| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A special programme on the shortlist for the BSA and Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Edward's Church in Eggbuckland, Plymouth.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Three French philosophers discover phenomenology and make philosophy from apricot cocktail(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Phenomenology is born when Edmund Husserl urges engagement with a world of real experience(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The philosophical world is enchanted by Martin Heidegger, but it does not last long.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Sartre and de Beauvoir's extraordinary 50-year relationship was existentialism in practice(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Why existentialism matters more than ever in the 21st century.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/4An argument with his brother sets Ranald on the journey of a lifetime.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason 05:45Animal welfare changes, the Norfolk herring season and modern agricultural research. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough introduces the male cuckoo.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason 05:45Farming Today looks at why farmers could be turning to insect production. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the sandwich tern.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason 05:45The campaign to save affordable housing in the British countryside. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the great black-backed gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason 05:45MEPs resist a ban, but back calls for restrictions on the use of weedkiller glyphosate. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the rock pipit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason 05:45The international dairy market is in crisis, and the latest research on bees. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the turnstone.(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 Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45'Who are the unknown children in my 1939 cine film?'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from the church of St Andrew's and St George's West, Edinburgh. 05:45Mark Coles looks at the life and career of star footballer Jamie Vardy.(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.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits the National Forest as it marks 25 years.(R) 06:30A look at some of the innovative research happening in the agricultural sector. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk reflects on the importance of suspending our disbelief. 06:35Dan Saladino investigates a McDonald's project to make UK beef farming more sustainable. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News, including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10William Crawley hears reaction to Pope Francis's visit to Lesbos. 07:54Kirsten O'Brien presents an appeal on behalf of MedEquip4Kids. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster on an emergency debate about the steel industry.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster with the tax row the top story at PMQs.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Students and staff of St Catharine's College Cambridge reflect on the Lord's Prayer. 08:48Sarah Dunant takes an historical look at avarice, in the light of the Panama Papers.(R) 08:58David Attenborough introduces the male cuckoo.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson. 09:45A daily act of worship with prayer, reflection and music from St Peter's Church, Belfast.
| 09:002/2Owen Bennett Jones reveals a secret history of Jihadist propagation in Britain. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Katharine Longworth.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Maureen Lipman and writer and comedian Paul Whitehouse. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Steve Williams.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites five people involved in the fight for historic disability rights.(R) 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject led by the Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by Michelle Collins and Wayne Hemingway.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A top clinic reveals surprising statistics about gender identity among the under-18s. 10:451/5It is 1911, and five-year-old Muriel begins to question her mother's night-time absences.
| 10:00Hibo Wadere has written a book describing the way FGM has affected her life. 10:452/5Muriel becomes an unwitting decoy in her mother's drama.
| 10:00The Curious Madam Merian, 18th-century scientific illustrator and explorer. 10:413/5Boarding school offers an escape from Muriel's mother's 'wild moods and secrets'. 10:55When you have dyslexia, exams can seem even more daunting.
| 10:00Designing organisations to promote equality. Jenni Murray presents. 10:454/5Betrayal close to home brings Muriel's mother's secret out into the open.
| 10:00Neapolitan Novels; hip arthritis; Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot; DV; women who run record shops. 10:455/5With her mother's affair exposed, Muriel waits for the village to react.
| 10:302/31916: Tanks capture the public imagination, but the comforts of home are shattered by war.
| 10:00Clarrie has some words of advice, and Lynda is not impressed.
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| 11:00 | 11:00A meditation on loss, with real and imagined stories bound by sound and silence. 11:304/4Boswell attempts to locate the cream cracker under the settee of Mr Alan Bennett.
| 11:00Radio 4 announcer Kathy Clugston is anosmic. She cannot smell - and wants to know why. 11:30Personal stories of the 1960s Japanese hit song Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou).
