| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A special programme on the winner of the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury in Worcestershire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Mir Mahfuz Ali responds to Scylla and Charybdis in The Odyssey with a sea crossing today.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Poet Alemu Tebeje's tale of Tamrat, growing up in Ethiopia, akin to the Cyclops' cave.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Mona Arshi, in Homer's light, considers her Sikh parents' journey to England in the 1960s.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Golan Haji and Stephen Watts' poem inspired by Odysseus hearing to a story told - his own.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30In Karen McCarthy Woolf drama Odysseus's mother tries to contact him from the Underworld.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Short story by Zoe Strachan, inspired by a piece of music. Read by Ann Louise Ross.(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 His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45The Old Gloucester is an ancient cattle breed but does it have a role in the 21st century? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the curlew.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45The Environment Agency is cracking down on elver poaching on the River Severn. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the female cuckoo.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45What will the snap general election mean for the farming community? 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the bullfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45The RSPCA wants egg producers to install more perches for hens. But is this a good thing? 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the Dartford warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His Grace Bishop Angaelos. 05:45New Zealand lamb exports after Brexit, potato blight origins and the Dairy Aid Scheme. 05:58David Attenborough introduces the male cuckoo.(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 Roger Hutchings. 05:45Finding love when she was 37 and he was 17.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Clement Danes. 05:45Mark Coles talks to those who know Sam Warburton.(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. 06:07Can time spent in prehistoric landscapes around Stonehenge help Wiltshire residents?(R) 06:30How has New Zealand become a top exporter of lamb and beef without the help of subsidies? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand examines our forms of memory, both collective and individual. 06:35Philippa Hall meets the volunteers at London's first commercial-scale organic vineyard. 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. 07:54Jon Snow makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Advantage Africa. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service from the 'Equipping, Calling, Going' Christian festival in Scarborough. 08:48A.L. Kennedy reflects on the way our past shapes our present and our future.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the curlew.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Tom Dyckhoff, Takeshi Hayatsu, Anissa Helou and Charles Spence. 09:45Mir Mahfuz Ali responds to Scylla and Charybdis in The Odyssey with a sea crossing today.
| 09:00Jim Al-khalili talks to Professor Liz Sockett about the evil genius of predatory bacteria. 09:45Poet Alemu Tebeje's tale of Tamrat, growing up in Ethiopia, akin to the Cyclops' cave.
| 09:00Double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku meets the artist Yinka Shonibare in his studio. 09:303/5Simon Barnes continues his series about sport, arguing that sport is for intellectuals.(R) 09:45Mona Arshi, in Homer's light, considers her Sikh parents' journey to England in the 1960s.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon. 09:45Golan Haji and Stephen Watts' poem inspired by Odysseus hearing to a story told - his own.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites five musicians who embraced the anarchy of punk.(R) 09:45In Karen McCarthy Woolf drama Odysseus's mother tries to contact him from the Underworld.
| 09:00Entertainer, comedian and actor Roy Hudd joins Kate Silverton and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00How do our names affect our lives? 10:456/10The celebration of Pauline and Michael's wedding anniversary triggers a momentous decision
| 10:00Megan Mullally, aka Karen in Will and Grace plus Malala's mother, Toor Pekai Yousafzai. 10:457/10An unexpected encounter with Anna strikes just the right note for Michael.
| 10:00Judge Anuja Dhir; Going Home; Turkey; Bridget Sheeran on birth; Testino Diana dress. 10:418/10After 13 years as a divorcee, Pauline still finds living by herself difficult. 10:55Shared memories of growing up on the Fountain estate in Derry twenty 20 years apart.
| 10:00Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO of Virgin Money, talks about coping with postnatal depression. 10:459/10After many years George Anton has a surprise visitor.
| 10:00Lily Cole on acting. Unused frozen embryos. French women talk about Marine Le Pen. 10:4510/10Michael returns to his old neighbourhood and old loves.
| 10:30Jay Rayner whisks his panel off to Paris for a special 100th episode celebration.
| 10:00Lilian has a spring in her step, and Ruth wants to keep a low profile.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Fiona Lindsay meets performers of all kinds during the half hour before they go on stage. 11:304/6Mark Steel visits the County Durham town of Barnard Castle and performs for the locals.(R)
| 11:00Kidnapping, robbery or an accident are common moments of shock. How do our brains cope? 11:30Kate Molleson meets a legend of Ethiopian music, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
| 11:00Helena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and mind doctors.(R) 11:302/3Richard Wilson realises it's no good being Mr Nice Guy. He's got to tell the truth.
| 11:00In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba's cancer treatments gets a US drug trial. 11:30Anindita Ghosh explores how the printing press promoted the rise of nationalism in India.
| 11:00Richard Taylor charts the story of copyright and asks if the law is overreaching itself. 11:303/6Henry and Vera make a BBC radio broadcast with Hilda on the need for honesty in marriage.
