| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the rural idyll and considers the media impact on our perception. 00:45The sound of church bells. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5At a day care centre in Boston, nine cerebral palsy sufferers inhabit one virtual body. 00:48Weather conditions for shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Tim enters a computer-generated world and takes a trip in a virtual hot air balloon. 00:48Weather information for shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Tim adopts the role of a virtual private eye. 00:48Weather information for shipping.
| 00:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Recently the American military have employed virtual worlds for very practical purposes. 00:48Weather information for shipping.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Some of the world's largest corporations have moved into the market for virtual worlds. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30A man compares a stoat's quest for a rabbit to a shy woman's pursuit of his father.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, with Moira Hickey. 05:57The latest weather forecast.
| 05:20Weather conditions for shipping. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, with Anna Hill.
| 05:20Weather information for shipping. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, with Anna Hill.
| 05:20Weather information for shipping. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20Weather information for shipping. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain, with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:454/4Clare Jenkins visits Castleford to observe the job of a canal lock engineer.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news headlines. 05:43The bells of the church of St Mary with St Faith and St Francis, Alverstoke, Hampshire. 05:452/4Former Ambassador Christopher Meyer offers a guide to the skills required for the task.
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| 06:00 | 06:00With James Naughtie and Tim Franks. Including Sports Desk; Weather; 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.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:35Miriam O'Reilly presents the rural magazine programme. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers life after downfall, personal, emotional or financial. 06:35Alex James tours Bredon Hill, Worcs, with a farmer who is opening his gates to the public. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Barry Cryer appeals on behalf of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, as part of a season of programmes from Jerusalem. 08:50A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr is joined by Atul Gawande, William Hague, Linda Colley and Biyi Bandele. 09:45The Reverend Ernie Rea accompanies six British pilgrims to the holy sites of Jerusalem.
| 09:004/8Olivia O'Leary talks to two bankrupts about their contrasting experiences. 09:303/5The Finch family are flying in with the Goldfinch, Chaffinch and Greenfinch. 09:45The Reverend Ernie Rea accompanies six British pilgrims to the holy sites of Jerusalem.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation. 09:45The Reverend Ernie Rea accompanies six British pilgrims to the holy sites of Jerusalem.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. 09:45The Reverend Ernie Rea accompanies six British pilgrims to the holy sites of Jerusalem.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is scientist Tom Blundell. 09:45The Revd Ernie Rea accompanies 6 British pilgrims to the holy sites of the city.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell. 09:30The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Nancy Dell'Olio on Sven-Goran Eriksson and her autobiography. Plus ways to describe pain.
| 10:00Marina Litvinenko on the secret life and very public death of her husband Alexander.
| 10:00Writer Michele Roberts on her life and the influences which have shaped her work.
| 10:00Should parents be obliged to tell children whether they have been donor-conceived? 10:45First day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 10:00With Dame Beryl Grey on her celebrated life in ballet. Plus women and heart disease. 10:45Second day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 10:00Christopher Robbins tells John McCarthy of his journey through Kazakhstan. 10:30Tim Samuels investigates the censorship of popular music in European democracies. 10:59Third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 10:45Fourth day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2Former cabbie Derek Merry has been running a driver's training school for over three years 11:304/6Georgia is investigating Clement's family tree, leading her to some surprising conclusions
| 11:00Grant Sonnex presents the programme from the RSPB's reserve at Minsmere in Suffolk. 11:30The story of Field Day, a new radical theatre company launched in Londonderry in 1980.
| 11:00Simon Weston visits Headley Court, the military's main rehabilitation centre for amputees. 11:303/4Guru Bharat has to convince the Asian community that he is not a baby hater.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson. 12:42How did the Middle East find itself on the brink of war on June 4, 1967? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and Peter White, including Call You and Yours. 12:42Israel launches the first air attacks on Egypt and Jordan on June 5, 1967.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and Sheila McClennon. 12:42After destroying the Arab air forces, Israel advances on the Old City of Jerusalem.
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast. 12:04First day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 12:00The latest shipping forecast. 12:04Second day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 12:04Third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Fourth day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Edward Seckerson chairs the last of the semi-finals in the quiz on music of all kinds.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Richard Coles presents a discussion series about collaborations between two musicians.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Nigel Rees talks to Eleanor Bron, Stella Duffy, Alistair Beaton and Christopher Matthews.
