| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie explores the lives of the producers of some of the most expensive tea in the world.(R) 00:45The bells of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield in London.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor charts the career of Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor focuses on the art of Kathe Kollwitz, witness to the suffering of war.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3Every rucksack carried a copy - the 1970s traveller's guide to hitching on £10 a week.(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. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Laurence Twaddle. 05:45Irish beef farmers are to stage an abattoir blockade in protest at 'unfair prices'. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Galapagos Islands' blue-footed booby.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Laurence Twaddle. 05:45The Dutch farmer pioneering salt-tolerant potatoes which could help global food security. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the snow goose found across Canada and Alaska.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Laurence Twaddle. 05:45A record UK strawberry harvest is expected to go on until December. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the resplendent quetzal of Guatemala.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Laurence Twaddle. 05:45European scientists meet to discuss possible links between pesticides and chronic illness. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the greater honeyguide of sub-Saharan Africa.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Laurence Twaddle. 05:45Some UK fishing grounds are closed as there is a risk of catching over the set quota. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the blood sucking vampire finch.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Leslie Griffiths. 05:45'I didn't stay in any children's home more than a week before I was on my toes again'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Leonard's, Streatham. 05:45The Hollywood film director Christopher Nolan is profiled by Mark Coles.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits the marsh-swathed landscape of Elmley Nature Reserve in Kent.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith looks at the state of trees and the forest industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully debates the cultural benefits of classical music with composer James MacMillan. 06:35Sian Griffiths heads to the Algonquin Park in Canada to listen out for Eastern wolves. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10How will the Church of England deal with future abuse claims? 07:55Katy Ashworth presents an appeal for Brainwave. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. 08:57Lenny Henry presents a DEC appeal on behalf of those affected by the Ebola virus.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The Rev Cathy Gale leads a service from Llanyrafon Methodist Church, Cwmbran, Wales. 08:48Adam Gopnik identifies four different types of anxiety that afflict modern people.(R) 08:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the resplendent quetzal of Guatemala.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand, Susan Neiman, Juliet Barker and David Babbs. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Bishop David Walker.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey. 09:30Journalist Isabel Oakeshott talks to Rehka, who had a baby through surrogacy in India. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Rev Dr Mark Wakelin.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets artist Grayson Perry and musician Thomas Lauderdale. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Peter Whittaker.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to film-maker Roger Graef.(R) 09:45An act of worship and music, led by Canon Angela Tilby.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by comedian Shappi Khorsandi.
| 09:00The challenge of caring for 'looked-after children' and how to live off the grid.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Miranda Hart talks to some Woman's Hour listeners. Presented by Jane Garvey. 10:451/51969: Jill and David's relationship is derailed by the outbreak of Hong Kong Flu.
| 10:00Prize money for women in sport. Imelda Staunton on Gypsy. Rae Morris sings 'Closer'. 10:452/51975: As Jill prepares to marry John, she receives a surprise visitor.
| 10:00Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and actor, speaks to Jenni. 10:413/51986: Jill meets David in New York and embarks upon an illicit affair. 10:55Memories of a little boy whose death from cancer means he will remain forever 6 years old.
| 10:00Cook the perfect raspberry jam - top tips from preserves expert Thane Prince. 10:454/5It's the year 2000 and Jill's daughter Polly is getting ready to leave for university.
| 10:00Primodos - the hormone pregnancy test. Ghost stories. Films for people with dementia. 10:455/52014: Jill, now 71, runs into an old familiar face at the chemists.
| 10:301/6A look back at radio comedy in the late 1970s, with John Lloyd and Graeme Garden.
| 10:00Jennifer has got surprising plans, and there is big news for Brookfield.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Can the numerous indigenous languages survive in a rapidly changing 21st-century Myanmar? 11:305/6Ben wages war on his street's speed bumps with unexpected results.
| 11:00Can we share the ocean with albatrosses? 11:30Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk
| 11:001/3A dream home or a jump into the unknown? Rosie Millard on the highs and lows of moving. 11:303/6Collaboration loyalty cards ruin Uljabaan's plans and Richard's chances in the pub quiz.
| 11:00The Liberian ambulance woman dealing daily with Ebola patients, and other reports. 11:30Simon Armitage explores deadly dolls' houses, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.(R)
| 11:00Bobby Friction goes back to Delhi 30 years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. 11:301/5Tony books a break with Sid unaware he also runs a bullfighting business.
