| 00:00 | | | | | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:154/4Exploring the wonders of the planet, Josie learns a love of gardening can lead to wisdom.(R) 00:304/5Marcel's overcoat which he used as a bedspread has a powerful hold over Guerin. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:151/3A village is plagued by an especially wicked gang of spirit bears. Read by Ian Holm.(R) 00:305/5Jacques Guerin offers up his collection to the world and the author opens a cardboard box. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Alexander Armstrong explores the enduring appeal of flying ace Biggles. 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.
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| 05:00 | | | | | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43With Steve Clifford, general director of the Evangelical Alliance. 05:45Looking after wildlife on a winter farm. Charlotte Smith presents.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43With Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45A dying father explains why he'll be an 'incurable optimist' to the end. ipm@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary's Church, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 05:45As Prince William prepares to marry, who and what has shaped him and his royal role?
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| 06:00 | 06:30Guest editor Diana Athill and the Archbishop of Canterbury reflect on the meaning of faith
| 06:30Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
| 06:30Guest editor Sam Taylor-Wood investigates the decline in home births.
| 06:30Guest editor Richard Ingrams speaks to Peter O'Toole and visits a modern newsroom.
| 06:00Guest editor Dame Clara Furse investigates bank-bashing, marmalade making and the City.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames. 06:30Caz Graham looks at winter on farms around the country. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully contemplates our need for security, and the places of safety we yearn for. 06:35Adam Henson visits a large-scale pig farm in Indiana. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Debating the year 2010, the crisis in Ivory Coast, and how to increase organ donation.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Hannah and Jackie Cheetham present the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Sequal Trust. 07:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Leslie Griffiths reflects on the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake later this month. 08:50Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing.
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| 09:00 | 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Peter Whittaker.
| 09:00Stephen Fry celebrates, examines and plays word games and explains why they're important. 09:301/4John Wilson reunites mathematician Marcus du Sautoy with his maths teacher and old school. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Philip Sumner.
| 09:00Libby Purves is reunited with four guests who were on Midweek a decade ago. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Roger Hutchings.
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| 09:00Fi Glover is joined by comedian Jon Holmes; Inheritance Tracks from Annie Lennox OBE.
| 09:00News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Revisiting the best international stories and guests of 2010. 10:451/5As family descend on the ladies for Christmas, the inevitable chaos ensues.
| 10:00Presented by Jane Garvey. Vanessa Redgrave features in a programme to celebrate age. 10:452/5Irene holds back on her grievances with Vera when Vera's daughter Karen has a health scare
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including meditation: which kind should you choose, and how is it done? 10:453/5Vera and Irene have a major falling out over Vera's theories about Irene's relations.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Sailors Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella on the Barcelona World Race. 10:454/5Prunella Scales and Anne Reid in festive fun. By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
| 10:00With Jenni Murray. Including high-heeled shoes for the party season - how high, and why? 10:455/5Irene discovers her daughter-in-law's secret plan and Vera's family faces leaving home.
| 10:00John McCarthy explores walking in Europe, Tasmania, Madeira and the Gambia. 10:301/2Author Michael Dobbs explores 60 years of politics in the fictional world of The Archers.
| 10:00Tom tries to intervene and Nigel makes an intriguing discovery.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Chris Eldon Lee follows the fortunes of tradesmen recruited to work in the Antarctic. 11:302/2Martin Jarvis's 2010 Cheltenham Festival performance of Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest.
| 11:0035/40Saving Species goes to India to investigate a remarkable story about tiger conservation. 11:30How architects are revolutionising hospices and small healthcare buildings.
| 11:001/2Hardeep Singh Kohli explores the past and present border between England and Wales. 11:303/6Disappointed with a guided city bus tour, Arthur decides to start his very own tour.
| 11:00Lina Sinjab investigates the impact of corruption and bribery in Syria. 11:30Pete Paphides tells the story of singer Ofra Haza, dubbed the Israeli Madonna.
| 11:00The moving, inspiring stories of four men who found a new identity late in life. 11:305/6Can struggling journalist Maddox's literary pretentions survive in the new media world?
| 11:00What do past coalitions tell us about how politics may develop in and out of Westminster? 11:30Seventeen correspondents join Kate Adie for this New Year's Day special edition.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is Battle of Britain veteran Tony Iveson.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A History of 2010 in Not Quite 100 New Products. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Call You and Yours - Julian Worricker asks: Is the traditional family still alive ? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Martha Kearney and guests revisit 1980 through previously classified government documents. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04How to deal with dodgy emails and stay happy. With the last of our Bob Servant emails. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Paul Lewis and guests look at the key personal finance themes for 2011. 12:30Sandi Toksvig and the News Quiz team take a look back at 2010. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:041/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee 12:32Sheila Dillon discusses the legacy of Elizabeth David and reviews food writing in 2010. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:30The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30DJ Don Letts examines how Britain produced its own reggae revolution in the late 1970s
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Steve Hewlett and guests discuss how the biggest media stories of 2010 may develop in 2011
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Stewart Henderson presents the programme which answers listener questions.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Tim Harford and the More or Less team explore 2010 in numbers.
