| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores new ideas about Utopia. 00:45The bells of St Mary's Church, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents a composition based on his own recordings. 00:301/5How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5By Susan Maushart. The day of the big switch-off has arrived... 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check-up. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5By Susan Maushart. Susan examines the increasing obsession of Facebook. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The end of the experiment is nigh. What has everyone learned? 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Mark Williams reads some pithy, comic anecdotes from a German almanac.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| |
|---|
| 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.
| |
|---|
| 02:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 03:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 04:00 | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45The Archers celebrates sixty years of farming stories. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Anna Hill hears the lives of thousands of barn owls could be saved by new technology.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Free range egg producers say they face losses running into tens of thousands of pounds.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Anna Hill reports from the Oxford Farming Conference.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45Anna Hill reports from Day 2 of the Oxford Conference.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. 05:45'They look in the mirror and are disgusted.' Penny gives make-up tips to transsexuals.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Martin's Church, Desford, Leicester. 05:45Morland Sanders profiles Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
| |
|---|
| 06:00 | 06:00Debating house prices, opposition to free schools and the latest on the Australian floods.
| 06:00With George Osborne on the VAT increase and Haiti one year on from the earthquake.
| 06:00Debating employment tribunals, beds getting bigger and pianist-turned-poet Alfred Brendel.
| 06:00Investigating falling pay, death row drugs sold from the UK, plus the US in Afghanistan.
| 06:00Debating if the bonfire of the quangos was 'botched', control orders and the Ashes victory
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07The proposals for high speed rail in Buckinghamshire that are provoking protest campaigns. 06:30Sarah Swadling asks how farmers can feed the growing population with limited resources. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully looks at the spiritual, symbolic and personal appeal of horses. 06:35Anna Varle visits a Devon entrepreneur who is helping 30 struggling farms stay in business 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 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 presents a special edition of Sunday. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Toby Young presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of ORBIS. 08:151/28Simon Schama introduces readings from the King James Bible beginning with Samuel West.
| |
|---|
| 09:00 | 09:001/3James Naughtie tells the story of how King James commissioned a new Bible translation. 09:451/5How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months.
| 09:002/3James Naughtie on how a committee of Bible translators produced a "national epic.". 09:452/5By Susan Maushart. The day of the big switch-off has arrived...
| 09:003/3James Naughtie on the enduring place of the King James Bible in British culture. 09:453/5It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check-up.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 09:454/5By Susan Maushart. Susan examines the increasing obsession of Facebook.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is Battle of Britain veteran Tony Iveson. 09:455/5The end of the experiment is nigh. What has everyone learned?
| 09:00Fi Glover with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Inheritance Tracks from actress June Spencer.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
| |
|---|
| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey presents. Gardener's World's Carol Klein on 'Life in a Cottage Garden'. 10:451/5DC Jackie Hartwell wants to know who Melanie was about to marry on the day she died.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the Victorians' fascination with murder. 10:452/5DC Jackie Hartwell wants to know who Melanie was about to marry on the day she died.
| 10:00Jenni Murray presents: Dieting Special. 10:453/5Hartwell makes a shocking discovery about the man Melanie was going to marry.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Listeners phone-in with their experiences of dieting. 10:454/5DC Jackie Hartwell is now totally convinced George Brant killed his daughter.
| 10:00With Sheila McClennon - Typing v Handwriting and how to keep up your resolve to exercise. 10:455/5DC Jackie Hartwell finally finds out why Melanie was killed.
| 10:00John McCarthy explores the Lebanon and Paris. 10:302/2Michael Dobbs considers how The Archers has reflected our changing political world.
| 10:00The 60th anniversary brings a thrilling storyline which will shake Ambridge to the core.
| |
|---|
| 11:00 | 11:001/3The Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford visits the city of Waterford for the very first time. 11:30Ed Reardon comes before an audience to present extracts from his favourite literature.(R)
| 11:0036/40In this weeks programme "Top Goose", how BBC geese generated new science. 11:30Tim Brooke-Taylor views Chaplin's legacy in the theatre of his grandson James Thierree.
| 11:002/2Hardeep Singh Kohli explores the past and present border between England and Wales. 11:304/6Arthur and his best pal Barry Cryer lose their tickets for a Hammer Horror convention.
| 11:00Linda Pressly travels to Kerala to examine the silent revolution in palliative care. 11:30What was David Dodge's inspiration for To Catch A Thief, filmed by Hitchcock?
| 11:00Film director Gurinder Chadha travels to India, to explore her huge popularity there. 11:306/6Maddox's future is uncertain as a rather shady character plans to buy the newspaper.
| 11:00Big Society is the most radical idea in politics in a generation, but what does it mean? 11:30Kate Adie with the latest despatches from correspondents around the world.
