| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:153/3The layered history of Cape Town as seen by its new generation of writers and poets.(R) 00:45Bells from Durham Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/52012. Misha travels to Brazil's top security jail to meet Antonio, the man known as Nem.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Duda is diagnosed with a rare illness, and the hospital costs are beyond Antonio's means.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Violence escalates between warring factions in the favela of Rocinha.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5When Nem takes over in Rocinha, a prosperous and safe environment begins to flourish.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5With Rio coming under global scrutiny, Rocinha is included in the 'pacification' scheme.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Bee loves Brad, but he seems to care more for his guitar than he does for her.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45What could the turmoil in the Northern Irish government mean for farmers there? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the Florida scrub jay.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45New research shows how bumblebees are stealing pollen and nectar from each other's nests. 05:58David Attenborough presents the white-bearded manakin of tropical South America.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45Inside a modern chicken plant that processes more than a million chickens a week. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the Dupont's lark of southern Europe and North Africa.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45EU aid - how much will farmers get? And should we protect raptors, or racing pigeons? 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the New Zealand wrybill.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45The report into farming and deadly air pollution, harvest in Orkney and Scottish lamb. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the North American red-winged blackbird.(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 Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45How one Englishman's design is preventing migrants and refugees dying at sea.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from Loughborough Parish Church. 05:45Mark Coles profile the new shadow cabinet's twin sisters, Maria and Angela Eagle.(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. 06:07Louise Ann Wilson discusses her walking guide and art book that reflect on childlessness.(R) 06:30With the 2015 harvest approaching its end, Charlotte Smith hears about this year's wheat. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05From Dante to Dickens, Samira Ahmed explores ideas about what happens after death. 06:35Sarah Swadling is among the ripening cider apples at a Devon orchard. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news. Includes Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10The Pope in Cuba, Anglican Communion meeting, and could there be a church incense 'ban'? 07:54Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal for War on Want. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A Service of Commitment for the Community of St Anselm at Lambeth Palace. 08:48Will Self reflects on the various reasons for his inability to sleep soundly any more.(R) 08:58Sir David Attenborough presents the Florida scrub jay.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Fi Glover and guests are in Cumbria to explore landscape and conversations in extremis. 09:30Sound recordist Chris Watson introduces a dawn chorus from Suffolk.(R) 09:451/52012. Misha travels to Brazil's top security jail to meet Antonio, the man known as Nem.
| 09:00History series in which stories from the past shed light on the present. 09:303/5Revolution and rebellion provide the inspiration as we create a dish for Merthyr Tydfil.(R) 09:452/5Duda is diagnosed with a rare illness, and the hospital costs are beyond Antonio's means.
| 09:002/3Mariella Frostrup and guests look at how to parent through a separation or divorce. 09:453/5Violence escalates between warring factions in the favela of Rocinha.
| 09:00Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a discussion on foreign reporting's past, present and future. 09:454/5When Nem takes over in Rocinha, a prosperous and safe environment begins to flourish.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor's guests remember the campaign to free the Birmingham Six.(R) 09:455/5With Rio coming under global scrutiny, Rocinha is included in the 'pacification' scheme.
| 09:00Rapper Professor Green, hairstylist Charlie le Mindu and broadcaster Seva Novgorodsev.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Kim Cattrall sets out her themes as guest editor in a frank interview with Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall star in AL Kennedy's romantic comedy.
| 10:00Campaigner Nimko Ali is the guest editor. Jane Garvey presents. 10:452/5Busy John and Maggie's fear of getting hurt are not making a reunion easy.
| 10:00The bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Rachel Treweek, is our guest editor. With Jane Garvey 10:413/5John and Maggie find their conversations tend towards mortality and missed chances 10:55A student and his history teacher discuss how her lessons have liberated him
| 10:00Entrepreneur Michelle Mone takes over today's programme. 10:454/5An early morning date in Manchester is not what Maggie had hoped for.
| 10:00Jacqueline Wilson is joined by Shirley Hughes, Sheila Hancock and Amanda Barrie. 10:455/5John gets a chance to talk his way back into Maggie's heart and bed, but for how long?
| 10:304/6Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Wolverhampton.
| 10:00It's Ed to the rescue once more, and Ambridge's women celebrate a familiar institution.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2Georgina Ferry presents the dramatised correspondence of Ada Lovelace. 11:301/4The family descends upon Maggie to provide support, plumbing advice and tea.
