| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15US activists in search of illegal immigrants. Also, lay witnesses in court.(R) 00:45The bells of Loughborough Parish Church.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The Empire Windrush brings an exciting new musical style to London.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Lloyd Bradley explores steel pan, a Caribbean import into London's soundtrack.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Lloyd Bradley charts the arrival of Afro-rock, a genuine London sound with African roots.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5As roots reggae becomes popular, many black teenagers are drawn instead to lovers' rock.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Jungle and garage pave the way for grime, a style that's become mainstream.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A story in letters between a Pakistani father and his British Asian daughter.(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 Andrea Rea. 05:45How's the 2013 harvest coming along? Sybil Ruscoe gets a progress report. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common redstart.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrea Rea. 05:45Farming on the edge of bovine TB. Robin Markwell looks at new Government control measures. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the bullfinch.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrea Rea. 05:45Defining the 'new' in new potatoes, a new dairy job for an ex Minister, and combines roll! 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the rock pipit.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrea Rea. 05:45What are French farmers hoping to achieve by smashing eggs in the streets of Brittany? 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the arctic skua.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrea Rea. 05:45A suspended prison sentence for a gangmaster who exploited farmworkers causes controversy. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the yellow wagtail.
| 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 Michael Ford. 05:45'ADHD has its benefits' - an iPM listener tells us why she won't be taking her medication.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire. 05:45Jane Deith profiles the double Olympic and World champion, Mo Farah.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news, with MP Chris Bryant on claims Tesco and Next have favoured foreign staff.
| 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.
| 06:00The situation in Egypt, the letters of Vivian Leigh and menacing seagulls in Cornwall.
| 06:00Morning news. Including police advice on fracking operations in West Sussex.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire to meet some very special ants.(R) 06:30What happens when the harvest gets rained off? Caz Graham finds out. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully questions the pursuit of economic growth at all costs. 06:35Chris Sperring is in Hampshire looking at lime trees with lime tree specialist Hugh Milner 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward speaks to Lord Karan Bilimoria on about of the word's oldest religions. 07:55Charlotte Green presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Practical Action. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Bishop Stephen Oliver travels to the Othona Community in Essex. 08:48Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature and limits of democracy.(R) 08:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common redstart.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:002/3Robert McCrum and his guests examine the dangerous seclusions of writing. 09:301/5Roger Law meets two men adept at creating objects in perfect detail. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Richard Frazer.
| 09:003/3Allan Little analyses Turkey's history in the Balkans and its relationship with the EU. 09:305/5Dominic Arkwright meets the mum who gave birth at home with a 999 operator on the line.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Tony Rogers.
| 09:004/4Does London need a Lord Mayor in a state coach now it has Boris on a bike? 09:305/5More of the science behind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, including cats.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:002/4What happens when Muslim beliefs are at odds with medical decisions? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman.(R) 09:45An Act of Worship led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Richard Coles and Suzy Klein meet musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Kirstie Allsopp on a personal journey investigating women's experiences of giving birth. 10:30Commentary on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia.
| 10:00Why has the Irish Sun covered up Page 3? Is camping mild or wild? Jenni Murray presents. 10:452/5The last thing Karen wants is to deal with her newly out gay husband. It's too painful.
| 10:00Women and online misogyny. Female breadwinners. Author Meg Wolitzer. With Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Things unravel further for Karen, and husband Jack is out on his first date with a man.
| 10:00Actress Hayley Atwell, poems inspired by losing a child, and can nudity be empowering? 10:454/5Karen longs for husband Jack to look at her, to notice her, to fall in love with her again
| 10:00Why a University degree is worth more to women than to men. 10:455/5Karen and Jack celebrate their wedding anniversary the way they always do.
| 10:301/4Steve Punt investigates the vanishing machine gun inventor, William Cantelo.
| 10:00Oliver comes up with a solution, and Kathy can't put work behind her.
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| 11:00 | | 11:00Melvyn Bragg tells the story of the Nobel-winning physicists William and Lawrence Bragg. 11:30John Kirkpatrick explores the newly digitised archive of England's rich folk song heritage
| 11:003/3Paul Farley follows the path of a heart valve from its Milan manufacturers to a UK patient 11:307/10Gunfire at a nightclub, and a dying man's confession.
| 11:00Rayhan Demeytrie investigates allegations of torture in Kazakhstan's prisons. 11:302/4Paul Gambaccini and guests reflect on his forty years in British broadcasting.
