| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor examines new research about black listed artists during the McCarthy period. 00:45The bells of St Michael's, Cornhill, City of London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Neil MacGregor with a chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Neil MacGregor tells the story of the global trade in tea - with a Victorian tea set. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Neil MacGregor with a familiar image - Hokusai's The Great Wave. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Neil MacGregor with a wooden drum from Sudan that Kitchener presented to Queen Victoria. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Neil MacGregor with a penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women". 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Older sister May gradually recognises the truth of her standing with her younger sister. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev David Arnott. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears why water quality in many rivers fails to meet expected standards. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev David Arnott. 05:45Anna Hill hears the government are reviewing the rules on cloned animals.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev David Arnott. 05:45The government calls for CCTV in abattoirs, to protect animal welfare. Anna Hill reports.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev David Arnott. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks if farmers who use pesticides should fund environmental projects.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With the Rev David Arnott. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks how rural communities will be affected by the bonfire of the quangos.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. 05:45'Hands off my bus pass!' iPM hits the road with OAP listeners. Plus Your News from Chile.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset. 05:45Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith
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| 06:00 | 06:00Trevor Philips on fairness in Britain and Lord Blair on police responsibility.
| 06:00Lord Browne outlines his plan for tuition fees, plus Kiri Te Kanawa on Joan Sutherland.
| 06:00With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk.
| 06:00With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk.
| 06:00With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks with the Friends of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates why 1 in 5 rivers in England and Wales are not up to standard 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks whether problems are best solved by the unconscious or by rational thought 06:35Alex James is in Hertfordshire to meet a finalist for this year's BBC Farmer of the Year. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Former Navy chief Lord West on the MOD budget, Isabel Allende reflects on the mine rescue.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity WaterAid. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Marking the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town. 08:50Sarah Dunant owns up to being part of the greediest generation - the baby boomers.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Evan Davis runs through the contenders for A History of the World's last object. 09:05Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Peter Snow, Margaret MacMillan and Sebastian Faulks. 09:451/5Neil MacGregor with a chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America.
| 09:00Evan Davis runs through the contenders for A History of the World's last object. 09:05Jonathan Freedland compares the present spending review with the 'Geddes Axe' of 1921-22. 09:301/5A series of personal reflections and reminiscences about the independence era in Africa. 09:452/5Neil MacGregor tells the story of the global trade in tea - with a Victorian tea set.
| 09:00Evan Davis runs through the contenders for A History of the World's last object. 09:05Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Derren Brown. 09:453/5Neil MacGregor with a familiar image - Hokusai's The Great Wave.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang. 09:454/5Neil MacGregor with a wooden drum from Sudan that Kitchener presented to Queen Victoria.
| 09:00Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Agency, joins Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Neil MacGregor with a penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women".
| 09:00Fi Glover with musician Edwyn Collins. Plus, Inheritance Tracks from author Colm Toibin.
| 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. Including the original IT girl Tara Palmer Tomkinson. 10:451/10Tragedy strikes 10-year-old Phoebe Moorhouse in 1870s Ayrshire.
| 10:00With Jane Garvey. Including Beverley Turner on her husband James Cracknell's brain injury. 10:452/1010-year-old Phoebe moves to Glasgow to live with her brother Arthur and his wife Bel.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including June Spencer, the actress who plays Peggy in The Archers. 10:453/10Phoebe is enjoying Glasgow and helping to look after her 3-year-old nephew Wee Arthur.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Yvette Cooper, Labour's new Shadow Foreign Secretary. 10:454/10Following the disappearance of Wee Arthur, Phoebe sets out to look for him in the slums.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever measure up to the real thing? 10:455/10After her attempt to rescue Wee Arthur, Phoebe is sent to recuperate on the family farm.
| 10:00John McCarthy hears about the India of Kipling's Kim and discusses travel tweets and apps. 10:301/2Miranda Sawyer looks behind the scenes at Christie's auction house.
| 10:00Kate has thoughts of home and Vicky means business.
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| 11:00 | 11:00How could proposed changes to the NHS affect patients? Penny Marshall investigates. 11:302/6Elton John and George Michael both have new compositions to try out.
| 11:0024/40What can the decline in British birds tell us about global extinction levels. 11:30Kate Best tells the story of the writer Denys Watkins-Pitchford, better known as 'B.B.'
| 11:003/3Valedictory despatches from the last outposts of the British Empire. With Matthew Parris. 11:302/6Alan Titchmarsh - quaint gardener or ruthless murderer?(R)
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces despatches from correspondents around the globe. 11:30Poet and singer Twm Morys asks why artists have been so fascinated by the story of Faust.
| 11:00Jane Hill talks to older gay people facing life in residential care. Why are they afraid?(R) 11:302/4The indomitable Psmith hatches a plan to take revenge. Stars Nick Caldecott.(R)
| 11:00Peter Oborne of The Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie with despatches from correspondents around the world.
