| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between the wars. Presented by Laurie Taylor. 00:45The sound of church bells. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Maziar Bahari leaves London, and pregnant fiancee, to cover Iran's presidential election. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Maziar is covering Iran's presidential elections, but he soon finds himself under arrest. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Jenni Mills reads her haunting story about a daughter's memories. 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. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. 05:45Scientists hope injecting midges will help give them answers about a new livestock disease 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. 05:45Anna Hill hears about Fabio, the record-breaking bull, bought for £126,000.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. 05:45How farmers can avoid the new Schmallenberg virus by changing when they lamb.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. 05:45Vets want clearer labelling on meat produced by halal and kosher slaughter.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Martin Shaw. 05:45Straw wars see farmers and power companies competing for limited stocks.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rev Roger Hutchings. 05:45Marriage Understood: Lenny Bruce, Laurel & Hardy and our listeners explain wedded bliss.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Vedast, Foster Lane in London. 05:45Linda Woodhead explores the emergence of new communities and social groups.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Debating the Russian elections, Catholic views on gay marriage and Super Tuesday in the US
| 06:00Debating the UK's industrial policy, Super Tuesday in the US, slang and booing.
| 06:00Debating Cable's leaked letter, dementia care, Super Tuesday results and the NME at 60.
| 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 is in the Brecon Beacons for the fifth in a series of inspirational walks. 06:30Schmallenberg - the science behind the spread of this new virus. With Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers the eternal human conflict between our reason and our desires. 06:35The upland research farm in Wales which is due to be sold after 80 years of service. 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. Producer: Amanda Hancox. 07:55Kay Mellor presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Straight Talking Peer Education. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Lent service from Eglwys Dewi Sant Church in Cardiff, led by Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. 08:50Prof David Cannadine reflects on the enduring resonance of Churchill's speeches in America
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond. 09:451/5Maziar Bahari leaves London, and pregnant fiancee, to cover Iran's presidential election.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees. 09:30Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talks to 18-year-old Megan about her parents' divorce. 09:452/5Maziar is covering Iran's presidential elections, but he soon finds himself under arrest.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by singer David Essex and fashion designer Ozwald Boateng. 09:453/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. 09:454/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison.
| 09:00Patsy Rodenburg, renowned voice coach, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison.
| 09:00Richard Coles with Joan Collins; the Inheritance Tracks of Duke Fakir from The Four Tops.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Raising money for Sport Relief. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5In a Highland village, finding love is not a problem, making it last is.
| 10:00Goldie Hawn; Women and Catholicism; Stay at home or work? Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Maciek is about to experience a bolt from the blue.
| 10:00Supermodel Agyness Deyn on her stage debut. Plus, has feminism left men behind? 10:453/5Could splitting up be the best solution for Harry and Rose?
| 10:00A year on, the impact on families of the Japan nuclear disaster. 10:454/5Ania is pregnant but in love with another man. Sam is falling in love.
| 10:00American Aristocrats: The women who crossed the Atlantic to marry an English lord. 10:455/5In the Highland village of Evanton, finding love is not a problem. Making it last is.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig discusses the 'Wild East' - Russia, Ukraine and Crimea. 10:305/8The unspoken and unwritten contract that has existed between the rulers and the ruled.
| 10:00Clarrie makes a new start and Brian comes face to face with the opposition.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Jolyon Jenkins returns to Hull to report on an innovative yacht scheme for young NEETs. 11:303/6Susie Dent, Natalie Haynes, Milton Jones and Jack Whitehall vie for wordy supremacy.
| 11:002/2Sue Armstrong reports on a controversial attempt to save the South China tiger. 11:30Stephen Evans traces the 800-year history of the boys' choir of St Thomas' Church, Leipzig
| 11:001/2Giles Edwards follows the work of three of the government's trainee community organisers. 11:306/6Hard up Sam and Peter bank on winning the lottery.
| 11:00Featuring despatches from Japan, Argentina, Greece, China and Sudan. 11:30Comedian and musician Rich Morton explores the laid-back world of lounge music.
| 11:00Poet Paul Farley flies over London in the police helicopter and reflects on the city below 11:302/4Charles discovers rivalries amongst the police investigating Martin Earnshaw's murder.
| 11:00Geroge Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie hosts reporters' tales from Somalia, Japan, Russia, Dubai and Rome.
| 11:15American comedian Jackie Mason is the latest castaway interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00With Julian Worricker. The £300 gap between standard and online energy tariffs. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Listeners give their views on the tabloid press. Do we get the press coverage we deserve? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Accidental landlords, breeding dogs, mobile homes, silver divorcees and DIY Tenants. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00A shortage of eggs, GPs switching to cheaper drugs, and a new music plan for schools. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Holidaying at home, Micropubs and students selling your face for advertising 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Insurance, ISAs, PPI and breakdown cover. Personal finance news with Paul Lewis. 12:304/6Steve and Hugh are joined Jon Holmes, Lloyd Langford, Lucy Montgomery and Mitch Benn. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:005/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and Charles Collingwood 12:32Richard Johnson reports from Japan on the impact of the Fukushima disaster on food. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:4526/30Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents the latest national and international news. 13:4527/30Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:4528/30Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. 13:4529/30Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:4530/30Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Farnborough, Hampshire.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international news. 13:30What does the response to last year's tsunami and meltdown tell us about modern Japan?