| 11:15Former MP and writer Gyles Brandreth joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
| |
|---|
| 12:00 | 12:00Join Julian as he talks rail fare rises and the future of speech and language therapy. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With slower growth expected this year, can small businesses survive the economic downturn? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Flu, electricity bills and how to use the wisdom of crowds to develop products. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Why web developers are being asked to close down free mobile phone apps for commuters. 12:30The foreign workers abused and exploited by agencies placing them in UK care homes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Chef Michel Roux Junior, poet Ian McMillan, and the business of selling books. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:301/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:002/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee 12:32Sheila Dillon hears from food lovers about their favourite kitchen gadgets. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:30The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:301/2How Paris's musical scene flourished during the 'dark years' of German Occupation.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Facebook valued at $50bn; contempt of court; ITV banned from a police press conference.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Stewart Henderson presents the programme which answers listener questions.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30More or Less examines this week's claims and counter-claims about VAT.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Marylebone in London.
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:302/28Hugh Bonneville and Emma Fielding read from the King James Bible introduced by David Lodge
| |
|---|
| 14:00 | 14:00The Archers celebrates its 60th anniversary with a thrilling double episode. 14:30Samuel West, Lisa Dillon and Federay Holmes in Noel Coward's unconventional marital comedy
| 14:00The news spreads through Ambridge, and Pat and Tony are left with a dilemma. 14:15An envelope arrives for David containing 43 replies to a lonely hearts ad he did not place(R)
| 14:00The family rallies round and Brian is forced to change his plans. 14:15By Rex Obano. Matthew Okapara returns to his native Nigeria in search of his son.
| 14:00Alan tries to help and Ian makes a new friend. 14:15Newly crowned George VI battles to defeat his stammer ahead of his broadcast to the Nation(R)
| 14:00Tony reflects upon the new situation and Joe faces opposition to his money-making scheme. 14:15A comic story of modern economics and goats by Julian Gough and starring Hugh Quarshie.(R)
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30An ex-jewel thief in France battles to prove his innocence.
| 14:00The GQT panel meet members of the Grow Organic project in Bradford. Eric Robson chairs. 14:45Kerry ten Kate looks into the murky world of the Snowdrop business.(R)
| |
|---|
| 15:00 | 15:00Jon Culshaw uncovers an audio archive of long-lost early Morecambe and Wise material.(R) 15:451/5Five men called Mohammed talk about their lives in Britain today.
| 15:00What produced the mysterious ice spike in a frozen beaker? 15:301/3By Nicola White. A shy schoolgirl fears the worst when she attends a religious retreat. 15:452/5Five men called Mohammed talk about their lives in Britain today.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on consumer rights. 15:302/3By Merryn Glover. A kindly old fisherman and his minister find a sliver of common ground. 15:453/5Five men called Mohammed talk about their lives in Britain today.
| 15:00Helen Mark discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames. 15:27Hannah and Jackie Cheetham present the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Sequal Trust. 15:303/3By Kirsty Logan. A spoilt princess craves possession of the one thing she can't have. 15:454/5Five men called Mohammed talk about their lives in Britain today.
| 15:00The GQT panel meet members of the Grow Organic project in Bradford. Eric Robson chairs. 15:455/5Five men called Mohammed talk about their lives in Britain today.
| 15:30The ability to concentrate and the allure of daydreaming come into dual focus.(R)
| 15:001/2A story of money, relationships and love, full of Trollopian delight.
| |
|---|
| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon discusses the legacy of Elizabeth David and reviews food writing in 2010. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether we should translate Holy books.
| 16:00Michael Rosen lends an ear to the last fifty years of the song-lyric. 16:30Lord Kinnock chooses the life of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS.
| 16:00Is Doctor Who political? Laurie explores the notion of an historical anti-American bias. 16:301/2What makes a good leader? Carolyn Quinn looks at the psychology of leadership.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Howard Jacobson about his comic novel The Mighty Walzer. 16:302011 International Year of Chemistry: the largest molecule; green chemistry, rare elements
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Jayaben Desai, Gerry Rafferty, Prunella Stack and Pete Postlethwaite. 16:30Francine Stock talks to Helena Bonham Carter about The King's Speech.
| 16:00Presented by Jane Garvey. The Victorians and their fascination with murder.
| 16:003/28Stories are read by Niamh Cusack, Henry Goodman, Toby Stephens and Olivia Williams.
| |
|---|
| 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. 17:30'They look in the mirror and are disgusted.' Penny gives make-up tips to transsexuals. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:004/28Stories read by Miriam Margoyles, Rory Kinnear, Bill Paterson and Hugh Quarshie. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| |
|---|
| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:152/6Gordon Ramsey Todd finds a new ingredient that makes his pies the talk of London Town.(R) 18:302/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read out embarrassing extracts from his teenage diary.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Shappi Khorsandi delves into history with guests Adam Hart-Davis and Simon Evans.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4The freethinking funny man chooses shame-based pay for footballers and relationship MOTs
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran is joined by Sandra Bernhard, Emma Freud, Sian Phillips and Mark Thomas.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Caz Graham makes her selection from the week's radio. 18:56Toby Young presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of ORBIS.
