| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Matthew Syed re-examines the origins of the Stockholm Syndrome. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the Minster and Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Bill Gates sets out a far-reaching plan for how the world can avoid a climate catastrophe 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Bill Gates on concrete's charms and the technological innovations to make it sustainably. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Bill Gates on livestock and reducing their methane emissions, and deforestation. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Bill Gates on climate-smart crops and investing in mangrove forests. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Bill Gates on how innovation, policies, and people can solve climate change. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:159/10Peter White searches for the voices of children with disabilities in the 19th century. 00:30An original short work for radio which reflects this week's news. By Sophie Duker. 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 spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Reverend Lucy Winkett 05:45Farmers paid carbon credits for improving soil with beef cattle, C19 and rural communities 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the Arabian babbler of a Yemeni Desert.
| 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 The Reverend Lucy Winkett 05:45Calls for tougher regulations to protect the welfare of farmed fish during slaughter. 05:58Chris Packham presents the great northern diver.
| 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 The Reverend Lucy Winkett 05:45Anna Hill hears about debate over how results of the AHDB levy vote should be interpreted. 05:58Chris Packham presents the grey heron.
| 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 The Reverend Lucy Winkett 05:45New plant import restrictions are announced to protect GB against Xylella disease. 05:58John Aitchison presents the Slavonian grebe.
| 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 The Reverend Lucy Winkett 05:45Companies providing rural home care reduce services due to staff shortages and high costs. 05:58Kate Humble presents the bittern.
| 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 Chine McDonald 05:45Sound recordist Chris Watson introduces a dawn chorus from 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 church of St Gregory, Bedale in North Yorkshire. 05:45The first African and first woman elected head of the World Trade Organisation.
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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. 06:07Oscar winner Gareth Ellis-Unwin shares his local riverside route with Clare Balding 06:30How Microsoft is using Australian cattle ranches to offset its carbon emissions. 06:57The latest weather forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05A time of exile or renewal? Samira Ahmed explores the impact of periods away from society. 06:35Anna Hill looks back at the impact of the Foot and Mouth outbreak, 20 years ago this week. 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. 07:10William Crawley with a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week 07:54The Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Feedback. 07:57The latest weather forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Fr Dermot Preston SJ of St Aloysius’ Church, Glasgow and spirituality guide Mary O’Duffin. 08:48Susie Orbach on finding the right words to help get us through the pandemic. 08:58Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde is inspired by the spectacle of migrating barnacle geese.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed. 09:451/5Bill Gates sets out a far-reaching plan for how the world can avoid a climate catastrophe
| 09:00Jane Hurst reveals how mice are ruled by their noses. 09:30Sabet donated a kidney to his mum. He chats to Faruk about his campaign for more donors. 09:452/5Bill Gates on concrete's charms and the technological innovations to make it sustainably.
| 09:00Is the UK’s Covid-19 death count among the worst in the world? 09:301/5Will Self ponders the origins of our insatiable thirst for bottled waters. 09:453/5Bill Gates on livestock and reducing their methane emissions, and deforestation.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages. 09:454/5Bill Gates on climate-smart crops and investing in mangrove forests.
| 09:00Malala Yousafzai, activist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:455/5Bill Gates on how innovation, policies, and people can solve climate change.
| 09:00Salvage Hunter Drew Pritchard, actor and writer Andi Osho, and listener Hannah Mornement.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00A year after Caroline Flack's death we talk about grief with one of her close friends. 10:451/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 10:00Struggles to juggle family and career, Seymour Platt, Christine Keeler's son, 'mini pill' 10:452/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 10:00Emma Barnett presents Woman's Hour with Mary Beard, Sarah Smith and news on vulva anxiety. 10:453/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 10:00Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire 10:454/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 10:00Zara McDermott & Baroness Morgan, Dr Angela Joyce & Dr Tracey Jensen and Mehreen Baig. 10:455/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 10:30Greg James, proud radio nerd, returns to rummage through the BBC's vast archives.
| 10:00Contemporary drama in a rural setting 10:54An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the rarely seen water rail.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Stand-up poet and performer Elvis MacGonagall is in search of place to... perform. 11:30Tim Harford reports on the global race to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.
| 11:00Journalist Sebastian Payne asks if Boris Johnson's government can ‘level up’ the UK. 11:30Mary Portas explores what style means to us and the way we live today.
| 11:003/4James Naughtie looks at how Joe Biden will deal with Donald Trump's economic legacy. 11:302/4Matt, Bob and Jess go to a festival.
| 11:00Tribesmen in Yemen's Shabwa province talk about their experiences of the conflict. 11:301/2A vibrant new portrait of John Keats 200 years after his death and in the era of Covid.
| 11:001/3Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain. 11:30Suggs takes us on a trip around London's Docklands.
| 11:00Cautious but irreversible; the promises and risks of lifting lockdown. 11:30Jacob Zuma is evading a corruption inquiry, but how much longer can he continue to do so?
| 11:00Sophia Loren shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 11:45The struggle of Victorian working men to form trade unions with real negotiating power.
