| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Privacy and parenting by mobile phone. 00:45The bells of St Mary's Church, Dunsford, Devon. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Journalist Gavin Knight reports from the frontline of Glasgow's ganglands. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5There is anger and a sense of urgency when four young men are murdered in South London. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The waste ground around Easterhouse becomes the scene of a regular pitched battle. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Cathy is a social worker in the East End of Glasgow. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Karn discovers an innovative new way of confronting gang crime developed in the US. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3By Janette Walkinshaw. Jane Bell has some difficult news for her best friend.(R) 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. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45European eggs need to be salmonella free according to Edwina Currie. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45Sarah Swadling hears why cattle TB tests and culls are needed to safeguard public health.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45The economics of producing milk for cheesemaking. From Nantwich International Cheese Show.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45Four of the 14 UK cheeses awarded EU protected food status have disappeared from sale.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45Fluorescent chicken feed is being developed to combat food poisoning.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. 05:45'News of the World came to our rescue' - say the family of a shot policeman.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire. 05:45John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Debating Anders Behring Breivik, and compassion in the record industry.
| 06:00With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Debating the Olympic legacy, probation service paperwork and the Catholic confession.
| 06:00Investigating why some children go to school not knowing their own name.
| 06:00Debating threats to ME scientists, delayed operations and satirising the Commons.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits a Traveller site in Essex and asks who should live in the countryside. 06:30Sarah Swadling looks at how dairy farmers are surviving a tough economic climate. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05For the anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Tully explores his vision. 06:35Just off the Northumberland coast, the Farne Islands are home to thousands of puffins. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Debating tax cuts, blue sky thinking, and recreational drugs in sport.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55James Landale presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Lymphoma Association. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A Service of the Word from St Martin's Church, Belfast.(R) 08:50Alain de Botton argues that social climbing is often much more than idle pleasure-seeking.
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| 09:00 | 09:003/4Stephen Fry persuades you to listen to a programme about persuasive language. 09:303/4Peter White and Sue Townsend discuss his pet hate: being introduced to other blind people. 09:451/5Journalist Gavin Knight reports from the frontline of Glasgow's ganglands.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland looks at the north-south divide in terms of national media coverage. 09:30Novelist Andrea Levy goes back to her adult education writing class with John Wilson. 09:452/5There is anger and a sense of urgency when four young men are murdered in South London.
| 09:001/4Rioters argue their case in court, desperately attempting to avoid the noose. 09:453/5The waste ground around Easterhouse becomes the scene of a regular pitched battle.
| 09:003/3Can conscious patients stop treatment, even when this will directly lead to their deaths? 09:454/5Cathy is a social worker in the East End of Glasgow.
| 09:00Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts is interviewed by Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5Karn discovers an innovative new way of confronting gang crime developed in the US.
| 09:00Anita Anand with comedian, actor and author Alexei Sayle and poet Elvis McGonagall.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Are women inconvenienced by a lack of public toilets? Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:451/5Edith's tried to forget Aylmer, but being married to Bruce makes it hard.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Calls to relax China's one-child policy. Indian singer Aruna Sairam. 10:452/5Edith is devastated to learn Aylmer Ross has a war injury.
| 10:00The women building the Olympic Park; how to deal with a terrible boss; Elaine Sciolino. 10:453/5Aylmer is back, and the attraction between him and Edith is still electric.
| 10:00Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5; young teetotallers; fibroid treatments. 10:454/5Edith sets Aylmer thinking by telling him that Dulcie is in love with him.
| 10:00Fabergé eggs; Belgium bans the veil; mother and daughter Olympians; cook the perfect scone 10:455/5Has Madame Frabelle discovered Edith's secret love for Aylmer?
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig explores Britain's holy places and goes on the trail of Arctic explorers. 10:30Jim Carey celebrates the ice cream van with enthusiasts Francis Rossi and Johnny Vegas.
| 10:00Clarrie's anxieties increase and the news gets worse for Pat.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Ayisha Yahya travels on Kenya's 100-year-old railway. 11:301/6The award-winning American essayist reads his tale of summer with a quadriplegic friend.
| 11:0014/30The latest news about Chris, the Africa-bound cuckoo, and the UK Ladybird Survey. 11:30Quirky and fascinating pieces of writing chosen by science journalist Simon Singh.
| 11:00Gyles Brandreth probes the mystery of the missing teddy bears - the first ever made. 11:301/4Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls a bullied day boy and his mother. Stars Ian McDiarmid.
| 11:00Reporting the desperate and dangerous efforts of North Koreans to flee to the South. 11:30Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the meaning of dust.
| 11:00Roger Law visits Yi Wu in China, fast becoming the biggest marketplace in the world. 11:305/6Lifejacket, camera, action! Stardom beckons for one of the crew of MJN Air.
| 11:00Can campaigners exert too much power with modern techniques? David Grossman reports. 11:30BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines.
