| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Orchestral musicians help prisoners compose and record lullabies for their children. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Giles, Graffham in West Sussex. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Harry Parker tells us how his life changed after losing his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Harry Parker on invention and disability in the past, present and future. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Harry Parker on the high price exacted by stepping on an IED in Afghanistan and surviving. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Harry Parker on cutting edge advances in rehabilitating the body after injury and illness. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Harry Parker on pole dancing, art and prosthetics. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:156/8Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov gives a personal account of daily life in war-torn Ukraine. 00:30Caitlin is persuaded to try speed-dating on a night out in Belfast. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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| 01:00 | 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
| 01:00A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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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 Sadia Azmat 05:45Ukrainian workers on British farm help send aid back home. Leaving farming. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the Cetti's warbler.
| 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 Sadia Azmat 05:45Mitigating climate change report and leaving farming. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the goldfinch.
| 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 Sadia Azmat 05:45MP's criticise how the government is addressing labour shortages. 05:58Craig Hartley revels in a near-miss encounter with a green woodpecker for Tweet of the Day
| 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 Sadia Azmat 05:45The future of farming in Wales. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the long-tailed tit.
| 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 Sadia Azmat 05:45Charlotte Smith speaks to a farmer in Ukraine. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the common pheasant.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. 05:45A series of personal reflections inspired by an aspect of Jesus' ministry and Passion.
| 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 Mary the Virgin, Ilminster in Somerset. 05:45The man who defeated Amazon, President of the Amazon Labor Union, Christian Smalls.
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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 explores the Aberdeenshire countryside - from the back of a husky-pulled sled! 06:30The role agriculture can play in tackling climate change. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Mark Tully considers the eternal human conflict between our reason and our desires. 06:35Brett Westwood looks at the nightshade group of plants and human culture. From 2015 06:57The latest weather reports and 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 07:54Stephen Fry makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rainforest Foundation UK. 07:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A Passion for Hospitality: What you didn’t do for the least of these you didn’t do for me. 08:48The everyday repression of life in Russia, as seen by an anonymous dissident playwright. 08:58Kate Humble presents the curlew.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law 09:451/5Harry Parker tells us how his life changed after losing his legs to an IED in Afghanistan.
| 09:00Sangita Myska asks if citizens assemblies are the way to strengthen democracy in Britain. 09:30An Argentine soldier and a British soldier tell their stories of the Falklands War. 09:452/5Harry Parker on invention and disability in the past, present and future.
| 09:00Moss Hills is the ship’s entertainer, but tonight he has a very different role to play. 09:30Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney. 09:453/5Harry Parker on the high price exacted by stepping on an IED in Afghanistan and surviving.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales 09:454/5Harry Parker on cutting edge advances in rehabilitating the body after injury and illness.
| 09:00Kirsty Wark reunites five people whose lives were changed by the tsunami of 2004. 09:455/5Harry Parker on pole dancing, art and prosthetics.
| 09:00Alexandra Heminsley on major life changes and Justin Webb on his childhood.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00Paralympic five time gold medallist Ellie Simmonds.
| 10:00Rape as an instrument of war in Ukraine.
| 10:00No-fault divorce becomes law today - what impact will that have on you?
| 10:00Emma speaks to transgender scholar Grace Lavery and investigates a new maternity scandal.
| 10:00Netflix’s Top Boy star who plays Lauryn, Saffron Hocking.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
| 10:00Alice makes a monumental decision and plans are afoot at Brookfield
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| 11:00 | 11:002/3For 123 years Poland was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria - how did it survive? 11:30Shaparak Khorsandi takes a personal, witty look at education in the UK.
| 11:00Cementing power in Russia, a revolution in Ukraine and a challenge to the US. 11:30Fresh perspectives on cultural treasures from the cleaners who look after them.
| 11:00How is stalking being policed across the UK? Lucinda Borrell finds out. 11:30Vincent Simone talks to Oti Mabuse about his dancing legend - Maria Nieves
| 11:00A string of fatal accidents have turned hunting into a hot topic in the French elections. 11:30Excavating author Alan Garner’s inspiration in the small patch of Cheshire he calls home.
| 11:001/3British South Asians and the noughties: pioneers and a backlash. 11:301/5Florence and Selina are nominated for a writer’s prize and the contest becomes a battle.
| 11:00The rate at which scientists and inventors discover new things is slowing. How to fix it? 11:30Stories of what happened when Russia's invasion reached Ukraine's villages.
