| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A meditation on loss, with real and imagined stories bound by sound and silence.(R) 00:45Church bells from Manchester Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Joe Moran creates a field guide to shyness, which Darwin called an odd state of mind.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5In a culture where it's good to talk, what place for people tongue tied by shyness?(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Could the origins of art lie in the human capacity for introversion?(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5In a New York brownstone in 1965, the first skirmish in the war against shyness began.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5When does shyness turn pathological?(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3The exiled Emperor Haile Selassie visits Stonehenge.(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. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev John McLuckie. 05:45Anna Hill goes on pilgrimage in Norfolk to trace the life of farming's patron saint. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the Green Sandpiper.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev John McLuckie. 05:45Greenbelt and calls for a new cohesive housing strategy. Plus Fois Gras and useful sheep. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the wood sandpiper.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev John McLuckie. 05:45A tale of two sheep farmers, green belt development and the extension of the badger cull. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the spotted redshank.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev John McLuckie. 05:45Should abattoirs be made to install CCTV to prevent animal welfare abuse? 05:58Bill Oddie presents the ruff.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev John McLuckie. 05:45Careless anglers could be spreading a killer virus among fish. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the ringed plover.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer from the Greenbelt Festival with Canon Mark Oakley. 05:45How alcoholism crept up on a teacher. With Jennifer Tracey.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of the church bells at All Saints Parish Church, Writtle in Essex. 05:45Becky Milligan profiles the new home secretary, Amber Rudd.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark finds out how a proposed golf resort in Hoylake will affect the green belt.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith hosts a discussion about the future of the green belt in the 21st century. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson examines climate change and human rights. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is on the lookout for dragonflies. Presented by Chris Packham. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by William Crawley. 07:54Amanda Mealing makes an appeal on behalf of Breast Cancer Care. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The bishop of London preaches live from the fine Wren Church of St Stephen, Walbrook. 08:48Tom Shakespeare on why the Houses of Parliament should move around the country.(R) 08:58Brett Westwood presents the Green Sandpiper.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:001/10Melvyn Bragg on the fall of Rome and the rise of Northumbria. 09:305/5Guy Hedgecoe follows Graham Greene's travels around post-Franco Spain in the late 1970s. 09:451/5Joe Moran creates a field guide to shyness, which Darwin called an odd state of mind.
| 09:002/10Melvyn Bragg explores the glories of the Northumbrian Renaissance. 09:3010/10Andrew Parker's Natural History Hero is microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek(R) 09:452/5In a culture where it's good to talk, what place for people tongue tied by shyness?
| 09:003/10Melvyn Bragg on the invasions of the north of England by Vikings and Norsemen. 09:304/5David Cannadine explores Sir Alec Douglas-Home's matchbox economics. 09:453/5Could the origins of art lie in the human capacity for introversion?
| 09:004/10Melvyn Bragg on the the turbulent years of rebellion which swept the north of England. 09:303/10Palaeontologist Tori Herridge explains why Dorothea Bate is her Natural History Hero.(R) 09:454/5In a New York brownstone in 1965, the first skirmish in the war against shyness began.
| 09:005/10Northern landscapes have been inspiration for some of England's greatest literature. 09:304/10Robert Prys Jones explains why Allan Octavian Hume is his Natural History Hero.(R) 09:455/5When does shyness turn pathological?
| 09:00Comedian John Bishop joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00We discuss women's most intimate clothing choice - their underwear. 10:456/10Megan's problems are far from over.
| 10:00Green Party leadership, Bridget Jones generation, lingerie makers in Wales. 10:457/10Megan discovers an intruder in the yard.
| 10:00Orphans of the Carnival, German paternity, online abuse, maternity discrimination. 10:418/10The creepy Madog Prys comes to London. 10:55When parents split up, children often end up splitting their time between two homes.(R)
| 10:00The canonisation of Mother Teresa as a saint. And tackling sexual assaults on US campuses. 10:459/10Annie unearths some terrible, but useful secrets...
| 10:00Olympic gold hockey players Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh. 10:4510/10Gangsters, gambling and an innocent abroad in 1890s Whitechapel.
