| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Post-Soviet Potato: Laurie Taylor discusses the politics of spuds. 00:45The sound of bells from St David's Church, Moreton-in-Marsh. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a war. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he arrived in Afghanistan. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Rumour becomes reality and the Guards head to Iraq. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Battle contact, so long anticipated, proves satisfying and Operation Silicon is a success. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A summer afternoon is revealed as less than idyllic.(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 Rev Dr Kevin Franz. 05:45Charlotte Smith reports on the number of farmers wanting to leave dairy. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. 05:45Anna Hill reports on violent scenes as thousands of farmers protest in Luxembourg.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. 05:45What would happen if England and Wales turned organic? Charlotte Smith reports.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. 05:45Charlotte Smith explores whether the panic over North Sea cod stocks is at an end.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Catherine Cowley. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Peter's Church, Tiverton. 05:45Jonathan Maitland profiles the newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.
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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. 06:07Clare Balding joins two polar explorers to walk in Scotland's picturesque Wester Ross. 06:30Charlotte Smith finds out the best way to act if approached by a herd of cattle. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Fergal Keane explores the physical and fairytale world created by the forest. 06:35Tom Heap visits a farm preparing its Longhorn Cattle for the Royal Show in Warwickshire 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. 07:10Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Michael Palin appeals on behalf of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Bishop Martin Shaw reflects on the life and writings of philosopher Simone Weil. 08:50The largest egg known to have existed was laid in Madagascar.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr is joined by Helen Mirren, Martin Jacques, John Armstrong and Anna Minton. 09:451/5Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a war.
| 09:003/4Professor Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge. 09:452/5With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he arrived in Afghanistan.
| 09:00Lively debate with Libby Purves and guests, including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. 09:453/5Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims 09:454/5Rumour becomes reality and the Guards head to Iraq.
| 09:00Kirsty Young invites actor Martin Shaw to choose his Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5Battle contact, so long anticipated, proves satisfying and Operation Silicon is a success.
| 09:00Rev Richard Coles is joined by Paul Twivy. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.
| 09:00Broadcasting House examines Western intervention in Iran.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Motown legend Martha Reeves on a life making music. Plus, tennis star Anne Keothavong.
| 10:00How much choice do women really have over when to start a family?
| 10:00The mother fighting to ban legal 'party drugs'. Plus confusion over food labelling.
| 10:00What should be done about the sperm donor shortage? Plus, the enduring myth of Medea.
| 10:00Life of women in the RAF, then and now. Plus, instilling discipline in schools.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig hears about the world of weaving and travel in search of the Roman empire. 10:30Julian Clary pays tribute to the wit and ingenuity of comedy musical acts.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Vivienne Parry investigates why we know so little about premature birth. 11:304/6Newfangle has to come up with a spectacular new invention for the annual feast.
| 11:00Sir Menzies Campbell's battle to shake off claims that he was too old to be Lib Dem leader 11:30Mark Gatiss explores the hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and 80s.
| 11:00How children conceived through a sperm donor can make contact with their half-siblings.(R) 11:305/6Business is booming, but there is a teenage fly in the soup de jour.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Miranda Sawyer examines how the grunge movement influenced a generation of British youth.
| 11:001/3Beginning at a Lanarkshire stream, the Clyde swells to divide Glasgow into north and south 11:304/6A new reality star columnist means Maddox must rewrite her copy discretely!
| 11:00With Elinor Goodman.Plus Iraq War inquiry, mps' expenses and the House of Commons speaker. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is dancer and choreographer Arlene Phillips.
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| 12:00 | 12:00With Julian Worricker. Including: swine flu latest, broadband and Digital Britain. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Julian Worricker. Listeners give their views on the Digital Britain report. 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.
| 12:00With Peter White. Including: Refunds for Michael Jackson O2 tickets. BBC expenses. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Are you due some of the billions of pounds in benefits not being claimed by older people? 12:301/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:002/6Stephen Fry chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Victoria Wood. 12:32Clink - public fine dining inside prison. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Nigel Rees chairs. With Lucy Mangan, Marcus du Sautoy, Michael Simkins and Paul Bailey.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Music writer Michael White tells the life story of composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Steve Hewlett interviews BBC Director General Mark Thompson.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Dominic Arkwright, Joe Queenan, Karen Marchbank and Michael Simkins debate Las Vegas.
