| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Slumming: how whites' wild times in America's black areas changed sex and politics forever 00:45The sound of bells from St Helen's Church, Sefton in Liverpool. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The world of wireless, from wedding tales on Virgin to honour killings on Asian Network. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Wogan and his TOGs, Jon Gaunt and his antagonism, and the lovely Poppy in the office. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A visit to the Radio Times, and how Radio Humberside coped with an earthquake. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5John muses on pirate radio, tunes into Dynamite MC and asks for some Pachelbel for Poppy. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5John looks to the future, revelling in radio's relationship with the internet. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30An author has a wonderful time in New York, until he receives a strange phone call.(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. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:45Why increased UK veg production means more fields covered in plastic. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:45Charlotte Smith reports a surge in demand for polytunnels from smallholders.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:45Caz Graham hears how the cuckoo is now under threat.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. 05:45Caz Graham reports on the suprising decline of the beef industry.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from Tavistock Parish Church. 05:453/3Natasha Walter looks at A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park, on the Duke of Northumberland's estate. 06:30What is the future for growing our food? Caz Graham visits Warwick University to find out. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully celebrates what the novelist Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary'. 06:35Lionel Kelleway tries to get close to the grass snake, Britain's largest native snake. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London, for the Feast of Pentecost. 08:50Clive James reflects on democracy, MPs' expenses and the Oxford Poetry Professorship.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr's guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev John Bell.
| 09:003/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at Gibraltar. 09:303/5For middle-class Iranians, a new life in the UK often meant a sudden loss of social status(R) 09:45Christian worship and music led by John Forrest.
| 09:00Libby Purves's guests include actor Roger Allam. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Peter Whittaker.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. 09:45An act of worship and music led by Leslie Griffiths.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by Ed Stourton. With poetry from Susan Richardson.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00A special edition celebrating the work of cook Marguerite Patten, from her Brighton home.
| 10:00What characteristics are needed to survive as an MP? Plus, Claire Tomalin on her mother. 10:30Coverage of the third One Day International between England and West Indies from Edgbaston
| 10:00Deboarah Meaden on turning good ideas into business. Plus, Little Boots performs live.
| 10:00Novelist Roma Tearne on the impact Sri Lanka's civil war has had on her family.
| 10:00Looking at what happens to couples who go abroad for fertility treatment.
| 10:00John McCarthy looks at the very earliest days of man's travel and little-known Surinam. 10:30Simon Townley learns how 'the father of the symphony' lost his head for 145 years.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Can Ian Hislop create a photofit image of Henry VIII from the many created down the ages? 11:30A wife's selflessness may conceal a hidden agenda. Surprisingly modern comedy.
| | 11:00Billy Bragg meets the surviving members of a unique group of war conscientious objectors.(R) 11:301/6Jodie is anxious over her brand new sandwich bar in Yorkshire, but luckily Hope is at hand
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Dominic Dromgoole goes in search of Shakespeare's indoor playhouse, Blackfriars Theatre.
| 11:00Phil Hammond explores the consequences of human error in the medical profession.(R) 11:306/6The two comedians get chatting in the tag-team talk show.
| 11:00How voters and candidates for the European elections are reacting to the expenses crisis. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is campaigner Caroline, Countess Of Cranbrook.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. How do we get more people to play sport? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic payments system is working a year on. 12:305/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Danielle Ward. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/6John Lloyd invites Oliver James, John Hodgman and Charlotte Uhlenbroek to submit exhibits. 12:32Will new meal standards for secondary schools sink the frail school catering sector? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:3012/13The third semi final of the wide-ranging music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini.
| | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Steve Hewlett on corporate transparency, medicine on TV and online TV on the television.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30How the Carteret Islands are slowly being submerged by the rising sea.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Topics include MPs expenses and BBC pay, the end of Go4It, and Bono's poetry.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Dartmouth.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:302/3The debate over the decision to rebuild London's Euston Station in 1961.
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Matthew Wilkie. George is desperate for his team to win the pub quiz.(R)
| | 14:15By Robin Brooks. A feminist film-maker is making a documentary about writer MR James.(R)
| 14:15Black comedy focusing on events in 1944 involving film director Sergei Eisenstein.(R)
| 14:15True story of radio enthusiasts who intercept messages from early Russian space missions.
| 14:00Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30George Smiley investigates when a schoolmaster's wife is found bludgeoned to death.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness. 14:451/5Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss to identify wet meadow waders.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Sophie Dahl looks at the life of her grandfather, the children's author Roald Dahl. 15:451/5Elizabeth Hurren reveals how Henry VIII was both a medical pioneer and a hypochrondiac.
| | 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on student finance. 15:302/3Pooh goes in search of the Woozle and Eeyore's tail goes missing. 15:453/5Susan Doran and Henry VIII's biographer, Lucy Wooding, explore Henry's role as father.
| 15:02Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison in Suffolk. 15:27Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. 15:303/3Pooh spies a heffalump. 15:454/5Kent Rawlinson introduces Henry the architect and fahion icon, obsessed by his image.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness. 15:455/5Dr Stephen Rice reveals the importance of music to the life and character of Henry VIII.
| | 15:002/2An illegitimate child with a tragic secret is used as a pawn in a bigger game.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sheila Dillon finds out how the wine market is coping in the recession. 16:306/6Katie finds out how Margate is reinventing itself as 'the Bilbao of the Kent coast'.
