08 May, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 09/05/2009 - 15/05/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 9 MAY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00k57hf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00k3fqc (Listen) SAT From Harvey River, Episode 5 SAT Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past SAT generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River, SAT Jamaica. SAT Lorna looks back on her extraordinary childhood in SAT Kingston as the daughter of Mama Goodie, whose bottomless SAT cooking pot and endless words of wisdom sustain the SAT locals. But times are changing in Jamaica, as the hypnotic SAT chants and drums of the Rastafarians echo over the city SAT and independence for the country finally arrives. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k57hj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k57hl (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k57hn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00k57hq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k57hs (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. SAT SAT 05:45 The Estuary b008kvrj (Listen) SAT Episode 5 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 How might climate change and rising sea levels affect this SAT wild, desolate and beautiful landscape? SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00k57hv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00k799b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00k7b8v (Listen) SAT Countryside magazine. Matt Baker visits one of the most SAT beautiful yet hard to build railway lines in the country, SAT from Settle to Carlisle. SAT It was completed in 1876, and over the five years it took SAT to build, hundreds of men, women and children died in the SAT navvy camps set up along its path. Today it stands as a SAT monument to their work and tragic deaths but 20 years ago SAT it could easily have closed. A vigorous campaign was set SAT up to save the line and today the numbers who use what is SAT known as Britain's most scenic railway route are SAT increasing. SAT Matt discovers the history of the line and why it remains SAT so vital for the rural communities it links. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00k7b8x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT An independent report for the National Farmers Union says SAT the average chicken farmer has lost money over the last SAT five years. Many have not had the cash to invest in SAT buildings and equipment to keep their businesses efficient SAT and their costs down. With new rules and added costs SAT around the corner, some are asking if they should leave SAT the industry altogether. Farming Today looks at the future SAT of Britain's most popular meat. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00k7b8z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00k7c1q (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00k7c1s (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by journalist and SAT writer Melissa Benn. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00k7c1v (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to BBC Security Correspondent Frank SAT Gardner about visiting destinations from Sumatra to SAT Socotra and how he has kept up his highly active SAT travelling since gunshot injuries he suffered in Saudi SAT Arabia put him in a wheelchair. A keen traveller since his SAT schooldays, Frank bas been to many out-of-the-way parts of SAT the world for both business and recreation. SAT John also meets actor and writer Michael Simkins, who had SAT no experience of France other than the impressions he SAT gleaned from films and its reputation among the British. SAT When he spent a summer touring the country and sampling SAT the French way of life, from wine tasting to haute cuisine SAT and from naturism to haute couture, he had some of his SAT worst - and best - suspicions confirmed. SAT SAT 10:30 When Real Women Wore Minis and Real Men Drove Them SAT b00k7c1x (Listen) SAT Francesco da Mosto celebrates the 40th anniversary of the SAT release of The Italian Job and explores its enduring SAT popularity. SAT He tracks down some of the real stars of this last hurrah SAT of the Swinging Sixties and discovers some interesting SAT behind-the-scenes secrets, including why scriptwriter Troy SAT Kennedy Martin chose Turin for the main location. SAT Also, what was it really like to drive one of the Mini SAT Coopers in the famous car chase through the city, into the SAT sewers and, ultimately, the death-defying leap across a SAT 60ft gap between buildings? SAT Producer Michael Deeley reveals what was behind the choice SAT of the film's ending, and the several alternative versions SAT which have provided numerous theories over the years. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00k7c1z (Listen) SAT Not the best of times for the Prime Minister Gordon Brown SAT with troubles ranging from mishandling the issue of the SAT Gurkhas to published details of MPs expense claims SAT including his own. SAT Tony Wright Labour chair of the Public Administration SAT Committee looks at the effect these disclosures might SAT have, while government backbenchers Gisela Stuart Chris SAT Mullin and George Mudie judge the Prime Minister’s chances SAT of weathering the storm. SAT One thing is certain given the economic situation, cuts in SAT public spending will have to be made. But where? SAT Conservative Andrew Tyrie who was in the Treasury in the SAT 1980's and Steve Webb Liberal Democrat spokesman on SAT pensions discuss the options. SAT Thirty years ago this week Margaret Thatcher became SAT Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. Shirley Williams SAT (now Baroness Williams) a parliamentary colleague from the SAT early 1960s talks about her early years. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00k7c21 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00k7c23 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00k4l2d (Listen) SAT Series 68, Episode 2 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists SAT are Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen, Sue Perkins and Jeremy SAT Hardy. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00k7c25 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00k7c27 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00k4l2g (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Edinburgh. SAT Panellists are John Swinney MSP, cabinet secretary in the SAT Scottish government, John McFall MP, Labour chairman of SAT Westminster's Treasury select committee, Annabel Goldie SAT MSP, leader of the Conservatives in the Scottish SAT Parliament and Danny Alexander MP, chief of staff to the SAT Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00k7c29 (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 b00k7c2c (Listen) SAT Point of Departure SAT By Francis Turnly. Controversial African leader Jonah SAT Kotto is attending a peace summit in Belfast where Alec SAT Murray is assigned to his security detail. When security SAT at Stormont is breached Alec fears for Kotto's life, but SAT is there a real threat, and, if so, how serious is it? SAT Alec Murray ...... Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Jonah Kotto ...... George Harris SAT Grace ...... Ellen Thomas SAT Clive ...... Adrian Lukis SAT Miller ...... David Schofield SAT Hannah ...... Aislin McGuckin SAT Victor ...... Jude Akuwudike SAT De Silva ...... Jimmy Akingbola SAT Ambassador/Reporter ...... Ian McElhinney SAT Photographer ...... Chris Patrick-Simpson SAT Doctor/Simon ...... Ian Beattie SAT Samuel Muntanga ...... Mark Asante SAT Daniel Kenyatta ...... George B Seremba SAT Newscaster ...... Fo Cullen SAT Reporters ...... Laura Conway, Brian Murray SAT Directed by Heather Larmour. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b00k3xlb (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of SAT three guests to play the track of their choice for the SAT delight or disdain of the others. SAT His guests are Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Neil Innes; SAT Graham Linehan, writer of The IT Crowd, Black Books and SAT Father Ted; and actress Felicity Finch, who plays Ruth SAT Archer in The Archers. SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00k7c2f (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. Including: SAT Actress Michelle Pfeiffer on her latest film Cheri, which SAT explores the luxurious world of the courtesan in Paris at SAT the turn of the 19th century. Many of the courtesans in SAT this period became so famed for their beauty, wit and SAT expertise in the art of love-making that they were able to SAT amass large fortunes from the Dukes and Princes who sought SAT their favours. Michelle plays one of the most successful SAT of the courtesans. SAT Coinciding with the 250th anniversary in 2009 of the birth SAT of the feminist and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft, Jenni SAT Murray discusses what influence the author of A SAT Vindication of the Rights of Woman has on today's SAT feminists. SAT Jenni talks to writer Fay Weldon about the lasting impact SAT of The Women's Room, the novel for which late Marilyn SAT French is best remembered. Published in 1977, it sold some SAT 20 million copies worldwide, and told the story of Mira, SAT who escaped a dull and restrictive marriage for a SAT university education. It contained the famous line 'All SAT men are rapists' and has been voted one of the tope five SAT most influential books in a Woman's Hour poll. SAT There are a record number of legal disputes over family SAT inheritance. Sheila McClennon hears from listeners whose SAT families have been torn apart by money. She also hears SAT what is the best course of action is to avoid future fall SAT outs. SAT As one male judge is about to retire from the US supreme SAT court - are there any women who should replace him? SAT Plus award-winning soprano Kate Royal. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00k7c2h (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00k7c2k (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00k7c2m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00k7c2p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k7c2r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00k7c2t (Listen) SAT An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT Peter Curran is joined by Julian Clary, Charles Hazlewood SAT and Sharon Horgan. SAT Gideon Coe talks to Flight of the Conchords star Kristen SAT Schaal. SAT With comedy from Carl Donnely and music from Dear Reader SAT and Smoove and Turrell. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00k7c9b (Listen) SAT Series 6, Episode 2 SAT Series in which writers create a fictional response to the SAT week's news. SAT As experts begin the exhumation of up to 400 unknown WWI SAT soldiers in the village of Fromelles, Bonnie Greer SAT imagines the impact upon some of those involved. SAT With Nadine Marshall, Malcolm Tierney, Benjamin Askew. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00k7d2y (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by journalist Andreas Whittam SAT Smith, writer Catherine O'Flynn and artistic director of SAT the South Bank Jude Kelly to discuss the cultural SAT highlights of the week - featuring a blockbusting trip to SAT the final frontier, two very distinguished tramps and five SAT musical stories. SAT The USS Enterprise gets taken out for another spin around SAT the block in JJ Abrams' blockbuster Star Trek. Chris Pine SAT is Kirk and Zachary Quinto is Spock in this prequel which SAT also features the original Ol' Pointy Ears, Leonard Nimoy. SAT A previous incumbent of the bridge of the Enterprise, SAT Patrick Stewart, can currently be found at the Theatre SAT Royal, Haymarket, playing opposite Ian McKellen in Waiting SAT for Godot. Directed by Sean Matthias, this production of SAT Beckett's classic, nearly 55 years after its London debut, SAT also features Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup. SAT A new book by Kazuo Ishiguro is always an event and SAT Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall SAT distinguishes itself by being his first collection of SAT short stories. These are thematically linked and take the SAT reader from the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a SAT meltdown in a London flat and plastic surgery in Hollywood. SAT Channel 4's The Big Art Project began back in 2005 when SAT people across the country were invited to nominate sites SAT they felt would benefit from an art installation. Close to SAT 1,400 nominations were received, from which seven sites SAT were selected. Big Art reveals how the aspirations that SAT people had for these sites became solid reality and SAT unearths the inevitable tensions between those who create SAT public art and those who have to live in its shadow. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00k7d30 (Listen) SAT John Barbirolli - Angel of the North SAT James Naughtie remembers English conductor Sir John SAT Barbirolli, in his own words as well as in the SAT recollections of colleagues and through archive recordings. SAT Barbirolli had Italian and French blood in his veins but SAT he was a proud cockney who became a champion of English SAT music. When he died in 1970, Britain lost a figure who SAT seemed part of our musical life. SAT Barbirolli is remembered affectionately for his work with SAT the Halle Orchestra in Manchester with whom he forged a SAT unique bond from 1942 onwards and brought new vigour and SAT worldwide renown to the oldest professional orchestra in SAT Britain. SAT James chairs a discussion between Sir Mark Elder, current SAT music director of the Halle, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor SAT and founder of Opera North, and writer Andrew SAT Farach-Colton. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00k2qr9 (Listen) SAT Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. SAT One of the great works of English literature, this SAT powerful, compelling story explores love from its first SAT tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and SAT eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new SAT version for radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for SAT a modern audience while remaining true to his original SAT poetic intention. SAT Criseyde's Uncle Pandarus has been the matchmaker for the SAT Trojan hero Troilus and young widow Criseyde, who are SAT desperately in love. But what will happen when Criseyde is SAT handed over to the Greeks at the gates of Troy to join her SAT 'traitor' father? SAT Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson SAT Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake SAT Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn SAT Servant/Friend ...... Kathryn Hunt SAT Calchas/Servant ...... Kevin Doyle SAT Priam/Servant ...... Terence Mann SAT Hector/Diomede ...... Declan Wilson SAT With music composed by Gary Yershon and performed by Ehsan SAT Emam, Tim Williams and Mike Dale. SAT Directed by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00k7d32 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00k4bgq (Listen) SAT The Law and the Unborn SAT Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal SAT issues of the day. SAT Developments in human reproductive technologies give rise SAT to a range of legal and ethical controversies around SAT fertilization, cloning, surrogacy and abortion. The new SAT Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act makes legal the SAT creation of 'saviour siblings' and hybrid animal-human SAT embryos for scientific research. Does the law provide SAT enough protection for the unborn? Clive considers who SAT decides what can be done to an embryo and when, in law, SAT life begins. SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00k3vkk (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 9 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the ninth and final heat of the SAT music quiz to decide the remaining semi final place. The SAT competitors are Ian Bayley from Oxford, David Saxon from SAT Northwood in Middlesex and Gary Williams from SAT Weston-super-Mare. SAT SAT 23:30 Ossian b00k2vz6 (Listen) SAT Kenneth Steven tells the story of one of the greatest SAT hoaxes in the history of poetry and literature. James SAT MacPherson's apparent 'discovery' of the ancient poems of SAT Ossian in the 1760s transformed the image and acceptance SAT of Highland Scottish life throughout the world and helped SAT to inspire the Romantic movement, but very quickly doubts SAT were voiced about the authenticity of the poems. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 MAY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00k7d83 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084s1n (Listen) SUN The Big Chill, The Lost Child SUN Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side SUN of life. SUN A couple hear a baby crying on their child monitor. SUN Unfortunately, it's not their baby. A cry for help or a SUN call from beyond the grave? Inspector Devlin investigates. SUN By Brian McGilloway, read by Lloyd Hutchinson. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7f4q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7f4s (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7f4v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00k7pnp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00k7pnr (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Olave's Church in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Petitioning the Modern Way b00k4bl6 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Journalist and author Jon Ronson examines Number 10's SUN e-petitioning system, which allows the public to submit SUN petitions directly to the Prime Minister. SUN Jon wonders how this fits in with our notions of democracy. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00k7pr4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00k7pr6 (Listen) SUN Entitlement SUN Mark Tully explores the complex relationship between a SUN sense of entitlement and the claiming of rights. What is SUN the difference between entitlements and rights and why is SUN a sense of entitlement so closely related to privilege? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00k7pr8 (Listen) SUN Alex James meets Julian Hodge, a Devon butcher with a SUN passion for meat and motorbikes who is offering a unique SUN service to farmers. After 20 years of butchery, he now SUN rides through the countryside offering an on-farm cutting SUN service. But is there a future in the personal touch? SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00k7qy2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00k7qy4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00k7qy6 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news SUN of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00k7qy8 (Listen) SUN Children's Heart Federation SUN India Knight appeals on behalf of Children's Heart SUN Federation. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Please mark the back of SUN your envelope: Children's Heart Federation. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide The Children's SUN Heart Federation with your full name and address so that SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another SUN 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1120557. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00k7qyb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00k7qyd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00k7qyg (Listen) SUN O for the Wings of a Dove SUN Rev Stephen Shipley visits Leipzig to reflect on the faith SUN of composer Felix Mendelssohn, on the 200th anniversary of SUN his birth. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00k4l2j (Listen) SUN Clive James wonders what it says about the British SUN attitude to poetry that we have the institution of the SUN Poet Laureateship. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00k7qyj (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00k7qyl (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00k7qyn (Listen) SUN Whoopi Goldberg SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comic and actress SUN Whoopi Goldberg. SUN As a child she used to practise the acceptance speeches SUN she was sure she would one day make - little surprise then SUN that she's one of a handful of people to have won an SUN Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and Emmy awards. SUN She is, she says, like a battery. When she is performing SUN she feels as if she has been plugged in and recharged. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00k3x21 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three SUN distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast SUN imaginary museum. SUN John and Sean's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and SUN Dave Gorman. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00k7rbh (Listen) SUN Farming on the Urban Fringe SUN Picnickers, art groups and frolicking dogs - some of the SUN daily problems faced by farmers on the urban fringes, with SUN a population less personally connected with life on a SUN working farm than ever before. SUN John Waite looks at the challenges and opportunities SUN facing the farmers living cheek by jowl with their urban SUN neighbours, and at some of the attempts being made to SUN bring the two closer together. SUN We hear from Wayside Farm in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, SUN which last year took part in Open Farm Sunday to help SUN explain farming to their neighbours and reduce the casual SUN damage and trespass caused by uninformed picnickers and SUN dog walkers to their land. Caroline Drummond from LEAF, SUN Linking Environment and Farming, which organises Open Farm SUN Sunday explains why they run it. SUN John also visits Shabden Park Farm in Chipstead, Surrey, SUN where Mark and Kirstie Banham have set up an on-farm SUN butchery to sell direct to their town dwelling, commuting SUN neighbours. SUN Sir Don Curry talks about the importance of reconnection, SUN the main theme of 1991's Curry Report into the Future of SUN Farming and Food. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00k7rbk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00k7rbm (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Catholics and Jews b00kb8r7 (Listen) SUN War and Peace? SUN Edward Stourton examines the history of the complex SUN relationship between Catholics and Jews. SUN Edward asks whether relations have cooled following a SUN string of controversies, including calls to canonise Pope SUN Pius XII, referred to by some as 'Hitler's Pope'. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k4kkn (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw are SUN guests of Somerfords Garden Club and The Great Somerford SUN Allotments Bicentenary Committee near Malmesbury. SUN In the first in a new series looking at how we can carry SUN out sustainable gardening, the panel discover the benefits SUN and reasons for growing native plants. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Lights, Camera, Landmark b00fgbls (Listen) SUN Lacock, Wiltshire SUN Matthew Sweet visits parts of the man-made landscape which SUN have been used in films over the years. SUN Matthew discovers how this Wiltshire village has been used SUN for period dramas such as The Other Boleyn Girl and Pride SUN and Prejudice. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00k7rbp (Listen) SUN The Siege of Krishnapur, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Shelagh Stephenson of the novel by JG SUN Farrell. SUN It is 1857 and British rule in India is under threat. At SUN first the colonists are confident that their 'superior SUN culture' will prevail, but as the Indian mutineers show SUN their metal, the Collector of Krishnapur is forced to SUN reconsider. SUN Hopkins, The Collector ...... Alex Jennings SUN Fluery ...... Ben Askew SUN Prince Hari ...... Shiv Grewal SUN Harry Dunstaple ...... Matt Addis SUN Louise Dunstaple ...... Jasmine Hyde SUN Dr Dunstaple ...... Malcolm Tierney SUN Mrs Dunstaple ...... Caroline Guthrie SUN Willoughby ...... Sam Dale SUN Miriam ...... Janice Acquah SUN Dr MacNab ...... Stephen Hogan SUN The Padre ...... Philip Fox SUN Cutter ...... Jonathan Tafler SUN Lieutenant Peterson ...... Paul Rider SUN Lucy Hughes ...... Lizzy Watts SUN Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00k7snx (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish writer Colm Toibin, SUN who has twice been nominated for the Booker prize, about SUN his new novel, Brooklyn. Plus Ali Smith takes Mariella on SUN a walk around the park that inspired her latest fiction. SUN SUN 16:30 The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke b00k7snz (Listen) SUN Hayley Radford explores the influence of significant women SUN on the life and work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Regarded SUN by many as one of the most significant German-speaking SUN literary figures of the early Modern period, Rilke wrote SUN lyrical verse and prose including Sonnets to Orpheus and SUN Letter to A Young Poet. SUN Hayley examines how he was dominated by the love of his SUN mother and later pushed himself to the very limits of SUN romantic love. The poet threw himself into endless SUN heartbreak, many relationships, even abandoning a wife and SUN child. He became the passive lover of a series of SUN forthright, older women, including a princess and some SUN heiresses, all in pursuit of the sweet agonies with which SUN he could infuse his writing. SUN Featuring contributions from Rilke experts Dirk Heisserer, SUN Professor Karen Leeder, Dr Ben Hutchinson and Professor SUN Von Bulow. SUN SUN 17:00 The New Hindu Fundamentalists b00k3zzd (Listen) SUN Navdip Dhariwal investigates the rise of Hindu SUN fundamentalism in Britain. Hindutva - the belief that SUN India should exclusively follow the laws and principles of SUN the majority Hindu faith - has been evolving and SUN developing on the sub-continent for many decades. SUN Navdip explores the history of the Hindu right wing in SUN India and its power and influence within Hindu communities SUN outside India. She asks why increasing numbers of Hindus SUN are being drawn to the fundamentalist agenda, which some SUN regard as anti-Muslim and anti-Christian. SUN Her investigation leads her to British Hindus who are SUN giving seemingly charitable donations that are, in SUN reality, ending up in the coffers of the Hindu right. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00k7c9b (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 2 SUN Series in which writers create a fictional response to the SUN week's news. SUN As experts begin the exhumation of up to 400 unknown WWI SUN soldiers in the village of Fromelles, Bonnie Greer SUN imagines the impact upon some of those involved. SUN With Nadine Marshall, Malcolm Tierney, Benjamin Askew. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00k7sv9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00k7svc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k7svf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00k7svh (Listen) SUN A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00k7svk (Listen) SUN Lilian digs for information. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00k7svm (Listen) SUN Children's magazine. Barney Harwood visits a farm, tries SUN his hand at egg collecting, meets some newborn lambs and SUN discovers where his food really comes from. And he finds SUN out what it is like to grow up on a farm from the farmer's SUN 12-year-old daughter. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cm7h4 (Listen) SUN Stories with Latitude, Episode 3 SUN Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in SUN Suffolk. Jon Ronson reveals the tensions inherent in SUN knives, wives, dogs and small boys. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00k4kkj (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00k4l28 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister talks to Nicky Weller and Steve White SUN about the life of music manager John Weller; Adrian SUN Jackson on Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal; Arif SUN Waqar on Ghazal singer Iqbal Bano; Anne Cole and Adrian SUN Midgely on English toponymist Dr Margaret Gelling; SUN Marianne Faithfull and Nicky Haslam on model and muse SUN Maxime de la Falaise. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00k7c23 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00k7qy8 (Listen) SUN Children's Heart Federation SUN India Knight appeals on behalf of Children's Heart SUN Federation. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Please mark the back of SUN your envelope: Children's Heart Federation. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide The Children's SUN Heart Federation with your full name and address so that SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another SUN 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1120557. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00k4g5b (Listen) SUN Location, Location SUN Mobile phones and other devices are helping all sorts of SUN useful objects 'know' where they are - and tell everybody SUN else about it. Peter Day hears from the people building SUN companies out of this dramatic new sensing ability. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00k7svp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00k7svr (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Letters to Mary. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00k4l2b (Listen) SUN JJ Abrams boldly goes back to the future with the Star SUN Trek prequel, starring Kirk and Spock as you've never seen SUN them before. SUN Behind the scenes of Junior Eurovision with Sounds Like SUN Teen Spirit. SUN When Jean-Luc met Mick and Keith - Godard and The Rolling SUN Stones and the making of Sympathy For The Devil. SUN Henry Selick on the dark materials of his Neil Gaiman SUN adaptation Coraline. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00k7pr6 (Listen) SUN Entitlement SUN Mark Tully explores the complex relationship between a SUN sense of entitlement and the claiming of rights. What is SUN the difference between entitlements and rights and why is SUN a sense of entitlement so closely related to privilege? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 MAY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00k7sy5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00k49s7 (Listen) MON Can the tubular steel and smoked glass dreams of leading MON architects ever take account of the mess of life? Jeremy MON Till claims that architecture exists in a bubble and MON ignores the way people really live. He joins Laurie Taylor MON to discuss how architecture engages - or fails to engage - MON with the society for which it builds. They are joined by MON Ricky Burdett, Chief Architectural Advisor for the Olympic MON Development Authority, to critique a profession whose MON output we all have to live with. MON Plus, Will Atkinson from Bristol University introduces his MON groundbreaking study into the life decisions made by the MON children of working class parents. He finds that despite MON claims that we live in a new society, class is remarkably MON durable. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00k7pnr (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Olave's Church in London. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7vm7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7vqs (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7vnh (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00k7vs7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k7wkc (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00k7wnd (Listen) MON As nylon replaces wool as the material of choice for MON clothing and carpets, Charlotte Smith discovers what MON impact this is having on farmers and their sheep. She MON finds out that the future of the woolly sheep could be MON hairy. Plus uptake of bluetongue vaccination has been so MON low that Defra are holding a 'cut price' sale of the MON vaccine. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00k89pm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00k7wr1 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00k89pp (Listen) MON Journalist and campaigner David Akinsanya spent his MON childhood in care, waiting in vain to be adopted. He MON argues that foster care is not always the right answer for MON some children and calls for investment in small MON residential children's homes. His remarks come as MON statistics for children taken into care show a sharp MON increase. MON AS Byatt's latest novel looks at fairy tales. Against the MON backdrop of the Arts and Crafts movement, she questions MON the motives of the people who write children's stories. MON Journalist Peter Hitchens calls for an end to the labels MON Left and Right in politics, suggesting they are outdated MON and stifle true political debates. MON Historian Richard Overy argues that there are many MON parallels between the looming sense of apocalypse that MON characterised the 1930s and today. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00k81bd (Listen) MON My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 1 MON Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which MON reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy MON kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired MON undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a MON failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an MON intensive care patient who has been told never to drink MON again. MON Arthur's thoughts on the nature of stand-up comedy and how MON his desire to perform led to mirthless disaster in the MON rough and tumble of the emerging alternative comedy MON circuit - a world of sharp, political and angry jesters, MON directing their ire at the tired old dinosaurs of light MON entertainment. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k81cr (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including: MON Accepting South Africa's presidential nomination, African MON National Congress leader Jacob Zuma promised to 'lead the MON country towards the realisation of former president Nelson MON Mandela's dream of a non-sexist and non-racial South MON Africa'. The BBC's correspondent in Johannesburg Victoria MON Phenethi explains what is expected from the women chosen MON to lead in the country's new government. MON As the recession leads many couples to reconsider plans MON for their dream wedding, reporter Anna McNamee talks to MON one woman to find out how with the help of her friends and MON a website called freecycle - a listing service helping MON people give unwanted items away for free - she is on track MON to have her big wedding after all. MON Jane is joined by Daily Record columnist Joan Burnie, MON Angie Hobbs, associate professor of Philosophy at Warwick MON University and freelance journalist Natalie Barrass to MON discuss the nature of female friendships, whether it's MON possible to have more than three real friends and how the MON changing nature of technology affects the way we bond. MON And Grammy Award-winning musician, Sharon Isbin - MON described as America's 'guitarist laureate' and 'the Monet MON of the classical guitar' performs in the studio and talks MON about her career and her latest album Journey to the New MON World. MON MON 11:00 Britain's Oldest New Mum b00k89pr (Listen) MON Dinah Lammiman meets Britain's oldest new mum, 58-year-old MON Sue Tollefsen. She and baby Freya are surrounded by MON supportive friends and family, but when she starts to MON engage with the wider world she finds that not everyone is MON comfortable with a woman becoming a new mother at her age. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b0093v49 (Listen) MON Get Up, Stand Up MON Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in a MON Birmingham record shop. MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Alison ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman MON DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke MON Dexter the Landlord ...... Gresby Nash MON Diabolicus ...... Adam de Ville. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00k81gz (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00k823g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00k823j (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00k89pt (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 10 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the first semi final of the music MON quiz. The competitors are Alan Douglas from MON Worcestershire, Brian Haines from London and David Saxon MON from Northwood in Middlesex. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00k7svk (Listen) MON Lilian digs for information. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k8dq1 (Listen) MON Bad by Default MON Comedy by Leah Chillery. Tanya disappears with her MON mother's credit card to Jamaica to find her father, the MON man her mother said abandoned them. But when she finds her MON dad, he is about to marry his sweetheart, and although he MON is pleased to see Tanya, he is reluctant to give answers MON for his parental absence. MON With Everal A Walsh, Carla Henry. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00k7d30 (Listen) MON John Barbirolli - Angel of the North MON James Naughtie remembers English conductor Sir John MON Barbirolli, in his own words as well as in the MON recollections of colleagues and through archive recordings. MON Barbirolli had Italian and French blood in his veins but MON he was a proud cockney who became a champion of English MON music. When he died in 1970, Britain lost a figure who MON seemed part of our musical life. MON Barbirolli is remembered affectionately for his work with MON the Halle Orchestra in Manchester with whom he forged a MON unique bond from 1942 onwards and brought new vigour and MON worldwide renown to the oldest professional orchestra in MON Britain. MON James chairs a discussion between Sir Mark Elder, current MON music director of the Halle, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor MON and founder of Opera North, and writer Andrew MON Farach-Colton. MON MON 15:45 Bad Habits b00f6qmv (Listen) MON Workaholism MON Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the MON bad habits and personal failings which directly or MON indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives. MON Richard explores the rising problem of workaholism. He MON talks to a City lawyer who works 20 hours a day, visits MON Pricewaterhouse Coopers to see how they tackle the issue MON and writer Jon Ronson confesses to being a workaholic. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00k7rbh (Listen) MON Farming on the Urban Fringe MON Picnickers, art groups and frolicking dogs - some of the MON daily problems faced by farmers on the urban fringes, with MON a population less personally connected with life on a MON working farm than ever before. MON John Waite looks at the challenges and opportunities MON facing the farmers living cheek by jowl with their urban MON neighbours, and at some of the attempts being made to MON bring the two closer together. MON We hear from Wayside Farm in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, MON which last year took part in Open Farm Sunday to help MON explain farming to their neighbours and reduce the casual MON damage and trespass caused by uninformed picnickers and MON dog walkers to their land. Caroline Drummond from LEAF, MON Linking Environment and Farming, which organises Open Farm MON Sunday explains why they run it. MON John also visits Shabden Park Farm in Chipstead, Surrey, MON where Mark and Kirstie Banham have set up an on-farm MON butchery to sell direct to their town dwelling, commuting MON neighbours. MON Sir Don Curry talks about the importance of reconnection, MON the main theme of 1991's Curry Report into the Future of MON Farming and Food. MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00k8f00 (Listen) MON Series 5, The Niche Holiday MON Katie Derham presents the holiday magazine which examines MON our holiday and travel trends. MON With the growth of enthusiast tour operators, there is now MON a huge range of niche holiday opportunities, with every MON private passion, hobby and indulgence catered for. MON Patricia Lalla travels to Portugal on a wolf-watching MON holiday and Dan Cruickshank talks about his experiences MON following in Captain Cook's footsteps to New Zealand. MON Is the niche experience just another excuse for MON one-upmanship or a genuine way of exploring our cravings MON and curiosities? MON A Just Radio/Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00k83q2 (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 b00k83t1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00k8fdv (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three MON distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast MON imaginary museum. MON Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate MON Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely MON rare cloud. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00k824p (Listen) MON David objects when Jill goes up in the world. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00k83ty (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an MON interview with writer Edna O'Brien, whose play Haunted MON receives its world premiere in Manchester. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k85ph (Listen) MON The Girl at the Lion D'Or, Episode 1 MON Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian MON Faulks, set in a France still reeling from the First World MON War and limbering up for the Second. MON Faulks examines the hopes, fears and passions of a few MON individuals and explores a world of fragile optimism, MON where the signs of another war are already on the horizon. MON Charles Hartmann ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Anne Louvet ...... Jessica Raine MON Christine Hartmann ...... Catherine Cusack MON Andre Mattlin ...... David Westhead MON Etienne ...... Toby Jones MON Madame Bouin ...... Jane Whittenshaw MON Monsieur le Patron ...... Jonathan Oliver MON Mireille ...... Avril Clark MON Directed by Frank Stirling MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 A Baby Asbo b00k8fdx (Listen) MON Winifred Robinson follows intensive work going on in MON Coventry with a group of nine to 13-year-olds already in MON trouble with the police or in danger of being excluded MON from school. MON The youngsters are on the Youth Justice Board's 'inclusion MON support programme', with activities ranging from fishing MON to family therapy aimed at addressing their behaviour. MON Some have already been in trouble with the police, others MON are referred following school exclusions, because older MON brothers are involved in crime or because of general MON concerns about anti-social behaviour. MON Winifred also follows a unique scheme being piloted in MON London which addresses wider groups of youngsters before MON they start at secondary school. The courses include anger MON management classes and workshops highlighting the dangers MON of gang activity, with the idea originally coming from MON America. Growing Against Gangs involves a unique MON collaboration between police, schools and voluntary MON organisations. The government believes that targeting MON children close to the age of criminality provides a real MON opportunity to set them on a better path in life. MON Mitchell, 10, is at the first stages of this work - he is MON one of four children and has been in trouble at school and MON in his community. His mum, Lisa, has welcomed input from MON Carl, the YISP worker, and is pleased that targeted MON activities with Mitchell have given her time to spend with MON her other children. She is also learning how to impose MON stricter boundaries and already sees that Mitchell's MON behaviour is improving. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00g471k (Listen) MON Cuba MON Linda Pressly investigates the housing crisis in Cuba. MON Even before the recent hurricanes that damaged over half a MON million homes, perhaps the most common cause of complaint MON on the island was accommodation. The black market in MON property and building materials is thought to be huge. MON Linda finds out about some of the unique ways that Cubans MON have been finding to get around regulations to secure a MON new home, in a nation where it is illegal to buy and sell MON property. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00k8fdz (Listen) MON Tom Heap examines the carbon footprint of older people. MON This age group are said to be heavy consumers, but they MON could also play an important part in preparing for climate MON change in an ageing society. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00k89pp (Listen) MON Journalist and campaigner David Akinsanya spent his MON childhood in care, waiting in vain to be adopted. He MON argues that foster care is not always the right answer for MON some children and calls for investment in small MON residential children's homes. His remarks come as MON statistics for children taken into care show a sharp MON increase. MON AS Byatt's latest novel looks at fairy tales. Against the MON backdrop of the Arts and Crafts movement, she questions MON the motives of the people who write children's stories. MON Journalist Peter Hitchens calls for an end to the labels MON Left and Right in politics, suggesting they are outdated MON and stifle true political debates. MON Historian Richard Overy argues that there are many MON parallels between the looming sense of apocalypse that MON characterised the 1930s and today. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00k871h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00k871t (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k8759 (Listen) MON Brooklyn, An Unlooked-for Offer MON Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a MON girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new MON life in New York in the 1950s. MON The novel opens in the small town of Enniscorthy in the MON south east of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is MON one among many of her generation who can find no work. Her MON three brothers have already left to seek their fortunes in MON England; she, her sister Rose and her widowed mother are MON all that remain at home. MON When a priest comes home from America for a holiday, he MON recognises both Eilis' plight and her potential. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00k3znq (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of MON words, language and the way we speak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k890f (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 MAY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00k7sxs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00k81bd (Listen) TUE My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 1 TUE Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which TUE reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy TUE kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired TUE undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a TUE failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an TUE intensive care patient who has been told never to drink TUE again. TUE Arthur's thoughts on the nature of stand-up comedy and how TUE his desire to perform led to mirthless disaster in the TUE rough and tumble of the emerging alternative comedy TUE circuit - a world of sharp, political and angry jesters, TUE directing their ire at the tired old dinosaurs of light TUE entertainment. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7vk0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7vnk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7vm9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00k7vqw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k7wjz (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00k7wn2 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00k7wqn (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of ... b00k8frh (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Privy Council TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE one of Britain's oldest institutions, the Privy Council. TUE TUE 09:30 Head To Head b00k8g51 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Edward Stourton presents a series celebrating great TUE debates, combining archive of rare discussions between key TUE figures with analysis by a panel of experts. TUE Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan clash over the TUE electronic age. Has technology set man free or alienated TUE individuals and led to a fragmented society? TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00k9qdh (Listen) TUE My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 2 TUE Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which TUE reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy TUE kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired TUE undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a TUE failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an TUE intensive care patient who has been told never to drink TUE again. TUE Arthur learns that being funny can get you laid. And TUE success on the comedy circuit allows him time to pursue TUE other ideas and very different interests, which include TUE two bizarre prison visits. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k81ch (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Girl at the Lion TUE D'Or. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00k8lfz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Anuta - An Island Governed By Love TUE Situated in the South Pacific, Anuta is home to 300 TUE people, which based on the size of the island is a TUE population density to rival Bangladesh. TUE It is a place where people follow a traditional way of TUE life that goes back hundreds of years. The nearest school TUE is hundreds of miles away and there is no clinic. Few TUE people earn money, but they don't need it. Everything they TUE need they grow or harvest themselves, and have sustained TUE their resources across the generations. TUE Reporter Huw Cordey visited Anuta to record part of a BBC TUE television series, South Pacific. In this programme he TUE meets the islanders and their chief, and hears about their TUE lives. He fishes, catches birds and lives with them, TUE discovering that all Anutans live by the principle of TUE 'Arofa', or love. TUE He also finds out how modern life is catching up with the TUE Anutans, and why not everyone there is happy with the TUE island idyll where tradition is all and individualism is TUE nothing. TUE TUE 11:30 By Jove Carruthers! b00k8lg1 (Listen) TUE Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers, the TUE character who inspired a thousand silly quips and cod TUE Edwardian accents. At least seven different Carruthers TUE crop up in Edwardian boys' tales, but who exactly was he, TUE what did he do, and how did he assume such a strange kind TUE of posthumous fame? TUE Miles finds out about the Carruthers who appears in the TUE Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Solitary TUE Cyclist and the one which narrates Erskine Childers' 1903 TUE spy novel The Riddle of the Sands. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00k81f9 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00k81h1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00k823l (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music Group b00k8lg3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of TUE three guests to play the track of their choice for the TUE delight or disdain of the others. TUE Phil's guests include soul food chef Momma Cherri and TUE crime writer Mark Billingham. Will the tastes of his TUE popular, country music-loving detective Tom Thorne be TUE making an appearance? TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00k824p (Listen) TUE David objects when Jill goes up in the world. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k8lg5 (Listen) TUE Sargasso TUE By Simon Bovey. Elver season on the River Severn - a time TUE of mystery and danger. The wrong time and place for a TUE young man to be searching for his place in the world. TUE Kevin ...... Robert Lonsdale TUE Sabrian ...... Emily Wachter TUE Bruce ...... Ian Gelder TUE Tan ...... Stuart McLoughlin TUE Debbie ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Gilpin ...... Stephen Hogan TUE Phil ...... Matt Addis TUE Buyer/Policeman ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00k8llc (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE How the experiences of a painter and decorator from Sale TUE in 19th-century China reveals more about the spread of TUE religion in that period. Plus the remarkable story of the TUE listener who witnessed the German surrender at Monte TUE Cassino. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00k8llf (Listen) TUE I Was There Too!, That Door TUE Series of stories about great historical moments, told TUE from the perspective of unexpected and overlooked TUE witnesses. TUE By Elizabeth Kuti. Wittenberg, on a cold October night in TUE 1517. Brother Martin has some papers he wants to nail to TUE the church door, but he hadn't counted on meeting the TUE indomitable Frau Sprenger. TUE Read by Eleanor Bron. TUE TUE 15:45 Bad Habits b00f9xm2 (Listen) TUE Laziness TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00k8t3x (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of TUE words, language and the way we speak. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00k8t3z (Listen) TUE Series 18, John Coltrane TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Musician Andy Sheppard chooses influential saxophonist TUE John Coltrane, creator of the albums Giant Steps and A TUE Love Supreme. Supporting Andy's choice is the editor of TUE Wired magazine, Tony Herrington. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00k83ny (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k83q4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Heresy b00k8t4w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are Dave Gorman, Jeremy TUE Hardy and Sue Perkins. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00k824c (Listen) TUE Matt suspects double dealings at Borchester Land. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00k83t3 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the TUE verdict on Charlie Kaufman's film Synecdoche, New York, TUE which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an obsessive theatre TUE director. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kc7qg (Listen) TUE The Girl at the Lion D'Or, Episode 2 TUE Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian TUE Faulks, set in pre-Second World War France. TUE Anne Louvet has begun work as a cleaner for the Hartmanns TUE in their manor house at Janvilliers and Charles Hartmann TUE is beginning to feel disturbed by the power of his TUE attraction to her. TUE Charles Hartmann ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Anne Louvet ...... Jessica Raine TUE Christine Hartmann ...... Catherine Cusack TUE Andre Mattlin ...... David Westhead TUE Etienne ...... Toby Jones TUE Madame Bouin ...... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Monsieur le Patron ...... Jonathan Oliver TUE Mireille ...... Avril Clark TUE Directed by Frank Stirling TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 Sacred Election: Lessons from the Biggest Democracy TUE in the W b00k8v7c (Listen) TUE Political anthropologist Dr Mukulika Banerjee reports from TUE India on the many surprising ways in which the country TUE manages to defy apparently insuperable odds to deliver an TUE efficient and effective democratic process. TUE An Indian general election is the largest single organised TUE event in the world, with over 700 million voters, 800,000 TUE polling stations and one million electronic voting TUE machines moved in phases around the country; and, unlike TUE many western democracies, electoral participation in India TUE is positively buoyant, and rising. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00k8v7f (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00k8v7h (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores the latest treatments for breast TUE problems. Women often believe if they find changes to TUE their breasts, or feel pain in that area, it means that TUE they have a serious condition or cancer. But usually the TUE symptoms are of a benign condition. Mark finds out how TUE they are treated. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00k8frh (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Privy Council TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE one of Britain's oldest institutions, the Privy Council. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00k86zy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00k871k (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9jc (Listen) TUE Brooklyn, Farewell and Adieu TUE Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a TUE girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new TUE life in New York in the 1950s. TUE Prompted by Father Flood, home from America for a holiday, TUE Rose sets about organising her younger sister. Almost TUE before she knows it, or has had time to say goodbye, Eilis TUE is crossing the Atlantic, heading for a job on the shop TUE floor of a Brooklyn department store, lodgings with an TUE Irish landlady and a brand new life. TUE TUE 23:00 The Secret World b00k8v7k (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE Comedy series that offers an insight into the private TUE lives of the famous. With Jon Culshaw, Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton, Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson TUE and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k890h (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00k7sxv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00k9qdh (Listen) WED My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 2 WED Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which WED reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy WED kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired WED undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a WED failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an WED intensive care patient who has been told never to drink WED again. WED Arthur learns that being funny can get you laid. And WED success on the comedy circuit allows him time to pursue WED other ideas and very different interests, which include WED two bizarre prison visits. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7vk2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7vnm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7vmc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00k7vr0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k7wk1 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00k7wn4 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00k7wqq (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00k8w6j (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00k9qdk (Listen) WED My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 3 WED Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which WED reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy WED kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired WED undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a WED failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an WED intensive care patient who has been told never to drink WED again. WED Growing up and growing old; Arthur's thoughts on the male WED mid-life crisis, as he faces depression. Plus how a unique WED rendition of Hamlet allowed him to smile again. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k81ck (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Girl at the Lion WED D'Or. WED WED 11:00 The Manuscript Hunter b00k9d7p (Listen) WED Mark Whitaker profiles Thomas Staley, who, over the past WED 20 years, has bought the archives of many of Britain's WED most important living writers for the University of Texas WED in Austin. Staley talks about his life in literature and WED his controversial methods, and Mark reports on efforts to WED stop the continuing export of Britain's literary heritage. WED A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Murder Unprompted: A Charles Paris Mystery b0084ldq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Simon Brett's thespian sleuth returns in a dramatisation WED by Jeremy Front. WED Can Charles prove his friend Alex innocent of murder and WED at the same time stop himself being made homeless? WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances ...... Suzanne Burden WED Maurice ...... Jon Glover WED Lucy ...... Jemima Rooper WED Val ...... Liza Sadovy WED Paula Lexington/SM ...... Rachel Bavidge WED Mal Benson ...... Nitin Ganatra WED Dr Blythe ...... Simon Treves WED Madeleine ...... Jasmin Callan WED Georgina Banks ...... Miranda Colchester WED Miles/Newsreader ...... Thomas Arnold WED Juliet/Journalist ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00k81fc (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00k81h3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00k823n (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00k9d7r (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00k824c (Listen) WED Matt suspects double dealings at Borchester Land. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k9d7t (Listen) WED In a Land Far Away WED By Andy Macdonald. Jamie, a British soldier in WED Afghanistan, struggles to show his emotions when a friend WED is killed on patrol and to communicate with his young son WED back home in Scotland. But thanks to the help of Wali, the WED company's Afghan interpreter, he begins to open up and WED talk about his feelings. WED Jamie 'Bullett' McQueen ...... Sean Biggerstaff WED Wali ...... Khalid Laith WED Gavin Yates ...... Steven McNicoll WED Kay ...... Molly Innes WED Kyle ...... Hugo Homer WED Steve/Corporal ...... Robert Jack WED Officer/Padre ...... Kenny Blyth WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00k9d7w (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial WED issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kbj2y (Listen) WED I Was There Too!, Nothing But Blue Skies WED Series of stories about great historical moments, told WED from the perspective of unexpected and overlooked WED witnesses. WED 97-year-old Katharine Rudd tells the true story of her WED experiences on the night of the Roswell incident in New WED Mexico, 1947, when the US government allegedly covered up WED an encounter with aliens. WED By Dominic Power, read by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. WED WED 15:45 Bad Habits b00fl05d (Listen) WED Time-keeping WED Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the WED bad habits and personal failings which directly or WED indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives. WED Richard explores the problem of time-keeping. He visits a WED call centre that had problems with punctuality, meets a WED factory worker from Scotland who blew the whistle on WED draconian time-management practices and hears from Diana WED DeLonzor, author of How to Never Be Late Again, who WED explains why lateness is a pathology that deserves our WED sympathy. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00k9d7y (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00k8v7h (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter explores the latest treatments for breast WED problems. Women often believe if they find changes to WED their breasts, or feel pain in that area, it means that WED they have a serious condition or cancer. But usually the WED symptoms are of a benign condition. Mark finds out how WED they are treated. WED WED 17:00 PM b00k83p1 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k83q6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Elvenquest b00k9d80 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. WED Sam has his death foretold by The Oracle of Fenrog, Lord WED Darkness books himself in for a retox and Kreech WED unwittingly releases the dreaded Nightdemon, whose WED intentions for the future of the universe are not good. WED Vidar ...... Darren Boyd WED Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon WED Amis ...... James Bachman WED Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan WED Sam ...... Stephen Mangan WED Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00k824f (Listen) WED Eddie and Joe search for buried treasure. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00k83t5 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kc7qj (Listen) WED The Girl at the Lion D'Or, Episode 3 WED Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian WED Faulks, set in pre-Second World War France. WED Charles has rented rooms for the young waitress he has WED befriended at the Hotel Lion d'Or. She has agreed to go WED with him to a country house party. He tells himself that WED the trip is entirely innocent, but lets his wife think WED that he is away working for the government in Paris. WED Charles Hartmann ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Anne Louvet ...... Jessica Raine WED Christine Hartmann ...... Catherine Cusack WED Andre Mattlin ...... David Westhead WED Etienne ...... Toby Jones WED Madame Bouin ...... Jane Whittenshaw WED Monsieur le Patron ...... Jonathan Oliver WED Mireille ...... Avril Clark WED Directed by Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00k9d82 (Listen) WED The Law and Death WED Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal WED issues of the day. WED Medical science has given us increasing control over when, WED where and how we die, but the law is struggling to keep WED pace. Clive and his guests explore the ongoing legal WED arguments about assisted suicide, mercy killing and even WED the precise definition of death. WED WED 20:45 Letters to Mary b00k9d84 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Series in which three writers send an informal letter to WED the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, 250 WED years after her birth, updating her on the progress of her WED often radical ideas. WED Professor Janet Todd, President of Lucy Cavendish College, WED Cambridge, addresses a letter to Mary about her her first WED book, a self-help manual called Thoughts on the Education WED of Daughters. WED Some readers argue that this work is no different from any WED other 18th century Conduct Book, with its rather modest WED ideas about how girls should live their lives, but Janet WED Todd believes that it shows real sparks that would flare WED up fully in her incendiary work, A Vindication of the WED Rights of Woman, four years later. She goes on to wonder WED how Mary might feel about the education and aspirations of WED girls today. WED Read by Sian Thomas. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00k8lfz (Listen) WED Series 2, Anuta - An Island Governed By Love WED Situated in the South Pacific, Anuta is home to 300 WED people, which based on the size of the island is a WED population density to rival Bangladesh. WED It is a place where people follow a traditional way of WED life that goes back hundreds of years. The nearest school WED is hundreds of miles away and there is no clinic. Few WED people earn money, but they don't need it. Everything they WED need they grow or harvest themselves, and have sustained WED their resources across the generations. WED Reporter Huw Cordey visited Anuta to record part of a BBC WED television series, South Pacific. In this programme he WED meets the islanders and their chief, and hears about their WED lives. He fishes, catches birds and lives with them, WED discovering that all Anutans live by the principle of WED 'Arofa', or love. WED He also finds out how modern life is catching up with the WED Anutans, and why not everyone there is happy with the WED island idyll where tradition is all and individualism is WED nothing. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00k8w6j (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00k8700 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00k871m (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9k4 (Listen) WED Brooklyn, Letters from Home WED Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a WED girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new WED life in New York in the 1950s. WED Eilis has lodgings with an Irish landlady and a job on the WED shop floor of a department store. Every day a whole world WED of things are new, but letters from home remind her of WED just what she is missing. WED WED 23:00 Elvis By Bono b00k9dtp (Listen) WED U2's singer Bono reads his own poem, Elvis, and weaves it WED into an atmospheric sound-scape. WED The poem, which sounds like the beat poetry of Adrian WED Henry, contains images from Elvis' life and his legacy, WED American history, and popular culture of the last 50 years WED from crooning to rap via rock and roll, from Valentino to WED television via Nixon and Lisa Marie. It is blended with WED archive material and recorded, specially-composed music. WED WED 23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007wj0y (Listen) WED Douggie 'The Shins' Wild WED Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. WED Renowned broadcaster Roydon Postlethwaite gazes back WED admiringly at the life of the hottest hunk of footballing WED manhood Britain ever produced. WED Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern WED Douggie Wild ...... Jeffrey Holland WED Juanita World ...... Laura Solon WED Peter Pundit/Jerry Panther ...... Nitin Ganatra WED Aunty Nancy ...... Rita May WED Harry Trubshaw ...... Bill Maynard WED Joe Gorston ...... Howard Read WED Les Dynham ...... Chris Chantler. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k890k (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 MAY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00k7sxx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00k9qdk (Listen) THU My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 3 THU Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which THU reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy THU kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired THU undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a THU failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an THU intensive care patient who has been told never to drink THU again. THU Growing up and growing old; Arthur's thoughts on the male THU mid-life crisis, as he faces depression. Plus how a unique THU rendition of Hamlet allowed him to smile again. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7vk4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7vnp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7vmg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00k7vr3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k7wk3 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00k7wn6 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00k7wqs (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00k9h9g (Listen) THU The Siege of Vienna THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Alastair Wheatcroft, Claire Norton THU and Jeremy Black discuss the Ottoman siege of Vienna in THU 1683, a titanic struggle that shaped East-West perceptions THU and helped to define the boundaries of modern Europe. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00k9qdm (Listen) THU My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 4 THU Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which THU reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy THU kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired THU undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a THU failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an THU intensive care patient who has been told never to drink THU again. THU Arthur confronts a near-death experience and learns what THU freedom really means. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k81cm (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Girl at the Lion THU D'Or. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kkfth (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Jean b00k9h9m (Listen) THU Mary Stephenson, who worked for the novelist Jean Rhys in THU the final months of her life before her death in 1979, THU remembers the time she spent with her as she took THU dictation of her autobiography. THU At the time she answered Jean's advertisement for a THU typist, Mary was in her early 30s and she found the THU 87-year-old Rhys to be, by turns, charming, infuriating THU and embittered; sometimes her memories would light her up, THU sometimes they would fire her anger. THU Now a writer herself, Mary's recollections draw on THU extracts from the book she typed - Jean's autobiography THU Smile Please. Two other women in Jean's life, her editor THU Diana Athill and her friend Diana Melly, also add their THU own memories of the author at this final, troubled stage THU of her life. THU Jean Rhys is played by Merelina Kendall. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00k81ff (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00k81h5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00k823q (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00k8fdz (Listen) THU Tom Heap examines the carbon footprint of older people. THU This age group are said to be heavy consumers, but they THU could also play an important part in preparing for climate THU change in an ageing society. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00k824f (Listen) THU Eddie and Joe search for buried treasure. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b0084kdc (Listen) THU The Woman from the North THU By Bernard MacLaverty. THU Cassie has never sat an exam in her life but now finds THU herself facing a life-changing assessment and the prospect THU of residential care. What must she do to pass and return THU to her own home? THU Cassie ...... Doreen Keogh THU Gerard ...... Kieran Lagan THU Christopher ...... Sean Campion THU Hairdresser/Doctor ...... Miche Doherty THU Nurse/Dinner Lady ...... Jo Donnelly THU Directed by Heather Larmour. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00k7b8v (Listen) THU Countryside magazine. Matt Baker visits one of the most THU beautiful yet hard to build railway lines in the country, THU from Settle to Carlisle. THU It was completed in 1876, and over the five years it took THU to build, hundreds of men, women and children died in the THU navvy camps set up along its path. Today it stands as a THU monument to their work and tragic deaths but 20 years ago THU it could easily have closed. A vigorous campaign was set THU up to save the line and today the numbers who use what is THU known as Britain's most scenic railway route are THU increasing. THU Matt discovers the history of the line and why it remains THU so vital for the rural communities it links. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00k7qy8 (Listen) THU Children's Heart Federation THU India Knight appeals on behalf of Children's Heart THU Federation. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit THU cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Please mark the back of THU your envelope: Children's Heart Federation. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide The Children's THU Heart Federation with your full name and address so that THU they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another THU 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are THU not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1120557. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kbj2r (Listen) THU I Was There Too!, Permanent Wave THU Series of stories about great historical moments, told THU from the perspective of unexpected and overlooked THU witnesses. THU By Ian Sansom. Imagining what it might have been like to THU dress the hair of one of the country's most influential THU women. THU Read by Maggie Steed. THU THU 15:45 Bad Habits b00fpxkg (Listen) THU Perfectionism THU Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the THU bad habits and personal failings which directly or THU indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives. THU Richard examines the impact of perfectionism and goes THU inside a double Michelin-starred restaurant to see how THU chef Marcus Wareing strives for food utopia. THU Douglas Broadley, CEO of global design agency Imagination, THU talks frankly about how his perfectionism affects the THU company and an ex-employee gives his perspective on THU working for a perfectionist boss. THU Also featuring psychologist and perfectionism expert Cary THU Cooper. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00k7snx (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish writer Colm Toibin, THU who has twice been nominated for the Booker prize, about THU his new novel, Brooklyn. Plus Ali Smith takes Mariella on THU a walk around the park that inspired her latest fiction. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00k9hlz (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper reports on the final Hubble Space Telescope THU servicing mission. THU THU 17:00 PM b00k83p3 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k83q8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Hut 33 b00bcccs (Listen) THU Series 2, Royal Visit THU Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. THU A royal visitor is coming to inspect Bletchley Park, but THU the top brass are worried that this particular royal is a THU Nazi sympathiser. Hut 33 has to delay him and make sure he THU doesn't see any of the code-breaking machines. THU Charles ...... Robert Bathurst THU Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill THU Minka...... Olivia Colman THU Gordon ...... Fergus Craig THU Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley THU Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen THU Duke of Kent ...... Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00k824h (Listen) THU Annette finds some hidden talents. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00k83t7 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on THU French Film, a British comedy starring Hugh Bonneville and THU Eric Cantona. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kc7ql (Listen) THU The Girl at the Lion D'Or, Episode 4 THU Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian THU Faulks, set in pre-Second World War France. THU The love affair between Charles and Anne begins to look THU precarious as a political crisis erupts in Paris and, back THU home, Charles' wife becomes suspicious. THU Charles Hartmann ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Anne Louvet ...... Jessica Raine THU Christine Hartmann ...... Catherine Cusack THU Andre Mattlin ...... David Westhead THU Etienne ...... Toby Jones THU Madame Bouin ...... Jane Whittenshaw THU Monsieur le Patron ...... Jonathan Oliver THU Mireille ...... Avril Clark THU Directed by Frank Stirling THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00k9hm1 (Listen) THU With the Home Office consulting on a new strategy to deal THU with violence against women, Sue Littlemore examines a THU string of cases in which women were killed by their THU partners, despite having gone to the police for protection. THU Is this an unconnected series of mistakes or evidence that THU the criminal justice system still does not take domestic THU violence as seriously as it should? THU THU 20:30 In Business b00k4g5b (Listen) THU Location, Location THU Mobile phones and other devices are helping all sorts of THU useful objects 'know' where they are - and tell everybody THU else about it. Peter Day hears from the people building THU companies out of this dramatic new sensing ability. THU THU 21:00 The Landfill Designers b00k9hn9 (Listen) THU Journalist and designer John Thackara investigates why THU scientists and designers are deliberately planning for THU failure. Many products and scientific advancements are now THU deliberately given a short shelf life. John asks what THU impact the 'landfill designers' are having on scientific THU progress, the environment and our expectations of the THU technology we use every day. THU The term 'planned obsolescence' was coined in the 1950s THU but has never been more relevant. John explores how, THU paradoxically, this focus on a throw-away society is THU helping science to advance in unexpected ways. Our desire THU to have the latest style can mean more in landfill, more THU children in China and India sifting through toxic waste, THU but it can also mean an innovative approach to new THU technologies and reusable materials. THU An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00k9h9g (Listen) THU The Siege of Vienna THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Alastair Wheatcroft, Claire Norton THU and Jeremy Black discuss the Ottoman siege of Vienna in THU 1683, a titanic struggle that shaped East-West perceptions THU and helped to define the boundaries of modern Europe. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00k8702 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00k871p (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9kj (Listen) THU Brooklyn, Christmas Comfort THU Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a THU girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new THU life in New York in the 1950s. THU Christmas looms, as Eilis struggles to adapt to her new THU life in a city far from home. But she is not the only THU member of the Irish diaspora feeling homesick - helping THU Father Flood tend to his flock brings comfort and cheer. THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b008q0sw (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy. THU With Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie THU Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k890p (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 MAY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00k7sy0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00k9qdm (Listen) FRI My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 4 FRI Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which FRI reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy FRI kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired FRI undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a FRI failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an FRI intensive care patient who has been told never to drink FRI again. FRI Arthur confronts a near-death experience and learns what FRI freedom really means. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k7vk6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k7vnr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k7vmj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00k7vr6 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k7wk5 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Maggie Dawn. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00k7wn8 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00k7wqv (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00k7qyn (Listen) FRI Whoopi Goldberg FRI Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comic and actress FRI Whoopi Goldberg. FRI As a child she used to practise the acceptance speeches FRI she was sure she would one day make - little surprise then FRI that she's one of a handful of people to have won an FRI Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and Emmy awards. FRI She is, she says, like a battery. When she is performing FRI she feels as if she has been plugged in and recharged. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00k9qdq (Listen) FRI My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 5 FRI Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which FRI reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy FRI kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired FRI undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a FRI failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an FRI intensive care patient who has been told never to drink FRI again. FRI Arthur becomes an institution, meets Bill Clinton and FRI becomes a grumpy old man, and the path of true love takes FRI an unlikely course. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k81cp (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Girl at the Lion FRI D'Or. FRI FRI 11:00 Ted Hughes: Eco Warrior b00k9p0r (Listen) FRI Poet Simon Armitage examines how Ted Hughes became a FRI committed campaigner for the environment. FRI Hughes' private life is as well documented as his literary FRI output, but his active campaigning for the environment was FRI largely unknown. His passion for fishing led him to see at FRI first hand the extent of the damage that pollution was FRI doing to the rivers he loved and their animal populations. FRI He took up the cause with a vengeance, using his position FRI as Poet Laureate to petition politicians including the FRI Prime Minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher. FRI Simon visits Devon to speak with fellow campaigners about FRI the rivers trust that Hughes helped to form, and also FRI about the day he brought down the house as chief witness FRI at a public inquiry. It reveals a new side to a man that FRI so many people thought they already knew. FRI FRI 11:30 Chain Reaction b00773m1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Phill Jupitus interviews John Hegley FRI Series in which public figures choose others to interview. FRI Phill Jupitus talks to fellow poet and comedian John FRI Hegley. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00k81fh (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00k81h7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00k823s (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00k9p0t (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00k824h (Listen) FRI Annette finds some hidden talents. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k9p0w (Listen) FRI The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble FRI Comedy by Julian Gough. The story of an encounter one FRI snowy night on a railway platform somewhere in southern FRI England between a young Irish orphan, Jude, and Dr Ibrahim FRI Bihi, a Somali with a degree in economics who has made and FRI lost a fortune in the virtual goat market. As Dr Bihi FRI relates the story of his rise and fall, he takes the FRI opportunity to educate young Jude in the pitfalls and the FRI glories of market forces. FRI Dr Ibrahim Bihi ...... Hugh Quarshie FRI Jude ...... Sam O'Mahony-Adams FRI Herself ...... Stephanie Flanders FRI Directed by Di Spiers. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k9pb2 (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, John Cushnie and Matthew Wilson are FRI guests of Groombridge Horticultural Society and Garden FRI Club near Tunbridge Wells. FRI In the second of a series on how to carry out sustainable FRI gardening, the panel look at managing without chemicals by FRI gardening organically. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Bad Habits b00ft1tv (Listen) FRI Procrastination FRI Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the FRI bad habits and personal failings which directly or FRI indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives. FRI Richard investigates how much time British workers spend FRI on personal emails and what managers do to crack down on FRI it. He also speaks to writer Charlie Brooker, who blames FRI the internet for his tendency to continually put things FRI off. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00k9pb4 (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 b00k9pb7 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Charlie Kaufman, the writer of FRI surreal dramas Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine FRI of the Spotless Mind. He discusses his directorial debut, FRI Synecdoche, New York, and the contents of his dreams. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00k83p5 (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 b00k83qb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00k9pb9 (Listen) FRI Series 68, Episode 3 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists FRI are Andy Hamilton, Fred MacAulay, Sue Perkins and Jeremy FRI Hardy. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00k824k (Listen) FRI Jazzer gives words of dubious wisdom. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00k83t9 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an FRI interview with renowned tenor José Carreras. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kc7qn (Listen) FRI The Girl at the Lion D'Or, Episode 5 FRI Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian FRI Faulks, set in pre-Second World War France. FRI Christine Hartmann sacks Anne after suspecting that she is FRI having an affair with her husband, and Charles returns FRI from Paris to profess his love to Anne. FRI Charles Hartmann ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Anne Louvet ...... Jessica Raine FRI Christine Hartmann ...... Catherine Cusack FRI Andre Mattlin ...... David Westhead FRI Etienne ...... Toby Jones FRI Madame Bouin ...... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Monsieur le Patron ...... Jonathan Oliver FRI Mireille ...... Avril Clark FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00k9pbc (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Chichester. FRI Panellists include UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Shadow FRI Leader of the House of Commons, Alan Duncan. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00k9pbf (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00777bk (Listen) FRI Buried FRI Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of his friend Mark FRI Higson, a civil servant who blew the whistle on the Iraqi FRI arms scandal in 1989. A backdrop of news extracts from the FRI period accompanies this study of a brilliant but troubled FRI man who lost everything when he acted on his conscience. FRI Mark ...... John Lloyd Fillingham FRI Steve ...... Michael Begley FRI Man from FO/Journalist ...... Malcolm Raeburn FRI Lord Justice Scott ...... Rob Pickavance FRI Teddy ...... Wilson FRI Presiley Baxendale/Cheryl ...... Deborah McAndrew FRI Directed by Melanie Harris. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00k8704 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00k871r (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9kv (Listen) FRI Brooklyn, The Melting Pot FRI Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a FRI girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new FRI life in New York in the 1950s. FRI As Bartocci's opens its doors to all customers, whatever FRI their colour, Eilis fights the prejudice of her fellow FRI lodgers. Even at Father Flood's Irish dance night, not FRI everyone is Irish. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00k8t3z (Listen) FRI Series 18, John Coltrane FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Musician Andy Sheppard chooses influential saxophonist FRI John Coltrane, creator of the albums Giant Steps and A FRI Love Supreme. Supporting Andy's choice is the editor of FRI Wired magazine, Tony Herrington. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k890r (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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