| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Professionals and cowboys? UK and US military security workers. Also, 'whisky tourism'. 00:45The bells of St Edward's, Eggbuckland, Plymouth. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Tim Winton reflects on how childhood days spent at the coast have shaped his whole life. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Tim Winton describes his encounters with dolphins off the coast of Western Australia. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5How a childhood of snorkelling led to a passion for freediving. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Tim Winton marvels at the joys of beachcombing, of finding 'gifts and signs' on the shore. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Tim Winton describes what has led him to become an environmental campaigner in Australia. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Two strange and disturbing events bring about a profound moment of understanding. 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. 05:43Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Alien Invaders: Charlotte Smith hears the killer shrimp has arrived in the Norfolk Broads. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Combating campylobacter - what poultry farmers need to do to reduce this deadly bacterium.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Badgers to be vaccinated in Wales in an attempt to battle bovine TB. With Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45How stressed strawberries could help growers to cut water use by a third.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45The strict rules on selling unpasteurised milk in England are being reviewed.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Mark Wakelin. 05:45Why some listeners have been experiencing a rush of euphoria after losing their jobs.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Leonard's Church in Hythe, Kent. 05:45Martin Wroe explores the individual being at its most divine when working in community.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 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 Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; 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. 06:07Open Country explores the importance of the Kent landscape to Charles Dickens. 06:30Empty fields - farmers decide not to grow crops because of the drought. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Kurdish poet Choman Hardi explores how children help us see things in a better light. 06:35Charlotte Smith visits a farm that will be cut in two by the new high-speed rail link. 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. 07:10William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Angela Rippon presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Sport Relief. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10In the fifth of the Lent series, the Rev Dr Keith Clements reflects on suffering. 08:50David Cannadine recalls the heyday of cinema and television Westerns.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to Nadine Gordimer, Jack Mapanje and Richard Dowden. 09:451/5Tim Winton reflects on how childhood days spent at the coast have shaped his whole life.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson. 09:30Konstanty Gebert tells Samira Ahmed about life during Poland's communist dictatorship. 09:452/5Tim Winton describes his encounters with dolphins off the coast of Western Australia.
| 09:00Libby Purves is joined by actor Timothy Spall and theatre director Barrie Rutter. 09:453/5How a childhood of snorkelling led to a passion for freediving.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. 09:454/5Tim Winton marvels at the joys of beachcombing, of finding 'gifts and signs' on the shore.
| 09:00Journalist Anna Ford is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 09:455/5Tim Winton describes what has led him to become an environmental campaigner in Australia.
| 09:00Richard Coles with scientist Mark Miodownik; comedian Sarah Millican's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A phone-in on staying home with children or going out to work. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/5A case involving dangerous dogs and legal drugs piques DCI Craven's interest.
| 10:00Claudia Roden, food in old age, child benefit and adoption. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/5Craven believes a dog attack and a 'drugs busy' pet shop are the key to a bigger crime.
| 10:00Live music from singer songwriter Katy B and Frances Ashcroft celebrates women in science. 10:453/5Threat of enforced retirement distracts Price, as a 17-year-old dies from legal drug use.
| 10:00Can being late be put down to your personality? And Master Chef winner Shelina Permalloo. 10:454/5When Craven's team raid a farm for drugs, they are not prepared for the horrors discovered
| 10:00Motherhood manuals, Kay Mellor, Working Class feminism and Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood. 10:455/5Craven underestimates the pack mentality on the drug-addled estate, as the case concludes.
| 10:00John McCarthy takes a look at family travel. 10:307/8Will looks beyond Britain to see the monarchy as a global force.
| 10:00Brian is in urgent need of advice and Helen has an emotional encounter.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Do assumptions about teenage pregnancy stand up to scrutiny? Miranda Sawyer investigates. 11:305/6Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Susie Dent vie for wordy supremacy
| 11:002/2Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon and onto Mars? 11:301/4Prof Winston explores if Tchaikovsky's music reveals a psychologically-damaged man.
| 11:001/2Is England's North/South divide shifting? 11:302/4Colin is all at sea as the foundations of Jimmy's dream take shape on the beach.(R)
| 11:00Stories from New York, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Cambodia. 11:30William Lyons conjures the brash and brilliant music of the 500-year-old bands of waits
| 11:00Penny Woolcock investigates who sprayed a marriage proposal on a Sheffield bridge.(R) 11:304/4Charles finds the final piece in the jigsaw, but not before his own life is threatened.
| 11:00Editor of the Spectator Fraser Nelson presents a look behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Despatches from Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Burma, Germany and Egypt.
