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| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A beautiful and moving account of walking in the footsteps of others.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A beautiful and moving memoir in which the author walks in the footsteps of others.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A beautiful and moving memoir in which the author walks in the footsteps of others.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A beautiful and moving memoir in which the author walks in the footsteps of others.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5A beautiful and moving memoir in which the author walks in the footsteps of others.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Ceri would like to give her two young children toys, but their father has other plans.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00Coverage of the European elections.
| 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 | 03:00BBC 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 Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45Farming Today looks at what an independent Scotland might mean for farmers. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the nightjar.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45What are the opportunities for newcomers to the farming world? With Charlotte Smith. 05:58David Attenborough presents the garden warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45UKIP sets out its vision for British farming. Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45The world's biggest fresh milk factory opens in the UK, what will it mean for milk prices? 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the grey heron.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Bishop Stephen Oliver. 05:45Farmers turn out to spend big bucks on sheepdogs at a sale in Northern Ireland. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the Dartford warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with George Craig. 05:45'The viewer will look at those bodies like another beggar he passes by on the street'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of the church of St Michael in Huyton, Merseyside. 05:4548/3Rachel Armstrong proposes we should harness the computing power of the natural world.(R)
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| 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.
| 06:00Morning 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.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks near Hay-on-Wye with a group who met while horse-trekking in Mongolia.(R) 06:30Breaking into the business of farming - how easy is it for newcomers? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks to what extent we need God when seeking a spiritual approach to life. 06:35Anna Hill goes under glass to see how peppers are grown in the Lea Valley. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Apostasy Family Exclusive, Credit Unions and Assisted Dying. 07:55Allison Pearson presents an appeal for Working Families. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Adrian and Bridget Plass lead a service from Scargill House in the Yorkshire Dales. 08:48Tom Shakespeare argues that we have nothing to fear from disability.(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker and Michael Schmidt. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:003/3Michael Sandel hosts a discussion about national guilt with an audience in Japan. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Sir Roy Strong and comic Marcus Brigstocke at the Hay-on-Wye Festival. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to Danish chef Rene Redzepi.(R)
| 09:00Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir with Jeremy Paxman; Arianna Huffington's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The V&A wedding dress exhibition; opposite sex civil partnerships; why we still marry. 10:456/10Sapna's sister enters a top musical talent show, where she attracts unwanted attention.
| 10:00Jane Garvey talks to Lynn Forester de Rothschild about inclusive capitalism. 10:457/10Increasing rent prices send Sapna's elderly neighbour on a crusade against corruption.
| 10:00Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali from Daughters of Eve; coding in schools; #YesAllWomen. 10:458/10Having passed six tests, Sapna is within reach of changing her life forever.
| 10:00Rockabilly singer Imelda May; maternal depression and living with your adult children. 10:459/10In jail for murder, Sapna is trying to make sense of the past few months.
| 10:00Should Roman Catholic priests ever be allowed to marry? 10:4510/10Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. But nothing can prepare her.
| 10:15Commentary on the fourth ODI between England and Sri Lanka, from Lord's.
| 10:00Peggy finds out about Tom, and Ambridge rallies to the cause.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The story of Kazakhstan's Chechens: exiled by Stalin, sustained by faith and memory. 11:302/6Adam discovers long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum(R)
| 11:00Can an NHS ethics code for medics, managers and public relations staff ever work? 11:302/3Elgar's Salut D'Amour is the subject of Frances Fyfield's music manuscript investigation.
| 11:001/2Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores how humanity has perceived colour. 11:303/6Sandy takes a fashionable cure for memory loss.
| 11:00The myths which have twined themselves around Odessa, and other reporters' stories. 11:30Iain Sinclair goes in search of acclaimed writer WG Sebald.
| 11:00Paul Jackson reports on TV in China, and the British producers hoping to succeed there. 11:304/4An old but not forgotten girlfriend of Jim's insists on coming to stay with him and Anna.