| 10:30The changing accents on the UK's longest rail journey, the 0820 from Aberdeen to Penzance.
| 10:00Ian makes up for lost time, and Anna makes a last attempt.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The story of how easy credit changed British society forever.(R) 11:302/6Frank Skinner and guests discuss history's funniest moments.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood blows the cobwebs from tales of spiders as objects of fear and temptation 11:30An apple, a car, even a super yacht... Why are so many things called Jazz?
| 11:00Gus O'Donnell reports on how the civil service is working to make Brexit happen. 11:302/6Josh and his wife go for their 20-week scan.
| 11:00Heroin, opiates, and suburban Ohio. 11:30Michael Symmons Roberts on the life and legacy of the philanthropist Thomas Horsfall.(R)
| 11:00How do Sunni-Shia couples handle the deepening gulf between their two sects of Islam? 11:306/6Hit sit com about 3 marriages in various states of disrepair.
| 11:00How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages? 11:30Kate Adie presents reports from Hangzhou, Brazil, the Central African Republic and Korea.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor brings together the satirists who launched Private Eye magazine in 1961.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Alec Poole's loyalties are stretched. 12:15Why do terrorists target tourist resorts and what impact does it have on those countries? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04A new arrival at the Grahams' fractures Esme's peace of mind. 12:15Consumer phone-in. Listeners' experience of how attacks have impacted their trips. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Juliet Cavendish's marriage is on fragile ground. 12:15Tumble dryer fires, laser pens, antique furniture, HMRC. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Ralph Winwood returns home to a limited welcome. 12:15A new helpline is launched for women who buy illegal abortion pills. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Cases of the plague are confirmed in Hull, and in Folkestone, a rumour begins to take hold 12:15Why have only four out of 22 companies issued with fines for nuisance calls paid up?
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Dire time for savers. Bank error in your favour. Who is to blame when a SIPP goes wrong? 12:306/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Craig Brown, Katie Birkwood and George Monbiot.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/8Nicholas Parsons hosts an Edinburgh Festival Fringe special.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino, longtime espresso-drinker, journeys into coffee's past, present and future. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5The natural history story of the UK's most famous invader - the grey squirrel.
| 13:00News with Martha Kearney including Apple tax and rescue of migrants from the Mediterranean 13:452/5Does Japanese knotweed deserve its place as the most hated plant in the UK?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Derek Mooney finds out how the harlequin ladybird became the UK's fastest invader ever.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5How invasive is the ring-necked parakeet?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5How do we protect our native wildlife from invisible invaders like the ash-dieback fungus.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Lydney in Gloucestershire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Peter White meets musician Clarence Adoo, who played a key role in the 2012 Paralympics.
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| 14:00 | 14:00It is a busy day at the cricket.(R) 14:15Paterson Joseph stars in a play based on Anthony Trollope's experiences in Jamaica in 1858
| 14:00Anna makes a last attempt.(R) 14:154/9Fourth in a nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:00Shula lets it all pour out.(R) 14:15Charlotte Bogard Macleod’s tale of modern day parenthood - love, surrogacy and statistics.(R)
| 14:00Tom realises he has got his work cut out.(R) 14:153/6Stag-night, time-travelling thriller.(R)
| 14:00Brian gives Adam a heads up.(R) 14:15A man's disappearance in the Scottish mountains more than 60 years ago is investigated.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30The Great Fire of London, as witnessed by the diarist, Samuel Pepys, 350 years ago.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts a Moving House edition from Matthew Wilson's house in Rutland.(R) 14:45Conversations about unconventional, reconstituted and divided families.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:0011/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the challenging quiz about music of all kinds. 15:30Why whisky is moving from its traditional roots and has a few surprises in store.(R)
| 15:00Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral. 15:304/4Gerald Scarfe is your starship captain on a bumpy ride through the cosmos.(R)
| 15:00Simon Read explores the psychological impact on people who fall victim to fraudsters.(R) 15:30Chaucer's Astrolabe and how a renowned poet wrote the world's first scientific manual.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark finds out how a proposed golf resort in Hoylake will affect the green belt. 15:27Louise Tubman makes an appeal on behalf of Children's Liver Disease Foundation.(R) 15:30A special edition of Open Book from Edinburgh, devoted to crime writing.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts a Moving House edition from Matthew Wilson's house in Rutland. 15:45On the plane home from Spain, a woman plots a thrilling new future. Story by Annie Griffin
| 15:30Behind the scenes of London's Burning, a spectacle marking 350 years since the Great Fire.
