| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores what happens when everyday forms of borrowing go bad.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5By Niall Griffiths. Perry and his aged mother are snowed in, isolated in the Welsh hills.(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 Shirley Jenner. 05:45Forty leading UK farmers publicly weigh in behind EU membership. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the blackbird.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shirley Jenner. 05:45Defra secretary of state still supports the work of the RPA despite a damning report. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the grey heron.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shirley Jenner. 05:45What future for dairy farmers as the global milk glut continues? 05:58Bill Oddie presents the chiffchaff.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shirley Jenner. 05:45The head of the Rural Payments Agency is quizzed by MPs over problems in the system. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the nuthatch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shirley Jenner. 05:45Scottish farmers and crofters demonstrate outside Holyrood. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the rook.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. 05:45A leading psychiatrist explains the latest research on cannabis.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells from the Church of the Holy Cross in Woodchurch on the Wirral. 05:45Journalist and author Madeleine reflects on Jesus's last night in the garden of Gethsemane(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.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and 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 joins a lively primary school walking club in the Dorset countryside.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe is in the Malvern Hills to discuss rambling, footpaths and rights of way. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Samira Ahmed explores the ambiguous power of tears in myth and music. 06:35Helen Mark meets crofters Martin and Mary Mackay and their shepherd Janet Roberts. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news, with Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Religious and ethical news. 07:54Author David Mitchell presents an appeal on behalf of the charity KIDS. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10On Passion Sunday, an exploration of living with uncertainty. 08:48Adam Gopnik deplores the fashion for attacking so-called 'cultural expropriation'.(R) 08:58Bill Oddie presents the blackbird.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Kirsty Wark with Tom Devine, Chris Whatley, Kathleen Jamie and Angus Farquhar. 09:451/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winner Venki Ramakrishnan. 09:30Mark Lawson talks to the artist and Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. 09:452/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets commentator Henry Blofeld and clarinettist Emma Johnson. 09:453/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America. 09:454/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the nuclear engineer and scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion.(R) 09:455/5Ian McKellen reads Seamus Heaney's newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI.
| 09:00Actress Anita Dobson joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Jonny Dymond.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A look at black women's access to mental health services. 10:456/10Jane fears that Rochester will marry Blanche and she will never see him again.
| 10:00Country music singer Carrie Underwood performs and women's interests in the EU debate. 10:457/10How will Jane react to some shocking news?
| 10:00Is the position of women in society reflected in its toilets? 10:418/10Jane has run from Thornfield and Rochester and her strength is failing. Where can she go? 10:55Disability need be no bar to employment.
| 10:00Caitlin Moran on her Moranifesto, and feminist Michael Kimmel on why men need feminism too 10:459/10What will Jane do if St John has discovered her secret?
| 10:00Jenni Murray with Uzo Aduba, Inga Beale, Gini Reticker and Prof Kimberle Crenshaw. 10:4510/10As the pressure from St John grows, Jane pleads for more time.
| 10:302/4Laura Barton takes a close listen to music found in different landscapes around Britain.
| 10:00On Mother's Day, Rob and Henry roll their sleeves up. And Helen puts her foot in it.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Grace Dent with untold stories of 21st century Britain. 11:303/4Dot is sent to enlist a teacher for 'Shhh Bletchley Park', but is he of sound material?
| 11:001/2Alok Jha asks if science is in crisis. 11:301/2Colleen Murphy celebrates the development and impact of the record-playing turntable.
| 11:001/3Jolyon Jenkins on men fighting a liberation war against what they see as female oppression 11:30Bill Nighy stars as actor cum amateur sleuth Charles Paris in a dramatic murder mystery.
| 11:00Since China's clampdown on corruption, the pearl and jewellery shops are empty. 11:30Tim Key gives his surreal and startling take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.
| 11:00Five years after Japan's tsunami, some survivors report seeing the ghosts of the dead. 11:306/6Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral, ethical and comical wringers.(R)
| 11:00Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Migrants are stuck in Turkey as the way to the EU is blocked in a new deal.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews artist Yinka Shonibare.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The legends of a shrine, revered by both Christians and Muslims for hundreds of years 12:15Consumer affairs programme. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why was the bust of a blind, vegetarian, medieval poet the casualty of Syria's modern war? 12:15Have you ever been nagged by the nanny state into changing for the better? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04On the murky trail of a missing genie, last seen in the ancient Assyrian palace of Nimrud 12:15Winifred Robinson discusses proposals for a new Fundraising Preference Service. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A shrine to the 1915 Armenian massacres, made from human bones in the Syrian desert 12:15Including a look at a report on how well the UK's energy market works for consumers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In search of a Sumerian goddess, and the pillaging of Iraq's most important museum 12:15The secret how-to guide to selling to vulnerable customers. Plus, social media break-ups.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The areas where water customers have refused to pay extra to help the less well-off. 12:302/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence and Nish Kumar join host Nicholas Parsons.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon discovers why fermentation is the catalyst for a delicious revolution. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the painter Amrita Sher-Gil.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Sunil Khilnani explores the life of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45Exploring the life and work of India's master of the short story, Saadat Hasan Manto.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Spalding in Lincolnshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Michael Palin's story of a group of refugees welcomed to Somerset.
