| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Programme devoted to the academic research shortlisted for the Thinking Allowed award.(R) 00:45The bells of St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, Australia.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A fascination with height - from Massachusetts to the busy skies over Europe.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5‘Place- lag’ and journeying through time zones.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A precious passenger and new perspectives on old places.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Ships in the night. The story of a pilot's passion for flight.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Landing, flying blind, and coming home.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Under post-operative anaesthetic, Jennifer judges it's time to convey a last secret.(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 Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45East European migrant workers in East Anglia tell Anna Hill their pre-election concerns. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the little grebe.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45Shooting a free running badger is inhumane says the British Veterinary Association. 05:58Kate Humble presents the stock dove.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45The head of the Rural Payments Agency faces disgruntled farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the capercaillie.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45New research into controversial neonicotinoid seed treatments. 05:58Kate Humble presents the ruddy duck.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. 05:45The European proposal uniting both those for and against GM food in condemnation. 05:58Kate Humble presents the goosander.(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 Dr Craig Gardiner. 05:45'Life's too short to pretend to be somebody I'm not.'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Lawrence's Church in Towcester. 05:45Mark Coles profiles Aidan Turner, the Irish actor playing Poldark.(R)
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| 06:00 | 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. Includes Sports Desk, 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.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Caz Graham visits the shores of Solway Firth.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith visits Northumberland, and a shepherd who saved his neighbour's life. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland of theatre company RashDash reflect on ideas of friendship 06:35Chris Packham relives a Living World programme from 1996 about the secretive polecat. 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. 07:10The latest on the earthquake in Nepal and a discussion on asylum seekers sailing to Europe 07:54Tricia Bernal presents an appeal for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from Sunderland, celebrating 150 years since the foundation of the Salvation Army. 08:48David Cannadine compares the style of national commemorations in the US and in Britain.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the capercaillie.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell. 09:451/5A fascination with height - from Massachusetts to the busy skies over Europe.
| 09:00Obesity expert Susan Jebb talks to Jim al-Khalili about the science of what we eat. 09:30Anita Anand talks to solicitor Mathew Waddington, who specialises in children's law.(R) 09:452/5‘Place- lag’ and journeying through time zones.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets director Polly Findlay and writer Huan Hsu. 09:453/5A precious passenger and new perspectives on old places.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney. 09:454/5Ships in the night. The story of a pilot's passion for flight.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites the pop hitmakers of the 1980s.(R) 09:455/5Landing, flying blind, and coming home.
| 09:00Conchita Wurst joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles in the studio.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Rediscovering the work of artist Sonia Delaunay, and couples in therapy. With Jane Garvey. 10:451/5A soldier must time-travel to atone for the death of a comrade.
| 10:00Women and chess, the Wild Oats project and Hina Jilani on women's rights in Pakistan. 10:452/5A soldier trapped in time relives a comrade's death in 1915.
| 10:00Jane Garvey hears listeners experiences of dealing with relationship crises. 10:413/5A British soldier in Afghanistan time travels back to the fields of Waterloo in 1815. 10:56Jo would like to try living in Sri Lanka, where she grew up; George has her doubts.
| 10:00Sports bras, plus-size modelling, long-distance running, Professor Dame Carol Robinson. 10:454/5Agincourt, 1415, but Sam, a soldier from 2015, is there. He has a death to atone for.
| 10:00Paula Radcliffe, Women's Equality Party, saxophonist Barbara Thompson, finances after 50. 10:455/5What are the true spoils of war? British soldier Sam finds out.
| 10:302/3Francine Stock explores a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created.
| 10:00Shula meets a friend, and Pip drops a bombshell.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Documentary exploring the increasing popularity of coffee shops as places to work from. 11:302/4Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells the story of her teenage years as a Jehovah's Witness
| 11:00Is forensic evidence becoming increasingly unreliable? Linda Geddes investigates. 11:30Leading cellists explain the power of Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G Major.
| 11:00A remarkable West Yorkshire primary school with new pupils arriving from across the world. 11:304/6A friend who runs a B&B is in trouble so it's time for Milton to dust off the nylon sheets(R)
| 11:00Does Portugal have a problem with police brutality and racism? 11:30Folk singer Lisa Knapp explores the inspirational power of the Shipping Forecast.
| 11:00How Macau overtook Las Vegas to become the gambling capital of the world. 11:306/10A lingering scent of perfume may give a vital murder clue...(R)
| 11:00A quirky, irreverent take on the twists and turns of the election, with Hugo Rifkind. 11:30Dodging bullets to reach the Yemeni port of Aden, and other stories from around the world.