| 15:002/2Meet the real Ed Reardon and Jaz Milvain
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| 16:00 | 16:00Poet Lemn Sissay explains why Bob Marley is his artistic, personal and political muse. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the connection between hair and religious belief.
| 16:00Grey-haired Professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now "Glad to be Grey".(R) 16:30The life of the creator of nonviolent communication Marshall Rosenber, with Matthew Parris
| 16:001/2The courageous journey of refugee Yusra Mardini from war-torn Syria to the Rio Olympics. 16:30Steve Hewlett talks to Mark Thompson about media and the decline of political language.
| 16:00Antonia Quirke meets a choir that supplies voices for blockbuster soundtracks. 16:30Gravitational wave detection, Exo-Mars landing, Royal Society book prize, gait biometrics.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a FIFA president, a fashion designer, an actor, a jazz musician. 16:30Do one in four Brits claim Irish ancestry? 16:55A couple who have been together many years, but have never wed - are they missing out?(R)
| 16:00The canonisation of Mother Teresa, who she was and what kind of role model she represents.
| 16:00Don DeLillo talks about his 1997 masterpiece Underworld with James Naughtie and readers. 16:30Roger McGough marks 300 years since the birth of the influential poet Thomas Gray.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00The Bishop of Grantham is forced to reveal that he is gay and in a relationship. 17:30How alcoholism crept up on a teacher. With Jennifer Tracey.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00350 years after the Great Fire, Nicholas Kenyon explores the challenges for London today.(R) 17:40Becky Milligan profiles the new home secretary, Amber Rudd.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The US says fighting between Turkish and Kurdish forces in Syria is unacceptable 18:304/8Nicholas Parsons hosts an Edinburgh Festival Fringe special.
| 18:00The European Commission has ruled that the tech firm's tax benefits were illegal 18:302/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.
| 18:00Prime Minister pledges no second referendum. Doctors to stage more strikes 18:304/4Sophie thinks that she will finally get to meet her Auntie Pamela.
| 18:00Theresa May accuses BMA of playing politics. £ rises after positive manufacturing survey 18:302/4Dad tries to fight off an unwanted invasion, while Granny turns to smuggling.
| 18:00Marine charged with terrorism offences. Samsung re-call latest devices. Karimov dead. 18:306/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Craig Brown, Katie Birkwood and George Monbiot.
| 18:00The United States and China have joined the Paris global climate agreement. 18:15Nikki Bedi and Sara Cox are joined by Niamh Cusack, Arnold Oceng and Scroobius Pip.
| 18:00US and Japan warn Britain about the impact of leaving the EU 18:15Farrah Jarral chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Anna makes a last attempt. 19:15Poldark screenwriter Debbie Horsfield, 150 years of HG Wells, punk activist Joe Corre. 19:456/10Megan's problems are far from over.(R)
| 19:00Shula lets it all pour out. 19:15Ian McEwan on writing from the point of view of a foetus, and Gene Wilder in his own words 19:457/10Megan discovers an intruder in the yard.(R)
| 19:00Tom realises he has got his work cut out. 19:15Kenneth Branagh's The Entertainer, Sausage Party review, Herman Koch on his new novel. 19:458/10The creepy Madog Prys comes to London.(R)
| 19:00Brian gives Adam a heads up. 19:15Art inspired by Reading gaol's most famous inmate, Bjork goes digital at Somerset House. 19:459/10Annie unearths some terrible, but useful secrets...(R)
| 19:15News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music. 19:4510/10Gangsters, gambling and an innocent abroad in 1890s Whitechapel.(R)
| 19:00Becky Milligan profiles the new home secretary, Amber Rudd. 19:15Ian McEwan's Nutshell, Sausage Party, Reading gaol, The Entertainer, The Collection.
