| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor examines the meaning of the street demonstrations taking place in Rio.(R) 00:45The bells of St Chad's Church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5James Nestor investigates the exhilarating and dangerous world of freediving.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5James Nestor meets some of the world's scientific freedivers and goes shark-tagging.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Nestor dives with the Ama: women who have been freediving in Japan's seas for 2,000 years.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00Israel rejects ceasefire plan and has everyone shared in UK recovery? With Philippa Thomas 00:304/5In the Caribbean, James Nestor plunges to the Midnight Zone – in a homemade submarine.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Nestor is in Sri Lanka, diving in the hope of encountering the world's largest predator.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Kevin Barry. A spaghetti bolognese in a Manchester bedsit brings back romantic memories(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 short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45Farming Today looks at how farming is faring in the four corners of the UK. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common redstart.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45The NFU protests against supermarkets at the Royal Welsh Show. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the bullfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45A deadly threat to horses or a vital moth habitat? A new survey maps the ragwort plant. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the rock pipit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45Could TB be more widespread in badgers in Cheshire than previously thought? 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the arctic skua.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45Pig industry fear over the spread of African Swine Fever in Europe. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the yellow wagtail.(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 Alison Murdoch. 05:45'I check under my car every day.' Life as a Catholic police officer in Northern Ireland.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary the Virgin in Bowdon, Cheshire. 05:45Edward Stourton profiles journalist Mazher Mahmood, the so-called 'fake sheikh'.(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; Yesterday in Parliament; 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; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07How did people live and work 2,000 years ago? Helen Mark finds out at Butser Ancient Farm.(R) 06:30Farming Today This Week is at the Border Union Show in Kelso. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully outlines the pitfalls and delights of translating ideas and emotions. 06:35Tom Heap joins a night safari in search of the Caicos pygmy boa constrictor. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Gaza, Iraqi Christians, Pompeii of the north. 07:55David Dimbleby presents an appeal for homeless charity The Passage. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Buxton Festival Mass in St John's Church sung to the music of Mozart. Homily: Simon Taylor 08:48Will Self reflects on what really lies behind our sense of patriotism.(R) 08:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the rock pipit.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:002/3Singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford and pianist Gwilym Simcock play the Port Talbot skyline. 09:302/5Agony aunt Irma Kurtz talks to her Indian counterpart Bachi Kakaria about Indian agony. 09:451/5James Nestor investigates the exhilarating and dangerous world of freediving.
| 09:00Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry. 09:30Sarah Montague talks to a mum about how she is coping with her son in prison. 09:452/5James Nestor meets some of the world's scientific freedivers and goes shark-tagging.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland compares Nigel Farage with the 18th-century politician John Wilkes. 09:302/5How Allen Lane brought paperback books to the mass market.(R) 09:453/5Nestor dives with the Ama: women who have been freediving in Japan's seas for 2,000 years.
| 09:002/4Under what circumstances can parents donate the organs of their newborn baby after death? 09:454/5In the Caribbean, James Nestor plunges to the Midnight Zone – in a homemade submarine.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to wildlife cameraman Doug Allan.(R) 09:455/5Nestor is in Sri Lanka, diving in the hope of encountering the world's largest predator.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The pitfalls of holidaying with another family. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Darleen wants to move to a village created solely for adults with learning disabilities.
| 10:00Jenni Murray with the female perspective, including Girl Summit on FGM and forced marriage 10:452/5Darleen moves to a village catering for learning disabled adults.
| 10:00Talking to children about their weight; Women and radio in the Arab World; Doris Lessing. 10:453/5Darleen is stressing about country sounds, and Jamie is stressing about his mother-in-law.
| 10:00Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female perspective on the world. 10:454/5Jamie decides to surprise Darleen and go to the commune to declare his love for her.
| 10:00Sexual abuse and the elderly, child labour, marriage and Natalie Williams. 10:455/5Darleen is in a dilemma when her young step-sister Stacey turns up.
| 10:303/4Steve Punt PI examines the curious case of Victor Grayson, the MP who vanished.
| 10:00Contemporary drama in a rural setting.