| 11:16Sue MacGregor's guests remember their time as Far East POWs during the Second World War.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A photo reveals Churchill's struggle to translate wartime heroism into election victory. 12:15A look at the seaweed-gathering businesses that are behind new tastes in the supermarkets. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Unique access results in a special photo of Margaret Thatcher on election night in 1983. 12:15Why do so many young people say they are unhappy? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Cherie Blair tells the story behind that photo of her on the morning of Labour's 1997 win. 12:15Is drinking in the evening harming your liver? With Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Charles Kennedy's unusual visit to an operating theatre - during the operation. 12:15Calls for more compulsory health screening for king charles cavaliers, plus new fuel banks 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The story behind the fateful meeting between PM Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy in 2010. 12:15A look at what is being touted as the world's safest bike, plus laser eye surgery rules. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04UKIP's personal finance plans, plus does a European ruling mean an end to cashback? 12:303/5Satire meets silliness in the comedy for hard-working families up and down the country.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that tackles the big moral problems.(R) 12:32Felicity Evans discusses the role of diet in diabetes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley.
| 13:00Current affairs analysis with Martha Kearney, plus Election Call with William Hague.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Debate with Lord Falconer, Dr Liam Fox, Stewart Hosie MSP and Jo Swinson.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Rob wants a private word with Tom.(R) 14:15Second World War love story between a soldier and a Morse code interpreter.
| 14:00Helen cannot believe her ears.(R) 14:15A taxi driver and a paramedic make real-time life-and-death journeys across London.
| 14:15By Meic Povey. After the death of his wife, Billy discovers that life goes on.
| 14:15Artistic tensions surface as composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich share a day job.(R)
| 14:00Charlie surprises Adam.(R) 14:15Tracy-Ann Oberman's drama about the film that changed Hollywood. Starring John Simm.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. 14:30A medium stages a kidnap to draw attention to her psychic powers.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the horticultural panel programme.(R) 14:45Grandchildren, the politics of relationships, and coming to terms with where you live.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The 2015 final of the general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Can UK school food be made better by learning from abroad? Sheila Dillon investigates.(R)
| 15:003/6Josie Long hears tales of people who adapted to strange new lives and from a ghost writer. 15:30Tom Heap investigates whether eco-cities are living up to their promise.
| 15:00How do you sort out money and property when a relationship ends? 15:30Claudia Hammond examines the evidence on whether screen time is bad for young people.(R)
| 15:00Caz Graham visits the shores of Solway Firth. 15:27Michael Buerk presents an appeal for Partners for Change Ethiopia.(R) 15:30Mexican writers Valeria Luiselli and Jorge Volpi on their country's literary heritage.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the horticultural panel programme. 15:451/3The first in a new series of specially commissioned stories by top crime writers.
| 15:30Leading cellists explain the power of Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G Major.(R)
| 15:001/2Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic 1920s romp. A fast paced roller-coaster with a satirical bite.
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| 16:00 | 16:002/2Martha Lane Fox explores how artists collaborate creatively online. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores if we treat technology like magic.
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks Julian Barratt and Steve Oram about creating a language without words. 16:30Comedian and actor Kulvinder Ghir nominates the life of the artist Zoran Music.
| 16:00The winner of the 2015 BBC/BSA Ethnography Award. 16:30Rory Bremner on political satire. What has driven Sky's strong results? Tory media policy.
| 16:00Presented by Francine Stock. Joss Whedon discusses Avengers: Age of Ulron. 16:30How the gut bacteria of isolated communities shed light on diseases in the western world.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, an MP, a sex shop founder and a record producer. 16:30The BBC's impartiality during the election and the inspiration of the Shipping Forecast. 16:56Two brothers, whom circumstances have brought them to Derry, miss their Liverpool home.
| 16:00When to try couple counselling, pregnancy sickness and saxophonist Barbara Thompson.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to author Caryl Phillips and reveals why Kafka is current. 16:30A gripping true story of poetry, murder and the art of forgery.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'Life's too short to pretend to be somebody I'm not.'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00In-game betting is becoming hugely popular, but does it threaten the integrity of sport?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles Aidan Turner, the Irish actor playing Poldark.(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. 18:303/6Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that tackles the big moral problems.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/9Jessica Hynes joins Max and Ivan as they investigate a spate of sporting injuries.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Tim and Alex Horne recreate a bet involving horse riding and one million dots.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Ed takes up a professorship at a prestigious writing retreat.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/5Satire meets silliness in the comedy for hard-working families up and down the country.
