| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why. 00:45The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange interview with Michael Heseltine. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The advent of the satellite link made interviews possible with people like Willie Nelson. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The TV postcard series and memories of Las Vegas, San Francisco and Hugh Hefner's mansion. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The star interview becomes a regular feature in Clive's TV career. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to drive, tutored by Stirling Moss. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Waiting offstage, a singer recalls her life and loves before stepping into the limelight.(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.
| 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. 05:45It's costing farmers and taxpayers £160,000 a day as criminals muscle in on fly-tipping. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45Anna Hill hears that struggling dairy farmers are to get a 280 million euro handout.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45Britain's leading scientists say GM food is crucial if we're going to feed the world.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45A lack of skilled farmworkers couldl threaten our ability to grow enough food.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45The Farming Today bees produce their most valuable crop of the year.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wambrook in Somerset. 05:45Mary Ann Sieghart profiles comedian and writer Armando Iannucci.
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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 walks the final stage of St Oswald's Way. 06:30Charlotte Smith finds out how food and farming is helping local pubs stay in business. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Hazhir Teimourian asks if youth, as with spring and summer, is not overrated. 06:35Alex James and Chris Haskins visit one of the 2009 Farmer of the Year nominees. 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. 07:55Baroness Neuberger appeals on behalf of Asylum Aid. 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 for Bible Sunday from St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. 08:50Clive James reflects on the importance of scepticism in every walk of life.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Jenny Uglow and Orlando Figes. 09:451/5The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange interview with Michael Heseltine.
| 09:00Michael Buerk talks to Father Aidan Troy about facing sectarian violence in Belfast. 09:301/5Valedictories in which retiring ambassadors poked fun at the nations where they had served 09:452/5The advent of the satellite link made interviews possible with people like Willie Nelson.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Arturo Brachetti. 09:453/5The TV postcard series and memories of Las Vegas, San Francisco and Hugh Hefner's mansion.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain. 09:454/5The star interview becomes a regular feature in Clive's TV career.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is illustrator Jan Pienkowski. 09:455/5Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to drive, tutored by Stirling Moss.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by Dame Joan Bakewell. With poetry from Matt Harvey.
| 09:00The story of the real balloon boy, and Paddy O'Connell visits conciliation service ACAS.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Violinist Jennifer Pike plays live. Plus, why are pregnant women at risk from Swine flu?
| 10:00What can be done to tackle the problem of young women binge drinking?
| 10:00Former Sporty Spice Melanie C on motherhood and her theatrical debut.
| 10:00Celebrating Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, 80 years on.
| 10:00Actor Rebecca Front on The Thick Of It. Plus; late abortion details to be made available.
| 10:00John McCarthy talks to wilderness expert Ray Mears about travelling across northern Canada 10:30John O'Farrell celebrates Kit Williams's groundbreaking picture puzzle book Masquerade.(R)
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3Shari Vahl meets some of the young graduates bidding to change English local government. 11:303/6Our heroine aims to be the face of Social Services.
| 11:002/3Shari Vahl meets the innovative bosses shaking up the way English local authorities work. 11:30An examination of the turbulent but pioneering career of the sculptor, Jacob Epstein.
| 11:003/3Shari Vahl meets chief executives who have left local authorities for the national stage. 11:302/6Can Gordon's new computing invention help the Bletchley Park codebreakers?
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Are words on a gallery wall art or literature? Bidisha looks at text in art.
| 11:002/2Following the death of Terry Nutkins we revisit two programmes he made about his childhood 11:305/6Brunswick's old flame reappears as a contestant in a beauty pageant being judged by Steine
| 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 scientist Professor Colin Pillinger.
