| 00:00 | 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A London schoolboy's terrifying adventures in Chairman Mao's China. 00:45Bells on Sunday comes from St Vedast, Foster Lane in London. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5New York’s carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5New York’s carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5New York’s carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5New York’s carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5New York’s carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. 00:152/4Seamus Heaney's daughter, Catherine, on her father's poetry of love, of different kinds 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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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 weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das 05:45Sarah Swadling finds out about the latest uses of artificial intelligence in agriculture. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the tawny pipit.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das 05:45The hottest June on record, then weeks of wet weather - how will this year’s harvest be? 05:58Brett Westwood presents the thrush nightingale.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das 05:45The UK government announces new border controls for imported goods from the EU. 05:58Chris Packham presents the South American toco tucan.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das 05:45Sustainable Farming Incentive delays for England's common land farmers 05:58Bill Oddie presents the treecreeper.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das 05:45Farmers warn that environmental protections will put them out of business. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Galapagos Islands' blue-footed booby.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A reflection and prayer to start the day with Canon Simon Doogan. 05:45In November 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight.
| 05:20The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Gislingham, in Suffolk. 05:455/5A re-examination of George Kennan's 1957 Reith Lectures, 'Russia, the Atom and the West'.
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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 hears how ancient Irish stone circles have inspired 21st century star gazers. 06:30Farmers' concerns over new land protections. 06:57The latest weather reports and forecast
| 06:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 06:05Mark Tully asks whether the best practical jokes can serve a social or religious purpose. 06:35Brett Westwood investigates our obsession with grass. 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. 07:10Edward Stourton examines the ethical and religious issues of the week. 07:54Mandira Sharma makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Prisoners of Conscience 07:57The latest weather forecast
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers. 08:10A service to mark the 1350th anniversary of the founding of Ely Cathedral by St Etheldreda 08:48Will Self on the 'pernicious practice' of bucket lists. 08:58Chris Packham presents the vegetarian tree finch on the Galapagos Islands.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Medication: What do we know about psychiatric drugs? 09:30The failures in post-war Iraq have far reaching and unexpected consequences. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Mark Tan
| 09:00Sir Colin Humphreys on LEDs, electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world 09:30Aleighcia Scott speaks to Chris Price about his family's contribution to reggae in the UK. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Sister Gemma Simmonds
| 09:00Can you really buy an electric car for everybody in the UK for the cost of HS2? 09:30Managers discuss what life working in a GP surgery was like in the past, compared to now. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Haydon Spenceley
| 09:00An unexpected story springs from a landscape in rural Lincolnshire's hidden histories 09:30Ian goes to Hawick in the Scottish Borders to meet a local newspaper editor. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Canon Rachel Mann
| 09:00Senior politicians relive the final years of John Major’s government. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Bishop Chris Edmondson
| 09:00Decorated SAS veteran, bestselling author and functioning psychopath Andy McNab.
| 09:00The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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| 10:00 | 10:00Nuala McGovern and guests discuss the centrality of lists in our lives.
| 10:00TV presenter Sarah Beeny on what home means to her, and her breast cancer journey.
| 10:00New research on the Y chromosome and the implications in relation to male infertility
| 10:00Emma Hayes, manager of Chelsea FC Women, on leadership, motherhood and women's health.
| 10:00Why were 21 Coventry women of Indian origin given radioactive chapatis in 1969?
| 10:00Join Greg and the team in Ancient Egypt to meet the unique and powerful ruler, Hatshepsut. 10:306/14Jay Rayner and his panel of food experts have a grand day out in Masham.
| 10:00Stella is put on the spot and will Jazzer and Tracy make it down the aisle?
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| 11:00 | 11:00Clarke Peters reveals stories of black music from the late 1970s to the present day. 11:30Is maternity care keeping up with societal changes?
| 11:00Archbishop Justin Welby has conversations with public figures about their inner lives. 11:30Einstein's theory of relativity revolutionised science. But how did it transform the arts?
| 11:00Nobel prize-winning, on trial and hated by the Russian State. The story of Memorial. 11:30Faris, who lives with PTSD, reflects on how he manages his mind.
| 11:00The young female stars of Gnawa music now challenging the boundaries of Moroccan identity 11:30Chris Watson on Ludwig Koch
| 11:00What's the evidence for restricting short-term rental accommodation? 11:301/6Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of the biggest TV comedies.
| 11:00Who is coming to the UK - and how do we count them? 11:30'Any story could be your last' say journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir.
