| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Do facial features indicate moral character? Laurie explores the culture of physiognomy. 00:45The sound of bells from the church of St Peter and St Paul, Tonbridge in Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents, in a journey from Scotland to Nigeria. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Continuing her journey in search of her roots, poet Jackie Kay meets her birth mother. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Jackie meets her birth father, a memorable encounter with curiously personal questions. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Jackie heads to Lagos, determined to see her ancestral village and to meet half-siblings. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Acclaimed poet and novelist Jackie Kay's emotional conclusion to her Nigerian odyssey. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5By George Orwell. A young policeman in colonial Burma is tasked with shooting an elephant.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. 05:45The red-listed grey partridge has declined by another 20 per cent since last year. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. 05:45Game shoots are offering cut-price versions in the economic downturn.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. 05:45Anna Hill speaks to agricultural minister Jim Paice.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears that cod stocks are once again under threat.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. 05:45The government gives rural communities the right to build.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Michael Piret. 05:451/5Does birth order make a difference? Do the youngest siblings remain babies forever?(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip in Somerset. 05:45Conrad Black is back. Michael Cockerell asks: will the fallen press baron slay his foes?
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| 06:00 | 06:00Michael Gove defends the Academies Bill, plus Diana Athill's care home diary.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Alex Salmond on Lockerbie, film director Oliver Stone and teaching The Simpsons in school.
| 06:00Will a graduate tax split the coalition? Plus one Iraq veteran's mental health struggle.
| 06:00Can banking handle the stress? 1930s levels of inequality in the UK. HRH and the BNP.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle for the opening of a new bird observatory. 06:30Charlotte Smith looks at the economics of shooting at the Game Fair in Warwickshire. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Melissa Viney reflects on different states of solitude. 06:35Caz Graham discovers how to make your farm wildlife friendly. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Was the legal system too liberal over Jon Venables? Do bank stress tests work?
| 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 Inverdale appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Bereaved. 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 the Keswick Convention, led by Jonathan Lamb. Preacher: Steve Brady. 08:50David Cannadine looks back at the ceremonies which marked the end of Britain's empire.
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| 09:00 | 09:001/6Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth with Wendy Robbins. 09:301/5Alan meets The Merseybeats, contemporaries of his band in the 1960s. 09:451/5Poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents, in a journey from Scotland to Nigeria.
| 09:001/4Should a man who believes his life-saving surgery is a conspiracy to kill him be forced? 09:452/5Continuing her journey in search of her roots, poet Jackie Kay meets her birth mother.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:453/5Jackie meets her birth father, a memorable encounter with curiously personal questions.
| 09:002/4Amanda Vickery listens to the voices of criminal women in the Old Bailey. 09:454/5Jackie heads to Lagos, determined to see her ancestral village and to meet half-siblings.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning actor and director Tim Robbins. 09:455/5Acclaimed poet and novelist Jackie Kay's emotional conclusion to her Nigerian odyssey.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by Frank Gardner and poet Aoife Mannix.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey: Are you being served? The history and role of department stores. 10:456/10Vic doesn't see Ingrid for months, until she visits the record shop where he now works.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Macy Gray performs in the studio from her new album. 10:457/10Ingrid tells Vic she is pregnant. He asks her to marry him, but feels trapped.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Who star Karen Gillan talks about her new role. 10:458/10Tragedy strikes when heavily-pregnant Ingrid falls down the stairs.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. How to run an allotment. 10:459/10Things go from bad to worse between Vic and Ingrid, as Ma Rothwell continues to interfere.
| 10:00Presented by Sheila McClennon. When coal was King and they were its Queens. 10:4510/10After leaving Ingrid, Vic goes to his sister's, breaking down at last.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig delves into Swiss culture and talks to Kate Humble about charity couriers. 10:301/3Gordon Kennedy defies grumpy John O'Farrell with his Reasons To Be Cheerful.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Doctors are tracking thousands of Bradford babies from birth to better understand illness. 11:302/6Pip and Harry must build an entire railway network in their bid to catch Benevolent.(R)
| 11:0016/40What is the future for our farmland birds? 11:30The artist Grayson Perry shares with an audience some favourite pieces of writing.
| 11:00Former pirate radio DJ Trevor Nelson investigates illegal broadcasting in the UK today. 11:302/6King Russell de Brand pays a visit, and Sir John's dalliance gets dangerous.
| 11:00Will the economic crisis change Puerto Rico's uneasy relationship with the US? 11:30Ben Schott traces the history of a pocket book that rivalled the Bible as a bestseller.
| 11:00Ian Peacock tracks the rising popularity of geocaching. 11:307/8The net is closing on Dr Belasco, but Paul Temple and Steve are now in danger.