| 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. 18:15Pauline Black chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Helen cannot believe her ears. 19:16Antony Gormley; Madam Secretary review; Who Cares writer and director; Borodin Quartet. 19:451/5A soldier must time-travel to atone for the death of a comrade.(R)
| 19:16Toni Morrison on her new novel; Indigenous Australia exhibition; Peter Kay's Car Share. 19:452/5A soldier trapped in time relives a comrade's death in 1915.(R)
| 19:16The Good Lie, Dominic Dromgoole, Loudon Wainwright III, Lib Dems' arts policy. 19:453/5A British soldier in Afghanistan time travels back to the fields of Waterloo in 1815.(R)
| 19:16Damian Lewis and Daniel Evans, Sam Lee, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. 19:454/5Agincourt, 1415, but Sam, a soldier from 2015, is there. He has a death to atone for.(R)
| 19:00There is news for Helen and Rob. 19:16Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon discuss the first new Blur album in 16 years. 19:455/5What are the true spoils of war? British soldier Sam finds out.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Aidan Turner, the Irish actor playing Poldark. 19:15Toni Morrison's novel God Help the Child and Eugene O'Neill's 1933 play Ah Wilderness!
| 19:162/6A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis(R) 19:451/3Looks can be deceiving in this new short story by Penelope Lively, read by Stephanie Cole
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jackie Malton assesses how the police have tackled sexism and misogyny in their ranks. 20:30Why does Vladimir Putin fear a tiny drama company that operated from a Moscow basement?(R)
| 20:00In-game betting is becoming hugely popular, but does it threaten the integrity of sport? 20:40TV licence concessions, entrepreneur Lyn Holdsworth, and Sally Booth on painter Sargy Mann
| 20:00Is the UK providing opportunity via access to education and personal development for all. 20:45Peter Bleksley, a former undercover policeman, argues that drugs should be legalised.
| 20:00How Satanic abuse accusations in a north London suburb went global, despite being untrue. 20:30Peter Day talks to Dame Ellen MacArthur about the so-called 'circular economy'.
| 20:00Debate with Lord Falconer, Dr Liam Fox, Stewart Hosie MSP and Jo Swinson. 20:50David Cannadine compares the style of national commemorations in the US and in Britain.
| 20:00The dawning of the age of Black Aquarius, the second great wave of pop occultism in the UK
| 20:00The BBC's impartiality during the election and the inspiration of the Shipping Forecast.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, an MP, a sex shop founder and a record producer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Tom Armitage decodes digital literacy for the so-called 'second machine age'.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.(R)
| 21:00Claudia Hammond examines the evidence on whether screen time is bad for young people. 21:30Obesity expert Susan Jebb talks to Jim al-Khalili about the science of what we eat.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap investigates whether eco-cities are living up to their promise.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets director Polly Findlay and writer Huan Hsu.(R)
| 21:00How the gut bacteria of isolated communities shed light on diseases in the western world.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.(R)
| 21:00Factually-based drama about Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of supplying WikiLeaks.(R)
| 21:002/2Genly Ai arrives from Earth onto a planet with ambigendered humans.(R)
| 21:00UKIP's personal finance plans, plus does a European ruling mean an end to cashback?(R) 21:26Tricia Bernal presents an appeal for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust.(R) 21:30Peter Day talks to Dame Ellen MacArthur about the so-called 'circular economy'.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Is Nicola Sturgeon's offer to the UK genuine? 22:456/10Gorsky: a story about a Russian billionaire, his Thameside palace, love, beauty and books.
| 22:00The World Tonight asks whether each EU country should accept a quota of migrants 22:457/10Gorsky: a story about a Russian billionaire, his Thameside palace, love, beauty and books.
| 22:00Ritula Shah reports from Bradford West on a close and bitter election battle. 22:458/10Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story about beauty, money and books.
| 22:00Agreement reached to triple funding of search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean 22:459/10Gorsky: a story about a Russian billionaire, his Thameside palace, love, beauty and books.
| 22:00China now a lifeline for Russia as the major economy outside the sanctions regime. 22:4510/10Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story about beauty, money and books.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Is the UK providing opportunity via access to education and personal development for all.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Iain Martin of the Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00What is a pedant, and where does pedantry come from? Michael Rosen talks to Oliver Kamm.(R) 23:301/4Matthew Sweet asks, should we take a pill to make us less racist?(R)
| 23:00How Mark booked singers from the Royal Opera House to perform to his father in his home.(R)
| 23:002/6A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis 23:302/4How should you decide between two morally troubling courses of action?(R)
| 23:006/6Improvised chat show hosted by Justin Edwards with Pippa Evans, Hugh Dennis and Matt Lucas 23:303/4Matthew Sweet asks what justifies our belief the sun will rise tomorrow.(R)
| 23:00Comedian and actor Kulvinder Ghir nominates the life of the artist Zoran Music.(R) 23:274/4Matthew Sweet and philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards explore sex equality and pay.(R) 23:55Two brothers, whom circumstances have brought them to Derry, miss their Liverpool home.
| 23:00The 2015 final of the general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30A portrait of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks Blakely.(R)
| 23:00Presented by Francine Stock. Joss Whedon discusses Avengers: Age of Ulron.(R) 23:30Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland of theatre company RashDash reflect on ideas of friendship(R)
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