| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from The Parish Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Liverpool 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Journalist Karoline Kan finds her own story’s roots in the China of previous generations. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Tensions break out when one side of the family wants to build a house three feet too high. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Karoline Kan's brother is accepted into Chinese military university. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Karoline Kan witnesses the slow commercialisation of China and influence from the West. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Karoline Kan gets her first job on an English language magazine in Beijing. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:155/5Twenty years after Big Brother hit our screens and reality TV has produced a president 00:30A woman goes to buy in a car in this unsettling short story for radio by Emma Glass. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ann Memmott 05:45There is a call for more affordable housing for key workers in rural areas. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the house sparrow.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ann Memmott 05:45Concerns have been raised about future trade between Northern Ireland the rest of the UK. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the wood pigeon.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ann Memmott 05:45Informal talks are underway to try and negotiate post-Brexit EU and UK fishing rights. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common tern.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ann Memmott 05:45Responses to the Chancellor's announcements for a green recovery. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common gull.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ann Memmott. 05:45Small producers and farmers face a price cut from Tesco. 05:58The RSPB's Matthew Capper recalls the joy of hearing a bittern for Tweet of the Day.
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rachel Gardner 05:45Nwando Ebizie describes how she experiences the world, through her 'visual snow'
| 05:33The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from Christ Church, Radyr in Cardiff 05:45Mark Coles hears about the life of the man behind the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder.
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| 06:00 | 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 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. 06:07How archaeologists have made new discoveries about the landscape, even during lockdown. 06:30Sybil Ruscoe speaks to Ben Goldsmith about potential new jobs and the green recovery. 06:57The latest weather forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Julie Shapiro reflects on the value of old-fashioned letter-writing. 06:35Verity Sharp meets a young farmer now at the helm of one of the UK’s oldest organic farms. 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. 07:10A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week with Emily Buchanan. 07:54Judy Murray makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Mary's Meals 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 from South Wales Baptist College with Rev Dr Rosa Hunt and Rev Dr Craig Gardiner 08:48Adam Gopnik discusses how the pandemic is bringing out our most conventional behaviours. 08:58Sir David Attenborough presents the emperor penguin from the Antarctic Peninsula.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Sheku Kanneh-Mason gives us the player's perspective on Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto. 09:30Join Greg Jenner for a fun homeschool history lesson on the first Emperor of China. 09:451/5Journalist Karoline Kan finds her own story’s roots in the China of previous generations.
| 09:00How can we help a teenager escape a street gang, forever? 09:30David Cannadine tells the story behind the buzzword Moral Panic. 09:452/5Tensions break out when one side of the family wants to build a house three feet too high.
| 09:00If public spaces need to better reflect our nation - how should they change? 09:453/5Karoline Kan's brother is accepted into Chinese military university.
| 09:00Amol Rajan and a global panel discuss inequality and intergenerational fairness. 09:454/5Karoline Kan witnesses the slow commercialisation of China and influence from the West.
| 09:00Helen Fielding, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:455/5Karoline Kan gets her first job on an English language magazine in Beijing.
| 09:00The Repair Shop's Jay Blades and the Inheritance Tracks of Martha Wainwright.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:456/10Whodunit set in India. Suspect number one finds himself at Vicky's party with a gun.
| 10:00The Cumberlege Review, Clare Chambers, Vaccinations, Isolation Artwork prize winner 10:457/10Suspect number two, a one-time girlfriend of Vicky, is now being blackmailed by him.
| 10:00Reaction to the Cumberlege Review; Motherless Daughters and School Leaving rituals. 10:458/10Suspect number three, left for dead at a building site, has come to the party with a gun.
| 10:00How close are we to the first UK uterine transplant? 10:459/10Suspect number four, Vicky's mother, undergoes a change of character after a car crash.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:4510/10Whodunit set in India. Investigative journalist Arun Advani reveals the shocking truth.
| 10:303/6Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show.
| 10:00Alice has a crisis on her hands and Debbie has concerns over a family member 10:55An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the nightingale.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3An honest and sometimes funny account of living with a disability. 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:00The "bubble", tarot readers, coy gorillas, murder in an idyll and a natural history hero. 11:30How are the world’s musicians, sound artists and poets responding to the loss of species?
| 11:00Covid-19 didn't halt Europe's migration crisis - it made it worse. 11:305/6Funny how a little mistake can lead to big trouble. With Philip Jackson and Mark Benton.
| 11:00Stories from Germany, the UAE, the US, Jordan and the difficult choices in Hong Kong. 11:30A Belfast writer imagines an artist's life for the grandfather who raised him.
| 11:00How street children from Kolkata got to play cricket at Lord's 11:304/4Ramesh and Malcolm’s wedding day plans manage to upset a few people.