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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. 12:066/101979: As the dispute still drags on at The Times, Vernon's life is also in disarray. 12:20How teddy bears are doing their bit to help out in the pandemic. 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. 12:067/10It’s 1994, and Val is manning the phones. Ben has been rescued. 12:20Call You & Yours: Are you struggling to pay your rent or mortgage? 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. 12:068/10In the summer of 1994, Vern goes to Glyndebourne. Jo gives a singing lesson. 12:20What next for students who've been paying for accommodation they've barely been living in? 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. 12:069/101994: Alec has completed an Open University teaching degree and is about to start work. 12:20The government is cutting funding for the green homes grant scheme. 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. 12:0610/102009: The imaginary reel of time is slowing and the possible future lives draw to a close. 12:20Listen to criminals planning theft from people whose pension pots have already been hit. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Long delays on bank fraud lines, new costs on online goods and renting empty student rooms 12:308/8A 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. 12:046/63 comedic couples try to smuggle truths past opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Jaega Wise explores the ceremony and ritual of drinking tea. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:451/5Told by a classmate, the story of one school and three students who were killed.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:452/5Told by a classmate, the story of one school and three students who were killed.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:453/5Told by a classmate, the story of one school and three students who were killed.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:454/5Told by a classmate, the story of one school and three students who were killed.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Edward Stourton. 13:455/5Told by a classmate, the story of one school and three students who were killed.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 13:10Anita Anand presents political discussion and debate.
| 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 William Shakespeare. 14:15By Rex Obano. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
| 14:00Tony reaches the end of his tether. 14:15By Roy Williams. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
| 14:00Lilian attempts to keep the peace. 14:15By Winsome Pinnock. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.
| 14:00Lynda tries a new tactic. 14:15An elaborate hoax goes wrong on a cold Russian night.
| 14:00There’s an emotional goodbye for Kirsty 14:15An elaborate hoax goes wrong on a cold Russian night.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:45Sabet donated a kidney to his mum. He chats to Faruk about his campaign for more donors.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening panel show. 14:4510/10Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
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| 15:00 | 15:0011/13Another trio of music lovers joins Paul Gambaccini for the contest of musical knowledge. 15:30Why was the late Charles Campion so driven to tell food stories? Dan Saladino finds out.
| 15:00Josie Long presents short documentaries about acts of love. 15:30What determines left or right handedness? asks Neal Shepperson
| 15:00How has the coronavirus pandemic changed renting? 15:30How are people with long Covid being supported? James Gallagher investigates.
| 15:00Oscar winner Gareth Ellis-Unwin shares his local riverside route with Clare Balding 15:27Katie Gee makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) 15:30Elizabeth Day talks to actor Ethan Hawke about his new novel.
| 15:00Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening panel show. 15:45An original short work for radio which reflects this week's news. By Sophie Duker.
| 15:001/2A tale charting the Jazz Age via a glamorous but doomed marriage.
| 15:002/3Dramatisation of Hardy's novel about beautiful, poor, young Tess Durbeyfield.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Reinvention, rebuild, remake and repair! 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince look at the history of rock. Not Pink Floyd... actual rock.
| 16:00Chloe Davis, creator of The Queen's English dictionary of LGBTQIA+ slang, talks to Michael 16:30Does a Tiger Come to Tea? Harriett Gilbert finds out.
| 16:00Matthew Syed explores a tragic court battle which rests upon one crucial statistic. 16:30Robert Moore and producer Sophie Alexander explain their first draft of history.
| 16:00Seamus McGarvey's Lockdown Diary 16:30Landing, driving, flying on Mars, and where on Earth to look out for the next big virus.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a president, a singer, a businessman and a pornographer. 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience.
| 16:00Women at breaking point, revenge porn, and the use of the term 'witch'.
| 16:00Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about Open Water, his hotly anticipated debut. 16:303/3The series ends by looking at how poets deal with bodily changes wrought over a lifetime.
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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 17:30What are the business opportunities in turning our old housing stock green? 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00One teenager's experience of hurting herself and a system struggling with rising demand. 17:40The first African and first woman elected head of the World Trade Organisation. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Boris Johnson has said plans to move England out of lockdown will be cautious. 18:306/63 comedic couples try to smuggle truths past opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Government increases number of vulnerable people asked to shield in England. 18:30A look back at Victoria Wood's stand-up and songs with her own archives and tapes.
| 18:00Volunteers in the UK will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments. 18:302/6Granny Kumar chats to Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Beverley Knight.
| 18:00Company facing criticism for banning news from its Australian site, after government row. 18:30Best-selling Irish author Marian Keyes in conversation with Tara Flynn.
