| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Why do people return to their country of birth? Laurie Taylor explores return migration. 00:45The sound of bells from St Thomas' Church, Oxford. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The life and career of the publicity-shy, Nobel Prize-winning author. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Back teaching after his World War II service, the author makes a start on his first novels 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The author's career takes off when he is invited to work the American lecture circuit. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Personal disasters take their toll, but his latest novel receives the ultimate accolade. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5In 1983, in a maelstrom of controversy, Golding's book earns global recognition. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Daniel Morden tells one of Ovid's timeless tales, illustrating the power of enduring love.(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 Rev Stephen Shipley. 05:45Organised criminals are increasingly turning to stealing expensive farm equipment. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. 05:45Anna Hill reports on the return of the European butter mountain.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. 05:45The search for British eggs in our processed foods, with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. 05:45Charlotte Smith investigates whether wind turbines are causing noise pollution.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. 05:45There has been a significant increase in the amount of poaching in the countryside.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. 05:453/4It is judgment day, as the town makes last-minute preparations before the final tour.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Whichford in South Warwickshire. 05:45Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
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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. 06:07Helen Mark meets Booker-nominated author Sarah Hall at Haweswater Reservoir in Cumbria. 06:30News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith, who looks at countryside noise. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury about his understanding of prayer. 06:35Caz Graham visits the Welsh hill farm where inner-city Somali kids learn about their roots 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. 07:10Jane Little discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Research UK. 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 Lichfield Cathedral, led by Canon Pete Wilcox and Canon Wealands Bell. 08:50The naturalist examines the revelations found from following fossilised animal tracks.
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| 09:00 | 09:004/4Robert Peston talks to Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. 09:302/4Helena Kennedy QC unravels the recent history of attacks on judicial independence. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Ian Galloway.
| 09:002/5Biologist Steve Jones takes Wendy Robbins back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s 09:305/5The story behind a lost portrait of Winston Churchill which was destroyed by his wife. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze.
| 09:006/6Olivia O'Leary talks to two women who were raped by men they met on a night out. 09:30In 1933, only a handful of pennies were minted. Phil Mussell sets about tracking one down.(R) 09:45Christian worship and music led by Nigel Swinford.
| 09:00John Simpson reports from Afghanistan and asks how things have gone wrong. 09:305/5The impact that television shows may have had on the treatment of Muslim detainees. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Father Philip Sumner.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites those caught up in the 1980 siege at the Iranian Embassy in London. 09:45An act of worship and music led by Rev Angela Tilby.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. 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 | 10:00Singer Beth Ditto on Gossip and plus-size clothing. Plus, author Barbara Taylor Bradford.
| 10:00What are the risk factors of breast cancer? Plus, Liz Jones on moving to the country.
| 10:00Addiction to over-the-counter pain relief. Plus, Stephen Bayley on woman as design.
| 10:00Elizabeth Turner on losing her husband in the 9/11 attacks. Plus, joking about rape.
| 10:00Do entrance exams put too much pressure on 11 year olds? Plus, Githa Sowerby discussed.
| 10:00Coverage of the fourth One Day International between England and Australia from Lord's.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Hugh Sykes follows the Iraqi football team as they hope to unite their country.(R) 11:303/6A dodgy alarm system frays cleaner Eva's wedding day nerves.
| 11:00Brett Westwood asks how feasible it is to set up a conservation area in the sea. 11:30Michael Rosen explores the popularity in Russia of Winnie the Pooh translations.(R)
| 11:00Jenny Cuffe reports on the UK's first family, drug and alcohol court. 11:304/4Strife in store and wearing beige. Pam's poems and sketches on the subject of shopping.
| 11:00Magdi Abdelhadi explores what kind of Egypt President Mubarak will leave when he dies. 11:30Mark Radcliffe on Ena Sharples and the actress who played her, Violet Carson.
| 11:00Clive Anderson investigates the demise of the traditional bank manager. 11:303/4Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls a pupil set for Olympic glory.
