| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Teen bedrooms. Also, skydivers.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A fatherless man tries to be a father to his daughter, who is now becoming his son.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The author is growing up without a father, trying to learn how to become a man.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Becoming a father is now within the author's sights, but it brings great responsibility.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The trials of family life are very real, and the family battles for ​Jay to be accepted​.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Having negotiated the choppy waters of family life, there is now another journey afoot.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A young man is transfixed by the voice he hears through his living room wall.(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 the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45Author Germaine Greer talks wildlife and habitat protection in a post-Brexit landscape. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the willow warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit calls for a revolution in attitudes to producing food. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the redshank.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin on food and drink production post-Brexit. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45The Princess Royal outlines her vision for the rural economy post-Brexit. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the common sandpiper.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Richard Littledale. 05:45Author and food critic Jay Rayner on his ideas for a post-Brexit rural economy. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.(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 Rev Prebendary Edward Mason. 05:45Learning Russian with Bridget Kendall and the Russian ambassador to the UK.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Chad's, Shrewsbury. 05:45Ben Judah talks about his family's journey over the centuries from Baghdad to London.(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 follows the footsteps of a 19th-century itinerant tea seller.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith hosts a debate about the future of food, farming and the environment. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Poet Michael Symmons Roberts asks if walls are a liability or asset. 06:35Jessica Holm searches for otters along the Tarka Trail in Devon. Recorded in 1993. 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. 07:10The Mass heard by Henry VIII; converts to Islam; the completed renovations at Jesus' tomb. 07:54David Tennant makes an appeal on behalf of Comic Relief. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Anna Magnusson draws on personal experience for a reflection on Mothering Sunday. 08:48Tom Shakespeare reflects on why the political populists are all master story tellers.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the willow warbler.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng. 09:451/5A fatherless man tries to be a father to his daughter, who is now becoming his son.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland on targeted fake news and the murder myth of a boy in Medieval Norwich. 09:302/5Film-maker Tony Garnett has an imagined conversation with the late Mary Whitehouse.(R) 09:452/5The author is growing up without a father, trying to learn how to become a man.
| 09:00Tenor Alfie Boe and poet John Agard join Libby Purves. 09:453/5Becoming a father is now within the author's sights, but it brings great responsibility.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC. 09:454/5The trials of family life are very real, and the family battles for ​Jay to be accepted​.
| 09:00Amanda Levete, architect, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Having negotiated the choppy waters of family life, there is now another journey afoot.
| 09:00The actress Jodie Prenger joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey speaks to a woman who fell for an online dating scam. 10:451/10Shardlake returns in a thrilling adaptation of CJ Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel.
| 10:00How to help your teenager revise for exams, and war photographer Linda Kitson. 10:452/10Shardlake accuses the king's coroner of covering up the murder of Roger Elliard.
| 10:00Defining 'sexy'; Lady Justice Anne Rafferty; digital economy bill; rough sleeping. 10:413/10Archbishop Cranmer summons Shardlake to Lambeth Palace. 10:55Ways to overcome deafness.
| 10:00Discussion of ceramics, NSPCC statistics on child sexual abuse, and young women & housing. 10:45Sound recordist Chris Watson joins the annual migration of wildebeest.(R)
| 10:00Daisy Lowe talks fashion, science and gender, and one woman's bucket list for her dog. 10:455/10After the attack on Shardlake, Barak runs to get help from Guy.
| 10:30Isy Suttie delves into video game music, attempting to create her own electronic opus.(R)
| 10:00Alistair deals with an emergency, and Alice expresses her thanks.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Fi Glover takes a personal journey into the controversial trend of egg freezing. 11:305/6Harry Hill puts Tim Vine in the hot seat.
| 11:00Mary Ann Sieghart asks what the future holds for the political centre. 11:30Laura Snapes explores how musicians have defied gender boundaries to create art and music
| 11:002/2Helena Kennedy QC explores idea of consent in our politics, law, media and digital lives.(R) 11:302/4Can't face a night without a fag? Simon lectures on the economics of the addictive weed.(R)
| 11:00Lucy Ash meets the young Russians taking death-defying photos to gain internet fame. 11:30Michael Symmons Roberts gives a poet's perspective on Manchester's Intu Trafford Centre.
| 11:00The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera delves into the murky world of subversion. 11:303/4A pair of runaway soldiers stumble across witches on a Scottish moor.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Tall stories, strange names, ancient giants and linguistic confusion.
