| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor asks if the government should aim to promote well-being.(R) 00:45Church bells from All Saints church, Harpole in Northamptonshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Lynsey Hanley explores the experience of class in Britain over the past four decades.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the experience of class in 1980s Britain.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Journalist Lynsey Hanley explores class aspiration and social mobility in 1990s Britain.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Lynsey Hanley explores how class affects students' university choices and future potential(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Journalist Lynsey Hanley examines the divisive notion that we are all middle class now.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A boy sees tensions rise when his mother visits the family in Russia.(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 Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45Cumbrian farmers report problems applying for much needed flood relief grants. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the puffin.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45Scientists are working on new technology to detect the sex of chicks before they hatch. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the razorbill.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45An EFRA committee report says farming must do more to prevent damaging gas emissions. 05:58David Attenborough presents the guillemot.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45Will a transatlantic trade deal with America disadvantage UK farmers? 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the seabird, the shag.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45The Food and Farming Awards, farm borrowing, neonicotinoids and share farming. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the gannet.(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 Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45A listener explains how he challenged the amount he was paid for Shared Parental Leave.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from Coventry Cathedral. 05:45Becky Milligan profiles Liz Clegg, volunteer in the so-called Calais Jungle.(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 spends a day at the rural racetrack of Southwell in Nottinghamshire.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith asks what farms and food production will look like in the years to come. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Journalist Malcolm Doney explores how humans respond to the mystical world of twilight. 06:35Ruth Sanderson meets a farmer in Leicestershire whose Alpacas are bred for use in therapy. 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. 07:10Looking at politics and anti-Semitism, the Christian convert, and Leicester City FC. 07:54Sophie Stone presents an appeal on behalf of Deaf Child Worldwide. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Tensions run high as the Commons contemplates the approaching junior doctors' strike.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster on questions about the ECHR.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service of worship for Rogationtide, from St Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim. 08:48Sarah Dunant reflects on the demise of handwriting.(R) 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the puffin.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward are with Andrew Marr. 09:45Spiritual reflection with a reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Owain Jones.
| 09:002/2Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America. 09:301/5Bettany Hughes examines her psyche by lying on Sigmund Freud's famous couch.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets singer-songwriter Chris Rea and artist Chris Dobrowolski. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Sister Gemma Simmonds.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Sam Wells.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor's guests reflect on the dramas of the Maastricht Treaty negotiations.(R) 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject led by Leslie Griffiths.
| 09:00Lenny Henry joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane speaks to Golden Globe winner and activist Robin Wright. 10:451/5Why Grandma is not talking to Jack, and why soda bread is her favourite recipe.
| 10:00Beyonce, Alaska and female utopias. With Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Jack meets one of Southend's few on-off vegetarians.
| 10:00Where can domestic abusers get help? Plus the role of women in the history of food. 10:413/5Jack's first blog about life on the breadline goes viral. 10:55A father and son reminisce about skulduggery at the flower and produce show
| 10:00Rules on surrogacy, first BBC women, Alzheimer's, strongest female Shakespearean character 10:454/5Jack and Grandma clash, despite Jack's improving fortunes as her blog earns money.
| 10:00Kim Cattrall reveals her private struggle with insomnia, and how it changed her life. 10:455/5Jack is nominated for the Food and Drink Awards and invites her grandma to be her guest.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in King's Lynn.
| 10:00Tom has got his hands full, and Jim needs to make up his mind.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry. 11:302/6A church-organised community choir-off results in a Fifa-esque bribery scandal.
| 11:00Oliver Burkeman explores the frequent human experience of feeling like a fraud. 11:30How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives.
| 11:002/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the deeper claims of human rights to be truly universal.(R) 11:306/6Comedy writer and director Graham Linehan talks to comedian and actor Adam Buxton.(R)
| 11:00Nkem Ifejika cannot speak Igbo, the language of his forefathers, and he wants to know why. 11:304/4Kathryn Williams and Tom McRae join Willm Gompertz to give a masterclass in hit love songs(R)
| 11:002/4Historian Diarmaid Ferriter explores the Irish civil war, the Free State and neutrality. 11:301/4Alex Lowe is 82 year-old Barry in a comedy combining sitcom and stand-up.
| 11:00Helen Lewis of the New Statesman looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Can the leaders of South Sudan's civil war now lead the country to peace?
| 11:15Sue MacGregor brings together people who were involved in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.(R)
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04An unexpected visitor shatters the peace at Halecot Farm. 12:15The bogus degree certificates freely available online for just a few pounds. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Emily is losing her resolve with Edwin. 12:15Listeners - patients and doctors - say how they have been affected by the doctors' strike. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Buckfast, Johnnie is a man on a mission. 12:15The lawyers who want Mckenzie friends banned from the court room. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, Isaac discovers Lewis has not been working at Halecot Farm. 12:15Concerns about an unregulated bank offering to pay people's debts using its own currency. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Deanscombe Quarry, Alexander gets his first taste of being foreman. 12:15BHS suppliers, Checkatrade, NPower billing.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis examines the Pension Protection Fund, which is in line to rescue BHS's scheme. 12:303/9A 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. 12:044/6David Mitchell with Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea.(R) 12:321/2Sheila Dillon and special guests reveal the winners of the 2016 Food and Farming Awards. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00BHS has collapsed into administration, putting 11,000 jobs at risk. 13:456/10What do female students' bedrooms in 1896 and 2016 say about their lives?
