| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:152/6Short documentaries about creating something out of nothing and the beginning of the end.(R) 00:45Church bells from St John the Evangelist, Sidcup, Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The story of man's long and complex relationship with opium - for better, and for worse.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The story of man's long and complex relationship with opium - for better, and for worse.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The story of man's long and complex relationship with opium - for better, and for worse.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The story of man's long and complex relationship with opium - for better, and for worse.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The story of man's long and complex relationship with opium - for better, and for worse.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30What is Edinburgh Festival to the 22-year-old who grew up there?(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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe, United Reformed minister. 05:45Sybil Ruscoe finds out about harvest 2018 and hears food prices will 'inevitably' rise. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the Eurasian scops owl found in Mediterranean regions.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe, United Reformed minister. 05:45With reaction to the US court ruling that the weedkiller glyphosate causes cancer. 05:58Chris Packham presents the wild turkey.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe, United Reformed minister. 05:45There has been a call to to ban using CO2 to stun pigs before slaughter. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the black drongo of Southern Asia.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, United Reformed minister. 05:45More money has been announced to support a campaign promoting UK dairy. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the laughing gull off the Florida coast.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, United Reformed minister. 05:45Wheat genome, Fishing quotas and harvest of willow for cricket bats. 05:58Zoologist Tim Birkhead discusses the monumental dullness of puffins for Tweet of the Day.(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 novelist and poet Zahid Hussain. 05:45Two listeners on their marriages ending. iPM starts with your story. iPM@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset. 05:45Manwar Ali reveals why he changed from violent Islamist fighter to anti-radical campaigner(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.
| 06:00News 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.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Ian Marchant hunts for dragons in the landscape of Radnorshire in Wales.(R) 06:30Sybil Ruscoe visits a Herefordshire farm to find out how the weather is affecting harvest. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik asks whether death could merely be the end of the beginning. 06:35Sybil Ruscoe is in Worcestershire to meet the UK's only Asian strawberry producer. 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 Emily Buchanan. 07:54Olivia Colman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Unicef. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Marking the Edinburgh Festival from Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh. 08:48Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list.(R) 08:58British comedian and freestyle rapper Chris Turner hosts this Tweet of the Day.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Mariella Frostrup and guests debate how best to help children establish good friendships. 09:44A short act of worship with reading, prayer and reflection, presented by Bert Tosh.
| 09:00Peter Hennessy asks David Blunkett to reflect on his political life. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Three midwives talk about the changes they have seen in their profession. 09:30David Cannadine explores how William Gladstone's axe became a powerful political metaphor. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Katharine Longworth.
| 09:00Nimbyism: Is protecting your patch selfish or the right thing to do? 09:303/5Was the history of the car nearly different? Did the Victorians invent the electric car?(R) 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Calvin Samuel.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites the Labour rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981.(R) 09:44A spiritual reflection with prayers led by Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ.
| 09:00Sir Michael Parkinson, Martin Carthy and Kiki Dee's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including a review of the Sunday papers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Listener Week. Legacy Books. Age gap relationships. Adult bullying. Going grey. 10:451/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.
| 10:00Listener Week, where all the topics are chosen by listerners. 10:452/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.
| 10:00Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. How do you best support a mother when her adult child dies? 10:413/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari. 10:55Knowing they will be working into their late 60s is a cause for concern.(R)
| 10:00Listener Week: Being asexual, Post-adoption depression, Disability and inclusion. 10:454/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.
| 10:00Magic of tidying, surviving love at a distance, closing BAME pay gap, abuse in the family. 10:455/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.
| 10:30Commentary on day three of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge.
| 10:00Pressure mounts for Elizabeth, and the wedding day dawns for Harrison and Fallon. 10:30Commentary on day two of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The late General Powell and the Harlem college he co-founded - the poor man's Harvard.(R) 11:302/4The gals from personnel must investigate a suspicious death.
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores our relationship with the 'unicorn of the sea', the narwhal. 11:302/2The story of the rise of a superstar DJ blends with tales of young contemporary India.
| 11:00Kevin Fong explores the latest video gaming smash hit Fortnite as a cultural phenomenon.(R) 11:301/4Sanjay has not been entirely truthful with Ramesh about his college education.
| 11:00The crop that has put women on top in Zanzibar. 11:30Ian Sansom asks people to choose the books they think should be included on his 5ft shelf.
