| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores platform capitalism - its origins, meaning and future.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A hidden corner of Eastern Europe, now a new front line still scarred by its past.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Kapka explores the Bulgaria of her childhood, where people mourn a changed way of life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A front line holds secrets from an ancient legacy of myths and legends.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A hidden corner of Eastern Europe, now a new front line still scarred by its past.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5When the time comes to leave the border, Kapka needs help to understand her feelings.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3The mother of an astronaut reflects on her place in the line of women forgotten by history(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 reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears about the career options for new entrants to the farming industry. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the firecrest.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45Presented by Anna Hill. New avian flu rules have been brought in overnight. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the house sparrow.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45Presented by Anna Hill. Defra faces more responsibilities and even larger cuts. 05:58David Attenborough presents the starling.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45Making a career in British farming: two EU migrant workers discuss their paths. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45Fly-tipping on private land in the countryside is costing millions of pounds. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the linnet.(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 Chine McDonald of World Vision UK. 05:45A young woman on recovering from her class A drug problem. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Paul's Cathedral. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding is in the Peaks to join a group who have been walking together for 25 years.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe talks farming careers to students at the Royal Agricultural University. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Writer and priest Malcolm Doney explores the wonder in his everyday surroundings. 06:35Lionel Kelleway looks for freshwater pearl mussels. Recorded in 2006. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward visits Between Myth and Reality - an exhibition of sculpture by Chaim Stephenson. 07:54Dame Janet Suzman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Starfish Greathearts Foundation. 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 Rochester preaches in the first of Radio 4's special services for Lent. 08:48John Gray asks how we come to terms with a world that is frighteningly unpredictable.(R) 08:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the firecrest.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Kirsty Wark with Ed Vulliamy, Dorit Rabinyan, Garrett Carr and Tom Holland. 09:451/5A hidden corner of Eastern Europe, now a new front line still scarred by its past.
| 09:00Geneticist Alison Wollard explains her enthusiasm for a tiny nematode worm. 09:30Lucy Mangan avoids responsibility. Why? Today she talks to the Reverend Claire Herbert. 09:452/5Kapka explores the Bulgaria of her childhood, where people mourn a changed way of life.
| 09:00Singer Patti Boulaye, dancer David Toole and actor Charlie Condou join Libby Purves. 09:453/5A front line holds secrets from an ancient legacy of myths and legends.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto. 09:454/5A hidden corner of Eastern Europe, now a new front line still scarred by its past.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews Dame Katherine Grainger, Olympian and rower.(R) 09:455/5When the time comes to leave the border, Kapka needs help to understand her feelings.
| 09:00Lee Mack, rally driver Bron Burrell, Matthew Syed and burlesque performer Iestyn Edwards.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Why do so many young women fail to turn up for their smear tests? 10:451/5Family liaison officer Jackie finds the body of a young man in Addley Woods.
| 10:00Becoming a carer instead of a mother, treatments for fibroids, maternity cover, Antigone. 10:452/5Jackie Hartwell (Meera Syal) tries to find out why Josh was found dead beside a shot gun.
| 10:00Parenting phone-in with the blogger Anna Whitehouse and the vlogger Jonathan Saccone-Joly. 10:413/5David Cooper is implicated in the death of his son. Jackie (Meera Syal) investigates. 10:55A son feels that his parents value their religion over him.
| 10:00Stefanie Martini as the younger Prime Suspect police officer. 10:454/5The Cooper home has been trashed following the murder of their son Josh.
| 10:00Chef Thomasina Miers; author Susan Hill; the military amilies coping with PTSD. 10:455/5Although Izzy has been unable to speak, Jackie discovers who murdered Josh Cooper and why.
| 10:30The biggest director in Hollywood takes on the most difficult challenge of his life.
| 10:00Emma goes in search of inspiration, and Ruth lends an ear.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Sarfraz Manzoor asks if it is better to specialise or build a portfolio career. 11:303/6Katherine Ryan invites her chosen guest Sara Pascoe into the hot seat.
| 11:00Animal wisdom, mothers and sons. What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?(R) 11:30Kevin Le Gendre investigates the role of jazz in post-war Britain.
| 11:00James Walton asks what it is like to do a job that guarantees loathing from the public.(R) 11:304/4Simon looks at commodities markets in oil. Why is this trade different to others?(R)
| 11:00Tales of civil war, murder, rescues, patriotic birds and why waiting gives you a story. 11:30How might artists choose to mark a nuclear waste site for future generations?
| 11:00Fifty years after LSD was banned, Jolyon Jenkins tries to expand his mind without drugs. 11:306/6Festive angst, a serious row and a huge let-down make for a goodwill bypass all round.(R)
| 11:00Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post asks what role the House of Lords will play over Brexit. 11:30Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights.
