| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15How the meanings of light and dark have changed over time in the context of urban life.(R) 00:45Church bells from St Michael's Church, Mottram in Longdendale.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A young man makes a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury - and then keeps walking.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Snow drifts and ice pose life-threatening danger as the author attempts the Alps.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5In Northern Italy, following the Via Francigena, Guy needs help to cross a river.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Memories of the author's breakdown resurface in Thessaloniki.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Guy arrives in Jerusalem, after 5,500km on foot, without triumph or celebration.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Silence takes on a new shape for Ethel in a house that is too big for her. By Remi Graves.(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. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks why Welsh farmers are being given £3 million of tax-payers' money. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the swift.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Countryside Stewardship Scheme delays, bees and agrochemical research, wildflowers. 05:58Andy Clements is entranced by the song of the garden warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Will there be any money for farming left after the Brexit dividend is handed out? 05:58Folk musician Sam Lee on the nightingale for Tweet of the Day.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45Gene edited pigs which are immune to a virus have been bred at The Roslin Institute. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the nightjar.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev David Bruce. 05:45There's a CO2 shortage and it could affect chicken supplies by the end of this week. 05:58Writer and wildlife programme-maker Stephen Moss recalls his first encounter with a coot.(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 Amanda Khozi Mukwashi. 05:45We are looking for somewhere to broadcast from. Small horses or small islands?
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton. 05:45Labelled 'the rebel who forgot to rebel', who is Dominic Grieve? Mark Coles finds out.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Clare Balding goes on a musical walk with the composer Alexander Chapman Campbell.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith is at Blenheim Palace Flower Show to learn about the UK's flower industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers the positive power of making a mistake. 06:35Lionel Kelleway explores a remarkable nature reserve close to Warrington. From 2000. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, 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, with William Crawley. 07:54John Sergeant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Zambia Orphans Aid. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme has the best of Monday in Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports on moves to change the law on medicinal cannabis.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the Government wins a crucial Brexit vote.
| 08:31The latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service of thanksgiving to mark the 70th anniversary of the landing of the Windrush. 08:48Will Self on consciousness, humanity and artificial intelligence.(R) 08:58Actor and birdwatcher Samuel West revisits the Tweet of the Day archive for a second week.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Fr Michael Hall.
| 09:00Rachel Mills on volcanoes under the sea and how metal deposits feed the oceans. 09:30Fergus Keeling explores 'life after 60' with psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Rev Richard Carter.
| 09:00Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard meets singer and songwriter Brett Anderson of Suede. 09:30Clare Balding explores the history of the performing horse.(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Dr Joe Aldred.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight. 09:44Christian worship with a reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Sharon Grenham Thompson
| 09:00John Motson, broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:44Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by Canon Edwin Counsell.
| 09:00Presenter Shaun Keaveny with Kriss Akabusi, Kim Appleby, Steven Camden and Ben Okri.
| 09:00Paddy O'Connell asks if we are administering too much morphine.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The highs and lows of dating. Listeners talk about their experiences. 10:451/5Maya and her brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas.
| 10:00Schools minister Nick Gibb on exam stress, Juries in rape cases, Maya Angelou, Wu Man. 10:452/5Maya goes to her mother in California and becomes the victim of a traumatising abuse.
| 10:00Boney M's Marcia Barrett, the 'fourth' trimester of pregnancy, the women on board Windrush 10:413/5After her traumatic experience, Maya finds hope in Mrs Flowers. 10:55When we trained we spent thirteen weeks learning how to be compassionate.
| 10:00Julie, Children & US/Mexico border, Linda Jackson, Danielle de Niese and Katharine Towers. 10:454/5Aged 15, Maya visits her estranged father on a chaotic and surprising trip to Mexico.
| 10:00Frida Kahlo's possessions, image based sexual abuse, a suffrage opera, and singer Mahalia. 10:455/5Maya starts work on the San Francisco trams and her life changes forever.
| 10:30Actor and comedian Sally Phillips in conversation with her heroes - brought back to life.
| 10:45Commentary on the fifth ODI between England and Australia, from Old Trafford.