| 11:00Pippa Crerar of the Daily Mirror with Radio 4's account of the political week 11:30Stories from France, Norway, Mallorca and Russia, plus Australia's new coronavirus spike.
| 11:00Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Sec Gen, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. 11:453/5Janet Ellis looks at how the dot has helped us communicate.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:046/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service and Will Howard. 12:18New research on the financial impact of the Coronavirus on ethnic minority groups. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:047/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Will Howard. 12:18What is your experience of renting right now? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:048/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service. 12:18News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:049/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Will Howard. 12:18Are British workers able to do the fruit and vegetable picking usually done by foreigners? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:0410/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service and Will Howard. 12:18Holidaymakers could lose thousands of pounds if they don't honour bookings. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The chancellor’s £30 billion giveaway, flight changes and mistakes with furlough payments. 12:305/6It’s not a cure, but they say laughter's the best medicine. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Dame Emma Thompson and teenagers from across the UK call for action on child food poverty. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4 13:451/10The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4 13:452/10Rumors of Russian doping emerge in the British press.
| 13:453/10Meet the drug behind 2012 doping. An anabolic steroid called Oral Turinabol
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4 13:454/10The first bombshell drops. A German TV program alleges massive Russian doping.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4 13:455/10We go inside the investigation that unpicked the Russian doping system.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 13:10Chris Mason presents political debate from London Broadcasting House.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30The nation in conversation as we emerge from Lockdown.
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| 14:00 | 14:007/8The great wheel, dead and not dead, an unnatural wedding. 14:45One of Palmyra's most iconic structures, and the man who gave his life to protect the city
| 14:00Debbie Aldridge reveals some shocking news 14:15By Ali Taylor. Potent drama about an imprisoned mother.
| 14:00Alice has a crisis on her hands 14:15Court case that challenged slavery in Britain. By May Sumbwanyambe.
| 14:00Debbie has concerns over a family member 14:15A man is charged with the attempted drowning of his wife. With Benedict Cumberbatch.
| 14:00Adam makes a big decision 14:15A warm, funny love story by Lucy Gannon. Starring Doon Mackichan and Kevin Whately.
| 14:00Which is now the biggest risk for the UK? Covid-19 or the fear of Covid-19? 14:45Katya Adler talks to James Cracknell about personality and how it can change.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's horticultural panel show. 14:4510/30American film director John Waters makes his selection from the MoMA collection.
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| 15:00 | 15:002/6Three students from Imperial College take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Jaega Wise meets three people speaking out about inequality in the food world.
| 15:002/6Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show. 15:305/6What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?
| 15:00Online lectures yet full tuition fees: Will the university experience be worth the money? 15:30James Gallagher investigates the impact on cancer care of the pandemic
| 15:00How archaeologists have made new discoveries about the landscape, even during lockdown. 15:27Richard Osman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Nystagmus Network 15:30Scott Turow talks about his first thriller, Presumed Innocent, with James Naughtie
| 15:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's horticultural panel show. 15:45A woman goes to buy in a car in this unsettling short story for radio by Emma Glass.
| 15:00By Christina Rossetti, a story of sisterhood and addiction.
| 15:004/6Henry Goodman stars in a dramatisation of Levi's stories about life, matter and chemistry.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Poet Brenda Birungi shares personal accounts of criminal justice that's failing women. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince are back, for now, with a look at how the Universe might end.
| 16:00Lucky socks, pre-match rituals, Nadal’s water bottles. Sport is teeming with superstition. 16:30Nina Sosanya and David Nicholls bring their favourite books to the table
| 16:00Rummage & waste: a social history of recycling and an examination of the meaning of waste. 16:30How news outlets inadvertently published propaganda from a network of fake journalists.
| 16:00Claire Denis, Mark Jenkin, Simon Barraclough and Kevin Markwick. 16:30Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web; Neolithic genomics
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a composer, a cricketer, a politician, an actor 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience.
| 16:00Reaction to the Cumberlege Review.
| 16:00Elizabeth Day talks to the Australian writer Charlotte Wood about her novel The Weekend. 16:301/2Spotlighting the poetry of young people in migrant detention centres and juvenile prisons.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news 17:30Nick Robinson talks to the shadow Home Secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00File on 4 investigates the impact of coronavirus on the nation’s mental health. 17:40Mark Coles hears about the life of the man behind the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Beijing also warns against any decision to reverse Huawei's role in 5G networks 18:304/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00The Director of the FBI launches a withering attack on China 18:304/4Alfie Moore and another policing dilemma - the most broken law in Britain.
| 18:00Rishi Sunak offers job retention bonuses, VAT cuts and meal deals. 18:301/4Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Floella Benjamin about her life and her cars.
| 18:00The UK's top tax official warned two schemes to save jobs may not be value for money. 18:301/6Comedy series about a man struggling to cope with being reincarnated as various animals.
