| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Matthew Syed asks, how do you repair the greatest of harms? 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Laurence, Reading in Berkshire 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II by Linda Porter. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II by Linda Porter. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II by Linda Porter. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II by Linda Porter. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II by Linda Porter. 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 - Petra Kelly. 00:30Mary couldn’t sleep until she woke to unexpected visitors. 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 the Revd Carolyn Skinner 05:45Small farms; Farm businesses that may not be viable in the future; Orkney water shortage. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Bill Oddie presents the snow goose.
| 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 05:45Food distribution problems could get even worse in the autumn. Anna Hill presents. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the tawny pipit.
| 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 05:45Anna Hill hears about a new way of measuring sustainability in beef and dairy production. 05:58Musician Fyfe Dangerfield imagines his dream clothes made in the colours of the bee-eater.
| 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 05:45Should farms under 5 hectares be eligible for the Government's new environmental funding? 05:58Author Michael Morpurgo visited the Camargue and found the flamingo touches his soul.
| 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 05:45An abattoir in Machynlleth is preparing to shut its doors after decades of business. 05:58Chris Jones rescues and then releases a swift in this Tweet of the Day.
| 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 05:45Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre argues against the tyranny of positivity.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church in Marsworth, Buckinghamshire 05:45The coronavirus epidemic is a crisis for England's chief medical officer. How will he do?
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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. 06:07Ash Bhardwaj explores the varied landscapes of Windsor Great Park near London. 06:30We investigate the future of small farms in the brave new world of post-Brexit agriculture 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Journalist Remona Aly examines how weakness can often be powerful. 06:35Vernon Harwood visits a fruit farm in Kent where the robots are taking over! 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 07:54Sophie Leggett makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The National Brain Appeal. 07:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10On 4th August 2020 a nuclear sized explosion in Beirut devastated its ancient churches. 08:48John Connell walks in the footsteps of the Irish monk, St Brendan. 08:58Chris Packham presents the nocturnal red-necked nightjar of the Spanish countryside.
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| 09:00 | 09:00The random postcode generator takes us to a religious order living here. 09:303/5Oliver Burkeman explores some surprising truths about what really makes us happy. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:00Is a Future Generations Commissioner the answer to thinking sustainably? 09:302/5Simon 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 Canon Ann Easter.
| 09:00A folk song from Scotland that has endured through centuries. 09:30Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre argues against the tyranny of positivity. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Augustine Tanner-Ihm.
| 09:00Anne McElvoy and two guests, opposed on a major issue, explore each other's perspective. 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 the Rev Richard Littledale.
| 09:00Robert Macfarlane, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading prayer and music led by Molly Boot.
| 09:00Beatboxer SK Shlomo, Mevan Babakar's refugee journey, Andy Hamilton's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News with Paddy O'Connell including the Olympics with gold medalist Tessa Sanderson.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Black & minoritised women & domestic violence; South Asian women & sport; Midwives; Home.
| 10:00Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
| 10:00Josie Proto, UTIs, rewriting the rules of child protection, COP26
| 10:00Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
| 10:00Comic London Hughes on having to move to the US to make it.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits.
| 10:00Ian demands the truth and Roy has romance on his mind 10:54An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the common and black redstart.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Which science fiction stories are left out of Silicon Valley futurism? 11:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 11:002/3How genetic engineering became big business. 11:30The inspiring moments that start an artistic journey
| 11:003/3In Northern Ireland's centenary year, Andrea Catherwood asks what unionism means now 11:304/6Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to John Lloyd and Sir Tony Robinson about Blackadder.
| 11:00Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city? 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. 11:304/4Ashley recalls homeschooling during lockdown.
| 11:00As the economy opens up again, is the UK short of workers? 11:30Power moves in Tunis; stories from Lebanon, Barbados, Kenya and the Tokyo Olympics.
| 11:00Nazir Afzal, lawyer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. 11:45How brands harness the power of social proofing.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:041/10An epic and big-hearted novel about art, food and friendship set in Tuscany. 12:18More people are fighting civil law cases without legal representation. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:042/10As London suffers wartime hardships, Ulysses and his unit join the liberation of Florence. 12:18What is it like on holiday in the UK right now? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:043/10Ulysses is settled in 1950s London when a visitor stirs up memories of wartime Florence. 12:18Cafes hit by a shortage of HGV drivers. Why people in Hong Kong are buying UK property. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:044/10A sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family. 12:18Demand for rental properties in cities is rising again. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:045/10The Londoners are settled in Florence and the pensione is finally open for business. 12:18Covid passports, British food, and the cement shortage. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04The customers taking legal action to get access to their cash. 12:301/5New sitcom starring Miles Jupp as former PM Henry Tobin. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:041/7Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game. 12:32Sheila Dillon explores the challenges around cooking up good quality food in care homes. 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45Exploring Parson’s Pleasure, a male-only nude bathing place on the outskirts of Oxford.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45An exploration of the experiences being a woman and non-binary person of colour in the UK.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45Born with a difference, Danielle’s experience growing up in a world focused on appearance.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague 13:45As Covid-19 took hold, an invisible army of workers battled the virus.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond 13:45Commemorating the 1981 New Cross fire that killed 13 black teenagers at a birthday party.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 13:10Edward Stourton presents political debate and discussion from The Guildhall in Chard.
