Radio4lists: Radio 4 Listings for 23/05/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00kgb4r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00kk3jr (Listen) SAT The Blue Hour, Episode 5 SAT Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of SAT the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide SAT Sargasso Sea. SAT It is now the 1930s and Jean has become an established SAT writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her SAT best-known work. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kgb4t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kgb4w (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kgb4y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00kgb50 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kgb52 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. SAT SAT 05:45 A Wonderful Way to Make a Living b00d74s5 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT US satirist Joe Queenan presents a series on people with SAT highly unusual occupations. SAT In Venice, he meets a lawyer who retrained as a gondolier SAT after deciding that he no longer wanted to make a living SAT out of other people's problems. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00kgczw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00kgczy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00kgd75 (Listen) SAT Series 12, Episode 1 SAT Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, SAT body and soul. SAT Clare joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison, who SAT shares with her the inspirational landscape of Benjamin SAT Britten's Suffolk - journeying from the rich sounds of the SAT ocean crashing on the shingle beach at Aldeburgh to the SAT watery reed beds of Snape Maltings, the site of the annual SAT Aldeburgh Festival. SAT Britten would often walk this land, consuming the sights SAT and sounds and composing great works that were later SAT notated at his piano back at The Red House, the Aldeburgh SAT home that he shared with partner and collaborator Peter SAT Pears. It was at this house that, as a student, Richard SAT first met Britten, shortly before his death in 1976. SAT Travelling along the historic Sailor's Path, infused with SAT the sounds of Britten's Peter Grimes, Richard recalls this SAT first meeting and discusses the relationship between SAT music, mind and the landscape. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00kgfbq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Charlotte Smith asks who should pay to prevent another SAT foot and mouth outbreak. Three billion pounds was spent SAT eradicating foot and mouth disease in 2001. UK livestock SAT farmers also face the threat of other diseases such as SAT bluetongue, avian flu and swine fever. Now the government SAT wants farmers in England to pay half of the 44 SAT million-pound bill for guarding against an outbreak. But SAT farmers are outraged, saying the plans miss out many who SAT could pose the highest risk. They argue the government SAT should change a few of its own practices before they pay SAT up. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00kgfbs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00kgfbv (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00kgfbx (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by author Anthony SAT Horowitz. With poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00kgfbz (Listen) SAT Sir David Attenborough joins John McCarthy in conversation SAT and tells him of the first journeys he made to film SAT wildlife for the BBC and how travel has changed in the SAT intervening years. They talk about Sir David's reaction on SAT arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone and his first glimpse SAT of the local fauna - at the airport. There are tales of SAT his encounters with headhunters where no European had gone SAT before, being run aground by an arms smuggler on a coral SAT reef and the appeal of the gamelan orchestra. SAT SAT 10:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen) SAT Nick Barraclough delves into the world of backing SAT vocalists, from the fluffy 50s to the stunning SAT sophistication of today's jazzers, the innovations brought SAT by The Beatles and The Beach Boys and the multi-tracked SAT world of Joni Mitchell and The Carpenters. SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00kgfc3 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Peter Riddell. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00kgfc5 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00kgfc7 (Listen) SAT A leading credit rating agency revises down its outlook SAT for the UK economy due to concerns about its significant SAT debt. Bob Howard reports on the people who believe they SAT were given forged dollars when they changed their holiday SAT money. And are lenders treating mortgage customers as SAT profit fodder by inflating their Standard Variable Rates? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00kfvgs (Listen) SAT Series 68, Episode 4 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists SAT include Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00kgfc9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00kgfcc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00kfvgv (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Sheffield. SAT Panellists include Ed Balls, the secretary of state for SAT children, schools and families; shadow business secretary SAT Kenneth Clarke; Lib Dem spokesperson for Energy and SAT Climate Change, Simon Hughes; and Caroline Lucas, leader SAT of the Green Party. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00kgfcf (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 b00kgfch (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - Call for the Dead SAT Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carré's first SAT novel. SAT London, the late 1950s, and a disenchanted George Smiley SAT is engaged in the routine job of security vetting. When a SAT Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long SAT after being cleared of Communist sympathies, Smiley SAT investigates and uncovers a deadly conspiracy with its SAT roots in his own wartime past. SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Inspector Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Elsa Fennan ...... Eleanor Bron SAT Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Maston ...... James Laurenson SAT Dieter Frey ...... Henry Goodman SAT Adam Starr/Mundt ...... Sam Dale SAT Ludo Oriel ...... Janice Acquah SAT Nursing Sister ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT With Benjamin Askew and Jonathan Tafler. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00kgz19 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. Including: life at 90 and beyond with SAT Denis Healey and Diana Athill; the experience of being a SAT foster parent; a return to the debate questioning whether SAT women can have it all; sword-swallower Miss Behave SAT demonstrates her technique; solo rower Sarah Outen on her SAT high seas adventure in the Indian Ocean; the life of SAT Hypatia of Alexandria; and Iceland's Queen of SAT crime-writing on her latest thriller. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00kgz4v (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00kgz4x (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kgz4z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00kgz51 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kgz53 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00kh0cq (Listen) SAT An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT Peter Curran is joined by Neil Oliver, Kevin Sampson and SAT Evan Davis. SAT Emma Freud talks to the anti-consumer evangeslist Reverend SAT Billy. SAT With comedy from Stephen Carlin and music from The SAT Maccabees and The Handsome Family. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00kh0cs (Listen) SAT Series 6, Episode 4 SAT As more high-profile politicians lose their jobs because SAT of the Westminster expenses scandal, the comedian Robin SAT Ince tells the story of an ordinary man with no interest SAT in freebies. SAT With Kevin Eldon, Jeremy Swift and Janice Acquah. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00kh0nf (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelist Liz Jensen, writer and SAT comedian Danny Robins and playwright Mark Ravenhill to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week, which include SAT Scandinavian women battling against oppression, fun and SAT games at Tate Modern and electropop from Blackpool with a SAT nod to Caligula. SAT Ibsen's A Doll's House has been given a makeover by Zinnie SAT Harris, who has relocated the play to the milieu of SAT British politics in the Edwardian era. With a cast which SAT includes Gillian Anderson, Toby Stephens and Christopher SAT Eccleston, the setting may have changed from 19th century SAT Norway, but hypocrisy, blackmail and despair are still SAT present. SAT Meanwhile, in early 20th century Sweden, a woman's life is SAT changed when she wins a camera in a lottery. Jan Troell's SAT latest film Everlasting Moments depicts a hard life with a SAT drunken womaniser for a husband softened round the edges SAT by the pleasure of seeing life through a lens. SAT Robert Henryson is one of the greatest voices in late SAT medieval Scottiish literature and his narrative poem SAT Testament of Cresseid is regarded as his best work. Seamus SAT Heaney has translated this piece from Middle Scots into SAT modern English along with seven fables which Henryson took SAT from Aesop. SAT Back in 1971, the Tate Gallery played host to a SAT ground-breaking interactive installation by American SAT artist Robert Morris. The public were encouraged to climb SAT over, explore and play with the geometric scultures, but SAT unfortunately they inflicted damage both on themselves and SAT the work, and the exhibition closed after only five days. SAT Nearly four decades later, Tate Modern is restaging a less SAT hazardous version of the original - Bodyspacemotionthings SAT - where art lovers get to swing, climb and roll to their SAT hearts content. SAT Little Boots is the moniker under which Victoria Hesketh SAT plies her trade as a would-be electropop princess. Her SAT debut album Hands could well do the trick of elevating her SAT to that throne. While her label describes her songs as SAT 'crystal-tipped sabres of dance-pop truth', all you really SAT need to know is that they contain plenty of squelchy SAT synths and you can dance to them. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00kh0nh (Listen) SAT The Many Lives of Roald Dahl SAT Sophie Dahl looks at the life, writing and passions of her SAT grandfather, the children's author Roald Dahl. SAT By turns acerbic, funny, inventive and clever, what made SAT him the writer he became? Sophie guides us through Dahl's SAT Norwegian background but very British education, his early SAT life in Washington and Hollywood and marriage to film star SAT Patricia Neal. SAT Then the personal tragedies and life at home in SAT Buckinghamshire, looking after his children and writing SAT the stories which would make him one of the most famous SAT authors of the 20th century. SAT We hear about the many lives of Roald Dahl through the SAT voices of himself, his family and those who knew him SAT throughout his 74 years. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00kc21f (Listen) SAT The Siege of Krishnapur, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Shelagh Stephenson of the novel by JG SAT Farrell. SAT It is 1857 and British rule in India is under siege. A SAT series of attacks has all but destroyed the Residency at SAT Krishnapur. Now swamped with squabbling civilians, the SAT Collector is unsure how much longer his defences can hold SAT out. 