Radio 4 Listings for 16/05/2009 - 22/05/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 16 MAY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00k9pf6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00k9qdq (Listen)
SAT       My Name is Daphne Fairfax, Episode 5
SAT       Comedian Arthur Smith reads from his autobiography, which
SAT       reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy
SAT       kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired
SAT       undergraduate, a road sweeper, an English teacher, a
SAT       failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an
SAT       intensive care patient who has been told never to drink
SAT       again.
SAT       Arthur becomes an institution, meets Bill Clinton and
SAT       becomes a grumpy old man, and the path of true love takes
SAT       an unlikely course.
SAT       A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k9pf8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k9pfb (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k9pfg (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00k9pfj (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k9pfl (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
SAT       Archbishop of Cardiff.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 A Wonderful Way to Make a Living b00cxr1h (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 2
SAT       US satirist Joe Queenan presents a series on people with
SAT       highly unusual occupations.
SAT       In Brighton, he meets a decluttering professional who
SAT       claims to have sold feng shui books to Japanese. Joe
SAT       accompanies him to the home of Attila the Stockbroker to
SAT       see decluttering in action.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00k9pfn (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00kbyhv (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00kbyhx (Listen)
SAT       North Devon Coastline
SAT       Helen Mark takes to the sea to find out how the perilous
SAT       conditions of the north Devon coastline have affected life
SAT       there from prehistory to the present day. She tours Baggy
SAT       Point with National Trust archaeologist Shirley Blaylock
SAT       in search of the first coastal dwellers, attempts the
SAT       perilous crossing to Lundy Island and crosses the Cornish
SAT       border to hear the story of Parson Hawker, the eccentric
SAT       vicar of Morwenstow and purported scourge of the wreckers.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00kbyxf (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Charlotte Smith goes to a farm with woolless sheep to
SAT       examine the future of wool production in Britain, now that
SAT       it often costs more to shear the sheep than the fleece is
SAT       worth. She hears from people making carpets, thermal
SAT       insulation and even compost from wool. Is the British Wool
SAT       Marketing Board doing enough to promote innovation and
SAT       improved prices for farmers?
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00kbyxk (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00kbyxm (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
SAT       Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00kbyxp (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Bangladeshi
SAT       writer Tahmima Anam. With poetry from Matt Harvey.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00kbyxr (Listen)
SAT       Human beings and wild animals do not live easily side by
SAT       side, and the larger the animal the bigger the conflict.
SAT       John McCarthy talks to two winners of the Whitley Awards
SAT       for International Nature Conservation who have been
SAT       tackling the problems. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is a
SAT       wildlife vet working with mountain gorillas in Uganda and
SAT       has started a project to prevent the spread of diseases
SAT       between the animals and humans, especially now that
SAT       tourists are encountering gorillas at much closer
SAT       quarters. Jittin Ritthirat works in Thailand trying to
SAT       reconcile the needs of the wild elephants with those of
SAT       the human residents of and visitors to the monsoon forest.
SAT       Tourists have also had a big impact on Corfu, and none
SAT       more so than the British. John talks to a long-time
SAT       regular visitor to the island about its appeal to us, our
SAT       influence on it, and ginger beer.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Getting the Gongs b00kbyxt (Listen)
SAT       Steve Punt investigates the growing trend for industry
SAT       awards ceremonies which may not be as well known as the
SAT       Oscars, but which aspire to be just as glamorous and
SAT       life-changing.
SAT       Practically every week, some branch of industry holds its
SAT       own awards ceremonies in a top class venue in the UK,
SAT       complete with silver service dinner, champagne and
SAT       celebrity guest speaker. The range of sectors represented
SAT       is vast. There are awards for call centres, for people
SAT       involved in designing packaging components and for people
SAT       who get children to eat more seafood. And for the winner,
SAT       there is the chance to get up on a podium, grasp a trophy
SAT       and feel that, for one glorious moment, you are recognised
SAT       by your peers as being the best.
SAT       Steve goes behind the scenes to find out who takes part in
SAT       awards ceremonies and why. He talks to the winners, losers
SAT       and organisers, scrutinises the most curious categories
SAT       and hears from awards presenters including Gyles Brandreth
SAT       and Stephen K Amos. He looks at the people who contribute
SAT       to awards ceremonies by making the awards themselves, or
SAT       helping to write the category submissions. He also
SAT       explores the human stories behind the growing lists of
SAT       categories and gives a uniquely humorous insight into
SAT       little-known industries with a growing trend for gongs.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00kbzg9 (Listen)
SAT       A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Elinor
SAT       Goodman.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00kbzgc (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00kbzgf (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Money Box asks the experts if the Bank of England's
SAT       attempt to stimulate the economy will drive up inflation.
SAT       We look at the best savings deals and weigh up the pros
SAT       and cons of locking your cash away. And Bob Howard reports
SAT       on the consumers attempting to use the courts to get their
SAT       credit card debts cancelled.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00k9pb9 (Listen)
SAT       Series 68, Episode 3
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
SAT       are Andy Hamilton, Fred MacAulay, Sue Perkins and Jeremy
SAT       Hardy.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00kbzgh (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00kbzgk (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00k9pbc (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Chichester.
SAT       Panellists are UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Shadow Secretary
SAT       of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt, former
SAT       Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer and Susan Kramer MP, the
SAT       leader of the Liberal Democrats' campaign against the
SAT       third runway at Heathrow.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00kbzgm (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 b007734t (Listen)
SAT       Something Wrong about the Mouth
SAT       By David Edgar. A love story told at the border between
SAT       memory and fiction, trust and betrayal, East and West.
SAT       Soho, 1958. A mysterious American wants to commission a
SAT       portrait of a woman he can't produce, in a dress he can
SAT       only describe, at an event which never happened.
SAT       Gene Pew ...... Damian Lewis
SAT       Desmond McElwee ...... Bill Paterson
SAT       Mrs Pew ...... Lisa Dillon
SAT       Dr Frisch ...... David De Keyser
SAT       The Hotelier ...... Andrew Sachs
SAT       Peter Szabo ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
SAT       Other parts played by Carolyn Pickles, Éva Magyar, Kenneth
SAT       Collard, Christine Kavanagh and Joseph Kloska.
SAT       Directed by Jonquil Panting.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 The Music Group b00k8lg3 (Listen)
SAT       Series 3, Episode 5
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       Phil's guests include soul food chef Momma Cherri and
SAT       crime writer Mark Billingham. Will the tastes of his
SAT       popular, country music-loving detective Tom Thorne be
SAT       making an appearance?
SAT       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00kc06g (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey.
SAT       Including: soprano Susan Bullock on her performance in the
SAT       title role of Elektra by Richard Strauss; biographer
SAT       Miranda Seymour on the life of actress Virginia Cherrill,
SAT       who starred in Charlie Chaplin's films; one woman's story
SAT       on what happened when her husband's will was declared
SAT       invalid and the risks of dying intestate; what makes a
SAT       good friend; literary critic Elaine Showalter on American
SAT       women writers past and present; why men and women talk
SAT       differently; and the award-winning classical guitarist
SAT       Sharon Isbin.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00kc06j (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 b00kc06l (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kc06n (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00kc06q (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kc06s (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00kc06v (Listen)
SAT       An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy, with
SAT       Peter Curran and his guests.
SAT       Peter is joined by Jarvis Cocker, Adriana Trigiani and
SAT       Mica Paris.
SAT       Rachael Stirling finds out about feasts from around the
SAT       world with food writer Stefan Gates.
SAT       With comedy from Stephen K Amos and music from Jarvis
SAT       Cocker and The Broken Family Band.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00kc06x (Listen)
SAT       Series 6, Episode 3
SAT       John Fletcher creates a fictional response to the week's
SAT       news.
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SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00kc06z (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelist Adam Mars Jones,
SAT       professor of theatre and screen arts Maria Delgado and
SAT       writer Philip Hoare to discuss the cultural highlights of
SAT       the week - featuring a spot of bother with cloned Nazis,
SAT       anarchy at the end of the pier and a theatre director
SAT       unravelling onscreen.
SAT       Charlie Kaufman has forged a reputation as an
SAT       idiosyncratic writer with films such as Being John
SAT       Malcovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but
SAT       with Synecdoche, New York he gets to sit in the director's
SAT       chair for the first time. The cast, headed by Philip
SAT       Seymour Hoffman, is impressive and the film is nothing if
SAT       not wildly ambitious, but whether it's the panel's cup of
SAT       tea is another matter.
SAT       John Wyndham may have been dead for 40 years, but that
SAT       doesn't stop him from having a new book out. Plan For
SAT       Chaos was written around the same time as The Midwich
SAT       Cuckoos, but failed to find a publisher at the time. Your
SAT       average run-of-the-mill, cloned Nazis and flying saucers
SAT       sci-fi romp, it's now available for you to decide whether
SAT       those publishers were right or wrong.
SAT       The BBC Poetry Season is attempting to get poetry to the
SAT       parts that verse normally doesn't reach - television for a
SAT       start. We concentrate on two programmes from the season:
SAT       Why Poetry Matters, presented by Griff Rhys Jones and
SAT       Changing of the Bard in which Ian Hislop investigates the
SAT       history of the post of Poet Laureate.
