| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the role in British society of migrant women over the past 60 years(R) 00:45The bells of St Mary's Church, Barnes, London.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Chris Packham's painfully honest memoir evokes his obsessive, lonely schooldays.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Chris Packham remembers his difficult childhood – and discovers the taste of tadpoles.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Chris Packham decides to trust animals rather than people – and makes a nocturnal escape.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Chris Packham takes a kestrel from its nest, changing his life forever.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Chris Packham concludes his memoir. He’s on the edge, but determined to do things his way.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3What was in the bag Elena lost on her way back to Moscow after the war?(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45The virtual reality film claiming to show the reality of pig farming. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the nightingale. (Part 1 of 2)(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45A look at slow broadband speeds in rural areas and criticism of the Rural Payments Agency. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the whinchat.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45A Scottish fisherman has redesigned the nets he uses to try to catch fewer unwanted fish. 05:58The Lesser Whitethroat-Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45Farming Today comes from the Pig and Poultry Fair in Stoneleigh. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the yellow wagtail.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45Higher levels of a potentially toxic acid has been found in some rapeseed oil. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the firecrest.(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 Andrew Graystone. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners. Medication made my dad a gambling addict.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Mary and St Chad, Brewood. 05:45Mark Coles profiles easyJet's high-flying CEO, Dame Carolyn McCall.(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.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Brett Westwood follows the dawn chorus from east to west across Europe.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith hosts a debate about the EU referendum at the Pig and Poultry Fair. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Academic Dr Sarah Goldingay explores the spiritual aspects of healing. 06:35Sybil Ruscoe finds out why two dairy cows were brought into central Bristol for five days. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Trauma counselling for refugees and the Archbishop of York's pilgrimage. 07:54Malorie Blackman presents an appeal on behalf of The Sickle Cell Society. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The education secretary has to backtrack on plans to make all state schools academies.
| 08:31A 'rogue marker' is blamed for leaking an English test due to be taken by schoolchildren.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, at Pentecost with the minister, the Rev Neil Gardner. 08:48Self-confessed digi-drunkard Will Self on predictive texting, spellchecking and algorithms(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the nightingale. (Part 1 of 2)(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Steve Williams.
| 09:00Margaret MacMillan visits Rome to explore the idea of 'universal' Europe. 09:303/5Bettany Hughes examines irony in her archaeology of philosophy.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets wine writer Oz Clarke and photographer Johnny Fenn. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Sam Wells.
| 09:00Tom Hanks, one of Hollywood's best-loved actors, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.(R) 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by Canon Angela Tilby.
| 09:00Comedian David Mitchell talks to Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Kirsty Wark.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Writing a diary - why do it, and what it is like to look back upon a younger self? 10:451/5Christopher Green tells the stories behind the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.
| 10:00Mia Wasikowska and producer Susanne Todd on their film Alice Through the Looking Glass. 10:452/5Young Kenneth goes for 'the cure'.
| 10:00Is there anything wrong with sharing intimate or explicit pictures online? 10:413/5Lesbians invade the Six O'Clock News. 10:55Their passion for the natural world remains undimmed after working together for 26 years.
| 10:00Dr Wanda Austin, National Poet of Wales, the microbiome effect, diary dilemmas. 10:454/5Christopher reveals his secret.
| 10:00Harriet Harman and Gisela Stuart on whether or not we should remain in or leave the EU. 10:455/5Christopher Green tells the stories behind the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Sandwich.
| 10:00Brian wants to impress, and the Grundys need to make plans.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The clash between a bestselling author and a millionaire developer. Grace Dent presents. 11:304/6The Wall of Crisps is rocked by an unwitting political scandal.
| 11:00Joan Bakewell asks what she might expect, and how she should prepare, if she had dementia.(R) 11:30The story of how two of the greatest albums of all time were released on the same day.
| 11:00Is small the next big? Leo Johnson explores the radical vision of EF Schumacher.(R) 11:302/6Annette Crosbie guest stars in the biting satire on National Health GPs.
| 11:00The mid-western city which has become a world centre for the game of chess. 11:302/2Writer Nadia Davids explores what Shakespeare means in South Africa.
| 11:004/4The final programme in Diarmaid Ferriter's look back at a turbulent Anglo-Irish century. 11:303/4Alex Lowe is 82 year-old Barry in a comedy combining sitcom and stand-up.
