| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Home life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household. 00:45The bells of Christchurch, Radyr, Cardiff. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Janice Galloway remembers her turbulent adolescence in a small Scottish town in the 1970s. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Newly arrived at Ardrossan Academy, whole worlds of learning are opening up. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Janice's love of learning is disrupted by adolescence and a new-found interest in boys. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5An attempt to assert control sets adolescent Janice on a collision course with her mother. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Janice Galloway is set to leave school to embark on a dream of studying music. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Stuck in a Tasmanian motel, AL Kennedy is not so sure about life on the road.(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.
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| 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. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45Anna Hill hears about an internet con swindling farmers out of thousands of pounds. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45Anna Hill hears how demand for venison could lead to 500 more deer farms in the UK.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45In the future cars could run on a new biofuel made from straw and other farming waste.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45How two million euros of EU money has been earmarked for alternative therapy for cows.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. 05:45MPs call for a ban on eggs from EU countries that don't meet new welfare rules.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43With the Reverend Nicholas Buxton. 05:45iPM revisits the infamous 1986 broadcast of Midweek. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. 05:45Edward Stourton profiles Vanessa Redgrave, political activist and award-winning actress.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Examining Libya, the future of the British high street and the travails of Usain Bolt.
| 06:00Investigating a mass grave in Libya, plus home ownership and English history.
| 06:00Are UK banks 'disingenuous' about reform? Plus Wooton Bassett, and the transfer window.
| 06:00William Hague on Libya, plus can our social networks help us if we face terminal illness?
| 06:00David Cameron reflects on an eventful summer, plus do former soldiers make good teachers?
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Richard Uridge explores the Pembrokeshire coast around Skomer island from the bottom up. 06:30The UK harvest which doesn't produce food, but the seeds for the foods of the future. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully examines the dangers and benefits of having an adventurous spirit. 06:35Moira Hickey looks at the work of the gamekeepers on a Highland sporting estate. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Is the government going to backtrack on planning rules? Plus Madonna on her new film.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. 07:55Christopher Eccleston presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Chance UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A mass from the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge. 08:50John Gray on why an increasing number of people believe that Karl Marx was right.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Peter White talks to Shannon Murray, a model who has used a wheelchair since her teens. 09:304/5In 1960, Denis Healey and Maurice Schumann discuss Britain's place in Europe. 09:45Spiritual reflection with a bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
| 09:00Part of the Secret Britain series. Peter Taylor meets people who have kept state secrets. 09:305/5Peter Curran meets the scientists who are drawn to study volcanoes. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Monsignor Tony Rogers.
| 09:00Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:001/2What can happen in your early years to boost or block your chances later on? 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Claire Campbell Smith.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites those involved in the making of TV's Boys from the Blackstuff. 09:45An act of worship led by Dr Michael Ford.
| 09:00Richard Coles with soprano Susan Bullock; Inheritance Tracks from popstar Adam Ant.
| 09:00With Paddy O'Connell. News, views and discussion ... with a difference.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Women in Aviation - a special programme for the Bank Holiday. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:451/5An email friendship between a BBC journalist and an Iraq-based academic.
| 10:00Discussing swimming with killer whales, women in Somalia and stay-at-home dads. 10:452/5A curious friendship has grown up between journalist Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit.
| 10:00Jane Garvey presents a phone-in about the challenges facing stay-at-home dads. 10:453/5May pleas with Bee to help her and her husband escape.
| 10:00Suzi Quatro on refusing to retire; Eliza Manningham-Buller; Byronic heroes; Sue Johnston. 10:454/5Bee and May realise that they must plan May's escape far more professionally.
| 10:00Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating 75 years of the children's classic 'Ballet Shoes'. 10:455/5Bee has arranged a university place for May, but then her husband Ali's visa is refused.
| 10:00England v India. The First One Day International from Durham.
| 10:00Peggy has a proposition and there's a nightmare in store for Nic.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Bridget Kendall evaluates America's 'missionaries of democracy' in the Peace Corps. 11:306/6Sedaris discusses buying a holiday home and struggling with genders when learning French.
| 11:0015/30Saving Species reports from the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on the conservation of swifts. 11:301/2How science fiction has been used to examine relationships between the sexes.
| 11:00The battle to save museum collections from insect pests. 11:302/8The trail leads to a pub then a chilling discovery...