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores how brambles appear in art, literature, forensics and religion. 11:30Alan Bennett and musicians young and old consider the orchestral heritage of Yorkshire.
| 11:00Stella Rimington uncovers startling new evidence about the executed British heroine. 11:301/3Gossip spreads through St Mary Mead of a murdered wife and a husband under suspicion.
| 11:00A chance to hear in full the despatches referred to in the 60th Anniversary Special. 11:30An aspiring pop star meets Jacques Attali, who predicted today's music crisis in 1976.
| 11:001/2Lainy Malkani uncovers her family's roots on the sugar plantations of British Guiana. 11:301/4Alice and Snoo resort to some unconventional means to get people into the library.
| 11:00A sharp rise in tension between EU countries grappling with the migrants' crisis. 11:30For the first time in six decades, the programme shines a spotlight on UK affairs.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to actress Dame Judi Dench.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In the Graham household, new science and technology offers some practical comfort. 12:15Johnnie Walker and wife Tiggy on the pressures of caring for a partner with cancer. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Alice and Roy try to evade the inevitable in the hope Roy can escape transfer to France. 12:15How well was your child prepared for the move to secondary school? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A letter from Marion and the bairns sets Kitty's heart racing. 12:15A look at why consumers need to act now to avoid higher energy bills. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The big day finally arrives for Dorothea and Ralph. 12:15How has the rollercoaster accident at Alton Towers affected surrounding businesses? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Ivy Layton creates a theatrical novelty - Madame Aethyria. 12:15Peter White looks at problems with Sunday train services and the demand for more drivers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Paul Lewis on flight compensation, new banks on the block and disappearing tax credits. 12:301/8Mark Steel, Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall and Danny Finkelstein join host Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/6With panellists Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and Katherine Ryan.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino revisits highlights from our regular mini-series of endangered world foods. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:451/12Hannah Fry travels back to the 1940s to hear the story of the creation of computer memory.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:452/12The story of the chain of British teashops that created the first office computer.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/12ERNIE, machine made by wartime code-breakers, becomes an unlikely celebrity.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/12The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, including Scotland, migration and rugby. 13:455/12Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs debate from Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:302/3James Naughtie looks at how North Sea oil wealth has changed UK life and politics.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00David has women on his mind.(R) 14:15Secrets and lies unravel in Rachel De-lahay's drama about the need to conform.(R)
| 14:00It is Ed to the rescue once more.(R) 14:15Stephen Wakelam's drama charts the first meeting between John Osborne and George Devine.(R)
| 14:00Rob gets into training.(R) 14:153/3D.S. Armitage is working with his old friend and colleague P.C. Joanne Laverty.
| 14:00Ambridge's women celebrate a familiar institution.(R) 14:15By Gary Owen. Can Ryan finally triumph as both a rugby star and as a father?
| 14:155/6A journalist wants Frank to help him stop a massive cover-up, but Frank needs persuading.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. 14:30The backstage story to one of broadcasting's historic moments. With Simon Russell Beale.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are in Sheffield.(R) 14:45Conversations about retirement, memories, learning and how history can change lives.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nigel Rees hosts with Don Black, Shobu Kapoor, Fern Britton and Anthony Horowitz. 15:30Diana Henry hosts a jam-making 'canning party'.(R)
| 15:003/6Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Sheffield.(R) 15:30Can Britain save the oceans by protecting its overseas territories? Tom Heap reports.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests take your saving and investing questions on Money Box Live. 15:30Are league tables listing surgical outcomes the best way to assess a surgeon?(R)
| 15:00Louise Ann Wilson discusses her walking guide and art book that reflect on childlessness. 15:27Sam Evans presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Sound Seekers.(R) 15:30John Banville discusses his latest novel The Blue Guitar and the search for perfection.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel are in Sheffield. 15:451/2A daughter reflects on her unconventional mother and her rather unconventional love affair
| 15:30Alan Bennett and musicians young and old consider the orchestral heritage of Yorkshire.
| 15:003/3Robespierre and Danton are at odds over the direction the revolution should take.