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| 14:00 | 14:152/4By Martin Jameson. Stone investigates a fatal attack on a young man.
| 14:00Clarrie makes a new start. 14:15Iain Heggie's satirical play about an impecunious lawyer, set in 18th-century Glasgow.(R)
| 14:00Brian comes face to face with the opposition. 14:152/4Warwick's granddaughter's request to learn about her grandmother touches a nerve.
| 14:00Alan throws down the gauntlet. 14:15David Tennant and Emila Fox star as strangers who meet accidentally by email.
| 14:00Brian's been caught on camera, while Ruth thinks she has the answer. 14:15Estranged brothers Danny and Jimmy are about to meet for the first time in 20 years.
| 14:00Call Jonathan Dimbleby on 03700 100 444, email any.answers@bbc.co.uk or tweet #bbcaq. 14:301/2Inspector Rebus investigates the disappearance of an MP's wife.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the GQT panel are guests of Wolverhampton Horticultural Society. 14:45Linda Woodhead explores the emergence of new communities and social groups.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the grand 2012 final of the general knowledge quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon and author Michael Pollan on the shifting sands of our global diet.
| 15:001/4A Japanese tsunami survivor on his rescue after two days at sea on the roof of his house. 15:30Young people are turning their back on the car. Tom Heap asks if it has a future.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests take calls on the financial implications of part-time working. 15:30Dr Mark Porter tackles the confusion and prejudice around the skin condition vitiligo.
| 15:00Clare Balding is in the Brecon Beacons for the fifth in a series of inspirational walks. 15:27Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity War on Want. 15:30Alan Hollinghurst talks about his Man Booker prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty.
| 15:00Eric Robson and the GQT panel are guests of Wolverhampton Horticultural Society. 15:453/3February's extra day threatens to cause technical meltdown in Scotland's granite city.
| 15:30Stephen Evans traces the 800-year history of the boys' choir of St Thomas' Church, Leipzig
| 15:001/3The story of a Jewish family fleeing Germany in 1933 told through a child's eyes.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Nick Hornby on the 20th anniversary of his best-selling football memoir Fever Pitch. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the appeal and direction of 'New Atheism'.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg investigates how the law is increasingly impacting on sport. 16:30Harriett Gilbert invites Deborah Meaden and Eliza Carthy to pick their favourite books.
| 16:00Why Nations Fail. Plus boxing, UK and US style. 16:30Dame Elizabeth Filkin on press and police; John Birt on being DG; quotas for women on air.
| 16:00John Cusack talks Edgar Allen Poe and politics with Francine Stock. 16:30Aliens in Antarctica, meteor impacts, nasty noises and star-quakes.
| 16:00John Wilson on Norman St John Stevas, Buck Compton, Leonard Rosoman and Robert Sherman. 16:30Do graphic news reports need a warning? And do we still need Sally Traffic?
| 16:00Stay at home with the kids or go out to work? Plus 'Ten Mindful Minutes' with Goldie Hawn.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Marina Lewycka about her new book, Various Pets Alive and Dead. 16:30Stephen Henry Gill follows poet Basho's path to areas of Japan devastated by the tsunami.
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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 brings you the top stories of the day.
| 17:00Ritula Shah presents a fresh perspective on the day's news, with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests swap thoughts on corporate cock-ups and conspiracies. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What drives fathers to kill their families and themselves? Jane Deith investigates. 17:40Chris Bowlby profiles the French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande. 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. 18:305/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and Charles Collingwood
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Arthur sets off for Spain, and to make life easier, attempts to invent his own language.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4Stephen K Amos and his comedian friends build an idiot's guide to dishonesty.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Miles Jupp tests Ed Byrne, Richard Madeley and Roisin Conaty.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Steve and Hugh are joined Jon Holmes, Lloyd Langford, Lucy Montgomery and Mitch Benn.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson with Sean Bean, Claire Foy and Jason Donovan. Music from the Civil Wars.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Hardeep Singh Kholi makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Clarrie makes a new start. 19:15Mark Lawson with Oscar-winning film-maker Andrew Stanton; William Byrd's music. 19:451/5In a Highland village, finding love is not a problem, making it last is.
