| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Insights into the developing mind, from the pioneers who revolutionised kids’ TV. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the church of Holy Trinity, Skipton in North Yorkshire. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green on the making of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green on designing and making their vaccine. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green on making the first doses of their vaccine. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green on scaling up manufacture of the vaccine. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green on waiting for the vaccine trial results. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Reflections on the modern pioneers of the environmental movement. Today - Joe Farman. 00:30When a woman starts getting bigger, she must reassess everything. 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 | 05:20The 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 Zahid Hussain 05:4597% of UK wildflower meadows have disappeared over the last 100 years. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the New Zealand brown kiwi.
| 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 Zahid Hussain 05:45Money is available to give farmers access to advice about moving into the ELMS scheme. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic 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 Zahid Hussain. 05:45A badger cull could be introduced into Northern Ireland to help stop Bovine TB. 05:58The BBC's Frank Gardner recounts hearing the three-wattled bell bird 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 Zahid Hussain 05:45Caz Graham speaks to Jim Moseley from Red Tractor about their new standards for farmers. 05:58Chris Jones from Worcestershire talks about his rescue ravens.
| 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 Zahid Hussain 05:45A new coalition of shooting and fishing organisations launches at The Game Fair. 05:58Sir David Attenborough presents the Christmas shearwater.
| 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 Revd Carolyn Skinner 05:45Leon Bosch reflects on the power of classical music to transform lives.
| 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 Laurence, Reading in Berkshire 05:45The innovative spoken word artist George the Poet.
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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. 06:07Ian Marchant tracks the River Ancholme in Lincolnshire back to its source. 06:30Caz Graham speaks to a conservation grazer who says meadows can provide a viable income. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Musician Jahnavi Harrison explores the benefits of having a guru. 06:35Verity Sharp visits 'Real Seeds', an organic seed-producing company in Pembrokeshire. 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 07:54Actor Annabelle Dowler makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Hope for Justice 07:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports on how vaccine passports will be needed for nightclub entry
| 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament.
| 08:31News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster as ministers are challenged about the 'pingdemic'.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The theme of the Keswick Convention this year is 'Faithful,' with preacher Alasdair Paine. 08:48Bernardine Evaristo argues that online trolls are poisoning human interaction. 08:58Liz Bonnin presents the morepork or Ru-Ru, New Zealand's only surviving native owl.
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| 09:00 | 09:00An old boatyard in Lowestoft and the myth and legend of its "uncatchable" boat. 09:302/5Oliver Burkeman explores negativity as a surprising pathway to meeting your goals. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Bishop John Arnold.
| 09:00Jeannie Suk Gersen who claims pre-marriage mediation is the key to a lasting relationship. 09:301/5Simon Watt wonders if we could upgrade the human body, with help from the animal kingdom. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Rev Haydon Spenceley.
| 09:00The Carpenters' massive hit - We've Only Just Begun was originally a TV advert for a bank 09:30Leon Bosch reflects on the power of classical music to transform lives. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Major Anne Read.
| 09:00Anne McElvoy invites two guests, opposed on a major issue, to explore each other's views. 09:30Erica McAlister uncovers a treasure trove of remarkable insights from the insect world. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Rev Sharon Grenham-Thompson
| 09:00Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Olympian, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Ven Dr Rosemarie Mallett.
| 09:00Comedian Daliso Chaponda and novelist Deborah Moggach's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including a look at new isolation rules for essential workers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Maria Callas, slavery reparations, workwear trends, international aid legal challenge.
| 10:00Typewriters; Canadian residential schools; Isy Suttie; Stealthing
| 10:00Ten years on from her death, Amy Winehouse's closest friends and family tell her story.
| 10:00Jules Williamson on directing her first film in her fifties and a new study on Long Covid.
| 10:00Women at the Tokyo Olympics and a new book by Frankie Miren's about life as a sex worker
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
| 10:00There’s a shock for Brian, and Helen makes a breakthrough. 10:54An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the golden oriole.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jill Lepore traces Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency craze to dystopian science fiction. 11:30Tim Harford and the team try to work out how long Covid cases will continue to rise.
| 11:001/3The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the early 1970s. 11:303/3Oscar-winner Paul Franklin tells how visual effects changed and how they changed cinema.
| 11:002/3In Northern Ireland's centenary year, Andrea Catherwood asks what unionism means now. 11:303/6Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of Britain’s biggest TV comedies.
| 11:00The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa. 11:30True stories of life-changing encounters with art in all its forms.
| 11:00Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times. 11:303/4Series about Ashley's unusual home life - including raising children with special needs.
