| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:152/3Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.(R) 00:45Church bells from Sheffield Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5In 2008, 17-year-old pianist Zuhal Sultan decided to create an Iraqi youth orchestra.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Paul McAlindin searches for players and tutors for the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The National Youth Orchestra of Iraq is finally going to play overseas in Germany.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00Paralympics future in doubt as only 12% of tickets sold in Rio. 00:304/5Paul MacAlindin decides to take the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq to the USA.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Paul McAlindin looks back at the huge achievements of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A son remembers his dad's obsession with his own father's suicide.(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 reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Felicity Evans examines the chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45The programme discusses whether farmers care enough about climate change. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the spotted flycatcher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Caz Graham presents. A new study links the decline in bees to neonicotinoid insecticides. 05:58The Wryneck - Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Black Grass is spreading west, African wildlife and farming and safe walking in the fells. 05:58The Savi's Warbler - Miranda Krestovnikoff narrates the story of this bird and its sound.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Shorthorn cattle, a treadmill for horses and farming in Africa. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the serin.(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 Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45How a wife's heart attack returned her husband to World War II.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43St Mary the Virgin, Ilminster. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the first British woman to win four Olympic golds.
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark meets the only full-time lifeboat crew in the UK at Spurn Point in East Yorks.(R) 06:30An international group of farmers explore agriculture in Kenya and South Africa. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully searches for a contemporary understanding of the word 'passion'. 06:35Lionel Kelleway is in search of wasps. Recorded in 2000. Presented by Chris Packham. 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. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Caroline Wyatt. 07:54Sir Mark Tully presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service reflecting on the ways Christians respond to life events through song. 08:48Will Self reflects on the joys of genealogy.(R) 08:58Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:002/3Paul Sartin plays the skyline of Oxfordshire on the oboe, Robert Worby on his synthesizer. 09:303/5Vienna-based correspondent Bethany Bell explores Graham Greene's time in postwar Vienna. 09:45The Rev Dr Bert Tosh leads a service celebrating the hymns of Cecil Frances Alexander.
| 09:003/4Peter Hennessy talks to Margaret Hodge, ex-chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee. 09:45The Rev Dr Sam Wells leads a service exploring the life and work of Isaac Watts.
| 09:002/4Hangover from the Empire or brand new post-Brexit opportunity? Quentin Letts considers. 09:302/5David Cannadine explores the saga of Stanley Baldwin's controversial wartime iron gates. 09:45The Rev Dr Sam Wells leads a service exploring the life and work of Catherine Winkworth.
| 09:003/3If you have a life-threatening gene fault, do blood relatives have a right to know? 09:45The Rev Richard Carter leads a service exploring the life and work of Robert Bridges.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Bake Off 2015.(R) 09:45Programme looking at prolific Christian singer-songwriter Graham Kendrick.
| 09:00Miles Jupp, magician and soldier Richard Jones and cliff diver Blake Aldridge.
| 09:00News presented by by Paddy O'Connell including a review of the Sunday newspapers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Parents' experiences managing their children's online activities. 10:456/10Monsignor Quixote and Sancho help a robber - and pay an unexpected price.
| 10:00Banning burkinis, teenage boys and their body image, food prepping, Sue Lloyd-Roberts. 10:457/10Monsignor Quixote wakes from a drugged sleep to discover that he has been kidnapped.
| 10:00With Sophie Carrigill, co-captain of the Team GB wheelchair basketball team. 10:418/10Sancho attempts to rescue kidnapped Father Quixote. 10:55When you hide painful facts from a child, sometimes the rumours can be even worse.
| 10:00Billie Piper on her new role in Yerma and Naz Shah MP, seeking justice for Samia Shahid. 10:459/10Monsignor Quixote (Bernard Cribbins) is forced to put on his armour and go into battle.
| 10:00Are marriage proposals at the Olympics a cynical attempt to steal the spotlight? 10:4510/10Monsignor Quixote and Sancho's journey comes to an end.
| 10:30Time to re-think the mid-life crisis? Stephen Smith explores....
| 10:00Henry is waved off to the beach, and Alice gives Pip food for thought.
