| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Rubbish society: the social impact of waste. 00:45The bells of St Bartholomew's Church, Smithfield, London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Bellicose rumbles are denied. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A death in one of Logavina Street's families. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Coming of age in a warzone. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A ceasefire and new causes of anguish. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Hostilities end and, 20 years on, a look at how life has changed on Logavina Street. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30By Anneliese Mackintosh. Quirky story about the apostrophe that ends a relationship.(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.
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| 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 Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Rivers running dry - drought spreads to South West England and the Midlands. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Each day millions of litres of water are being pumped into rivers to save wildlife.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Does horticulture have an image problem? Teenagers say it's a career for underachievers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45British producers warn changes in European Welfare rules will drive up the price of pork.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Grapevines in the Garden of England - the UK's first commercial trial of table grapes.
| 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 Dr Jeremy Morris. 05:45A listener prompts us to look back at the man put in charge of the water crisis in 1976.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Alphege, Solihull, West Midlands. 05:45Chris Bowlby profiles Ralf Hutter, founding member of the influential band Kraftwerk.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Debating charity tax relief, truancy fines, party funding and Afghan violence.
| 06:00Debating fracking, drugs in prison, the Bahrain F1, and the final days of Philip Gould.
| 06:00Nick Clegg interviewed, plus Britain's colonial files and the Doolittle raid remembered.
| 06:00With Ken Clarke on Abu Qatada, and discussing Mass Observation and Tourette's syndrome.
| 06:00With baby Jayden's parents on their acquittal, debating pornography, and dictators' wives.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark meets some of the people involved with the rural churches of Herefordshire. 06:30Charlotte Smith asks if UK farmers can cash in on this year's early seasonal produce. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Teresa Morgan explores how music runs like a thread through our lives. 06:35Sarah Swadling examines welfare standards in the Danish pig industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00George Osborne on the IMF, plus a mystery about dark matter and the return of the 78.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Diane Louise Jordan presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Toybox. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 08:31Nick Clegg quizzed on his plans to eject errant MPs. With David Cornock.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service from St Alfege Church, Greenwich, near the London Marathon start line. 08:50Will Self says we should embrace the intellectual challenge of difficult books and art.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks about China with Jonathan Fenby, Martin Jacques, Ou Ning, Julia Lovell. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Tony Burnham.
| 09:003/3Questioning the morality of paying people to lose weight, quit smoking or abandon alcohol. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Steven Benson.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by former Speedway star Barry Briggs and actor Roberta Taylor. 09:45Christian worship with a reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Sharon Grenham Toze.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient philosophical school of Neoplatonism. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites six men who survived the sinking of HMS Sheffield in the Falklands. 09:45An act of worship led by the Rev Mary Stallard.
| 09:00Richard Coles with musician Billy Bragg and author Sue Townsend's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Laurie Metcalf on her new play, and how do you negotiate an open relationship? 10:451/5Katie is facing her release from prison after spending most of her life behind bars.
| 10:00Historian Mary Beard. Plus, is 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway' a feminist classic? 10:452/5Katie starts work on the Burnsides order, while Terry starts her rehabilitation.
| 10:00Olivia Newton-John on a career that spans 40 years, and the boxer going for Gold in 2012. 10:453/5As Katie is drawn into Grant's plan, the reasons for her imprisonment become clear.
| 10:00Irish cookery writer Darina Allen, and war widow Christina Schmid on finding love again. 10:454/5Terry takes Katie on her first trip to the countryside and the pair grow closer.
| 10:00The impact of the Dominic Strauss Kahn sex scandal on the French elections. 10:455/5Terry confronts Grant over the Burnsides' order and Katie's release date is looming.
| 10:00John McCarthy and guests discuss the travel hotspots of Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan. 10:30David Owen Norris and guests listen to Shakespeare's favourite songs in the Swan Theatre.