| 11:00Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30The word 'controversial' could have been made for the president elect of the Philippines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd's of London.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Summer Time Bill is introduced, and Kitty and Dieter get to make hay, metaphorically. 12:15A row over where insured pets can be treated. And more mortgages for older people. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Hetty is in unforgiving mood. 12:15How easy is it to give or receive good dental healthcare on the NHS? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Isabel gets a lesson in relaxing. 12:15Concern over Parkinson's disease website, bereaved bank customers, holidays in a treehouse 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, Edwin Lloyd is well enough to start work again. 12:15Why under-30s might be paying a high price for prizing experience over things. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Staverton, it is Alexander Gidley's birthday. 12:15Sim swap fraud, AirBnB, holiday flight costs and GiffGaff.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Cornish seaside town of St Ives intends to restrict second-home ownership. 12:305/9The satirical review of the week's news comes from the Ipswich Corn Exchange.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:046/6David Mitchell with Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David O'Doherty.(R) 12:32Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon meet the BBC Food & Farming Awards' Best Food Producer. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/10Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:452/10Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/10Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. The government's BBC White Paper 13:454/10Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including the IMF's economic verdict on the EU referendum. 13:455/10Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Colyton in Devon.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Writers and comedians share personal stories of their first encounters with faith.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Emma and Fallon head to Greenbury.(R) 14:153/9Love goes very badly wrong. Dramatised by Dan Rebellato and starring Glenda Jackson.
| 14:00Pat is feeling outnumbered.(R) 14:154/9A young girl’s struggle to reconcile her love of God with her feelings for a young man.
| 14:155/9Dramatised from Emile Zola by Martin Jameson starring Glenda Jackson and Nico Mirallegro.
| 14:00Josh turns on the charm.(R) 14:156/9Dramatised from Emile Zola by Martin Jameson starring Glenda Jackson and Lyndsey Marshal.
| 14:00Brian wants to impress, and Lynda is in search of a remedy.(R) 14:157/9Zola's Rougon-Macquart season. Sex, starring Glenda Jackson, Alison Steadman & Jack Lowden
| 14:00Should parents, rather than governments, decide on their child's time away from school? 14:308/98. Lust. Dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Lavinia Murray.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from West Suffolk.(R) 14:45Conversations about wildlife, size zero, living thousands of miles apart and shoe-making.
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| 15:00 | 15:001/6Three students from the University of York take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon meet BBC Food and Farming Awards's best food producers.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Truro.(R) 15:30Peter Hadfield meets Huang Ming, the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry.
| 15:00Paul Lewis investigates the benefits and risks of what is known as the sharing economy. 15:30Psychiatrist shortage, GP helps with mental health, and why boredom might be a good thing.(R)
| 15:00Brett Westwood follows the dawn chorus from east to west across Europe. 15:27Carol Ann Duffy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of PEAS.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to celebrated author Allan Ahlberg, creator of The Jolly Postman.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from West Suffolk. 15:45Riz Ahmed reads Teju Cole's story of a Pakistani New Yorker's family dilemma.
| 15:30The story of how two of the greatest albums of all time were released on the same day.
| 15:009/99. Flesh. Season finale dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Lavinia Murray.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Dane Hurst takes a dance floor to South Africa for use by underprivileged children. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores why parents are so fearful of their children's technology use.
| 16:00Michael Rosen explores the verbs that are called irregular, and how they came to be. 16:30Timmy Mallett chooses Richard the Lionheart. With Helen Castor and Matthew Parris.
| 16:00Television in British prisons. Also, BB King and prison 'blues'. 16:30Antonia Bird is remembered by friends and colleagues.
| 16:002/5Dominic Lawson asks Prof Edzard Ernst why he abandoned his belief in homeopathy.(R) 16:15Steve Hewlett discusses the White Paper on the future of the BBC with leading players.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a TV producer, a chemist, a wheeler dealer, a paediatrician, a singer 16:30Listener reaction to the White Paper on the BBC, and jokes about the Queen. 16:55He taught her to become a shoemaker, and now she is about to employ her own apprentice.
| 16:00Dr Wanda Austin, CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, on getting more girls into science.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to author Anthony Cartwright about his book Iron Towns. 16:30Roger McGough looks at the poetry produced by groups of friends throughout history.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn. 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.
| 17:00Coverage 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.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news presented by Peter Hunt. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners. Medication made my dad a gambling addict.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Did UK firms win multi-million pound oil contracts through bribes to corrupt officials?(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles easyJet's high-flying CEO, Dame Carolyn McCall.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00EU referendum campaigners clash over the effect of a British exit on Europe's stability 18:306/6David Mitchell with Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David O'Doherty.
| 18:00David Cameron is caught describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt". 18:302/5Isy Suttie recounts funny and moving love stories, much of which are told through song.(R)
| 18:00The Nigerian President has demanded the UK return assets held here by corrupt Nigerians. 18:306/6Uljabaan is determined to fail his annual inspection, but he needs help...(R)
| 18:00The Governor of the Bank of England has warned of the risks of leaving the EU. 18:304/4Kim and Neil's return from a funeral involves a missed left turn and the planet Zobula.(R) 18:453/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/9The satirical review of the week's news comes from the Ipswich Corn Exchange.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week, with Caz Graham in Pick of the Week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Pat is feeling outnumbered. 19:15Lionel Shriver's latest novel; Richard Linklater's new film; Radiohead's album reviewed. 19:451/5Christopher Green tells the stories behind the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.(R)
| 19:15A review of TV drama Billions, starring Damian Lewis, and Hugh Bonneville on Malvolio. 19:452/5Young Kenneth goes for 'the cure'.(R)
| 19:15Laurie Anderson on the Brighton Festival, and AL Kennedy on our search for kindness. 19:453/5Lesbians invade the Six O'Clock News.(R)
| 19:00Brian wants to impress, and Lynda is in search of a remedy. 19:15Samira Ahmed with novelist Mark Billingham, Turner Prize shortlist, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. 19:454/5Christopher reveals his secret.(R)
| 19:00Peggy sets the record straight. 19:15Francis Bacon retrospective in Liverpool, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. 19:455/5Christopher Green tells the stories behind the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles easyJet's high-flying CEO, Dame Carolyn McCall. 19:15Lionel Shriver, Everybody Wants Some!!, Green Room, The Complete Deaths, Gillian Wearing.
