| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor asks if there is an emerging mass class characterised by insecurity.(R) 00:45Church bells from Lincoln Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The Laughing Cavalier did not impress the young Julian Barnes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5For novelist and critic Julian Barnes, modern art begins with Paul Cezanne.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5From Paul Cezanne to Lucian Freud, the novelist Julian Barnes considers the thrill of art.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Julian Barnes considers the jolly japes of pop art and what they actually achieve.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The author explores how Lucian Freud's ruthlessly exposed the flesh of his sitters.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A case of conscience for ageing defence barrister Harry Fox.(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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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45A preview of a survey of food producers' experiences with retailers. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the stone curlew.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Significant changes to land ownership in Scotland are published. 05:58Kate Humble presents the woodcock.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Is fracking back in the UK? A decision for new sites in Lancashire is due. 05:58Kate Humble presents the black grouse.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45Sir Jim Paice stands down as chairman of First Milk and there is another milk price cut. 05:58Kate Humble presents the willow warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. 05:45UK GM field trials fail to repel wheat aphids, and Glastonbury waste turns into fertiliser 05:58Kate Humble presents the snipe.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Spiritual reflection with the Rev Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells from the church of St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin, Devon. 05:45The writer Matt Haig describes how words helped him live with depression.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding joins the Red Ramblers walking from Symondsbury in Dorset.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith finds out about the work of farm vets. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Composer Michael Zev Gordon reflects on the enclosed garden. 06:35The Chillingham wild cattle, one of the only examples of undomesticated cattle in Britain. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news. Includes Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. 07:54Dame Evelyn Glennie presents an appeal for AbleChildAfrica. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31The transport secretary announces that key rail improvement programmes are to be delayed.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10After the horrific killings in Tunisia, Rev David Bruce finds hope in despair in Psalm 13. 08:48Adam Gopnik's casts light on the mysterious relationship between words and music.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the black grouse.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Michael Wakelin.
| 09:00From bats to biodiversity, ecologist Kate Jones discusses her Life Scientific. 09:30Michael Grade talks to Juno Roche, who risked losing everything when she changed sex. 09:45An act of worship with hymns, reflection and prayer, led by Claire Campbell Smith.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Max Mosley and Jerry Springer. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Sam Wells.
| 09:00Stephen Fry is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:45An act of worship led by the Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:00Boris Becker joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. With Benedict Allen's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Harriet Wistrich explains how the Human Rights Act has been used to help rape survivors. 10:451/5Darleen has found another pursuit, being a masseur, but she needs to get a GCSE in English
| 10:00Sue Lloyd Roberts talks about her need for donor stem cell treatment. Jane Garvey presents 10:452/5Darleen has enrolled for an English GCSE through dubious means.
| 10:00Jane Garvey presents discussion on the power and influence of Taylor Swift. 10:413/5Darleen and Jamie are in financial straits and have been served with an eviction notice. 10:56Pam's Orthodox Jewish parents disowned her when she married out.
| 10:00Kellie Maloney discusses a career in boxing before and after gender realignment surgery. 10:454/5Darleen and Jamie struggle with the impending eviction notice and rising debt.
| 10:00A survival guide for taking children to festivals. Presented by Nikki Bedi. 10:455/5Darleen and Jamie have a rude awakening as debt collectors come knocking.
| 10:307/7Jay Rayner presents the culinary panel show from London's Chinatown.
| 10:00Helen has some big news, and Jennfer has vital information.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Can a unique experiment based in Birmingham meet the UK's shortage of sperm donors? 11:303/4One of the rising stars of the sketch group circuit with more on-the-spot sketches.
| 11:00Brett Westwood delves into the stories surrounding the elusive and beautiful giant squid. 11:30Rainer Hersch explores the dazzling technique of today’s musical virtuosos.
| 11:00A doctor's perspective on dementia - from the inside. 11:301/6The animals that don't get sanctuaries, and why do people literally shout at the radio?(R)
| 11:00Stories from Charleston, Corfu, Nepal, Madagascar and the bird hunters of Malta. 11:30Ken Hollings examines the artistic device to create new meaning from existing recordings.
| 11:001/2Alex Last traces the fate of 12 children named in a series of postwar BBC radio appeals. 11:305/6Henry finally gives up his job at the Foreign Office for a career as a writer.