| 18:00Maternity care inquiry to examine 300 more cases 18:305/6It’s not a cure, but they say laughter's the best medicine.
| 18:00Jack Charlton, a member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team, has died aged 85 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Michael Gove doesn't think face coverings should be compulsory in shops in England. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Debbie Aldridge reveals some shocking news 19:15Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone. 19:456/10Whodunit set in India. Suspect number one finds himself at Vicky's party with a gun.
| 19:00Alice has a crisis on her hands 19:15Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80. 19:457/10Suspect number two, a one-time girlfriend of Vicky, is now being blackmailed by him.
| 19:00Debbie has concerns over a family member 19:15US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown. 19:458/10Suspect number three, left for dead at a building site, has come to the party with a gun.
| 19:00Adam makes a big decision 19:15Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America. 19:459/10Suspect number four, Vicky's mother, undergoes a change of character after a car crash.
| 19:00Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home. 19:4510/10Whodunit set in India. Investigative journalist Arun Advani reveals the shocking truth.
| 19:00Mark Coles hears about the life of the man behind the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder. 19:15Simon Armitage is in the shed on his own, self-isolating due to the Coronavirus.
| 19:008/10The sneaky TV quizmaster shows his true colours in an attempt to derail the hopeful champ. 19:152/6Carolyn solves the Case Of The Poisoned Cashews and Martin does the Seven Deadly Sins. 19:453/5The Last Believers by Alex Preston. In Corfu, certain spices have mythological power.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Covid-19 didn't halt Europe's migration crisis - it made it worse. 20:30How critical is the ability to think and plan for the long term?
| 20:00File on 4 investigates the impact of coronavirus on the nation’s mental health. 20:40Rental e-scooters, audio description and accessible gaming.
| 20:00Engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 20:45Nwando Ebizie describes how she experiences the world, through her 'visual snow'
| 20:00What has the pandemic done to healthcare in the UK and will it get back on track? 20:30Working from home and Zoom meetings. But which habits will stick when normality returns?
| 20:00Chris Mason presents political debate from London Broadcasting House. 20:50Adam Gopnik discusses how the pandemic is bringing out our most conventional behaviours.
| 20:00Campaigner Greta Thunberg describes the remarkable and tumultuous past year of her life.
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a composer, a cricketer, a politician, an actor
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| 21:00 | 21:00Naturalist Brett Westwood considers migration in differing forms from the DRC to the UK. 21:30Sheku Kanneh-Mason gives us the player's perspective on Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto.
| 21:00James Gallagher investigates the impact on cancer care of the pandemic 21:30How can we help a teenager escape a street gang, forever?
| 21:00If public spaces need to better reflect our nation - how should they change? 21:30How news outlets inadvertently published propaganda from a network of fake journalists.
| 21:00Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web; Neolithic genomics 21:30Amol Rajan and a global panel discuss inequality and intergenerational fairness.
| 21:00The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
| 21:007/9Nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai. 21:452/6A Welsh girl visits India to meet her father's family.
| 21:00The chancellor’s £30 billion giveaway, flight changes and mistakes with furlough payments. 21:25Judy Murray makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Mary's Meals 21:30How critical is the ability to think and plan for the long term?
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| 22:00 | 22:00Foreign Secretary names 2 organisations and 47 foreign nationals who will be targeted 22:456/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service and Will Howard.
| 22:00Chinese social media app decision follows introduction of new security law 22:457/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Will Howard.
| 22:00Chancellor unveils economic measures to help UK recover from coronavirus pandemic 22:458/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service.
| 22:00Gyms and swimming pools given opening dates 22:459/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Will Howard.
| 22:00Severe resurgence of covid cases in the Sunshine State 22:4510/10Gripping contemporary novel by Lottie Moggach. Read by Maggie Service and Will Howard.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
| 22:00News and political discussion with Carolyn Quinn and guests.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Christopher Frayling's profile of Italian film and TV score composer Ennio Morricone. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince are back, for now, with a look at how the Universe might end. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:005/6Christine Kavanagh plays a shop assistant in this comic monologue by Jenny Eclair. 23:151/4Fast-paced sketch show from character comedian Damien Slash (aka Daniel Barker). 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:003/4Leo meets a new friend of his wife who has a secret in store for him. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Nina Sosanya and David Nicholls bring their favourite books to the table 23:30Has the bicycle had its day? Or is it a technology whose best years lie ahead? 23:45News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:002/6Three students from Imperial College take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 23:30We join Helen Mort in Sheffield as she chooses her favourite poems.
| 23:00Claire Denis, Mark Jenkin, Simon Barraclough and Kevin Markwick. 23:30Julie Shapiro reflects on the value of old-fashioned letter-writing.
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