| | 11:15Biddy Baxter, former Blue Peter editor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Are electric cars the future of motoring in the UK? With Top Gear's James May. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Are students who pay tuition fees getting value for money from their university? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Winifred Robinson explores how the Care Act will change care in older age in England.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The patchy provision of IVF in the UK. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04New record-breaking insurance fraud figures and a new operator for the Caledonian Sleeper. 12:52Fi Glover with two friends who have reconnected since one was diagnosed with MS. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on the fourth ODI between England and Sri Lanka, from Lord's.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition and deviation?(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon takes a look at that most coveted of kitchen tools: the knife. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Shaun Ley presents reaction and analysis following the European election results. 13:451/5David Goldblatt unravels the story of Brazil through its abiding passion for football.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:452/5David Goldblatt tells Brazil's history through its passion for football in the 1950s.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:45Commentary on the third ODI between England and Sri Lanka, from Old Trafford.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:454/5Can football can revive Brazil following dictatorship and corruption.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:455/5David Goldblatt tells Brazil's history through football.
| | 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30A story of remarkable bravery from the Rwandan genocide of twenty years ago.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Peggy finds out about Tom.(R) 14:151/3Aspiring novelist Davis Finch acquires a desk which wins him success.(R)
| 14:00Helen and Rob have news for Peggy.(R) 14:152/3Sceptical scientist James moves to Standlake, famous for its lake monster. Horror story.(R)
| | 14:15Sam Troughton plays an ex-soldier mistaken for a lost hero, in Clare Lizzimore's thriller.
| 14:00Ambridge rallies to the cause.(R) 14:151/3A reclusive bachelor's life is changed following a car accident, but is it for the better?
| | 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Whitehaven, Cumbria. 14:45Fi Glover hears about life with MS and with learning disabilities, and also with horror.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe is joined by teams from around the UK for the lateral thinking quiz. 15:30Writer Andy Hamilton leads a wild journey foraging for plants to make incredible drinks.(R)
| 15:003/6Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from the Bristol Food Connections Festival.(R) 15:301/4Three people with different addictions talk frankly about falling off the wagon.
| | 15:00Clare Balding walks near Hay-on-Wye with a group who met while horse-trekking in Mongolia. 15:27Michael Morpurgo presents an appeal for Feed the Minds.(R) 15:30Ned Beauman and Nick Harkaway talk to Mariella Frostrup about writing conspiracy thrillers(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Whitehaven, Cumbria. 15:453/3By Bernardine Evaristo. A short story in verse set in high-octane contemporary London.
| | 15:002/3Barnaby joins the Protestant Association and a prominent Catholic finds his life in danger
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| 16:00 | 16:00Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1. 16:30Can the religious practice of mindfulness translate to a secular context?
| 16:00Tom Dyckhoff discovers that few things show our social status as clearly as windows. 16:30Michael Palin nominates Ernest Hemingway as his Great Life.
| | 16:00Ken Loach on Jimmy's Hall, Nashville revisited, Emmanuelle Seigner on Polanski. 16:30Tracey Logan and modern women scientists discuss past inspirational ladies of science.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a writer, a businessman, a music video producer and a Polish leader. 16:30Did French economist Thomas Piketty get his numbers wrong? 16:55Fi Glover introduces two men who won't let their learning disabilities stand in their way.
| | 16:00Emma Donoghue talks to James Naughtie about her Man Booker shortlisted novel Room. 16:30Roger McGough is in his element, presenting poems on the theme of fire and water.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage 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.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage 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.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Is the family doctor an endangered species? Jenny Cuffe reports.(R) 17:403/8Shelley Silas responds to developments in Boko Haram's kidnap of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls.(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. 18:302/6How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition and deviation?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Alex and the band explore money, shopping and consumerism.
| 18:00Commentary on the third ODI between England and Sri Lanka, from Old Trafford.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Simon looks at why we buy and sell gold all around the world.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:307/7Steve Punt, Jon Culshaw and the team present a comic take on the week's news.
| 18:00Commentary on the fourth ODI between England and Sri Lanka, from Lord's. 18:30Clive 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 Parkes with his best of the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Helen and Rob have news for Peggy. 19:15Sir Tim Rice discusses writing lyrics for Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, and The Lion King 19:456/10Sapna's sister enters a top musical talent show, where she attracts unwanted attention.(R)
| 19:00There's a shock for David and Ruth. 19:15Kirsty Lang reviews Polanski's Venus in Fur; plus Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. 19:457/10Increasing rent prices send Sapna's elderly neighbour on a crusade against corruption.(R)
| | 19:00Ambridge rallies to the cause. 19:15Jimmy's Hall review and three fictional US TV characters take on the British Royal family. 19:459/10In jail for murder, Sapna is trying to make sense of the past few months.(R)
| 19:00It's a happy day for Lynda. 19:15From the Hay Festival with Lee Child, Michael Morpugo, Julia Donaldson and Cerys Matthews. 19:4510/10Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. But nothing can prepare her.(R)
| 19:003/8Shelley Silas responds to developments in Boko Haram's kidnap of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls. 19:15Ken Loach, Joshua Ferris, The Normal Heart, Bakersfield Mist and The Whitstable Biennale.
