| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15'Illicit' dance in Indian popular culture. Also, does war serve a social purpose?(R) 00:45The bells of St Mary's Church, Ilmington, Warwickshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5First impressions of Kinshasa, and an encounter with a group of orphaned children.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A frightening encounter compels Anjan to redouble his efforts to find work as a reporter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A journey along the River Congo leads to new insights for the journalist.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00Coverage of the 2014 UK local elections.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Anjan Sundaram observes the elections and is caught up in their disturbing aftermath.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Attracted to Karlssen's brilliance, Chapman is soon on the receiving end of his ambition.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45A transatlantic trade deal is threatened by disagreements over food and farming. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the nightingale.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45Has breeding for yield been at the cows' expense? And the farm art to be seen by billions. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the kittiwake.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45With a fall in farmgate beef prices, is it down to the farmer to become more efficient? 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the puffin.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45The Scottish timber industry fears a bleak future unless more trees are planted. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the razorbill.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45Why has only 5% of the government's Farming Flood Recovery Fund has been paid out? 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45Listener Janice Kennedy tells her story about discovering a WW1 time capsule.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of All Saints Church, Maidstone, Kent. 05:4547/3SF Said believes fiction can help to bridge the divide between 'us' and 'them'.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. 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. 06:07Clare Balding finds some hidden walking gems around Thundersley, near the Thames Estuary.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith examines the business behind UK livestock breeding. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Padraig O Tuama reflects on 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. 06:35David Barton opens up his farm, and his heart, on living with Bovine TB. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Pope's pilgrimage to Holy Land, integrated education, the vicar of Fleet Street. 07:55Michael Morpurgo presents an appeal for Feed the Minds. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Sunday morning service from St Margaret's Church, Wrexham, led by Canon John Lomas. 08:48Tom Shakespeare argues that we should be religious but not spiritual.(R) 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the puffin.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Anne McElvoy and Ken Thompson, Monique Simmonds, Victoria Herridge and John Lewis-Stempel. 09:451/5First impressions of Kinshasa, and an encounter with a group of orphaned children.
| 09:002/3Michael Sandel hosts a discussion about voting with an audience at the LSE. 09:452/5A frightening encounter compels Anjan to redouble his efforts to find work as a reporter.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets artist Hetain Patel and British Museum curator Dr Daniel Antoine. 09:453/5A journey along the River Congo leads to new insights for the journalist.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 09:454/5Anjan Sundaram heads east towards the conflict and conducts an extraordinary interview.
| 09:00Alison Moyet is interviewed by Kirsty Young and chooses her Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Anjan Sundaram observes the elections and is caught up in their disturbing aftermath.
| 09:00Richard Coles and Suzy Klein talk to adventurer Ed Stafford.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00We eavesdrop on brides-to-be as they shop for the big day dress, with Jane Garvey. 10:451/10Thriller set in India about a sales assistant who is offered a chance to change her life.
| 10:00Mary Portas on high street heroines. Vince Cable on women on boards. Laurie Simmons. 10:452/10Struggling to support her mother and sister, Sapna decides to sign the test contract.
| 10:00Looking at inheritable conditions and having children. Plus, trying skeleton bobsleigh. 10:453/10Sent to a village outside Delhi, Sapna discovers a wedding about to take place.
| 10:00Jenni Murray talks to Monica Porter about her year of dating dangerously. 10:454/10When a Bollywood actress's diamond ring goes missing, the suspicion falls on Sapna.
| 10:00Jenni Murray hears from two mothers about coping with twins twice over. 10:455/10A van appears in Sapna's neighbourhood, luring children away to work in factories.
| 10:303/6Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from the Bristol Food Connections Festival.
| 10:00Challenging times at Bridge Farm, and David and Ruth have some questions.
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| 11:00 | 11:00They work in London but live in Edinburgh. Alan Cochrane meets Edinburgh's super-commuters 11:301/6Adam and Rudy fill the gap left by Richie being at University with some salsa classes.(R)
| 11:00Timandra Harkness discovers links between political choices and how our brains function. 11:301/3Frances Fyfield's team explore the original score of Bernstein's hit show West Side Story.
| 11:00His home's Bronze Age legacy and nearby Jodrell Bank inspire author Alan Garner to write. 11:302/6Henry the dog takes up running away, and then granddaughter Calais runs away too.
| 11:00What's really happening? Correspondents tell all. 11:30Nicholas Rankin explores Leonard Woolf's novel, 'The Village in the Jungle'.
| 11:00Yasmin Hai explores British Muslim writing and the forging of a literary Islamic gaze. 11:303/4Following many failed relationships, Emma inflicts her latest awful man on Anna and Jim.
