| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor presents the winning entry of Thinking Allowed's first Ethnography Award.(R) 00:45The bells of St George's Church, Poynton, Cheshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Rachel Holmes's lively and engaging biography of Karl Marx's remarkable daughter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Rachel Holmes's lively and engaging biography of Karl Marx's remarkable daughter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Rachel Holmes's new and engaging biography of Karl Marx's remarkable daughter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Rachel Holmes's new and engaging biography of Karl Marx's remarkable daughter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Rachel Holmes's new biography of Karl Marx's remarkable daughter.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Everyone is a stranger on a train, but no one is stranger than the housekeeper.(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 short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. 05:45A special edition of Farming Today recorded at the Bristol Food Connections Festival. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents a dawn chorus from the marshes of North Warren in Suffolk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. 05:45Farmers' milk prices drop. Three of the UK's biggest processors blame world markets. 05:58David Attenborough introduces the final recording marking International Dawn Chorus day.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. 05:45The fight against wheat rust, a fight over malting barley, and salad season approaches... 05:58David Attenborough presents the reed bunting.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. 05:45A farmer is cleared of manslaughter after a walker was killed by cattle on his land. 05:58David Attenborough presents the whimbrel.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. 05:45Why fishermen believe there is room to throw some species of fish back into the sea. 05:58David Attenborough presents the pied flycatcher.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Andrew Graystone. 05:45'When patients have this level of illness, they often have absolutely no memory of it.'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire. 05:4545/3Rebecca Mott calls for the abolition of prostitution.(R)
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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, Weather and 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 visits Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith takes a look at the pests and diseases affecting this year's crops. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Samira Ahmed reflects on what being part of a crowd means to us as individuals. 06:35Chris Sperring visits a hazel coppice awash with springtime flowers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Nigeria reaction, Rowan Williams, Apollo Prayer. 07:55Shappi Khorsandi presents an appeal for Asylum Aid. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service of Holy Communion from Down Cathedral, Downpatrick. 08:48Mary Beard argues that our view of dementia is a sanitized one which needs to be rethought(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents a dawn chorus from the marshes of North Warren in Suffolk.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Anne McElvoy with Simon Armitage, Frank McGuinness, Natalie Haynes and Kenan Malik. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00How will the workforce of the future be changed by advanced technologies? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Mark Wakelin.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by singer Gruff Rhys and nature writer Richard Kerridge. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Ernest Rea.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites five people whose lives were changed by the Omagh bomb.(R) 09:45An act of worship and music.
| 09:00Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir with Tyger Drew-Honey, and Coleen Nolan's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Women from Cumbria to Somerset on the challenges and pleasures of a rural life. 10:451/5The country's worst hairdressers head out to sea.
| 10:00Jane Garvey discusses whether misogyny is on the rise with Kirsty Wark. 10:452/5The cruise has been a good way to drum up a little illicit hairdressing business.
| 10:00Director of Testament of Mary, Deborah Warner, and how to Cook the Perfect Tapas. 10:453/5The business, money, the talent contest and a missing pastry are troubling Bev and Shirl.
| 10:00Will Hillary stand for President? Women and the Indian elections. With Jenni Murray. 10:454/5Bev's hoping to turn a visit of the talent competition's head judge to her advantage.
| 10:00Model Lily Cole on playing the most beautiful woman in the world. 10:15Commentary on the ODI between Scotland and England, from Mannofield Park, Aberdeen.
| 10:301/6Jay Rayner and the team are in Liverpool for this episode of the culinary panel programme.
| 10:00Dan's off to Sandhurst, and PC Burns steps up.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Peter White looks at a new 11-plus system aimed at reducing the impact of tutoring. 11:305/6Trisha has an unexpected visitor, while Clare decorates with a vengeance.
| 11:002/3Adam Rutherford explores the post-war era, when behavioural genetics fell far from grace. 11:30Sue MacGregor presents a 90th birthday profile of the conductor Sir Neville Marriner.
| 11:00Rosie Millard argues that pushy parents are a much maligned force within society. 11:306/6Ginny asks Vera to help her present a programme on BBC Radio about modern poetry.
| 11:00What is the cause of an ongoing health crisis across Argentina's vast GM farming belt? 11:302/2David Bailey tells the stories behind his photographs that have defined the last 60 years.
