| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The 'new' Arab man; elite club membership in the House of Lords. 00:45The bells of Sheffield Cathedral. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5The fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Nancy shows no interest in her admirers until the determined Waldorf Astor appears. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Nancy embarks on a political career as the only female MP in the Commons. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The first female MP helps to steer Plymouth through the horrors of the Blitz. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Forced into retirement, Nancy struggles to adapt to non-political life. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3A bus of journalists and artists breaks down on a notorious military highway to Tbilisi.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45The Royal Parks close the doors on 'A Celebration of Farming' in Hyde Park. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45On World Food Day, Anna Hill looks at how we may feed the rising world population.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45MPs are to debate the English badger culling pilot.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45Sainsbury's is dropping the Food Quality Red Tractor logo. It's 'simpler' for consumers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with George Craig. 05:45The RSPCA denies it is intimidating farmers over the badger cull.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh Michael Mumisa. 05:45Listeners remember the Great Storm of 1987.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary the Virgin, Ilminster, Suffolk. 05:45As the new Bond film opens next week, Mary Ann Sieghart profiles its director, Sam Mendes.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Scotland's referendum, plus calls for a change to UK drug laws, and Bryan Ferry on Gaga.
| 06:00Decision to close the UK consulate in Basra, Gary McKinnon's extradition and EU membership
| 06:00Savile inquiries, plus Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel and the US presidential debate.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Clare Balding walks with Simon Evans, fisherman and river conservationist. 06:30Charlotte Smith discusses how pesticides are developed and regulated. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort. 06:35Adam Henson visits the second finalist vying to become the 2012 BBC Farmer of the Year. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Andrew Mitchell resignation, cuts protests plus Hemingway's alternative endings.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Danny Mills presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SHINE. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Susan Hulme.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Sean Curran.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Alicia McCarthy.
| 08:31The latest events from Westminster with Sean Curran.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy with the latest news from Westminster.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10From Hillsborough Presbyterian Church in County Down. Led by the Rev Andrew Conway. 08:50In his second talk on understanding China, Martin Jacques examines the tributary system.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr talks to Richard Ford, Lionel Shriver, Edward Luce and Thomas Grant. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili and Prof Monica Grady weigh up the evidence for life on Mars. 09:30Kate Silverton talks to a businesswoman on how bullying made her afraid to take risks. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Rev Sharon Grenham Toze.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Michael Palin and Kathy Reichs. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Monsignor Tony Rogers.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Claire Campbell Smith.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews opera singer Noah Stewart. 09:45An act of worship led by Christopher Landau.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Michael Morpurgo. Lenny Henry's Inheritance Tracks.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Alison Balsom, The End of Men and the Rise of Women and the future of family policies. 10:451/5A forensic insight into the corrosive impact of tabloid press journalism on one woman.
| 10:00Natasha Baker, para dressage rider, on her experience of the Paralympics. 10:452/5Katharina's employers are agitated by lurid tabloid headlines, but she remains defensive.
| 10:00Fiona Shaw; Martha Wainwright; The trial of Beatrice Pace. Presented by Jenni Murray. 10:453/5Katharina is even more distressed by press intrusion and a deluge of abusive letters.
| 10:00Amanda Palmer plays live in the studio. Gary McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp. 10:454/5Politician Alois loves Katharina, but is terrified that Ludwig is hiding out at his home.
| 10:00The first successful baby heart transplant recipient, 25 years on. 10:455/5Ludwig is captured and Katharina is proven innocent, but the tabloid press won't give up.
| 10:30Paul Gambaccini looks back to the Rolling Stones' Madison Square Garden concert in 1969.
| 10:00Kenton is getting impatient and Lilian is pushed to the limit.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Kate Williams explores the history and development of the modern winning smile(R) 11:301/4Featuring flowers and animals in springtime, spring elections and tips for spring cleaning
| 11:007/24Brett Westwood asks if film-makers put anything back in terms of wildlife conservation. 11:30Miranda Sawyer looks at one of music's most distinctive artists Siouxsie and the Banshees.
| 11:00Alan Dein meets the men for whom pigeon flying is more than just a way of life. 11:304/6Mrs Birkett locks horns with Lovely Sue, while Alok and Sanjay find a new cool friend.
| 11:00The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. 11:30Mukti Jain Campion looks back at the heyday of Rome's most famous film studios.
| 11:00Why are we spending more on animal pampering?(R) 11:304/6Vera Sackcloth-Vest welcomes the writer of naughty books, DH Lollipop, to Sizzlinghurst.
| 11:00George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie presents despatches from Germany, Turkey, Catalonia, Mozambique and India.