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| 11:00 | 11:00As the Glasgow Games begin, Dr Joya Chatterji explores the history of the Commonwealth. 11:303/4After their cancer treatment, Chippy is mad, Jill is sad and Terri is dangerous to know.
| 11:00Monty Don asks if reserves fenced off for the benefit of wildlife are effective. 11:301/2British musician and poet Akala examines the culture of his Rastafarian heritage.
| 11:001/2Amanda Foreman examines how the elite transformed politics in the shadow of revolution. 11:301/6Armed with a new parenting manual, Mimi takes on her daughter's deluded self-esteem.(R)
| 11:00What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky? A report from tornado alley. 11:30Actor Neil Stuke chooses favourite food writing at the Bristol Food Connections Festival.
| 11:003/3Sir John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today. 11:301/6Ken Livingstone reads from his 1966 diary when he hitchhiked across the Sahara Desert.(R)
| 11:00Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Correspondents in Gaza and elsewhere tell their stories and examine news in their region.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to Dame Wendy Hall.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Classic car cover, medical cover on holiday and what your handwriting says about you. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson answers calls on the right to die debate. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00MPs tell the goverment to reform 'gravely flawed' back-to-work benefit. 12:30John Waite investigates claims that charities are being silenced.
| 12:00What do children who normally get free school meals eat during the summer holidays? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Peter White on affordable housing and Morrisons scrapping its shopping trolley coin slots. 12:52Fi Glover with a conversation about how a bakery changed lives for the better in Ifakara. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Pension freedom and responsibility, the pros and cons of P2P and tax credits deadline. 12:308/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/6Harry Hill joins regular panellists Tim, Graeme and Barry. Jack Dee hosts. 12:32English and Welsh wines are on the up and up, as Sheila Dillon investigates. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Edward Stourton presents national and international news. 13:45Carl Linnaeus and a revolutionary grammar for plants.
| 13:00Government orders public inquiry into Litvinenko death. Presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45How plants proved a new route to political power and the growth of Britain's Empire.
| 13:00Edward Stourton presents national and international news. 13:45How Kew's pressed plants collection established insights into plant relationships.
| 13:00Police chief denies Met squad spied on justice campaigns. Presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine in 1845, a new discipline in science emerged
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:45How naturalist Joseph Hooker globally acquired species to build up the first maps of flora
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Emsworth in Hampshire.(R)
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:30Zareer Masani on the new love for, and controversy over, Western classical music in India.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Hayley's getting worried.(R) 14:15When Des takes Nabil hostage during an armed robbery, he is forced to confront the truth.
| 14:15Police call in psychic detective Thomas Soutar to find a missing woman(R)
| 14:00Hayley asks some difficult questions.(R) 14:155/6An secret is unearthed when Beth's elderly father Patrick claims never to have been born
| 14:00Susan's in gossip mode.(R) 14:151/2Mma Ramotswe makes an unexpected ghostly sighting. Or does she?(R)
| 14:00The SAVE campaigners blaze a trail.(R) 14:152/2By Alexander McCall Smith. The case is solved but there is still the wedding to organise.(R)
| 14:00Your views on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Shane Richie stars in a music drama about wannabe all-girl band Velveteens.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Chester Zoo.(R) 14:45Conversations from three married couples who each face very different challenges.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Dan Saladino reports on the increasingly complex world of salad leaves.(R)
| 15:00Helen Castor and her guests discuss the latest discoveries that are making history. 15:301/2Exploring the ocean's deepest realm: the hadal zone, from 6,000 to 11,000 metres down.(R)
| 15:00Ghost payments, overdraft charges, investment transfer problems and insurance comparisons.(R) 15:30With a look at Crohn's disease and diet, teachers' voices and cholesterol-lowering foods.(R)
| 15:00How did people live and work 2,000 years ago? Helen Mark finds out at Butser Ancient Farm. 15:27Hugh Quarshie presents an appeal for Anti-Slavery International.(R) 15:30Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla on writing about this generation's alienated young men.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Chester Zoo. 15:452/3A son remembers his dad's obsession with his own father's suicide.
