| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers. 00:45The bells of St Bartholomew's Church, Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Nick's ability to hear music is altered irrevocably, and a process of readjustment begins. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Nick recollects his first seven records as a teenager. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Nick has a new treatment for his hearing loss. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The soundtrack to Nick's first teenage crush is revisited. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Nick Coleman's struggle to overcome losing music, with the diagnosis of his hearing loss. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3The winters are particularly hard, but Neil revels in the isolation and tranquillity. 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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Beach. 05:45The investment that has doubled in value in five years, and feeds us too - farmland. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Beach. 05:45Vets fear thousands of sheep could be infected with a new disease.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Beach. 05:45The farm land that is worth less than some people carry around in their wallet.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Beach. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears how trees are being planted to save salmon from climate change.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Beach. 05:45A divided county - Cheshire's different decisions on council farms.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie Griffiths. 05:45Dear John... Listeners give advice to a man struggling with self-employment.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells from St Martin's in Desford, Leicestershire. 05:45Author Bali Rai argues that stopping talking about race is the best way to stop racism.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Debating why Stephen Hester turned down his bonus, and with William Hague on the EU.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Jules Hudson discovers a hidden landscape, deep beneath the East Anglian fens. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates why the price of UK farmland has doubled in five years. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully ponders the significance of mementos, not just of the past, but the future too. 06:35Miranda Krestovnikoff explores the watery wintery world of the dipper. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Debating cold weather survival, outrage at the bankers, and life on Mars.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Samantha Renke presents a very personal appeal for the Brittle Bone Society. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Marking the 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 08:50Lisa Jardine reflects on the perils of over-hasty emails. 08:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr discusses revolution with Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King. 09:451/5Nick's ability to hear music is altered irrevocably, and a process of readjustment begins.
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland compares Greek debt to the sovereign default of Edward III in 1340. 09:305/5Daniel Sanden-Warg was drawn to Norway for the hardanger fiddle - its national instrument.(R) 09:452/5Nick recollects his first seven records as a teenager.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets former politician Lord Kenneth Baker and writer Michele Hanson. 09:453/5Nick has a new treatment for his hearing loss.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra. 09:454/5The soundtrack to Nick's first teenage crush is revisited.
| 09:00Sir David Attenborough is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 09:455/5Nick Coleman's struggle to overcome losing music, with the diagnosis of his hearing loss.
| 09:00Richard Coles with Alastair Campbell, Showaddywaddy & Rosemary Conley's Inheritance Tracks
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Will the next DG of the BBC be female? And child protection: how tough decisions are made. 10:451/51962 begins badly when Pepys accidentally elbows his wife in the eye as he wakes up.
| 10:00Why's our relationship to food so complicated? And Joanna Trollope on her latest book. 10:452/5Samuel is determined to go without Elizabeth on a navy jaunt to Portsmouth.
| 10:00What's the next big thing in the beauty industry? And why life begins at 60. 10:453/5Sam witnesses the unjust execution of Henry Vane and the arrival of a new Queen.
| 10:00Should Woman's Hour do cooking? Diana Henry and Miranda Sawyer discuss. Angela Carter. 10:454/5Sir William Batten is having a storey added to his house, so Sam decides to do the same.
| 10:00Killed by the Talkies; Single Parents; Transformation through Tragedy. 10:455/5Samuel's brother Tom is in love and hoping to marry, but he has exaggerated his income.
| 10:00John McCarthy chairs a discussion on Antarctica from the Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace 10:30Yellow circle. Black eyes. Happy mouth. Alastair Sooke explores the smiley face.
| 10:00Joe tackles some DIY. Meanwhile Ruth feels betrayed.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jonathan Glancey investigates Paris's secret underground maze of tunnels. 11:301/3Young debutante Rosemary dies after a sip of poisoned champagne.
| 11:00Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson travels to India to record the roar of a tiger. 11:30A celebration of Gerry Rafferty's popular solo hit, Baker Street.
| 11:001/4History documentary about Britain's biggest LSD drugs bust - Operation Julie in 1977. 11:301/6Peter and Sam receive a chilly warning about an imminent danger to their pensions.
| 11:00Featuring correspondents' stories from Italy, Nigeria, France, South Africa and Austria. 11:30The creator of longest running strip 'Bristow' is celebrated by fellow cartoonists.
| 11:001/3Edward Stourton explores the impact of the famous river on the people of Egypt. 11:303/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, John O'Farrell and Alex Clark.
| 11:00Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Reporters tell their stories and fill in the gaps between the headlines.