| |
|---|
| 19:00 | 19:00The news spreads through Ambridge, and Pat and Tony are left with a dilemma. 19:15Oscar-winning film and stage director Danny Boyle in conversation with Mark Lawson. 19:451/5DC Jackie Hartwell wants to know who Melanie was about to marry on the day she died.
| 19:00The family rallies round and Brian is forced to change his plans. 19:15Mark Lawson announces the Costa Book Award category winners and talks to Colin Firth. 19:452/5DC Jackie Hartwell wants to know who Melanie was about to marry on the day she died.
| 19:00Alan tries to help and Ian makes a new friend. 19:15Kirsty Lang meets actor Stephen Mangan, and Barry Douglas and Leslie Howard discuss Liszt. 19:453/5Hartwell makes a shocking discovery about the man Melanie was going to marry.
| 19:00Tony reflects upon the new situation and Joe faces opposition to his money-making scheme. 19:15Alan Bleasdale on The Sinking of the Laconia and Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days. 19:454/5DC Jackie Hartwell is now totally convinced George Brant killed his daughter.
| 19:00There's a guilty secret at Brookfield. 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Hilary Swank, Dulwich Picture Gallery director and child comedians. 19:455/5DC Jackie Hartwell finally finds out why Melanie was killed.
| 19:00Morland Sanders profiles Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Shula and Usha put aside their differences. 19:155/28Stories from the King James Bible introduced by Dr Rowan Williams and Joanne Harris.
| |
|---|
| 20:00 | 20:00How could proposed changes to the NHS affect patients? Penny Marshall investigates. 20:30Lina Sinjab investigates the impact of corruption and bribery in Syria.
| 20:00Scientists uncover evidence about vaccines that may change public health care forever. 20:40PC David Rathband, blinded by being shot, talks to Peter White about his future plans.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers discuss the legal issues of the day. 20:451/3Peter Hennessy shows how places shape political events, starting at Admiralty House.(R)
| 20:00As the tribunal into fixing allegations opens, we investigate corruption in cricket. 20:30Peter Day looks at China's vast urbanisation plan to take Chinese people out of poverty.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Marylebone in London. 20:50Alain de Botton with a controversial view of the teaching of humanities in universities.
| 20:00Shaun Ley recalls the SDP's rise and fall. Does the SDP still live on in other parties?
| | |
|---|
| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news. 21:301/3James Naughtie tells the story of how King James commissioned a new Bible translation.
| 21:001/2What makes a good leader? Carolyn Quinn looks at the psychology of leadership. 21:302/3James Naughtie on how a committee of Bible translators produced a "national epic.".
| 21:00An inquiry into why so many Americans die after being shot by 'safe' police stun guns. 21:303/3James Naughtie on the enduring place of the King James Bible in British culture.
| 21:0036/40In this weeks programme "Top Goose", how BBC geese generated new science. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
| 21:00A house holds murderous secrets in Julian Simpson's supernatural thriller.
| 21:006/6Claudius tries to relinquish power, only to find himself a God, in Robert Graves' classic.
| 21:006/28Stories read by Rory Kinnear, Adjoa Andoh, Dan Stevens and Olivia Williams.
| |
|---|
| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:451/10Crime thriller. An English lawyer living rescues two sisters on the Moscow subway.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:452/10Nick has heard nothing from Masha since he rescued her from the bag-thief.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:453/10In the Rasputin night-club Nick learns more about Masha and Katya.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Nick's neighbour Oleg Nikolaevich has some disturbing news.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:455/10At the dacha, Masha and Katya have a proposition for Nick.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers discuss the legal issues of the day.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45John Kampfner takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news.
| |
|---|
| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen considers the language of travel and tourism. 23:306/6Marcus Brigstocke gets Sandi Toksvig to try some new experiences.(R)
| 23:001/4Mr Gee is joined by singer Florence Welch to discuss her love of poety. 23:302/6Marcus Brigstocke tries to tempt Arthur Smith to ventures new.(R)
| 23:004/6David Soul and Simon Day star in a series of fantastical comedy apocalypses. 23:151/3By Susan Calman. A wry look at office politics. 23:304/6Impressionist Jan Ravens has a boxing lesson, gets her eyebrows threaded and builds a wall(R)
| 23:001/6Jodie is anxious over her brand new sandwich bar in Yorkshire, but luckily Hope is at hand(R) 23:305/6Marcus Brigstocke invites Madness frontman Suggs to try some new experiences.(R)
| 23:00Lord Kinnock chooses the life of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS. 23:301/6Marcus Brigstocke invites comedian Barry Cryer to try new experiences.(R)
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 23:305/6Peggy Reynolds investigates one of TS Eliot's most popular poems, Journey of the Magi.
| 23:007/28Stories read by Hugh Bonneville, Bill Paterson, Henry Goodman and Hugh Quarshie.
| |
|---|
