| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The production of money: how to break the power of the banks.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Peter's, Tiverton.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5On foot and by canoe, a mapmaker explores the length of the UK's border with Ireland.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Walking the UK-Irish border, Garrett Carr meets those who know the land best: the farmers.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The author risks life and limb as he braves the narrow roads of County Fermanagh.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Memories rise to the surface against a backdrop of bogs, trees and standing stones.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5At journey's end, Garrett Carr considers the notion of 'border' in Derry/Londonderry.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A young girl is elated to be part of a plan to steal a chicken from the Snatchers.(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 short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45We hear how food waste is turned into chutney and we begin a week looking at plant pests. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58John Aitchison presents the skylark.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Anna Hill asks if Brexit is a chance to shake up the way rural Britain is run. 05:58John Aitchison presents the dunnock.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Agriculture may need its own Brexit bill to be passed by 2020, but is Defra up to it? 05:58Bill Oddie presents the treecreeper.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:58David Attenborough presents the song thrush.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45The value of the equine economy, dog poo and biosecurity after Brexit. 05:58David Attenborough presents the crossbill.(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 the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45Are we having more referendums? We meet a listeners who ran one this week. ipm@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent. 05:45Oliver McTernan talks about how his decision to leave the church shaped his destiny.(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 walks in the footsteps of Jane Austen, from Chawton to Farringdon near Alton(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe visits Pershore College to see their work to combat pests and diseases. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05In the season of Lent, Mark Tully debates the achievability of religious piety. 06:35Brett Westwood travels to Suffolk to hear a booming bittern. Recorded in 2004. 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. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Martin Bashir. 07:54Juliet Stevenson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Women and Children First (UK). 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | 08:57An East Africa Crisis Appeal on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
| | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The Priests lead and sing at the fourth of Radio 4's special services for Lent. 08:48Tom Shakespeare on why we shouldn't wallow in the past.(R) 08:58John Aitchison presents the skylark.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean. 09:451/5On foot and by canoe, a mapmaker explores the length of the UK's border with Ireland.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland on Donald Trump's border wall and the 1840s Great Hedge of India. 09:301/5David Temple has an imagined conversation with his late brother-in-law Derek Jarman.(R) 09:452/5Walking the UK-Irish border, Garrett Carr meets those who know the land best: the farmers.
| 09:00Omid Djalili, Jack Thorne and Diana Moran join Libby Purves. 09:453/5The author risks life and limb as he braves the narrow roads of County Fermanagh.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years. 09:454/5Memories rise to the surface against a backdrop of bogs, trees and standing stones.
| 09:00Marian Keyes, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5At journey's end, Garrett Carr considers the notion of 'border' in Derry/Londonderry.
| 09:00Singer Jimmy Osmond joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles in the studio.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including politics, a Chuck Berry tribute and a huge statue.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Woman who carry guns in the US; weddings; returnerships; South of Forgiveness;. 10:451/5Lesbian Emma begins an affair with a man.
| 10:00Period poverty, being cared for, feminism 5.0, flower art, and US women and their guns. 10:452/5Lesbian Emma's affair with a man threatens her best friend's business.
| 10:00Princess of Wales' dresses; Jess Brittain; mums feeling isolated; honour-based abuse. 10:413/5Lesbian Emma tells her friend about her affair with the wrong man. 10:55The truth about what happened when Percy left Roger - and then came back.
| 10:00More over 65s are getting married than ever before. What's behind this? 10:454/5Emma's new boyfriend tries to save her job, but Kirsty has other ideas.
| 10:00The Paula Principle, mental health first-aiders and My Brilliant Friend on stage. 10:455/5Emma realises the only way is up. She needs some allies...
| 10:30A fantastic voyage with adventure writers Rider Haggard and Jules Verne.
| 10:00Lilian has some news, and Alice spots an opportunity.
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| 11:00 | 11:00How phone phreaking teenagers hacked the USA's phone system. 11:304/6Sara Pascoe puts Harry Hill in the hot seat.
| 11:00Timandra Harkness explores technologies that help humans perceive the world in novel ways. 11:30Fatima Al Qadiri explores how the sounds of war run through modern music.
| 11:001/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our politics, law and digital lives.(R) 11:301/4Can't face an evening without wine? The comedian lectures on the economics.(R)
| 11:00Pets and politics, football and narcotics, and building a country with a flag. 11:30Ukrainian-born writer Vitali Vitaliev is going to Budapest to have all his teeth removed.
| 11:00Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who want to swim a mile through freezing cold water. 11:302/4A plastic surgeon has her work cut out in 17th-century Paris.
| 11:00Steve Richards looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Rancid fried onion, a great wall of iron, chips and mayonnaise with questions of identity.
| 11:15Amanda Levete, architect, 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 much does the bacteria inside my body weigh? 12:15Deprivation of liberty and the vulnerable, renewable energy storage, online car adverts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04'Why does the Earth spin?' asks Joe Wills from Accra in Ghana. 12:15Call You and Yours: How is the Brexit vote affecting you? Email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why do we have different blood types? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. 12:15Cyber UK conference; mobile phone charges; grey hair on younger women. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04'How far up can a helium balloon go? Could it go out to space?' asks Juliet Gok, aged 9. 12:15The impact of delivery apps on takeaways and changes to Vehicle Excise Duty on new cars. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why don't we remember the first few years of our lives? 12:15Why are the police still taking so long to complete criminal record checks?
