| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient. 00:45The bells of Sheffield Cathedral. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Author Jasper Rees travels around Wales in order to find his 'inner Welshness'. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The author takes a trip to Caldey Island, where his uncle practices as a monk. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Author Jasper Rees travels around Wales in order to find his inner 'Welshness'. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The author and a friend set out across sapping moorland and up steep hills. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Embracing all things Welsh means you start dreaming about the country. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Claire Griffiths. A painter's talent has so far kept him alive in Auschwitz.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented by the Rev Marjory MacLean. 05:45There were £50million worth of thefts on UK farms last year. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented by the Rev Marjory MacLean. 05:45The senior police officer who thinks communities need to do more to tackle rural crime.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented by the Rev Marjory MacLean. 05:45Farmers in Essex say planning rules prevent them producing more food for the UK.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented by the Rev Marjory MacLean. 05:45Supermarkets and dairy processors have been fined 50 million pounds for price fixing.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented by the Rev Marjory MacLean. 05:45As the Glorious 12th arrives, grouse are dwindling in some parts of Scotland.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. 05:45'Princess Margaret's boyfriend picked us up.' Listeners share tales of hitchhiking.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent. 05:45The Home Secretary, Theresa May, dealing with the aftermath of riots across England.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00With John Humphrys, Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00With Boris Johnson on the London riots, plus debating UK growth forecasts and the Mr Men.
| 06:00With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Investigating the riots from Tottenham, north London, where violence first erupted.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Richard Uridge travels the River Wye looking for barbel fish and tranquil waters. 06:30Charlotte Smith explores growing more food, with less impact on the environment. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully examines the role of performance in acts of religious worship. 06:35A wildflower rich landscape in a Durham Dale has a sinister botanical twist in its tail. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Should rioters be prevented from claiming benefits? Plus Robert Robinson remembered.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Sir Trevor McDonald presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Handicap International UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Service conducted by the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch. With Andrew Graystone. 08:50Alain de Botton on why pessimism is the key to happiness.
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| 09:00 | 09:001/2Generations Apart tracks people from two wildly different generations. 09:451/5Author Jasper Rees travels around Wales in order to find his 'inner Welshness'.
| 09:002/2Fi Glover presents a new series for BBC Radio 4 - today focusing on 21-year-olds. 09:452/5The author takes a trip to Caldey Island, where his uncle practices as a monk.
| 09:003/4Amanda Vickery uses court cases to explore the lives of servants in the 18th century. 09:453/5Author Jasper Rees travels around Wales in order to find his inner 'Welshness'.
| 09:002/4Terry Waite returns to his childhood home in the small Cheshire village of Styal. 09:302/5Peter Curran meets the tribe of physicists who run the UK's Diamond Light synchotron. 09:454/5The author and a friend set out across sapping moorland and up steep hills.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites those behind the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995. 09:455/5Embracing all things Welsh means you start dreaming about the country.
| 09:00Richard Coles with architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff; Inheritance Tracks from Steve James.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Becky Sharp: modern inspiration or despicable social climber? Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:456/10Anarchy rules on the Italian retreat, and it's every man for himself.
| 10:00A history of the beauty industry; ants - the ultimate matriarchal society? Margaret More. 10:457/10On the run from the chaos of the Italian retreat, Frederic seeks Catherine out.
| 10:00Cook the Perfect... Ice Cream, Randy Crawford, forced marriage update, Ruth Badger. 10:458/10Frederic and Catherine escape together from Italy, and find that their troubles evaporate.
| 10:00Riots: we look at the root causes of the violence and looting on England's streets. 10:459/10Life is almost dull for Frederic and Catherine, as they settle in Switzerland.
| 10:00Loving weeds, threatened miscarriages and blue plaques. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:4510/10Tragedy strikes leaving Frederic to ponder the future. Stars Patrick Kennedy.
| 10:00Sonia Deol hears about a historical voyage round Africa and looks at the British seaside. 10:30Miranda Sawyer on the impact of cheap European train travel on generations of Britons.
| 10:00James and Leonie make a big announcement and things go from bad to worse for Pat and Tony.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Stephen Smith reports from inside the High Street 'freemasonry' of the barber's. 11:303/6What not to do with a mouse and the ups and downs of a long-term relationship.
| 11:00Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back the freedom of speech. 11:30Broadcaster Gerry Anderson presents his favourite readings to a home crowd in Londonderry.
| 11:002/4The mystery of the Thetford Treasure, one of the most important finds from Roman Britain. 11:303/4The new progressive headmaster Mike Poulson Jabby decides to impose an austerity drive.
| 11:00Linda Pressly joins migrants on their perilous journey north through Guatemala and Mexico. 11:30Midge Ure investigates water's role as a constantly flowing source of musical inspiration.