| 11:15Arundhati Roy, writer, 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. 12:04Rudolf Diesel died in strange circumstances after changing the world with his engine. 12:13Spring poems: Charlotte Mew's In the Fields and Philip Larkin's The Trees. 12:15Better rights for leaseholders, care home costs and will diesel cars soon disappear? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from it to make fertiliser. 12:15Winifred Robinson asks: Are you in a spending mood? Or are you battling to make ends meet? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How a simple steel box changed the face of global trade. 12:15Nail treatments, food waste, BBC accounts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages. 12:15Medical records, renting on benefits, black pets. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How Uncle Sam played an essential role in the creation and development of the iPhone. 12:15A council-sponsored energy co supposed to provide cheaper power announces 17% price hike.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Financial exclusion, state pension age review and the Lifetime ISA. 12:30Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis provide some comic relief.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino meets influential US chef Dan Barber, in the UK on a food 'waste' mission. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:43A poem for the first day of spring: Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf. 13:45Barry Smith presents a journey into the human multi-sensory experience.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Do we really have a 'sixth sense'? Barry Smith unravels the mystery of interoception.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Do our brains predict what we are about to do? Philosopher Barry Smith explores.
| 13:00The Prime Minister says the man who attacked parliament was known to security services. 13:45How do our senses work together to shape the experience of eating? Barry Smith explores.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Barry Smith explores why smell unlocks the door to vivid memories and emotions.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Ashlawn School, Rugby, Warwickshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Property guardians, boys' nights, British Asian football fans and terrorism all feature.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Lilian seeks another point of view.(R) 14:15John Houston and Jean-Paul Sartre plan a movie about Sigmund Freud. Result? Meltdown!
| 14:00Alistair deals with an emergency.(R) 14:151/2New mother Mma Makutsi expands her business portfolio in an unexpected direction.(R)
| 14:00Pip massages the truth.(R) 14:15Jemima Rooper and Isy Suttie star in a darkly comic drama of love and science.
| 14:00Alice expresses her thanks.(R) 14:155/5Psychological drama series about a probation officer investigating institutional abuse.
| 14:00Toby hopes he meets the measure.(R) 14:15Comedy about the camp iconic singer Dorothy Squires. Starring Ruth Madoc.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Oxford 1987. Morse faces dark memories and a theatrical murder mystery with nine suspects.
| 14:00Eric Robson and his panel answer the horticultural questions from Kent.(R) 14:45Overcoming a covert stammer, profound deafness, and prejudice against women bricklayers.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30The finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2017 are revealed.(R)
| 15:005/6Josie Long explores how we talk to people we disagree with. 15:30Tom Heap examines the future for America's Wild West and its Mild East under Trump.
| 15:00Are death taxes the best way to fund social care? 15:30Cholesterol-lowering drug; defibrillators; PTSD and heart disease; lack of pregnancy drugs(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding follows the footsteps of a 19th-century itinerant tea seller. 15:27Juliet Stevenson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Women and Children First (UK).(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to George Saunders about his long-awaited first novel.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and his panel answer the horticultural questions from Kent. 15:45In acclaimed writer Danielle McLaughlin's new story, the city's birds cause disquiet.
| | 15:002/2More shocks and perils await the three intrepid explorers deep beneath the earth.
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| 16:00 | 16:00A poem for the first day of a new season: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins. 16:02First bus company run a writing competition for their drivers. Hop on board...(R) 16:30Robert Beckford and guests discuss the purpose of interfaith worship.
| 16:00Is current legislation adequate to deal with the phenomenon of fake news? 16:30Doctor twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken talk to Harriett Gilbert about favourite books.
| 16:00Grandfathers: a global study. Also, dementia carers. 16:30Andrea Catherwood talks to Nicholas Coleridge about stepping back at Conde Nast.
| 16:00Paul Laverty, writer of I, Daniel Blake, discusses his parallel career in Spain. 16:30Comet 67P images, Etna eruption, brain navigation, octopus intelligence.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer. 16:30Listeners' reactions to the coverage of the Westminster attack and reporting on Brexit. 16:55When you are a female bricklayer, the wolf whistles come from passers-by.
| 16:00Jenny Seagrove on Another Mother's Son. Daisy Lowe talks about the trend for gingham.
| 16:00Topical short stories and Balli Kaur Jaswal. 16:30An anthology of old and new poems for spring read by actors and poets for Four Seasons.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:58A poem for spring. Noma Dumezweni reads The Cherry Trees, by Edward Thomas.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Migrants create one in seven businesses in the UK. Evan Davis meets three of them.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The local councils turning to commercial investments to balance the books.(R) 17:40The story of Catherine Corless, who has been described as 'Ireland's Erin Brockovich'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The government says it will formally start the process of Brexit on Wednesday next week 18:305/6Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth.
| 18:00Political leaders and relatives of victims of the IRA remember Martin McGuinness 18:304/4Bill and Harry get caught up in Sid's plot to steal the crown jewels.
| 18:00An attack at the Houses of Parliament in London is being treated as a terrorist incident. 18:30Rich Hall's call-in show returns to Radio 4 to reflect on 60 days of a Trump presidency.
| 18:00Khalid Masood, from the West Midlands, has a number of previous convictions 18:305/6Including a reflection on selfie culture and a final extract from David's diaries.(R)
| 18:00Police investigating the Westminster terror attack have made further arrests. 18:30Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis provide some comic relief.