SAT       Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor has been
SAT       appointed Guest Artistic Director for this year's Brighton
SAT       Festival. Tom and team headed down to Brighton and
SAT       wandered around the town to see some of the striking
SAT       Kapoor exhibits on view, including the Dismemberment of
SAT       Jeanne d'Arc in the Old Municipal Market and C-Curve - an
SAT       extraordinary reflective sculpture on the Downs above the
SAT       city.
SAT       Also down in Brighton, Hydrocracker are presenting a
SAT       unique promenade performance of Joe Orton's The Erpingham
SAT       Camp on Brighton Pier. Empire, anarchy, knobbly knees and
SAT       fish and chips all feature in this ambulatory adaptation
SAT       of Orton's parable of a holiday camp in meltdown.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00kc071 (Listen)
SAT       A Laureate's Legacy - The Poetry Archive
SAT       Andrew Motion explores and tells the story of the proudest
SAT       legacy of his time as Poet Laureate, The Poetry Archive -
SAT       hundreds of poems, read by their authors and all available
SAT       online, free to everyone.
SAT       Motion began the Archive in 1999 with sound producer
SAT       Richard Carrington, and it is still growing in size. It
SAT       includes contemporary poets reading their work, including
SAT       Seamus Heaney, UA Fanthorpe and Jackie Kay and historic
SAT       recordings by poets including Hilaire Belloc, Siegfried
SAT       Sassoon, WB Yeats and even Tennyson and Browning. As well
SAT       as the poems there are sections for children and teachers,
SAT       interviews with poets, poets in residence and useful
SAT       information about genres, forms and metres. If you want to
SAT       know what an anapaest is, or a pantoum, the Poetry Archive
SAT       can help.
SAT       Motion and Carrington talk about why they created the
SAT       archive, and state that there is more to it than simply
SAT       preserving poets reading their work. Motion develops his
SAT       theme that poetry is primarily an aural art, and what this
SAT       reveals. The poet's voice is fundamental: the windswept
SAT       moor is in the voice of Ted Hughes; Charles Causley's
SAT       Cornish accent and dialect are important. The sound of a
SAT       poem is an aspect of its meaning. At the recording session
SAT       when Carol Ann Duffy reads her book Rapture for the
SAT       archive, Richard Carrington speaks about his role: not to
SAT       coax a performance so much as to help the poets to be
SAT       themselves.
SAT       Andrew Motion and Richard Carrington lead us around the
SAT       archive, playing gems that we might otherwise have missed.
SAT       They talk, too, about what is missing, and appeal to
SAT       people who might have recordings. For example, they do not
SAT       know how Thomas Hardy, AE Housman and DH Lawrence sounded
SAT       because as far as we know they never made recordings. But
SAT       they might have, and one day they might turn up.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00k7rbp (Listen)
SAT       The Siege of Krishnapur, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Shelagh Stephenson of the novel by JG
SAT       Farrell.
SAT       It is 1857 and British rule in India is under threat. At
SAT       first the colonists are confident that their 'superior
SAT       culture' will prevail, but as the Indian mutineers show
SAT       their metal, the Collector of Krishnapur is forced to
SAT       reconsider.
SAT       Hopkins, The Collector ...... Alex Jennings
SAT       Fluery ...... Ben Askew
SAT       Prince Hari ...... Shiv Grewal
SAT       Harry Dunstaple ...... Matt Addis
SAT       Louise Dunstaple ...... Jasmine Hyde
SAT       Dr Dunstaple ...... Malcolm Tierney
SAT       Mrs Dunstaple ...... Caroline Guthrie
SAT       Willoughby ...... Sam Dale
SAT       Miriam ...... Janice Acquah
SAT       Dr MacNab ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       The Padre ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Cutter ...... Jonathan Tafler
SAT       Lieutenant Peterson ...... Paul Rider
SAT       Lucy Hughes ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 Weather b00kc073 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00k9d82 (Listen)
SAT       The Law and Death
SAT       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
SAT       issues of the day.
SAT       Medical science has given us increasing control over when,
SAT       where and how we die, but the law is struggling to keep
SAT       pace. Clive and his guests explore the ongoing legal
SAT       arguments about assisted suicide, mercy killing and even
SAT       the precise definition of death.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Counterpoint b00k89pt (Listen)
SAT       Series 23, Episode 10
SAT       Paul Gambaccini chairs the first semi final of the music
SAT       quiz. The competitors are Alan Douglas from
SAT       Worcestershire, Brian Haines from London and David Saxon
SAT       from Northwood in Middlesex.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke b00k7snz (Listen)
SAT       Hayley Radford explores the influence of significant women
SAT       on the life and work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Regarded
SAT       by many as one of the most significant German-speaking
SAT       literary figures of the early Modern period, Rilke wrote
SAT       lyrical verse and prose including Sonnets to Orpheus and
SAT       Letter to A Young Poet.
SAT       Hayley examines how he was dominated by the love of his
SAT       mother and later pushed himself to the very limits of
SAT       romantic love. The poet threw himself into endless
SAT       heartbreak, many relationships, even abandoning a wife and
SAT       child. He became the passive lover of a series of
SAT       forthright, older women, including a princess and some
SAT       heiresses, all in pursuit of the sweet agonies with which
SAT       he could infuse his writing.
SAT       Featuring contributions from Rilke experts Dirk Heisserer,
SAT       Professor Karen Leeder, Dr Ben Hutchinson and Professor
SAT       Von Bulow.
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SUN       SUNDAY 17 MAY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00kc08r (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b007s0ff (Listen)
SUN       Murder She Thought - Series 1, Dear George
SUN       Compelling crime stories by women writers.
SUN       In Cathy Ace's suspenseful tale, it seems Joyce plans to
SUN       do away with her amiable husband, but is it a good idea to
SUN       confide in her secret diary?
SUN       Read by Alex Kingston and Simon Templeman.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kc0jf (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kc0jh (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kc0jk (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00kc0jm (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00kc0jp (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Michael and All Angels Church,
SUN       Great Comberton in Worcestershire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Letters to Mary b00k9d84 (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Series in which three writers send an informal letter to
SUN       the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, 250
SUN       years after her birth, updating her on the progress of her
SUN       often radical ideas.
SUN       Professor Janet Todd, President of Lucy Cavendish College,
SUN       Cambridge, addresses a letter to Mary about her her first
SUN       book, a self-help manual called Thoughts on the Education
SUN       of Daughters.
SUN       Some readers argue that this work is no different from any
SUN       other 18th century Conduct Book, with its rather modest
SUN       ideas about how girls should live their lives, but Janet
SUN       Todd believes that it shows real sparks that would flare
SUN       up fully in her incendiary work, A Vindication of the
SUN       Rights of Woman, four years later. She goes on to wonder
SUN       how Mary might feel about the education and aspirations of
SUN       girls today.
SUN       Read by Sian Thomas.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00kc0jr (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00kc0jt (Listen)
SUN       If Only We Could Bottle It
SUN       Felicity Finch reflects on those indefinable moments when
SUN       we feel more completely alive than seems possible. As an
SUN       actress, it is something she strives to capture in
SUN       performance, but in everyday existence these moments of
SUN       oneness, where an individual is in harmony with
SUN       surroundings and other people, tend to come spontaneously
SUN       and unannounced.
SUN       With readings from Federico Garcia Lorca and John Burnside
SUN       and music by Chick Corea and Northumbrian pipers.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00kc1lb (Listen)
SUN       Countryfile's Adam Henson sees how England rugby veteran
SUN       Julian White tackles life on his farm in Market Harborough.
SUN       Besides rugby, Julian's other passion is 250-acre sheep
SUN       and cattle (60 prime South Devon) farm. He even withdrew
SUN       from the 2007 pre-World Cup camp on the grounds that he
SUN       could not afford to spend several weeks away from his
SUN       young family and farm. But Julian did make it to the 2009
SUN       Six Nations tournament and his wife Sara and friends
SUN       rallied round to keep things going while he was playing
SUN       for England.
SUN       Adam joins Julian and his family to discover how he
SUN       tackles his double life of farming and rugby, and hears
SUN       stories about his experiences of New Zealand pastures and
SUN       a surprise Christmas cow.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00kc1ld (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00kc1lg (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00kc1lj (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00kc1ll (Listen)
SUN       CODA International Training
SUN       Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeals on behalf of CODA
SUN       International.
SUN       CODA International is a UK-based international development
SUN       organisation working to reduce poverty and injustice in
SUN       Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
SUN       Donations to CODA International, should be sent to
SUN       Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope CODA International. Credit cards: Freephone 0800
SUN       404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide CODA
SUN       International with your full name and address so that they
SUN       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another 25
SUN       per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are not
SUN       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1000717.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00kc1ln (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00kc1lq (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00kc1ls (Listen)
SUN       A service from St Teilo's Church in the National History
SUN       Museum of Wales at St Fagans, near Cardiff, led by Rev Roy
SUN       Jenkins. With Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales, directed by
SUN       Robert Court. Organist: John Cheer.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00k9pbf (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the furore over MPs' expenses.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00kc1lv (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00kc1lx (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00kc1lz (Listen)
SUN       Peter Sallis
SUN       Kirsty Young invites actor Peter Sallis to choose eight
SUN       records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.
SUN       As the unassuming Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and the
SUN       equally mild-mannered Wallace in Wallace and Gromit,
SUN       Sallis brings to life a sepia-tinted Britain that barely
SUN       seems to exist any more.