| 15:301/2British musician and poet Akala examines the culture of his Rastafarian heritage.(R)
| 15:001/2Eugenie's miserly father is a man whose terror of poverty overrides his love for his child
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| 16:00 | 16:001/3Will Gompertz investigates the art-works in our homes, and the stories they tell about us. 16:30Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests ask whether science needs war to drive it. 16:55The King warns of civil war in Britain over Irish Home Rule.
| 16:00Chris Ledgard uncorks the subject of messages in a bottle. 16:30Shami Chakrabarti and Monica Ali talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 16:55The Russian royal family give a lavish welcome to the French President.
| 16:00Elevators: A cultural history. Also, Indian militants who embrace electoral politics. 16:30MH17 and Gaza reporting, Al Jazeera English journalist Sue Turton, Murdoch's media moves. 16:55Austria-Hungary delivers the ultimatum to Serbia.
| 16:00Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, Richard Lester on The Beatles and Hercules labours again. 16:30Adam discusses the ethics and privacy issues surrounding facial recognition programmes. 16:55Britain and Russia react to Austria-Hungary's ultimatum.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist 16:30What happened to BBC iPlayer? And was Moral Maze just a slanging match? 16:55Margaret Macmillan tells the story of the events leading up to the First World War.
| 16:0080-year-old stand-up comic Lynne Ruth Miller. 16:55The British foreign secretary proposes mediation to settle the Balkan crisis.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Jessie Burton, author of the bestselling The Miniaturist. 16:27Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974. 16:55Reactions to British soldiers shooting unarmed protesters in Dublin.
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| 17:00 | 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 and analysis of the day's news.
| 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. 17:30Faulty children's beds and mis-labelled monkey nuts: Evan Davis discusses product recalls.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00As Iraq falls deeper into chaos, John McCarthy asks a key question - who are the Kurds?(R) 17:40Edward Stourton profiles journalist Mazher Mahmood, the so-called 'fake sheikh'.(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. 18:304/6Harry Hill joins regular panellists Tim, Graeme and Barry. Jack Dee hosts.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Stephen K Amos and friends compile an idiot's guide to penny pinching and austerity.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/3Ex-copper Alfie Moore, invites his audience to be police officers - for one night only.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Thom Tuck presents his pick of comedy sketch groups performing on the UK circuit.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:308/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with Isy Suttie
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| 19:00 | 19:15Joe starring Nicholas Cage, David Eldridge, Carole Cerasi on the Clavichord. 19:451/5Darleen wants to move to a village created solely for adults with learning disabilities.(R)
| 19:00Hayley asks some difficult questions. 19:15Judith Weir, Eamonn Holmes reviews Believe, author Philip Hensher, Discovering Tutankhamun 19:452/5Darleen moves to a village catering for learning disabled adults.(R)
| 19:15The Man Booker longlist and playwright Lee Hall on Shakespeare In Love. 19:453/5Darleen is stressing about country sounds, and Jamie is stressing about his mother-in-law.(R)
| 19:00The SAVE campaigners blaze a trail. 19:15Giant puppets return to Liverpool; the two stars of Porgy and Bess; author Gerald Seymour. 19:454/5Jamie decides to surprise Darleen and go to the commune to declare his love for her.(R)
| 19:00There's a funeral at St Stephens. 19:15Julian Lloyd Webber; Andrew Graham-Dixon on the Art of China; The Galapagos Affair. 19:455/5Darleen is in a dilemma when her young step-sister Stacey turns up.(R)
| 19:00Edward Stourton profiles journalist Mazher Mahmood, the so-called 'fake sheikh'. 19:15The National's Medea, Nicolas Cage: Joe, Our World War, DBC Pierre, Imperial War Museum.
