| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor talks to the anthroplogist who spent a year studying Wall Street. 00:45The sound of bells from St Clement Danes, London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The two-year-old Joe is propelled onto the stage at Sadler's Wells by his ruthless father. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The young Grimaldi begins to make his mark as a comic performer in London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Grimaldi's performance in the new pantomime, Mother Goose, makes him a fully-fledged star. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Still in his 30s, the years of physical comedy begin to take their toll on Grimaldi's body 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Grimaldi is determined to fill the family's pockets with a final farewell performance. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5By Ambreen Hameed. A young Muslim girl, haunted by the past, returns to the pier.(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 Andrew Graystone. 05:45Cumbrian farmers call for government help to save their land. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. 05:45Anna Hill hears claims that the food strategy for the 2012 Olympics is flawed.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. 05:45Anna Hill on the food labels designed to protect traditional recipes.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. 05:45Charlotte Smith on how a disagreement on labelling almost created a war of two sausages.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. 05:45A look at how the Cornish Sardine has become Britain's 40th officially protected food.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:453/5Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney goes to the Science Museum.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton in Devon. 05:452/2Richard Reeves examines the intellectual and philosophical roots of the Labour leadership.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; 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 is in Northern Ireland to follow the Ballinderry River from source to lough. 06:30Charlotte Smith visits the Defra Christmas fair to find out about protected foods. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold and deep snow. 06:35Adam Henson visits a reconstructed Iron Age farm. 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. 07:55Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices. 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 Advent from St Arvans Parish Church near Chepstow, led by Fr Michael Gollop. 08:50Clive James reflects on the media coverage of man-made global warming.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Tariq Ali, Tzvetan Todorov, Andrew Graham-Dixon and Janine di Giovanni. 09:451/5The two-year-old Joe is propelled onto the stage at Sadler's Wells by his ruthless father.
| 09:00Dr Warren Hern talks about his choice to carry out abortions despite death threats. 09:305/5Paul examines two groups at the sharp end of the process - agents and audiences.(R) 09:452/5The young Grimaldi begins to make his mark as a comic performer in London.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by Simon Callow, Cedric Robinson, Chanee Brule, Jacqui Dankworth. 09:453/5Grimaldi's performance in the new pantomime, Mother Goose, makes him a fully-fledged star.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. 09:454/5Still in his 30s, the years of physical comedy begin to take their toll on Grimaldi's body
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. 09:455/5Grimaldi is determined to fill the family's pockets with a final farewell performance.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by journalist Lynn Barber, author of An Education.
| 09:00This week on BH, we look at the power of listing fallen soldiers' names.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Pop star Alesha Dixon on absent fathers. Plus stillbirth guidelines.
| 10:00Actor Tamzin Outhwaite on musicals. Plus, chef Marianne Lumb on kitchen knife techniques.
| 10:00How many women on the board of directors can make a difference?
| 10:00Irish abortion law discussed. Plus, war artist Arabella Dorman; and buying gifts for men.
| 10:00Links between MS and vitamin D discussed. Plus, the little-known female Bauhaus artists.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig finds out about travelling abroad with pets and a weekend in Hanoi. 10:30How the politics of the late 1970s affected the most popular TV series' of the time.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3Andy Hayman examines the challenges facing policing in Britain today. 11:304/4Will the tangled web of love and lust be unpicked before arrival in Exeter St David's?
| 11:00Benjamin Zephaniah examines why Jamaican patois is the slang of choice for UK teenagers. 11:30Janet Ellis presents a celebration of the history and the art of the jigsaw puzzle.
| 11:002/4Chris Ledgard examines the work of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. 11:303/6Phonsie treats Muriel to a meal and Bernie Gallagher is back in town.
| 11:00Alan Johnston returns to the West Bank town of Nablus to see how life has changed there. 11:30Razia Iqbal investigates banks as patrons of art.
| 11:00Alan Dein visits the tiny community on the Hebridean island of Canna. 11:306/6Dave buys some last-minute holiday euros and brings down the international monetary system
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie presents stories from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Vanuatu and Singapore.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising committee.
