| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The Brits who stayed on in Hong Kong. 00:45The sound of bells from All Saints Church, East Pennard in Somerset. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects. Today, a great Pharaoh's sandal label 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects. Today, battle scenes from Iraq. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - stone seals from the Indus Valley. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - a 6,000-year-old axe found in Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Neil MacGregor explores early writing through a 5,000-year-old tablet about beer! 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5By Frances Tomelty. When Gracie's husband died, she decides it's time for personal growth.(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 Father Paul Clayton-Lea. 05:45Farmers claim the craze for lighting Chinese lanterns is killing and injuring livestock. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. 05:45Anna Hill hears that 50 million pounds of taxpayers' money will pay for a coastal path.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. 05:45Dog walkers could be unwittingly infecting farm animals with an incurable disease.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. 05:45Nearly 200 farmers ready to grow peas for Birds Eye have had their contracts terminated.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. 05:45Farmers are set to lose six million pounds as Birds Eye peas pull out of East Anglia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Paul's Cathedral. 05:45Clive Coleman profiles Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.
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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 discovers the joys of group walking. First stop, Wensleydale. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates the impact the right to roam is having on farmers in the UK. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers the enduring symbolism and mystical properties of pearls. 06:35Lionel Kelleway explores some very dark cellars in search of some very big spiders. 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. 07:10Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Jonathon Porritt appeals on behalf of BTCV. 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 John's College, Cambridge for Education Sunday. With Rev Duncan Dormor. 08:50Lisa Jardine on the need for climate scientists to take care when they inform and persuade
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Matthieu Ricard, Stewart Brand, Felicity Lawrence and Andrea Sella. 09:451/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects. Today, a great Pharaoh's sandal label
| 09:00Fergal Keane talks to Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter, Flora, died in the Lockerbie bombing. 09:304/5Fiona Neill finds out how creatively successful people cope when things go wrong. 09:452/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects. Today, battle scenes from Iraq.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and guests including Bette Bourne. 09:453/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - stone seals from the Indus Valley.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun. 09:454/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - a 6,000-year-old axe found in Kent.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard. 09:455/5Neil MacGregor explores early writing through a 5,000-year-old tablet about beer!
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by comedian Dave Gorman. With poetry from Salena Godden.
| 09:00A tribute to Sir Jonny Dankworth, the jazz legend who died at the age of 82.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Chinese journalist Xinran on being a woman and mother in China. 10:451/5Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down she's losing patience.
| 10:00American singer-songwriter, Nanci Griffith on her life and career. 10:452/5Caroline thinks her child's a genius because she dreams of 'being somebody'.
| 10:00Novelist Siri Hustvedt on trembling in public. Plus, closing the gender pay gap. 10:453/5Howard is a chef whose son ridicules cooking, preferring to try his hand at The X Factor.
| 10:00Feminist writer Natasha Walter on the distortion of sexual liberation. 10:454/5Phil and his wife imagine they are dying of creeping invisibility. They could be right.
| 10:00Why are there still so few women in the House of Commons? 10:455/5Richard Fallon MP has hired himself a publicist to up his profile in the media.
| 10:00Peter Curran discusses the delights of rural Turkey and the life of a safari guide. 10:30How Stefan Gates came to appear on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00The story of the National Servicemen who were sent to eavesdrop on Chinese communications. 11:304/6Ed finds himself a surprise hit on a brand new Radio 4 'topical quiz with a tasty twist'.
| 11:00Three keen naturalists describe the relationship with their 'local patch'. 11:30Paul Gambaccini celebrates some great writing which has influenced and moved him.
| 11:001/2Martin Bell asks what makes people want to give up their civilian life to fight in the TA. 11:304/4Suspicion has turned on Audrey for the murder. But where is she?
| 11:00Kate Adie presents stories from China, Kenya, Venezuela, Serbia and the United States. 11:30Mary Moore, daughter of the sculptor Henry Moore, explores his artistic legacy.
| 11:00What it means to be an indigenous person of so-called First Nations status. 11:302/4Simon Brett's actor-turned-sleuth goes fishing and hooks a corpse.
