| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores a scientific art form rooted in unpredictability.(R) 00:45Bells from the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tonbridge in Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5In November 1724, Franklin is sent to London for the first time to buy printing equipment.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Franklin returns to London from America - not as a printer, but as a leading politician.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Franklin's achievements in the field of physics have won him an international reputation.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Franklin's opponents are preparing poisonous attacks to greet him on his return to America(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5It is 1775, and Franklin is no longer of any political use in London.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Julia McKenzie reads Jane Gardam's story set in an impoverished suburban English church. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 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 Tibetan Buddhist Alison Murdoch. 05:45How do mental health issues affect farmers and their families? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the raven.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Tibetan Buddhist Alison Murdoch. 05:45A new study claims organic food is nutritionally different from conventional produce. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the mistle thrush.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Tibetan Buddhist Alison Murdoch. 05:45Caz Graham meets a Cumbrian farmer trying to get back on track after the floods of 2015. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the great spotted woodpecker.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Tibetan Buddhist Alison Murdoch. 05:45The latest on how the route of the contested HS2 rail link affects farms and villages. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the oystercatcher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Tibetan Buddhist Alison Murdoch. 05:45Caz Graham marks the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth. 05:58David Attenborough presents a seasonal reflection of the robin.(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 writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells from St Martin's Church Desford in Leicester. 05:45The Rev Dr Emma Loveridge takes listeners to her isolated retreat in east Devon.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks in the Surrey Hills with Jenni Williams and her disabled daughter Eve.(R) 06:30David Gregory-Kumar explores the issues surrounding mental health in rural areas. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Poet Ross Sutherland explores the consequences of repeating oneself. 06:35Ruth Sanderson meets the Leicestershire dairy farmers with a fresh approach. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Looking at Sikh women and the turban, the church tackling middle-class bias, and sin. 07:54Noma Dumezweni makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theatre for a Change. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10How do we choose what to keep and what to leave behind on Lent pilgrimage? 08:48Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected pleasures.(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the raven.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by John Forrest.
| 09:00Naomi Climer tells Jim Al-Khalili why engineers should be as famous as rock stars. 09:30Actor and comedienne Jan Ravens talks to BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Pastor Alex Robertson.
| 09:00Extracts from letters charting a friendship between Pope John Paul II and a married woman. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Claire Campbell Smith.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to polar explorer Ben Saunders.(R) 09:45An act of worship led by Canon Angela Tilby.
| 09:00Actor and musician Laurence Fox joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Oscar-winning actor Julianne Moore; changes to police response to rape claims. 10:456/10Nettie's mum is looking at her laptop to find out what was going on pre accident.
| 10:00Iconic cartoonist Jacky Fleming talks about female genius and her first book in ten years. 10:457/10Luke is keeping watch by his sister Nettie's hospital bed.
| 10:00Why the government has rejected MPs' calls to make sex education compulsory in all schools 10:418/10Luke is desperate to communicate with his comatose twin sister somehow. 10:55Now he has a digital scanner, is it worth preserving an archive of photographic negatives?
| 10:00Beth Ditto, Sharon D Clarke on playing Ma Rainey, The Button Box, fetishising motherhood. 10:459/10Nettie is still being kept on life support as her pregnancy continues.
| 10:00Domestic violence, French feminism, making friends, fear of flying, accepting facial hair. 10:4510/10Luke's dark night of the soul is over.
| 10:301/3Paul Gambaccini assesses winners of the Best Picture Oscars - The French Connection (1971)
| 10:00A helping hand for Helen? And it is a big day for Brookfield.
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| 11:00 | 11:00When a David Bowie tribute act hears his idol has died, a strange week unfolds. 11:30Andy Hamilton presents a tribute to comedian Linda Smith.(R)
| 11:00How traumatic experiences in childhood contribute to poor health and shorter lives. 11:30Laura Barton travels to New York to meet the women writers of the Beat Generation.(R)
| 11:001/2David Reynolds on Verdun 1916: France and Germany in a brutal battle neither could lose. 11:302/4Rupert Hardacre enlists Amanda's help to win back one of his old accounts.(R)
| 11:00Countdown to a crucial EU meeting for prime minister David Cameron and for Britain. 11:30How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
| 11:00Twenty years after Trainspotting's release, the real-life addicts who inspired the actors. 11:301/6With Kerry Godliman, John-Luke Roberts, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Clarke Carlisle.(R)
| 11:00Steve Richards and guests debate the implications of David Cameron's EU negotiation. 11:30The Bosnian town keen to forget its recent murderous past.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews architect Dame Zaha Hadid.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why are gingers ginger, and are redheads dying out? 12:15Billions of pounds are being invested in university rooms - are they what students need? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04What makes traffic jam? Rutherford & Fry search for a solution. 12:15As celebrations begin for Roald Dahl's centenary, listeners say which books inspired them. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why do people shout on their mobile phones? 12:15Will charities continue to use call centres after a public outcry into their practices? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why do we faint, and does it serve any useful purpose? 12:15The new promise to rescue money sent in error to the wrong bank accounts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Can we send our waste into the sun? Drs Rutherford & Fry investigate. 12:15Peter White explores how well charities are run. Plus a look at the trade in puppies.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why do gas and electricity cost more in some parts of the UK? 12:307/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:046/6John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Susan Calman, Adam Lowe and Lucy Cooke.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon can't stand sake... but she is about to have a revelation. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Syrian hospital reduced to 'rubble' in airstrike, says charity. 13:45Susie Orbach meets Louise and Richard, who are expecting their first child in a few days.
