| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:151/3 Laurie Taylor explores white collar crime. What exactly is it, who commits it and why? 00:45The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Sara Wheeler begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Sara Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in the wide spaces of Alaska. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Sara Wheeler flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Sara Wheeler remembers some of the explorers who have sought the North Pole. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Sara Wheeler journeys to a remote archipelago and visits an ancient holy site in Russia. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Julia Stoneham's tale of an uneasy sibling relationship which comes to an odd conclusion.(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 Lesley Carroll. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears that landowners are lining up to offer land for wind turbines. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll. 05:45Anna Hill visits the top of a 100-metre-high wind turbine.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears that hill farming could die out within a decade.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll. 05:45New research suggests half of horse owners can't tell when their animal is overweight.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Lamberhurst in Kent. 05:452/4The case of the Victorian medicine which established principles about truth in advertising
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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. 06:07Matt Baker discovers some alternative methods of transport in the New Forest. 06:30How farmers and landowners could benefit financially from installing wind turbines. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully reflects on reflections - in mirrors, photographs, film and art. 06:35Lionel Kelleway heads to Purbeck to see sika at the start of the rutting season. 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. 07:10Jane Little discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Recorded at the Alliance of Religions and Conservation celebration, led by Martin Palmer. 08:50Clive James celebrates the honouring of Sir Keith Park with a statue in Trafalgar Square.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shlomo Sand, Tony Marchant and Sue Brown. 09:451/5Sara Wheeler begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia.
| 09:00Michael Buerk talks to Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to change sex. 09:304/5Despatches which changed the course of history. 09:452/5Sara Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in the wide spaces of Alaska.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Jayne Torvill. 09:453/5Sara Wheeler flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays 09:454/5Sara Wheeler remembers some of the explorers who have sought the North Pole.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is lawyer and writer Anthony Julius. 09:455/5Sara Wheeler journeys to a remote archipelago and visits an ancient holy site in Russia.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by writer William Boyd. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Actor Kym Marsh on the death of her premature baby. Plus, building character in children.
| 10:00The effects of taking anti-depressants during pregnancy, and the alternatives.
| 10:00Sexism in the Church of England. Plus, chef Darina Allen on forgotten cooking skills.
| 10:00Actor Romola Garai interviewed. Plus, canine chic; and who pays for dementia care?
| 10:00Unemployed single parents on benefits. Plus, the Scottish Suffrage movement.
| 10:00John McCarthy talks to writer Jan Morris and also hears what the older traveller likes. 10:30Singer Joan Armatrading reports on her time spent with the current Lord Mayor of London.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Ed Byrne finds out if that notorious institution, the student union bar, has had its day. 11:306/6Beauty looks after the elderly Mr Easterby, who is behaving like a lovestruck teenager.
| 11:002/3Helmut Kopetzky tells the story of East German actor Wolf Kaiser. 11:30Musician Tony Etoria explores the strange world of blackface minstrelsy.
| 11:00The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. 11:02Tim Samuels braves the New York Jewish dating scene to find the girl of his dreams 11:305/6Can the Bletchley codebreakers remain rational as they move into spooky Hut 13?
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Alastair Campbell reveals his passion for the music of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.(R)
| 11:00Alan Dein discovers that passions run high in the quiet borderland village of Knighton. 11:302/6Wealthy ex-rocker Dave Mabbutt has luxury property, technology and some unusual pets.
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Andrew Pierce. 11:30New danger in the Sahara, plus Zambia, France, Spain and the US. Presented by Kate Adie.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is children's author Julia Donaldson.
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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. 12:308/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh and Andy Parsons. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:006/6David Mitchell chairs. With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Garden. 12:32The Food Programme marks its 30th anniversary. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the fifth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Writer, comedian and rock drummer Andrew McGibbon explores the history of the cymbal.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Libel law reform, X-Factor success and coverage of the PM's letter to Jacqui Janes.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil Hammond and Lucy Mangan describe what makes them H.A.P.P.Y.
| 13:00National and international news with Edward Stourton. 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 Cardiff University.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. 13:30Shaun Ley examines the motivations of aspiring MPs; is a new type of candidate emerging?