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| 14:00 | 14:00The secrets take their toll on Jennifer. 14:15Political comedy by John Fletcher, set in 1937. Neville Chamberlain employs a spin doctor.
| 14:00David makes amends for the past. 14:15By Dana Fainaru. Mel's idyllic life is turned upside-down when she suddenly stops sleeping
| 14:00Hayley sees a spring in Mike's step. 14:15Charles Dickens, heading a daily paper, is embroiled in another dangerous investigation.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:301/5By Heidi Thomas. Read by Judith Barker. 15:451/30James Naughtie looks at classical music origins in churches and monasteries.
| 15:00Vanessa Collingridge discovers when the Old Welsh language died out in Scotland. 15:302/5Written and read by Alexei Sayle. 15:452/30As Notre Dame was built, composers Perotin and Leonin wrote music to fill it.
| 15:00From the Hay Festival. Panellists are Bob Flowerdew, John Cushnie and Chris Beardshaw. 15:303/5By Linda Grant. A reclusive young woman finds a path strewn with rubies in her garden. 15:453/30In courts and great houses, the troubadours wrote secular songs of love and jealousy.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon goes fishing with a diver who hand-picks scallops off the Devon coast. 16:30Andrew Dilnot explores why people doubt crime statistics.
| 16:00Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. 16:30Sue MacGregor discusses favourite books with Mark Steel and Dunan Fallowell.
| 16:00Discussing a new study into one of the most notorious cases of police racism in Britain. 16:30Dr Mark Porter investigates the mechanics of the hip joint.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Stephen Fry.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Jo and her husband examine their options when they realise that they used to go out.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6David Baddiel chairs the programme which challenges established ideas.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Including the Victorians' slightly mobile phone and Big Celebrity Fame Zeppelin.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Wilson presents a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to crime writer Peter James. 19:451/5The perfect dinner party is never as easy at it looks, as Cara discovers to her cost.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets Whitbread Award winning novelist Matthew Kneale. 19:452/5Falling in love was easy. Becoming a stepmother is, however, a little more complicated.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Alex James about his memoir of his Blur years. 19:453/5Tessa has run an informal lottery every week with her wage packet as the prize.
| 19:00Music makes the difference. 19:15Arts news with Kirsty Lang. Including the verdict on John Boorman's film The Tiger's Tail. 19:45For Biddy, this newfangled device created many more problems than it actually solved.
| 19:00Ruairi doesn't understand. 19:15Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. 19:45By Mike Bartlett. Disgraced MP Graham Fletcher goes missing.
| 19:00June 9, Israel and Syria battle over the Golan Heights. Egyptian President Nasser resigns. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe, Susannah Clapp, Howard Schuman and Amanda Vickery review cultural items.
| 19:15Barney Harwood meets a children's author who gave up making computer games to write books. 19:45Wilkinson and his puppets entertain audiences in New Mexico.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Linda Pressly recalls the 80s conflict between the Ndebele and Shona people of Zimbabwe. 20:30Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning.
| 20:00Julian O'Halloran explores current attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Clive Anderson asks if we actually need a new judicial selection process. 20:452/4Former Ambassador Christopher Meyer offers a guide to the skills required for the task.
| 20:002/2Rob Broomby reveals the inside story of Iran's nuclear programme and reports from Georgia. 20:30Peter Day investigates how health is a preoccupation for companies as well as individuals.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion. 20:50A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
| 20:00Harry Enfield explores the history of the Royal Festival Hall through music and anecdotes.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Grant Sonnex presents the programme from the RSPB's reserve at Minsmere in Suffolk. 21:30Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter investigates the mechanics of the hip joint. 21:304/8Olivia O'Leary talks to two bankrupts about their contrasting experiences.
| 21:00Peter Evans investigates recent advances in brain scanning technology. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation.
| 21:00Geoff Watts visits Greenland to investigate the migratory habits of the walrus.
| 21:003/3Newly-elected MP Bobby Khan is forced to question his own motivations and values.
| 21:00Tom follows his true love Sophia to London and receives an invitation to a masked ball.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Barry Cryer appeals on behalf of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation. 21:30Peter Day investigates how health is a preoccupation for companies as well as individuals. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:451/10Henry Pulling meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in fifty years.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Henry's dull suburban life is rudely interrupted and feelings of anarchy stir within him.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Aunt Augusta and Henry fly to Paris and catch the Orient Express.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Jane Little. 22:454/10In Istanbul, Aunt Augusta is visited by a colonel of the local police.
| 22:00International news and analysis with Jane Little and Jeremy Bowen. 22:455/10Henry suggests that he and Aunt Augusta go to Boulogne to see his father's grave.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson asks whether we need a new judicial selection process.
| 22:00From behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Nigel Rees's guests are Frances Fyfield, Naomi Gryn, George Layton and Brian Sewell. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/6Jon talks to Jon Downes, who spent his life searching for mythical creatures. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Alicia McCarthy.
| 23:00Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous but can't cope. 23:154/4Creighton's rebirth as an academic sees him co-hosting an arts show and falling in love.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:003/4A submarine systems failure puts the Goliath crew at the mercy of a drugs baron. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:001/3Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of the city. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Edward Seckerson chairs the last semi-final of the quiz on music of all kinds. 23:302/3Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of the city.
| 23:003/3Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of the city. 23:30Mark Tully considers life after downfall, personal, emotional or financial.
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