| 13:00Eastern Europe seeks to erode David Cameron's child benefit pledges. 13:45Susie Orbach meets school secretary Harriet, who is struggling since failed IVF.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Susie Orbach has her first meeting with Jo, a new patient and an out-of-work actress.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Psychotherapist Susie Orbach meets Helen, a high-achieving corporate lawyer.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Psychotherapist Susie Orbach meets John, a retired railway trade unionist.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45A special edition of the programme. Listeners have their say on the European referendum.
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Photographer Eamonn McCabe curates his own photo exhibition on the radio.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Will Pip be a happy valentine?(R) 14:15Sean Grundy's satirical take on scripted reality television.
| 14:00A helping hand for Helen?(R) 14:15A dark comedy about a disastrous school trip, starring Jonathan Bailey and Kate Fleetwood.
| 14:00Pat gets some reassurance.(R) 14:15A new two-part dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest book.(R)
| 14:00Bert gets a proposition.(R) 14:15A new two-part dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest book.(R)
| 14:00It is a big day for Brookfield.(R) 14:15Out celebrating his mother’s birthday, Kenneth Williams bumps into Charles Hawtrey.(R)
| 14:302/2Rebus investigates the shooting of three pupils by an ex-SAS soldier at a private school.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire.(R) 14:45Children and parents talk about being deaf or hearing, and about a photographic legacy.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the prestigious general knowledge quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon, author Bee Wilson and guests discuss how food habits can be changed.(R)
| 15:00A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up. 15:30Tom Heap tells the story of coal from the Industrial Revolution to its apparent demise.
| 15:00Louise Cooper and guests ask whether the Isa is on its last legs. 15:30The UK's first licensed e-cigarette, owned by a tobacco company, is classed as a medicine.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks in the Surrey Hills with Jenni Williams and her disabled daughter Eve. 15:27Olivia Colman presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Tender Education and Arts.(R) 15:30Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. 15:45A philanderer meets a woman in Brighton. But have they met before?
| 15:30Laura Barton travels to New York to meet the women writers of the Beat Generation.(R)
| 15:001/2Fay Weldon’s darkly comic fairy tale about revenge, sex and power.
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| 16:00 | 16:001/2Financial educator Alvin Hall examines gospel music and commercialisation.(R) 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince get romantic as they discuss the mathematics of love.
| 16:00Michael Rosen hears about a project to turn interviews recorded in Parliament into songs. 16:30Samantha Bond and Jason Cowley join Harriett Gilbert to discuss three favourite novels
| 16:00Laurie Taylor asks what can be learnt about nationalism from cultural institutions. 16:30Whether only being available online will secure the Independent's future.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to the American animator and film-maker John Lasseter. 16:30Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a UN Secretary General, an editor, a screenwriter, a judge 16:30Coverage of the junior doctors' strike and opinions on The Archers' Rob storyline. 16:55A hearing mother and her profoundly deaf son use signing to explore his life and hers.
| 16:00The actor Julianne Moore talks about her latest film Freeheld.
| 16:00Meg Rosoff talks about her debut novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. 16:30Roger McGough presents poetry old and new, happy and sad, and everything in between.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30How do businesses use customers' personal data to make money?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are relations between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the UK being strained by tensions abroad?(R) 17:40Following the EU summit, novelist Will Self responds to the UK's pitch for better terms.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Cabinet To Decide Official Position On Referendum/ Airline Pilots Worry About Lasers 18:306/6John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Susan Calman, Adam Lowe and Lucy Cooke.
| 18:00David Cameron tries to drum up support for his EU plans. New cancer treatment welcomed. 18:302/6Ed finally finds himself homeless, but with a two-book deal! Stars Christopher Douglas.(R)
| 18:00German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says David Cameron's EU demands are justified. 18:304/4Tim and Alex Horne recreate a bet involving horse riding and one million dots.(R)
| 18:00Judges rule the law on joint enterprise has been misinterpreted for more than 30 years. 18:302/4Susan Calman tries to unwind by watching cricket with Andy Zaltzman.