| 13:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10The BBC's top correspondents give their predictions about what will shape the news in 2011
| 13:00A look at events around the world. 13:30The music of the wind captured on fencing wires stretched across the Australian landscape.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Nigel makes an intriguing discovery. 14:154/4By Nick Warburton. Comedy drama starring Trevor Peacock as an inspirational chef.
| 14:00Kirsty gets more than she bargained for and Tony faces facts. 14:15Imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne.
| 14:00Lynda's on edge for the first night of the panto. 14:15Locked out of her apartment, Poppy is invited by Arthur to explore Hong Kong by night.(R)
| 14:151/2Young Rumpole defends a man accused of murdering two war heroes. With Benedict Cumberbatch(R)
| 14:00Elizabeth is feeling under pressure. 14:152/2The accused asks the senior QC to hand over his case to young Horace Rumpole.
| 14:00Radio 4 listeners air their views on what they think will happen in 2011. 14:30Alan Bennett's relationship with an eccentric old vagrant who lived in in his front garden(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs chairs a lively New Year's Eve edition from Essex. 14:45Art expert Philip Mould looks at what new government ministers have put on their walls.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Brian Wilson looks at the life of Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Churchill's man in the East. 15:451/5Alex Douglas, a teacher, discusses the role of men in primary schools.
| 15:00Can crops replace rainforest? And life in the ocean depths. 15:301/3Frowde remembers starting work doing menial jobs. 15:452/5A male nail bar worker from Swansea discusses his decision to train in the beauty industry
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests answer your questions about travel rights and travel insurance. 15:302/3Frowde remembers performing as a contortionist known as the 'Duke of Limbs'. 15:453/5A husband and wife, both midwives, discuss attitudes towards men in their profession.
| 15:00Owen Sheers visits the annual Mistletoe Festival at Tenbury Wells. 15:27Martin Bell makes an appeal on behalf of the charity Street Child Africa. 15:303/3Frowde recalls working with a wilful monkey and injuring himself during a horseback trick. 15:454/5Graham Clarke tells Chris Ledgard about running a WRVS lunch club.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs chairs a lively New Year's Eve edition from Essex. 15:455/5A male professor talks about his work as a man on the fringe of academic feminism.
| | 15:006/6Claudius tries to relinquish power, only to find himself a God, in Robert Graves' classic.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Rene Redzepi, chef at the 'world's best restaurant' looks for food in Lapland and London. 16:30Ernie Rea asks who were the Magi or Wise-men who visited the infant Jesus.
| 16:00Michael Rosen considers the language of travel and tourism. 16:30Dancer Lionel Blair chooses his friend, Sammy Davis Jr.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores new ideas about Utopia. 16:30A festive look behind the scenes at Southampton's 21st century Emergency Department.
| 16:00Barry Humphries talks to Mariella Frostrup about five of his favourite books. 16:30Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Elisabeth Beresford, Judge James Pickles and Captain Beefheart. 16:30Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning scribe Simon Beaufoy about 127 Hours.
| 16:00Jane Garvey celebrates inspirational women who appeared on the programme in 2010.
| 16:00James Naughtie talks to Howard Jacobson about his comic novel The Mighty Walzer. 16:305/6Peggy Reynolds investigates one of TS Eliot's most popular poems, Journey of the Magi.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. 17:30A dying father explains why he'll be an 'incurable optimist' to the end. ipm@bbc.co.uk. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00John Tusa asks if Amnesty can survive current controversies with its reputation intact. 17:40As Prince William prepares to marry, who and what has shaped him and his royal role? 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. 18:152/6The journey of young lion cub Cleggba as he meets the wily Scarmeron. 18:301/6Fifty-fourth series of the multi-award award-winning comedy panel game chaired by Jack Dee
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:153/6Fabio Capello engages a new coaching assistant to sort his players out. 18:30It's the big day, but MJN Air is at work. Will Arthur get his festive celebration?(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:154/6Ed Miliband gets a West End Musical makeover in Thoroughly Modern Miliband. 18:302/4Using her own experience, Shappi Khorsandi reveals what it's like being an addict.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:155/6Ant and Dec's story is moulded and squeezed into a musical. 18:302/2Satan decides he needs a holiday.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:156/6Her Majesty The Queen's year squeezed into 15 minutes with music. 18:30Sandi Toksvig and the News Quiz team take a look back at 2010.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith and guests welcome in the New Year from the Radio Theatre.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Liz Barclay makes her selection from the week's radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Kirsty gets more than she bargained for and Tony faces facts. 19:15Mark Lawson focuses on Alfred Hitchcock's complex working relationship with women. 19:451/5As family descend on the ladies for Christmas, the inevitable chaos ensues.
