| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15African American consumer culture and the history of tea. 00:45The sound of bells from All Saints Church in Worcester. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Neil MacGregor's world history continues with images of war made over 2500 years ago 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Neil MacGregor's history of the world told through objects; a sphinx with a pharaoh's head 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects arrives in China 3000 years ago 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Neil MacGregor's world history through objects. Today: ancient textiles from Peru 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Neil MacGregor's retelling of history through objects - gold coins of Croesus 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5By Alan Sillitoe. A young boy undertakes his most ambitious pyrotechnic project.(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 Rev Johnston McKay. 05:45An Oscar-nominated film causes controversy among the farming industry. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. 05:45Anna Hill visits the world's largest straw-burning power station.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. 05:45Anna Hill finds out why Red Deer are starving in some parts of Scotland.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. 05:45The cold weather could mean fewer British strawberries in the shops this summer.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. 05:45Caz Graham hears about a threat to the genetic purity of Jersey's cows.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Gemma Simmonds. 05:45The news programme that starts with its listeners. With Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Leonard's Church, Hythe, in Kent. 05:45Jonathan Maitland profiles the Greek prime minister George Papandreou.
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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.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks on Anglesey with members of the North Wales Gay Outdoor Club. 06:30Cath Mackie investigates how farms can provide power for the National Grid. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mike Wooldridge talks to the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks. 06:35Lionel Kelleway travels to the RSPB's Ham Wall nature reserve to look for heron. 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. 07:10Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55John McCarthy appeals on behalf of Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From the chapel of Scargill House in the Yorkshire Dales, led by Bishop Chris Edmondson. 08:50Lisa Jardine reflects on the art and dangers of writing secret missives.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to Jonathan Miller, Michael Cockerell, Douglas Hurd and Lyndall Gordon. 09:451/5Neil MacGregor's world history continues with images of war made over 2500 years ago
| 09:00Fergal Keane talks to William and Kate Lyons about the effects of bipolar disorder. 09:301/5Tracing the kids who took part in a study 40 years ago about their thoughts on the future. 09:452/5Neil MacGregor's history of the world told through objects; a sphinx with a pharaoh's head
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Monty Don. 09:453/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects arrives in China 3000 years ago
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed 09:454/5Neil MacGregor's world history through objects. Today: ancient textiles from Peru
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili. 09:455/5Neil MacGregor's retelling of history through objects - gold coins of Croesus
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by author Sara Paretsky. With poetry from Kate Fox.
| 09:00This week on BH- has Gordon Brown's conduct in Downing Street been less than exemplary?
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| 10:00 | 10:00A special progamme about girls and maths at school and beyond. 10:451/5Something is bothering Advocate Depute Jo Ross about her first murder trial.
| 10:00Journalist Barbara Demick on women in North Korea. Plus, Barb Jungr sings live. 10:452/5Jo visits a private school and turns up some surprising information about the dead man.
| 10:00Is being green anti-feminist? Plus, folk singer Kathryn Williams. 10:453/5Edinburgh is wilting in the heat, and Jo's murder case is going pear shaped.
| 10:00A live interview with Conservative leader David Cameron on winning women's votes. 10:454/5Jo suspects that the man she's prosecuting for murder isn't guilty.
| 10:00How should we provide and pay for the care of our growing population of older people? 10:455/5In a packed and stifling courtroom, Jo puts her career on the line.
| 10:00John McCarthy hears about Casablanca and the future of the Arctic. 10:302/3Paul Gambaccini tells how the film The Deer Hunter won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1978
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Archaeologist Mike visits the Anglo-Saxon burial ground of Sutton Hoo. 11:306/6Ed's cat Elgar finds fame when his blog becomes an internet hit.
| 11:00Examining a new internet watchdog to protect children from dangers in the digital world. 11:30Wildlife presenter Kate Humble shares some favourite pieces of writing with an audience.
| 11:00Brand designer Giles Poyner pays tribute to Birmingham's Fort Dunlop building. 11:302/6Ramesh inadvertently enters the murky world of Lenzie politics.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:302/8The radicalism of US playwrights who questioned the optimistic rhetoric of politicians.
| 11:001/2With pubs closing at a fast rate, landlords and landladies reflect on life behind the bar. 11:304/4Just who killed Elliot Roth, and will they stop at one murder?
| 11:00Denis Murray finds out what Northern Irish voters really think about their representatives 11:30Kate Adie introduces stories from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Bulgaria and more.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward.
