| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the meaning and relevance of Karl Marx's theory of alienation. 00:45The sound of bells from the church of St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe in Devon. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Dismissed from government Chris Mullin contemplates a future among the political foothills 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5It is 2006 and Mullin looks back on Tony Blair's premiership. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Chris Mullin reflects on the final days of Tony Blair's premiership. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Chris Mullin reflects on the mounting disquiet over Gordon Brown's leadership. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Chris Mullin anticipates the outcome of the 2010 election and his own last days as an MP. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A man reminisces about his gastronomic obsession. Read by Jack Davenport.(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. 05:45Caz Graham visits a goat farm at the foot of Scafell Pike. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection. 05:45Anna Hill hears that organised gangs are smuggling counterfeit food into the EU.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection. 05:45Cows belong in fields, not in factories, according to a leading animal welfare charity.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection. 05:45Tony Blair confesses he regrets bringing in the hunting ban. Caz Graham hears why.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection. 05:45Why discount mince is hitting beef farmers' profits.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:455/5Average siblings share half of their genes, but identical twins share all of theirs.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from Crediton Parish Church in Devon. 05:45Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Jane Little delves into his background to find out.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Debating corruption in cricket, the rights of traveller communities and brainwave music.
| 06:00Debating the end of the Iraq war, plus the alleged cricket scam and Today's new theme tune
| 06:00Inside Blair's memoirs, the new mideast peace talks and the role of self-help books.
| 06:00Questioning William Hague's judgement, plus the future of Middle East peace talks.
| 06:00Debating the cricket scandal, politicians' wives and Ed Balls on deficit reduction.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark is in Cornwall to find out about some new features of the landscape. 06:30Is the security of food imports to the UK strict enough? Caz Graham investigates. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully talks to Anthony Seldon, about the loss of trust in public and private life. 06:35There is a war of stealth raging in the undergrowth of the peat bog. Gremlins lie in wait. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including 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. 07:55Sister Frances Dominica appeals on behalf of React. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Radio 4's Sunday morning service. 08:50Lisa Jardine reflects on memory and muses at her newly acquired facility to recite Horace.
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| 09:00 | 09:001/2Roger Harrabin asks whether the arguments surrounding climate change can ever be won. 09:301/2Julia Langdon explores why, in British politics, the deputy hardly ever gains the top job.(R) 09:451/5Dismissed from government Chris Mullin contemplates a future among the political foothills
| 09:003/4Quentin Letts asks if we have lost sight of the original purpose of public libraries. 09:303/5Is there any such thing as a new diet? Dr Hilary Jones investigates past and present. 09:452/5It is 2006 and Mullin looks back on Tony Blair's premiership.
| 09:004/4What will English be like in 200 years' time? Stephen Fry investigates how it will change. 09:304/5Revisiting the 1963 clash between civil rights activists Malcolm X and James Farmer. 09:453/5Chris Mullin reflects on the final days of Tony Blair's premiership.
| 09:00Michael Buerk talks to Frank Evans about his choice to become a bullfighter. 09:305/5Dr Phil Hammond contrasts his working day with the exotic life of a GP on a cruise ship. 09:454/5Chris Mullin reflects on the mounting disquiet over Gordon Brown's leadership.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites five survivors of Hurricane Katrina. 09:455/5Chris Mullin anticipates the outcome of the 2010 election and his own last days as an MP.
| 09:00Fi Glover with TV's Fiona Phillips, poet Murray Lachlan Young and musician Tracey Thorn.
| 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. A programme devoted to the history, politics and colour of hair. 10:451/5Childhood memories of growing up in the Thames Valley and the Fyfe family next door.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned. An unexpected telegram arrives.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. From Alexis Colby to Catwoman - what makes a female baddie? 10:453/5Judith wonders how she will settle down until she meets fellow student Jennifer.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Dame Ellen MacArthur on the launch of her Foundation. 10:454/5Julian and Martin invite Judith to a picnic. Romance is near, but with whom?
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. School Uniform, Gender differences in the brain, and DaleDiva. 10:455/5Judith and Julian enjoy the French heat together, until his sudden departure.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig explores Florida and some off beat destinations with comedian Dom Joly. 10:30Art critic Brian Sewell explores his passion for stock car racing.
| 10:00Nigel comes to a decision and Robert exacts an ingenious revenge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Adam Rutherford talks to the scientists who've left the lab for Hollywood. 11:302/6Sam hopes a dog can soothe Peter's retirement.
| 11:0018/40Featuring news of the challenges swifts and swallows face as they head south for winter. 11:302/2Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore Ford Madox Ford's Provence and The Good Soldier.
| 11:00The story of Dora, Freud's first case history, which he used to explain infant sexuality. 11:302/6A quiet parents' evening takes an unexpected turn.
| 11:00Christopher Landau explores the explosive growth of Christianity in China. 11:30Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Penguin books founded by his father-in-law Allen Lane.
| 11:001/2Ruth Mcdonald follows Ambassador Francis Campbell's preparations for the Pope's UK visit. 11:305/6Satan is convinced he knows who killed Edith, and Hell is suddenly overcrowded.(R)
| 11:00Andrew Rawnsley on the Star Chamber, which decides where the public spending axe falls. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites those involved in the controversial Miss World 1970 beauty contest.