| 11:00Emma Kennedy finds out why so many people in Britain hate their jobs.(R) 11:304/6Ed embarks upon writing a social history and family memoir.(R)
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about freedom.(R) 12:15The battle against ticket touts, homes built on the factory floor, the diesel car market. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Angie Hobbs on Isaiah Berlin's distinction between positive and negative freedom.(R) 12:15What has caused a rift in your family and how do you cope? 12:56The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Barrister Harry Potter on John Stuart Mill's ideas about individual freedom and the state.(R) 12:15Are more councils about to begin charging work places for providing car park spaces? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Theologian Giles Fraser believes true freedom comes from accepting constraints in life.(R) 12:15A whistleblower talks about their security concerns at Vodafone. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Broks brings neuroscience to the philosophical question of whether we have free will.(R) 12:15Calls to change rules on e-cigarette use. And the rise of tribute acts at music festivals.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on day three of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge.
| 12:01The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Commentary on day two of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Timandra Harkness explores the best ways to disagree with others - constructively.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How to constructively disagree in the workplace and with neighbours.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How to constructively disagree over science and factual disputes
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How to constructively disagree over competing moral visions
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45How to constructively disagree over personal preferences.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pressure mounts for Elizabeth.(R) 14:15A man's disappearance in the Scottish mountains more than 60 years ago is investigated.(R)
| 14:00Johnny loses his cool.(R) 14:15Amanda Dalton dramatises Tove Jansson's atmospheric novel. With Sophia Jansson.
| 14:00Kenton has a brainwave.(R) 14:15Two armoured trains meet on a single track in the desert.
| 14:151/2Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Lang vie to persuade Edward VIII not to abdicate.(R)
| 14:00Freddie faces the music.(R) 14:152/2Wallis Simpson's view of the abdication crisis from a safe haven in the south of France.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Gambaccini chairs the wide-ranging music quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon travels to Shetland.(R)
| 15:00The story of two rough sleepers on the streets of east London. 15:30Nigel Kennedy talks to John Wilson about his 1989 recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.(R)
| 15:00Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt.(R) 15:30What do we think about when we think about charities? Is the reality different?(R)
| 15:00Ian Marchant hunts for dragons in the landscape of Radnorshire in Wales. 15:27Broadcaster Gaby Roslin makes an appeal on behalf of National Literacy Trust.(R) 15:30Claire Fuller discusses the appeal of setting a novel in a crumbling country house.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from Herefordshire. 15:45What is Edinburgh Festival to the 22-year-old who grew up there?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Natalie Haynes stands up for Greek playwright Euripides, whose Medea still shocks. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport The Infinite Monkey Cage to GCHQ.
| 16:00Lauren Laverne meets three women who trained to become nuns in the 1970s. 16:30Comedian Simon Evans nominates JS Mill, author of On Liberty.
| 16:003/6Josie Long hears stories of small radical acts that help re-imagine the world around them.(R) 16:30The BBC will not appeal the High Court judgement in the Cliff Richard's privacy case.
| 16:00Christopher Robin, Sir Richard Eyre. 16:30Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer. 16:30Listeners react to A Point of View covering Brexit and say goodbye to Eddie Mair. 16:55Work and romance can go together.(R)
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| 17:00 | 17:00Chris Mason with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Chris Mason with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Chris Mason with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Chris Mason with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Chris Mason with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Turkey's central bank has announced new measures to try to end the financial crisis. 18:30How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation?
| 18:00Motorway bridge collapses in Genoa; police investigate suspected terror attack in London 18:304/4Jake Yapp applies his sharp satirical eye to social media.
| 18:00An English couple have described how they were forced to flee on foot. 18:306/6Josh and his wife Monique's big day finally arrives.(R)
| 18:00The Queen of Soul sold more than 75 million records during a career spanning 7 decades. 18:30Fresh from the Fringe showcases the best in comedy from the festival. Hosted by Ahir Shah.
| 18:00Rory Stewart says he'll resign if he fails to tackle violence and drugs in jails 18:305/5A lively show on current events and trends with a female panel, hosted by Jo Bunting.
| 18:00Commentary on day three of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge. 18:45Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Commentary on day two of the third Test between England and India, from Trent Bridge. 18:45John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Comedians Rosie Jones and Janeane Garofalo discuss their one woman shows. 19:451/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.(R)
| 19:15Drag queen band Denim, Maggie O'Farrell, and dramatizing our online lives. 19:452/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.(R)
| 19:15Brian May on his passion for Victorian 3D photography, and three Fringe shows by doctors. 19:453/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.(R)
| 19:15Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul', has died - Front Row assesses her life and work. 19:454/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.(R)
| 19:00The wedding day dawns for Harrison and Fallon. 19:15How people with dwarfism have been represented in art and culture. 19:455/5A new mystery set in 10th-century Japan for Lady Shonagon and her Lieutenant Yukinari.(R)
| 19:00Syrian qanun virtuoso Maya Youssef on the healing power of music. Recorded at WOMAD.(R) 19:15At the Edinburgh Festivals: theatre, film, comedy, artist Raqib Shaw and Andrew Miller.