| | 11:00Helen Lewis of the New Statesman looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Beauty and horror side by side in South Sudan, and other reporters' stories.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to comedian, actor and writer Jack Dee.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04We revisit people who lost their jobs during the recession. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Shari Vahl. Would you walk for more than 20 minutes? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04How new technology is exposing motor insurance fraud. Plus more with Winifred Robinson.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Complaints from home buyers about solicitors rocket. With Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on the ODI between Scotland and England, from Mannofield Park, Aberdeen.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis looks at how to make your complaints heard; plus are new tax powers fair? 12:304/7Steve 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. 12:045/6David Mitchell invites his guests to lie with some truths.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon talks to Ken Hom about his extraordinary life through food. Part one of two. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Boko Haram admits to abducting 200 girls in Northern Nigeria. Families demand action. 13:45Martin Sixsmith examines the origins of experimental psychology.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Martin Sixsmith on how medical research helped identify different areas of the brain.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Martin Sixsmith examines the evolution of psychology on both sides of the Atlantic.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Martin Sixsmith looks at the ways in which war has influenced psychology.
| | 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Worksop in Nottinghamshire(R)
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:302/3Misha Glenny on how, in 1808, the entire Portuguese court moved across the Atlantic.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Dan's off to Sandhurst.(R) 14:15Albert and Renie live amongst all they have ever owned, but what are they saving it for?(R)
| 14:00It's May Day in Ambridge.(R) 14:15In 1967, a young English secretary had a life-changing encounter with musician Frank Zappa
| 14:15A killer hides in Glasgow's disused underground tunnels. Thomas Soutar investigates.
| 14:15Police are searching Glasgow's disused underground tunnels for a killer.
| | 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:305/8Marlowe forges an uneasy friendship with a drunk who then asks for a favour.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs, as the team tackle questions sent in by post, email and Twitter. 14:45Fi Glover with fathers who are not absent, theatrical romance, and the pain of widowhood.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Sheila Dillon presents the 2014 BBC Food and Farming Awards.
| 15:006/6Josie Long presents a sequence of mini documentaries about exploration. 15:30Where will our food come from in the future? Tom Heap chairs the debate.
| 15:00How do you pay for long-term care? For help and advice email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. 15:30Are mental health services in crisis? And was shell shock in WWI hugely underdiagnosed?(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit. 15:27Charlotte Thornett presents an appeal for the British Heart Foundation.(R) 15:30Christos Tsiolkas talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 2010 novel The Slap.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:005/6Three students from Nottingham University take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks how the concept of broken has changed in a digital world.
| 16:00Words can be abusive, cruel and cause offence. Which is worse: online or face-to-face? 16:30Isy Suttie chooses Yorkshire-born singer songwriter Jake Thackray
| 16:00The rise & fall of the working class. Also, the attraction of 'cool' jobs with poor wages. 16:30Chris Patten's resignation; Jeremy Paxman's departure; sale of Channel 5; Sunday Herald.
| 16:00Frank, the story of a singer with a papier mache head; a guide to Miyazaki; lesbian cinema 16:30The first living organism is created using artificial DNA with man-made genetic letters
| | 16:00Discussing mindfulness classes, the politics of childcare and the blurred lines of sexism.
| 16:00Tony Parsons talks to Mariella Frostrup about why he turned to crime. 16:30Delicious poems introduced by Roger McGough from Bristol Food Connections Festival.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents 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.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents 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.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57Commentary on the ODI between Scotland and England, from Mannofield Park, Aberdeen.
| 17:00Chris Mason presents full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'When patients have this level of illness, they often have absolutely no memory of it.'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Maria Margaronis explores the divided history of Cyprus, as a new settlement awaits.(R) 17:40Could Elizabeth Warren be the next president of the United States of America?(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. 18:305/6David Mitchell invites his guests to lie with some truths.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Alex and his band take a comedic look at the world of technology.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/5Isy Suttie recounts funny and moving love stories, much of which are told through song.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Love is in the air as Douglas and Herc fight it out over the fruit tray.(R)
| 18:304/7Steve 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. 18:15Highlights from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00It's May Day in Ambridge. 19:15As celebrated composer Michael Nyman turns 70, Kirsty Lang celebrates his life and work. 19:451/5The country's worst hairdressers head out to sea.(R)
| 19:15Irvine Welsh; The Wind Rises review; Rachel De-lahay. 19:452/5The cruise has been a good way to drum up a little illicit hairdressing business.(R)
| 19:15Anthony Gormley and Simon Starling on Henry Moore; Alice Hoffman; Turner Prize shortlist. 19:453/5The business, money, the talent contest and a missing pastry are troubling Bev and Shirl.(R)
| 19:15Yinka Shonibare, Water Babies, Akhil Sharma, women film directors. 19:454/5Bev's hoping to turn a visit of the talent competition's head judge to her advantage.(R)
| 19:15A report from the Brighton Festival, where Hofesh Shechter is guest artistic director. 19:455/5Shirl has a lot on her mind and it looks like Bev is heading for a showdown.(R)
| 19:00Could Elizabeth Warren be the next president of the United States of America? 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review Arden of Faversham, Joseph O'Connor's latest book and more
| 19:00Pat and Tony are struggling. 19:152/4Ben tests out a new coat suitable for the climate in the subantarctic. 19:302/4Neil's attempts at recycling strike Kim as an unhealthy obsession with death.(R) 19:452/3A songwriter turns to storytelling to create a tale of lost love interwoven with song.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Misha Glenny presents a history of Brazil from 1500 to the end of the Second World War.(R) 20:30Will Grant meets people trying to identify illegal migrants who die in the Arizona desert.(R)
| 20:00Maria Margaronis explores the divided history of Cyprus, as a new settlement awaits. 20:40Four people 60 years apart share their experience of visual impairment.
