| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award shortlist 2017.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Peter's, South Petherton.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Thomas Dilworth's illuminating biography of the overlooked Modernist artist and poet.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The author reflects on David Jones's disquieting experiences in the trenches.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet turns to his engravings.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet turns to poetry.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet on writing an epic war poem.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30In the 1970s, Alison meets Mia - a glamorous and beautiful woman. But is she happy?(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 Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45There is a new way forward over the thorny issue of farm pollution in Northern Ireland. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the yellow wagtail.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45The impact of dry weather, anti-litter strategy, and Melton Mowbray's livestock market. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the kingfisher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45Horses and road safety, using DNA to catch a sheep rustler and becoming an auctioneer. 05:58David Attenborough presents the reed bunting.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45Bird flu restrictions in England are eased; healthy soil; Monmouthshire livestock centre. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the sparrowhawk.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Professor Tom Wright, St Andrews. 05:45James Oswald, the farmer and popular crime writer, on his farm overlooking the River Tay. 05:58Kate Humble presents the swallow.(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 His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45An iPM listener on policing sex work.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury in Worcestershire. 05:45Mark Coles looks at the life and career of the American secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Ian Marchant revisits the familiar landscape of Newhaven, to learn how to see it properly.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe looks at the UK's livestock auctions on their 200th anniversary. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Master of the Temple Church, Robin Griffith-Jones, presents an Easter choral special. 06:35A Sunrise Service for Easter morning from Malta. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Emily Buchanan explores the place of religion in rural communities. 07:54Jonathan Grimshaw makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of National Aids Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Easter carols and hymns for a festal Easter Eucharist, live from Norwich Cathedral. 08:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the yellow wagtail.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Sarah Dunant, Peter Stanford, Alec Ryrie and Linda Woodhead. 09:451/5Thomas Dilworth's illuminating biography of the overlooked Modernist artist and poet.
| 09:00Nick Fraser tells Jim Al-Khalili about some extraordinary fossil finds. 09:452/5The author reflects on David Jones's disquieting experiences in the trenches.
| 09:00What's it like to make your art in the moment? 09:302/5Simon Barnes continues his challenge to how we think about sport, discussing beauty.(R) 09:453/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet turns to his engravings.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary. 09:454/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet turns to poetry.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor's guests recall the Libyan embassy siege of 1984.(R) 09:455/5Thomas Dilworth's biography of the modernist artist and poet on writing an epic war poem.
| 09:00Comedian Milton Jones and musician Sam Sweeney join Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00With Laura Mvula on anxiety and fantasy fiction writer Laini Taylor on her latest book. 10:451/10Anne Tyler's Baltimore story of a flawed marriage, dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
| 10:00Violinist Min Kym talks about when her 'priceless' Stradivarius was stolen. 10:452/10Pauline's patience with Michael and motherhood is wearing thin.
| 10:00Parenting classes, British Muslim women, spring gardens. 10:413/10Pauline's boredom with Michael has caused her to look further afield for love. 10:55The impact that prostate cancer treatment can have on a couple's love life.
| 10:00Lilly Singh, men's role in feminism, Nina Raine and Baroness Helena Kennedy, child brides. 10:454/10Pauline and Michael's eldest daughter Lindy is a problem teenager and a source of tension
| 10:00Mindfulness and cancer, returning to your homeland, and the Chibok girls three years on. 10:455/10Michael and Pauline's ragged marriage is further strained by a difficult teenage daughter.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his panel of cooking experts visit Swansea.
| 10:00Justin gets an unexpected offer, and Harrison offers an olive branch.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Rajesh Mirchandani meets with Kevin Bacon to explore the strange game of fame.(R) 11:302/6Mark Steel visits the Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray and performs for the locals.(R)
| 11:00Researchers and families discuss a study of consciousness in patients with brain injuries.(R) 11:30Exploring the special place the music of Bach occupies in the lives of many music lovers.