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Telling the whole story: Egypt's election and other correspondents' stories.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to Danish chef Rene Redzepi.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Are mortgage lenders giving out too much money? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Call You and Yours wants to hear your experience of getting a mortgage. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00New rules from Ofcom, the communications regulator, on fixing and installing broadband.
| 12:00ASA rules on adverts see two firms face trading standards; and falling heating oil prices. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Pensions stopping people getting mortgages; and Royal Mail's redirection woes. 12:52Fi Glover with a father and daughter hoping for change, as he tackles his drug addiction. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with crowd-funding, the single-tier state pension, quibbling over holiday money 12:306/7Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team present a comic take on the week's news.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/6Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Julian Clary and Vanessa Feltz take the 60-second challenge.(R) 12:32Writer Andy Hamilton leads a wild journey foraging for plants to make incredible drinks. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Martin investigates the criminal mind and how neuroscience is used in court.
| 13:00Why was Abu Hamza tried in New York not London for terror offences? With Martha Kearney. 13:45Martin Sixsmith looks at how psychology is used in shaping our behaviour.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Martin examines how thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our physical state.
| 13:00News and current affairs, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:45Martin looks at the public perception of psychology with the help of comedian Ruby Wax.
| 13:00Voters in English local elections have punished all three main political parties. 13:45Martin looks at our understanding of what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.(R)
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30Salena Godden presents the best blues singer you've never heard.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Challenging times at Bridge Farm.(R) 14:156/10Lyrical drama by Rachel Connor, set in a Benedictine convent.
| 14:157/10Lee Mattinson's quirky comedy drama inspired by his first full-time job.
| 14:00Lynda and Lilian go to Chelsea.(R) 14:158/10New drama by Conor McCormack and Matt Haynes. Louis stops taking his meds.
| 14:159/10Original British Dramatists: A love story about two people adrift in London.
| 14:00David and Ruth have some questions.(R) 14:1510/10Can A to Z dating save a rubbish relationship? Romantic comedy by Rose Heiney.
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues raised in Any Questions? 14:307/8Toby Stephens is Raymond Chandler's fast-talking private eye Philip Marlowe.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson and the GQT team at the Chelsea Fringe. 14:45Fi Glover hears about kicking addiction, reuniting through #findmike and family planning.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs a new series of the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Sheila Dillon on the huge rise in farmed fish and the people trying to make it sustainable(R)
| 15:002/6Jay Rayner and the team are in Golders Green, North London.(R) 15:30Britain's Overseas Territories are a treasure trove of wildlife. Tom Heap reports.
| 15:00Paul Lewis answers questions on mortgages, conveyancing or estate agents. 15:30How to help friends, All in the Mind awards finalists, and mental health in the City.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding finds some hidden walking gems around Thundersley, near the Thames Estuary. 15:27Olivia Colman presents the Radio 4 Appeal for the charity Anthony Nolan.(R) 15:30Joseph O'Connor on his new novel The Thrill of It All. With Mariella Frostrup.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the GQT team at the Chelsea Fringe. 15:452/3By Kevin Barry. A teenage boy suffers the torments of unrequited love in rural Ireland.
| | 15:001/3A murderer disappears, leaving his wife and son Barnaby to fend for themselves.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Godzilla was a response to atomic war. Japanese artists now respond to the tsunami of 2011(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the heady mix of football and religion in Brazil.
| 16:00Julie Fernandez considers whether to have children at risk of inheriting her disability. 16:30Soprano Emma Kirkby discusses the life of composer Henry Purcell with Matthew Parris
| 16:00Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism. Also, the sociology of sleep. 16:30TalkTalk TV CEO Dido Harding; being a female news editor; 'sex-swap' headlines removed.
| 16:00John Turturro on working with Woody Allen. Neil Brand on Godzilla. Cannes highlights. 16:30Adam Rutherford discusses the launch of the Longitude Prize 2014.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a fashion professor, an MP, a humanist, a novelist. 16:30Are Romanians responsible for more crime than other nationalities? 16:55Fi Glover with the pair reunited by the #findmike campaign, talking about their friendship
| 16:00Saving the high street. Why aren't more women super rich? The lost art of conversation.
| 16:00Ned Beauman and Nick Harkaway talk to Mariella Frostrup about writing conspiracy thrillers 16:30Roger McGough presents poems recited from memory by school pupils.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents 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. 17:30Listener Janice Kennedy tells her story about discovering a WW1 time capsule.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Righting Wrongs: How effective is the system for investigating miscarriages of justice?(R) 17:402/8Novelist Will Self creates a fictional response to a story in this week's news.(R) 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. 18:301/6Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Julian Clary and Vanessa Feltz take the 60-second challenge.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Alex and his band explore the theme of fashion and trends.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/5The tale of George and Louise set against the backdrop of the Matlock Ceilidh.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Simon asks how moral it is to trade in food. And what future for food?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/7Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team present a comic take on the week's news.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Emma Freud and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Ernie Rea with his best of the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Ceramic artist and author Edmund de Waal shows John Wilson around his London studio. 19:451/10Thriller set in India about a sales assistant who is offered a chance to change her life.(R)
| 19:00Lynda and Lilian go to Chelsea. 19:15Arts news. Fatboy Slim discusses his new album Bem Brasil, and a report from Cannes. 19:452/10Struggling to support her mother and sister, Sapna decides to sign the test contract.(R)
| 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid, starring in play Bakersfield Mist. 19:453/10Sent to a village outside Delhi, Sapna discovers a wedding about to take place.(R)
| 19:00David and Ruth have some questions. 19:15Chrissie Hynde; Mondrian exhibitions in Margate and Liverpool; Miss Saigon reviewed. 19:454/10When a Bollywood actress's diamond ring goes missing, the suspicion falls on Sapna.(R)
| 19:15Margaret Atwood on her first opera, the Glasgow fire, Neel Mukherjee and TV drama Quirke. 19:455/10A van appears in Sapna's neighbourhood, luring children away to work in factories.(R)
| 19:002/8Novelist Will Self creates a fictional response to a story in this week's news. 19:15Tim Winton's Eyrie, Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain, Heli, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be.
