| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15How Sal Khan plans to give the world a free first-class education.(R) 00:45The bells of St Stephen's church in Brannel, Cornwall.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor focuses on Germany's great national poet Goethe, who was born in 1749.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, a 19th-century temple to German-ness, built in Bavaria(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Tatiana Salem Levy's short story reflects on the legacy of Brazil's military regime.(R) 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. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45Farming Today embarks on a week of programmes exploring the issues in rural healthcare. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Hawaiian crow, now extinct in the wild.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45Dairy farmers protest against falling milk prices. With Anna Hill. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean cock-of-the-rock from Peru.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45Farming minister George Eustice addresses the issue of falling milk prices. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the poisonous variable pitohui from New Guinea.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45Anna Hill hears from the NFU president about the continuing dairy crisis. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the black drongo of Southern Asia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Imam Monawar Hussain. 05:45The mental health of farmers and the dairy farmers protesting over falling milk prices. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Father Martin Graham. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary le Ghyll Church in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. 05:45Ed Stourton profiles Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks from Buckden to Beckermonds with John Sparshatt and Randal Metzger.(R) 06:30A look at how rural communities are served by health services. With Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy explores the merits of playfulness through a series of correspondence. 06:35Report on the demonstrations dairy farmers are holding in protest at falling milk prices. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton explores Evangelical group Reform's boycott of 'shared conversations'. 07:55Rebecca Front presents an appeal for UK charity Together for Short Lives. 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 from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, led by the Very Rev Dermot Dunne. 08:48Adam Gopnick thinks we fail all too often to let people die with dignity.(R) 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the poisonous variable pitohui from New Guinea.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Anne McElvoy with Naomi Klein, Tahmima Anam, Jeremy Oppenheim and Dieter Helm. 09:45Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili talks to Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman. 09:30Victoria Derbyshire talks to fellow diarist Alastair Campbell about why he keeps a diary. 09:45Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Ray Winstone and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. 09:45Neil MacGregor focuses on Germany's great national poet Goethe, who was born in 1749.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751. 09:45Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, a 19th-century temple to German-ness, built in Bavaria
| 09:00Sally Wainwright, TV screenwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.(R) 09:45Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.
| 09:00The artist Alison Lapper and Bake Off's Martha Collison join Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Tim Dowling and his wife Sophie de Brandt launch Woman's Hour's chores wars. 10:451/10A devoted husband faces the mission of a lifetime, galaxies away from his wife.
| 10:00Jo Swinson MP, live from the LibDem conference. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:452/10Peter starts to explore the base on Oasis but is keen to meet his new flock.
| 10:00Jane Horrocks on her return to the stage after a five-year gap. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:413/10Peter has his first encounter with his new flock, the native Oasans. 10:55Two friends who are both avid diary keepers share their secrets.
| 10:00Lynda Bellingham joins Jenni Murray to discuss her new autobiography. 10:454/10Peter shows his Oasan congregation some photos of life on Earth.
| 10:00Jenni Murray talks to Jayne Torvill about what it's like having more than one 'other half' 10:455/10Peter presides over the funeral service for one of his colleagues on the USIC base.
| 10:30Greg Proops looks back at the life of Bob Hope, whose career spanned the 20th century.
| 10:00David and Ruth are out of their comfort zone, and Jill has a confession to make.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Will Robson assesses the controversial use of drones by Britain's armed forces. 11:302/6Kerry becomes a juror - and faces child and internet challenges.
| 11:00Can we share the planet with big-leaf mahogany, the giants of the tropical forest? 11:30Composer Emily Levy on a poignant legacy - the mix-tapes made by her late brother, Gus
| 11:00Hand-digging a grave is a dying art. Cathy FitzGerald takes lessons. 11:306/6Ed Byrne, Milton Jones, Hannah Gadsby and Natalie Haynes join Gyles Brandreth.
| 11:00The EU announces a new initiative to save migrants in peril on the Mediterranean. 11:30Lenny Henry tells the story of August Wilson, America's greatest modern black playwright.
| 11:00Dave Howard finds out what it is like to be a young adult carer. 11:306/6What better time for social media to kick in than on a dangerous mission on the surface?
| 11:00Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams 11:30Stormy days ahead for pro-democracy protestors and the authorities in Hong Kong.
