| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15'Thatcherism' - was it a distinct ideology? Also, the rise of thrift 'chic'. 00:45The bells of St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury, Worcestershire. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5As she grew up, journalist Emma Brockes knew little of her mother's past. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Emma's story of her mother's early life in South Africa continues. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5After the loss of her mother, Emma Brockes embarks on a journey of discovery. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5In South Africa, Emma meets her mother's sister, Fay, for the first time. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Emma meets her uncle Steven, and more of the details of her mother's past are revealed. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3By Maaza Mengiste. A young Ethiopian woman finds herself trapped in a Libyan prison.(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.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Farmers fear price cuts may lie ahead on milk sold for cheesemaking. With Caz Graham. 05:57The latest weather forecast for farmers.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Scientists are using a new form of genetic engineering to breed disease-resistant animals.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45After the horsemeat scandal, DEFRA intends to overhaul the horse passport system.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45Why the Welsh government has given money to farm charities, not direct to snow-hit farmers
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers. 05:45How a change in league tables could put schools off teaching agriculture.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer with Dr David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. 05:45Legendary test pilot Eric Winkle Brown tells how to survive a crash.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St John the Baptist Church, Burford, Oxfordshire. 05:45Mark Coles profiles Robert Mueller, the long-serving and influential director of the FBI.
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Aftermath of the Boston blast, planning law controversy, and is there life in outer space?
| 06:00Guests including David Cameron reflect on the life of Margaret Thatcher.
| 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. 06:07Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis' Undercliffs, a jungle created by 200 years of landslips. 06:30Charlotte Smith explores the pros and cons of polytunnels and glasshouses. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Classical scholar and Anglican minister Teresa Morgan reflects on humility. 06:35Eating your garden - James Wong guides us through eating your dahlias and hostas. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Boston manhunt ends, plus advice on measles shots and what is Britain's greatest battle?
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Archbishop Vincent Nichols joins Edward Stourton to talk about the new Pope. 07:55Meera Syal presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Minority Rights Group International. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Health secretary defends suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary
| 08:31Sean Curran with the lastest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:31Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:31Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Mass live from Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge with Fr Christopher Jamison OSB 08:50Adam Gopnik reflects on the terrible day when children leave home.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Jonathan Freedland talks to Adam Rutherford, Barbara Sahakian and Steve Jones. 09:45Christian worship from Albany Road Baptist Church, Cardiff, led by the Rev Peter Baker.
| 09:003/3Steve Richards looks beyond the official news cycle to explore what news might become. 09:303/5A look at the work of the Red Cross Tracing Service, reuniting families across the world. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Pastor Alex Robertson.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets cartoonist Bill Stott and sailor Matt Rutherford. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Becky Harris.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor reunites five people involved in the Kings Cross fire. 09:45An Act of Worship led by the Rev George Pitcher.
| 09:00Sian Williams and Richard Coles with author Eoin Colfer; Petula Clark's Inheritance Tracks
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| 10:00 | 10:00Actress Suranne Jones; caring for dementia sufferers; Hsiao-Hung Pai on the sex trade. 10:451/5By Liz Rigbey. Stories from village life in the troubled and violent Pak-Afghan mountains.
| 10:00Jane Garvey discusses MMR and measles, female maths professors, and political marriages. 10:452/5Sardar's older wife hears news which gives her reason to be jealous of his new young wife.
| 10:00Sian Williams leads coverage of the ceremonial procession and funeral of Margaret Thatcher
| 10:00Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook on 'leaning in'. Plus Anne Frank's step-sister Eva Schloss. 10:454/5Shopkeeper Sardar Aka's elder wife of is suddenly ill. Or is she just sick with jealousy?
| 10:00Jahmene Douglas tells Jenni Murray about his hard childhood. And vinyl is not just for men 10:455/5The villagers are horrified to learn what has caused their mountain to shake.
| 10:30John Jungclaussen asks what we can learn from LindenStrasse, Germany's Coronation Street.
