| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Builders' lives and the cooperation between musicians. 00:45The bells of St. Nicholas' Church, Leeds, Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Steve Boggan makes a quixotic journey through the unreported backwaters of America. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Steve Boggan discovers a community in Kansas desperately trying to renew itself. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Steve finds himself driving east across America and being offered hospitality. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Hot Springs, Arkansas, offers the weary traveller a hot bath. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Steve Boggan finds himself on the home straight, following a $10 bill across the US. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3A boy contemplates a parallel life after asking his mother for help with his homework.(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. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Ancient archaeological sites could be damaged forever by modern farming practices. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45A deal on a code for contracts with dairy companies, but farmers say protests must go on.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Asda ups the price of a pint of milk, but dairy farmers are still protesting.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45A leading supermarket says it might be illegal for retailers to fix a fair price for milk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Caz Graham hears that milk processors are delaying their cuts to dairy farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43With Andrew Graystone, chaplain to the media at the Olympic Park. 05:45'I was downstairs during the Olympic siege.' A listener's day hiding below the Munich flat
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Peter's Parish Church, South Petherton, Somerset. 05:45Going for Gold - Charles Van Commenee head coach to the GB athletics squad.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Olympics chief on the London games, plus domestic violence and the latest from Syria.
| 06:00Steve Coogan on Leveson, plus the latest on the eurozone crisis.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk 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. 06:07Helen Mark meets Dame Vera Lynn to discuss an iconic landmark, the white cliffs of Dover. 06:30Caz Graham hears how farmers are cashing in on a boom in rural tourism. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Irma Kurtz considers how curiosity and imagination inspire true footloose travellers. 06:35Joanna Pinnock explores the shady world of the reed warbler. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Olympic opening ceremony reviewed, plus the latest from Syria, and the future of books.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55John Hurt presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Project Harar. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme presents the top news stories from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran presents the top news stories from Westminster.
| 08:31The top news stories from Westminster.
| | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, marking the opening of the Olympic Games. 08:50John Gray reflects on the paradox of immortality as captured by the writer Theodore Powys.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Jonathan Freedland compares the 2012 Olympics with the London games of 1908. 09:303/5Helena Kennedy uncovers the powerful relationship between our financial and legal systems. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:002/3Stephanie Flanders discusses what the future of the US and Chinese economies mean for us. 09:305/5Ivan Hewett talks with violinist Daniel Hope about the Key of D major.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Father Philip Sumner.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington, and food writer Claudia Roden. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:002/4Should an elderly woman be allowed to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Choreographer and dancer Akram Khan is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:45An act of worship led by the Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam.
| 09:00Suzy Klein and Richard Coles with boxer Barry McGuigan and Radio 4's Zeb Soanes.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Rumer plays live and talks about her new album. Plus BBC director of sport Barbara Slater. 10:45Commentary on the first Test between England and South Africa from the Oval.
| 10:00Life as a foreign correspondent. Jobhunting - IQ or EQ? Is retro over? With Jane Garvey. 10:452/5With his son Aaron at last gone, Howard suddenly realises it's his wife who is the problem
| 10:00Labiaplasty, novelist Elizabeth Taylor, and Russian feminists. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Caroline's daughter has rejected the idea of celebrity - but she still has a son.
| 10:00Marilyn Monroe no dumb blonde, mayonnaise with Arabella Boxer, and when a child self-harms 10:454/5Philip gives up his near-foetal girlfriend and attempts to reconcile with ex-wife Rose.
| 10:00Around 20,000 people will attend the WOMAD festival this weekend as it celebrates 30 years 10:455/5Richard Fallon MP has begun to reconsider his condition and has alarming news for Martha.
| 10:30Mike Greenwood reports from Paraguay on the battle for one of the last wildernesses.
| 10:00Clarrie feels overloaded and Brenda is in for a shock.
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| 11:00 | | 11:002/2Who should decide funding for scientific research, the public or scientists? 11:301/4Paul Morley charts a history of music through recording studios starting in Wales.
| 11:00Tony Hawks investigates why he has heard so much about a country that doesn't exist. 11:304/6The wedding of the decade is almost ruined by 200 tents and an over-excited woodpecker.
| 11:00Spain is in economic crisis. What can a new, closed airport tell us about what went wrong? 11:30Stephen Merchant presents an appreciation of one of America's best-loved TV sitcoms.
| 11:00A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front. 11:304/6Lucy is in despair about the planet's future and Tom's best friend runs away from home.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times chairs a discussion on the past parliamentary year. 11:30Kate Adie presents reports by BBC correspondents from Syria, Belarus, Senegal and Maine.
