| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor speaks to Harvard's Robert Sampson about what causes disorder in cities. 00:45The sound of bells from St Clement Danes in London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Chagall was born on the poor side of the Russian provincial town of Vitebsk. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Chagall persuades his mother to let him enrol in the only art school in town. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Chagall meets Bella Rosenfeld, the woman who would become his wife and muse. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Chagall arrives in Paris just as the Cubists hold their first exhibition. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5WW1 breaks out and Chagall is left isolated in Russia, where he has returned on holiday. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5By Rachel Cusk. In Venice in winter, a mother discovers in her daughter a new woman.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Anna Hill. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Mark Holdstock.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 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 Rev Dr Michael Piret. 05:45Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Mary the Virgin, Chislet in Kent. 05:45Why did the proposal for a takeover of HBOS cause so much anger and concern in Scotland?
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Food critic Charles Campion goes foraging for lunch on the Kent coast. 06:35News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Melanie Abbott. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05The Scottish poet Kenneth Steven reflects on how solitude refreshes the human spirit. 06:35James is in Norfolk to meet the third finalist of the BBC Farmer of the Year competition. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55John Sessions appeals on behalf of Bag Books. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Michael Ford explores the legacy of the monk and prolific spiritual writer Thomas Merton. 08:50Clive James gives his take on yachts, the US election and James Bond.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr is joined by Raymond Geuss, Richard J Evans, AA Gill and Susan Blackmore. 09:451/5Chagall was born on the poor side of the Russian provincial town of Vitebsk.
| 09:002/2Clive Anderson traces the story of political correctness and our attitude towards it today 09:304/4Phill meets Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy The Pinhead, in his Boston studio. 09:452/5Chagall persuades his mother to let him enrol in the only art school in town.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:453/5Chagall meets Bella Rosenfeld, the woman who would become his wife and muse.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America. 09:454/5Chagall arrives in Paris just as the Cubists hold their first exhibition.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is musician and opera singer Ian Bostridge. 09:455/5WW1 breaks out and Chagall is left isolated in Russia, where he has returned on holiday.
| 09:00Peter Curran is joined by Anna Ford, and the poet is Luke Wright.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00How much can taking their clothes off on TV actually increase a woman's self esteem?
| 10:00Ian McIntyre on the life of Hester Thrale. Plus, Fiona MacKeown on her daughter's death.
| 10:00Poet Caroline Bird on her writing and work with the charity Second Sight.
| 10:00Is the law out of touch with the real meaning of partnership? Plus, Ani DiFranco performs.
| 10:00Is poor parenting is a class issue? Plus, Ewa Strusinska on women conductors.
| 10:00John McCarthy is joined by John Pilkington to explore the ravishing landscape of Bolivia. 10:30Christopher Frayling's profile of Italian film and TV score composer Ennio Morricone.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Alan Dein meets some of the people whose livelihoods depend on greyhound racing. 11:304/6The loveable curmudgeon's early play is revived. Is the big time calling him at last?
| 11:00Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement of animals 11:30Best-selling author John Fowles was also curator of Lyme Regis Museum and recorded locals.
| 11:00Jim White meets some very rich young people as they consider their future. 11:301/6Criminal mastermind Mrs Groynes is inspired by a performance at the Hippodrome.(R)
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:302/3The ex-pat life of a disgraced Oscar Wilde and fellow writers when they moved to Dieppe.
| 11:00Dominic Arkwright reports on various methods used to keep teenage gangs off the streets. 11:303/4A new will is read, love letters are found and arrests are made. Sophia is now keen to wed(R)
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Peter Riddell. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Will an interest rate cut kick start Britain's flagging housing market? 12:306/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. The panellists include Fred MacAulay and Jeremy Hardy. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/6James Walton takes the chair, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh. 12:32Sheila Dillon explores the influence of the famous restaurant El Bulli. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Robert Robinson introduces the fifth heat of the perennial general knowledge quiz.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:302/3Paul discusses the controversial casting of Ethel Merman in the stage production.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Steve Hewlett presents a new topical programme about the fast-changing media world.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Countryside magazine. Helen Mark finds that spring is in the air on the Isles of Scilly.
| 13:00National and international news with Brian Hanrahan. 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 Portsmouth.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Choirmaster Gareth Malone explore the role of singing in our development.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:15Shot on stage, a dying magician passes secrets of his act to his daughter.(R)
| 14:155/5The Prime Minister has called an election and the polls do not look promising.
| 14:15By Mike Bartlett. A woman fights to keep her dignity in a series of bizarre interviews.(R)
| 14:15Stephen Wyatt's play follows moves during WW1 to set up an Imperial War Graves Commission.(R)
| 14:15By Ian McMillan. Unemployed Frank creates a doppelganger to help him fiddle the dole.(R)
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30A former boy actor reminisces about his time spent with The Bard. Stars Jim Broadbent.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw. 14:453/4How important was the glorious Malvern landscape to Elgar's musical creativity?(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Lewis and experts Sally West and Eddy Graham take listeners' calls on benefits. 15:301/5Carys Davies's blackly comic story of betrayal, revenge, and dry cleaning. 15:451/5Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, heads for the British Film Institute.
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge explores the ancestral history of a famous 19th Century painting. 15:302/5Owen Sheer's poetic story captures the moment when a relationship is over. 15:452/5Actor Andrew Sachs takes a trip to London Zoo.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness. 15:303/5A council worker from the Lleyn Peninsula unbuttons his secret life. 15:453/5Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney goes to the Science Museum.
| 15:00Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life. 15:27Lady Maryanna Tavener appeals on behalf of Marfan Trust. 15:304/5A son's relationship with his father is sorely tested on a trip to see the Terracotta Army 15:454/5Comedian Hugh Dennis takes one of his favourite walks near his home on the Sussex Downs.
| 15:00Clare Balding walks from Harbottle Craggs in Northumberland in the company of Jon Monks.(R) 15:305/5After a damning review, a New York chef invites his critic for a five course dinner. 15:455/5Baroness Julia Neuberger takes a stroll through the Victorian gardens in Leamington Spa.
| 15:302/3Paul discusses the controversial casting of Ethel Merman in the stage production.
| 15:001/2A cloud of deadly radioactivity is moving slowly towards Australia.