| 11:15Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Rate your tenant online, eco-cooking and why rent-a-dress is booming. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Should more be done to bring down the number of pupils who are expelled from school? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Live coverage of the Chancellor's Budget speech with analysis and reaction.
| 12:00Supermarkets, rail networks, sheep farms and Starbucks. Presented by Winifred Robinson. 12:30Your calls and emails on how the Budget affects your finances. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The union claiming that school head teachers are being 'fired like football managers'. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:306/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week's news wrapped up in sketches and stand-up. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:007/8Nicholas Parsons challenges his guests in Mumbai this week to talk for 60 seconds. 12:32Tim Hayward explores one of the most humble and complex of kitchen staples, stock. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:451/4Peter White and Janet Street-Porter explore one of his betes noires, the countryside.(R)
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents the latest national and international news. 13:452/4Peter White is joined by Simon Calder to explore one of Peter's pet hates, holidays.(R)
| 13:57The latest weather forecast.
| 13:00Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. 13:453/4Peter White and Sue Townsend discuss his pet hate: being introduced to other blind people.(R)
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents national and international news. 13:454/4Peter White explores his bete noire of going slowly with keen fisherman Nick Hancock.(R)
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from High Wycombe.
| 13:00Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international news. 13:30An exploration of the emotional impact of the song made famous by French singer Edith Piaf(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:154/4By Danny Brocklehurst. Stone's determined to find the attackers of a fellow police officer
| 14:00Josh wants to get things straight and Emma looks to the future. 14:15A sound-driven mystery about memory loss and trust.
| 14:00Brian is in urgent need of advice. 14:154/4An invitation turns up for 'Mr Hedges' to read a poem at a Christmas Eve charity do.
| 14:00Helen has an emotional encounter. 14:15Gwilym can't talk to women but he can write beautifully. A comedy about being free.
| 14:00Debbie plays a wild card. 14:15In the ex-pat world of Bangladesh, a body sparks some choices for Sub-Inspector Mondol.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Simon Gray's best-loved comedy. A publisher tries to enjoy a Saturday listening to Wagner.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs a programme with guest panellist Carole Baxter. 14:45Martin Wroe explores the individual being at its most divine when working in community.
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| 15:00 | 15:002/6Three students from Swansea University take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon investigates the rise in demand for 'free from' foods.
| 15:003/4A 71-year-old French surgeon on performing 89 operations in 12 days in the horror of Homs. 15:30Where will the next pandemic come from and how can it be stopped? Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:30Dr Mark Porter demystifies discusses polycystic ovary syndrome, garlic and the PSA test.
| 15:00Open Country explores the importance of the Kent landscape to Charles Dickens. 15:27Mark Tully presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Child in Need India. 15:30Mariella Frostrup with books, authors and all that is new in the book world.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs a programme with guest panellist Carole Baxter. 15:452/3A case of conscience for ageing defence barrister Harry Fox.
| | 15:003/3It's now 1956 and a crisis with her mother means Anna must go back to Berlin.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Will Young explores the hidden world of industrial musicals 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious dimensions to Nigeria's current crisis.
| 16:00Michael Rosen and guests celebrate nonsense at Radio 4's More Than Words Festival. 16:30Grace Dent and Frances Barber talk favourite books at the R4 More Than Words Festival.
| 16:00What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain today? A special edition on private life. 16:30Danny Cohen on The Voice, Press Awards, the Times libel ruling and the next BBC DG.
| 16:00Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games, plus Brian Cox on Orson Welles. 16:30The science of auctions, life on the ocean floor, and why the clock change might kill us.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Pope Shenouda III, King George Tupou, Maurice Andre, Simin Daneshvar. 16:30Listeners find spin and speculation about the budget a turn-off.
| 16:00Cookery writer Claudia Roden and this year's Masterchef Champion Shelina Permaloo.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Marilynne Robinson about her new collection of essays. 16:30Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the early 20th century.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather.
| 17:00Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and guests swap thoughts on making everyday executive decisions and stress. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Why do so many British public sector contracts go to foreign companies? 17:40Rosie Goldsmith profiles one of entertainment's best known characters - Dame Edna Everage.(R) 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. 18:307/8Nicholas Parsons challenges his guests in Mumbai this week to talk for 60 seconds.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Arthur's night of entertainment in a Spanish bar goes off with a bang.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Ava Vidal, Howard Read, Andy Wilkinson and Lucy Porter offer a guide to raising children.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30The South Shields comedian explores the notion of 'Offermation'.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week's news wrapped up in sketches and stand-up.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Nicholas Parsons and actors Eve Myles and Iain Glen.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Josh wants to get things straight and Emma looks to the future. 19:15Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball in Sweeney Todd, the new Titanic and author Russell Banks 19:451/5A new dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home.