| 19:00Lynda's on edge for the first night of the panto. 19:15Kirsty Lang reports on why so many films and TV dramas are 'Based on a True Story'. 19:452/5Irene holds back on her grievances with Vera when Vera's daughter Karen has a health scare
| 19:15John Wilson talks to two of the year's musical successes, Tinie Tempah and Plan B. 19:453/5Vera and Irene have a major falling out over Vera's theories about Irene's relations.
| 19:00Elizabeth is feeling under pressure. 19:15Mark Lawson reports on prequels and sequels, with Bret Easton Ellis and Scott Turow. 19:454/5Prunella Scales and Anne Reid in festive fun. By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
| 19:00Tom tries to intervene and Nigel springs a surprise. 19:15Mark Lawson hosts the Front Row Quiz, questioning two teams on their arts knowledge. 19:455/5Irene discovers her daughter-in-law's secret plan and Vera's family faces leaving home.
| 19:00As Prince William prepares to marry, who and what has shaped him and his royal role? 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and his guests discuss the future of arts funding - problem or opportunity?
| 19:00The Archers celebrates its 60th anniversary with a thrilling double episode. 19:30How fit is America? A jog in Central Park and humiliation by a 10-year-old chess master.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Lyse Doucet visits Pakistan to find out how it is coping after July's devastating floods. 20:30David Goldblatt examines Senegalese wrestling; Africa's sporting spectacular.
| 20:00John Tusa asks if Amnesty can survive current controversies with its reputation intact. 20:40Peter White with news and information for blind and partially sighted people.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests discuss proposed Government cuts in the legal aid budget. 20:45The writer Bernard Hare tells a moving tale of the power of human compassion.
| 20:00Linda Pressly reports on UK Uncut's campaign against big businesses that avoid tax. 20:30Ford chief executive Alan Mulally talks to Peter Day about reviving the company's fortunes
| 20:00The BBC's top correspondents give their predictions about what will shape the news in 2011 20:50Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing.
| 20:00Mariella Frostrup looks at changing attitudes towards sex education in the UK.
| 20:00Tim Harford and the More or Less team explore 2010 in numbers. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Elisabeth Beresford, Judge James Pickles and Captain Beefheart.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Our latest hominid cousin; lessons from Einstein; cooking the perfect Christmas turkey. 21:26Martin Bell makes an appeal on behalf of the charity Street Child Africa. 21:30Andrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week with Richard Baker and Melvyn Bragg.
| 21:00A festive look behind the scenes at Southampton's 21st century Emergency Department. 21:30Stephen Fry celebrates, examines and plays word games and explains why they're important.
| 21:00Robin Ince explores the legacy of Schrodinger's Cat - the paradox of quantum physics. 21:30Libby Purves is reunited with four guests who were on Midweek a decade ago.
| 21:0035/40Saving Species goes to India to investigate a remarkable story about tiger conservation. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
| 21:00Nicholas Parsons makes his selection of the best BBC Radio of 2010.
| 21:005/6How the Sibyl's prophecy came true for the most unwilling Emperor of them all.
| 21:00Paul Lewis and guests look at the key personal finance themes for 2011. 21:26Hannah and Jackie Cheetham present the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The Sequal Trust. 21:30Ford chief executive Alan Mulally talks to Peter Day about reviving the company's fortunes 21:58The latest weather forecast.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:45Mary takes a trip to Launceston with Jem, but it ends unexpectedly.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:45As abandoned Mary arrives back at Jamaica Inn, she finds herself in danger.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:45Witnessing bloodshed and horror on a wrecking trip, Mary escapes to seek help.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:45Mary decides to turn to Squire Bassat for assistance, but makes a shocking discovery.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:45Reeling from her shock discovery, Mary must make a life-changing decision.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests discuss proposed Government cuts in the legal aid budget.
| 22:00Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. 22:45Kevin Maguire looks back at how the broadsheets and red tops treated the year's news.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Test Match Special. The third day of the fourth Ashes Test from Melbourne.
| 23:00Test Match Special. The fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test from Melbourne.
| 23:00Test Match Special. The fifth day of the fourth Ashes Test from Melbourne.
| 23:00Martha Kearney and guests revisit 1980 through previously classified government documents.
| 23:00Dancer Lionel Blair chooses his friend, Sammy Davis Jr. 23:30Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi star in this special comedy review of the year in Nurseryland.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 23:304/6Peggy Reynolds explores 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
| 23:00Test Match Special. The first day of the final Ashes Test from Sydney.
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