| 11:00Steve Richards from the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie introduces reports from Tibet, Afghanistan, Egypt, Madagascar and Ireland.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is the interviewer Lynn Barber.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Julian Worricker speaks to the boss of Sainsbury's Justin King. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Call You and Yours. What part will you play in the Big Society initiative? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson examines a new system to get the trains running on time. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:30As firms are fined over fire safety, John Waite discovers government breaches of the law. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson asks Easyjet about punctuality. Does the Mercury Prize boost sales? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Naga Munchetty with a special edition of the programme on saving and investing. 12:306/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell. 12:32Sheila Dillon examines the changing fortunes of different berries. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Julia Hartley-Brewer, AL Kennedy, Patrick Barlow
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Tarik O'Regan offers a portrait of New York, siren city for composers from the Old World.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Melvyn Bragg on South Bank Show revival; will Richard Desmond buy C5; Times paywall update
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving programme.
| 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 Lochinver village hall in Sutherland.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30David Aaronovitch challenges popular conceptions about the McCarthy period.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00There's an irate customer in the The Bull. 14:152019. The bee is extinct. Can new technology provide the answer?
| 14:00The game's afoot for Lynda. 14:15A father and son are dealt a serious blow in Philip Palmer's drama about medical ethics.
| 14:00Jolene broadens her horizons. 14:15Margarita Sharapova's tale of travelling across Russia as a circus performer.
| 14:00Joe engages in some private enterprise and Brian faces a crucial meeting. 14:15By Igor Simonov. A Russian oil billionaire gets grilled on TV.
| 14:00The latest from Ambridge. 14:15Improvised play based on real life interviews about the working life of an orchestra.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Christopher Hampton's play about his childhood in Alexandria in the 1950s.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden. 14:454/5Adil Ray sees Britain through the lens of animal photographer Tim Flach.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Professor Steven Fielding looks at how New Labour has been dramatised on stage and screen. 15:451/10Mark Whitaker looks at the campaign of King James I against drink.
| 15:00The team discuss ice patterns on windows and insects on cars. 15:301/3By Olga Grushin. After years in New York, Gregory returns to Russia to visit his mother. 15:452/10Mark Whitaker explores the 18th-century Gin Craze and the authorities' attempt to end it.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer listeners' finance questions. 15:302/3By Morven Crumlish. Ali brings his fiancee Sophie to the Highlands to meet his family. 15:453/10Why the government in 1830 thought easier access to beer would solve drunkenness.
| 15:00Helen Mark takes to the waters of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. 15:27Kate Adie appeals on behalf of Hope and Homes for Children. 15:303/3By Gerard Woodward. It was the pride of the American railroad - if you could find it. 15:454/10Mark Whitaker looks at how the temperance movement took a grip on British political life.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden. 15:455/10Mark Whitaker looks at how great 19th-century minds wrestled with the politics of alcohol.
| 15:45Nina Perry demonstrates and celebrates the secrets of good timing.(R)
| 15:002/2Joseph's doubts about the Castalian way of life are compounded by his new position.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon takes a culinary tour celebrating Belfast's culinary revolution. 16:30Ernie Rea and a panel of guests discuss the role and place of women as religious leaders.
| 16:00Exploring the different ways in which deaf people communicate. First of new series. 16:30Sue MacGregor ask guests Diana Quick and Shazia Mirza to recommend favourite paperbacks.
| 16:00Rachela Colosi tells Laurie about her detailed ethnography of a lap dancing club. 16:30Dr Mark Porter visits a GP surgery to discuss the impact of the government's NHS changes.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Richard Russo about his literary influences. 16:30Quentin Cooper on security cameras, earworms, Anzacs, Facebook and the God particle.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Eduardo Sanchez Junco, Sergei Tretyakov and Stephen Schneider. 16:30The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss presents the first of his favourite character actors
| 16:00With Jane Garvey. Including singer Macy Gray.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Howard Jacobson about his new novel, The Finkler Question. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems by Simon Armitage, Denise Levertov and John Keats.