SUN       Now aged 88 and with failing eyesight, no-one, he says, is
SUN       more surprised at his success than himself. 'I've been
SUN       lucky enough to keep going and I realise now, though it's
SUN       taken me nearly 100 years, that my voice is distinctive.
SUN       I'm very lucky indeed.'.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00k8fdv (Listen)
SUN       Series 2, Episode 2
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       Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate
SUN       Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely
SUN       rare cloud.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00kc1m1 (Listen)
SUN       Icelandic Food
SUN       Richard Johnson finds out about the impact of the global
SUN       economic crisis on food in Iceland.
SUN       The country has been hit hard - after enjoying one of the
SUN       highest standards of living in the world, 2008 saw its
SUN       banking sector collapse and it became the first western
SUN       country to apply to the International Monetary Fund for
SUN       emergency financial aid since 1976.
SUN       Richard looks at how this turn of events is making a
SUN       difference to the food being bought and eaten by Iceland's
SUN       population. From rediscovering forgotten food traditions
SUN       to the rise of the budget supermarket, he finds out how
SUN       Icelanders are adjusting their diets to the new economic
SUN       reality.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00kc1m3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00kc1m5 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Percy Edwards Showdown b00htwx7 (Listen)
SUN       David Attenborough hosts a celebration of bird
SUN       impersonator Percy Edwards, who enjoyed a 70-year career
SUN       impersonating birds and beasts. The programme combines the
SUN       strange story of Percy's life with archive of his
SUN       impersonations, interviews with those who knew him and a
SUN       quiz. Guests include Bill Oddie and the comedian Alex
SUN       Horne.
SUN       Percy Edwards discovered his talent for talking like
SUN       animals when he was seven. Dozing under a tree, he heard
SUN       what he thought was a wolf-whistle and discovered that it
SUN       was a bird. For several weeks, Edwards kept hearing this
SUN       greenfinch and found that he could imitate it. He even
SUN       took to eating canary seed before going to bed in the hope
SUN       that he would wake in the morning singing like a bird.
SUN       Eventually Percy was able to produce the sound of more
SUN       than 600 birds, and some other animals. His was the voice
SUN       of the killer whale in Orca, the alien in Alien and he
SUN       provided sheep noises for Kate Bush's song The Dreaming.
SUN       Percy took to the stage aged 11, was a stalwart of the
SUN       Generation Game in the 1970s and gave his final
SUN       performance aged 80 at the London Palladium in 1989. His
SUN       repertoire was extraordinary - all 13 calls of the
SUN       chaffinch, the strangely grinding sound of the amorous
SUN       capercaille and corgis barking in Welsh accents.
SUN       Quizmaster David Attenborough plays bird calls for the
SUN       teams to identify, some of which will not be the birds but
SUN       Percy's impressions - can they tell the difference? Woven
SUN       into the rounds will be snippets about Percy's life from
SUN       the BBC archive, including appearances on Parkinson, Wogan
SUN       and Morecambe and Wise, revealing the importance of his
SUN       work in raising the public's awareness of wildlife and the
SUN       significance of his role as an ornithologist.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k9pb2 (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Anne Swithinbank, John Cushnie and Matthew Wilson are
SUN       guests of Groombridge Horticultural Society and Garden
SUN       Club near Tunbridge Wells.
SUN       In the second of a series on how to carry out sustainable
SUN       gardening, the panel look at managing without chemicals by
SUN       gardening organically.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Lights, Camera, Landmark b00fgblv (Listen)
SUN       Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
SUN       Matthew Sweet visits parts of the man-made landscape which
SUN       have been used in films over the years.
SUN       Matthew discovers what attracted the makers of Elizabeth,
SUN       Mary, Queen of Scots and The Virgin Queen to Alnwick
SUN       Castle in Northumberland.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00kc21f (Listen)
SUN       The Siege of Krishnapur, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Shelagh Stephenson of the novel by JG
SUN       Farrell.
SUN       It is 1857 and British rule in India is under siege. A
SUN       series of attacks has all but destroyed the Residency at
SUN       Krishnapur. Now swamped with squabbling civilians, the
SUN       Collector is unsure how much longer his defences can hold
SUN       out.
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 b00kc262 (Listen)
SUN       Michael Palin gives his choices for Five of the Best; he
SUN       traces his love of reading back to his seventh birthday.
SUN       Two authors who have gone from fighting crime as police
SUN       officers to writing about it, discuss how walking the mean
SUN       streets themselves has affected their work.
SUN       And the author of No Country for Young Men, Julia
SUN       O'Faolain, explains her 17 year absence.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00kc264 (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces poems by AE Housman and Walt
SUN       Whitman, including from A Shropshire Lad and O Captain, My
SUN       Captain. The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Peter
SUN       Marinker.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Sacred Election: Lessons from the Biggest Democracy
SUN       in the W b00k8v7c (Listen)
SUN       Political anthropologist Dr Mukulika Banerjee reports from
SUN       India on the many surprising ways in which the country
SUN       manages to defy apparently insuperable odds to deliver an
SUN       efficient and effective democratic process.
SUN       An Indian general election is the largest single organised
SUN       event in the world, with over 700 million voters, 800,000
SUN       polling stations and one million electronic voting
SUN       machines moved in phases around the country; and, unlike
SUN       many western democracies, electoral participation in India
SUN       is positively buoyant, and rising.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00kc06x (Listen)
SUN       Series 6, Episode 3
SUN       John Fletcher creates a fictional response to the week's
SUN       news.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kc2gc (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00kc2gf (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kc2gh (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00kc2gk (Listen)
SUN       John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the
SUN       past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00kc2gm (Listen)
SUN       Mike shows off a new attachment.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Go4it b00kc2kj (Listen)
SUN       Barney meets children who do their own radio broadcasting,
SUN       including some Gurkha kids who send audio messages to
SUN       their dads in the army and a boy who podcast to his class
SUN       mates when he spent two months on a tiny Scottish island.
SUN       Plus a report on a children's radio station in Swaziland
SUN       and how to start a radio station at your school.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cm7h8 (Listen)
SUN       Stories with Latitude, Episode 4
SUN       Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in
SUN       Suffolk. Comedian Lucy Porter gets inside the head of a
SUN       festival first-aider.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00k9p0t (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford takes apart a rogue statistic on domestic
SUN       violence which has been circulating since the 1990s,
SUN       questions news reports which suggest that the recession is
SUN       hitting white collar workers hardest and reveals a new
SUN       mathematical riddle - the Kate Bush conjecture.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00k9pb4 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00kbzgf (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Money Box asks the experts if the Bank of England's
SUN       attempt to stimulate the economy will drive up inflation.
SUN       We look at the best savings deals and weigh up the pros
SUN       and cons of locking your cash away. And Bob Howard reports
SUN       on the consumers attempting to use the courts to get their
SUN       credit card debts cancelled.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00kc1ll (Listen)
SUN       CODA International Training
SUN       Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeals on behalf of CODA
SUN       International.
SUN       CODA International is a UK-based international development
SUN       organisation working to reduce poverty and injustice in
SUN       Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
SUN       Donations to CODA International, should be sent to
SUN       Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope CODA International. Credit cards: Freephone 0800
SUN       404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide CODA
SUN       International with your full name and address so that they
SUN       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another 25
SUN       per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are not
SUN       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1000717.
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 b00kc2kl (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00kc2kn (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Letters to Mary.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00k9pb7 (Listen)
SUN       Charlie Kaufman on his vision for his new film,
SUN       Synecdoche, New York, a mind-bending nightmarish mixture
SUN       of dream and reality starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and
SUN       Samantha Morton. Counterculture film maker Kenneth Anger
SUN       talks about his career and his association with other
SUN       cultural provocateurs The Rolling Stones. And film
SUN       historian Matthew Sweet reviews the clasic film The
SUN       Seventh Veil, starring James Mason, as it is released on
SUN       DVD.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00kc0jt (Listen)
SUN       If Only We Could Bottle It
SUN       Felicity Finch reflects on those indefinable moments when
SUN       we feel more completely alive than seems possible. As an
SUN       actress, it is something she strives to capture in
SUN       performance, but in everyday existence these moments of
SUN       oneness, where an individual is in harmony with
SUN       surroundings and other people, tend to come spontaneously
SUN       and unannounced.
SUN       With readings from Federico Garcia Lorca and John Burnside
SUN       and music by Chick Corea and Northumbrian pipers.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 18 MAY 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00kcp2f (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00k9d7y (Listen)
MON       Are walls going up around Britain's communities? Are we
MON       sleepwalking to racial segregation? Laurie hears of new
MON       research which counters some contemporary fears about
MON       immigration in Britain.
MON       In 2005, Trevor Phillips, then Chair of the Commission for
MON       Racial Equality warned, 'The walls are going up around
MON       many of our communities and the bridges are crumbling ...
MON       we are sleepwalking our way to segregation'. Are there
MON       really ghettoes growing in Britain's cities? Laurie talks
MON       to Ludi Simpson about his new research into the state of
MON       segregation in Britain and hears from Tariq Modood about
MON       how and why Muslim communities are feared.
