| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores why Japanese adolescents are acutely withdrawing from society. 00:45The sound of bells from Tonbridge Parish Church. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Liverpool. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Love, the law and a proposal. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30The leadership challenge presents both personal and political dilemmas. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Leadership, an election and the morning after. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Presidents, a pregnancy and a farewell to the press. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Christopher Matthew's witty tale of one-upmanship amongst well-heeled parents.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service, with news, reports and analysis.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Mark Holdstock. 05:57The latest weather forecast.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Melanie Abbott.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Canon Noel Vincent. 05:454/5The summer's scattering of rooks is over and their communal urges bring them together.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of church bells from St Chad's in Headingley, Leeds. 05:452/3Michael Portillo recalls the good and noble works of backbenchers from the past.
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| 06:00 | 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.
| 06:00Including 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 looks into the demise of rural pubs in Yorkshire. 06:35Rural magazine programme with Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks whether committees are good or bad for us. 06:35Lionel Kelleway meets adder watcher Sylvia Sheldon on her local patch in Worcestershire. 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. 07:10Roger Bolton and guests discuss the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Martha Kearney appeals on behalf of International Childcare Trust. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Angela Tilby visits the Suffolk coast to reflect on our uneasy relationship with the sea. 08:50A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lucy Kellaway.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Guests include Anthony Pagden, Susan Greenfield, Jonathan Kent and Elizabeth Pisani. 09:45Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Liverpool.
| 09:00John Humphrys talks to Terry Pratchett about being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. 09:304/5How can gardeners cope with ten years of drought and freak torrential floods? 09:45Love, the law and a proposal.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation. 09:45The leadership challenge presents both personal and political dilemmas.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society. 09:45Leadership, an election and the morning after.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is politician Diane Abbott. 09:45Presidents, a pregnancy and a farewell to the press.
| 09:00Presenter Fi Glover is joined by Kate Mosse. Featured poet is Elvis McGonagall.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Matthew Bannister.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Martha Wainwright talks about her music and plays live. Plus, Julia Neuberger on old age.
| 10:00A special programme on attitudes to fertility and the assumptions that underlie them.
| 10:00Listener's views on infertility. Does society place too high a value on parenthood?
| 10:00The health risks of taking HRT discussed. Plus, the increasingly popularity of ketamine.
| 10:00Experimental American artist Alison Knowles on avant-garde performance. With Jane Garvey.
| 10:00John McCarthy meets two travellers who have managed to stick to their food principles. 10:30Lucy Fleming embarks upon a quest to discover more about her mysterious uncle Ian.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Caroline Beck recalls the villages which were lost after the decline of the coalfields. 11:305/6The satirist ponders the Jane Austen industry and car user manuals.
| 11:00Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood follow the movement and migration of animals. 11:302/3Guests include Max Hastings and Joan Bakewell.
| 11:00Phineas Gage was a railway worker in 19th-century Vermont who survived a bizarre accident. 11:301/6The Bletchley Park codebreakers hit panic stations when a royal visitor arrives.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30A pregnant teenager and her feckless mother trade insults and repartee in 1950s Salford.
| 11:00James Crowden brings home a walking stick formerly belonging to author Thomas De Quincey. 11:302/8Despite being warned off, the sleuth meets an undercover policeman.
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Elinor Goodman. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is composer Howard Goodall.
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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 John Waite and Sheila McClennon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and John Waite. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Reports on banks speeding up electronic payments and fairness of bank charges. 12:30Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen and Carrie Quinlan. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6With Adam Buxton, Ed Byrne, Lee Mack and Tim Vine. 12:32Sheila Dillon on a project in Ethiopia involving a radical change in farming practice. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:309/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Rainer Hersch explores unusual instruments used by composers.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Guests are Pam Ayres, Trevor McDonald, Sue Limb and Gervase Phinn.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Helen Mark reports on the battle to save peat bogs vital to the Peak District's ecosystem.
| 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 Chester.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Rob Gifford explores the history of Tibet and counter-claims of ownership.
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| 14:00 | 14:151/2Comic thriller by Steve May. Different people plan for the future in different ways.
| 14:152/2Adam uses technology to find perfection, but there's a price. Intense romantic drama.
| 14:00Pat didn't see that coming. 14:155/5Davy cannot work with the new Headmaster Alcock. One of them will have to go.(R)
| 14:15By Frances Byrnes. In May 1940, the young dancer Margot Fonteyn is trapped in Holland.
| 14:15Three New Yorkers imagine people whom they would have liked to know better.(R)
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Toby Stephens and David Suchet star in a dramatisation of Ian Fleming's novel.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie. 14:451/5Brett is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss in the Forest of Dean.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:301/5Oliver James reads his overview describing and illuminating the nature of anger. 15:451/5The singer meets an all-male voice choir devoted to promoting peace and reconciliation.
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge investigates Viking history on the Wirral. 15:302/5Andy McNab reads his story of a personal journey from a turbulent childhood into the army. 15:452/5Joan meets a choir in Coventry specialising in unaccompanied music from across the globe.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Pippa Greenwood. 15:303/5Martina Cole reveals how her anger at injustice inspired her to take direct action. 15:453/5Joan meets a choir that practices in an embassy and reflects the culture of its homeland.
| 15:00Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life. 15:27Paul McGann appeals on behalf of Whizz-Kidz. 15:304/5Charlie Falconer reads his tale offering an insight into how anger impacts upon politics. 15:454/5Joan meets the young members of a choir, as they prepare for the Choir of the Year contest
| 15:00New electronic technology is draining power at an unprecedented rate. Tom Heap reports. 15:305/5Joanna Briscoe's moving tale focuses on the life of a terminally ill boy. 15:455/5Joan reunites with a choir who performed with her in a tribute song to Nelson Mandela.
