| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Gene Wilder presents a tribute to his friend Marty Feldman. 00:45The sound of church bells from St Mary the Virgin, Fordingbridge. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The journey to manhood starts with a waltz and an invitation to tea. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Brian tackles National Service training. The author's memoirs on growing up in the 1950s. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A colonial war in Kenya, but Brian is injured by a Christmas biscuit tin. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Brian applies for a Cambridge scholarship and embarks on a romance in Waltham Cross. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather. 00:305/5Having come down from Cambridge, Brian Thompson marries his sensible girlfriend. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Douglas Hurd puts himself in the shoes of Pilate. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 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 the Revd Dr Kate Coleman. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. 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 Revd Dr Kate Coleman. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Mark Holdstock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Dr Kate Coleman. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Dr Kate Coleman. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Dr Kate Coleman. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection. 05:45Douglas Hurd puts himself in the shoes of Pilate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news headlines. 05:43The sound of church bells from St Michael and All Angels, Great Cumberton, Worcestershire. 05:45A profile of Charles Saumarez Smith, the director of the National Gallery.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With Edward Stourton and John Humphrys.
| 06:00With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn.
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| 06:00With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
| 06:00With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:35Miriam O'Reilly presents the rural magazine programme. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Canadian broadcaster Chris Brookes reflects on how memories are captured. 06:35The Vernal Lantern Fish: Lionel Kelleway searches for this beautiful luminescent creature. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Jeremy Irons appeals on behalf of Child Welfare Scheme. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service for Palm Sunday from Down Cathedral. Preacher is Archbishop Philip Patterson. 08:50Clive James considers torture and whether TV dramas encourage its use against terrorism.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr is joined by Peter Hitchens, Tony Marchant, Ghislaine Wood and David Galenson. 09:451/5The journey to manhood starts with a waltz and an invitation to tea.
| 09:004/4Evan Davis concludes his exploration of Britain's housing with a look at the future. 09:302/5John O'Farrell takes on the timed essay in his surprising history of exams. 09:452/5Brian tackles National Service training. The author's memoirs on growing up in the 1950s.
| 09:00Lively conversation and guests. 09:453/5A colonial war in Kenya, but Brian is injured by a Christmas biscuit tin.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics. 09:454/5Brian applies for a Cambridge scholarship and embarks on a romance in Waltham Cross.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is writer and poet Professor Raymond Tallis. 09:455/5Having come down from Cambridge, Brian Thompson marries his sensible girlfriend.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week, with Patrick O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Presented by Ritula Shah and featuring the drama Celluloid Extras.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama Celluloid Extras.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray and including the drama: Celluloid Extras.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama: Celluloid Extras.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama: Celluloid Extras.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig explores the etiquette of travel. 10:30Graeme Garden presents a tongue-in-cheek look at the supposed Anglo-Scottish antipathy.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3Michael Buerk investigates the ties of key British institutions to the slave trade (1/3). 11:306/6As Bugs Bunny makes an untimely appearance, Nigel and Michael go their separate ways.
| 11:002/3Michael discusses two banking families with intimate connections to slavery. 11:30Paul Jackson celebrates the prolific writing partnership of Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
| 11:003/3Michael finds out how Manchester and Birmingham owe their prosperity to slavery. 11:305/6The showbiz legend has hospital tests, and says his goodbyes in case the worst happens.
| 11:00Lucy Ash on the economic threat to France posed by high unemployment among the young. 11:30Best-selling author Philip Pullman talks to his former schoolteacher Enid Jones.
| 11:00A Cornish townhouse whose residents tell of drunken revelry and paganism. 11:304/4Jack is established as an award-winning writer and a household name.(R)
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is campaigner Ben Helfgott.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news and issues, with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues, with John Waite and Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Sheila McClennon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues, with Liz Barclay and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues, with Winifred Robinson and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:305/8Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6James Walton's quiz at the Oxford Literary Festival with John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks. 12:32Sheila Dillon visits some of the new takeaways and discusses the implications. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:30Edward Seckerson's music quiz with Barbara Crawford, Sean Gilligan and Adam Harvey.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:302/4Benjamin Britten's sketch for Peter Grimes is in the Britten-Pears library at Aldeburgh.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30A tale of murder and cover-up by the British Army in Kenya 50 years ago.(R)
| 13:00National and international news.
| 13:00National and international news. 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 from Southampton Solent University.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:301/2Penny Marshall looks back over key decisions that led to today's NHS maternity service.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:15A couple unite when a compromising picture of their daughter appears on the internet.
| 14:15A cloakroom attendant in a nightclub has to face his past when the place closes down.
| 14:15With debts rising, Colin and Marion set out to milk the system for all it's worth.
| 14:15A woman visits her parents in their fire-ravaged Spanish home. New discoveries await.
| 14:15Clare steals the handbag of a glamorous executive, then sets about stealing her dream life
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's play postulates an imaginary but historic meeting.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs the show, with Matthew Biggs, John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew. 14:45A look at one of the most deceptively simple jobs in music.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:301/5The friends audition as TV announcers, plus they raise money to buy back the garden. 15:451/5Lemn leaves London at the same time Auden's Down Special mail train would have departed.
| 15:00Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:302/5Dougal stirs up a storm, and the roundabout is bent out of shape. 15:452/5Lemn meets a man who spent 30 years working on the travelling post offices.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the show, with John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. 15:303/5An escaped lion from the nearby visiting circus cause panic among the friends. 15:453/5Lemn talks to the people who catch and dispatch the trains.
| 15:00Barbara Myers and Dr Polly Edmonds answer callers' questions about palliative care. 15:27Patricia Greene appeals on behalf of Grandparents Plus. 15:304/5Dougal is an unwilling participant when it comes to running. 15:454/5The train picks up mail at the station used as the backdrop for the film Brief Encounter.
