| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Adam Kuper to discuss the demise of kissing cousins. 00:45The sound of bells from St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Passion, money, art - the story of John Constable and his pursuit of the love of his life. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The painter and Maria Bicknell first met when he was 24 and she was 12. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Lacking 'that necessary article - cash', the pair's courtship was never going to be easy. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Despite fierce opposition from Maria's powerful grandfather, John is determined to marry. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Finally married, the serious production of both paintings and children can now begin. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5By Luke Sutherland. A very small man helps a young lady in distress.(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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. 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 Rev Jenny Wigley. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Mary's in Ilmington. 05:45Claire Bolderson profiles the young Indian-American governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Matt Baker investigates Cumbria's industrial coastline, which is being given a makeover. 06:30News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Fergal Keane looks forward to Spring, as a season and a metaphor for better times to come. 06:35Lionel Kelleway travels to the Falkland Islands in pursuit of Johnny Rook, the cara cara. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Dr Mark Porter appeals on behalf of Bowel and Cancer Research. 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 National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. 08:50Katharine Whitehorne reflects on diseconomies of scale.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr's guests include Amos Oz, Miri Rubin, Alistair Crooke and Penny Woolcock. 09:45Christian worship and music with Rev Dr Mark Wakelin.
| 09:00The parallels between the murder of Rhys Jones in 2007 and another Liverpool child in 1883 09:301/8Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister. 09:45Christian worship and music, led by Bishop George Stack.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests. 09:45Christian worship and music, led by Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land. 09:45Christian worship and music, led by Canon Noel Vincent.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is comedian David Walliams. 09:45An act of worship and music with Rev Roger Hutchings.
| 09:00Richard Coles is joined by design curator Libby Sellers, with poetry from Matt Harvey.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00What efforts are being made to get more black and Asian women into parliament?
| 10:00Jane Garvey discusses issues surrounding the Autism Bill and who is responsible for care.
| 10:00Vince Cable on finding love again after the death of his beloved first wife.
| 10:00The effect the passing of a child has on families with several young children.
| 10:00Ann Widdecombe on why she glories in spinsterhood. Plus, actor Wendy Richard remembered.
| 10:00John McCarthy talks to Sanjay Suri and Justine Hardy about their experience of India. 10:30Crime writer Mark Billingham tails Patricia Highsmith's hero-psychopath Tom Ripley
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Professor Jon Silverman takes a mother back to the notorious London estate she grew up on. 11:303/5Charles finds himself in Paris in attendance on a young aristocrat who has fled England.
| 11:00Aasmah Mir reports on the skin lightening industry in Britain. 11:30John Hegley celebrates the limerick and delves into its history.
| 11:002/3How Manchester has reinvigorated itself through its working class youth culture. 11:302/6Surprisingly, control freak and social worker Clare makes some cool new friends.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30John Wilson explores the reasons why some artists use rubbish in their work
| 11:001/2Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the ladies barbershop chorus Second City Sound. 11:303/6Manager Peter and HR's Sam are late, but is their hope in the next carriage?
| 11:00A look behind the scenes at Westminster, presented by Elinor Goodman. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is actor and campaigner Lord Rix.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04With Peter White. Ray Gosling offers his peculiar take on lifelong prudence. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04With Winifred Robinson. Recession and the green agenda: have your priorities changed? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04With Winifred Robinson. Care Minister Phil Hope discusses changes to funding for care. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04With Winifred Robinson. Are Sharia approved financial products good value? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04With Peter White. Including interview with Mary Wilkinson, fmr editor of Disability Now. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The long running saga of bank overdraft charges reaches a crucial legal stage. 12:308/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:049/12Nicholas Parsons chairs. With Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock, David Mitchell. 12:32Sheila Dillon finds out what happens to all the venison that is being produced in the UK. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Nigel Rees chairs. With Celia Walden, Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:304/4The tragic case of English composer and poet Ivor Gurney, who died of TB in 1937.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Coverage of the first day of the Third Test between West Indies and England in Barbados.
| 13:00National and international news with James Robbins. 13:30Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with James Robbins. 13:301/2Four Radio 4 presenters try their hand at stand-up comedy for Comic Relief.
