| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie looks at research into the fragility of both religious and political belief systems(R) 00:45The bells of St Edward's Church in Eggbuckland, Plymouth.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Writer Matthew Hart takes a ride down the deepest mine on earth.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30The conquistadors flooded 16th-century Europe with gold.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30The last days of gold as money came under Nixon presidency.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30China mines more gold than any other country and everyone wants a piece of it.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Even in the 21st century, gold-dealing remains an archaic practice.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A young man comes to understand the allure and the disappointment of New York.(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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 03:00 | | | | | 03:00Commentary on the fourth One Day International between Australia and England in Perth.
| | 03:00Coverage of the fifth One Day International between Australia and England, from Adelaide.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Richard Frazer. 05:45Farmers in a Northumbrian valley are demanding to be connected to mains electricity. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the mandarin duck.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Richard Frazer. 05:45Big farming - bad or beautiful? Anna Hill hears from both sides of the debate. 05:58Chris Packham presents the lesser white-fronted goose.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Richard Frazer. 05:45As farm income in Wales falls by a third, can farmers learn to become more resilient? 05:58Chris Packham presents the coot.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Richard Frazer. 05:45Charlotte Smith looks at two separate summits on bee health and pesticide regulation. 05:58Chris Packham presents the moorhen.
| | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rabbi YY Rubinstein. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| | 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark discovers how Lincolnshire's former airfields are being used today.(R) 06:30Soil - why is it so important? Charlotte Smith does the science bit. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Reports from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
| 08:31The foreign secretary updates the House of Commons on the violence in Syria.
| 08:31Reports from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
| 08:31Reports from Westminster with Sean Curran.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini. 09:45An Act of Worship from St John's Church, Malone, Belfast.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the working poor. 09:30Anita Anand talks to world-renowned facial surgeon Prof Iain Hutchison. 09:45Bible reading, prayer and Christian music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Robert Powell and musician Mike Rutherford. 09:45Bible reading, prayer and Christian music, led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history. 09:45A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and Christian music.
| 09:00Commentary on the fourth One Day International between Australia and England in Perth. 09:45An act of worship led by Leslie Griffiths.
| 09:00The Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir talk to singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn.
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| 10:00 | 10:00How do men feel about their body image, and how does it affect their self-esteem? 10:451/5A detective investigates a murder in London's Catholic community. Stars Nicola Walker.
| 10:00Jane Garvey talks to Sophie Ellis-Bextor about music and life after Strictly Come Dancing. 10:452/5Suspicion grows over a murder in London's Catholic community.
| 10:00Aileen Graham Jones: Mrs Pankhurst's driver. Menopause symptoms and treatments. 10:453/5A parish priest suddenly absconds during a murder enquiry.
| 10:00African singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo, Twitter abuse and blogging about cancer. 10:454/5Pursuing the priest to Ireland, DI Flood arrives too late...
| 10:00Commentary on the fourth One Day International between Australia and England in Perth.
| 10:301/3Soweto Kinch offers a different vision of a city he's loved all his life - Birmingham
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| 11:00 | 11:00One day in winter, December 21, the shortest day of the year. 11:305/6It is Jan's birthday, and she is determined to do something unexpected.
| 11:00Monty Don discusses discovering new medicine in the natural world. 11:30Gabriel Prokofiev asks whether 20th-century classical composers killed off their audience.
| 11:00Mary Harper reports from Angola on the return of the Portuguese to their former colony.(R) 11:303/6Clare and the rest of the Sparrowhawk team are forced to take part in a team-building day.
| 11:00Lavatories in Sochi, fish on our plates and other correspondents' despatches. 11:30Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the remarkable life of Anthony Trollope.
| 11:15Will immigration from southern Europe help Germany's chronic labour shortage. 11:302/4Pam shares her love of horses. Poetry and sketches.
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Why Central America is awash with guns and other reporters' stories from around the world.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews English sailing star Sir Ben Ainslie.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04How false claims can drive up the cost of your car insurance. With Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04What kind of care can people with mental health conditions expect to receive? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Care Quality Commission, floods and European renewable energy targets. 12:30Calls for reform of safety testing rules after thousands of women are damaged by surgery.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Green Deal is a year old, but has it created more energy efficient homes? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04What happens inside a supermarket testing lab, plus broadband speeds and black boxes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis looks at how HSBC are preventing some customers taking out large sums of cash. 12:303/5Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team present a comic take on the week's news.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/6Panellists must talk with deliberate inaccuracy about women, Japan, owls and potatoes.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon finds out why humble Greek yogurt triggered a worldwide food craze. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:45Linda Colley explores Britain's relationship with America from the 1600s onwards.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:45Linda explores the acts of union required to sustain the allegiance of British emigrants.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:45Linda Colley explores the history of Britain's links with continental Europe.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:45Linda Colley explores Britain's lack of a written constitution.