| 11:00Kirsty Wark and guests recall the 1990s decade-long libel case involving McDonald’s. 11:45A series of personal reflections inspired by an aspect of Jesus' ministry and Passion.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Ukraine and demand for Sunflower Oil; Fenwick turns 140 years old. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Call You and Yours: What have you done to try to be a greener consumer? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Zoom being used by fraudsters. Delays to the homes for Ukraine scheme. Childcare costs. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Gap Finders: How chef Gary Usher found the funding gap in the restaurant business. 12:32Greg Foot asks whether electric vehicles really are the best thing since sliced bread. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Sixty years of colourful, complex, cringeworthy encounters between artists and politicians 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Fighting crypto fraud, £30,000 council tax arrears and Working From Home allowance. 12:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/6Comedians try to smuggle some truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Dan Saladino speaks to food suppliers and farmers in Ukraine about the impact of war. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:451/5The perspectives of a surgeon and a double hand transplantee on the ways we use our hands.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:452/5A harpist, a blacksmith and a photographer reflect on the hands’ role in creativity
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:453/5Christians and Muslims consider the ways we use our hands to express our faith.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:454/5From Sign Language to infantry soldiers, the way we use our hands to communicate.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond. 13:455/5A massage therapist and a pickpocket reflect on their hands and the sense of touch
| 13:00The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4 13:10Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from St Mary's Church in Ross-on-Wye.
| 13:00Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world 13:30The increasing cost of living; of heating your home; and windfarms. Fi Glover presents.
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| 14:00 | 14:00There’s a surprise in store for Ruairi. 14:15Hugh Bonneville and Jane Asher star in a drama about the masterpiece in Greenwich.
| 14:00Alice makes a monumental decision. 14:15The Shell Seven wanted to put their case before a jury. True story by Margaret Heffernan.
| 14:00Plans are afoot at Brookfield. 14:15A High Court judge, leading a public inquiry, finds it doesn’t do to inquire too deeply.
| 14:00Chris fights fire with fire. 14:154/10Award-winning series Our Friends in the North rewritten for audio by Peter Flannery.
| 14:00There’s a new face at Grey Gables. 14:152/5DS Murray believes she has found the killer but Greg is not convinced. 14:45Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs begins with the Lion Man.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:45Easter 1727, and Bach prepares his great Passion for its first tumultuous performance.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 14:45Bertolt Brecht's play Drums in the Night and the concept of alienation in the theatre
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| 15:00 | 15:00Kirsty Lang hosts radio's most fiendish quiz. 15:30The humble bean is mighty in Spain. Sheila Dillon finds out why.
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. 15:30Should we demolish or refurbish old buildings?
| 15:00How are you coping with rising energy bills? An expert panel is on hand to advise. 15:302/3For 123 years Poland was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria - how did it survive?
| 15:00Helen Mark explores the Aberdeenshire countryside - from the back of a husky-pulled sled! 15:27Armando Iannucci makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Child Poverty Action Group. 15:30Karen Joy Fowler talks about her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
| 15:00Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 15:45Caitlin is persuaded to try speed-dating on a night out in Belfast.
| | 15:002/2The humans are dead and now it's up to the robots whether intelligent life survives.
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| 16:00 | 16:00James Watkins explores the impact of The Godfather movie on his life and work. 16:30Ernie Rea explores the spiritual beliefs used to justify Russian aggression in Ukraine.
| 16:00Michael Rosen explores how the vocabulary of sci-fi has entered everyday speech. 16:30Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson
| 16:00The Underclass: its rise and fall. 16:30The creator of This American Life and Serial on his life in radio and podcasting.
| 16:002/3Oscar winner Paul Franklin tells how visual effects changed and how they changed cinema. 16:30Without mass studies and free testing, how will the UK keep an eye on Covid?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman. 16:30Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
| 16:15No-fault divorce: The biggest reform of divorce law for 50 years.
| 16:00Two historic novels about Belfast, literary spinsters, and dissident Russian writers. 16:301/3Books to help us navigate everyday life, with Damian Barr.
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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 17:30Greg Foot asks whether electric vehicles really are the best thing since sliced bread. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 17:00On the war's 40th anniversary, Mike Wooldridge reports on life in the Falklands today. 17:40The man who defeated Amazon, President of the Amazon Labor Union, Christian Smalls. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Volodymyr Zelensky says war crimes have been committed in Bucha after mass graves found 18:301/6Comedians try to smuggle some truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Ukraine's president Zelensky addresses the United Nations Security Council 18:301/4Comedy about a chaotic but loving family. Starring Philip Glenister and Samantha Spiro.
| 18:00Civilians said they were used to protect Russian forces from Ukrainian attacks near Kyiv 18:306/6Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as long marrieds, in love with life and each other.
| 18:00Labour says the plan is "too little, too late" to help with rising energy costs. 18:30Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio only world.