| 11:001/3Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. 11:301/6James Walton chairs, with John Walsh, Sebastian Faulks, Francis Wheen and Ian McMillan.(R)
| 11:00How do you govern a divided society? Nick Watt travels to Northern Ireland to find out. 11:30The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five star pupils of the former spy Anthony Blunt.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Care homes without managers and a fed-up train commuter taking it to the top. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Violence and riots in London are now spreading elsewhere. What can be done to prevent it? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Will increased security make shopping less fun? 12:30Why Edinburgh now needs £228m of public money to salvage its part-built tram line. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Increase in Open University fees. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Can the success of the bike hire schemes work in other cities? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/4Alvin Hall assesses young people's housing needs. 12:303/6The tag talk show: Peter Hook talks to John Cooper Clarke. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:001/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Shelia Hancock and Graham Norton. 12:32With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30With guests Ardal O'Hanlon, Shelagh Fogarty and Martin Jarvis.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:452/5A desire to see where composers had lived took Amber McPherson from the USA to Leipzig.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:30Media coverage of the riots, Jeremy Hunt's plans for local TV.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:30The mystery of the maze and why ancient settlements end up underneath us.
| 13:00With Shaun Ley. National and international news. 13:30Riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and politics from York.
| 13:00In-depth reporting of national and international events. 13:30The personal stories and painful decisions we face when getting rid of our old books.
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| 14:00 | 14:00James and Leonie make a big announcement. 14:15By Nick Wood. Stephen Luckwell is an autistic teenager with an enquiring mind.
| 14:00Susan makes the best of the new situation. 14:15More comic adventures from Hayborough University, by Joyce Bryant.
| 14:00Elizabeth says something she regrets. 14:15Georges Simenon's black comedy about a husband and wife who loathe each other.
| 14:00Pip thinks she's made things worse. 14:151/2William and Sandy track down a missing dog and a philandering variety artiste.
| 14:00There's a poacher on the prowl. 14:152/2Retired thespians William and Sandy tackle the theft of a rather famous pipe.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:304 Extra Debut. Has age tamed ruthless 19th-century charmer Georges Duroy?
| 14:00Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Matthew Biggs visit Blackpool gardeners. 14:452/5Peter Curran meets the tribe of physicists who run the UK's Diamond Light synchotron.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00Melvyn Bragg observes the decline of RP alongside an increasing pride in regional accents. 15:4521/25Yeltsin becomes Russian President and challenges the authority of Gorbachev's USSR.
| 15:00Will it ever be viable to grow seaweed to make into petrol? 15:301/3Tom first lays eyes on Nic and decides to ask if he can paint her. 15:4522/25Martin Sixsmith describes the tumultuous events that took place in Moscow in 1991.
| 15:003/4Alvin Hall explores changing patterns in inheritance. 15:302/3Nic wakes up in hospital and tries to piece together the events that led her there. 15:4523/25After the collapse of the USSR Boris Yeltsin's reforms lead to chaos.
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Kent to discover the history of the Ordnance Survey after 220 years. 15:27Kirsty Young presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Relate. 15:303/3The mystery deepens for Bill when he meets Tom. 15:4524/25Vladimir Putin comes to power determined to re-establish Russia as a world power.
| 15:00Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Matthew Biggs visit Blackpool gardeners. 15:4525/25Martin Sixsmith asks whether Russia will always return to the rule of autocracy?
| 15:30Overthrowing centuries of musical tradition - and prejudice: the Japanese Bach revolution.
| 15:006/6Titus attracts attention from the strange but alluring Cheeta.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the principle of Sabbath rest.
| 16:00Chris Ledgard discovers the art and science of producing talking newspapers for the blind. 16:30Broadcaster Janice Long champions the life and work of singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
| 16:00With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'. 16:304/4What level of tiredness is normal and when should we seek help? Vivienne Parry finds out.
| 16:00Donna Leon talks to James Naughtie about her first crime novel Death At La Fenice. 16:30Mob psychology, multiple sclerosis, chimp communication and shrunken heads.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Michael Bukht, Hugh Carey, John Hoyland, Nancy Wake and Joe Arroyo. 16:30With special guests James Marsh, Romain Gavras and Mark Gatiss.
| 16:00Root causes of riots, Randy Crawford, cook the perfect...ice cream, babies and salt.
| 16:00Dreda Say Mitchell talks to Ruth Rendell about Vault, her 23rd Inspector Wexford novel. 16:30Poet Sibyl Ruth explores the connections between the Quakers and 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.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines with Ritula Shah. 17:30'Princess Margaret's boyfriend picked us up.' Listeners share tales of hitchhiking. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Can the government's strategy to boost local enterprise recover from a 'chaotic' start? 17:40The Home Secretary, Theresa May, dealing with the aftermath of riots across England. 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. 18:301/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Shelia Hancock and Graham Norton.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4The human chameleon's host of comic characters from a chicken shop worker to a honeymooner
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/3Director Desmond Olivier Dingle leads a celebration of his holiness the Dalai Lama.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Speech therapist Milton helps a prince find his voice and a king find his pomegranates.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6The tag talk show: Peter Hook talks to John Cooper Clarke.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran with Laurence Cane-Honeysett, Akala, Sally Lindsay and John Michael McDonagh.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Susan makes the best of the new situation. 19:15John Wilson meets the designer Ron Arad, and interviews novelist Hari Kunzru. 19:456/10Anarchy rules on the Italian retreat, and it's every man for himself.