| 11:15Denise Lewis, Olympic medallist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Chemists short of drugs, rear-facing car seats for children and how shops manipulate us. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00With radical reform of our police service underway, what should the role of the police be? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00No win no fee legislation and the pull of the nail bar. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Spending confiscated drugs money, the future of cars, and how 'telehealth' saves lives. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The airline sued over its 'inaccessible' website plus new ways to save libraries. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest news from the world of personal finance. Presented by Paul Lewis. 12:307/8Sandi Toksvig is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Roisin Conaty and Mark Steel. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:006/6With panellists Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth and John Finnemore. 12:32Can a new wave of vegetarian chefs and food writers change mainstream cuisine? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:451/30Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:452/30Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:453/30Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:454/30Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:455/30Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Wirral.
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:302/3Allan looks at the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Neil acquires an unlikely assistant. 14:151/3Alice knows that to stop your children being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler(R)
| 14:00Brian does a spot of networking. 14:152/3It's not the first time Ruthie's mother has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note.(R)
| 14:153/3For Alice's 100th birthday present, Ruthie sets out to put her family back together again.(R)
| 14:152/4Pilgrim investigates a story about a man being turned into a hare.
| 14:00Brian thinks he's found the culprit. 14:15A tale of the greatest pearl found and the tragic impact its discovery has on one family.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Brothers Tommo and Charlie's journey from a Devon childhood to the horrors of WWI.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs a programme from the Royal College of Physicians beside Regent's Park. 14:455/5Louise journeys to the tiny Orkney island of Wyre, via the Ness of Brodgar neolithic dig.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Competitors vie for the last automatic place in the semi-finals. 15:30Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a tricky future.
| 15:004/4Nina explores the difficulty people have in expressing themselves. 15:30In San Francisco, recycling is so profitable that they're fighting over the trash.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests take calls on renting and letting. 15:30Presented by Dr Mark Porter. Looking at the bacteria Pseudomonas.
| 15:00Jules Hudson discovers a hidden landscape, deep beneath the East Anglian fens. 15:27John le Carré presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Peace Direct. 15:30Mariella Frostrup discusses horror fiction with Helen Dunmore; plus students in literature
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs a programme from the Royal College of Physicians beside Regent's Park. 15:451/3A former cinema employee decides to create a 'cinema' of his own inside a refugee camp.
| | 15:001/3Gulliver is shipwrecked on Lilliput, where the tiny natives live in a miniature society.
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| 16:00 | 16:00The writer Gervase Phinn presents favourite readings, with Wilde, Heaney and Trollope. 16:30Ernie Rea and his guests discuss pilgrimage and ask why it is growing in popularity.
| 16:001/3Allan Little looks at the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall. 16:30Conservative politician Baroness Warsi nominates a 13th-century Indian princess.
| 16:00The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better. 16:30How to be Director General of the BBC, reform of the Press Complaints Commission and more.
| 16:00Francine Stock and Alexander Payne discuss his Oscar-nominated film The Descendants. 16:30Genome ethics, having friends takes brains, emotional art, and triggering an ice age.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Angelo Dundee, Isi Metzstein, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Theo Angelopoulos 16:30Your views on the BBC Trust's 5Live review. Plus, are there more drama repeats on Radio 4?
| 16:00Joanna Trollope on army wives, Virginia Ironside on being 60 and Toyah on being a punk.
| 16:00Art Spiegelman talks to James Naughtie and readers about his graphic novel Maus. 16:30Roger McGough with poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr.
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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 full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Ritula Shah offers a fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the automotive industry and the pros and cons of a salary. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Angus Stickler investigates deaths in police custody. 17:404/8Comedian Toby Hadoke creates an imaginative response to a story from the week's news. 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. 18:306/6With panellists Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth and John Finnemore.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4At Annabelle's mum's 60th birthday party, Will faces his straight talking father-in-law.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4A sudden event sparks a lifestyle rethink for the Manchester DJ. Stars Justin Moorhouse.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Clare is plagued by Brian's marriage proposals, and the family centre has an unveiling.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:307/8Sandi Toksvig is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Roisin Conaty and Mark Steel.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with music from Maverick Sabre and Mark Hole.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Michael Rosen makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Brian does a spot of networking. 19:15Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster in the film Carnage; Waiting for Godot with a black cast. 19:451/51962 begins badly when Pepys accidentally elbows his wife in the eye as he wakes up.
| 19:15Charlize Theron in Young Adult, and Australian novelist Kate Grenville. 19:452/5Samuel is determined to go without Elizabeth on a navy jaunt to Portsmouth.
