| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Eye, Suffolk. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A powerful exploration of China's Cultural Revolution from the Guardian's Tania Branigan. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A haunting exploration of China's Cultural Revolution from the Guardian's Tania Branigan. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A haunting exploration of China's Cultural Revolution from the Guardian's Tania Branigan. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A hauntingly powerful account of the Cultural Revolution by the Guardian's Tania Branigan. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The final part of Tania Branigan's haunting exploration of China's Cultural Revolution. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A sonic portrait of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. 00:48The latest shipping forecast
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bishop David Chillingworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 05:45Sarah Swadling investigates the pros and cons of growing maize. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Helen Moncrieff recalls seeing an Orca seize a Black Guillemot at sea.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bishop David Chillingworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 05:45We hear why an insurance company is paying millions to restore a temperate rainforest.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bishop David Chillingworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 05:45A farmer gives his reaction to a proposed ban on the farming of Pacific Oysters. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Crested Tit.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bishop David Chillingworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 05:45Free-range hens will soon be freed as restrictions are eased in England and Wales. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection with Bishop David Chillingworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 05:45Will government action on fly-tipping make a difference? 05:58Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Abraham decides his next steps - and hopes to be protected in return.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church in Wilbarston, Northamptonshire 05:45The Hertfordshire-born physicist who's NASA’s new science chief.
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| 06:00 | 06:00More than 30 children have been reunited with their families in Ukraine.
| 06:00Junior doctors in England begin a four-day walkout.
| 06:00President Joe Biden carries out his first engagements in Northern Ireland.
| 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. 06:07Lawrence D'Silva explores the abandoned villages and ruined churches of Norfolk. 06:30The latest news about food, farming and the countryside 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand celebrates the power of call and response. 06:35Anna Louise Claydon explores the farmland around the archaeological site of Sutton Hoo. 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. 07:10LGBTQ+ Iftar; Pilgrimage; Religious oaths in court 07:54Saima Mohsin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Citizens Foundation. 07:57The latest weather forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers. 08:10Live from the chapel of Rugby School with Young Chorister of the Year Naomi. 08:48Adam Gopnik says foreign TV shows helped him appreciate the universal language of satire. 08:58Bill Oddie presents the black redstart.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Rev Grace Thomas.
| 09:00How did the son of a doctor end up rejecting modern medicine? Helen Lewis finds out. 09:30The consultancy industry is worth billions. Should we be in awe of their wizardry? 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Mark Dowd.
| 09:00Six-year-old Lisa boards a flight with her dad. She won’t see her mum for the next decade. 09:30Abraham decides his next steps - and hopes to be protected in return. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Molly Boot.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Swarzy Macaly.
| 09:00Kirsty Wark reunites those who helped to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by the Revd Jonathan Thomas
| 09:00The designer and business-woman Cath Kidston reveals the person beyond the patterns.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00The world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid AI robot artist speaks to Woman’s Hour.
| 10:00Hadley Freeman on her memoir Good Girls about having anorexia.
| 10:00Derry Girls actors Siobhan McSweeney and Louisa Harland on stage in Dancing at Lughnasa.
| 10:00Surgeons have begun collating data on labiaplasty for the first time
| 10:00The rise of the 'healthy hen do'.
| 10:00Comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri paints an evocative picture of her family's home town. 10:30Greg Jenner and his guests delve into the life of Mary Wollstonecraft.
| 10:00The walls close in on George, and Pat makes a shocking admission.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Barnie Choudhury investigates the politics of division being imported into the UK. 11:30Lucy Worsley looks at the case of a tavern owner accused of murdering a customer.
| 11:00Jolyon Jenkins explores how work and life are increasingly being turned into games. 11:30Audrey Gillan meets the 'Samson girls' of Joan Eardley's famous paintings.
| 11:00It’s not always in a romantic relationship where a heart can break. 11:30Jeff is on the phone all day, every day, listening to his leader.
| 11:00A massive new road across Paraguay threatens a fragile eco-system and two communities. 11:30Frederick the Great, the most surprising king of Prussia.
| 11:00How much should we embrace artificial intelligence and how much should we worry about it? 11:303/4After a double date with Jess's new hunk, Matt joins the gym in an effort to impress Anna.
| 11:00Personal memories of one of the most beloved songs written by Rodgers & Hammerstein 11:30The life of a priest comes with considerable risk in communities controlled by cartels.
