| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Philanthropy and charitable giving: who do they benefit, and is there a price?(R) 00:45Church bells from Holy Trinity in Penn, Buckinghamshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Marceline Loridan-Ivens's searingly honest memoir about surviving the Holocaust.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Marceline recalls the return home from the concentration camps without her beloved father.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Marceline Loridan-Ivens recalls her final and terrible days of the concentration camps.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Marceline Loridan-Ivens reflects on life after the death camps in her searing memoir.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30In Irene Nemirovsky's story a foolish man's illusions are shattered by the outbreak of war(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5By Rachel Tresize. Selwyn's life begins to unravel when his cucumbers do not win a contest(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Right Rev Marcus Stock. 05:45The government has cut the recommended daily intake of dairy in our diet. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the willow warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Right Rev Marcus Stock. 05:45MEPs vote in the next step towards laws to label meat and dairy with country of origin. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the redshank.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Right Rev Marcus Stock. 05:45The Brexit supporters launch their manifesto for farming. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Right Rev Marcus Stock. 05:45'No Farmers No Food' was the cry as UK farmers protested on the streets of London. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the common sandpiper.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Right Rev Marcus Stock. 05:45Rising sea levels threaten the mid-Wales coastal villagers of Fairbourne near Barmouth. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.(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 the Right Reverend Rachel Treweek. 05:45One listener tells of her experience working for the Red Cross in Brussels.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mary's Church in Abergavenny. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the British journalist whose website has been sued for $140 million.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and 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. 06:07Clare Balding walks to the 'plague village' of Eyam in Derbyshire in this week's programme(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe is on the newly created Steart Marshes on the Severn Estuary. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05On an Easter Day in early spring, Mark Tully looks at our appetite for embracing the new. 06:35Fire and Light: A sunrise service from St Augustine's Shrine, Ramsgate. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news, with Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Religious and ethical news. 07:54Jonathan Pryce presents an appeal on behalf of BRAC. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A celebration for Easter Sunday from Worcester Cathedral. 08:58Kate Humble presents the willow warbler.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Robert Colvile, Carl Honore, Sarah Dunant and Steve Jones. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Environmental scientist Carolyn Roberts talks to Jim al-Khalili about floods and forensics 09:30Sathnam Sanghera regards himself as firmly middle class. Others do not. He explores why. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Pastor Alex Robertson.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Meera Syal and writer James Runcie. 09:15Commentary on England against the winner of qualifying group B, from Delhi. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Steve Williams.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews feminist, writer and activist Gloria Steinem.(R) 09:45An act of worship led by the Rev Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by Dexter Fletcher and Shazia Mirza.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell, including Easter Rising commemorations and an Easter Egg hunt.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Fashion designer Betty Jackson; Nasira Iqbal; Denise Gough; domestic violence statistics. 10:451/5A plane crash in the Sierra Nevada piques the interest of Det Anna Caceres of the LAPD.
| 10:00Dental advice, history of women as patients and dentists, and feeling bad about your teeth 10:452/5Caceres wants to know why Wexler visited the widow of a businessman killed in the crash.
| 10:00Commentary on England against the winner of qualifying group B, from Delhi.
| 10:00Actor Paula Wilcox; author Deborah Levy; what is your defining decade? Jayne Senior. 10:454/5Caceres asks Martha what she thinks of Wexler's relationship with her dead brother's wife.
| 10:00Jackie Kay, Shaping The Body, Mary Magdalene, Penrose Halson and her marriage bureau. 10:455/5Caceres tells Wexler and Sarah that she knows what they have done.
| 10:304/4Laura Barton examines immigrant and indigenous music within the landscape of London.
| 10:00Alf is turning on the charm, and Helen makes a call.
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| 11:00 | 11:00A tale of homelessness in Poole. Mel struggles to find work and a place to live. 11:301/4James Boswell meets Muhammad Ali, banned from boxing and in the wilderness.
| 11:00Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching? 11:30Kate Mossman tells the story of long-overlooked female music writers of the 1960s.
| | 11:00Lucy Ash asks what is behind a violent protest by thousands of Romanian shepherds. 11:302/2Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel.