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30The ghosts of the past come alive in ancient Naples, and other correspondents' despatches.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to Wendy Dagworthy, former professor of fashion at the RCA.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:041/5Dominic Lawson plays a game with the world's greatest chess player, Magnus Carlsen. 12:15Consumer news with Shari Vahl. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/5Dominic Lawson takes on Murray Campbell, the brains behind chess computer Deep Blue. 12:15Consumer phone-in with Shari Vahl. Are you happy with rail services? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/5Dominic Lawson takes on one of Britain's leading philanthropists, Sigrid Rausing. 12:15Melanie Abbott investigates payday loan brokers raiding bank accounts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/5Dominic Lawson takes on the former England footballer Sol Campbell. 12:15British Gas says millions are missing out on free loft insulation. With Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/5Dominic Lawson takes on a child chess prodigy who just sold his company for £400 million. 12:15Peter White on the criminals hijacking the phone numbers of companies. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Payday loan broker charge complaints; Post Office gift card inactivity fee; bank branches. 12:302/9A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/6Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Phill Jupitus discuss some new curiosities.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon talks to the publisher, writer and restaurateur Tom Jaine about his life. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45The war gets underway. Speakers recollect the day war broke out and the journey to France.
| 13:00Government says no power cuts this winter, despite National Grid warning. 13:45Recollections from those who experienced the Battle of Mons.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Dan Snow tells the story of the Great Retreat through the recollections of those there.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45The stories of those who witnessed the battles of the British and German Navies in 1914.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Soldiers' experiences at night on the battlefields of the First World War.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Bradford in Yorkshire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the current bitter controversy over voting rights in the US.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Elizabeth speaks from the heart.(R) 14:15A play by poet and writer Glyn Maxwell about the 100-year history of a garden city.
| 14:00Jennifer has got surprising plans.(R) 14:15The first Indian Army soldiers arrive on the battlefields of France.
| 14:00Emma and Helen have fun.(R) 14:15The son of a renowned Nazi hunter attempts to retrieve a stolen Matisse painting.(R)
| 14:00It is the Hunt Ball at Lower Loxley.(R) 14:15Willie Rushton has trouble with Tony Hancock's ashes.
| 14:15Hannah's unhappy life is set to change when she meets a violinist.
| 14:00A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Adaptation of Alasdair Gray's cult novel, telling the stories of Duncan Thaw and Lanark.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel take questions from an audience in Cambridge.(R) 14:45Conversations about massage, travel, and surviving the death of a child.
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| 15:00 | 15:006/13Russell Davies tests more contestants on their musical general knowledge. 15:30Sheila Dillon looks at the state of play for female chefs in the professional kitchen.
| 15:004/6Josie Long presents tales from after the lights go out. 15:30Tom Heap investigates the theft and smuggling of rare flowers and its impact.
| 15:00Paying too much for your energy? Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls. 15:30Do financial incentives for GPs work? Are walk-in CT scans a good idea?(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the marsh-swathed landscape of Elmley Nature Reserve in Kent. 15:27Mel Giedroyc presents an appeal for Action Against Hunger.(R) 15:30Mariella Frostrup stands on the touchline to celebrate the very best writing about sport.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel take questions from an audience in Cambridge. 15:451/3As a child, Clive's bedroom was full of toys. Decades later, he remains surrounded by them
| | 15:002/2Amos continues searching for his niece. Mart worries about what he'll do if they find her.
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| 16:00 | 16:00A ghostly tale inspired by the story of Alice Glaston, a child who died at the gallows. 16:30What happens when we abandon a place? Aleks explores abandon both on and offline.
| 16:00Are the UK's spy agencies breaking the law? We ask the man whose job it is to judge. 16:30Janet Street Porter and Martina Cole discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Post-dictatorship art and culture, and the lives of jazz musicians in London. 16:30Guardian Media Group CEO; Broadmoor doc; Facebook and Twitter results; RT launches in UK.
| 16:00Director Mike Leigh discusses art and movie-making in his latest film Mr Turner. 16:30Lucie Green investigates the past, present and future of the moon.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter. 16:30Russell Brand on Start the Week. And will surround sound transform radio drama? 16:55Friends whose love of travel has broadened their horizons later in life.
| 16:00Lena Dunham on Girls, Felicity Green on Fleet Street, and Rae Morris sings Closer.