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Shaun Ley. 13:457/10The part played by students in the infamous 1907 Brown Dog vivisection riots.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Shaun Ley. 13:458/10Ellie Cawthorne tells the stories of students who went to war.
| 13:00News with Martha Kearney, including the Labour anti-Semitism row. 13:459/10Ellie Cawthorne on a protest at Essex University in 1968 that had a lasting impact.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:4510/10Ellie Cawthorne explores the changing experiences of those studying abroad.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Corby in Northamptonshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:302/2Sheila Dillon and special guests reveal the winners of the 2016 Food and Farming Awards.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pat is taken by surprise, and Pip gives Rex guidance.(R) 14:15A visit to a religious retreat in the Highlands proves life-changing for the psychic.
| 14:00Tom has got his hands full.(R) 14:15The psychic struggles to continue his investigation after a hit-and-run accident.
| 14:00Helen has a lot on her mind.(R) 14:15In 1966, Pauline Devaney becomes the first woman to write a TV sitcom.
| 14:00Johnny is making an extra effort.(R) 14:15Samuel West plays Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in a mesmerising encounter with Anne Lindbergh.
| 14:00Jim needs to make up his mind.(R) 14:15Deborah Davis takes us back to 1965, when British bridge players are accused of cheating.(R)
| 14:00Can you be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic? Listeners have their say. 14:30John Osborne's classic play with David Tennant as Jimmy Porter.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from York.(R) 14:45Competition at the flower and produce show, naming your baby, and life in retirement.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the last semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon travels to Bristol to hear how food has shaped the city's past and present.(R)
| 15:004/4Tom considers how we protect our personal space through design. 15:30How the fallout from Chernobyl changed Germany forever. Julian Rush reports.
| 15:00What is the future for free money guidance with the shake-up of how it will be delivered? 15:30Claudia Hammond meets one of the All in the Mind Awards finalists.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark spends a day at the rural racetrack of Southwell in Nottinghamshire. 15:27Levison Wood presents an appeal on behalf of Renewable World.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer David Szalay about All That Man Is.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from York. 15:45A smile from across the bar at a sports club turns into something more.
| | 15:002/2Missing Presumed Dead a new version of Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage. Part Two
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| 16:00 | 16:003/4Natalie Haynes stands up for one of the greatest all-time thinkers, Plato. 16:30Aleks Krotoski compares technological solutions to our intuitive wayfinding skills.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on the words used in PR that have been rated as the most annoying. Iconic... 16:30Playwright and actress Sudha Bhuchar nominates the life of actor Zohra Sehgal.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the history and meaning of the urban stroller, past and present. 16:30The reporting of Hillsborough, 'Constructive' journalism, BBC Chinese service move.
| 16:00With Francine Stock. Laszlo Nemes discusses Son of Saul, his Oscar-winning film. 16:30Have physicists at Cern found a new particle?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an economist, a cricketer, a Chilean President, a physicist, an actor 16:30What will happen to migration if the UK leaves the EU? 16:55A couple reflect on the reality of life in retirement.
| 16:00Looking at a private struggle with insomnia, Beyonce's appeal, and dementia carers.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Spanish writer Javier Marias about his novel The Infatuations. 16:30Listeners tell Roger McGough the stories behind their poetry requests.
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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.
