BBC Radio 4 FM Schedule Monday 25 August 2025

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Early
1. 00:00
  
  Midnight News—25/08/2025
  
  National and international news from BBC Radio 4
2. 00:15
  
  Crossing Continents—Europe’s migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world
  
  Seventy-one migrants suffocated in a truck in 2015. Could the tragedy have been prevented?
3. 00:45
  
  Bells on Sunday—St Peter’s Church, Chertsey, Surrey
  
  Bells on Sunday comes from St Peter’s Church in Chertsey, Surrey
4. 00:48
  
  Shipping Forecast—25/08/2025
  
  The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
5. 01:00
  
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—25/08/2025
  
  A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
6. 05:00
  
  News Summary—25/08/2025
  
  National and international news from BBC Radio 4
7. 05:04
  
  Last Word—Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter
  
  John Wilson on an actor, tech pioneer, literacy festival founder, a polymath
8. 05:34
  
  Shipping Forecast—25/08/2025
  
  The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
9. 05:43
  
  Prayer for the Day—The Empty Chairs
  
  A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rabbi Charley Baginsky
10. 05:45
  
  Farming Today—25/08/2015 - Summer at the Shielings
  
  Crofters' memories of working, playing and praying on the moors during the summer months
11. 05:57
  
  Weather—25/08/2025
  
  The latest weather reports and forecasts for farmers
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Morning
1. 06:00
  
  Today—Ukraine War: On the frontline in the Donbas
  
  25/08/25 - Anna Foster and Simon Jack present Today
2. 09:00
  
  Rory Stewart: The Long History of...—Heroism, 4. Poster Heroes
  
  4/5 Rory Stewart explores ideas of the hero through time.
3. 09:30
  
  Building Soul: with Thomas Heatherwick—Series 2, Making 'Making' Great Again
  
  2/3 Thomas Heatherwick on reviving craft, imperfection and humanity in architecture.
4. 10:00
  
  Woman's Hour—Stalking & heart disease, Cellist Laura van der Heijden, Periods
  
  Dr Audrey Marchland discusses a new Harvard study linking stalking to heart disease.
5. 11:00
  
  The History Podcast—The Second Map, 2. The Secrets in the Safe
  
  The other story of the Second World War.
6. 11:45
  
  Blood Lands—Blood on the Wall
  
  1/6 Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
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Afternoon
1. 12:00
  
  News Summary—25/08/2025
  
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 12:04
  
  You and Yours—Pension Scam, Electric Vehicles, Mountain Bothies
  
  The latest on a scam that defrauded thousands of people out of their pensions.
3. 12:57
  
  Weather—25/08/2025
  
  The latest weather forecast
4. 13:00
  
  World at One—At least 20 killed in a strike on a Gaza hospital
  
  Several journalists are among the dead at the Nasser Hospital - an eyewitness joins us.
5. 13:45
  
  Naturebang—Magpies and Altruism
  
  Why do we help each other out? Even when it gets us nothing? Magpies might know.
6. 14:00
  
  The Archers—24/08/2025
  
  There's trouble on the cricket pitch.
7. 14:15
  
  John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme—2025 Special
  
  Another one-off return for the multi-award-winning sketch show.
8. 15:00
  
  Great Lives—Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country
  
  Famous guests pick a life they love or admire.
9. 15:30
  
  You're Dead to Me—Alexandria: city of knowledge and culture
  
  Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the history of the city of Alexandria.
10. 16:00
  
  Currently—Germany: United and Divided
  
  Historian Katja Hoyer investigates East German disillusion 35 years after reunification.
11. 16:30
  
  The Kitchen Cabinet—Series 49, Eastleigh
  
  1/7 Jay Rayner is in Eastleigh, Southampton hosting a culinary Q and A with a panel of experts
12. 17:00
  
  PM—At least 20 die in Gaza hospital airstrike
  
  UK Foreign Secretary "horrified" at the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital.
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Evening
1. 18:00
  
  Six O'Clock News—Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strike on hospital
  
  The WHO has appealed to Israel to stop targeting healthcare
2. 18:30
  
  Just a Minute—Series 95, 2. Where's the live, laugh, love?
  
  2/6 How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation?
3. 19:00
  
  The Archers—25/08/2025
  
  George has a controversial brainwave.
4. 19:15
  
  Artworks—Hollywood and The Adland Five, 1. Transforming Ads, Transforming Movies
  
  1/4 Sir Christopher Nolan and Sir Christopher Frayling tell a new story of British cinema.
5. 19:45
  
  New Storytellers—Charles Parker Prize - 2021, The Bathing Place
  
  Exploring Parson’s Pleasure, a male-only nude bathing place on the outskirts of Oxford.
6. 20:00
  
  The Briefing Room—UK Resilience, How prepared are we for cyber threats?
  
  Deepfakes, ransomware, data leaks: cyber crime is evolving fast. But can we keep up?
7. 20:30
  
  BBC Inside Science—Could solar panels in space be the energy source of the future?
  
  The science of extraterrestrial solar panels and whether they can power our energy needs.
8. 21:00
  
  The Patch—Bruton
  
  A small town in rural Somerset becomes a magnet for contemporary art - what happens next?
9. 21:45
  
  One to One—Re-inventing Yourself: Malaika Kegode with Rev Paul Cowley
  
  From thief to priest - the writer and performer meets the ex-offender who is now a vicar.
10. 22:00
  
  The World Tonight—Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strike
  
  We speak to a colleague and friend of one of those killed.
11. 22:45
  
  Crooked Cross by Sally Carson—Episode Six
  
  6/10 Sally Carson’s rediscovered 1934 novel about the rise of Hitler.
12. 23:00
  
  Limelight—Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?, 4. The Murder Clowns
  
  4/5 Clara and Sabine take flight.
13. 23:30
  
  What's Funny About...—Series 4, 5. Comic Relief
  
  5/5 Richard Curtis and Sir Lenny Henry tell the inside story of Comic Relief.
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Late
1. 00:00
  
  Midnight News—26/08/2025
  
  National and international news from BBC Radio 4
2. 00:30
  
  Blood Lands—Blood on the Wall
  
  1/6 Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
3. 00:48
  
  Shipping Forecast—26/08/2025
  
  The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
4. 01:00
  
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—26/08/2025
  
  A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes.
5. 05:00
  
  News Summary—26/08/2025
  
  National and international news from BBC Radio 4
6. 05:04
  
  Currently—Germany: United and Divided
  
  Historian Katja Hoyer investigates East German disillusion 35 years after reunification.
7. 05:34
  
  Shipping Forecast—26/08/2025
  
  The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
8. 05:43
  
  Prayer for the Day—Finding the Breeze
  
  A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rabbi Charley Baginsky
9. 05:45
  
  Farming Today—26/08/25 Countryside Code, pollinators, fruit farm bees.
  
  The Countryside Code - how's it working?

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