| 11:002/2Heather Jones examines the history of commemorating the Easter Rising across Ireland. 11:304/6Sue Perkins with Nick Doody, Angela Barnes, Dominic Lawson and Cush Jumbo.(R)
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30One of the bloodiest chapters in European history closes with a verdict of genocide.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews businessman John Timpson.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned and nearly died. 12:15A canny student reveals how she got her rental deposit back from her landlord. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In 1959, the rebel leader took control of Cuba's capital city. 12:15Consumer phone-in. Winifred Robinson asks if apprenticeships are worth it. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on England against the winner of qualifying group B, from Delhi.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04After the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest. 12:15British lamb, wage theft, charity fundraising, flooded village, and BT Openreach. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Funny, rude and popular, Sophie Tucker was an early 20th century American recording star. 12:15Why a company offered a loan to a man with little sense of the value of money.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Lesley Curwen presents discussion on new energy smart meters. Who will benefit from them? 12:304/6With Ellie Taylor, Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/6Gyles Brandreth, Esther Rantzen, Paul Merton and Tim Rice join Nicholas Parsons.(R) 12:32Dan Saladino hears how inspiring food projects from the Mad Symposium have spread globally 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45A profile of Indira Gandhi, India's first woman prime minister
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:45Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45A profile of Charan Singh, champion of the cause of India's farmers
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45A portrait of the controversial Indian artist MF Husain.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:45A profile of the Indian business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah presents topical debate and discussion from Broadcasting House.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Fintan O'Toole looks at letters written at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Elizabeth has good news.(R) 14:15An imagined wartime encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman in Dublin.(R)
| 14:00Johnny is out to impress.(R) 14:15By Alan Harris. Sam's life is turned upside down when a Banksy is discovered on his bottom
| 14:00Bert is indulging in some garden therapy.(R) 14:15Poet and Visionary William Blake finds himself in present-day Lambeth.
| 14:00It is all getting a bit much for Lynda.(R) 14:15A belligerent bus driver discovers the unexpected benefits of a sudden surge of hormones.
| 14:00Lynda has a proposition for Bert.(R) 14:15A comedy about neighbours, architecture, tradition versus modernism - and James Bond.(R)
| 14:00Commentary on Sri Lanka v England, from Delhi, with Jonathan Agnew and Vic Marks.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Teesdale. 14:45Jobs are no longer for life, and the focus of many has changed.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the penultimate heat of the 2016 contest. 15:30Dan Saladino charts the rise, fall and rise of traditional Neapolitan pizza.(R)
| 15:00Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast. 15:30How do you persuade a throwaway society to use a bin? Chris Ledgard on litter campaigns.
| 15:00How will the new national living wage affect businesses and employees? 15:30Dr Mark Porter explores preventive HIV therapy, the sugar tax, bowel cancer and surgery.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks to the 'plague village' of Eyam in Derbyshire in this week's programme 15:27Clare Balding presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Sport Relief.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen.(R)
| 15:00Canon Mark Oakley reflects on Good Friday in the 400th year since Shakespeare's death. 15:30Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.(R) 15:453/3Three lauded fiction writers with their short story debuts for radio.
| | 15:002/3Entranced by the charms of Lily, Nick struggles with his feelings for Alison.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Contemporary community dance in Oxford, from the cradle to the grave 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss fixing a date for Easter.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg reports on offenders with mental-health problems. 16:30Marian Keyes and Nikki Bedi discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor looks at the rising number of people losing their homes in the US and UK. 16:30Including a look at the impact of Twitter on journalism.
| 16:00Ben Affleck talks about playing Batman. Antonia Quirke presents. 16:30Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on a conductor, surgeon, puppeteer, writer, footballer and a historian. 16:30Is the abuse on The Archers realistic? Also, visualising radio and a cricketing calamity. 16:55Two GPs reflect on how much their jobs have changed.
| | 16:00Mariella Frostrup discusses a new collection of short stories inspired by Jane Eyre. 16:30Kenneth Steven explores Edwin Muir's poetic search for the lost Eden of his childhood.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn 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.
| 17:00Coverage 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.
| 17:30How to sustain business success after achieving a blockbuster hit in apps, drugs and oil.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00How should Britain manage its returning foreign fighters?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the British journalist whose website has been sued for $140 million.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00David Cameron spoke out to try to heal a party rift over controversial spending cuts 18:305/6Gyles Brandreth, Esther Rantzen, Paul Merton and Tim Rice join Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00More than 30 people killed in attacks in Brussels by the so-called Islamic State group 18:301/6Clare gets involved with a TV producer making a documentary about the Sparrowhawk estate.(R)
| 18:00Belgian police confirm that two brothers were among the bombers who attacked Brussels. 18:305/6Writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig talks to actor and comedian Roy Hudd.
| 18:00The former Bosnian Serb leader has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. 18:302/4Hal has a serious health problem, but salvation comes in the form of a charity race.(R)
| 18:00Three people have been arrested in another dramatic anti-terror operation in Brussels. 18:304/6With Ellie Taylor, Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn.
