The latest shipping forecast.

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Simon Doogan.

The programme that starts with its listeners. Eddie Mair asks, 'Has anyone sober ever joined a political party?'. Show more

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

The latest weather forecast.

Clare joins three taxidermists with a unique take on wildlife by the River Wharfe. Show more

As rams go out in to the fields with ewes and start the lambing cycle, sheep farmers talk about the challenges ahead at the start of their farming year. Show more

The latest weather forecast.

Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Ulster unionists march, plus the latest from Syria, and the world's oldest bodybuilder. Show more

Richard Coles and Sian Williams with writer Anthony Horowitz, interpreter Dolores O'Reilly, John McCarthy exploring Martello Towers, and Frances de la Tour's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Comedian Maz Jobrani visits the largest Iranian diaspora in the world, in the heart of Los Angeles or 'Tehrangeles'. From 2012. Show more

Commentary on two matches in the Super Eights from Pallekele, with Jonathan Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Vic Marks and Russel Arnold. Show more

The latest shipping forecast.

Commentary on two matches in the Super Eights from Pallekele, with Jonathan Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Vic Marks and Russel Arnold. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Clive Anderson with conversation, music and comedy. Clive is joined by Lenny Henry, Paul Merton, Laurence Fox, Danny Wallace and Simon Garfield. Music from Dog Is Dead and Maia. Show more

Edward Stourton profiles Justin Welby, former oil executive and now Bishop of Durham, emerging as one of the most striking candidates for the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, stage designer Es Devlin, novelist Kamila Shamsie and academic and critic John Mullan, review the week's cultural highlights. Show more

Christopher Cook explores how the power of Hollywood was used on the radio to help define America's war effort. From September 2012. Show more

Farmer Oak sees an ideal wife in Bathsheba, but she turns him down. Then she gets rich and the tables turn. Stars Alex Tregear. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.

Places of peace or battlegrounds over identity? Mariella Frostrup and her guests examine the hidden politics of the childhood bedroom. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe welcomes the teams from the north of England and the south of England, in the latest contest of lateral thinking and fiendish cryptic connections. Show more

Presented by Roger McGough, in the company of poet Hugo Williams. Hugo chooses some favourite poems from listeners' requests and reads some of his own work. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.

By Graham Jameson. When he gets lost on a school trip to the seaside, Joseph has a much better day than he had anticipated. Read by Sam Dale. Show more

The latest shipping forecast.

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.