| 19:15Actor Ashley Walters; Howard Hodgkin's Indian art collection; Katherine Kelly on stage. 19:453/5Sam witnesses the unjust execution of Henry Vane and the arrival of a new Queen.
| 19:00Brian thinks he's found the culprit. 19:15New film Martha Marcy May Marlene and author Anne Rice. 19:454/5Sir William Batten is having a storey added to his house, so Sam decides to do the same.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson. The hit US TV series Homeland, Syrian poet Adonis and Restoration Drama. 19:455/5Samuel's brother Tom is in love and hoping to marry, but he has exaggerated his income.
| 19:004/8Comedian Toby Hadoke creates an imaginative response to a story from the week's news. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Christopher has money matters on his mind. 19:151/6The award-winning American essayist reads his tale of summer with a quadriplegic friend.(R) 19:453/3On a Scottish loch, an academic does a lot of rowing and has a proper talk with his son.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Mark Easton digs into the origins of the current political debate over policing. 20:30Are good schools anything more than schools with a good intake? Fran Abrams investigates.
| 20:00Angus Stickler investigates deaths in police custody. 20:40RNIB to sue airline for inaccessible website and museum wins prize for audio project.
| 20:00Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall. 20:45Author Bali Rai argues that stopping talking about race is the best way to stop racism.
| 20:00Simon Cox investigates cruise ship safety after the Costa Concordia disaster. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss the automotive industry and the pros and cons of a salary.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Wirral. 20:50Lisa Jardine reflects on the perils of over-hasty emails.
| 20:00Archive on Four on the evolution of satire in Britain presented by Roger Law.(R)
| 20:00Your views on the BBC Trust's 5Live review. Plus, are there more drama repeats on Radio 4? 20:30Matthew Bannister on Angelo Dundee, Isi Metzstein, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Theo Angelopoulos
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| 21:00 | 21:00The next flu pandemic, an Arctic bulge, faces and voices and the Panama Canal. 21:30Andrew Marr discusses revolution with Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King.
| 21:00Presented by Dr Mark Porter. Looking at the bacteria Pseudomonas. 21:30Jonathan Freedland compares Greek debt to the sovereign default of Edward III in 1340.
| 21:00In San Francisco, recycling is so profitable that they're fighting over the trash. 21:30Libby Purves meets former politician Lord Kenneth Baker and writer Michele Hanson.
| 21:00Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson travels to India to record the roar of a tiger. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra.
| 21:001/6Clare Balding charts how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport.
| 21:002/2Soldier Henry Wharton must stand trial as a spy. Will he be hanged?
| 21:00The latest news from the world of personal finance. Presented by Paul Lewis. 21:26Samantha Renke presents a very personal appeal for the Brittle Bone Society. 21:30Are good schools anything more than schools with a good intake? Fran Abrams investigates.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/10A writer finds himself entrusted with looking after a disturbingly minimalist apartment.
| 22:00The Arab League asks the UN Security Council to call for President Assad to stand down. 22:452/10It's day two in the flat, and already there's a wine stain on Oskar's pristine wood floor.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10The minimalist apartment fails to inspire work, and an angry cleaner does not help matters
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/10After further mishaps in the flat, it's time to brave a classical concert.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:455/10An alcohol-fuelled night out results in more mayhem in the now less than pristine flat.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall.
| 22:00Mark D'Arcy presents a preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster. 22:45Mehdi Hasan of the New Statesman analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the portrayal of teens on TV, and speaks to Phil Redmond. 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:005/6Dr Berry's latest patient finds himself crowded, and face-to-face with an unusual tattoo. 23:155/6The late-night Radio 4 announcer plays some trails and shares his private life.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports as David Cameron faces some sceptical questions on Europe.
| 23:004/6Country music legend Tina C visits Europe on her tour to solve global recession. 23:151/4The peculiar ways in which we choose to celebrate weddings, birthdays and anniversaries.(R) 23:30Featuring David Cameron and Ed Miliband, on the NHS, bankers and benefits.
| 23:002/8The suave sleuth faces a perilous rendezvous on the Great North Road.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Conservative politician Baroness Warsi nominates a 13th-century Indian princess. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Competitors vie for the last automatic place in the semi-finals. 23:30Roger McGough presents poetry requests based on the themes of music and lyrics.
| 23:00Francine Stock and Alexander Payne discuss his Oscar-nominated film The Descendants. 23:30Mark Tully ponders the significance of mementos, not just of the past, but the future too.
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