| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The extraordinary story of dance trainer Margaret Morris, told through archive recordings. 00:45The sound of church bells of St Mary's Wimbledon, in London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Kenneth Tynan is barely 20 when he writes his first audacious reviews. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5In May 1956, Kenneth Tynan writes an ecstatic review of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Kenneth Tynan's passionate and entertaining campaign against theatre censorship. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Tynan makes astonishingly accurate assessments of The Entertainer and A Taste of Honey. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5In July 1962, Tynan writes a surprisingly negative review about Laurence Olivier. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30The writer and comedian discusses the devil and temptation. 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.
| 01:00News, current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.
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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 the Rev Jenny Wigley. 05:45Agricultural news and features with Anna Hill. 05:57The latest weather forecast.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Jenny Wigley. 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 the Rev Jenny Wigley. 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 the Rev Jenny Wigley. 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. 05:45Agricultural 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 Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45The writer and comedian discusses the devil and temptation.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news headlines. 05:43The sound of church bells from St Giles Horspath, in Oxfordshire. 05:45Journalist Peter Oborne profiles the financier Sir Ronald Cohen.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
| 06:00With Carolyn Quinn and Edward Stourton.
| 06:00With Carolyn Quinn and Edward Stourton.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day and Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day, and Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07A tour of the British countryside. 06:35The rural magazine programme presented by Miriam O'Reilly. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Food writer Marguerite Patten looks back on a lifetime of love and loss. 06:35Alex James meets a rare beast, a happy dairy farmer. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Presented by Edward Stourton and John Humphrys.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton with religious and ethical news from home and abroad. 07:55Ian Anderson presents an appeal on behalf of the Genetic Interest Group. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Rev Dr K Smith reflects on Christian freedom. 08:50Clive James comments on the way we speak English today and on a new noisy voice.
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| 09:00 | 09:00A C Grayling, Joan Breton Connelly, Tariq Ramadan and Darian Leader joins Andrew Marr. 09:451/5Kenneth Tynan is barely 20 when he writes his first audacious reviews.
| 09:003/3Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the odds and achieved success. 09:303/5Graham Easton finds out why humans are obsessed with time. 09:452/5In May 1956, Kenneth Tynan writes an ecstatic review of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
| 09:453/5Kenneth Tynan's passionate and entertaining campaign against theatre censorship.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics 09:454/5Tynan makes astonishingly accurate assessments of The Entertainer and A Taste of Honey.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil. 09:455/5In July 1962, Tynan writes a surprisingly negative review about Laurence Olivier.
| 09:00Presenter Fi Glover is joined by writer Louise Rennison and poet Murray Lachlan Young.
| 09:00Discussion about the big stories of the week, with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. The Marriage Settlement.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson.
| 10:00Magazine programme with Jenni Murray, including part 3 of Marriage a la Mode.
| 10:00Magazine programme with Jenni Murray, including part 4 of Marriage a la Mode.
| 10:00Magazine programme with Jenni Murray, including part 5 of Marriage a la Mode.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig talks to Roger Willemsen about his trips to Afghanistan. 10:301/5Rising Damp began as a single play called The Banana Box.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3Roger visits Hurlingham and Chelsea school in London. 11:302/6Nigel is haunted, while Michael thinks he is Bruce Willis.
| 11:002/3Roger decides to introduce his class to competition. 11:30Jimmy Carr explores the legacy of laughter left by Round the Horne's Kenneth Horne.
| 11:003/3He puts his pupils through their final fitness test. 11:301/6The ex-variety star tries motivational speaking with a snappy slogan and dunce's caps.
| 11:00BBC foreign correspondents examine the stories behind the headlines, with Kate Adie. 11:301/2Psychoanalyst and former cricketer Mike Brearley investigates the art of the director.
| 11:002/2Rosamund Kidman-Cox explores captive breeding programmes. 11:306/6Brian the Brain breaks out of Broadmoor with revenge on his lips.
| 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 writer J P Donleavy.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer and social matters with Winifred Robinson and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Liz Barclay and Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Liz Barclay and Sheila McClennon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer affairs magazine with Liz Barclay and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer and social matters with Winifred Robinson and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00News and advice from the world of personal finance. With Paul Lewis. 12:301/8Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Chairman Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game from the Mermaid Theatre in London. 12:32Sheila Dillon explores the tradition of orange growing in Sicily. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:303/6Why does water have to flow uphill into the rivers?
