| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15When is mixed-race heritage passed down to the next generation and when is it not?(R) 00:45Church bells from the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake in Oxfordshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5With regret, author Alberto Manguel has to pack up his library of 35,000 volumes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5With regret, the author Alberto Manguel has to pack up his library of 35,000 volumes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5With regret, the author Alberto Manguel has to pack up his library of 35,000 volumes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5With regret, the author Alberto Manguel has to pack up his library of 35,000 volumes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5With regret, the author Alberto Manguel has to pack up his library of 35,000 volumes.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A dreamlike meditation on life and ageing from Irish author David Hayden.(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. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45Red Tractor Assurance have introduced a new auditing system. Sybil Ruscoe asks why. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the common pheasant.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45The Government makes a major announcement relating to the export of animals for slaughter. 05:58Tiffany Francis recalls not realising she's seen a corncrake on Lunga for Tweet of the Day(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45Does the 'free-range' label on our eggs tell us enough about how the hens are kept? 05:58David Attenborough presents the ptarmigan.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45EU commissioner for agriculture and rural development Phil Hogan on reforming the CAP. 05:58Kate Humble presents the black grouse.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bob Fyffe of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. 05:45How safe will environmental safeguards be after Brexit? Caz Graham discusses. 05:58Professor Andy Radford recalls first hearing curlews as a child on the Yorkshire moors.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day with Canon Stephen Shipley. 05:45A listener rekindles a relationship with an old flame but is cut off by her family.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from Chapel Allerton, West Yorkshire. 05:45Karen Pierce is the UK's new ambassador at the UN in New York.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Helen Mark visits Coventry to discover its Edgelands, the places in between landscapes.(R) 06:30Food labels - what's on them, what do they mean, and how might they change in the future. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully discusses the art of teaching and asks if great teachers are born or made. 06:35They take deer farming pretty seriously in New Zealand. Nancy Nicolson tours a huge farm. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10The latest on the Syrian conflict, plus how should Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi. 07:54Lorraine Kelly makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Sightsavers. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Beverley Humphreys reflects on renewal in a service from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. 08:48Tom Shakespeare on why we misuse the language of mental illness.(R) 08:58Martin Noble of British Sea Power introduces his favourite species from Tweet of the Day.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Pastor Alex Robertson.
| 09:00The Facebook Cambridge Analytica data and the Catholic church in pre-Reformation Europe. 09:302/5Does Japanese knotweed deserve its place as the most hated plant in the UK?(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Siku.
| 09:00Why has Procol Harum's track remained so popular for over 50 years? 09:301/5An exploration of the idea of secret knowledge.(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Becky Silver.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites the witnesses of the so-called Enfield Poltergeist in 1977.(R) 09:44A space for spiritual reflection with Christian music, led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Award-winning comedian and comedy writer Andy Hamilton.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. 10:451/5Therapist Martha braces herself for the arrival of accident prone Richard Fallon MP.
| 10:00Financial hardships for kinship carers, and how can teenagers be happy? 10:452/5Though Martha has refused Tony a certificate of sanity, he just keeps coming back.
| 10:00Buying drugs online; Theresa Wayman; prison for unpaid council tax; Myna Mahila. 10:413/5Having taken up trolling, Caroline's 32 new online personalities argue among themselves. 10:55When you have had your mother for nearly 60 years, life without her seems impossible.
| 10:00Rose Tremain on memory, motherhood and love. Abuse reports - what do they achieve? 10:454/5Philip is back. He has just been taken on by an actors' agency.
| 10:00Jenni Murray talks to the first female president of the Commonwealth Games Federation. 10:455/5An ill-judged tweet discloses Richard's confidential invitation to appear on reality TV.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and his panel are in the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Wales.
| 10:00Life proves difficult for Alistair, and there is tension at Home Farm.