| 13:00Ministers set out new rules to curb losses from IT projects after successive failures. 13:45Prof Colley posits some possibilities about UK development following the independence vote
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Gwyn Hall in Neath, Wales.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Is a transparent declaration of politicians' outside interests enough to uphold democracy?(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Peggy makes an announcement.(R) 14:15Yvonne has lost her job and with it her patience for her husband's bird-watching obsession(R)
| 14:00Tony analyses the situation.(R) 14:15Shameless meets The Truman Show in a new dark comedy by Sean Grundy.
| 14:151/2First of a dark two-part thriller in which two twins swap lives - Jasper's story.
| 14:00Pat tries to form an alliance.(R) 14:152/2Second of a dark two-part thriller in which two twins swap lives - Eddie's story.
| 14:00Tom tries to make amends.(R) 14:15Drama imagining February 1945, through the eyes of a British spy.
| 14:00The state of education and the health service in Wales, and taking in Syrian refugees. 14:30A group of jobseekers pool their skills to steal a Ming vase and return it to its owner.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts an edition of the gardeners' panel discussion from Sparsholt College.(R) 14:45In 1964 a group of West German students helped more than 50 people escape from East Berlin
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| 15:00 | 15:00Nationwide general knowledge quiz, hosted by Russell Davies. 15:30Sheila Dillon hears the latest on the role of food in the future of the British pub.(R)
| 15:00Tom Holland and leading historians discuss the latest historical research. 15:302/4Michael Blastland explores the stories we use to explain our world to ourselves.
| 15:00Need help managing borrowing costs or paying off debt? Paul Lewis is waiting to help. 15:30A new gastric balloon, overuse of stomach drugs, the new NHS database and vocal dysphonia.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark discovers how Lincolnshire's former airfields are being used today. 15:27Jonathon Porritt presents an appeal on behalf of the Green Belt Movement International.(R) 15:30Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson discuss the influence of winter in literature.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts an edition of the gardeners' panel discussion from Sparsholt College. 15:451/2Why is an ordinary young woman so curious about in a middle-aged lawyer's daily routines?
| 15:30Gabriel Prokofiev asks whether 20th-century classical composers killed off their audience.(R)
| 15:00Mr Harding finds his peaceful life disrupted when family drama erupts.
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| 16:00 | 16:002/2David Bailey tells the stories behind his photographs that have defined the last 60 years. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests talk about the enduring place of the Biblical Eve in Western culture.
| 16:00Is gravity really like a bowling ball on a sheet? Michael Rosen on scientific metaphors. 16:30Businessman Mark Constantine champions the life of Kahlil Gibran with Matthew Parris.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the role of music in our lives with Prof David Hesmondhalgh. 16:30The Telegraph's 'digital transformation'; Birds of a Feather creator Lawrence Marks.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her Oscar-nominated role in August Osage County 16:30Tiny particles and the huge and hugely expensive experiments needed in order to find them.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a Tory fundraiser, a broadcasting campaigner, a poet and a runner. 16:30Tim Harford presents a detailed looked at the impact immigration has on the public purse.
| 16:00Sophie Ellis-Bextor. African singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo. Edith Cavell.
| 16:30Roger McGough presents listeners' requests with poets reading their own work.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Full 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. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Predatory or prudent? Has RBS been playing fair with its business customers?(R) 17:403/8Fiona Evans takes us back to primary school, and to four new school council candidates.(R) 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. 18:304/6Panellists must talk with deliberate inaccuracy about women, Japan, owls and potatoes.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Songwriter Neil Innes talks to comedy writer and director Graham Linehan.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Mark's travelling stand-up town show arrives in coastal Pembrokeshire.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Documentary-makers, a big debate, and a little trophy.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/5Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team present a comic take on the week's news.
