| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research done by BBC Lab UK and social scientists(R) 00:45The bells of All Saints Church in Worcester. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Dave Goulson's first foray into bumblebee conservation ends in disaster. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Dave investigates the navigational abilities of bees and why they visit particular flowers(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Dave embarks on a mission to train a bumblebee sniffer-dog.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Dave reveals why certain male bees hang around drinking nectar on hilltops.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Dave sets up the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and looks at what the future holds for bees.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A girl turns her back on life's opportunities for fear of a little dirt.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| |
|---|
| 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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| |
|---|
| 02:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 03:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 04:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection with the Rev Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. 05:45On a busy day for garden centres, Sybil Ruscoe looks behind the scenes at a plant supplier 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough introduces the male cuckoo.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection with the Rev Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. 05:45The fodder crisis for livestock farmers - why Ireland is importing grass. 05:58David Attenborough presents the song thrush.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection with the Rev Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. 05:45Controlling harmful caterpillars by aerial spraying - Anna Hill looks at the controversy. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the swift.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection with the Rev Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. 05:45Floods, hotter summers and lots of rats. Scientists predict the effects of climate change. 05:58David Attenborough presents the wood warbler.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection with the Rev Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. 05:45Farming news. Charlotte Smith looks at the bank that may bail out British trees. 05:58David Attenborough presents the nightingale. (Part 1 of 2)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn Jordan. 05:45'They all have a reason for coming.' iPM spends the day in a GP surgery.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of Crediton Parish Church, Devon. 05:45Tim Franks profiles Pep Guardiola, about to step up to one of the biggest jobs in football(R)
| |
|---|
| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Queen's Speech previewed, plus what is sexosomnia? And Ray Harryhausen remembered.
| 06:00How long should ex-offenders be supervised? Plus outrage at a new Wagner production.
| 06:00West Yorks police on Savile, Boris Johnson on Heathrow, plus a dress that shows tweets.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Jules Hudson visits Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, to find out about its military past.(R) 06:30Crocodile, buffalo and ostrich - Charlotte Smith explores the exotic meat trade. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy considers the centrality of love in our lives. With writer Salley Vickers. 06:35Chris Sperring joins botanist Ray Woods in west Wales to search for the Tenby daffodil. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Amit Lavi and Mandy Braden present an appeal for Encompass. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 08:00 | | | | 08:31Sean Curran reports on the State Opening of Parliament.
| 08:31Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy with the news from Parliament as the Queen's Speech debate continues.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Canon Angela Tilby from Oxford explores Christian themes in Grimm's Fairy Tales. 08:48John Gray draws on the novels of Mervyn Peake to expose the myth of modernity.(R) 08:58David Attenborough introduces the male cuckoo.(R)
| |
|---|
| 09:00 | 09:00Stephanie Flanders with Michael Rosen, Jay Griffiths, Mariele Neudecker and Matt Adams. 09:45With the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth and Choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with the neuroscientist Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell. 09:30Ritula Shah talks to Satish Kumar about the central tenet of Jainism: renunciation. 09:45A Bible reading, prayer and Christian music. Led by the Rev Dr Nicholas Bundock.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets former Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP and blues musician Johnny Mars. 09:45A Bible reading, prayer and Christian music. Led by the Rev Sharon Grenham Toze.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas. 09:45A Bible reading, prayer and Christian music. Led by Dr Gemma Simmonds.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor's guests recall the Hutton Inquiry and the BBC's bitter row with government.(R) 09:45An Act of Worship from Cardiff led by the Rev Roy Jenkins.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Aasmah Mir chat with political philosopher Michael Sandel.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme.
| |
|---|
| 10:00 | 10:00Baroness Shirley Williams joins Jane Garvey to discuss women's lives in the 1920s. 10:451/5Will 1666 be an unlucky year? Samuel is far more interested in his new friend, Mrs Knipp.
| 10:00Joanna Lumley, Lionel Shriver and Polly Morland join Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Sam declares he is 'the happiest a man can be'. But Elizabeth and the maid do not get on.
| 10:00Botox for 20-somethings, Kate Figes on infidelity, extreme porn laws. With Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Sam is furious when Lizzie innocently invites her drawing teacher Mr Brown for dinner.