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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 Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news and issues with Peter White. 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. 12:303/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell. 12:32What is the relationship between food and art today? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:302/4Frances Fyfield and her team explore Tippett's pre-war masterpiece, A Child of Our Time.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Peter Fincham on X Factor; Royal privacy; Geordie Greig.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Dominic Arkwright asks his guests to explain how 'me time' works. From 2009.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Tim Harford and the team ask if claims made about energy efficient lightbulbs are true.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell in Berkshire.
| 13:00An exclusive interview with America's Commander in the Middle East, General David Petraeus 13:30Paul Robertson examines the claims and counter-claims for musical mediumship.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:15Three community writing groups perform their own short plays.
| 14:00Little chap, big trouble. 14:15By Bernard MacLaverty. Poet Andrew steps from his office and is engulfed by a blizzard.
| 14:15By Peter Kesterton. A maths lecturer is arrested for attempted assault on a young woman.
| 14:15By Sarah Woods. Climate change specialists imagine the future at four degrees warmer.
| 14:155/5Adam Armstrong is finally standing down and it seems the whole team will be out of a job.
| 14:00Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30A family is brought to its knees, sparked by one mistake. Stars Emma Cunniffe.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs. 14:452/5Joan meets a choir in Coventry specialising in unaccompanied music from across the globe.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Critic Waldemar Januszczak on the public's U-turn on the Turner Prize and modern art. 15:451/4Poet Ruth Padel finds out more about her ancestor Charles Darwin and his sense of wonder.(R)
| 15:00Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:301/3By Hugo Kelly. A single woman seizes an opportunity to get away for a weekend. 15:452/4Ruth Padel explores Charles Darwin's life as a family man with a visit to Down House.(R)
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on tax and the pre-budget report. 15:302/3A young couple begin to realise their relationship has changed - they have fallen in love. 15:453/4Ruth Padel assesses the impact of loss on her great-great-grandfather.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark goes in search of the wild animals of Gloucestershire. 15:27The 83rd annual BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. 15:303/3A furtive reunion in Rome forces a woman to scrutinise her lover. Read by Jemma Redgrave. 15:45Libby Purves hears the stories of people helped by the 2008 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs. 15:454/4Ruth Padel finds out how her great-great-grandfather made scientific theories readable.(R)
| 15:302/4Frances Fyfield and her team explore Tippett's pre-war masterpiece, A Child of Our Time.
| 15:003/3George Smiley reaches the end of his hunt for the mole.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Simon Parkes explores the popularity of the food memoir. 16:30Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by Jon Ronson and Seth Shostack from SETI Institute. 16:56The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns.
| 16:00Michael Rosen meets the consultants who will teach you how to speak more clearly. 16:30Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V and tries to separate fact from myth. 16:56East Germany elects a new leader amid fears the country is sliding into lawlessness.
| 16:00Why are more people living on their own and what are the consequences for society? 16:30Scientists say testing our 'working memory' instead of IQ would be more accurate. 16:56Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the Communist Party faces the threat of extinction.
| 16:00James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. 16:30Ocean observatories? Quentin Cooper looks at global plans to monitor the deep sea. 16:56Czechoslovakia's first non-communist majority government in 41 years is sworn in.
| 16:00The lives of Liam Clancy, Jim Brown, Barbara Cawthorne and Geoffrey Moorhouse. 16:30Spike Jonze on Where The Wild Things Are. The curse of The Queen Of Spades. 16:56The forced repatriation of the Vietnamese Boat People begins.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. 16:56US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de facto leader Hans Modrow.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann and hosts a discussion on the future of bookshops. 16:306/6Peggy Reynolds explores the stories behind the Keats' poem and its enduring appeal. 16:56President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage 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.
| 17:00Fran Abrams examines aggressive cost-cutting in the government's forensic science service. 17:406/8Writer Timberlake Wertenbaker 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. 18:304/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Meet the bungling surveillance team tracking blackmailers in a hotel.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Unwelcoming neighbour Annabelle quizzes an unsuspecting soul over his wind chimes.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Andy Zaltzman tackles the subject of world politics.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Steve 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 Christopher Meyer, Barry Cryer and Rupert Penry-Jones.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Ernie Rea introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Little chap, big trouble. 19:15The announcement of the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award; silent films on TV. 19:451/5In 1963, Amy is living in London with her sister as The Big Freeze grips the country.