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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 Ritula Shah, plus sports headlines. 17:30Investigating preparations for peak oil and the experience of migraines set to music. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00How BP is grappling with capping the Deepwater well while securing its corporate future. 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. 18:305/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Tensions run high as Ramesh gears up for the Shopkeeper of the Year award.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Jeremy and guests Paul B Davies and Morwenna Banks examine how to communicate.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Alan Titchmarsh reveals a dark side when his career is at risk.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/8Steve 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 Paul McKenna, Benedict Cumberbatch and Lord Bill Morris.
| 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 | 19:00The game's afoot for Lynda. 19:15Earth, Wind and Fire on their 40-year career, and a review of horror film Splice. 19:456/10Vic doesn't see Ingrid for months, until she visits the record shop where he now works.
| 19:00Jolene broadens her horizons. 19:15With Mark Lawson. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in modern day Sherlock dramas. 19:457/10Ingrid tells Vic she is pregnant. He asks her to marry him, but feels trapped.
| 19:00Joe engages in some private enterprise and Brian faces a crucial meeting. 19:15With John Wilson, who interviews ballet star Carlos Acosta and comedian John Bishop. 19:458/10Tragedy strikes when heavily-pregnant Ingrid falls down the stairs.
| 19:00The latest from Ambridge. 19:15Tom Jones on his new album, John Lee Hooker, Elvis and hair care for the older gentleman. 19:459/10Things go from bad to worse between Vic and Ingrid, as Ma Rothwell continues to interfere.
| 19:00The latest from Ambridge. 19:15Mark Lawson talks to leading novelists about the art of teaching creative writing. 19:4510/10After leaving Ingrid, Vic goes to his sister's, breaking down at last.
| 19:00Conrad Black is back. Michael Cockerell asks: will the fallen press baron slay his foes? 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00There are mysterious goings-on at the village fete. 19:15Presented by James Reynolds. 19:455/5An old woman seats herself in a remote part of Lincolnshire and paints the dusk.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jane Hill talks to older gay people facing life in residential care. Why are they afraid? 20:30Six months after the earthquake is life in Haiti improving?
| 20:00Could lessons from past disasters have prevented BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? 20:40Peter White interviews Minister Ed Vaizey about changes to Audio Description.
| 20:00With Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Anne McElvoy and Matthew Taylor. 20:451/2Julia Langdon explores why, in British politics, the deputy hardly ever gains the top job.
| 20:00The government wants more criminals on community sentences - but are they a soft option? 20:30What happens next as the Credit Crunch crisis continues?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Lochinver village hall in Sutherland. 20:50David Cannadine looks back at the ceremonies which marked the end of Britain's empire.
| 20:00Glenn Mitchell examines rare recordings that reveal the lighter side of Peter Sellers.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Eduardo Sanchez Junco, Sergei Tretyakov and Stephen Schneider.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper with the latest from the BP oil spill, and the L'Aquila earthquake. 21:301/6Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth with Wendy Robbins.
| 21:001/4Should a man who believes his life-saving surgery is a conspiracy to kill him be forced? 21:451/5Surgeon Iain Hutchison looks back to the third century BC in South Asia.(R)
| 21:00What will it mean to us once scientists are eventually able to recreate life from scratch? 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:0016/40What is the future for our farmland birds? 21:302/4Amanda Vickery listens to the voices of criminal women in the Old Bailey.
| 21:008/20Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made
| 21:001/2Elite intellectual Joseph Knecht rebels against the utopian society he once idolised.
| 21:00As firms are fined over fire safety, John Waite discovers government breaches of the law. 21:26John Inverdale appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Bereaved. 21:30What happens next as the Credit Crunch crisis continues? 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Concetta's sisters go to celebrate carnuale but, heavily pregnant, she stays at home.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:457/10Concetta's sisters are found safe and well, but their reputations have been ruined.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10Concetta is at the village washing place with her mother when she goes into labour.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Tragedy befalls Concetta, but she has finally become closer to her husband Felice.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Concetta has remembered who was responsible for her pregnancy, and has scores to settle.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15With Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Anne McElvoy and Matthew Taylor.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. 22:45Dennis Sewell takes a wry look at the broadsheets and red tops.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Arabella Weir, Deborah Orr and Oliver James on the topic of working mums. 23:30Sean Curran presents the BBC's flagship Parliamentary programme.
| 23:001/5Angelos Epithemiou examines the thorny topic that is The Environment. 23:30Susan Hulme presents the BBC's flagship Parliamentary programme.
| 23:001/4Paranoid Christians prepare for the end of the world, and a girl gets wedged in a dress. 23:151/6Rik Mayall invites you up a mountain path for a strange Brazilian adventure.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:001/6Fast-paced sketch show about modern communication, media noise and contemporary obsessions 23:30Susan Hulme presents the BBC's flagship Parliamentary programme.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor ask guests Diana Quick and Shazia Mirza to recommend favourite paperbacks. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Julia Hartley-Brewer, AL Kennedy, Patrick Barlow 23:30Roger McGough introduces poems by Michael Longley, Edward Thomas and Lavinia Greenlaw.
| 23:00The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss presents the first of his favourite character actors 23:30Melissa Viney reflects on different states of solitude.
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