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Stories from Yemen, China, Vladivostock, northern Norway and about shallots in Mali.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to music maestro Harry Rabinowitz.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Howard discovers that he is being secretly cared for by the entire Winwood household. 12:15Winifred Robinson looks at how the big supermarkets treat their suppliers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:15Do you have a job but still need welfare payments to make ends meet? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:15Why parents with dependent children are not saving for their retirements. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Ivy goes for a quiet lunch with Hilary Pearce. 12:15Holiday home fraud, haulage problems, student complaints and 'black box' car insurance. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Tempers wear very thin at St Jude's Vicarage. 12:15Peter White on efforts to cut aircraft noise. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The legal battle over survivor pensions for same-sex couples. The future of tax credits. 12:307/7Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen and Phill Jupitus join Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:046/8Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Mike McShane and Pam Ayres join host Nicholas Parsons.(R) 12:32The incredible history of dining in Parliament. An insider's view of Westminster's food. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Veterans recall their experiences of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Soldiers' experiences of the first German attacks using gas at the 2nd Battle of Ypres.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45The experiences of two raw recruits at the Second Battle of Ypres.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Dan Snow, based in Gallipoli, hears the recollections of those who landed there in 1915.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Soldiers vividly recall the terrible conditions they had to endure in Gallipoli in 1915.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Radio Theatre.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Femi Martin finds fulfillment as a writer and performer as a result of a chronic illness.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Rob takes it to the opposition.(R) 14:15By Jonathan Davidson. A Shropshire gent from the 1500s find himself tweeting in 2015.
| 14:00Helen has some big news.(R) 14:151/4McLevy enlists the help of Jean Brash as he investigates the death of a young seamstress.(R)
| 14:00Rex is ready to give up.(R) 14:152/4A student is accused of murder after a tavern brawl.(R)
| 14:00Is there hope for the Fairbrothers?(R) 14:153/4A stage magician arrives in town just before a jewel robbery at Edinburgh Castle.(R)
| 14:00Roy has a party to plan.(R) 14:154/4McLevy sets out to prove that a celebrated stage magician is a jewel thief.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. 14:30One poet's journey from pacifist to soldier, husband to lover. By Owen Sheers.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel answer questions from Garden Organic in Coventry.(R) 14:45Three couples face dilemmas about religion, dementia and work/life balance.
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| 15:00 | 15:003/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon devours the delightful children's books that made us excited about food.(R)
| 15:006/7Jay Rayner presents the culinary panel programme from Nottingham.(R) 15:301/4How do we know about the unwritten rules that govern us? Michael Blastland investigates.
| 15:00Listeners ask questions about planning the perfect holiday. 15:30What happens to seven-day opening at GP surgeries when the money runs out?(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding joins the Red Ramblers walking from Symondsbury in Dorset. 15:27Katie Derham presents an appeal for Music in Hospitals.(R) 15:30Sunjeev Sahota talks about his startling new novel The Year of the Runaways.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the horticultural panel answer questions from Garden Organic in Coventry. 15:451/3By Julie Mayhew. A young woman thinks of the strange story of her mother’s childhood.
| 15:30Rainer Hersch explores the dazzling technique of today’s musical virtuosos.(R)
| 15:00Mike Walker's epic chronicle charts the early years of William of Orange and Mary Stuart.
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| 16:00 | 16:00John Humphrys visits the Greek home of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Papal Encyclical on the environment and climate change.
| 16:00As Michael Gove says the justice system is failing, an expert panel critiques UK courts. 16:30Comedian Stephen K Amos and broadcaster Anneka Rice talk about their good reads.
| 16:00White, working-class boys at school. Also, the French intellectual tradition. 16:30A discussion on the pros and cons of changing how BBC TV content is made and supplied.
| 16:00Lisa Simone discusses a new documentary about her mother Nina Simone. With Francine Stock. 16:30Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to potentially prevent and treat malaria.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a school inspector, an actor, a diplomat, a subeditor and a composer. 16:30Top Gear talk on Radio 2. Plus Andrew Roberts on Napoleon, and Lyse Doucet talks safety. 16:55A couple who met later in life assess the impact dementia is having on their marriage.
| 16:00The influence of Taylor Swift, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, and enjoying festivals with children.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Benjamin Markovits and discusses Southern Gothic and Harper Lee 16:30Roger McGough on the poetry of John Donne.
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| 17:00 | 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Successful entrepreneurs willing to invest their own cash to kick-start new businesses.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Destination UK: Uncovering the back door route for migrants trying to get into the UK.(R) 17:405/8Drama inspired by the reaction of a Charleston church elder to the shooting at his church.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00EU cautiously welcomes Greek plans to resolve the debt crisis 18:306/8Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Mike McShane and Pam Ayres join host Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00As French ferry workers strike, migrants climb into lorries and cars at Calais 18:306/6Mark Steel performs for the locals of Saint Anne, Alderney, in the Channel Islands.
| 18:00100s more migrants found on vehicles in Calais 18:302/4Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane explore how to get on with everybody else.
| 18:00The government's 38 billion pound plan to modernise the railways is in doubt. 18:302/6What is 'reasonable force'? How far can you go to defend yourself?