| 10:00Roy and Hayley come up trumps, and Pip makes her excuses to David.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/3Older and younger generations of immigrants tell stories at the heart of their communities 11:303/4Rita faces a French gig and her husband's chaotic casino visit with some eccentrics.
| 11:00If only one in ten cells in the body is human, then what are we? Paul Evans investigates. 11:30Lady Gaga banned, but Cannibal Corpse approved. Islam and pop contradictions in Jakarta.
| | 11:00Linda Pressly meets the vigilantes fighting Mexico's criminal gangs in Guerrerro State. 11:30An exploration of the filmmaker Frank Capra's enduring vision of the American dream.
| 11:00Claudia examines the Hierarchy of Needs, part of Abraham Maslow's theory of motivation. 11:303/4Tony goes to Norway to deliver a lecture based on his internet dating experience.
| 11:00Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph asks how this month will be remembered in politics. 11:30Kate Adie presents correspondents' tales from Libya, Indonesia, Syria, Finland and Jordan.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor reunites the women who were maids of honour to the Queen at her coronation.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Julian Worricker talks to publishers, retailers and authors at the London Book Fair. 12:55As Prime Minister, Lady Thatcher appeared to have little time for the arts and literature. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Could the measles outbreak have been avoided? 12:55Alan Clark's eye-witness account of Margaret Thatcher as she faced defeat in late 1990. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00Winifred Robinson discusses Work Capability Assessments, rogue letting agents and more. 12:57National and international news and the shipping forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Behind the scenes on the McDonalds production line. Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Holiday fraud victims, children's advertising, Cambridge tech companies. 12:52A conversation between a mother and her 13-year-old son about his plan to join the Marines 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The latest news from the world of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. 12:302/5A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6With panellists Rhod Gilbert, Richard Osman, Lucy Beaumont and John Finnemore. 12:32Sheila Dillon goes trucking and finds out what it's like to work, live and eat on the road 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00National and international news. 13:4521/30Prof David Hendy explores how the sounds of nature gave way to the industrial revolution.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4522/30Medicine's listening revolution in the 19th century with the discovery of the stethoscope.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4523/30Professor David Hendy explores how the Victorians learned to listen all over again.
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4524/30Professor David Hendy follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at soundproofing
| 13:00National and international news. 13:4525/30How recording technology made it possible to catch the fugitive moment.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents a special edition of Any Questions? from New York.
| 13:00The latest national and international news. 13:30Philip Dodd boards a Chinese tour-bus of Britain.
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| 14:00 | 14:151/2Sandy and William solve the mystery of a newborn baby abandoned at the Old Beeches.(R)
| 14:00Hayley and Roy come up trumps. 14:15By Michael Symmons Roberts. Based on the poetry and turbulent life of the young John Donne
| 14:00Darrell's doing the dirty work. 14:15A son discovers someone has tracked down his estranged father and stolen his identity.
| 14:00Neil comes to a decision. 14:15By Ewa Banaszkiewicz. A father's gambling addiction tears a family apart.
| 14:00Helen does some straight talking. 14:152/2Probate detectives race to locate the heirs to an unclaimed estate linked to Berlin.
| 14:00Listeners call Anita Anand with responses to the special US edition of Any Questions? 14:30Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems?
| 14:00Horticultural advice from Ickenham in Middlesex, with Eric Robson in the chair. 14:45Fi Glover with the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
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| 15:00 | 15:004/6Three University of Leicester students take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 15:30Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters.
| 15:00Tom Holland is joined by leading historians to discuss the latest historical research. 15:30Exploring the environmental secrets of the deepest lake in the world with Tom Heap.
| 15:00Paul Lewis and guests take your calls on changes to the benefits system. 15:30Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the health issues that perplex us.