| 11:15In the 200th edition of The Reunion, Kirsty Wark reunites the team of Spitting Image.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04The flat owners trapped when block owners fail to produce a fire safety certificate. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Call You & Yours: How confident at recycling are you? 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Complaints about BT Digital Voice. The latest travel hack. Cutting back on nights out. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04We meet a man on a self-proclaimed mission to change how we buy gig tickets for good. 12:32Charlotte Stavrou and Amit Katwala explore the world of Board Games. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04The debate about whether Jewish characters should always be played by Jewish actors. 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:04Research suggests 1 in 5 people are turning to Buy Now, Pay Later to pay for essentials. 12:30The Skewer's Jon Holmes and host Andrew Hunter Murray send a new news-nude to your ears 12:57The latest weather forecast
| 12:00The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 12:0410/10Sue Perkins presents the second of two special editions of the programme from Edinburgh 12:32What does it take to feed a music festival? 12:57The latest weather forecast
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| 13:00 | 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Blair Braverman presents the story of a phobia: of night terrors, hypnosis and Carly Simon
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45Fluid, noisy, flouting the rules. Blair Braverman discovers that the ocean is queer.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45A real-life echo of Hitchcock's The Birds reveals our relationship with the avian world.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague. 13:45You might think you know the story of Jaws. Blair Braverman finds it goes much... deeper.
| 13:00Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond. 13:45Tigers, snakes, sharks… Blair Braverman asks, why are people so drawn to animal tattoos?
| 13:00The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4 13:10Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Lostwithiel Community Centre in Cornwall.
| 13:00Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world 13:30Musician Karine Polwart weaves together stories of science, history and the theme of light
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| 14:00 | 14:00David faces a tricky situation. 14:15Writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg reveals his formative creative influences.
| 14:00Jazzer makes a promise he might not be able to keep. 14:153/7What happens if we can’t recover from past trauma?
| 14:00Brad knocks heads together. 14:15Jonathan Maitland's play about the world of remuneration committees and executive pay.
| 14:00Will Jazzer and Tracy make it down the aisle? 14:15True story of Peter Waring whose ambition brought fame and infamy.
| 14:00Stella is put on the spot. 14:154/5The Thai Senator, an interrogation, a private jet… 14:453/4Helen Lewis dives into the 'goldfish bowl' and explores the glamorous job no-one wants.
| 14:00Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week 14:45Neurologist Jules Montague and William Miller meet Geraint who has frontotemporal dementia
| 14:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 14:45John Yorke on the swashbuckler to end all swashbucklers - The Three Musketeers.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the prestigious nationwide general knowledge contest 15:30How can the UK's new food museum tell the story of food, past, present and future?
| 15:005/14Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. 15:30Catrin finally confronts Lighthouse's leader as the organisation ends up in court.
| 15:00How one high street is trying to thrive, despite the cost of living rising. 15:302/3Lucy Cooke meets females from the animal world that smash the ‘dominant male’ stereotype.
| 15:00Helen Mark hears how ancient Irish stone circles have inspired 21st century star gazers. 15:27Louise Minchin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of On Call Africa. 15:30Chris Power surveys Orwell's complex legacy with Anna Funder, Adam Biles and Sandra Newman
| 15:00Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. 15:45A woman in her seventies surprises her children by marrying an ice cream shop.
| 15:00An oligarch’s sudden death plunges his family and its vast business empire into chaos.
| 15:00The origin story of Milady de Winter, one of the great villains of classic fiction.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Major Charity Adams arrives in Birmingham, England, to sort out an enormous problem. 16:30Aleem speaks with Daniel Ally about how his faith inspires him to seek financial success.
| 16:00A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail. 16:30Chris Watson on Ludwig Koch
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the unstoppable rise of the lower middle class. 16:30We look at the fallout from a row about privacy at Zoom.
| 16:00Mel Giedroyc explores Walt Disney’s final film, The Jungle Book. 16:30Extreme weather is forcing communities to leave their homes. What can we do about it?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor. 16:30Can you really buy an electric car for everybody in the UK for the cost of HS2?
| 16:00Nicky Perfect on the situations she has faced, and what it takes to be a negotiator.
| 16:00Denise Mina talks about her 2017 true-crime book, The Long Drop. 16:303/4Gail McConnell on how Seamus Heaney responded in his poetry to The Troubles in Ulster
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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 17:30Charlotte Stavrou and Amit Katwala explore the world of Board Games. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 17:57The latest weather forecast
| 17:00Children who are excluded from school are being targetted by gangs to sell drugs 17:405/5A re-examination of George Kennan's 1957 Reith Lectures, 'Russia, the Atom and the West'. 17:54The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping 17:57The latest weather forecast
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| 18:00 | 18:00Tens of thousands of passengers face delays despite the problem having now been fixed 18:3010/10Sue Perkins presents the second of two special editions of the programme from Edinburgh
| 18:00National Air Traffic Services has apologised for disruption at UK's busiest airports 18:306/6Steph McGovern seeks answers to great questions of our age. With Chris McCausland.
| 18:00The judge-led enquiry will be able to compel witnesses to give evidence 18:30In a new show Lucy Porter examines family life and how it's been affected by the pandemic.
| 18:00The Government issued the warning just days before the start of the new school year 18:301/6Rufus Hound hears comedian Ivo Graham read from the diary of his student days.