| 11:00Steve Richards and guests look back at the political year. 11:30Longterm worry follows Europe's floods; plus Brazil, Nagorno Karabakh, S Africa and Mexico
| 11:00Robert Macfarlane, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne 11:45How the 1987 AIDS campaign 'Don't Die of Ignorance' transformed social attitudes.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:041/5Inoue's 1949 novella. A newspaper editor in postwar Osaka agrees to sponsor a bullfight. 12:18It's Freedom Day but will we really embrace normality with Covid infections still raging? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:042/5Tsugami sets a date for the bullfight to go ahead. 12:18How is self-isolation affecting you? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:043/5Sakiko and Tsugami spend New Year in Kyoto streets, the bells ring out. 12:18The young couples having to choose between paying for a wedding or a house. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:044/5Preparations are well underway but Tsugami feels uneasy about Okabe's involvement. 12:18News and discussion of consumer affairs 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:045/5Rain is forecast for the big day. 12:18PCR tests; Farm shops; Renting in Retirement; Gambling 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Thousands of people say they’ve been shut out of their bank accounts without explanation. 12:30What next for Britain's shortest serving and least popular PM? Stars Miles Jupp. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:046/675th Series of the multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee. 12:32Dan Saladino finds out why a United Nations food summit has become so controversial. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Edward Stourton. 13:45Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time - with Dr Kat Arney.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 13:10Chris Mason presents political debate from Campbeltown Picture House in Argyll and Bute.
| 13:00Jonny Dymond looks at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world. 13:30Food outlets in Northern Ireland, mental health and exercise, overcoming a criminal past.
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| 14:00 | 14:00By Faebian Averies. Comedy drama about the pursuit of happiness. 14:45Graffiti is both an ancient and modern activity, but why do we do it?
| 14:00There’s a shock for Brian. 14:15Zameera is a half-widow, living through the Kashmir crisis of 2019. By Avin Shah.
| 14:15Zameera is forced to make a terrible choice. Drama set in the Kashmir crisis of 2019.
| 14:00Helen makes a breakthrough. 14:15Timothy X Atack holds a satirical mirror up to an imaginary Britain.
| 14:00Ian’s suspicions are raised 14:15Radio 4 drama Variations on a Theme by Neil Armstrong, written by Michael Symmons Roberts.
| 14:00Have you gone against the guidance and switched off your Covid App? 14:451/5Anne Widdecombe rewinds 5,000 years to look at the history of etiquette.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are at Horatio's Garden, London and South East. 14:45Reflections on the modern pioneers of the environmental movement. Today - Joe Farman.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Can the new National Food Strategy successfully transform the UK food system?
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. 15:30Kimberley Wilson and Xand van Tulleken meet a nipple tattooist and talk topless photos.
| 15:00Summer holiday travel rights, insurance and money advice. 15:30When should you take your child to A&E? James Gallagher busts the myths around fever.
| 15:00Ian Marchant tracks the River Ancholme in Lincolnshire back to its source. 15:27Broadcaster and journalist Cathy Newman makes the Radio 4 Appeal for Feed the Minds. 15:30Chris Power speaks to Miranda Cowley Heller about her debut The Paper Palace.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel are at Horatio's Garden, London and South East. 15:45When a woman starts getting bigger, she must reassess everything.
| 15:00Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic tale depicting life in a 1950s Soviet labour camp.
| 15:002/2An 18th-century comic romp - Joseph's misadventures on the road with an up-to-date twist.
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| 16:00 | 16:004/4A four-part series on the relationship that Scotland’s writers have with Scotland itself. 16:304/6When and how is the universe going to end?
| 16:00Michael Rosen is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones. 16:30Two acting greats advocate for their favourite books.
| 16:00Matthew Syed asks, how do you repair the greatest of harms? 16:30How a global group of news outlets teamed up to expose a phone hacking tool
| 16:00Bruce Robinson: Withnail and me. 16:30Revolutionising research into every aspect of life.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on an Olympian, a horse fertility expert, a Squadron Leader, a publisher 16:30Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
| 16:00Ten years on from her death, Amy Winehouse's mum and close friend reflect on her life.
| 16:00Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about Booker-longlisted novel A Passage North 16:30Roger McGough talks poetry with his fellow Mersey poet
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news 17:30Clinical trials have barely changed in decades but will Covid-19 transform the business? 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 17:00The story of one man's attempt to challenge fifty years of UK drug policy. 17:40The innovative spoken word artist George the Poet. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Boris Johnson defended the decision to end restrictions in England, despite rising cases. 18:306/675th Series of the multi award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00The Prime Minister says people must follow the NHS Covid app and isolate when alerted. 18:301/4Simon Evans presents a new series of comedy lectures on economics.
| 18:00The UK government has demanded significant change, arguing "we cannot go on as we are". 18:301/4Paul Sinha tests his audience on their knowledge of the world.
| 18:00More than 600 thousand people in a week have been told to self-isolate by the NHS app 18:303/4Olga tries to compute 'health'.