| 17:00Coverage 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. 17:30A listener explains how he challenged the amount he was paid for Shared Parental Leave.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Google dominates internet searching. Rory Cellan-Jones asks if it is too powerful.(R) 17:40Becky Milligan profiles Liz Clegg, volunteer in the so-called Calais Jungle.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6David Mitchell with Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6The Sparrowhawk team hold a leaving do and take the opportunity to reminisce.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6The computer catches a very common virus, making the invasion doomed in more ways than one(R)
| 18:00Ken Livingstone has been suspended by Labour over an anti-Semitism row. 18:302/4Cardamom-scented candles, kumquats and a debate over the virtues of shared bathing.(R) 18:451/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show.(R)
| 18:00Tom Watson, has promised that the party will "get a grip" on anti-Semitism. 18:303/9A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00The former Mayor of London said he was "not sorry for telling the truth". 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Union leader says the Labour leader's opponents want to challenge his leadership. 18:15Ernie Rea chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Tom has got his hands full. 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Grant about his new film Florence Foster Jenkins. 19:451/5Why Grandma is not talking to Jack, and why soda bread is her favourite recipe.(R)
| 19:00Helen has a lot on her mind. 19:15Alain de Botton, Son of Saul, Josie Rourke and Nick Payne, jazz biopics. 19:452/5Jack meets one of Southend's few on-off vegetarians.(R)
| 19:00Johnny is making an extra effort. 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to Hugh Bonneville about Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People. 19:453/5Jack's first blog about life on the breadline goes viral.(R)
| 19:00Jim needs to make up his mind. 19:15Mark Gatiss on the novelisations of Doctor Who, and Bryony Lavery on Brideshead Revisited. 19:454/5Jack and Grandma clash, despite Jack's improving fortunes as her blog earns money.(R)
| 19:15Ricky Gervais discusses his latest projects including his film Special Correspondents. 19:455/5Jack is nominated for the Food and Drink Awards and invites her grandma to be her guest.(R)
| 19:00Becky Milligan profiles Liz Clegg, volunteer in the so-called Calais Jungle. 19:15A review of the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Pat and Tony make progress. 19:155/6Miles Jupp and Zoe Lyons join Frank Skinner and historian Professor Kate Williams. 19:45A fictional dialogue between Syria and Britain, by Mahmoud Al Hussein and Sara Maitland.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the deeper claims of human rights to be truly universal. 20:30The astonishing story of a group of young men in Syria resisting so-called Islamic State.(R)
| 20:00Google dominates internet searching. Rory Cellan-Jones asks if it is too powerful. 20:40New College Worcester, a school for blind teenagers, celebrates. Plus, guide dogs and Uber
| 20:00How will our ideas about ageing change as life expectancy rises to 100 and beyond? 20:451/5Dominic Lawson asks Trevor Phillips why he abandoned support for multiculturalism.(R)
| 20:003/3Do the borders we cross enhance our lives? Frances Stonor Saunders examines their impact. 20:30Marijuana is now legal in some US states. How is the experiment working in Colorado?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Corby in Northamptonshire. 20:50Sarah Dunant reflects on the demise of handwriting.
| 20:00David Tennant explores the back story to Osborne's revolutionary play Look Back in Anger.
| 20:00What will happen to migration if the UK leaves the EU?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an economist, a cricketer, a Chilean President, a physicist, an actor(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Traumatic events can change our biology. Can we pass on this altered biology to children?(R) 21:30Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward are with Andrew Marr.(R)
| 21:00Claudia Hammond meets one of the All in the Mind Awards finalists. 21:302/2Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America.(R)
| 21:00How the fallout from Chernobyl changed Germany forever. Julian Rush reports.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets singer-songwriter Chris Rea and artist Chris Dobrowolski.(R)
| 21:00Have physicists at Cern found a new particle?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.(R)
| 21:00There are calls to courage throughout the social scale in Ashburton.
| 21:001/2A government minister on the run faces the unfamiliar to return home. Stars Colin Tierney.(R)
| 21:00Paul Lewis examines the Pension Protection Fund, which is in line to rescue BHS's scheme.(R) 21:26Sophie Stone presents an appeal on behalf of Deaf Child Worldwide.(R) 21:30Marijuana is now legal in some US states. How is the experiment working in Colorado?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Should owners be allowed to take out dividends if their company has a pensions deficit? 22:456/10The police finally discover where their missing officer is hiding.
| 22:00Hillsborough families' 'fight for justice vindicated'. 22:457/10In the hottest summer on record, tensions rise on the streets of London.
| 22:00Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, outlines his global ambitions. 22:458/10In the hottest summer on record, tensions rise on the streets of London.
| 22:00What constitutes anti-semitism? Are doctors being deliberately targeted in Syria? 22:459/10In the aftermath of the storm, London's streets and politics need a massive clean-up.
| 22:00MSF reject US Kunduz report into a hospital bombing, insisting attack was a 'war crime'. 22:4510/10The London riots and the storm are over, and order has been restored. But at what cost?
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15How will our ideas about ageing change as life expectancy rises to 100 and beyond?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen on how we talk about historical eras in order to define how we live now.(R) 23:30The retailer BHS goes into administration, threatening 11,000 jobs.
| 23:00A look back at the first six years of the festival with Josh Widdicombe and Tim Key. 23:30Labour attack plans to put fire services under control of police and crime commissioners.
| 23:004/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:155/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the subject of music, through the medium of poetry.(R) 23:30The Hillsborough inquest verdicts dominate as Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00The ground-breaking Radio 4 phone-in show, hosted by the legendary Gary Bellamy.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on fury over a government 'deal' with trade unions.
| 23:00Lauren Laverne and guests discuss clothes - what we wear and what it means. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A couple work through the process of naming the baby they are expecting.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the last semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 23:30Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests.(R)
| 23:008/13The Moth's founder George Dawes Green with tales of inheritance, hospitals and Spinal Tap. 23:50Sarah Dunant reflects on the demise of handwriting.(R)
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