| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores migration in contrasting contexts.(R) 00:45The bells of Exeter Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3A body is found in a metro carriage, but Annika's judgment is clouded by personal matters.(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.
| 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 Rev Rosa Hunt. 05:45The Gangmasters Licensing Authority holds its first national conference. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58John Aitchison presents the chaffinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Rosa Hunt. 05:45How much water do farmed ducks need? Anna Hill talks to a duck farmer and the RSPCA. 05:58John Aitchison presents the wren.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Rosa Hunt. 05:45The development of TB-resistant cows in China and the challenge of sexing chicks. 05:58John Aitchison presents the dunnock.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Rosa Hunt. 05:45Britain's Young Farmers' Clubs are facing a financial crisis. Sybil Ruscoe finds out why. 05:58John Aitchison presents the long-eared owl.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Rosa Hunt. 05:45Police highlight farm slavery in East Anglia, plus how salmon farms handle predatory seals 05:58John Aitchison presents the waxwing.(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 the Rev Preb Edward Mason. 05:45iPM explores what happens when a lorry driver blacks out on the road.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury, Worcestershire. 05:45Novelist and actor Kate Saunders reflects on the Passion story.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. 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. 06:07Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics who have all suffered a 'cardiac event'(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith goes to a south Gloucestershire farm to talk pests and predators. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Samira Ahmed explores representations of flowers and people's relationships with them. 06:35Caz Graham meets Baron Plumb of Coleshill, one of the elder statesmen of British farming. 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. 07:10Edward Stourton asks what impact Pope Francis has had on the Catholic Church. 07:55Benedict Allen presents an appeal on behalf of Environmental Justice Foundation. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Dr Rowan Williams explores what it means to be made in God's image. 08:48Will Self reflects on the unsettling nature of time.(R) 08:58John Aitchison presents the dunnock.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames. 09:451/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.
| 09:00Former al-Qaeda member Aimen Dean talks about his eight years undercover as a British spy. 09:452/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor and director Clarke Peters and chef Raymond Blanc. 09:453/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. 09:454/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.
| 09:00Psychotherapist Julia Samuel is interviewed by Kirsty Young.(R) 09:455/5Anna Lyndsey's account of finding light in the darkness after illness changed her life.
| 09:00TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey talks to Jo Milne about hearing for the first time. 10:451/5Police camera operator Leslie Burden assists a colleague in the hunt for a missing woman.
| 10:00Jane Garvey and her guests discuss the women in Yarl's Wood, surviving divorce and more. 10:452/5Burden and Lisa discover a tantalising image of Klara at her local church.
| 10:00A mother's reaction to the Oxford grooming serious case review. Plus surviving Nazi Berlin 10:403/5As a body is discovered, Burden tracks Klara’s movements to her college. 10:55Physiotherapists recognise cultural differences that can make their advice hard to take.
| 10:00Football sexism and adopted children contacting birth family. With Jane Garvey. 10:454/5Burden and Lisa’s past and present intertwine as the pair grow closer.
| 10:00Women of the World, Annie Lennox, Ebola and the My Body Back campaign, plus live music. 10:455/5A second body is recovered and Burden finally discovers what fate befell Klara.
| 10:30Can sailor Sir Ben Ainslie lead the first British team to win the America's Cup?
| 10:00It is busy at St Stephen's and Grey Gables.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2Robert McCrum journeys into his own brain to understand more about stroke. 11:301/6Sandy has made a new will, and son-in-law Blake can't wait to see what it says.(R)
| 11:00David Shukman examines hard choices about flood defence following Britain's worst winter.(R) 11:30Smetana's hymn to his native Czech land - Ma Vlast is the manuscript subject this week.
| 11:003/3Gerald Scarfe goes looking for bohemia, with a small "b". 11:302/4Boswell meets Maria Callas and her poodle and finds himself in an opera of his own making.
| 11:00Death row in Indonesia and other stories from correspondents worldwide. With Kate Adie. 11:303/3The layered history of Cape Town as seen by its new generation of writers and poets.