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| 14:00 | 14:00On Mother's Day, Rob and Henry roll up their sleeves.(R) 14:15Friends Holly and Nicole suspect a murder plot upon overhearing a suspicious conversation.(R)
| 14:00Lynda's garden gets the creative juices flowing.(R) 14:15By Daniel Thurman. Ian returns to his childhood home 30 years after he last saw his mother
| 14:00Helen puts her foot in it.(R) 14:151/2Damian Lewis stars as Edward Whymper - the first man to conquer the Matterhorn
| 14:00Lilian has a brainwave.(R) 14:152/2Damian Lewis stars as Edward Whymper - the first man to conquer the Matterhorn.
| 14:00Ed feels he is on the right track.(R) 14:15Jon Culshaw stars in this satire on the conceptual work of the Young British Artists.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30A Creole heiress weds a dashing Englishman and their troubles begin.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Northamptonshire.(R) 14:45How employment can change perceptions of disability.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Four contestants from the Home Counties and the West Midlands compete. 15:30Sheila Dillon unveils the list of the 2016 BBC Food and Farming Awards finalists.(R)
| 15:00How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914 15:30Tom Heap visits New York to find out how the city is cleaning up its dirty waterways.
| 15:00How would you create the state pension from scratch? 15:30Antidepressants - how do you know when you are better and can stop taking them?(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding joins a lively primary school walking club in the Dorset countryside. 15:27Dr Jill Barber presents an appeal on behalf of All We Can.(R) 15:30Michael Holroyd talks to James Naughtie about his book A Strange Eventful History.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Northamptonshire. 15:451/3Two sisters have to find new grazing ground for their ponies.
| 15:301/2Colleen Murphy celebrates the development and impact of the record-playing turntable.(R)
| 15:002/2Sylvia discovers Philip has lied to her.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Gareth Gwynn uncovers the fantastical world of a Welsh cultural lodestone, Iolo Morganwg 16:30William Crawley and guests discuss the use of stories in the Bible.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg presents a look at how effective the law is at dealing with drones. 16:30Writers Joe Dunthorne and John O'Farrell discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00A study of Todmorden. Also, the rescue and resuscitation of chronic patients. 16:30Including the BBC's new controller of TV channels and iPlayer Charlotte Moore.
| 16:00With Antonia Quirke. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss Anomalisa. 16:30Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.
| 16:00Reeta Chakrabarti on a music producer, a US first lady, an internet pioneer and an author. 16:30Is there too much US election coverage? And behind the scenes at the Lent Talks. 16:55If you are disabled, getting a job means more than simply earning a living.
| 16:00Emmy award-winning actress Uzo Aduba on her latest role - on stage in The Maids.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to acclaimed Spanish novelist Javier Marias. 16:30Roger McGough with a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Evan Davis finds out who profits the most from horse racing.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00With applications rising, is the UK's asylum process reaching crisis point?(R) 17:40Does Ted Cruz have what it takes to derail Donald Trump's bid to become US president?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00EU leaders extend summit after Turkey puts forward new proposals 18:303/6Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence and Nish Kumar join host Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00Bank of England Governor says an EU exit is the biggest financial risk facing the UK 18:305/6Finally all is going well for Ed, who has comfortable lodgings and money in his pocket.(R)
| 18:00Buckingham Palace has formally complained about a Sun story saying the Queen backs Brexit 18:303/6Comedian and satirist Ian Hislop talks to writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell.
| 18:00Markets slide after the European Central Bank announces major stimulus measures 18:304/4Susan Calman tries to unwind by visiting an art gallery with Phill Jupitus.