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis' Undercliffs, a jungle created by 200 years of landslips. 15:27Keira Bartlett, who suffers from OCD, presents an appeal on behalf of OCD Action. 15:30Taiye Selasi on Ghana Must Go, and Gillian Cross on her dystopian future After Tomorrow.
| 15:00Horticultural advice from Ickenham in Middlesex, with Eric Robson in the chair. 15:451/3A story told on a Corsican clifftop leaves a deep impression on a young artist.(R)
| 15:30Lady Gaga banned, but Cannibal Corpse approved. Islam and pop contradictions in Jakarta.
| 15:002/3A young poet is banished to the north, where he falls for his beautiful, mysterious cousin
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| 16:00 | 16:00Gwyneth Lewis explores the fascinating history of the Somali community of Tiger Bay. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores how people disentangle their digital lives.
| 16:00In Delhi and Jaipur, Chris Ledgard continues to explore the politics of language in India. 16:30Chris Tarrant chooses one of the great pioneers of modern radio - Kenny Everett.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor on heritage politics in the UK, and the everyday lives of parish priests. 16:30Steve Hewlett discusses journalists gaining access to North Korea, with Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
| 16:00Francine Stock talks to Jeremy Irons about Trashed, a new documentary about global waste. 16:30Quentin Cooper on the remarkable zebrafish, the Khash earthquake, and driving on Mars.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on Sir Colin Davis, Anne Williams, Storm Thorgerson and Brigitte Askonas 16:30Roger Bolton discusses health scares with the BBC's Fergus Walsh. 16:55Gordon and Paula cope with the strain of living with Tourette's Syndrome through humour.
| 16:00Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg on why she's telling women to 'lean in'. With Jane Garvey.
| 16:00Harlan Coben on his new thriller novel Six Years, plus a report from the London Book Fair. 16:30In the last days of the Warsaw Ghetto, the poetry of Wladislaw Szlengel shouted defiance.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Legendary test pilot Eric Winkle Brown tells how to survive a crash. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Dr Kevin Fong asks why the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying is under criticism. 17:40Mark Coles profiles Robert Mueller, the long-serving and influential director of the FBI. 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. 18:302/6With panellists Rhod Gilbert, Richard Osman, Lucy Beaumont and John Finnemore.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Thom unearths the work of American twins the Olsens, comparing their journey with his own.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Alun's house tour arrives in his bathroom.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Mark creates a People's Manifesto based on suggestions from his audience.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/5A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.
| 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. 18:15Caz Graham chooses the best from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Hayley and Roy come up trumps. 19:15White House action film Olympus Has Fallen, and the Granta Best of Young British Novelists 19:42Margaret Thatcher's deep hostility to European integration erupted in Parliament in 1990. 19:451/5By Liz Rigbey. Stories from village life in the troubled and violent Pak-Afghan mountains.
| 19:00Darrell's doing the dirty work. 19:15With thriller writer David Baldacci and Michael Winterbottom, who discusses his new film. 19:42In 2001, Lady Thatcher remained a formidable campaigner. 19:452/5Sardar's older wife hears news which gives her reason to be jealous of his new young wife.
| 19:00Neil comes to a decision. 19:15Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. 19:453/5The poverty-stricken Mewa Gul tries to extract his family from his daughter's engagement.
| 19:00Helen does some straight talking. 19:15Matt Damon's Promised Land; BBC Proms 2013; singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves. 19:454/5Shopkeeper Sardar Aka's elder wife of is suddenly ill. Or is she just sick with jealousy?
| 19:15New sitcoms The Job Lot and The Wright Way, and Deep Purple's Ian Gillan and Ian Paice. 19:455/5The villagers are horrified to learn what has caused their mountain to shake.
