| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:152/3 Why has corporate crime had such a low priority? 00:45The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Lamberhurst in Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a celebrity. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5After a short-lived career in journalism, Keith decided to become a full-time cook. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Having set up his restaurant in Bristol, Keith agreed to film a cookery slot for local TV. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Keith's television career is revived when his agent calls with a three-series deal. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive drinking was about to take its toll. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Gemma Jones' story of an impoverished 1880s farm girl who lives a surprising fantasy life.(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 Philip Robinson. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears about a resurgence in rural craft skills. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. 05:45There's a lack of funding in agricultural research, according to Lord Taylor of Holbeach.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. 05:45Anna Hill hears that the world's largest dairy is to be built in London.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears why a UK agricultural research centre is facing major cuts.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. 05:45An EU ban on battery cages could mean imports of eggs from outside of Europe.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. 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 in Lymm, Cheshire. 05:453/4The case of a young farm labourer who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934.
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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.
| 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. 06:07Helen Mark and Time Team's Mick Aston investigate the story of the Hanbury Crater. 06:30Anna Hill hears about a resurgence in rural craft skills. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity. 06:35Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB reserve in Dorset to see the rare Dartford warbler. 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. 07:55Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. 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 St Andrew's Church in Balligan, County Down, led by Canon John Bowley. 08:50Clive James reflects on the revelation of the identity of Belle de Jour.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe talks to Nitin Sawhney, Stephen Poliakoff, Dennis Sewell and Harriet Ritvo. 09:451/5Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a celebrity.
| 09:002/3John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution. 09:305/5Matthew Parris on valedictories which embarrassed ministers. 09:452/5After a short-lived career in journalism, Keith decided to become a full-time cook.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by Desmond Fforde, Mariatu Kamara, Richard Williams, Graham Poll. 09:453/5Having set up his restaurant in Bristol, Keith agreed to film a cookery slot for local TV.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. 09:454/5Keith's television career is revived when his agent calls with a three-series deal.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is children's author Julia Donaldson. 09:455/5Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive drinking was about to take its toll.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by the actor Robert Lindsay. With poetry from Kate Fox.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A look at the arguments for scrapping child benefit for all. Amelia Earhart discussed.
| 10:00Will the Kelly reforms put women off from standing as MPs?
| 10:00Are we too selfish to have children? Plus, the babies living in prisons.
| 10:00Mumsnet co-founder Justine Roberts on why politicians are targeting mothers.
| 10:00How would a cohabitation law benefit women? Plus, life without grandchildren.
| 10:00John McCarthy looks at the human rights aspect of travel and music tourism in the USA. 10:30Nick Barraclough tells the story of Alan Freed and the Payola Scandal.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jolyon Jenkins investigates the probate industry. 11:301/4A wedding party en route to Exeter is delayed by a car on the rail track.
| 11:003/3Jens Jarisch on the identity of several places in the former eastern sector of Berlin. 11:30Film director Gurinder Chadha on the benefits of having Asian and British nationality.(R)
| 11:001/2The engineers and astronomers approach the biggest milestone in their 20-year project. 11:306/6Can the wartime codebreakers improve Anglo-French relations with a little derring-do?
| 11:00Are Rwandans in France and Germany controlling a deadly African militia? 11:30Ben Schott investigates Oulipo, the French experimental literary group.
| 11:00Circus artiste Howie prepares for make-or-break knee surgery. 11:303/6Dave finds the perfect excuse to get rid of loads of cash when his mum needs some help.
| 11:00Jackie Ashley looks at the Queen's Speech, EU presidency and help for independent MPs 11:30Kate Adie introduces stories from Afghanistan, Israel, Poland and Indonesia.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is businessman Sir Stuart Rose.