| 18:00EU leaders remain locked in talks amid signs Mr Cameron is struggling to win concessions 18:307/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00In-out vote to be held on June 23rd, several cabinet ministers to campaign to leave EU. 18:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Boris Johnson has announced that he will argue for Britain's exit from the European Union 18:15Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00A helping hand for Helen? 19:15Mark Wallinger shows John Wilson his art studio, and Yann Martel discusses his new novel. 19:456/10Nettie's mum is looking at her laptop to find out what was going on pre accident.(R)
| 19:00Pat gets some reassurance. 19:15Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie discusses the band's new album. John Wilson presents. 19:457/10Luke is keeping watch by his sister Nettie's hospital bed.(R)
| 19:15Julianne Moore in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope and singer Jack Garratt. 19:458/10Luke is desperate to communicate with his comatose twin sister somehow.(R)
| 19:00It is a big day for Brookfield. 19:15Presented by Samira Ahmed. David McCallum looks back at his career. 19:459/10Nettie is still being kept on life support as her pregnancy continues.(R)
| 19:00Has someone got their eye on Kirsty? 19:15Harper Lee remembered, and John le Carre's The Night Manager adapted for TV. 19:4510/10Luke's dark night of the soul is over.(R)
| 19:00Following the EU summit, novelist Will Self responds to the UK's pitch for better terms. 19:15Including a look at Uncle Vanya at London's Almeida Theatre and heist movie Triple 9.
| 19:00Is Brookfield all set for change? Jolene is making an effort for Lent. 19:151/6Milton Jones, Susie Dent, Alun Cochrane and Natalie Haynes vie for verbal supremacy.(R) 19:45A chat after-dinner shows up a couples' differences. Can they compromise and reconcile?
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| 20:00 | 20:00Chris Bowlby explores how Germany found itself at the centre of Europe's migration crisis. 20:30Jo Fidgen asks why inheritance arouses such powerful emotions.
| 20:00Are relations between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the UK being strained by tensions abroad? 20:40Why a guide dog wasn't let into a Hindu temple, and the lastest on the Pips consultation.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45The Rev Dr Emma Loveridge takes listeners to her isolated retreat in east Devon.
| 20:00What would a seven-day NHS look like, and can the government afford to pay for it? 20:30How do businesses use customers' personal data to make money?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Wolfson College, Cambridge University. 20:50Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected pleasures.
| 20:00Poet Paul Farley shows his hand in a celebration of bluffing, from poker to geo-politics.
| 20:00Coverage of the junior doctors' strike and opinions on The Archers' Rob storyline.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a UN Secretary General, an editor, a screenwriter, a judge(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Matthew Cobb explores the excitement and concerns about the new genome editing technology.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak.(R)
| 21:00The UK's first licensed e-cigarette, owned by a tobacco company, is classed as a medicine. 21:30Naomi Climer tells Jim Al-Khalili why engineers should be as famous as rock stars.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap tells the story of coal from the Industrial Revolution to its apparent demise.(R) 21:30Libby Purves talks to neuroscientist Dean Burnett and cattle warden Ellie Crossley.
| 21:00Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.(R)
| 21:00Brains behaving badly: how talented people are fooled into failing.(R)
| 21:00By Edward Bond. A young man embarks on two journeys. He is in control of only one.(R)
| 21:00Why do gas and electricity cost more in some parts of the UK?(R) 21:26Noma Dumezweni makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theatre for a Change.(R) 21:30Jo Fidgen asks why inheritance arouses such powerful emotions.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Fifty people have been killed in airstrikes on civilians in Syria, but who is to blame? 22:451/10Jonathan Trefoil arrives in New York, ready to take on the world.
| 22:00Duke's controversial remarks, Syria allows aid to besieged areas and Poland holocaust row. 22:452/10Struggling with his job, Jonathan looks forward to being joined by girlfriend Julie.
| 22:00Featuring the latest from Ankara, where a car bomb has killed 28 people. 22:453/10Julie shocks Jonathan with a commercially sensible proposition.
| 22:00Will the Brexit issue overshadow talks on the migration crisis in the EU council? 22:454/10Jonathan visits his parents and is surprised by their reaction to his big news.
| 22:00The Cabinet may meet on Saturday, and Michael Gove is expected to join the No campaign. 22:455/10As the wedding draws closer, Jonathan's sense of doom increases.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Hugh Muir of the Guardian analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss how we take it in turns to talk, in conversation.(R) 23:30Rajini Vaidyanathan investigates race and the criminal justice system in the US.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince get romantic as they discuss the mathematics of love.(R) 23:30Rajini Vaidyanathan examines segregation in the United States.
| 23:004/4Audio boffins explore the possibilities of the Internet of Things. 23:155/6The funny, sad and bewildering interactions of a community psychiatric nurse's rounds.(R) 23:30Rajini Vaidyanathan examines how black Americans are represented.
| 23:003/4Comic monologues written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan with star guests. 23:301/2The story of the musical aesthetic and the ubiquitous technique of minimalism.(R)
| 23:00Samantha Bond and Jason Cowley join Harriett Gilbert to discuss three favourite novels(R) 23:272/2The story of the musical aesthetic and the ubiquitous technique of minimalism.(R) 23:55A daughter who was born deaf anticipates the birth her first child with her hearing mother
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the prestigious general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in between on Poetry Please.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to the American animator and film-maker John Lasseter.(R) 23:30Poet Ross Sutherland explores the consequences of repeating oneself.(R)
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