| 18:00Ministers have warned more schools may be forced to close classrooms at short notice 18:30The Skewer's Jon Holmes and host Andrew Hunter Murray send a new news-nude to your ears
| 18:00She says the rise in officers taking sides on political issues is unacceptable 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Chancellor says ministers acted immediately after learning about risk from weak concrete. 18:15Salma El-Wardany chooses audio highlights from the past week.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jazzer makes a promise he might not be able to keep. 19:15Bassoonist Amy Harman and pianist Julian Joseph help add the next five tracks
| 19:00Brad knocks heads together. 19:15Anne Dudley and Ruairi Glasheen explore a popular Bach classic
| 19:00Will Jazzer and Tracy make it down the aisle? 19:15John Lunn and Jess Gilliam are joined by Johnny Marr as they add the next five tracks
| 19:00Stella is put on the spot. 19:15Isobel Waller-Bridge and Roderick Williams add the final five tracks to the series
| 19:15Ellen and Mark look at offices and office politics on screen, from 9 to 5 to Brazil.
| 19:005/5A re-examination of George Kennan's 1957 Reith Lectures, 'Russia, the Atom and the West'. 19:15Author Leïla Slimani reveals the influences and inspirations that have shaped her writing.
| 19:152/5Florence watches some of the very raunchy movies that Selina has made. 19:453/5The specialists have completed their treatment but Fran's sense of relief is short-lived.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Nobel prize-winning, on trial and hated by the Russian State. The story of Memorial. 20:30Can a financial deal with a conservation charity save Belize's economy?
| 20:00Children who are excluded from school are being targetted by gangs to sell drugs 20:40The International Blind Sports Federation hosted the World Games in Birmingham.
| 20:00The argument about prejudice, power, and the disputed idea of “reverse racism”. 20:45How simply putting your phone away can boost brain power, wellbeing - and reduce pain!
| 20:00What's the evidence for restricting short-term rental accommodation? 20:30A Friday night in The Parliament bar ends in tragedy. Lives will never be the same again
| 20:00Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Lostwithiel Community Centre in Cornwall. 20:50Will Self on the 'pernicious practice' of bucket lists.
| 20:00How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.
| 20:00Can you really buy an electric car for everybody in the UK for the cost of HS2? 20:30Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Archbishop Justin Welby has conversations with public figures about their inner lives. 21:30Medication: What do we know about psychiatric drugs?
| 21:002/3Lucy Cooke meets females from the animal world that smash the ‘dominant male’ stereotype. 21:30Sir Colin Humphreys on LEDs, electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world
| 21:00Catrin finally confronts Lighthouse's leader as the organisation ends up in court. 21:30We look at the fallout from a row about privacy at Zoom.
| 21:00Extreme weather is forcing communities to leave their homes. What can we do about it? 21:30An unexpected story springs from a landscape in rural Lincolnshire's hidden histories
| 21:00Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King.
| 21:0010/10Sir Joseph finally clinches his deal in Russia but his wife's health remains in doubt. 21:45A woman in her seventies surprises her children by marrying an ice cream shop.
| 21:00Research suggests 1 in 5 people are turning to Buy Now, Pay Later to pay for essentials. 21:25Mandira Sharma makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Prisoners of Conscience 21:30Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Head of the Spanish national federation insists he won’t resign 22:451/5Poems read by Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea.
| 22:00The UK's National Air Traffic Service tells us why hundreds of flight are cancelled. 22:452/5Poems read by Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea.
| 22:00Russia and Ukraine's drone strategies 22:453/5Poems read by Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea.
| 22:00School safety worries: we hear from a school governor, a parent and a structural engineer 22:454/5Poems read by Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea.
| 22:00Government explains why classrooms in England have been closed just before term starts 22:455/5Poems read by Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Ellen and Mark look at offices and office politics on screen, from 9 to 5 to Brazil.
| 22:00Ben Wright and guests discuss crumbling concrete and preview the new political season.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Are you quoting Shakespeare without even realising? 23:30Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world via social media.
| 23:00Pie's unleashed on the public as a last minute stand-in. 23:30Pie airs his spicy views on money and private education.
| 23:001/6Ruth and Carla desperately think of things to add to their new Gratitude Diary. 23:153/4Comedian Sarah Keyworth explores their personal journey with gender fluidity and androgyny 23:303/4Mark Watson continues his doomed quest to understand the world.
| 23:00Nearly award-winning investigator Amber Jolt's latest investigative investigation. 23:304/4Mark Watson continues his doomed quest to understand the world.
| 23:00Charting music's part in US politics, from 1970s disco to 'Rich Men North of Richmond'. 23:30Jonathan Glancey on the future of aviation with top architect of airports, Lord Foster.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the prestigious nationwide general knowledge contest 23:30As Richard spends the night camping in yeti country, Andy receives a mysterious call.
| 23:00Eight-year-old Hazel listens in as her teachers discuss her. Their words are devastating. 23:30Aleem speaks with Daniel Ally about how his faith inspires him to seek financial success.
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