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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 Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:309/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan and Sue Perkins. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/6Jack Dee chairs. Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Rob Brydon 12:32As pioneering businesses grow, can they maintain their original ideals? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Edward Stourton. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Composer Matthew King discovers the extraordinary abilities of musical savants.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30The PCC fights back; Belle de Jour; Channel 5 newsreader; ITV changes.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Richard Wiseman, Ian Leslie and Michele Hanson seek out the truth about lies.
| 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 Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. 13:30Clive Anderson investigates the demise of the traditional bank manager.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:15Comedy by Katie Hims. Jess takes a day trip to kiss her dead first love, Danny, goodbye.
| 14:15By Clare Bayley. Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal wedding.(R)
| 14:15A writer finds himself speaking on a mobile phone to a stranger in 1959 New York.
| 14:15A couple decide to spend their holiday in their bedroom.(R)
| 14:152/5The new home secretary in the Labour-Lib Dem government is determined to stray off message
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By Peter Goodchild. In 1925, one of the most unusual trials in US legal history took place
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Pippa Greenwood, John Cushnie and Anne Swithinbank. 14:454/5Famous sibling Julian Lloyd Webber explores sibling relationships.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00How the Lux Theatre brought the silver screen to the airwaves in an unlikely alliance. 15:451/5Evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire garden through time and the seasons.
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge investigates the life and times of Hildegard von Bingen. 15:301/3By Julia Butler. A boy adapting to a new environment comes alive on the football pitch. 15:452/5It is late spring and the swallows return to the garden. Narrated by Peter France.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on pensions. 15:302/3By Tat Usher. A teenager spends her evenings swimming lengths of her local pool. 15:453/5It is summer and the garden hums with the sounds of insects. Narrated by Peter France.
| 15:00Matt Baker discovers some alternative methods of transport in the New Forest. 15:27Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society. 15:303/3By Janette Walkinshaw. Jane Bell has some difficult news for her best friend. 15:454/5Autumn arrives, and with it flocks of redwings and fieldfares. Narrated by Peter France.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Pippa Greenwood, John Cushnie and Anne Swithinbank. 15:455/5Winter arrives, and the garden becomes a sanctuary for many species.
| 15:30Composer Matthew King discovers the extraordinary abilities of musical savants.
| 15:002/2Wounded British airman, John Franklin is fit and keen to escape France....
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| 16:00 | 16:00The Food Programme marks its 30th anniversary. 16:301/2Rod Liddle considers our differing thoughts about the otter and the mink.(R) 16:56South Africa's president announces that its beaches are to be opened to all races.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and playwright David Edgar on the rise and fall of the communist 'dialect'. 16:30Sue MacGregor talks to Erica Wagner and Francis Gilbert about their favourite books. 16:56In Prague the police beat protesters as they call for the ousting of the Czech leadership.
| 16:003/3 Laurie Taylor explores the punishment of white collar crime. 16:30Claudia Hammond asks Martin Seligman if we can all be taught to be happy. 16:56In Prague, rumours spread that the police have killed a Czech student.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to crime writer Frances Fyfield about her latest novel. 16:30Quentin Cooper reports on new climate change research ahead of the Copenhagen summit. 16:56London ambulance workers continue their strike; New Kids on the Block reach number one.
| 16:00Marking the lives Sir John Crofton, Edward Woodward, Jimmy Hoseason, Derek B, Ralph Bird. 16:30The Coen brothers on returning to their roots for their new comedy, A Serious Man. 16:56In Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu receives 67 standing ovations during a six-hour speech.
| 16:00Vampires and their allure; the on-line mums putting politicians through their paces. 16:56MPs relish their day in the limelight as TV cameras are permitted in the House of Commons.
| 16:00Writer James Meek offers a beginner's guide to Tolstoy. 16:303/6Robert Frost's Mending Wall gave us the epigram 'good fences make good neighbours'. 16:56In Prague, tens of thousands continue their protest for the sixth day in Wenceslas Square.
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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 Glen Campbell, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss creative accounting and office design. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Jenny Cuffe reports from DR Congo on the scale of illegal gold mining. 17:403/8Writer DJ Britton 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. 18:301/6Jack Dee chairs. Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Rob Brydon
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Jo Caulfield fails to shut up about the Daily Express and cheese and onion crisps.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Surreal take on infuriating call centres and ex-soviet tyrants.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6In the depths of poverty, Pip finds his true calling and Harry makes a machine from moles.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:309/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan and Sue Perkins.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran is joined by Alison Steadman, Meera Syal and Raymond Blanc.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Singer Rosanne Cash, 3D TV, and AN Wilson reviews new film Glorious 39. 19:456/20Bella Wilfer, whose life has become decidedly more comfortable, confides in her father.
