With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. 0900 0600 Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck, discovers what it's like to live there and whether the underwater animals can adapt to rising sea temperatures. 0930 0900 Fi Glover talks to Tom Allason, chief executive of a courier business which has grown 50 per cent month-on-month since it started two years ago. 0945 0930 Hedge Britannia Hugh Barker explores Britain's hedgerows. 2/5. How the Neolithic art of coppicing is renewing itself in 21st-century competitions. 1000 0945 Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by Jane Garvey. 1045 1000 In the Van, by Clare Bayley. 2/5. MI5 agents Yasmin and Jonathan continue eavesdropping on targets Rachid and Samira, probing their daily lives and questioning their own. 1100 1045 Adam Rutherford investigates extinction. 2/3. Are humans causing an extinction crisis on the scale of the asteroid that wiped out 75 per cent of species 65 million years ago? 1130 1100 Frances Fyfield on the stories behind the scores of famous musical pieces. 2/3. Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's Trumpet Concerto. 1200 1130 Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. Call 03700 100 444 [calls cost no more than to 01, 02 landline numbers]. 1257 1200 The latest weather forecast. 1300 1257 Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. 1345 1300 Jonathan Kent takes bread as a starting point for an exploration of human history. 2/5. Bread Kills. Two deadly loaves from history reveal the impact food has on human health. 1400 1345 Alan tries his powers of persuasion. Meanwhile David can't believe his eyes. 1415 1400 The Eggy Doylers, by Jane Purcell. Comedy about the pre-PC age. It is 1979, and child-hating PE teacher Peter Gunn finds himself leading a school biology field trip from hell. 1500 1415 Tom Holland is in the chair for the popular magazine programme in which listeners and leading researchers share their passion for the past. 1530 1500 Jellyfish Invasion! Miranda Krestovnikoff on claims that jellyfish are taking over the world's oceans, eating baby fish and driving marine ecosystems back to the Cambrian era. 1600 1530 Michael Morpurgo on the changing experience of learning to read over the last 70 years. 1/2. Easy as ABC? Michael finds out what Systematic Synthetic Phonics are. 1630 1600 Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. 8/8. Lynn Barber talks to Matthew about Sebastian Walker of Walker Books, publisher of titles like Where's Wally? 1700 1630 Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including 5.57pm Weather. 1800 1700 The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 1830 1800 Sitcom about the ups and down of a tiny charter airline. 2/6. Paris: When a bottle of highly-expensive whisky goes missing, Martin becomes the Miss Marple of MJN Air. 1900 1830 Adam enjoys the simple life and Tracy gets a present. 1915 1900 Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. 1945 1915 In the Van, by Clare Bayley. 2/5. MI5 agents Yasmin and Jonathan continue eavesdropping on targets Rachid and Samira, probing their daily lives and questioning their own. 2000 1945 As bringing new and improved drugs to patients becomes more difficult and more expensive, Geoff Watts asks if the source of better pharmaceutical treatments is drying up. 2040 2000 Peter White with news and information for blind and partially sighted people. 2100 2040 Science writer Jonah Lehrer and novelist and psychologist Charles Fernyhough join Claudia Hammond to consider how neuroscience is making an appearance in the modern novel. 2130 2100 Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck, discovers what it's like to live there and whether the underwater animals can adapt to rising sea temperatures. 2158 2130 The latest weather forecast. 2200 2158 Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 2245 2200 ...Stories. Fitzgerald Short Stories: Series of stories by F Scott Fitzgerald. 2/5. Babylon Revisited - Part 2: Charles Wales has returned to Paris to meet with his dead wife's family. 2300 2245 Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill looks back on his favourite pupils. 1/4. Paul Whitney Beauchamp: Day boy Beauchamp is picked on by Castlereagh House bullies. 2330 2300 Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. 0000 2330 The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather. 0030 0000 Hedge Britannia Hugh Barker explores Britain's hedgerows. 2/5. How the Neolithic art of coppicing is renewing itself in 21st-century competitions. 0048 0030 The latest shipping forecast. 0100 0048 BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. 0520 0100 The latest shipping forecast. 0530 0520 The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 0543 0530 A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. 0545 0543 The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Anna Smith. 0600 0545