| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The impact of paramilitary punishment attacks on the young delinquents of Belfast. 00:45The bells of York Minster. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Seven-year-old Ailsa adores her Ma and Da, but alcohol sparks trouble. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Seven-year-old Ailsa is taken from her warm but chaotic parents and placed in an orphanage 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Ailsa is having a miserable time in the strict orphanage, until she meets Mr Shaugnessy. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Ailsa's music teacher enters her for the Saturday school at the Glasgow Academy of Music. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5When her piano teacher discovers she's been missing classes, Ailsa is keen to make amends. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Anton emerges from a coma. He's lost three days and his world is not as it was.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Dr Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. 05:45How might farmers feed a world population of nine billion people by 2050? 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Dr Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. 05:45UK farmers must start to produce significantly more food, a government study says.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Dr Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. 05:45Scientists are developing GM crops which could create their own fertiliser.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Dr Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. 05:45More of England's forests could be up for sale.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Dr Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears a court ruling could mean more polytunnels in protected landscapes.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Simon Doogan. 05:45"I'm Pink Floyd's unsung hero!" A musical listener shares her story from the Dark Side.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Lawrence Jewry, London. 05:45Gerry Northam profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim cabinet minister.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Debating economic contraction, Rupert Murdoch and the future of control orders.
| 06:00Debating phone hacking, employment tribunals and George Soros on the future of the Euro.
| 06:00With Tony Blair on Egypt, Bill Gates on eradicating polio, and has pop gone posh?
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about a very British obsession. 06:30Charlotte Smith asks what this week's Foresight report means for British farmers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Teresa Morgan explores ways of thinking about middle age. 06:35Before dawn, Lionel Kelleway awaits the arrival of barnacle geese on the Solway coast. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00The latest from Cairo. Plus, is Davos just a cynical exercise by the super-rich?
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Sandi Toksvig presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Womankind Worldwide. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from Emmanuel Church, Northwood. Leader: Rev Mike Talbot. Preacher: Rev Sami Watts. 08:50Alain de Botton asks if museums are our new churches.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr and John Gray, Dai Smith, Paul McAuley and Kathleen Richardson. 09:451/5Seven-year-old Ailsa adores her Ma and Da, but alcohol sparks trouble.
| 09:002/2Is Hollywood losing its grip on the global market - or is the empire striking back? 09:303/4John Wilson reunites Lord Digby Jones with his former English teacher at his old school. 09:452/5Seven-year-old Ailsa is taken from her warm but chaotic parents and placed in an orphanage
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by Bran Symondson, Joan Woodcock, Greg Hicks and Phillip King. 09:453/5Ailsa is having a miserable time in the strict orphanage, until she meets Mr Shaugnessy.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics. 09:454/5Ailsa's music teacher enters her for the Saturday school at the Glasgow Academy of Music.
| 09:00Veteran Corrie actress Betty Driver joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5When her piano teacher discovers she's been missing classes, Ailsa is keen to make amends.
| 09:00Fi Glover with entertainer Lionel Blair; Inheritance Tracks from actress Tamsin Greig.
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| 10:00 | 10:00With Jane Garvey. Bedbugs - are they on the rise in the UK? 10:451/5Catherine Thackray faces a terminal illness and wants to put her life in order.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. How will family finances change as new benefits are introduced? 10:452/5Catherine feels inadequate when she compares her life to her mother's.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. The sexism row in football. 10:453/5Catherine Thackray tries to make sense of a strange and moving event in her mother's life.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including women playing male Shakespearean roles. 10:454/5Catherine Thackray gains comfort from remembering her mother Marjory's final days.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. What time should children be tucked up in bed? 10:455/5Catherine fondly revisits her time at Greenham Common, and Becca faces the millennium.
| 10:00John McCarthy explores the Vladimirka Highway in Russia. 10:30Joanna Smith Rakoff explores JD Salinger's relationship with fans who wrote him letters
| 10:00David faces a tricky customer and Clarrie stakes her claim at the dairy.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Glasgow's sicker than it should be. Why? Iain Macwhirter investigates. 11:303/6The script doctor will see you now. After a writer's course, Ed turns expert.
| 11:0039/40We search for stoats and weasels, once abundant and now little-seen. 11:30DJ Zoe Ball showcases some of her favourite pieces of writing.
| 11:001/3Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking in the 70s and 80s. 11:301/6Guard Gallagher's unexpected return from America spells trouble.
| 11:00Looking behind the news: Kate Adie hosts despatches from around the world. 11:30What happens when a songwriter accidentally copies someone else's song?
| 11:00Aasmah Mir finds out what teenagers are really doing in sexual relationships. 11:303/6Pip wants to save the poor and Harry Biscuit wants swans.(R)
| 11:00Fraser Nelson of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kabul. Beirut. Minsk. Dakar. Hyderabad. Kate Adie hosts correspondents' despatches.