| 11:15Cook and broadcaster Mary Berry is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on the first Test between England and South Africa from the Oval.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Is price the bottom line? 12:45James Naughtie profiles the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who pioneered IVF. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04What can and what can't you take into an Olympic venue? Shari Vahl has a definitive guide. 12:30How the government's plan to save the high street is being undermined by big developers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04What impact have the Olympics had on business? We ask firms in London and Barcelonan. 12:45James considers the lasting impact of the trade union leader. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Garden theft, the future of milk, and the Y&Y postal experiment. With Nick Ravenscroft. 12:45James Naughtie profiles the storyteller who enchanted children with his grotesque tales. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04An edition of Money Box presented by Ruth Alexander, looking at young people's finances. 12:301/6The comedy actress is interviewed by her big brother. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/657th series of the multi-award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee. 12:32Simon Parkes reports on the latest stories coming in for the Food and Farming Awards. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | | 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:452/5The story of the 19th-century plans to build a giant pyramid cemetery on Primrose Hill.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:453/5Why did the city fathers of Edinburgh take against Robert Adam's plans for a new street.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/5Jonathan Glancey finds out about 17th-century plans for a sumptuous palace in Whitehall.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:455/5Why a landmark building in Oban by John Stewart McCaig never got finished.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics from West Kilbride Village Hall.
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:301/2Michael Portillo uncovers the complex relationship between Islam and Spain.
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| 14:00 | | 14:15Notified by the police of a threat against his life, a Belfast man must uproot his family.
| 14:15A aspiring documentary maker meets a retired couple with a startling secret....
| 14:00Emma has horrible doubts. 14:15Lovvie Arkley is torn over marrying her childhood sweetheart or pursuing a career.
| 14:00Adam gets a fresh perspective. 14:15By Roy Smiles. The story of Graham Chapman, Monty Python and how he overcame his demons.(R)
| 14:00Call Anita Anand on 03700 100 444, email any.answers@bbc.co.uk or tweet #bbcaq. 14:30Paul Rhys and David Schofield star in Adrian Penketh's psychological thriller.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the team are in Brixham, with guest panellist Toby Buckland. 14:45At the end of the Korean War, 21 American prisoners chose not to go home to the USA.
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| 15:00 | | 15:004/5Newcastle. The team takes questions on ingredients and food traditions in the North East. 15:302/4Terry Waite returns to his childhood home in the small Cheshire village of Styal.(R)
| 15:00The Serious Fraud Office warns of rising Sipps' fraud. Financial advice with Paul Lewis. 15:30Dr Mark Porter asks if telehealth is providing better medical care and saving money.
| 15:00Helen Mark meets Dame Vera Lynn to discuss an iconic landmark, the white cliffs of Dover. 15:27Food writer and TV presenter Stefan Gates appeals on behalf of peacebuilding charity Cord. 15:30American travel writer and author Paul Theroux discusses his latest novel The Lower River.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the team are in Brixham, with guest panellist Toby Buckland. 15:452/3By Jay Barnett. Quirky story about a dog you could set your watch to.
| 15:301/4Paul Morley charts a history of music through recording studios starting in Wales.
| 15:001/2Young people with telepathic powers are persecuted for their difference.
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| 16:00 | | 16:00With London 2012 a few days away, Chris Ledgard explores the language of sports psychology 16:30Harriett Gilbert, Kevin Maguire and Lucy Mangan discuss their favourite books.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses the security impact of the Olympics. Also, sport under communism. 16:30Super Hi-Vision TV, 'digital first' newspapers, ad-funded programming, the end of Leveson.
| 16:00What have we been watching in 2012? Francine Stock and guests discuss. 16:30Simulating a whole bacterium, UK tsunamis, melting Greenland ice, and herd behaviour.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Sally Ride, Omar Suleiman, Rajesh Khanna, Jane Leighton and Jim Drake 16:30Which countries punch above and below their weight at the Olympics? With Tim Harford.
| 16:00Highlights from the Woman's Hour week: a performance by Rumer. Presented by Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Christopher Buckley discusses his latest novel They Eat Puppies, Don't They. 16:30Offering a window into each Olympic nation through poetry and its readers.
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| 17:00 | 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news with Paddy O'Connell. 17:30'I was downstairs during the Olympic siege.' A listener's day hiding below the Munich flat 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Jane Deith examines new research into violent behaviour by soldiers returning from combat. 17:40Going for Gold - Charles Van Commenee head coach to the GB athletics squad. 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. 18:305/657th series of the multi-award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Paul Sinha - Englishman, Londoner, sports fan - looks at the forthcoming Olympics.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Rhona Cameron revisits her teenage days growing up in small town Scotland.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Ramesh and his son Alok compete to design a sweetie.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6The comedy actress is interviewed by her big brother.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Danny Wallace is joined by Olympic medallist Fatima Whitbread and film maker Julien Temple
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Ruby Wax, the latest commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, and The Lorax reviewed. 19:451/5Therapist Martha braces herself for her next client, Richard Fallon MP.
