FM Schedule
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Early
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00:00
Midnight News—13/08/2021
The latest news and weather forecast from 麻豆约拍 Radio 4.
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00:30
Hamilton and Me by Giles Terera—Episode 4: Time Begins to Bend
4/5 Actor Giles Terera's inside account of his time with the groundbreaking musical Hamilton
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00:48
Shipping Forecast—13/08/2021
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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01:00
Selection of 麻豆约拍 World Service Programmes—13/08/2021
A selection of 麻豆约拍 World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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05:20
Shipping Forecast—13/08/2021
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:30
News Briefing—13/08/2021
The latest news from 麻豆约拍 Radio 4
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05:43
Prayer for the Day—13/08/2021
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Harry Baker.
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05:45
Farming Today—13/08/21 - Buying Welsh farmland for offsetting, Local Nature Recovery Strategies, Where the red squirrels eat
Farmland in Wales is being bought by investment companies to offset carbon emissions.
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05:58
Tweet of the Day—Blue Jay
Chris Packham presents the North American blue jay.
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Morning
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06:00
Today—13/08/2021
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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09:00
The Reunion—Same Sex Marriage
Kirsty Wark and guests recall the battle to introduce same-sex marriage in Britain.
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09:45
Hamilton and Me by Giles Terera—Episode 5: Told You it Would Be Crazy
5/5 Actor Giles Terera's inside account of his time with the groundbreaking musical Hamilton
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10:00
Woman's Hour—Singer-songwriter Joy Crookes, Maternity discrimination, Data-driven parenting, Hot Girl Summer
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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11:00
The Spark—Ehsan Masood and GDP
Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times.
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11:30
Ellie Taylor's Safe Space—Series 2, Exercise
2/4 Comedian Ellie Taylor looks at exercise and why it should, in her opinion, be forbidden.
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Afternoon
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12:00
News Summary—13/08/2021
National and international news from 麻豆约拍 Radio 4
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12:04
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey—Episode Five
5/10 A fisherman and a mermaid meet and fall in love. Costa Book of the Year 2020.
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12:18
You and Yours—13/08/2021
Working from 麻豆约拍; Holiday Bookings; Phone Fraud
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12:57
Weather—13/08/2021
The latest weather forecast
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13:00
World at One—13/08/2021
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond
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13:45
A History of the World in 100 Objects—The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), Durer's Rhinoceros
5/5 Neil MacGregor with Durer's extraordinary image of a rhino - an animal he had never seen.
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14:00
The Archers—12/08/2021
The Aldridge family attempt to hold everything together
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14:15
Drama on 4—The Summer Snows
Robert Bathurst plays a writer with a compulsion to find mountain snowbeds.
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15:00
Gardeners' Question Time—GQT at 麻豆约拍: Allotment Plots and Happy Hollyhocks
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts.
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15:45
Short Works—Ava Unfurled
A woman finds an unexpected connection to her lost love through the artworks in a museum.
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16:00
Last Word—Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer
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16:30
Feedback—13/08/2021
Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.
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17:00
PM—13/08/2021
Afternoon news and current affairs programme.
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Evening
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18:00
Six O'Clock News—13/08/2021 Police name victims of Plymouth shooting
The gunman's mother is among those killed in the shooting.
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18:30
Party's Over—Series 1, Parish Council
3/5 Henry meets a local nemesis as he tries to make some home and garden improvements.
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19:00
Front Row—Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Pianist Vikingur Olafsson is in the studio to talk about audiences, live music, and Mozart
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19:45
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives—Manto: The Unsentimentalist
Exploring the life and work of India's master of the short story, Saadat Hasan Manto.
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20:00
Any Questions?—Eddie Hughes MP, Lisa Nandy MP, Lemn Sissay, Anna Soubry
Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Church of St Mary, Leigh.
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20:50
A Point of View—A Study in Improbability
Adam Gopnik presents an extended anecdote about art, television and memory.
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21:00
A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus—The Threshold of the Modern World (AD 1375-1550)
15/20 Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made. (R)
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22:00
The World Tonight—Taliban 鈥渕ay regain control of Kabul before September 11鈥�
Paul Wolfowitz tells us Taliban victory will be failure on a par with Vietnam
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22:45
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey—Episode Five
5/10 A fisherman and a mermaid meet and fall in love. Costa Book of the Year 2020.
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23:00
Great Lives—Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist Tasmin Little on her hero, Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
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23:30
Conspiracies: The Secret Knowledge—The Secret Knowledge
3/6 Phil Tinline continues his series exploring what conspiracy stories tell us about power.
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Late
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00:00
Midnight News—14/08/2021
The latest news and weather forecast from 麻豆约拍 Radio 4.
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00:30
Hamilton and Me by Giles Terera—Episode 5: Told You it Would Be Crazy
5/5 Actor Giles Terera's inside account of his time with the groundbreaking musical Hamilton
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00:48
Shipping Forecast—14/08/2021
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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01:00
Selection of 麻豆约拍 World Service Programmes—14/08/2021
A selection of 麻豆约拍 World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
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05:20
Shipping Forecast—14/08/2021
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
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05:30
News Briefing—14/08/2021
The latest news from 麻豆约拍 Radio 4
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05:43
Prayer for the Day—14/08/2021
With Father Philip Blackledge of Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church in Melrose
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05:45
Four Thought—Fear of Finance
Professor Atul Shah argues that we need a healthier relationship with finance.
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