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| 11:00 | 11:00AL Kennedy goes in search of epiphanies - a revelation, the 'aha' instant, a eureka moment 11:304/4Poet and entertainer Pam Ayres presents poems and sketches about holidays.
| 11:00James Gallagher explores how our second genome is driving our metabolism and health. 11:30An intimate portrait of singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Hannah Peel.
| 11:00Ruth Sanderson asks if Northern Ireland politics are increasingly neither orange nor green(R) 11:301/4The problems of finding the perfect mate, including how the bicycle revolutionised sex.(R)
| 11:00One woman's mission to reunite families amid the rubble of Mosul. 11:30Louise K Wilson asks fellow artists why the Cold War is so creatively inspiring.
| 11:00What will an opt-out organ donation system really mean for the families asked to consent? 11:303/6Sandy takes a fashionable cure for memory loss.(R)
| 11:00Bridget Kendall and guests discuss Ferdinand Magellan's efforts to sail round the world. 11:30Correspondents around the world examine the stories behind the news headlines.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites the pioneering environmentalists behind the 1997 Kyoto protocol.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04On the edge of Folkestone, Edie wakes up to an unwelcome intrusion. 12:15Getting into gigs with a disability, struggling rural high streets and wind farms on Lewis 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. Marieke Argent is fed up. 12:15Winifred Robinson asks what it is like doing business on the High Street today. 12:56The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15Online bank fraud is on the rise, and banks want us to do more to help stop it. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Walter reconsiders his position. 12:15Garden centres are seeing a freeze on plant sales after the recent cold weather. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15Why the man who first brought self service checkouts to the UK has gone off them.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Energy customers feel pressured into accepting digital meters which are not compulsory. 12:30Miles Jupp is joined by Angela Barnes, Andy Hamilton, Zoe Lyons and Hugo Rifkind.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon explores food from the border to Belfast in a country on the brink of Brexit 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Rana Mitter tells the story of China's first and only female emperor.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45The power couple who reunited China and nearly lost it to Japan.
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including US and Russia make threats over Syria. 13:45The translator and Buddhist monk whose words are chanted daily by millions of Chinese.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45The Jesuit who brought together Renaissance Europe and Ming China through geometry.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Rana Mitter on the life of one of China's most important feminist authors.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Oxford Town Hall.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Rajesh Mirchandani goes on an exploration of coincidence.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Life proves difficult for Alistair.(R) 14:15Drama imagining the inner world of Ella, who is in a minimally conscious state.(R)
| 14:00Freddie is confronted.(R) 14:15Jane Rogers drama imagines a future in which virtual and real world boundaries blur.(R)
| 14:00Pat helps a friend in need.(R) 14:15The British Army is in pell-mell retreat, and must face up to losing the war.
| 14:00Jazzer looks to the future.(R) 14:15Drama about a young woman with cerebral palsy by Francesca Martinez.
| 14:00There's tension at Home Farm.(R) 14:15Following a public outcry, a waxworks decides to purge its most offensive exhibits.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?
| 14:00Peter Gibbs invites the panel to join him at Cranfield University.(R) 14:45The ultimate destination is death, but everyone travels a different journey.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the nation's longest-running general knowledge contest. 15:30Dan Saladino looks behind the headlines of the newly introduced sugar tax.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner launches a new series in Golders Green, London, with guest Claudia Roden.(R) 15:30Lindsey Chapman investigates how shifting seasons are affecting wildlife.
| 15:00Is cash a thing of the past, or vital of our future? 15:30Laura Barton explores the music we choose when we are in the car.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Coventry to discover its Edgelands, the places in between landscapes. 15:27Cathy Newman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Shannon Trust.(R) 15:30Diana Evans talks to Mariella Frostrup about her third novel, Ordinary People.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs invites the panel to join him at Cranfield University. 15:45A dreamlike meditation on life and ageing from Irish author David Hayden.
| 15:001/2A modern retelling by Val McDermid of John Wyndham's classic science fiction tale.(R)
| 15:001/2Comic mastery starring Joanna Lumley, Martin Jarvis, Ian Ogilvy and Michael York
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| 16:00 | 16:003/4Natalie Haynes stands up for the little-known but super-influential Greek writer Lucian.(R) 16:30A discussion on the different ways of understanding the world around us.