| 11:00The impact of the West Indies cricket team's triumphant tour of England in 1963. 11:302/3David Nobbs talks about his comedy career.(R)
| 11:00Cutting-edge space science from the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. 11:30Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where, at the end of a troubled week, the mood is bleak.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites the creators of the British Asian sketch show Goodness Gracious Me
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| 12:00 | 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04How to make cycling easier and safer - Julian Worricker takes your calls. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The latest on HIV home-testing kits. Consumer news with Chris Warburton. 12:30Is the new health helpline fit for purpose? John Waite investigates. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Chris Warburton looks at the latest developments in 4G and Gibraltar's travel problems. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The BT-Virgin Media deal over football rights, and should councils play at business? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/4David Grossman looks at the byzantine worlds of derivatives and high-frequency trading. 12:301/6Rory Bremner and team return with a new satirical show looking at one big issue each week.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:041/7With Tony Hawks, Alun Cochrane, Patrick Kielty and Gyles Brandreth. Nicholas Parsons hosts(R) 12:32Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | | 13:00National and international news. 13:452/5Clive Lawton profiles Isaiah, the supreme literary prophet - or possibly prophets.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:453/5Clive Lawton tells the story of Elijah, a miracle-working, wild-eyed anti-social itinerant
| 13:00National and international news. 13:454/5Clive Lawton tells the story of Miriam the Prophetess.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:455/5The story of the first prophet to work with (and against) duly constituted kings.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Martha Kearney presents political debate and discussion from Bethnal Green, London.(R)
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30Kim Normanton presents a moving, personal programme about memory and dementia.(R)
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| 14:00 | | 14:155/5Good Friday at the cathedral, and no-one seems quite themselves.(R)
| 14:00Oliver comes up with a solution.(R) 14:15Satirical reflection on the perils of manipulating our identities in the online world.
| 14:00Jennifer is in the way.(R) 14:15An odd friendship forms when Philippe de Rothschild asks Joan Littlewood to his chateau.
| 14:00Daniel gets his results.(R) 14:15An 'old witch' has to deal with a teenage intruder in this modern Gothic drama.(R)
| 14:00Should the West intervene in Egypt? Is Labour's policy message clear enough? 14:30By Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwaku's latest misjudged policy proposal is about to explode.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs GQT in Ulster, with Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew.(R) 14:45In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.
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| 15:00 | | 15:006/6Jay Rayner chairs the last of the series from the Latitude Festival in Suffolk. 15:303/4Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Do we have free will?
| 15:002/4David Grossman investigates the ways that savers, investors and consumers pay for the City 15:302/7Lisa Jardine describes how Britain's desire to build an empire promoted botany.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire to meet some very special ants. 15:27Richard Hammond presents an appeal for Primary Trauma Care Foundation.(R) 15:30Sarah Hall takes Mariella Frostrup around the places that have inspired her novels.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs GQT in Ulster, with Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. 15:453/3A young woman faces a terrifying situation while her doctor confronts a new world order.
| | 15:001/2With his father on his back and his son in his arms, Aeneas flees Troy to follow his fate.
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| 16:00 | | 16:00Chris Ledgard explores how we talk about scents, slogans on T-shirts and fashion lingo. 16:30Gabriel Gbadamosi chooses as his Great Life the inventor of Afrobeat, musician Fela Kuti
| 16:00Laurie Taylor considers the impact of drug enforcement operations. 16:30Steve Hewlett talks to Nick Pollard about the appointment of James Harding to BBC News.
| 16:00Robbie Collin talks to Roger Michell about film festivals and who really benefits. 16:30Search for a universal flu vaccine, and the scientists using online games for research.
| 16:00Aasmah Mir recalls Betty Maxwell, Mark Sutton, Karen Black, Kenneth Dancy and George Duke. 16:30Oo-er missus. Is Radio 4 getting a bit too saucy for the school holidays?
| 16:00Actress Hayley Atwell on changing attitudes to sexuality. Presented by Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Patrick Gale takes Mariella Frostrup around the places which have inspired his novels. 16:301/2Writer Kim Shuck takes us on a poetic tour of San Francisco.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Coverage 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'ADHD has its benefits' - an iPM listener tells us why she won't be taking her medication.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Wonga, money and morality - how will Newcastle United fans wear an online lender?(R) 17:40Jane Deith profiles the double Olympic and World champion, Mo Farah.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Commentary on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia. 18:301/7With Tony Hawks, Alun Cochrane, Patrick Kielty and Gyles Brandreth. Nicholas Parsons hosts
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/7Chaired by Miles Jupp, with Dave Gorman, Anneka Rice and stand-up Joe Lycett.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Caitlin Moran revisits her teens when she was home-schooled in Wolverhampton.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6The American essayist offers a story involving his sister Tiffany.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Rory Bremner and team return with a new satirical show looking at one big issue each week.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Simon Cox makes his selection of the best of the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news with Mark Lawson, including an interview with the crime writer Ruth Rendell. 19:451/5Karen is content enough in her humdrum life. Then she finds an odd text on Jack's phone.(R)
| 19:00Oliver comes up with a solution. 19:15Poet John Agard, Big School reviewed, C J Sansom on Doctor Who, and films you can't watch. 19:452/5The last thing Karen wants is to deal with her newly out gay husband. It's too painful.(R)
| 19:15Peter Doig, crime writer Chris Brookmyre, Under the Dome, Riz Ahmed on Street Fighter II. 19:453/5Things unravel further for Karen, and husband Jack is out on his first date with a man.(R)
| 19:15Mark Lawson interviews guests from the Edinburgh festivals including Reginald D Hunter. 19:454/5Karen longs for husband Jack to look at her, to notice her, to fall in love with her again(R)
| 19:00Pat and Tony make an ethical decision. 19:15With John Wilson. Armando Iannucci offers his choice for the final Cultural Exchange. 19:455/5Karen and Jack celebrate their wedding anniversary the way they always do.(R)
| 19:00Jane Deith profiles the double Olympic and World champion, Mo Farah. 19:15New film 2 Guns, new drama Chimerica, and the latest BBC1 drama What Remains.
