27 February, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 28/02/2009 - 06/03/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00hr5zq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00hslb2 (Listen) SAT Constable in Love, Episode 5 SAT Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early SAT career of John Constable and his long battle to win the SAT hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on SAT correspondence between the pair. SAT After seven years of courtship, Maria and John finally SAT married in a quiet ceremony with no family members in SAT attendance. Now the serious production of paintings and of SAT children could begin in earnest. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hr5zs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hr5zv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hr5zx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00hr5zz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hr601 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00hr603 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00hr605 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00hrg9t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00hrg9w (Listen) SAT Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped SAT Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' SAT distillery in Roseisle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today This Week b00hrk2j (Listen) SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00hrk2l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00hrk2n (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00hrk2q (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Richard Coles is joined by design SAT curator Libby Sellers, with poetry from Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00hrk2s (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and SAT joys of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 Looking for Ripley b00hrk2v (Listen) SAT Crime writer Mark Billingham investigates Tom Ripley, the SAT suave and amoral central character in Patricia Highsmith's SAT novel The Talented Mr Ripley. SAT Mark tracks down those with a real insight into Ripley's SAT ambiguities. Opera director Jonathan Kent once played SAT Ripley and was thought to be perfect in the role by SAT Highsmith herself. Professor Dinesh Bhugra, President of SAT The Royal College of Psychiatrists, is an avid fan and SAT uses the Ripley books to teach medical students about SAT psychopathy. SAT Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's biographer, thinks the elusive SAT Ripley is to be found in the unpublished notebooks of his SAT creator. The readings are by Ian Hart. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00hrk2y (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster, presented by SAT Elinor Goodman. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00hrk30 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00hrk32 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT He reports on the long-running saga of bank overdraft SAT charges, which reaches a crucial legal stage. Also, just SAT how much risk is taxpayer's money exposed to from those SAT toxic assets in the bank bail out? SAT When is a Barclaycard customer not a Barclaycard customer? SAT Plus thousands of 'capital secure' investors face losing SAT some or all of their money. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00hr5ws (Listen) SAT Series 67, Episode 8 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with SAT panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Francis Wheen and SAT Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00hrk34 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00hrk36 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00hr5wv (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester. SAT The panellists are writer and philosopher Roger Scruton, SAT chief executive of the Royal Opera House Tony Hall CBE, SAT financial journalist Gillian Tett and Guardian columnist SAT and broadcaster John Harris. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00hrk38 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00ht3rz (Listen) SAT The Complete Ripley, The Talented Mr Ripley SAT Series of plays based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith SAT about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley. SAT Tom is barely one step ahead of his creditors when a SAT stranger offers him a free trip to Europe and a fresh SAT start. Tom wants money and success and he is willing to SAT kill for it. SAT Tom Ripley ...... Ian Hart SAT Dickie Greenleaf ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Marge Sherwood ...... Barbara Barnes SAT Mr Greenleaf ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Mrs Greenleaf ...... Janice Acquah SAT Roverini ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Buffi ...... Matt Addis SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00hpk02 (Listen) SAT Ivor Gurney SAT Series in which Professor Robert Winston explores the SAT relationship between the music and the medical conditions SAT of composers who suffered mental and physical illness. SAT Robert investigates the tragic case of English composer SAT and poet Ivor Gurney, who died of tuberculosis in the City SAT of London Mental Hospital, Dartford, in 1937. SAT For many years he was thought to have been the victim of SAT shell-shock as a result of his service in the trenches of SAT the First World War, but that diagnosis is now discounted SAT and there is even evidence in his letters to suggest that SAT the physical activity and comradeship of military service SAT may have been a saviour to his mental health. SAT Robert hears from Gurney biographer Pamela Blevins, SAT chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society Anthony Boden and SAT singer and Royal Academy of Music researcher April SAT Frederick. SAT SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour b00hrsf4 (Listen) SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. Including Ann Widdecombe on spinsterhood, SAT Connie Fisher, and marrying again after the death of a SAT spouse. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00hrshs (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00hrsn2 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis discusses whether hedge funds have contributed SAT to the economic crisis and whether they should be allowed SAT to trade without being regulated. Hugh Hendry, one of the SAT UK's most outspoken fund managers, offers his thoughts. SAT Plus Gordon Frazer, head of Microsoft UK, and Jasmine SAT Montgomery, of Futurebrand, discuss the future of SAT computing and the real value of a brand. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hrsn4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00hrsn6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hrsn8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00hrsnb (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT comedy and music. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00hrsnd (Listen) SAT Bobby Jindal SAT Claire Bolderson profiles Bobby Jindal, the young SAT Indian-American governor of Louisiana who was chosen to SAT give the Republican response to President Obama's SAT Congressional address on the economy. SAT Born and raised a Hindu, Jindal converted to Catholicism SAT as a teenager. The former Rhodes Scholar has since made a SAT name for himself as a conservative Republican, opposing SAT abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research, while SAT advocating the teaching of intelligent design in schools. SAT Claire hears from those who knew, and have tracked the SAT career of, this rising star who has been tipped by some as SAT a potential presidential candidate in 2012. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00hrsng (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests Jude Kelly, Es Devlin and Paul SAT Morley review the cultural highlights of the week, SAT including London Fashion Week and financial thriller The SAT International. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00hrsnj (Listen) SAT A Strong Song Tows Us - Another History of English Poetry SAT Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, SAT uncovers a hidden history of English poetry. Stretching SAT back to the Dark Ages and emerging in 1960s Newcastle, Lee SAT reveals an alternative tradition of English poetry as the SAT preserve of ordinary working people. SAT Sunderland cork cutters, shipyard workers and pit men SAT encounter Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Ezra Pound. And SAT how a meeting between a 16-year-old schoolboy and one of SAT the great modernists of English literature, Basil Bunting, SAT contributed to the flowering of the north east as an SAT international destination for the whole Beatnik generation. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00hmpzk (Listen) SAT Scoop, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical SAT 1938 novel. SAT William finds life as a war correspondent somewhat SAT tedious, but he does fall in love and find himself in the SAT middle of a revolution. SAT William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Katchen ...... Claudie Blakeley SAT Lord Copper ...... David Warner SAT Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson SAT Frau Dressler ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey SAT Secret Policeman ...... Jude Akuwudike SAT Benito ...... Cyril Nri SAT Moke ...... Inam Mirza SAT Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler SAT Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock ...... Michael Simkins SAT Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo SAT News Editor ...... Paul Rider SAT Hechel ...... Gunnar Cauthery SAT Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny SAT Directed by Sally Avens. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00hrsnl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00hq2y1 (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, SAT Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips cross-examine SAT witnesses. SAT Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in SAT Western Europe, so what role should morality play in sex SAT education? A new government leaflet advising parents on SAT how to talk to their children about sex and relationships SAT warns against trying to convince teenagers of what is SAT right and wrong because it could discourage them from SAT being open. Is this sensible practical advice? Is giving SAT teenagers the room to form their own moral judgements SAT about sex the right way to cut teenage parenthood? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00hpj94 (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Celia Walden, SAT Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00hmpzp (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by SAT Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny SAT Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, SAT Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00hrt5k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b007v09c (Listen) SUN Be Prepared, Vanishing Point SUN Series of stories inspired by the famous motto of the SUN Scouting movement. SUN A very small man intervenes in a scene similar to a SUN nursery rhyme and helps a young lady in distress. SUN By Luke Sutherland, read by Sandy Grierson. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hrt5m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hrt5p (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hrt5r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00hrt5t (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00hrt5w (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's in Ilmington. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00hrsnd (Listen) SUN Bobby Jindal SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Bobby Jindal, the young SUN Indian-American governor of Louisiana who was chosen to SUN give the Republican response to President Obama's SUN Congressional address on the economy. SUN Born and raised a Hindu, Jindal converted to Catholicism SUN as a teenager. The former Rhodes Scholar has since made a SUN name for himself as a conservative Republican, opposing SUN abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research, while SUN advocating the teaching of intelligent design in schools. SUN Claire hears from those who knew, and have tracked the SUN career of, this rising star who has been tipped by some as SUN a potential presidential candidate in 2012. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00hrt5y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00hrt60 (Listen) SUN Spring Forward SUN Fergal Keane looks forward to Spring, both as a season and SUN a metaphor for better times to come. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00hrt62 (Listen) SUN Johnny Rook - A Lovable Rogue SUN Lionel Kelleway travels to the Falkland Islands in pursuit SUN of Johnny Rook, the cara cara. This bird of prey has the SUN reputation of being 'exceedingly bold' and 'the most SUN mischievous of all the feathered creation'. But there is SUN far more to it than meets the eye. Lionel finds out about SUN Johnny Rook's rise from near extinction and its unique SUN role in the islands' ecology. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00hrt64 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00hrt66 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00hrt8l (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00hrt8n (Listen) SUN Bowel and Cancer Research SUN Dr Mark Porter appeals on behalf of Bowel and Cancer SUN Research. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00hrt8q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00hrt8s (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00hrt8v (Listen) SUN Journey into Seeing SUN Observing Lent through the senses. From the National SUN Botanic Gardens of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. Led SUN by Rev Canon Joanna Penberthy. Preacher: Dr Anne Richards. SUN With Cor Caerfyrddin choir, directed by John S Davies. SUN Organist: Christopher Williams. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00hr5wx (Listen) SUN Katharine Whitehorne reflects on diseconomies of scale. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00hrt8x (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00hrt8z (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00hrt91 (Listen) SUN Lord Brian Rix SUN Kirsty Young invites Lord Brian Rix, actor and President SUN of Mencap, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's SUN mythical desert island. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00hpj9b (Listen) SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with SUN panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock and SUN David Mitchell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00hs8xd (Listen) SUN Venison SUN With the wild deer population in the UK reaching two SUN million and this year's shooting season being extended, SUN Sheila Dillon finds out what happens to all the venison SUN that is being produced. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00hs8xg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 World This Weekend b00hs8xj (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 Stand-Up With the Stars b00hyjd6 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Hugh Dennis follows the fortunes of four Radio 4 SUN presenters - Evan Davis, Libby Purves, Peter White and SUN Laurie Taylor - as they try their hand at stand-up comedy SUN for Comic Relief. They are mentored by comedians Paul SUN Merton, Milton Jones, Josie Long and Shappi Khorsandi, who SUN train them for a warm-up gig in advance of a date at a SUN London comedy club. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hr5wl (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by gardeners at Long Eaton and District SUN Horticultural Society, near Nottingham. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 My Mile of the River b00hs8xl (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the SUN River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in SUN Mid Wales. SUN Chris walks the banks of the Wye and discovers how SUN important the river has been to the economy of the town of SUN Rhayader. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00hs8xn (Listen) SUN Rendezvous with Rama, Episode 1 SUN Mike Walker's dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C SUN Clarke, set in the 22nd Century. SUN When the mysterious space object known as Rama appears in SUN the solar system, the crew of the SV Endeavour are sent to SUN investigate. SUN William Norton ...... Richard Dillane SUN Li Kwok ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SUN Pieter Rousseau ...... Jimmy Akingbola SUN Jimmy Pak ...... Robert Lonsdale SUN Aruna Calvert ...... Archie Panjabi SUN Gerry ...... Inam Mirza SUN Ruby Barnes ...... Janice Acquah SUN Laura Ernst ...... Ania Sowinski SUN Indira Gopal ...... Shelley King SUN Erl King ...... Peter Marinker SUN Tamara Ruiz ...... Jill Cardo SUN Tan Sun ...... Jonathan Tafler SUN Henning ...... Paul Rider. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00hs8xq (Listen) SUN AL Kennedy SUN James Naughtie talks to the author and part-time stand-up SUN comedian AL Kennedy about her 2007 Costa prize-winning SUN novel, Day, the story of RAF gunner Alfred Day and how he SUN comes to terms with the end of the Second World War. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00hs93v (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces poems by Ernest Dowson, DH SUN Lawrence, Laurie Lee and popular contemporary poet UA SUN Fanthorpe. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00hpndg (Listen) SUN Grant Ferrett investigates whether the sanctions imposed SUN on Zimbabwe by Britain and Europe are adequate to stop SUN wealth being channelled out of the country by people close SUN to the Mugabe government. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00hrsnd (Listen) SUN Bobby Jindal SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Bobby Jindal, the young SUN Indian-American governor of Louisiana who was chosen to SUN give the Republican response to President Obama's SUN Congressional address on the economy. SUN Born and raised a Hindu, Jindal converted to Catholicism SUN as a teenager. The former Rhodes Scholar has since made a SUN name for himself as a conservative Republican, opposing SUN abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research, while SUN advocating the teaching of intelligent design in schools. SUN Claire hears from those who knew, and have tracked the SUN career of, this rising star who has been tipped by some as SUN a potential presidential candidate in 2012. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hs93x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00hs93z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hs941 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00hs943 (Listen) SUN David Stafford introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00hs945 (Listen) SUN The temperature drops at the Dower House. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00hs947 (Listen) SUN Children's magazine. Barney Harwood does some creative SUN writing with Andy Stanton, author of a series of books SUN about a very bad man called Mr Gum. For World Book Day, SUN some children were asked to finish a story that Andy SUN started, and Barney hears the results. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b007vhn8 (Listen) SUN Caravan Club, Just Like the Famous Five SUN Series of short stories celebrating a British institution. SUN A young Enid Blyton fan is thrilled to be going on a SUN caravan holiday, just like her heroes. But will the SUN reality of a week in a Scottish caravan park meet her SUN expectations? SUN By Anne Donovan, read by Molly Innes. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00hr5py (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00hr5wn (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00hrk32 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN He reports on the long-running saga of bank overdraft SUN charges, which reaches a crucial legal stage. Also, just SUN how much risk is taxpayer's money exposed to from those SUN toxic assets in the bank bail out? SUN When is a Barclaycard customer not a Barclaycard customer? SUN Plus thousands of 'capital secure' investors face losing SUN some or all of their money. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00hrt8n (Listen) SUN Bowel and Cancer Research SUN Dr Mark Porter appeals on behalf of Bowel and Cancer SUN Research. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00hr4lt (Listen) SUN Anti Social Housing SUN Richard Reeves, director of the independent think tank SUN Demos, argues that social housing has failed everyone - SUN those who cannot get housing, those in social housing and SUN the taxpayers who pay for it. The government is committed SUN to a new wave of affordable housing, but have we learnt SUN the lessons of the past? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00hs95g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00hs95j (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00hr5wq (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Clive Owen, the star of The SUN International, a thriller set in the world of banking and SUN money laundering. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00hrt60 (Listen) SUN Spring Forward SUN Fergal Keane looks forward to Spring, both as a season and SUN a metaphor for better times to come. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 2 MARCH 2009 MON MON 00:00 Weather b00hs9xs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00hq2xx (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00hrt5w (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary's in Ilmington. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hs9zp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hsb27 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hsb3b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00hsb52 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hsbbl (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00hsbbn (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00htgdl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00hsbfk (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00htgdn (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include playwright Enda Walsh, who discusses his MON latest play The New Electric Ballroom, and writer Linda MON Grant, who talks about her book The Thoughtful Dresser. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00hsp0r (Listen) MON The Decisive Moment, Episode 1 MON Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's MON exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes MON up its mind. MON The importance of the emotional brain. Since Plato, MON philosophers have described the decision-making process as MON either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or MON we go with our gut instinct. MON But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the MON latest tools of neuroscience, they are discovering that MON this is not an accurate picture of how the mind works. Our MON best decisions are a finely-tuned blend of both feeling MON and reason, and the precise mix depends on the situation. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hsp6m (Listen) MON Jane Garvey features reports on opera singer Angela MON Gheorghiu; Fiona Millar on the Blair years, and Twitter. MON Plus the Monday Panel. MON Including drama: MON The Death of Grass MON Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John MON Christopher. It is 1956 and a virus has wiped out the MON crops of South East Asia, causing a famine. John Custance MON and his family visit his brother David's farm in MON Westmorland, convinced that the same thing could not MON happen there. MON Narrator ...... David Mitchell MON John ...... Darrell Brockis MON Ann ...... Rebecca Egan MON Roger ...... Gus Brown MON David ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor MON Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. MON MON 11:00 Straight to the Top b00htgdq (Listen) MON Liz Barclay investigates whether a leading fashion brand MON like Topshop can beat the credit crunch. With major MON retailers seeing their profit margins squeezed, are MON consumers continuing to tighten their belts? MON Featuring interviews from key players including former MON Topshop brand director Jane Shepherdson, widely credited MON with masterminding the store's fashion renaissance, and MON designer Celia Birtwell. MON MON 11:30 The Yellowplush Papers b00htgds (Listen) MON My Novel MON Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, MON adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of MON early-19th Century footman Charles Yellowplush. MON When a fashionable society novelist comes to stay at MON Diddlesex Towers, he inspires Charles to undertake an MON ambitious and scandalous enterprise. MON Charles Yellowplush ...... Adam Buxton MON Duke ...... Paul Rider MON Duchess ...... Janice Acquah MON Marquess ...... Inam Mirza MON Mary Ann ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Modicum ...... Gunnar Cauthery MON Scavenger ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00hsrcx (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00hsrgw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00hsrjm (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00htgdx (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Catherine MON Bennett, Michael Dobbs, Sir Antony Jay and John Lahr. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00hs945 (Listen) MON The temperature drops at the Dower House. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00htgzs (Listen) MON A City Killing MON By Mike Walker. After a foolhardy trade in the City almost MON wipes out Harry Towers' hedge fund, he turns for help to MON family friend Bob Glass, probably the most successful MON trader that Wall Street has ever seen. Confidence is MON immediately restored and Harry's investors seem inclined MON to give him a second chance - until he some alarming news MON on TV. MON Harry Towers ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Bob Glass ...... Nathan Osgood MON Tim ...... David Tse MON Meredith ...... Janice Acquah MON Sarah ...... Pamela Miles MON Carmody ...... Sam Dale MON Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00hrsnj (Listen) MON A Strong Song Tows Us - Another History of English Poetry MON Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, MON uncovers a hidden history of English poetry. Stretching MON back to the Dark Ages and emerging in 1960s Newcastle, Lee MON reveals an alternative tradition of English poetry as the MON preserve of ordinary working people. MON Sunderland cork cutters, shipyard workers and pit men MON encounter Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Ezra Pound. And MON how a meeting between a 16-year-old schoolboy and one of MON the great modernists of English literature, Basil Bunting, MON contributed to the flowering of the north east as an MON international destination for the whole Beatnik generation. MON MON 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht42h (Listen) MON Ignatius Sancho MON Series in which different presenters tell the story of a MON character from history that they identify with. MON Jazz musician and rapper Soweto Kinch tells the forgotten MON story of black 18th-Century composer Ignatius Sancho. MON Supposedly born on a slave ship bound for the West Indies MON in the 1720s, Sancho was orphaned and brought to London, MON where he was given to three spinster sisters and grew up MON as a child-slave. MON He had a curious mind and a love of learning, attributes MON that combined with sheer force of personality helped him MON to break into London's literary and artistic circles and MON forge friendships with actor David Garrick and author MON Laurence Sterne. Sancho became a prolific letter writer MON and a gentleman composer, while running a grocery shop MON which attracted many of his aristocratic and artistic MON friends. MON Soweto Kinch has long been fascinated by the life of MON Ignatius Sancho, and even though he was born almost 200 MON years after Sancho into a very different world, he MON recognises certain parallels with his own life - his MON engagement with education, his passion for music and his MON relationship with his heritage. MON Illustrated with readings from Ignatius' letters and MON musical compositions. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00hs8xd (Listen) MON Venison MON With the wild deer population in the UK reaching two MON million and this year's shooting season being extended, MON Sheila Dillon finds out what happens to all the venison MON that is being produced. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00htgzx (Listen) MON Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world, MON teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths MON behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. MON MON 17:00 PM b00ht5ph (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ht5r1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00htgzz (Listen) MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with MON panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Jack Dee and Josie MON Lawrence. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00hsrjy (Listen) MON The tables are turned at Home Farm. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ht5rh (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report MON on the new theatre and performing arts galleries at the MON Victoria and Albert Museum. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ht5tc (Listen) MON The Death of Grass, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation of the science fiction novel by John MON Christopher. MON It is 1956 and a virus has wiped out the crops of South MON East Asia, causing a famine. John Custance and his family MON visit his brother David's farm in Westmorland, convinced MON that the same thing could not happen there. MON Narrator ...... David Mitchell MON John ...... Darrell Brockis MON Ann ...... Rebecca Egan MON Roger ...... Gus Brown MON David ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor MON Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. MON MON 20:00 Snow in Libya b00g4zgv (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Broadcaster Peter Snow returns to scenes of his post-war MON childhood in Libya for the first time in 50 years to MON discover more about how the modern Great Socialist MON People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has changed from the place MON he remembers from his youth. MON MON 20:30 Bottom Line b00hrsn2 (Listen) MON Evan Davis discusses whether hedge funds have contributed MON to the economic crisis and whether they should be allowed MON to trade without being regulated. Hugh Hendry, one of the MON UK's most outspoken fund managers, offers his thoughts. MON Plus Gordon Frazer, head of Microsoft UK, and Jasmine MON Montgomery, of Futurebrand, discuss the future of MON computing and the real value of a brand. MON MON 21:00 Islam and Science b00hth03 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON Writer and journalist Ehsan Masood explores the status of MON science in the modern Islamic world, and asks whether MON measures taken to promote science are having an impact on MON the working lives of Muslim scientists. MON The call to read and seek knowledge is embedded in the MON Qur'an. But the Islamic world is currently witness to a MON rise in creationism, a trend for seeking 'scientific MON miracles' in the Qur'an and a frustration among scientists MON at the literal interpretation of Islam. MON How does the interplay between Islam and science affect MON those working in research today? Ehsan Masood asks Muslims MON working in science in the UK and abroad about how their MON faith influences their work. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00htgdn (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include playwright Enda Walsh, who discusses his MON latest play The New Electric Ballroom, and writer Linda MON Grant, who talks about her book The Thoughtful Dresser. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ht87g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00ht8fk (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ht8fm (Listen) MON The White Tiger, Episode 6 MON Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning MON satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, MON the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural MON poverty of his village into the bright lights and MON corruption of the city. MON Balram comes up against the corruption at the heart of his MON wealthy employers' lives as a road accident leaves him MON taking the blame for Pinky Madam's drunkenness. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00hr4lk (Listen) MON Meeting A Star MON Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on fame in all its MON forms. Guests James Delingpole, Agnes Poirier and Michael MON Simkins reveal the agony and ecstasy of meeting a star. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ht8hk (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 3 MARCH 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Weather b00hs9tq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00hsp0r (Listen) TUE The Decisive Moment, Episode 1 TUE Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's TUE exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes TUE up its mind. TUE The importance of the emotional brain. Since Plato, TUE philosophers have described the decision-making process as TUE either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or TUE we go with our gut instinct. TUE But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the TUE latest tools of neuroscience, they are discovering that TUE this is not an accurate picture of how the mind works. Our TUE best decisions are a finely-tuned blend of both feeling TUE and reason, and the precise mix depends on the situation. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hs9xv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hs9zr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hsb29 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00hsb3d (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hsb54 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00hsb7l (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00hsbbq (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00htkpx (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE He is joined by Billy Bragg to consider House of Lords TUE reform now and in the 17th Century, examining the story of TUE Lord Howard, a corrupt peer who was sent to the Tower. In TUE the light of recent cash-for-influence allegations, TUE Jonathan and guests debate what can be learnt from the TUE experience of the 1640s, when the Lords came under TUE similarly intense scrutiny. TUE Hsitorical readings are provided by Tim Bentinck who plays TUE David in The Archers and who is also the 12th Earl of TUE Portland. He was one of the hereditary peers who was TUE disqualified from sitting in the Lords following the TUE reforms of 1999. TUE Jonathan's other guests are the historian Dr Jason Peacey, TUE Andrew Piece, assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir TUE Christopher Kelly, chairman of the committee on Standards TUE in Public Life and cross-bench peer Baroness Ilora Finlay TUE of Llandaff. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00htl94 (Listen) TUE Lord North TUE BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's TUE prime ministers have used their power, responded to the TUE challenges of their time and made the job what it is today. TUE Nick asks if history has been fair to Lord North, who is TUE remembered as the prime minister who lost America. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00hzygp (Listen) TUE The Decisive Moment, Episode 2 TUE Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's TUE exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes TUE up its mind. TUE How the fluctuations of a few dopamine neurons saved a TUE battleship during the first Gulf War. Plus, how the human TUE brain's ability to learn from experience meant that chess TUE grand master Garry Kasparov was able to compete at the TUE same level as a computer program, despite having far less TUE computational power. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hspk0 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Including drama: TUE The Death of Grass TUE Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John TUE Christopher. TUE The world begins to panic as the virus spreads. But just TUE as things seem to be calming down a little, Roger TUE confronts John with some horrifying news. TUE Narrator ...... David Mitchell TUE Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander TUE John ...... Darrell Brockis TUE Ann ...... Rebecca Egan TUE Roger ...... Gus Brown TUE David ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor TUE Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. TUE TUE 11:00 Fixing the Pedigree Dog b00htl96 (Listen) TUE Sue Broom looks at the genetics and health of pedigree TUE dogs and asks if modern science and an understanding of TUE genetics can produce a solution to make them healthier. TUE A recent TV documentary highlighted some severe health TUE problems in a number of pedigree dog breeds. The breeds of TUE most concern include Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with TUE syringiomyelia, a neurological disorder thought to be TUE caused by too small a skull squeezing the brain. Also TUE German shepherd dogs and Neapolitan mastiffs have a high TUE incidence of hip dysplasia and Basset and Bloodhounds bred TUE to be too heavy leaving them prone to arthritis and back TUE problems. TUE However, as Sue discovers, there are changes being made to TUE the way that pedigree dogs are being bred. The Kennel Club TUE has implemented its Fit for Function, Fit for Life TUE campaign. Also, Crufts will be introducing new breed TUE standards, the blueprint for a show dog. They are in the TUE process of training judges to select dogs not only on TUE their looks but also on their health. TUE These changes are welcomed by the RSPCA, but they do not TUE believe that they go far enough and are concerned that the TUE changes in the breed standards are too vague and open to TUE too much interpretation by judges, many of whom are TUE themselves breeders. TUE Certain breed groups do not like being dictated to and TUE think that the problems are being overblown. But some dog TUE breeders are actively seeking out DNA tests for disorders TUE that affect their breed and using this information to TUE 'breed out' unhealthy genes from their stock. TUE Sue finds out what this shake-up of the pedigree dog TUE breeding world will mean for future breeds and whether or TUE not some breeds as we know them will even survive. TUE TUE 11:30 From Jean Brodie to Carrie Bradshaw: Spinsters in TUE Popular Cu b00htl98 (Listen) TUE Ann Widdecombe explores how single women have been TUE depicted in popular culture. From Dickens' terrifying Miss TUE Havisham and Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie to Carrie TUE Bradshaw in Sex and the City and Bridget Jones, why are TUE single women so often represented as manipulative, bitter, TUE or just desperate for a man? TUE Ann is content with her single status, and wants to know TUE why it is hard to find examples of truly happy spinsters TUE in books or on screen. She explores the horror that David TUE Lean's depiction of Miss Havisham evoked in many of the TUE generation that came of age in the 1940s. She goes back to TUE her old school in Bath to meet her former teacher and to TUE contemplate the reality of life for single women of that TUE generation. TUE Ann finds out why the author of Not Married, Not Bothered, TUE Carol Clewlow, believes that even today Jane Austen is TUE capable of being a 'spinster heroine' and why many women TUE seem to loathe the word 'spinster'. She also asks whether TUE Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones have as much to offer us TUE as Barbara Pym's 'excellent women' of the 1950s and 60s. TUE Finally, she discovers that the word 'spinster' might be TUE loathed, but it is far from defunct, as some journalists TUE are now referring to single men as 'male spinsters'. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00hsrbf (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00hsrcz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00hsrgy (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) TUE Music writer Laura Barton explains her love of the sleeve TUE note, which was once, for many, the cherished gateway into TUE a musical world but has now been diminished by the TUE digitalisation of music. TUE She considers how the sleeve note can act as a declaration TUE of intent from the artist, as epitomised by Johnny Cash's TUE sleeve notes for his classic 1968 live album, At Folsom TUE Prison, or by the inclusion of the founding declaration of TUE the Rock Against Racism movement on the sleeve of Tom TUE Robinson's debut album Power in the Darkness. TUE Poet Simon Armitage talks about being commissioned by Paul TUE Weller to write the sleeve notes for his latest album. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00hsrjy (Listen) TUE The tables are turned at Home Farm. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00htmzt (Listen) TUE The Lemon Squeezer TUE Comedy by Triona Adams. A young woman faces up to the TUE realities of life when she swaps London life for an TUE enclosed convent. TUE Mother Abbess ...... Margaret Tyzack TUE Mother Prioress ...... Deborah Findlay TUE Father Edward ...... Sam Dale TUE Sister Cillian/Cecilia ...... Rachel Atkins TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00htmzw (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00htmzy (Listen) TUE Readings From Bath, Knit One Purl One TUE Series of stories by Bath writers from the stage of the TUE city's Literature Festival. TUE A funny and tender account of a marriage, a series of TUE summer holidays and the importance of knitting. By Pippa TUE Gladhill, read by Pippa Haywood. TUE TUE 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cn (Listen) TUE Eliza Vestris TUE Series in which different presenters tell the story of a TUE character from history that they identify with. TUE Burlesque performer Kirsty Allan tells the story of the TUE 19th-Century theatrical performer Eliza Vestris, a TUE trailblazing artist who took many risks in theatreland. TUE Not only did she dare to reveal her lower legs - and just TUE a little bit of thigh - but she became the first woman to TUE run her own theatre. Eliza started off as an opera singer, TUE but made her mark as one of the first stars of burlesque. TUE Eliza Vestris' most successful performance was as Don TUE Giovanni in Giovanni in London, a burlesque based on TUE Mozart's opera. This daring part helped make Eliza one of TUE the most famous performers in the country. TUE As founder of the Ministry of Burlesque, Kirsty is keen to TUE point out that burlesque is not the kind of elaborate TUE striptease made famous by Dita von Teese. True burlesque TUE should involve sending-up, satirising, or making mockery TUE of something. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00htn00 (Listen) TUE Focusing on some of the ways in which the law affects TUE children. TUE Judges now have the power to hand out community service TUE punishments to parents who sabotage contact between their TUE ex-partners and their children. Will the courts be willing TUE to impose penalties on obstructive parents? TUE Also a report on how children going through care TUE proceedings are being affected by the shortage of TUE guardians, the professionals responsible for advising the TUE judge on what is in the best interests of the child. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00htn02 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to writer Robyn Karney and DJ Huw TUE Stephens about their favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ht5mp (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ht5pk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00cdsj8 (Listen) TUE Boston TUE Sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom TUE no job is too small and many jobs are too difficult. TUE A routine flight to Boston is disrupted by a routine fire, TUE a routine lawsuit and a routine corpse. TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole TUE First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam TUE Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore TUE ATC Fitton ...... Ewen MacIntosh TUE Hamilton Leeman ...... Kerry Shale TUE Paramedic ...... Matilda Ziegler TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00hsrjp (Listen) TUE Matt and Lilian have a rude awakening. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ht5r3 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the TUE verdict on the superhero film Watchmen, based on the TUE graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ht5xq (Listen) TUE The Death of Grass, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John TUE Christopher. TUE The world begins to panic as the virus spreads. But just TUE as things seem to be calming down a little, Roger TUE confronts John with some horrifying news. TUE Narrator ...... David Mitchell TUE Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander TUE John ...... Darrell Brockis TUE Ann ...... Rebecca Egan TUE Roger ...... Gus Brown TUE David ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor TUE Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00htn04 (Listen) TUE Julian O'Halloran investigates claims that overreaction by TUE schools to minor incidents or unproven allegations is TUE ruining the careers of hundreds of innocent teachers. As TUE efforts to protect children from abuse or cruelty are TUE intensified, Julian asks if some safety measures have gone TUE too far? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00htn06 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00htn08 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Post-natal Depression TUE Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is TUE normal. TUE She investigates post-natal depression. More women than TUE ever are being diagnosed with the condition, so does TUE motherhood make women miserable or are we turning a TUE normal, if difficult, psychological transition into an TUE illness? TUE If you ask a woman who has just had a baby if she has felt TUE sad or miserable in the last seven days, there is a fair TUE chance that she will say yes. You might get a similar TUE answer if you ask if she has felt scared or panicky for no TUE good reason. These are questions on the Edinburgh Post TUE Natal Depression Scale, a self reporting tool developed in TUE 1987 to help identify women with post-natal depression. TUE The scale is now widely used by health professionals as TUE part of efforts to help women who are struggling TUE psychologically to access the help and support they need. TUE However, critics claim that the scale picks up too many TUE women who are indeed having a hard time but who are not TUE depressed and still fails to spot women at the more severe TUE end of the depression spectrum. So are we now better at TUE identifying and helping women who are depressed post TUE natally? TUE Vivienne Parry talks to psychiatrists Roch Cantwell and TUE Paul Ramchandani, novelist Rachel Cusk, sociologist Ellie TUE Lee and several mothers about what they think is normal in TUE the post-natal period. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00htkpx (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE He is joined by Billy Bragg to consider House of Lords TUE reform now and in the 17th Century, examining the story of TUE Lord Howard, a corrupt peer who was sent to the Tower. In TUE the light of recent cash-for-influence allegations, TUE Jonathan and guests debate what can be learnt from the TUE experience of the 1640s, when the Lords came under TUE similarly intense scrutiny. TUE Hsitorical readings are provided by Tim Bentinck who plays TUE David in The Archers and who is also the 12th Earl of TUE Portland. He was one of the hereditary peers who was TUE disqualified from sitting in the Lords following the TUE reforms of 1999. TUE Jonathan's other guests are the historian Dr Jason Peacey, TUE Andrew Piece, assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir TUE Christopher Kelly, chairman of the committee on Standards TUE in Public Life and cross-bench peer Baroness Ilora Finlay TUE of Llandaff. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00ht86m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00ht88m (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ht8fp (Listen) TUE The White Tiger, Episode 7 TUE Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning TUE satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, TUE the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural TUE poverty of his village into the bright lights and TUE corruption of the city. TUE As his employer's marriage falls apart and his business TUE dealings become even more corrupt, Balram begins to dream TUE of the glittering prizes that his new life offers. TUE TUE 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00htn0b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Comedy series starring Dawn French as Professor Joy Klamp, TUE a specialist in the art of spoiling other people's TUE pleasure. TUE Investigating the fun that can be had, at other people's TUE expense, through travel. TUE With Chris Douglas, Sally Grace, Katy Brand, Sally Grace, TUE Christopher Douglas, Dan Tetsell, Brian Perkins. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ht8h7 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2009 WED WED 00:00 Weather b00hs9ts (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00hzygp (Listen) WED The Decisive Moment, Episode 2 WED Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's WED exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes WED up its mind. WED How the fluctuations of a few dopamine neurons saved a WED battleship during the first Gulf War. Plus, how the human WED brain's ability to learn from experience meant that chess WED grand master Garry Kasparov was able to compete at the WED same level as a computer program, despite having far less WED computational power. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hs9xx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hs9zt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hsb2c (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00hsb3g (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hsb56 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00hsb7p (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00hsbbs (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00htvd7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00hzyg9 (Listen) WED The Decisive Moment, Episode 3 WED Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's WED exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes WED up its mind. WED The defects in the emotional brain that lead us toward bad WED decisions such as excessive risk taking, gambling on the WED stock market or taking out sub-prime mortgages. What WED exactly is the circuitry of temptation? WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hspk2 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED Including drama: WED The Death of Grass WED Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John WED Christopher. WED Having broken past the roadblocks, the convoy is hoping WED for a clear run to Blind Gill. But a level crossing, a WED gatehouse and a carjack change the Custances' lives for WED ever. WED Narrator ...... David Mitchell WED Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander WED John ...... Darrell Brockis WED Ann ...... Rebecca Egan WED Roger ...... Gus Brown WED Man ...... Andrew Mayer WED Mr Spruce ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor WED Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. WED WED 11:00 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00htvd9 (Listen) WED From Heroes to Zeroes WED Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an WED impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain. WED After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of WED class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you WED identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems, WED if you are white. WED The working class may have historically been aligned with WED the labour movement, but Margaret Thatcher's astute WED recognition of strong individualistic aspirations - such WED as the desire to own a home - changed the political WED landscape in ways that are still evident nearly 30 years WED on. WED Sarfraz visits housing estates in Manchester and talks to WED schoolchildren, academics and politicians about the future WED of the working class. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b00htvhj (Listen) WED Series 5, Girls on Film WED Comedy by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. WED Not only does Clare have a new trainee social worker to WED break in, but she and her colleagues at the Sparrowhawk WED Family centre are the subject of a documentary film. WED Clare ...... Sally Phillips WED Brian ...... Alex Lowe WED Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck WED Ray ...... Richard Lumsden WED Megan/Nali ...... Nina Conti WED Irene ...... Ellen Thomas WED Simon ...... Andrew Wincott WED Colette/Mrs Cook ...... Anna Bengo WED Catriona ...... Alex Tregear. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00hsrbh (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00hsrd1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00hsrh0 (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00htvhl (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00hsrjp (Listen) WED Matt and Lilian have a rude awakening. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hv3j0 (Listen) WED The Sensitive - A Possession WED Alastair Jessiman's third play about a Glasgow psychic who WED uses his gifts to help police investigations. When Thomas WED Soutar agrees to help in the search for a music student WED who has been missing for a year, he becomes obsessed by WED the missing girl in ways that he had not expected. WED Thomas ...... Robin Laing WED Natasha ...... Anita Vitesse WED Mrs Soutar ...... Sheila Donald WED Mr Paris ...... James MacPherson WED Mrs Paris ...... Cara Kelly WED Mrs Collins ...... Juliet Cadzow WED Guest House Manager ...... John Paul Hurley WED Carol ...... Patricia Kavanagh WED Other parts played by the cast WED Directed by Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00htw7z (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on banking. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00hvckm (Listen) WED Readings From Bath, Inappropriate Dancing WED Series of stories by Bath writers from the stage of the WED city's Literature Festival. WED At the age of 81, Alice Garbutter has taken her first WED risk, and it feels so good that she is going to take more. WED By Fran Landsman, read by Stephanie Cole. WED WED 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cq (Listen) WED George Augustus Sala WED Series in which different presenters tell the story of a WED character from history that they identify with. WED Con Coughlin of The Daily Telegraph tells the colourful WED story of Victorian journalist George Augustus Sala, one of WED the best known writers of his day, whose career took off WED when Charles Dickens spotted his talent and published his WED work in Household Words. WED Sala joined The Daily Telegraph shortly after its launch WED in the mid-19th Century, becoming a prolific leader writer WED and an adventurous and well-travelled foreign WED correspondent. WED He reported on the American Civil War, where his southern WED sympathies made him an unpopular figure, and the WED Franco-Prussian war, where he was arrested and thrown into WED jail, accused of being a spy. He would never travel WED anywhere without a revolver, a corkscrew, and a 'little WED huswife full of pins, needles and buttons'. WED Coughlin explores the parallels that he sees between WED Sala's career and his own. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00htwhb (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00htn08 (Listen) WED Series 6, Post-natal Depression WED Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is WED normal. WED She investigates post-natal depression. More women than WED ever are being diagnosed with the condition, so does WED motherhood make women miserable or are we turning a WED normal, if difficult, psychological transition into an WED illness? WED If you ask a woman who has just had a baby if she has felt WED sad or miserable in the last seven days, there is a fair WED chance that she will say yes. You might get a similar WED answer if you ask if she has felt scared or panicky for no WED good reason. These are questions on the Edinburgh Post WED Natal Depression Scale, a self reporting tool developed in WED 1987 to help identify women with post-natal depression. WED The scale is now widely used by health professionals as WED part of efforts to help women who are struggling WED psychologically to access the help and support they need. WED However, critics claim that the scale picks up too many WED women who are indeed having a hard time but who are not WED depressed and still fails to spot women at the more severe WED end of the depression spectrum. So are we now better at WED identifying and helping women who are depressed post WED natally? WED Vivienne Parry talks to psychiatrists Roch Cantwell and WED Paul Ramchandani, novelist Rachel Cusk, sociologist Ellie WED Lee and several mothers about what they think is normal in WED the post-natal period. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ht5mr (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ht5pm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00htwhd (Listen) WED Series 2, Suggs WED Suggs reads A Brief History of Time, listens to Vivaldi, WED changes the oil in a car and has his first tap dancing WED lesson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00hsrjr (Listen) WED The truth comes out for Lilian. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ht5r7 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ht5zy (Listen) WED The Death of Grass, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation of the science fiction novel by John WED Christopher. WED Having broken past the roadblocks, the convoy is hoping WED for a clear run to Blind Gill. But a level crossing, a WED gatehouse and a carjack change the Custances's lives for WED ever. WED Narrator ...... David Mitchell WED Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander WED John ...... Darrell Brockis WED Ann ...... Rebecca Egan WED Roger ...... Gus Brown WED Man ...... Andrew Mayer WED Mr Spruce ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor WED Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00htwhg (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. With Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, WED Matthew Taylor and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00htwhj (Listen) WED In No God's Land WED Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God WED from their own perspective. Martin Bell reflects on his WED experience in war zones. WED WED 21:00 Percy Edwards Showdown b00htwx7 (Listen) WED David Attenborough hosts a celebration of bird WED impersonator Percy Edwards, who enjoyed a 70-year career WED impersonating birds and beasts. The programme combines the WED strange story of Percy's life with archive of his WED impersonations, interviews with those who knew him and a WED quiz. Guests include Bill Oddie and the comedian Alex WED Horne. WED Percy Edwards discovered his talent for talking like WED animals when he was seven. Dozing under a tree, he heard WED what he thought was a wolf-whistle and discovered that it WED was a bird. For several weeks, Edwards kept hearing this WED greenfinch and found that he could imitate it. He even WED took to eating canary seed before going to bed in the hope WED that he would wake in the morning singing like a bird. WED Eventually Percy was able to produce the sound of more WED than 600 birds, and some other animals. His was the voice WED of the killer whale in Orca, the alien in Alien and he WED provided sheep noises for Kate Bush's song The Dreaming. WED Percy took to the stage aged 11, was a stalwart of the WED Generation Game in the 1970s and gave his final WED performance aged 80 at the London Palladium in 1989. His WED repertoire was extraordinary - all 13 calls of the WED chaffinch, the strangely grinding sound of the amorous WED capercaille and corgis barking in Welsh accents. WED Quizmaster David Attenborough plays bird calls for the WED teams to identify, some of which will not be the birds but WED Percy's impressions - can they tell the difference? Woven WED into the rounds will be snippets about Percy's life from WED the BBC archive, including appearances on Parkinson, Wogan WED and Morecambe and Wise, revealing the importance of his WED work in raising the public's awareness of wildlife and the WED significance of his role as an ornithologist. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00htvd7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00ht86p (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00ht88p (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ht8fr (Listen) WED The White Tiger, Episode 8 WED Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning WED satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, WED the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural WED poverty of his village into the bright lights and WED corruption of the city. WED Temptation stares Balram in the face as he sees just how WED deeply his employer is mired in the corruption of the city. WED WED 23:00 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00htxbs (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Comedy series in which Josie Long attempts to better WED herself through learning from reference books, with help WED from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins and special guests. WED Josie explores the fantastic world of obscure animal facts WED in a bid to become the ultimate quiz contestant. To do WED this she looks back at her animal rights activist past, WED questions why she grew out of that phase and interrogates WED her father over his quiz buff history. WED WED 23:15 One b00771hg (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED The sketch show where no sketch features more than one WED voice. WED Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie WED Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan WED Antopolski, Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud, with Bill WED Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ht8h9 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2009 THU THU 00:00 Weather b00hs9tx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00hzyg9 (Listen) THU The Decisive Moment, Episode 3 THU Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's THU exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes THU up its mind. THU The defects in the emotional brain that lead us toward bad THU decisions such as excessive risk taking, gambling on the THU stock market or taking out sub-prime mortgages. What THU exactly is the circuitry of temptation? THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hs9xz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hs9zw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hsb2f (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00hsb3j (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hsb58 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00hsb7r (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00hsbbv (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00hv1dp (Listen) THU The Measurement Problem in Physics THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Roger Penrose discuss THU the measurement problem in physics. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00hzygc (Listen) THU The Decisive Moment, Episode 4 THU Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's THU exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes THU up its mind. THU Exploring the crucial role of the pre-frontal cortex in THU decision-making. How a firefighter's ability to think THU creatively in the middle of a horrific bush fire proved to THU be a life-saving decision. THU How is the human brain able to process huge amounts of THU information under great time pressure, and where is the THU seat of rational thought? THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hspk4 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU Including drama: THU The Death of Grass THU Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John THU Christopher. THU The journey to Blind Gill continues, with one addition to THU the group and one sudden, shocking loss. Both events shed THU new light on the increasingly disturbing behaviour of Mr THU Pirrie. THU Narrator ...... David Mitchell THU Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander THU John ...... Darrell Brockis THU Ann ...... Rebecca Egan THU Roger ...... Gus Brown THU Millicent Pirrie ...... Abigail Burdess THU Olivia Buckley ...... Morag Cross THU Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00hv1dr (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Bombay's Beatle b00hv1dt (Listen) THU Sarfraz Manzoor visits Mumbai to meet some of the THU musicians who were recruited in 1968 by George Harrison to THU help him record his first solo project, the soundtrack to THU the psychedelic film Wonderwall. Harrison was given full THU creative control over the music by the film's director Joe THU Massot, and it gave the Beatle the chance to explore his THU passion for Indian music. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00hsrbk (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00hsrd3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00hsrh2 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00hv1dw (Listen) THU Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the theme of THU ambition, with guests Terence Blacker, Tina Lamb and Shaun THU Bailey. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00hsrjr (Listen) THU The truth comes out for Lilian. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hv1dz (Listen) THU The State of the Art THU Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by Iain M THU Banks. A spaceship from The Culture arrives on Earth in THU 1977 and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like THU 'property' and 'money' and on the edge of self THU destruction. When Agent Dervley Linter decides to go THU native can Diziet Sma change his mind? THU The Ship ...... Sir Antony Sher THU Diziet Sma ...... Nina Sosanya THU Dervley Linter ...... Paterson Joseph THU Li ...... Graeme Hawley THU Tel ...... Brigit Forsyth THU Sodel ...... Conrad Nelson THU Directed by Nadia Molinari THU Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00hrg9w (Listen) THU Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped THU Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' THU distillery in Roseisle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00hrt8n (Listen) THU Bowel and Cancer Research THU Dr Mark Porter appeals on behalf of Bowel and Cancer THU Research. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00hvckp (Listen) THU Readings From Bath, The Successor THU Series of stories by Bath writers from the stage of the THU city's Literature Festival. THU An ex-wife looks on in disapproval at her husband's choice THU of successor, but her criticism turns to helplessness as THU danger threatens. By Rachel Fixsen, read by Pippa Haywood. THU THU 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cs (Listen) THU Kathleen Raine THU Series in which different presenters tell the story of a THU character from history that they identify with. THU Katrina Porteous tells the story of her fellow poet THU Kathleen Raine, with whom she shares Scottish roots, a THU Cambridge education and a connection with Northumberland, THU where Katrina lives and where Raine Kathleen was evacuated THU to during the First World War. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00hs8xq (Listen) THU AL Kennedy THU James Naughtie talks to the author and part-time stand-up THU comedian AL Kennedy about her 2007 Costa prize-winning THU novel, Day, the story of RAF gunner Alfred Day and how he THU comes to terms with the end of the Second World War. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00hv1f2 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper hears about the latest remarkable example THU of natural selection - a fish eye that focuses light using THU a dished mirror - and how it illustrates Charles Darwin's THU 150-year-old theory. THU Darwin recognised that the eye, in all its perfection, THU could represent a real problem for the theory of THU evolution. But in fact, with hundreds of different seeing THU organs specialising in different functions across the THU animal kingdom, the eye actually reveals the great THU inventiveness of natural selection. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ht5mt (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ht5pp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00hv1f4 (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 3 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. THU The presence of a baby in Hell is turning them all soft. THU As Scumspawn becomes the first demon to wear a papoose, THU Satan tries to locate Satan Junior's real family. THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU With Jan Ravens and Felicity Montagu. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00hsrjt (Listen) THU Tom's impatience comes to the fore. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ht5r9 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ht62v (Listen) THU The Death of Grass, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by John THU Christopher. THU The journey to Blind Gill continues, with one addition to THU the group and one sudden, shocking loss. Both events shed THU new light on the increasingly disturbing behaviour of Mr THU Pirrie. THU Narrator ...... David Mitchell THU Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander THU John ...... Darrell Brockis THU Ann ...... Rebecca Egan THU Roger ...... Gus Brown THU Millicent Pirrie ...... Abigail Burdess THU Olivia Buckley ...... Morag Cross THU Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. THU THU 20:00 Seven Days b00hv1f6 (Listen) THU In Oldham THU As the town launches an enquiry into excessive alcohol THU consumption, Jenny Cuffe spends a week in Oldham with THU those people who are developing new ways to intervene in THU the lives of heavy drinkers. THU THU 20:30 Analysis b00hv1f8 (Listen) THU The Threat of Thrift THU After decades of easy credit, Chris Bowlby asks if the THU concept of thrift has lost its moral attraction and if its THU revival could further damage the economy. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00hv1fb (Listen) THU Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of THU science. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00hv1dp (Listen) THU The Measurement Problem in Physics THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Roger Penrose discuss THU the measurement problem in physics. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00ht86r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ht88r (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ht8ft (Listen) THU The White Tiger, Episode 9 THU Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning THU satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, THU the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural THU poverty of his village into the bright lights and THU corruption of the city. THU Balram's fateful decision has been made and now is the THU moment when he passes the point of no return. THU THU 23:00 Inside Alan Francis b00hv1rj (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the THU workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends THU and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. THU Alan and Jane are due to meet at the solicitors. THU With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ht8hc (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 6 MARCH 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Weather b00hs9v0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00hzygc (Listen) FRI The Decisive Moment, Episode 4 FRI Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's FRI exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes FRI up its mind. FRI Exploring the crucial role of the pre-frontal cortex in FRI decision-making. How a firefighter's ability to think FRI creatively in the middle of a horrific bush fire proved to FRI be a life-saving decision. FRI How is the human brain able to process huge amounts of FRI information under great time pressure, and where is the FRI seat of rational thought? FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hs9y1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hs9zy (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hsb2h (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00hsb3l (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hsb5b (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00hsb7t (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00hsbbx (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00hrt91 (Listen) FRI Lord Brian Rix FRI Kirsty Young invites Lord Brian Rix, actor and President FRI of Mencap, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's FRI mythical desert island. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00hzygf (Listen) FRI The Decisive Moment, Episode 5 FRI Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's FRI exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes FRI up its mind. FRI Exploring the certainty trap - a potential hazard for FRI pundits and politicians alike. It feels good to be FRI certain, but this can lead each of us to pretend that our FRI mind is in full agreement with itself, even when it is FRI not. In other words, we trick ourselves into being sure. FRI But is it possible to use our knowledge of the brain to FRI avoid such pitfalls? FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hspk6 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI Including drama: FRI The Death of Grass FRI Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel, by John FRI Christopher. FRI The end of the journey is in sight but there are still FRI plenty of obstacles ahead. At the last of them, John has FRI to make an agonising choice. FRI Narrator ...... David Mitchell FRI Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander FRI John ...... Darrell Brockis FRI Ann ...... Rebecca Egan FRI Roger ...... Gus Brown FRI Ashton ...... Andrew Mayer FRI Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. FRI FRI 11:00 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hv33b (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies FRI barbershop chorus, Second City Sound. FRI Kit meets up with the group in Harrogate, as they prepare FRI to compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop FRI Singers. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b00hv33d (Listen) FRI A Role Play FRI Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the FRI misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his FRI trouble-making colleague. FRI Peter learns that he has to apply for his own job - but he FRI is not the only one. FRI Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00hsrbm (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00hsrd5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00hsrh4 (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00hv33g (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00hsrjt (Listen) FRI Tom's impatience comes to the fore. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hvgbt (Listen) FRI Success Story FRI By Brett Goldstein. When Ray's low-budget film is picked FRI up by a major studio, his dreams of Hollywood start to FRI become a reality. Then, holed up in a hotel room doing FRI endless publicity interviews, he finds the past coming FRI back to bite him. FRI Ray ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild FRI Tara ...... Caroline Catz FRI Emily ...... Sasha Pick FRI Kristen ...... Laurel Lefkow FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hwbpb (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer FRI questions posed by gardeners at the Chipstead Flower Show FRI Association in Surrey. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cv (Listen) FRI Varaztad Kazanjian FRI Series in which different presenters tell the story of a FRI character from history that they identify with. FRI Surgeon Iain Hutchison tells the story of Varaztad FRI Kazanjian, an American doctor posted with the British army FRI in the First World War, who became a pioneer in plastic FRI surgery. FRI As an Armenian refugee, Kazanjian had escaped a massacre FRI of his people in Turkey in 1895. He settled in Worcester, FRI Massachusetts and, along with many other Armenians, took a FRI job in the local wire factory. There he worked long, hot FRI hours but was determined to make a better life, and FRI dedicated himself to years of evening classes. FRI Eventually he decided to try for a career as a dentist, FRI and in 1902 was accepted by Harvard Dental School, FRI qualifying in 1905. He was happily married and FRI successfully running his own dental practice when the FRI First World War broke out. He volunteered to join the FRI Harvard Medical Corps, and was posted to a huge tented FRI hospital complex in northern France. FRI There he began to treat some of the worst injuries FRI suffered in trench warfare: jaws, noses, cheeks and skulls FRI shattered by bullets and grenades. Although he was not a FRI qualified surgeon, he had become known for treating the FRI kind of facial injuries and disfigurements neglected by FRI the general medical community, and he brought this passion FRI and expertise to bear in France. FRI Many soldiers, who would otherwise have suffered dreadful FRI scarring and lifelong pain, had their injuries expertly FRI treated by Kazanjian. It was said that he advanced the FRI field of plastic surgery by 50 years during the four years FRI he served the British army. He received an honorary FRI knighthood from King George V and became one of the most FRI respected reconstructive facial surgeons in the world, at FRI one stage treating Sigmund Freud, whose jaw had been eaten FRI away by cancer. FRI Professor Iain Hutchison is founder and chief executive of FRI the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and is one of the FRI world's leading reconstructive facial surgeons. His first FRI career was in dentistry, before specialising in oral and FRI maxillo-facial surgery, and, like Kazanjian, he has FRI operated on some of the most difficult cases of facial FRI injury and disfigurement, all the while advancing this FRI particular area of surgery. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00hwtj3 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00hwtj5 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Julian Fellowes, the actor and FRI Oscar-winning writer of Gosford Park, about his latest FRI script, Young Victoria. Plus director Ole Christian Madsen FRI talks about his popular but controversial war movie, Flame FRI and Citron, which investigates the role of the Resistance FRI movement against the Nazi occupation of Denmark. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ht5mw (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ht5pr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00hwtj7 (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 1 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Jon Richardson. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00hsrjw (Listen) FRI Matt faces a difficult truth. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ht5rc (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports from a FRI terraced house, filled with wood carvings by a Kenyan-born FRI artist, and now owned by the National Trust. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ht63q (Listen) FRI The Death of Grass, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation of the science fiction novel by John FRI Christopher. FRI The end of the journey is in sight but there are still FRI plenty of obstacles ahead. At the last of them, John has FRI to make an agonising choice. FRI Narrator ...... David Mitchell FRI Pirrie ...... Bruce Alexander FRI John ...... Darrell Brockis FRI Ann ...... Rebecca Egan FRI Roger ...... Gus Brown FRI Ashton ...... Andrew Mayer FRI Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00hwvf7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Sutton, FRI Surrey. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00hwvf9 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Katharine FRI Whitehorn. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b0077495 (Listen) FRI Stone, Mary Shane FRI By Danny Brocklehurst. FRI DCI John Stone is investigating the high profile case of a FRI missing teenage girl, Louise Sands. Then Mary Shane, 80, FRI turns up insisting that she must speak to Stone and FRI confesses to murdering three people 60 years earlier. FRI Mary Shane ...... Anne Reid FRI DCI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Kate ...... Suranne Jones FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Sally ...... Danielle Henry FRI Jack Leary ...... James Nickerson FRI Ken ...... Terence Mann FRI Ryan ...... Aidan Parsons FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00ht86t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00ht88t (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ht8fw (Listen) FRI The White Tiger, Episode 10 FRI Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning FRI satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, FRI the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural FRI poverty of his village into the bright lights and FRI corruption of the city. FRI Balram has made it out of the darkness and into the dazzle FRI of entrepreneurial success. The cost has been high, and FRI could be even higher in the future, but for the White FRI Tiger the price has been worth it. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00htn02 (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to writer Robyn Karney and DJ Huw FRI Stephens about their favourite books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ht8hf (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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