| 19:00David and Ruth face the future. 19:151/4Tom asks why the insurance industry is so confusing?(R) 19:452/3Mixed-race twins join a classical Indian singing class, with unexpected results.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Andrea Catherwood examines the movement for integrated schools in Northern Ireland. 20:30Economic historian Deirdre McCloskey on why poverty matters more than inequality.
| 20:00Is the family doctor an endangered species? Jenny Cuffe reports. 20:40Experts answer listeners' questions, encouraging your visually impaired child to play.
| | 20:00From St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, with Fr Timothy Radcliffe.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Steyning in West Sussex. 20:50Tom Shakespeare argues that we have nothing to fear from disability.
| 20:00Sneer or cheer? Gyles Brandreth surveys the history of sentimentality.
| 20:00Did French economist Thomas Piketty get his numbers wrong?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a writer, a businessman, a music video producer and a Polish leader.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Timandra Harkness discovers links between political choices and how our brains function.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker and Michael Schmidt.(R)
| 21:00Visual overload; All in the Mind mental health awards finalist; professional boundaries. 21:303/3Michael Sandel hosts a discussion about national guilt with an audience in Japan.(R)
| | 21:00Tracey Logan and modern women scientists discuss past inspirational ladies of science.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.(R)
| 21:00Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems?(R)
| 21:001/3A murderer disappears, leaving his wife and son Barnaby to fend for themselves.(R)
| 21:00Power of Attorney problems, Premium Bonds, Pensioner Bonds and payment mistakes.(R) 21:26Allison Pearson presents an appeal for Working Families.(R) 21:30Economic historian Deirdre McCloskey on why poverty matters more than inequality.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Election fever: European results, Ukraine's new president and Egyptians go to the polls. 22:451/10Washing ruins Sarah's hands, and a new footman arrives.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10Sarah is suspicious of the new footman, even though he lightens her workload.
| 22:00Obama lays out new vision, Maya Angelou remembered, Lib Dem leadership row. 22:453/10Sarah notices that the presence of the militia makes James uncomfortable.
| 22:00Landslide victory for Egyptian former general; Ukraine helicopter downed; US rifle raffles 22:454/10Sarah is charmed by the Bingleys' footman. James and Mrs Hill have reason to be worried.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:455/10An invitation from Netherfield means that Sarah can better get to know Ptolemy.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/3John Harris and Anne McElvoy ask insiders and the public about the state of the unions.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday looks at how papers covered the week's big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Michael Blastland explores human foibles. Can we really control our own behaviour?(R) 23:30Alan Dein follows two men as they try to walk 100 miles in 48 hours with no sleep.(R)
| 23:005/6Simon Mayo hosts a three-way battle to find out which is the funniest comedy generation. 23:30Alan Dein visits a once derelict park in Liverpool to see how important it is to its users(R)
| 23:001/4The gang give chase across India in a hotwired rickshaw after a yoga instructor on the run 23:154/6Ray Highknock goes for experimental regressive hypnotherapy to cure his smoking addiction.(R) 23:30Alan Dein's back with the story of two Norfolk landladies and their ill-assorted lodgers.(R)
| 23:00An eager museum curator arrives to turn things around, but finds the incompetent staff. 23:30Alan Dein meets the Forest of Dean 'free miners', still digging coal in their 70s.(R)
| 23:00Monty Python's Michael Palin chooses the American writer, Ernest Hemingway.(R) 23:27Julie Gatenby meets the Community First Responders of East Yorkshire.(R) 23:55Fi Glover with two men who both love horror, but are unsure if it is a curse or a cure.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe is joined by teams from around the UK for the lateral thinking quiz.(R) 23:30Andrew McAllister introduces Maya Angelou at the Hay-on-Wye festival in 1993.
| 23:00Ken Loach on Jimmy's Hall, Nashville revisited, Emmanuelle Seigner on Polanski.(R) 23:30Mark Tully asks to what extent we need God when seeking a spiritual approach to life.(R)
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