| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor looks at the limits of science with Bryan Appleyard and John Gray. 00:45The bells from St Peter in Tiverton, Devon.. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Charming memoir of a young man's brief but luminous friendship with Marilyn Monroe. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Marilyn Monroe quizzes Colin on his loyalty. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Escaping to the countryside, Marilyn Monroe persuades Colin to go for a skinny dip. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Summoning Colin at 1.30am, Marilyn Monroe reveals her darkest fears. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5After a tragic event, Colin realises that his friendship with Marilyn Monroe must end. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3It should be an honour taking the King in your wagon, but Cosimo is worried.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45The humble British Border Collie is proving it's the top dog in a global sheepdog industry 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Anna Hill hears why British sheepdogs are now being exported all round the world.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Anna Hill investigates why there may be fewer Christmas trees available this year.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Who will be named Farming Today Farmer of the Year?
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Prayer and reflection with Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45Sheepdogs from Down Under and generating energy from plants. With Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Presented from Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. 05:45'Green Grows My Peston, Oh!' Ramblin' Syd Rumpo puts listeners' new swearwords to music.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Eadburgha in Ebrington, Gloucestershire. 05:45How Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi rose to become the key figure in the Egyptian crisis.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With Foreign Secretary William Hague on Egypt and Ed Balls on the economy.
| 06:00Debating cancer care, executive pay, Egypt, doing good, plus Kate Bush on her new album.
| 06:00Debating Caesarean sections, elderly care, Egypt protests and the perfect pub.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Research sheds light on acts of resistance in occupied Jersey during the Second World War. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates how the humble sheepdog has grown into a global industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Poet Stewart Henderson contemplates the unresolved. 06:35On a Shropshire hillside ancient holly trees reveal an astonishing relationship with rowan 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. 07:55Griff Rhys Jones presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Move Europe. 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 for Advent: Searching for wisdom from Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church Edinburgh 08:50Mary Beard reflects on the purpose of the much-maligned 'Oxbridge interview'.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky, Iwona Blazwick and Sarah Gillespie. 09:451/5Charming memoir of a young man's brief but luminous friendship with Marilyn Monroe.
| 09:00Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds. 09:30Evan Davis talks to advertising executive Steve Henry about deception. 09:452/5Marilyn Monroe quizzes Colin on his loyalty.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by Warwick Davis, Sheena Byrom, Sir Willard White and Sierra James. 09:453/5Escaping to the countryside, Marilyn Monroe persuades Colin to go for a skinny dip.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus. 09:454/5Summoning Colin at 1.30am, Marilyn Monroe reveals her darkest fears.
| 09:00Actor Robert Hardy is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5After a tragic event, Colin realises that his friendship with Marilyn Monroe must end.
| 09:00Richard Coles with crime writer Patricia Cornwell and Ulrika Jonsson's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Andrea Riseborough, silence in the classroom, women bishops. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Therapist Martha is losing patience with her clients - and who could blame her?
| 10:00Giorgio Locatelli cooks the perfect pasta; defining female beauty. With Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Howard's 33 year old, stay-at-home son Aaron, tells his side of the story.
| 10:00Post Berlusconi: what now for women? Dame Felicity Lott, pregnancy and birth options. 10:453/5Caroline wants her daughter to be a star but devastatingly the girl has other plans.
| 10:00Christian Louboutin; History of Madame Tussauds; Child tax credit reform. 10:454/5Philip reveals his demotion from Good Morning Norfolk, to a shopping channel.
| 10:00Can restorative justice in schools help expel bad behaviour from the classroom? 10:455/5Richard Fallon MP is becoming invisible. Or at least that's what he feels.
| 10:00John McCarthy explores storytelling in Japan and Morocco and coastal weather stations. 10:30David Owen Norris hears songs the Scottish bard might have carried around with him.
| 10:00Pat tries to find out more and there's an unexpected arrival in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come. 11:306/6The Brighton coppers tackle vicious seagulls, an unexploded mine and evil Mrs Vine.
| 11:0027/30This week Saving Species is all about trees and forests. 11:302/4Ken Clarke QC MP and the composer John Altman discuss the music of Zoot Sims.
| 11:00Japan: Roland Buerk explores why the kimono industry in Japan is in steep decline. 11:302/3By Rona Munro. Friedrich and Beth met as wartime enemies and found love on a Scottish farm(R)
| 11:00Lucy Ash asks if a billionaire's roubles can help to end Dagestan's bloody insurgency. 11:30Men who sing in falsetto. Bidisha on the countertenor voice, from Purcell to Plan B.