| 19:00Peggy finds out about Tom. 19:154/4Ben gets a new telescope, and Graham has some big news. 19:304/4Kim calls Neil to an impromptu debate about shaving, the Krankies and Phantom of the Opera(R) 19:451/3Naz's life is set to change when her dog Doris takes a fancy to another person.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/3Misha Glenny explores the life of Getulio Vargas, the man who changed Brazil.(R) 20:30Simon Cox investigates a notorious miscarriage of justice in Iceland.(R)
| 20:00Righting Wrongs: How effective is the system for investigating miscarriages of justice? 20:40New research findings on Charles Bonnet Syndrome and the Ukulele Lite Orchestra.
| 20:004/4Top journalists debate live with Andrew Rawnsley what leading opinion articles should say. 20:4547/3SF Said believes fiction can help to bridge the divide between 'us' and 'them'.
| 20:00The unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan and claims of police corruption in the case. 20:30Peter Day investigates the modern-day packaging which wraps up the products we all buy.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. 20:50Tom Shakespeare argues that we should be religious but not spiritual.
| 20:00Michael Rosen discovers Walter Benjamin's radio works for children. Read by Henry Goodman.
| 20:00Are Romanians responsible for more crime than other nationalities?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a fashion professor, an MP, a humanist, a novelist.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:003/3Adam Rutherford asks what the genetics of intelligence could mean for education.(R) 21:30Anne McElvoy and Ken Thompson, Monique Simmonds, Victoria Herridge and John Lewis-Stempel.(R)
| 21:00How to help friends, All in the Mind awards finalists, and mental health in the City. 21:302/3Michael Sandel hosts a discussion about voting with an audience at the LSE.(R)
| 21:00Britain's Overseas Territories are a treasure trove of wildlife. Tom Heap reports.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets artist Hetain Patel and British Museum curator Dr Daniel Antoine.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford discusses the launch of the Longitude Prize 2014.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.(R)
| 21:005/5Martin Sixsmith presents a history of psychology and the mind.
| 21:00After an enforced year away from Mary Thorne, Frank returns to Greshambury.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis with crowd-funding, the single-tier state pension, quibbling over holiday money(R) 21:26Michael Morpurgo presents an appeal for Feed the Minds.(R) 21:30Peter Day investigates the modern-day packaging which wraps up the products we all buy.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Abu Hamza found guilty in US court on terror charges. News round-up with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10There is interest in Luke's play Paper Pieces, but his only interest is Nina.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:457/10Nina finds herself entering into a rather unholy arrangement with Tony.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:458/10While Luke's success grows, he struggles with having to share Nina with her husband.
| 22:00Thailand coup, Italy migration debate, Scotland's beavers, with Philippa Thomas. 22:459/10As interest gathers for his next play, Luke makes the ultimate sacrifice.
| 22:00UKIP success in local elections: electoral spasm or political earthquake? 22:4510/10Nina finds the courage not to be saved, and Luke and Leigh find an ending in New York.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:1547/3SF Said believes fiction can help to bridge the divide between 'us' and 'them'.(R) 22:30Jarvis Cocker's award-winning nocturnal exploration of the human condition takes to sea.(R)
| 22:00Coverage of the European elections.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sam Lee marks the 100th anniversary of cellist Beatrice Harrison's duet with a nightingale 23:1543/3Benet Brandreth criticises the bankruptcy of current political discourse.(R) 23:301/3Migrants from the Indian subcontinent recall coming to the UK in the '50s with just £3.(R)
| 23:004/6Simon Mayo hosts a three-way battle to find out which is the funniest comedy generation. 23:302/3Pioneer women who arrived from India in the 50s and 60s recall their first impressions.(R)
| 23:004/4Elvis ponders what's so great about country life. 23:153/6Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) plays a twisted regression therapist in this dark comedy.(R) 23:303/3Where do the pioneer generation call home now and how do they hold onto their own culture?(R)
| 23:00Sitcom set in a parallel world where women are unquestionably in charge. By Arthur Mathews 23:301/2Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann, meet Ben Hammersley, who coined the term 'podcast' in 2004.(R)
| 23:00Soprano Emma Kirkby discusses the life of composer Henry Purcell with Matthew Parris(R) 23:272/2Podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann trace the origins of on-demand radio.(R) 23:55Fi Glover with a couple who are trying to decide whether one child is enough...
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs a new series of the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents best-loved poems chosen by an audience at Bristol Food Connections.(R)
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