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| 11:00 | 11:00An ice cream van owner loses his pitch to 'foreigners'. But can they win round the locals? 11:306/6Comedy by Guy Meredith about British expats sharing a flat in Hong Kong.
| 11:00Brett Westwood traces the story of the great auk, driven to extinction in 1844. From 2016 11:30Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.
| 11:00Maya Amin-Smith explores the legacy of the Grunwick dispute, four decades after it began.(R) 11:304/4It is the last day of the walk, and Laura and Ros still have ten miles to go.
| 11:00The people displaced by war in Colombia who fear they will never be able to return home. 11:30Tutus, tanks and Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake's strange pas de deux with the fate of Russia.
| 11:00Martin Jarvis and Christopher Matthew head to the 1960s and their first forays into work. 11:304/6Hit comedy about 3 marriages in various states of disrepair. All-star cast.
| 11:00Bridget Kendall and guests explores how 'people's' movements are changing. 11:30Stories from Turkey today and a month ago, Canada's First Nations, Senegal and France.
| 11:15Former detectives remember the five-year hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The King praises the troops in France, while optimism eludes Florrie Wilson. 12:15Winifred Robinson on peat use in gardens, and what's the future for the former BHS stores? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Hugh Cavendish resists the incursions of Cecil Cameron. 12:15Consumer phone-in. Listeners' experience of dementia and how it's impacted on their lives. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Esme Macknade steels herself to face her father. 12:15The care home contracts which make consumers pay even after the death of a loved one. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Folkestone, British intelligence agencies compete for position. 12:15Will manufacturers voluntarily cut sugar by 20 per cent in children's food and drinks? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Folkestone, Norman Harris's life changes direction. 12:15Listeners' reports about shards of plastic left in baby food from a popular blender.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today. 12:304/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Vic Reeves, Dr Tristram Wyatt and Prof Kate Williams.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/8Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Tony Hawks and Zoe Lyons.(R) 12:32Aperitif - A curiosity of our Mediterranean holidays? Or are they having a British moment? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Five different writers give illustrated talks on the theme of The River.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:452/5Alan Read explores Estuary Soul in Essex.
| 13:00The sports minister tells us that criticism of Team GB's Olympic success is unfair. 13:453/5Martin Palmer reflects on rivers and their spiritual significance.
| 13:00The alleged mugging of four US swimmers and arrest of an Irish Olympic official. 13:454/5Writer Kathleen Jamie explores the River Tay in a kayak.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson follows the course of the North Tyne.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Shaun Ley presents political debate and discussion from BBC Broadcasting House in London.(R)
| 13:00News and analysis with Shaun Ley. What will the Olympics mean for the UK's fitness? 13:30Garden designer Chris Beardshaw creates his dream Egyptian-themed festival.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Henry is waved off to the beach.(R) 14:15Writer Don Shaw recreates a meeting he had in 1979 with 86-year-old activist Dora Russell.(R)
| 14:00Caroline is feeling guilty.(R) 14:152/9Second in a nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:15John Lynch's lyrical drama about love and loss.
| 14:151/6The first of six quirky tales about the registering of life's big moments.(R)
| 14:00It is the day of reckoning for Phoebe and Josh.(R) 14:15A metaphysical thriller. Treachery meets pole-dancing in a hunt for philosophy treasures.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Sheila McClennon. 14:30Entertaining new drama imagines key moments in the Clintons' lives together.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme in Essex.(R) 14:45Discovering the truth, creative education, and friendship on the Autism spectrum.
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| 15:00 | 15:009/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 15:30Beer writer Roger Protz - from reviving real ale to the rise of the microbrewers.(R)
| 15:00Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past. 15:302/4What can Darwin, Tony Blair, Mary Berry and the prawn cracker tell us about evolution?(R)
| 15:00Louise Cooper explores the financial pressures faced by the 'sandwich generation'.(R) 15:30The magical world of Conelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark meets the only full-time lifeboat crew in the UK at Spurn Point in East Yorks. 15:27Jill Pay, a volunteer, and seven-year-old Moris present an appeal on behalf of Beanstalk.(R) 15:30Colin Thubron talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel Night of Fire.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme in Essex. 15:45A rainy day in June, Felicity spends an unusual evening with her neighbours.