| 19:00Reality bites for Fallon. 19:15Henry Normal takes a poetic look at imagination and the reasons why humans create. 19:45By Nick Walker. Annika investigates the death of Tor's class teacher.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Kevin Fong explores the latest video gaming smash hit Fortnite as a cultural phenomenon. 20:30Aurelia Brouwers had mental illness - when she died from euthanasia in Holland she was 29.(R)
| 20:00Journalist David Aaronovitch explores the idea of the Deep State. 20:40The clinical trial of a new treatment for glaucoma.
| 20:00Anne McElvoy, with Gabrielle Rifkind, invites two opposed figures to listen to each other. 20:45Waney Squier reveals the price she paid for changing her mind about shaken-baby syndrome.
| 20:00The collapse of the Turkish lira has exposed deeper problems. How bad is the situation? 20:30More and more of us will have to work into our 70s, so is this the end of retirement?
| 20:00Shaun Ley presents political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London. 20:50Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list.
| 20:00What do the working class heroes of 1960s cinema say about class in the Britain of 2018?
| 20:00Listeners react to A Point of View covering Brexit and say goodbye to Eddie Mair.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00The beguiling and mysterious otter leads Brett Westwood on a merry spraint hunt. From 2018(R) 21:30Mariella Frostrup and guests debate how best to help children establish good friendships.(R)
| 21:00What do we think about when we think about charities? Is the reality different?(R) 21:30Peter Hennessy asks David Blunkett to reflect on his political life.(R)
| 21:00Andy Zaltzman spends a week living by the rules of the Stoic school of philosophy.(R) 21:30Three midwives talk about the changes they have seen in their profession.(R)
| 21:00Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision 21:30Nimbyism: Is protecting your patch selfish or the right thing to do?(R)
| 21:00The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.
| 21:00Mickey's testing of Capitaine Vasserot's new communication device does not go to plan.(R) 21:457/10Psychotherapist Susie Orbach meets high-achieving lawyer Helen.(R)
| 21:00Inflation can change your sex life - and pretty much everything else.(R) 21:26Olivia Colman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Unicef.(R) 21:30More and more of us will have to work into our 70s, so is this the end of retirement?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Measures by Turkey's central bank to stabilise the lira fail to reverse its decline. 22:451/5The recently widowed Laura Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel. Read by Eleanor Bron.
| 22:00Italian government says around 30 people have died - but numbers could rise. 22:452/5Mrs Palfrey meets Ludo and falls into a lie.
| 22:00The UN calls the abuse of thousands of children by Pennsylvania priests 'disturbing'. 22:453/5Ludo turns up at the Claremont with violets.
| 22:00She entertained generations, with hits including "Respect" and "Say A Little Prayer" 22:454/5Mrs Palfrey enjoys a pie and the real Desmond makes a visit
| 22:00Regional government says rain is the worst in almost one hundred years. 22:455/5Mrs Palfrey loans Ludo money. She falls, breaks her hip and is taken to hospital.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Anne McElvoy, with Gabrielle Rifkind, invites two opposed figures to listen to each other.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the political week ahead.
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| 23:00 | 23:002/4Boswell attempts to write a biography of Karl Marx.(R) 23:30Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle.(R)
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport The Infinite Monkey Cage to GCHQ.(R) 23:30How a 13-year-old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents.(R)
| 23:002/4Stand-up Felicity Ward downloads a phone app to treat her IBS. 23:153/4Kayvan Novak imagines the answerphone messages of controversial columnist Katie Hopkins.(R) 23:30Lise Meitner, the humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb.(R)
| 23:00Showcases the best comedy from the Edinburgh Festival 2018. Hosted by Darren Harriott. 23:30Naomi Alderman describes how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas.(R)
| 23:00Comedian Simon Evans nominates JS Mill, author of On Liberty.(R) 23:25Philip Ball tells the story of Michael Faraday and his 'first instructess' in chemistry.(R) 23:55Climbing to the top of a fire ladder is a daunting business.(R)
| 23:00Paul Gambaccini chairs the wide-ranging music quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough and Kate Tempest present a selection of listeners' requests.(R)
| 23:001/8Radiolab looks behind the curtain of how memories are made... and forgotten.
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