MON       Also in the programme, Laurie hears from Rachel Shabi
MON       about the Mizrahis, Israel's Jews from Arab lands. They
MON       talk Arabic and their customs are rooted in the Middle
MON       East, but despite constituting more that half of the
MON       Israeli population she claims that they are sidelined and
MON       discriminated against in their own country.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00kc0jp (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Michael and All Angels Church,
MON       Great Comberton in Worcestershire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kcp68 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kcp7r (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kcp7f (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00kcph9 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kcphp (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
MON       Archbishop of Cardiff.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00kcprd (Listen)
MON       Charlotte Smith hears about plans to re-introduce the
MON       black bee to the UK. She also finds out about the latest
MON       research into animal disease and whether farmers, who
MON       claim their health has been ruined by sheep dip, have any
MON       chance of compensation.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00kcr2l (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00kcprv (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00kcr2n (Listen)
MON       God is back, according to John Micklethwait,
MON       editor-in-chief of The Economist. He argues that religion
MON       is resurgent around the world, driven by consumerism,
MON       globalisation and the failure of secular politics such as
MON       communism. God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is
MON       Changing the World, co-written with Adrian Wooldridge, is
MON       published by Allen Lane.
MON       The novelist Maggie Gee questions whether, despite
MON       anti-discrimination laws, we are crueller today in the era
MON       of reality TV and celebrity-bashing than we have been in
MON       the past. Maggie's article, The Cruelty of Strangers, is
MON       in the June edition of Prospect magazine.
MON       Richard Eyre directs a new play set in West Africa that
MON       looks at the consequences when one country imposes its
MON       ideals on another. The Observer is at the National Theatre.
MON       Economist Robert J Shiller argues that finances are not
MON       led by mathematical formulae but by our 'animal spirits'.
MON       Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy,
MON       and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, co-written with
MON       George A Akerlof, is published by Princeton University
MON       Press.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00kcr2q (Listen)
MON       The Blue Hour, Episode 1
MON       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
MON       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
MON       Sargasso Sea.
MON       Jean will one day lead a dramatic and colourful life in
MON       Paris, Vienna and London, but life begins for her on the
MON       Windward Island of Dominica.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kcrg0 (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       It has been revealed that the UK has the lowest rape
MON       conviction rates out of thirty-three European countries
MON       listed in a new study to be published by London
MON       Metropolitan University. Why do our institutions compare
MON       so badly with those across the channel in securing
MON       convictions for sexual assault? Simon Foy, Commander of
MON       Homicide, Rape and Serious Sexual Violence at the
MON       Metropolitan Police Authority and Fay Maxted, from the
MON       Survivor's Trust, join Jane to discuss why it's thought
MON       the new 'Rape Support Programme' will soon be able to
MON       offer some answers. Jane also visits a Sexual Assault
MON       Referral Centre to find out more about how these centres
MON       are improving the care and treatment of victims.
MON       Girls now out-perform boys in every subject of the
MON       curriculum except maths and science, with almost 50 per
MON       cent going on to university or college, as opposed to
MON       fewer than 40 per cent of boys. Considering that less than
MON       a century ago the chances of a girl even being allowed
MON       near a university were negligible, this is a remarkable
MON       reversal of fortunes. But has girls' success been at the
MON       cost of their male peers? What can be done to help get
MON       boys back on track? Jane speaks to Sue Palmer, author of
MON       21st Century Boys, a guide for parents, politicians and
MON       the public at large.
MON       American singer Maureen McGovern has spent nearly forty
MON       years songwriting and performing for concerts, television
MON       and film. Her repertoire includes pop, scat, easy
MON       listening and musical theatre. She tells Jane about how
MON       listening to the Beatles helped her through high school;
MON       how, in the 1970s, she became known as the
MON       'disaster-theme-queen' (when she recorded the themes for
MON       the Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno); and how her
MON       current CD, a musical scrapbook from the 1960s to the
MON       early '70s, takes her back to her roots as a folk singer.
MON       She also sings live.
MON       
MON       11:00 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen)
MON       The Boxing Civil Servant
MON       Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her
MON       fifty-something friend Miranda Carter, a high-flying civil
MON       servant at the Department of Transport, astonished friends
MON       and family when she announced that she was applying for a
MON       licence as a boxing promoter.
MON       By day she continues to work in the corridors of power in
MON       Whitehall, but in the evenings and at weekends she mixes
MON       with the raucous boxing crowd of York Hall, Bethnal Green,
MON       in the East End of London.
MON       
MON       11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b009fwpt (Listen)
MON       The Heart of Saturday Night
MON       Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in a
MON       Birmingham record shop.
MON       Grandad, father and son collide over hoodies, pizza and
MON       Trivial Pursuit.
MON       Adam ...... Lenny Henry
MON       Rudy ...... Larrington Walker
MON       Richie ...... Joe Jacobs
MON       Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
MON       Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
MON       DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke
MON       Trev the Hoodie ...... Doc Brown.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00kcrgb (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00kcrmn (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00kcrmq (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Counterpoint b00kdp26 (Listen)
MON       Series 23, Episode 11
MON       Paul Gambaccini chairs the second semi final of the music
MON       quiz. The contestants are Paul Grayson from Ripon, Peter
MON       Whitehead from Bromley and Tim Wise from Wallington in
MON       Surrey.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00kc2gm (Listen)
MON       Mike shows off a new attachment.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00jzf6b (Listen)
MON       The Moment You Feel It
MON       By Ed Harris.
MON       Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes,
MON       along with a running commentary from the voices of his
MON       past. So how does finding a strange coat in his kitchen
MON       remind Alf why he doesn't want a bath today? A tender, sad
MON       comedy about losing your past.
MON       Alf ...... Richard Briers
MON       Young Alf ...... Rory Kinnear
MON       Pru ...... Tracy Wiles
MON       Steven ...... Hugh Ross
MON       Marina ...... Caroline Guthrie
MON       Other parts ...... Janice Acquah.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00kc071 (Listen)
MON       A Laureate's Legacy - The Poetry Archive
MON       Andrew Motion explores and tells the story of the proudest
MON       legacy of his time as Poet Laureate, The Poetry Archive -
MON       hundreds of poems, read by their authors and all available
MON       online, free to everyone.
MON       Motion began the Archive in 1999 with sound producer
MON       Richard Carrington, and it is still growing in size. It
MON       includes contemporary poets reading their work, including
MON       Seamus Heaney, UA Fanthorpe and Jackie Kay and historic
MON       recordings by poets including Hilaire Belloc, Siegfried
MON       Sassoon, WB Yeats and even Tennyson and Browning. As well
MON       as the poems there are sections for children and teachers,
MON       interviews with poets, poets in residence and useful
MON       information about genres, forms and metres. If you want to
MON       know what an anapaest is, or a pantoum, the Poetry Archive
MON       can help.
MON       Motion and Carrington talk about why they created the
MON       archive, and state that there is more to it than simply
MON       preserving poets reading their work. Motion develops his
MON       theme that poetry is primarily an aural art, and what this
MON       reveals. The poet's voice is fundamental: the windswept
MON       moor is in the voice of Ted Hughes; Charles Causley's
MON       Cornish accent and dialect are important. The sound of a
MON       poem is an aspect of its meaning. At the recording session
MON       when Carol Ann Duffy reads her book Rapture for the
MON       archive, Richard Carrington speaks about his role: not to
MON       coax a performance so much as to help the poets to be
MON       themselves.
MON       Andrew Motion and Richard Carrington lead us around the
MON       archive, playing gems that we might otherwise have missed.
MON       They talk, too, about what is missing, and appeal to
MON       people who might have recordings. For example, they do not
MON       know how Thomas Hardy, AE Housman and DH Lawrence sounded
MON       because as far as we know they never made recordings. But
MON       they might have, and one day they might turn up.
MON       
MON       15:45 Musical Migrants b00kcszv (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Jamaica
MON       Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries,
MON       influenced by music.
MON       Born in England and raised in Canada, Maureen Sheridan was
MON       widowed suddenly while still in her 20s. In the midst of
MON       bereavement, reggae music lifted her out of depression. So
MON       strong was its effect that she moved to Jamaica with her
MON       two young daughters, and though she had no musical
MON       background, before long Maureen was doing much more than
MON       just listening to reggae.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00kc1m1 (Listen)
MON       Icelandic Food
MON       Richard Johnson finds out about the impact of the global
MON       economic crisis on food in Iceland.
MON       The country has been hit hard - after enjoying one of the
MON       highest standards of living in the world, 2008 saw its
MON       banking sector collapse and it became the first western
MON       country to apply to the International Monetary Fund for
MON       emergency financial aid since 1976.
MON       Richard looks at how this turn of events is making a
MON       difference to the food being bought and eaten by Iceland's
MON       population. From rediscovering forgotten food traditions
MON       to the rise of the budget supermarket, he finds out how
MON       Icelanders are adjusting their diets to the new economic
MON       reality.
MON       
MON       16:30 Traveller's Tree b00kdr55 (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Turkey
MON       Katie Derham presents the holiday magazine which examines
MON       our holiday and travel trends.
MON       With British holiday bookings to Turkey up over 20 per
MON       cent and a host of new air routes to the country, Katie
MON       and the team look at the country that has become the most
MON       popular 'outside the Euro-zone' destination.
MON       Sarah Rainsford, at the end of her stay in Turkey as BBC
MON       correspondent, gives an insider's guide to Instanbul, the
MON       city she has come to love, and author and journalist
MON       Jeremy Seal takes a meander inland. Plus a report on
MON       Cappodocia, one of the world's most bizarre landscapes
MON       where holiday accommodation is in caves.
