| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Girly pop and heavy metal: Laurie Taylor visits a university conference on sub-cultures. 00:45The bells of St Leonard's church in Bledington, Gloucester. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Neil MacGregor with a reliquary made for a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Neil MacGregor with a 14th century icon from the Byzantine Empire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Neil MacGregor with a stone sculpture of the Hindu deity Shiva and his consort Parvati. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Neil MacGregor with the sculpture of a goddess made by the Huastec people of Mexico. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Neil MacGregor with one of the extraordinary giant figures from Easter Island. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5An Indian child brought up by a missionary couple plans to marry an English naturalist.(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 George Craig. 05:45The Prince of Wales launches a Countryside Trust to raise money for rural communities. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. 05:45Anna Hill hears calls for polytunnels to be banned from National Parks.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. 05:45Six months after their birth, the Farming Today pigs are off to the abattoir.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. 05:45The Environment Agency is accused of not giving value for money.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears two million pounds will be invested in rural broadband for Wales.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. 05:45Listeners talk about pensions and working longer. With Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of the church of St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury in Worcestershire. 05:45Profiling Mark Serwotka, the PCS union leader on a collision course with the government.
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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 Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Welsh poet and writer Owen Sheers hears about plans for a badger cull in Pembrokeshire. 06:30The Farming Today pigs finally go to the abattoir. What's the verdict? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully tells the remarkable story of the first martyrs of the English Reformation. 06:35Elinor Goodman attends a course for budding smallholder pig farmers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; 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. 07:55Rory Bremner appeals on behalf of SANE. 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 Mary's Church in Swansea. The preacher is Bishop John Davies. 08:50David Cannadine reflects on the relationship between political and military leaders.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Andrew Marr and Matt Ridley, Roger Scruton, Linda Colley and Peter Hennessy. 09:451/5Neil MacGregor with a reliquary made for a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns.
| 09:001/2Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how London became the vibrant world city of today. 09:452/5Neil MacGregor with a 14th century icon from the Byzantine Empire.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:453/5Neil MacGregor with a stone sculpture of the Hindu deity Shiva and his consort Parvati.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias. 09:454/5Neil MacGregor with the sculpture of a goddess made by the Huastec people of Mexico.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman. 09:455/5Neil MacGregor with one of the extraordinary giant figures from Easter Island.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by English fashion designer Wayne Hemingway. Poetry from Luke Wright.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00With Jane Garvey. The actress Natascha McElhone on dealing with her husband's death. 10:451/5A older man wants a musical ghostwriter, but she has a dark secret.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Actress Brenda Blethyn, and what has happened to women in punk? 10:452/5Maggie begins work as Kenneth's live-in secretary, but he is unaware of her secret motive.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Why do so many women not exercise? 10:453/5Despite the 30-year age gap, Kenneth finds himself falling for Maggie.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Mantenatal classes - should there be more? 10:454/5Kenneth's desperate, drunken phone messages bring his son William rushing to the house.
| 10:455/5As the river begins to flood, Maggie, William and Kenneth make their way to the big house.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig goes surfing for the perfect wave and looks at ways women travel together. 10:304/4Peter Curran concludes his investigation of Europe's electrical car industry.
| 10:00Reality bites for Pip and Fallon calls in reinforcements.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Errol Flynn's final year, which he spent in Cuba around the time of the revolution.(R) 11:306/6Caring social worker Clare Barker decides to focus on her son.
| 11:0014/40Including part three of Gillian Rice's vulture report from India. 11:30Artist Grayson Perry goes on a quest to discover what it means to be creative.
| 11:00Stuart Cosgrove explains why not everyone wants to live inside the M25. 11:304/4Can Ken and Keith's whippets win talent night?
| 11:00Kate Adie presents despatches from Alabama, Bosnia, South Africa, France and the Arctic. 11:30A peek inside the miniature world of the doll's house which enchants children and adults.
| 11:002/3Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head to Goodwood to reminisce and trade tales. 11:305/8The sleuth's probe leads him to a country house on Romney Marsh
| 11:00Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes in Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie introduces despatches from France, Afghanistan, China, Alaska and Gaza.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is consultant forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead.
