| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor considers the rise of Scottish nationalism since the end of WW2. 00:45The sound of church bells from Tewkesbury Abbey. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5New plants from the American colonies were introduced to Britain. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Many of Britain's favourite flowers first bloomed in the ordered garden of Peter Collinson 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The great Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus sends his brightest student to London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Joseph Banks heads south in the ship Endeavour on a historic botanical expedition. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Joseph Banks demands that any exotic plant from overseas be sent home to Kew. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5By Ian Dudley. A holiday on the Costa del Sol turns into the narrator's worst nightmare.(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 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.
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| 02:00 | | | | | | | 02:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Mark Holdstock. 05:57The latest weather forecast.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Mark Holdstock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie. 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 with Kevin Franz of the Religious Society of Friends. 05:455/5How was Macbeth’s story distorted by politics?(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of church bells from St Michael and All Angels, Great Cumberton, Worcestershire. 05:45Paul Henley profiles troubled pop phenomenon Britney Spears.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark investigates willows grown on the Somerset Levels. 06:35Rural magazine programme with Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers how we balance our need for privacy with responsibilities to others. 06:35Lionel Kelleway joins Ciaran Nelson at the RSPB Reserve at Snettisham in Norfolk. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Jane Little and guests discuss the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Honor Blackman appeals on behalf of the National Domestic Violence Helpline. 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 from Portsmouth Cathedral reliving the story of the Road to Emmaus. 08:50Clive James sets a David Cameron cycling faux-pas in an unexpected historical context.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Guests include Andrew Graham-Dixon on Michelangelo and John Barrow on cosmic imagery. 09:451/5New plants from the American colonies were introduced to Britain.
| 09:003/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought-provoking look at some great British institutions. 09:302/5Claudia Hammond looks at the psychology of team dynamics. 09:452/5Many of Britain's favourite flowers first bloomed in the ordered garden of Peter Collinson
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and guests. 09:453/5The great Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus sends his brightest student to London.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 09:454/5Joseph Banks heads south in the ship Endeavour on a historic botanical expedition.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is cartoonist Stanley McMurtry. 09:45Joseph Banks demands that any exotic plant from overseas be sent home to Kew.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by Royal Correspondent Robert Hardman. Featured poet is Kate Fox.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Clare Balding.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Tamsin Greig on why she seems to be drawn to playing tragically love-struck characters.
| 10:00June Rose discusses Marie Stopes' ground-breaking and explicit sex guide.
| 10:00Why are vicious acid attacks on the rise? Plus, jazz singer Sophie Milman performs live.
| 10:00What can be done to protect children forced into prostitution by criminal gangs?
| 10:00Jo Caulfield explores the appeal of being a bridesmaid.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig discusses Yemen's unique hospitable café culture with Max Scott. 10:302/2Nick continues the Wolfman Jack story, from renegade DJ to appearing in American Graffiti.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Lemn Sissay explores the demise of the Black Boy as a name for a pub. 11:303/6A spate of bicycle thefts makes Andy desperate to notch up his first arrest.(R)
| 11:00A team of wildlife specialists are joined by zoologists and conservationists. 11:30Verity Sharp presents a profile of the great British folk singer.
| 11:004/4Chris Ledgard recalls the controversial 1974 British Lions rugby tour to South Africa. 11:305/6Diet or deception? Pam and Gordon argue over how to grow old.
| 11:00Ulli Schauen visits Korea to find out why Koreans are such fervent evangelists. 11:30Documentary following the commissioning process of this week's Afternoon Readings.
| 11:00James Cracknell recalls the extraordinary events leading up to the 1987 Boat Race.(R) 11:304/4Dentist Marty has high hopes for a relationship.(R)
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Peter Oborne. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young invites actress Penelope Wilton to choose eight records.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Sheila McClennon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson 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 Liz Barclay and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news and advice from the world of personal finance. 12:304/10Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/7James Walton takes the chair. Guests are Wendy Holden and John O'Farrell. 12:32Sheila Dillon investigates the rapid increase in the price of rice around the world. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:301/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the first heat of the music quiz from the BBC Radio Theatre.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:304/4Ken Clarke and Brian Priestley explore the career of bebop pianist Bud Powell.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:304/5Paul Jackson analyses the success of this off-beat comedy drama.(R)
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Helen Mark visits the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, near Wrexham.