| 13:00With reports on Michael Jackson's final performance and way literacy & numeracy in schools 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 in Birmingham.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30Nick Robinson reflects on the reporting of the MPs' expenses scandal and its repercussions
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Margaret Heffernan. Vanessa joins the aggressive traders of Enron's Western Power desk.
| 14:15By Margaret Heffernan. As Ken Lay awaits sentencing, a new gardener arrives at his home.
| 14:15The youngest son of a conservative black family joins a Muslim prayer group.
| 14:15By Jonathan Myerson. A teenager diagnosed with a terminal condition is denied treatment.
| 14:154/4Eccentric chef Warwick Hedges challenges his son Jack to a race.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Jet Morgan and his crew battle a deadly digitised enemy on a deserted craft.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw. 14:455/5Brett Westwood listens out for birds which you are likely to see or hear near rivers.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Courtney Pine talks to trombonist Chris Barber about his life's work 15:4576/90Watergate, Vietnam and an economy damaged by the oil crisis drain American vitality.
| 15:00Featuring a listener's ancestor who was a hero in a mine rescue in 19th-century Wales. 15:301/3By Rob Greene. Tom finds that notes to his PE teacher from his mum are not all they seem. 15:4577/90In 1973 the Supreme Court determines a framework for legal abortion.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on ethical investment. 15:302/3By Robert Shearman. An adult remembers how his father wanted him to become a cricketer. 15:4578/90Conservative reaction to civil rights and women's liberation galvanises American politics.
| 15:00Clare Balding walks on the Scottish peninsular of Cromarty with author Douglas Willis. 15:27John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's Disease Society. 15:303/3By Christopher Matthew. A grandfather tells the story of a school boxing competition. 15:4579/90Evangelical Christians get involved in public life to fight against liberal excesses.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw. 15:4580/90Evangelical Christian Jimmy Carter is elected president.
| 15:30Music writer Michael White tells the life story of composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
| 15:00Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 account of his addiction to laudanum.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Home made Italian food. Sheila Dillon meets British producers making Italian ingredients. 16:30Marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin.
| 16:00Clive Coleman examines the law governing what happens to your body when you are dead. 16:30Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Vivienne Parry join Kate Mosse to discuss their favourite books.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses geopolitics and the science of spheres of influence. 16:30With Claudia Hammond. Why the UK is the self-harm capital of Europe. Plus swine flu panic.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Hari Kunzru, Giles Foden, Patrick Neate and Katherine Howe. 16:30Quentin Cooper champions chimp culture, measures dinosaurs and dissects elections.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, including a look at Michael Jackson's life 16:30Francine Stock dips into The Pool of London and talks to 91-year-old actor Earl Cameron.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Adam Thorpe. 16:30Greta Scacchi presents a portrait of Australian poet Judith Wright, who died in 2000.
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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 Carolyn Quinn, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis asks his guests about their personal style of management. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Michael Robinson asks if the Private Finance Initiative represents value for money. 17:40Jonathan Maitland profiles the newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. 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. 18:302/6Stephen Fry chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Victoria Wood.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6From Jools Holland to Ross Kemp, Jon Culshaw explores the bizarre lives of famous folk.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Jon Canter shared a flat with Douglas Adams while the latter struggled for success.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/2Mark pieces working policies together with the aid of you, the people.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Sir Trevor McDonald, Gerry Anderson and Doon Mackichan.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15With John Wilson, including comedian Rich Hall on his new collection of short stories. 19:451/5Detective drama by Philip Palmer. An art forger helps an art critic to write a book.
| 19:15With Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with the Tehran-born comedian Shappi Khorsandi. 19:452/5Suspicions are raised over Ballantyne's involvement in the death of Gilbert Reynolds.
| 19:15Interview with Roger McGough; the story of Blur; review of the film Rudo y Cursi. 19:453/5Art critic and journalist Jessica Brown finds herself in the firing line.
| 19:15Reviews of new film Sunshine Cleaning and a TV comedy about foreign correspondents. 19:454/5Jessica comes face to face with the darker side of the art world.