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| 12:00 | 12:00How is the latest drug shortage affecting Parkinson's sufferers? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Which laws would you like scrapped? The government wants your nominations. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Why are some people still waiting for airlines to pay out ash cloud compensation? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Peter White discusses a legal challenge to the Digital Economy Bill and mapping history. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson finds out why girls aren't allowed to play football with boys. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:304/8Steve Punt and John Finnemore present a satirical review of the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Sandi Toksvig. 12:32As the sun continues to blaze, Sheila Dillon examines the ups and downs of outdoor cooking 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Nigel Rees hosts with Phil Hammond, Miles Jupp, Robert Lacey and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Rainer Hersch investigates the catchiest song in the 15th century and its revival today.(R)
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30BBC executive Tim Davie on his rejected plans to close 6 Music.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Dominic Arkwright and guests write and talk about science and what we make of it.
| 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 discussion from Falmouth in Cornwall.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Roger Law of Spitting Image heads to Russia on a quest to find puppeteers(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00It's a challenging day for Jamie. 14:15Comedy drama by Andy Lynch. Two wheeler-dealer brothers get into trouble in Las Vegas.
| 14:00Ruth broaches a sensitive subject. 14:15Contemporary drama of exile and belonging by Iain Finlay MacLeod.
| 14:15By Katie Hims. Betsy goes on a surprise journey through her tragic past.
| 14:00Elizabeth offers a shoulder to cry on. 14:15Stephen Wyatt's play explores why Cardinal Newman and another priest were buried together.
| 14:00Fallon calls in reinforcements. 14:15By Penny Gold. In 1850s London Henry Mayhew befriends a homeless young man.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Fearing a German invasion, tensions run high for a resistance unit in Kent.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs a Q&A session. With Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson. 14:452/5Adil Ray sees the streets of London through the lens of street photographer Nick Turpin.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Kirsten Lass remembers the events of summer 2005, as part of Radio 4's London Season. 15:451/5The voices of those living rough then and now.
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge follows up more stories that are changing the way we see the past. 15:301/3By Lucy Caldwell. Being overshadowed by a sibling takes on a whole new meaning. 15:452/5Stories from Victorian and present day London street sellers and market traders.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:302/3By Heidi Regan. A young assistant accompanies a painter on an important royal commission. 15:453/5Stories from the sex workers of Victorian and modern London.
| 15:00Helen Mark discovers a new centre in Northamptonshire for vulnerable teenagers. 15:27Alan Titchmarsh appeals on behalf of Telephones for the Blind. 15:303/3By Jessica Ransom. Dressing a queen for her final appearance is a great responsibility. 15:454/5Stories from present day street cleaners and 19th-century scavengers.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs a Q&A session. With Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson. 15:455/5Comparing the bawdy Penny Gaff theatres of the 1850s with a present day London hen night.
| 15:30Tom Robinson explores Robert Schumann's collaborative violin sonata, Frei Aber Einsam.(R)
| 15:002/2Scandalous revelations and a missing pig. Can peace and harmony be restored to Blandings?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon asks if a 1930s block of flats was London's first ever pop-up restaurant. 16:30Will the latest advances in biomedical sciences ever lead us to the perfect body?
| 16:001/2Following the barristers, clerks and staff of one of London's leading law chambers.(R) 16:30Sue MacGregor talks to Helen Fraser and Neil Innes about their favourite books.
| 16:00Niall Ferguson tells Laurie Taylor about his new book on financier Siegmund Warburg. 16:30Claudia Hammond reveals new evidence on how children learn.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Henning Mankell about Sidetracked, a Kurt Wallander novel. 16:30Quentin Cooper dissects the latest science.
| 16:00On the lives of Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, David Fanshawe, Clement Finch, Rosemary Lomax. 16:30Kristin Scott Thomas talks to Francine Stock about her alternative film career in France.
| 16:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Why not enough women are serious about exercise.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to poet Craig Raine and discusses pubs in fiction. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems by Kipling, Shelley and Yevtushenko.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan and the panel discuss fear of technology and working with people you don't like. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Jon Manel lifts the lid on illegal working in London. 17:40Profiling Mark Serwotka, the PCS union leader on a collision course with the government. 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. 18:303/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Trouble looms for Ramesh as his nemesis Tom Skilliter reappears after 20 years.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Passion, polemic, wit and vigour from satirist Jeremy Hardy. With Shappi Khorsandi.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Alan Titchmarsh - quaint gardener or ruthless murderer?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/8Steve Punt and John Finnemore 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 John Sergeant, Rich Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Sean Hughes.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Ruth broaches a sensitive subject. 19:15Brenda Blethyn stars in London River, a film set after the London bombings on July 7 2005. 19:451/5Neil MacGregor with a reliquary made for a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns.