| 11:15Mona Siddiqui, academic and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Cosmetic surgery changes, Sikh poppies and how to run UK's railways. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Should 16 and 17-year-olds be allowed to vote? Julian Worricker hears listeners' views. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Bills, broadband and a stolen dog. With Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Can Scottish salmon ever be 'seal friendly'? And the rising cost of watching football. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Checking out the green credentials of the major supermarkets, presented by Peter White. 12:52Sisters Joanne and Rachel talk about their regret that they have drifted apart. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Energy, car hire woes, investing for kids and fighting the fraudsters with Ruth Alexander. 12:307/9Sandi Toksvig with Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Michael Deacon. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Humphrey Ker, Pamela Stephenson Connolly and Andre Geim. 12:32Tim Hayward discovers the future of the domestic oven, with the help of Mary Berry. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:456/10History's verdict on the man who left the terracotta warriors and a mighty empire.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:457/10Liu Bei, the swashbuckling adventurer from ancient China.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:458/10Class war in 11th century China: the rise and fall of a brilliant bureaucrat.
| 13:00News, analysis and comment from the UK and around the world with Martha Kearney. 13:459/10The empire builder who thought he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
| 13:00National and international news with Shaun Ley. 13:4510/10People power has long been promised. With the internet, is it finally here?
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Kenton is getting impatient. 14:15By Mike Walker. Cutting corners on an oil-rig causes environmental devastation.
| 14:00Jim tells a little white lie. 14:15The truth about Rock Hudson's health is revealed. Inspired by events in 1985 Hollywood.
| 14:00Ed searches for a way out. 14:15By Christopher Reason. A primary school head teacher is suspicious of an Ofsted inspection
| 14:153/4When a student falls to his death from a bridge DCI Stone begins a murder investigation.(R)
| 14:00Lilian is pushed to the limit. 14:15By Dan Allum. Ambition and culture clash in the traveller community.(R)
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions. 14:30Howard Brenton's play about the inception of Mary Shelley's gothic myth of Frankenstein.
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs an episode of the horticultural panel programme recorded in Oxfordshire 14:45Fi Glover hears surprising conversations about dead pets, plastic surgery and retirement.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Teams from the south of England and the Midlands compete in the game of lateral thinking. 15:30Tristram Stuart reports on the latest ideas to tackle our growing mountains of food waste.
| 15:006/6Nina Garthwaite presents tales of adventure, transgression and terror in the dark. 15:30Should our farmland be used to grow fuel for our cars? Tom Heap reports.(R)
| 15:00Income tax, VAT, CGT: Vincent Duggleby and a panel of experts answer your tax questions. 15:30The science behind this week's leap from the edge of space - how the human body copes.
| 15:00Clare Balding walks with Simon Evans, fisherman and river conservationist. 15:27Harriet Walter presents an appeal for Prisoners Abroad. 15:30Mariella Frostrup interviews Michael Chabon about his latest novel, Telegraph Avenue.
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs an episode of the horticultural panel programme recorded in Oxfordshire 15:453/3A boy watches his parents' marriage fall apart as war looms amid the Cuban Missile Crisis.
| | 15:002/2Lucy Westenra is dead, but Professor Van Helsing is determined to find out how she died.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Reece Shearsmith meets the female screen stars of horror. 16:30Aleks Krotoski asks how digital devices are changing our memories.
| 16:00Joshua Rozenberg asks where next for the families of those who died at Hillsborough. 16:30Business experts Michael Darrington and Terri Duhon discuss books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Security systems - their pitfalls. Also, a sociological take on the financial crisis. 16:30The latest on the Savile row. Plus 'Seen but not heard: How women make front page news'.
| 16:00With Benh Zeitlin's film Beasts of the Southern Wild and Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa. 16:30What is the scientific evidence behind the badger cull?
| 16:00John Wilson on Keith Campbell, King Sihanouk, Wendy Greengross and Danny Sims. 16:30Political code-breaking at BBC Westminster, and is there is too much cricket on long wave? 16:55Lynn and Anna talk about the challenges facing Lynn, who has decided to retire.
| 16:00Gary McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp; Amanda Palmer; The End of Men; Martha Wainwright.
| 16:00AM Homes on her new novel May We Be Forgiven, and life behind the embassy door. 16:30Gwyneth Lewis, the first Welsh Poet Laureate, goes in search of the Welsh language Chaucer
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ritula Shah. 17:30Evan Davis and guests discuss overcapacity and how to ensure positive product placement. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00What threat does a growing fundamentalist branch of Islam pose to Arab Spring countries? 17:40As the new Bond film opens next week, Mary Ann Sieghart profiles its director, Sam Mendes. 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. 18:303/6John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Humphrey Ker, Pamela Stephenson Connolly and Andre Geim.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Adam enters the record shop into a competition for Best Local Business.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6The showbiz legend decides to get some legal advice, but will he take it or give it?(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6A show that starts by going to the dogs, ending with perhaps the oldest hymn in the world.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:307/9Sandi Toksvig with Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Michael Deacon.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of the past seven days of BBC Radio chosen by Caz Graham.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jim tells a little white lie. 19:15Tim Burton's new animation Frankenweenie; David Walliams on his memoir; US TV series Girls 19:451/5A forensic insight into the corrosive impact of tabloid press journalism on one woman.