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Carine Adler. A mother and her daughters gather at home after the death of the father.
| 14:15By James Graham. The personal grief that haunted Albert Einstein in his final years.
| 14:15By Dawn King. A teacher is detained for 28 days, after which he tries to rebuild his life.
| 14:15By Jonathan Holloway. An architect encounters a garrulous guard on the overnight train.
| 14:151/5After a general election, the Tories have won more seats but Labour got the biggest vote.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By David Edgar. Crowds gather in the streets of a fictional eastern European country.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. 14:453/5New research looks into non-blood siblings and the bond fostered in a non-family unit.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00John Barrowman tells the story of the morale-boosting US army show that toured the world. 15:451/5Roger Law of Spitting Image meets the craftsmen who made his 1980s Mrs Thatcher teapots.
| 15:00Investigating the impact of racial segregation in the US armed forces in Britain in WWII. 15:301/3It is 1915 and Edie is based at Casualty Clearing Station Number 3 near Ypres. 15:452/5Roger Law visits Barlaston Estate to find out what's left of Wedgwood besides its museum.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on wills and estate planning. 15:302/3Edie is moved to Etretat, where she must supervise members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment 15:453/5Roger Law finds out who is winning in the battle for ceramic supremacy, Stoke or China.
| 15:00Matt Baker explores plans to create a new Lanarkshire town based on Robert Owen's ideals. 15:27Jon Snow appeals on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal. 15:303/3It is 1918 and Edie is based at a military hospital on the cliffs above Treport. 15:454/5Roger Law talks to artists about the division in ceramics between art and industry.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. 15:455/5Roger Law reads the tea leaves to see what the future holds for the city of six towns.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon visits the 2009 National Honey Show in Weybridge. 16:30Simon Cox looks at the rural community building its own high-speed broadband network. 16:56East Berlin's party chief declares that all citizens can leave immediately.
| 16:00The programme visits the mental health court pilot in Brighton. 16:30Sue MacGregor talks to Michael Mansfield QC and Molly Flatt about their favourite books. 16:56Hundreds of thousands of East Germans arrive in West Berlin amid scenes of shock and joy.
| 16:002/3 Why has corporate crime had such a low priority? 16:30Claudia Hammond hears about surprising side effects of drugs used to treat schizophrenia. 16:56Bulldozers tear down sections of the Berlin Wall to make more crossing points.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup unveils the results of the two programmes focusing on neglected classics 16:30Quentin Cooper presents a special edition from Cardiff University. 16:56The mayors of East and West Berlin shake hands at a new border crossing at Potsdamerplatz.
| 16:00Marking the lives of Jeremy Morris; Nien Cheng; Stanley Ellis; Lady Tumim; Robert Rines. 16:30Barry Norman on the film career of his dad, Leslie. Isabelle Huppert on Michael Haneke. 16:56The East German Politburo elects Hans Modrow as prime minister.
| 16:00With Jane Garvey. Including Caprice on canine chic, Chihuahuas and fashion. 16:56Czechoslovakia eases restrictions on foreign travel.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to crime writer Frances Fyfield about her latest novel. 16:302/6The story behind one of the most tender and enduring of love poems. 16:56John Major gives his first Autumn Statement - City analysts predict gloom for the 90s.
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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 Edward Stourton.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Glenn Campbell, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and his panel discuss why businesses tend to cluster and the future of TV. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Allan Urry investigates the effects of the police force's current funding problems. 17:402/8Playwright Annie Caulfield creates a fictional response to the week's news. 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. 18:306/6David Mitchell chairs. With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Garden.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Jo Caulfield fails to shut up about relationships, love and Tony Benn.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Surviving astronauts reveal the story of their 1969 mission to the moon. Mockumentary.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Pip wants to save the poor and Harry Biscuit wants swans.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:308/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh and Andy Parsons.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Jack Jones and Alan Davies. With music from Martha Wainwright.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Including Paul Gambaccini's review of Taking Woodstock, the new film from director Ang Lee 19:451/20Tied to father and daughter's boat on the Thames, a lifeless shape bobs in the water.