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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. 12:305/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. The panel includes Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner and Francis Wheen. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6David Mitchell chairs. With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Garden. 12:32Sheila Dillon explores the issues surrounding our intake of omega 3 fatty acids. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the second heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Irma Kurtz investigates Spanish composer Rodrigo's famous Concerto de Aranjuez.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw; new media impact on newspaper opinion; the BBC Trust.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Can technology remove the guilt from flight? Tom Heap and Bruce Dickinson investigate.
| 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 Burgess Hill in West Sussex.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:302/2Tim Gardam visits the National Funeral Exhibition.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Black comedy by Michael Butt. Max is set to inherit a small fortune when he turns 25.
| 14:154/6By Rob Kinsman. When a doctor is accused of murder, Dickens is convinced of his innocence.(R)
| 14:15A former mayor sparks a battle for supremacy between two cleaners prepared to fight dirty.
| 14:15A man is plucked from the factory floor to be groomed by the State as a body double.
| 14:15Romantic comedy by Caroline and David Stafford, set in the the immediate aftermath of 9/11(R)
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Lieutenant Clancy only has hours to find the killer of a vital witness.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural forum, with Aileymill Primary Group in Greenock. 14:451/5Does birth order make a difference? Do the youngest siblings remain babies forever?(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Dominic Sandbrook scrutinises our obsession with anniversaries. 15:4516/30Amanda Vickery goes below stairs to find out about domestic workers in a household.
| 15:00Residents of Mildenhall remember the aviators who took part in an air race in 1934. 15:301/3By Jojo Moyes. Alice Herring seems like a perfect witness, but all is not as it seems. 15:4517/30The complicated arrangements that limited a man's search for a suitable wife.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on energy saving. 15:302/3By Laura Marney. Bus hostess Jill strives to win the monthly customer satisfaction bonus. 15:4518/30What 18th-century home life held for spinsters. As many as one in five women never married
| 15:00Clare Balding walks the fifth leg of St Oswald's Way, from Rothbury to Simonside. 15:27Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora International. 15:303/3By Shena Mackay. A schoolgirl feels the pull of the stage after a humiliating encounter. 15:4519/30How the richest widow in 18th-century England spent her late husband's coal fortune.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural forum, with Aileymill Primary Group in Greenock. 15:4520/30The story of two different widowers and their desperate search for a new wife.
| 15:30Irma Kurtz investigates Spanish composer Rodrigo's famous Concerto de Aranjuez.
| 15:002/2Helen Schlegel is unhappy that her sister Margaret has agreed to marry Henry Wilcox.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon investigates duck - both wild and farmed - for taste, cost, and welfare. 16:303/6Simon Cox on augmented reality, pirate party politics, digital memory and teens online. 16:56The Guildford four are released.
| 16:00Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has created a more open society. 16:30Sue MacGregor, Tony Juniper and Katie Hopkins discuss their favourite books. 16:56Actors pay a final tribute to Sir Laurence Olivier at Westminster Abbey.
| 16:00From suburbia to housing estates, Laurie Taylor discusses town and city planning. 16:303/3Vivienne Parry asks what patients can do for themselves to relieve pain. 16:56Thousands of protestors march through East Germany.
| 16:00Leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected. 16:30NASA's new Ares 1 rocket; Ardi the human ancestor. 16:56Margaret Thatcher causes consternation at the Commonwealth.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. 16:30Foxes, werewolves and vampires star in this edition, with Wes Anderson and John Landis. 16:56250,000 East Germans march in Leipzig in the country's biggest ever demonstration.
| 16:00With Jane Garvey. Including Mel C, children and screen time and Virginia Woolf's house. 16:56Egon Krenz is officially installed as East Germany's new leader but protests continue.
| 16:00Five more leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems about snow and solitude. 16:56The BBC's Panorama programme asks whether Britain is about to face a crack epidemic.