| 15:155/5Wading birds and shelducks find their favourite snacks along the Northumberland coastline.(R) 15:30Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.(R)
| 15:002/2A serial killer is targeting Athens’ wealthiest citizens. But why?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Gender and Science Fiction? Writer Geoff Ryman explores future worlds...(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests explore the impact of the Cultural Revolution on religion in China.
| 16:00David Wilson talks to former bank robber Noel 'Razor' Smith about his life in crime. 16:30Sara Pascoe champions Virginia Woolf, author of 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own'.
| 16:003/3Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.(R) 16:30Why covering Trump is testing journalism, plus BBC sitcom season, Vice's new TV channel.
| 16:00Featuring an interview with writer Andrea Gibb, who has adapted Swallows and Amazons. 16:30Autonomous cars, bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize.
| 16:00Julian Worricker on a scientist, a musician, a psychoanalyst, a public servant, an editor. 16:30Is 2016 an unusually deadly year for terrorism? 16:55Friendship within the parameters of the autism spectrum.
| 16:00Why are some French holiday resorts banning the burkini from beaches?
| 16:00Politics and fiction: a special edition of Open Book from the Edinburgh Book Festival. 16:30Roger McGough presents a selection of poems from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage 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. 17:30How a wife's heart attack returned her husband to World War II.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Vivienne Parry asks if the NHS can deliver the benefits of genomic medicine for all.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the first British woman to win four Olympic golds.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Firm pursued allegations of killings and torture made by Iraqis against British troops. 18:302/8Nicholas Parsons is joined by Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Tony Hawks and Zoe Lyons.
| 18:00Anjem Choudary faces up to 10 years in jail 18:30With Nish Kumar. Featuring Tom Ballard, Sophie Willan, Lazy Susan and Paul Foot.
| 18:00BBC News understands ministers won't limit shop promotions and junk food adverts 18:302/4Sophie's keen on the new lodger, but her Mum's not so sure.
| 18:00Russia says it's willing to support a 48 hour ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo. 18:304/4From paying for funerals to cryonics, what are the economics of death?
| 18:00Paralympics future in doubt as only 12% of tickets sold in Rio. 18:304/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Vic Reeves, Dr Tristram Wyatt and Prof Kate Williams.
| 18:00A man has died after being swept off rocks with his wife and three children in Cornwall. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Team GB have secured second place in the Olympics medal table finishing ahead of China. 18:15Terry Christian chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Caroline is feeling guilty. 19:15John Wilson is in Edinburgh with guests including Philippa Gregory and Liz Lochhead. 19:456/10Monsignor Quixote and Sancho help a robber - and pay an unexpected price.(R)
| 19:15With Ricky Gervais, Ben Bailey Smith, Henry Naylor, Rory Bremner and Ayesha Hazarika. 19:457/10Monsignor Quixote wakes from a drugged sleep to discover that he has been kidnapped.(R)
| 19:15The people who scout for talent at the Fringe, plus Scottish singer Karine Polwart. 19:458/10Sancho attempts to rescue kidnapped Father Quixote.(R)
| 19:00It is the day of reckoning for Phoebe and Josh. 19:15Tim Minchin's musical of Groundhog Day reviewed and Pedro Almodovar on his film Julieta. 19:459/10Monsignor Quixote (Bernard Cribbins) is forced to put on his armour and go into battle.(R)
| 19:00Anna is feeling challenged. 19:15David Walliams and Francesca Simon on Roald Dahl, Jack and Harry Williams, Picasso's plays 19:4510/10Monsignor Quixote and Sancho's journey comes to an end.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the first British woman to win four Olympic golds. 19:15Edinburgh Festivals: theatre, literature, comedy, surrealism, Tickled film and Herman Koch
| 19:00Rob has got some news for Henry. 19:15Fred MacAulay looks back at the summer of 2016 with an assembly of top comedians.(R) 19:45An unexpected tale from the boardroom of lost romance and a rose. By Stefano Benni.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Maya Amin-Smith explores the legacy of the Grunwick dispute, four decades after it began. 20:30Why are more people in Poland preparing for war? Tim Whewell investigates.(R)
| 20:00Vivienne Parry asks if the NHS can deliver the benefits of genomic medicine for all. 20:40Telling the time by touch - but not as we know it. And Paralympic swimmer Hannah Russell.
