| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15How answering calls will change your life: the cultural impact of call centres in India. 00:45The bells of St Olave's, Hart Street, London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif writes a letter to her family in Cairo. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Five writers consider the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The third letter is from the Lebanese novelist and playwright Hanan Al-Shaykh. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Five writers consider the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Libyan writer Hisham Matar writes the final letter in the series. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Lord Ian Blair explores the conflict of religion in the public arena. 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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:45Half of Europe's butter is frozen before it reaches your shopping basket. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:45Anna Hill hears how changing tastes in the far East have led to record UK food exports.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:45Anna Hill hears that 10,000 farmers are still waiting for overdue subsidy payments.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:45Anna Hill hears about the thoroughbred Irish racehorses being slaughtered for meat.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with the Rev Roger Hutchings. 05:45Wheat prices plummet in response to global events.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Canon Dr Ann Holt of the Bible Society. 05:45"At least I won't die alone." Two musicians discuss surviving the Japanese earthquake.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St George's, Poynton, Cheshire. 05:45Claire Bolderson profiles far right French politician Marine Le Pen.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Debating Japan's nuclear fears and whether Colonel Gaddafi's army is approaching Benghazi.
| 06:00Debating if the world has left it too late in Libya, and science and the meaning of life.
| 06:00Debating what will happen now that the UN has given backing to military action in Libya.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Is the iconic Dartmoor pony under threat? Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to find out. 06:30Sowing the seeds now to reap a profitable harvest. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Irma Kurtz considers how serendipity moulds our lives and influences our lives. 06:35Farming in the dark: blind children meet Caz Graham on a farm that has changed their lives 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Graça Machel presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Canon Collins Trust. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Part of our series for Lent from St John's Presbyterian Church, Newtownbreda, Belfast. 08:50David Attenborough reveals the life of insects that emerge from the earth every 17 years.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr and Brian Greene, Brian Cox and Angela Saini. 09:451/5Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif writes a letter to her family in Cairo.
| 09:00The sacked Government drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt, talks to John Humphrys. 09:302/5Nigel Cassidy visits The Money Channel, Romania's 24-hour business TV network. 09:452/5Five writers consider the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world.
| 09:00Lively conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Sir Cameron Mackintosh. 09:453/5The third letter is from the Lebanese novelist and playwright Hanan Al-Shaykh.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities. 09:454/5Five writers consider the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites the original team behind the charity Comic Relief. 09:455/5Libyan writer Hisham Matar writes the final letter in the series.
| 09:00Fi Glover with crime writer Sara Paretsky; actor Larry Lamb shares his Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Paddy O'Connell with the latest news and analysis on the situation in Libya.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. The 70th anniversary of polyester. 10:451/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 10:00With Jane Garvey. Including legendary American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. 10:452/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Shirley Williams on Coalition plans for NHS reform. 10:453/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 10:00Jenni Murray presents. Love letters: to be treasured or reluctantly thrown into the bin? 10:454/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. 10:455/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig finds out about Georgia, Australia and the St Pancras Hotel. 10:30Paul Gambaccini recalls the 1960 classic album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
| 10:00It's a stressful time for the Archer family and the Grundys have a day at the races.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2What has happened to Cadbury in the year since Kraft took control? 11:304/6Brian tells the story of his visit to a country where alternative therapies abound.
| 11:001/2Stephanie Flanders sets out on the search for growth in Britain's economy. 11:30Can art give the disability movement its own revolution? Aaron Williamson investigates.
| 11:001/3Gareth Jones looks at the lives of those left behind while soldiers are away on duty. 11:302/4Two young lovers are separated by a brand new border.
| 11:00Kate Adie with reporters around the world looking at the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Why are books about the Third Reich such an ongoing publishing phenomenon in the UK?
| 11:00Alan Dein unearths a Crucifixion in a historic Glasgow chippie. 11:304/6For Hope and Carrie, a quiet Sunday painting the shop becomes quite exciting after all.