| 13:00National and international news with 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 the topical debate from Lambeth.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30Steve Carver puts on his dancing shoes and joins a cruise ship as a 'gentleman host'.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:153/4By Andrew Martin. Paolo investigates a death among a community of Dublin environmentalists
| 14:00Pat's anaerobic alternative. 14:15By Donna Franceschild. Emails promising to change a teenager's life get strangely personal
| 14:15By Clare Duffy. When Angela gets pregnant, she tries to trace her mother who abandoned her
| 14:15By Alastair Jessiman. Two Scottish public school boys invent a fictitious fellow classmate
| 14:15By Dan Rebellato. Four men are preparing for battle, but which one?
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions, with Jonathan Dimbleby. 14:30Jon Sen's play recalls the events of the last days of Martin Luther King's life.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Peter Seabrook, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. 14:454/4Vivienne Parry and Quentin Cooper test their ability to empathise.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:301/5Written and read by Helen Cross. A young girl is bewildered when her home is flooded. 15:451/10A profile of the 'father of the English suburb', architect Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
| 15:00Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:302/5By Nicola Monaghan. An elderly man has something in common with a young card collector. 15:452/10The modernist social experiment spawned the blocks of flats built in the early 1930s.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. 15:303/5By Will Buckingham. A stressed office worker meets a man who changes his life. 15:453/10Laurence considers how the post-war government urged the public to embrace 'good design'.
| 15:00Barbara Myers puts callers' questions about sleep problems to expert Dr Kevin Morgan. 15:27Betty Boothroyd appeals on behalf of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. 15:304/5Written and read by Lindsey Davies. A period tale about a local forger. 15:454/10How marriage became a means of coping with skill shortages in designing post-war homes.
| 15:00Clare Balding walks the Ridgeway in the company of comedian and activist Mark Thomas.... 15:305/5By Mil Millington. A comic tale about the desire for sleep which affects all new parents. 15:455/10Laurence looks at the flamboyant and influential decorator, a superstar of the 1960s.
| 15:304/4Ken Clarke and Brian Priestley explore the career of bebop pianist Bud Powell.
| 15:002/2It becomes increasingly obvious that Soapey isn't the only one who should be in the dock.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Hardeep Singh Kohli celebrates the oyster, a delicacy which goes back to Roman times. 16:30Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world. 16:56Harlem senator Adam Clayton Powell warns of racial civil war in the US.
| 16:00Clive Coleman explores the law on defamation. 16:30Stella Rimington, Terence Blacker and Kate Mosse discuss their favourite reads. 16:56Aer Lingus flight 712 crashes in the Irish Sea killing 61 people.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor visits Marseille to explore its unique racial geography. 16:304/4Vivienne asks what is the right amount of sleep and when disturbed sleep becomes insomnia. 16:56Paul McCartney returns from meditating in the Himalayas.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Scottish poet and author Andrew Greig. 16:30Quentin Cooper investigates HECToR, Britain's new national supercomputer. 16:56Celebrations and protests mark 50 years of female suffrage in the UK.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Naomi Watts talks about starring in Michael Haneke's remake of his own movie Funny Games. 16:56Martin Luther King leads a protest in Memphis that ends in disaster.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. 16:56The UK sees a landslide Tory victory in the by-elections.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup looks at the works of Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul. 16:30Joan Bakewell explores Fred Hunter's 1960s recordings of the great poets of his time. 16:56Yuri Gagarin is buried and Czechoslovakia's new president is sworn in.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus sports headlines. With Caroline Wyatt. 17:30Evan Davis talks with entrepreneurs and business leaders about the issues that matter. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Angus Stickler investigates the market for platinum. 17:40Paul Henley profiles troubled pop phenomenon Britney Spears. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/7James Walton takes the chair. Guests are Wendy Holden and John O'Farrell.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6With his tax return looming, the curmudgeonly author surprises his agent.(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6With Alan Davies, Martha Reeves and John Gribbin.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/3John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds each. With Phil Cornwell and John Finnemore.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/10Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Matthew Kelly and Jay Rayner.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Matthew Parris presents a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Pat's anaerobic alternative. 19:15Mark Lawson talks to leading actors about training, choosing a role, casting and ageing. 19:451/5After a six-year affair, Cheri announces he is about to enter into an arranged marriage.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with writer William Boyd. 19:452/5Lea has to face the harsh reality of her young lover Cheri's marriage to another woman.
