| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The ways women age. Also beauty politics.(R) 00:45Church bells from Worcester Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read late art critic John Berger's most personal book.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read late art critic John Berger's most personal book.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30An original short work for radio by writer and performer Ben Norris.(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 with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45Growing crops for fuel, saving Scotland's native bees, and the ancient craft of tanning. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45Huge masts could be needed for full phone coverage in the countryside. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the sand martin.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45Will animal welfare standards come under pressure post-Brexit? 05:58Kate Humble presents the black grouse.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45A green energy scheme on a Midlands farm is being described as a 'living hell'. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the osprey.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45The farmers of Nebraska explain why they're putting their faith in President Trump. 05:58Kate Humble presents the meadow pipit.(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 Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45An iPM listener on his unusual discovery. With Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Peter's, South Petherton. 05:45Professor Christine Done talks about the ultimate destiny of the universe.(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. 06:07Helen Mark visits the Dartington Estate, Devon, where learning from nature changes lives.(R) 06:30How much land should be diverted from food production to grow energy crops in the UK? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05On Palm Sunday, Mark Tully assesses one of Holy Week's main characters: Pontius Pilate. 06:35Two farmers debate the pros and cons of the controversial herbicide glyphosate. 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 Edward Stourton. 07:54Joanna Lumley makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Rescue Nepal. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From All Souls, Langham Place, with the rector Hugh Palmer. 08:48AL Kennedy says we should reject the media outlets that peddle only bad news.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Raymond Tallis, Laura Tunbridge, Mark O'Connell and Carla Valentine. 09:451/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read late art critic John Berger's most personal book.
| 09:00Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain. 09:452/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.
| 09:00Can computer games be called art? 09:301/5In a new series challenging thinking about sport, Simon Barnes discusses feminism.(R) 09:453/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle. 09:454/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read art critic John Berger's most personal book.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites four of the Vietnamese Boat People with one of their rescuers.(R) 09:455/5Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter read late art critic John Berger's most personal book.
| 09:00Actor and TV personality Christopher Biggins joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00News and live music with Paddy O'Connell including a review of the Sunday newspapers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00What is it like to grow up the child of a single parent? 10:451/5Romance is on the menu in Val McDermid's fine dining comic crime drama series.
| 10:00Teenagers and their independence, The Text I'll Never Forget, Alys Fowler. 10:452/5It's high stakes for Val McDermid's series with murder on the menu.
| 10:00Emma John on becoming the first woman to win the Wisden cricket book of the year. 10:413/5Suspects line up in this culinary conundrum of a murder case. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh. 10:55A quest to bag Munros, Corbetts and even a few Marilyns.
| 10:00Leonora Carrington - surrealist artist; gender pay gap; women and gun ownership in the US. 10:454/5Val McDermid's crime series continues with a breakthrough to celebrate with fine wine.
| 10:00Actor Freida Pinto, hot flushes pill, the musical I Capture the Castle, and Angie Thomas. 10:455/5Can DCI Alma Blair and CSM Jo Black salvage their personal relationship?
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Coventry.
| 10:00David's plan backfires, and Emma takes matters into her own hands.
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| 11:00 | 11:00AL Kennedy talks to migraineurs and neurologists about this debilitating illness. 11:301/6Mark Steel visits the Lancashire seaside town of Fleetwood and performs for the locals.(R)
| 11:00Mary-Ann Ochota asks why we can send probes to deep space, but not to the earth's mantle. 11:30Lucie Skeaping hears music written for Pepys, played for the first time since his death.
| 11:00One mans' (sorry, man's) secret battle against sloppy punctuation on Bristol's shop signs.(R) 11:304/4Simon Evans presents a comedy lecture on the economics behind sugar.(R)
| 11:00The hidden lives of the thousands of people who live on industrial sites in Hong Kong. 11:30Matthew Hollis follows Edward Thomas's 1913 journey into the south west and towards poetry
| 11:00Tim Samuels meets Israeli doctors treating Syrians smuggled over the border.(R) 11:301/6Vera reacts badly to Henry's announcement that he wants to become a Labour MP.
| 11:00Lord Kinnock chooses the life of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS.(R) 11:30Pastry police, pardoned bulls and pricey pigeons. Correspondents' stories with Kate Adie.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor's guests recall the Libyan embassy siege of 1984.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The Billy bookcase epitomises the pursuit of lower costs and acceptable functionality. 12:15Consumer affairs programme. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The tale of antibiotics is a cautionary one, and economic incentives are often to blame. 12:15How do you make ends meet if you are disabled? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The Gutenberg press changed the world - but it could not have done so without paper. 12:15Consumer affairs programme. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Insurance is as old as gambling, but it's fundamental to the way the modern economy works. 12:15One App to rule them all! The new rules set to transform banking. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The words 'clever' and 'death' crop up less often than 'Google' in conversation. 12:15Peter White on puppy farms, pub names and a potential end to Right to Buy in Wales.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04More personal debt, more tax returns, less bereavement support and changing probate fees. 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. 12:041/6David Mitchell is joined by John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Lou Sanders and Miles Jupp.(R) 12:32Venezuela is seeing its worst crisis in living memory. Dan Saladino tells the food story. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs presented by Martha Kearney. 13:451/5Do grey squirrels prove Victorians were a bunch of environmental vandals?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/5Why was there a beard explosion under Queen Victoria? And can beards be good for health?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/5Was the history of the car nearly different? Did the Victorians invent the electric car?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/5Whose idea was more powerful - Darwin's good one or his cousin Francis Galton's awful one?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Are toilets a case of Victorian genius, or did they flush away our most precious resource?