| 10:00Cat Power, independent midwives, and the increasing influence of stay-at-home mothers. 10:454/5A sea battle should mean victory, but Sam thinks that celebrations might be premature.
| 10:00Gillian Anderson, punk's influence on fashion, and celebration of aunts. With Jenni Murray 10:455/5Sam is besieged by desperate wives whose men fought at sea for no money.
| 10:302/3Paul Jackson explores the origins and legacies of Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's. From 2013.
| 10:00Kirsty's in cheering-up mode, and Helen tells all.
| |
|---|
| 11:00 | 11:00Rosie Millard meets middle-income people for whom the Recession has meant tough choices. 11:302/4Cancel the organic food box, adopt a panda, sell the Cath Kidston potting shed.
| 11:00Geoff Watts explores the cultural and scientific story of hallucination.(R) 11:302/2Paul Mason explores dark matters of nationalism and desire in the opera Die Meistersinger
| 11:00Gunfight in Cairo, a nervous French woman and a Brazilian man's troubled love affair. 11:305/6Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes, Lloyd Langford and Robin Ince vie for verbal supremacy.
| 11:00Rob Walker finds out how oil has changed Ghana's sleepy port city of Takoradi. 11:30Sarah Churchwell investigates the enduring appeal of Gatsby on both sides of the Atlantic.
| 11:00Did the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison mean to die at the Epsom Derby of 1913? 11:302/4The prospective politicians visit Phoebe and 'The Grundy' in hospital.(R)
| 11:00Anne McElvoy of the Economist looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Syrian refugees selling their daughters to make ends meet, and other reporters' stories.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews contemporary artist Damien Hirst.
| |
|---|
| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Shari Vahl hosts a bank holiday special from a pub in Leeds. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Is Britain becoming more religious? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Winifred Robinson hears how DNA is being used to create new treatments for cancer patients 12:30John Waite enters the world of the DIY financial traders. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A warning about conmen posing as Green Deal assessors, DIY lessons and fake headphones. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Concerns over laser eye treatment, the curse of the pop-up tent and theatre loyalty cards. 12:52Fi Glover hears Edward, blind since birth, reflecting on the future with his mother. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The latest news from the world of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. 12:305/5A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/6With Richard Osman, John Finnemore, Lucy Beaumont and Rhod Gilbert. David Mitchell hosts.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon speaks to world-renowned wine writer and critic Jancis Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:451/10John McCarthy revisits sites of the Prince of Wales's photographic tour of 1862.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:452/10John McCarthy retraces the Prince of Wales' photographic tour of 1862
| 13:00Analysis of HM the Queen's speech, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/10John McCarthy revisits the sites of the Prince of Wales' tour of 1862.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/10John McCarthy visits sites of the Prince of Wales' photographic tour of 1862
| 13:00National and international news. 13:455/10John McCarthy visits sites of the Prince of Wales' photographic tour of 1862.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Keele University.(R)
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo marvel at Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife and give it a go(R)
| |
|---|
| 14:00 | 14:152/3An ambitious woman has struggled to rise from her past, until only one thing stands in her
| 14:15Can architect Tony McGill come to terms with his widowed mother's dementia?
| 14:00Clarrie's looking forward to her birthday.(R) 14:15Adventure story about one the world's most successful drug smugglers. By Robin Brooks.
| 14:00Eddie's out to impress.(R) 14:15Ed Hanson did not mean to put Penhaligon Rhinehart into a coma.(R)
| 14:00Kirsty's in cheering-up mode.(R) 14:15When the Pope resigned, no one thought he'd still be alive 2 years later. By Hugh Costello
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to give their views on whether the UK should leave the EU. 14:30The Great Fire of London, as witnessed by the diarist, Samuel Pepys, 350 years ago.
| 14:00Eric Robson is in the chair at the Food and Environment Research Agency in York.(R) 14:45Fi Glover presents a selection of surprising conversations from all over the UK.
| |
|---|
| 15:00 | 15:001/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Inside one kitchen, 13 strangers from all over Europe share food and stories.(R)
| 15:00Helen Castor and guests discuss the ideas and events that are Making History. 15:30Are modern 'neonicotinoid' pesticides behind the collapse of bee colonies?