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| 12:00 | 12:00A celebration concert in memory of Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and bandleader. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Is it worthwhile learning another language? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Why intensively reared British chicken is flying off the shelves. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00We get the low down on speed cameras and examine loans targeted at disabled people online. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00London's new 'no-frill' hotel launches and how to book the cheapest seat on the plane. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis looks at the new financial product that claims to make money from homes. 12:304/6The comedian meets the political satirist and voice of The Simpsons. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fred MacAulay and Stephen K Amos. 12:32Chef Mark Hix travels to Transylvania to help revive its disappearing food traditions. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Edward Stourton. 13:30Tom Sutcliffe chairs. With teams from Wales and Scotland.
| 13:00National and international news with Edward Stourton. 13:30Composer and musician Llywelyn Ap Myrddin explores the Dragacevo Trumpet Festival.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Steve Hewlett speaks to Sky's Director of Public Affairs David Wheeldon.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Five years after the devastation of Katrina, is New Orleans safe from hurricane and flood?
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers behind the news.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Martha Kearney chairs the topical debate from St Chad's Church in Burton upon Trent.
| 13:00The latest news with in-depth analysis. 13:30David Stenhouse looks back at the achievements of the late Scottish poet Edwin Morgan.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Nigel comes to a decision. 14:15By Fin Kennedy. Illusionist Caesar Price has reproduced most of the miracles of Jesus.(R)
| 14:00Lilian makes a snap judgement. 14:151/4Pilgrim investigates the strange appearance of a young man believed drowned in 1757.
| 14:15In the 1920s, many doubted that a woman could swim the Channel, until one attempt.
| 14:00Will makes his point at The Bull. 14:15By Martin Meenan. A physiotherapist comes up with an unusual plan to motivate her patient.(R)
| 14:00Robert exacts an ingenious revenge. 14:15Two lonely people, one night school and a lot of lying. Romantic comedy by Gill Adams.
| 14:00Martha Kearney takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Donegal, 1833. Army map-makers plan to change the Irish place names to English ones.
| 14:00With Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson. Peter Gibbs chairs. 14:455/5Brett Westwood helps identify birds you may see and hear on our off-shore islands.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Janet Street-Porter relives key moments in her career through the BBC Sound Archives. 15:451/5Tracing the kids who took part in a study 40 years ago about their thoughts on the future.
| 15:00The little known story of a Cold War secret army. 15:301/3A young girl is sent to live with her mother's people on a farm in rural Ireland. 15:452/5John Waite reports on how childhood dreams and ambitions match up to the reality of life.
| 15:00The latest news from the world of personal finance. 15:302/3The discovery of a secret threatens the idyll of life with the Kinsellas. 15:453/5John Waite reports on how childhood dreams and ambitions match up to the reality of life.
| 15:00Richard Uridge investigates the disappearing village on the Isle of Wight. 15:27Ben Shephard appeals on behalf of Shelterbox. 15:303/3As summer draws to a close, it is time to leave the Kinsellas and return home. 15:454/5John Waite reports on how childhood dreams and ambitions match up to the reality of life.
| 15:00With Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson. Peter Gibbs chairs. 15:455/5John Waite reports on how childhood dreams and ambitions match up to the reality of life.
| | 15:001/2Dramatisation of Gerald Durrell's classic comic tale.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon visits the WOMAD festival to mix food and music at the Taste the World stage 16:30Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the origins of the universe.
| 16:00Chris Ledgard meets some of those trying to stop the death of languages around the world. 16:30Eleanor Bron discusses the life of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil.
| 16:00Laurie explores the decline in French culture and the power of networks. 16:30Mark Porter finds out how to improve patient safety in hospitals and the community.
| 16:00Kwame Kwei-Armah talks to thriller writer Mark Billingham. 16:30Quentin Cooper talks to scientists publishing their research in peer reviewed journals.
| 16:00Remembering Lord Glenconner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Lady Anne Tree, Michel Montignac. 16:30Francine Stock discusses the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
| 16:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Dame Ellen MacArthur and Gareth Malone.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Yann Martel about Life of Pi. 16:30Anthony Sattin on Layla and Majnun, the poem that inspired Eric Clapton's seminal pop song
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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.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30A deaf man praises birdsong; a mum longs for playground noise; and how did 1940 sound? 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Reporting on tense race relations at a new school designed to promote community cohesion. 17:40Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Jane Little delves into his background to find out. 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. 18:305/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fred MacAulay and Stephen K Amos.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6An interminable flight, a baffling cargo and persuading Arthur not to play charades.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Ed's cat Elgar finds fame when his blog becomes an internet hit.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Plenty of challenges still await an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6The comedian meets the political satirist and voice of The Simpsons.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Lynne Franks and Vidal Sassoon.