| 18:00At least fifty civilians are believed to have been killed in a missile attack in Ukraine 18:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Close contest between President Macron and Marine Le Pen is expected in first round. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week, chosen by Kofi Smiles.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Alice makes a monumental decision. 19:15Musician Rae Morris performs live in the studio.
| 19:00Plans are afoot at Brookfield. 19:15Mike Bartlett, Hannah Hodgson, Nick Laird, Non Fungible Token art gallery.
| 19:00Chris fights fire with fire. 19:15Ocean Vuong on his poetry collection Time is a Mother.
| 19:00There’s a new face at Grey Gables. 19:15American playwright Jeremy O.Harris discusses his play Daddy at London's Almeida Theatre.
| 19:006/8Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov gives a personal account of daily life in war-torn Ukraine. 19:15Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode jump on board to explore the role of trains on our screens.
| 19:00The man who defeated Amazon, President of the Amazon Labor Union, Christian Smalls. 19:15Award-winning novelist Ali Smith on her formative creative influences and experiences.
| 19:153/4David Jason stars in David Renwick's dark and eclectic post-apocalyptic sketch comedy 19:452/5By Malaika Kegode. An original short story for radio.
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| 20:00 | 20:00How is stalking being policed across the UK? Lucinda Borrell finds out. 20:30An exploration of men’s violence against women, with Scottish writer Alistair Heather
| 20:00On the war's 40th anniversary, Mike Wooldridge reports on life in the Falklands today. 20:40We hear about proposed improvements to the way that visually impaired pupils are taught.
| 20:00Two strangers meet to share a common experience, and their differences. They bring a gift. 20:45A series of personal reflections inspired by an aspect of Jesus' ministry and Passion.
| 20:00What researchers are learning about the prevalence of mental illness among terrorists. 20:30Moss Hills is the ship’s entertainer, but tonight he has a very different role to play.
| 20:00Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from St Mary's Church in Ross-on-Wye. 20:50The everyday repression of life in Russia, as seen by an anonymous dissident playwright.
| 20:00What’s fake, what’s real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Claudia Hammond asks 'Can bosses be kind?' 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law
| 21:001/3Tim Hayward falls down a rabbit hole and into the vast and largely hidden world of fungi. 21:30Sangita Myska asks if citizens assemblies are the way to strengthen democracy in Britain.
| 21:00Should we demolish or refurbish old buildings? 21:30The creator of This American Life and Serial on his life in radio and podcasting.
| 21:00Without mass studies and free testing, how will the UK keep an eye on Covid? 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
| 21:00Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.
| 21:002/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel. 21:451/8Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.
| 21:00Fighting crypto fraud, £30,000 council tax arrears and Working From Home allowance. 21:25Stephen Fry makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rainforest Foundation UK. 21:30Aleks Krotoski explores how quickly and easily misinformation can spread online.
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| 22:00 | 22:00President Biden accuses Vladimir Putin of being a war criminal 22:451/102021's Booker Prize-winner, charting the decline and fall of a white South African family.
| 22:00President says Russians committing most terrible war crimes since Nazis 22:452/102021's Booker Prize-winner. charting the crash and burn of a white South African family,
| 22:00Ukraine urges residents in east of country to flee the area 22:453/102021's Booker Prize-winner charting the crash and burn of the South African Swart family.
| 22:00Ukraine's Foreign Minister calls for more help “before it’s too late” 22:454/10The decline and fall of the white South African Swart family, told through four funerals.
| 22:00President Biden accuses Russia of "horrific atrocity" 22:455/102021's Booker Prize-winner charts the story of a family, four funerals and a promise.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Two strangers meet to share a common experience, and their differences. They bring a gift.
| 22:00Lewis Goodall hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Is the use of the ‘P’ word ever acceptable? 23:301/5Stories from France’s troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today. 23:45Susan Hulme reports as peers refuse to give in to ministers over migration restrictions.
| 23:00Fi and Jane choose some of their favourite listener emails from the past few weeks. 23:302/5Stories from France’s troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today. 23:45All the news from the House of Lords.
| 23:001/6Harriet Walter stars in the first of six comic monologues by Jenny Eclair. 23:151/8Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. 23:303/5Stories from France's troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today. 23:45All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:001/6Tim Vincent returns to host this comedy panel show about the funny side of fatherhood 23:304/5Stories from France's troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today. 23:45All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson 23:305/5Stories from France's troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today. 23:45An Argentine soldier and a British soldier tell their stories of the Falklands War.
| 23:00Kirsty Lang hosts radio's most fiendish quiz. 23:30Poet Gail McConnell opens a box of materials relating to her father's life and murder.
| 23:00Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. 23:30Mark Tully considers the eternal human conflict between our reason and our desires.
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