| 11:15Journalist and TV presenter Jon Snow joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Food health claims, the heating oil market and leaves on the High Speed line. 12:536/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Copenhagen. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news with Julian Worricker. A chance to contribute your views to the programme. 12:538/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in China. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. Museum gets a £9 million revamp. 12:5312/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Kingston, Jamaica. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer affairs with Shari Vahl. MP targets music ticket prices. 12:30John Waite investigates negative stories about Muslims in the UK press. 12:5314/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Australia. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer affairs with Peter White. 12:539/14Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Tangiers, Morocco. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal finances. 12:304/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee 12:32Sheila Dillon investigates some of the food stories behind Ireland's economic collapse. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:30The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:302/3Frances Fyfield and guests pore over Eric Coates' manuscript score of his London Suite.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Director General Mark Thompson on BBC cuts.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30The programme that finds answers to listeners' questions.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Angry listeners take Archers editor to task and Radio 4 controller unveils her new plans.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Grantham in Lincolnshire.
| 13:00The latest news with in-depth analysis. 13:30Robin Ince explores the legacy of Schrodinger's Cat - the paradox of quantum physics.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Elizabeth and the children share a thoughtful moment. 14:151/6Market worker Jim has got problems aplenty and needs to escape, but where to?(R)
| 14:00It's a very special day at Bridge Farm. 14:15By Katharine Way. A 17 year old spiritual healer suffers a crisis of confidence.(R)
| 14:00David faces a tricky customer. 14:15A searingly honest account of Robert McCrum's stroke at the age of 42.(R)
| 14:00Clarrie stakes her claim at the dairy. 14:15Inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose son testified against her for witchcraft.
| 14:00It's a stressful time for Ruth. 14:15By Jane Rogers. Volunteer Julie goes to Nigeria to teach sewing skills in a woman's refuge
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30It's 1942 and Pope Pius XII is urged to speak out against Nazi atrocities.
| 14:00In the midst of one of the coldest winters on record, we answer listeners' questions. 14:452/5Ian Marchant meets five 'completists' driven by the need to tick off the entire collection
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| 15:00 | 15:002/2Charting the rise from the 1970s low ebb in cinema-going to today's exciting innovations. 15:456/10David Thomson continues his journey through cinema, and considers its spiral of carnage.
| 15:00Changing coastlines and humane mole eradication. 15:301/3Emily goes shopping at five in the morning. Even as June approaches, it is getting darker. 15:457/10David Thomson looks at the cinema with the thrill of romance and a kiss as big as a house.
| 15:00Send your questions about managing borrowing and debt to Paul Lewis and guests. 15:302/3An old man, his memory failing, must overcome adversity to manage a visit to his grandson. 15:458/10Critic and writer David Thomson goes in search of happiness on the big screen.
| 15:00Helen Mark meets Bristol city dwellers developing a nature reserve on their doorstep. 15:27Michael Rosen presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the Meningitis Research Foundation. 15:303/3Arne has had a breakdown, but will he and his wife Elsa find peace on a remote island? 15:459/10David Thomson explores flying in film, and how it merges with our desire to escape.
| 15:00In the midst of one of the coldest winters on record, we answer listeners' questions. 15:4510/10David Thomson considers cinema's future. Is the dream palace the place to dream anymore?
| 15:30Huw Williams explores the story behind the song that launched the British skiffle boom.(R)
| 15:002/4Cuff begins his investigation into the missing diamond, with Betteridge as his sidekick.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon investigates developing trends in the shellfish trade. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the dispute between Hindus and Muslims over Ayodhya. 16:5513/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Havana.
| 16:00Michael Rosen explores the world of language and communication. 16:30Katharine Whitehorn chooses journalist and campaigner Mary Stott. 16:557/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Afghanistan.
| 16:00Ronald Dworkin and Anthony Grayling on liberty versus equality. 16:30Dr Mark Porter looks at a new test for the eye disease glaucoma. 16:5510/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Istanbul.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Paul Torday about his new book. 16:30Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news. 16:551/14Tales from cinemas across the world with Matthew Sweet - opening with Lebanon.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Sargent Shriver, Reg Ward, Bhimsen Joshi and Jack Lalanne. 16:30Francine Stock talks to actors Donald Sutherland and Paul Giamatti. 16:553/14Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet visits a cinema in Thailand.
| 16:00Presented by Jane Garvey. From the Big Apple to Britain: the bite of the bedbug.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup and Sebastian Faulks debate the Great British Novel. 16:30Roger McGough introduces TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land.