MON       A Just Radio/Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00kctv5 (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 b00kctx1 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00kdr57 (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 3
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       Chris Addison, Rupert Sheldrake and Bettany Hughes donate
MON       objects of extreme interest to the world's most eclectic
MON       museum.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00kcsgh (Listen)
MON       Joe discovers buried treasure.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00kctxc (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews as Mark Lawson meets artists Eileen
MON       Cooper and Richard Wilson, who have selected works for the
MON       2009 Royal Academy Summer Show.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kcv33 (Listen)
MON       Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 1
MON       Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey
MON       Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco.
MON       Back in Rome after his adventures in Celtic Germany, Falco
MON       finds a stranger waiting at his mother's house. And it is
MON       not long before he finds himself in a fight.
MON       Falco ...... Anton Lesser
MON       Helena ...... Anna Madeley
MON       Petronius ...... Ben Crowe
MON       Mother ...... Frances Jeater
MON       Censorinus ...... Andy Hockley
MON       Epimandos ...... Paul Clarkson
MON       Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
MON       
MON       20:00 Foes Reunited b00kdr59 (Listen)
MON       Reporter Andy Martin investigates why the first generation
MON       to grow up with peace in Northern Ireland is using social
MON       networking sites to spread messages of sectarian hatred.
MON       Until recently it was safe for many to assume that life in
MON       Northern Ireland was more settled than it had been for
MON       decades. However, research carried out by Queens
MON       University, Belfast, pointed out something that many youth
MON       workers on the front line, and anyone looking at Bebo or
MON       Facebook websites, already knew: that the young people
MON       growing up with peace were showing themselves to be just
MON       as sectarian as their parents and grandparents.
MON       Messages of abuse and murals of segregation may be coming
MON       down from the gables of houses and buildings, but on the
MON       'walls' of social networking sites they are multiplying
MON       rapidly.
MON       Andy asks why teenagers with no direct experience of the
MON       Troubles are determined to continue the arguments and
MON       sectarianism of the past. He talks to young people who
MON       explain why their harbour such feelings. He talks to
MON       teachers, parents and youth workers about the difficulties
MON       of policing these websites, which are being used to
MON       organise meetings between Catholics and Protestants to
MON       taunt one another and even to fight or riot.
MON       The programme also examines cases where such hatred has
MON       led to savage violence and murder.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00gdjvc (Listen)
MON       Malaysia: Racial Supremacy No More?
MON       For nearly four decades, ethnic Malays have benefited from
MON       positive discrimination over Malaysians of ethnic Chinese
MON       and Indian origin - which make up nearly 40 percent of the
MON       population.
MON       But in 2008, the country's unique racial compact began to
MON       be strongly challenged from within. Mukul Devichand
MON       reports on the tensions and meets Malay, Indian and
MON       Chinese young people on the front lines of the struggle
MON       between ingrained racism and the possibility of a more
MON       equal future.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00kdr5c (Listen)
MON       Whose Amazon Is It Anyway?
MON       In negotiations for the global climate change deal due to
MON       be sealed at the UN conference in Copenhagen at the end of
MON       2009, a key issue will be the system of financial
MON       incentives to reward developing countries that succeed in
MON       reducing the rate of deforestation.
MON       This implicitly recognises tropical forests - especially
MON       the Amazon, biggest of them all - as part of the common
MON       global heritage, and in Brazil this can play into
MON       long-standing and widely-believed fears of an
MON       international plot to wrest sovereignty of the forest from
MON       the Brazilian nation, for financial and strategic ends.
MON       The sensitivity of this issue was shown by the furore over
MON       Johan Eliasch's acquisition of a large area of forest and
MON       the perception that through the Cool Earth website,
MON       sovereign Brazilian territory is in effect being sold
MON       online. The fears have been further stoked by reports from
MON       the Brazilian intelligence service and serving military
MON       officers, claiming that the presence of large numbers of
MON       international NGOs working in indigenous-controlled
MON       frontier areas represents a significant security threat.
MON       Under the Amazon Fund system set up by the Brazilians this
MON       year, foreign donations (one billion US dollars
MON       anticipated in 2008-2009) linked to reduced deforestation
MON       are administered entirely by a committee of Brazilians,
MON       aimed at pre-empting claims of 'internationalisation' of
MON       the Amazon.
MON       This programme looks at how this debate is playing out in
MON       Brazil; on the one hand, deforestation is increasingly
MON       seen as a national disgrace that stains the country's
MON       global reputation, but on the other is a reluctance to be
MON       lectured by interfering foreigners who destroyed their own
MON       forests centuries ago.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00kcr2n (Listen)
MON       God is back, according to John Micklethwait,
MON       editor-in-chief of The Economist. He argues that religion
MON       is resurgent around the world, driven by consumerism,
MON       globalisation and the failure of secular politics such as
MON       communism. God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is
MON       Changing the World, co-written with Adrian Wooldridge, is
MON       published by Allen Lane.
MON       The novelist Maggie Gee questions whether, despite
MON       anti-discrimination laws, we are crueller today in the era
MON       of reality TV and celebrity-bashing than we have been in
MON       the past. Maggie's article, The Cruelty of Strangers, is
MON       in the June edition of Prospect magazine.
MON       Richard Eyre directs a new play set in West Africa that
MON       looks at the consequences when one country imposes its
MON       ideals on another. The Observer is at the National Theatre.
MON       Economist Robert J Shiller argues that finances are not
MON       led by mathematical formulae but by our 'animal spirits'.
MON       Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy,
MON       and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, co-written with
MON       George A Akerlof, is published by Princeton University
MON       Press.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00kczqt (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00kd1q1 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd3j5 (Listen)
MON       Brooklyn, Meeting the Family
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       As Eilis' romance with Tony Fiorello blossoms, life in
MON       Brooklyn takes on a new rhythm and it is time for Eilis to
MON       experience her first Italian meal.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00k8t3x (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 b00kd3jp (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with David Wilby.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 19 MAY 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00kcnyt (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00kcr2q (Listen)
TUE       The Blue Hour, Episode 1
TUE       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
TUE       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
TUE       Sargasso Sea.
TUE       Jean will one day lead a dramatic and colourful life in
TUE       Paris, Vienna and London, but life begins for her on the
TUE       Windward Island of Dominica.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kcp2h (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kcp7h (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kcp6b (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00kcpdn (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kcphc (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
TUE       Archbishop of Cardiff.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00kcpk5 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00kcprg (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys 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 ... b00kdry6 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Formula One
TUE       Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at
TUE       the world of Formula One motor racing.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On
TUE       b00gkrtt (Listen)
TUE       Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic
TUE       Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian
TUE       writer David Mattin about leaving their homeland and
TUE       family behind to make a new life in Britain.
TUE       David hears how many of those who participated in the
TUE       early days of the revolution subsequently faced
TUE       persecution at the hands of the fundamentalist regime of
TUE       the Ayatollah Khomeini and had to escape to Britain.
TUE       A Wise Buddah Creative production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00kk3kz (Listen)
TUE       The Blue Hour, Episode 2
TUE       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
TUE       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
TUE       Sargasso Sea.
TUE       Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is
TUE       sent to a chilly girls' school in Cambridge.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kcr8p (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00kdtpw (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Alien Attitudes
TUE       Brett Westwood asks leading conservationists whether we
TUE       are being consistent in our approach to non-native plants
TUE       and animals.
TUE       We cull ruddy ducks and uproot Himalayan balsam, but we
TUE       also enjoy watching little owls and hares in the
TUE       countryside. None of these species is native to the United
TUE       Kingdom, but the way in which we think of and deal with
TUE       them can appear contrary and illogical.
TUE       Brett asks which species should we nip in the bud, and
TUE       which we should learn to live with.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Borges and Me: Libraries and Labyrinths b00kdtpy (Listen)
TUE       Regarded by many as one of the great figures of 20th
TUE       century world literature, why is it that today Jorge Luis
TUE       Borges is more regularly quoted than he is read? Using the
TUE       author's blindness as a key with which to unlock his life
TUE       and work, Peter White goes to Buenos Aires to find out
TUE       about the enigmatic author.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00kcrg2 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00kcrl9 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00kcrms (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 The Music Group b00kdtq0 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 6
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 is joined by poet Grace Nichols and Slade frontman
TUE       Noddy Holder. The record that Noddy chooses to bring to
TUE       the group sparks some lively discussion about his love of
TUE       rock and roll.
TUE       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00kcsgh (Listen)
TUE       Joe discovers buried treasure.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00kdttk (Listen)
TUE       Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, Old Unhappy
TUE       Far-Off Things
TUE       Adaptation by Richard Stoneman of the novel by John
TUE       Mortimer.
TUE       It is the 1950s, a short decade after the end of the war,
TUE       and two war heroes have been shot dead. The only suspect
TUE       is Simon Jerrold, the son of one of the victims, and he
TUE       faces the death penalty. Defending him is deemed hopeless,
TUE       so the case is handed to a novice. But the novice's
TUE       superiors did not count on the tenacity and wit of the
TUE       young and hungry Horace Rumpole.
TUE       Elder Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West
TUE       Young Horace Rumpole ...... Benedict Cumberbatch
TUE       CH Wystan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
TUE       Albert ...... Andy de la Tour
TUE       Simon Jerold ...... Ewan Bailey
TUE       Daisy ...... Emma Fielding
TUE       Hilda Wystan ...... Jasmine Hyde
TUE       Reggie Proudfoot ...... Stephen Critchlow
TUE       Bonny Bernard ...... Matthew Morgan
TUE       Judge Cookson ...... Karl Johnson
TUE       Lord Jessop ...... David Shaw-Parker
TUE       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
TUE       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00kdttm (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past. The story of John
TUE       Bellingham, the only person to murder a British Prime
TUE       Minister.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kdvmb (Listen)
TUE       Lost and Found, The Undertaker's Tale
TUE       Series of three short stories by major writers which have
TUE       only recently come to light.
