| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Will UK party politics be transformed by new media and digital technology? 00:45The sound of bells from St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Featuring an inventor who was strangled by his own invention. Read by Toby Longworth. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Why a hair of the dog works; how a 5,000-year-old pot could show early animation. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5How two physicists linked the problem of interference on their TV screen to the Big Bang. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Who really invented the wheel; and why one particular flower exudes the smell of nicotine. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Christopher Matthew's perceptive tale in which memory plays tricks at a memorial service.(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 Alastair McIntosh. 05:45Charlotte Smith hears how 3,000 unregulated overflow pipes are pumping sewage into rivers. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alastair McIntosh. 05:45Anna Hill speaks to the scientist who has grown meat in the laboratory for the first time.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alastair McIntosh. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alastair McIntosh. 05:45News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Alastair McIntosh. 05:45A Welsh Assembly member says the Welsh dairy industry is too important to fail.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. 05:452/5Actor Andrew Sachs takes a trip to London Zoo.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The sound of bells from St Clement Danes, London. 05:451/2Richard Reeves on the intellectual and philosophical roots of Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament; 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.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark goes in search of the wild animals of Gloucestershire. 06:30Robotic milking machines and meat grown in the lab; the innovations shaping farming. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Classicist Llewelyn Morgan considers the problem of aspiring towards perfection. 06:35Lionel Kelleway searches for his own autumnal 'tufty' red squirrel in the Lake District. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day; 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. 07:55The 83rd annual BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. 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 the University of Huddersfield, led by Rev Peter Whittaker. 08:50Clive James warns of the dangers of a new plan for calculating funding for universities.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Audrey Kurth Cronin, Sir Hugh Orde, Eugene Rogan and Sarah Wood. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Brother Stephen Smyth.
| 09:00Michael talks to ex social worker Nevres Kemal, who blew the whistle on Haringey Council. 09:302/5Paul talks to writers whose ideas were eventually turned into pilots.(R) 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Libby Purves and guests Seth Shostak, Fergus Anckorn, Guy Masterson and Vyvyen Brendon. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Bishop George Stack.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia. 09:45Christian worship and music led by Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey. 09:45An act of worship and music led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00The Rev Richard Coles is joined by Industry Leader for Technology at Google Sarah Speake.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell. 09:45Libby Purves hears the stories of people helped by the 2008 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Cabaret star Camille O'Sullivan sings live. Plus, living with a man with depression.
| 10:00Singer Annie Lennox on AIDS in South Africa. Plus, ninety years of women MPs.
| 10:00Is it time to call a halt to the battle for equal rights? Plus, post-partum psychosis.
| 10:00Delia Smith answers listeners' questions about Christmas cooking.
| 10:00The merits of Flibanserin, the female Viagra, discussed. Plus, novelist Evie Wyld.
| 10:00Sandi Toksvig looks at Angola and meets actor and green traveller Richard Johnson. 10:30The year Bob Marley spent driving a forklift truck in the Chrysler car factory in Delaware
| 10:00The week's events in Ambridge.
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| 11:00 | 11:00An exploration of the demolitions industry. 11:303/4Confusion reigns when love blossoms among the staff of the 9.27 London to Exeter.
| 11:00Why does time seem to speed up the older you get? Ian Peacock explores time perception. 11:30Jason Manford celebrates the life of entertainer Jimmy Jewel.
| 11:001/4Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975. 11:302/6Phonsie and Stumpy try to make the most of Muriel's status.
| 11:00An ex-heroin dealer returns to the mountain hideout where he received drugs rehabilitation 11:30Paul Merton celebrates Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
| 11:00Two teenage brothers swap life on a London estate for the elite British cycling academy. 11:305/6Wealthy rocker Dave Mabbutt and his assistant fight over the one thing money can't buy.
| 11:00Peter Riddell assesses the chances of success of President Obama's Afghanistan troop surge 11:30Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland.