| 11:00Investigating the health impact on New York from the collapse of the World Trade Centre. 11:30Elvis McGonagall examines the enduring popularity of AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
| 11:00A composed feature exploring our relationship with the honeybee. 11:304/6James Walton chairs the literary quiz, discussing the famous writers' collective.(R)
| | 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites five people on opposite sides of the campaign to ban hunting.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Are we ready for the Olympics? 12:451/5Mark Lawson returns to Leeds, 25 years on. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Can't get the staff, or can't get a job? Have your say youandyours@bbc.co.uk. 12:452/5Sheila Dillon returns to Hoghton, 25 years on. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04New tests for sickness benefits, shopping vouchers, police cuts and the loss of stations. 12:453/5Paddy O'Connell returns to Aberdeen, 25 years on. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Nationwide campaign warning men not to keep their mobile phone in their trouser pocket. 12:454/5Richard Coles returns to Finedon 25 years on. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why singer Katherine Jenkins doesn't want you to buy her new album. 12:455/5Jane Garvey returns to Liverpool, 25 years on. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi, Russell Kane 12:32TMS One Day Cricket. Commentary on the semi-finals of the 40 over competition.
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| 13:00 | 13:00With Shaun Ley. National and international news. 13:30Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.
| 13:00With Martha Kearney. National and international news. 13:301/5Exploring the impact of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel on listeners' lives.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Heather Brooke on WikiLeaks; News Corp and the public interest; Google and TV.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:30Europe's strangest species are under threat of extinction. Tom Heap investigates.
| 13:00With Shaun Ley. National and international news. 13:30Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of social surveys.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Peggy has a proposition and Tom is feeling flustered. 14:151/3By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Diplomat Bob Goldacre loses the businessman he was looking after(R)
| 14:00James and Leonie make some enemies. Meanwhile there are vandals at work in Ambridge. 14:152/3By Rachel Joyce. If Joe doesn't find an exclusive to please his editor, he'll lose his job(R)
| 14:00There's a nightmare in store for Nic, and Jazzer shares his woes. 14:153/3By Peter Jukes. Ajib is stopped by security officers as he tries to fly home from Israel.(R)
| 14:15By Alan Harris. Two men become trapped on a lighthouse, 20 miles off the Welsh coast.
| 14:00Will has a bone to pick with Josh. 14:15A wild, sideways look at life in Romania under the Ceausescu regime by Csaba Szekely.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Journalist John Lloyd looks back at the Clydeside work-in of 1971. 15:451/5How Portuguese graduates are forced to leave their country to find work.
| 15:00Helen Castor hosts Radio 4's popular history magazine. 15:301/3Pat has secret information about a film script idea. Can he make some dollars out of it? 15:452/5Spain's economic crisis has pushed record numbers to default on their mortgages.
| 15:00Vincent Duggleby and guests take your calls on saving and investing. 15:302/3Pat has the chance of a shared screen credit with a British writer on a ballet picture. 15:453/5Lucy meets French group L'Appel et la Pioche which campaigns against global capitalism.
| 15:00Helen Mark explores the Devil's Beeftub and Grey Mare's Tail in the Scottish Borders. 15:27Liz Smith presents an appeal on behalf of the charity The Stroke Association. 15:303/3It's difficult to borrow money from an actor on a set during the shooting of a movie. 15:454/5Lucy Ash meets Europe's disaffected youth.
| 15:00Peter Gibbs leads a horticultural discussion in Suffolk. 15:455/5Lucy Ash meets young Polish Catholics who have turned their backs on the material world.
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| 16:00 | 16:00A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen design. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the development of Buddhism in the West.
| 16:00What kind of English is being used among non-native speakers? 16:30Poetry curator Daisy Goodwin nominates the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.
| 16:00Home life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household. 16:30Can an adult's health - programmed in early life - be passed on to their children?
| 16:00DJ Taylor talks to the Booker Prize-winning novelist Barry Unsworth. 16:30The first hand axe, better batteries, cloning wildcats, why we should return to the Moon.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy and David Honeyboy Edwards 16:30Screenwriter Moira Buffini on her new version of Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn brings you the top stories of the day. 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. 18:304/8Nicholas Parsons challenges Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi, Russell Kane
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Sanjay finds a girlfriend and embraces the arts, much to Ramesh and Dave's amusement.(R)
| 18:00Coverage of the Twenty20 international between England and India from Old Trafford.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Director and restaurant critic Michael Winner tells Rufus Hound about a trip to America.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6The comedian and obsessive sports fan meets the commentator in the tag-team talk show.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson talks to Tony Blackburn, Geordie Greig, Terry O'Neill and Sharon Horgan.
| 18:30Hardep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00James and Leonie make some enemies. Meanwhile there are vandals at work in Ambridge. 19:15Mark Lawson talks to author Michael Ondaatje in a special programme-length interview. 19:451/5An email friendship between a BBC journalist and an Iraq-based academic.
