| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Environmental scientist James Lovelock reveals some of his favourite pieces of writing. 00:45The sound of church bells of St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30By Daniel Tammet. Daniel is almost unique among people with an autistic spectrum disorder. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30At four years old, Daniel suffered a life threatening epileptic seizure. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30As Daniel faces secondary school, he excels because of his extraordinary memory. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Daniel's courage pays off after a year long volunteer programme. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A charity event brings Daniel's story into the public eye. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Linda finds out just how frightening a place can be when you can't see properly.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mgr Tony Rogers. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Mark Holdstock. 05:57The latest weather forecast.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mgr Tony Rogers. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Mark Holdstock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mgr Tony Rogers. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mgr Tony Rogers. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mgr Tony Rogers. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Mark Holdstock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Jenny Wigley. 05:455/5Buddhist nun Sister Santacitta out and about on a celebrity fashion shoot.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news headlines. 05:43The sound of church bells of St Mary's Wimbledon, in London. 05:45Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With Edward Stourton and James Naughtie.
| 06:00With Edward Stourton and James Naughtie.
| 06:00With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
| 06:00With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
| 06:00With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07A tour of the British countryside. 06:35Miriam O'Reilly presents the rural magazine. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05A Place Within. With Fergal Keane. 06:35A look at alternate energy in Dorset, with Elinor Goodman. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports News, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Programme examining the religious and ethical news of the week. With Roger Bolton. 07:55Clive Anderson presents an appeal on behalf of Sound Seekers. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10First of a series commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. 08:50Clive James reflects on the martial arts movie and meaningless violence.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Richard Eyre, Michael Cockerell, Chris Addison and Baroness Onora O'Neill join Andrew Marr 09:45By Daniel Tammet. Daniel is almost unique among people with an autistic spectrum disorder.
| 09:002/3Peter White focuses on TV director and documentary-maker Emma Bowler. 09:302/5Graham Easton asks what happens if balance systems go permanently astray. 09:45At four years old, Daniel suffered a life threatening epileptic seizure.
| 09:45As Daniel faces secondary school, he excels because of his extraordinary memory.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg examines the life of anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce. 09:45Daniel's courage pays off after a year long volunteer programme.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is potter Grayson Perry. 09:45A charity event brings Daniel's story into the public eye.
| 09:00Fi Glover and Joanna Trollope navigate their way through the work of Elvis McGonagall.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week, with Patrick O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00With Ritula Shah. Including White Open Spaces.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including White Open Spaces.
| 10:00Magazine programme with Jenni Murray, including White Open Spaces.
| 10:00Magazine programme with Jenni Murray, including White Open Spaces.
| 10:00Legendary folk singer Joan Baez explains what keeps her protesting into her sixties.
| 10:00John McCarthy is joined by Mojisola Adebayo and Professor Chadha Behera. 10:304/5Paul Jackson analyses the success of this off-beat comedy drama.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Winifred Robinson visits the isolation facilities available for patients in Holland. 11:301/6Nigel and Michael are back - still struggling with life.
| 11:006/10Gabrielle Walker discovers how the Earth has warmed before and how that affected the world(R) 11:30A look at the work of the songwriting team of Joyce Grenfell and Richard Addinsell.
| 11:00A look at the bizarre events on the island of Bourgainville, home to a jungle gold mine. 11:304/4Wendy and Robin's new arrival and Derek's disturbing experience - is there a connection?(R)
| 11:00BBC foreign correspondents examine the stories behind the headlines, with Kate Adie. 11:30The extraordinary story of dance trainer Margaret Morris, told through archive recordings.
| 11:001/2Rosamund Kidman-Cox explores captive breeding programmes. 11:305/6Inspector Steine falls in love with the woman from the chip shop.
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30BBC foreign correspondents examine the stories behind the headlines, with Kate Adie.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer affairs magazine with Liz Barclay and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Including a special Call You and Yours with Conservative leader David Cameron. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and discussion with John Waite and Sheila McClennon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer and social matters with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer and social matters with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:30Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Nicholas Parsons hosts the panel game from Tunbridge Wells. 12:32Sheila Dillon visits a football club in Scotland that's scored with its new eating plan. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:301/6Featuring the link between smuggling and pilchards.
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Thomas DeFrantz explores Alvin Ailey's dance masterpiece, Revelations.
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:302/2Lenny Henry watches Sir Peter Hall in rehearsal for a triumphant Measure for Measure.
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30A tour of the British countryside.
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion.
| 13:00A look at events around the world, presented by Jo Coburn. 13:30Jimmy Carr explores the legacy of laughter left by Round the Horne's Kenneth Horne.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Four teenagers and their drama teacher attempt to mount an improvised play.(R)
| 14:15Two sisters travel to India to reunite with their mother for the festival of Tiaan.
| 14:15The village of Kelstone has been hit by H5N1, which has mutated in to a human viral strain
| 14:15By Katie Hims. Leila's mother has fallen for a cowboy who is really a telephone engineer.
| 14:00Lilian stays on the straight and narrow. 14:15An actress sets up a matchmaking agency for lonely Welsh farmers.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By Joanna Murray-Smith and starring Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis.
| 14:00John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions in the North Downs. 14:451/5Clare visits a pheasant shoot, where a brace of Irish Water Spaniels are 'picking up'.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Lewis and guests offer financial advice to listeners. 15:301/5Jo tries to make sense of her builder-architect boyfriend and his legacy. 15:45The French Revolution ushered in new ambition and a new scientific clinical approach.
| 15:00Discussion programme focusing on our relationship to the natural world. 15:302/5For Andy Mayo, a funeral in the Big Smoke offers up an unlikely opportunity. 15:45Systematic post mortems revolutionised the study of disease.