| 19:00There's a special guest at the village fete. 19:153/4John has invited Toyah Willcox to the lounge and his wife Mary is not happy. 19:451/3Kei Miller's clever and multilayered story explores Glasgow's empire past in Jamaica.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the future of the death penalty in the United States. 20:30Has the downturn has made us thriftier, or are we stuck with high personal debt?
| 20:00As Iraq falls deeper into chaos, John McCarthy asks a key question - who are the Kurds? 20:40Two blind women talk to Peter White about their experiences of living in Israel and Gaza.
| 20:00How do you fight a just war when civilians are in the firing line? 20:4556/3Technology writer Rupert Goodwins asks what has gone wrong with internet discourse.
| 20:00Allegations of a plot to Islamise secular schools in Birmingham investigated. 20:30Faulty children's beds and mis-labelled monkey nuts: Evan Davis discusses product recalls.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Emsworth in Hampshire. 20:50Will Self reflects on what really lies behind our sense of patriotism.
| 20:00Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before August 1914.
| 20:00What happened to BBC iPlayer? And was Moral Maze just a slanging match?(R) 20:30Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Monty Don finds out how important urban areas are for the wildlife we share it with.(R) 21:302/3Singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford and pianist Gwilym Simcock play the Port Talbot skyline.(R)
| 21:00With a look at Crohn's disease and diet, teachers' voices and cholesterol-lowering foods. 21:30Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry.(R)
| 21:002/2Is mining the deep ocean the solution to the world's growing demand for valuable metals? 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares Nigel Farage with the 18th-century politician John Wilkes.(R)
| 21:00Adam discusses the ethics and privacy issues surrounding facial recognition programmes.(R) 21:302/4Will Gompertz meets Rem Koolhaas, the architect who thinks his profession is in crisis.(R)
| 21:00Drama based on a case from the memoirs a real-life detective in 19th-century Manchester.(R)
| 21:00Churchill's 1897 adventure as a war correspondent in the hostile Afghan-Pakistani border.(R)
| 21:00John Waite investigates claims that charities are being silenced.(R) 21:26David Dimbleby presents an appeal for homeless charity The Passage.(R) 21:30Has the downturn has made us thriftier, or are we stuck with high personal debt?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Rebels have agreed to hand over the black box of the Malaysian jet. 22:451/10Amsterdam,1686: Nella is welcomed into married life with a strange and lavish present.
| 22:00The latest news from the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine. 22:452/10Amsterdam,1686: Nella is welcomed into married life with a strange and lavish present.
| 22:00Fighting continues in Gaza as diplomacy makes slow progress. With Ritula Shah. 22:453/10Amsterdam,1686: Nella is welcomed into married life with a strange and lavish present.
| 22:00Police 'spies' report, Hamas leader interview, French anti-Semitism claims. 22:454/10Amsterdam,1686: Nella is welcomed into married life with a strange and lavish present.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:455/10Amsterdam,1686: Nella is welcomed into married life with a strange and lavish present.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/4Under what circumstances can parents donate the organs of their newborn baby after death?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dennis Sewell of the Spectator looks at how newspapers covered the week's big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard investigates three situations where precise use of words is crucial.(R) 23:30The prime minister updates the Commons on the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17.
| 23:00Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests ask whether science needs war to drive it.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Country legend Tina C and her Glasgow audience put the common into the Commonwealth. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster. 23:55Two animal rescue workers consider whether we help animals or they help us.
| 23:00Jonathan Ross, Richard Herring, Kerry Godliman and Paul Chowdhry try not to be funny. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. 23:55Two friends share the stories of their grandmothers, who couldn't have been more different
| 23:001/6Jane Garvey asks if we are better informed, but more powerless in the age of social media? 23:55A husband and wife deal with her fatal illness differently, yet face their future together
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.(R) 23:30Ian Hislop celebrates the sharp barbs of Alexander Pope and the 18th-century satirists.(R)
| 23:004/6Margaret Macmillan tells the story of the events leading up to the First World War. 23:30Mark Tully outlines the pitfalls and delights of translating ideas and emotions.(R)
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