| 11:00Harriet Sergeant investigates whether empty commercial buildings could house the homeless. 11:304/6Comic book legend Grant Morrison talks to musical comedy genius Neil Innes.(R)
| 11:00Norway's child protection policies are attracting sharp criticism both at home and abroad. 11:302/4Will Gompertz visits the Roundhouse Poetry Collective for a masterclass on 'spoken word'.(R)
| 11:00Laura Snapes finds out why university drop-outs like herself didn't finish their degrees. 11:303/4Josie questions whether her dream of one day having a family is now unrealistic.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Crunch time for Brazil's embattled president.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor and guests look back on the Euro 96 football tournament.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Dieter's position at Buckfast Abbey is threatened. 12:15Winifred Robinson presents discussion on coping with once-monthly refuse collections. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Adam Wilson finally meets up with an old friend. 12:15Featuring discussion on whether inheritance tax is fair. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Staverton, Cora Gidley has a domestic crisis. 12:15Care home costs go up to cover the living wage, plus a look at Tesco's road to recovery. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Edwin Lloyd feels a long way from home. 12:15The Fundraising Standards Board finds two charities have breached its code of practice. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Tobias has a day of surprises. 12:15A look cancer waiting times and flight compensation. With Peter White.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Claimants face a benefits freeze - though not pensioners. 12:301/9Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Danny Finkelstein and Cariad Lloyd join host Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6David Mitchell is joined by Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea.(R) 12:32Food in the most extreme cooking environment, space. Dan Saladino tries menus for Mars. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45An introduction to freedom of speech and why it is important, by Timothy Garton Ash.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:45Speakers deemed 'offensive' are being banned from universities. What about free speech?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:45Is religion a special case where freedom of speech should be curtailed?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Timothy Garton Ash asks whether we really have a free press.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Timothy Garton Ash examines how threats to privacy affect freedom of speech.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Knutsford in Cheshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Professor Judith Buchanan shares her love and knowledge of Shakespeare in early films.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Clarrie has some words of advice.(R) 14:15A patient is given a strong psychedelic drug as part of a treatment for his depression.(R)
| 14:152/3By Janice Okoh. Junior clerk Bethany finds herself playing a key role in a criminal trial.(R)
| 14:00Jazzer needs some help.(R) 14:15By debbie tucker green. A man and woman meet up again several years after they broke up.
| 14:00Adam is forging ahead.(R) 14:15By Caroline Horton. Things are fine for Pandora, so why did she try to kill herself?
| 14:00Lilian is looking glamorous.(R) 14:15Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's drama.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:301/7Soames delights in spoiling his daughter, but can he stop her falling for the wrong man?
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Bury St Edmunds.(R) 14:45The challenges of dyslexia, puberty and violence are more easily faced with your mum.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the second semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon explores how food is planned and cooked for up to three months under the sea(R)
| 15:002/4Tom Dyckhoff looks at how money is designed to maintain trust in its value. 15:30Professor Alice Roberts asks if archaeology can help us understand climate change.
| 15:00Ruth Alexander and guests discuss the principle of taxpayer confidentiality. 15:30Lucy Kellaway asks if we really need managers.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the National Forest as it marks 25 years. 15:27Twiggy presents an appeal on behalf of Vision Aid Overseas.(R) 15:30Rapper, poet and playwright Kate Tempset talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut novel.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Bury St Edmunds. 15:45The arrival of a particular white mouse causes romantic chaos in a research laboratory.
| | 15:002/2Now 16, Jeanette’s future as a budding missionary is called into question
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| 16:00 | 16:001/4Join Natalie Haynes as she stands up for the Greek playwright Aristophanes. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks whether home can be anywhere you can go online.
| 16:00Michael Rosen talks to Dr Laura Wright about her new research on popular house names. 16:30Nancy Dell'Olio champions the much maligned Lucrezia Borgia.
| 16:00The 2016 BSA Thinking Allowed Ethnography winner. Also, transcultural football. 16:30Journalist James Cusick gives his views on why his Whittingdale story didn't run.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Jon Favreau, director of the new version of The Jungle Book. 16:30Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a drug smuggler, an illustrator and a country singer. 16:30Have more famous people died this year than usual? 16:55Will the insightful 11-year-old inevitably grow into the self-absorbed teenager?
| 16:00Hibo Wardere on her fight against FGM in Britain.
| 16:00Deborah Levy and Daniel Hahn tell Mariella Frostrup about the enduring appeal of Cervantes 16:30Roger McGough presents the first in a new series from the Poetry by Heart competition.
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| 17:00 | 17:00News, interviews, context and analysis presented by Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'Who are the unknown children in my 1939 cine film?'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Allan Little on the legacy of the ICTY and its place in transitional justice.(R) 17:40Mark Coles looks at the life and career of star footballer Jamie Vardy.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00After a week under fire, David Cameron defended his tax affairs in the Commons 18:302/6David Mitchell is joined by Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea.
| 18:00IMF says British exit from EU could cause "severe regional and global damage" 18:304/6The Sparrowhawk team are forced to work together to overcome a problem in the office.(R)
| 18:00The Prime Minister has dismissed calls for John Whittingdale to resign 18:302/6Tempers rise preparing for the village fete, and Lucy discovers guitar irritates aliens.(R)
| 18:00The Labour leader insists his support for the UK remaining in the EU isn't half-hearted. 18:301/6Richard Osman, Clive Anderson, Nick Helm and Yasmine Akram try not to be funny.