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks if we are living through a crisis of language in public debate. 16:30Ayesha Hazarika champions her hero Jayaben Desai who led the Grunwick strike in 1976.
| 16:00The shortlist for the 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award 2018. 16:30How the media lives in the shadow of big tech.
| 16:00Antonia Quirke talks to Noel Cronin, the man behind cult channel Talking Pictures TV. 16:30How widespread is pesticide use in British farming? Adam Rutherford presents.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an artist, a dictator, a naturalist, a model and a magician. 16:30Radio 4's forum for audience comment. 16:55Bringing a refugee family into her home has changed both families' lives for the better.
| 16:00GRRRL perform live. Authors Rose Tremain and Ruth Jones. And getting the wedding you want.
| 16:00Jennifer Clement on her new novel, Gun Love. 16:302/4Paul Farley meets poets Caroline Bird and Kaveh Akbar.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Caroline Wyatt with coverage of the day's news. 17:30A listener rekindles a relationship with an old flame but is cut off by her family.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Jonathan Izard attempts to come to terms with killing a man in a road traffic accident.(R) 17:40Karen Pierce is the UK's new ambassador at the UN in New York.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00President Trump says 'major' decisions will be made within hours 18:302/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00UK, US and France agree on the need to respond to the suspected chemical attack in Syria. 18:304/6Julie is having a tough time with her new bloke, and Danno has a shameful secret to share.(R)
| 18:00Trump warns Russia of missile strike on Syria in response to alleged chemical attack. 18:302/4Multicultural sketch show hosted by broadcaster and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli.
| 18:00The President says a Western attack could come "very soon or not so soon at all." 18:306/6Yet another fight-to-the-death for Thor, but will this one have a happy ending?
| 18:00UN secretary general warns against letting standoff 'spiral out of control' 18:30Miles Jupp is joined by Angela Barnes, Andy Hamilton, Zoe Lyons and Hugo Rifkind.
| 18:00The US, the UK and France launch joint action to limit Syria's chemical weapons programme 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The Labour leader says the government should have sought the approval of MPs 18:15John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Writers Ben Okri and Joanne Harris discuss writing to be read aloud. 19:451/5Therapist Martha braces herself for the arrival of accident prone Richard Fallon MP.(R)
| 19:00Pat helps a friend in need. 19:15Musician Viv Albertine's new memoir and how BBC Three is attracting young audiences. 19:452/5Though Martha has refused Tony a certificate of sanity, he just keeps coming back.(R)
| 19:00Jazzer looks to the future. 19:15Naomie Harris on fighting oversized genetically-modified predators in new film Rampage. 19:453/5Having taken up trolling, Caroline's 32 new online personalities argue among themselves.(R)
| 19:00There's tension at Home Farm. 19:15As singer Janelle Monáe's video for PYNK drops, we consider game-changing music videos. 19:454/5Philip is back. He has just been taken on by an actors' agency.(R)
| 19:15Singaporean author Sharlene Teo on her praised debut novel Ponti. 19:455/5An ill-judged tweet discloses Richard's confidential invitation to appear on reality TV.(R)
| 19:00Karen Pierce is the UK's new ambassador at the UN in New York. 19:15Quiz play, Custody film, Lost in Space, Nikesh Shukla novel, Surface Work exhibition.
| 19:00Shula tries to justify her actions. 19:151/2Ruby Wax explains how we got to be so frazzled and what we can do about it. 19:45Sarah Birkett dreams of discovering new rooms in her house.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Ruth Sanderson asks if Northern Ireland politics are increasingly neither orange nor green 20:30How is the city of Athens finding homes for the thousands of refugees who live there?(R)
| 20:00Jonathan Izard attempts to come to terms with killing a man in a road traffic accident. 20:40RNIB chair Eleanor Southwood on RNIB's crisis following Sally Harvey's resignation.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests ask if plans to modernise the courts threaten access to justice. 20:45David Reid warns of the dangers of encoding unconscious bias into artificial intelligence.