| 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. 18:15Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Tony analyses the situation. 19:15Mark Lawson meets Kate Atkinson, winner of the novel category in the Costa Book Awards. 19:451/5A detective investigates a murder in London's Catholic community. Stars Nicola Walker.(R)
| 19:15Josie Rourke on directing The Weir, and Julie Hesmondhalgh on leaving Coronation Street. 19:452/5Suspicion grows over a murder in London's Catholic community.(R)
| 19:00Pat tries to form an alliance. 19:15Simon Russell Beale on King Lear, plus author Lucy Hughes-Hallet, and film script secrecy. 19:453/5A parish priest suddenly absconds during a murder enquiry.(R)
| 19:00Tom tries to make amends. 19:15Arts news with Mark Lawson, including neth Branagh on directing Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. 19:454/5Pursuing the priest to Ireland, DI Flood arrives too late...(R)
| 19:00Jazzer sees more than he bargained for. 19:15Martin Bailey and Kirsty Lang visit the National Gallery to see Van Gogh's Sunflowers. 19:455/5A second body is linked to another name on the list.(R)
| 19:003/8Fiona Evans takes us back to primary school, and to four new school council candidates. 19:15John Wilson reports on the world's biggest art theft, still unsolved.(R) 19:452/8Nick asks if history has been fair to Lord North, the prime minister who lost America.(R)
| 19:153/4The horses fall out over literary matters. 19:303/4Talks from well-known, if unreliable, Downing Street cats.(R) 19:452/2By Sarah Salway. George Donald is invited to visit the sick children at an open air school
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| 20:00 | 20:00Is a transparent declaration of politicians' outside interests enough to uphold democracy? 20:30A profile of Gulnara Karimova, the pop star daughter of Uzbekistan's ruthless leader.(R)
| 20:00Predatory or prudent? Has RBS been playing fair with its business customers? 20:40Professor Robert MacLaren on the gene therapy cure for blindness, and who it may help.
| 20:002/3From Cain and Abel to today, Mariella Frostrup and guests explore sibling rivalry. 20:4535/3Former soldier Emile Simpson argues we need to rethink the way we fight wars.
| 20:00What caused the trouble at Oakwood Prison? Hannah Barnes investigates. 20:30Peter Day travels to Cork to find out what life is really like after the EU bailout.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Gwyn Hall in Neath, Wales. 20:50Adam Gopnik hails the development of the self-drive car as the way to rescue his manhood.
| 20:00How reality TV has put three ordinary people in the media spotlight.
| 20:00Tim Harford presents a detailed looked at the impact immigration has on the public purse.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a Tory fundraiser, a broadcasting campaigner, a poet and a runner.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Can local initiatives be developed into wider protection for a species?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini.(R)
| 21:00A new gastric balloon, overuse of stomach drugs, the new NHS database and vocal dysphonia. 21:30Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the working poor.(R)
| 21:00Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores what neuroscience knows about art. 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Robert Powell and musician Mike Rutherford.(R)
| 21:00Tiny particles and the huge and hugely expensive experiments needed in order to find them.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.(R)
| 21:003/3Linda explores Britain's relationships with North America, Europe and expatriate Britons.
| 21:003/3Jenny becomes a nurse again, as she helps Garp to piece his life back together.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at how HSBC are preventing some customers taking out large sums of cash.(R) 21:26Alexei Sayle presents an appeal on behalf of the Simon Community.(R) 21:30Peter Day travels to Cork to find out what life is really like after the EU bailout.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Syria peace conference - will Iran attend? News round-up with Ritula Shah. 22:451/10By Jonathan Lethem. A powerful story of modern America spanning 80 years.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10Miriam plays on her parents' Communist credentials to impress her peers.
| 22:00Ukraine demo deaths, bitter start to Syria talks, unemployment drops. With Carolyn Quinn. 22:453/10Miriam sneaks a boy home and ignites a life-changing row with her mother Rose.
| 22:00How much has changed since the Good Friday Agreement? With David Eades in Belfast. 22:454/10Miriam takes teenage Cicero under her wing. Years later he meets her adult son Sergius.
| 22:00Update from the Syria peace talks. News round-up with Philippa Thomas. 22:455/10A reflection on the men who have mattered in Rose Zimmer's life.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/3From Cain and Abel to today, Mariella Frostrup and guests explore sibling rivalry.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror looks at how papers covered the week's biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen and guests 'drill down' into the subject of office jargon.(R)
| 23:003/4Shappi Khorsandi delves into history with guests Adam Hart-Davis and Simon Evans.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster.
| 23:003/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the thorny issue of medicine, through the medium of poetry. 23:153/6Simon Day and David Soul star in a series of fantastical comedy apocalypses.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Brian travels to Juradia, a country where every other person is a lawyer.(R) 23:30Alicia McCarthy and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster.
| 23:00Businessman Mark Constantine champions the life of Kahlil Gibran with Matthew Parris.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Nationwide general knowledge quiz, hosted by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, read by Shirley Henderson.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her Oscar-nominated role in August Osage County(R) 23:30Mark Tully discusses the use of dance and movement as worship.(R)
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