| 18:00Dozens of people -- including Britons -- killed in three suspected Islamist attacks. 18:307/7Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen and Phill Jupitus join Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The government warned that the final number of British dead "may well rise". 18:15Danny Wallace, Emma Freud and guests with a mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The European Central Bank is not to increase emergency funding for Greek banks. 18:15Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Samira Ahmed visits the major new Barbara Hepworth exhibition at Tate Britain. 19:451/5Darleen has found another pursuit, being a masseur, but she needs to get a GCSE in English(R)
| 19:15A review of Michael Fassbender's new film Slow West. Presented by Kirsty Lang. 19:452/5Darleen has enrolled for an English GCSE through dubious means.(R)
| 19:00Is there hope for the Fairbrothers? 19:15Author Nell Leyshon talks about her novel Memoirs of a Dipper. Kirsty Lang presents. 19:453/5Darleen and Jamie are in financial straits and have been served with an eviction notice.(R)
| 19:15Director Asif Kapadia discusses his Amy Winehouse documentary. John Wilson presents. 19:454/5Darleen and Jamie struggle with the impending eviction notice and rising debt.(R)
| 19:00The waiting is over for Pat and Tony. 19:15Garden designer Dan Pearson, and Alabama Shakes on their new album. John Wilson presents. 19:455/5Darleen and Jamie have a rude awakening as debt collectors come knocking.(R)
| 19:005/8Drama inspired by the reaction of a Charleston church elder to the shooting at his church. 19:15Lenny Henry in Educating Rita and the Barbara Hepworth retrospective at Tate Britain.
| 19:00Pip is keen to make tracks. 19:152/2Is there such a thing as the perfect formula for marriage, or is it an outdated tradition? 19:452/3By Lynda Radley. An Irish airline pilot with a gambling problem reflects on his life.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Young British women students dating rich older men via websites. Who is exploiting who?(R) 20:30Why have British attitudes towards homosexuality changed so far and so fast?
| 20:00Destination UK: Uncovering the back door route for migrants trying to get into the UK. 20:40Peter White and guests review the TV series Daredevil and its accessibility on Netflix.
| 20:00What, if anything, should be done about the British people going to Syria to join IS? 20:45The writer Matt Haig describes how words helped him live with depression.
| 20:00As Michael Gove says the justice system is failing, an expert panel critiques UK courts.(R) 20:30Successful entrepreneurs willing to invest their own cash to kick-start new businesses.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Radio Theatre. 20:50Adam Gopnik's casts light on the mysterious relationship between words and music.
| 20:00American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.
| 20:00Top Gear talk on Radio 2. Plus Andrew Roberts on Napoleon, and Lyse Doucet talks safety.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a school inspector, an actor, a diplomat, a subeditor and a composer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood explores why we have eulogised the butterfly from time immemorial(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.(R)
| 21:00What happens to seven-day opening at GP surgeries when the money runs out? 21:30From bats to biodiversity, ecologist Kate Jones discusses her Life Scientific.(R)
| 21:00The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix, Maurice Wilkins. 21:30Libby Purves meets Max Mosley and Jerry Springer.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to potentially prevent and treat malaria.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.(R)
| 21:00A week of secrets and lies.
| 21:004/4Resolution in Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset dramatised by Nick Warburton(R)
| 21:00The legal battle over survivor pensions for same-sex couples. The future of tax credits.(R) 21:26Dame Evelyn Glennie presents an appeal for AbleChildAfrica.(R) 21:30Why have British attitudes towards homosexuality changed so far and so fast?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00European finance ministers say more time is needed to check the figures. 22:456/10Mazie steps in when things get out of hand after the Wall Street bombing.
| 22:00Moscow warns that deployment would be regarded as most aggressive US step since Cold War 22:457/10Louis gives the Venice to Mazie. But where does his money come from?
| 22:00Should courts be able to order governments to take action on climate change? 22:458/10Mazie has to take control when grief threatens to engulf Rosie. Then tragedy strikes again
| 22:00Mandatory quotas have been rejected, but will they agree to share the load? 22:459/10New York City is hit by depression, and Mazie has her work cut out.
| 22:00Also: man beheaded in southern France; 25 worshippers killed in Kuwait suicide bomb 22:4510/10As Rose and Mazie settle finally, events take an unexpected and joyous turn.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15What, if anything, should be done about the British people going to Syria to join IS?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Dan Hodges of the Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Denis Norden talks to Robert Peston and Eddie Mair about his long career in comedy. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4Kevin talks to a stupid man, Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong and a hypnotist.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Peter Curran and Patrick Marber return with their acclaimed late-night conversation series 23:156/6Hear Fay Weldon's illuminating quiz for Cosmopolitan Magazine. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/6It's Stuart's birthday, and Joe and Terry plan a bash. Nicola meets a very handsome man. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Comedian Stephen K Amos and broadcaster Anneka Rice talk about their good reads.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster. 23:55How work can take over your life – but in a good way…
| 23:003/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough with a miscellany of poems about sun, sleep, love and loss.(R)
| 23:00Lisa Simone discusses a new documentary about her mother Nina Simone. With Francine Stock.(R) 23:30Composer Michael Zev Gordon reflects on the enclosed garden.(R)
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