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Gerry Anderson meets legendary rocker Ronnie Hawkins.
| 13:00National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30The extraordinary tale of the 1956 French offer to merge Britain and France into one.
| 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 James Landale. 13:30Has the drug Ecstasy bred a generation of depressed and forgetful forty-somethings?(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00David doesn't want to know. 14:15First Bite of the Air, by Stephanie Dale. Drama-documentary about a colliery in Coventry.(R)
| 14:00Don't mention the criminal record. 14:15And the Rain My Drink, by Han Suyin.
| 14:00Ed Grundy, swede crusher. 14:15How to Remember the Dead, by Jemma Kennedy.
| 14:15By Fiona Mackie. Redundancies loom for three machinists in Portsmouth's corset industry.
| 14:00David doesn't want to know. 14:15When his Dad dies on a job for a gangland boss, Danny vows to avoid crime.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30A man's world crumbles when a friend is murdered.
| 14:00The experts visit Chipping Norton and make a start on the new Northern garden. 14:452/5Clare Balding meets the Skye Terrier, made famous by Greyfriars Bobby.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Lewis and guests offer financial advice to listeners. 15:301/5By John Peacock. It's 1813, and the stage doorman has a tale of lust and treachery to tell 15:45A series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine, presented by Andrew Cunningham.
| 15:00Discussion programme focussing on our relationship to the natural world. 15:302/5Penelope Keith plays Amy Sedgwick, a thrice-married Victorian actress. 15:45Andrew discusses the work of Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna.
| 15:00John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions in the North Downs. 15:303/5By Stephen Sheridan. In 1951, Bela Lugosi visited Brighton to play Count Dracula. 15:45Andrew looks back to the origins of pain relief and how chloroform.
| 15:00Exploring how heart attack victims can change their lifestyles to lessen risk of another. 15:27Clive Anderson presents an appeal on behalf of Sound Seekers. 15:304/5By Eric Pringle. A manservant's life is transformed when he sees Marlene Dietrich on stage 15:45The story of Louis Pasteur's development of the anti-rabies vaccine in 1885.
| 15:00Clare takes the coastal pathway from the Giants Causeway to White Park Bay. 15:305/5Nell gives her 13-year-old god-daughter a treat by taking her to a proper theatre. 15:45History series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine. 20: Stopping the Rot:.
| 15:30Gerry Anderson meets legendary rocker Ronnie Hawkins.
| 15:002/6What sacrifices must Constantine make when he feels threatened by his own son?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon visits a football club in Scotland that's scored with its new eating plan. 16:30Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world.
| 16:00Clive Coleman analyses the major legal stories. 16:30Book recommendations from Sue MacGregor, Anita Anand and Matt Seaton.
| 16:00Social theorist James Bowman claims 'honour' has become meaningless in the Western world. 16:30Mark Porter asks whether ethnic origin or gender are a risk factor for high blood pressure
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Gerard Woodward about his new book, A Curious Earth. 16:30Quentin Cooper discusses the science of the International Polar Year project.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Francine Stock talks to Danny Glover, star of the Lethal Weapon series.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
| 16:00Historian Alison Weir discusses her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine with James Naughtie. 16:302/4Joan looks at manuscripts from poets including Shelley, Eliot, Larkin and Auden.