| 19:00Elizabeth says something she regrets. 19:15With John Wilson, who meets Andy Serkis, as he returns to our cinemas playing an ape. 19:457/10On the run from the chaos of the Italian retreat, Frederic seeks Catherine out.
| 19:00Pip thinks she's made things worse. 19:15John Wilson reviews Jude Law back on stage and the Spaghetti Western Orchestra play live. 19:458/10Frederic and Catherine escape together from Italy, and find that their troubles evaporate.
| 19:00There's a poacher on the prowl. 19:15John Wilson reports on art theft, one hundred years after the Mona Lisa was stolen. 19:459/10Life is almost dull for Frederic and Catherine, as they settle in Switzerland.
| 19:00Things go from bad to worse for Pat and Tony. 19:15Mark Lawson reports from the recent Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. 19:4510/10Tragedy strikes leaving Frederic to ponder the future. Stars Patrick Kennedy.
| 19:00The Home Secretary, Theresa May, dealing with the aftermath of riots across England. 19:15Bidisha and her guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Tom thinks strategically. 19:15As stock markets see-saw, a visit to America's OTHER trading floor in Chicago. 19:453/3By Jerome Vincent. The early filmmakers guarded their secrets closely - sometimes fatally.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson investigates the secret baptism of Jews in Vienna's Anglican church, in 1938. 20:30Tim Judah reports from Senegal on the growing influence of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood.
| 20:00Can the government's strategy to boost local enterprise recover from a 'chaotic' start? 20:40Strategies on how to cope with being partially sighted.
| 20:001/3Professor Gordon Graham argues that democracy is overrated. 20:45Dominic Hobson argues that organised competitive sport harms rather than builds character.
| 20:00In the wake of the massacre in Norway, James Silver reports on extremism in the UK. 20:30Peter Day asks what's wrong with corporate governance.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and politics from York. 20:50Alain de Botton on why pessimism is the key to happiness.
| 20:00Arthur Smith searches for the best and worst after-dinner speeches in history.
| 20:00Riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Michael Bukht, Hugh Carey, John Hoyland, Nancy Wake and Joe Arroyo.
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| 21:00 | 21:001/2Generations Apart tracks people from two wildly different generations. 21:451/2Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London.(R)
| 21:002/2Fi Glover presents a new series for BBC Radio 4 - today focusing on 21-year-olds. 21:452/2Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London.(R)
| 21:00Chris Ledgard asks if gender testing will mean a level playing field for female athletes. 21:303/4Amanda Vickery uses court cases to explore the lives of servants in the 18th century.
| 21:00Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back the freedom of speech. 21:302/4Terry Waite returns to his childhood home in the small Cheshire village of Styal.
| 21:005/5Yeltsin becomes Russian President and challenges the authority of Gorbachev's USSR.
| 21:005/6Far from Gormenghast, Titus finds himself in an alien world.
| 21:00Why Edinburgh now needs £228m of public money to salvage its part-built tram line. 21:26Sir Trevor McDonald presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Handicap International UK. 21:30Peter Day asks what's wrong with corporate governance.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:451/5Our narrator looks back on where it all began: the arrival of Adrian Finn at his school.
| 22:00With Ritula Shah. National and international news and analysis. 22:452/5The friends have dispersed to university where Tony finally acquires a girlfriend.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/5After the end of his relationship with Veronica, Tony receives a surprising letter.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. 22:454/5Tony manages to get in touch with his former girlfriend to ask for an explanation.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:455/5Veronica decides she needs to show Tony some historical evidence.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/3Professor Gordon Graham argues that democracy is overrated.
| 22:00Anita Anand hosts political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Mehdi Hasan analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard meets Les Barker, a Mancunian who's fallen in love with the Welsh language. 23:303/4Dr Hugh is worried that Dr Roy has overlooked a possible communicable disease.(R)
| 23:00Jason Manford celebrates the life of entertainer Jimmy Jewel.(R) 23:302/4Lady Tresselian's house party is thrown into disarray by the sudden death of a friend.(R)
| 23:001/4Two original story poems from spoken word artists Laura Dockrill and Polar Bear. 23:151/6The 2000-year-old wizard living in the modern world tries to re-capture an evil sorcerer.(R) 23:302/3Rory meets Barry Murphy, the Irish topical comic and satirist.(R)
| 23:002/6Vicky bumps into an old boyfriend and finds herself inviting him and his fiancee to dinner 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster as Parliament is recalled following riots and looting
| 23:00Broadcaster Janice Long champions the life and work of singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl. 23:302/5How far can you fall without breaking a bone? With Justin Moorhouse.(R)
| 23:00With guests Ardal O'Hanlon, Shelagh Fogarty and Martin Jarvis. 23:30A love affair and a secret daughter takes Wordsworth to Calais as John Worthen discovers.
| 23:00With special guests James Marsh, Romain Gavras and Mark Gatiss. 23:30Mark Tully examines the role of performance in acts of religious worship.
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