| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Sociologist Loic Wacquant discusses the consequences of a growing US prison system. 00:45The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in Kent. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5How myth gave rise to reality as the rumour mills of fiction created a climate of fear. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The advice of those with access to German informants goes ignored by the government. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Spy recruitment owed much to the clubbable atmosphere of Oxbridge and public schools. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The most public disagreements between spies and politicians occurred under Harold Wilson. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Bringing the story up to date. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5After a day consoling a stressed-out single mum, Rebecca addresses some issues of her own.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears the latest verbal exchanges in the row over organic produce. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45As sales of organic food fall, two major supermarkets cut their organic ranges by a third.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45An organic farmer tells Anna Hill you can't make a living from small organic farms.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Hundreds of millions has been spent managing the system which pays English farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears why it's good news for English wine and organic farming.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. 05:45The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire. 05:45Chris Bowlby takes a look at the man at the centre of a political storm on MPs expenses.
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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. 06:07Clare Balding walks the fifth leg of St Oswald's Way, from Rothbury to Simonside. 06:30Charlotte Smith investigates the future of the organic sector. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and the bystanders. 06:35Alex James visits one of the BBC's Farmer of the Year nominees. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Yesterday in Parliament, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Roger Bolton discusses religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora International. 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 Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast, conducted by Rev David Neilands. 08:50The naturalist comments on the decline in collecting by children.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with novelist Audrey Niffenegger, historian Robert Service and Edward Carr. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Michael Buerk talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill his abusive father. 09:305/5Dominic Arkwright talks to the Sheffield man who came to the rescue of a distraught teen. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:00Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Maureen Lipman. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Dr Nicholas Bundock.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Tony Burnham.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is comedian Steve Coogan. 09:45An act of worship and music from Edinburgh, led by Rev John Armes.
| 09:00Rev Richard Coles is joined by five-time Olympic gold medal winner Sir Steve Redgrave.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Model Lily Cole on her acting career. Plus, the issues of summer-born children at school.
| 10:00Sheryl Gascoigne on her life with Gazza. Plus, why we love wearing jeans.
| 10:00Leona Lewis on her roots. Plus adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his remarkable family.
| 10:00Handel's Women discussed. Plus, Dr Angie Hobbs on making philosophy accessible.
| 10:00Former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on her political career.
| 10:00John McCarthy hears about tracing the footsteps of WWII POWs and the diversity of Ecuador. 10:30A broadcast of a lost script written for Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams in 1966.(R)
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Ian Hislop discovers the chequered history of this musical mainstay of the British nation.(R) 11:302/6Beauty has the hots for worship leader Wayne, but warring couples intervene.
| 11:00A poet and a stone are companions on a most unusual journey to Australia. 11:30Mitch Benn celebrates the symphonic narrative concept album.
| 11:00Investigating the trend among British Asian men for marrying women from 'back home'. 11:301/6Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon gets carried away trying to think like a German.
| 11:00Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. 11:30David Schneider goes on a personal journey through Yiddish culture and language.
| 11:001/2Wildlife expert Terry Nutkins recalls a childhood spent with author Gavin Maxwell. 11:304/6Brunswick rejoins his friends from the station, just in time for the annual cricket match.
| 11:00Speaker John Bercow gives his first full length interview since his election. 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is illustrator Jan Pienkowski.
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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. 12:304/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans, Sue Perkins 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6David Mitchell hosts, with Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn. 12:32Sheila Dillon investigates duck - both wild and farmed - for taste, cost, and welfare. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30No1 Ladies' Detective Agency creator Alexander McCall Smith's opera project in Botswana.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30The Guardian editor gives us the inside story on the legal battle to report on Parliament.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Tom Heap finds out if eco-activists are facing their toughest challenges yet.
| 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 from Cerne Abbas in Dorset.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:301/2Two teenagers face the unexpected death of their schoolfriend.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Two probate detectives race to find the rightful heirs to an unclaimed estate
| 14:153/6Dickens meets Benjamin Disraeli, a journalist and ambitious young politician.(R)
| 14:15By Alison Joseph. Kathleen sells her family's Hebridean croft and moves to Glasgow.
| 14:15Comedy by Paul Cotter. A former RAF pilot makes a trip to Germany to deliver an apology.(R)
| 14:15EM Forster grapples with a mysterious death, his own sexuality and the seed of an idea.
| 14:00Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Country boy Emil enlists the aid of Berlin street children to help him catch a thief.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. 14:45The amazing true story of Canadian railwayman Wesley McDonald and a runaway train.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Jerry Hall talks to photographer David Bailey about his relationship with Andy Warhol. 15:4511/30Thanks to the introduction of tea, even people who were not rich could afford to entertain
| 15:00Is the skin that binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a listener's ancestor? 15:301/3Coleridge's Lewti and Wordsworth's The Thorn. 15:4512/30The importance of music-making at home, and the chances it created for finding a partner.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. 15:302/3Coleridge's The Nightingale and Wordsworth's series of poems about the enigmatic Lucy. 15:4513/30The stories of family 'black sheep'. Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette.
| 15:00Clare continues her journey in the company of a group of local walkers, led by Jon Monks. 15:27Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise Development. 15:303/3A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's revolutionary 1798 collaboration. 15:4514/30Stories from adultery cases involving women sneaking lovers into the house.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs. With Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. 15:4515/30Amanda Vickery reveals the dark side of private life, and how the home became a trap.
| 15:30No1 Ladies' Detective Agency creator Alexander McCall Smith's opera project in Botswana.
| 15:001/2When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End, her life is changed forever.
