| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:155,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism. 00:45The bells of St Thomas' Church, Oxford. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Asian opium poppies arrived in Mexico with Chinese labourers in the 1860s. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Mexican Chinese traffickers cash in on America's illegal opium market. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5American drug policy shapes the future of 'El Narco'. Kingpins and cartels emerge. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The drug underworld feeds its own peculiar culture with ballads depicting the dramas. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Is El Narco a criminal movement or an insurgency that threatens the very state itself? 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3A married man runs a terrible risk when out for a walk in the park with his mistress. 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. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Thousands of UK produced illegal battery eggs could be getting into the food chain. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Anger from egg farmers as at least 150,000 hens are still in illegal battery cages.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Farm Minister admits embarrassment over illegal UK battery eggs.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Fabrics from the farm: Charlotte Smith meets some 'Cotswold Lions'.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears the latest government plans for a badger cull to control TB.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:45Youth unemployment, the music of Hitchcock, and how photos bring people back to life.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of York Minster. 05:45Novelist Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. With James Naughtie and Evan Davis.
| 06:00Debating the Welfare Reform Bill, disaster psychology, and union criticisms of Ed Miliband
| 06:00Debating the 'joint enterprise' law, prospects for a new London airport and Dickens at 200
| 06:00Analysing 'moral capitalism', plus the NHS reforms and Adrian Mole at 30.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Seven years since the hunting act became law, Open Country investigates if it's working. 06:30From birds to boar, Charlotte Smith crunches the numbers on wildlife surveys. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully discovers the benefits of education later in life for students and for society. 06:35The battle to build a farm housing 25,000 pigs, 33 times the size of an average pig farm. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Why are so many people visiting A&E departments? Plus celebrity privacy and Press TV.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Stephen Fry presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity National Nightline. 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 the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with Gemma Simmonds CJ. 08:50Lisa Jardine reflects on her aversion to today's new sources of noise. 08:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Detlev Schlichter, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Philip Coggan. 09:451/5Asian opium poppies arrived in Mexico with Chinese labourers in the 1860s.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the Stephen Lawrence case. 09:302/5A Venezuelan opera singer now living in Italy was forced to make a life-changing decision. 09:452/5Mexican Chinese traffickers cash in on America's illegal opium market.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets journalist Sandy Gall and music writer Nick Coleman. 09:453/5American drug policy shapes the future of 'El Narco'. Kingpins and cartels emerge.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution. 09:454/5The drug underworld feeds its own peculiar culture with ballads depicting the dramas.
| 09:00Historian and writer Paul Johnson is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5Is El Narco a criminal movement or an insurgency that threatens the very state itself?
| 09:00Richard Coles with TV personality Ulrika Jonsson; comedian Ruby Wax's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Parents on academy schools and Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? What tragedy befell him over 20 years before?
| 10:00The human cost of the crisis in social care; Anna Calvi sings; and how to wear pastels. 10:452/5Zeena goes away to see a doctor, so Ethan and Mattie are left alone for the first time.
| 10:00Does feminism change when it crosses party political lines? And novelist Ahdaf Soueif. 10:453/5Ethan and Mattie's idyll is shattered by the return of Zeena.
| 10:00Trouble brewing over the regulation of medical implants for Stress Urinary Incontinence. 10:454/5Ethan becomes determined to escape his marriage and run away with Mattie.
| 10:00Intricate and exquisite - could the orchid ever usurp the rose in the nation's affections? 10:455/5Mattie and Ethan take desperate measures not to be separated.
| 10:00John McCarthy looks at travelling in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 10:303/3Science-mad comedian Robin Ince shares his wonder at gene research and love of festivals.
| 10:00Caroline faces some communication difficulties and Ambridge shows its Blitz spirit.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2Can new government initiatives push the unemployed into work? Tom Heap investigates. 11:303/4The aspiring politicians of the new political Party try to grapple with law and order.(R)
| 11:00The sounds of a Ghost Roost; a performance by starlings. 11:30Stanley Jones, legendary lithographer on the Curwen Studio, with artist Susan Aldworth.
| 11:00Reem Kelani explores the role of music in the Egyptian revolution of early 2011. 11:303/4When dealing with his wife's lover, Robert uses his deadliest weapon - being a gentleman.
| 11:00Kate Adie hosts despatches from Italy, Libya, Ecuador, China and India. 11:30Frances Fyfield explores the manuscript of Dickens' last and unfinished novel.
| 11:00As the world watches the pandas in Edinburgh zoo, Philip Dodd investigates their allure. 11:301/6James Walton quizzes Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Sir Andrew Motion and Sue Limb.