| 11:00Jackie Ashley of the Guardian looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Correspondents around the world tell their stories - with Kate Adie.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five people caught up in the 1981 Brixton Riots.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Julian Worricker investigates why police dogs are costing taxpayers thousands of pounds. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Is the government doing enough to tackle alcohol abuse? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson asks what the future holds for Britain's biggest care home operator. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Can tourism drive the recovery of the Irish economy? And biometrics on the High Street. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Dermot O'Leary on Red Nose Day; Richard Wilson on train journeys; Royal Wedding parties. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:30Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:006/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Marcus Brigstocke, Sheila Hancock and Sue Perkins 12:32Frozen food has been a recession success, but can it muscle in on the premium market? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:304/6Three students from Reading University take on their professors in a battle of wits.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:30Lesley Garrett and yachtsman Geoff Holt on the inspiring song, The Impossible Dream.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:30Covering the Japan earthquake; Simon Kelner on i; internet piracy laws.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:30Why has capitalism's answer to climate change failed? Tom Heap investigates.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world. 13:30Radio 1 listeners quiz controller Andy Parfitt, and what's extra about Ambridge extra?
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion live from Liverpool Hope University.
| 13:00In-depth reporting of national and international events. 13:30Through the Census, Sally Magnusson reveals one British street's family histories.
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| 14:00 | 14:00It's a stressful time for the Archer family. 14:15A Hollywood script doctor is drafted in to the set of The Pride and the Passion.
| 14:00Jill and David are feeling helpless. 14:15Charlie's former art teacher continues to shape his life, even in death.
| 14:00The Grundys have a day at the races. 14:153/4Jean Brash is confronted by a former lover back from the dead.
| 14:15A comic look at the far-reaching effects of social anxiety.
| 14:00Jamie makes a devastating discovery. 14:15The Zebborini family run an Italian deli in Brighton. Can it survive now old Carlo's dead?
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Recovering ore from a mystery planet, five misfits encounter an extraordinary intelligence
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel gather at the Eden Project in time for its tenth birthday. 14:454/5Tony Hill looks at the genesis of five important inventions that were ahead of their time.
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| 15:00 | 15:0040 years after the Divorce Act came into force, what was the impact on British society? 15:451/10Churchill was a keen bricklayer, but did he have anything in common with the working man?
| 15:00Tom Holland with your stories that are changing the way we see the past. 15:301/3Giles Meiklejohn finds a locked, brown wallet in the back of a taxi. 15:452/10Historian Sir David Cannadine enjoys Winston Churchill's prodigious appetite for food.
| 15:00Do you know your rights to maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay? 15:302/3Old Sam Gates' day is ruined when an enemy fighter plane crashes into his field of turnips 15:453/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's first career as a journalist.
| 15:00Stuart Maconie walks the Lickey Hills near Birmingham. 15:27Jan Tallis presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of School-Home Support. 15:303/3James Wilbraham Waite dreams of escaping The Room, when his landlady knocks on the door. 15:454/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's family life.
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel gather at the Eden Project in time for its tenth birthday. 15:457/10Sir David Cannadine explores Churchill's attitude to women.
| 15:30Lesley Garrett and yachtsman Geoff Holt on the inspiring song, The Impossible Dream.
| 15:001/2Professor Challenger sets out to find a lost race of creatures in the heart of the Amazon.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Food writer Tim Hayward goes in search of British charcuterie. 16:30Departing Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy on his rise from council estate to global business.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg talks to the Attorney General about contempt of court and prisoner voting 16:30Russell Kane and Hilary Bradt talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books.
| 16:00A special edition: Laurie talks to cultural theorist Stuart Hall. 16:301/3Michael Blastland goes to Athens, where economics as a discipline began.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Justin Cartwright about his new book, Other People's Money. 16:30Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham and Bob Greaves. 16:30The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade discusses his first feature film, Submarine.
| 16:00Jane Garvey presents. Love letters: to be treasured or thrown away?
