| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Adam Bradley joins Michael from Los Angeles and talks about the poetry of pop 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Wilfred, Ripon. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Samira Shackle's debut takes us to Karachi in the company of those who live there. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Samira Shackle tells the stories of Karachi-born map-maker Siraj and the teacher, Parveen. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Samira Shackle introduces Zille, a crime reporter, and Safdar remembers a deadly shift. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5In Samira Shackle's journey through Karachi, Parveen has an unsettling meeting. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5In Samira Shackle's journey through Karachi's recent past a crackdown on crime is underway 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:157/10Peter White has a close encounter with an aristocratic wooden leg. 00:30After she misses her bus into town, a woman shares an unusual taxi ride with a stranger. 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 | 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Archdeacon of Bangor, Mary Stallard 05:45A parliamentary inquiry into problems for food exporters. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the blue bird of paradise from Papua New Guinea.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Archdeacon of Bangor, Mary Stallard. 05:45Today, future imports and exports of breeding stock with the EU could hang in the balance. 05:58Naturalist and environmentalist Chris Baines enjoys great spotted woodpeckers.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Archdeacon of Bangor, Mary Stallard. 05:45Warnings of a shortage of staff to work on farms post-Brexit. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the blackcap.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Archdeacon of Bangor, Mary Stallard. 05:45Today we hear questions about the Red Tractor scheme from arable farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the whimbrel.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Archdeacon of Bangor, Mary Stallard. 05:45How sensors on individual tomato plants could help reduce food waste. 05:58Chris Packham presents the shoveler.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Revd Dr Paul Mathole. 05:45Chris Watson captures the sounds from dusk until dawn in a reed bed in Suffolk.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from the Minster Church of St Cuthburga, Wimborne Minster in Dorset. 05:45The first female british chef to win 3 Michelin stars at her own restaurant.
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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. 06:07Helen Mark looks at some of the highlights from the last twelve months of Open Country. 06:30A Lancashire farmer is hiring out her goats for lockdown video calls. 06:57The latest weather forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Samira Ahmed reaches for the edge of the possible and explores the urge to exceed it. 06:35Caz Graham finds out about projects aiming to manage the land in harmony with nature. 06:57The latest weather forecast
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| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Emily Buchanan looks at the ethical and religious issues of the week. 07:54Actor Stephen McGann makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Haemochromatosis UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:48Zoe Strimpel tries to understand her sense of panic at news of Britain closing its borders 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean cock-of-the-rock from Peru.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell. 09:451/5Samira Shackle's debut takes us to Karachi in the company of those who live there.
| 09:00From HIV to influenza and Covid-19, why prevention is better than cure. 09:30Broadcaster Sabet Choudhury discusses his kidney donation to his mum. 09:452/5Samira Shackle tells the stories of Karachi-born map-maker Siraj and the teacher, Parveen.
| 09:00Are teachers more at risk from Covid-19? 09:304/5Timandra Harkness tries to test her views by steelplating the arguments of her opponents. 09:453/5Samira Shackle introduces Zille, a crime reporter, and Safdar remembers a deadly shift.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment. 09:454/5In Samira Shackle's journey through Karachi, Parveen has an unsettling meeting.
| 09:00Monica Galetti, chef, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:455/5In Samira Shackle's journey through Karachi's recent past a crackdown on crime is underway
| 09:00Riyadh Khalaf and the Inheritance Tracks of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.
| 09:00Lifting lockdown - BH convenes a Brains Trust to predict how restrictions can ease.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Do you love your job but work for next to nothing? Have we been sold a myth? 10:451/5Drama about the first cookery book by groundbreaking Indian actress, Madhur Jaffrey.
| 10:00Dolly Parton and She Come By It Natural. More facilities for women in prison. 10:452/5Madhur is in London but with underwhelming food, she starts cooking at her digs.
| 10:00Arlo Parks, Suzanne Heywood on the legacy of her husband Jeremy Heywood & Nadine White. 10:453/5New York and Broadway beckon, marriage and family - and a lifelong friendship.
| 10:00Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire 10:454/5Madhur heads to India after her divorce, filming Shakespeare Wallah.
| 10:00Anita Rani & wrestling star Aleah James, Jackie Weaver, Indian farmers & the Golden Globes 10:455/5When acting work slows, Madhur writes to make money. One interview changes everything.
| 10:307/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show.
| 10:00Tracy puts on a brave face and Tom puts his foot down. 10:54An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring pheasants.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jordan Lee hopes to rebuild trust and counter vaccine hesitancy in his Bradford community. 11:30Tim Harford reports on the global race to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.
| 11:00Two parents share stories of survival after their sons each took their own life. 11:30Mary Portas explores what style means to us and the way we live today.
| 11:001/4James Naughtie examines what President Trump changed and asks what comes next. 11:304/4Comedian Rob Newman presents a unique odyssey of our brains mixing stand-up and sketches.