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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, presented by Eddie Mair. Including Weather.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie Mair. Including Weather.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie Mair. Including Weather.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, with Caroline Wyatt. 17:30Business magazine programme, presented by Evan Davis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00A report from one of the world's most unstable countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo 17:40Journalist Peter Oborne profiles the financier Sir Ronald Cohen. 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. 18:30Chairman Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game from the Mermaid Theatre in London.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6The Welsh comedian continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Workshy John Weak is desperate to boost sales of a chocolate bar!(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Chris Addison explores human evolution. With Geoffrey McGivern as Prof Austin Herring.(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/8Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Conversation, comedy and music with Ned Sherrin.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Don't mention the criminal record. 19:15With Mark Lawson, including an interview with American dramatist Edward Albee. 19:451/5By Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp.
| 19:00Ed Grundy, swede crusher. 19:15Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. 19:452/5By Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp.
| 19:15Featuring the verdict on Peter Schaffer's Equus, starring Daniel Radcliffe. 19:453/5The gentlemen seek a cure, and the ladies an explanation.
| 19:15With John Wilson, including an interview with the director David Lynch. 19:454/5William follows his wife - and walks into his own story.
| 19:00Taint what milk used to be. 19:15With Kirsty Lang, including a first look at the new Wellcome Collection building. 19:455/5By Jonathan Myerson. Three deaths, one birth and two endings.
| 19:00Journalist Peter Oborne profiles the financier Sir Ronald Cohen. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe discusses cultural highlights with Bidisha, Cahal Dallat and Susan Jeffreys.
| 19:00David the hedge fund manager. 19:15African music group Chaconne Brass teach Barney Harwood to play the African drums. 19:45The writer and comedian discusses the devil and temptation.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Charting the last term of the old schools and the birth of the new in Burnley. 20:30Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning.
| 20:00A report from one of the world's most unstable countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo 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. 20:451/6Armando Iannucci, writer and comedian, on the devil and temptation.
| 20:00Presenter Esther Armah goes on a journey to find out about the Deaf Community. 20:30Zareer Masani asks whether environmental concerns will curb our global mobility.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion. 20:50Clive James comments on the way we speak English today and on a new noisy voice.
| 20:00As the nation celebrates 50 years of independence, Radio 4 explores the 1966 coup in Ghana(R)
| 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 | 21:00Chris Watson records one of winter's most dramatic spectacles. 21:30A C Grayling, Joan Breton Connelly, Tariq Ramadan and Darian Leader joins Andrew Marr. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Mark Porter asks whether ethnic origin or gender are a risk factor for high blood pressure 21:303/3Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the odds and achieved success. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:005/6Click On uncovers the role of IT in the 21st-Century library. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Geoff Watts visits the UK's first low temperature experimental facility in Bristol. 21:30Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Martha heads up the marketing campaign for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at teenagers. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:001/6As the Roman Empire begins to fall, one woman sees it as an opportunity.
| 21:00News and advice from the world of personal finance. With Paul Lewis. 21:26Ian Anderson presents an appeal on behalf of the Genetic Interest Group. 21:30Zareer Masani asks whether environmental concerns will curb our global mobility. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Serbia was found 'not guilty' of genocide in the Grayrigg rail accident. Was this right? 22:451/10Pathologist Quirke spots his brother-in-law altering a post mortem file.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. 22:452/10Quirke is convinced that there is more to Christine's death than meets the eye.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Quirke knows he must delve further into the night of Christine's death.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:454/10Inspector Hackett is suspicious at Quirke's actions.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:455/10Little Christine has been adopted in Boston, but Andy is finding parenthood hard.
| 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.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Letters Pages.
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| 23:00 | 23:002/6Henny worries all the time. So when her husband fails to come home, why is she so cheery?(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Rachel Hooper.
| 23:001/4Making it up as they go along. Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney improvise sketches. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/4Dr Pfeffer is found sitting in a French cafe, singing about a woman longing for love. 23:152/4Retired 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 Alicia McCarthy.
| 23:00Book recommendations from Sue MacGregor, Anita Anand and Matt Seaton. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:003/6Why does water have to flow uphill into the rivers? 23:301/4Joan visits Dove Cottage in the heart of the Lake District to view rare manuscripts.
| 23:00Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning. 23:30Food writer Marguerite Patten looks back on a lifetime of love and loss.
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