| 11:15Sir Roy Strong, historian and gardener, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/17Peter Conrad turns his mind to the screw-top wine bottle. 12:15Living wage, hydrogen cars, bare-faced cheek, beard transplants and Wonga woes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:042/17Peter Conrad turns his mind to one of the most powerful images of our era, the Apple icon. 12:15How easy did you find it to get good quality care for your elderly parents or relatives? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/17Peter Conrad looks at the ubiquitous home of peri-peri chicken, Nando's. 12:15Consumer news, including reports on care home fires, and fraud linked to the Green Deal. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:044/17Peter Conrad looks at a defining landmark of the London skyline, the Shard. 12:15Looking at the lack of protection for older people who have money stolen by family members 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:045/17Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of our era. In this episode, Oscar Pistorius. 12:15Why scam jobs appear on legitimate websites and the rise in claims for industrial deafness 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Action on misdirected payments, Help to Buy one year on and new tax proposals. 12:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Nathan Caton.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/6John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Helen Keen, Jimmy Wales and Kees Moeliker.(R) 12:32Harold McGee, the man who helped explain the science of the kitchen, tells his food story. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Cable attacks Conservative 'obsession with spending cuts'. Presented by Martha Kearney. 13:451/5A portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only female British scientist to win a Nobel Prize.
| 13:00Latest on battles against IS close to the Turkish border. With Martha Kearney. 13:452/5Dorothy Hodgkin and her lover wrestle with the internal structure of complex molecules.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/5In the 1940s, Dorothy made more scientific strides even with a baby.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:454/5Dorothy's reputation grew post-war, conquering the structure of penicillin.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:455/5Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby with Ed Davey, Caroline Flint, Paul Nuttall and Sarah Wollaston.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Composer Emily Levy on a poignant legacy - the mix-tapes made by her late brother, Gus(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00David and Ruth are out of their comfort zone.(R) 14:15Edson Burton's comedy is a scurrilous contemporary riff on Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
| 14:00Hayley is in distress.(R) 14:15The German advance is being held north east of Paris, on the day Mickey arrives at war.
| 14:00Pat cannot believe her ears.(R) 14:15A love story in science and sound, based on the romance of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
| 14:00Jill confides in Carol.(R) 14:15Fearing further threats following the Gunpowder Plot, King James departs to Scotland.(R)
| 14:00David has a big question for Jill.(R) 14:15By Peter Jukes. The story of how Peter Jukes came to live-tweet the entire hacking trial.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. 14:30A motorcycle journey, a meditation on values, and a man coming to terms with his past.(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel take questions from a local audience in Kent.(R) 14:45Three conversations between friends who grew close through tragedy yet still laugh - a lot
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| 15:00 | 15:003/13General knowledge music quiz hosted by Russell Davies. 15:30Dan Saladino explores why we should all be demanding to eat older meat.(R)
| 15:001/6Josie Long dives down a rabbit hole in this sequence of short documentaries. 15:30Tom Heap discovers how the islands of the Caribbean are preparing for rising sea levels.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer listeners' queries about pensions. 15:30Dr Mark Porter explores Ebola and how predictions of its spread are made.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks from Buckden to Beckermonds with John Sparshatt and Randal Metzger. 15:27Will Self presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Shape.(R) 15:30Australian writer Tim Winton discusses his novel Dirt Music with James Naughtie.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel take questions from a local audience in Kent. 15:451/3Ian Fleming's account of his 1959 trip to the world's most exciting and exotic cities.
| | 15:001/2A young American prepares to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Ian McMillan searches for the limestone landscape that inspired the poet WH Auden. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Catholic church's synod on the family.
| 16:003/3Jolyon Jenkins meets those who think the sick can be cured through the power of prayer.(R) 16:30Mary Beard and Jeremy Paxman talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor takes an urban tour beyond the boundaries of everyday metropolitan life. 16:30Featuring a discussion on online anonymity, and Keith Vaz talks about police use of RIPA.
| 16:00Peter Strickland on illustrating Bjork's songs, and Gregory Burke talks about his film '71 16:30Adam Rutherford hosts a post-match analysis of the 2014 Nobel Prizes for science.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor. 16:30More time to catch up on iPlayer, and Jarvis Cocker brings classical music to Radio 4. 16:55Fi Glover listens in on a friendship that has grown closer through tragedy.
| 16:00Jane Garvey presents Woman's Hour highlights, including Chore Wars and Lynda Bellingham.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup celebrates the work of award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin. 16:30Roger McGough and four Midlands poets on stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ben Wright. 17:30Social advertising: Selling products via celebrities and the fans who 'like' them.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Do official crime figures reflect the rise in fraud, and are police able to combat it?(R) 17:40Ed Stourton profiles Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP.(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. 18:301/6John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Helen Keen, Jimmy Wales and Kees Moeliker.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4The show that looks behind-the-scenes at the life and work of the star impressionist.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Using the Bible, the monarchy and Audrey Hepburn, Jeremy looks at self-improvement.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Nathan decides to prove how mature he is in order to win back the girl that rejected him.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Nathan Caton.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite chooses his highlights from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news, including Clive James on poetry and Emma Thompson in Effie Gray. 19:45Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.(R)
| 19:00Pat cannot believe her ears. 19:15Arts news with John Wilson, including John Cleese on his memoir So Anyway. 19:45Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity(R)
| 19:15Phyllida Lloyd talks to Samira Ahmed about her all-female Henry IV. 19:45Neil MacGregor focuses on Germany's great national poet Goethe, who was born in 1749.(R)
| 19:00David has a big question for Jill. 19:15Actress Sheila Hancock talks to John Wilson about her debut novel, Miss Carter's War. 19:45Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, a 19th-century temple to German-ness, built in Bavaria(R)
| 19:00It is the Harvest Supper. 19:15John Wilson talks to Iggy Pop, ahead of this year's BBC Music John Peel Lecture. 19:45Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.(R)
| 19:00Ed Stourton profiles Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP. 19:15Razia Iqbal and guests review Henry IV at the Donmar and Tracy Emin at White Cube.
| 19:152/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Jane Thynne and John O'Farrell. 19:453/3Kerry Hudson's poetic story of a woman talking through her past with her new love.