| 11:15Broadcaster Danny Baker joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Consumer news with Julian Worricker, looks at plans to encourage us to build our own homes 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Car free cities by 2050? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news with Shari Vahl. The market trader cleared of selling counterfeit goods. 12:30The "scandal" that has left up to 1.5 million people addicted to prescription drugs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With Peter White. New Dragon in the Den Hilary Devey, and eBay charges pushing up costs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The Package Travel Regulations - are they fit for purpose? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:002/4Alvin Hall explores young people's attitudes to pensions and saving for retirement. 12:301/6The Down the Line and The Fast show comics in the talk tag show. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/6Fifty-fifth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee. 12:32A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:30With guests Michael Grade, Simon Munnery, Dr Sandra Scott and Ian McMillan.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Martha Kearney. 13:30Debbie Wiseman tells the fascinating story of the composer of Captain Noah and Rumpole
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:30The Editor of The Times James Harding on how the paper moves beyond the hacking scandal.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:30Stewart Henderson ponders the universal appeal of the protest chant.
| 13:00Thirty minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Shaun Ley. 13:30Radio 4 controller on cutting short stories and other changes.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics from the RAF Museum in London
| 13:00In-depth reporting of national and international events. Presented by Shaun Ley. 13:302/2Peter White continues to follow the East End teenagers who inspired London's Olympic bid.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Who will emerge the victor in the scarecrow wars? 14:15A war hero prepares to bequeath his millions - but with strings attached.
| 14:00Clarrie's anxieties increase. 14:15By Jane Rogers. A charming play about a writer suffering from writer's block.(R)
| 14:00There are conflicting views at Bridge Farm. 14:15Drama about an obsessive affair between a lawyer and a jewel thief.
| 14:00Alice confronts some economic realities. 14:15By DJ Britton. Can a local councillor's environmental plans survive the new world order?(R)
| 14:00The news gets worse for Pat. 14:15The ambitious story of John DeLorean's gull-winged sports car built in Belfast.
| 14:00Have your say by ringing Jonathan Dimbleby on 03700 100 444 or email any.answers@bbc.co.uk 14:30By Peter Goodchild. In 1925, one of the most unusual trials in US legal history took place(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A near Winchester, Hampshire. 14:455/5Richard Mabey is on the Suffolk coast to celebrate the edible joys of wild samphire.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The story of one of the most remarkable summers of cricket ever seen. 15:4511/25Stalin evokes heroes of the past to inspire Russian heroism against Hitler.
| 15:00With Richard Daniel. Is pollution from leisure craft damaging the environment? 15:301/3By Helen Barton. A struggling young girl looks to her mother for support. 15:4512/25The Siege of Leningrad epitomises the courage of the Soviet people.
| 15:001/4Financial guru Alvin Hall helps young people plan ahead for an uncertain future. 15:302/3By Gill Blow. Meditative tale about unspoken tensions between a husband and wife. 15:4513/25At huge cost, Russia drives the Germans back to Berlin and defeat.
| 15:00Is the largest replica of the human body in the landscape a good idea for Northumberland? 15:27John Inverdale and Stephanie Hunter together present the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of CRY. 15:303/3By Sarah Dunnakey. A wife discovers that her husband appears to be turning into marzipan. 15:4514/25Hopes of greater freedoms after the war are crushed by Stalin.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A near Winchester, Hampshire. 15:4515/25East and West divide up Europe, Russia develops the bomb and the Cold War begins.
| 15:30Debbie Wiseman tells the fascinating story of the composer of Captain Noah and Rumpole
| 15:004/6Steerpike takes up his new role as the Master of Ritual.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss Religion and the Big Society.
| 16:00What's in a name? Chris Ledgard looks at where our surnames come from and what they mean. 16:30Harriett Gilbert talks to Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay about their favourite books.
| 16:00Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities. 16:302/4Is there such a thing as a normal immune system? Vivienne Parry investigates.
| 16:00Has crime writing has become too gory? And the history of women's writing series continues 16:30New clues to Higgs, badgers and bovine TB and diamond clues to the deep Earth.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Cec Thompson, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Robert Ettinger, Googie Withers. 16:30Anjelica Huston, Mark Gatiss and Wayne Hemingway - all in this week's Film Programme.
| 16:00Post Millie Dowler - is the adversarial court system fair? Cook the perfect scone.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup and the final part of her history of women's writing. 16:301/4Ruth Padel presents a new series about how to enjoy writing and reading poetry.
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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.
| 17:00With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30'News of the World came to our rescue' - say the family of a shot policeman. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Is there a conflict of interest when public servants take private sector jobs? 17:40John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority. 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-fifth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4The human chameleon's host of characters from a chatty schoolgirl to a decrepit charwoman.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6After immersing himself in popular culture, Ed gets a new job at a 'uni-collegy' thing.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Milton is on the run after leaking the UN's emails, except for the Swiss ones - too dull.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6The Down the Line and The Fast show comics in the talk tag show.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Adam Ant, Sahr Ngaujah, Tom Dyckhoff and Michael Simkins.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Clarrie's anxieties increase. 19:15Kirsty Lang meets Moni Mohsin, whose new novel satirises the upper classes in Lahore. 19:451/5Edith's tried to forget Aylmer, but being married to Bruce makes it hard.
