| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Simone about her study of the families of suicide victims. 00:45The sound of bells from St George's Church, Poynton in Cheshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Lorna remembers her remarkable great-grandfathers. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Lorna recalls the lives of her mother, Doris, and her four sisters, who dazzle the locals. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A cricket match brings Lorna's mother and father, Doris and Marcus, together. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5After losing their business and home, Marcus and Doris make their way to Kingston. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Lorna looks back on her extraordinary childhood in Kingston as the daughter of Mama Goodie 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5By Brian McGilloway. A couple hear a baby crying on their child monitor. Whose baby?(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 the Right Rev David Chillingworth. 05:45Anna Hill visits an intensive broiler farm producing 800,000 chickens. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David Chillingworth. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks why there will be less British chicken in the future.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David Chillingworth. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David Chillingworth. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David Chillingworth. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks whether UK poultry-rearing standards are the best in the world.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. 05:455/5How might climate change and rising sea levels affect the area?(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Olave's Church in London. 05:452/2How does being able to directly petition the PM fit in with our notions of democracy?
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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 Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Matt Baker visits England's most scenic railway line, from Settle to Carlisle. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates the state of the British chicken industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully explores the complex relationship between entitlement and rights. 06:35Alex James meets Julian Hodge, a Devon butcher with a passion for meat and motorbikes. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in Parliament.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55India Knight appeals on behalf of Children's Heart Federation. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Rev Stephen Shipley visits Leipzig to reflect on the faith of composer Felix Mendelssohn. 08:50Clive James wonders what the Poet Laureateship says about the British attitude to poetry.
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| 09:00 | 09:00David Aaronovitch, Monica Ali, Christopher Caldwell and Joshua Cooper Ramo. 09:451/5Lorna remembers her remarkable great-grandfathers.
| 09:00Marjorie Lambert talks about how her foster daughter shattered her life. 09:303/4Clive James' debate with Gore Vidal on the effects of Christianity. 09:452/5Lorna recalls the lives of her mother, Doris, and her four sisters, who dazzle the locals.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:453/5A cricket match brings Lorna's mother and father, Doris and Marcus, together.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta. 09:454/5After losing their business and home, Marcus and Doris make their way to Kingston.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor talks to the Beirut hostages John McCarthy, Brian Keenan and Terry Waite. 09:455/5Lorna looks back on her extraordinary childhood in Kingston as the daughter of Mama Goodie
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by journalist and writer Melissa Benn.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A special programme focusing on family feuds.
| 10:00Michelle Pfeiffer on love, youth and fading beauty. Plus, soprano Kate Royal.
| 10:00Actor Diana Quick on her family history. Plus, the heartache of secondary infertility.
| 10:00Rosie Boycott on her battle with addiction. Plus, Helen Oyeyemi on her third novel.
| 10:00Congenital heart disease in children discussed. Plus, have our cleaning standards slipped?
| 10:00John McCarthy hears about a journalist's life of travel and an actor's view of France. 10:30Francesco da Mosto celebrates the original Italian Job movie, made in 1969.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2With potentially disastrous timing, Abu Dhabi has embarked on a huge development programme 11:302/4Now living above the shop, Grandad, father and son collide over an exhibition.(R)
| 11:00Paul Evans investigates the Amazon, the biggest area of rainforest left on Earth. 11:30How film studios are placing Christian themes at the heart of blockbusters.(R)
| 11:00The story of deaf actor Tim Barlow as he goes through treatment to restore his hearing.(R) 11:302/4Drama for the thespian sleuth, when the new star can't master the script.(R)
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Alan Dein uncovers the history of the Keskidee, the first black arts centre in Britain.
| 11:00The lives of women in Saudi Arabia are explored by Felicity Finch in a women-only hotel. 11:303/6The producer and comedian get chatting in the tag talk show.
| 11:00PM's troubles;Gurkhas,published expenses,cuts in public spending. Mrs Thatcher 30 years on 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young invites Whoopi Goldberg to choose eight records.