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| 16:00 | 16:00The culture of street food appears to be under threat from city planners. 16:30Tim Harford investigates the link between a doctors' strike and drops in death rates. 16:56The Cannes Film Festival is abandoned due to protests.
| 16:00Michael Rosen presents the series that takes a close look at the words we use. 16:30Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell. Biographer Janie Hampton assists. 16:56Strikes spread across France. No public transport is running and tourists are heading home
| 16:00Laurie Taylor debates how much influence states should have on their administrations. 16:30Dr Mark Porter looks at diagnosis and treatment of prostate problems. 16:56The Nigerian army captures the Biafran stronghold of Port Harcourt.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup meets Sebastian Barry, who talks about his new book The Secret Scripture 16:30Quentin Cooper reports on ingenious new techniques in the fight against crime. 16:56French workers are on strike, with violence erupting between Nationalists and Communists.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Francine Stock talks to Michael Patrick King, writer of the film of Sex and the City. 16:56French student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit is sent back to his native Germany.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. 16:56The Kray brothers are charged with conspiracy to murder. The Liverpool bus strike ends.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival. 16:30Featured works include Carol Ann Duffy's Elvis's Twin Sister. 16:56Reporters witness the aftermath of violent street battles across France.
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| 17:00 | 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 with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus sports headlines. With Carolyn Quinn. 17:30Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Major issues at home and abroad. 17:405/8Richard Monks looks at the personal cost of a national crisis. 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. 18:303/6With Adam Buxton, Ed Byrne, Lee Mack and Tim Vine.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Bossy Clare is coerced into organising a children's party.(R)
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6The department is in turmoil. Someone is breaking into the labs at night.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6With Sue Perkins, Euan Ferguson and Richard Herring.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen and Carrie Quinlan.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran's guests are Phill Jupitus, Robert Sellers and Paul Merton.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Wilson presents a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15With Mark Lawson, including a report on the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year. 19:451/5Sister Agnes is taken from her work at the hostel to catalogue books at the library.
| 19:00Pat didn't see that coming. 19:15Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. 19:452/5Sister Agnes cannot believe that Catherine is capable of murder and sets out to prove it.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening night of Marguerite, a new musical. 19:453/5Sister Agnes finds out more about the man Catherine claims to have murdered.
| 19:15With Kirsty Lang, including news of the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries. 19:454/5Sister Agnes's investigations take her to Derbyshire, where the murder was committed.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including an interview with American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal. 19:455/5Sister Agnes's investigations lead to the solving of two murders and a child-snatching.
| 19:005/8Richard Monks looks at the personal cost of a national crisis. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.
| 19:15Barney Harwood meets Maria Harris, author of The Joshua Files. 19:455/5Nell gives her 13-year-old god-daughter a treat by taking her to a proper theatre.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Business editor Robert Peston examines the crisis in the international banking system. 20:30Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning with advice and features.
| 20:00Major issues at home and abroad. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Many serious crimes are allegedly committed by suspects on bail. Is it granted too often? 20:452/3Michael Portillo recalls the good and noble works of backbenchers from the past.
| 20:00Toby Amies meets Drako Oho Zarhazar, a man with no short-term memory. 20:30Peter Day asks what the future holds for the traditional shopping centre.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Chester. 20:50A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lucy Kellaway.
| 20:001/2Laurie Taylor trawls the BBC archives to explore 60 years of the Reith Lectures.
| 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 | 21:00Gabrielle Walker joins scientists to look at the effects of climate change. 21:30Guests include Anthony Pagden, Susan Greenfield, Jonathan Kent and Elizabeth Pisani.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter looks at diagnosis and treatment of prostate problems. 21:30John Humphrys talks to Terry Pratchett about being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
| 21:00Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood follow the movement and migration of animals. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation.
| 21:00New electronic technology is draining power at an unprecedented rate. Tom Heap reports. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
| 21:00Anna Chen on the history of the Chinese who came to Britain.
| 21:001/3A man spends his life trying to atone for his past. Dramatisation of Thomas Hardy novel.
| 21:00Reports on banks speeding up electronic payments and fairness of bank charges. 21:26Martha Kearney appeals on behalf of International Childcare Trust. 21:30Peter Day asks what the future holds for the traditional shopping centre. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Vivien has returned, bringing back memories of the past and an extraordinary request.
| 22:00With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Commons vote on abortion and EU food subsidies. 22:457/10Forty years on, Ginny remembers the part she was asked to play in Vivien's marriage.
| 22:00Including reports on Lebanon's new government and tomorrow's by-election in Crewe. 22:458/10Ginny recalls her mother's shocking death 40 years ago, the day on which Vivien left home.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Vivien finally decides to confront Ginny with the painful truth about the past.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Vivien has confronted Ginny with a revelation that leads to a shocking decision.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Many serious crimes are allegedly committed by suspects on bail. Is it granted too often?
| 22:00Reports from Westminster. Including For whom the Division Bell Tolled.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Sketch show starring Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and Katherine Parkinson. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/6With Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Zoe Gardner and Gareth Tunley. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:004/4Poirot's grey cells must work differently if he's to solve the mystery.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:002/6Nebulous returns to his old university, where he discovers several lecturers have vanished 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell. Biographer Janie Hampton assists. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:009/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. 23:30Roger McGough revisits some readings recorded for Poetry Please by the late Paul Scofield.
| 23:00Forged tickets cause havoc at the cup final. Strikes almost bring France to a standstill. 23:30Mark Tully asks whether committees are good or bad for us.
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