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Changes to probate see a backlog building due to a massive fee hike from May. 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. 12:044/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Zoe Lyons and Graham Norton.(R) 12:32The finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2017 are revealed. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Nicola Sturgeon says she intends to seek authority for a new referendum on independence. 13:45A true story of death, sex and elite politics in China.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:45Meet "the main man," as our tale of death, sex & politics moves to China’s national stage.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45The action picks up as Neil Heywood arrives in Chongqing.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45A spectacular show trial exposes the lavish lifestyle of China’s elite.
| 13:00The White House promises not to repeat claims that GCHQ tapped Donald Trump's phones. 13:45The series finale reveals who benefitted from the murder of a British man in China.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Aston University Engineering Academy.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Tim Samuels meets Israeli doctors treating Syrians smuggled over the border.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Willie Rushton has trouble with Tony Hancock's ashes.(R)
| 14:00David stands his ground.(R) 14:15The mother of a boy on a life support machine asks for Joe's help with a hard decision.
| 14:00Alice spots an opportunity.(R) 14:15Joe is forced to uncover his neighbours' illicit activities.
| 14:00Justin looks to the future.(R) 14:154/5On the point of giving up, Rachel takes a leap of faith and confides in her local MP.
| 14:00Brian puts his foot in it.(R) 14:153/3Val McDermid's thriller examines what happens if antibiotics stop working.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? Anita Anand presents. 14:30Harold Pinter's screenplay of Josef Conrad's last major novel, adapted by Sir Richard Eyre(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson and his horticultural panel are in Fife.(R) 14:45Acknowledging your sexuality, your eating disorder and your relationship problems.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The wide-ranging general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Do we pay enough for tea? Dan Saladino continues his look at our love affair with the leaf(R)
| 15:004/6Josie Long hears stories of people who take a leap of faith. 15:30Two remarkable women have found a formula to save the last of the Indonesian rainforest.
| 15:00Financial phone-in. How do the personal finances of being in prison work? 15:30Bisphosphonates, IBS and diet, CRP test for infection, and randomisation.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks in the footsteps of Jane Austen, from Chawton to Farringdon near Alton 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to Helen Dunmore.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and his horticultural panel are in Fife. 15:45Doyle takes his boat up river before the winter sets in. By Thomas Lynch.
| | 15:001/2Three intrepid explorers venture into an Icelandic volcano.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Performance poet Bohdan Piasecki asks what defines home and our sense of place. 16:30Robert Beckford and guests explore the role of religion in science fiction.
| 16:00Vacancies for senior Judges and circuit Judges are now at an all-time high - why? 16:30Harriet Harman and Pete Paphides champion their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Teen bedrooms. Also, skydivers. 16:30Andrea Catherwood speaks to Katie Hopkins about Twitter, free speech and libel law.
| 16:00Asghar Farhadi and Personal Shopper. 16:30Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer. 16:30Radio 4's forum for audience comment. 16:55On reflection, honesty would have been the best policy.
| 16:00Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, with Jenni Murray.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to George Saunders about his long-awaited first novel. 16:30Roger McGough explores the archives to find the most evocative poems of spring.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Does financial services technology - fintech - pose a threat to traditional banking?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Claims corrupt staff are behind the bulk of drugs and phones causing chaos in prisons.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the chancellor, Philip Hammond.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00First Minister wants referendum by Spring 2019. PM said it would create uncertainty. 18:304/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Zoe Lyons and Graham Norton.
| 18:00Nicola Sturgeon has questioned Theresa May's mandate to govern. 18:303/4Tony’s missing so it’s Harry Secombe and Bill who end up in Paris!
| 18:00The Chancellor has abandoned the most controversial part of his budget 18:27An East Africa Crisis Appeal on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee.(R) 18:304/4Jocelyn talks about family, and a spiritual medium goes over to the other side.