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| 11:00 | 11:00A young man injured in a terrorist attack faces up to his changing views of the incident. 11:306/6Andy and Jeff face affairs of the heart and cardiac arrest.
| 11:00Why is the age range 16-25 such a crucial time for mental health? 11:30Frances Fyfield celebrates the music manuscripts of Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers.
| 11:00George Parker explores Labour's new policies and how far-reaching they will be.(R) 11:304/6Tom organises a murder mystery event at Plum House.
| 11:00An expanding international force is fighting Islamist extremists on the edge of the Sahara 11:30In search of the musicality and sonic landscape of Virginia Woolf's world.
| 11:00Vanley Burke returns to his photograph of Handsworth’s Africa Liberation Day 1977. 11:304/4All-star comic tour-de-force with Joanna Lumley and Martin Jarvis.
| 11:00Tom Newton Dunn of the Sun looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Turkey's presidential hopefuls, provocative Italian ministers and masked Mexican wrestlers
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Return of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. 12:15Bus journeys plunge outside London as prices rise. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Devon, Adeline Lumley is hoping for a better return. 12:15If you have been assessed for a disability benefit, what impact has it had on you? 12:56The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Hardy Walsh finds his work more of a challenge than he expected. 12:15Low-cost private schools, Asda and Sainsbury's merger, Debenhams under pressure. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, Clarence Ogden leads the school assembly. 12:15Jack Gilbert's reflective poem for the midpoint of summer, read by Simon Russell Beale. 12:20London's house prices, trains that skip stations and can local markets save high streets. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. 12:15Are there too many gambling advertisements on TV during the World Cup?
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Retirement property developers fight back. 12:303/6Holding a wobbly mirror up to the news.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on the fifth ODI between England and Australia, from Old Trafford.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How the nation coped before the NHS, with basic treatments and kitchen table surgery.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Commentary on the third ODI between England and Australia, from Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How the Second World War helped to shape the National Health Service.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:43A playful, surreal take on the life of a man as a bee, read by Anton Lesser. 13:45Commentary on the fourth ODI between England and Australia, from Riverside, Durham.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Mark Mardell. 13:45The highs and lows that followed the launch of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Highbridge Community Hall in Somerset.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00There's more than one surprise for Ruth.(R) 14:15By Philip Palmer. A dystopian love story about the power of language.
| | 14:00Rex makes a confession.(R) 14:15By Gary Owen. A dystopian story questioning what freedom of speech means.
| | 14:00Phoebe offers some advice.(R) 14:15By Barney Norris. Eddie and Carol were lovers, but then Eddie disappeared. Now he's back.
| 14:00Would you pay more tax to fund the NHS? 14:30Simon's heartbroken and he is being stalked by a choir. Sebastian Baczkiewicz's drama.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the grand final of the general knowledge quiz. 15:302/2Sheila Dillon meets farming heroes, global food champions and hails a lifelong achievement
| | 15:00Old gadgets or old clothes, plus how to make money from things you no longer want or need. 15:30Autobiographical memory loss, All in the Mind Awards, Gaming addiction, Spanish Flu.(R)
| | 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts GQT's annual Summer Garden Party at National Trust Mount Stewart. 15:45Silence takes on a new shape for Ethel in a house that is too big for her. By Remi Graves.
| 15:30Frances Fyfield celebrates the music manuscripts of Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Colombian-born artist Alison Turnbull explores butterflies in the Pacific rainforest. 16:30Aleks Krotoski wonders if it's possible to convey a sense of joyful abandon online...
| | 16:00China - how was it lifted out of poverty and what does the future hold? 16:30A live debate from the BBC Radio Theatre about the revolution in news.
| | 16:00Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist. 16:30Reporting Jeremy Corbyn, behind the scenes at Newsbeat and My Dream Dinner Party. 16:55Waking up at four in the morning, worrying about the ward, worrying about the clinic.
| 16:00Mahalia, who began her music career at 13; the importance of the fourth trimester; dating.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 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. 17:30Is opening a franchise a low-risk way to start a business? Evan Davis and guests discuss.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Theresa May has said that taxpayers will have to top up planned increased NHS spending. 18:306/6Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition & deviation?