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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 Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:302/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen, Sue Perkins and Jeremy Hardy. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/6John Lloyd and Sean Lock's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and Dave Gorman. 12:32The problems and opportunities faced by farmers who work on the fringes of towns. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:309/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:304/6Phil Hammond's guests are Neil Innes, Graham Linehan and Felicity Finch.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Alice Roberts discovers the potential savings available by harnessing the power of sewage.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Edinburgh.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:302/2Examining Pope Pius XII, referred to by some as 'Hitler's Pope'.
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Jod Mitchell. A couple on a Himalayan mountain trek realise they are being stalked.(R)
| 14:00David makes work for idle hands. 14:15Actor Robert Vaughn is filming in Czechoslovakia when Russian tanks roll in...(R)
| 14:15By Deborah Wain. Pregnant 15-year-old foster child Ellie looks for love in the wrong place
| 14:151799: Jane Austen's aunt is accused of shoplifting from a shop in Bath.(R)
| 14:15Drama by Louise Ramsden about learning to live - and love - with bipolar disorder.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By Francis Turnly. Security fears surround an African leader's visit to a peace summit.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw. 14:453/5How this Wiltshire village has been used for period dramas such as The Other Boleyn Girl.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00A celebration of the life and music of the late folk singer and activist Pete Seeger 15:451/5Josh wants to dance, but his parents have to dig deep to ensure that his dream comes true.
| 15:00Could a leaf collection in Southport provide valuable historical research? 15:301/3Anton emerges from a coma. He's lost three days and his world is not as it was. 15:452/5David wants to play tennis, but the travelling to tournaments takes its toll on the family
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:302/3By Chrissie Gittins. Rich and Dan are united closely by the death of Dan's wife Milly. 15:453/5Eight-year-old Cyril plays the piano but his talent means a big commitment from his family
| 15:02Helen Mark joins historian Peter Edwards to visit the Worcestershire village of Rushock. 15:27Baroness Betty Boothroyd appeals on behalf of the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged. 15:303/3By Frank Dunne. Marcia does a writer's cleaning and also shifts his writer's block. 15:454/5When Daniel wanted to ride horses as a small child, his parents did all they could to help
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw. 15:455/5Ellie Simmonds, who won two gold medals at the Paralympics in Beijing.
| 15:304/6Phil Hammond's guests are Neil Innes, Graham Linehan and Felicity Finch.
| 15:001/2By JG Farrell. It is 1857 and British rule in India is under threat from mutineers.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon explores Brogdale in Kent, home of the National Fruit Collection. 16:303/6Katie Derham looks at our curiosity to travel and experience Eastern Europe.
| 16:00Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words, language and the way we speak 16:30Old blue eyes - Frank Sinatra is the choice of broadcaster Colin Murray.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor asks if the buildings built today cater for modern life. 16:30Dr Mark Porter discusses the causes and treatments for cerebral palsy.
| 16:00James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo. 16:30Quentin Cooper looks at the 'Two Cultures' divide in goverment.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Francine Stock talks to the creator of Lost, JJ Abrams, about his revival of Star Trek.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish writer Colm Toibin about his new novel, Brooklyn. 16:30The influence of significant women on the life and work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage 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.
| 17:00Including the latest on the the MPs expenses saga. 17:30The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Navdip Dhariwal investigates the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in Britain. 17:402/8Bonnie Greer imagines the impact on those involved in exhumating unknown WWI soldiers. 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. 18:301/6John Lloyd and Sean Lock's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and Dave Gorman.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Victoria Coren chairs. With Euan Ferguson, Tanya Gold and David Mitchell.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Lord Darkness has Amis and wants the sword. Can Sam stop him?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Chris Addison introduces Matt Kirshen, Tim Vine and Pippa Evans as Loretta Maine.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen, Sue Perkins and Jeremy Hardy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Conversation, music and comedy. Peter Curran is joined by Julian Clary and Sharon Horgan.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00David makes work for idle hands. 19:15Armando Iannucci and Simon Beaufoy discuss topicality in their work with Mark Lawson. 19:451/5Financial problems force Vera to live on her allotment.