| 11:00Alan Dein connects with the world online to hear surprising stories of personal identity. 11:303/4Julie and Nobby find themselves in a sticky situation. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30The music that was once the heartbeat of central and eastern Europe may soon be gone.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to US lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The Grahams and Wilsons arrive in Tynemouth for the christenings of Peter and Rosamund. 12:15Campaigners demand the release of reports into deaths that followed welfare cuts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Fraser finds being a union representative at Marshalls' the easiest part of his life. 12:15What did you do to get your child into their first choice secondary school? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The harmony of Robert's home life is threatened when he intervenes to help Davy's son. 12:15Are 15-minute appointments long enough to provide decent care? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Rosamund Marshall and Peter Samuel Lumley are welcomed into the church. 12:15John Waite investigates life in London's street gangs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Esther loves her new job, scavenging in Tynemouth, and is delighted to see her dad there. 12:15Consumer news. Who will be responsible for driverless car accidents? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Paul Lewis looks at charity donation websites and pension liberation tax demands. 12:303/7Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy are joined by Susan Calman, Camilla Long and Bob Mills.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/8With Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Paul Merton and Robin Ince. Nicholas Parsons hosts.(R) 12:32Oysters are receiving renewed attention around the world. Dan Saladino explains why. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Anthropologist David Graeber examines the moral power that debt holds over people.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45David Graeber asks what debt actually is. It is not as simple as one might think.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45David Graeber examines the centrality of debt to the origin of money.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45David Graeber considers how the world's religious texts include the language of debt.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:45Anthropologist David Graeber examines debt in the Classical period.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Debate from Monmouth with Sal Brinton, Chris Bryant MP, Mark Harper MP and Elfyn Llwyd MP.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:303/3Opening weekend is crucial to a film, but there are pitfalls to watch out for.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Sudha Bhuchar's play is inspired by a media controversy over a mixed-race family breakdown
| 14:00It is karaoke night at the Bull.(R) 14:15Award-winning drama about growing up in the army, by EV Crowe.(R)
| 14:00We delve into The Archers’ archive and the River Am is rising.(R) 14:157/10Lee Mattinson's quirky comedy drama inspired by his first full-time job.(R)
| 14:00Pip is trying to cope.(R) 14:15Mrs Joyce Pickwick, a local government commissioner, gets involved in a rubbish escapade.
| 14:00David is having to wait.(R) 14:15By Karen Brown. Inspired by a true story, an ambitious policeman is duped.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Pinter's screenplay based on Karen Blixen's intriguing 19thC story of love and loss.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Wellesbourne, Warwickshire.(R) 14:45Physiotherapy, sex and gender all feature in conversations from around England.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the tenth heat of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon asks how food manufacturing has changed to create more 'natural' ingredients(R)
| 15:00How politics was played out through drama at the court of Elizabeth. 15:30Tom Heap goes in search of the hybrid beefalo, which is damaging the Grand Canyon.
| 15:00Discussing maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave and pay. 15:30Research into saturated fats, checking moles and success for egg freezing and pregnancy.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics who have all suffered a 'cardiac event' 15:27Mariella Frostrup presents an appeal on behalf of African Initiatives.(R) 15:30Wilbur Smith discusses his novel When the Lion Feeds with James Naughtie.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. 15:45A meeting with artist Pierre Bonnard changes a young woman’s future - and her identity.
| | 15:001/2David Threlfall stars in Ibsen's pertinent play about the dangers of ambition.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Billy Bragg tells the story of Jock Purdon and the history of songwriting about mining. 16:30Is purgatory a religious place or a psychological concept? Ernie Rea and guests discuss.
| 16:00Charlie Beckett explores whether news is bad for us and how it could be done differently.(R) 16:30Anita Rani and Katharine Whitehorn talk books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Commercial surrogacy in India and beyond, plus new kinds of money. With Laurie Taylor. 16:30Director general of the BBC, Tony Hall, on funding, efficiency and governance.
| 16:00Francine Stock covers the latest cinema releases, with Chappie creator Neill Blomkamp. 16:30Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; women in science; arrival at Ceres.
| 16:00A Turkish author, an opera singer, an environmentalist, a nuclear engineer and an actor. 16:30The secrets behind successful Radio 4 comedy. And is there a future for the licence fee? 16:55Filling in forms can be a trial when the male and female boxes are both non-applicable.
| 16:00Your ideal pants, women in science, Sabrina Mahfouz, Call the Midwife and Feminista Jones.