| 15:00Have you been the victim of a money scam? Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call on Wednesday. 15:30Sleep and mental illness - Claudia Hammond on research looking into a shared mechanism.(R)
| 15:00Jules Hudson visits Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, to find out about its military past. 15:27James McAvoy presents an appeal on behalf of Retrak. 15:30Gillian Clarke discusses her poetry collection Ice with James Naughtie and readers.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson is in the chair at the Food and Environment Research Agency in York. 15:45A determination to win weighs heavily on an elderly sailor. Read by Bernard Cribbins.
| 15:302/2Paul Mason explores dark matters of nationalism and desire in the opera Die Meistersinger(R)
| 15:002/2James Golspie's arrival has transformed the lives of the staff at Twigg and Dersingham.
| |
|---|
| 16:00 | 16:00How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks if we could all do with a detox from our digital devices.
| 16:00With a royal baby due, Michael Rosen investigates the royal and national name hoard. 16:30Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts champions the life of the Liverpool manager Bill Shankly.
| 16:00Special edition recorded at the British Sociological Association's 2013 conference. 16:30Banning of football reporters, plus Labour's Harriet Harman on media ownership.
| 16:00Francine Stock with Riz Ahmed on The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Jeff Nichols on Mud. 16:30What would happen to UK scientific research in the UK were to leave the EU?
| 16:00Remembering Andrew Simpson, Bryan Forbes, Giulio Andreotti, Mary Thom and Rick Mather. 16:30Tim Harford on the cost of the EU, military suicides, Richard III and dog years. 16:55Alison and Caitlin recall the difficult relationship they both had with Alison's mum.
| 16:00Botox in your 20s, financial abuse, Kate Figes' Our Cheating Hearts, Independent midwives.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup on the best fiction with Tessa Hadley, Cory Doctorow and Ian Rankin. 16:30Roger McGough with poetry read by teenage competitors from the Poetry by Heart finals.
| |
|---|
| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'They all have a reason for coming.' iPM spends the day in a GP surgery.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The Good Friday Agreement is 15 years old. But for some, Northern Ireland remains violent.(R) 17:40Tim Franks profiles Pep Guardiola, about to step up to one of the biggest jobs in football(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6With Richard Osman, John Finnemore, Lucy Beaumont and Rhod Gilbert. David Mitchell hosts.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4The tale of Mr Mississippi and Lorna, Matlock's resident busker and his unrequited love.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Spoof phone-in show from the creators of The Fast Show, starring Rhys Thomas.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Mark concludes his People's Manifesto back in the BBC Radio Theatre.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/5A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson joins Roy Hattersley, Alison Moyet and more for chat, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay chooses the best of BBC Radio.
| |
|---|
| 19:00 | 19:15Mark Lawson talks to British writer Kwame Kwei-Armah, who now runs a theatre in Baltimore. 19:451/5Will 1666 be an unlucky year? Samuel is far more interested in his new friend, Mrs Knipp.(R)
| 19:00Clarrie's looking forward to her birthday. 19:15With Mark Lawson, including Germaine Greer on an overlooked, undervalued Australian novel. 19:452/5Sam declares he is 'the happiest a man can be'. But Elizabeth and the maid do not get on.
| 19:15Mud reviewed; Howard Jacobson reveals his Cultural Exchange; crime author MD Villiers. 19:453/5Sam is furious when Lizzie innocently invites her drawing teacher Mr Brown for dinner.(R)
| 19:00Kirsty's in cheering-up mode. 19:15Arts news with John Wilson, including Peter Bazalgette on painter Wyndham Lewis. 19:454/5A sea battle should mean victory, but Sam thinks that celebrations might be premature.
| 19:15Karl Hyde of Underworld, Kate Clanchy, The Hothouse and Jodi Picoult's Cultural Exchange. 19:455/5Sam is besieged by desperate wives whose men fought at sea for no money.(R)
| 19:00Tim Franks profiles Pep Guardiola, about to step up to one of the biggest jobs in football 19:15Pinter's The Hothouse and Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
| 19:00There's a big surprise waiting for Clarrie. 19:151/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Mark Watson and Sue Limb on the Brontes. 19:453/3A 12th-century Shetland fishwife inspires a Viking earl to write a poem of great humility.