| 11:00Jackie Ashley of the Guardian looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie hosts despatches from correspondents in Yemen, Syria, India, Pakistan and Israel
| 11:15Writer Vikram Seth is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Nutritional therapists accused of dangerous advice and the new crowdsourcing websites. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Has cosmetic surgery been normalised? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Shari Vahl presents Radio 4's consumer affairs programme. 12:30John Waite investigates the policing of crimes that take place on board cruise ships. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The drivers tricked by a car insurance scam and is our newest lottery breaking the rules? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Park charges for fitness coaches, broadband speeds, and shoring up the Coliseum. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00British forces abroad face tax fines, new coins, selling your mobile and pension drawdown. 12:305/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/6Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme Garden hide truths in lies. 12:32A profile of the people coming up with radical ideas for food in the UK. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:451/5Hardeep Singh Kohli takes the word 'mattress' and sees where it leads him.(R)
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:452/5Hardeep Singh Kohli takes the word 'trifle' and sees where it leads him.(R)
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:453/5Hardeep Meg Matthews, who owns 400 pairs of high heels.(R)
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:454/5Hardeep Singh Kohli takes the word 'spin' and sees where it leads him.(R)
| 13:00National and international news with Edward Stourton. 13:455/5Hardeep Singh Kohli takes the word 'stroke' and sees where it leads him.(R)
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Ingatestone, Essex.
| 13:00Edward Stourton presents the latest national and international news. 13:303/3The struggles and obstacles as the government tries to roll out its bold reforms.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pip is full of enthusiasm. 14:15Mel Hudson stars in her surreal comedy about a woman facing a marital breakdown.
| 14:00Caroline faces some communication difficulties. 14:153/4Birkett defends a doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and maid.
| 14:00Ambridge shows its Blitz spirit. 14:15The true story of 16-year-old Edith Scholem, forced to flee Berlin in 1934.(R)
| 14:00Brian calls in the experts. 14:15A couple find and re-find each other in the dark of New York's blackouts of 1965 and 1977.
| 14:00Adam says more than he should. 14:15The small Cornish community of Newlyn is changed with the arrival of a delirious Irishman.(R)
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30An encounter with a journalist causes shockwaves in Edith Wharton's life.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs a gardening advice show with Springfields Horticultural Society. 14:453/5Glasgow: Working in the spaceship yards and taking the Govan ferry.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Contestants from Cheshire, the West Midlands and Edinburgh bid for a semi-final place. 15:30Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012.
| 15:002/4Stories of separation - political, personal and playful. 15:30Stewart Henderson looks into why the swallow sometimes flies high and sometimes low.(R)
| 15:00Paul Lewis and expert guests answer your questions about maternity and paternity rights. 15:30Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us.
| 15:00Seven years since the hunting act became law, Open Country investigates if it's working. 15:27Sir Michael Parkinson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Bishop Simeon Trust. 15:30Mariella Frostrup with the latest from the world of books and authors.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs a gardening advice show with Springfields Horticultural Society. 15:452/3Two squabbling teenagers resist the well-meaning forces that push them together.
| 15:30Stanley Jones, legendary lithographer on the Curwen Studio, with artist Susan Aldworth.
| 15:001/2Henry Wharton creeps into no-man's land to spend an evening with his family.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Penelope Keith explores the radio serial Mrs Dale's Diary, 40 years after it ended. 16:30Ernie Rea discusses the impact of religious belief and practice on today's society.
| 16:00Michael Rosen explores the new wave of public-speaking events including Ignite and TED. 16:30Actress Emma Kennedy chooses the life of the American comedienne Gracie Allen.
| 16:00Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male. 16:30Times editor James Harding on Leveson, Guardian chief Alan Rusbridger on smaller papers.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Ralph Fiennes and Terry Gilliam about their new films. 16:30The world in 3D, Darwin's lost fossils, fashionable stripes, and the end of Angkor.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill. 16:30Roger Bolton discusses the delicate business of finding suitable stand-in presenters.
| 16:00Freemarket feminism, parenting the French way and pretty in pink for spring fashions.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup discusses what's going on in the publishing world. 16:30Roger McGough with poetry requests read by Catherine Cusack and Patrick Romer.