| 19:00There's a nightmare in store for Nic, and Jazzer shares his woes. 19:15Dame Judi Dench talks to Mark Lawson. 19:452/5A curious friendship has grown up between journalist Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit.
| | 19:00Will has a bone to pick with Josh. 19:15The Faith Machine; Mike Figgis's Royal Opera House festival; jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. 19:454/5Bee and May realise that they must plan May's escape far more professionally.
| 19:15Jonathan Ross on his first graphic novel; a new play about aid workers in the Congo. 19:455/5Bee has arranged a university place for May, but then her husband Ali's visa is refused.
| 19:00Edward Stourton profiles Vanessa Redgrave, political activist and award-winning actress. 19:15A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom Sutcliffe.
| 19:15A special show on one of America's most troubled cities, Detroit. 19:451/3In the war of the rats, snipers like Anatoly Chekhov reigned.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Tim Gardam investigates faith in modern China, starting with its own indigenous religions. 20:30Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi.
| 20:00Stephen Evans examines how soldiers are taught to kill and asks what it does to them. 20:40The services offered to visually impaired Britons who come from an Asian background.
| | 20:00Mobeen Azhar investigates whether innovative police initiatives can prevent crime. 20:30Peter Day joins a gathering of Nobel Prize economists to discuss the economic crisis.
| 20:00Martha Kearney presents a topical discussion of news and politics from Somerton, Somerset. 20:50John Gray on why an increasing number of people believe that Karl Marx was right.
| 20:00JFK aide Kenneth O'Donnell's daughter Helen presents her father's interview tapes.
| 20:00Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of social surveys. 20:30Matthew Bannister on John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy and David Honeyboy Edwards
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| 21:00 | 21:00The oldest fossils, tracking cholera, playing with uncertainty and counting species. 21:30Peter White talks to Shannon Murray, a model who has used a wheelchair since her teens.
| 21:00Can an adult's health - programmed in early life - be passed on to their children? 21:30Part of the Secret Britain series. Peter Taylor meets people who have kept state secrets.
| 21:00Europe's strangest species are under threat of extinction. Tom Heap investigates. 21:30Jon Manel investigates the world of the apprentice.(R)
| 21:0015/30Saving Species reports from the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on the conservation of swifts. 21:301/2What can happen in your early years to boost or block your chances later on?
| 21:001/5A stranger offers Patricia Highsmith's mischievous anti-hero a free trip to Europe.(R)
| 21:002/3Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice, but not enough to win him and his estate.
| 21:00Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 21:26Christopher Eccleston presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Chance UK. 21:30Peter Day joins a gathering of Nobel Prize economists to discuss the economic crisis.
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| 22:00 | 22:00National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. 22:456/10Changez watches in fury a newscast of American troops invading Afghanistan.
| 22:00National and international news and analysis. 22:457/10Changez's sense of alienation increases.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. 22:458/10On a work assignment in Chile, Changez makes a monumental decision.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. 22:459/10Erica vanishes as Changez's American dream comes to an end.
| 22:00With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. 22:4510/10In Lahore, Changez's new life is revealed. But who is pursuing whom?
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/3Charlie Wolf argues: The Geneva Convention should not apply to the war against terrorism.
| 22:00Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts. 22:45Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Chris Ledgard looks at the ways of counting incidences of words and what that can tell us. 23:30Alexander Armstrong examines the impact and popularity of special agent Dick Barton.(R)
| 23:001/6Hell faces confusion when a dog turns up, as animals are not evil... except dolphins.(R) 23:30Broadcaster Ian McMillan pays tribute to television's longest running situation comedy.(R)
| 23:004/4Two original story poems from spoken word artists Inua Ellams and Ross Sutherland. 23:154/6Mordrin gives Tracey a wizard edition of Treasure Island to read, with disastrous results.(R) 23:305/6The Oracle enlightens in the quest for the Sword of Asnagar.(R)
| 23:005/6Will Matt be able to resist Vicky's new kitchen blender? 23:306/6Finally the Sword of Asnagar is found. But is Sam a traitor?(R)
| 23:00Poetry curator Daisy Goodwin nominates the Bard himself, William Shakespeare. 23:305/5Comedian Colin Murphy, David Booth, Matthew Collins and Bernard O'Shea have some answers.(R)
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 23:30Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite poetry requested by listeners.
| 23:00Screenwriter Moira Buffini on her new version of Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender. 23:30Mark Tully examines the dangers and benefits of having an adventurous spirit.
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