| 18:00Commentary on the third ODI between England and Australia, from Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6The Wall of Crisps is rocked by an unwitting political scandal.(R)
| 18:00Commentary on the fourth ODI between England and Australia, from Riverside, Durham.
| 18:00BMW and Airbus say failure to agree a post-Brexit trade deal would harm the car industry. 18:303/6Holding a wobbly mirror up to the news.
| 18:00Tens of thousands of people have marched to demand a final vote on any UK Brexit deal. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The President and his AK Party are ahead in both presidential and parliamentary races. 18:15Anna Foster's best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years. 19:451/5Maya and her brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas.(R)
| | 19:00Alice gives some home truths. 19:15Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism. 19:453/5After her traumatic experience, Maya finds hope in Mrs Flowers.(R)
| | 19:15Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets. 19:455/5Maya starts work on the San Francisco trams and her life changes forever.(R)
| 19:00Labelled 'the rebel who forgot to rebel', who is Dominic Grieve? Mark Coles finds out. 19:15Joseph O'Neill's Good Trouble, Shebeen at Stratford East and Paul Wright's Arcadia.
| 19:15Gaby Roslin, Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona present a comedy panel show about films. 19:453/3Verner requires one last prize acquisition to complete his antique music box collection.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00George Parker explores Labour's new policies and how far-reaching they will be. 20:30Can science offer us a realistic prospect of immortality and would it be desirable?
| | 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Historian Gareth Russell reveals how fake news and misquotes have created our history.
| | 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Highbridge Community Hall in Somerset. 20:50Will Self on consciousness, humanity and artificial intelligence.
| 20:00Harold Evans in pursuit of the truth
| 20:00Reporting Jeremy Corbyn, behind the scenes at Newsbeat and My Dream Dinner Party.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Are rates of mental illness in young people really escalating?(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.(R)
| | 21:00Philip Ball tells the story of German chemist Friedrich Wöhler's creation of urea. 21:30Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard meets singer and songwriter Brett Anderson of Suede.(R)
| | 21:00Epic drama, Home Front, returns to Devon for its penultimate season.
| 21:00The first Indian Army soldiers arrive on the battlefields of France.(R) 21:45How the conversations provide a unique record within the British Library archive.(R)
| 21:00Retirement property developers fight back.(R) 21:26John Sergeant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Zambia Orphans Aid.(R) 21:30Can science offer us a realistic prospect of immortality and would it be desirable?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Donald Trump blames the Democrats for his policy of separating the children of migrants. 22:451/10Sylvia arrives in a tight-knit community to take up the post of children's librarian.
| 22:00Matteo Salvini says he'd count the number of Roma in Italy 22:452/10Not everyone in East Mole shares Sylvia's desire to encourage children into the library.
| 22:00Hundreds of patients in a Gosport hospital died after being given dangerous doses of drugs 22:453/10Librarian Sylvia Blackwell meets an ally and receives an unexpected plea for help.
| 22:00We focus on the terror-threat that's spreading across the Sahel. 22:454/10Sylvia Blackwell, new resident of East Mole, has found an ally in fellow newcomer Dr Bell.
| 22:00Report says security services killing hundreds of people without being held to account. 22:455/10Sylvia receives a piece of good news as her friendship with Dr Bell deepens.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Steve Punt investigates the story of the Polish priest who disappeared in Bradford in 1953(R)
| 23:003/4Phil is tasked with putting together a last minute wedding. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:002/4Matt Berry presents his classic 1976 interview with musician Brian Eno. 23:153/4Elvis is struggling to make ends meet, and his dog Trouble likes meat.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports as Theresa May wins a key Brexit vote after a compromise.
| 23:003/4Young political editor Sam Peakes needs a story - fast. 23:30The government's scheme to allow EU nationals to carry on living in the UK after Brexit. 23:55Three poems to reflect on the longest day of the year before the light begins to fade.
| 23:00Tony Parsons and Olly Mann join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.(R) 23:55The patients are amazing people; they're going through all this and just dealing with it.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the grand final of the general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Alison Brackenbury's poems, inspired by her grandmother's recipes; a view into her life.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock meets Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett.(R) 23:30Mark Tully considers the positive power of making a mistake.(R)
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