| 19:15Interview with artist Jeff Koons, Phedre on the big screen and tributes to Michael Jackson 19:455/5Daniel Ballantyne continues to pull the strings from beyond the grave.
| 19:00Jonathan Maitland profiles the newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe with Bridget Kendall, Kamila Shamsie and Matthew Sweet.
| 19:15Kevin Connolly talks to Tina Brown about her website The Daily Beast. 19:455/5A child's innocent remark has devastating consequences for a favourite nursemaid.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Gerry Northam finds out how a nuclear bomb ended up lying off the US coast in 1958. 20:30Michael Blastland asks if 'group-think' is distancing policy from the public.
| 20:00Michael Robinson asks if the Private Finance Initiative represents value for money. 20:40Richard, who recently lost his sight, offers tips on how to get by when you first go blind
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Melanie Philips, Clifford Longley, Matthew Taylor. 20:452/2Anne Perkins asks what today's politicians could learn from the spin doctors of the 1920s.
| 20:00BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson reflects on recent events in Iran. 20:30Evan Davis asks his guests about their personal style of management.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Birmingham. 20:50The largest egg known to have existed was laid in Madagascar.
| 20:00Author Iris Murdoch has a complex reputation thanks to her husband's memoirs.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, including a look at Michael Jackson's life
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| 21:00 | 21:00Andrew Luck-Baker asks why humans, unlike other primates, have such a long childhood. 21:30Andrew Marr is joined by Helen Mirren, Martin Jacques, John Armstrong and Anna Minton.
| 21:00With Claudia Hammond. Why the UK is the self-harm capital of Europe. Plus swine flu panic. 21:303/3Peter meets forensic scientists and talks to them about their work.(R)
| 21:001/2Ayisha Yahya explores predictions that some deserts could turn greener in the future. 21:30Lively debate with Libby Purves and guests, including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.
| 21:00Geoff Watts meets Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
| 21:0016/18Conservative movements born in America's heartland move to the forefront of public life.
| 21:003/3Lydia Gwilt decides on a new and more violent way to secure Allan's fortune.
| 21:00Are you due some of the billions of pounds in benefits not being claimed by older people? 21:26Michael Palin appeals on behalf of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children. 21:30Janet Radcliffe Richards examines the results of studies into humans' moral choices. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00With Ritula Shah. Plus reports on Silvio Berlusconi, Spain's human rights judges, Iran. 22:451/10Eight-year-old Anna waves goodbye to her mother, unaware that she is disappearing forever.
| 22:00With Ritula Shah. Reports on Iran, the new Commons Speaker and new Nixon tapes. 22:452/10Peter and Anna realise how little they know about their mother - is she definitely dead?
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. Including reports on Pakistan and the FSA/Bank of England tussle. 22:453/10As Peter's obsession with spy rings deepens, he encourages Anna to use code to communicate
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. Reports on Iran, BBC expences, Pakistani suicide bombers & live theatre 22:454/10Anna and Peter adopt ever more furtive observation techniques.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. Fans remember Michael Jackson. Plus, climate change funding plans. 22:455/10Peter has made Anna think the unthinkable about their mother.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/4Professor Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge.
| 22:00The Prime Minister Gordom Brown unveils his policy blueprint "Building Britain's future".
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| 23:00 | 23:00Dominic Arkwright is joined by Mark Mason, Kathryn Hughes and Francis Gilbert. 23:30A special edition to report the election of a new Speaker of the House of Commons.
| 23:005/6Mark pulls his finger out - to examine the virtue of hard work.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:006/6Could the time have come at long last for Dave to leave behind his peculiar abode? 23:153/6Nat Segnit is on a quest to venture inside travellers' minds with tales of doomed dates.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:003/3By Rona Munro. A lonely lady on a holiday falls in love with two members of a family.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Vivienne Parry join Kate Mosse to discuss their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Nigel Rees chairs. With Lucy Mangan, Marcus du Sautoy, Michael Simkins and Paul Bailey. 23:30Gabriel Woolf reads Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 poem The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
| 23:00Francine Stock dips into The Pool of London and talks to 91-year-old actor Earl Cameron. 23:30Fergal Keane explores the physical and fairytale world created by the forest.
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