| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie talks to Stefan Collini about the point of universities. 00:45The bells from St Michael's in Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Peter Ackroyd charts Wilkie Collins's life from childhood. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Following the death of his beloved father William, Wilkie embarks on a memoir. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Wilkie meets Caroline Graves in unusual circumstances. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5After Collins finds success with The Woman in White, another woman enters his life. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Wilkie's first child with Martha Rudd is born and Caroline returns to Gloucester Place. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Three generations of women come to terms with one another. 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 reflection to start the day. From Wales, with the Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears how growing up on a farm could help your immune system. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection to start the day. From Wales, with the Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Vets predict the number of UK cattle affected by Schmallenberg could be limited.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection to start the day. From Wales, with the Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Scottish farmers fear that Schmallenberg could cross the border.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection to start the day. From Wales, with the Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45How do we close the multi-billion-pound gap between food imports to the UK and exports?
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and reflection to start the day. From Wales, with the Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Grow our own - the need for more UK fruit and veg growers. Presented by Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of church bells. 05:45The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, asks if we are 'one alone or one of many'.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. With James Naughtie and Evan Davis.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; 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 Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding presents a series of inspirational walks in the British countryside. 06:30Caz Graham asks if growing food could be the key to the UK's economic growth. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully wonders what might happen if we challenge our instinctive fears and prejudices. 06:35Caz Graham visits an egg farmer who has borrowed £1 million to replace his battery cages. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and 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. 07:55Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity War on Want. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The Very Rev Graham Forbes preaches on freedom through discipline in a service for Lent. 08:50David Cannadine compares the traditions of tie-wearing on both sides of the Atlantic.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr and Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Holloway and Karen Armstrong. 09:451/5Peter Ackroyd charts Wilkie Collins's life from childhood.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers. 09:30Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talks to Louis de Bernieres about the impact of family breakdown. 09:452/5Following the death of his beloved father William, Wilkie embarks on a memoir.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Pauline Quirke and comic Shelley Bridgman. 09:453/5Wilkie meets Caroline Graves in unusual circumstances.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin. 09:454/5After Collins finds success with The Woman in White, another woman enters his life.
| 09:00Brian Moore, former rugby international and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Wilkie's first child with Martha Rudd is born and Caroline returns to Gloucester Place.
| 09:00Richard Coles with comedienne Andi Osho; Inheritance Tracks from Sir Christopher Frayling.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Including a look at the rising costs of childcare. 10:451/5Sir Richard wants to bequeath their crumbling ancestral home to the National Trust.
| 10:00Prue Leith, preparing for failure, and the anatomy of disgust. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Lady Helen is dismayed as a man arrives from the National Trust.
| 10:00Orla Guerin; Going without to feed your children; Kathy Lette. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Lady Helen grows more attached to Rafe, a welcome distraction from her husband Richard.
| 10:00Olympic hopeful Lynn McCafferty, and music to 'move the soul and stir the spirit'. 10:454/5Lady Helen's relationship with her stepson Rafe is growing dangerously out of control.
| 10:00Can we stop the tradition of making a pot of tea from going up the spout? 10:455/5Sir Richard is dead, and a fire has destroyed the library. Are the two events connected?
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig hears about medical work abroad and a trip to the Oscars. 10:304/8How the monarchy expresses power with displays of wealth and status.
| 10:00Tom pushes things too far and Clarrie receives a surprise visit.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Old BBC programmes are chopped up and recycled into something new 11:302/6Natalie Haynes, Michael Rosen, Arthur Smith and Paul Sinha vie for wordy supremacy.
| 11:001/2Sue Armstrong reports on a daring plan to save the South China tiger from extinction. 11:30Exploration of the emotional impact of The Hallelujah chorus by Handel.
| 11:00Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?(R) 11:305/6Sam desperately tries to remortgage the home he shares with Peter.
| 11:00The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Paul Morley on the 7 inch single's grand relative - the 12 inch - and its peak in the 80s.
| 11:00An exploration of our obsession with pens, paper and office life's paraphernalia. 11:301/4Charles takes part in a crime reconstruction show, then uncovers a grisly murder.
| 11:00Andrew Pierce of The Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Correspondents' reports from Damascus, Burma, Costa Rica and Kenya.