| | 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites key players involved in the secret talks to free Nelson Mandela.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. 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. 12:047/10Nicholas Parsons chairs. With Paul Merton, Charles Collingwood, Stephen Fry, Jenny Éclair 12:32What price the loss of indigenous vegetables in Africa? Sheila Dillon finds out. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Tom Sutcliffe chairs. With teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30The story behind this enduring love song and the personal memories forever linked to it.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30The power of Google and the future of the BBC.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Tom Heap finds out if dates on food are past their sell-by date.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Tim Harford examines reports that the world will cool over the next two decades.
| | 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30Olivia O'Leary explores Ireland's economic crisis and its search for a post-crash identity(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:15Sam tries to clear her best friend after she's convicted of killing her baby.
| 14:15By Colin Hough. Mounted police constable Meryl investigates when her sergeant is murdered.
| 14:00Unease over the vichyssoise. 14:15Coverage of the 3rd One Day International between England and Australia from the Rose Bowl
| 14:00Wayne reaps what he sows at The Bull. 14:15Comedy by Tony Bagley, set in 1959 at the Common Cold Unit.
| 14:15Comic monologue by Christopher Green about a feisty woman who takes to her bed.
| | 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs. 14:451/5Nina Myskow discusses food-related fear and self-loathing with comedian Joan Rivers.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Robert Giddings on the confrontation between creativity and Fascism in interwar Germany. 15:451/5Surgeon Iain Hutchison looks back to the third century BC in South Asia.(R)
| 15:00Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:301/3Featuring Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language. 15:452/5Dr Anne Curtis discovers the origins of 'base 60'.(R)
| | 15:00Matt Baker visits London' s Hyde Park to discover the history of the Serpentine Lake. 15:27Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma. 15:303/3Samuel Johnson's Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare. 15:454/5Gabrielle Walker finds if Aristotle's treatise on meteorology stands the test of time.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs. 15:455/5Prof Gus McGrouther finds links between his wound healing research and early Mesopotamia.(R)
| | 15:002/2Boswell relies on Johnson more and more. Hester Thrale becomes Johnson's devoted friend.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Simon Parkes finds out about the traditional Shetland summer Sunday afternooon teas. 16:302/5Lucille White finds about her great, great-grandmother - was she a daughter of Louis XVI?
| 16:003/3Liz Barclay meets three people who swapped their careers for altogether different pursuits 16:30Politician Boris Johnson chooses the creator of the English dictionary, Dr Samuel Johnson.
| | 16:00James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places. 16:30Quentin Cooper hears what became of the Large Hadron Collider.
| 16:00Celebrating the lives of Keith Waterhouse, Baroness Chapman, Sergei Mikhalkov. 16:30Nora Ephron discusses her biopic of America's first celebrity chef, Julia Child.
| | 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to William Boyd about his latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms. 16:30Roger McGough presents poems about the joy of living and the experience of memory loss.
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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 Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| | 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 Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| | 17:00Joshua Rozenberg talks to judges and politicians about the new UK Supreme Court. 17:40Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel. 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. 18:307/10Nicholas Parsons chairs. With Paul Merton, Charles Collingwood, Stephen Fry, Jenny Éclair
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Who will succeed Zorro and can pensioners understand the futures trade?
| | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6A new reality star columnist means Maddox must rewrite her copy discretely!(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/5Fred MacAulay chairs. With Justin Edwards, Paul Sinha and Justin Moorhouse.
| 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Stewart Copeland, Danny Dyer and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Colin Firth, Pauline Malefane, a review of new drama Trinity, and how important is font? 19:451/5Manners, morals and heavy-duty healthcare, as two au pairs experience parenting.
| 19:00Unease over the vichyssoise. 19:15The Booker shortlist, Nick Cave's new novel, Beatles remastered and The September Issue. 19:452/5Alvy and Dorika have a night off and that proves to be their first mistake.