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Cirencester, Gloucestershire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:301/4Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe introduces a Recycled special on Europe, a bewildering place!(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:151/2Jim is sent to China to recruit students, but the VC seems to be setting him up to fail.(R)
| 14:00Justin aims to please.(R) 14:152/2Jim returns from China in triumph and is promoted to makeshift vice chancellor.(R)
| 14:00David's plan backfires.(R) 14:151/3Agent Lairre probes suspicious deaths in an Essex village. Stars Nicola Walker.
| 14:00Emma takes matters into her own hands.(R) 14:15Muruga risks his family and his community to invent a low-cost sanitary for his wife.(R)
| 14:00Ruth regrets what she says.(R) 14:15Mark arrives home late to find there has been an intruder.
| 14:00The US bombing of Syria, term time holidays and the impact of Brexit on farming. 14:30A moving exploration of the years leading up to the death of poet Edward Thomas.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel mark 70 years of GQT with a look back through the archives.(R) 14:45Lists to live by and lists to tick off.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The challenging general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Tim Hayward wants you to cook with blood. Surely it's not as scary as it sounds?...(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his panel visit Bermondsey in London.(R) 15:30Can Brexit save the British fishing industry? Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:00Financial phone-in. What financial issues surface when a relationship ends? 15:301/3Dr Kevin Fong asks if there was ever a golden age for training to be a doctor.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the Dartington Estate, Devon, where learning from nature changes lives. 15:27Actor Rachel Shenton makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SignHealth.(R) 15:30Sunjeev Sahota discusses his novel The Year of the Runaways with James Naughtie.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel mark 70 years of GQT with a look back through the archives. 15:45An original short work for radio by writer and performer Ben Norris.
| | 15:002/2Tim McInnerny stars in a classic adventure - the quest for the legendary diamond mines.
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| 16:00 | 16:001/2Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry.(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious understanding of truth.
| 16:002/2Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry.(R) 16:30Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet chooses architect-designer, Edward William Godwin.
| 16:00A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award shortlist 2017. 16:30Radio 2 and Ofcom's news quota; cricket TV rights.
| 16:00Julia Ducournau discusses her French cannibal movie Raw. 16:30How a megaflood severed Britain's connection to what is now France 450,000 years ago.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman. 16:30What are the BBC's duties in covering Brexit now Article 50 has been triggered? 16:55Even if the smell is enticing, she knows just a taste could be catastrophic.
| 16:00Freida Pinto on her new series Guerrilla. Alys Fowler. Easter crafting with children.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Jon McGregor and explores WH Auden's life in Scotland. 16:302/4Paul Farley, in Cornwall, hears the poetry of oil spills 50 years after the Torrey Canyon.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30An iPM listener on his unusual discovery. With Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound trade in fake essays and dissertations(R) 17:40Becky Milligan profiles the tiny British Overseas Territory making headlines this week.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The Russian Prime Minister has described the explosion as a terrorist act 18:301/6David Mitchell is joined by John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Lou Sanders and Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Nearly sixty people have been killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. 18:302/4Tony, Bill, Andree and Sid head to Swansea in search of Harry Secombe.
| 18:00Russia is criticised for backing the Syrian regime after chemical attacks. 18:302/4Nathan discovers that watching too much TV can make him paranoid.(R)
| 18:00A man fined for taking his daughter on holiday during the school term loses legal battle. 18:301/4The team are confronted with an unexpected challenge - a can of water.
| 18:00Moscow has warned that the US came "within an inch" of military confrontation with Russia 18:30Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests present the week in news through stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Boris Johnson cancels trip to Moscow because of Russian support for the Syrian regime. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00A British man was one of the four people killed in Stockholm 18:15On Pick of the Week John Waite finds his credulity being tested.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announced, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko remembered. 19:451/5Romance is on the menu in Val McDermid's fine dining comic crime drama series.(R)
| 19:15Elif Shafak reviews a new film about the poet Neruda, and the art of the casting director. 19:452/5It's high stakes for Val McDermid's series with murder on the menu.(R)
| 19:00Emma takes matters into her own hands. 19:15Novelist David Vann, film director Terence Davies, British abstract artist Albert Moore. 19:453/5Suspects line up in this culinary conundrum of a murder case. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh.(R)
| 19:00Ruth regrets what she says. 19:15Death of a She Devil is Fay Weldon's new novel; Simon Callow directs The Philanthropist. 19:454/5Val McDermid's crime series continues with a breakthrough to celebrate with fine wine.(R)
| 19:00Lilian gets a window on the past. 19:15Veteran actors Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman discuss their new heist movie. 19:455/5Can DCI Alma Blair and CSM Jo Black salvage their personal relationship?(R)
| 19:00Becky Milligan profiles the tiny British Overseas Territory making headlines this week. 19:15Nina Raine's Consent, A Quiet Passion, Jon McGregor, Tate St Ives, Car Share and Bucket.