| 19:00There are conflicting views at Bridge Farm. 19:15Horrid Henry the movie, and Nicholas Crane on his TV series Town. 19:452/5Edith is devastated to learn Aylmer Ross has a war injury.
| 19:00Alice confronts some economic realities. 19:15Kirsty Lang reviews anime film Arrietty and Jonathan Dove on his Mansfield Park opera. 19:453/5Aylmer is back, and the attraction between him and Edith is still electric.
| 19:00The news gets worse for Pat. 19:15Philippa Gregory reviews The Borgias, urban artist Kid Acne, and Ealing comedies. 19:454/5Edith sets Aylmer thinking by telling him that Dulcie is in love with him.
| 19:15Bjork discusses her new interactive album and theatre producer Sonia Friedman. 19:455/5Has Madame Frabelle discovered Edith's secret love for Aylmer?
| 19:00John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Jim and Christine enjoy a day out. 19:15What will it take to get America's silent majority to raise their voices? 19:451/3By John Peacock. Miriam Margolyes tells the tale of artist Benjamin Robert Haydon.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00As Scotland awaits a referendum on Independence, what has Quebec's experience been? 20:30The mountain Berbers of Libya fighting for their culture and their lives against Gaddafi.
| 20:00Is there a conflict of interest when public servants take private sector jobs? 20:40Why NICE have decided not to approve a new drug for treating diabetic macular oedema.
| 20:004/4Journalists debate with Andrew Rawnsley what leading articles about the news should say. 20:45Clare Lockhart calls for a new model of engagement for the developing world.
| 20:00How did the MOD lose track of over 5bn pounds of equipment? 20:30Peter Day finds out how Three D printing will revolutionise manufacturing industry.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics from the RAF Museum in London 20:50Alain de Botton argues that social climbing is often much more than idle pleasure-seeking.
| 20:00Justin Webb goes through the archive to get to know Peter Woods; the father he never knew.
| 20:00Radio 4 controller on cutting short stories and other changes. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Cec Thompson, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Robert Ettinger, Googie Withers.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin on Dawn over Vesta, reducing animal experiments and the physics of cricket. 21:303/4Stephen Fry persuades you to listen to a programme about persuasive language.
| 21:002/4Is there such a thing as a normal immune system? Vivienne Parry investigates. 21:30Jonathan Freedland looks at the north-south divide in terms of national media coverage.
| 21:00Tracey Logan looks at how new advances in genetics may mean a rewrite of British history. 21:301/4Rioters argue their case in court, desperately attempting to avoid the noose.
| 21:003/3Can conscious patients stop treatment, even when this will directly lead to their deaths? 21:453/3How do negotiators turn talks into lasting peace agreements? Jonathan Powell presents.(R)
| 21:003/525 million Russians die during World War II, but it only brings uncertain peace.
| 21:003/6Ten-year-old Titus, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, makes an unexpected discovery in the forest.
| 21:00The "scandal" that has left up to 1.5 million people addicted to prescription drugs. 21:26James Landale presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Lymphoma Association. 21:30Peter Day finds out how Three D printing will revolutionise manufacturing industry.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:451/10Dr Pereira wants nothing to do with politics, but then he meets Francesco Monteiro Rossi.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:452/10Dr Pereira has offered a charismatic young man a job on his newspaper. Derek Jacobi reads.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:453/10Pereira's assistant is writing articles that are unpublishable in Portugal in 1938.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Pereira's assistant is in a fix and he asks for help. Read by Derek Jacobi.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:455/10Pereira worries that his assistant is being drawn into politics by his beautiful girl.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clare Lockhart calls for a new model of engagement for the developing world. 22:303/3Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.(R)
| 22:00Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts. 22:45Sarfraz Manzoor of The Guardian analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Students are no longer choosing to study foreign languages. What will be the impact? 23:301/4Doctors Roy and Hugh Thornton wonder what to do with sudden money and power.(R)
| 23:003/4Find out what is popular, so you can be too! Plus, visiting Britain's least-haunted house. 23:302/3The story of the 1972 folk album by Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy and Ashley Hutchings.(R)
| 23:005/6Brunswick's old flame reappears as a contestant in a beauty pageant being judged by Steine(R) 23:30To mark actor Peter Falk's recent death, we explore why Columbo was such a TV original.(R)
| 23:006/6The call centre staff at catalogue company Smile5 discover why Sailesh left Bangalore. 23:301/6Intrepid heroes battle evil forces for the Sword of Asnagar.(R)
| 23:00Harriett Gilbert talks to Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay about their favourite books. 23:30A playful deconstruction of Queen's pop classic, Bohemian Rhapsody.(R)
| 23:00With guests Michael Grade, Simon Munnery, Dr Sandra Scott and Ian McMillan. 23:30Simon Armitage on the trail of two local poets, Ammon Wrigley and Samuel Laycock.
| 23:00Anjelica Huston, Mark Gatiss and Wayne Hemingway - all in this week's Film Programme. 23:30For the anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Tully explores his vision.
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