| 11:15Kirsty Wark reunites the cast and crew of the 1990s Napoleonic drama Sharpe.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04We hear from someone being forced to leave their family home after 15 years. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04Call You and Yours: What are your holiday plans this year? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04Are internet outages just something we need to get used to? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04You and Yours Gap Finders: Simon Griffiths 12:32Big ideas which promised consumers so much but ended up toast. This week, Olestra 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04Anita Rani delves into the archives to tell the story of the British bhangra explosion. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:04The parents missing out on extra financial help to pay for food for their children. 12:305/6Steve Punt presents the week via topical stand-up and sketches. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast 12:042/10Sue Perkins hosts Radio 4's longest running panel show, Just a Minute. 12:32Is hacking our biology the solution to an unhealthy food system and bad food culture? 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond. 13:45Neurologist Jules Montague and William Miller meet Geraint who has frontotemporal dementia
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Neurologist Jules Montague and William Miller meet Dave who has Dementia With Lewy Bodies.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Jules Montague and William Miller meet Gill and Natalie, who face a rare genetic dementia.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Jules Montague and William Miller meet Susan, who has a rare type of dementia called PCA.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond. 13:45Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
| 13:00The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4 13:10Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.
| 13:00Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world 13:30Two forensic psychologists interview David about his life and the crime he committed.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pat and Tony smell a rat. 14:15Photographer Martin Parr on the formative influences that inspired his own creativity.
| 14:00The walls close in on George. 14:15News of an escaped lion turns the lives of the residents of an Estonian town upside down.
| 14:00Brad gets his wires crossed. 14:15Award winning drama set in an ambulance call centre.
| 14:15Award winning drama set in an ambulance call centre.
| 14:00There’s a surprise for Helen 14:154/5Clara and Sabine take flight. 14:45What is the national debt?
| 14:00Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities 14:45Siblings Mitch and Meg disagree over their great-great aunt's literary legacy.
| 14:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 14:45John Yorke looks at Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Kirsty Lang hosts the quiz of lateral thinking and fiendish connections 15:30Could fruit and veg wholesale markets help build a more secure food system in Britain?
| 15:00Josie Long presents short documentaries about animals. 15:30Can writing about nature help to protect it?
| 15:00We hear how people manage their money and their learning disability, or neurodiversity. 15:30How clean is the water we drink? This series follows the UK water cycle from coast to tap.
| 15:00Lawrence D'Silva explores the abandoned villages and ruined churches of Norfolk. 15:27Marie Grant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Books Beyond Words. 15:30Octavia Bright explores the exciting new literary voices coming from India.
| 15:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 15:45A woman moves back to the village where she was born in search of a new purpose in life.
| 15:30Poetic documentary of a coercive relationship, pieced together from real-life experiences.
| 15:00Brendan Behan's tender and true account of love and friendship in prison
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| 16:00 | 16:002/4How little Moscow expanded into the biggest country in the world. 16:30Aleem Maqbool speaks to a vicar who suffered with addiction.
| 16:00Neuropsychiatrist Anthony David talks to Michael. 16:30Frederick the Great, the most surprising king of Prussia.
| 16:00Elite universities and the lives of working class academics. 16:30The BBC's James Clayton on his Twitter scoop.
| 16:00The story of an Icelandic Queen with WoW founder Jude Kelly and Vilborg Davíðsdóttir. 16:30Tips and insights into the art of negotiating and the science underpinning it
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author 16:30The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience.
| 16:00Hadley Freeman on her memoir Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia.
| 16:00Octavia Bright explores Granta's once in a decade list of new writing talent. 16:30Poet Casi Wyn travels to Cwrt-Y-Cadno, a Welsh village in the midst of uncertainty.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Afternoon news and current affairs programme 17:54The latest shipping forecast
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news 17:30Big ideas which promised consumers so much but ended up toast. This week, Olestra 17:54The latest shipping forecast 17:57The latest weather forecast
| 17:00How complaints against police forces in England and Wales are regularly dismissed. 17:40The Hertfordshire-born physicist who's NASA’s new science chief. 17:54The latest shipping forecast 17:57The latest weather forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00NHS leaders have made an appeal for talks to resume before a four day strike by doctors. 18:302/10Sue Perkins hosts Radio 4's longest running panel show, Just a Minute.
| 18:00Junior doctors across England begin a four-day strike to demand higher pay. 18:303/4Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio only world.
| 18:00President Biden praises the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement in a speech in Belfast 18:303/4Comedian Ellie Taylor argues why she thinks the UK should split into lots of kingdoms.
| 18:00US media names a man alleged to be behind the leaking of secret intelligence documents 18:302/4Susan Calman explains why her love of TV makes her happy.