| 19:00Lilian hopes to get things over quickly. 19:151/4Eldest daughter Lily's first forays into love spark chaotic results. 19:452/10Lynne Truss's series about the people of Meridian Cliffs. Ashley the dog walker.
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| 20:00 | 20:00One mans' (sorry, man's) secret battle against sloppy punctuation on Bristol's shop signs. 20:30A Brazilian novel about street children written 80 years ago still resonates today.(R)
| 20:00Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound trade in fake essays and dissertations 20:40Peter puts questions to Steve Vaid, the acting CEO of the charity Guide Dogs.
| 20:00Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on the future of health. 20:45Professor Christine Done talks about the ultimate destiny of the universe.
| 20:00What are the changes needed now to ensure the NHS is sustainable in the future? 20:30Jonty Bloom explores why France appears to get more out of its workers than the UK does.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Cirencester, Gloucestershire. 20:50AL Kennedy says we should reject the media outlets that peddle only bad news.
| 20:00Zoe Williams asks what protests movements need to do to achieve long-term success.
| 20:00What are the BBC's duties in covering Brexit now Article 50 has been triggered?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Geoff Watts asks why older people are often excluded from clinical trials.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Raymond Tallis, Laura Tunbridge, Mark O'Connell and Carla Valentine.(R)
| 21:00For Radio 4's Cold War season, Gordon Corera examines CIA attempts to subvert Albania.(R) 21:30Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.(R)
| 21:00Can Brexit save the British fishing industry? Tom Heap investigates.(R) 21:30Can computer games be called art?(R)
| 21:00How a megaflood severed Britain's connection to what is now France 450,000 years ago.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.(R)
| 21:00Alan Dein takes a breakneck tour through the history of the public information film.(R)
| 21:001/2Tim McInnerny stars in a classic adventure - the quest for the legendary diamond mines.(R)
| 21:00More personal debt, more tax returns, less bereavement support and changing probate fees.(R) 21:26Joanna Lumley makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Rescue Nepal.(R) 21:30Jonty Bloom explores why France appears to get more out of its workers than the UK does.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Was the suspected suicide attack a 'payback' for Russia's involvement in Syria? 22:451/10Newly widowed Cora Seaborne and her young son Francis leave London for Colchester.
| 22:00On the programme are a White Helmet rescuer and a chemical weapons inspector. 22:452/10Cora has an unexpected encounter in the Essex countryside.
| 22:00Trump describes gassing of Syrians as "horrible" and "unspeakable". 22:453/10Cora, Francis and Martha visit Aldwinter and meet the local vicar.
| 22:00The US declares that Syrian leader Assad has 'no future'. 22:454/10Will tries to dissuade his flock from their belief in the existence of the Essex Serpent.
| 22:00Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven says his country will never be defeated by terrorism. 22:455/10Cora is invited to give a talk to Joanna Ransome's class in Aldwinter school.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on the future of health.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn previews the week's politics, plus Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition leads him to the Berlin Wall. 23:301/5Paddy and Bob arrive on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.(R) 23:45Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4Bridget tries to find an icon who will not replace the word 'feminism' with 'bootylicious'(R) 23:303/5Paddy and Bob are in Stroud, where retailers are proud of their independence.(R) 23:45Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Tom Parry has a theory that fancy dress can change your life. 23:15The West Wing star Richard Schiff presents a tour of his life and dreams. 23:304/5How much do folk in Newham know about a local Bletchley Park codebreaker?(R) 23:45Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/8A neighbour's funeral provides opportunities for generally reprehensible behaviour.(R) 23:305/5Paddy meets a trawlerman who has fishing in his blood.(R) 23:45Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet chooses architect-designer, Edward William Godwin.(R) 23:27Laura Snapes finds out why university drop-outs like herself didn't finish their degrees.(R) 23:55Recording a Listening Project conversation comes in at number 18...
| 23:00The challenging general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:301/4Paul Farley hears poems from Simon Armitage and follows Ted Hughes's boyhood paper round.(R)
| 23:00Julia Ducournau discusses her French cannibal movie Raw.(R) 23:30On Palm Sunday, Mark Tully assesses one of Holy Week's main characters: Pontius Pilate.(R)
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