| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15'Queer' wars: the global struggle for lesbian/gay rights. Also, Nigerian beauty pageants.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Peter's, Curdridge.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5At Repton School in the 1930s, Roald Dahl reports back on jolly japes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Working for Royal Dutch Shell in Africa, Dahl enjoyed postings to exotic places.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5As war breaks out, Roald tells his mother about reporting to the RAF.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Back in Bucks, then out to Washinton DC, where Roald Dahl begins a story called Gremlins.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Success, marriage, family tragedy. The last letters to Sofie are eventful and dramatic.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3A unusual and playful fairy tale, with a twist, penned by a songwriter.(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. 05:45Sally Challoner meets those farming at Passendale and the Somme, 100 years after the war. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the snipe.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George Craig. 05:45A look at how the controversial TTIP deal would affect UK farmers. 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 George Craig. 05:45Could a production cap save the beleaguered dairy industry? 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the barn owl.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George Craig. 05:45A new report calls on government to protect soil health. Presented by Caz Graham. 05:58Kate Humble presents the woodcock.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George Craig. 05:45The blue-on-blue row over the EU referendum at Defra. Sybil Ruscoe presents. 05:58Kate Humble presents the little owl.(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 Rania Hafez. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners. 'Is the mountain giving you a sign?'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of church bells from St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol. 05:45The life and times of embattled Venezuelan president and radical icon Nicolas Maduro.(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. 06:07Clare Balding walks from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere with the CEO of OS, Nigel Clifford.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe hosts a debate about the controversial TTIP negotiations. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, reflects on the powerful human emotion of joy. 06:35Jessica Holmes looks for signs of sparrowhawks. Programme from the Living World archives. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Ed Stourton talks to John Calvin, grandson of the co-founder of Hamas. 07:54Annie Lennox makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Shelter. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Service from Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, County Down. Led by the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 08:48Following the death of Sir Roger Scruton, a chance to listen again to one of his talks.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the snipe.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker. 09:451/5At Repton School in the 1930s, Roald Dahl reports back on jolly japes.
| 09:00Author and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss discusses dark energy with Jim Al-Khalili. 09:30Playwright David Greig finds out what it takes to be an extreme runner. 09:452/5Working for Royal Dutch Shell in Africa, Dahl enjoyed postings to exotic places.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets biologist and comedian Simon Watt and journalist Martin Gurdon. 09:453/5As war breaks out, Roald tells his mother about reporting to the RAF.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic. 09:454/5Back in Bucks, then out to Washinton DC, where Roald Dahl begins a story called Gremlins.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews Professor Louise Richardson.(R) 09:455/5Success, marriage, family tragedy. The last letters to Sofie are eventful and dramatic.
| 09:00Michaela Strachan joins Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. 10:451/5Quirky tales and 'goings on' concerning the residents of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town.
| 10:00kd lang on her new collaboration with singer-songwriters Neko Case and Laura Veirs. 10:452/5Seven year-old Bertie has issues when his mother organises his social life.
| 10:00Young women and self-poisoning; the horsewomen of Fantasia; Eileen Gray. 10:413/5Bertie has an encounter with a Glasgow gangster but who is more afraid, Bertie or his dad? 10:55Ex-soldiers share their opinions about how the armed services are viewed
| 10:00We pay tribute to the writer Carla Lane who died this week. 10:454/5Has Irene Pollock been kidnapped? Is the New Pretender for real?
| 10:00Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman; Sex workers' outreach project; Ilya de Marotta. 10:455/5In 44 Scotland Street life and events are never quite as they seem.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel from Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
| 10:00Johnny stands by Tom, and the Aldridges celebrate.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The test for tubercuslosis is a cattle farmer's most stressful time. Grace Dent presents. 11:301/6City boy Andy has come to his uncle's seaside home in search of a stress-free life.
| 11:00Sian Williams explores the science of resilience and takes lessons in bouncing back. 11:30The story of Jimmy Scott, one of the 20th century’s most overlooked vocalists.