| 19:00Ed searches for a way out. 19:15Graham Norton on whether TV talk has been sanitised; Peter Hook on life in Joy Division. 19:452/5Katharina's employers are agitated by lurid tabloid headlines, but she remains defensive.
| 19:15Hollywood costumes from Oz to Avatar; rock documentaries; Damien Hirst's harbour sculpture 19:453/5Katharina is even more distressed by press intrusion and a deluge of abusive letters.
| 19:00Lilian is pushed to the limit. 19:15Rod Stewart on his career, the prince who was nearly Henry IX and sitcom Hebburn reviewed. 19:454/5Politician Alois loves Katharina, but is terrified that Ludwig is hiding out at his home.
| 19:00Lilian receives help from an unexpected source. 19:15Kirsty Lang reviews Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa and talks birds with Ralph Steadman. 19:455/5Ludwig is captured and Katharina is proven innocent, but the tabloid press won't give up.
| 19:00As the new Bond film opens next week, Mary Ann Sieghart profiles its director, Sam Mendes. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests review Beasts of the Southern Wild.
| 19:00It's Apple Day in Ambridge. 19:154/6The American essayist offers a story involving his sister Tiffany. 19:452/5A woman goes in search of a doctor, again. 2012 short story by the Canadian Nobel Laureate
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| 20:00 | 20:00Is it more effective to interrogate terrorist suspects with cruel or kind methods? 20:30Prof Manuel Castells on the rise of new economic cultures since the financial crisis.
| 20:00What threat does a growing fundamentalist branch of Islam pose to Arab Spring countries? 20:40Blind Teenagers talk about acting in a new film and Emily Davison offers fashion advice.
| 20:00Has Jimmy Savile's charity work been morally contaminated by revelations of child abuse? 20:45Rabina Khan calls for a new definition of multiculturalism which avoids simplistic labels.
| 20:00Joshua Rozenberg asks where next for the families of those who died at Hillsborough. 20:30Evan Davis and guests discuss overcapacity and how to ensure positive product placement.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics from Shrewsbury in Shropshire. 20:50In his second talk on understanding China, Martin Jacques examines the tributary system.
| 20:00How Lisa Potts became a media hero following an attack by a stranger with a machete.
| 20:00Political code-breaking at BBC Westminster, and is there is too much cricket on long wave? 20:30John Wilson on Keith Campbell, King Sihanouk, Wendy Greengross and Danny Sims.
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| 21:00 | 21:00The Nobel Prizes for 2012; the science and the glory. 21:30Andrew Marr talks to Richard Ford, Lionel Shriver, Edward Luce and Thomas Grant.
| 21:00The science behind this week's leap from the edge of space - how the human body copes. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili and Prof Monica Grady weigh up the evidence for life on Mars.
| 21:00Geoff Watts explores the cultural and scientific story of hallucination. 21:30Libby Purves meets Michael Palin and Kathy Reichs.
| 21:007/24Brett Westwood asks if film-makers put anything back in terms of wildlife conservation. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press.
| 21:00Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history.
| 21:001/2The original vampire horror tale of Count Dracula's reign of terror in Victorian Britain.(R)
| 21:00Energy, car hire woes, investing for kids and fighting the fraudsters with Ruth Alexander. 21:26Danny Mills presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SHINE. 21:30Prof Manuel Castells on the rise of new economic cultures since the financial crisis.
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| 22:00 | 22:00The Scottish independence referendum gets the go-ahead. 22:451/10Violet Dimond has a terrible nightmare about her dead daughter.
| 22:00Rebuilding America: a special programme presented from Washington by Robin Lustig. 22:452/10Violet sets off to confront her twin sister Bea about the nightmare she has had.
| 22:00Presented by Ritula Shah. Unemployment falls by 50,000. 22:453/10Violet has taken Grace home to Silkhampton, and Violet receives an unwelcome visitor.
| 22:00EU leaders seek a banking deal, China slowdown concerns and Ugandan gay rights on trial. 22:454/10Grace is accepted as part of the Silkhampton community.
| 22:00Andrew Mitchell resigns; car bomb in Beirut; Jimmy Savile allegations. 22:455/10Violet suspects that Bea has been keeping a secret.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Has Jimmy Savile's charity work been morally contaminated by revelations of child abuse?
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Andrew Gimson analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Robin Hunt discovers the people that inhabit and work in the British Library.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Can the stupid scientists make life more never-ending? 23:30Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/6The comic talks about joining a terrible band as drummer, despite not playing drums.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:003/4Find out what is popular, so you can be too! Plus, visiting Britain's least-haunted house.(R) 23:30Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from Westminster.
| 23:00Business experts Michael Darrington and Terri Duhon discuss books with Harriett Gilbert. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. 23:55Married couple Peter and Joan combine exotic holidays with plastic surgery.
| 23:00Teams from the south of England and the Midlands compete in the game of lateral thinking. 23:30Roger McGough celebrates the bicentenary of Edward Lear's birth.
| 23:00With Benh Zeitlin's film Beasts of the Southern Wild and Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa. 23:30Mark Tully discusses the concept of divine comfort.
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