| 19:00Brian is in urgent need of advice. 19:15The Hunger Games review; Kensington Palace re-opens; beat poetry with Paul Weller. 19:452/5Dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home.
| 19:00Helen has an emotional encounter. 19:15Neil Cross, creator of Luther; Ballets Russes re-invented; when pop name-drops go wrong. 19:453/5Dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home.
| 19:00Debbie plays a wild card. 19:15Greg Doran discusses his new post of artistic director of the RSC. Molly Dineen on Herzog. 19:454/5A new dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home.
| 19:00Things are moving fast at Bridge Farm. Meanwhile, Annabelle gives her advice. 19:15Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and composer Krzysztof Penderecki; Brains - the exhibition. 19:455/5Dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home.
| 19:00Rosie Goldsmith profiles one of entertainment's best known characters - Dame Edna Everage. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.
| 19:00Everyone is on edge at Bridge Farm but will the special day go as planned? 19:152/4Damien reluctantly writes for a supermarket's online magazine.(R) 19:453/3Captain Scott explores the South Pole and Kathleen begins writing her promised journal.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Why were the British Chiefs of Staff in secret contact with enemy Vichy France in 1942? 20:30Could a hot war with Iran be about to start? Analysis probes the West's options.
| 20:00Why do so many British public sector contracts go to foreign companies? 20:40Paralympian Jessica Luke on goalball and report on audio described films online
| 20:00Tax avoidance is perfectly legal, but is it immoral? Michael Buerk chairs. 20:45Martin Wroe explores the individual being at its most divine when working in community.
| 20:00Simon Cox asks: why is NHS reform mired in controversy? 20:30Evan Davis and guests swap thoughts on making everyday executive decisions and stress.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from High Wycombe. 20:50David Cannadine recalls the heyday of cinema and television Westerns.
| 20:00Christine Finn explores the world of recorded natural sound and those who relax to it.
| 20:00Listeners find spin and speculation about the budget a turn-off. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Pope Shenouda III, King George Tupou, Maurice Andre, Simin Daneshvar.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Quentin Cooper with news of a new hominin puzzle from China, and where art meets science. 21:30Andrew Marr talks to Nadine Gordimer, Jack Mapanje and Richard Dowden.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter demystifies discusses polycystic ovary syndrome, garlic and the PSA test. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson.
| 21:00Where will the next pandemic come from and how can it be stopped? Tom Heap investigates. 21:30Libby Purves is joined by actor Timothy Spall and theatre director Barrie Rutter.
| 21:002/2Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon and onto Mars? 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
| 21:001/2Investigative journalist Tom Mangold tries to get to the truth about this mysterious area.(R)
| 21:002/3Anna and Max face the challenges of life as refugees rather better than their parents.
| 21:00Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Angela Rippon presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Sport Relief. 21:30Could a hot war with Iran be about to start? Analysis probes the West's options.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:451/10Stewart Gilmour returns home to Stonemouth after fleeing five years ago.
| 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:452/10Stewart catches up with old friends and recalls his first meeting with Ellie Murston.
| 22:00Ritula Shah presents national and international news and analysis. 22:453/10Teenage Stewart meets Ellie's grandfather and their relationship deepens.
| 22:00Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and analysis. 22:454/10Violence past and present come to the fore in Stonemouth.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:455/10Stewart has a dangerous encounter on the suspension bridge with Ellie's violent brothers.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Tax avoidance is perfectly legal, but is it immoral? Michael Buerk chairs.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the papers are covering the big stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:003/4Peter Andre is revealed as the most dangerous man on Earth by the 'one-woman Fast Show'.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:005/5Tony Blair has just resigned. Somewhere in the BBC he gets mistaken for his own lookalike. 23:30Her Majesty the Queen addresses MPs and peers. Sean Curran reports.
| 23:005/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the notion of 'Egypt' through the medium of poetry. 23:155/6Nathan's family disapprove of his stand-up career, until a TV appearance sparks a rethink. 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00The News Quiz gets a US makeover as the all-American panel discuss their election year. 23:30David Cornock with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Grace Dent and Frances Barber talk favourite books at the R4 More Than Words Festival. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:002/6Three students from Swansea University take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 23:30Roger McGough presents a show from the Radio 4 More than Words listening festival.
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