| 18:00The Prime Minister said it was not the time for the country to be pulling apart 18:304/6Reflections on being small, and a question to his boyfriend leads to a surprising answer.(R)
| 18:00George Osborne is named surprise new editor of London's Evening Standard 18:30Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests present the week in news through stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Man shot dead at Paris Orly airport after trying to seize soldier's gun. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Rules will be reviewed after George Osborne's appointment as a newspaper editor 18:15Sarfraz Manzoor makes his pick of the week from the best of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Turning science into an art form with Brian Cox, and Sarah Dunant responds to Michelangelo 19:451/5Life behind the scenes at the Oxford English Dictionary. Read by Nigel Anthony.
| 19:00Alice spots an opportunity. 19:15John Harle on how to play the saxophone, The Salesman, singer-songwriters. 19:452/5Poet Benjamin Zephaniah teaches the author the fine art of 'skanking'.
| 19:00Justin looks to the future. 19:15Bill Condon on making Beauty and the Beast, comedian Dave Spikey's unusual lucky mascot. 19:453/5John Simpson describes how the OED became digitised in the 1980s.
| 19:00Brian puts his foot in it. 19:15Jenny Agutter makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of St Giles Trust.(R) 19:20Get Out reviewed,Joan Bakewell on older actors,Compton Verney's Creating The Countryside 19:454/5John Simpson visits the USA and Japan for the launch of the Second Edition of the OED.
| 19:00Brookfield gets some bad news. 19:15Kirsty Lang discusses the work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott. 19:455/5It is 1993, and John Simpson is appointed chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the chancellor, Philip Hammond. 19:15Griff Rhys Jones, Personal Shopper, George Saunders, Michelangelo and Sebastiano, Carnage.
| 19:00Lilian seeks another point of view. 19:152/4Boswell meets Maria Callas and her poodle and finds himself in an opera of his own making.(R) 19:45A father learns that his son has died for the eighth time.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our politics, law and digital lives. 20:30Why is liberal, tolerant Netherlands home to a major anti-immigration, anti-Islamic party?
| 20:00Claims corrupt staff are behind the bulk of drugs and phones causing chaos in prisons. 20:40Ian Brooks was refused an interview due to his guide dog. Tom Walker goes to the gym.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Oliver McTernan talks about how his decision to leave the church shaped his destiny.
| 20:00Vacancies for senior Judges and circuit Judges are now at an all-time high - why?(R) 20:30Does financial services technology - fintech - pose a threat to traditional banking?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Aston University Engineering Academy. 20:50Tom Shakespeare on why we shouldn't wallow in the past.
| 20:0050 years after the Torrey Canyon, the story of Britain's worst environmental disaster.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for audience comment.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean.(R)
| 21:00Bisphosphonates, IBS and diet, CRP test for infection, and randomisation. 21:30Jonathan Freedland on Donald Trump's border wall and the 1840s Great Hedge of India.(R)
| 21:00Two remarkable women have found a formula to save the last of the Indonesian rainforest.(R) 21:30Omid Djalili, Jack Thorne and Diana Moran join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.(R)
| 21:0012/12From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
| 21:00Farrah Jarral continues to tell the intriguing and unexpected story of anthropology.
| 21:00Changes to probate see a backlog building due to a massive fee hike from May.(R) 21:26Juliet Stevenson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Women and Children First (UK).(R) 21:30Why is liberal, tolerant Netherlands home to a major anti-immigration, anti-Islamic party?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Is there an appetite for a second independence vote? The World Tonight goes to Edinburgh. 22:456/10A chance encounter reveals more of Diner's past.
| 22:00How does the diplomatic spat with Turkey play into the Dutch election? 22:457/10As the news from France darkens, Lizzie has a secret she must hide from Diner.
| 22:00The Liberal party of Mark Rutte is set to win most seats in the Dutch elections. 22:458/10Fear over the beheading of the king of France spreads to England, and Diner faces ruin.
| 22:00US president wants to reduce spending on foreign, UN and environment. 22:459/10Diner must escape his creditors, and he forces Lizzie to go with him.
| 22:00Donald Trump distances himself from White House claims that GCHQ spied on him. 22:4510/10Lizzie confronts the truth about what actually happened to Diner's first wife.
| 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 latest on Brexit and a second "indyref" in Scotland.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jarvis Cocker is back, curing a troubled mind with a night of sufi trance music in Morocco 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/3Storyteller Sarah Kendall performs her award-winning live solo show Shaken. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Late-night topical comedy, hosted by award-winning satirist Nish Kumar. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:0022-year-old comedian Jack Rooke looks at the impact of death in his debut Radio 4 show. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Harriet Harman and Pete Paphides champion their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55No matter how close your friends are, sometimes the only way is to take control yourself.
| 23:00The wide-ranging general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests for an in-between time of year.
| 23:00Asghar Farhadi and Personal Shopper.(R) 23:30In the season of Lent, Mark Tully debates the achievability of religious piety.(R)
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