TUE       By Mark Twain.
TUE       Newly published in the book 'Who Is Mark Twain?' and The
TUE       Strand Magazine, Twain's tale about the funeral industry
TUE       had lain undiscovered for 130 years. Twain tackles the
TUE       same problems that we are challenged with today and pokes
TUE       fun at the same type of characters that inhabit our
TUE       present-day world.
TUE       This world broadcast premiere is read by Hector Elizondo.
TUE       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Musical Migrants b00kctm0 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Germany
TUE       Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries,
TUE       influenced by music.
TUE       A yearning to see where the composers whose music she
TUE       loved to play had lived took violinist Amber McPherson
TUE       from the USA to Leipzig, the city where Bach spent half
TUE       his life. But getting to know the tradition from which
TUE       Bach came forced Amber to re-examine everything she had
TUE       previously learnt.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 The Eureka Years b007xnfq (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, 1866
TUE       Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history
TUE       of science.
TUE       Charles Darwin is an international celebrity following the
TUE       publication of On the Origin of Species. Growing peas in a
TUE       monastic garden a thousand miles away, however, Austrian
TUE       priest Gregor Mendel holds the key to the process of
TUE       heredity, the missing link in Darwin's theory.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00kf01v (Listen)
TUE       Series 18, Fred Astaire
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Physician, journalist and broadcaster Dr Michael O'Donnell
TUE       discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred
TUE       Astaire. Joining him are Astaire's daugher, Ava Astaire
TUE       McKenzie, and lifelong Astaire enthusiast and Oxford don
TUE       Dr Kathleen Riley.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00kctsg (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 b00kctv7 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Heresy b00kf0fv (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 6
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Panellists are journalist Euan
TUE       Ferguson, writer and broadcaster Clive James and comedian
TUE       David Mitchell.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00kcsfn (Listen)
TUE       Brian meets the other man in Debbie's life.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00kctx3 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the premiere
TUE       of Grasses of a Thousand Colours, a play by Wallace Shawn,
TUE       with a cast that includes Miranda Richardson and the
TUE       playwright himself.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00khhyp (Listen)
TUE       Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 2
TUE       Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey
TUE       Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco.
TUE       Not only is Falco accused of murder, but he has discovered
TUE       that his brother was involved in an art dealing scam. To
TUE       make matters worse, Helena has some searching questions
TUE       for him about the history of his love life.
TUE       Falco ...... Anton Lesser
TUE       Helena ...... Anna Madeley
TUE       Petronius ...... Ben Crowe
TUE       Epimandos ...... Paul Clarkson
TUE       Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 World Heritage: Curse or Blessing? b00kgzmw (Listen)
TUE       While Britain's heritage officials decide whether to
TUE       nominate more sights for World Heritage status, Emily
TUE       Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for
TUE       good, protecting our cities against greedy developers, or
TUE       if it is stopping the flow of modern life?
TUE       Should the notion of a global heritage be allowed to
TUE       override local democracy? What can this organisation do
TUE       for sites that have been shattered by conflict or
TUE       decimated by industry? Has heritage's equivalent to a
TUE       Michelin star lost its integrity on the world stage?
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00kf119 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00kf11c (Listen)
TUE       Surgery
TUE       Dr Mark Porter investigates the past and future of
TUE       surgery. He meets Prof Harold Ellis, a surgeon who
TUE       qualified in the summer that the NHS was born, and hears
TUE       about some of the latest surgical techniques, including
TUE       how a gall bladder can be removed with just one tiny
TUE       incision through the bellybutton.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 What's the Point of ... b00kdry6 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Formula One
TUE       Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at
TUE       the world of Formula One motor racing.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00kczqh (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00kczx1 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd1q3 (Listen)
TUE       Brooklyn, Coney Island
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       Tony takes Eilis for a trip to Coney Island to celebrate
TUE       her exam success. But Eilis' new found happiness is
TUE       short-lived, as news from home turns her American life
TUE       sour.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 The Secret World b00kf11f (Listen)
TUE       Episode 6
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 b00kd3j7 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Sean Curran.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00kcnyw (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00kk3kz (Listen)
WED       The Blue Hour, Episode 2
WED       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
WED       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
WED       Sargasso Sea.
WED       Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is
WED       sent to a chilly girls' school in Cambridge.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kcp2k (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kcp7k (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kcp6d (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00kcpdq (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kcphf (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
WED       Archbishop of Cardiff.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00kcpk7 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00kcprj (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 b00kfdq7 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00kk3jm (Listen)
WED       The Blue Hour, Episode 3
WED       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
WED       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
WED       Sargasso Sea.
WED       Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns
WED       about love the hard way.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kcr8r (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold.
WED       
WED       11:00 Petrov's Dilemma b00c55vt (Listen)
WED       Jonathan Charles hears the story of a man who obeyed his
WED       instincts and in doing so potentially saved the world from
WED       nuclear disaster.
WED       On 26 September 1983, lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov,
WED       manning an installation where the Soviet Union monitored
WED       its early-warning satellites over the United States, was
WED       confronted by an alarm from a satellite signalling an
WED       American nuclear missile attack. Under enormous stress, he
WED       took the decision that the report was a false one
WED       triggered by system malfunction.
WED       Contributors include diplomat Sir Christopher Mayer, KGB
WED       colonel and later a defector to the west Oleg Gordievsky,
WED       the Times diplomatic editor Michael Binyon and American
WED       nuclear weapons expert Paul Bracken.
WED       
WED       11:30 Murder Unprompted: A Charles Paris Mystery b00856hy (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Simon Brett's thespian sleuth returns in a dramatisation
WED       by Jeremy Front.
WED       Has Charles time to solve a murder, win Frances' heart and
WED       make it on stage by the time the curtain goes up?
WED       Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy
WED       Frances ...... Suzanne Burden
WED       Maurice/Buffet Captain ...... Jon Glover
WED       Lucy ...... Jemima Rooper
WED       Val ...... Liza Sadovy
WED       Paula Lexington/SM/Sat Nav ...... Rachel Bavidge
WED       Alex/PR ...... Danny Webb
WED       Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00kcrg4 (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00kcrlc (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00kcrmv (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00kfgcn (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00kcsfn (Listen)
WED       Brian meets the other man in Debbie's life.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00kfgcq (Listen)
WED       The Man inside the Suitcase
WED       By Judy Upton. Helen and Naomi attend auctions of
WED       unclaimed airport luggage, contents unseen, in the hope of
WED       finding valuables that they can sell on the internet.
WED       Helen ...... Claudie Blakley
WED       Naomi ...... Victoria Hamilton
WED       Katie ...... Lizzy Watts
WED       Paul ...... Matt Addis
WED       The Auctioneer ...... Stephen Hogan
WED       With Janice Acquah, Philip Fox, Paul Rider and Malcolm
WED       Tierney
WED       Directed by Gemma Jenkins.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00kfgcs (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on holiday
WED       finance. His guests are Simon Calder, travel editor of The
WED       Independent, Frances Tuke of the Association of British
WED       Travel Agents and Jonathan Buttery of Voyager Insurance.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kdvm4 (Listen)
WED       Lost and Found, Blackberry Day
WED       Series of three short stories by major writers which have
WED       only recently come to light.
WED       By Malachi Whitaker.
WED       A woman in the Yorkshire Dales struggles to come terms
WED       with her husband's retirement from the mill. Read by
WED       Rosalind Ayres.
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 Musical Migrants b00kctm2 (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Spain
WED       Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries,
WED       influenced by music.
WED       In 1992, osteopath Mark Shurey happened to be catch a
WED       broadcast from the Seville Expo on television. Famous
WED       flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia was playing and Mark's
WED       life was changed forever. After that, his days working for
WED       the NHS in Norwich were numbered.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00kfgcv (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00kf11c (Listen)
WED       Surgery
WED       Dr Mark Porter investigates the past and future of
WED       surgery. He meets Prof Harold Ellis, a surgeon who
WED       qualified in the summer that the NHS was born, and hears
WED       about some of the latest surgical techniques, including
WED       how a gall bladder can be removed with just one tiny
WED       incision through the bellybutton.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00kctsj (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 b00kctv9 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 Elvenquest b00kfgcx (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
WED       The heroes answer a distress call from some sirens and
WED       Lord Darkness's pursuit of all things evil is put to one
WED       side as he considers getting himself an heir.
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 b00kcsfq (Listen)
WED       Marshall gets a baptism of fire.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00kctx5 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an
WED       interview with songwriter Eg White, who has written hits
WED       with Will Young, Adele and Duffy.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00khhyr (Listen)
WED       Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 3
WED       Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey
WED       Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco.
WED       Falco and Helena visit Marina to see if they can discover
WED       what happened on Festus' last night in Rome. Falco is left
WED       with no choice but to seek out his estranged father.
WED       Falco ...... Anton Lesser
WED       Helena ...... Anna Madeley
WED       Marina ...... Miranda Keeling
WED       Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock
WED       Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
WED       
WED       20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00kfgcz (Listen)
WED       The Law and Protest
WED       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
WED       issues of the day.