| | 16:00Laurie hears of a new study which compares betting shops to 18th-century coffee houses. 16:30The scientists who tried to induce a haunting by manipulating energy fields and sound.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to Jake Arnott about his latest novel, The Devil's Paintbrush. 16:30North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the causes of the 1930s 'Dustbowl', and tool-using rooks.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister talks about the lives of physicist Herbert York and diver Carl Spencer. 16:30Francine Stock talks to film director Richard Lester about his career.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the Hay Festival. 16:30Roger McGough introduces requests for poems by Robert Frost and Edward Thomas.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Full coverage 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss how businesses can survive a recession. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Allan Urry investigates more claims of bad behaviour on the part of bankers. 17:405/8Dramatist Steve Waters creates a fictional response to the week's news. 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. 18:304/6John Lloyd invites Oliver James, John Hodgman and Charlotte Uhlenbroek to submit exhibits.
| 18:30Paul Merton shares his memories of Clement Freud and introduces clips of him in action.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6The Oracle enlightens in the quest for the Sword of Asnagar.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6The codebreakers must get jabs, but they all rustle up excuses to avoid the needle.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/8Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Danielle Ward.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Peter Curran is joined by Helen Baxendale. With music from Madness and Rokia Traore.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Frank Cottrell-Boyce introduces a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. 19:456/10Falco visits Varga, a drunken fresco artist, who seems to know more than he is letting on.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with the artist Tracey Emin 19:457/10Varga gets plastered in a different way when he receives a visit from Falco and his dad.
| 19:15Colour at Tate Liverpool, Sandra Bernhard and Sarah Hall on the stones of Cumbria. 19:458/10Falco and Geminus travel to Capua and track down the sculptor Orontes.
| 19:15Arts news and reviews. Hugh Laurie talks to Mark Lawson about his role in US drama House. 19:459/10A grisly discovery at Flora's Bar throws light on Falco's murder accusation.
| 19:15Kirsty Lang meets Sharon D Clarke, a talent-show judge turned performer in a musical. 19:4510/10Falco discovers the true nature of his brother's death in battle.
| 19:005/8Dramatist Steve Waters creates a fictional response to the week's news. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tristram Hunt, Kathryn Hughes and Ekow Eshun.
| 19:15Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the ideas shaping America today. 19:451/5A divorced mother prepares for another painful meeting with her estranged children.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events. 20:30David Hare gives his thoughts on the potential future border between Israel and Palestine.
| 20:00Allan Urry investigates more claims of bad behaviour on the part of bankers. 20:40Peter White hears fears about the abolition of the Learning and Skills Council.
| 20:00Are our environmental laws robust enough to save the planet for humankind? 20:453/3Natasha Walter looks at A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
| 20:00Simon Cox explores how the system of MPs expenses was allowed to get out of control. 20:30Evan Davis and his guests discuss how businesses can survive a recession.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Dartmouth. 20:50Clive James reflects on democracy, MPs' expenses and the Oxford Poetry Professorship.
| 20:00Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of interviews with world famous writers.
| 20:00Topics include MPs expenses and BBC pay, the end of Go4It, and Bono's poetry. 20:30Matthew Bannister talks about the lives of physicist Herbert York and diver Carl Spencer.
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| 21:00 | 21:00How the Carteret Islands are slowly being submerged by the rising sea. 21:30Andrew Marr's guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel.
| 21:00The scientists who tried to induce a haunting by manipulating energy fields and sound. 21:303/4Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at Gibraltar.
| 21:00Brett Westwood searches for the reasons behind the declining numbers of migrant songbirds. 21:30Libby Purves's guests include actor Roger Allam.
| 21:00Geoff Watts finds out the use of experiments in weightlessness, similar to being in orbit. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.
| 21:00By Doug Lucie. A normal sunny afternoon is shattered when a man is killed in the street.
| 21:001/2The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views of the Great War.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic payments system is working a year on. 21:26Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust. 21:30Simon Cox explores how the system of MPs expenses was allowed to get out of control. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00News from a global perspective with Felicity Evans. 22:451/10Pursued by armed men with dogs, a strange young woman tears across the moonlit wilderness.
| 22:00With Felicity Evans. Plus reports on Pakistan's Swat Valley, Sri Lanka and Watergate. 22:452/10Mary Boulton, on the run, finds refuge with Mrs Cawthra-Elliot. But for how long?
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. Reports on bombings in Pakistan, North Korea's defiance, car workers. 22:453/10With her brothers-in-law seeking vengeance, Mary has ridden into the mountains.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Can Mary trust the man they call The Ridgerunner?
| 22:00Presented by Robin Lustig. Including reports on the aftermath of the fighting in Sri Lanka 22:455/10Deserted by The Ridgerunner, Mary now heads for the mining town of Frank.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Are our environmental laws robust enough to save the planet for humankind?
| 22:00Including The Condensed History of Big Ben.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Guy Browning, Kathryn Hughes and Anna Raeburn discuss the changing role of the nanny. 23:301/3Peter White, who is blind, shares some of his reasons to be cheerful with Arthur Smith.(R)
| 23:001/6Mark courageously turns his attention to the first of six virtues.(R) 23:302/3Diana Quick is cheerful about the fact that women have more opportunities than in the past(R)
| 23:002/6Separated and homeless, Dave muses on life outside his temporary storage pod home.(R) 23:155/6Roydon Postlethwaite remembers the long and glistening career of Dame Penny.(R) 23:303/3Comedian Stephen K Amos offers an antidote to grumpiness.(R)
| 23:005/6Britain's Olympic chances, and can we trust phone-ins? Gary Bellamy takes the calls.(R) 23:301/230 years in the USA, English born historian Simon Schama explores his passion for baseball(R)
| 23:00Journalist Misha Glenny remembers the life of anti-Mafia campaigner Giovanni Falcone. 23:302/2English born historian Simon Schama explores artistic lure of baseball in his adopted home(R)
| 23:0012/13The third semi final of the wide-ranging music quiz, with Paul Gambaccini. 23:30Featuring a reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to film director Richard Lester about his career. 23:30Mark Tully celebrates what the novelist Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary'.
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