| 18:00Nurses in England will go on strike again after rejecting the government's pay offer 18:305/6Steve Punt presents the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00Grand National is won by the favourite after start is delayed by protestors on the track 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The Royal College of Nursing is demanding an improved pay offer from the government 18:15Linton Stephens with his personal selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00The walls close in on George. 19:15The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
| 19:00Brad gets his wires crossed. 19:15The Rossettis; Benbrick on AI and creativity; Wade Davis on mountaineer George Mallory.
| 19:15Max Porter on his new novel, Shy; Chris Killip exhibition at the Baltic in Newcastle.
| 19:00There’s a surprise for Helen 19:15Reviews of the RSC's Hamnet and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn's memoir Among Others
| 19:00Pat makes a shocking admission. 19:15Is a 3.5 hour feminist piece of slow cinema from 1975 the greatest movie of all time?
| 19:00The Hertfordshire-born physicist who's NASA’s new science chief. 19:15Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reveals his cultural influences.
| 19:00There’s panic at Bridge Farm. 19:153/4Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes laughs at life and packs herself a fantasy coffin. 19:453/5The next in Ingrid Persaud's sparklingly funny series set on one street in Trinidad.
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| 20:00 | 20:00It’s not always in a romantic relationship where a heart can break. 20:30Does Vienna have the world’s best public housing? Chris Bowlby reports
| 20:00How complaints against police forces in England and Wales are regularly dismissed. 20:40Be My Eyes are soon to release a new AI offering. Their CEO Mike Buckley tells us more.
| 20:00Two forensic psychologists interview Duewaine about his life and the crimes he committed. 20:30The story of two Derry boys and a 50-year-old friendship which defied the odds.
| 20:00How much should we embrace artificial intelligence and how much should we worry about it? 20:30An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952
| 20:00Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire. 20:50Adam Gopnik says foreign TV shows helped him appreciate the universal language of satire.
| 20:00Jonathan Freedland asks what the word fascism means in the 2020s.
| 20:00The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author
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| 21:00 | 21:00Philip Ball tells the tale of Alexis Carrel's immortal chicken heart. 21:30Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
| 21:00How clean is the water we drink? This series follows the UK water cycle from coast to tap. 21:30How did the son of a doctor end up rejecting modern medicine? Helen Lewis finds out.
| 21:00Can writing about nature help to protect it? 21:30The BBC's James Clayton on his Twitter scoop.
| 21:00Tips and insights into the art of negotiating and the science underpinning it 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
| 21:00The series that traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.
| 21:005/10Toby Jones stars as the corrupt MP Joseph Olinska. Lionel Smith has finally emerged. 21:45A woman moves back to the village where she was born in search of a new purpose in life.
| 21:00The parents missing out on extra financial help to pay for food for their children. 21:25Saima Mohsin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Citizens Foundation. 21:30Audrey Gillan meets the 'Samson girls' of Joan Eardley's famous paintings.
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| 22:00 | 22:00President made remarks during NBC interview 22:456/10Held hostage by Marisa, Kate comes to a realisation and she is afraid.
| 22:00President marking 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement 22:457/10Marisa's diary explains the unsettling turn of events, and Kate puts a plan together.
| 22:00More than 100 people now reported killed 22:458/10Kate turns detective and uncovers the truth about Marisa's past.
| 22:00Can the US be trusted to keep secrets safe? 22:459/10Annabelle, Jake's mother, makes her feelings about Kate and Marisa clear.
| 22:00Jeremy Hunt says world's finance ministers believe "Britain is back". 22:4510/10Kate's dreams are in jeopardy when Annabelle makes her agenda clear.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Is a 3.5 hour feminist piece of slow cinema from 1975 the greatest movie of all time?
| 22:00Nick Watt hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to Andy West who teaches philosophy in prisons 23:301/5Hugh Dennis as a failing actor who makes a Faustian pact to land the role of a lifetime.
| 23:004/4Satirical sketches on modern life. 23:302/5Inhabitants of a "smart town" confront strange aberrations in the algorithm they depend on
| 23:00Stand up series about strong women, quite literally - women weightlifters. 23:152/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:303/5A plastic-eating enzyme could rid the world of toxic waste. Starring Reece Shearsmith.
| 23:004/6Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas reads from his childhood diary. 23:304/5A 3rd generation Londoner takes part in a virtual reality game to win British citizenship.
| 23:00Is Joe Biden’s Irish visit a peace mission or a family trip? 23:305/5A refugee cleaner must negotiate the survival of humanity with Gaia, the Earth Mother.
| 23:00Kirsty Lang hosts the quiz of lateral thinking and fiendish connections 23:30A family move to a new house, but are torn apart by a terrifying, violent poltergeist.
| 23:00Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. 23:30Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand celebrates the power of call and response.
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