| 18:00Mr Johnson says the UK could forge a new free trade deal with the EU, similar to Canada 18:302/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00More doubts raised about plans to build a new nuclear power station in the UK 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Reports of multiple casualties after an explosion in the Turkish capital Ankara 18:15Stewart Henderson chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Lynda's garden gets the creative juices flowing. 19:15Arts news, interviews and reviews. 19:456/10Jane fears that Rochester will marry Blanche and she will never see him again.(R)
| 19:00Helen puts her foot in it. 19:15With Samira Ahmed, including a review of Anomalis and a look at Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid 19:457/10How will Jane react to some shocking news?(R)
| 19:15Composer David Arnold and comedian Bernard Cribbins on the late producer George Martin. 19:458/10Jane has run from Thornfield and Rochester and her strength is failing. Where can she go?(R)
| 19:00Ed feels he is on the right track. 19:15Nick Hytner on Ken Adam. Plus Martin Parr, Assemble and Bradford museum controversy. 19:459/10What will Jane do if St John has discovered her secret?(R)
| 19:00Temperatures are raised behind closed curtains. 19:15The Ones Below, Afghan rapper Sonita, Tate funding, Comedy Playhouse, War Horse music. 19:4510/10As the pressure from St John grows, Jane pleads for more time.(R)
| 19:00Does Ted Cruz have what it takes to derail Donald Trump's bid to become US president? 19:15Including a look at Motown the Musical, which has come to the London stage.
| 19:00Bert and Lynda have a difference of opinion. 19:154/6Katy Brand, Alex Horne, Richard Herring and Natalie Haynes compete in the wordy panel game(R) 19:45What if Jane Eyre decided to confront the ghost of Bertha? Isy Suttie writes and performs.
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| 20:00 | 20:00What impact would Brexit have on Scotland's politics and economy? Sarah Smith investigates 20:30Will devolution deliver the power promised to England's cities and regions?
| 20:00With applications rising, is the UK's asylum process reaching crisis point? 20:40For BBC News School Report, Kelsey from Watford Boys Grammar co-hosts with Peter White.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Journalist and author Madeleine reflects on Jesus's last night in the garden of Gethsemane
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg presents a look at how effective the law is at dealing with drones. 20:30Evan Davis finds out who profits the most from horse racing.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Spalding in Lincolnshire. 20:50Adam Gopnik deplores the fashion for attacking so-called 'cultural expropriation'.
| 20:00Neil Innes looks at the collision of art, humour, music and anarchy in the Bonzo Dog Band.
| 20:00Is there too much US election coverage? And behind the scenes at the Lent Talks.(R) 20:30Reeta Chakrabarti on a music producer, a US first lady, an internet pioneer and an author.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:002/2Graham Easton asks what US Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot can achieve.(R) 21:30Kirsty Wark with Tom Devine, Chris Whatley, Kathleen Jamie and Angus Farquhar.(R)
| 21:00Antidepressants - how do you know when you are better and can stop taking them? 21:30Jim Al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winner Venki Ramakrishnan.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap visits New York to find out how the city is cleaning up its dirty waterways.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets commentator Henry Blofeld and clarinettist Emma Johnson.(R)
| 21:00Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.(R)
| 21:00Sunil Khilnani presents audio portraits of figures who have shaped Indian history.
| 21:001/2Sylvia falls in love with whaler Charlie Kinraid, but he's captured by the Press Gang.(R)
| 21:02The areas where water customers have refused to pay extra to help the less well-off.(R) 21:26Author David Mitchell presents an appeal on behalf of the charity KIDS.(R) 21:30Will devolution deliver the power promised to England's cities and regions?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Will the money make a difference to refugees already there? 22:451/5Queenie Hennessy reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life.(R)
| 22:00Concerns over legality of plans to exchange 'migrants' in Greece for refugees in Turkey. 22:452/5Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's.(R)
| 22:00We have a special investigation 22:453/5Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's.
| 22:00The European Central Bank announces major steps to try to revive Europe's economies. 22:454/5Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's.(R)
| 22:00Are conditions in the South Sudan crisis now worse than Syria? 22:455/5Award-winning writer, Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's.
| 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 newspapers are covering the big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen on one of the most frustrating language states: tip of the tongue.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/2Comedian Andrew O'Neill delves into sexual identity and homophobia.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Sketch show from award-winning duo Croft and Pearce, rising stars of UK comedy. 23:152/4Up-and-coming playwright Billy Shakespeare ponders how his new work will be received.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster, where it is a day of defeats for the government.
| 23:002/4Meet the man addicted to giving lifts! Sketch show with Daniel Rigby and Jess Ransom. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Writers Joe Dunthorne and John O'Farrell discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A job in a different town from where she grew up has given a disabled woman a fresh start.
| 23:00Four contestants from the Home Counties and the West Midlands compete. 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry written by women.(R)
| 23:00With Antonia Quirke. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss Anomalisa.(R) 23:30Samira Ahmed explores the ambiguous power of tears in myth and music.(R)
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