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve Richards. 11:30Katya Adler meets the Mexican police recruits ready to confront the country's drug gangs.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is the stylist Gok Wan.
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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. 12:30John Waite reports from India on a controversial development involving Oxford University. 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. 12:305/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Micky Flanagan and Jack Dee. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/12Nicholas Parsons with Paul Merton, Charles Collingwood, Josie Lawrence and Chris Neill. 12:32Who decides what plants we breed, and what effect does it have on the food we eat? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the 2010 final of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:304/4Sonny Rollins is regarded as one of most influential saxophonists in contemporary jazz.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30John Terry; change at ITV; reporting the Chandlers; the Licence Fee Payers' Trust?
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Alice Roberts meets the people making Britain's wasteland grow.
| 13:00National and international news. 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 Edgware in Middlesex.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30The sometimes murky world of the metal detector. Is it changing our national heritage?
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| 14:00 | 14:00Clarrie and Will join forces. 14:15Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing,
| 14:00Alan camps it up for Lent. 14:15When her world falls apart, Lisa uses other people's shopping lists to rebuild her life.
| 14:00Will has an exercise in diplomacy. 14:15By Ed Hime. Tim, who has an empathy problem, tells his story for his college radio station(R)
| 14:00Helen fears the worst for Annette. 14:15By Eoin McNamee. A riot takes place in Belfast at the height of marching season.
| 14:00David's paternal instincts come to the fore. 14:15By Peter Jukes. Police chaplain Jake Thorne has lost his faith and behaves appropriately.(R)
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Richard Stevens' dramatisation of Nigel Balchin's tense Second World War thriller.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. 14:455/5The family make friends with their hosts, spend days out hunting and finally bid farewell.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Max Flint explores the arrival of the credit card into British life and its role today. 15:451/5Ivan Hewett examines five musical keys. C major(R)
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge hears about a writing tablet from Roman Cumbria. 15:301/3Niko Pirosmani was one of Georgia's greatest artists, but was it his art that killed him? 15:452/5Ivan Hewett examines five musical keys: D minor - 'saddest of all keys'(R)
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on investing in shares. 15:302/3A Georgian poet staying in Berlin isn't expecting to hear shattering news from home. 15:453/5Ivan Hewett examines five musical keys: B flat - sad and heroic(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark travels a chalk stream that gives its name to Wandsworth. 15:27James McAvoy appeals on behalf of RETRAK. 15:303/3A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down on an infamous military highway 15:454/5Ivan Hewett examines five musical keys: F sharp major(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. 15:455/5Ivan Hewett examines five musical keys: E flat major.(R)
| 15:304/4Sonny Rollins is regarded as one of most influential saxophonists in contemporary jazz.
| 15:003/3Smiley's plans to get hold of Russian spy Nelson Ko are coming to a head.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Simon Parkes celebrates British puddings, the ultimate comfort food. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests examine the rise of new monastic communities.
| 16:00Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software.(R) 16:30Professor Richard Dawkins discusses the evolutionary theorist Bill Hamilton.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores national branding and the commodification of ethnic identity. 16:30Dr Mark Porter meets patients on the Active Back Programme in Stanmore, North London.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Neel Mukherjee about his debut novel, A Life Apart. 16:30Quentin Cooper finds out how microscopic bubbles could boost biofuel production.
| 16:00The lives of Sir Percy Cradock, Lucienne Day, Lt Col Lee Archer and Pernell Roberts. 16:30Morgan Freeman on playing Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography 16:30Roger McGough guides us through a poetic landscape cast in frost.
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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 Carolyn Quinn.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss technical expertise and the art of the showroom. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What is being done to tackle the threat of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. 17:40Clive Coleman profiles Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 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. 18:305/12Nicholas Parsons with Paul Merton, Charles Collingwood, Josie Lawrence and Chris Neill.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Which generation is the funniest? With Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6James Walton chairs. With John Walsh, Lynne Truss, Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Should 4x4s be made of perspex and Ofsted inspectors expected to teach?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Micky Flanagan and Jack Dee.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Eric Schlosser, Clive Mantle and Nadine Dorries.