| 20:00Why does violent crime seem to be on the rise in some parts of the UK? 20:30How have workers and businesses fared in Ohio, one of the worst hit states?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Oxford Town Hall. 20:50Tom Shakespeare on why we misuse the language of mental illness.
| 20:00Amol Rajan reflects on Enoch Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech and hears it in full.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for audience comment.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an artist, a dictator, a naturalist, a model and a magician.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brian Kernohan explores the hidden world of wigs to solve his own not-so-secret hair loss.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin.(R)
| 21:00Laura Barton explores the music we choose when we are in the car.(R) 21:30The Facebook Cambridge Analytica data and the Catholic church in pre-Reformation Europe.(R)
| 21:00Lindsey Chapman investigates how shifting seasons are affecting wildlife.(R) 21:30Why has Procol Harum's track remained so popular for over 50 years?(R)
| 21:00How widespread is pesticide use in British farming? Adam Rutherford presents. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.(R)
| 21:00Set in the week in 1918 when Maud Allen's controversial production of Salome was cancelled
| 21:002/2Martin Jarvis directs Alfred Molina and an all-star cast in Ibsen's thriller.(R)
| 21:00Energy customers feel pressured into accepting digital meters which are not compulsory.(R) 21:26Lorraine Kelly makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Sightsavers.(R) 21:30How have workers and businesses fared in Ohio, one of the worst hit states?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00The US warns it will respond to the attack in Syria regardless of what the UN decides. 22:456/10Nelson has begun working at the garage leaving his pregnant new wife at his parents' house
| 22:00Facebook's chief executive apologises for allowing firms to misuse personal data. 22:457/10Pru, heavily pregnant, has had an accident at a party. They pray the baby will survive.
| 22:00Theresa May is to hold a special cabinet meeting on military action in Syria. 22:458/10With a new baby on the way, the house is getting pretty crowded. A decision must be made.
| 22:00The US, UK and France discuss a co-ordinated response following the Douma chemical attack. 22:459/10Having broken the news of their departure to Ma Springer, Harry and Janice go on holiday.
| 22:00Former FBI director compares the President to a mafia crime boss. 22:4510/10By John Updike. On the eve of becoming a father, Harry's son Nelson takes drastic action.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests ask if plans to modernise the courts threaten access to justice.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests debate the UK's involvement in the airstrikes on Syria.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Stephen Hough and Stephanie Street join Libby Purves for live, nocturnal conversation. 23:30Aleks Krotoski explores whether we use rituals enough in the digital world.(R)
| 23:001/4The team battle each other for a new job that has just opened up in the office.(R) 23:30Aleks Krotoski explores the world of spam, scams and caches of forgotten gold.(R)
| 23:00Break-out comedy star Sophie Willan explores what it is to be 'polite'. 23:151/4John Moloney returns with more stand-up comedy - mostly about his much-loved cat Edward.(R) 23:30Aleks Krotoski asks if technology is changing our experience and relationship with shame.(R)
| 23:002/4Interview with the star of a new musical about yoghurt and the Greek financial crisis. 23:30Aleks Krotoski looks at how our online world can be a portal to a better physical world.(R)
| 23:00Ayesha Hazarika champions her hero Jayaben Desai who led the Grunwick strike in 1976.(R) 23:30Clare Balding walks with the staff, pupils and parents of Saltersgate School, Midlothian.(R) 23:55Friends reflect on life no longer lived abroad.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the nation's longest-running general knowledge contest.(R) 23:301/4Poet Robin Robertson shares extracts from his new noir narrative, The Long Take.(R)
| 23:00Antonia Quirke talks to Noel Cronin, the man behind cult channel Talking Pictures TV.(R) 23:30Mark Tully discusses the art of teaching and asks if great teachers are born or made.
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