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Robert Mueller, the long-serving and influential director of the FBI. 19:15Miranda Sawyer, Bidisha and Christopher Frayling join Tom Sutcliffe to talk culture.
| 19:153/4Why does Richard Wilson sleep with a pair of miners' boots by the bed?(R) 19:453/3Renowned travel writer Victor Cullen, a stickler for detail, starts making his journeys up
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| 20:00 | 20:001/3Anne looks at the Roman era, when Colchester was the capital of Britannia. 20:30Lucy Ash on why battling HIV and AIDS in Ukraine - Europe's hotspot - is so challenging.
| 20:00Dr Kevin Fong asks why the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying is under criticism. 20:40Peter White talks travel - assistance for blind passengers at airports and other issues.
| 20:003/3Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss the experience and evidence of birth order. 20:453/3Emma Woolf explores the prospects for a proper explanation of anorexia.
| 20:00Who can parents trust to tell them where is best for their children to have heart surgery? 20:30India is giving its entire population of 1.2 billion people their own digital identity.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents a special edition of Any Questions? from New York. 20:50Adam Gopnik reflects on the terrible day when children leave home.
| 20:00Should we remember Henry Kissinger as America's wise strategist or its ruthless operator?
| 20:00Roger Bolton discusses health scares with the BBC's Fergus Walsh. 20:30Matthew Bannister on Sir Colin Davis, Anne Williams, Storm Thorgerson and Brigitte Askonas
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| 21:00 | 21:00The future of open science? Fewer dusty journals, more research in the cloud. 21:30Jonathan Freedland talks to Adam Rutherford, Barbara Sahakian and Steve Jones.
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the health issues that perplex us. 21:303/3Steve Richards looks beyond the official news cycle to explore what news might become.
| 21:00Exploring the environmental secrets of the deepest lake in the world with Tom Heap. 21:30Libby Purves meets cartoonist Bill Stott and sailor Matt Rutherford.
| 21:00If only one in ten cells in the body is human, then what are we? Paul Evans investigates. 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
| 21:005/6Omnibus edition of episodes from the fifth week of David Hendy's series.
| 21:001/3A beautiful glover's daughter struggles to survive in lawless 14th-century Scotland.
| 21:00The latest news from the world of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. 21:26Meera Syal presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Minority Rights Group International. 21:30India is giving its entire population of 1.2 billion people their own digital identity.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Venezuela's new president - but will the opposition accept the result? With Ritula Shah. 22:451/5Pride and disillusionment as a soldier questions his age-old loyalty.
| 22:00In-depth global reports and analysis with David Eades. The Boston bombing aftermath. 22:452/5Flood and fire haunt a young man coming to terms with disaster.
| 22:00The Queen leads mourners at the funeral of Baroness Thatcher. With Roger Hearing. 22:453/5A daughter leaves behind the wilds of Idaho to return to the wilderness she grew up in.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective with Philippa Thomas. 22:454/5A man returns from training to his rural home to find it's no longer where he belongs.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective with Philippa Thomas. 22:455/5A construction worker in Dubai witnesses an incident which will change his life.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/3Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss the experience and evidence of birth order.
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Tom Newton Dunn of the Sun analyses how newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00In Delhi and Jaipur, Chris Ledgard explores the passion and politics of language in India. 23:30Sean Curran reports, as the Commons returns from its Easter break.
| 23:003/4Matt Harvey and guests with more poetry and cabaret, from Dartington in south Devon. 23:30Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:003/4Can Dr Berry help Heron with his fear of thunder? With Steve Furst. 23:154/4Celery rears its ugly head again as Neil attempts his Androcles and the lion tactic.(R) 23:30Sean Curran with news from the Commons on the day of Lady Thatcher's funeral.
| 23:003/5Travelling the UK, Jon Ronson puts a manual of mental disorders to the test. 23:30Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster.
| 23:00Chris Tarrant chooses one of the great pioneers of modern radio - Kenny Everett. 23:30Mark D'Arcy with the latest news and analysis from Westminster. 23:55A daughter-in-law admits she believes her deceased mother-in-law disapproved of her.
| 23:004/6Three University of Leicester students take on their professors in the upbeat quiz. 23:30Poet Jean Sprackland visits the Leeds city centre bar, famous for its poetic punters.
| 23:00Francine Stock talks to Jeremy Irons about Trashed, a new documentary about global waste. 23:30Classical scholar and Anglican minister Teresa Morgan reflects on humility.
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