| 15:00John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions from gardeners in Lancs. 15:303/5A young man prepares to fight in the Vietnam War. 15:45Napoleonic France witnessed Dr Magendie's experiments on live animals.
| 15:006/6Travel series giving listeners' tips on the best and worst of holiday experiences. 15:27Juliet Stevenson presents an appeal on behalf of Children on the Edge. 15:304/5Charlie Dowd's experiences in Vietnam have left him with invisible wounds. 15:45A side effect of progress in medical thinking is that diseases had identities changed.
| 15:00Dylan Winter goes to Pembrokeshire. 15:305/5In the Tuscan hills, a woman catches sight of an uninvited swimmer in her pool. 15:45How the nursing profession was transformed thanks to an enterprising Florence Nightingale.
| | 15:001/6As the Roman Empire begins to fall, one woman sees it as an opportunity.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon asks what ancient forms of intensive farming can teach us today. 16:30Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world.
| 16:00Clive Coleman visits new style community criminal courts in Liverpool and Salford. 16:30Sue MacGregor discusses favourite books with Dame Ann Leslie and Ray Connolly.
| 16:00How do those tackling society's dirtiest jobs make their occupations seem more palatable? 16:30Mark Porter investigates the take up of long-acting contraceptive implants.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup investigates sagas, and talks to best-selling novelist Lesley Pearse. 16:30Exploring just why laughter is so contagious, with Quentin Cooper.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Francine Stock talks to one of Hollywood's most celebrated names, Clint Eastwood.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Gerard Woodward about his new book, A Curious Earth. 16:301/4Joan visits Dove Cottage in the heart of the Lake District to view rare manuscripts.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. 17:30Evan Davis presents the business magazine. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00A report on the performance of the Learning and Skills Council, Britain's largest quango. 17:40Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather. 18:30Nicholas Parsons hosts the panel game from Tunbridge Wells.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather. 18:302/6The Welsh comedian sets out on his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather. 18:301/4No morals and little brain? Aggressive marketing director John Weak returns!(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather. 18:306/6A new relationship encourages the middle-aged sports agent to contemplate a gap year.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Ned Sherrin and guests with the usual eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sandi Toksvig presents her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15With Mark Lawson, including an interview with singer Art Garfunkel. 19:45Joy has cleaned the local church for years and been a special favourite of the vicar.
| 19:15With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on the film Letters from Iwo Jima. 19:45Pub landlord Graham is caught between the prejudice of punters and his own principles.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including a report on an exhibition by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 19:45Ashish takes himself off to Shropshire for some space and some time away from the city.
| 19:15Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson. 19:45Enraged by the carving up of the land where he was born and raised Mountain makes a stand.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including an interview with crime writer Reginald Hill. 19:45Janey is moved by a chance encounter with a stranger in the village shop.
| 19:00Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe with guests Mary Lawson, Alan Plater and Gillian Slovo.
| 19:00David doesn't want to know. 19:15Barney Harwood learns all about the science of spying. 19:455/5A poignant portrait of John McCreedy's 46th birthday celebration.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Exploring the ramifications of the 1987 Cleveland scandal, with Jenny Cuffe. 20:30Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning.
| 20:00A report on the performance of the Learning and Skills Council, Britain's largest quango. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. 20:45Ten years of Tony Blair squeezed into 15 frenetic minutes of songs and sketches.
| 20:002/2the fire brigades union calls an eight-day strike over job cuts. 20:30Anil Gupta journeys through India in search of local knowledge and inventions.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion. 20:50Clive James reflects on the martial arts movie and meaningless violence.
| 20:00John Cole tells the story of the General Election of 1945, when Attlee beat Churchill.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Grant Sonnex finds out what we need to do to conserve cod. 21:30Richard Eyre, Michael Cockerell, Chris Addison and Baroness Onora O'Neill join Andrew Marr 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Mark Porter investigates the take up of long-acting contraceptive implants. 21:302/3Peter White focuses on TV director and documentary-maker Emma Bowler. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:004/6Rajesh Mirchandani investigates just how many people are using unsecured Wi-Fi networks. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 21:30Melvyn Bragg examines the life of anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00A pyramid investment scheme first draws in and then bankrupts the women in one street. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Yudhishtra's 13 years of exile are over but his cousin refuses to give up the throne.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Clive Anderson presents an appeal on behalf of Sound Seekers. 21:30Anil Gupta journeys through India in search of local knowledge and inventions. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Claire Bolderson. 22:45There's an attempt to assassinate the sheikh.
| 22:00What's better for the environment, banning light bulbs or setting emissions targets? 22:45The sheikh's dream of sharing the peaceable joys of salmon fishing is under threat.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:45Harriet and Arthur are now in the Yemen as preparations and building work proceed apace.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis, including examining new gun laws. 22:45Peter Maxwell has an idea about fishing and democracy.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis, with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:45The evidence for the official report into the Yemen Salmon project is concluded.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news.
| 22:00The row over the biography of former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, published in 1955.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Tim is running the family art business when a letter arrives from his brother in Australia(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:006/6Things go bump in the night on award-winning Gary Bellamy's phone-in. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Rachel Hooper.
| 23:001/4A journey through the Lonely Hearts Club leads to an encounter with Dr Pfeffer. 23:151/4Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls his most memorable detentions.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:00A fast-paced sketch show about communications, the media and contemporary obsessions. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor discusses favourite books with Dame Ann Leslie and Ray Connolly. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:001/6Featuring the link between smuggling and pilchards. 23:30Roger McGough introduces works by WH Auden, read by Douglas Hodge.
| 23:00Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning. 23:30A Place Within. With Fergal Keane.
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