| 18:00The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have opened a year later than planned. 18:30What next for Britain's shortest serving and least popular PM? Stars Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Team GB have had a mainly positive start but there was heartbreak in the cycling 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Civil liberties groups say requiring proof of jabs would create a "two-tier society" 18:15Ricky Ross chooses the best of BBC audio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00There’s a shock for Brian. 19:15Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album. 19:456/10Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery
| 19:15Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, set in a notorious jail 19:457/10Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery
| 19:00Helen makes a breakthrough. 19:15Musician Jon Batiste, Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist, The Humboldt Forum in Berlin 19:458/10Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery
| 19:00Ian’s suspicions are raised 19:15Susannah Clapp reviews the new production of Hamlet, starring Ian McKellen. 19:459/10Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery
| 19:00Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical, Gin Craze! 19:4510/10Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery
| 19:00The innovative spoken word artist George the Poet. 19:15Simon Armitage talks to JK Rowling in his potting shed about writing & life after Harry.
| 19:004/6Sarah Parish plays the neighbour from hell in this comic monologue by Jenny Eclair. 19:15Arthur Smith tells the story of his father Syd, an ordinary man in extraordinary times. 19:452/5Max’s horizons are about to be expanded, thanks to schoolfriend Tommy.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/3In Northern Ireland's centenary year, Andrea Catherwood asks what unionism means now. 20:30The statue of Bristol slaver Edward Colston has gone – but his legacy persists in the city
| 20:00The story of one man's attempt to challenge fifty years of UK drug policy. 20:40Photo ID At Polling Stations; Network Rail On Tactile Paving.
| 20:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze 20:45Leon Bosch reflects on the power of classical music to transform lives.
| 20:00Can COP26 help tackle climate change and save us from droughts, wildfires and floods? 20:30Clinical trials have barely changed in decades but will Covid-19 transform the business?
| 20:00Chris Mason presents political debate from Campbeltown Picture House in Argyll and Bute. 20:50Bernardine Evaristo argues that online trolls are poisoning human interaction.
| 20:00In-house journals and industrial musicals, how firms have communicated to their workers.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations. 20:30Matthew Bannister on an Olympian, a horse fertility expert, a Squadron Leader, a publisher
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| 21:00 | 21:00Safety essential, petty authority, fashion? Steph McGovern on the many ways to see hi-vis. 21:30An old boatyard in Lowestoft and the myth and legend of its "uncatchable" boat.
| 21:00When should you take your child to A&E? James Gallagher busts the myths around fever. 21:30Jeannie Suk Gersen who claims pre-marriage mediation is the key to a lasting relationship.
| 21:00Kimberley Wilson and Xand van Tulleken meet a nipple tattooist and talk topless photos. 21:30How a global group of news outlets teamed up to expose a phone hacking tool
| 21:00Revolutionising research into every aspect of life. 21:30Anne McElvoy invites two guests, opposed on a major issue, to explore each other's views.
| 21:00Joe Queenan offers a Brief History of Disobedience, follow up to Blame, Anger and Shame.
| 21:003/8Gregor's niece Manel is sent by her rebel comrades into the desert on a mission to kill. 21:45Daisy Johnson's deliciously unsettling ghost stories set in a hotel on the Fens.
| 21:00Thousands of people say they’ve been shut out of their bank accounts without explanation. 21:25Actor Annabelle Dowler makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Hope for Justice 21:30The statue of Bristol slaver Edward Colston has gone – but his legacy persists in the city
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| 22:00 | 22:00Night clubbers may need vaccine passports from the autumn 22:451/5Inoue's 1949 novella. A newspaper editor in postwar Osaka agrees to sponsor a bullfight.
| 22:00Govt says there won’t be a list of critical workers allowed to avoid isolation 22:452/5Tsugami sets a date for the bullfight to go ahead.
| 22:00Some health unions say it does not reflect sacrifices made by staff 22:453/5Sakiko and Tsugami spend New Year in Kyoto streets, the bells ring out.
| 22:00Staff allowed to take daily tests If they’re “pinged” 22:454/5Preparations are well underway but Tsugami feels uneasy about Okabe's involvement.
| 22:00Questions over whether security services could have stopped 1998 atrocity 22:455/5Rain is forecast for the big day.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze
| 22:00Alex Forsyth hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen hears why our language is a bit of a mess from linguist Arika Okrent 23:30Susan Hulme reports on how vaccine passports will be needed for nightclubs.
| 23:00Fi and Jane speak to Radio 4 Presenter Winifred Robinson. 23:30Sean Curran reports on MPs concern about state sponsored cyber attacks by China.
| 23:004/4Stand-up from former BBC New Comedy Award winner Heidi Regan who fights worry with jokes. 23:158/8Jon Holmes's multi-award winning The Skewer twists itself into - and remixes - the news. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the PM is questioned over the dreaded ping.
| 23:003/4An odd A-List invite for the Room Next Door Man and an audition - to play a cheesy string. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster as ministers are challenged about the 'pingdemic'
| 23:00Two acting greats advocate for their favourite books. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reflects on the experiences of four MPs in the pandemic parliament.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Russell Davies. 23:30The award-winning singer selects poems requested by listeners.
| 23:00Bruce Robinson: Withnail and me. 23:30Musician Jahnavi Harrison explores the benefits of having a guru.
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