| 19:00Tom calls a family meeting. 19:151/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Mark Watson and Sue Limb on the Brontes.(R) 19:45A fictional dialogue between Ethiopia and Britain, by Linda Yohannes and Nikesh Shukla.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Is small the next big? Leo Johnson explores the radical vision of EF Schumacher. 20:30China's once-hated population police are being turned into child development specialists.(R)
| 20:00Did UK firms win multi-million pound oil contracts through bribes to corrupt officials? 20:40The airline which failed to talk directly to a blind passenger when there was a problem.
| 20:00If new energy sources offer cheap, plentiful power to everyone, how will the planet cope? 20:453/5Dominic Lawson asks Prof Deirdre McCloskey why she changed politics, faith and gender.
| 20:00BHS was once one of the biggest names on the high street, so why did it go bust? 20:30Matthew Gwyther discovers how to turn around a failing company.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Colyton in Devon. 20:50Self-confessed digi-drunkard Will Self on predictive texting, spellchecking and algorithms
| 20:00Angie Hobbs examines the changing nature of the hero, from the Iliad to the present day.(R)
| 20:00Listener reaction to the White Paper on the BBC, and jokes about the Queen.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a TV producer, a chemist, a wheeler dealer, a paediatrician, a singer(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00How false memories can be artificially generated and used to change future behaviour.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.(R)
| 21:00Psychiatrist shortage, GP helps with mental health, and why boredom might be a good thing. 21:30Margaret MacMillan visits Rome to explore the idea of 'universal' Europe.(R)
| 21:00Peter Hadfield meets Huang Ming, the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets wine writer Oz Clarke and photographer Johnny Fenn.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford investigates a small but significant link between genetics and education. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.(R)
| 21:00The Ashburton community is on a steep learning curve.
| 21:001/2Lewis Grassic Gibbon's sequel to Sunset Song, dramatised by Donna Franceschild.(R)
| 21:00The Cornish seaside town of St Ives intends to restrict second-home ownership.(R) 21:26Malorie Blackman presents an appeal on behalf of The Sickle Cell Society.(R) 21:30Matthew Gwyther discovers how to turn around a failing company.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Analysis of the election of the new Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. 22:456/10Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by Emily Bruni.
| 22:00What can realistically be achieved at this week's anti-corruption summit? 22:457/10Luke begins to lose patience with Claire's never-ending job search. Lisa Owens' debut.
| 22:00Rousseff faces impeachment, IS bombs in Baghdad and Italy passes same-sex civil unions. 22:458/10Claire's mother agrees to a meeting, but instead of healing, the rift between them widens.
| 22:00Mark Carney in Brexit row, how best to regulate the BBC, and tackling corruption. 22:459/10Claire learns something shocking about Luke, that throws doubt upon their relationship.
| 22:00Sir John Major claims that the Brexit campaign is 'peddling ill-informed nonsense'. 22:4510/10Final episode of Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by Emily Bruni.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15If new energy sources offer cheap, plentiful power to everyone, how will the planet cope?(R)
| 22:00Conservative Andrea Leadsom, Labour MP Caroline Flint and Toby Young join Carolyn Quinn.
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| 23:00 | 23:004/6David Baddiel hosts the comedy panel show in which comedians try not to be funny. 23:30Sean Curran looks at changes to the plan to turn all schools into academies.
| 23:002/6'Exciting' trips. Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s south London.(R) 23:30An inquiry is underway to find out who leaked details of school literacy tests.
| 23:006/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:151/4Andy Warhol's acclaimed diaries brought to life in four short dramas by Sean Grundy. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/4Writer David Quantick on the people he’s met and the impressions they've made. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Timmy Mallett chooses Richard the Lionheart. With Helen Castor and Matthew Parris.(R) 23:27Kim Normanton explores the booming British drag scene.(R) 23:55Sisters separated by the Atlantic feel they miss out on a lot.
| 23:001/6Three students from the University of York take on their professors in the upbeat quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners.(R)
| 23:00Antonia Bird is remembered by friends and colleagues.(R) 23:30Academic Dr Sarah Goldingay explores the spiritual aspects of healing.(R)
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