BBC Radio 4 LW Schedule Thursday 26 May 2016

LW Schedule

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Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Late

Early
1. 00:00
  Midnight News—26/05/2016
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 00:30
  Book of the Week—In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room, Episode 3
  3/5It all began with a rabbit, so the bonesetter's story goes.(R)
3. 00:48
  Shipping Forecast—26/05/2016
  The latest shipping forecast.
4. 01:00
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—26/05/2016
  BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
5. 05:20
  Shipping Forecast—26/05/2016
  The latest shipping forecast.
6. 05:30
  News Briefing—26/05/2016
  News from BBC Radio 4.
7. 05:43
  Prayer for the Day—26/05/2016
  Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Very Rev John Chalmers.
8. 05:45
  Farming Today—Microbeads harming marine life, woodcock decline and fruit packaging
  Renewed calls for a ban on plastic microbeads which harm marine life.
9. 05:58
  Tweet of the Day—Marsh Tit
  Martin Hughes-Games presents the marsh tit.(R)
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Morning
1. 06:00
  Today—26/05/2016
  Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
2. 08:31
  Yesterday in Parliament—26/05/2016
  Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
3. 09:00
  In Our Time—The Gettysburg Address
  Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
4. 09:45
  Daily Service—26/05/2016
  Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Becky Harris.
5. 10:00
  Woman's Hour—Kate Beckinsale, Facebook, Catholic priests and marriage, Baroness Scotland
  Love & Friendship, Nicola Mendelsohn, married to a priest, Commonwealth secretary general.
6. 10:45
  Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City—Mary Ann in Autumn, Episode 4
  4/5DeDe accompanies Mary Ann to her surgery while Jake makes a big decision.
7. 11:00
  From Our Own Correspondent—Death From Above
  Reporters' despatches from around the world. The Taliban leader killed in a drone strike.
8. 11:30
  Blue Canvas : The Artist Miles Davis
  A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.
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Afternoon
1. 12:00
  News Headlines; Shipping Forecast—26/05/2016
  National and international news and the shipping forecast.
2. 12:04
  Home Front—26 May 1916 - Adam Wilson
  The Wilsons prepare to leave Devonshire.
3. 12:15
  You and Yours—FRSB, Bad gardeners
  Four major charities are found to have broken the fundraising code of practice.
4. 12:57
  Weather—26/05/2016
  The latest weather forecast.
5. 13:00
  World at One—26/05/2016
  Analysis of news and current affairs.
6. 13:45
  England: Made in the Middle—4. Radical Midlands
  4/5The political gestures from England’s radical middle that redefined the world's history.
7. 14:00
  The Archers—25/05/2016
  Fallon and Kirsty get their heads together.(R)
8. 14:15
  The Headline Ballads—The Island, the Sea, the Volunteer and the Refugee
  Poet Louise Wallwein responds to what she has seen and heard working as a volunteer on Kos
9. 15:00
  Ramblings—Series 33, The Essex Way
  Clare Balding meets four women about to embark on walking the Essex Way in three days.
10. 15:27
  Radio 4 Appeal—SolarAid
  Ian McEwan presents an appeal on behalf of SolarAid.(R)
11. 15:30
  Open Book—Kit de Waal, Researching novels, Counter-factual fiction.
  Mariella Frostrup talks to Kit de Waal about her novel My Name Is Leon.(R)
12. 16:00
  The Film Programme—Whit Stillman and Jane Austen
  Whit Stillman on Jane Austen's unfinished novella.
13. 16:30
  BBC Inside Science—GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot
  Adam Rutherford examines the science of GM plants as the Royal Society takes on the issue
14. 17:00
  PM—26/05/2016
  Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
15. 17:54
  Shipping Forecast—26/05/2016
  The latest shipping forecast.
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Evening
1. 18:00
  Six O'Clock News—26/05/2016 Net migration to UK reaches second highest level
  Focus of EU referendum campaign shifts to immigration
2. 18:30
  Paul Sinha's History Revision—Series 2, Women
  1/4Paul Sinha looks at the forgotten women of history, whose stories were not told at school.
3. 19:00
  The Archers—26/05/2016
  Lilian and Jennifer go shopping.
4. 19:15
  Front Row—Wilko Johnson, Romeo and Juliet review, Walter de Maria
  With guitarist and songwriter Wilko Johnson talking about surviving terminal cancer.
5. 19:45
  Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City—Mary Ann in Autumn, Episode 4
  4/5DeDe accompanies Mary Ann to her surgery while Jake makes a big decision.(R)
6. 20:00
  The Briefing Room—The New IRA
  Who are the New IRA - the dissident republicans who pose a substantial threat to Britain?
7. 20:30
  The Bottom Line—EU Referendum
  Whether it is trade deals or red tape, how does EU membership help or hinder UK business?
8. 21:00
  BBC Inside Science—GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot
  Adam Rutherford examines the science of GM plants as the Royal Society takes on the issue(R)
9. 21:30
  In Our Time—The Gettysburg Address
  Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.(R)
10. 21:58
  Weather—26/05/2016
  Weather information.
11. 22:00
  The World Tonight—Trump 'clinches Republican nomination'
  Donald Trump claims he has secured sufficient delegates to win the Republican nomination.
12. 22:45
  Book at Bedtime—The Bricks That Built the Houses, The Heist
  4/5Harry and Leon are on their way to a big drug deal, but things do not feel quite right.
13. 23:00
  52 First Impressions with David Quantick—Series 2, Episode 4
  4/4Writer David Quantick on the people he’s met and the impressions they've made.
14. 23:30
  Today in Parliament—26/05/2016
  Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
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Late
1. 00:00
  Midnight News—27/05/2016
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 00:30
  Book of the Week—In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room, Episode 4
  4/5The fish doctors who claim to treat asthma by the most unlikely of methods.(R)
3. 00:48
  Shipping Forecast—27/05/2016
  The latest shipping forecast.
4. 01:00
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—27/05/2016
  BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
5. 05:20
  Shipping Forecast—27/05/2016
  The latest shipping forecast.
6. 05:30
  News Briefing—27/05/2016
  News from BBC Radio 4.
7. 05:43
  Prayer for the Day—27/05/2016
  Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Very Rev John Chalmers.
8. 05:45
  Farming Today—Norway - farming without EU subsidies, Scottish tea at Chelsea, Anaerobic digesters
  Farm life in Europe but outside the EU - the programme hears about the Norwegian model.
9. 05:58
  Tweet of the Day—Dipper
  David Attenborough presents the dipper.(R)

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