| 11:001/4Why is Japan going through a revolution in the awareness and treatment of depression?(R) 11:305/6The male team at the surgery is desperate to employ a female doctor. Recruits are scarce.
| 11:00Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine news developments in their region 11:30Miranda Sawyer explores the London Film-makers' Co-op and its refreshing approach to film.
| 11:00Ian Marchant explores the rise of self-service. Who benefits - consumers or big business?(R) 11:302/2A hilarious and frank account of Michael Fabbri's adult life coping with dyslexia.
| 11:00Will new technology mean the end of the human translator? 11:30An 'emulsional' election campaign comes to a close in Peru.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews vascular and war surgeon David Nott.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04What's the optimum scientific method for making the perfect cup of tea? 12:15Serial returners - 60% of womenswear bought online ends up being sent back. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why do we cry, and does it makes us feel better? 12:15Consumer phone-in. What makes listeners buy when they're browsing online? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why is everything in space round? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. 12:15Breast implants; second-hand British clothes re-sold in Hungary; wine in a bag. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How does leg hair know to grow back the same length? And why do we have body hair? 12:15Consumer affairs programme. The Care Act and 'Peak Stuff'. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Can horses count? And which animal is the best at maths? 12:15The man who's turning trash into cash and the hotels where you don't spend the night!
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why some umbrella company contractors are paying double national insurance contributions. 12:308/9Miles Jupp is joined by Frankie Boyle, Samira Ahmed, Jeremy Hardy and Kerry Godliman.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock join host Nicholas Parsons(R) 12:32Historian Polly Russell and an archive with a century-long story to tell about UK food. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney at the Hay Festival. 13:45Sound recordist Chris Watson joins the annual migration of wildebeest.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson captures the changing soundscape of an oak woodland.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45A journey in sound from the summit to the valley floor of Cima Verde in northern Italy.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Chris Watson captures the sounds of Black Grouse during an extraordinary performance.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Chris Watson captures the sounds from dusk until dawn in a reed bed in Suffolk.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Abingdon in Oxfordshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:301/2Elis James argues that football - not rugby - best reflects modern Welsh identity.
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| 14:00 | 14:154/10By Phil Marley. Comedy about the trials and tribulations of a modern museum.(R)
| 14:00Rob makes himself useful.(R) 14:15A drama about life and death. And choices. Starring Alison Steadman and Kevin Whately.
| 14:00Jennifer adds some finishing touches.(R) 14:15Left in the care of Arthur Vicars, the jewels were stolen in 1907 and never seen again.
| 14:00Peggy is taken by surprise.(R) 14:15Kenny Stokoe arrives at the front as part of Kitchener's new civilian army.
| 14:159/10Original British Dramatists: A love story about two people adrift in London.(R)
| 14:00EU Referendum campaign and letting 16-year-olds have their say. 14:302/2Terrifying modern retelling by Val McDermid of John Wyndham's science fiction novel.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the Hay Festival.(R) 14:45Perceptions of soldiers, mixed-race families, and the Roma community.
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| 15:00 | 15:004/6Three students from the University of Glasgow take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30The James Beard Award-winning edition on the story of Chinatowns around the world.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts the culinary programme from Blenheim Palace. 15:30Three parents discuss life with a child with learning difficulties.
| 15:00How to fund a degree without taking out a student loan. 15:30The Depressed Cake Shop, plus gut bacteria and the mind, and the perils of perception.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere with the CEO of OS, Nigel Clifford. 15:27Storyteller Giles Abbott, who is blind, presents an appeal on behalf of Snowdon Trust.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to celebrated Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the Hay Festival. 15:45An astronomer who has spent years scanning distant galaxies turns his attention inwards.
| 15:30The story of Jimmy Scott, one of the 20th century’s most overlooked vocalists.(R)
| 15:001/2Rich privilege and a battle of wills as Barbara vows to save East End souls.