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| 20:00 | 20:004/4Matthew Sweet and philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards explore sex equality and pay. 20:30Robert Peston asks if skyrocketing household debt or the banks caused the 2007-8 crash.
| 20:00The BBC unites for an extraordinary star-studded performance and the launch of BBC Music. 20:04Do official crime figures reflect the rise in fraud, and are police able to combat it? 20:42The careers of a sound artist, an assistant theatre director and a continuity announcer.
| 20:00How will humans experience pleasure in the future? With AL Kennedy and Will Self. 20:4567/3We are trying to revive our high streets the wrong way, argues Clare Richmond.
| 20:00Why are paramedics quitting the ambulance service in rising numbers? With Adrian Goldberg. 20:30Social advertising: Selling products via celebrities and the fans who 'like' them.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby with Ed Davey, Caroline Flint, Paul Nuttall and Sarah Wollaston. 20:50Adam Gopnick thinks we fail all too often to let people die with dignity.
| 20:00Elinor Goodman explores the general election that brought Harold Wilson to power in 1964.
| 20:00More time to catch up on iPlayer, and Jarvis Cocker brings classical music to Radio 4.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Is plastic litter making the ocean a perilous place for fulmars and other seabirds?(R) 21:30Anne McElvoy with Naomi Klein, Tahmima Anam, Jeremy Oppenheim and Dieter Helm.(R)
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter explores Ebola and how predictions of its spread are made. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili talks to Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap discovers how the islands of the Caribbean are preparing for rising sea levels.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Ray Winstone and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.(R)
| 21:00Adam Rutherford hosts a post-match analysis of the 2014 Nobel Prizes for science.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.(R)
| 21:001/5Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.
| 21:002/2Rebus suspects other cases are linked to his, but crime boss Cafferty has different ideas.(R)
| 21:00Action on misdirected payments, Help to Buy one year on and new tax proposals.(R) 21:26Rebecca Front presents an appeal for UK charity Together for Short Lives.(R) 21:30Robert Peston asks if skyrocketing household debt or the banks caused the 2007-8 crash.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:4511/15Crispin Hershey is at a book festival in Iceland with friend and fellow writer Holly Sykes
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:4512/15In a near-future Canada, a 1980s Walkman arrives with a message from the past.
| 22:00The Foreign Secretary on Isis, Nick Clegg's speech, and the history of baking. 22:4513/15Holly Sykes must decide who to trust. She is suspicious of Marinus and the horologists.
| 22:00The UK says it will screen people for Ebola at Heathrow and Gatwick. How will it work? 22:4514/15Holly Sykes becomes more deeply involved in the world of horology.
| 22:00Can UKIP repeat their success in Clacton? Andy Hosken reports from Rochester. 22:4515/15Holly Sykes finds herself at the centre of a battle between good and evil.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15How will humans experience pleasure in the future? With AL Kennedy and Will Self.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Kevin Maguire of the Mirror analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Showcase of new comedy talent from the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, hosted by Jason Cook.
| 23:004/4Carpentry, subatomic physics, Winston Churchill and how to deal with troublesome slugs. 23:301/4Steve Punt turns gumshoe, investigating a case of murder by poisoned partridge in 1931.(R)
| 23:003/6Nigel is tasked with running a choir containing recently convicted youths.(R) 23:151/4Junior Wizard Rincewind tries to escape Discworld's Dungeon Dimensions.(R) 23:302/4Steve Punt turns private investigator to reopen a mysterious case of collapsing children.(R)
| 23:004/4The magic combination of cold weather and broken boilers and the art of comparing ailments 23:303/4Steve Punt goes in search of a recording of Queen Victoria's voice.(R)
| 23:00Mary Beard and Jeremy Paxman talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:271/4Steve Punt investigates the vanishing machine gun inventor, William Cantelo.(R) 23:55Fi Glover with a conversation between friends about their version of running for charity
| 23:003/13General knowledge music quiz hosted by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Roger McGough with a special programme on Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(R)
| 23:00Peter Strickland on illustrating Bjork's songs, and Gregory Burke talks about his film '71(R) 23:30John McCarthy explores the merits of playfulness through a series of correspondence.(R)
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