The latest shipping forecast.
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
Bells on Sunday
St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset
2 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Church bells from St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset. Show more
Manwar Ali tells Dominic Lawson why he changed from violent Islamist fighter pursuing global jihad, to become a leading campaigner in Britain against violence and extremism. Show more
The latest national and international news.
After being present at the death of a friend, journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik explores what comes next. Death was an end, but in many religions it's just the end of the beginning. Show more
Sybil Ruscoe meets the UK's only Asian strawberry producer, who set up with a few acres and one glasshouse 20 years ago, and now grows 800 tonnes of soft fruit a year. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Sunday
Divine Aretha, Faith in Westminster, Pope in Ireland discussion
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Emily Buchanan. Show more
Olivia Colman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Unicef. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Marking the Edinburgh Festival from Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh. Led by the Rev Dr Martin Ritchie. Scottish Chamber Choir directed by Iain McLarty. Organist: John Kitchen. Show more
Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list. He proposes instead a list that rhymes with bucket but begins with an F. 'Let's call it a Forget-it-list', he says. Show more
Comedian Chris Turner is an established act at the Edinburgh Festival and elsewhere. Possibly less well known is his interest in birds as this Tweet of the Day explores. Show more
News with Paddy O'Connell. Article 50 author Lord Kerr describes how the Brexit exit date could move, and reviewing the papers: Patience Wheatcroft, Gaylene Gould and Chris Neill. Show more
In this special 150th edition of the programme, Sue MacGregor brings together four people who survived the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Sheila Dillon looks at how convenience mangoes have kept us from their true exotic flavour. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Global news and analysis.
Mishal Husain introduces pieces on an adaptable Welsh hotelier, renewing an old friendship, special crowds in a quiet corner of Lakeland, winning at ploughing and flowers in Beds. Show more
Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from Herefordshire. Pippa Greenwood, Chris Beardshaw and Anne Swithinbank take questions from amateur gardeners. Show more
The Listening Project
Omnibus - Reflections on the World of Work
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Fi Glover introduces conversations about working with family or partners, caring for loggerhead turtles, and facing a delayed pension age. Show more
Taut crime thriller by leading Polish writer Zygmunt Miloszewski, dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson. Wartime intrigue and modern politics mesh in a murder mystery. Show more
A special edition exploring book criticism, reviewing, and asking whether using critical tools can make us better readers. Show more
Roger Roger McGough is joined by Bristol's first poet laureate, Miles Chambers, with a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. Show more
Journalist David Aaronovitch goes in search of the Deep State. What does the term mean, where did it come from, who uses it and why? And does it exist here in Britain? Show more
Manwar Ali tells Dominic Lawson why he changed from violent Islamist fighter pursuing global jihad, to become a leading campaigner in Britain against violence and extremism. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights. Show more
Reality bites for Fallon, and Lynda is determined to get to the truth. Show more
Henry Normal takes a poetic look at imagination and the reasons why humans create. Show more
By Nick Walker. On Tor's first day at school, Annika has to investigate the death of his class teacher. Show more
Feedback
Is A Point of View the place for Brexit? And behind the scenes of Research and Development
28 minutes
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Roger Bolton hears listeners react to A Point of View covering Brexit and bid a fond farewell to Eddie Mair on PM. Show more
Last Word
Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce
28 minutes
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Obituary Series. Matthew Bannister on author VS Naipaul, activist Nan Joyce, actor Winston Ntshona and singer Aretha Franklin. Show more
Inflation can change your sex life - and pretty much everything else. Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and Steve Bugeja present an everyday guide to economics. Show more
Olivia Colman makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Unicef. Show more
More and more of us will have to work into our 70s or even our 80s as pensions are declining and life expectancy going up. So, asks David Baker, is this the end of retirement? Show more
Anne McElvoy surveys the week ahead with MPs Tim Loughton and Jack Dromey, Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of the business campaign group London First, and Katy Balls of The Spectator. Show more
Radiolab looks behind the curtain of how memories are made... and forgotten. With Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and neurologist Oliver Sacks. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Josie Long presents stories of small radical acts from presidential campaigns to a poet helping re-imagine the world. From 2018. Show more
Bells on Sunday
St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset
2 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Church bells from St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
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