| 16:00Blake Morrison discusses his memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? 16:30Poet Tom Rawling fished sea trout at night. An eerie experience in sound and poems.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Carolyn Quinn. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Smartwatches, fitness bands and intelligent fabric: the latest gadgets to transform lives?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Is there a hidden problem of child sex abuse within Britain's Asian communities?(R) 17:40The Hollywood film director Christopher Nolan is profiled by Mark Coles.(R) 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. 18:304/6Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Phill Jupitus discuss some new curiosities.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Mark discusses his own experiences of being poor and quite well-off.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Damien and Anthony invite friends round for one of their 'famous' dinner parties.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:27Lenny Henry presents a DEC appeal on behalf of those affected by the Ebola virus. 18:303/6An awkward encounter at an interfaith conference and a Canadian trip to impress daddy.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/9A 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 Danny Wallace present an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jennifer has got surprising plans. 19:15Daniel Radcliffe reviewed in Horns, and Edwyn Collins on his recovery after two strokes. 19:45Neil MacGregor charts the career of Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor.(R)
| 19:15Samira Ahmed on the film Nightcrawler. Plus interviews with Laura Mvula and Bastille. 19:45Neil MacGregor focuses on the art of Kathe Kollwitz, witness to the suffering of war.(R)
| 19:00It is the Hunt Ball at Lower Loxley. 19:15Arts news. Keira Knightley on acting on a green screen and making her Broadway debut. 19:45Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.(R)
| 19:15Elijah Wood on his film Set Fire to the Stars, and is crowd-funding the future of fiction? 19:45Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.(R)
| 19:00There is fun to be had at The Bull. 19:15Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Michael Bond on the new Paddington Bear film. 19:45Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.(R)
| 19:00The Hollywood film director Christopher Nolan is profiled by Mark Coles. 19:15Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.
| 19:00There is no turning back for David. 19:155/6James Walton tests Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Jane Thynne and John O'Farrell. 19:453/3By David Park. A man realises that his future happiness depends on which bed he buys.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the current bitter controversy over voting rights in the US. 20:30How well has the government implemented its controversial welfare reforms?
| 20:00Is there a hidden problem of child sex abuse within Britain's Asian communities? 20:40Are audible pedestrian crossings on the decline? And Giles Abbott discusses his career.
| 20:00Should moral education be part of the school curriculum? 20:4570/3Jon Alexander argues that consumer power has become an idea which is damaging society.
| 20:00Are the UK's spy agencies breaking the law? We ask the man whose job it is to judge.(R) 20:30Smartwatches, fitness bands and intelligent fabric: the latest gadgets to transform lives?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Bradford in Yorkshire. 20:50Adam Gopnik identifies four different types of anxiety that afflict modern people.
| 20:00Robin Ince looks at the enduring cliche of the sad clown.
| 20:00Russell Brand on Start the Week. And will surround sound transform radio drama?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Hen harriers are persecuted because they eat grouse. Can a solution be found?(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand, Susan Neiman, Juliet Barker and David Babbs.(R)
| 21:00Do financial incentives for GPs work? Are walk-in CT scans a good idea? 21:30Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey.(R)
| 21:00Tom Heap investigates the theft and smuggling of rare flowers and its impact.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets artist Grayson Perry and musician Thomas Lauderdale.(R)
| 21:00Lucie Green investigates the past, present and future of the moon.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.(R)
| 21:004/5Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.
| 21:001/2When Native Americans kidnap two girls, a team of men set out to find them.(R)
| 21:00Payday loan broker charge complaints; Post Office gift card inactivity fee; bank branches.(R) 21:26Katy Ashworth presents an appeal for Brainwave.(R) 21:30How well has the government implemented its controversial welfare reforms?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:451/10Otto's mood darkens after he reads a disturbing article in the Architectural Review.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:452/10Otto is asked to make a TV documentary about Marlowe House.
| 22:00Stories include missing children, Ebola, the Iraqi economy and the Mercury music prize. 22:453/10Otto flies from Geneva to London, and becomes haunted by his past.
| 22:00Two former addicts discuss whether drugs should be legalised in the UK. 22:454/10Otto goes for a walk in Fitzrovia and revisits the scenes of former triumphs.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Fiona Woolf's resignation. 22:455/10Otto recalls how his first wife Cynthia came up with the design for Marlowe House.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Should moral education be part of the school curriculum?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Nosheen Iqbal of the Guardian analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:003/4Jarvis Cocker wanders the lava fields of Iceland in search of the unseen forces of night. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/4A breakfast buffet dilemma - and a stag party goes awry. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:006/6A rival music teacher starts work at the arts centre.(R) 23:154/4Looking for more action, Eric and Rincewind find it at their next destination.(R) 23:30Sean Curran and the BBC parliamentary team report from Westminster.
| 23:003/4David Quantick presents stories about Tom Jones, Morrissey and Mrs Phyllis Pearsall. 23:30Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Janet Street Porter and Martina Cole discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A holistic therapist and a health spa owner contemplate the benefits of massage.
| 23:006/13Russell Davies tests more contestants on their musical general knowledge.(R) 23:30Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas's work became a British export during the Cold War(R)
| 23:00Director Mike Leigh discusses art and movie-making in his latest film Mr Turner.(R) 23:30Mark Tully debates the cultural benefits of classical music with composer James MacMillan.(R)
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