| | 19:15Barry Humphries on his numerous creations; how did Derren Brown guess the lottery numbers? 19:454/5Alvy and Dorika take a trip to the zoo - lock up your children.
| 19:15Paula Rego Museum in Portugal, Icelandic tenor Gardar Thor Cortes; playwright Richard Bean 19:455/5Major life changes beckon, if Alvy and Dorika can get that vase off of Louis's head.
| 19:00Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Mark Ravenhill and the novelists Liz Jensen and Patrick Gale.
| 19:15Historian Richard Norton Smith discusses growing incivility towards the President. 19:451/5By Doris Lessing. A lived-in chair is sold at auction, where it begins its final journey.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:002/3The heated debate 30 years ago over legislation to make it compulsory to wear seat belts. 20:30The young gangsters in Vancouver who are building a multi-billion dollar drugs industry.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg talks to judges and politicians about the new UK Supreme Court. 20:40No more train platform announcements? Blind travellers respond to a trial at New Street.
| | 20:00The potential impact of the Lockerbie bomber's release on trade between Libya and the West 20:30The university societies which unite would-be entrepreneurs with potential backers.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex. 20:50The naturalist examines the revelations found from following fossilised animal tracks.
| 20:00Val McDermid listens to previously-unbroadcast recordings made by Agatha Christie.
| 20:00Tim Harford examines reports that the world will cool over the next two decades. 20:30Celebrating the lives of Keith Waterhouse, Baroness Chapman, Sergei Mikhalkov.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Tom Heap finds out if dates on food are past their sell-by date. 21:304/4Robert Peston talks to Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter on how best to help people rebuild their lives after a head injury. 21:302/5Biologist Steve Jones takes Wendy Robbins back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s
| | 21:00Geoff Watts reports from the British Science Association's Festival in Guildford. 21:30John Simpson reports from Afghanistan and asks how things have gone wrong.
| 21:00Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in 1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss.(R)
| 21:001/2Young Boswell heads to London, keen to write his hero Johnson's biography.
| 21:00Tempted by a golden opportunity? We look at the pros and cons of buying and selling gold. 21:26Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Research UK. 21:30The university societies which unite would-be entrepreneurs with potential backers. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Florian and Ellie find a meeting place far from Miss Connulty's gaze.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:457/10Florian Kilderry realises that there is less time left than he had imagined.
| 22:30National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10With little time left to them, Ellie comes to Shelhanagh House for the first time.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10As Florian's departure date approaches, Ellie makes another journey to Shelhanagh.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Ellie must weigh the damage and decide whether or not to go with Florian to Scandinavia.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:151/3Economist Philippe Legrain argues that Britain should abolish all immigration controls.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Scotland's Colony.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Rowan Pelling explores the sensational pornographic novel, The Story of O, and its author. 23:30Alan Dein finds himself on the east coast of England to hear an unlikely story of hope.(R)
| 23:002/6Panellists are Rev Richard Coles, journalist Matthew Norman and comedian Mark Steel.(R) 23:306/6Sketch show by David Armand, Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy Brand(R)
| 23:003/6Packing cases and breaking vows in the bizarre sketch comedy show.(R) 23:301/4The amateur sleuth gets embroiled in a suspicious death at the BBC...(R)
| 23:005/6Marcus Brigstocke invites Tim Brooke-Taylor to try new experiences.(R) 23:303/6Comedian Robert Popper's drunken friend put their lives at risk.(R)
| 23:00Politician Boris Johnson chooses the creator of the English dictionary, Dr Samuel Johnson. 23:303/4More radio ridicule from Jon Holmes, with Thought for the Day... for Satanists.(R)
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs. With teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. 23:30Young poet Tom Chivers reclaims the reputation of counter-cultural poet Barry MacSweeney.(R)
| 23:00Nora Ephron discusses her biopic of America's first celebrity chef, Julia Child. 23:30Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury about his understanding of prayer.
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