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| 16:00 | 16:001/3In 1932 George Orwell taught in a public school. Geoffrey Stevens recalls being his pupil. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the feelings of betrayal when followers abandon a faith.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at how numbers are understood - and misunderstood. 16:30Hannah Rothschild looks back at the life of jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor examines the history and future of an often controversial police tactic. 16:30Senior figures from the TV industry discuss the challenges of a shifting media landscape.
| 16:00With Francine Stock. Including a discussion on new drama Everest. 16:30Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a choirmaster, a producer, a singer, a cricketer, a radio presenter. 16:30Tim Harford asks are strikes on the rise, rugby players bigger and sea life in decline? 16:55Fi Glover talks to a couple who share the experience of a Kenyan childhood.
| 16:00Kim Cattrall, Michelle Mone, Jacqueline Wilson, Nimko Ali, Bishop Rachel.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Bill Clegg about his book Did You Ever Have a Family. 16:30Roger McGough with a selection of listeners' requests with a family theme.
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| 17:00 | 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30How one Englishman's design is preventing migrants and refugees dying at sea.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Under fire over controversial decisions, is the Crown Prosecution Service up to the job?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profile the new shadow cabinet's twin sisters, Maria and Angela Eagle.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The veteran left-winger, John McDonnell, is made Shadow Chancellor. 18:304/6With panellists Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and Katherine Ryan.
| 18:00Unions say they'll lead anti-EU campaign if David Cameron waters down workers' rights 18:301/4The agency is shaken by the arrival of a new accounts chief.
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn has attempted to end the "theatrics" of Prime Minister's Questions 18:303/5Pedantic 'Gardener's Question Time' and an enchanted stationery cupboard.(R)
| 18:00The head of MI5 says advances in technology mean anti-terror laws should be updated. 18:301/6Marcus Brigstocke finds out about the pure and noble game of football. And also FIFA.
| 18:00Croatia is latest country to say it can't cope with flow of migrants aiming for Europe. 18:301/8Mark Steel, Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall and Danny Finkelstein join host Miles Jupp.
| 18:00A sharp rise in tension between EU countries grappling with the migrants' crisis. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Voting has ended in third Greek election this year. Pope Francis has said mass in Havana 18:15Nick Baker chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00It is Ed to the rescue once more. 19:15Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his new solo exhibition. With John Wilson. 19:451/5Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall star in AL Kennedy's romantic comedy.(R)
| 19:15Samira Ahmed reviews the play Photograph 51, starring Nicole Kidman. 19:452/5Busy John and Maggie's fear of getting hurt are not making a reunion easy.(R)
| 19:00Ambridge's women celebrate a familiar institution. 19:15A look at the launch of the tenth BBC National Short Story Award. John Wilson presents. 19:453/5John and Maggie find their conversations tend towards mortality and missed chances(R)
| 19:15David Morrissey in Martin McDonagh's new play Hangmen. John Wilson presents. 19:454/5An early morning date in Manchester is not what Maggie had hoped for.(R)
| 19:00It is time for some tea and tenacity. 19:15The end of Downton Abbey, musician and composer Karl Jenkins, armour on stage at the RSC. 19:455/5John gets a chance to talk his way back into Maggie's heart and bed, but for how long?(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profile the new shadow cabinet's twin sisters, Maria and Angela Eagle. 19:15Submission, Hangmen, The World Goes Pop, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Tangerines.
