| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor discusses the secret codes of criminal communication. 00:45The sound of bells from St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors in Hampshire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5How does a woman of literary tastes end up writing on sport for a national newspaper? 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5In 1999, Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to report on the Holyfield-Lewis fight. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Watching is one thing, playing is another. Lynne describes her enduring passion for golf. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5What could be better than to be paid to go to and write about world-class sporting events? 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5After four years on the job, Lynne asks a simple question - just how important is sport? 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A young woman starts work for a blind poet and becomes absorbed in a strange new world.(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 Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45A tree pest may stop play in conker season. Charlotte Smith reports. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45'NIMBYs' are being blamed for a failure to meet housing targets.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Anna Hill reports on NIMBYs preventing local people buying affordable houses.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Anna Hill investigates cheap horses and the use of chlorine on chickens.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears accusations that supermarkets are damaging our beef industry.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in Kent. 05:45Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the owner of the London Evening Standard.
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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 continues her journey in the company of a group of local walkers, led by Jon Monks. 06:30News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our sense of self. 06:35Adam Henson visits a farm in Sussex which is changing the lives of London's homeless. 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. 07:10Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise Development. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:57The Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
| | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze and Andrew Graystone. 08:50The naturalist asks why the large blue butterfly recently died out in the UK.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr's guests include PD James, Stella Rimington and Harold Evans. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Dr Bert Tosh.
| 09:001/3John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who influenced events in 1989. 09:304/5The man who stopped to help some swans in distress, only to have his luxury car stolen. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Roger Hutchings.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with guests including the Duchess of Rutland. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Father Philip Sumner.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s. 09:45Christian worship and music led by John Forrest.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. 09:45An act of worship and music led by Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by the creator and writer of Teletubbies, Andrew Davenport.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Are the children of working mums less healthy? Plus, jazz from singer Claire Martin.
| 10:00Marriage as a political tool. Plus, comedienne Jo Brand on her memoirs.
| 10:00Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond. Plus, Mary Contini cooks mushrooms Italian-style.
| 10:00Phyllida Law on her mother-in-law. Plus, closing the pension gap between men and women.
| 10:00Who pays for equal pay? Plus is wearing a Hijab really a free choice? 10:355/5When the big day arrives Cass is left to face it alone. 10:55A service of remembrance in St Paul's Cathedral to mark the end of the war in Iraq.
| 10:00John McCarthy explores gardening and knitting around the world. 10:30Errol Flynn's final year, which he spent in Cuba around the time of the revolution.
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Examining graffiti in Bristol and the issues surrounding it. 11:301/6Beauty Olonga is a carer and a self-appointed inspiration.
| 11:00An unusual sound safari, eavesdropping on the world of insect sounds. 11:30What is the truth behind the mermaid story? Janet Ellis investigates.
| 11:00Martin Wainwright explores the global scrap metal industry. 11:303/3By Michael Chaplin. A centenarian Glaswegian remembers life during the Blitz.(R)
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30The story of Ira Aldridge, a 19th-century actor who defied racial prejudice.
| | 11:00Are personalities eclipsing politics? Andrew Rawnsley investigates. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is comedian Steve Coogan.
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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. 12:04Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:303/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:041/6David Mitchell hosts, as panellists try to hide truth in lies. 12:32What function do feasts serve today? Sheila Dillon explores the role of social eating. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:15Coverage of the final of the Champions Trophy from Centurion Park, Pretoria.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Broadcaster Stephen Evans explores the life and work of lyricist Yip Harburg.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30The BNP in the media, TV election debates and 25 years of Voice of the Listener and Viewer
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Are charity mountaineers damaging our highest peaks? Alice Roberts reports.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:30Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Justin Webb examines the possible effects on the UK of healthcare reform in America.
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| 14:00 | | 14:152/6By Mike Walker. Dickens investigates a plot aimed at the country's financial system.(R)
| 14:00Houston, we have a problem. 14:15By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates invent their own projects.
| 14:15Mike Harris' story about 19th century Society for the Suppression of Vice.(R)
| 14:15Why will a man famous for finding people not help a young woman find her lost child?(R)
| 14:00Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30The moving true story of the 1950s relationship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie. 14:455/5Nina Myskow discovers how food and Sichuan spice shaped celebrated author Jung Chang.
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| 15:00 | | 15:00Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. 15:301/3By Christa Wolf. The gulf between the founders of East Germany and the next generation. 15:457/30What do letters and diaries tell us about running the home in the 16th and 17th centuries?
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:302/3By Stefan Heym. The nature of power in an oppressive state and its impact on personal life 15:458/30Historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.
| 15:00Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth to Warkworth. 15:27Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living Foundation. 15:303/3A love song to the city of her youth, by Monika Maron. 15:459/30Sewing was a housewife's duty and also acted as valuable therapy.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs. With Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie. 15:4510/30The perils of running a house in Lancashire with unreliable servants.
| | 15:002/2The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and hostility.