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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 full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30Youth unemployment, the music of Hitchcock, and how photos bring people back to life. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Gary Younge talks to three generations of the same family who have been to jail. 17:402/8Peter Souter tackles the devolution debate via two of Edinburgh's newest residents. 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. 18:304/6Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme Garden hide truths in lies.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30After Will and Annabelle's disastrous first anniversary, they're off for marriage guidance(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4A Manchester DJ tries to balance love, work, life and everything without much success.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Ending her relationship with Brian, Clare is surprised by her colleagues' reaction.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/8A 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 with Ardal O'Hanlon, Mark Thomas, Gus Casely-Hayford and Paul Gambaccini.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Frank Cottrell Boyce makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Caroline faces some communication difficulties. 19:15Leonardo DiCaprio as J Edgar Hoover; TS Eliot Prize winner; British Film Industry report. 19:451/5Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? What tragedy befell him over 20 years before?
| 19:00Ambridge shows its Blitz spirit. 19:15William Boyd on David Hockney's landscape paintings; Steven Soderbergh's film Haywire. 19:452/5Zeena goes away to see a doctor, so Ethan and Mattie are left alone for the first time.
| 19:00Brian calls in the experts. 19:15Mark Lawson reviews Madonna's W.E., and Ian Rankin on his unpublished first novel. 19:453/5Ethan and Mattie's idyll is shattered by the return of Zeena.
| 19:00Adam says more than he should. 19:15Leonard Cohen and his new disc; screenwriter Abi Morgan; Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus. 19:454/5Ethan becomes determined to escape his marriage and run away with Mattie.
| 19:00There's good news at last. 19:15Soldiers' stories on stage; Norma Percy on Putin; L'Atalante. John Wilson presents. 19:455/5Mattie and Ethan take desperate measures not to be separated.
| 19:002/8Peter Souter tackles the devolution debate via two of Edinburgh's newest residents. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00There's no stopping Tracy. 19:155/6With panellists Tom Wrigglesworth, Lloyd Langford, Lucy Porter and Robert Popper. 19:451/3By Mark Burgess. A man in his 60s, embracing retirement, remembers his teenage years.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/3Going soft? The Bishop of Liverpool considers whether community sentencing works. 20:30Gabriel Gatehouse investigates freedom and repression in Kurdish Iraq.
| 20:00Gary Younge talks to three generations of the same family who have been to jail. 20:40The Lords debate on postponing the replacement for Disability Living Allowance.
| 20:00Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall. 20:45Novelist Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press.
| 20:00Simon Cox reports on the faulty PIP breast implant scandal. 20:30Peter Day meets young people trying to beat the recession by setting up their own business
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Ingatestone, Essex. 20:50Lisa Jardine reflects on her aversion to today's new sources of noise.
| 20:00Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
| 20:00Roger Bolton discusses the delicate business of finding suitable stand-in presenters. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Teaching computer science, mapping dark matter, emerging pests and nasty noises. 21:30Andrew Marr with Detlev Schlichter, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Philip Coggan.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us. 21:30Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the Stephen Lawrence case.
| 21:00Adam Rutherford with astronomical insights on literature and art. 21:30Libby Purves meets journalist Sandy Gall and music writer Nick Coleman.
| 21:00The sounds of a Ghost Roost; a performance by starlings. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.
| 21:00Exploring the show trial of dissident writer Vaclav Havel and others.
| 21:003/3Mickey returns to India, determined to marry Mary and prove himself to Martin.
| 21:00British forces abroad face tax fines, new coins, selling your mobile and pension drawdown. 21:26Stephen Fry presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity National Nightline. 21:30Peter Day meets young people trying to beat the recession by setting up their own business
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:451/10Riley Purefoy, a North London working-class boy, gets his first taste of the war.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Riley Purefoy returns to the front line. In London, Nadine decides to become a nurse.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/101915. The war continues to challenge both men and women.
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/10On leave in London, Riley meets Nadine again after three years.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:455/10Riley leads his men through an important attack on German lines on the Somme.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Sarah Sands analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen hears the traditional stories that are being passed down the generations. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/6Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) plays a twisted regression therapist in this dark comedy. 23:153/6It's late, the schedules have gone barmy and our Radio 4 announcer has marital woes.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Country legend Tina C visits Iceland to help save the world from its financial mess. 23:152/4Looking at pressures to conform, Andrew Lawrence probes communication difficulties.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/3Surreal sketch show mixing live and studio material. From Glasgow. 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Actress Emma Kennedy chooses the life of the American comedienne Gracie Allen. 23:30Mark D'Arcy covers backbenchers' bills in the Commons.
| 23:00Contestants from Cheshire, the West Midlands and Edinburgh bid for a semi-final place. 23:30Roger McGough with red-hot poetry read by Catherine Cusack and Patrick Romer.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Ralph Fiennes and Terry Gilliam about their new films. 23:30Mark Tully discovers the benefits of education later in life for students and for society.
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