming filthy rich in rising Asia - befriend a bureaucrat.
| 22:00The US is sending missile system to Guam after threats from North Korea. With Ritula Shah. 22:458/10The next step to becoming filthy rich in rising Asia - patronise the artists of war.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. Can China calm North Korea? 22:459/10After the rise to filthy richness - the fall.
| 22:00North Korea, Syria and bird flu. Reporting from a global perspective with Carolyn Quinn. 22:4510/10After the rise and fall from filthy richness - love, and an exit strategy.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/3Mariella discusses how we can best equip the next generation to deal with pornography.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45John Rentoul of the Independent on Sunday analyses how the papers are covering the news.
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| 23:00 | 23:00How Mark booked singers from the Royal Opera House to perform to his father in his home.
| 23:001/4Matt Harvey's musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret comes from Bristol. 23:301/4Award-winning Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to tell a story about falling in love. 23:451/4Ex-con Dave receives an unwelcome visit from a benefits officer.(R)
| 23:001/4Can Dr Berry help Mary Wolfe Heat with her fear of rubber? With Bob Mortimer. 23:152/4Neil's new trilby hat is a flashpoint for an argument.(R) 23:302/4Richard tells a story about moving in with Siobhan and the build-up to their wedding day. 23:452/4When cab driver Keith's wife goes into hospital, he's forced to re-evaluate his world view(R)
| 23:001/5Jon Ronson wonders why he keeps noticing the time is 11.11. Is it confirmation bias? 23:303/4Richard tells the funny and poignant story of his honeymoon road trip across America. 23:453/4Struggling actor Jasper Lengthe unexpectedly comes into some money.(R)
| 23:00Peter Hitchens nominates George Bell, who condemned the bombing of Germany. 23:274/4Richard Marsh meets the seductive and disruptive Sorrow. Can he learn to love again? 23:404/4Veteran musician Mike Duggan is offered the chance of a recording contract.(R) 23:55Cousins Tumi and Tilly have very different views of life yet support each other throughout
| 23:002/6Three University of Exeter students take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 23:30Poet and DJ Mr Gee talks to songwriters about poetry and how it influences their work.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Harmony Korine about his new film Spring Breakers. 23:30John McCarthy explores the significance of the Pietà in art and life. With Antony Gormley.
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