| 16:00Robert Macfarlane on his latest book, which celebrates the language of the landscape. 16:30Roger McGough presents a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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| 17:00 | 17:00With the latest news interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Sock Shop, Golden Wonder and Lehman Brothers: big names that faded but have not vanished.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Can porn empower women? Jane Garvey hosts a debate from Southbank Centre's WOW Festival. 17:40Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, possibly the most powerful operative in the Middle East.(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. 18:304/8With Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Paul Merton and Robin Ince. Nicholas Parsons hosts.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Ruth gets carried away with the sound effects for Lucy's serious radio drama.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Bob Mortimer talks to his comedy double act partner Vic Reeves.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Hal Cruttenden and Zoe Lyons compete against Henning Wehn and Canadian stand-up Tony Law.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/7Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy are joined by Susan Calman, Camilla Long and Bob Mills.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with a special Comic Relief edition of Loose Ends.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Caz Graham chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00It is karaoke night at the Bull. 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Juliette Binoche who stars in an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. 19:451/5Police camera operator Leslie Burden assists a colleague in the hunt for a missing woman.(R)
| 19:00We delve into The Archers’ archive and the River Am is rising. 19:15Sigourney Weaver's new film, Inventing Impressionism and Simon Rattle's return to the UK. 19:452/5Burden and Lisa discover a tantalising image of Klara at her local church.(R)
| 19:15The Alexander McQueen exhibition and Jimmy McGovern on his historical TV drama Banished. 19:453/5As a body is discovered, Burden tracks Klara’s movements to her college.(R)
| 19:15Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with John Wilson. 19:454/5Burden and Lisa’s past and present intertwine as the pair grow closer.(R)
| 19:00Adam is not sure which way to turn. 19:16Swedish soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and Tina Fey's new series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. 19:455/5A second body is recovered and Burden finally discovers what fate befell Klara.(R)
| 19:00Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, possibly the most powerful operative in the Middle East. 19:15Oscar-winning Still Alice, Mike Bartlett's Game, Nurse, David Vann, Forensics exhibition.
| 19:151/6John presents a trailer for a film about the only mode of transport that hasn't had a film(R) 19:453/3The third of three stories by new radio writers from Africa.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Egyptian writer Tarek Osman examines the history of this desert kingdom. 20:30Technology has decimated manual labour. Now it has its sights on white-collar work.
| 20:00Fran Abrams reports on the shortage of secure places for children at risk. 20:40Claims Waitrose packaging is hard to read and comparing going blind with being born blind.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Novelist and actor Kate Saunders reflects on the Passion story.
| 20:00Simon Cox investigates the changing face of prejudice against Jewish people. 20:30Sock Shop, Golden Wonder and Lehman Brothers: big names that faded but have not vanished.
| 20:00Debate from Monmouth with Sal Brinton, Chris Bryant MP, Mark Harper MP and Elfyn Llwyd MP. 20:50Will Self reflects on the unsettling nature of time.
| 20:00American satirist Joe Queenan presents spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive.
| 20:00The secrets behind successful Radio 4 comedy. And is there a future for the licence fee?(R) 20:30A Turkish author, an opera singer, an environmentalist, a nuclear engineer and an actor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00As the new Ebola treatment centre opens, Dr John Wright and his team record what happens.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames.(R)
| 21:00Research into saturated fats, checking moles and success for egg freezing and pregnancy. 21:30Former al-Qaeda member Aimen Dean talks about his eight years undercover as a British spy.
| 21:00Tom Heap goes in search of the hybrid beefalo, which is damaging the Grand Canyon.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets actor and director Clarke Peters and chef Raymond Blanc.(R)
| 21:00Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; women in science; arrival at Ceres.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.(R)
| 21:00Germany declares a submarine blockade, and our characters begin to feel hemmed in.
| 21:0010/10Pierre recalls his time in prison, Kutuzov reluctantly leads the Battle of Tarutino.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at charity donation websites and pension liberation tax demands.(R) 21:26Benedict Allen presents an appeal on behalf of Environmental Justice Foundation.(R) 21:30Technology has decimated manual labour. Now it has its sights on white-collar work.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Mother of "Jihadi John" recognised son's voice when she heard it on hostage video 22:451/10David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
| 22:00Document commissioned after 7 men given life for rape and trafficking of 6 girls in 2013. 22:452/10David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
| 22:00Nigel Farage drops proposal to cap work-related immigration at fifty thousand a year. 22:453/10David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
| 22:00Political opponents of the Prime Minister accuse him of "cowering from the public" 22:454/10David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
| 22:00An exclusive report from our correspondent with the Shia militias 22:455/10David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dennis Sewell of the Spectator analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/6Michael Blastland explores the way human beings think, behave and make decisions.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Elmore Leonard's epic tale of cops and robbers in the 1930s. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Hannah explains what makes Manet's Olympia a cornerstone of modern art. 23:153/6Comic poet Tim Key tackles the ancient art of cookery. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:005/6Brian tells of his adventures about some abundance in Hermicia.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the row over the leaders' debates continues.
| 23:00Anita Rani and Katharine Whitehorn talk books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Even 24 years on, Garry still regrets that his wife was not his first lover.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the tenth heat of the nationwide general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for poetry about journeys.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock covers the latest cinema releases, with Chappie creator Neill Blomkamp.(R) 23:30Samira Ahmed explores representations of flowers and people's relationships with them.(R)
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