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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 is joined by a panel of top business guests to discuss technology. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Journalist Sami al-Hajj talks to Gavin Esler about the years he was held in Guantanamo Bay 17:40Mary Ann Sieghart profiles comedian and writer Armando Iannucci. 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. 18:303/6David Mitchell chairs. With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Garden.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Phil Hammond grills his three guests about a record of their choosing.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Adam finally goes out on a date, but is the lady in question quite what she appears?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6After a coach trip to Bridlington goes terribly wrong, Arthur decides to go 'native'.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. The panel includes Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner and Francis Wheen.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Jack Dee, Simon Callow and Tamer Hassan.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Gerry Northam introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Jane Horrocks in Annie Get Your Gun. 19:451/10Cub reporter Paddy Meehan is called to a domestic dispute in a wealthy Glasgow suburb.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including architect David Chipperfield. 19:452/10Paddy Meehan's scoop is one that the police don't want her to report.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson. Including Michael Jackson's choreographer Kenny Ortega. 19:453/10Paddy decides to tell the police that she has been bribed by the killer.
| 19:15Richard Wilson discusses his latest role, and Michael Nyman on a surprising collaboration. 19:454/10As redundancies loom at the paper, Paddy tries to sell her investigation to the new editor
| 19:15Band producer Trevor Horn on the creation of Frankie Goes to Hollywood 25 years ago. 19:455/10Paddy refuses to accept the police theory that the murder was committed by an ex-boyfriend
| 19:00Mary Ann Sieghart profiles comedian and writer Armando Iannucci. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Aaronovitch, Kathryn Hughes and John Carey.
| 19:15Matt Frei examines what some might call the engine of Wall Street: greed. 19:452/5By Joe Hollins. The cargo of an old shipwreck rises from the ashes in a very modern manner(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season but its fortunes depend on the weather 20:30Ed Stourton asks if a battle over theology could bring an end to Iran's Islamic Republic.
| 20:00Journalist Sami al-Hajj talks to Gavin Esler about the years he was held in Guantanamo Bay 20:40Visually impaired and unemployed - more on finding and securing a job that's right for you
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Melanie Philips, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor. 20:453/3Peter Oborne discovers where David Cameron sits in Conservatism's intellectual tradition.
| 20:00Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has created a more open society. 20:30Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to discuss technology.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Burgess Hill in West Sussex. 20:50Clive James reflects on the importance of scepticism in every walk of life.
| 20:00Richard Holloway explores what happens to faith when one's life is on the line.(R)
| 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 | 21:00Can technology remove the guilt from flight? Tom Heap and Bruce Dickinson investigate. 21:30Andrew Marr with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Jenny Uglow and Orlando Figes.
| 21:003/3Vivienne Parry asks what patients can do for themselves to relieve pain. 21:30Michael Buerk talks to Father Aidan Troy about facing sectarian violence in Belfast.
| 21:00Louise Batchelor investigates the reasons for the declining number of bumblebees. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Arturo Brachetti.
| 21:00Geoff Watts explores the relationship between humans and robots. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
| 21:004/6What life was like for those who had no family or home of their own.
| 21:001/2When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End, her life is changed forever.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Baroness Neuberger appeals on behalf of Asylum Aid. 21:30Ed Stourton asks if a battle over theology could bring an end to Iran's Islamic Republic. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10The dangers of posting videos on the Sub-Etha.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:457/10Discovering the importance of the Cheese.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10An immortal battle is waged.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10More fighting, but thankfully no Vogon poetry.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Melanie Philips, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Martha Kearney chooses pieces of writing which have a special meaning for her.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:00England's least co-ordinated cricketer limbers up for Strictly Come Dancing. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:003/6Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item features more than one voice. 23:153/6Rik Mayall tells a story about Mike, who has a radical town-planning vision. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:002/6Things get fishy for Mike while Dave and Alan encounter spooky goings-on at the cab office 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor, Tony Juniper and Katie Hopkins discuss their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the second heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:30A second programme celebrating 30 years of Poetry Please, recorded at Bristol Old Vic.
| 23:00Another chance to look back at the events making the news in 1989, with Sir John Tusa. 23:30Hazhir Teimourian asks if youth, as with spring and summer, is not overrated.
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