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Will Self about cuts to UK libraries. 16:30Iain Sinclair, Peter Finch and Alan Brownjohn discuss sound and visual poet Bob Cobbing.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss business continuity and life on the shop floor. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Fran Abrams investigates the corruption that lay behind the Mubarak regime. 17:40Claire Bolderson profiles far right French politician Marine Le Pen. 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. 18:306/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Marcus Brigstocke, Sheila Hancock and Sue Perkins
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/7The ground-breaking phone-in show, hosted by the legendary Gary Bellamy.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/2Micky Flanagan hosts some of the best comedy talent at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Charlie Brooker seeks the wrong answers from Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie and Jon Richardson.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Bill Bailey, James Cracknell and Jessica Hynes.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the week's radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jill and David are feeling helpless. 19:15Mark Lawson reviews Sienna Miller in Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. 19:451/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 19:00The Grundys have a day at the races. 19:15Garrison Keillor on his love poems; a review of the film Submarine; and enhanced e-books. 19:452/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 19:15Blur's Graham Coxon reviews artwork by Syd Barrett, the original Pink Floyd frontman. 19:453/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 19:00Jamie makes a devastating discovery. 19:15Matt Smith plays Christopher Isherwood in a new TV drama; and the David Cohen Prize winner 19:454/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 19:15TV drama The Crimson Petal and the White reviewed; what makes a 21st century clown? 19:455/5Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
| 19:00Claire Bolderson profiles far right French politician Marine Le Pen. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00There's a surprise meeting for Jamie. 19:15The death penalty arrived with US settlers. Americana looks at crime and punishment today. 19:453/5Leonid's funeral is overshadowed as the space heroes are left clinging to the edge.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson explores documents which shed light on plans to update Polaris in the mid-70s 20:30David Walker examines the prime minister's proposals for 'muscular liberalism'.
| 20:00Fran Abrams investigates the corruption that lay behind the Mubarak regime. 20:40Peter White and Cheryl Gabriel meet Kenyan blind people during the trek for Comic Relief.
| 20:00Combative debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 20:45Lord Ian Blair explores the conflict of religion in the public arena.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg talks to the Attorney General about contempt of court and prisoner voting 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss business continuity and life on the shop floor.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion live from Liverpool Hope University. 20:50David Attenborough reveals the life of insects that emerge from the earth every 17 years.
| 20:00Five writers reflect on the recent momentous events in the Middle East and North Africa.
| 20:00Radio 1 listeners quiz controller Andy Parfitt, and what's extra about Ambridge extra? 20:30Matthew Bannister on Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham and Bob Greaves.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news. 21:30Andrew Marr and Brian Greene, Brian Cox and Angela Saini.
| 21:001/2The engineers and astronomers approach the biggest milestone in their 20-year project.(R) 21:30The sacked Government drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt, talks to John Humphrys.
| 21:00Why has capitalism's answer to climate change failed? Tom Heap investigates. 21:30Lively conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Sir Cameron Mackintosh.
| 21:001/2Adam Rutherford investigates some recent and historical scientific misdemeanours. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
| 21:001/3Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.(R)
| 21:002/2Anna Tellwright's fortune earns her independence, but her joy is marred by shocking news.
| 21:00Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Graça Machel presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Canon Collins Trust. 21:30David Walker examines the prime minister's proposals for 'muscular liberalism'.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Daily news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis. 22:456/10Harri has run out on his initiation test with the Dell Farm Crew.
| 22:00Daily news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis. 22:457/10Harri has got on the wrong side of the Dell Farm Crew as his hunt for the killer goes on.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:458/10Eager to fit in to his new life, Harri is tempted to stone a bus.
| 22:00Daily news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis. 22:459/10Harri finds a piece of crucial evidence in his hunt for the killer.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:4510/10Harri has cracked the case but who knows that he knows?
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Jan Moir takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Alex Horne and his band learn to speak 'jazz' and head off into space. 23:30Sean Curran reports as David Cameron says a no-fly zone over Libya is 'deliverable'.
| 23:00Una Stubbs and Ade Edmondson go 'doo-dah' discussing music in a Comic Relief Special. 23:30Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:002/4The unusual career trajectory of Wernher von Braun - from Nazi to Disney. 23:152/4The Ladies attempt to apprehend a thief, and a graffiti artist gets to work on the loos.(R) 23:30Keith MacDougall reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:005/6Tim Key, Micky Flanagan, Bridget Christie and Nick Hancock devise the panel show's rounds. 23:30Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:00Russell Kane and Hilary Bradt talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books.
| 23:004/6Three students from Reading University take on their professors in a battle of wits. 23:30Susannah Clapp, Salman Rushdie and Andrew Motion discover the poetry of Angela Carter.
| 23:00The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade discusses his first feature film, Submarine. 23:30Irma Kurtz considers how serendipity moulds our lives and influences our lives.
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