| 11:00Toby Young asks if his father's dark prophesy about meritocracy is becoming a reality.(R) 11:301/3Post-heart attack, what does Richard Wilson most need?
| 11:00In Kenya home-grown activists are helping intersex people come out into the open. 11:30Anindita explores the 'Renaissance' that came about through printing in India.
| 11:00Board games are back! What is their appeal in an increasingly digital world? 11:302/6Vera and Ginny drive to Sandwich to get Mrs Gosling back, while Henry entertains a prince.
| 11:00What is the truth behind the legendary WWI spy-seductress? 11:30Controversial votes in Turkey and Kashmir, and a university challenged in Hungary.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five musicians who embraced the anarchy of punk.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How the unique archive will help future historians understand our political world. 12:15Are some new homes too small? Currys PC World's care plan issues and women's protein. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How the archive can help health professionals to have a meaningful conversation. 12:15Consumer phone-in. What's it like being a care worker? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Writers can listen in to conversations in the archive without fear of breaching privacy. 12:15As Jaegar collapses, we discuss why some British fashion brands are struggling. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How the conversations provide a unique record within the British Library archive. 12:15Leasehold homes, how to buy a car, and Scottish fold cats. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Susie Orbach explores what the archive reveals of how we feel about our lives today. 12:15Peter White hears about running a vineyard in France and looks at care home costs.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Is there a way to protect your assets from being used to pay care fees? 12:30Steve Punt 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. 12:042/6Comedians smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino meets a woman who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Wayne Hemingway explores the artistic, commercial and cultural impact of colour.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/5Wayne Hemingway explores the artistic, commercial and cultural impact of colour: Blue.
| 13:00President Putin says trust has eroded between the US and Russia under president Trump. 13:453/5Wayne Hemingway explores the artistic, commercial and cultural impact of colour: Green.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Wayne Hemingway explores the artistic, commercial and cultural impact of colour: Purple.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Wayne Hemingway tells the story of Vantablack, the blackest black.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah with political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:303/4Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe introduces a fresh take on magic.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Lilian hopes to get things over quickly.(R) 14:15In the tunnels underneath Vimy Ridge, the Canadian Corps are re-writing the rules of war.
| 14:00Brian struggles to keep his cool.(R) 14:15Thriller by Anna Maloney. A detainee in Guantanamo claims he briefly escaped his captors.(R)
| 14:00Emma adjusts to a new routine.(R) 14:15Tense hostage drama. Ruby hides inside the besieged gym. Can her information save the day?
| 14:00Harrison offers an olive branch.(R) 14:15When a young man dies during a 'hard stop' manoeuvre, the court examines the case.
| 14:00Justin gets an unexpected offer.(R) 14:15Second World War love story between a soldier and a Morse code interpreter.(R)
| 14:00Any Answers on Afghanistan, grammar schools and baby Gard with Amol Rajan. 14:30Easter 1727, and Bach prepares his great Passion for its first tumultuous performance.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel are in Ullswater. 14:45Regretting the loss of speech and of sex, and wanting to repay a debt to your country.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Venezuela is seeing its worst crisis in living memory. Dan Saladino tells the food story.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Coventry.(R) 15:30The Skoll World Forum aims to help entrepreneurs solve global problems. Tom Heap reports.
| 15:00Paying for a care home for Dad, we hear the very personal story of listener Susannah. 15:302/3Why are junior doctors so disillusioned? Dr Kevin Fong investigates.(R)
| 15:00Ian Marchant revisits the familiar landscape of Newhaven, to learn how to see it properly. 15:27Joanna Lumley makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Rescue Nepal.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Jon McGregor and explores WH Auden's life in Scotland.(R)
| 15:00Lucy Winkett explores the loneliness of Jesus on the cross in a 21st-century context. 15:30Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson captures the changing soundscape of an oak woodland.(R) 15:45In the 1970s, Alison meets Mia - a glamorous and beautiful woman. But is she happy?