| 19:00Shula is finalising details. 19:153/4Owen O'Neill remembers an embarrassing trip to the confessional booth. 19:451/2By Katy Darby. Sarah witnesses her husband's journey from Newgate to the gallows at Tyburn
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jackie Ashley investigates the standard of hospital care at nights and at weekends. 20:30Tessa Dunlop looks at the wealth, power and influence of the Romanian Orthodox Church.(R)
| 20:00Wonga, money and morality - how will Newcastle United fans wear an online lender? 20:40Gary O'Donoghue with advice on work, solo travel and bargain-hunting for the blind.
| 20:001/4David Baddiel presents the best of the series which mixes new ideas and personal stories. 20:4516/3Jad Adams thinks we are dealing with homelessness less well than in the 1930s.
| 20:00Helen Grady looks at the campaign against the Liverpool Care Pathway for dying patients. 20:30Peter Day ask if Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery will rejuvenate the town.
| 20:00Martha Kearney presents political debate and discussion from Bethnal Green, London. 20:50Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature and limits of democracy.
| 20:00Allegra McEvedy reflects on our complex, even scrambled, relationship with the humble egg.
| 20:00Oo-er missus. Is Radio 4 getting a bit too saucy for the school holidays?(R) 20:30Aasmah Mir recalls Betty Maxwell, Mark Sutton, Karen Black, Kenneth Dancy and George Duke.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Zoe Williams explores the changes that take place in a woman's brain during pregnancy.(R) 21:302/3Robert McCrum and his guests examine the dangerous seclusions of writing.(R)
| 21:002/7Lisa Jardine describes how Britain's desire to build an empire promoted botany. 21:303/3Allan Little analyses Turkey's history in the Balkans and its relationship with the EU.(R)
| 21:00With the rise of modern technology is there still a role for human touch in healthcare? 21:304/4Does London need a Lord Mayor in a state coach now it has Boris on a bike?(R)
| 21:00Search for a universal flu vaccine, and the scientists using online games for research.(R) 21:302/4Will Gompertz meets Martin Mills, co-owner of music powerhouse the Beggars Group.(R)
| 21:00By David Hare. A pin-sharp pupil is cut off from his fellow boys by his own intellect.(R)
| 21:002/2Elinor and Marianne are invited to stay at Mrs Jennings' house in London.(R)
| 21:00Is the new health helpline fit for purpose? John Waite investigates.(R) 21:26Charlotte Green presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Practical Action.(R) 21:30Peter Day ask if Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery will rejuvenate the town.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Labour, teacher-student grooming, Zimbabwe, Gibraltar and the Perseids. With Carolyn Quinn 22:451/10Shankly's background fuelled his socialism, his view of the world and his view of football
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10By David Peace. Bill begins to lay the first building blocks for his new Liverpool team.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:453/10It's 1962, and the team are pushing hard for promotion, but it's on a knife edge.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective with David Eades. 22:454/101963. Bill Shankly's hard work is paying off, and Liverpool are top of the First Division.
| 22:00Egypt protests, sterilisation, Parkrun and Area 51. News round-up with Roger Hearing. 22:455/10It's 1971. Bill Shankly signs a young player who could take the team to greatness.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/4What happens when Muslim beliefs are at odds with medical decisions?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/10Late-night conversation. Jane Garvey asks what role sex plays in our lives.
| 23:002/10Hardeep Singh Kohli wonders if we have had enough of professional politicians.
| 23:003/10Evan Davis and guests take the temperature of the Green movement.
| 23:004/10Laurie Taylor explores what makes something funny and when it crosses the line.
| 23:005/10When it comes to addiction, Mariella Frostrup asks if we can control ourselves.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts the quiz with Janie Dee, Richard Ingrams, Vivienne Parry and Robin Ince.(R) 23:30The secrets behind the poetry at the court of Elizabeth I, as revealed by Peggy Reynolds.(R)
| 23:00Robbie Collin talks to Roger Michell about film festivals and who really benefits.(R) 23:30Mark Tully questions the pursuit of economic growth at all costs.(R)
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