| 19:15Mark Lawson speaks to writer Colin Dexter and reviews David Starkey on The Churchills. 19:452/5With his son Aaron at last gone, Howard suddenly realises it's his wife who is the problem
| 19:00Emma has horrible doubts. 19:15The Man Booker Prize longlist; The Doctor's Dilemma reviewed; director Fernando Meirelles. 19:453/5Caroline's daughter has rejected the idea of celebrity - but she still has a son.
| 19:00Adam gets a fresh perspective. 19:15Mark Rylance as Richard III reviewed, novelist Herman Koch, and Searching for Sugarman. 19:454/5Philip gives up his near-foetal girlfriend and attempts to reconcile with ex-wife Rose.
| 19:00Brenda is in for a shock. 19:15London in the eyes of international photographers; Newton Faulkner; writer Louis Nowra. 19:455/5Richard Fallon MP has begun to reconsider his condition and has alarming news for Martha.
| 19:00Going for Gold - Charles Van Commenee head coach to the GB athletics squad. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review cultural highlights including the Olympic opening ceremony
| 19:00It is the day of the Ambridge Community Games. 19:152/6Frank Skinner tries four new things, including getting a spray tan and eating Jugged Hare.(R) 19:452/3A man travels with a case full of complications and his life starts to unravel.
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| 20:00 | 20:00The incredible story of the international odyssey made by the embalmed body of Eva Peron. 20:30Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt finds out how microblogging is changing China.
| 20:00Jane Deith examines new research into violent behaviour by soldiers returning from combat. 20:40Why are more visually impaired people appearing in TV adverts? With Peter White.
| 20:00How far can and should the state interfere with family life to deal with problem families? 20:45Flower design is evolving into an art, argues Gillian Wheeler.
| 20:00What are the reasons behind the strike by border staff? Adrian Goldberg investigates. 20:30Japan is ageing faster than anywhere else. Peter Day reports on how they are coping.
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics from West Kilbride Village Hall. 20:50John Gray reflects on the paradox of immortality as captured by the writer Theodore Powys.
| 20:00US journalist Maureen Dowd argues that Marilyn Monroe was more smart than dumb.
| 20:00Which countries punch above and below their weight at the Olympics? With Tim Harford. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Sally Ride, Omar Suleiman, Rajesh Khanna, Jane Leighton and Jim Drake
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| 21:00 | 21:00Neanderthal medicine, commemorating extinctions, ExLab and the ethics of crowd funding. 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares the 2012 Olympics with the London games of 1908.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter asks if telehealth is providing better medical care and saving money. 21:302/3Stephanie Flanders discusses what the future of the US and Chinese economies mean for us.
| 21:00Jo Fidgen explores the life, work and legacy of Hermann Rorschach. 21:30Libby Purves meets the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington, and food writer Claudia Roden.
| 21:002/4Should an elderly woman be allowed to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger? 21:452/5Mary Colwell meets a water vole warrior determined to save them from disappearing.(R)
| 21:00David Eldridge's play follows a marriage as it falters over 25 years of political change.(R)
| 21:002/2Benjamin stops sleeping with Mrs Robinson but becomes obsessed with marrying her daughter.
| 21:00How the government's plan to save the high street is being undermined by big developers. 21:26John Hurt presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Project Harar. 21:30Japan is ageing faster than anywhere else. Peter Day reports on how they are coping.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Round-up of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn. 22:456/10If he cannot bring his lost daughter Cass back, can Alexander trace first love Mrs Gray?
| 22:00Hacking charges, Syria under fire, and working with gangs in London. With Carolyn Quinn. 22:457/10Alex Cleave finds solace as he returns to the Italian coast where his daughter died.
| 22:00Depressing UK growth, oil theft in the Niger Delta, and cooking for world leaders. 22:458/10When Mrs Gray departs on holiday, Alex takes a trip to the seaside in search of his love.
| 22:00Syria latest, Olympic fasting and Azerbaijan, with Roger Hearing. 22:459/10A storm brings an end to a perfect summer, and something more.
| 22:00Olympic opening ceremony, a Syrian city preparing for battlem and a UN arms treaty. 22:4510/10Alex Cleave discovers that he was wrong about many things, but not about the power of love
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15How far can and should the state interfere with family life to deal with problem families?
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Mehdi Hasan of the Huffington Post analyses the newspapers.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard looks at referendums and the art of asking the right question. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Al Murray joins Brian and Robin at the Latitude Festival for a science/art showdown. 23:30Peers condemn the planned strike by border staff belonging to the PCS union.
| 23:004/4A week of radio that never happened with Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/4A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. Written by Alice Lowe. 23:301/2Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu explores the music generated by the Black Power movement.(R)
| 23:45At the end of the Korean War, 21 American prisoners chose not to go home to the USA.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts with Samira Ahmed, Simon Jones, Dominic Sandbrook and Dominic Lawson. 23:30Ian Sansom on the contemporary poetry scene emerging in Northern Ireland.
| 23:00What have we been watching in 2012? Francine Stock and guests discuss. 23:30Irma Kurtz considers how curiosity and imagination inspire true footloose travellers.
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