| 13:00Jonny Dymond look at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world. 13:30Cats versus dogs, autograph hunters, Huntington’s Disease and madcap ways of fundraising.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Why do people have gardens and do gardening? 14:157/12The mystery of Flight 702 continues, starring Kelly Marie Tran
| 14:158/12A psychiatric assessment, off the grid, the passenger swap.
| 14:00It’s crisis point for Adam 14:159/12The unlisted passenger, prisoner release, biological weapons.
| 14:00Roy has romance on his mind 14:1510/12Cockpit recording, a whistle blower, computer game.
| 14:00Lilian finds herself taken along for the ride. 14:1511/12Flying debris, two familiar agents, across snow and ice.
| 14:00The vegan diet and how it sits alongside the country’s dairy farmers. 14:4512/12That fateful night, a perfume bottle, the truth about Flight 702.
| 14:00Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 14:45Reflections on the modern pioneers of the environmental movement. Today - Petra Kelly.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies 15:30Dan Saladino finds out why a United Nations food summit has become so controversial.
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. 15:30Kimberley Wilson and Xand van Tulleken examine the body’s heaviest organ: the liver.
| 15:00Career support and job hunting when you have a disability. 15:30Contraception and fewer periods, and the link between erectile dysfunction and the heart.
| 15:00Ash Bhardwaj explores the varied landscapes of Windsor Great Park near London. 15:27Actor Annabelle Dowler makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Hope for Justice 15:30Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about Booker-longlisted novel A Passage North
| 15:00Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 15:45Mary couldn’t sleep until she woke to unexpected visitors.
| 15:30How the late Louis Armstrong conquered Britain with his music and personality.
| 15:001/2Theseus sets out to solve the mystery of his birth and follow his destiny into danger.
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| 16:00 | 16:00True stories of life-changing encounters with art in all its forms. 16:305/6What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the special language used by doctors. 16:30Cats, a wrestling princess and grief.
| 16:00Matthew Syed asks whether adopting an alter ego can unleash the best versions of ourself. 16:30Discovery on their Olympics coverage, plus a blockbuster new cricket tournament.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to director Francis Lee about My Beautiful Laundrette 16:30How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a cricket writer, a campaigner, a marshman 16:30Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
| 16:00Women and AI, Stef Reid & comedian London Hughes
| 16:00Tahmima Anam discusses her award winning novel, A Golden Age. 16:30Adam Buxton uncovers the influence of British music videos at the dawn of MTV.
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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 17:30How can businesses - like carmakers short of chips - cope with supply shortages? 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 17:00A farming community recalls the UK's worst ever foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001. 17:40The coronavirus epidemic is a crisis for England's chief medical officer. How will he do? 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. 17:57The latest weather reports and forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Peaty, Daley and Pidcock all win gold on the third day of the Olympics 18:301/7Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00A London council's been criticised for allowing children to be abused in its homes. 18:302/4Simon Evans presents another comedy lecture on economics.
| 18:00The changes will come into force in England on Monday morning. 18:302/4Paul Sinha tests his audience on their knowledge of the world.
| 18:00England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer has urged young adults to get a Covid vaccine. 18:304/4Olga explores privacy, but shhh… it’s private.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/5New sitcom starring Miles Jupp as former PM Henry Tobin.
| 18:00Dina Asher Smith failed to qualify for the 100m final and withdrew from the 200m event. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 18:15Lindsey Chapman chooses the best of BBC audio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Prince's longtime music director Morris Hayes on posthumous new album Welcome 2 America. 19:45Sunil Khilnani returns with Incarnations, profiling pioneering photographer Deen Dayal.
| 19:00It’s crisis point for Adam 19:15Samira talks to theatre director David Lan live from Gaziantep about The Walk. 19:45How Jamsetji Tata transformed Indian industry and set out to beat the Raj
| 19:00Roy has romance on his mind 19:15Tokyo: Art & Photography, and Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed on TV series Ted Lasso. 19:45Sunil Khilnani explores the life of Vivekananda, India’s first global guru.