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Amanda Whittington. The story of the trial of Lady Jane Grey.
| 14:15An amateur gardener becomes obsessed with hunting down a mole.
| 14:15By Bettina Gracias. The story of a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labour.
| | 14:00Coverage of the second day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England in Barbados.
| 14:00Coverage of the third day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England in Barbados.
| 14:00Coverage of the fourth day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England in Barbados.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Jenni Murray presents a history of personal advice, from the agony aunts to the phone-in. 15:4556/90The story of the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression and the failure of Herbert Hoover
| 15:00Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:301/4Waiting at the altar for a bride, a priest battles with memories of his own love affair.(R) 15:4557/90How Franklin D Roosevelt got America working again.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on equity release. 15:302/4A young woman comes downstairs to the family kitchen and explains why she is leaving.(R) 15:4558/90The fight to keep America neutral and at peace while arming the allies.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon looks at the history of the potato. 16:30Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world.
| 16:00Clive Coleman reports on legal issues behind the headlines. 16:30Kate Mosse invites Jenny Agutter and Adam Hart-Davis to discuss their favourite books.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor discusses the personal psychological consequences of recession unemployment. 16:301/4Vivienne Parry asks what is 'normal' lung function?
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Coverage 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 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:309/12Nicholas Parsons chairs. With Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock, David Mitchell.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6A cat, a thermostat and Bristol combine in the ups and downs of a tiny charter airline.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Impressionist Jan Ravens has a boxing lesson, gets her eyebrows threaded and builds a wall
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a look at the movie The International. 19:451/5Pregnant cookery expert Rachel discovers that her husband is having an affair.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets all four members of U2 in Dublin. 19:452/5Rachel walks out on her cheating husband Mark and goes to New York.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets director Laurent Cantet. 19:453/5Mark wants a reconciliation, so Rachel heads back to Washington.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her friend began a new career as a boxing promoter. 20:30Evan Davis presents the business magazine.
| 20:00Grant Ferrett investigates the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Britain and Europe. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00With Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips. 20:45Mark Mardell on why it is so hard to explain what goes on in Brussels to a UK audience.
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| 21:00 | 21:002/3Ehsan Masood assesses whether new investment in scientific research is having an effect. 21:30Andrew Marr's guests include Amos Oz, Miri Rubin, Alistair Crooke and Penny Woolcock.
| 21:001/4Vivienne Parry asks what is 'normal' lung function? 21:30The parallels between the murder of Rhys Jones in 2007 and another Liverpool child in 1883
| 21:003/3Grant Sonnex talks to Pete Abraham, a Yupik Eskimo who grew up in a tiny settlement. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests.
| 21:02Geoff Watts discusses the future of the larynx transplant procedure. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
| 21:0212/18The Great Depression, the New Deal, Pearl Harbor and dropping the atomic bomb.
| 21:022/2Life is tedious for war correspondent William, but he finds love.
| 21:02The long running saga of bank overdraft charges reaches a crucial legal stage. 21:26Dr Mark Porter appeals on behalf of Bowel and Cancer Research. 21:30Richard Reeves, director of the think tank Demos, argues that social housing has failed. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Including reports on the return to the UK of Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed. 22:451/10The White Tiger gets his name.
| 22:00News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including Labour MPs' passion for the Royal Mail. 22:452/10When the chance of a job as a chauffeur comes up, Balram sees a way out of poverty.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Balram leaves his family, village and scruples behind as he sets his sights on promotion.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Balram's wealthy employers are moving to Delhi, but only one driver will be needed.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. President Obama sets out the US withdrawal timetable from Iraq. 22:455/10Balram quickly learns he will need some sharp survival tactics to make his way in the city
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15With Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips.
| 22:00Including The Prime Ministers.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the word 'organisation' with writer Jay Griffiths 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:001/4Investigating the fun that can be had, at other people's expense, through DIY. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/4The comedian sets out to validate herself through 18th-century philosophy. 23:152/6The show where no sketch features more than one voice. With Bill Oddie as himself.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:002/4Insight and absurdity. Does Alan have the nerve to break up with Jane? 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Kate Mosse invites Jenny Agutter and Adam Hart-Davis to discuss their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Nigel Rees chairs. With Celia Walden, Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh. 23:30Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests.
| 23:02Francine Stock talks to Jamie Cullum about Clint Eastwood's film Gran Torino. 23:30Fergal Keane looks forward to Spring, as a season and a metaphor for better times to come.
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