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| 16:00 | 16:00What function do feasts serve today? Sheila Dillon explores the role of social eating. 16:302/6Simon Cox looks into the future of GPS, with the help of a four-legged friend. 16:56Nigel Lawson speaks at the Tory Party conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate.
| 16:002/2How clients watched advertising bosses grow rich in the 1990s and so turned to new media.(R) 16:30Vanessa Feltz and Johann Hari join Sue MacGregor to discuss their favourite books. 16:56Douglas Hurd declares war on the 'scourge of acid house parties'.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why. 16:302/3Vivienne Parry talks to volunteers helping to replace the gene that causes cystic fibrosis 16:56Poland faces 1,000 per cent inflation.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to thriller writer Robert Harris about his novel Lustrum. 16:30Arctic ice loss; an inflating universe; conserving the world's plants at Kew Seed Bank. 16:56ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from prison, sparking nationwide celebrations.
| 16:00John Wilson presents the obituary series. 16:30Terry Gilliam on how he coped with the death of Heath Ledger, the star of his latest film. 16:56120,000 East Germans gather in Leipzig for an anti-government demonstration.
| 16:00Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. 16:56The Guildford Four have their sentence overturned after 14 years in prison.
| 16:00Leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected. 16:30A second programme celebrating 30 years of Poetry Please, recorded at Bristol Old Vic. 16:56Erich Honecker, East German leader and the architect of the Berlin Wall, resigns.
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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.
| 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, plus sports headlines. 17:30Evan Davis presents a special edition of the programme from the University of Derby. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Julian O'Halloran examines the levels of pay awarded by some councils to their executives. 17:40Chris Bowlby takes a look at the man at the centre of a political storm on MPs expenses. 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. 18:302/6David Mitchell hosts, with Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/4Can Waft’s Tourist Information promote the town’s burping doctor?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/4It's Adam's chance to tidy up the Birmingham shop, but will father Rudy get his revenge?
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Promoting himself to team captain, Arthur wants to win the pub quiz £50 rollover.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/9Sandi Toksvig chairs. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans, Sue Perkins
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Katherine Jenkins, David Morrissey and Seasick Steve.
| 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 | 19:15Writer John Irving on his new novel, and a review of Tate Modern's tenth annual commission 19:451/5A mother is distraught when her daughter leaves home for a gap year trip.
| 19:15Award-winning actor Mark Rylance on Endgame and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus reviewed. 19:452/5While Karen's husband is fighting in Afghanistan, she tries to keep her anxieties at bay.
| 19:15Ray Connolly reviews a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the 1960s. 19:453/5A man's attempts to make contact with his grandson are viewed with suspicion.
| 19:15Peter Hook, co-founder of Joy Division, on the impact and legacy of the Hacienda nightclub 19:454/5A young mother of two boys is overjoyed to be expecting a girl with her next twins.
| 19:00Susan needs retail therapy. 19:15Kirsty Lang speaks to the director of a documentary exposing the Japanese dolphin trade. 19:455/5When Rishi's sister dies, his mother's grief causes a major family quarrel.
| 19:00Chris Bowlby takes a look at the man at the centre of a political storm on MPs expenses. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Antonia Quirke, Peter Stanford and Danny Robins.
| 19:15Obama visits New Orleans; the decline in anchor-led journalism; small-town newspapers. 19:451/5By Gill Edwards. Everyone needs to know certain things when asked to a school reunion.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Michael Dobbs explores the political legacy of the Brighton hotel bombing. 20:30Bronwen Maddox of The Times asks if small nations can survive as independent states.
| 20:00Julian O'Halloran examines the levels of pay awarded by some councils to their executives. 20:40How tough is it to find a job if you are blind or partially sighted?
| 20:00With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor. 20:452/3Peter Oborne searches for clues in the character of different Conservative governments.
| 20:00Rob Walker investigates the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. 20:30Evan Davis presents a special edition of the programme from the University of Derby.
| 20:00Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Cerne Abbas in Dorset. 20:50The naturalist comments on the decline in collecting by children.
| 20:00Dominic Sandbrook scrutinises our obsession with anniversaries.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30John Wilson presents the obituary series.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Tom Heap finds out if eco-activists are facing their toughest challenges yet. 21:30Andrew Marr with novelist Audrey Niffenegger, historian Robert Service and Edward Carr.
| 21:002/3Vivienne Parry talks to volunteers helping to replace the gene that causes cystic fibrosis 21:30Michael Buerk talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill his abusive father.
| 21:00A poet and a stone are companions on a most unusual journey to Australia. 21:30Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Maureen Lipman.
| 21:00Geoff Watts discusses science books, biography, brains and the evolution of technology. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
| 21:003/6How the home was opened up in the 18th century, as visiting began.
| 21:002/2The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and hostility.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora International. 21:30Bronwen Maddox of The Times asks if small nations can survive as independent states. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00News and analysis with Ritula Shah. MPs receive letters on their expenses. 22:451/10There is very nearly tea and biscuits.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:452/10An old friend appears.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10A deal is struck and there is some bad Vogon poetry.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10A far-off planetoid is in need of a presiding god, as are some hitchhikers.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. 22:455/10An immortal challenge must be faced.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Poet Brian Patten chooses pieces of writing which have been inspirational to him.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:001/6The satirist romps through the newsworthy and the not-so-newsworthy.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/6Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item features more than one voice. 23:152/6Rik Mayall invites you to lie back and listen to a fluffy tale of seduction. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:001/6Dave's marriage proposal is temporarily postponed by an omelette. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Vanessa Feltz and Johann Hari join Sue MacGregor to discuss their favourite books. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:30Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday from Bristol Old Vic.
| 23:00Another chance to look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, with Sir John Tusa 23:30Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and the bystanders.
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