| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor hears of new research which counters contemporary fears about immigration. 00:45The sound of bells from St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Comberton, Worcestershire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Life begins for Jean on the Windward Island of Dominica. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is sent to girls' school in Cambridge 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns about love the hard way. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she becomes famous. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A young woman is hired by a city whizz-kid to redecorate his flat.(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 Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears about plans to re-introduce the black bee to the UK. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff. 05:45Anna Hill asks if the organic dairy market has reached saturation point.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff. 05:45Charlotte Smith talks to shadow environment secretary Nick Herbert about the spread of TB.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff. 05:45Charlotte Smith reports on the practice of clipping the teeth of piglets.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:455/5In Venice, Joe meets a lawyer who retrained as a gondolier.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Helen's Church, Sefton in Liverpool. 05:452/3Richard Reeves updates Mary Wollstonecraft on her ideas about republicanism.
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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 Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison in Suffolk. 06:30Charlotte Smith asks who should pay to prevent another foot and mouth outbreak. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully explores the yearning of homesickness. 06:35Lionel Kelleway gets very close to the marsh harrier. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. 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 Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, conducted by the Very Rev Henry Hull. 08:50Clive James reflects on the global responsibility of feminists in the west.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr & guests discuss the return of God, cruelty, plus animal spirits & finance. 09:451/5Life begins for Jean on the Windward Island of Dominica.
| 09:002/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at Formula One motor racing. 09:302/5Many of those who participated in the revolution later fled under threat of persecution.(R) 09:452/5Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is sent to girls' school in Cambridge
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:453/5Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns about love the hard way.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale. 09:454/5Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is actor Peter Sallis. 09:455/5Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she becomes famous.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by author Anthony Horowitz. With poetry from Luke Wright.
| 09:00Kevin Connolly tastes the atmosphere at a Mayfair gentlemen's club. Is it like Parliament?
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| 10:00 | 10:00Why is Britain so bad at securing convictions for sexual assault?
| 10:00Should foster parents' age matter? Plus, Icelandic crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
| 10:00Is 'having it all' a myth? Plus, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rita Dove on poetry.
| 10:00What should be done to help young people with ME? Plus, rower Sarah Outen.
| 10:00Diana Athill and Dennis Healey on reaching 90. Plus, female sword swallower Miss Behave.
| 10:00John McCarthy talks to Sir David Attenborough about his early journeys abroad. 10:30Nick Barraclough celebrates the unsung singers.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her friend began a new career as a boxing promoter.(R) 11:304/4Burglars ransack the Birmingham record shop.(R)
| 11:00Are we being consistent in our approach to non-native plants and animals? 11:30Peter White visits Argentina to hear about the work of blind fabulist Jorge Luis Borges.
| 11:00The story of a man who obeyed his instincts and potentially saved a nuclear holocaust.(R) 11:304/4Can the smooth thespian sleuth solve a murder, woo Francis - and make it on stage?(R)
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Nick Maes revisits and celebrates The Who's influential rock-opera, Tommy.
| 11:00Conservationist Richard Peirce explores the feral wild boar situation in Britain. 11:305/6The comic poet John Hegley and comedian Jack Dee in the tag talk show
| 11:00The Speaker quits, public anger over MPs' expenses is pushing forward parliamentary reform 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Julian Worricker. Listeners tell us about their experiences of care homes. 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.
| 12:00Bob Howard reports on holidaymakers who think they have received forged dollars. 12:304/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6Chris Addison, Bettany Hughes and Rupert Sheldrake suggest exhibits to the museum. 12:32Sheila Dillon finds out how the wine market is coping in the recession. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:3011/13The second semi final of the wide-ranging music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:306/6Phil Hammond is joined by Slade frontman Noddy Holder and poet Grace Nichols.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Steve Hewlett on policing the internet, the future of children's radio and the licence fee
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30How arguments about the protection of the Amazon rainforest are playing out in Brazil.
| 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. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Sheffield.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:301/3In 1948, Peterlee was the future, an exciting New Town planned by Berthold Lubetkin.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Alf's memories come in flashes, returning him to his youth and his troubled marriage.
| 14:151/2Young Rumpole defends a man accused of murdering two war heroes. With Benedict Cumberbatch
| 14:15By Judy Upton. Helen and Naomi attend auctions of unclaimed airport luggage to sell online
| 14:00Difficult at the Dower House. 14:15By Peter Kesterton. When Andy suggests things are not as they seem, Emma is intrigued.(R)
| 14:15By Jeff Young. A celebrity archaeologist searches for a painting buried in a Welsh cave.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30George Smiley investigates when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs. 14:455/5How this early-18th century building remains one of London's busiest film locations.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Andrew Motion tells the story of the proudest legacy of his time as Poet Laureate. 15:451/5Jamaica: Maureen Sheridan tells the story of moving her young family to the home of reggae
| 15:00The story of John Bellingham, the only person to murder a British Prime Minister. 15:301/3By Mark Twain. Sharply ironic satire on the commercial aspects of funeral undertaking. 15:452/5A desire to see where composers had lived took Amber McPherson from the USA to Leipzig.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on holiday finance. 15:302/3By Malachi Whitaker. Betty finds it hard to come to terms with Ben's retirement. 15:453/5Mark Shurey's life was changed when he saw flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia play on TV.
| 15:02Helen Mark explores the north Devon coastline. 15:27Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeals on behalf of CODA International. 15:303/3By PG Wodehouse. Martin Jarvis performs the rediscovered witty tale of aristocratic angst. 15:454/5Stella Rodrigues' family roots complex, but it was in Ireland that she found herself.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs. 15:455/5Not even civil war could quell New Yorker Carl Linich's passion for Georgia's folk music.
