12:48 AM - 01:00 AM
Shipping Forecast
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
01:00 AM - 05:00 AM
World Service
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
05:00 AM - 05:04 AM
News Summary
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
05:04 AM - 05:34 AM
Licence to Hate - Racism on the Front Line
Frontline healthcare workers describe racist abuse from their patients.
05:34 AM - 05:43 AM
Shipping Forecast
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
05:43 AM - 05:45 AM
Prayer for the Day
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Bishop David Walker.
05:45 AM - 06:00 AM
Farming Today
Illegal meat is still breaching UK borders, with 14 tonnes seized at Dover in a single week.
06:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Today
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
The Life Scientific
Hiranya Peiris talks to Jim Al-Khalili about pioneering the modern era of precision cosmology and revolutionising our understanding of the universe.
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Through Persian Eyes
1/3. What is the shape of world history seen through Persian eyes? Ali Ansari asks us to rethink our understanding of Iran in the world with a Persian grand tour that begins in 3000 BC.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Screenshot
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode examine fishing on screen. Guests include Mark Jenkin, John Lurie and Gagga Jónsdóttir.
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory
2/5. Dominic Gregory meets the boss - lifeboat coxswain, Stuart Adams - and begins his meticulous training at the Dungeness lifeboat station.
12:00 PM - 12:04 PM
News Summary
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
12:04 PM - 12:57 PM
Call You and Yours
News and discussion of consumer affairs.
12:57 PM - 01:00 PM
Weather Forecast
The latest weather forecast.
01:00 PM - 01:45 PM
The World at One
News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4.
01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Puffed Up: Inventions Out of Thin Air
2/5. Mark Miodownik explores the pneumatic tyre that blew up human history.
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
The Archers
Can Robert square his conscience, and will George go to Keira's birthday party?
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Celia's Secret
1/2. During the West End run of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, a curious letter arrives from a Chiswick housewife. Frayn and his director are staggered at the contents. Can it be true?
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
History's Heroes
In the industrial revolution, a worker takes on the factory system and demands an end to brutal conditions.
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Heart and Soul
After her 14-year-old son died, Megan Garcia discovered he had formed a deep bond with an AI chatbot. In her grief, she turned not away from faith, but more deeply towards it.
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Band of Mothers
In the 1990s, an all-female band called Beaker enjoyed some success. Now re-formed, what are the realities for five 50-ish women juggling jobs, parenthood, gigs, and maybe more?
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
What's Up Docs?
Chris and Xand van Tulleken looking at cholesterol and fat - what really are they, what are the different types, and should be concerned about them?
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
PM
Full coverage of the day's news.
06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Six O'Clock News
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Nature Table
1/6. Join comedian and writer Sue Perkins as she hosts her award-winning comedy Nature Table: a funny show-and-tell series celebrating the natural world and all its eccentricities.
07:00 PM - 07:15 PM
The Archers
Adam has some news for David, and George ponders his impending fatherhood.
07:15 PM - 08:00 PM
Front Row
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
08:00 PM - 08:40 PM
The Experiments
Jack Butcher presents an investigation into widespread medical abuse in German children's homes.
08:40 PM - 09:00 PM
In Touch
News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted.
09:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Crossing Continents
Ivanka Trump, a beach full of sheep and the changing landscape of southern Albania.
09:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Great Lives
Beverley Knight picks the great Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer turned pioneer, with help from Joe Boyd.
10:00 PM - 10:45 PM
The World Tonight
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective.
10:45 PM - 11:00 PM
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
7/10. Thomas panics as Edgar Acheson disappears into the sea fog of the Longferry shoreline. He loses his bearings as he tries desperately to find the American film director.
11:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Uncanny Cold Cases
1/12. Danny Robins investigates Britain's most violent poltergeist case. When a family move into a new house in Pontefract, doors slam, objects fly, and they realise they're not alone...
11:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Last Word
John Wilson on theatre and film producer Robert Fox, athlete Mary Rand, computer software developer Sir Tony Hoare, primatologist and conservationist Biruté Galdikas.
12:00 AM - 12:30 AM
Midnight News
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
12:30 AM - 12:48 AM
Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory
2/5. Dominic Gregory meets the boss - lifeboat coxswain, Stuart Adams - and begins his meticulous training at the Dungeness lifeboat station.
12:48 AM - 01:00 AM
Shipping Forecast
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.