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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. 12:15Coverage of the fifth One Day International between South Africa and England from Durban.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 12:302/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell. 12:32Simon Parkes explores the popularity of the food memoir. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Russell Davies chairs the eighth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:301/4Frances Fyfield and guests get closer to Bach's industry and see a glimpse of his humanity
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Victoria Derbyshire in Zimbabwe; Jeremy Hunt on BBC Pay; Tiger Woods's reputation.
| 13:00National and international news with Martha Kearney. 13:30Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss criticism and the critics.
| | 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Stratford-upon-Avon.
| 13:00A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. 13:30Paul Merton celebrates Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
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| 14:00 | 14:15By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Graham Slater has 200 billion pounds to get rid of.
| 14:00Don't mention the parents. 14:15The photo-fit of a crime suspect is the spitting image of a travelling salesman.
| 14:15By John Sessions. The friendship of the 18th-century satirists Pope and Swift is tested.
| 14:15By Neil Brand. An up-and-coming stand-up comedienne is befriended by a US comedy legend.
| | 14:00Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter about a murder in a holiday camp.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. 14:451/5The singer meets an all-male voice choir devoted to promoting peace and reconciliation.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner examines the links between soldiers and birds.(R) 15:301/5By Naomi Alderman. The first of five shortlisted stories for the annual prize.
| 15:00Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world. 15:302/5By Kate Clanchy. A powerful and moving story about love and letting go.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and a panel of answer calls on support for carers. 15:303/5By Sarah Maitland. Hannah Gordon reads the third of five shortlisted stories.
| 15:00Matt Baker finds how the River Clyde is being prevented from flooding Glasgow. 15:27Johnny Ball appeals on behalf of Computer Aid International. 15:304/5By Lionel Shriver. The fourth of five shortlisted stories for the annual prize.
| | 15:301/4Frances Fyfield and guests get closer to Bach's industry and see a glimpse of his humanity
| 15:002/3George Smiley, called out of retirement, tries to piece together the events of the past.
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| 16:00 | 16:00The 2009 Food and Farming Awards judges tour the UK visiting winners and finalists. 16:30An irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin Ince. 16:56Record libel damages are awarded to the Conservative peer Lord Aldington.
| 16:00Michael Rosen asks whether English is one language or a thousand. 16:30Sue MacGregor, Dave Rowntree and Kanya King discuss their favourite books. From 2009. 16:56Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor talks to the anthroplogist who spent a year studying Wall Street. 16:30Would a new name for schizophrenia help destigmatise the condition? 16:56Bush and Gorbachev begin their summit in Malta.
| 16:00Jeanette Winterson discusses her two new books for children. 16:30CERN particle smashing; secrets of toughest bacterium; lab pork; how to live longer. 16:56George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev declare that the Cold War is over.
| | 16:00With Jane Garvey. Including Delia Smith's top tips for a stress-free Christmas. 16:56Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge.
| 16:00James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. 16:305/6Peggy Reynolds teases out the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling poem. 16:56East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns.
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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.
| 17:00Full 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 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. 17:30The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Kate Clark investigates why thousands of Iraqi refugees are still refusing to return home. 17:40Libby Purves hears the stories of people helped by the 2008 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal. 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. 18:303/6Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Mitchell.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Jo Caulfield fails to shut up about the global banking system and Kerry Katona.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Featuring a woman who is so useless, she's been snapped up for a job in government.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Can Pip and Ripely save the nation or will Mr Benevolent get his evil way?
| | 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson is joined by Vince Cable, Lionel Blair, Oliver Peyton and Emma Freud.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Laurie Taylor introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Don't mention the parents. 19:15New Cameron Diaz film, The Box; the National Short Story Award. 19:4516/20Eugene heads upstream looking for Lizzie, unaware of the man in the shadows.
| 19:15Florence and the Machine, and artists responding to climate change at the Royal Academy. 19:4517/20Eugene finds Lizzie, but it looks as if John may have lost Bella.