| 11:15Jimmy Carr, comedian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How San Francisco became one of the first 'sanctuary cities' in the USA. 12:15Handling debt, retiring to the city, and switching energy suppliers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Sara Ginaite escaped from a Jewish ghetto to join communist partisans fighting the Nazis. 12:15Winifred Robinson hears listeners' calls on online bullying and harassment. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04An eye-witness remembers the night gunmen tried to kill the global reggae star. 12:15Why have Britain's workers taken 34 million more 'sickies' last year compared to 2011. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04There was rioting across Albania after pyramid investment schemes collapsed. 12:15The new rules to stop big companies making smaller suppliers wait too long to be paid. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04It wasn't until 1995 that disabled people in India were guaranteed rights. 12:15Shoreham Air Disaster report. New technology helps stroke victims recover their hearing.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Workplace pensions, tax overpayers told to stop and bank branch staff tackle fraud. 12:30Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests present the week in news through stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:042/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino investigates tea's past, present and future and explores our changing tastes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45David Dabydeen explores how Ethiopian Jews adapted in Israel.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45David Dabydeen explores Guyanese communities in the US.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Mark Mardell. 13:45David Dabydeen explores the Bosnians who found refuge in Sweden.
| 13:00The police watchdog says forces are putting the public at risk by rationing services. 13:45David Dabydeen recalls the Turks who helped to rebuild Germany.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45David Dabydeen explores the migration story of the Asians who came to 1970s Britain.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Valley Park School in Maidstone, Kent.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Hunting down a stolen camper van, childcare grannies and Russian debutantes all feature.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Life at Grange Farm is squeezed.(R) 14:15When HG Wells and George Gissing meet, a surprising but long-lasting friendship begins.
| 14:00Emma goes in search of inspiration.(R) 14:15By Karen Brown. Inspired by a true story, an ambitious policeman is duped.(R)
| 14:00Lynda sizes up the competition.(R) 14:15A promising young footballer begins to question his future in Nathaniel Price's drama.
| 14:00Rex and Anisha meet in secret.(R) 14:152/5Psychological drama series about a probation officer investigating the death of a teenager
| 14:151/3Val McDermid's thriller examines what happens if antibiotics stop working.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:301/2Groundbreaking story of the brutal Martian invasion of Earth.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are at the Natural History Museum.(R) 14:45Different outlooks and beliefs can bring people close or drive them apart.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the evergreen general knowledge quiz. 15:30How a 50-year-old food and farming project has helped rid Thailand of illegal opium.(R)
| 15:002/6Josie Long presents stories of those who have pretended to be someone they're not. 15:30Can putting carbon back into the soil help in the fight against climate change?
| 15:00The government is coming under growing pressure to overhaul business rates. 15:30Smoking in pregnancy; lifestyle targets; thyroid cancer; what's the evidence for flossing?(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding is in the Peaks to join a group who have been walking together for 25 years. 15:27Margaret McQuade, a beneficiary of Addaction, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on their behalf.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Mohsin Hamid about his new book, Exit West.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are at the Natural History Museum. 15:45By Angela Readman. Gretel gives her version of the Grimm fairytale.
| 15:30Kevin Le Gendre investigates the role of jazz in post-war Britain.(R)
| 15:001/2DI Rebus investigates a school shooting but becomes the main suspect in a fatal house fire(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Jamaican writers including Marlon James, Kei Miller and Tanya Shirley discuss their work. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Pakistan.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on the Americanisation of English, with Lynne Murphy and Matthew Engel. 16:30Craig Brown and Pippa Evans talk great books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Squatting: a cross-cultural history. Also, taking one's clothes off in public. 16:30A compromise on press regulation, Trump versus the media and ITV's The Nightly Show.
| 16:00With Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Robocop. 16:30The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator. 16:30Is there room for satire in the news? And how to dramatise real life tragedy respectfully. 16:55You can survive differences of opinion as long as you respect them.
| 16:00Stefanie Martini: the young Jane Tennison. The change from wife to carer. Thomasina Miers.
| 16:00Jonathan Safran Foer talks about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. With James Naughtie. 16:30Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for poems to take us through the night.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30A hidden industry that makes globalisation work: Evan Davis and guests discuss logistiscs.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00An investigation into the state of home care services in the UK.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00On an opening day which included an apology from the inquiry itself. 18:302/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth.
| 18:00Sir Philip Green is to pay 363 million pounds into the pension fund of BHS. 18:303/4Mark discusses his own experiences of being poor and quite well-off.(R)
| 18:00UN inquiry accuses Syrian government of war crimes during battle for Aleppo. 18:302/4Jocelyn talks about dating, and Kingston's takeaway caters for a vegan customer.