| 11:00Steve Richards discusses Theresa May's surprise decision to call an election on June 8th. 11:30Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor's guests discuss the Challenger space shuttle disaster of 1986.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Ralph Winwood returns from France to a Folkestone he does not recognise. 12:15Why have people in the UK started buying more organic food? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Alec Poole offers spiritual sustenance to an unorthodox congregation. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Maisie Harris searches for the still, small voice. 12:15How Parkour has become one of the UK's most popular sports. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, Noah Hamilton pursues small acts of resistance. 12:15Conveyancing costs, pesticides in organic food and charcoal toothpaste. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Sylvia Graham's patriotism is invigorated. 12:15Peter White looks at the new, bigger speeding fines and the rise of the electric bike.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why can't property owners whose homes have risen sharply in value afford to downsize? 12:30Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell’s panel game.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon on how the potato changed the world, and might shape our food future. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Are we hard-wired for hope? Bettany Hughes finds out why we believe things can get better.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Why does our past hold the key to our future? Bettany Hughes explores our need to remember
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Do we still believe in Mother Earth? Bettany Hughes examines our relationship with Gaia.
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell. Including Paris attack analysis and Unite union chief election. 13:45Is chaos good or bad? Bettany Hughes explores the place of disruption in our lives.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Truro High School.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:304/4Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe recycles, slices and dices the BBC's archive on love and marriage(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Lilian has a spring in her step.(R) 14:15Who appears at your bedside when you are a serviceman who is expected to die?
| 14:00Josh is on the warpath.(R) 14:15Catriona Knox's coming-of-age comedy about love, gender-fluidity, cats and Judy Garland.
| 14:00Peggy hears the good news.(R) 14:15Julian Rhind-Tutt stars in a re-imagining of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's fall to earth.
| 14:00Emma sets her sights on the future.(R) 14:15Drama by Adam Usden set in the Orthodox Jewish community. Starring Yasmin Paige.
| 14:00Everyone is celebrating at The Bull.(R) 14:15Tom Hollander as eccentric amateur Patrick Moore, battling to be the BBC's astronomer.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama about a love affair and the intricate nature of deceit.(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel answer listener correspondence from The Savill Garden, Windsor.(R) 14:45Exploding toilets, retirement homes for PE teachers, and pranks played by art teachers.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Dan Saladino meets a woman who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and his panel of cooking experts visit Swansea.(R) 15:30Five of the Solomon Islands have already been lost to the sea. How are the locals coping?
| 15:00Louise Cooper and a panel of experts answer calls on house and flat leaseholds. 15:303/3Dr Kevin Fong explores how doctors cope when things go wrong.(R)
| 15:00Can time spent in prehistoric landscapes around Stonehenge help Wiltshire residents? 15:27Jonathan Grimshaw makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of National Aids Trust.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to Luiza Sauma about her novel Flesh and Bone and Water.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel answer listener correspondence from The Savill Garden, Windsor. 15:45Short story by Zoe Strachan, inspired by a piece of music. Read by Ann Louise Ross.
| 15:45A happily married woman confronts a new relationship. Written by Joan Bakewell.
| 15:002/2Dramatisation of the novel inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. With Rosamund Pike.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Zora Neale Hurston's literary rebirth. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks what it means to be authentic in a digital world full of filters.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright find out how countries got their names. 16:30The Albanian opera singer Ermonela Jaho chooses the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
| 16:00How prestigious schools and universities around the world sustain inequality. 16:30Andrea Catherwood asks how the UK media will cover the general election at short notice.
| 16:00Warren Beatty talks about his latest directorial outing, Rules Don't Apply. 16:30Cassini's death; scrapping diesel cars; weather balloons; satellites monitoring volcanoes
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian. 16:30Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush. 16:55Retired art teachers recall the motivational techniques they employed.
| 16:15Playing Karen in the return of Will & Grace. Jane as a name. The end of the TV show Girls.
| 16:00Baileys prize-winner Lisa McInerney talks about her second novel, The Blood Miracles. 16:30Paul Farley hears new poems by Zaffar Kunial in the places they were made.
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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. 17:30Finding love when she was 37 and he was 17.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Frances Stonor Saunders on Trump's disco years and mentorship to McCarthy's henchman.(R) 17:40Mark Coles talks to those who know Sam Warburton.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00International monitors have expressed serious concerns about the referendum in Turkey 18:303/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell’s panel game.
| 18:00The Prime Minister says she wants to strengthen her position ahead of Brexit talks 18:301/4Comedian Rob Newman presents a unique odyssey of our brains mixing stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00PM says Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to lead UK, but she is mocked for ruling out TV debates. 18:304/4Nathan decides to prove how mature he is in order to win back the girl that rejected him.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4The Hardacre ad agency attempts to do some charitable work.