| 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 | 19:00Alan camps it up for Lent. 19:15Martin Amis discusses The Pregnant Widow, his first novel for six years. 19:451/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects. Today, a great Pharaoh's sandal label
| 19:00Will has an exercise in diplomacy. 19:15Colin Firth on A Single Man; Oscar hopefuls respond as the Academy reveals its nominations 19:452/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects. Today, battle scenes from Iraq.
| 19:00Helen fears the worst for Annette. 19:15Morgan Freeman as Mandela in new film Invictus; Corinne Bailey Rae; artist Gillian Ayres. 19:453/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - stone seals from the Indus Valley.
| 19:00David's paternal instincts come to the fore. 19:15Colin Firth on A Single Man; Giacometti's Walking Man sculpture; crime writer David Hewson 19:454/5Neil MacGregor's global history told through objects - a 6,000-year-old axe found in Kent.
| 19:00Annette makes a surprise decision. 19:15Star of The Wire Dominic West and others discuss the casting of non-professional actors. 19:455/5Neil MacGregor explores early writing through a 5,000-year-old tablet about beer!
| 19:00Clive Coleman profiles Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe with historian Tristram Hunt, writer Bidisha and broadcaster Matthew Sweet.
| 19:00It's good cop, bad cop at Brookfield. 19:15Matt Frei is joined by Tucker Carlson, Joseph McNeil and John Lithgow. 19:452/5Mr Wilkins blows his top when he finds Jennings looking for a fish - up a tree.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Stephen Sackur investigates the use of pilotless drone aircraft in war. 20:30The experts who say investment banks should face the consequences of their losses.
| 20:00What is being done to tackle the threat of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. 20:40Peter talks to David Cowdrey from GDBA about their campaign to get all buses talking.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox. 20:452/2Why is inheritance tax is so unpopular among the people who have least to lose from it?
| 20:00James Silver asks whether some UK campuses have become seedbeds for extremism. 20:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss technical expertise and the art of the showroom.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Edgware in Middlesex. 20:50Lisa Jardine on the need for climate scientists to take care when they inform and persuade
| 20:00Konnie Huq looks back at 40 years of Sesame Street, the experimental children's TV show.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30The lives of Sir Percy Cradock, Lucienne Day, Lt Col Lee Archer and Pernell Roberts.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Alice Roberts meets the people making Britain's wasteland grow. 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Matthieu Ricard, Stewart Brand, Felicity Lawrence and Andrea Sella.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter meets patients on the Active Back Programme in Stanmore, North London. 21:30Fergal Keane talks to Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter, Flora, died in the Lockerbie bombing.
| 21:00Three keen naturalists describe the relationship with their 'local patch'. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and guests including Bette Bourne.
| 21:00Astronomer Paul Murdin asks if Jupiter's moon, Europa, might sustain biological life. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
| 21:00An omnibus edition of Shelagh Stephenson's drama.
| 21:002/3Smiley's operation in Hong Kong becomes increasingly dangerous.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Jonathon Porritt appeals on behalf of BTCV. 21:30The experts who say investment banks should face the consequences of their losses. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10How Edward's men survived a terrifying bear attack and a near-fatal fall through the ice.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:457/10Edward's expedition encounters danger, frustration and finally loss.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10Julia has a visitor who unknowingly reveals a shocking truth about her family's history.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Simon finally puts an end to the threat to his marriage.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Julia and Simon must find a way to resolve the distance between them.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Class Dismissed.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil Hammond and Lucy Mangan describe what makes them H.A.P.P.Y.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:005/5Jon interviews people at different points in their lives to assess how ambition shapes us. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:002/4The UK's 19th most powerful wizard's jam-making venture is nominated for a gong. 23:153/7Food campaigner Jack Spratt and the Tooth Fairy debate the nation's nutrition.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:005/6When Matt refuses to do his share of cleaning around the flat, Vicky decides to down mops. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Professor Richard Dawkins discusses the evolutionary theorist Bill Hamilton. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the 2010 final of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:30Including poems by Stevie Smith, Les Murray, Tony Harrison, Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves
| 23:00Morgan Freeman on playing Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. 23:30Mark Tully considers the enduring symbolism and mystical properties of pearls.
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