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| 16:00 | 16:001/2Mike Garry's epic poem Men's Morning performed in its place of conception. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Rule of Benedict.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg examines the history and tension between two seemingly related laws 16:30Frank Turner chooses Joseph Grimaldi who changed the face of Clowning forever.
| 16:00New research on how society works. Ale drinkers. Northern accents. 16:30Head of BBC Studios, how Top Gear has gone down, the secret to Geordie Shore's success.
| 16:00Will the Nice Guys ever be the Nice Gals? 16:30From the Hay Festival, Adam Rutherford and guests ask how science can fix the future.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a businessman, a conservationist, an actor. 16:30Is the BBC too timid with its referendum coverage? And is Radio 4 too posh? 16:55A resident of Appleby enjoys the colour that the Roma bring to her town each June.
| 16:00k.d. Lang on her new collaboration with singer-songwriters Neko Case and Laura Viers.
| 16:00At the Hexham Literature Festival, Tony Harrison talks to James Naughtie about his poem v. 16:30Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests.
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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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00PM at 5pm - Shaun Ley with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Asset management - or asset stripping? Evan Davis and guests discuss.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Should English football clubs take a closer look at who they turn to for investment?(R) 17:40The life and times of embattled Venezuelan president and radical icon Nicolas Maduro.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Two men from Kent accused of trying to smuggle 18 Albanians from France to UK 18:303/6Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock join host Nicholas Parsons
| 18:00Rachel and Nyomi Fee from Fife carried out a campaign of horrific abuse 18:28A referendum campaign broadcast by the Vote Leave campaign.(R) 18:302/6Journalist and broadcaster Robert Peston reads from his 1974 teenage diaries.
| 18:0021 people died in the blasts in 1974, and more than two hundred were injured 18:28A referendum campaign broadcast by the Stronger IN Europe campaign.(R) 18:303/6Victoria Coren Mitchell is joined by Lee Mack, Konnie Huq and Dave Gorman. From 2016.
| 18:00Eleven thousand jobs are at risk 18:302/4Paul Sinha looks at the heroic field of exploration, and the subsequent stupid deaths.
| 18:00Coroner rules 1995 death of Private Cheryl James at Deepcut Barracks was suicide 18:308/9Miles Jupp is joined by Frankie Boyle, Samira Ahmed, Jeremy Hardy and Kerry Godliman.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Sir John Major calls Leave campaign squalid and misleading 18:15Comedian Susan Calman chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Rob makes himself useful. 19:15The value of new writing for theatre: Front Row marks 60 years of the Royal Court. 19:451/5Quirky tales and 'goings on' concerning the residents of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town.(R)
| 19:00Jennifer adds some finishing touches. 19:15Author Nina Stibbe, musician Moby, The Nice Guys reviewed, Michael Pennington on King Lear 19:452/5Seven year-old Bertie has issues when his mother organises his social life.(R)
| 19:00Peggy is taken by surprise. 19:15TV drama series Versailles reviewed, and Louisa Young on her new novel Devotion. 19:453/5Bertie has an encounter with a Glasgow gangster but who is more afraid, Bertie or his dad?(R)
| 19:15John Wilson talks to Nile Rodgers, on the eve of BBC Music Day. 19:454/5Has Irene Pollock been kidnapped? Is the New Pretender for real?(R)
| 19:00Helen has reason to panic. 19:15Jimmy McGovern on his TV drama Reg, and independent film-maker James Schamus. 19:455/5In 44 Scotland Street life and events are never quite as they seem.(R)
| 19:00The life and times of embattled Venezuelan president and radical icon Nicolas Maduro. 19:15Minefield at Royal Court, The Nice Guys, BBC TV Versailles, Francis Spufford, Dora Maurer.
| 19:00It is a busy day at Brookfield. 19:153/6With guests Mark Billingham and Natalie Haynes on Greek tragedy.(R) 19:453/43/4. Spine by Anita Sullivan. A mother and son try to escape their repressive homeland.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/4Why is Japan going through a revolution in the awareness and treatment of depression? 20:30Edward Stourton on the history and recent renaissance of American opposition to free trade
| 20:00Should English football clubs take a closer look at who they turn to for investment? 20:40Ideas for keeping fit and staying active when you're blind or visually impaired.