| 18:00Prince Harry and Meghan stripped of honorary titles 18:308/8A satirical review of the week's news with Andy Zaltzman
| 18:00Some Covid restrictions for care homes in England and Scotland will be eased next month. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Ministers have put final touches to plans to ease England's lockdown 18:15Sheila McClennon chooses the best of BBC Radio this week
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| 19:00 | 19:00Tony reaches the end of his tether. 19:15What can literature teach us about waiting? 19:451/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 19:00Lilian attempts to keep the peace. 19:15Review of new play Good Grief starring Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel. 19:452/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 19:00Lynda tries a new tactic. 19:15K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, Kate Fox, touring shows in Europe post Brexit. 19:453/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 19:00There’s an emotional goodbye for Kirsty 19:15Sarah Connolly on singing in Wagner's epic four opera cycle, The Ring. 19:454/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 19:00Leicester Curve’s recent award-winning revival of the musical The Color Purple reviewed. 19:455/5In the salon, women come and go talking of weaves and braids, journeys past and to come.
| 19:00The first African and first woman elected head of the World Trade Organisation. 19:155/6Gyles Brandreth reads the diaries of his boarding school days in the 1960s. 19:451/5Phill Jupitus discusses the art of decision making with Joseph Bikart.
| 19:008/12Cynan Jones' gripping series set in a tangible near future where water has become scarce. 19:15Comedian Eleanor Tiernan takes a stand against putting our most intimate moments online. 19:458/10A doting grandmother is excited to show off the new baby to her neighbours.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/4James Naughtie looks at how Joe Biden will deal with Donald Trump's economic legacy. 20:30Michael Blastland examines how our collective ignorance affects policy and debate.
| 20:00One teenager's experience of hurting herself and a system struggling with rising demand. 20:40Sarah Leadbetter challenges the government over inaccessible pandemic information.
| 20:00Engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 20:45Sabet donated a kidney to his mum. He chats to Faruk about his campaign for more donors.
| 20:00Cautious but irreversible; the promises and risks of lifting lockdown. 20:30What are the business opportunities in turning our old housing stock green?
| 20:00Anita Anand presents political discussion and debate. 20:50Susie Orbach on finding the right words to help get us through the pandemic.
| 20:00Double Olympic gold-medallist Dame Kelly Holmes meets her younger self in the archives.
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a president, a singer, a businessman and a pornographer.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Is racism on the rise in British policing? Hugh Muir investigates. 21:30Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.
| 21:00How are people with long Covid being supported? James Gallagher investigates. 21:30Jane Hurst reveals how mice are ruled by their noses.
| 21:00Lucy Cooke explores why some species shirk company in favour of a solitary life. 21:30Robert Moore and producer Sophie Alexander explain their first draft of history.
| 21:00Landing, driving, flying on Mars, and where on Earth to look out for the next big virus. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
| 21:00The hidden story of the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie.
| 21:45How did modern circuses develop? And why do they appeal to adults and children worldwide?
| 21:00Long delays on bank fraud lines, new costs on online goods and renting empty student rooms 21:25The Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Feedback. 21:30Michael Blastland examines how our collective ignorance affects policy and debate.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Army wants effective action will be taken against those "harming" the country 22:456/101979: As the dispute still drags on at The Times, Vernon's life is also in disarray.
| 22:00BBC obtains recordings of her speaking from solitary confinement 22:457/10It’s 1994, and Val is manning the phones. Ben has been rescued.
| 22:00We speak to Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer 22:458/10In the summer of 1994, Vern goes to Glyndebourne. Jo gives a singing lesson.
| 22:00Western powers say they agree Tehran can never develop nuclear weapons 22:459/101994: Alec has completed an Open University teaching degree and is about to start work.
| 22:00The couple are stripped of honorary military appointments and patronages 22:4510/102009: The imaginary reel of time is slowing and the possible future lives draw to a close.
| 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.
| 22:00Carolyn 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. 23:301/4An in-depth analysis of the UK's decade of austerity.
| 23:00Fi and Jane are joined by broadcaster and journalist Ayesha Hazarika. 23:302/4How austerity hit social care and the justice system.
| 23:007/8Late-night entertainment and wondering from Peter Curran and Patrick Marber. 23:156/12A twisted comedy treat. The news remixed. Jon Holmes presents The Skewer. Headphones on. 23:303/4An in-depth analysis of the UK's decade of austerity.
| 23:00A celebration of the working manuscript of Franz Schubert's final song cycle Winterreise. 23:304/4In the wake of Covid-19, what does the future hold?
| 23:00Winter weather devastates Texas and a political storm hits Ted Cruz's Cancun holiday. 23:30The effects of climate change evoked in words, sounds and a powerful new musical work
| 23:0011/13Another trio of music lovers joins Paul Gambaccini for the contest of musical knowledge. 23:302/3How poets are dealing with the bodily transformations made possible by modern science.
| 23:00Seamus McGarvey's Lockdown Diary 23:30A time of exile or renewal? Samira Ahmed explores the impact of periods away from society.
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