The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Bells on Sunday comes from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Show more
Penny Mordaunt is the UK's first female defence secretary. Show more
The latest national and international news headlines.
Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik explores through poetry and prose how mistakes – far from being failures – have the ability to reveal something new and hidden. Show more
Caz Graham meets a group of refugees from an English language class in Leeds, who are experiencing life on a sheep farm. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
Sunday
Walking pilgrimages, Jean Vanier, Religious perspectives on artificial intelligence
44 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Emily Buchanan with religious news and current affairs. Show more
Former Olympic athlete, Roger Black, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Somerville Foundation. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
The Bishop of Gloucester preaches at a service for Eastertide live from the Chapel of Dean Close School in Cheltenham. Show more
Val McDermid argues that if homelessness was classified as an illness, we would be demanding a cure. Show more
Tweet of the Day
Dermot O'Leary on the Sea Eagle
2 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Dermot O'Leary goes in search of sea eagles in the Highlands, but with the light fading, his chances of seeing them are not looking good. Show more
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
Jazzer's determined to get even and Will goes too far. Show more
Louis Theroux shares the eight tracks, book and luxury he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more
David Mitchell gets Lou Sanders, Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn and Lucy Porter to lie with some truths. From 2019. Show more
The Food Programme
What makes an excellent food producer?
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Chef Angela Hartnett joins Sheila Dillon on farms in Herefordshire, Cumbria and Cornwall to meet 2019's Best Food Producers in the BBC Food and Farming Awards. Show more
The latest weather forecast
Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell.
Philippa Perry explores the increasingly recognised phenomenon of Parental Alienation, the psychological manipulation of children during divorce. Show more
Kathy Clugston and the horticultural panel are in Newcastle. Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong answer the audience's questions. Show more
The Listening Project
Sunday Omnibus - The Tombola of Life
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Fi Glover with an omnibus edition of three conversations between a mother and daughter, mother and daughter's boyfriend, and two friends and former BAME colleagues in the police. Show more
Joseph Vadassy is on holiday at a hotel on the Riviera when he is arrested on suspicion of spying. To prove his innocence, he must identify the real spy among the hotel guests. Show more
Open Book
Bernardine Evaristo, Victorian showmen in fiction, Graeme Simsion, Faber at 90
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Bernardine Evaristo discusses her polyphonic new novel Girl, Woman, Other, and Jess Kidd and Kitty Aldridge discuss the literary appeal of 19th-century showmen Show more
Raymond Antrobus is Roger McGough's guest. He makes his selection of poems from his own and others work. Show more
Professor Matthew Flinders examines the surprising legacy of the MPs' expenses scandal ten years on. Show more
Penny Mordaunt is the UK's first female defence secretary. Show more
The latest shipping forecast.
The latest weather forecast.
Six O'Clock News
12/05/2019 Euro elections will be 'Brexit protest vote'
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Cabinet minister warns European parliament vote could be seen as 'second referendum'
Comedian and writer Helen Lederer makes her pick of the best of of BBC Radio. Show more
Freddie is left disappointed and Clarrie has concerns. Show more
Stand-up from Suzi Ruffell on growing up in Portsmouth with a large entertaining family and sending postcards home. From 2019. Show more
Nikesh’s secret has put his marriage under pressure. Will learning the tango help the couple rekindle their relationship? Written by Bethan Roberts and read by Sara Markland. Show more
More or Less
Sex, coal, missing people and mice
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.) Show more
Last Word
Winnie Jordan, Richard Green, Karol Modzelewski, Liz Howe, John Singleton
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Andrea Catherwood on athlete Winnie Jordan, gay rights psychiatrist Richard Green, Solidarity leader, Karol Modzelewski, ecologist Liz Howe and US film director John Singleton. Show more
The launch of a large scale rent flex pilot. Plus the minister for economic crime on his plans to cure fraud and hope at last for investors who lost out when LCF collapsed. Show more
Former Olympic athlete, Roger Black, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Somerville Foundation. Show more
In Business
Beijing to Belarus - A new Silk Road to Europe
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
China and Belarus are building a giant industrial eco-city. They see it as the European hub of a modern, turbo-charged version of ancient east-west trading routes. Show more
Carolyn Quinn previews the week in politics with Conservative Huw Merriman, Labour's Seema Malhotra and Alexandra Phillips from the Brexit Party - plus Katy Balls of the Spectator. Show more
The Film Programme
Mads Mikkelsen and Claire Denis
28 minutes on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Mads Mikkelsen talks to Antonia Quirke about playing a plane crash survivor in Arctic, while Claire Denis discusses her controversial science fiction drama High Life. Show more
Winner of the contest for a dream travel project in 2012, Jaswinder Jhalli visits the gauchos of Argentina and discovers how their image matches the reality of today's horsemen. Show more
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Conspiracy theories - Laurie Taylor explores their origin and evolution and considers the extent to which certain countries and people are more inclined to believe in them. Show more
Bells on Sunday comes from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Show more
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.