WED       Conflict between police and G20 demonstrators raised
WED       serious questions about the distinctions in law between
WED       our right to peaceful protest and police powers to prevent
WED       violence and disorder. What are the legal limits of our
WED       right to express dissent? Is it acceptable for police to
WED       use powers under the Terrorism Act to prevent
WED       demonstrations and is the police tactic of 'kettling' to
WED       control crowds actually legal?
WED       
WED       20:45 Letters to Mary b00kfgd1 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
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       Richard Reeves, director of the independent think tank
WED       Demos, updates Mary on how her ideas about republicanism
WED       have - or have not - advanced in Britain in the 250 years
WED       since her birth.
WED       Although generally thought of as a feminist,
WED       Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men is a
WED       political pamphlet attacking aristocracy and advocating
WED       republicanism. It proved to be the first salvo in a
WED       pamphlet war, responding to Burke's defence of
WED       constitutional monarchy, aristocracy and the Church of
WED       England. In the pamphlet she attacked not only hereditary
WED       privilege but also the language used by Burke to defend
WED       it. Perhaps most significantly and originally, she
WED       criticised Burke's justification of an unequal society
WED       founded on the passivity of women.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00kdtpw (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Alien Attitudes
WED       Brett Westwood asks leading conservationists whether we
WED       are being consistent in our approach to non-native plants
WED       and animals.
WED       We cull ruddy ducks and uproot Himalayan balsam, but we
WED       also enjoy watching little owls and hares in the
WED       countryside. None of these species is native to the United
WED       Kingdom, but the way in which we think of and deal with
WED       them can appear contrary and illogical.
WED       Brett asks which species should we nip in the bud, and
WED       which we should learn to live with.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00kfdq7 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00kczqk (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00kczx3 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd1q5 (Listen)
WED       Brooklyn, Too Far 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' happiness in Brooklyn has been shattered by the
WED       news of her beloved sister's death and Tony is the only
WED       one who can offer her comfort.
WED       
WED       23:00 Self-Storage b007yy2q (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Break-Up
WED       Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.
WED       Following the breakup of his marriage, Dave moves all his
WED       possessions into the Storage Garden, meeting security
WED       guard Ron and mysterious neighbour Geoff.
WED       Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith
WED       Geoff ...... Mark Heap
WED       Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
WED       Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero
WED       Sarah ...... Susan Earl
WED       Boss ...... Phil Nichol.
WED       
WED       23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007x4sw (Listen)
WED       Geoff Peacock
WED       Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read.
WED       Renowned broadcaster Roydon Postlethwaite explores the
WED       many lives and businesses of Britain's most amiable
WED       entrepreneur, uncovering tales of greed, revenge,
WED       conspiracy and plums.
WED       Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern
WED       Geoff Peacock ...... Paul Putner
WED       Peter Wilkinson ...... Benedict Wong
WED       Moonsusan ...... Julia Deakin
WED       Nigel Dench ...... Robin Ince
WED       Mrs Dench ...... Liza Sadovy.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kd3j9 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Robert Orchard.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00kcnyy (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00kk3jm (Listen)
THU       The Blue Hour, Episode 3
THU       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
THU       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
THU       Sargasso Sea.
THU       Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns
THU       about love the hard way.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kcp2m (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kcp7m (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kcp6g (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00kcpds (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kcphh (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
THU       Archbishop of Cardiff.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00kcpk9 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00kcprl (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00kfqm6 (Listen)
THU       The Whale - A History
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Steve Jones, Bill Amos and Eleanor
THU       Weston discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00kk3jp (Listen)
THU       The Blue Hour, Episode 4
THU       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
THU       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
THU       Sargasso Sea.
THU       Now married but still penniless, things start to look up
THU       for Jean when she moves to Vienna in 1920.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kcr8t (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kfqm8 (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 Happy Birthday Tommy Walker b00kfqmb (Listen)
THU       Nick Maes revisits and celebrates The Who's influential
THU       rock-opera Tommy, 40 years on.
THU       Featuring interviews with The Who's lead singer Roger
THU       Daltrey; Ken Russell, who directed the 1975 film version;
THU       Paul Nicholas, who appeared in the film as Cousin Kevin;
THU       and Michael Cerveris, star of the 1993 Broadway musical.
THU       The programme recalls Tommy in its various incarnations
THU       and considers its culutral and musical value and
THU       significance four decades on.
THU       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00kcrg6 (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00kcrlf (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00kcrmx (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00kdr5c (Listen)
THU       Whose Amazon Is It Anyway?
THU       In negotiations for the global climate change deal due to
THU       be sealed at the UN conference in Copenhagen at the end of
THU       2009, a key issue will be the system of financial
THU       incentives to reward developing countries that succeed in
THU       reducing the rate of deforestation.
THU       This implicitly recognises tropical forests - especially
THU       the Amazon, biggest of them all - as part of the common
THU       global heritage, and in Brazil this can play into
THU       long-standing and widely-believed fears of an
THU       international plot to wrest sovereignty of the forest from
THU       the Brazilian nation, for financial and strategic ends.
THU       The sensitivity of this issue was shown by the furore over
THU       Johan Eliasch's acquisition of a large area of forest and
THU       the perception that through the Cool Earth website,
THU       sovereign Brazilian territory is in effect being sold
THU       online. The fears have been further stoked by reports from
THU       the Brazilian intelligence service and serving military
THU       officers, claiming that the presence of large numbers of
THU       international NGOs working in indigenous-controlled
THU       frontier areas represents a significant security threat.
THU       Under the Amazon Fund system set up by the Brazilians this
THU       year, foreign donations (one billion US dollars
THU       anticipated in 2008-2009) linked to reduced deforestation
THU       are administered entirely by a committee of Brazilians,
THU       aimed at pre-empting claims of 'internationalisation' of
THU       the Amazon.
THU       This programme looks at how this debate is playing out in
THU       Brazil; on the one hand, deforestation is increasingly
THU       seen as a national disgrace that stains the country's
THU       global reputation, but on the other is a reluctance to be
THU       lectured by interfering foreigners who destroyed their own
THU       forests centuries ago.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00kcsfq (Listen)
THU       Marshall gets a baptism of fire.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b008cr09 (Listen)
THU       University of Lies
THU       By Peter Kesterton.
THU       Emma is a well-off university student rather bored by her
THU       studies. She meets Andy, who works in a bar but has an
THU       exciting and dangerous past in the army in Iraq. When he
THU       suggests things are not as they seem, Emma is frightened
THU       but intrigued.
THU       Emma ...... Jasmine Hyde
THU       Andy ...... Carl Prekopp
THU       Dr Wood ...... Jilly Bond
THU       With Charlotte Ellis and Tom Sherman.
THU       Directed by Tim Dee.
THU       
THU       15:02 Open Country b00kbyhx (Listen)
THU       North Devon Coastline
THU       Helen Mark takes to the sea to find out how the perilous
THU       conditions of the north Devon coastline have affected life
THU       there from prehistory to the present day. She tours Baggy
THU       Point with National Trust archaeologist Shirley Blaylock
THU       in search of the first coastal dwellers, attempts the
THU       perilous crossing to Lundy Island and crosses the Cornish
THU       border to hear the story of Parson Hawker, the eccentric
THU       vicar of Morwenstow and purported scourge of the wreckers.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00kc1ll (Listen)
THU       CODA International Training
THU       Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeals on behalf of CODA
THU       International.
THU       CODA International is a UK-based international development
THU       organisation working to reduce poverty and injustice in
THU       Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
THU       Donations to CODA International, should be sent to
THU       Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope CODA International. Credit cards: Freephone 0800
THU       404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide CODA
THU       International with your full name and address so that they
THU       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another 25
THU       per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are not
THU       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 1000717.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kdv3x (Listen)
THU       Lost and Found, Providence and the Butler
THU       Series of three short stories by major writers which have
THU       only recently come to light.
THU       By PG Wodehouse.
THU       Published by the Washington Herald Literary Magazine in
THU       1910 and lost for 99 years, this story was recently
THU       discovered by a Wodehouse scholar. It features some
THU       classic Wodehouse ingredients: an eccentric earl, an
THU       irresponsible young man, a chorus girl and of course a
THU       butler - not Jeeves, but the ancient and wise Keeling.
THU       This world broadcast premiere is read by Martin Jarvis.
THU       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 Musical Migrants b00kctm4 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Ireland
THU       Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries,
THU       influenced by music.
THU       Stella Rodrigues' complex family roots are Dutch,
THU       Portuguese, Indonesian and Indian, but it was in Ireland
THU       that she found her music, her home and herself.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00kc262 (Listen)
THU       Michael Palin gives his choices for Five of the Best; he
THU       traces his love of reading back to his seventh birthday.
THU       Two authors who have gone from fighting crime as police
THU       officers to writing about it, discuss how walking the mean
THU       streets themselves has affected their work.
THU       And the author of No Country for Young Men, Julia
THU       O'Faolain, explains her 17 year absence.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00kfqmd (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper finds out about the Nanolab, a miniaturised
THU       work bench on a chip devised by European scientists to
THU       handle and build things from single molecules. He hears
THU       from its inventors about how it could transform
THU       nanotechnology.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00kctsl (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 b00kctvc (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 Hut 33 b00bg337 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Pigs 'n' Spivs
THU       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941.
THU       Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden
THU       hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately,
THU       they hate each other.