| 19:15A review of new film The White Ribbon, and a report on illegal file sharing. 19:452/20How old John Harmon made his money out of rubbish, and the will he left to spite his son.
| 19:15Mark Lawson on the new Nottingham Contemporary arts venue and director Steven Soderbergh. 19:453/20With young John Harmon presumed drowned, the Boffins have inherited old Harmon's fortune.
| 19:15A review of the apocalyptic film 2012, and Norah Jones on her new CD, The Fall. 19:454/20Silas Wegg, a literary man with a wooden leg, finds employment with the Golden Dustman.
| 19:15Mira Nair on Amelia, her film about Amelia Earhart; a review of TV drama about Enid Blyton 19:455/20There is a rumour on the river that Gaffer Hexam might have had a hand in Harmon's death.
| 19:002/8Playwright Annie Caulfield creates a fictional response to the week's news. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Amanda Vickery, Dominic Sandbrook and Maria Delgado.
| 19:15Matt Frei is joined by George Stephanopoulos and Arsalan Iftikhar. 19:455/5By Crysse Morrison. Should Mrs Somerville move from home to sheltered accommodation?(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Poet Lemn Sissay looks for the lost memories of his time in social care as a child. 20:30Frances Cairncross explores the UK's options in the face of a growing deficit.
| 20:00Allan Urry investigates the effects of the police force's current funding problems. 20:40Macular disease: taking stock of how much understanding and treatment has improved.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley. 20:452/4The case of the Victorian medicine which established principles about truth in advertising
| 20:00The programme visits the mental health court pilot in Brighton. 20:30Evan Davis and his panel discuss why businesses tend to cluster and the future of TV.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cardiff University. 20:50Clive James celebrates the honouring of Sir Keith Park with a statue in Trafalgar Square.
| 20:00How the Lux Theatre brought the silver screen to the airwaves in an unlikely alliance.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Marking the lives of Jeremy Morris; Nien Cheng; Stanley Ellis; Lady Tumim; Robert Rines.
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| 21:00 | 21:002/2Professor Steve Jones challenges the controversial science of evolutionary psychology. 21:30Andrew Marr with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shlomo Sand, Tony Marchant and Sue Brown.
| 21:00Claudia Hammond hears about surprising side effects of drugs used to treat schizophrenia. 21:30Michael Buerk talks to Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to change sex.
| 21:00Penny Marshall asks if new super-sized polyclinics will mean the end of the family GP.(R) 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Jayne Torvill.
| 21:00Geoff Watts dives into underwater archaeology and how cooking transformed human evolution. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
| 21:00What will Hollywood star Lana Turner do when her daughter is accused of murder?(R)
| 21:002/2Will Bel Ami's first wife and mistress's knowledge of his past threaten his future?
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society. 21:30Frances Cairncross explores the UK's options in the face of a growing deficit. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:451/10It is the early 1930s and Victor and Liesel Landauer will soon return from their honeymoon
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with David Eades and Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Viktor has commissioned modernist architect Rainer von Abt to design his family home.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:453/10The Glass Room is nearly complete but Liesel and Viktor's relationship is growing strained
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Hitler is beginning his rise to power but Liesel and Viktor are distracted by new love.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:455/10A refugee from Nazi-controlled Austria arrives at the Landauer House.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Comedian Robert Webb presents a selection of his favourite prose and poetry. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:005/6The satirist ponders the Jane Austen industry and car user manuals.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:006/6Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item features more than one voice. 23:156/6Settle down because Rik would like to talk to you about Wake Up. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:005/6Mike's pick up is on a quest, but can Lind's dinner date secure Irwell Cars' future? 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor talks to Michael Mansfield QC and Molly Flatt about their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the fifth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:301/6Peggy Reynolds examines the enduring appeal of Edward Thomas' evocative poem.
| 23:00Hundreds of thousands of East Germans flood into West Berlin, as the Wall comes down. 23:30Mark Tully reflects on reflections - in mirrors, photographs, film and art.
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