| 19:00Brian comes face to face with the opposition. 19:15John Wilson meets dance director Lloyd Newson, and Trishna director Michael Winterbottom. 19:452/5Maciek is about to experience a bolt from the blue.
| 19:00Alan throws down the gauntlet. 19:15Mark Lawson talks to Andrew Lloyd Webber, as his musical Love Never Dies appears on DVD. 19:453/5Could splitting up be the best solution for Harry and Rose?
| 19:00Brian's been caught on camera, while Ruth thinks she has the answer. 19:15Mark Lawson meets Gilbert and George; singer Nanci Griffith; John Cusack plays Poe. 19:454/5Ania is pregnant but in love with another man. Sam is falling in love.
| 19:00Tom hopes for a taste of success. 19:15Kirsty Lang in New York, with director John Tiffany; art for healthcare; criminal slang. 19:455/5In the Highland village of Evanton, finding love is not a problem. Making it last is.
| 19:00Chris Bowlby profiles the French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:156/6Sedaris discusses buying a holiday home and struggling with genders when learning French.(R) 19:451/3Readings based on the autobiography and journals of Kathleen Scott, widow of Captain Scott
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson investigates the role the French government played in the 1982 Falklands War. 20:30Why Germany is providing the inspiration for a Labour rethink. Matthew Taylor presents.
| 20:00What drives fathers to kill their families and themselves? Jane Deith investigates. 20:40Peter White pays tribute to David Rathband and the RNIB express concern over PIPS.
| 20:00What moral authority do we have to tell Iran they can't develop nuclear weapons? 20:45Linda Woodhead explores the emergence of new communities and social groups.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg investigates how the law is increasingly impacting on sport. 20:30Evan Davis and guests swap thoughts on corporate cock-ups and conspiracies.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Farnborough, Hampshire. 20:50Prof David Cannadine reflects on the enduring resonance of Churchill's speeches in America
| 20:00Jonathan Freedland traces the history of American hostility to 'Big Government'.
| 20:00Do graphic news reports need a warning? And do we still need Sally Traffic? 20:30John Wilson on Norman St John Stevas, Buck Compton, Leonard Rosoman and Robert Sherman.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Chief Science Advisers in Government, animals in research, and the oldest forest. 21:30Andrew Marr with David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter tackles the confusion and prejudice around the skin condition vitiligo. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
| 21:00Young people are turning their back on the car. Tom Heap asks if it has a future. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by singer David Essex and fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
| 21:002/2Sue Armstrong reports on a controversial attempt to save the South China tiger. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
| 21:006/6Clare looks forward to what increased globalisation will mean to the future of sport.
| 21:002/2Dramatisation of Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II novel.
| 21:00Insurance, ISAs, PPI and breakdown cover. Personal finance news with Paul Lewis. 21:26Kay Mellor presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Straight Talking Peer Education. 21:30Why Germany is providing the inspiration for a Labour rethink. Matthew Taylor presents.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/10The residents of Pepys Road are preparing for Christmas.
| 22:00Have the Big Four let business down? Plus Iran and nuclear inspectors, and Eastern Libya. 22:452/10Pepys Road's oldest resident is feeling ill, and Arabella Yount plots a Christmas surprise
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:453/10It maybe Christmas in Pepys Road, but it's not a festive time for everyone.
| 22:00Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Petunia faces a bleak future and Shahid has an unwanted guest.
| 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:455/10Spring has sprung and the police investigation is going nowhere.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15What moral authority do we have to tell Iran they can't develop nuclear weapons?
| 22:00Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts. 22:45Hugo Rifkind of the Times analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Featuring an array of comic characters, including a fame-hungry celebrity mother.(R) 23:30Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/5The Falkland Islands, 1982. Maggie Watkins shelters an Argentinean soldier with a secret. 23:30The Chancellor comes under fresh pressure to cut fuel duty in next month's budget.
| 23:003/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the concept of chance through the medium of his poetry. 23:153/6Although he'd prefer to stick to comedy, Nathan is persuaded to work at his dad's company. 23:30Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:007/8The net is closing on Dr Belasco, but Paul Temple and Steve are now in danger.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Harriett Gilbert invites Deborah Meaden and Eliza Carthy to pick their favourite books. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the grand 2012 final of the general knowledge quiz. 23:304/4Ruth Padel leads a workshop with the Junkbox poets at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea.
| 23:00John Cusack talks Edgar Allen Poe and politics with Francine Stock. 23:30Mark Tully considers the eternal human conflict between our reason and our desires.
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