| 11:15Patsy Rodenburg, renowned voice coach, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Two-tier pricing for residential care, and opening cafe and pub toilets to non-customers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00On Call You & Yours - How important is a cultural education for our children? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The Work Programme, mobile roaming, homeless choir, Patisserie Valerie, jam or spread? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Back to work schemes, the jam that isn't, and apps on the NHS with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00How some big DIY chains may have inadvertently sold 'illegally' sourced wood. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:303/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with Lynne Truss, Andy Parsons, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:004/8Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit Hesketh-Harvey join Nicholas Parsons. 12:32Sheila Dillon and author Michael Pollan on the shifting sands of our global diet. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:4521/30Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:4522/30Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:4523/30Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents national and international news. 13:4524/30Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:4525/30Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Beccles in Suffolk.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international news. 13:30Nick Baker on a 70's revolution in children's books - stories set in state schools.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Ruth is at the end of her tether, and Chris shows his thoughtful side. 14:151/4Stone and his team investigate the disappearance of a two-year-old girl.
| 14:00Brian offers the hand of peace. 14:15In Julian Gough's comedy, Stephanie Flanders meets a novel solution to the eurozone crisis
| 14:00Tom pushes things too far. 14:151/4Warwick hits on an idea for putting the restaurant on the map - a music festival.
| 14:00Brian is on unfamiliar territory. 14:15Rumpole defends a shoplifting clergyman, exposes a former arsonist and appeases Hilda.
| 14:151960. Hilda's had a baby son, Nicholas. Rumpole, awash with flu, defends a safe-blower.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30By Charlotte Jones. Chilling story of the tragic fate of Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister.(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Bedfordshire. 14:45The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, asks if we are 'one alone or one of many'.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The last semi-final to determine who takes the remaining place in the grand final. 15:30Who makes sure our food is safe and how? A report on Britain's food safety net.
| 15:004/4From Rye, where the panellists discuss all things seafood. 15:30Could there be a cheaper, safer way to create nuclear energy? Julian Rush investigates.
| 15:30Dr Mark Porter asks why sleeping pills increase the chance of an early death.
| 15:00Clare Balding presents a series of inspirational walks in the British countryside. 15:27Trudie Styler appeals on behalf of The Rainforest Foundation. 15:30Mariella Frostrup talks to John Lanchester about his new novel Capital.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Bedfordshire. 15:452/3A romantic lunch goes strangely awry. But is it perhaps a lucky escape?
| 15:30Exploration of the emotional impact of The Hallelujah chorus by Handel.
| 15:002/2Dramatisation of Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II novel.
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| 16:00 | 16:00How Tarzan has enjoyed 100 years swinging through the jungle of popular culture. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Korea following the death of Kim Jong-il.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg asks how laws on privacy and copyright should work in the internet age. 16:30Harriett Gilbert, Brian Sewell and Wendy Cope champion their favourite books.
| 16:00Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between the wars. Presented by Laurie Taylor. 16:30James Murdoch steps down from News International; 'culture of illegal payments' at the Sun
| 16:00Minnie Driver and director Marc Evans discuss their Welsh high school musical, Hunky Dory. 16:30Chief Science Advisers in Government, animals in research, and the oldest forest.
| 16:00John Wilson on Davy Jones, Jean Pateman, Steve Kordek and Betty Parsons. 16:30A new take on the future of BBC local radio. And should Radio 4 do more on computer games?
| 16:00How to make a perfect cup of tea, and Kathy Lette on having a son with Asperger's Syndrome
| 16:00Alan Hollinghurst talks about his Man Booker prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. 16:304/4Ruth Padel leads a workshop with the Junkbox poets at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea.
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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 full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Presented by Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis asks his guests about reinventing a business and what to teach our children. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Do credit rating agencies threaten our financial stability? Hugh Pym investigates. 17:408/8By Lizzie Nunnery. Drama inspired by recent conflicts in the Middle East. 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. 18:304/8Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit Hesketh-Harvey join Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Arthur finds a cunning way of nosing around a neighbour's home.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Mark Thomas and his Glasgow audience consider a policy to buy Scotland out of the Union.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Rebecca Front, Simon Day and Jason Cook pick their nearest and dearest to answer questions
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with Lynne Truss, Andy Parsons, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Keith Allen, Monty Halls and Nicholas Owen.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Eric Robson makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Brian offers the hand of peace. 19:15Mark Lawson reviews opera The Death of Klinghoffer and interviews comedian Sarah Millican. 19:451/5Sir Richard wants to bequeath their crumbling ancestral home to the National Trust.
| 19:00Tom pushes things too far. 19:15Tom Hardy in This Means War; Ian Rankin chooses his New Elizabethan; and Paula Milne. 19:452/5Lady Helen is dismayed as a man arrives from the National Trust.