| 18:00Five people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. 18:301/9Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Danny Finkelstein and Cariad Lloyd join host Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Pope takes 12 Syrian Muslim refugees back with him after visiting Greek island of Lesbos 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Brazilian parliament about to vote on calls to impeach country's first woman president 18:15Simon Parkes chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Samira Ahmed reveals the shortlist for 2016's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. 19:451/5It is 1911, and five-year-old Muriel begins to question her mother's night-time absences.(R)
| 19:15Including a review of a new, live-action version of The Jungle Book. Samira Ahmed presents 19:452/5Muriel becomes an unwitting decoy in her mother's drama.(R)
| 19:15Featuring a review of PJ Harvey's first new album in five years. John Wilson presents. 19:453/5Boarding school offers an escape from Muriel's mother's 'wild moods and secrets'.(R)
| 19:00Lilian is looking glamorous. 19:15Eisenstein in Guanajuato, a provocative film by Peter Greenaway, and artist George Shaw. 19:454/5Betrayal close to home brings Muriel's mother's secret out into the open.(R)
| 19:15Criminal and why London attracts so many film-makers. Plus The Comedy About A Bank Robbery 19:455/5With her mother's affair exposed, Muriel waits for the village to react.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles looks at the life and career of star footballer Jamie Vardy. 19:15Including a look at Eye in the Sky starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul.
| 19:00There is just no pleasing Lynda. 19:153/6Frank Skinner, Holly Walsh and Richard Herring ponder history’s funniest moments. 19:453/3By Anita Sullivan. Lem waits tables at a restaurant, but delivers more than food.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Harriet Sergeant investigates whether empty commercial buildings could house the homeless. 20:30The story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation has failed her.(R)
| 20:00Allan Little on the legacy of the ICTY and its place in transitional justice. 20:40How Hull is easier to get around. And writer Susie Steiner talks about her sight loss.
| 20:002/3A discussion of same-sex marriage in the Anglican church. 20:45Adnan Sarwar discusses being a Muslim in the British Army.
| 20:001/3Frances Stonor Saunders asks what happens when we decide, or are forced, to leave our home 20:30Caroline Bayley reports on Europe's unicorns, tech firms with billion dollar valuations.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Knutsford in Cheshire. 20:50Sarah Dunant takes an historical look at avarice, in the light of the Panama Papers.
| 20:00How the portrayal of the working class and poor in film and TV has changed over 70 years.
| 20:00Have more famous people died this year than usual?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a drug smuggler, an illustrator and a country singer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Dr Aarathi Prasad on how new research into fertility may help stave off the menopause.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson.(R)
| 21:00Lucy Kellaway asks if we really need managers. 21:302/2Owen Bennett Jones reveals a secret history of Jihadist propagation in Britain.(R)
| 21:00Professor Alice Roberts asks if archaeology can help us understand climate change.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Maureen Lipman and writer and comedian Paul Whitehouse.(R)
| 21:00Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.(R)
| 21:00The community in Ashburton find their world rocked by surprises.
| 21:001/2Adapted by Jeanette Winterson from her acclaimed novel. Starring Lesley Sharp.(R)
| 21:00Claimants face a benefits freeze - though not pensioners.(R) 21:26Kirsten O'Brien presents an appeal on behalf of MedEquip4Kids.(R) 21:30Caroline Bayley reports on Europe's unicorns, tech firms with billion dollar valuations.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00David Cameron defends his tax affairs in Parliament. 22:456/10Maid Jane is given the freedom of her lover's mansion after he leaves to meet his fiancee.
| 22:00Will Chancellor Merkel plump for free speech, or friendship with Turkey ? 22:457/10As Jane Fairchild is interviewed, her thoughts return to the day when everything changed.
| 22:00Douglas Carswell interview, Newspaper regulation row, Lloyd Webber on piano practice. 22:458/10Serialised reading of Graham Swift's novel.
| 22:00Heads unite to stamp out fraud, A&E forced to close overnight, and the survival of pelota. 22:459/10Serialised reading of Graham Swift's novel.
| 22:00An aid worker describes conditions in the Moria camp, Lesbos, ahead of the pope's visit. 22:4510/10Jane reflects on how her last assignation with Paul Sheringham led to her literary career.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/3A discussion of same-sex marriage in the Anglican church.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Steven Pinker joins Michael Rosen to talk about his love of, and life in, language.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports as MPs and peers return to Westminster after the Easter break.
| 23:005/6Simon's son Joe is grounded, so Simon has dragged him along to the meeting. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:153/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the thorny issue of medicine, through the medium of poetry.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the Panama Papers and the row over academy schools
| 23:003/4Spoof phone-in show from the creators of The Fast Show.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Nancy Dell'Olio champions the much maligned Lucrezia Borgia.(R) 23:55Going to live with your neighbour's family can change your life for the better.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the second semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 23:30AL Kennedy asks what insights can be found in the poetry of Muriel Spark.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Jon Favreau, director of the new version of The Jungle Book.(R) 23:30Award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk reflects on the importance of suspending our disbelief.(R)
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