| | 15:001/2The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views of the Great War.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Richard Johnson finds out about the impact of the world economic crisis on food in Iceland 16:305/6Katie takes a look at Turkey, which has become more popular with British holidaymakers.
| 16:002/4Charles Darwin is an international celebrity, but Gregor Mendel holds the key to heredity.(R) 16:30Dr Michael O'Donnell discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred Astaire.
| 16:00Slumming: how whites' wild times in America's black areas changed sex and politics forever 16:30Dr Mark Porter investigates the past and future of surgery.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Michael Palin about his Five of the Best. 16:30Quentin Cooper looks at the maths of scrappage and the science of the missing link.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Willem Dafoe talks about Antichrist, which was booed at its premiere at Cannes.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Jake Arnott about his latest novel, The Devil's Paintbrush. 16:30Featuring a reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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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 with Ritula Shah, plus sports headlines. 17:30The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Emily Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for good or ill. 17:404/8Comedian Robin Ince imagines a man with no interest in freebies. 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. 18:303/6Chris Addison, Bettany Hughes and Rupert Sheldrake suggest exhibits to the museum.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Can the internet be trusted? Victoria Coren puts this question to her guests.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Sirens interrupt a sea crossing. Are they what they seem?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6The codebreakers run out of rations. Can special new recruit Willis save their bacon?(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran is joined by Neil Oliver and Evan Davis. With music from The Maccabees.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Discussing the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. 19:451/10Back in Rome from Celtic Germany, Falco finds a stranger waiting at his mother's house.
| 19:15Adam Mars-Jones reviews the new play Grasses of a Thousand Colours. 19:452/10Helena has some searching questions for Falco about the history of his love life.
| 19:00Difficult at the Dower House. 19:15Including an interview with songwriter Eg White. 19:453/10Falco and Helena visit Marina to find out what happened on Festus' last night in Rome.
| 19:15Richard Eyre at the National and country singer Gretchen Peters. 19:454/10Falco has to eat humble pie and talk to his father, Geminus.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to writer John le Carre. 19:455/10Falco's dad's business is attacked again as they try to get to the bottom of Festus' scam.
| 19:004/8Comedian Robin Ince imagines a man with no interest in freebies. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Liz Jensen, Danny Robins and Mark Ravenhill.
| 19:15Barney Harwood is joined by Michael Rosen, Philip Ardagh and Kaye Umansky. 19:455/5John Hegley eavesdrops on a conversation between two friends in Imperial Rome.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Why are youths in Northern Ireland using social networking sites to spread sectarianism? 20:30Mukul Devichand reports on tensions building up between Malaysian ethnic groups.(R)
| 20:00Emily Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for good or ill. 20:40Peter White visits the Royal National College for the Blind at Hereford.
| 20:00Clive Anderson considers the legal limits of our right to express dissent. 20:452/3Richard Reeves updates Mary Wollstonecraft on her ideas about republicanism.
| 20:00A service celebrating Ascension Day from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Sheffield. 20:50Clive James reflects on the global responsibility of feminists in the west.
| 20:00Sophie Dahl looks at the life of her grandfather, the children's author Roald Dahl.
| 20:00Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere. 20:30Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.
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| 21:00 | 21:00How arguments about the protection of the Amazon rainforest are playing out in Brazil. 21:30Andrew Marr & guests discuss the return of God, cruelty, plus animal spirits & finance.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter investigates the past and future of surgery. 21:302/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at Formula One motor racing.
| 21:00Are we being consistent in our approach to non-native plants and animals? 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:00Geoff Watts is joined by the government's Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof John Beddington. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
| 21:00By Rachel Joyce. A man's world is blown apart when his daughter is linked to terrorism.
| 21:002/2Swamped with civilians, the Collector is unsure how much longer his defences can hold out.
| 21:00Bob Howard reports on holidaymakers who think they have received forged dollars. 21:26Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. 21:30Peter Day talks to the outgoing chairman of Intel, Craig Barrett. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Pressure mounts for Speaker Michael Martin to resign. Are the Tamil Tigers now extinct? 22:456/10Eilis' romance with Tony Fiorello blossoms and she experiences her first Italian meal.
| 22:00The HOC Speaker resigns, our evolutionary origins and July 7th bombings inquiry. 22:457/10Tony takes Eilis to Coney Island to celebrate her exam success.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:458/10Eilis' happiness in Brooklyn has been shattered by the news of her beloved sister's death.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Following her sister's death, Eilis returns to her lonely mother for a month's visit.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Back home to comfort her mother, Eilis is unable to resist the lure of the familiar.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson considers the legal limits of our right to express dissent.
| 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 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:006/6From William Hague to Simon Cowell, Jon Culshaw explores the bizarre lives of famous folk. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:001/6No woman, no job. Dave has no choice but to stow everything(R) 23:154/6Roydon Postlethwaite explores the many lives of Britain's most amiable entrepreneur.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:004/6Old people and consumer rights get the Gary Bellamy phone-in treatment.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Dr Michael O'Donnell discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred Astaire. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:0011/13The second semi final of the wide-ranging music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini. 23:30Roger McGough introduces poems by AE Housman and Walt Whitman.
| 23:00Willem Dafoe talks about Antichrist, which was booed at its premiere at Cannes. 23:30Mark Tully explores the yearning of homesickness.
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