Radio4lists: Radio 4 Listings for 04/04/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 4 APRIL 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00jff0l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00jbky1 (Listen) SAT The Old Boys' Network, Episode 5 SAT Tim Pigott-Smith reads the journal kept by Dr John Rae SAT during his years as the headmaster of Westminster School SAT from 1970 to 1986. SAT Dr Rae wonders whether he is as well qualified for the job SAT as a colleague who is reputed to have killed a man with SAT his bare hands when he was a member of the Special SAT Operations Executive in the Second World War. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jff0n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jff0q (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jff0s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00jff0v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jff0x (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, SAT Rev Dr Barry Morgan. SAT SAT 05:45 The Estuary b008kf0n (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on SAT the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against SAT a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson. SAT At low tide, the vast expanses of mud which stretch almost SAT as far as the eye can see are a magnet for migratory birds. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00jgq3n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00jgq3q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00jgq3s (Listen) SAT Three hundred years ago, Abraham Darby fired up his SAT furnace in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. It was the spark SAT that lit the Industrial Revolution. Darby's technological SAT leap would allow iron to be manufactured on an enormous SAT scale, opening the door to the creation of the machines, SAT factories, trains and ships that made the modern world. SAT Helen Mark visits the original foundry, joins in an SAT archaeological dig on the site, hears how the Aga company SAT keeps the gorge's traditions alive and meets a SAT contemporary artist inspired by the tough life of the SAT original ironworkers. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00jgq3v (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith, SAT with a debate on the future of the Royal Show. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00jgq3x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00jgtfh (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00jgv15 (Listen) SAT With Fi Glover. SAT In the week that Madonna failed in her attempt to adopt a SAT second child from Malawi, Fi meets a single man who SAT successfully adopted two children. SAT Fi's studio guest is stem cell guru Professor Anthony SAT Hollander who led the development of the first ever tissue SAT engineered windpipe. SAT Plus an 'I Was There' memory from a Saturday Live listener SAT who watched the trial of Nelson Mandela, the Inheritance SAT Tracks of Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni, one SAT Liverpool fan's experience of the Heysel Stadium disaster SAT in 1985 and Susan Richardson as our studio poet. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00jgv17 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores the back streets of old Paris with SAT the help of writer Gillian Tindall, the author of SAT Footprints in Paris - A few streets, a few lives. Her SAT exploration revives 200 years of history through the lives SAT of real individuals who inhabited some of Paris oldest SAT streets in the Latin Quarter. SAT The programme also uncovers an obscure corner of British SAT military history involving Belize, HMS Ark Royal and SAT Buccaneer fighter bombers through author Rowland White's SAT Pheonix Squadron. SAT SAT 10:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) SAT With working men's clubs on the verge of extinction, Dave SAT Spikey, who co-wrote and appeared in the comedy Phoenix SAT Nights, charts their history. He examines their social, SAT cultural and political impact and celebrates those that SAT continue to bring life to communities on the margins of SAT 21st-century Britain. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00jgv1d (Listen) SAT Week In Westminster SAT After a week when the world's leaders descended on London SAT to clear a path out of the world economic crisis, do we SAT now have one? SAT And away from all the talk of global financial SAT institutions, tax havens and monetary stimulus, can it SAT give the British economy a jolt, and with it a jolt to the SAT Prime Minister's political position? SAT Here, the former Treasury ministers, Geoffrey Robinson for SAT Labour and John Maples for the Conservatives, and the SAT Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Jeremy Browne, debate SAT how far the deal gives us what we need. SAT Also in the programme: SAT * Sheila Gunn, Press Secretary to John and Norma Major, SAT and Fiona Millar, who spent years working for Cherie SAT Blair, on what the wives do at summits. SAT * Tony Wright, who chairs the Public Administration Select SAT Committee, and Marta Andreasen, the EU whistleblower and SAT now UKIP Treasurer, on expenses and leaking SAT * And Baroness Estelle Morris on which reports Ministers SAT read, and which they don't. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00jgv1g (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00jgv1j (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. Including reports on the steps taken by the SAT Pension Service after its helpline and e-forecast system SAT collapsed. SAT Plus a look at the implications of the deal struck to SAT rescue Dunfermline Building Society and claims that SAT surveyors are now undervaluing many properties, making it SAT impossible for some buyers to agree a price with a seller. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00jf47y (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 5 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Alun Cochrane. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00jgv1l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00jgv1n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00jf480 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Stafford. SAT He is joined by secretary of state for communities and SAT local government Hazel Blears, shadow secretary of state SAT for innovation, universities and skills David Willetts, SAT Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable and executive SAT editor and columnist at the London Evening Standard Anne SAT McElvoy. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00jgv1q (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 b00jgv1s (Listen) SAT Lambeth Palace SAT Dark comedy by Christopher William Hill imagining the SAT politics behind the scenes in the run-up to the selection SAT of a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury. How far will an SAT ultra-Establishment conservative and a barely-believing SAT liberal go to win the top job in the Church of England? SAT Michael Lombard ...... Alex Jennings SAT David Channing ...... Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Grace Lombard ...... Phoebe Nicholls SAT Patrick Latimer ...... Murray Melvin SAT Alicia Latham ...... Susan Jameson SAT Simon Brooker ...... Philip Fox SAT Anthony Taylor ...... Sam Dale SAT Russell Graves ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Claudia ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Robin ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Cardinal Daeneker ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Seb ...... Benjamin Askew SAT Jade ...... Lizzy Watts SAT With Kirsty Wark and Jonathan Dimbleby as themselves. SAT Other parts played by Janice Acquah, Matt Addis and Paul SAT Rider. SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00jcltr (Listen) SAT Series 7, Milt Jackson SAT Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th SAT century. SAT Milt Jackson, known as 'Bags', was the first vibraphone SAT player to perform in the bebop style of jazz. He was SAT spotted at the age of 22 by Dizzy Gillespie and given a SAT place in his band. His reputation grew from there, and he SAT is perhaps best known for helping to bring jazz to a new SAT concert-going audience during his 20-plus years as a SAT member of the Modern Jazz Quartet. SAT Vibraphone player Anthony Kerr sets Ken straight on SAT Jackson, who he admits to having overlooked as a teenage SAT jazz fan. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00jgv1v (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. SAT With all the doom and gloom around, Jane asks what is SAT happiness, how do we get it and do women feel responsible SAT for keeping their families happy? SAT There's music from Lea De Laria, and are you guilty of SAT dressing your partner? SAT Two ten-year-olds dance the cha-cha in the studio as part SAT of a new educational initiative to get children back on SAT the dance floor. SAT Plus why girls with autism are being misdiagnosed, and we SAT ask whether history has been reworked and feminised, as SAT some claim. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00jgv1x (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00jff0z (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jgv1z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00jgv21 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jgv23 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00jgv25 (Listen) SAT Presented by Clive Anderson. SAT Marking the 500th anniversary of Henry's VIII's accession SAT to the throne, historian Dr David Starkey chats to Clive SAT Anderson about his C4 biography, Henry: Mind of a Tyrant, SAT and guest curating the British Library's exhibition Henry SAT VIII: Man and Monarch. SAT Having penned comedy favourites such as Father Ted and SAT Black Books, Graham Linehan talks about his Emmy SAT award-winning sitcom The IT Crowd. SAT As a former society editor, Stephanie Theobald was one of SAT the 'in' crowd. She describes how her time hanging out SAT with the movers and shakers of the art world inspired her SAT latest novel, A Partial Indulgence. SAT Gideon Coe stirs up some adolescent angst as he talks to SAT stand-up comedian Rufus Hound, presenter of Radio 4's My SAT Teenage Diary, in which top comedians revisit their SAT formative years by opening up their diaries. SAT Irrereverent comedy from Canadian Pete Johansson, who, SAT having toured the world and appeared on US primetime SAT televison, peddles his wares in the Loose Ends studio. SAT Music comes from Doves, who play Kingdom of Rust from SAT their forthcoming album of the same title. Plus a saunter SAT into the unique world of caberet and melody that is Lonely SAT Drifter Karen. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00jgv27 (Listen) SAT Zaha Hadid SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Zaha Hadid, the world's leading SAT female architect. SAT Workers have begun installing the roof on the Aquatics SAT Centre for the 2012 London Olympics, the boldest British SAT design yet by Hadid. But like the rest of Hadid's career, SAT the wave-shaped building has not been without controversy SAT - and it's projected to cost three times its original SAT budget. SAT Iraq-born Hadid is known around the world, yet in Britain SAT she is perhaps better known for designs that haven't been SAT built - such as the Cardiff Bay Opera House. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00jgv29 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00jkw55 (Listen) SAT From Midpoint to Endpoint - Talking With John Updike SAT Mark Lawson traces the career of John Updike from 1969, SAT after he had been pictured on the cover of Time magazine SAT and brought to international recognition by his SAT best-selling novel Couples, to a final interview recorded SAT months before Updike's death in January 2009. SAT Mark draws on his own interviews with Updike - including SAT the one made in October 2008 which proved to he his last - SAT and appearances on programmes including With Great SAT Pleasure and Arena, and the writer's readings of his own SAT stories and memoirs. Updike talks about writing, sex, SAT death, God, golf and American presidents from Hoover to SAT Obama. SAT Including tributes from his son David and editors from his SAT publishers Knopf and the New Yorker magazine speaking at SAT an event from the New York Public Library. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00jc440 (Listen) SAT Something Fresh, Episode 1 SAT First of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 SAT comic novel. SAT Two imposters infiltrate Blandings Castle, intent on SAT recovering a valuable scarab which the dotty Lord Emsworth SAT has unknowingly acquired from a dyspeptic American SAT millionaire. SAT Ashe ...... Ioan Gruffudd SAT Joan ...... Helen McCrory SAT J Preston Peters ...... Hector Elizondo SAT Earl of Emsworth ...... Martin Jarvis SAT Aline Peters ...... Andrea Bowen SAT George Emerson ...... James Frain SAT Baxter ...... Jared Harris SAT Beach ...... Morgan Sheppard SAT Mrs Twemlow ...... Jill Gascoine SAT Miss Willoughby ...... Joanne Whalley SAT The Hon Freddie ...... Matthew Wolf SAT Mr Judson ...... Darren Richardson SAT Adams ...... Kenneth Danziger SAT Jones/Ferris/Porter ...... Alan Shearman SAT All the maids ...... Moira Quirk SAT Wodehouse ...... Ian Ogilvy SAT Directed by Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00jgv3z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b00jd6xv (Listen) SAT The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on SAT the process by which controversial decisions are reached SAT behind closed doors in Whitehall. With a panel of inside SAT experts, he examines the problems that future governments SAT will face and hear the arguments about how they might be SAT resolved. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00jcgx9 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 4 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the fourth heat of the music quiz SAT from the Radio Theatre in London, with contestants from SAT the south of England. The competitors are Andrew Feltham SAT from Broadstairs, David Hodder from Camberley and Josie SAT Martin from the Isle of Wight. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b00j5ttf (Listen) SAT Rosemary Tonks: The Poet Who Vanished SAT Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of SAT lesser-known or forgotten poets. SAT Rosemary Tonks published two slim volumes of poetry and a SAT clutch of novels and then, towards the end of the 1970s, SAT disappeared from public life. Brian explores the operatic SAT drama of her work, which was hugely influenced by Rimbaud SAT and Baudelaire, and shares his enthusiasm with other SAT contemporary poets. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 5 APRIL 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00jgzj6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00jd6xx (Listen) SUN A Godless Society? SUN Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God SUN from their own perspective. SUN Frank Field MP reflects on a society that chooses to root SUN its moral behaviour apart from God. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jgzj8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jgzjb (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jgzjd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00jgzjg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00jgzjj (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Nicholas's Church, Leeds in SUN Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00jgv27 (Listen) SUN Zaha Hadid SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Zaha Hadid, the world's leading SUN female architect. SUN Workers have begun installing the roof on the Aquatics SUN Centre for the 2012 London Olympics, the boldest British SUN design yet by Hadid. But like the rest of Hadid's career, SUN the wave-shaped building has not been without controversy SUN - and it's projected to cost three times its original SUN budget. SUN Iraq-born Hadid is known around the world, yet in Britain SUN she is perhaps better known for designs that haven't been SUN built - such as the Cardiff Bay Opera House. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00jgzjl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00jgzjn (Listen) SUN Hospitality SUN For Palm Sunday, Mark Tully explores the deeper spiritual SUN meaning of hospitality, with Jean Vanier, founder of the SUN L'Arche community for adults with learning disabilities. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00jgzjq (Listen) SUN On Your Farm SUN Sir Donald Curry has been an insider during the events SUN that have brought significant change to the British SUN countryside and food and farming industries over the past SUN two decades. He saw at first hand the tragedy of mad cow SUN disease - young people dying because they'd eaten British SUN beef, infected with a mysterious cattle brain disease and SUN a livestock industry quarantined by the rest of the world. SUN Then came the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease SUN which cost taxpayers £8billion and set in train a rural SUN revolution of which Sir Donald was the architect. He gives SUN Steve Peacock his insights into this, and more, for this SUN week's On Your Farm. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00jgzjs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00jgzjv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00jgzjx (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 b00jgzjz (Listen) SUN SOS Sahel SUN Valerie Singleton appeals on behalf of SOS Sahel. SUN A donation of 15 pounds could train a water committee in SUN Sudan enabling a community to share precious water - SUN helping to preserve peace. If you are a UK taxpayer, SUN please provide SOS Sahel with your full name and address SUN so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation - worth SUN another 25 percent. Online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No 296311. SUN Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the SUN back of your envelope SOS Sahel. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00jgzk1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00jgzk3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00jgzk5 (Listen) SUN Journey into Hearing SUN Observing Lent through the senses. SUN A service for Palm Sunday live from Upper Clapton United SUN Reformed Church in Hackney, London. SUN The preacher is Rev John Macaulay. SUN Directors of Music: Nneoma Chima and Sam White. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00jf483 (Listen) SUN Clive James gives his take on the adult film industry and SUN the expenses furore surrounding the Home Secretary and her SUN husband Richard Timney. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00jgzk7 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00jgzk9 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00jh1f1 (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN She brings together some of the original members of the SUN National Theatre to remember its birth in 1963 under SUN artistic director Laurence Olivier. Her guests are Sir SUN Michael Gambon, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame SUN Joan Plowright and Bill Gaskill. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00jcgxh (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies. With Simon Evans, Tony Hawks, SUN Milton Jones and Johnny Vaughan. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00jh46t (Listen) SUN Olympics SUN Sheila Dillon finds out how the 2012 Olympics is already SUN changing food in Britain. Thousands of construction SUN workers have arrived in east London and there are ambitous SUN plans for their meal breaks. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00jh46w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00jh46y (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Royal Show in Crisis b00k175r (Listen) SUN Britain's most presitigious agricultural show has been the SUN showcase for the farming industry for the last 160 years. SUN But the Royal Show hasn't made a profit for over 20 years. SUN It's been the victim of foot and mouth, atrocious weather SUN and bluetongue. SUN Tom Heap has been following the team at the show's home in SUN Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire as they try to ensure that SUN the 2009 effort will once more establish it as a premier SUN event. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jf47q (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by gardeners on the Nottinghamshire and SUN Derbyshire border. SUN Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs return to the Royal SUN Botanical Gardens at Kew in its 250th year, with a visit SUN to the Temperate House. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Ankle High History b00jh470 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Mark Stephen uncovers Scotland's lost archaeological SUN history. SUN Along the shores of Loch Tay are the remains of SUN byrehouses, the sort of buildings in which the majority of SUN Scots once lived. Mark Stephen hears the story of how SUN these homes came to be abandoned, as a rural way of life SUN disappeared. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00jh472 (Listen) SUN Something Fresh, Episode 2 SUN Second of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 SUN comic novel. SUN The rivalry between Ashe and Joan to secure the precious SUN scarab is becoming intense. The obsessive Baxter is in hot SUN pursuit and Lord Emsworth keeps a shotgun beside him in SUN case of midnight marauders. SUN Ashe ...... Ioan Gruffudd SUN Joan ...... Helen McCrory SUN Baxter ...... Jared Harris SUN Earl of Emsworth ...... Martin Jarvis SUN J Preston Peters ...... Hector Elizondo SUN The Hon Freddie ...... Matthew Wolf SUN George Emerson ...... James Frain SUN Aline Peters ...... Andrea Bowen SUN Beach ...... Morgan Sheppard SUN Mr Judson ...... Darren Richardson SUN Colonel Mant ...... Kenneth Danziger SUN Wodehouse ...... Ian Ogilvy SUN Directed by Martin Jarvis. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00jh474 (Listen) SUN Andrew Motion SUN As he prepares to leave the post, Andrew Motion talks to SUN James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate. He SUN discusses his collection Public Property, which was the SUN first to be published after he became Poet Laureate. Some SUN of the poems were written to mark or celebrate events or SUN people. Others reveal some of his own strongest influences SUN - the countryside, his upbringing and his parents as well SUN as poets he most admires, including Wordsworth, Keats, Ted SUN Hughes and Philip Larkin. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b00jh476 (Listen) SUN Dom Moraes: The Double Exile SUN Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of SUN lesser-known or forgotten poets. SUN Born in India, educated at Oxford, admirer of Auden and SUN Spender and a youthful resident of low Soho dives, the SUN life of the beautiful Dom Moraes was in itself poetical. SUN Brian finds in Moraes' work the melancholy of a man who SUN never quite belonged either in India or England. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00jcrqx (Listen) SUN Shari Vahl investigates the extent to which inadequate SUN safeguards to property rights in Britain might be SUN contributing to the theft of millions of pounds, as SUN criminals 'steal' houses from under the noses of SUN homeowners by exploiting the way Land Registry information SUN is made available SUN File on 4 hears from victims living in mortgage-free homes SUN who have been targeted by criminal gangs. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00jgv27 (Listen) SUN Zaha Hadid SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Zaha Hadid, the world's leading SUN female architect. SUN Workers have begun installing the roof on the Aquatics SUN Centre for the 2012 London Olympics, the boldest British SUN design yet by Hadid. But like the rest of Hadid's career, SUN the wave-shaped building has not been without controversy SUN - and it's projected to cost three times its original SUN budget. SUN Iraq-born Hadid is known around the world, yet in Britain SUN she is perhaps better known for designs that haven't been SUN built - such as the Cardiff Bay Opera House. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jh478 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00jh47b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jh47d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00jh47g (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00jcvw0 (Listen) SUN Helen puts her memories on ice. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00jh47j (Listen) SUN Barney Harwood spotlights ice, snow sleighs and polar SUN bears as he finds out about life in the Arctic. Glenn SUN Morris from Arctic Voice talks Barney through survival in SUN sub-zero temperatures, and Barney hears from Glaitness SUN School in Orkney, which has twinned with a school in the SUN Arctic with the help of BBC World Class. Pupils have been SUN finding out what it's like to go to school surrounded by SUN ice and snow. SUN As a British team begins a trek to discover how quickly SUN the ice in the Arctic is melting, Tarquin Cooper explains SUN the impact of climate change on one of the coldest places SUN on Earth. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008nwjw (Listen) SUN Portraits of East Anglia, Days of Rest SUN Specially commissioned stories by local authors, inspired SUN by paintings of the East Anglian landscape. Recorded in SUN front of an audience in Halesworth, Suffolk, the readings SUN are introduced by Neil Innes. SUN On a beautiful summer Sunday, Jules is paying a visit to SUN see Gran in her Suffolk care home. But it's not long SUN before her London employers track her down. SUN By Jill Laurimore, read by Rachel Atkins. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00jf3hn (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00jf47s (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 b00jgv1j (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. Including reports on the steps taken by the SUN Pension Service after its helpline and e-forecast system SUN collapsed. SUN Plus a look at the implications of the deal struck to SUN rescue Dunfermline Building Society and claims that SUN surveyors are now undervaluing many properties, making it SUN impossible for some buyers to agree a price with a seller. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00jgzjz (Listen) SUN SOS Sahel SUN Valerie Singleton appeals on behalf of SOS Sahel. SUN A donation of 15 pounds could train a water committee in SUN Sudan enabling a community to share precious water - SUN helping to preserve peace. If you are a UK taxpayer, SUN please provide SOS Sahel with your full name and address SUN so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation - worth SUN another 25 percent. Online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No 296311. SUN Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the SUN back of your envelope SOS Sahel. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00jdnsn (Listen) SUN Europe on the Edge SUN Peter Day reports from Spain, Hungary, Ireland and Iceland SUN on the heavy strains being felt by those countries on the SUN fringes of Europe which boomed when they were new recruits SUN to the EU. In the current economic crisis, however, they SUN are now under heavy pressure, along with the Eurozone and SUN the whole European Union. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00jh47l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00jh47n (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00jf47v (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to writer and director Richard SUN Curtis. He is returning to the director's chair for the SUN first time since Love Actually for his latest offering, SUN The Boat That Rocked, a comedy about pirate radio in the SUN 1960s. Musician Neil Brand get his teeth into John SUN Williams's score for Jaws and the unique movies of SUN Jean-Pierre Melville are discussed by Rupert Wyatt, SUN director of British prison drama The Escapist. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00jgzjn (Listen) SUN Hospitality SUN For Palm Sunday, Mark Tully explores the deeper spiritual SUN meaning of hospitality, with Jean Vanier, founder of the SUN L'Arche community for adults with learning disabilities. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 6 APRIL 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00jctq5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00jd6rc (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor discusses what is being called the MON re-Stalinisation of Russia on today's Thinking Allowed. MON According to exiled Russian academic Michail Ryklin, MON Putin's Russia is turning the clock back and MON rehabilitating the most famous demon of the Soviet Union. MON In a new book, he claims that although the Soviet Union MON proclaimed itself an aethist state, communism functioned MON as its religion, and when faith faded it was replaced by MON mass terror. But now memories of the terror and bloodshed MON have receded and Stalin is being reclaimed. MON Tony Bennett, professor of sociology at the Open MON University and director of the ESRC Centre for Research on MON Socio-Cultural Change, and Dr Elizabeth Silva, senior MON lecturer of the Faculty of sociology at the Open MON University, are the authors of Culture, Class and MON Distinction, a book described as the most sophisticated MON mapping of British cultural practices and preferences ever MON undertaken. They talk about art and the social origins of MON artistic taste. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00jgzjj (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Nicholas's Church, Leeds in MON Kent. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jctrq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jctvr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jctt2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00jcv3m (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jcv40 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, MON Rev Dr Barry Morgan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00jcv7p (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00jh4f3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00jh4h9 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00jh4f5 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to former minister in the post-war Iraqi MON government Ali Allawi and actor-playwright Wallace Shawn. MON Plus Marina Hyde on how celebrities turn political and MON Lewis Wolpert on the secret life of cells. Wolpert MON maintains that for their size, cells are the most complex MON objects in the universe. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00jhck3 (Listen) MON Sisters of Sinai, Episode 1 MON By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who MON discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible MON on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet MON A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jcvfv (Listen) MON With Sheila McClennon. MON Actress and comedian Maureen Lipman discusses directing, MON dating and her debut as Madame Armfeldt, the upper crust MON ex-courtesan, in Trevor Nunn's critically-acclaimed MON production of A Little Night Music. MON Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics MON show a steady rise in the number of only children. In MON 1972, 18 per cent of children were living in a one child MON household, now it's 26 per cent. So does being an only MON child create a more motivated adult, a spoilt adult or MON does it really make any difference? Sheila is joined by MON Damon Syson, journalist and father of one; Ann Richardson, MON a psychotherapist specialising in single child adults, and MON an only child herself; and Anastasia De Waal, Head of MON Family and Education at Civitas, and youngest of five. MON All-girl a cappella trio Juice perform live in the studio, MON and explain how they make some of their more extraordinary MON vocals. MON Ski jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games MON since 1924 but has only involved male competitors. Now a MON group of women ski jumpers have filed a lawsuit on the MON grounds of sexual discrimination against the Vancouver MON Olympic Organising Committee because of their failure to MON be included in 2010 Winter Olympics. Sheila talks to the MON BBC's Olympics Correspondent Gordon Farquhar about the MON issue MON Including drama: Restless. MON MON 11:00 The Price of a Pint of Milk b00jhfx6 (Listen) MON Following Derrick Weaver, who has been a milkman in MON Birmingham for 44 years, as he makes his deliveries around MON the Harborne area of the city. His day starts at 2.15am MON when he loads his float at the depot, and he delivers milk MON until 10.30am. On the way he has been known to be chased MON by poodles, asked to change old peoples' light bulbs and MON even find the odd corpse. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b0088nnw (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford. MON Ronnie sets a honey trap, Nick is arrested and their hedge MON is stolen. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON Monty Don ...... John Dougall MON Policeman ...... Simon Treves MON Whore ...... Liza Sadovy MON Second Policeman ...... Jot Davies MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00jcvqc (Listen) MON Consumer issues with Julian Worricker. The latest figures MON on the organic market; Simon Parkes investigates the MON working lunch; and plans to move cigarettes under the MON counter. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00jcvs5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00jcvv1 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00jhg36 (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 5 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the fifth heat of the music quiz MON from Manchester, with contestants from the Midlands, north MON of England and Scotland. The competitors are Alan Douglas MON from Worcester, Leslie Ford from Newcastle and John Keir MON from Kirkcaldy. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00jcvw0 (Listen) MON Helen puts her memories on ice. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b007ycm8 (Listen) MON Feather MON By Rachel Joyce. MON Fern believes in magic, Father Christmas and the Tooth MON Fairy. She is collecting feathers because they can make MON wishes come true, and Fern has a very big and important MON wish. MON Fern ...... Maisie Cowell MON Lucy ...... Claire Price MON Flyn ...... Shaun Dooley MON Lloyd ...... Jot Davies MON Grandma ...... Richenda Carey MON Sam ...... Rachel Bavidge MON Cayleigh ...... Morgan Gayle MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00jkw55 (Listen) MON From Midpoint to Endpoint - Talking With John Updike MON Mark Lawson traces the career of John Updike from 1969, MON after he had been pictured on the cover of Time magazine MON and brought to international recognition by his MON best-selling novel Couples, to a final interview recorded MON months before Updike's death in January 2009. MON Mark draws on his own interviews with Updike - including MON the one made in October 2008 which proved to he his last - MON and appearances on programmes including With Great MON Pleasure and Arena, and the writer's readings of his own MON stories and memoirs. Updike talks about writing, sex, MON death, God, golf and American presidents from Hoover to MON Obama. MON Including tributes from his son David and editors from his MON publishers Knopf and the New Yorker magazine speaking at MON an event from the New York Public Library. MON MON 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcvz5 (Listen) MON Henry VIII - The King Must Wear Gold MON Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and MON male peacockery through the ages. MON For Henry, clothes were the embodiment of nation. MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00jh46t (Listen) MON Olympics MON Sheila Dillon finds out how the 2012 Olympics is already MON changing food in Britain. Thousands of construction MON workers have arrived in east London and there are ambitous MON plans for their meal breaks. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00jhp58 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON Clare English finds out how new technology can help MON preserve the very old. She visits the Cutty Sark to MON discover how computer modelling is playing an important MON role in the ship's conservation. MON MON 17:00 PM b00jd5bm (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jcwm8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00jhp5b (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Lucy Porter, Chris Addison, Clive Anderson and Graeme MON Garden. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00jcvvh (Listen) MON An old friend comes to visit. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00jttf6 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an audio MON diary from artist Grayson Perry as he judges the Art Fund MON Prize for museums and galleries. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jcvhg (Listen) MON Restless, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. MON When Ruth visits her mother, Sally, at her country MON cottage, she embarks on a dark, dangerous journey into the MON past. MON Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins MON Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar MON Hamid ...... Akbar Kurtha MON Jochen ...... Gene Goodman MON Veronica ...... Lizzy Watts MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 20:00 Document b00jhp5d (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary MON evidence to throw new light on past events. MON Mike investigates why black African soldiers, who had shed MON their blood for France and formed two thirds of Charles de MON Gaulle's Free French army, were denied the glory of MON liberating Paris in August 1944. MON Documents written in the lead up to the liberation MON indicate just how far the Allies went to ensure that the MON troops marching into the capital were white. The MON Tiralleurs Senegalais - soldiers from West Africa who had MON signed up to fight for France - were turned away from the MON capital, stripped of their uniforms and made to languish MON in holding camps before being shipped back to their own MON countries. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00jdb6f (Listen) MON The Kingdom of Kids MON Bill Law reports from Swaziland, a country laid waste by MON poverty and AIDS. Impoverished children, with the help of MON surviving adults and local NGOs, are learning how to read MON and write in informal schools. In a country with a falling MON population and an economy in freefall, the children of MON Swaziland, against all the odds, are battling for their MON future and taking control of their own fates. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00jhp5g (Listen) MON Antarctic Treaty MON Tom Heap reports on the Antarctic Treaty, a unique but MON little-known beacon of global co-operation which has kept MON the soldiers at bay and the scientists in harness on the MON continent for the last 50 years. MON It has survived Cold War tension, the Falklands war and MON rapacious fishing to emerge as a textbook study of how MON diplomacy can avoid conflict. But can it rebuff the MON pressures of the next 50 years, with tourists, MON bio-prospectors and energy companies all scouring the MON planet for scarce resources? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00jh4f5 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to former minister in the post-war Iraqi MON government Ali Allawi and actor-playwright Wallace Shawn. MON Plus Marina Hyde on how celebrities turn political and MON Lewis Wolpert on the secret life of cells. Wolpert MON maintains that for their size, cells are the most complex MON objects in the universe. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00jcwp2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00jhp5z (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jcwtm (Listen) MON The Post Office Girl, Episode 1 MON Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the MON Cinderella story, set in post-First World War Austria. MON Christine, who once enjoyed a comfortable middle-class MON existence, finds herself reduced to poverty and forced to MON work as a low-ranking official in the local post office. MON Then one day, out of the blue, a telegram arrives from her MON rich American aunt. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00jhp61 (Listen) MON Dominic Arkwright chairs the discussion programme. MON MON 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076qlg (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a MON black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and MON ambition of 1980s Britain. MON Michael ...... Robert Bathurst MON Fiona ...... Fiona Allen MON Hortensia/Tabitha ...... Flaminia Cinque MON Mortimer ...... Charlie Higson MON Alice ...... Lucy Punch MON Pyles ...... Jeff Rawle MON Michael's Mum ...... Geraldine McNulty MON Lawrence/Waiter ...... Gus Brown MON A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 7 APRIL 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00jctp4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00jhck3 (Listen) TUE Sisters of Sinai, Episode 1 TUE By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who TUE discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible TUE on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet TUE A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jctq7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jctt4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jctrs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00jctvt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jcv3p (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, TUE Rev Dr Barry Morgan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00jcv5m (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00jcv7r (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Britishness b00jhpj3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Matthew d'Ancona explores the meaning of 'Britishness'. TUE With contributions from composer Nitin Sawhney, the TUE Archbishop of Canterbury and some Welsh rugby fans. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00jhpj5 (Listen) TUE Stanley Baldwin 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 Stanley Baldwin, who led Britain between the world wars TUE and was the first prime minister to master radio. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00jhcm5 (Listen) TUE Sisters of Sinai, Episode 2 TUE By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who TUE discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible TUE on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. TUE Having returned from a trip to Jerusalem, the twins are TUE separated for the first time in their lives when Margaret TUE meets and marries James Gibson. But Agnes puts her spare TUE time to good use by learning Arabic in preparation for TUE their next adventure. TUE A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpfg7 (Listen) TUE With Sheila McClennon. TUE Including drama: Restless. TUE TUE 11:00 Hitting the Buffers b00c11h1 (Listen) TUE Transport TUE Gareth Mitchell looks at our need for speed in different TUE areas of modern life and asks what is stopping us from TUE getting faster. Promises of quicker and more comfortable TUE travel seem to have disappeared in the push towards TUE greener transport. But does greener mean slower? And have TUE faster speeds become elusive for both technological and TUE financial reasons? TUE Gareth travels to El Mirage dry lake bed in the TUE Californian desert, where 'hot rodding' was born, and to TUE the Estorick Gallery in London which houses the UK's TUE largest collection of Futurist art, the early-20th century TUE movement that expressed a love of speed. TUE TUE 11:30 Black Screen Britain b00jhpj7 (Listen) TUE Reclaiming Our Image TUE Burt Caesar presents the second of two programmes TUE exploring how British film and television drama portrayed TUE post-war African-Caribbean migrants and created TUE opportunities for pioneering black actors such as Earl TUE Cameron, Cy Grant and Mona Hammond. TUE In the 1970s, a growing number of black writers and film TUE makers started to challenge the prevailing stereotypes of TUE black people and to tell their own stories. Burt examines TUE some of the landmark screen dramas that presented an TUE alternative view of black lives in Britain. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00jcvn9 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00jcvqf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00jcvs7 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Hallelujah b00jhpp8 (Listen) TUE Composer Jocelyn Pook celebrates the music and meaning of TUE the word Hallelujah through history and creates a new TUE composition inspired by the word. This exuberant TUE exclamation of joy and gratitude has survived the passage TUE of centuries, transcending the barriers of language, TUE religion and culture, and has inspired composers and TUE songwriters from the Psalms through Monteverdi, Handel, TUE Vivaldi, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. TUE Featuring contributions from composer Julian Anderson and TUE singer-songwriter kd lang. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00jcvvh (Listen) TUE An old friend comes to visit. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b008gzlk (Listen) TUE Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke, Jerusalem TUE Series by Nick Warburton imagining the story of Jesus TUE through the eyes of those who witnessed it. TUE The Galileans make the long journey south to the heart of TUE their nation. But their triumphant arrival is fraught with TUE danger and betrayal. TUE Jesus ...... Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Peter ...... Peter Firth TUE Judas ...... Paul Hilton TUE Caiaphas ...... Robin Soans TUE Rich man ...... Simon Treves TUE Pharisee ...... Alex Lanipekun TUE Martha ...... Joannah Tincey TUE Zacchaeus ...... Sam Dale TUE Tempter ...... Peter Marinker TUE Woman ...... Anna Bengo TUE Lawyer ...... Sam Pamphilon TUE Child ...... Skye Bennett TUE Directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00jm3fg (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE Could a listener's hotel in North Wales once have been the TUE court of the 13th-century Welsh leader Llewellyn the TUE Great? Plus listeners caught up in the expulsions from Idi TUE Amin's Uganda in 1972 revisit their personal experiences, TUE and medicine historian Dr Elizabeth Hurren lifts the lid TUE on the grim history of the undertaker. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jhvcs (Listen) TUE The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Shirley May TUE Series of three stories by Frances Fyfield examining the TUE life of the deceased Joe Bloggs from the perspectives of TUE those who knew - or thought they knew - him best. TUE Joe's first wife, Shirley, never really let him go. The TUE week before he died he sent her a key through the post, TUE but the key to what? TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg1 (Listen) TUE The Stuart Kings - The Crisis in Fashion TUE Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and TUE male peacockery through the ages. TUE Men's clothing at the court of Charles I, sumptuously TUE portrayed in the paintings of van Dyck, radiated TUE confidence. Yet also written in the clothes were all the TUE tensions of the age. TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00jhvk8 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen examines spelling. With a revival of TUE interest in spelling bees, the ability to spell 'properly' TUE is again becoming synonymous with having a good education. TUE But do spelling reformers have a point when they say that TUE irregular spelling is responsible for anything from TUE teenage pregnancy to the high prison population? TUE Michael also considers the politics of spelling and why TUE computer spell-checkers do not seem to help people with TUE dyslexia. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00jhvhn (Listen) TUE Series 18, Napoleon Bonaparte TUE Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. TUE Television and radio presenter Stuart Hall discusses his TUE lifelong hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. Is he one of the TUE greatest figures in European history or a ruthless TUE dictator, driven only by the desire for power? TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00jd5b9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jcwkf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Heresy b00jhvn6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are David Baddiel, Germaine TUE Greer and Rufus Hound. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00jcvv3 (Listen) TUE Tony has one too many at Bridge Farm. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00jcwmb (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an TUE interview with writer Margaret Drabble, whose new book TUE brings together personal memoir and a reflection on the TUE history of the jigsaw puzzle. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpfgb (Listen) TUE Restless, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. TUE Ruth learns more about her mother's recruitment as a TUE British spy. Meanwhile her own past is catching up with TUE her. TUE Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins TUE Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar TUE Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis TUE Hamid ...... Akbar Kurtha TUE Teacher ...... Philip Fox TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 20:00 The New Scramble for Africa b00jhxmk (Listen) TUE Mike Wooldridge reports on the quiet economic inroads into TUE Africa being made by India. He asks if we are witnessing a TUE modern-day scramble for Africa as India, along with the TUE world's other most populous country, China, seriously TUE compete with each other to engage resource-rich Africa. If TUE so, what will be the consequences for the continent as a TUE whole and will it benefit or be damaged by this TUE competition? TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00jhxmm (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00jhxmp (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores men's health in the workplace and TUE how even the threat of redundancy can make you ill. TUE Mark visits the Olympic venue for London 2012 to talk to TUE doctors and construction workers about the importance of TUE having on-site facilities. He also hears how cab drivers TUE on Merseyside are giving tips on stopping smoking and TUE becoming more healthy by eating five portions of fruit and TUE veg per day. Also, how the Metropolitan Police are TUE managing the stress levels of their officers. TUE TUE 21:30 Britishness b00jhpj3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Matthew d'Ancona explores the meaning of 'Britishness'. TUE With contributions from composer Nitin Sawhney, the TUE Archbishop of Canterbury and some Welsh rugby fans. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00jcwnt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00jhxmr (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jcwzz (Listen) TUE The Post Office Girl, Episode 2 TUE Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the TUE Cinderella story, set in post-WWI Austria. TUE A silk dress, a new hairstyle and make-up transform poor, TUE shy Christine into a beautiful, confident young woman. A TUE new life, full of possibilities, seems to beckon. TUE TUE 23:00 Arturart b00jhxmt (Listen) TUE Modern Arturart - Post-Modern Then Email-Modern TUE Arthur Smith presents a series of three comedy lectures on TUE different aspects of Art. TUE Arthur continues his journey through the history of TUE western representation and arrives at its most glorious TUE flowering - his own work. With contributions from Miriam TUE Elia, Phil Nice, Arnold Brown, Ian MacPherson and Simon TUE Munnery. TUE TUE 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076qpl (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a TUE black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and TUE ambition of 1980s Britain. TUE Michael ...... Robert Bathurst TUE Fiona ...... Fiona Allen TUE Hilary ...... Rebecca Front TUE Henry/Peter Eaves ...... Jeff Rawle TUE Findlay/McGanny ...... Charlie Higson TUE Hortensia/Receptionist/Nanny ...... Flaminia Cinque TUE Alan Beamish/Taxi Driver ...... Gus Brown TUE Simon Pride Wetherby ...... Alan Davies TUE Michael's Mum ...... Geraldine McNulty TUE A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00jctp6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00jhcm5 (Listen) WED Sisters of Sinai, Episode 2 WED By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who WED discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible WED on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. WED Having returned from a trip to Jerusalem, the twins are WED separated for the first time in their lives when Margaret WED meets and marries James Gibson. But Agnes puts her spare WED time to good use by learning Arabic in preparation for WED their next adventure. WED A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jctq9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jctt6 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jctrv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00jctvw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jcv3r (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, WED Rev Dr Barry Morgan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00jcv5p (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00jcv7t (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00jhxq4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00jhdf8 (Listen) WED Sisters of Sinai, Episode 3 WED By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who WED discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible WED on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. WED After the untimely death of both their husbands, the twins WED head to the monastery at Mount Sinai. While working in the WED library, Agnes stumbles upon a hidden palimpsest - one WED ancient document written on top of another. WED A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpg35 (Listen) WED With Sheila McClennon. WED Including drama: Restless. WED WED 11:00 The Unknown Face b00jhy03 (Listen) WED Novelist Louise Welsh investigates the enduring WED fascination with the Inconnue de la Seine, a plaster death WED mask, reputedly that of a young woman whose body was WED pulled from the River Seine in the late-19th century. WED For 50 years she has been the face of the mannequin known WED as Resusci Anne on which over 300 million people have WED learnt the life-saving skills of resuscitation. She has WED also inspired generations of writers and artists, WED including Albert Camus, Man Ray, Vladimir Nabokov and WED Anais Nin. WED Louise attempts to answer the question which has WED fascinated them all - who was she? WED WED 11:30 Safety Catch b00jhy0r (Listen) WED Series 2, I Draw the Line WED Sitcom by Laurence Howarth about a man who has reluctantly WED drifted into the arms dealing trade. WED Faced with a particularly tricky moral issue, Simon WED finally decides that enough is enough and quits his job. WED It is not great timing, though, as he and Anna find WED themselves contemplating having a baby. WED Simon McGrath ...... Darren Boyd WED Anna Grieg ...... Joanna Page WED Boris Kemal ...... Lewis Macleod WED Judith McGrath ...... Sarah Smart WED Angela McGrath ...... Brigit Forsyth WED Madeleine Turnbull ...... Rachel Atkins WED Marcus ...... Dan Mersh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00jcvnc (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00jcvqh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00jcvs9 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00jj01l (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00jcvv3 (Listen) WED Tony has one too many at Bridge Farm. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jj01n (Listen) WED Beirut Days WED By Kris Kenway. A day in the life of the enigmatic city WED where east meets west. For three lost souls, this is the WED day when everything changes. WED Narrator ...... Nadim Sawalha WED Mounira ...... Souad Faress WED Josef ...... Peter Polycarpou WED Nadine ...... Sirine Saba WED Rania ...... Razane Jammal WED Abu Ziad ...... Raad Rawi WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00jj0f4 (Listen) WED On Money Box Live Paul Lewis takes your questions on WED benefits. Paul is joined by: Eddy Graham from Child WED Poverty Action Group and Sally West of Age Concern. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jhvfz (Listen) WED The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Theodora WED Series of three stories by Frances Fyfield examining the WED life of the deceased Joe Bloggs from the perspectives of WED those who knew - or thought they knew - him best. WED Joe was Theodora's fourth husband and they met at an WED auction house. Curiously, Joe never wanted her to throw WED out the artefacts from her previous marriages, all those WED pictures on the walls of her beautiful home. Like Shirley WED May, Theodora also has a key. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg3 (Listen) WED Charles II - Fashion Restored? WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and WED male peacockery through the ages. WED The restoration of Charles II seems to signal a return to WED the old sartorial order. But alarm bells over WED 'unpatriotic' French fashions prompt the style that will WED become the 'three-piece suit', and the court begins to WED lose its grip on men's fashion. WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00jj0f6 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00jhxmp (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter explores men's health in the workplace and WED how even the threat of redundancy can make you ill. WED Mark visits the Olympic venue for London 2012 to talk to WED doctors and construction workers about the importance of WED having on-site facilities. He also hears how cab drivers WED on Merseyside are giving tips on stopping smoking and WED becoming more healthy by eating five portions of fruit and WED veg per day. Also, how the Metropolitan Police are WED managing the stress levels of their officers. WED WED 17:00 PM b00jd5bc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jcwkh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00jj0mx (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates WED a stand-up show for a local audience based on what he WED finds out about the area. WED Mark records a show in Walsall, celebrating the accent, WED the concrete hippo, and how the town has absolutely WED nothing to do with Birmingham. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00jcvv5 (Listen) WED History repeats itself for Joe Grundy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00jcwmd (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpg39 (Listen) WED Restless, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. WED Ruth discovers that her mother thinks that someone is WED trying to kill her. WED Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins WED Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar WED Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis WED Jochen ...... Gene Goodman WED Hamid ...... Akbar Kurtha WED Ludger ...... Matt Addis WED Joos ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00jj0sm (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with WED families, experts and policy-makers. WED Mariella and her guests discuss whether shouting at WED children inflicts long-term damage or is an inevitable WED part of busy family life. As the focus on children's WED behaviour and parents' management of it increases, are WED there effective alternatives to yelling at children to get WED them to do what you want? WED The panellists are psychotherapist Sue Gerhardt, Professor WED Stephen Scott of the National Association of Parenting WED Practitioners and journalist and writer Jennie Bristow. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00jj13m (Listen) WED God Present in Absence? WED Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God WED from their own perspective. WED Jewish feminist theologian Melissa Raphael wonders what WED Jesus' cry of abandonment on the cross says about God's WED absence and how it connects with the experience of many WED Jews in the Holocaust. WED WED 21:00 Debating Animals b00jj13p (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Rod Liddle examines our differing responses to related WED animal species and tries to establish what those responses WED tell us not merely about the animals but about ourselves. WED Rod considers our responses to cats and dogs - one WED semi-feral, independent and full of attitude, the other WED traditionally 'man's best friend' but in constant need of WED time and care. Is the growing popularity of cats over dogs WED a case of modern Britons preferring to indulge themselves WED rather than take on the duties required of dog ownership? WED Peter Purves, Ann Widdecombe and Sir David Attenborough WED offer their thoughts. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00jhxq4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00jcwnw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00jj13r (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Jane WED Hill. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jcx01 (Listen) WED The Post Office Girl, Episode 3 WED Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the WED Cinderella story, set in post-First World War Austria. WED Christine's new-found happiness is ruined when a jealous WED rival spreads gossip, but she finds a friend in an WED unexpected quarter. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b00jj13t (Listen) WED Russell Kane WED Rufus Hound invites comedians to revisit their formative WED years by dusting off their teenage diaries and reading WED them out in public for the very first time. Will they WED experience the warm glow of nostalgia or the hot flush of WED embarrassment? WED With Russell Kane. WED WED 23:15 Bespoken Word b00cqhrf (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED Mister Gee presents the performance poetry series, WED featuring highlights from the Latitude Festival in WED Suffolk. Performers include the internationally renowned WED Kat Francois. WED WED 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076qsz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a WED black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and WED ambition of 1980s Britain. WED Michael enlists the services of a private detective. WED Michael ...... Robert Bathurst WED Fiona ...... Fiona Allen WED Findlay ...... Charlie Higson WED Henry ...... Jeff Rawle WED Hortensia ...... Flaminia Cinque WED Alan Beamish ...... Gus Brown WED Michael's Mum ...... Geraldine McNulty WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 9 APRIL 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00jctp8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00jhdf8 (Listen) THU Sisters of Sinai, Episode 3 THU By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who THU discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible THU on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. THU After the untimely death of both their husbands, the twins THU head to the monastery at Mount Sinai. While working in the THU library, Agnes stumbles upon a hidden palimpsest - one THU ancient document written on top of another. THU A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jctqc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jctt8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jctrx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00jctvy (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jcv3t (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, THU Rev Dr Barry Morgan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00jcv5r (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Chris Impey. THU THU 06:00 Today b00jcv7w (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00jn8bc (Listen) THU Brave New World THU Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and THU Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 THU novel, Brave New World. The future of test tube babies, THU free love and round-the-clock surveillance that was THU envisaged by Huxley strikes a sinister chord today. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00jhdzw (Listen) THU Sisters of Sinai, Episode 4 THU By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who THU discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible THU on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. THU Having discovered an ancient Syrian text of the four THU Gospels, Agnes and Margaret return to Mount Sinai with THU various academics in tow. But on their return to England THU an argument erupts over who should take the credit for THU their find. THU A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpg7d (Listen) THU With Jane Little. THU Including drama: Restless. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00jjjps (Listen) THU Kosovo THU Michael Montgomery reports on alleged atrocities in Kosovo THU which have remained hidden for 10 years. To mark the 10th THU anniversary of the war in Kosovo, and using documents and THU interviews he has gathered over more than five years, THU Michael reveals detailed evidence of another side to the THU conflict which the world was not meant to see. THU THU 11:30 The Great Architect of Home b00jjjpv (Listen) THU Susan Marling spotlights architect Frank Lloyd Wright and THU his influence on house design. Wright broke the mould of THU 19th century home design in favour of a style that was THU light, airy, open plan and in sympathy with nature - it THU still appears modern 50 years after his death. THU Susan visits the famous Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, a THU house with a sculptural series of wide floors cantilevered THU out over a stream in the countryside. She also goes to THU Taliesin West in Arizona, home to Wright's studio and THU Foundation. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00jcvnf (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00jcvqk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00jcvsc (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00jhp5g (Listen) THU Antarctic Treaty THU Tom Heap reports on the Antarctic Treaty, a unique but THU little-known beacon of global co-operation which has kept THU the soldiers at bay and the scientists in harness on the THU continent for the last 50 years. THU It has survived Cold War tension, the Falklands war and THU rapacious fishing to emerge as a textbook study of how THU diplomacy can avoid conflict. But can it rebuff the THU pressures of the next 50 years, with tourists, THU bio-prospectors and energy companies all scouring the THU planet for scarce resources? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00jcvv5 (Listen) THU History repeats itself for Joe Grundy. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b008gzll (Listen) THU Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke, Tested THU Series by Nick Warburton imagining the story of Jesus THU through the eyes of those who witnessed it. THU The arrest of Jesus will test the faith, heart and courage THU of everyone who plays a part in what will follow. THU Jesus ...... Tom Goodman-Hill THU Peter ...... Peter Firth THU Judas ...... Paul Hilton THU Caiaphas ...... Robin Soans THU Pilate ...... Colin Stinton THU Mary ...... Penelope Wilton THU Baker ...... Ben Crowe THU Centurion ...... Peter Marinker THU Girl ...... Anna Bengo THU Guard ...... Lloyd Thomas THU Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00jgq3s (Listen) THU Three hundred years ago, Abraham Darby fired up his THU furnace in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. It was the spark THU that lit the Industrial Revolution. Darby's technological THU leap would allow iron to be manufactured on an enormous THU scale, opening the door to the creation of the machines, THU factories, trains and ships that made the modern world. THU Helen Mark visits the original foundry, joins in an THU archaeological dig on the site, hears how the Aga company THU keeps the gorge's traditions alive and meets a THU contemporary artist inspired by the tough life of the THU original ironworkers. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00jgzjz (Listen) THU SOS Sahel THU Valerie Singleton appeals on behalf of SOS Sahel. THU A donation of 15 pounds could train a water committee in THU Sudan enabling a community to share precious water - THU helping to preserve peace. If you are a UK taxpayer, THU please provide SOS Sahel with your full name and address THU so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation - worth THU another 25 percent. Online and phone donation facilities THU are not currently available to listeners without a UK THU postcode. THU Registered Charity No 296311. THU Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the THU back of your envelope SOS Sahel. THU Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jhvgr (Listen) THU The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Murray THU Series of three stories by Frances Fyfield examining the THU life of the deceased Joe Bloggs from the perspectives of THU those who knew - or thought they knew - him best. THU Joe's trusted lawyer waits for the hearse outside a church THU in the City of London. While the two women put down Joe's THU frequent absences to assumed infidelity, Murray has a THU different take. He and Joe shared a passion for the THU less-than-kosher collecting of fine art and antiques. THU Murray is also waiting for the two women, but which one THU has the right key? THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg5 (Listen) THU Beau Nash and the Rise of the Middling Sort THU Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and THU male peacockery through the ages. THU Laurence visits Bath, the setting for the 18th-century THU revolution in men's clothing where Beau Nash's Rules open THU society to men who are well dressed, not just well born. THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00jh474 (Listen) THU Andrew Motion THU As he prepares to leave the post, Andrew Motion talks to THU James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate. He THU discusses his collection Public Property, which was the THU first to be published after he became Poet Laureate. Some THU of the poems were written to mark or celebrate events or THU people. Others reveal some of his own strongest influences THU - the countryside, his upbringing and his parents as well THU as poets he most admires, including Wordsworth, Keats, Ted THU Hughes and Philip Larkin. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00jjkph (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science and THU ask, 40 years after the first British Concorde flight, THU whatever happened to the supersonic dream? THU THU 17:00 PM b00jd5bf (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jcwkk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 4 Stands Up b00jjkpk (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Chris Addison hosts the stand-up comedy show featuring THU some of the top names on the circuit. Featuring Sarah THU Millican, James Sherwood and Jeff Green. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00jcvv7 (Listen) THU Ed gets a fairy grandfather. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00jcwmg (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpg7g (Listen) THU Restless, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. THU As Ruth wrestles with problems in her own life, she learns THU some shocking truths about her mother's activities as a THU British spy. THU Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins THU Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar THU Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis THU Jochen ...... Gene Goodman THU Hamid ...... Akbar Kurtha THU Ludger ...... Matt Addis THU Bobby ...... Malcolm Tierney THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00jkrdt (Listen) THU Simon Cox presents the current affairs series combining THU original insights into major news stories with topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00jjls6 (Listen) THU All New THU Peter Day hears from the business people who, faced with THU the uncertainties of the global recession, are pinning THU their hopes for economic recovery on bold new innovation. THU THU 21:00 Power Failure? The Story of the Battery b00jjls9 (Listen) THU Mark Miodownik explores the idea of a future in which a THU new generation of batteries, ten times more powerful than THU anything currently available, might power not just THU electric cars but electric commercial aircraft and THU artificial hearts and limbs. THU He finds out how batteries work and why, at least until THU now, they have been severely limited by the natural laws THU of physics. THU Mark also hears concerns that oil companies have conspired THU with car manufacturers to suppress battery technology, and THU enters the laboratories of the scientists who are pursuing THU the holy grail of battery power. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00jn8bc (Listen) THU Brave New World THU Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and THU Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 THU novel, Brave New World. The future of test tube babies, THU free love and round-the-clock surveillance that was THU envisaged by Huxley strikes a sinister chord today. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00jcwny (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00jjlsc (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jcx03 (Listen) THU The Post Office Girl, Episode 4 THU Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the THU Cinderella story, set in post-First World War Austria. THU Christine and Ferdinand grow closer but their hopes and THU plans are constantly curtailed by a lack of money. THU THU 23:00 The Personality Test b007tckc (Listen) THU Series 3, Edwina Currie THU Edwina Currie takes the chair for the comedy quiz in which THU all the questions are about the guest host. Panellists are THU Sue Perkins, Caroline Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith. THU THU 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076qx7 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a THU black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and THU ambition of 1980s Britain. THU Michael Pearce is writing the biography of the notorious THU Winshaw family. He encounters Mortimer Winshaw's son, art THU guru Roddy. THU Michael ...... Robert Bathurst THU Fiona ...... Fiona Allen THU Roddy/Farringdon ...... Gus Brown THU Findlay ...... Charlie Higson THU Hilary ...... Rebecca Front THU Pyles/Phoebe's Dad ...... Jeff Rawle THU Conrad/Mortimer ...... Charlie Higson THU Phoebe ...... Lucy Punch THU Tabitha ...... Flaminia Cinque THU A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00jctpb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00jhdzw (Listen) FRI Sisters of Sinai, Episode 4 FRI By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who FRI discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible FRI on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. FRI Having discovered an ancient Syrian text of the four FRI Gospels, Agnes and Margaret return to Mount Sinai with FRI various academics in tow. But on their return to England FRI an argument erupts over who should take the credit for FRI their find. FRI A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jctqf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jcttc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jctrz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00jctw0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jcv3w (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with the Archbishop of Wales, FRI Rev Dr Barry Morgan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00jcv5t (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00jcv7y (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00jh1f1 (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI She brings together some of the original members of the FRI National Theatre to remember its birth in 1963 under FRI artistic director Laurence Olivier. Her guests are Sir FRI Michael Gambon, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame FRI Joan Plowright and Bill Gaskill. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00jhfr9 (Listen) FRI Sisters of Sinai, Episode 5 FRI By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who FRI discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible FRI on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. FRI After a long and time-consuming battle, Agnes' discovery FRI is finally published, but this does not put an end to the FRI twins' travels. At the age of 63 they set off for their FRI sixth and final trip to Mount Sinai. FRI A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpgbk (Listen) FRI With Sheila McClennon. FRI Including drama: Restless. FRI FRI 11:00 Freezing Fire, Singing Stone b00jjmtq (Listen) FRI Writer Hilary Finch shares her fascination with Iceland, FRI that land of fire whose economy is now in meltdown. FRI Talking to musicians, artists, writers and political FRI commentators, including the former president and the FRI leader of the singing protesters of the so-called FRI 'kitchen-utensil revolution', she offers a personal FRI portrait of the country that embraces sagas and geysers, FRI elves and economics. FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00jjn19 (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Man in the Garden FRI Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. FRI A lonely lady on a holiday in the remote West Highlands of FRI Scotland finds herself falling in love with two members of FRI the same family, born 60 years apart. By Rona Munro. FRI Duncan ...... Stanley Baxter FRI Ellie ...... Penelope Wilton FRI Receptionist ...... Bill Paterson FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00jcvnh (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00jcvqm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00jcvsf (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00jjp9j (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00jcvv7 (Listen) FRI Ed gets a fairy grandfather. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jjp9l (Listen) FRI NQ48 FRI Comedy by Peter Vickers about one man's quest to get out FRI of bed. Joe is a loser from a family of losers who FRI considers it a good day if he is up by noon. FRI Joe ...... Jason Manford FRI Aunty Cara ...... Fiona Allen FRI Chris ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Sasha ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Dominic ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Sean ...... Matt Addis FRI Tom ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Tanya ...... Janice Acquah FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Liturgy: The Passion in the City FRI b00jm59h (Listen) FRI Rev Milton Williams, an Anglican priest who ministers on FRI Capitol Hill, meditates on the Passion Narrative as it FRI impacts on the African American community in Washington, FRI DC, one of the most deprived communities in the United FRI States. FRI FRI 15:30 Actor's Words b007xkwz (Listen) FRI Meeting Mr Rainbow FRI A mouse undertakes a perilous journey to seek an audience FRI with a parrot. By Richard Griffiths. FRI FRI 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg7 (Listen) FRI Beau Brummell - The Dandy Style FRI Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and FRI male peacockery through the ages. FRI Beau Brummell, taste-maker to the Regency, was the most FRI influential man in British fashion. What was the dandy FRI style and why did the men of St James's do it so very well? FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00jjt87 (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and FRI interest from many walks of life, some famous and some FRI less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00jjt89 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to poet, publisher, painter and film FRI actor Viggo Mortensen about an eclectic career that FRI includes Lord of the Rings and David Cronenberg's Easter FRI Promises. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00jd5bh (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jcwkm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00jjtz1 (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 6 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00jcvv9 (Listen) FRI The mystery is solved for Helen. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00jcwmj (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Alan Ayckbourn FRI reflects on a career in which he has written 72 full FRI length plays. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpgbm (Listen) FRI Restless, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. FRI As Sally's activities in the USA become increasingly FRI dangerous, Ruth is visited by the police. FRI Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins FRI Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar FRI Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis FRI Morris ...... Philip Fox FRI DC Frobisher ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Anna ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Mason ...... Sam Dale FRI Porter ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00jjtz3 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in London. FRI Panellists include the former Mayor of London Ken FRI Livingstone. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00jjtz5 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b0081nln (Listen) FRI OK Computer FRI By Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe. FRI A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin. He has no memory FRI of who he is, or where he comes from. Once the details of FRI his life are recovered, he is repatriated to Britain and FRI into his former life. But he is haunted by the suspicion FRI that this is not his real life at all. FRI The play celebrates Radiohead's seminal 1997 album OK FRI Computer and draws on themes from each of its 12 tracks. FRI Paul ...... Tom Brooke FRI Sarah ...... Liz White FRI Helen ...... Federay Holmes FRI Owen ...... Pieter Lawman FRI Boss ...... Chris Thorpe. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00jcwp0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00jjtz7 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jcx05 (Listen) FRI The Post Office Girl, Episode 5 FRI Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the FRI Cinderella story, set in post-First World War Austria. FRI As their resources finally run out, Christine and FRI Ferdinand are faced with two desperate choices. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00jhvhn (Listen) FRI Series 18, Napoleon Bonaparte FRI Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. FRI Television and radio presenter Stuart Hall discusses his FRI lifelong hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. Is he one of the FRI greatest figures in European history or a ruthless FRI dictator, driven only by the desire for power? FRI FRI 23:30 Lost Albums b00bz4ck (Listen) FRI Series 2, Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day FRI Music journalist Pete Paphides reveals the stories and FRI music behind some of the great albums which were never FRI released. FRI After Vashti Bunyan tried and failed to secure herself a FRI career as a willowy chanteuse, she left it all behind and FRI moved to join her friend Donovan, who was in the process FRI of setting up a commune in the Outer Hebrides. On her FRI journey north in a Romany caravan, she wrote the songs FRI which would surface in the late 1990s as Just Another FRI Diamond Day. FRI FRI FRI

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03 April, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 04/04/2009 - 10/04/2009

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