| 15:00Clare is in Upper Teesdale to walk a section of the Pennine Way. 15:305/5Dougal and friends find themselves campaigning for the rights of the butterfly. 15:455/5Lemn's journey is complete, but will a dawn arrival at Glasgow help him finish his poem?
| 15:302/4Benjamin Britten's sketch for Peter Grimes is in the Britten-Pears library at Aldeburgh.
| 15:001/2Emily Fox-Seton's life changes when Lady Maria invites her to a party.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon explores the science of maturation and transformation in food and drink. 16:303/6Sally Magnusson presents a series exploring the practice of researching family trees.
| 16:00Clive Coleman presents a special discussion on intellectual property law. 16:30Sue MacGregor is joined by art presenter Tim Marlow and cultural historian Marina Warner.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses research into the role of sexuality in suicide among young people. 16:30Dr Mark Porter explores the state of end-of-life care in the UK today.
| 16:00China Mieville joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss Un Lun Dun, his first children's novel. 16:30Quentin Cooper talks to two civil engineers who want to build houses from recycled rubbish
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Francine Stock with the week's film news and interviews.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Ritula Shah.
| 16:00James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to comic fiction author Jonathan Coe. 16:30Roger McGough introduces a collection of comic poems requested by listeners.
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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, plus the sports headlines. 17:30Featuring a former San Diego gang member who is helping to free kids from a life of crime. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Dramatised account of the wheeling and dealing which led to the Act of Union of 1707. 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. 18:303/6James Walton's quiz at the Oxford Literary Festival with John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30The veteran African-American comedian performs a new show exclusively for BBC Radio 4.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Comic sketch show with David Armand, Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner.(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Mark talks permits in campaigning against the Serious Organised Crime and Policing Act.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/8Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Patrick Kielty talks to Russell T Davies about Dr Who. Music from Patrick Wolf.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Claudia Hammond presents a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Mark Lawson's guests include Javier De Frutos, artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre. 19:451/5Miss Prism has a dreadful secret and Oscar Wilde is determined to prise it out of her.
| 19:15In a special report from Beijing, John Wilson visits the 2008 Olympic Stadium. 19:452/5Jaggers got Molly off a charge of murder, but her past is about to catch up with her.
| 19:15With John Wilson, including an interview with Danny Boyle about his film Sunshine. 19:453/5Catriona and local girl Bridie have a tense wait as the boat heads into a storm.
| 19:15Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. 19:454/5Sister Philippa tends the garden and finds her faith is tested in the mountains.
| 19:15Mark Lawson reports from New York on major theatre openings. 19:455/5An invitation to Roberta's wedding reminds Aunt Emma of her past.
| 19:00A profile of Charles Saumarez Smith, the director of the National Gallery. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Sarfraz Mansoor,
Esther Freud and Kit Davis.
| 19:15The children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. 19:45Douglas Hurd puts himself in the shoes of Pilate.
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2Henry visits Ghana to explore how Africans participated in the trade. 20:30Richard Hollingham visits Iceland to report on a project to create a massive dam.
| 20:00Teenage gun crime in Britain is a matter of increasing concern. Allan Urry investigates. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs the moral debate. 20:45Douglas Hurd puts himself in the shoes of Pilate.
| 20:00Sara Parker reports on the friction between different youth cultures in Peterborough. 20:30France is unhappy with itself. Quentin Peel asks if the country requires radical reform.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion from Southampton Solent University. 20:50Clive James considers torture and whether TV dramas encourage its use against terrorism.
| 20:00Denis Healey at 90: Elinor Goodman looks back on a long political career.
| 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 | 21:00Sarah Pitt tells the story of the 1967 Torrey Canyon supertanker environmental disaster. 21:30Andrew Marr is joined by Peter Hitchens, Tony Marchant, Ghislaine Wood and David Galenson. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter explores the state of end-of-life care in the UK today. 21:304/4Evan Davis concludes his exploration of Britain's housing with a look at the future. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:003/3Jonathan visits Edinburgh University for a crash course in AI. 21:30Lively conversation and guests. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Geoff Watts reports on new research on climate change. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Martha is waiting to hear whether her Primary Care Trust will agree funding for treatment. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:002/2An unexpected visitor sparks disruption for Castle Tennent's new butler.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Jeremy Irons appeals on behalf of Child Welfare Scheme. 21:30France is unhappy with itself. Quentin Peel asks if the country requires radical reform. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:451/5Clarissa was raised by her father after her mother disappeared when she was 14.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:452/5Clarissa is unsettled by a shocking revelation as she continues the search.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/5A painful memory takes Clarissa further north into Lapland.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:454/5Anna Kristine's secret begins to unravel, and there is news about Clarissa's mother.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. 22:455/5In the wilderness of Lapland, Clarissa confronts her past.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs the moral debate.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. 22:452/3Nick Fraser looks at the issues facing France as an important election approaches.
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| 23:00 | 23:004/6Maternal highs and lows from Pam Ayres in poetry and sketches.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
| 23:001/4Mitch tries to break America, but it doesn’t quite go to plan.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
| 23:002/328 performers get 60 seconds to entertain. With John Humphrys and Sarah Millican.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
| 23:003/4The broadcaster, author and ex-MP quizzes a panel about himself.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor is joined by art presenter Tim Marlow and cultural historian Marina Warner. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament.
| 23:00Edward Seckerson's music quiz with Barbara Crawford, Sean Gilligan and Adam Harvey. 23:30Comic poet John Hegley visits the annual sea shanty festival in the Polish city of Krakow.
| 23:002/4Jane Austen's favourite of all her heroines was Fanny Price in Mansfield Park.(R) 23:30Canadian broadcaster Chris Brookes reflects on how memories are captured.
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