| 11:00The country faces economic collapse amid tighter restrictions. 11:30The superstar American mezzo soprano on her life, lockdown and being a diva activist.
| 11:00'I let the confidence in myself be shaken.' 11:304/4Maureen and Lesley lure David to the house for a final showdown.
| 11:00George Parker of the FT looks back at the political week 11:30Reflections on Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership after another military coup in Myanmar.
| 11:00George McGavin, entomologist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. 11:45How post-Civil War England produced a radical idea - Toleration - and its role today.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:03The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 12:066/10Witty crime thriller by Richard Osman. Abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne. 12:20The families struggling with slow broadband, opting for faster speeds. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:03The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 12:067/10Crime thriller by Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne. 12:20How has the pandemic changed your life for the long term? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:03The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 12:068/10By Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne. 12:20You & Yours investigates the sale of fake covid test certificates for travel. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:03The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 12:069/10By Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne. 12:20How do you keep unwanted four-legged guests out during lockdown? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:03The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 12:0610/10By Richard Osman. Final episode abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne. 12:20Gambling, Hospitality Trade, Energy Caps and QR Codes 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Caravanners denied refunds on fees, energy price cap rise, more PPI woes and debt worries. 12:306/8A satirical review of the week's news with Andy Zaltzman 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. 12:32Sheila Dillon meets the blind and partially sighted cooks inspiring others. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:451/5Five different writers give illustrated talks on the theme of The River.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:452/5Alan Read explores Estuary Soul in Essex.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:453/5Martin Palmer reflects on rivers and their spiritual significance.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:454/5Writer Kathleen Jamie explores the River Tay in a kayak.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Edward Stourton. 13:455/5Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson follows the course of the North Tyne.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 13:10Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Broadcasting House in London.
| 13:00Edward Stourton looks at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world. 13:30Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Join Greg Jenner for a fun homeschool history lesson on The Great Fire of London. 14:151/5Return of detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Episode by Vivienne Harvey.
| 14:00Jazzer’s got love on the brain 14:152/5Series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Episode 2 by Carol Russell.
| 14:153/5Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Episode 3 by Carol Russell.
| 14:00Lynda receives an intriguing phone call. 14:154/5Created by Danny Brocklehurst. Episode four, Blame, by Martin Jameson.
| 14:155/5Detective series Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst. Ep 5 by Martin Jameson.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:45Broadcaster Sabet Choudhury discusses his kidney donation to his mum.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening panel show. 14:458/10Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled people.
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| 15:00 | 15:009/13Another trio of music lovers joins Paul Gambaccini for the contest of musical knowledge. 15:30Sheila Dillon meets asylum seekers and refugees building new lives in the UK through food.
| 15:006/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show. 15:30How does gravity pull us? asks Emma
| 15:00How to keep your money safe from financial fraud and scams. 15:30Preventing coronavirus at the dentist, and can mouthwash really help kill coronavirus?
| 15:00Helen Mark looks at some of the highlights from the last twelve months of Open Country. 15:27Karen Bartram makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Coroners' Courts Support Services 15:30Johny Pitts talks to Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan.
| 15:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening panel show. 15:45After she misses her bus into town, a woman shares an unusual taxi ride with a stranger.
| 15:00The tragic tale of South African naturalist Eugene Marais. Stars Shaun Evans.
| 15:003/3Dostoevsky’s unsetting tale of revolution and betrayal.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Anna Freeman presents a showcase of stories about the meaning of art in people's lives. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince don chef's hats and aprons to look at the science of cooking.
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks why there are so many terms related to animals in the business world. 16:30The poet and the comedian talk climbing, science fiction, and love with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00A celebration through handwritten manuscript of Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. 16:30JB Perrette, head of Discovery International; plus Netflix's Bridgerton.
| 16:00Angela Allen: Marilyn And Me 16:30Biodiversity, planting trees for good and bad, and the hidden impacts of traffic noise.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an actor, a Saudi Prince and a national hero. 16:30Are teachers more at risk from Covid-19?
| 16:00Arlo Parks, Susannah Constantine and Jackie Weaver.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Tana French about The Wych Elm. 16:301/3Michael Symmons Roberts begins a new series on poetry, the body and metamorphosis.
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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 17:30Five years on, we reassemble a panel that debated leaving the EU. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Stories from the frontline in the fight against Covid-19. 17:40The first female british chef to win 3 Michelin stars at her own restaurant. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Testing to begin in parts of England to find cases linked to the South African variant. 18:304/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00The NHS fundraiser, Captain Sir Tom Moore, has died aged 100. 18:305/5Sitcom by Amna Saleem, starring Kiran Sonia Sawar.
| 18:00Boris Johnson says it's "the most colossal" effort in NHS history. 18:306/6When Joanna tells Roger that they’re ‘in a rut’, he plans a spontaneous day out.