| 11:00Chemist Andrea Sella investigates things that go flash in the dark. 11:304/4Anthony's 'sensitive' goddaughter visits and Damien is asked to make a TV pilot
| 11:00Jackie Ashley of the Guardian looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Correspondents with stories from Damascus, Cairo, Goma, Phnom Penh and Skopje.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to adventurer Bear Grylls.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The X Factor's Ashley John-Baptiste on why he sensationally quit the TV show. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Home care for the elderly, re-inventing the hi-fi, and social media gone bad. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00How to make money on YouTube, and the UK's top takeaways. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Sheila Dillon with the stories of this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards finalists. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:303/6Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:002/6A return visit to Guildford for the regulars, plus Jeremy Hardy on the panel. 12:32Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2011 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney with national and international news. 13:451/5Stephen Fry meets the engineers who first dreamt of creating a cellular network in the 60s
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:452/5Stephen Fry on how Britain was a world leader in mobile phone technology in the 1980s.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:453/5Stephen Fry explores how texting triumphed unexpectedly when paging was all the rage.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:454/5How engineers turned mobile phones from hefty bricks into fashion items.
| 13:00With Shaun Ley. National and international news. 13:455/5Meet the design pioneers of small silicon chips - perfect for pocket-sized phones.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live topical discussion at the BBC Radio Theatre, London.
| 13:00With Shaun Ley. In-depth reporting of national and international events. 13:303/4Michael Portillo explores how the legend of the French Resistance blurred its real legacy.
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| 14:00 | 14:156/6A youth is arrested for attempted murder and Doug brings Shakespeare to the inner city.
| 14:00Pat tries to find out more. 14:15By Glen Neath. Police suspect that a violent robber is a victim of mind control.(R)
| 14:00Nic's plans are taking shape. 14:15Alf's memories come in flashes, returning him to his youth and his troubled marriage.(R)
| 14:00There's an unexpected arrival in Ambridge. 14:15A pauper takes a teenage girl on a rooftop adventure at Buckingham Palace.(R)
| 14:00Susan has her hands full. 14:15Debbie Oates' drama about a girl who hears voices, with original music by Carol Donaldson.(R)
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 70s, featuring Scotland Yard's laziest sleuth.(R)
| 14:00Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and guest Toby Buckalnd join Othery Gardening Club. 14:452/5MS patients in their 30s talk about the challenges of coming out with the disease.
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| 15:00 | 15:00With competitors from Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, London and Northern Ireland. 15:30Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, meets three campaigning UK chefs.
| 15:00Helen Castor presents the programme that reflects listener's passion for the past. 15:30Hiroko Kawanami, Richard Lloyd Parry and Imran Yusuf explore the idea of Japan.
| 15:00Paul Lewis presents a financial phone-in. 15:30English riots; "anchoring" and credit card minimum payments; bullying and BPD.
| 15:00Research sheds light on acts of resistance in occupied Jersey during the Second World War. 15:27Terry Wogan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Children in Need. 15:30Mariella Frostrup continues Open Book's celebration of funny books and funny writers.
| 15:00Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and guest Toby Buckalnd join Othery Gardening Club. 15:45Daniel Taylor throws a ball into the air, with unexpected results. By Mick Jackson.
| 15:302/4Ken Clarke QC MP and the composer John Altman discuss the music of Zoot Sims.
| 15:001/2Story of a man and the effect his pity for a young disabled girl has on both their lives.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Julia Blackburn meets writers whose private papers reside in Leeds University Library. 16:30Back for a new series, Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by impressionist Jon Culshaw.
| 16:002/3Matthew Taylor examines how British schools will change in the era of 'Brain Culture'. 16:30Rachel Johnson and Martin Kelner discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers. 16:30Leveson Inquiry goes beyond hacking; Daybreak after Adrian and Christine.
| 16:00Branagh on Olivier and Monroe, Nanni Moretti on the Pope and Michael Shannon on malady. 16:30Top government scientists discuss risk and Quentin investigates insect flight.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Basil D'Oliveira, Shelagh Delaney, Sir David Jack, Peter Reading. 16:30Roger goes behind the scenes at the Asian Network and puzzles over the DQF jargon.
| 16:00Christian Louboutin; normalisation of lapdancing; the history of Madame Tussauds.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup continues Open Book's celebration of funny books and funny writers. 16:30Poet Robert Crawford asks what connects the ancient Greek poet Simonides with war today.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30'Green Grows My Peston, Oh!' Ramblin' Syd Rumpo puts listeners' new swearwords to music. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting. 17:40How Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi rose to become the key figure in the Egyptian crisis. 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. 18:302/6A return visit to Guildford for the regulars, plus Jeremy Hardy on the panel.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Should Page 3 models be celebrated or consigned to history's dustbin?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Marcus Brigstocke invites comic Sarah Millican to eat Chinese food with chopsticks.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4A week of radio that never happened with Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson talks to Terence Stamp and Rankin with music from Mariachi El Bronx.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Ernie Rea makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Pat tries to find out more. 19:15With Kirsty Lang, including Gillian Slovo on her play The Riots; WWII film Resistance. 19:451/5Therapist Martha is losing patience with her clients - and who could blame her?