| 18:00Theresa May says she will maintain the foreign aid budget. 18:30Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Prime Minister refuses to rule out tax rises. Labour says the better-off will pay more. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Jeremy Corbyn refuses to confirm whether Labour backs Trident 18:15Sheila McClennon picks her programmes of the week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Rules Don't Apply starring Warren Beatty reviewed, poet Inua Ellams performs. 19:456/10The celebration of Pauline and Michael's wedding anniversary triggers a momentous decision(R)
| 19:00Peggy hears the good news. 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to violinist Kyung Wha Chung and poet Murray Lachlan Young. 19:457/10An unexpected encounter with Anna strikes just the right note for Michael.(R)
| 19:00Emma sets her sights on the future. 19:15He took those Beyonce photos but Awol Erizku also paints; Robert Macfarlane on dagglers. 19:458/10After 13 years as a divorcee, Pauline still finds living by herself difficult.(R)
| 19:00Everyone is celebrating at The Bull. 19:15Joan Bakewell on Keeping in Touch. David Pickard unveils the 2017 Proms. 19:459/10After many years George Anton has a surprise visitor.(R)
| 19:00Pip can't apologise enough. 19:15Actor Gemma Arterton discusses her WWII film Their Finest, plus photographer Martin Parr. 19:4510/10Michael returns to his old neighbourhood and old loves.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles talks to those who know Sam Warburton. 19:15Their Finest, The Philanthropist, Lisa McInerny, Ashley Bickerton, The Hours on Radio 4.
| 19:00Toby reaches the end of the road, and Emma comes under fire. 19:153/4Hal Cruttenden is confronted by his wife's surprising romantic past. 19:45Retired driving instructor Terry finds surprising solace in an old yellow suitcase.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Helena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and mind doctors. 20:30In Kenya home-grown activists are helping intersex people come out into the open.(R)
| 20:00Frances Stonor Saunders on Trump's disco years and mentorship to McCarthy's henchman. 20:40Tracy Pearson on the RNIB Library's services, and Tom Walker reports on football access.
| 20:00Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on population growth. 20:45Jay Owens argues that we should pay more attention to dust.
| 20:00What defines British voters today, and how will the vote in June shape Britain? 20:30How entrepreneurship can break the cycle of re-offending for women after prison.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Truro High School. 20:50A.L. Kennedy reflects on the way our past shapes our present and our future.
| 20:00Jonathan Freedland re-examines the 1990s as a rare decade of peace and prosperity.
| 20:00Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Sound expert Julian Treasure explores how open plan design affects us.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Tom Dyckhoff, Takeshi Hayatsu, Anissa Helou and Charles Spence.(R)
| 21:00The diaries of Fu Bingchang, Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union as the Cold War began.(R) 21:30Jim Al-khalili talks to Professor Liz Sockett about the evil genius of predatory bacteria.(R)
| 21:00Five of the Solomon Islands have already been lost to the sea. How are the locals coping?(R) 21:30Double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku meets the artist Yinka Shonibare in his studio.(R)
| 21:00Cassini's death; scrapping diesel cars; weather balloons; satellites monitoring volcanoes(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.(R)
| 21:00Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week.
| 21:001/2Dramatisation of novel about Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, starring Rosamund Pike.(R)
| 21:00Why can't property owners whose homes have risen sharply in value afford to downsize?(R) 21:26Jon Snow makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Advantage Africa.(R) 21:30How entrepreneurship can break the cycle of re-offending for women after prison.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Turkish state of emergency extended after president wins referendum. 22:451/10Rabbit Armstrong joins a basketball game which underlines all that is wrong with his life.
| 22:00Theresa May says a snap general election will secure 'strong leadership'. 22:452/10In seeking advice about his marriage, Rabbit finds himself introduced to a new partner.
| 22:00Microsoft founder warns the government against dropping policy from their 2015 manifesto. 22:453/10Rabbit and Ruth begin a romance of sorts after an unlikely one night stand.
| 22:00Huge security operation underway days before French presidential election. 22:454/10Rabbit returns home to get his things and is waylaid by the local minister, Jack Eccles.
| 22:00France terror attack overshadows the last days of campaigning ahead of Sunday's election. 22:455/10Harry is obsessed with Ruth proving how much she loves him - even if it debases her.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Fi Glover pits optimists against pessimists in a debate on population growth.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the news from France and the UK general election campaign
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen and Laura Wright find out how much of English comes from French roots.(R) 23:308/8Josie Long explores what can emerge from an ending.(R)
| 23:001/4Kevin's back poking fun at beatniks, Blofeld, wine gums and castanets. 23:30A surprise general election has been called by the prime minister.
| 23:003/4Tom Parry has a theory that fancy dress can change your life. 23:15Kwame Kwei Armah tours his life and adopted city of Baltimore. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/8Barney and Evan help David with renovations, while the girls get bikini-ready.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00The Albanian opera singer Ermonela Jaho chooses the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Friends look forward to life in the specialised care home they are planning.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:303/4Paul Farley hears a new radio poem, Greta Stoddart's Who's There, set in a care home.(R)
| 23:007/13Guy Raz explores the powerful feelings of stress, depression and despair. 23:50A.L. Kennedy reflects on the way our past shapes our present and our future.(R)
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