| 11:15Barrister Michael Mansfield joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Julian Worricker speaks to the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00How much should students pay to go to university? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Peter White hears from the listener who caught a suspected conman on tape. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The spending cuts review, the low take up of social energy tariffs and electronic waste. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00You and Yours marks its fortieth birthday month with a look back at the travel industry. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:304/8Sandi Toksvig hosts the topical quiz. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:003/6David Mitchell chairs. With Rhod Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter 12:32Sheila Dillon hears from the people attempting to revolutionise the sandwich. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:30Tom Sutcliffe chairs as Wales take on Scotland.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30The story of a British musical institution that took grand opera to the provinces.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30NewsCorp rivals' alarm at Sky bid; Claire Rayner's legacy; rolling news from Chile.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Could courts of law be the first refuge for victims of climate change? Tom Heap finds out.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Do programmes have a sell-by date? And message board mayhem - with Roger Bolton.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Radley College in Oxfordshire.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30Michael and Jonathan Freedland search for their family roots in Belarus and Lithuania.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Kate has thoughts of home and Kathy is feeling vulnerable. 14:15Comedy about Meena, a modern muslim woman in search of a husband.
| 14:00Brenda does some detective work and Harry is full of bright ideas. 14:15Abi has been taken hostage by her baby, but no-one else seems to have noticed.
| 14:00Vicky means business and Kate takes offence. 14:153/4When a student falls to his death from a bridge DCI Stone begins a murder investigation.
| 14:00There's an embarrassing encounter at the school gates for Kathy. 14:15A probation officer is sent to assess a mother convicted of an appalling crime.(R)
| 14:00Kenton gives a helping hand and Peggy decides to branch out. 14:15By Christopher Reason. A suspended social worker is drawn back into a controversial case.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By Bruce Chatwin. An academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector.
| 14:00Gardening in unusual urban locations. Eric Robson chairs a programme in Manchester. 14:451/5Dr Hilary Jones investigates the obese individuals who put themselves on show at carnivals
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| 15:00 | 15:00Whatever happened to The Battleaxe? Theatre director Jude Kelly rallies to her defence. 15:451/5Simon Singh on the significance of five subatomic particles, starting with the electron.(R)
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge follows up more stories that are changing the way we see the past. 15:301/3Susan Hill reads her story 'Sand' from the Cheltenham Literature Festival. 15:452/5Quarks comprise virtually all visible material, but why do we know so little about them?(R)
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:302/3Sarah Dunant reads her story 'Wings of Desire' at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. 15:453/5Every particle has an antiparticle. Should the two combine, the result is annihilation.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding is with a group of women who have made a book of walks in the Peak District. 15:27Lysette Anthony presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Arthritis Research UK 15:303/3Louise Doughty reads her story 'Three Things I Remember'. 15:454/5The most common particle in the universe continuously passes through each of us.(R)
| 15:00Gardening in unusual urban locations. Eric Robson chairs a programme in Manchester. 15:455/5A symmetric partner to all the known particles could provide the key to understanding them(R)
| 15:30The story of a British musical institution that took grand opera to the provinces.
| 15:001/2Captain Ahab's obsessive chase for the great white whale as seen by the sole survivor.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Scagglethorpe Queening, Ribston Pippin, the Wass - in praise of a local apple tradition. 16:301/5Simon Cox presents a guide to the latest developments in the digital world.
| 16:005/5Sally Magnusson and genealogist Nick Barratt help listeners trace objects and heirlooms. 16:30Tim Mackintosh Smith and Philip Norman, writers both, discuss their choice paperbacks.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses being paid to be nice and explores migration versus happiness. 16:30Chris Ledgard looks at how sports science has redefined Olympic success for Team GB.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to writers Salman Rushdie and James Ellroy. 16:30Stem cell trials; human remains and archaeology; and a brief encounter with a comet chaser
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Malcolm Allison, Claire Rayner, Dame Joan Sutherland and Mary Nowak. 16:30Frank Cottrell Boyce, Simon Beaufoy and Moira Buffini on the secrets of screenwriting.
| 16:00Presented by Jane Garvey. June Spencer on sixty years as Peggy in The Archers.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling writer Ken Follett about his new book. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems that mark life's transitions, from the cradle to the grave.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the science of business logistics and customer service. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Allan Urry investigates concerns about the role of insolvency practitioners. 17:40Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith 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. 18:303/6David Mitchell chairs. With Rhod Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6James Walton's literary quiz with team captains John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6The day of Julian and Prunella's wedding dawns.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Richard Herring reclaims objects we've grown to hate starting with Hitler's moustache
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/8Sandi Toksvig hosts the topical quiz. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Simon Russell Beale, Chris Evans and Howard Jacobson.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite makes his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Brenda does some detective work and Harry is full of bright ideas. 19:15Dame Joan Sutherland tribute, plus Ronnie Wood on his new album. 19:451/5Neil MacGregor with a chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America.