| 19:00Nic's plans are taking shape. 19:15John Wilson meets Kate Bush as she releases a new album of songs inspired by snow. 19:452/5Howard's 33 year old, stay-at-home son Aaron, tells his side of the story.
| 19:00There's an unexpected arrival in Ambridge. 19:15John Wilson reviews the film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt as an underdog baseball manager 19:453/5Caroline wants her daughter to be a star but devastatingly the girl has other plans.
| 19:00Susan has her hands full. 19:15The film The Deep Blue Sea, based Terence Rattigan's play; John Craven on Newsround at 40. 19:454/5Philip reveals his demotion from Good Morning Norfolk, to a shopping channel.
| 19:00Helen is worried about her mother. 19:15Shakespeare Folio Thefts; Desperate Scousewives reviewed. 19:455/5Richard Fallon MP is becoming invisible. Or at least that's what he feels.
| 19:00How Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi rose to become the key figure in the Egyptian crisis. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:153/6Sue Perkins' moral and ethical posers for Shappi Khorsandi, Simon Munnery and Fi Glover. 19:452/3Byng tells of his first professional engagement as a member of a concert party in Hastings
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world. 20:30How local level campaigners against corruption in India face threats and violence.
| 20:00Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting. 20:40Peter White with news and information for blind and partially sighted people.
| 20:00Combative debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 20:45David Bainbridge sees the evolution of middle age as central to our species' success.
| 20:00Are vulnerable adults deprived of their liberty adequately protected by the law? 20:30Peter Day finds out what lessons business owners can learn from previous recessions.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live topical discussion at the BBC Radio Theatre, London. 20:50Mary Beard reflects on the purpose of the much-maligned 'Oxbridge interview'.
| 20:00Maxwell Hutchinson on the architects who rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.
| 20:00Roger goes behind the scenes at the Asian Network and puzzles over the DQF jargon. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Basil D'Oliveira, Shelagh Delaney, Sir David Jack, Peter Reading.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Regulating geo-engineering, getting to Mars and a new island in the Atlantic. 21:30Andrew Marr with Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky, Iwona Blazwick and Sarah Gillespie.
| 21:00English riots; "anchoring" and credit card minimum payments; bullying and BPD. 21:30Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds.
| 21:00Antivirals. Kevin Fong looks at new techniques to cure all viral infections. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by Warwick Davis, Sheena Byrom, Sir Willard White and Sierra James.
| 21:0027/30This week Saving Species is all about trees and forests. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.
| 21:00Eco-terrorists plot the humiliation of a major oil company in this hand-held horror.(R)
| 21:002/2Strether falls under the spell of Paris, but his fiancee sends more men to bring him home.
| 21:00The latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Griff Rhys Jones presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Move Europe. 21:30Peter Day finds out what lessons business owners can learn from previous recessions.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah with national and international news and analysis. 22:451/5Celia's life is perfect, but it can take just one thing to turn a life upside down.
| 22:00With Ritula Shah. National and international news and analysis. 22:452/5A broken-backed upright could be the piano of someone's dreams.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. 22:453/5She had nothing to give him for his birthday. But nothing turned out to be just perfect.
| 22:00Egypt's military says elections will go ahead despite recent violence. 22:454/5Rose and her daughter Anna have a long history of disappointing each other.
| 22:00Vast crowds fill Cairo's Tahrir Square demanding change. 22:455/5Upstairs, two boys asleep in bed; downstairs, a man and his TV versus a woman and her cat.
| 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. 22:45George Parker of the FT analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Stuart Heritage, Dee Caffari and Neil McCormick discuss heart, courage and brains. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Back for a new series, Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by impressionist Jon Culshaw. 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:004/6Is passion a dangerous thing? Mark Watson resumes his quest to improve the world. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/4The controversial host meets a balloon-twisting preacher and a woman who hates Belgians. 23:30Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Rachel Johnson and Martin Kelner discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with his weekly round up of events in parliamentar.
| 23:00With competitors from Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, London and Northern Ireland. 23:30Diana Collecott on wartime poet Hilda Doolittle with readings by Sara Kestelman.
| 23:00Branagh on Olivier and Monroe, Nanni Moretti on the Pope and Michael Shannon on malady. 23:30Poet Stewart Henderson contemplates the unresolved.
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