| 18:00The BoE says the UK's Covid-19 vaccination programme will help the economy bounce back. 18:305/6Sarah Millican's hit panel show with two winners - the Average Jolene and Maverick Matilda
| 18:00The UK government says everyone over 50 will be offered a coronavirus vaccine by May. 18:306/8A satirical review of the week's news with Andy Zaltzman
| 18:00The proposals, revealed in a leaked document, would reverse changes made in 2012. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00New version of Oxford vaccine will protect against South African variant of coronavirus 18:15Emma Freud chooses the best of BBC Radio this week
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jazzer’s got love on the brain 19:15Jill Halfpenny; Theatre Royal Stratford East archive; queer writing through the centuries. 19:451/5Drama about the first cookery book by groundbreaking Indian actress, Madhur Jaffrey.
| 19:15Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald discusses his new YouTube film Life In A Day 2020. 19:452/5Madhur is in London but with underwhelming food, she starts cooking at her digs.
| 19:00Lynda receives an intriguing phone call. 19:15Highlights from today's Golden Globe nominations & the first ever online Sundance Festival 19:453/5New York and Broadway beckon, marriage and family - and a lifelong friendship.
| 19:15Sam Neill on new film Rams, a new colour in blue paint, Sarah Maple Gets Creative. 19:454/5Madhur heads to India after her divorce, filming Shakespeare Wallah.
| 19:00Luke Jerram, Malcolm & Marie, and Christopher Plummer remembered 19:455/5When acting work slows, Madhur writes to make money. One interview changes everything.
| 19:00The first female british chef to win 3 Michelin stars at her own restaurant. 19:15Louis Theroux speaks to musician and actor FKA twigs.
| 19:006/12Cynan Jones' electrifying series set in a future a little, but not quite, like our own. 19:15Gemma Arrowsmith presents a lockdown sketch show, trapped inside Broadcasting House. 19:456/10Eleven-year-old Agatha Christie fan Alma is determined to catch the thief.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/4James Naughtie examines what President Trump changed and asks what comes next. 20:30Are we predisposed by our personality to be drawn to certain policies or ideologies?
| 20:00Stories from the frontline in the fight against Covid-19. 20:40Getting the Covid vaccination when you're blind. And the RNIB is selling its London HQ.
| 20:00Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times. 20:45Broadcaster Sabet Choudhury discusses his kidney donation to his mum.
| 20:00Chaos on the US markets last week as GameStop’s price rocketed. But what really happened? 20:30Five years on, we reassemble a panel that debated leaving the EU.
| 20:00Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Broadcasting House in London. 20:50Zoe Strimpel tries to understand her sense of panic at news of Britain closing its borders
| 20:00Travelling in reverse through the archives to trace the roots of the environmental crisis.
| 20:00Are teachers more at risk from Covid-19? 20:30Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an actor, a Saudi Prince and a national hero.
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| 21:00 | 21:00A look back at false stories that went viral online and the real-life harm they caused. 21:30Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.
| 21:00Preventing coronavirus at the dentist, and can mouthwash really help kill coronavirus? 21:30From HIV to influenza and Covid-19, why prevention is better than cure.
| 21:00If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body? 21:30JB Perrette, head of Discovery International; plus Netflix's Bridgerton.
| 21:00Biodiversity, planting trees for good and bad, and the hidden impacts of traffic noise. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
| 21:00A remarkable interview with the notorious double agent, first broadcast in 2009
| 21:002/4Legal drama series set in Manchester 21:45Who are the magicians and why do they enjoy performing for us?
| 21:00Caravanners denied refunds on fees, energy price cap rise, more PPI woes and debt worries. 21:25Actor Stephen McGann makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Haemochromatosis UK. 21:30Are we predisposed by our personality to be drawn to certain policies or ideologies?
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| 22:00 | 22:00Country's elected civilian leadership arrested in series of dawn raids 22:456/10Witty crime thriller by Richard Osman. Abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne.
| 22:00UK Scientists discover same genetic change found in South Africa and Brazil 22:457/10Crime thriller by Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne.
| 22:00Germany sends doctors, nurses and medical equipment to help 22:458/10By Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne.
| 22:00President promises to confront authoritarianism of China and Russia 22:459/10By Richard Osman, abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne.
| 22:00Expulsion comes as EU foreign policy chief visits Moscow 22:4510/10By Richard Osman. Final episode abridged by Sara Davies and read by Haydn Gwynne.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Fi Glover and Jane Garvey chat to BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:005/8Late-night entertainment and wondering with Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. 23:154/12Jon Holmes's award-winning satirical river of sound returns to twist itself into the news. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Stephen Mangan interviews actor David Tennant about his guiltiest memories. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:00Trump quits the movies, but holds on to the GOP. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
| 23:009/13Another trio of music lovers joins Paul Gambaccini for the contest of musical knowledge. 23:30Paul Muldoon delves into the listener requests to choose his favourites
| 23:00Angela Allen: Marilyn And Me 23:30Samira Ahmed reaches for the edge of the possible and explores the urge to exceed it.
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