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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.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests give their forecasts for 2016 and discuss the value of networking. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00How will the mortgage freeze hit Britain's already battered economy? 17:40Gerry Northam profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim cabinet minister. 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. 18:305/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Adam discovers long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6The Showstopper! team improvise an entire musical in front of your very ears.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Extend civilian partnerships to straight couples, and ban traffic during the rush hour.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Ernie Rea makes his selection from the week's radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00It's a very special day at Bridge Farm. 19:15Disney's new version of the Rapunzel story, Tangled; and TV documentary on teenage deaths. 19:451/5Catherine Thackray faces a terminal illness and wants to put her life in order.
| 19:00David faces a tricky customer. 19:15Mark Lawson reports on the 2011 Academy Award nominations. 19:452/5Catherine feels inadequate when she compares her life to her mother's.
| 19:00Clarrie stakes her claim at the dairy. 19:15Jack Nicholson, National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner and poet Jo Shapcott. 19:453/5Catherine Thackray tries to make sense of a strange and moving event in her mother's life.
| 19:00It's a stressful time for Ruth. 19:15With Mark Lawson, who talks to Nicole Kidman and cellist Steven Isserlis. 19:454/5Catherine Thackray gains comfort from remembering her mother Marjory's final days.
| 19:00The wedding preparations are taking their toll on David. 19:15Javier Bardem in Biutiful, and Winter's Bone director Debra Granik. 19:455/5Catherine fondly revisits her time at Greenham Common, and Becca faces the millennium.
| 19:00Gerry Northam profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim cabinet minister. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Helen makes an announcement. 19:15Ron Reagan steps out of the shadow of his father's presidential legacy to tell his story. 19:452/3A middle-aged woman returns home to find her 14-year-old self sitting in her lounge.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00How an English Muslim convert spread a message of tolerance in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 20:30Philosopher and former Reith lecturer Prof Onora O'Neill's latest reflections on trust.
| 20:00How will the mortgage freeze hit Britain's already battered economy? 20:40Changes to Incapacity Benefit concern the RNIB and the Wylie card is launched in Newcastle
| 20:00The conflict between religious belief and human rights law. 20:45Art expert Philip Mould looks at what new government ministers have put on their walls.(R)
| 20:00Michael Buchanan investigates why petrol prices are so high. 20:30Evan Davis and guests give their forecasts for 2016 and discuss the value of networking.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Grantham in Lincolnshire. 20:50Alain de Botton asks if museums are our new churches.
| 20:00Matthew Sweet debates and assesses the state of cinema and cinemas in the world today.
| 20:00Angry listeners take Archers editor to task and Radio 4 controller unveils her new plans. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Sargent Shriver, Reg Ward, Bhimsen Joshi and Jack Lalanne.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news. 21:30Andrew Marr and John Gray, Dai Smith, Paul McAuley and Kathleen Richardson.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter looks at a new test for the eye disease glaucoma. 21:302/2Is Hollywood losing its grip on the global market - or is the empire striking back?
| 21:003/3Gabrielle Walker explores Earth's protecting veil, the upper atmosphere. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by Bran Symondson, Joan Woodcock, Greg Hicks and Phillip King.
| 21:0039/40We search for stoats and weasels, once abundant and now little-seen. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics.
| 21:00Hip hop and high notes collide when rapper Y.T. falls in love with a young soprano.
| 21:001/4Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's detective classic set in the 1840s.(R)
| 21:00News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal finances. 21:26Sandi Toksvig presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Womankind Worldwide. 21:30Philosopher and former Reith lecturer Prof Onora O'Neill's latest reflections on trust.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:451/10As Euan and Ruth arrive in Bahrain, Ruth discovers she has been deceived by her husband.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:452/10Ruth is visited by her neighbours, among them Noor, who has also newly arrived in Bahrain.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:453/10Farid takes Ruth to see the Tree of Life where the reality falls short of her expectations
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Noor visits the Armstrongs more often, while Ruth cannot shake the memory of Farid.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:455/10With an increasing gulf growing between herself and Euan, Ruth and Farid grow closer.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15The conflict between religious belief and human rights law.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Zoe Williams takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treated the week's news.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the world of language and communication. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Mr Gee is joined by musician and activist Billy Bragg to talk his love of poetry. 23:30Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/6The 2000-year-old wizard living in the modern world tries to re-capture an evil sorcerer. 23:151/6Bob is approached by a scintillating Russian woman and fearlessly launches a new business. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the day's events in Parliament.
| 23:004/6Jodie and Dave try to get a little quality time with a rare night out.(R) 23:30Alicia McCarthy and team report on the day's events at Westminster.
| 23:00Katharine Whitehorn chooses journalist and campaigner Mary Stott. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 23:30Roger McGough returns with a new series of your poetry requests, including work by Brecht.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to actors Donald Sutherland and Paul Giamatti. 23:30Teresa Morgan explores ways of thinking about middle age.
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