| 19:15Mark Lawson interviews writer Alan Bennett. 19:457/20A new life for Lizzie Hexam, a new mentor for Charlie, and new complications.
| 19:15Bill Bailey on orchestras, Fay Weldon on Nabokov and the latest Coen brothers film. 19:458/20Wegg comes to an agreement with Venus, as Bradley tries to do likewise with Eugene.
| 19:15Ian Rankin on writing a graphic novel; Irish rock band Ash's A to Z of touring. 19:459/20John Rokesmith sets about straightening his very untidy life.
| 19:15Richard Linklater on his new film and Christopher Frayling reviews School of Saatchi. 19:4510/20Bradley Headstone has a very clear picture of his future and enlists Charlie Hexam's help.
| 19:003/8Writer DJ Britton creates a fictional response to the week's news. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Linda Grant, Boyd Tonkin and Matthew Sweet.
| 19:15Matt Frei talks to National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts. 19:451/5By Andrew Smith. Ron Paget's automated garage door has gone berserk.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00How Harold Macmillan misled parliament in 1960 over claims of war prisoner brainwashing. 20:30What would happen if Britain chose to leave the European Union? Chris Bowlby reports.
| 20:00Jenny Cuffe reports from DR Congo on the scale of illegal gold mining. 20:40What happens if a blind person can't trust their bank cashier?
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo. 20:453/4The case of a young farm labourer who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934.
| 20:00James Silver investigates the sacking of the government's chief drugs adviser. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss creative accounting and office design.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. 20:50Clive James reflects on the revelation of the identity of Belle de Jour.
| 20:00Delving into the seamier side of politics to consider the line where fact meets fiction.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Marking the lives Sir John Crofton, Edward Woodward, Jimmy Hoseason, Derek B, Ralph Bird.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Sue Broom visits the UK's first specialist placenta clinic in Manchester. 21:30Tom Sutcliffe talks to Nitin Sawhney, Stephen Poliakoff, Dennis Sewell and Harriet Ritvo.
| 21:00Claudia Hammond asks Martin Seligman if we can all be taught to be happy. 21:302/3John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution.
| 21:001/4The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of reason.(R) 21:30Libby Purves is joined by Desmond Fforde, Mariatu Kamara, Richard Williams, Graham Poll.
| 21:00Geoff Watts looks back on great astronomical discoveries and future space exploration. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
| 21:00By Nigel Smith. Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion but won't engage with the world.
| 21:001/21942: A British aircrew ditch over occupied wartime France....
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. 21:30What would happen if Britain chose to leave the European Union? Chris Bowlby reports. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Gordon Brown proposes a planned timetable for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. 22:456/10As German troops advance across Europe, how long can the Landauers stay in Czechoslovakia?
| 22:00Israel approves 900 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem. 22:457/10During the Landauers' first year in exile, Liesel makes a heartbreaking discovery.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:458/10As war rages in Europe, a letter from Hana brings news of the Glass Room.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. 22:459/10When the Landauers' train is stopped in Occupied France, Viktor faces a devastating loss.
| 22:00Felicity Evans asks if the deluge that hit Cumbria was a 'one in a thousand years' event. 22:4510/10Thirty years on, Liesel has one more chance to experience the Glass Room.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Honor Blackman introduces a selection of the poetry and prose which has inspired her.(R) 23:30Deborah Bull and tap dancer Nada Karsakov trace the genealogy of the Lancashire Clog Dance(R)
| 23:006/6In the crosshairs of satire this time are hysterical media and busty starlets.(R) 23:30Michael Alexander on the place of TS Eliot, and poetry in general, in national culture.(R)
| 23:001/4Pippa tries to work out why her date with a manic depressive is going so badly.(R) 23:151/6Luke crashes his car and meets the ideal bystander after receiving some shattering news.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:006/6Will Simon de Vere call time on Irwell Cars? Will Dave choose Milan over Lower Broughton? 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor talks to Erica Wagner and Francis Gilbert about their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:302/6The story behind one of the most tender and enduring of love poems.
| 23:00Bulgaria witnesses its biggest demonstrations in 40 years; Lebanon's president is killed. 23:30Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity.
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