| 20:002/4Top journalists debate live with Andrew Rawnsley what leading opinion articles should say. 20:4545/3Rebecca Mott calls for the abolition of prostitution.
| 20:00Converts to Islam tell reporter Zubeida Malik how they were lured into extremism. 20:30Sharing your neighbour's car, tools and clothes. Peter Day reports on the sharing economy.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Worksop in Nottinghamshire 20:50Mary Beard argues that our view of dementia is a sanitized one which needs to be rethought
| 20:00What makes a literary reputation last? Who's 'in' and who's on the way 'out'?
| 20:00Are one million people really using food banks in Britain? Tim Harford investigates.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister remembers Glyndebourne's owner, an author, a Tory MP and a tennis player(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:001/3Adam Rutherford on the rise, fall and rise of the genetics of intelligence.(R) 21:30Anne McElvoy with Simon Armitage, Frank McGuinness, Natalie Haynes and Kenan Malik.(R)
| 21:00Are mental health services in crisis? And was shell shock in WWI hugely underdiagnosed? 21:30How will the workforce of the future be changed by advanced technologies?(R)
| 21:00Where will our food come from in the future? Tom Heap chairs the debate.(R) 21:30Libby Purves is joined by singer Gruff Rhys and nature writer Richard Kerridge.(R)
| 21:00The first living organism is created using artificial DNA with man-made genetic letters(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.(R)
| 21:003/5Martin Sixsmith presents a history of psychology and the mind.
| 21:00Frank's parents are horrified when he proposes to the poor Mary - he must marry for money.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at how to make your complaints heard; plus are new tax powers fair?(R) 21:26Shappi Khorsandi presents an appeal for Asylum Aid.(R) 21:30Sharing your neighbour's car, tools and clothes. Peter Day reports on the sharing economy.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Boko Haram admits to kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls. 22:456/10Survivor Stevie Flint continues to investigate her boyfriend's mysterious death.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:457/10Stevie makes a shocking discovery while searching Simon's flat.
| 22:00Syrian rebels leave Homs, South Africa votes and India election violence. With Ritula Shah 22:458/10Stevie talks to the wife of a journalist who died while investigating Simon's company.
| 22:00Nigeria's president says he will find the kidnapped schoolgirls. With Caroline Wyatt. 22:459/10Stevie fears that something bad has happened to Iqbal.
| 22:00Nigeria denies claims it was warned of Boko Haram school attack. With Philippa Thomas. 22:4510/10As London burns, Stevie corners her boyfriend's colleagues, sure that one is his killer.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:1545/3Rebecca Mott calls for the abolition of prostitution.(R) 22:302/4Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark in search of those who only come out at night.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45George Parker of the Financial Times looks at how papers covered the week's big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen asks what time is and explores the words we use to talk about it.(R) 23:30Essex born and bred, writer Ian Sansom goes back to the county which made him who he is.(R)
| 23:002/6Simon Mayo hosts a three-way battle to find out which is the funniest comedy generation. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/4Elvis is persuaded, against his will, to engage with society's mania for competitions. 23:151/6Karen House-Water finds that the cure for her fear of water is worse than the disease.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Robert's nemesis approaches, along with Edward, basset hound of doom.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Isy Suttie chooses Yorkshire-born singer songwriter Jake Thackray(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Fi Glover with a father and daughter who are breaking the mould for their community.
| 23:005/6Three students from Nottingham University take on their professors in the upbeat quiz.(R) 23:30In the port of Astoria, Oregon, Katrina Porteous reports on the Fisher Poets Gathering.(R)
| 23:00Frank, the story of a singer with a papier mache head; a guide to Miyazaki; lesbian cinema(R) 23:30Samira Ahmed reflects on what being part of a crowd means to us as individuals.(R)
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