| 19:15Actor and former Frasier star David Hyde Pierce discusses his British stage debut. 19:452/5Neil MacGregor with a 14th century icon from the Byzantine Empire.
| 19:00Elizabeth offers a shoulder to cry on. 19:15Simon Callow on his memoir; Jeanette Winterson on the seductions of fiction. 19:453/5Neil MacGregor with a stone sculpture of the Hindu deity Shiva and his consort Parvati.
| 19:00Fallon calls in reinforcements. 19:15Christopher Nolan on his latest film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. 19:454/5Neil MacGregor with the sculpture of a goddess made by the Huastec people of Mexico.
| 19:15Magnum photographer Steve McCurry; director Ralph Ziman on dangerous film locations. 19:455/5Neil MacGregor with one of the extraordinary giant figures from Easter Island.
| 19:00Profiling Mark Serwotka, the PCS union leader on a collision course with the government. 19:15Filmmaker James Runcie, novelist Dreda Say Mitchell and ICA director Ekow Eshun guest.
| 19:00Jamie's feeling the pressure. 19:453/5By Romesh Gunesekera. A newly-arrived army officer must sing for his supper.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Kati Whitaker goes in search of a child-free utopia among the elderly in Scotland. 20:30Chris Bowlby asks if the European single currency can survive the current crisis.
| 20:00Jon Manel lifts the lid on illegal working in London. 20:40Peter White has his brain scanned while reading Braille by Professor Alvaro Pascual-Leone.
| 20:00With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik. 20:451/2Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London.
| 20:00Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? 20:30Evan and the panel discuss fear of technology and working with people you don't like.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Falmouth in Cornwall. 20:50David Cannadine reflects on the relationship between political and military leaders.
| 20:00For Radio 4's London Season, writer Ian Marchant explores the daily rail commute.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30On the lives of Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, David Fanshawe, Clement Finch, Rosemary Lomax.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper visits the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition on London's Southbank. 21:30With Andrew Marr and Matt Ridley, Roger Scruton, Linda Colley and Peter Hennessy.
| 21:00Claudia Hammond reveals new evidence on how children learn. 21:301/2Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how London became the vibrant world city of today.
| 21:003/4Richard Dawkins looks at the revolution in medical research after the human genome project 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:0014/40Including part three of Gillian Rice's vulture report from India. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.
| 21:00Dramatisation of Trezza Azzopardi's psychological thriller.
| 21:001/24 Extra Debut. Romance, scandal and pig-napping in a timeless comic classic.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Rory Bremner appeals on behalf of SANE. 21:30Chris Bowlby asks if the European single currency can survive the current crisis. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:456/10With Kathy on the Riviera, Mr Herbert thinks increasingly of Mary.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:457/10Mary flees Dedmayne in turmoil, while Kathy's plans to escape to a new life go awry.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:458/10After returning from the Riviera, Kathy's disfigurement renews her marriage.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Mary's loyalty and love are betrayed yet again while a marriage matures.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Mary finds solace in a robin's song and Mr Herbert finally reveals his heart.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. 22:45Gary Younge takes a wry look at the broadsheets and red tops.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/10Andrea Levy with the first of ten diverse and diverting nighttime anthologies about London 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:002/10Andrea Levy presents ten diverse and diverting nighttime anthologies about London 23:30Rachel Byrne with all the news from Westminster.
| 23:003/10Andrea Levy with the third of ten diverse and diverting nighttime anthologies about London 23:30Sean Curran reports on the day's parliamentary proceedings.
| 23:004/10Andrea Levy presents ten diverse and diverting nighttime anthologies about London 23:30MPs hear the home secretary's plans to change the 'stop and search' laws. With Susan Hulme
| 23:005/10Andrea Levy with the fifth of ten diverse and diverting nighttime anthologies about London 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts with Phil Hammond, Miles Jupp, Robert Lacey and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. 23:30Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including work by Keats and Martin Armstrong
| 23:00Kristin Scott Thomas talks to Francine Stock about her alternative film career in France. 23:30Mark Tully tells the remarkable story of the first martyrs of the English Reformation.
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