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| The latest shipping forecast. | |
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| The latest news from BBC Radio 4. | |
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| Daily prayer and reflection with Canon Noel Battye. | |
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| David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes. | |
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| The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. | |
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| The latest weather forecast. | |
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| Countryside magazine.Matt Baker finds mud, fish and relics in the Bristol Channel. | |
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| News and issues in rural Britain, with Charlotte Smith. | |
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| The latest weather forecast. | |
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| With Edward Stourton and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am; Weather at 7.57am. | |
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| Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Presenter Richard Coles is joined by Sadie Jones. Featured poet is Elvis McGonagall. | |
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| Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. Sandi Toksvig visits the National Portrait Gallery to explore the relationship between travel and portraiture. | |
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| Jenny Eclair narrates a eulogy mourning the imminent death of the parking meter, compiled by Josie Barnard. Fifty years after the first parking meter was installed in London, new methods of paying parking charges by text threaten to make these potent articles of street furniture extinct. | |
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| Elinor Goodman presents the series looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster parliament. | |
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| BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. | |
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| Financial guru Alvin Hall explores where investors put money during a credit crunch. He looks at the film industry. | |
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| Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Marcus Brigstocke, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. | |
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| The latest weather forecast. | |
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| The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. | |
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| Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset. | |
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| Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Call 03700 100 444 [calls cost no more than to 01, 02 landline numbers]. | |
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| Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 1970s, dramatised by Paul Mendelson. | |
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| Lowri Blake explores the history of well-known pieces of music. | |
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| Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. | |
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| John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. 48 passengers die as a British airliner carrying holiday-makers to Austria crashes near Munich. | |
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| Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Carolyn Quinn. | |
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| Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate. | |
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| The latest shipping forecast. | |
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| The latest weather forecast. | |
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| The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather. | |
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| Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. | |
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| Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. | |
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| Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week. | |
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| Sue MacGregor explores the controversial life of Marie Stopes. One of feminism's most complex icons, Stopes is remembered not only as the founder of modern birth control but also of the Portland Museum in Dorset, where locals recall her penchant for nude sunbathing and tireless anti-litter campaigns. The programme features previously unaired personal recordings, testimony from women whose lives she changed, and revealing personal insights from her son. | |
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| Ayeesha Menon's dramatisation of Orhan Pamuk's murder mystery set in Istanbul in 1590. | |
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| The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather. | |
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| Series in which Vivienne Parry is joined by a panel of experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital case. | |
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| Tom Sutcliffe chairs the latest heat of the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The North of England take on Scotland. | |
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| Martin Sixsmith explores the heart and soul of Russia's poetry. | |
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| The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather. | |
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| Stephanie Calman reads from her book about the perils of reaching 40. | |
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| The latest shipping forecast. | |
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| BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. | |
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