| 18:00Over claims he lied under oath about contacts with the Russian government. 18:302/6How a quest for fitness can become an obsession, plus questions from the studio audience.(R)
| 18:00PM sets out case for preserving "precious" union of UK 18:30Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests present the week in news through stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The Republicans, who made big gains, say the unionists' majority has ended 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The Chancellor has said the government will not spend heavily in Wednesday's budget 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with Ernie Rea.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Emma goes in search of inspiration. 19:15Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art. 19:451/5Family liaison officer Jackie finds the body of a young man in Addley Woods.(R)
| 19:00Lynda sizes up the competition. 19:15It took nine novels before Jojo Moyes found success; fancy being a cygnet in Hull? 19:452/5Jackie Hartwell (Meera Syal) tries to find out why Josh was found dead beside a shot gun.(R)
| 19:00Rex and Anisha meet in secret. 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Jackman about the film Logan. 19:453/5David Cooper is implicated in the death of his son. Jackie (Meera Syal) investigates.(R)
| 19:15Tom Hiddleston on Kong: Skull Island; Charlie and Daisy May Cooper on BBC3's This Country. 19:454/5The Cooper home has been trashed following the murder of their son Josh.(R)
| 19:00It's time to party at Home Farm. 19:15British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album. 19:455/5Although Izzy has been unable to speak, Jackie discovers who murdered Josh Cooper and why.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police. 19:15Viceroy's House, Almeida's Hamlet, Jake Arnott, Photography on BBC TV, Serpentine Gallery.
| 19:00Kirsty receives a complaint. 19:15What happens when someone with cerebral palsy moves into his best friend's flat?(R) 19:45With his parents gone for the week, Simon plans to make the most of his time alone.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Matthew Sweet examines knotty philosophical conundrums in an abstract pub. 20:30What makes us change our mind when it comes to elections?
| 20:00An investigation into the state of home care services in the UK. 20:40Why was a blind man mistakenly tasered. Red Szell on returning his guide dog.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Kerry Littleford argues that mothers who have children taken into care need help.
| 20:00Is building more homes the only answer to fixing the housing market? 20:30A hidden industry that makes globalisation work: Evan Davis and guests discuss logistiscs.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Valley Park School in Maidstone, Kent. 20:50John Gray asks how we come to terms with a world that is frighteningly unpredictable.
| 20:00Professor Sean Street uses audio archives to explore the future history novel by HG Wells.
| 20:00Is there room for satire in the news? And how to dramatise real life tragedy respectfully.(R) 20:30Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us.(R) 21:30Kirsty Wark with Ed Vulliamy, Dorit Rabinyan, Garrett Carr and Tom Holland.(R)
| 21:00Smoking in pregnancy; lifestyle targets; thyroid cancer; what's the evidence for flossing? 21:30Geneticist Alison Wollard explains her enthusiasm for a tiny nematode worm.(R)
| 21:00Can putting carbon back into the soil help in the fight against climate change?(R) 21:30Singer Patti Boulaye, dancer David Toole and actor Charlie Condou join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.(R)
| 21:00Charlotte Smith explores the story of British farming and debates its post-Brexit future.
| 21:002/2Concluding the story of a young woman's quest for liberation. Stars Amy Hoggart.(R)
| 21:00Workplace pensions, tax overpayers told to stop and bank branch staff tackle fraud.(R) 21:26Dame Janet Suzman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Starfish Greathearts Foundation.(R) 21:30What makes us change our mind when it comes to elections?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00John Major says people are being offered an 'unreal and overoptimistic' vision of Brexit. 22:456/10Still stranded in North Carolina, Cora awaits word from the underground railroad
| 22:00Former pensions minister Frank Field welcomes Sir Philip Green's deal on BHS pensions. 22:457/10Ridgeway the slave catcher is determined to deliver Cora back to the Randall Plantation.
| 22:00The latest reaction from the House of Lords and House of Commons on the Brexit bill defeat 22:458/10Cora meets freeborn men for the first time and begins a new life on the Valentine farm.
| 22:00US attorney general Jeff Sessions steps aside from Russia investigations. 22:459/10Cora's refuge, Valentine farm, comes under threat.
| 22:00Senior Les Republicains figures withdraw support for Francois Fillon. 22:4510/10Cora faces Ridgeway once more, and makes a final journey on the railroad.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the forthcoming Budget and the latest on Brexit.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? Michael Rosen finds out.(R) 23:30The health secretary is called to the Commons over the loss of NHS patient data.
| 23:001/3Storyteller Sarah Kendall performs her award-winning live solo show. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:006/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the concept of horror, through the medium of poetry.(R) 23:151/4The problem with long space voyages complete with troubleshooting tips.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Rashid isn't a typical Hollywood hero - he's a cinema projectionist from Nuneaton. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Craig Brown and Pippa Evans talk great books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A reunion after 37 years reveals that time and distance do not matter.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the evergreen general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of requests for poems that paint a portrait.
| 23:00With Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Robocop.(R) 23:30Writer and priest Malcolm Doney explores the wonder in his everyday surroundings.(R)
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