| 10:00Brian squares up to his opponents and Leonie refuses to listen.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Exploring Joseph Wolpe's development of a treatment for patients with phobias. 11:302/6Has the disappearance of Harvey's cat got anything to do with the book-burning neighbour?
| 11:00Brett Westwood discovers how the fortunes of Britain's lampreys could be improving. 11:30The new expanding sound world of Russian virtuoso balalaika player, Alexey Arhipovskiy.
| 11:00Winifred Robinson tracks researchers on one of the world's largest child health studies. 11:302/4Day seven on the colony and Mason faces an ethical nightmare.
| 11:00Emre Azizlerli investigates how gay men in Turkey are humiliated by the army. 11:301/2A visit to the places that inspired Alain-Fournier's novel 'Le Grand Meaulnes'.
| 11:00Haunted by the sinking of RMS Titanic, this is a story of a fictional iceberg's journey. 11:302/6Milton tries to solve the equation of the mysteriously disappearing geniuses.(R)
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Colouring in the gaps between the headlines.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five founders of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Artificial football pitches, e-textbooks, and the Olympic dad and his camper van. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Can horse racing be made safer? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04US firms eye the UK legal online market. Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Sir Andrew Motion on his latest ebook, which matches music and sound effects to the story. 12:52Michelle discusses her gender identity with her best friend, Cilla. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis looks at holiday pay for temporary workers, wine investment and PPI claims. 12:303/9Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front and Andy Hamilton join Sandi Toksvig to review the news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/6With panellists Marcus Brigstocke, Miles Jupp, Susan Calman and Alan Davies. 12:32Dan Saladino finds out why America's brewing scene is a growing influence on British beer. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:451/20Assessing the impact of Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation Medal.
| 13:00Abu Qatada, conservatory tax, Neil Heywood and Anders Breivik. Presented by Martha Kearney 13:452/20Neil MacGregor uses the Stratford Chalice to explore the world in Shakespeare's time.
| 13:00Unemployment falls, and the PM admits he's had a 'tough month'. With Martha Kearney. 13:453/20A fork found on the site of the Rose Theatre reveals what people ate in the Bard's time.
| 13:00Delay to Abu Qatada's deportation, reform of European Court of Human Rights, omnishambles. 13:454/20The story behind a portrait justifying Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor succession.
| 13:00National and international news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:455/20Neil MacGregor explores the essential accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Nick Robinson chairs a panel discussion of news and politics from Coventry.
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:302/3Misha Glenny explores the rise of Prussia, dispelling several myths along the way.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Has Tony bitten off more than he can chew? 14:15By Rex Obano. Matthew Okapara returns to his native Nigeria in search of his son.(R)
| 14:00Usha is keen to engineer a meeting. 14:15The ambitious story of John DeLorean's gull-winged sports car built in Belfast.(R)
| 14:00Brian squares up to his opponents. 14:152/3In Bradley's latest war game, a team of British Special Forces are tested to the limit.
| 14:00Lynda works out who is to blame. 14:15Childhood sweethearts meet up after nearly 20 years. Should they have stayed together?(R)
| 14:00Leonie refuses to listen. 14:15Dark thriller about obsessive love, played out entirely in phone calls. By Dawn King.
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions. 14:30An affluent family's celebration is disrupted by a police inspector's visit over a suicide(R)
| 14:00The panel visit a gardening group near Rugeley for some gardening trouble-shooting. 14:45Fi Glover presents conversations from Belfast, Oxfordshire and Humberside.