| | 15:001/2Dramatisation of novel about Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, starring Rosamund Pike.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Professor John Butt explores the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores the role of digital media in our age of anger.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and Laura Wright find out how much of English comes from French roots. 16:30Germaine Greer nominates sculptor Dame Elizabeth Frink. Presented by Matthew Parris.
| 16:00A special programme on the winner of the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award. 16:30Sean Spicer's apology, Cleveland Police snooping on journalists, and S-Town's Brian Reed.
| 16:00Sarah Waters talks to Francine Stock about the Korean adaptation of her novel Fingersmith. 16:3023andMe genetic sequencing, Human knockout genes, Coral bleaching.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ 16:30Why airlines take a bet that you won't show for your flight. 16:55It's hard to have a conversation when aphasia has taken the words away.
| 16:00Laura Mvula on anxiety. Are parenting classes useful or interfering? Vlogger Lilly Singh.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Luiza Sauma about her novel Flesh and Bone and Water. 16:303/4Paul Farley hears a new radio poem, Greta Stoddart's Who's There, set in a care home.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30An iPM listener on policing sex work.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What are the unwritten rules you must learn to get a top job?(R) 17:40Mark Coles looks at the life and career of the American secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Britain & the US call on G7 to intensify the pressure on Russia over Syria. 18:302/6Comedians smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game.
| 18:00A blow to Boris as G7 fails to back Britain's sanctions plan for Russia 18:30Modern morality tale of the story of old Ebidiah Hancock and his three sons.
| 18:00The US Secretary of State has met Vladimir Putin in Moscow as tensions grow over Syria 18:303/4Nathan tries to be a good role model for his younger brother Tyree.(R)
| 18:00Syria's President says his forces did not carry out a chemical attack on a rebel town. 18:302/4The team discover their Protein Team campaign has gone viral. And not in a good way.
| 18:00North Korea accuses US of putting the Korean peninsula at risk of thermo-nuclear war. 18:30Steve Punt and guests present the week in news through stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Aleppo bomb attack kills dozens during operation to evacuate four besieged Syrian towns 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00US says China agrees 'threatening behaviour' by North Korea can't continue 18:15Ian McMillan chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Brian struggles to keep his cool. 19:15From the Kinks to Americana; Dreda Say Mitchell on Guerrilla; poets respond to The Odyssey 19:451/10Anne Tyler's Baltimore story of a flawed marriage, dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.(R)
| 19:00Emma adjusts to a new routine. 19:15Katherine Jenkins on Carousel, and Larry Lamb and Phil Daniels on The Hatton Garden Job. 19:452/10Pauline's patience with Michael and motherhood is wearing thin.(R)
| 19:00Harrison offers an olive branch. 19:15The Sense of an Ending on film, I Heard It Through the Grapevine is 50, writing as therapy 19:453/10Pauline's boredom with Michael has caused her to look further afield for love.(R)
| 19:00Justin gets an unexpected offer. 19:15Adrian Lester and Deborah Kermode, Frog Stone, Kim Stanley Robinson. 19:454/10Pauline and Michael's eldest daughter Lindy is a problem teenager and a source of tension(R)
| 19:00David cannot contain his anger. 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. 19:455/10Michael and Pauline's ragged marriage is further strained by a difficult teenage daughter.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life and career of the American secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. 19:15The Handmaiden, White Tears, Guards at the Taj, Born to Kill, Game Changers.
| 19:00Lilian has a spring in her step. 19:152/4Hal Cruttenden inadvertently becomes an internet sensation. 19:45Lynne Truss's series about the inhabitants of wind-battered Meridian Cliffs.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Toby Young asks if his father's dark prophesy about meritocracy is becoming a reality. 20:30The hidden lives of the thousands of people who live on industrial sites in Hong Kong.(R)
| 20:00What are the unwritten rules you must learn to get a top job? 20:40Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav and Corinna Bauer from Harvard on new brain research.