| 19:00Lilian finds herself taken along for the ride. 19:15Museum of Making, Derby County Football Club's Poet-in-Residence, Kedleston Hall 19:45The journey of Annie Besant, from English social reformer to leader of the Congress Party.
| 19:00Laura Snapes reviews the new Billie Eilish album, Happier Than Ever. 19:45Sunil Khilnani on Indian freedom fighter Chidambaram Pillai.
| 19:00The coronavirus epidemic is a crisis for England's chief medical officer. How will he do? 19:15Poet Simon Armitage invites broadcaster and DJ Jo Whiley to join him in his writing shed.
| 19:005/6Christine Kavanagh plays a shop assistant in this comic monologue by Jenny Eclair. 19:15Tessa Coates explores the rise in modern witchcraft in young women. 19:453/5Dr Maeder’s sessions bring some uncomfortable truths about Max’s home life to the surface.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/3In Northern Ireland's centenary year, Andrea Catherwood asks what unionism means now 20:30The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa.
| 20:00A farming community recalls the UK's worst ever foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001. 20:40There's just under a month to go until the Tokyo Paralympic games.
| 20:00Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze 20:45Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre argues against the tyranny of positivity.
| 20:00As the economy opens up again, is the UK short of workers? 20:30Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times.
| 20:00Edward Stourton presents political debate and discussion from The Guildhall in Chard. 20:50John Connell walks in the footsteps of the Irish monk, St Brendan.
| 20:00A cultural history of the 'single' with Zoe Strimpel - old maids, Bridget Jones and more.
| 20:00Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a cricket writer, a campaigner, a marshman
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| 21:00 | 21:001/3The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the early 1970s. 21:30The random postcode generator takes us to a religious order living here.
| 21:00Contraception and fewer periods, and the link between erectile dysfunction and the heart. 21:30Is a Future Generations Commissioner the answer to thinking sustainably?
| 21:00Kimberley Wilson and Xand van Tulleken examine the body’s heaviest organ: the liver. 21:30Discovery on their Olympics coverage, plus a blockbuster new cricket tournament.
| 21:00How to balance individual rights with the collective action needed to end the pandemic. 21:30Anne McElvoy and two guests, opposed on a major issue, explore each other's perspective.
| 21:00Joe Queenan on the romance of failure, or the dreaded 'failure chic'.
| 21:004/8Slave trader Ibn seeks justice from the new regime's religious courts. 21:45Anne-Marie Duff continues Daisy Johnson's series of deliciously chilling ghost stories.
| 21:00The customers taking legal action to get access to their cash. 21:25Sophie Leggett makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The National Brain Appeal. 21:30Writer Octavia Bright explores how Bret Easton Ellis's novel resonates, 30 years on.
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| 22:00 | 22:0018 years since President Bush ordered invasion 22:451/10An epic and big-hearted novel about art, food and friendship set in Tuscany.
| 22:00Former waiter - Tong Ying-kit - facing possible life sentence 22:452/10As London suffers wartime hardships, Ulysses and his unit join the liberation of Florence.
| 22:00Fully vaccinated people from US/EU don’t have to self isolate upon UK arrival 22:453/10Ulysses is settled in 1950s London when a visitor stirs up memories of wartime Florence.
| 22:00President Biden orders millions of US government workers to get vaccinated 22:454/10A sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family.
| 22:00Taliban have captured large swathes of territory in recent months 22:455/10The Londoners are settled in Florence and the pensione is finally open for business.
| 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 is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones. 23:301/14Billy Bragg talks to John Wilson about his album 'Talking with the Taxman about Poetry'.
| 23:00Fi and Jane chat to presenter Angellica Bell. 23:302/14Billy Bragg talks to John Wilson about his album, 'Talking with the Taxman about Poetry'.
| 23:00Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Jordan Brookes looks at the things learned from childhood. 23:15How have hit shows like Ru Paul's Drag Race affected the scene? 23:303/14Suzanne Vega talks to John Wilson about her platinum album Solitude Standing.
| 23:004/4An excruciating TV panel show experience is also revelatory for the Room Next Door Man. 23:304/14Suzanne Vega answers questions about her platinum-selling album, Solitude Standing.
| 23:00Cats, a wrestling princess and grief. 23:301/6What conspiracy theory - and conspiracy fiction - claim to tell us about power.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies 23:30Roger McGough talks poetry with his fellow Mersey poet
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to director Francis Lee about My Beautiful Laundrette 23:30Journalist Remona Aly examines how weakness can often be powerful.
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