| 19:00Brian is on unfamiliar territory. 19:15Christina Ricci interview; Trinidad-born writer Errol John remembered; Nick Park. 19:453/5Lady Helen grows more attached to Rafe, a welcome distraction from her husband Richard.
| 19:15Bruce Springsteen's new album; Titian saved for £45m; Caitlin Moran and Antonia Fraser. 19:454/5Lady Helen's relationship with her stepson Rafe is growing dangerously out of control.
| 19:00Clarrie receives a surprise visit. 19:15Therapy in film, fiction and TV drama, with Naomi Alderman. 19:455/5Sir Richard is dead, and a fire has destroyed the library. Are the two events connected?
| 19:008/8By Lizzie Nunnery. Drama inspired by recent conflicts in the Middle East. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:155/6The consequences of buying your partner an antique skeleton and a dark fable on mourning.(R) 19:45By Hannah McGill. An unlikely spending spree requires a letter to the bank manager.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:002/2James Reason asks if NHS hospitals could be required to adopt an open disclosure policy. 20:30Justin Webb explores what the primaries tell us about the state of the right in the US.
| 20:00Do credit rating agencies threaten our financial stability? Hugh Pym investigates. 20:40Jane Copsey is joined by Sue Arnold and Redmond Szell for an audio book review
| 20:00Michael Buerk and guests examine the moral issues behind abortion. 20:45The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, asks if we are 'one alone or one of many'.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg asks how laws on privacy and copyright should work in the internet age. 20:30Evan Davis asks his guests about reinventing a business and what to teach our children.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Beccles in Suffolk. 20:50David Cannadine compares the traditions of tie-wearing on both sides of the Atlantic.
| 20:00Mark Lawson on the rich history of medical programmes, fact and fiction, on radio and TV.
| 20:00A new take on the future of BBC local radio. And should Radio 4 do more on computer games? 20:30John Wilson on Davy Jones, Jean Pateman, Steve Kordek and Betty Parsons.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Do men have a genetic future? Defining the kilogram and how to turn sunshine into fuel. 21:30Andrew Marr and Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Holloway and Karen Armstrong.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter asks why sleeping pills increase the chance of an early death. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers.
| 21:00Could there be a cheaper, safer way to create nuclear energy? Julian Rush investigates. 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Pauline Quirke and comic Shelley Bridgman.
| 21:001/2Sue Armstrong reports on a daring plan to save the South China tiger from extinction. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.
| 21:005/6Clare explores how sport was reaching out through the airwaves to a whole new audience.
| 21:001/2Dramatisation of Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II novel.
| 21:00Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity War on Want. 21:30Justin Webb explores what the primaries tell us about the state of the right in the US.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/5The arrival of a strange girl in the midst of a holiday in Nice proves explosive.
| 22:00The European Fiscal Pact; Syrian activists in Homs; France's presidential challenger. 22:452/5After landing in the midst of the holidaymakers, Kitty Finch asks a favour.
| 22:00Robin Lustig with news and analysis. Can Syria's military overwhelm the insurgents? 22:453/5Strange poet Kitty French brings chaos in her wake. Read by Juliet Aubrey.
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/5Strange and lovely poet Kitty French brings more chaos in her wake.
| 22:00Red Cross relief workers are stopped from entering Homs. 22:455/5The arrival of a strange girl in the midst of a holiday in Nice proves explosive.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk and guests examine the moral issues behind abortion.
| 22:00Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts. 22:45David Aaronovitch of the Times analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:004/4The duo get to bid at an auction but discover more than they bargained for(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/5Imagined confrontation between fugitive MP John Stonehouse and young journalist Ed. 23:30Health Secretary Andrew Lansley faces his critics in the Commons. With Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/6Tim attempts to get to the bottom of 'death' via his poem, The Boy Who Faked His Own Death 23:152/6Nathan decides it's time to leave home, but will his mum let him? 23:30Sean Curran with top news stories from Westminster. The NHS Shake-up dominates PMQ again.
| 23:006/8The sleuth finds a clue - but it's not Belasco's identity.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme hears MPs welcome a ban on wild animals in circuses.
| 23:00Harriett Gilbert, Brian Sewell and Wendy Cope champion their favourite books. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00The last semi-final to determine who takes the remaining place in the grand final. 23:30Poetry requested by listeners is brought to life by Martin Jarvis and Susan Jameson.
| 23:00Minnie Driver and director Marc Evans discuss their Welsh high school musical, Hunky Dory. 23:30Mark Tully wonders what might happen if we challenge our instinctive fears and prejudices.
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