| 19:15Carol Ann Duffy and Posy Simmonds on their Christmas collaboration. 19:4518/20John, Bella, Eugene and Lizzie's streams cross.
| 19:00Vicky and Joe get creative. 19:15Including reviews of Tamzin Outhwaite in Sweet Charity and John Malkovich in Disgrace. 19:4519/20Charlie visits Bradley for the last time.
| | 19:005/8Jeremy Front looks at why it's still important to confront one's past. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writers Susan Jeffreys and Miranda Sawyer.
| 19:15Matt talks to former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and columnist Neil Steinberg. 19:453/5By Tania Hershman. In an Irish village, Mary receives lessons from a mysterious Russian.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Mike Thomson on Churchill's desperate efforts to keep Spain out of the Second World War. 20:30Investigating the sixth trial of a black man over the murder of four people in Mississippi
| 20:00Kate Clark investigates why thousands of Iraqi refugees are still refusing to return home. 20:40Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs. With Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford Longley. 20:451/2Richard Reeves on the intellectual and philosophical roots of Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
| 20:00Are defence chiefs losing the battle for the hearts and minds of UK military families? 20:30Peter Day wonders whether a microloan bubble is about to burst.
| 20:351/2Richard Reeves on the intellectual and philosophical roots of Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. 20:50Clive James warns of the dangers of a new plan for calculating funding for universities.
| 20:00Critic Waldemar Januszczak on the public's U-turn on the Turner Prize and modern art.
| 20:00Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. 20:30Marking the lives of Richard Todd, Prof Humphrey Kay, Cecilia Vajda and William Miller.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Geoff Watts explores the relationship between global warming and a changing population. 21:30Andrew Marr with Audrey Kurth Cronin, Sir Hugh Orde, Eugene Rogan and Sarah Wood.
| 21:00Would a new name for schizophrenia help destigmatise the condition? 21:30Michael talks to ex social worker Nevres Kemal, who blew the whistle on Haringey Council.
| 21:00An irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin Ince. 21:30Libby Purves and guests Seth Shostak, Fergus Anckorn, Guy Masterson and Vyvyen Brendon.
| 21:00Dominic Prince, 47 years old and sixteen and a half stones, tries to become a jockey.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
| 21:00By Paul Watson. How did TV presenter Daniela Cross' career start?(R)
| 21:001/3George Smiley is called out of retirement to seek out a mole at the heart of the Circus.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26The 83rd annual BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. 21:30Peter Day wonders whether a microloan bubble is about to burst. 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Five yachtsmen are held in Iran. Gordon Brown confirms extra troops for Afghanistan. 22:451/10On Riceyman Steps, a secondhand bookseller contemplates a change to his circumstances.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:452/10Henry Earlforward learns that his new neighbour shares his passion for thrift.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:453/10Elsie's sweetheart Joe, newly returned from the war, is unable to control his feelings.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:454/10Romance is in the air, but Henry Earlforward believes practicalities must take precedence.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. 22:455/10Mr Earlforward's drive for economy is revealed as a corrosive desire.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs. With Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford Longley.
| 22:00Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen investigates coded language. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
| 23:002/6Life outside hospital is a little fraught for Ben. But he finds a refuge. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.
| 23:003/4Four girls make their first foray into the world of illegal drug taking.(R) 23:153/6Luke heads home to collect his mum after his brother proposes to Hayley at Newmarket races(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Sean Curran.
| 23:001/4The Doctor Who stalwarts meet in the tag talk show.(R) 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Robert Orchard.
| 23:00Sue MacGregor, Dave Rowntree and Kanya King discuss their favourite books. From 2009. 23:30News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the eighth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest. 23:304/6Peggy Reynolds investigates the layers of mystery surrounding Larkin's much-loved poem.
| 23:00Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush meet in Malta and declare the Cold War over. 23:30Classicist Llewelyn Morgan considers the problem of aspiring towards perfection.
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