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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. 12:307/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Fred MacAulay, Jeremy Hardy, Ava Vidal and Miles Jupp. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:007/12Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth and Pam Ayres. 12:32Sheila Dillon looks at the growing demand for halal meat in Britain. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Nigel Rees chairs. With David Nobbs, Justin Webb, Marcel Berlins and Naomi Gryn.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Ian McMillan sets out on the trail of a forgotten local hero.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Google Buzz; Reader's Digest; Observer relaunch; Ray Gosling.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Alice Roberts investigates the threats posed to our great historic sites by climate change
| 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. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Diss in Norfolk.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Following Lenny Henry as he prepares to take on the role of Othello.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Ambridge mourns an old friend. 14:15By Phil Gladwin. Legsy tries to find the brother he was separated from as a child.
| 14:00Kenton finds some displacement activity. 14:15By Ryan Craig. Two British soldiers embark on a perilous quest to retrieve a love letter.
| 14:00Alan prepares for some time in the wilderness. 14:15A priest and a nun fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin a new life.
| 14:00Helen drops a bombshell at Bridge Farm. 14:15Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938.(R)
| 14:00Neil and Lynda go head to head. 14:15Lenny Henry stars as Jake Thorne, a police chaplain who's lost his faith.
| 14:00Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Britain's new young Ambassador to Uzbekistan is shocked over government torture tactics.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew. 14:453/4Clive James' debate with Gore Vidal on the effects of Christianity.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00The long and turbulent relationship between the BBC and historian AJP Taylor. 15:451/5Do computer programmers spend more time in the virtual world than the real one?(R)
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects to help tell A History Of The World 15:301/3A lady novelist reclines in a Creating Hammock, attended by Juan, her fragrant assistant. 15:452/5Peter Curran meets zoologists and spends time at the Institute of Zoology at London Zoo.(R)
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on debt and borrowing. 15:302/3Stuck in a Tasmanian motel, AL Kennedy is not so sure about life on the road. 15:453/5Peter Curran visits the Millenium Seed Bank to meet the botanists who won the lottery.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks Laurie Lee's Slad Valley with a group of artists inspired by the area. 15:27Dr Chris Steele appeals on behalf of Coeliac UK. 15:303/3AL Kennedy's 10-point plan for surviving insatiable press demands. 15:454/5Peter Curran meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew. 15:455/5Peter Curran meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics.(R)
| | 15:002/3King Henry II refuses to acknowledge Prince Richard as heir, so he turns to the Crusades.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Can you become a great gastronome by taking a university degree in gastronomy? 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether or not monogamy is the ideal for human relationships.
| 16:00Sue Nelson investigates the humble source of the silicon chip.(R) 16:30India Knight, Richard Hawley and Sue MacGregor discuss their favourite books. From 2010.
| 16:00A history of Intellectual piracy; the morality of obesity. 16:30Mark Porter explores how women can now choose where to give birth: in hospital or at home.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup's guest is Australian novelist Peter Carey. 16:30Quentin Cooper meets the man behind CryoSat-2, rebuilt to study changing polar ice.
| 16:00Marking the lives of Lionel Jeffries, Dick Francis, Geoffrey Burbidge and Alfred Gregory. 16:30Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson discusses his adaptation of The Lovely Bones.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup's guests include writer Thomas Lynch. 16:30Roger McGough is joined by poet Tony Harrison for a new reading of Newcastle is Peru.
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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, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss design and how important luck has been to their careers. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Julian O'Halloran asks how many people are being killed by avoidable hospital blunders. 17:40Jonathan Maitland profiles the Greek prime minister George Papandreou. 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. 18:307/12Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth and Pam Ayres.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Simon Mayo chairs. With Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6James Walton quizzes John Walsh, Lynne Truss, John O'Farrell and Mark Billingham.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Ideas to improve life including mood lighting on buses and driving in bus lanes.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:307/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Fred MacAulay, Jeremy Hardy, Ava Vidal and Miles Jupp.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Rachael Stirling, Nikki Bedi and Jeremy Hardy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Hardeep Singh Kohli introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio
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| 19:00 | 19:00Kenton finds some displacement activity. 19:15With Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on film The Lovely Bones. 19:451/5Neil MacGregor's world history continues with images of war made over 2500 years ago
| 19:00Alan prepares for some time in the wilderness. 19:15Vanessa Redgrave, and a review of The Last Station starring Helen Mirren. 19:452/5Neil MacGregor's history of the world told through objects; a sphinx with a pharaoh's head
| 19:00Helen drops a bombshell at Bridge Farm. 19:15David Mitchell on The Bubble, designer Ron Arad, and the Paul Nash exhibition. 19:453/5Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects arrives in China 3000 years ago
| 19:00Neil and Lynda go head to head. 19:15Bollywood star Anil Kapoor; Anthony Sher in Ibsen; A Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra. 19:454/5Neil MacGregor's world history through objects. Today: ancient textiles from Peru
| 19:00Pat and Helen do some baby talk. 19:15Kyle MacLachlan on 20 years since Twin Peaks, and a TV drama on the MPs' expenses scandal. 19:455/5Neil MacGregor's retelling of history through objects - gold coins of Croesus
| 19:00Jonathan Maitland profiles the Greek prime minister George Papandreou. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Peter Carey, Maria Delgado and Bridget Kendall.