| 18:00A man's been charged with terrorist offences over the bombings in Brussels on Tuesday. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00President Assad hails recapture of the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State group 18:15Janice Long chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Johnny is out to impress. 19:15Kirsty Lang is joined in the studio by Peter Bowker, writer of new drama The A Word. 19:451/5A plane crash in the Sierra Nevada piques the interest of Det Anna Caceres of the LAPD.(R)
| 19:00Bert is indulging in some garden therapy. 19:15Glenn Close discusses her role as Norma Desmond in hit musical Sunset Boulevard. 19:452/5Caceres wants to know why Wexler visited the widow of a businessman killed in the crash.(R)
| 19:00It is all getting a bit much for Lynda. 19:15The RSC's Hamlet, Ed Vaizey on the Culture White Paper, Batman v Superman, Underworld. 19:453/5Caceres is sure there is a connection between an airline exec's murder and a crashed plane(R)
| 19:00Lynda has a proposition for Bert. 19:15Samira Ahmed on a new version of Bach's St Matthew Passion sung by homeless people. 19:454/5Caceres asks Martha what she thinks of Wexler's relationship with her dead brother's wife.(R)
| 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to theatre producer Sonia Friedman about staging Harry Potter. 19:455/5Caceres tells Wexler and Sarah that she knows what they have done.(R)
| 19:02Mark Coles profiles the British journalist whose website has been sued for $140 million. 19:15Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover.
| 19:00It's all the fun of the fair. 19:156/6Dave Gorman, Susie Dent, Lloyd Langford and Natalie Haynes vie for verbal supremacy.(R) 19:45Olivia Hallinan reads Elizabeth Kuti's twist on the ending of Jane Eyre.
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| 20:00 | 20:00As the Olympics approach, Peter White considers the confusion over sport and fitness. 20:30Phil Tinline finds out what happens when institutions lose their memory.
| 20:00How should Britain manage its returning foreign fighters? 20:40How delays in follow-up eye appointments are putting sight at risk. Access to festivals.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Dr Julian Litten takes listeners to Kensal Green Cemetery in north-west London.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg reports on offenders with mental-health problems.(R) 20:30How to sustain business success after achieving a blockbuster hit in apps, drugs and oil.
| 20:00Ritula Shah presents topical debate and discussion from Broadcasting House. 20:50Finding himself on a restricted diet, Will Self reflects on the rise of food allergies.
| 20:00Clarke Peters explores the art of the musical theatre lyricist.
| 20:00Is the abuse on The Archers realistic? Also, visualising radio and a cricketing calamity.(R) 20:30Julian Worricker on a conductor, surgeon, puppeteer, writer, footballer and a historian.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:002/2Alok Jha examines the practices and cultures that can undermine the integrity of science.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Robert Colvile, Carl Honore, Sarah Dunant and Steve Jones.(R)
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter explores preventive HIV therapy, the sugar tax, bowel cancer and surgery. 21:30Environmental scientist Carolyn Roberts talks to Jim al-Khalili about floods and forensics(R)
| 21:00How do you persuade a throwaway society to use a bin? Chris Ledgard on litter campaigns.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Meera Syal and writer James Runcie.(R)
| 21:00Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(R)
| 21:00Sunil Khilnani presents audio portraits of figures who have shaped Indian history.
| 21:001/3Nicholas Urfe is drawn into a world of trickery and illusion.(R)
| 21:00Lesley Curwen presents discussion on new energy smart meters. Who will benefit from them?(R) 21:26Jonathan Pryce presents an appeal on behalf of BRAC.(R) 21:30Phil Tinline finds out what happens when institutions lose their memory.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Has the PM done enough to heal a rift within his party? A former cabinet minister speaks. 22:451/10Dr Gomez welcomes Rose to the unconventional methods of his clinic.
| 22:00Islamic State group 'behind Brussels attacks'. 22:452/10Sofia vows to release a German shepherd and receives a persistent late night caller.
| 22:00Latest on Brussels terror attacks; aid agencies boycott Greek migrant centres. 22:453/10Dr Gomez takes Rose and Sofia out for lunch, and graffiti appears on the clinic walls.
| 22:00Karadzic is found guilty of genocide, will other world leaders be brought to justice? 22:454/10Ingrid Bauer proves to be deft with both an arrow and a needle.
| 22:00Arrests in Belgium, France and Germany 22:455/10Rose insists on buying a watch of fake diamonds.
| 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. 22:45Kevin Maguire of the Mirror analyses how the papers are covering the big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Andrew Maxwell takes a long look at a theme running through world news. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/6The group have a visitor with a story to tell. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4The award-winning duo have a shopping meltdown. 23:154/4East meets West in the field of online dating and Tim Berners-Lee tweets.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the Brussels attacks dominate the day.
| 23:004/4The perils of dating a banker. Sketch show with Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster. Are doctors holding the country to ransom?
| 23:00Lauren Laverne and guests discuss forgiveness. 23:30Marian Keyes and Nikki Bedi discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:55Expectations of long-term employment have changed between generations.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the penultimate heat of the 2016 contest. 23:30The little-known story of how the poem She Walks in Beauty was set to Jewish music.(R)
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