| 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 | 19:00Lilian makes a snap judgement. 19:15Michael Frayn reflects on his childhood and his career, in conversation with Mark Lawson. 19:451/5Childhood memories of growing up in the Thames Valley and the Fyfe family next door.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche. 19:452/5Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned. An unexpected telegram arrives.
| 19:00Will makes his point at The Bull. 19:15With Mark Lawson, including novelist C J Sansom who discusses his Tudor mysteries. 19:453/5Judith wonders how she will settle down until she meets fellow student Jennifer.
| 19:00Robert exacts an ingenious revenge. 19:15With John Wilson, who talks to actor Tim Robbins about his new band and album. 19:454/5Julian and Martin invite Judith to a picnic. Romance is near, but with whom?
| 19:00Brian does some lateral thinking. 19:15David Grossman; Eddie Kadi; and DVDs made exclusively for a supermarket. 19:455/5Judith and Julian enjoy the French heat together, until his sudden departure.
| 19:00Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Jane Little delves into his background to find out. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Is it last orders at The Bull? 19:15Conservative economist Thomas Sowell on how America's greatness is being dismantled. 19:451/6Angela Rippon visits Plymouth to find out how children there lived through the Blitz.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson investigates how Whitehall undermined democracy in British Guiana. 20:30Basketball superstar Luol Deng returns to the Sudanese town where he was born and raised.
| 20:00Reporting on tense race relations at a new school designed to promote community cohesion. 20:40Marilee Talkington performs her one woman show and discusses its exploration of blindness.
| 20:002/3Journalist Stephen Pollard argues that we should stop spending public money on the arts. 20:451/3Simon Heffer discusses social mobility and the sixties.
| 20:00Mukul Devichand investigates who can be extradited to face trials abroad. 20:30Peter Day meets the man designing a radical new undersea vehicle.
| 20:00Martha Kearney chairs the topical debate from St Chad's Church in Burton upon Trent. 20:50Lisa Jardine reflects on memory and muses at her newly acquired facility to recite Horace.
| 20:00An appraisal of Barbara Castle in the centenary of her birth
| 20:00Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers behind the news. 20:30Remembering Lord Glenconner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Lady Anne Tree, Michel Montignac.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news. 21:301/2Roger Harrabin asks whether the arguments surrounding climate change can ever be won.
| 21:00Mark Porter finds out how to improve patient safety in hospitals and the community. 21:303/4Quentin Letts asks if we have lost sight of the original purpose of public libraries.
| 21:00Five years after the devastation of Katrina, is New Orleans safe from hurricane and flood? 21:304/4What will English be like in 200 years' time? Stephen Fry investigates how it will change.
| 21:0018/40Featuring news of the challenges swifts and swallows face as they head south for winter. 21:30Michael Buerk talks to Frank Evans about his choice to become a bullfighter.
| 21:0014/20Neil MacGregor examines religious relics from the 14th and 15th centuries.
| 21:002/2After the crash of Britain's new Rutland Reindeer, one scientist is convinced he knows why
| 21:00Paul Lewis looks at the new financial product that claims to make money from homes. 21:26Sister Frances Dominica appeals on behalf of React. 21:30Peter Day meets the man designing a radical new undersea vehicle. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. 22:456/10Liam Brennan reads from James Robertson's new novel.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. 22:457/10James Robertson's novel read by Liam Brennan. Don fears the worst when Jack goes missing.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10Liam Brennan reads from James Robertson's new novel.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Liam Brennan reads James Robertson's new novel. Jack has gone missing.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Liam Brennan reads from James Robertson's new novel.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/3Journalist Stephen Pollard argues that we should stop spending public money on the arts.(R)
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. 22:45Hugo Rifkind takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard investigates the search for translators for London 2012. 23:304/4Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls a large lad with a big crush.(R)
| 23:001/5Nick dons a police helmet to take statements from an unhappy couple. 23:304/4Will the tangled web of love and lust be unpicked before arrival in Exeter St David's?(R)
| 23:003/6It's late, the schedules have gone barmy and our Radio 4 announcer has marital woes. 23:151/4Andrew Lawrence delves into conventional living, kicking off with looking good. 23:304/4It's Viva Las Vegas as Giles accidentally gets three wives in a row and loses the jackpot.(R)
| 23:001/6How to talk to an emperor and inventing Saturday night TV shows.(R) 23:304/4Simon and his arms-selling colleagues go paintballing to better understand the art of war.(R)
| 23:00Eleanor Bron discusses the life of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. 23:304/4Crush cars illegally parked in disabled spaces? An audience interacts with the funny man.(R)
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs. With teams from Wales and Scotland. 23:30Kathleen Jamie explores the legacy of the Norn language among Shetland's poets.
| 23:00Francine Stock discusses the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. 23:30Mark Tully talks to Anthony Seldon, about the loss of trust in public and private life.
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