| 19:15John Wilson reports from the opening night of Yasmina Reza's play The God of Carnage. 19:453/5Cheri returns from honeymoon dissatisfied, yearning to know where Lea has fled.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. 19:454/5Lea has returned to Paris, lonely and yearning for her young lover Cheri.
| 19:00Subterfuge at Casa Nueva. 19:455/5Cheri has returned to Lea, but can their love affair survive?
| 19:00Paul Henley profiles troubled pop phenomenon Britney Spears. 19:15Sarfraz Mansoor and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.
| 19:15Barney looks at some spectacular pictures painted on Nebaumn's tomb in Ancient Egypt. 19:452/5There seems to be no way for William and the Outlaws to avoid Mrs Bott's planned party.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Obtaining facts about the relationship between diet and health is far from easy. 20:30Bill Law looks at the gender equality issue in the Arab world.
| 20:00Angus Stickler investigates the market for platinum. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Clifford Longley and Michael Portillo question witnesses. 20:45Michael White assesses the political impact of Norman Lamont's 1992 pre-election budget.
| 20:001/4Simon Cox searches for the facts about Polish workers in the UK. 20:30Historian Richard Weight asks why the problem of drug addiction has proved so intractable.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Lambeth. 20:50Clive James sets a David Cameron cycling faux-pas in an unexpected historical context.
| 20:00Robert Peston investigates Britain's difficulty with the world of commerce.
| 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 | 21:00Documentary looking at an unusual aspect of medical training.(R) 21:30Guests include Andrew Graham-Dixon on Michelangelo and John Barrow on cosmic imagery.
| 21:004/4Vivienne asks what is the right amount of sleep and when disturbed sleep becomes insomnia. 21:303/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought-provoking look at some great British institutions.
| 21:00A team of wildlife specialists are joined by zoologists and conservationists. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and guests.
| 21:00Geoff Watts examines new research into a so-called 'calorie counting' area of the brain. 21:30Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
| 21:00Tina Pepler's story of a family torn apart by one act of violence.
| 21:001/2Soapey Sponge stands accused of selling the same mad horse to a number of people.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news and advice from the world of personal finance. 21:26Honor Blackman appeals on behalf of the National Domestic Violence Helpline. 21:30Historian Richard Weight asks why the problem of drug addiction has proved so intractable. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:456/10After two years in prison, 19-year-old Lewis is home and keen to make amends.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:457/10Any hopes of a brave new beginning for Lewis have been dashed.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10As Lewis tries to work out what Tamsin wants, their relationship reaches a crisis.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:459/10Fleeing from her father, Kit confronts Lewis and they both learn the other's dark secret.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:4510/10Lewis has hidden in the woods for two days, determined to save Kit from further brutality.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Clifford Longley and Michael Portillo question witnesses.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Who Owns Adam Smith?
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| 23:00 | 23:004/4Can the actor-cum-amateur sleuth unmask the 'Twelfth Night' murderer?(R) 23:30Why do foundlings feature so much in literature? Kate Adie explores Henry Fielding.(R)
| 23:003/6The National Theatre of Brent recreates 17th-century India's greatest love story.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:005/5Sam Vimes and Carcer finally fight, but time itself and a sinister lord have other ideas. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:006/6Guests include Dan Maier, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton and Lizzie Roper. 23:156/6Luke gets stuck outside a club while his friends and Hayley party inside.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Stella Rimington, Terence Blacker and Kate Mosse discuss their favourite reads. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:001/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the first heat of the music quiz from the BBC Radio Theatre. 23:30The story of Stella Cartwright, the muse who bewitched a generation of Scottish poets.
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