| 19:00Vicky means business and Kate takes offence. 19:15Nicolas Roeg on Canaletto's images of Venice; Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Palladium at 100. 19:452/5Neil MacGregor tells the story of the global trade in tea - with a Victorian tea set.
| 19:00There's an embarrassing encounter at the school gates for Kathy. 19:15John Wilson reports on Robert Lindsay's stage portrayal of the tycoon Aristotle Onassis. 19:453/5Neil MacGregor with a familiar image - Hokusai's The Great Wave.
| 19:00Kenton gives a helping hand and Peggy decides to branch out. 19:15Marilyn Monroe's hand-written fragments; best-selling children's writer Michelle Paver. 19:454/5Neil MacGregor with a wooden drum from Sudan that Kitchener presented to Queen Victoria.
| 19:00Vicky has high hopes for her meeting and Brenda plots to oust her lodger. 19:15Kirsty Lang meets comedian Simon Pegg. Plus Kim Cattrall in Antony and Cleopatra. 19:455/5Neil MacGregor with a penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women".
| 19:00Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith 19:15Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Things get heated at Grange Farm and Jazzer makes himself at home. 19:15A look at the heroes, history and music of that most American of sports, baseball. 19:453/3By Eric Pringle. Former dancer Alice needs all her strength to face an uncertain future.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Sarfraz Manzoor charts the experiences of graduates looking for work.(R) 20:30Is income equality really the great leveller? Mukul Devichand examines the evidence.
| 20:00Allan Urry investigates concerns about the role of insolvency practitioners. 20:40In Touch discusses what's on offer for blind students.
| 20:004/4Mariella Frostrup and her guests ask why children are becoming obese. 20:45The journalist turned politician asks if standing for parliament in 1997 was worth it.
| 20:00Is the internet encouraging people to kill themselves? The Report examines the evidence. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the science of business logistics and customer service.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Radley College in Oxfordshire. 20:50Sarah Dunant owns up to being part of the greediest generation - the baby boomers.
| 20:00Eric Robson re-evaluates the often misunderstood fell walker Alfred Wainwright.
| 20:00Do programmes have a sell-by date? And message board mayhem - with Roger Bolton. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Malcolm Allison, Claire Rayner, Dame Joan Sutherland and Mary Nowak.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper and guests assess this week's Nobel Science Prizes. 21:30Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Peter Snow, Margaret MacMillan and Sebastian Faulks.
| 21:00Chris Ledgard looks at how sports science has redefined Olympic success for Team GB. 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares the present spending review with the 'Geddes Axe' of 1921-22.
| 21:00Could courts of law be the first refuge for victims of climate change? Tom Heap finds out. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Derren Brown.
| 21:0024/40What can the decline in British birds tell us about global extinction levels. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
| 21:00A tale of social ambition and family love set in the boom town of Glasgow in the 1870s.
| 21:002/2The Nazis begin to impact more and more on life in Berlin.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity WaterAid. 21:30Is income equality really the great leveller? Mukul Devichand examines the evidence. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Black Pat continues to lay siege to Esther, and Beth issues an invitation to a lunch party
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:457/10Esther and Corkbowl are both preparing for the trip to Chartwell.
| 22:00Daily news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis. 22:458/10Clementine Churchill takes a stand, while Beth and Big Oliver host Sunday lunch.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Sunday afternoon and Winston Churchill's study is the scene of a delicate conversation.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Sunday evening and Esther returns home to find Black Pat waiting for her.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:154/4Mariella Frostrup and her guests ask why children are becoming obese.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. 22:45Rachel Johnson takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news.
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| 23:00 | 23:004/6Comedian Ardal O' Hanlon discovers how much fat you need to become bullet-proof! 23:30Sean Curran reports as MPs return to Westminster after the conference season.
| 23:003/4Shappi Khorsandi talks about her unconventional Iranian childhood.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster and beyond.
| 23:003/4The music-hall artiste and OAP raps with beat boxer Shlomos, probing buzz words. 23:153/4Miriam Elia's sketch series. Fleur and Apple take a Gap Year in Africa. 23:30Sean Curran reports as David Cameron faces the new Labour leader at PMQs.
| 23:00Phil Hammond and the group convene at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. 23:30Rachel Byrne with all the news from Westminster.
| 23:00Tim Mackintosh Smith and Philip Norman, writers both, discuss their choice paperbacks. 23:30Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the weeks parliamentary news.
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs as Wales take on Scotland. 23:30Roger McGough introduces requested poems about autumn, rain storms and migrant birds.
| 23:00Frank Cottrell Boyce, Simon Beaufoy and Moira Buffini on the secrets of screenwriting. 23:30Mark Tully asks whether problems are best solved by the unconscious or by rational thought
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