| 19:00Tony gives Helen a lesson in family values. 19:15Kevin Connolly talks to Pulitzer-winning author Garry Wills. 19:454/5Jennings and Darbishire must think fast. The General wants to see an old school photograph(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Anne McElvoy asks if reform is likely to the way political parties are funded. 20:30If treason laws are regarded as out of date, can anyone challenge the state with impunity?
| 20:00Julian O'Halloran asks how many people are being killed by avoidable hospital blunders. 20:40Should blind people have to ask for medical information in an accesssible format?
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley. 20:452/4The battle between Milton Friedman and Lord Balogh on the merits of free-market economics.(R)
| 20:00Linda Pressly examines the use of terminal sedation and asks is it backdoor euthanasia? 20:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss design and how important luck has been to their careers.
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Diss in Norfolk. 20:50Lisa Jardine reflects on the art and dangers of writing secret missives.
| 20:00Fergal Keane looks at the relationship between charity and the media.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Marking the lives of Lionel Jeffries, Dick Francis, Geoffrey Burbidge and Alfred Gregory.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Alice Roberts investigates the threats posed to our great historic sites by climate change 21:30Andrew Marr talks to Jonathan Miller, Michael Cockerell, Douglas Hurd and Lyndall Gordon.
| 21:00Mark Porter explores how women can now choose where to give birth: in hospital or at home. 21:30Fergal Keane talks to William and Kate Lyons about the effects of bipolar disorder.
| 21:00On the African plains, science reveals the secret agility of the elephant mind 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Monty Don.
| 21:00Allan Urry investigates what happens when writs meet scientific debate. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed
| 21:00Something is bothering Advocate Depute Jo Ross about her first murder trial.
| 21:001/3England's first King of the House of Anjou, Henry II faced conflict with his sons.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26John McCarthy appeals on behalf of Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. 21:30If treason laws are regarded as out of date, can anyone challenge the state with impunity? 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:451/10Daria is just out of university with an engineering degree and perfect English.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:452/10Daria is desperate not to lose her job but just as determined not to sleep with her boss.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Daria starts moonlighting for the Soviet Union's dating agency.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Daria's plan to distract her boss has worked so well that he is now besotted with Olga.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:455/10When Mr Harmon wants to give Daria's job to Olga, Daria makes him a deal.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Hung, Drawn and Thwarted.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss criticism and the critics.(R) 23:301/4Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create improvised sketches from audience suggestions(R)
| 23:002/4Seeing a chance to make some extra money, Faye turns into a wannabe Al Capone. 23:302/4Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create improvised sketches from audience suggestions(R)
| 23:004/4Mordrin wants to sell his jams. Can the mighty wizard manage to set up a farmers market? 23:155/7Mary Mary reports on a medical mystery involving an old woman who swallowed a fly.(R) 23:303/4Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create improvised sketches from audience suggestions(R)
| 23:001/4Agony aunt Sarah solves problems, including the dangers of dating outside of your class. 23:304/4Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create improvised sketches from audience suggestions(R)
| 23:00India Knight, Richard Hawley and Sue MacGregor discuss their favourite books. From 2010. 23:30Anne McElvoy asks if reform is likely to the way political parties are funded.
| 23:00Nigel Rees chairs. With David Nobbs, Justin Webb, Marcel Berlins and Naomi Gryn. 23:30Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for Valentine's Day.
| 23:00Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson discusses his adaptation of The Lovely Bones. 23:30Mike Wooldridge talks to the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks.
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