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| 15:00 | 15:006/6Three students from the University of Northampton take on their professors. 15:30Sheila Dillon on an ancient, mysterious yet essential food-making process - fermentation.
| 15:00Helen Castor with more of your stories that are changing the way we see the past. 15:30Is the UK ready for a new season of wildfires? Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:00Financial phone-in with Vincent Duggleby. 15:30Dr Mark Porter on why whooping cough is making a comeback.
| 15:00Helen Mark meets some of the people involved with the rural churches of Herefordshire. 15:27Quentin Cooper presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Remap. 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to Elif Shafak about her latest book, Honour.
| 15:00The panel visit a gardening group near Rugeley for some gardening trouble-shooting. 15:453/3Walking through the dark city late at night, a man hears footsteps and sees a figure.
| | 15:001/2Debonair Uncle Fred loves his role of 'imposter', especially that of an ageing cupid.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Martin Ellis explores the rise, fall and rebirth of Pugin's Gothic masterpiece. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious foundations and function of monarchy.
| 16:00Chris Ledgard examines how trademark law can control the language of the Olympic games. 16:30Erin Pizzey chooses Gertrude Stein. With Diana Souhami. Presented by Matthew Parris.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses an ethnography of crack users and a study of a Cambridge crew. 16:30Journalists and the public interest - how helpful are DPP Keir Starmer's new guidelines?
| 16:00Emily Blunt on the Hollywood 'chemistry test', Juliette Binoche on sex and prostitution. 16:30Science magazine programme.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Bert Weedon, Mike Wallace, Judy Egerton and Ahmed Ben Bella. 16:30The height of North Koreans, the width of police officers and rate of species extinction. 16:55Barbara talks to her best friend Becky about her obsessive condition.
| 16:00Olivia Newton-John, the boxer going for Gold in 2012, and music from the Brodsky Quartet.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer Timothy Mo about his new book Pure. 16:304/4Play up and play the game! Henry Newbolt's poem is unravelled by Peggy Reynolds.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Patrick O'Connell presents the day's top news stories, with sports headlines. 17:30A listener prompts us to look back at the man put in charge of the water crisis in 1976. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Yasmeen Khan reports on new initiatives to counter sexual harassment and assault. 17:40Chris Bowlby profiles Ralf Hutter, founding member of the influential band Kraftwerk. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6With panellists Marcus Brigstocke, Miles Jupp, Susan Calman and Alan Davies.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Jaz Milvain asks Ed to curate a moving tribute for his 'surprise' 60th birthday bash.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Snow has come to Woodstock. Is it a good idea for Sir John to invite villagers to move in?(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Alex Horne is joined by his own five-piece jazz band for a new series of music and comedy.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/9Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front and Andy Hamilton join Sandi Toksvig to review the news.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Rufus Wainwright performs Out of the Game, and Brenda Blethyn talks about Vera.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Stuart Maconie makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Usha is keen to engineer a meeting. 19:15With Mark Lawson, including interviews with Sir Tim Rice and Pamela Stephenson. 19:451/20Assessing the impact of Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation Medal.
| 19:00Brian squares up to his opponents. 19:15John Wilson meets novelist Irvine Welsh; Bob Marley documentary; Orange Prize shortlist. 19:452/20Neil MacGregor uses the Stratford Chalice to explore the world in Shakespeare's time.
| 19:00Lynda works out who is to blame. 19:15John Wilson talks to Stanley Booth about his account of life with The Rolling Stones. 19:453/20A fork found on the site of the Rose Theatre reveals what people ate in the Bard's time.
| 19:00Leonie refuses to listen. 19:15Mark Lawson meets David Suchet, and Roger Wright brings news of the 2012 BBC Proms. 19:454/20The story behind a portrait justifying Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor succession.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including interviews with actors Barbara Windsor and Cillian Murphy. 19:455/20Neil MacGregor explores the essential accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman.
| 19:00Chris Bowlby profiles Ralf Hutter, founding member of the influential band Kraftwerk. 19:15Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events with host Tom Sutcliffe.
| 19:00Brian refuses to listen. Meanwhile cricket practice proves to be surprisingly popular. 19:153/6Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read out embarrassing extracts from his teenage diary.(R) 19:454/5A divorced woman tries to break free from the painful ties that bind.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Barbara Plett examines how the Syria conflict could shape the future of the Middle East. 20:30Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence of the involuntary sterilisation of women in Uzbekistan
| 20:00Yasmeen Khan reports on new initiatives to counter sexual harassment and assault. 20:40Kirsten Hearn and Geoff Adams-Spink join Peter White to offer tips for newly blind people.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests discuss plans to allow television cameras into UK courts. 20:45Jules Evans explores what ancient philosophy can tell modern society about well-being.