| 19:00Who will produce a winning entry? 19:153/4Stoneybridge, Little Girl, Calum, Denzil and Gwynned feature in the popular sketch show. 19:452/3A woman heads north, driven by strange phenomena and uncanny weather.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/3James Naughtie looks at how North Sea oil wealth has changed UK life and politics. 20:30Why is Paraguay facing an epidemic of schoolgirl pregnancies?(R)
| 20:00Under fire over controversial decisions, is the Crown Prosecution Service up to the job? 20:40SeeAbility talk about their latest campaign to get eye tests in special schools in England
| 20:00Does the growth of the sharing economy mean ownership is over? 20:45Barbara Weiss says we must act fast to save London's skyline from ugly buildings.
| 20:00Why British writer Cedric Belfrage avoided prosecution after passing top secrets to Russia 20:30Peter Day reports from China on the country's efforts to reduce pollution and go green.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs debate from Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire. 20:50Will Self reflects on the various reasons for his inability to sleep soundly any more.
| 20:00Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.
| 20:00Tim Harford asks are strikes on the rise, rugby players bigger and sea life in decline?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a choirmaster, a producer, a singer, a cricketer, a radio presenter.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood explores how bears have influenced art, literature and belief.(R) 21:30Fi Glover and guests are in Cumbria to explore landscape and conversations in extremis.(R)
| 21:00Are league tables listing surgical outcomes the best way to assess a surgeon? 21:30History series in which stories from the past shed light on the present.(R)
| 21:00Can Britain save the oceans by protecting its overseas territories? Tom Heap reports.(R) 21:302/3Mariella Frostrup and guests look at how to parent through a separation or divorce.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week(R) 21:30Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a discussion on foreign reporting's past, present and future.(R)
| 21:00A week of evasions, diversions and new arrivals.
| 21:002/3Pressure is growing on the revolutionaries to depose the king and create a republic.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis on flight compensation, new banks on the block and disappearing tax credits.(R) 21:26Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal for War on Want.(R) 21:30Peter Day reports from China on the country's efforts to reduce pollution and go green.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Is a more relaxed type of politics the right way to run a party ? 22:456/10It’s 1968, and a mother arrives unexpectedly at her parents’ home, children in tow.
| 22:00Could camps outside Europe, provide a longer term solution to the migrant crisis? 22:457/10A moment's indiscretion or time for a new direction? The past influences the present.
| 22:00Labour leader says can't envisage situation where party would campaign to leave the EU. 22:458/10Tessa Hadley's witty and wry new novel - a story of siblings, secrets and passions.
| 22:00Is it possible to be a Republican and the leader of the opposition? 22:459/10Tessa Hadley's compelling new novel - a story of siblings, secrets and passions.
| 22:00Will the US now change it's stance on Syria ? 22:4510/10Tessa Hadley's compelling new novel - a story of siblings, secrets and passions.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Does the growth of the sharing economy mean ownership is over?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Kevin Maguire of the Mirror looks at how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:003/3Race, class and religion to the rhythm of Vangelis. Best Picture of 1981 revisited.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the first outing for Jeremy Corbyn's team.
| 23:001/4An adventure in Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms by Alice Lowe. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Elvis dons a sweater and investigates the kidnapping of his dog Trouble. 23:152/4The former host of New York's longest-running open mic night is still finding things tough(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on Jeremy Corbyn's new approach to PMQs.
| 23:002/4Will is asked to help someone find the words to break some difficult news. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Hannah Rothschild looks back at the life of jazz musician Thelonious Monk.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A mother and daughter come to terms with their different approach to learning
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts with Don Black, Shobu Kapoor, Fern Britton and Anthony Horowitz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough introduces poetry to take listeners into altered states and waking dreams.(R)
| 23:00With Francine Stock. Including a discussion on new drama Everest.(R) 23:30From Dante to Dickens, Samira Ahmed explores ideas about what happens after death.(R)
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