| 18:00UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell quits party 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Rudd: security services must have access to encrypted messaging services in terror cases 18:15Peter Curran picks his favourite clips of the week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Alistair deals with an emergency. 19:15Ray Mears reviews the film The Lost City of Z. Chuck Berry remembered. 19:451/10Shardlake returns in a thrilling adaptation of CJ Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel.(R)
| 19:15Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzalez on the ghosts of the Chateau Marmont Hotel. 19:452/10Shardlake accuses the king's coroner of covering up the murder of Roger Elliard.(R)
| 19:00Alice expresses her thanks. 19:15Nick Willing on his mother, the artist Paula Rego; Actor Danny Huston; Ghetto Film School. 19:453/10Archbishop Cranmer summons Shardlake to Lambeth Palace.(R)
| 19:00Toby hopes he meets the measure. 19:15Charlotte Rampling, Moira Buffini, The Clearing, and the politics of Eurovision. 19:45Bridget Kendall talks to author Alexander McCall Smith about his work as an academic.(R)
| 19:15The Hollywood actor discusses his sci-fi movie Life and singing on Broadway. 19:455/10After the attack on Shardlake, Barak runs to get help from Guy.(R)
| 19:00The story of Catherine Corless, who has been described as 'Ireland's Erin Brockovich'. 19:15RSC's Julius Caesar/Antony and Cleopatra, Eyes of my Mother, David Vann, Decline and Fall.
| 19:00There's a difference of opinion at Bridge Farm. 19:153/4Boswell meets playwright Harold Pinter but finds himself the victim of a betrayal.(R) 19:45In a 1930s Dublin suburb, Mrs Bagot awaits the arrival of her new sofa. By Maeve Brennan.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2Helena Kennedy QC explores idea of consent in our politics, law, media and digital lives. 20:30Has Marine Le Pen succeeded in detoxifying the party founded by her father 40 years ago?
| 20:00The local councils turning to commercial investments to balance the books. 20:40Professor Pete Coffey reacts to the recent case of failed stem cell treatment in the US.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Ben Judah talks about his family's journey over the centuries from Baghdad to London.
| 20:00Is current legislation adequate to deal with the phenomenon of fake news?(R) 20:30Migrants create one in seven businesses in the UK. Evan Davis meets three of them.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Ashlawn School, Rugby, Warwickshire. 20:50Tom Shakespeare reflects on why the political populists are all master story tellers.
| 20:00Will Self walks the London green belt in search of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act.
| 20:00Listeners' reactions to the coverage of the Westminster attack and reporting on Brexit.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Timandra Harkness explores technologies that help humans perceive the world in novel ways.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng.(R)
| 21:02Cholesterol-lowering drug; defibrillators; PTSD and heart disease; lack of pregnancy drugs 21:30Jonathan Freedland on targeted fake news and the murder myth of a boy in Medieval Norwich.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap examines the future for America's Wild West and its Mild East under Trump.(R) 21:30Tenor Alfie Boe and poet John Agard join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00Comet 67P images, Etna eruption, brain navigation, octopus intelligence.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.(R)
| 21:00In this Omnibus edition, hear the first five episodes of the brand new series.
| 21:001/2Three intrepid explorers venture into an Icelandic volcano.
| 21:00Financial exclusion, state pension age review and the Lifetime ISA.(R) 21:26David Tennant makes an appeal on behalf of Comic Relief.(R) 21:30Has Marine Le Pen succeeded in detoxifying the party founded by her father 40 years ago?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Comey confirms publicly that agency conducting investigation into Trump-Russia links 22:451/10Single mum Louise meets the man of her dreams in a bar - but there's a catch.
| 22:00Mixed reaction to death of IRA leader turned NI deputy first minister Martin McGuinness. 22:452/10Louise bumps into Adele outside the school gates.
| 22:00Four people die in terror attack in Westminster 22:453/10As their friendship develops, Louise discovers disturbing anomalies in Adele's marriage.
| 22:00Eight suspects are arrested in relation to the Westminster attack. 22:454/10Despite her better judgement, Louise's relationship with David progresses.
| 22:00Ritula Shah hosts a special discussion on the future of the EU in the wake of Brexit. 22:455/10After seeing Adele, Louise is forced to accept there is a darker side to David.
| 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 security at Westminster and the triggering of Article 50.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jarvis Cocker rides in the driver's cab of a late-night Tube train. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. 23:55Three poems for the new season.
| 23:001/4Bridget asks who has the best sexism in the world and deconstructs a yoghurt advert.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster where MPs look at banks and ticket websites.
| 23:00Late-night topical comedy, hosted by award-winning satirist Nish Kumar. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Rich Hall's call-in show returns to Radio 4 to reflect on 60 days of a Trump presidency.(R)
| 23:00Doctor twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken talk to Harriett Gilbert about favourite books. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Hiding her stammer was limiting her life, but now Wendy has found her voice.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Roger McGough explores the archives to find the most evocative poems of spring.
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