| 20:00Will the Coalition's planned minimum price for alcohol reduce binge drinking and violence? 20:30Is China's bubble about to burst? Peter Day reports.
| 20:00Nick Robinson chairs a panel discussion of news and politics from Coventry. 20:50Will Self says we should embrace the intellectual challenge of difficult books and art.
| 20:00Sean Street on how our sound archive is being saved and opened up by the British Library.(R)
| 20:00The height of North Koreans, the width of police officers and rate of species extinction. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Bert Weedon, Mike Wallace, Judy Egerton and Ahmed Ben Bella.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Undersea earthquakes, Titanic telecommunications, and do people sound how they look? 21:30Andrew Marr talks about China with Jonathan Fenby, Martin Jacques, Ou Ning, Julia Lovell.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter on why whooping cough is making a comeback. 21:303/3Questioning the morality of paying people to lose weight, quit smoking or abandon alcohol.
| 21:00Is the UK ready for a new season of wildfires? Tom Heap investigates. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by former Speedway star Barry Briggs and actor Roberta Taylor.
| 21:00Brett Westwood discovers how the fortunes of Britain's lampreys could be improving. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient philosophical school of Neoplatonism.
| 21:00Tragi-comic drama about a hostage siege at a residential care home.(R)
| 21:003/3Richard III is forced to take increasingly drastic steps to uphold Plantagenet power.
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at holiday pay for temporary workers, wine investment and PPI claims. 21:26Diane Louise Jordan presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Toybox. 21:30Is China's bubble about to burst? Peter Day reports.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/10When her Greek husband dies in a car crash, Maud becomes curious about his family's past.
| 22:00The Home Secretary tells MPs that Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan. 22:452/10Antigone decides to come to Greece for son Nikitas's funeral, after nearly 60 years away.
| 22:00A new row over Abu Qatada, and a new study suggests ten different kinds of breast cancer. 22:453/10Maud is becoming curious to know more about her husband's family's troubled history.
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Maud has decided that Antigone holds the key.
| 22:00Last minute French presidential campaigning, and the Vatican falling out with US nuns. 22:455/10Antigone opens up to Maud about the events of the Nazi occupation.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests discuss plans to allow television cameras into UK courts.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Iain Martin of the Sunday Telegraph analyses how the papers cover the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard meets the academics doing stand-up and asks why jokes get the brain going. 23:30Sean Curran reports as MPs continue to debate the Chancellor George Osborne's budget.
| 23:004/4Richard Herring examines why we hate the idea of cloning without really understanding it.(R) 23:30The Home Secretary sets out her plans to deport the radical cleric Abu Qatada.
| 23:003/6Nigel is tasked with running a choir containing recently convicted youths. 23:153/6Train driver Bob is suspended after a medical. Is his career over?(R) 23:30The fall-out from last month's Budget continues to dominate Prime Minister's Questions.
| 23:003/4Jarvis Cocker goes on a city night walk to find out what goes on behind closed doors. 23:30The Home Secretary says radical cleric Abu Qatada will be deported, despite an appeal.
| 23:00Erin Pizzey chooses Gertrude Stein. With Diana Souhami. Presented by Matthew Parris. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. 23:55Joan and Jim discuss growing old together, and the end of life.
| 23:006/6Three students from the University of Northampton take on their professors. 23:303/4Peggy Reynolds explores the appeal of UA Fanthorpe's poem.
| 23:00Emily Blunt on the Hollywood 'chemistry test', Juliette Binoche on sex and prostitution. 23:30Teresa Morgan explores how music runs like a thread through our lives.
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