| 19:15Lord Puttnam announces the shortlist for the Art Fund Prize for best museum or gallery. 19:452/5Vera discovers she is not the only person living on her allotment.
| 19:15Actress and director Samantha Morton on her experiences of being raised in care homes. 19:453/5Vera causes chaos when she attempts to rescue Irene from a sinister fate.
| 19:15Arlene Phillips reviews a new documentary about the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. 19:454/5Vera fears that Irene has ended up in the hospital psychiatry ward.
| 19:15With comedian Rob Brydon, Welsh national poet Gillian Clarke and a review of Coraline. 19:455/5Irene is horrified that her whole family are now living in Vera's compound.
| 19:002/8Bonnie Greer imagines the impact on those involved in exhumating unknown WWI soldiers. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Andreas Whittam Smith, Catherine O'Flynn and Jude Kelly.
| 19:00Lilian puts out the feelers. 19:15Barney Harwood visits a farm and finds out what it is like to grow up on one. 19:453/5Jon Ronson reveals the tensions inherent in knives, wives, dogs and small boys.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Investigating the concentration camps set up in France to hold Spanish Civil War refugees. 20:30How Muncie in Indiana reflects the impact of the economic crisis on the US middle class.
| 20:00Navdip Dhariwal investigates the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in Britain. 20:40Peter White discusses audio versions of three history books.
| 20:00Clive Anderson discusses the new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. 20:452/2How does being able to directly petition the PM fit in with our notions of democracy?
| 20:00Simon Cox investigates how far the right to protest is being eroded in Britain. 20:30Peter Day finds out about the disastrous effects of the credit crunch in Iceland.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Edinburgh. 20:50Clive James wonders what the Poet Laureateship says about the British attitude to poetry.
| 20:00James Naughtie remembers English conductor Sir John Barbirolli.
| 20:00Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere. 20:30Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Alice Roberts discovers the potential savings available by harnessing the power of sewage. 21:30David Aaronovitch, Monica Ali, Christopher Caldwell and Joshua Cooper Ramo.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter discusses the causes and treatments for cerebral palsy. 21:30Marjorie Lambert talks about how her foster daughter shattered her life.
| 21:00Paul Evans investigates the Amazon, the biggest area of rainforest left on Earth. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:002/2Andrew Luck-Baker meets the scientists behind the Large Binocular Telescope. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.
| 21:00By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark learn the terrible truth about their golden boy.
| 21:002/2Troilus and Criseyde are in love, but she's about to be handed over to the Greeks.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26India Knight appeals on behalf of Children's Heart Federation. 21:30Peter Day finds out about the disastrous effects of the credit crunch in Iceland. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00A special edition of The World Tonight focusing on Somalia. With Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Georgy takes to his new role in the library, but is his work strictly bibliographical?
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:457/10Fear blights Georgy's mind as he recounts the dread that Rasputin would betray him.
| 22:00News and analysis with Felicity Evans in London and Robin Lustig in Strasbourg. 22:458/10When the Tsar renounces the throne and is captured, Georgy finds himself a fugitive.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Georgy tracks the Imperial Royal Family - and Anastasia - to a house in Yekaterinburg.
| 22:00With Ritula Shah. With reports on MPs' expenses and the world's oldest apple trees. 22:4510/10As he recalls the fate of the Russian Imperial Family, Georgy must face another loss.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson discusses the new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.
| 22:00Including Letters to Mary.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words, language and the way we speak 23:30The story of the 1950s naturalist Maxwell Knight, who led a secret existence as an MI5 spy(R)
| 23:004/6From Steve Wright to Ken Dodd, Jon Culshaw explores the bizarre lives of famous folk. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:152/6Roydon Postlethwaite examines the disastrous career of the maverick right-wing MP.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:002/6Gary Bellamy tries to raise the bar on his phone-in show with a chat about string theory.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Old blue eyes - Frank Sinatra is the choice of broadcaster Colin Murray. 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. 23:30The story of James MacPherson's 'discovery' of the ancient poems of Ossian in the 1760s.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to the creator of Lost, JJ Abrams, about his revival of Star Trek. 23:30Mark Tully explores the complex relationship between entitlement and rights.
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