| 20:00Residents of Brixton and Boston battle it out in a Brexit special presented by Fi Glover. 20:45Writer Elif Shafak describes how being Turkish means always worrying about your country.
| 20:00Grammar schools, social mobility and the Tory party's love of educational selection. 20:30Adam Shaw looks at how Virtual Reality could change our world.
| 20:00Shaun Ley presents political debate and discussion from BBC Broadcasting House in London. 20:50Will Self reflects on the joys of genealogy.
| 20:00The extraordinary history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine.(R)
| 20:00Is 2016 an unusually deadly year for terrorism?(R) 20:30Julian Worricker on a scientist, a musician, a psychoanalyst, a public servant, an editor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood looks into the heart of a rose the most extraordinary of flowers. From 2016(R) 21:302/3Paul Sartin plays the skyline of Oxfordshire on the oboe, Robert Worby on his synthesizer.(R)
| 21:001/3Dr Kevin Fong asks if there was ever a golden age for training to be a doctor. 21:303/4Peter Hennessy talks to Margaret Hodge, ex-chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.(R)
| 21:00Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds.. 21:302/4Hangover from the Empire or brand new post-Brexit opportunity? Quentin Letts considers.(R)
| 21:00Autonomous cars, bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize.(R) 21:30Alan Dein meets a 108-year-old family firm of funeral directors.(R)
| 21:00The king praises the troops in France, and courage and hope are hard-won in Folkestone.
| 21:001/2Someone is killing Athens’ wealthiest tax evaders. Inspector Jaritos has to find out why.(R)
| 21:00Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.(R) 21:26Sir Mark Tully presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal.(R) 21:30Adam Shaw looks at how Virtual Reality could change our world.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:0050 countries could miss the Paralympics because grants haven't been paid. 22:451/10Hilary Mantel's revisits her third novel nearly 30 years after its original publication.
| 22:00One of Britain's most infamous radical preachers is to be sentenced next month. 22:452/10Hilary Mantel's revisits her third novel nearly 30 years after its original publication.
| 22:00Government plan won't extend junk food advertising ban or curb cut-price offers in shops 22:453/10Hilary Mantel revisits her third novel nearly 30 years after its original publication.
| 22:00Life under siege in Aleppo - and the Zimbabwean flower protesters 22:454/10Hilary Mantel's revisits her third novel nearly 30 years after original publication.
| 22:00Does the full face covering hinder communication and social cohesion? 22:455/10Hilary Mantel's revisits her third novel nearly thirty years after original publication.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/3If you have a life-threatening gene fault, do blood relatives have a right to know?(R)
| 22:00MPs Bob Neill and Conor McGinn join Carolyn Quinn. Plus Lord Freud on 10 years at the DWP.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen and Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements and what it tells us.(R) 23:301/6Josie Long presents stories about wordless communication.(R)
| 23:00Tom Allen with comics Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Kieran Hodgson, Loyiso Gola and Al Porter. 23:302/6Josie Long presents stories about brushes with the unknown.(R)
| 23:002/4Comic Angela Barnes shares her thoughts on life's big stuff. Love, family, work and death. 23:15Comedian Tez Ilyas's show for everyone interested in British Muslims - or in becoming one. 23:303/6Josie Long hears stories of disappearance.(R)
| 23:00Fred MacAulay looks back at the summer of 2016 with an assembly of top comedians. 23:304/6Josie Long looks for light in the darkness and illumination. From 2016.(R)
| 23:00Sara Pascoe champions Virginia Woolf, author of 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own'.(R) 23:275/6Josie Long presents stories of rivalry.(R) 23:55A rapper and a dance music composer share thoughts on education and creativity
| 23:009/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.(R) 23:30Film-maker and writer Jane Darke puts out to sea with the Cornish poet Charles Causley.(R)
| 23:00Featuring an interview with writer Andrea Gibb, who has adapted Swallows and Amazons.(R) 23:30Mark Tully searches for a contemporary understanding of the word 'passion'.(R)
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