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| 16:00 | | 16:001/2Robin Wight returns to the location of his first job in advertising in the late 1960s.(R) 16:30Martin Rowson, Tom Morris and Sue MacGregor discuss their favourite books. 16:56Gorbachev begins a visit to East Germany to help celebrate the GDR's 40th anniversary.
| 16:00Sociologist Loic Wacquant discusses the consequences of a growing US prison system. 16:301/3Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials - just to get better or for the common good? 16:56Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of the Gethsemane clash with police.
| 16:00James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust. 16:30Quentin Cooper and guests assess the latest batch of Nobel Science Prizes. 16:56Eyewitnesses in East Berlin describe a police crackdown on protestors.
| 16:00The lives of Marek Edelman, Robert S Baker, Dr Sula Wolff and Mercedes Sosa. 16:30Paddy Considine on making a film in five days with Shane Meadows and the Arctic Monkeys. 16:56Protests approach a historical and perhaps dangerous moment.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. 16:56In East Germany, the police violence that people had feared had not occurred.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to thriller writer Robert Harris about his novel Lustrum. 16:30Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday from Bristol Old Vic. 16:56Jive Bunny gets on the Juke Box Jury's nerves.
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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.
| 17:00Coverage 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. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula Shah, plus sports headlines. 17:30Stephanie Flanders asks her panel of business guests about the fine art of salesmanship. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Gerry Northam asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for our forces. 17:40Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the owner of the London Evening Standard. 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. 18:27The Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. 18:301/4Comedy drama set in the idiosyncratic world of a tourist information office.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Impressionist Alistair McGowan interviews actor Simon Callow in the tag-team talk show.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Arthur organises a fundraising show. The headliner is obvious, but who can support him?(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Charlie Brooker, Romola Garai and Allegra McEvedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | | 19:00Houston, we have a problem. 19:15Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. 19:452/5Cass struggles to come to terms with pregnancy and being made homeless.
| 19:15With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with writer Clive James on his 70th birthday. 19:453/5Cass still hasn't told the children about her pregnancy.
| 19:15Eoin Colfer, Paul Durcan and the story of a Shetland fisherman who sang the blues. 19:454/5Ken is convinced his novel will be a bestseller; Cass thinks it won't even get published.
| 19:15Val McDermid on TV police documentary The Force, and Diaghilev remembered. 19:455/5When the big day arrives Cass is left to face it alone.
| 19:00Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the owner of the London Evening Standard. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss bankers hitting rock bottom and heads rolling in Peking.
| 19:15Matt Frei hears about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. 19:455/5As the First World War looms, a new world is dawning for Private Dunkley.(R)
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| 20:00 | | 20:00Gerry Northam asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for our forces. 20:40The fight to save Action for Blind People's centre in Carlisle. Why is it under threat?
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs a debate about the continuing western involvement in Afghanistan. 20:451/3Peter Oborne explores the philosophical roots of the Conservative Party.
| 20:00Simon Cox investigates the strength of the RMT union. 20:30Stephanie Flanders asks her panel of business guests about the fine art of salesmanship.
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle. 20:50The naturalist asks why the large blue butterfly recently died out in the UK.
| 20:00Jerry Hall talks to photographer David Bailey about his relationship with Andy Warhol.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30The lives of Marek Edelman, Robert S Baker, Dr Sula Wolff and Mercedes Sosa.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Are charity mountaineers damaging our highest peaks? Alice Roberts reports. 21:30Andrew Marr's guests include PD James, Stella Rimington and Harold Evans.
| 21:001/3Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials - just to get better or for the common good? 21:301/3John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who influenced events in 1989.
| 21:00An unusual sound safari, eavesdropping on the world of insect sounds. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with guests including the Duchess of Rutland.
| 21:00Geoff Watts meets the scientists who study polar life in freezing conditions. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s.
| 21:002/6What letters and diaries reveal about running the home in the 16th and 17th centuries.
| 21:001/2Dramatisation of PC Wren's classic story of honour, love and adventure.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise Development. 21:30Fran Abrams explores the balance between choice and paternalism in further education. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah and Felicity Evans. 22:456/10Bazarov's cool and clinical approach to life fails him.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah and Paul Moss. 22:457/10Heartbroken, Bazarov makes his own prodigal return to his doting parents.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:458/10Without Arkady at Marino, Bazarov oversteps the bounds.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:459/10Arkady lays bare his heart and Anna Sergeyevna finds her expectations confounded.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:4510/10Bazarov seems to be finding a new way when a moment's carelessness leads to tragedy.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Eddie Mair chairs a debate about the continuing western involvement in Afghanistan.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Morpurgo selects favourite writings including Kenneth Grahame and Ted Hughes.(R) 23:30Critic Mark Kermode examines the history of and controversy surrounding the 1979 film Scum(R)
| 23:00His tea mug says 'I am the Law'. Inspector Vincent Boyle is in charge of data storage. 23:304/4The comedian's latest challenge is to be London's Mayor, with no ability whatsoever.(R)
| 23:001/6Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item features more than one voice. 23:151/6Rik Mayall invites you up a mountain path for a strange Brazilian adventure. 23:30Dave Spikey charts the history of working men's clubs.(R)
| 23:003/3The final of Radio 4's 2009 Poetry Slam, hosted by Dreadlock Alien. 23:306/6Journalist Jon Ronson finds out about political networking and resolving conflict.(R)
| 23:00Martin Rowson, Tom Morris and Sue MacGregor discuss their favourite books. 23:303/3The series ends in Rouen, where Wilde rekindled his relationship with Douglas.(R)
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs. With teams from the south of England and the north of England. 23:30Roger McGough introduces requests for poems on the theme of heroes and heroines.
| 23:00Another chance to look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, with Sir John Tusa 23:30Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our sense of self.
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