| |
|---|
| 20:00 | 20:00Robyn Steward takes us into her world of autism, music, art, travel, fun and independence. 20:30Mobeen Azhar investigates the deadly campaign against Pakistan's Shia Hazara minority.(R)
| 20:00The Good Friday Agreement is 15 years old. But for some, Northern Ireland remains violent. 20:40Richard Leaman explains Guide Dogs' teaming up with the National Blind Children's Society.
| 20:003/4Journalists debate with Andrew Rawnsley what leading articles about the news should say. 20:456/3Stewart Henderson makes the case for putting poetry back in political rhetoric.
| 20:00From St Martin-in-the-Fields with the Lord Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Rev Graham James.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Keele University. 20:50John Gray draws on the novels of Mervyn Peake to expose the myth of modernity.
| 20:00Journalist Eamonn O'Neill examines his profession through the legacy of Watergate.
| 20:00Tim Harford on the cost of the EU, military suicides, Richard III and dog years.(R) 20:30Remembering Andrew Simpson, Bryan Forbes, Giulio Andreotti, Mary Thom and Rick Mather.(R)
| |
|---|
| 21:00 | 21:00The science behind the EU pesticide ban - will it protect bees? Quentin Cooper presents. 21:30Stephanie Flanders with Michael Rosen, Jay Griffiths, Mariele Neudecker and Matt Adams.(R)
| 21:00Sleep and mental illness - Claudia Hammond on research looking into a shared mechanism. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with the neuroscientist Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell.
| 21:00Are modern 'neonicotinoid' pesticides behind the collapse of bee colonies?(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets former Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP and blues musician Johnny Mars.
| 21:00Geoff Watts explores the cultural and scientific story of hallucination.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.(R)
| 21:001/2John McCarthy revisits sites of the Prince of Wales's photographic tour of 1862.
| 21:001/2JB Priestley's comedy of greed and redemption in the City, dramatised by Martin Jameson.(R)
| 21:00The latest news from the world of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis.(R) 21:26Amit Lavi and Mandy Braden present an appeal for Encompass.(R) 21:30Peter Day goes to Boston to examine the battle between Harvard and MIT business schools.
| |
|---|
| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:4511/15After making a startling discovery, Debs starts looking into what happened in Dadaab.
| 22:00Reports and analysis from a global perspective. Is Somalia still a failed state? 22:4512/15Abdi and Debs have a fierce argument, when he invites a former drug addict to his flat.
| 22:00The Queen's Speech focuses on tougher rules for immigrants. News round-up with Ritula Shah 22:4513/15Unbeknown to Abdi, Debs is in Dadaab searching for news of his wife Azira.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective, with Carolyn Quinn. 22:4514/15Back home in Glasgow for Christmas, Debs still can't get Dadaab out of her mind.
| 22:00Pakistan, Abu Qatada, CO2 levels and Libya. News round-up with Ritula Shah. 22:4515/15Abdi is preparing for Christmas Day and has no idea that Debs has astonishing news for him
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Ismail Einashe reflects on the causes of violent gang culture among young Somali men.(R) 22:303/3Mukul Devichand asks if Britain is a place where foreigners with a dream can make it.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dennis Sewell of the Spectator analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
| |
|---|
| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the impact of your accent and dialect, starting with the very young(R) 23:30Danish poet Pejk Malinovski stumbles upon a small town in Texas called Poetry.(R)
| 23:00New comedy by Mark Evans. Love advice is dished out by some fantastical dinner guests. 23:30Novelist Naomi Alderman investigates the extraordinary subculture of internet fan fiction.(R)
| 23:002/6Nathan Caton acknowledges that his dad loves his car more than him. 23:152/6Guests include Graeme Garden, Johnny Daukes, Deborah Norton and Katie Maskell.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports as Cameron and Miliband clash over the latest proposals for new laws.
| 23:001/4Jarvis Cocker returns with his award-winning nocturnal exploration of the human condition. 23:30Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster.
| 23:00Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts champions the life of the Liverpool manager Bill Shankly.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy with all the news from Westminster as the Queen's Speech debate continues. 23:55Marsha and Cali, both recovering addicts, consider their relationship with their children.
| 23:001/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough with poems praising the heavenly and the everyday.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock with Riz Ahmed on The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Jeff Nichols on Mud.(R) 23:30John McCarthy considers the centrality of love in our lives. With writer Salley Vickers.(R)
| |
|---|