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| 16:00 | 16:00The series investigating the world of food and the stories behind what we eat. 16:303/8Katie explores volunteering as a way of having a cheap holiday.
| 16:00Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues. 16:30Sue MacGregor is joined by Pauline Black and Marcel Berlins to discuss favourite books.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor debates the changing attitudes towards the bodies displayed in our museums. 16:30Investigating the fast-emerging academic field of neuroeconomics.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Bernard Cornwell about his new book Azincourt. 16:30Quentin Cooper explores research into the brain's integration of visual and audio cues.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Matthew Sweet talks to Herbert Lom about his life in film.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Clare Balding.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Fay Weldon about her novel The Cloning of Joanna May. 16:30Performance poet Matt Harvey investigates the links between poetry and copywriting.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus sports headlines. With Ritula Shah. 17:30Evan Davis and guests talk about bargain hunting when economic times get tougher. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Tim Whewell reports from Georgia on the origins of the recent conflict with Russia. 17:403/8Writer and journalist PG Morgan goes behind the lines in the US presidential election. 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. 18:304/6James Walton takes the chair, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Topical sitcom by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Sir William is out for Sam's blood, and Sir John hosts a trendy art show.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Rhod Gilbert introduces - Russell Kane, Wilson Dixon and Stephen K Amos
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. The panellists include Fred MacAulay and Jeremy Hardy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter White introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15With Kirsty Lang. Do songs that have been re-mastered really sound any different? 19:451/5Barbara Loxton was a war correspondent who was separated from her daughters during WWII.
| 19:15With Kirsty Lang. Sex and the City columnist Candace Bushnell talks about her new book. 19:452/5Having become a war correspondent, Barbara travels to Paris and paints in field hospitals.
| 19:15With John Wilson. Singer Tony Christie talks about returning to his South Yorkshire. 19:453/5Barbara travels through Holland. Meanwhile, in South Africa, young Polly is ill again.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson. Alastair Campbell discusses his first novel. 19:454/5With the war finally over, Barbara describes the devastation in Holland and Germany.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson who meets American writer John Updike. 19:455/5Barbara and her two young daughters are finally reunited in South Africa.
| 19:003/8Writer and journalist PG Morgan goes behind the lines in the US presidential election. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Michael Arditti, Kathryn Hughes and Kerry Shale.
| 19:15Children's magazine presented by Kirsten O'Brien. 19:455/5By Stevie Davies. Rhiannon hears a Welsh voice and thinks she sees her dead son.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jolyon Jenkins speaks to former torturers from different countries. 20:30Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning with advice and features.
| 20:00Tim Whewell reports from Georgia on the origins of the recent conflict with Russia. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:001/3Dr Susan Blackmore challenges society's attitudes towards drink and drugs. 20:45Why did the proposal for a takeover of HBOS cause so much anger and concern in Scotland?
| 20:00The story of a fatal car crash in Cornwall, told by those whose lives it changed. 20:30Lawyer Ann Alexander examines the public inquiries system.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Portsmouth. 20:50Clive James gives his take on yachts, the US election and James Bond.
| 20:00The story of an American general's musical plan to win 'hearts and minds' in Vietnam.
| 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 | 21:00How the first forests transformed the planet 380 million years ago. 21:30Andrew Marr is joined by Raymond Geuss, Richard J Evans, AA Gill and Susan Blackmore.
| 21:00Investigating the fast-emerging academic field of neuroeconomics. 21:302/2Clive Anderson traces the story of political correctness and our attitude towards it today
| 21:00Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement of animals 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:00As America goes to the polls, what will a new administration mean for American science? 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
| 21:00Martha heads up the marketing campaign for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at teenagers.(R)
| 21:002/2Crusoe has found his way to the North but the ruby is having a profound effect on him.
| 21:00Will an interest rate cut kick start Britain's flagging housing market? 21:26John Sessions appeals on behalf of Bag Books. 21:30Lawyer Ann Alexander examines the public inquiries system. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. 22:451/10With Edward I away fighting the Scots, the young Edward shows little appetite for kingship
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. 22:452/10Edward I struggles to persuade his son to give up his unhealthy obsession with Gaveston.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:453/10The king is furious when young Edward attempts to give away some of his lands to Gaveston.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10An encounter with a holy man at York Cathedral causes the king unexpected distress.
| 22:00Can peace moves succeed in ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 22:455/10Following the death of his father, the newly-crowned Edward II swiftly ennobles Gaveston.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/3Dr Susan Blackmore challenges society's attitudes towards drink and drugs.
| 22:00Including Classrooms to Power.
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| 23:00 | 23:003/3Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew go to Southend-on-Sea and recall childhood holidays.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:003/4Faye is in a panic over the family coming to dinner. Life should be cozy? 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:004/4Tina's spiritual home hosts the biggest country music festival outside Nashville. 23:154/4The brothers are called in to deal with a troublesome fox.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:005/6Dirk outwits an eagle and the Draycotts find an eager nitwit. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor is joined by Pauline Black and Marcel Berlins to discuss favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Robert Robinson introduces the fifth heat of the perennial general knowledge quiz. 23:30Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests.
| 23:00Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning with advice and features. 23:30The Scottish poet Kenneth Steven reflects on how solitude refreshes the human spirit.
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