THU       Supplies are running short. The office has run out of
THU       paper and pencils and the canteen is only serving boiled
THU       cauliflower. Archie refuses to resort to the services of a
THU       spiv, but Charles has no such scruples.
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       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00kcsfs (Listen)
THU       Debbie's loyalties are put to the test.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00kctx7 (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an
THU       interview with the Nashville singer and songwriter
THU       Gretchen Peters.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00khhyt (Listen)
THU       Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 4
THU       Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey
THU       Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco.
THU       Falco has to eat humble pie and talk to his father,
THU       Geminus. Was he involved in Festus' art scam and can he
THU       help get Falco clear of his murder charge?
THU       Falco ...... Anton Lesser
THU       Helena ...... Anna Madeley
THU       Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock
THU       Petronius ...... Ben Crowe
THU       Marponius ...... David Fleeshman
THU       Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
THU       
THU       20:00 A Jazz Celebration for Ascension Day b00kfrdt (Listen)
THU       Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, is the preacher
THU       at this Jazz Eucharist celebrating Christ's ascension into
THU       heaven.
THU       The service, live from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London,
THU       is sung to the music of Will Todd's Mass in Blue by the
THU       BBC Daily Service Singers and St Martin's Choir
THU       accompanied by the Will Todd Ensemble, directed by Stephen
THU       Jackson.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00kfrdw (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of
THU       science. He is joined by the government's Chief Scientific
THU       Advisor, Professor John Beddington, whose background is in
THU       population biology, specialising in fish populations and
THU       the effects of fisheries on them.
THU       That knowledge has helped Professor Beddington in
THU       understanding the economics and sustainable management of
THU       renewable resources more generally, equipping him to
THU       advise on many of the big scientific issues of our time,
THU       from fisheries and food to energy and climate change.
THU       Professor Beddington is concerned that rising demand for
THU       food, water and energy will coincide with depleted
THU       resources and global change to produce the conditions for
THU       what he calls a 'perfect storm' - a global crisis that
THU       could strike by the year 2030. We need to use science and
THU       technology to put measures in place now, he says, if we
THU       are going to avoid global shortages of food, water and
THU       energy in 20 years time. If we do nothing, shortages and
THU       price rises will coincide with droughts, storms and rising
THU       sea level, leading to famines, migration and instability.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00kfqm6 (Listen)
THU       The Whale - A History
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Steve Jones, Bill Amos and Eleanor
THU       Weston discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00kczqm (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00kczx5 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd1q7 (Listen)
THU       Brooklyn, Being Rose's Ghost
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       Following her sister's death, Eilis returns to her lonely
THU       mother in Enniscorthy for a month's visit. Once there it
THU       is hard to tell the truth about her last action in
THU       America, and harder still to resist the lure of the
THU       familiar.
THU       
THU       23:00 Down the Line b008tsjh (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Episode 4
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 b00kd3jc (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 22 MAY 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00kcnz1 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00kk3jp (Listen)
FRI       The Blue Hour, Episode 4
FRI       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
FRI       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
FRI       Sargasso Sea.
FRI       Now married but still penniless, things start to look up
FRI       for Jean when she moves to Vienna in 1920.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kcp2p (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kcp7p (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kcp6j (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00kcpdv (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kcphk (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Peter Smith,
FRI       Archbishop of Cardiff.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00kcpkc (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00kcprn (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00kc1lz (Listen)
FRI       Peter Sallis
FRI       Kirsty Young invites actor Peter Sallis to choose eight
FRI       records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.
FRI       As the unassuming Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and the
FRI       equally mild-mannered Wallace in Wallace and Gromit,
FRI       Sallis brings to life a sepia-tinted Britain that barely
FRI       seems to exist any more.
FRI       Now aged 88 and with failing eyesight, no-one, he says, is
FRI       more surprised at his success than himself. 'I've been
FRI       lucky enough to keep going and I realise now, though it's
FRI       taken me nearly 100 years, that my voice is distinctive.
FRI       I'm very lucky indeed.'.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00kk3jr (Listen)
FRI       The Blue Hour, Episode 5
FRI       Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of
FRI       the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide
FRI       Sargasso Sea.
FRI       It is now the 1930s and Jean has become an established
FRI       writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her
FRI       best-known work.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kcr8w (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 The Boar People b00kfsgd (Listen)
FRI       Conservationist Richard Peirce explores the feral wild
FRI       boar situation in Britain by finding out how they became
FRI       reintroduced into the country. He also accompanies a
FRI       tracker in the Forest of Dean and joins a hunter of wild
FRI       boar in Sussex.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Chain Reaction b00773xf (Listen)
FRI       Series 3, John Hegley interviews Jack Dee
FRI       The tag team talk show continues with previous week's
FRI       guest John Hegley grabbing the microphone to interview
FRI       comedian Jack Dee.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00kcrg8 (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00kcrlh (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00kcrmz (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00kfsgg (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 b00kcsfs (Listen)
FRI       Debbie's loyalties are put to the test.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00kj9q8 (Listen)
FRI       This is My Mark
FRI       Comedy by Jeff Young. Celebrity archaeologist Billy Eden
FRI       is convinced that a magnificent painting is waiting to be
FRI       discovered deep in a cave beneath the hills of Wales. But
FRI       as he makes his descent into the earth with world class
FRI       potholer Nessa Hawkes, his visionary quest is in danger of
FRI       being thwarted.
FRI       Billy's wife Sarah and best friend Pam have abandoned
FRI       their yoga mats, donned their cagoules and are heading for
FRI       hills - as are theme park guru Gregson and his murderous
FRI       sidekick Cooper.
FRI       Billy Eden ...... Dan Antopolski
FRI       Nessa Hawkes ...... Cal Jaggers
FRI       Sarah ...... Katherine Jakeways
FRI       Pam ...... Felicity Montagu
FRI       Gregson ...... Matthew Gravelle
FRI       Cooper ...... Lee Mengo
FRI       Directed by Kate McAll.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kfvgl (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs are
FRI       guests of Binfield Garden Club near Reading.
FRI       The third instalment in the sustainable gardening series
FRI       looks at why a 'green' roof works so effectively.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Musical Migrants b00kctm6 (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Georgia
FRI       Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries,
FRI       influenced by music.
FRI       Fighting had just broken out when Carl Linich made his
FRI       first visit to Georgia in 1991, but not even the threat of
FRI       civil war could quell his passion for the country's
FRI       extraordinary folk music. And, a few years later, the
FRI       upstate New Yorker moved there.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00kfvgn (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 b00kfvgq (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock quizzes Rosamund Pike about her role in the
FRI       adaptation of Ann Michael's novel Fugitive Pieces. Get
FRI       Carter director Mike Hodges waxes lyrical about Lola
FRI       Montes, Max Ophuls' epic that was savagely cut on release
FRI       in 1955 and has only just been restored to its former
FRI       glory.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00kctsn (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
FRI       Mair.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kctvf (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00kfvgs (Listen)
FRI       Series 68, Episode 4
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
FRI       include Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00kcsfw (Listen)
FRI       Brenda gets an unwelcome visitor.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00kctx9 (Listen)
FRI       Writer John le Carre talks to Mark Lawson about the
FRI       creation of his most famous character, intelligence
FRI       officer George Smiley, to coincide with a Radio 4 run of
FRI       the Smiley novels.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00khhyw (Listen)
FRI       Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 5
FRI       Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey
FRI       Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco.
FRI       Falco's father's business is attacked again, as they try
FRI       to get to the bottom of the scam that Festus was running
FRI       before his death in battle. And Falco is still trying to
FRI       convince the authorities that he is not guilty of murder.
FRI       Falco ...... Anton Lesser
FRI       Helena ...... Anna Madeley
FRI       Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock
FRI       Baebius ...... Adrian Grove
FRI       Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00kfvgv (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Sheffield.
FRI       Panellists include Ed Balls, the secretary of state for
FRI       children, schools and families, shadow business secretary
FRI       Kenneth Clarke and Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green
FRI       Party.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00kfvgx (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00kfvgz (Listen)
FRI       A Hit to the Heart
FRI       By Rachel Joyce. The man with everything finds his perfect
FRI       world blown apart when his daughter is linked to an act of
FRI       terrorism.
FRI       Peter ...... Nicholas Farrell
FRI       Verity ...... Niamh Cusack
FRI       Michael ...... Timothy Bentinck
FRI       Sara ...... Emma Fielding
FRI       Lucy ...... Angela Terence
FRI       Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
FRI       Jim Hall ...... Jon Strickland
FRI       With original music by David Chilton and Lucinda Mason
FRI       Brown.
FRI       Directed by Gordon House.
FRI       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
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FRI       21:58 Weather b00kczqp (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
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FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00kczx7 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
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FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd1q9 (Listen)
FRI       Brooklyn, Torn in Two
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       Home for a holiday and to comfort her grieving mother,
FRI       Eilis has been unable to resist the lure of the familiar.
FRI       Meanwhile, Tony waits for her in Brooklyn.
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FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00kf01v (Listen)
FRI       Series 18, Fred Astaire
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Physician, journalist and broadcaster Dr Michael O'Donnell
FRI       discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred
FRI       Astaire. Joining him are Astaire's daugher, Ava Astaire
FRI       McKenzie, and lifelong Astaire enthusiast and Oxford don
FRI       Dr Kathleen Riley.
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FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kd3jf (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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