| 19:15Including 2009 Turner Prize-winning artist Richard Wright. 19:452/5Amy and her sister Muriel visit friends in Trinidad, but Muriel takes a turn for the worse
| 19:15Michael Frayn discusses his travel writing; Elvis Costello on the Black-E arts centre. 19:453/5Amy Barbour-James struggles to find the money to pay for her sister's care in Trinidad.
| 19:15Heidi Thomas on writing Cranford; children's books for over 9s; film-maker Sally Potter. 19:454/5Amy faces a dilemma about what is best for her sister, who is in hospital in Trinidad.
| 19:15Harry Hill on his show TV Burp; Alexander Hanson on the production of A Little Night Music 19:455/5Amy, living alone in London after the death of her sister, decides to visit an old friend.
| 19:006/8Writer Timberlake Wertenbaker creates a fictional response to the week's news. 19:15John Wilson is joined by writers Louise Doughty, Michael Arditti and James Runcie.
| 19:15Matt Frei is joined by Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, to discuss climate change. 19:454/5By Benjamin Markovits. All-American Sam is less than thrilled with his new stepbrother.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:001/4The myth and reality of Joan of Arc, and the other Frenchwoman who did more to save France 20:30An ex-heroin dealer returns to the mountain hideout where he received drugs rehabilitation
| 20:00Fran Abrams examines aggressive cost-cutting in the government's forensic science service. 20:40What's it like for blind people in the Palestinian territories?
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox and Clifford Longley. 20:452/2Richard Reeves examines the intellectual and philosophical roots of the Labour leadership.
| 20:00Simon Cox on the row after emails were taken from a major climate research centre. 20:30Can ethanol champions Brazil convince the world that sugar really is good for you?
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell in Berkshire. 20:50Clive James reflects on the media coverage of man-made global warming.
| 20:00Robert Hodierne reveals the truth about the infamous My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968.(R)
| 20:00Tim Harford and the team ask if claims made about energy efficient lightbulbs are true. 20:30The lives of Liam Clancy, Jim Brown, Barbara Cawthorne and Geoffrey Moorhouse.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Is now the time right for Europe to allow widespread cultivation of GM crops? 21:30Andrew Marr with Tariq Ali, Tzvetan Todorov, Andrew Graham-Dixon and Janine di Giovanni.
| 21:00Scientists say testing our 'working memory' instead of IQ would be more accurate. 21:30Dr Warren Hern talks about his choice to carry out abortions despite death threats.
| 21:00Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by Jon Ronson and Seth Shostack from SETI Institute. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by Simon Callow, Cedric Robinson, Chanee Brule, Jacqui Dankworth.
| 21:001/3Stephen Webster talks to medical consultant Philip Kilner. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
| 21:00By Joshua Ferris. The story of a dysfunctional group of misfits in an advertising agency.
| 21:002/3George Smiley, called out of retirement, tries to piece together the events of the past.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices. 21:30Can ethanol champions Brazil convince the world that sugar really is good for you? 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10The corrosive desire for thrift begins to dominate married life at Earlforward's bookshop.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:457/10Both Elsie and Violet are increasingly anxious about Henry's weakened state.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10Henry's bluff is called when he takes a turn for the worse and the doctor is summoned.
| 22:00France is backing the British idea of a one-off supertax on bank bonuses. 22:459/10Elsie's sweetheart Joe has returned, but he is desperately ill.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10The shock of his wife's death galvanises Henry into a final nocturnal visit to his office.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox and Clifford Longley.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen asks whether English is one language or a thousand. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:003/6Byron is in Ben's mind, while Mary ponders their marriage. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:004/4A neurotic Egyptologist tries to come to terms with her heavy workload.(R) 23:154/6Luke is trapped in the hen party from hell when he is appointed chief bridesmaid.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:002/4The Time Lord and the famous TV pensioner have a no-holds-barred relay race discussion.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:00Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V and tries to separate fact from myth. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:305/6Peggy Reynolds teases out the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling poem.
| 23:00Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge and East Germany elects a new leader. 23:30Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold and deep snow.
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