| 20:00Will robots be the future of war? And how would warfare change if they were? 20:45Adnan Sarwar on being a Muslim in the British Army.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg examines the history and tension between two seemingly related laws(R) 20:30Asset management - or asset stripping? Evan Davis and guests discuss.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Abingdon in Oxfordshire. 20:50Following the death of Sir Roger Scruton, a chance to listen again to one of his talks.
| 20:00Writer DJ Taylor creates a user's guide to the snob for the 21st century.
| 20:00Is the BBC too timid with its referendum coverage? And is Radio 4 too posh?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a businessman, a conservationist, an actor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00The story of how a sideshow doctor changed medical history and saved premature babies.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.(R)
| 21:00The Depressed Cake Shop, plus gut bacteria and the mind, and the perils of perception. 21:30Author and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss discusses dark energy with Jim Al-Khalili.(R)
| 21:00Naomi Alderman tells the story of Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet' and the cure for syphilis. 21:30Libby Purves meets biologist and comedian Simon Watt and journalist Martin Gurdon.(R)
| 21:00From the Hay Festival, Adam Rutherford and guests ask how science can fix the future.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.(R)
| 21:00Poet Louise Wallwein responds to what she has seen and heard working as a volunteer on Kos(R) 21:455/5Dominic Lawson interviews Natan Sharansky over a game of chess.(R)
| 21:002/2Can John the Savage remain true to the values he learnt on the primitive reservation?(R)
| 21:00Why some umbrella company contractors are paying double national insurance contributions.(R) 21:26Annie Lennox makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Shelter.(R) 21:30Edward Stourton on the history and recent renaissance of American opposition to free trade(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Chad's ex-ruler Hissene Habre is convicted of crimes against humanity. 22:451/10Kathy looks back on her idyllic childhood at Hailsham.
| 22:00Italy tackles migrants, Carla Lane has died, and the battle of Fallujah. 22:452/10The children begin to question things. Could it be that the adults are afraid of them?
| 22:00Is Labour doing enough in the EU referendum campaign? 22:453/10The students begin to understand how they are different from those beyond the school gates
| 22:00Cameron insists his target to reduce net migration can be achieved by staying in the EU. 22:454/10Miss Lucy tells the students the truth about the future that awaits them.
| 22:00Britain, France and the US push for humanitarian aid drops at the Security Council 22:455/10As the students enter their last months at school, the reality of donations creeps closer.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Will robots be the future of war? And how would warfare change if they were?(R)
| 22:00Jacob Rees-Mogg, Emma Reynolds and Alex Gordon join Carolyn Quinn for political debate.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to Keith Houston about punctuation symbols and how they came to exist.(R) 23:30Can character education really improve someone's chances in life?(R)
| 23:004/6Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s south London.(R) 23:30How one of the highest-ranking education systems in the world is being overhauled.(R)
| 23:003/4Monica Dolan stars in this tale about a scientist who discovers a miraculous serum. 23:154/4Andy Warhol's acclaimed diaries brought to life in four short dramas by Sean Grundy. 23:30What can everyone learn from the world's most effective classroom tutors?(R)
| 23:001/4Enchanting, absurd and funny stories from the mind of celebrated US writer Simon Rich. 23:30How does a school recover from failure after being put into special measures?(R)
| 23:00Frank Turner chooses Joseph Grimaldi who changed the face of Clowning forever.(R) 23:27Sarah Montague looks at the role of parents in early years learning.(R) 23:55A mother and her mixed race daughter deal with other people's expectations.
| 23:004/6Three students from the University of Glasgow take on their professors in the upbeat quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents a miscellany of listeners' poetry requests.(R)
| 23:00Davis Miller tells the story of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.(R) 23:30Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, reflects on the powerful human emotion of joy.(R)
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