| 19:00Rob explains things from his point of view. 19:153/4Isy Suttie presents the pick of new sketch group talent from the live UK comedy circuit.(R) 19:45By Morven Crumlish. Two women meet up in Edinburgh prior to a university reunion.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2Former home secretary Jacqui Smith examines postwar prison reform. 20:30Sarah Rainsford looks at how Russia is dealing with dissent in the run-up to elections.(R)
| 20:00350 years after the Great Fire, Nicholas Kenyon explores the challenges for London today. 20:40Specialist hotels under threat of closure and a close up look at the new polymer fiver.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests discuss the arguments over greater legal protection for animals. 20:45Melissa Raphael explains why she sees pornographers as anti-sex.
| 20:00A former radical jihadi changed his mind and is now speaking out against extremism. 20:30Peter Day asks whether 3D printing has lived up to its early promise.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Lydney in Gloucestershire. 20:50Tom Shakespeare on why the Houses of Parliament should move around the country.
| 20:00Kevin Fong boldly goes in search of Star Trek's 50-year-old vision of the future.
| 20:00Do one in four Brits claim Irish ancestry?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a FIFA president, a fashion designer, an actor, a jazz musician.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood follows the camel on its route through human history and culture.(R) 21:301/10Melvyn Bragg on the fall of Rome and the rise of Northumbria.(R)
| 21:003/3Dr Kevin Fong explores how doctors cope when things go wrong. 21:302/10Melvyn Bragg explores the glories of the Northumbrian Renaissance.(R)
| 21:00An immersive river journey through the city of Sheffield and its industrial past. 21:303/10Melvyn Bragg on the invasions of the north of England by Vikings and Norsemen.(R)
| 21:00Gravitational wave detection, Exo-Mars landing, Royal Society book prize, gait biometrics.(R) 21:304/10Melvyn Bragg on the the turbulent years of rebellion which swept the north of England.(R)
| 21:00As the Battle of Verdun finally comes to a close, emotions are volatile in Folkestone.
| 21:001/2Meet the real Ed Reardon(R)
| 21:00Dire time for savers. Bank error in your favour. Who is to blame when a SIPP goes wrong?(R) 21:26Amanda Mealing makes an appeal on behalf of Breast Cancer Care.(R) 21:30Peter Day asks whether 3D printing has lived up to its early promise.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Washington pleas with its allies to stop fighting each other. 22:451/10Craving independence, 15-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job in an old people's home.
| 22:00Ireland's junior finance minister says his country has done nothing wrong. 22:452/10Coming-of-age novel by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00BMA announces industrial action - can a new deal be found? 22:453/10Coming-of-age novel by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00How is Italy coping with the influx of migrants who are crossing the sea from Libya? 22:454/10Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00Announcement after days of speculation about his health. 22:455/10Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests discuss the arguments over greater legal protection for animals.(R)
| 22:00Mark D'Arcy and guests discuss the political week ahead, as MPs return to Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/2Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold outside Israel.(R) 23:30Fi Glover meets three people whose lives nearly ended after they fell from a height.(R)
| 23:002/4Character comedy series in which Julia Davis and Marc Wootton play couples in therapy. 23:30Fi Glover talks to three men who have chosen to stay at home looking after their children.(R)
| 23:004/4Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes muses on love, life and what might come afterwards. 23:15Comedian Tez Ilyas' show for everyone interested in British Muslims- or in becoming one... 23:30Fi Glover's guests share their experience of being scammed by sophisticated fraudsters.(R)
| 23:004/6Victoria Coren Mitchell is joined by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Richard Coles and Giles Coren.(R) 23:30Three parents discuss life with a child with learning difficulties.(R)
| 23:005/10Northern landscapes have been inspiration for some of England's greatest literature.(R) 23:30The life of the creator of nonviolent communication Marshall Rosenber, with Matthew Parris(R) 23:55The way a step-parent is introduced and other pitfalls in reconstituting a family.(R)
| 23:0011/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the challenging quiz about music of all kinds.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Jack Clemo (1916-1994).(R)
| 23:00Antonia Quirke meets a choir that supplies voices for blockbuster soundtracks.(R) 23:30Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson examines climate change and human rights.(R)
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