| 20:00Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on gender equality. 20:45Former bishop Lord Richard Harries talks about confronting destiny in old age.
| 20:00What does Turkey's referendum mean for the UK's foreign policy? 20:30How are businesses in Northern Ireland preparing for life outside the EU?
| 20:00Ritula Shah with political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London. 20:50AL Kennedy extols the virtues of reading and its power to encourage respect for others.
| 20:00Matthew Sweet on the modern proliferation of archives.
| 20:00Why airlines take a bet that you won't show for your flight.(R) 20:30Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Mary-Ann Ochota asks why we can send probes to deep space, but not to the earth's mantle.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Sarah Dunant, Peter Stanford, Alec Ryrie and Linda Woodhead.(R)
| 21:00Anne McElvoy explores the documents telling the story of the emigre agent Jurgen Kuczynski(R) 21:30Nick Fraser tells Jim Al-Khalili about some extraordinary fossil finds.(R)
| 21:00The Skoll World Forum aims to help entrepreneurs solve global problems. Tom Heap reports.(R) 21:30What's it like to make your art in the moment?(R)
| 21:0023andMe genetic sequencing, Human knockout genes, Coral bleaching.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.(R)
| 21:00How the Singer sewing machine has whirred its way through history.(R)
| 21:002/2Tim McInnerny stars in a classic adventure - the quest for the legendary diamond mines.(R)
| 21:00Is there a way to protect your assets from being used to pay care fees?(R) 21:26Jonathan Grimshaw makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of National Aids Trust.(R) 21:30How are businesses in Northern Ireland preparing for life outside the EU?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Has US policy on Syria really changed? 22:456/10Cora seeks help from her London friend, Dr Luke Garrett.
| 22:00Tillerson talks tough - but has his hand been weakened by a lack of international unity? 22:457/10Cora hosts a midsummer party at her Aldwinter house as Stella's mysterious illness worsens
| 22:00What has happened to President Trump's hopes of resetting relations with Russia? 22:458/10The mystery of the Essex Serpent appears to be solved.
| 22:00Was the US 'mother of all bombs' a warning to North Korea? 22:459/10Cora and Will resume their deep friendship and Stella enlists Francis's help.
| 22:00The world awaits another nuclear test from Pyongyang. 22:4510/10The villagers confront the myth of the Essex Serpent for the last time.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on gender equality.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn previews the week's politics, plus Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.
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| 23:00 | 23:00The changing accents on the UK's longest rail journey, the 0820 from Aberdeen to Penzance.(R) 23:301/8Josie Long presents stories about people who have fallen in the deep end.(R)
| 23:004/4Bridget talks about why she is not grateful Russell Brand has stopped being a sexist.(R) 23:302/8Josie Long hears tales of wild youth: first love, sibling rivalry and dangerous encounters(R)
| 23:002/4Tom Parry has a theory that fancy dress can change your life. 23:15The Arab-American stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid on dreams versus reality. 23:304/8Josie Long hears stories of what can be found when we lose ourselves.(R)
| 23:003/8Cathy is pregnant, Alice can't get pregnant, and Fiona doesn't want to get pregnant again!(R) 23:306/8Josie Long explores the power of the human voice.(R)
| 23:00Germaine Greer nominates sculptor Dame Elizabeth Frink. Presented by Matthew Parris.(R) 23:277/8Josie Long hears stories of dreamers.(R) 23:55Ambition as a way of repaying a perceived debt.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:302/4Paul Farley, in Cornwall, hears the poetry of oil spills 50 years after the Torrey Canyon.(R)
| 23:00Sarah Waters talks to Francine Stock about the Korean adaptation of her novel Fingersmith.(R) 23:30Master of the Temple Church, Robin Griffith-Jones, presents an Easter choral special.(R)
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