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 News and Weather b00kh0nk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00kfgcz (Listen) SAT The Law and Protest SAT Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal SAT issues of the day. SAT Conflict between police and G20 demonstrators raised SAT serious questions about the distinctions in law between SAT our right to peaceful protest and police powers to prevent SAT violence and disorder. What are the legal limits of our SAT right to express dissent? Is it acceptable for police to SAT use powers under the Terrorism Act to prevent SAT demonstrations and is the police tactic of 'kettling' to SAT control crowds actually legal? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00kdp26 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 11 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the second semi final of the music SAT quiz. The contestants are Paul Grayson from Ripon, Peter SAT Whitehead from Bromley and Tim Wise from Wallington in SAT Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00kc264 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems by AE Housman and Walt SAT Whitman, including from A Shropshire Lad and O Captain, My SAT Captain. The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Peter SAT Marinker. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 MAY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00kh0qj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b007s1bk (Listen) SUN Murder She Thought - Series 1, Paint SUN Compelling crime stories by women writers. SUN In Joan Smith's atmospheric story, a young woman is hired SUN by a city whizz-kid to redecorate his flat. But might he, SUN or the apartment, be hiding something? SUN Read by Joanne Whalley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kh0ql (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kh267 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kh269 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00kh26c (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00kh26f (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Helen's Church, Sefton in SUN Liverpool. SUN SUN 05:45 Letters to Mary b00kfgd1 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 Richard Reeves, director of the independent think tank SUN Demos, updates Mary on how her ideas about republicanism SUN have - or have not - advanced in Britain in the 250 years SUN since her birth. SUN Although generally thought of as a feminist, SUN Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men is a SUN political pamphlet attacking aristocracy and advocating SUN republicanism. It proved to be the first salvo in a SUN pamphlet war, responding to Burke's defence of SUN constitutional monarchy, aristocracy and the Church of SUN England. In the pamphlet she attacked not only hereditary SUN privilege but also the language used by Burke to defend SUN it. Perhaps most significantly and originally, she SUN criticised Burke's justification of an unequal society SUN founded on the passivity of women. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00kh26h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00kh26k (Listen) SUN Homesickness SUN Mark Tully explores homesickness, a yearning more complex SUN than nostalgia for homeland. How true is it that all older SUN people are homesick for the culture of their childhood? SUN With Rabbi Lionel Blue. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00kh4dm (Listen) SUN Marsh Harriers SUN Lionel Kelleway gets very close to the marsh harrier, an SUN icon of the East Anglia marshland. It is quite a sight to SUN see it rise, effortlessly, when looking across the seed SUN head tops of a large yellow reedbed. The marsh harrier has SUN characteristically large and broad wings and the male is SUN stunningly beige. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00kh4dp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00kh4dr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00khhp0 (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 b00khhpx (Listen) SUN Save the Rhino SUN Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. Save SUN the Rhino works to conserve viable populations of SUN critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. SUN Donations to Save the Rhino should be sent to Freepost BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Save SUN the Rhino. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide Save the Rhino with SUN your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1035072. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00khkxm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00khkxp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00khkxr (Listen) SUN A service from Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, conducted by SUN the Very Rev Henry Hull. The Preacher is Dom Mark-Ephrem SUN Nolan, OSB. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00kfvgx (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00khkxt (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Kevin Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00khkxw (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00khkxy (Listen) SUN Barry Humphries SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer SUN Barry Humphries. SUN For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque SUN comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage SUN and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. SUN Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in SUN literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time SUN spent on the desert island would allow him to devote SUN himself to painting. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00kdr57 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 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 Chris Addison, Rupert Sheldrake and Bettany Hughes donate SUN objects of extreme interest to the world's most eclectic SUN museum. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00khky0 (Listen) SUN Wine in the Recession SUN Sheila Dillon finds out how the wine market is coping in SUN the recession. Who is raising a glass and who are drowning SUN their sorrows? SUN Simon Parkes reports from the 2009 London International SUN Wine Fair, which has been overshadowed by concerns over SUN the credit crunch, currency collapse and excise duties. He SUN speaks to producers and retailers, samples some of the new SUN east European wines currently enjoying a mini SUN 'renaissance', and finds out if Georgia really is the SUN cradle of wine making. SUN In the studio, Sheila Dillon discusses some of the issues SUN raised with Peter Richards, one of the UK's youngest SUN award-winning wine writers and broadcasters. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00khky2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00khky4 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Britain In Their Sites b00khky6 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in SUN Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea SUN of itself through three controversial public building SUN projects. SUN In 1948, Peterlee was the future, an exciting New Town SUN planned by architect Berthold Lubetkin for the Durham SUN miners he idolised. Tristram asks why Lubetkin, most SUN famous for London Zoo's Penguin Pool, left Peterlee before SUN a single house was built. SUN As he looks back at Peterlee's troubled birth, Tristram SUN dissects the furious debates which Lubetkin's failure SUN sparked, and which marked the beginning of Britain's SUN post-war architecture wars. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kfvgl (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs are SUN guests of Binfield Garden Club near Reading. SUN The third instalment in the sustainable gardening series SUN looks at why a 'green' roof works so effectively. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Lights, Camera, Landmark b00fgblx (Listen) SUN Greenwich Old Royal Naval College SUN Matthew Sweet visits parts of the man-made landscape which SUN have been used in films over the years. SUN How films such as The Duchess, The Young Victoria and The SUN Golden Compass ensure that this early-18th century SUN Christopher Wren-designed building remains one of London's SUN busiest film locations. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00khky8 (Listen) SUN Mugsborough, 1917 SUN Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of SUN Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered SUN Philanthropists, picking up the story 10 years on. SUN The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views SUN of the Great War. The politically aware favour peaceful SUN solutions, others are determined to avoid being sent to SUN the Western Front. One returns from Flanders terribly SUN injured and cannot find work and one child is still SUN unaware of the tragic circumstances of her parentage. SUN Easton ...... Johnny Vegas SUN Old Misery/Hunter ...... Paul Whitehouse SUN Ruth ...... Shirley Henderson SUN Nora ...... Raquel Cassidy SUN Frankie ...... Iain McKee SUN Bert White ...... Des O'Malley SUN Bundy ...... Tom Pitts SUN Barrington ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Charlie Linden ...... Carl Rice SUN Elsie ...... Nicola Stephenson SUN Sweater ...... Rupert Degas SUN Slyme ...... Kevin Eldon SUN Crass ...... Arthur Smith SUN Rushton ...... Bill Bailey SUN Young Elizabeth ...... Yasmin Gerrard SUN Freddie ...... Jody Latham SUN Older Elizabeth ...... Joanna Neary SUN Mrs Meadows ...... Anne Waggott SUN Directed by Dirk Maggs. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00khm8y (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to author of The Long Firm, Jake SUN Arnott. He discusses the subject of his latest novel, The SUN Devil's Paintbrush, which centres on Major-General Sir SUN Hector Macdonald, a distinguished officer in the British SUN army who committed suicide in 1903 after being accused of SUN homosexuality. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00khm90 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a reading of Samuel Taylor SUN Coleridge's classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, SUN read by Finbar Lynch. SUN SUN 17:00 World Heritage: Curse or Blessing? b00kgzmw (Listen) SUN While Britain's heritage officials decide whether to SUN nominate more sights for World Heritage status, Emily SUN Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for SUN good, protecting our cities against greedy developers, or SUN if it is stopping the flow of modern life? SUN Should the notion of a global heritage be allowed to SUN override local democracy? What can this organisation do SUN for sites that have been shattered by conflict or SUN decimated by industry? Has heritage's equivalent to a SUN Michelin star lost its integrity on the world stage? SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00kh0cs (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 4 SUN As more high-profile politicians lose their jobs because SUN of the Westminster expenses scandal, the comedian Robin SUN Ince tells the story of an ordinary man with no interest SUN in freebies. SUN With Kevin Eldon, Jeremy Swift and Janice Acquah. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00khmdj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00khmdl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00khmdn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00khmdq (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00khmld (Listen) SUN Debbie gets back to the job in hand. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00khmlg (Listen) SUN Barney Harwood is joined by Michael Rosen, Jacqueline SUN Wilson, Philip Ardagh and Kaye Umansky for the final SUN edition of the children's magazine. They answer questions SUN from an audience of school children, and Barney looks back SUN on some of his favourite moments from past programmes. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cm7hd (Listen) SUN Stories with Latitude, Episode 5 SUN Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in SUN Suffolk. John Hegley eavesdrops on a conversation between SUN two friends over a bowl of rancid fish soup in Imperial SUN Rome. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00kfsgg (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00kfvgn (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister talks to Sir Max Hastings and Katherine SUN Whitehorn about the life of journalist Anne Scott-James; SUN Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Trevor Nunn and Sally Cavender on SUN composer Nicholas Maw; Lord Owen and Thoby Young about the SUN life of Lord Kennet; Michael Winner and Michael Hackney SUN talk about writer Alan Hackney. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00kgfc7 (Listen) SUN A leading credit rating agency revises down its outlook SUN for the UK economy due to concerns about its significant SUN debt. Bob Howard reports on the people who believe they SUN were given forged dollars when they changed their holiday SUN money. And are lenders treating mortgage customers as SUN profit fodder by inflating their Standard Variable Rates? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00khhpx (Listen) SUN Save the Rhino SUN Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. Save SUN the Rhino works to conserve viable populations of SUN critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. SUN Donations to Save the Rhino should be sent to Freepost BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Save SUN the Rhino. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide Save the Rhino with SUN your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1035072. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00khmn1 (Listen) SUN Craig Barrett interview SUN Peter Day talks to the outgoing chairman of Intel, Craig SUN Barrett, about receiving the largest fine ever imposed by SUN the European Union and the other challenges of running a SUN company on the cutting edge of modern technology. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00khmn3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00khmn5 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Letters to Mary. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00kfvgq (Listen) SUN Willem Dafoe talks about Antichrist, the new Lars Von SUN Trier film in which he stars and which was booed by the SUN audience at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The SUN star of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ SUN and David Lynch's Wild at Heart reveals why he likes to SUN get into a director's head. SUN The work of Claude Chabrol is discussed by two of his SUN stars, Ludivine Sagnier and Sandrine Bonnaire. SUN Mike Hodges, the director of Get Carter and Croupier, SUN discusses one of his favourite films, Max Ophuls's Lola SUN Montes. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00kh26k (Listen) SUN Homesickness SUN Mark Tully explores homesickness, a yearning more complex SUN than nostalgia for homeland. How true is it that all older SUN people are homesick for the culture of their childhood? SUN With Rabbi Lionel Blue. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 MAY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00khmrz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00kfgcv (Listen) MON 'Slumming' was the name given to the thousands of white MON middle class voyeurs crossing boundaries of race, class MON and sexual orientation to trip into the worlds of the poor MON on their dorstep. There they learnt to drop the restraints MON of respectability and savoured an often salatious sense of MON sex and discovery in the period of prohibition. The jazz MON raged, the 'pansies' preened, but after the party what was MON the effect on the communities they visitied? Laurie talks MON to the author of Slumming, Chad Heap, and the writer MON Bonnie Greer about the impact that the wild white MON adventuring in urban areas had on sexual and racial MON politics in America. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00kh26f (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Helen's Church, Sefton in MON Liverpool. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00khnf1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00khnkr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00khngx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00khnmk (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00khskg (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00khszc (Listen) MON Sarah Falkingham investigates why increased UK veg MON production means that more fields become 'lakes of MON plastic'. She visits a grower in West Yorkshire with over MON 1,000 acres of carrots who uses plastic covering to MON produce a crop every week of the year. But with only a MON handful of cleaning and recycling sites in the UK, the MON plastic is dumped in landfill after a few months of use. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00kj2dt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00khszr (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00kj2dw (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel, MON who gives this year's Reith Lectures on A New Citizenship, MON addressing the 'prospect for a new politics of the common MON good'. MON Plus novelist Giles Foden on his new book Turbulence, the MON developmental psychologist Bruce Hood on why he thinks we MON all have a 'supersense', the propensity to believe in the MON supernatural, and astronomer Carolin Crawford on the MON science and beauty of nebulae. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00khw3z (Listen) MON Radio Head, Episode 1 MON Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the MON radio stations of Britain. MON Partly to relieve the boredom of a series of temping jobs, MON and partly to feed his curiosity about our national MON airwaves, John decides to listen to a different radio MON station everyday. His first tuning stops include Virgin MON Radio and the BBC Asian Network. MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00khy3w (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON A special edition from Marguerite Patten's Brighton home. MON Woman's Hour presents a celebration of Marguerite Patten: MON the doyenne of British cookery who has been teaching us MON how to cook since the 1930s. Her career began in the war MON years when she broadcast to the nation on the BBC, giving MON helpful tips on how make the most of limited rations. She MON has hosted countless TV and radio shows, been awarded the MON OBE for services to the 'art of cookery' and written 170 MON cookery books. Her latest, 'Best British Dishes', is her MON last. Jane Garvey visits her at her Brighton home to hear MON about her life and to try her hand at some of Marguerite's MON favourite recipes. MON MON 11:00 The Six Faces of Henry VIII b00kj2dy (Listen) MON Ian Hislop attempts to conjure up a clear image of Henry MON VIII from the many and various versions created in the MON years from Holbein to 21st-century HD television. MON With the help of writers, historians, musicologists, film MON buffs and Alan Bennett, Ian sets out to analyse six images MON of Henry VIII - which turn out to be rather better MON portraits of the periods in which they were created rather MON than historical insights into the King himself. MON MON 11:30 The Better Half b00kj2f0 (Listen) MON Broadcast premiere of this comedy of marital manners, MON written by the young Noel Coward. Recently rediscovered, MON it was considered too racy for public performance in 1922. MON Unhappy Alice encourages husband David and best friend MON Marion to form a liaison. But Alice may have a hidden MON agenda. MON Alice ...... Federay Holmes MON Marion ...... Lisa Dillon MON David ...... Samuel West MON Directed by Martin Jarvis. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00khzvp (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON Could developing new versions of sports inspire more MON people to take part in physical activity? Sport England is MON planning to spend 5 million pounds a year in adapting MON existing sports and is looking for up to 20 ideas to MON support. But is this the best way to get more people MON interested in sport? Phil Smith, director of sport at MON Sport England, and Michael Henderson, sports writer with MON the Daily Telegraph, discuss. Also, comedian Steve Punt MON offers some suggestions for new sporting formats. MON HMV is one of the few companies that could be said to have MON benefited from the recession. The chief executive of the MON HMV Group, Simon Fox, reflects on the wider implications MON of the current downturn on Britain's retail sector and MON talks about the changing face of HMV. No longer a MON traditional record store, it now sells mobile phones and MON MP3 players, has a stake in live music venues around the MON UK and plans to open cinemas above some of its stores. MON Simon discusses the future of the company. MON The Yorkshire Dales and Lake District National Parks could MON be about to get bigger. Reporter Mark Holdstock visits the MON area under consideration and finds that rather than MON worrying about the red tape that National Park designation MON can bring, many local people and businesses are welcoming MON the plan. MON Some people in the antiques industry are complaining about MON BBC antiques programmes. As antique businesses suffer from MON the recession, dealers say that television programmes like MON Cash in the Attic and Flog it give a misleading impression MON of their industry. MON What links a Norfolk football team with a Norwegian king? MON Cromer Town Football Club is facing the loss of its MON current ground because of a strange clause in its deeds. MON We hear from Steve Downes, senior reporter for the Eastern MON Daily Press. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00khzw4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00khzxf (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00kj2f2 (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 12 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the last semi final of the music MON quiz. The contestants are Andrew Feltham from Kent, MON Richard Grothusen from Lancashire and David Roy from MON Hertfordshire. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00khmld (Listen) MON Debbie gets back to the job in hand. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b008cnt2 (Listen) MON Horst Buchholz and Other Stories MON By Matthew Wilkie. MON George is desperate for his team to win the pub quiz. He MON has bet a large sum of money, which he doesn't have, that MON they will do so. But the rest of the team have more MON pressing problems. MON George ...... Sean Baker MON Tim ...... Carl Prekopp MON Jules ...... Samantha Spiro MON Rich ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Quizmaster ...... Philip Jackson. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00kh0nh (Listen) MON The Many Lives of Roald Dahl MON Sophie Dahl looks at the life, writing and passions of her MON grandfather, the children's author Roald Dahl. MON By turns acerbic, funny, inventive and clever, what made MON him the writer he became? Sophie guides us through Dahl's MON Norwegian background but very British education, his early MON life in Washington and Hollywood and marriage to film star MON Patricia Neal. MON Then the personal tragedies and life at home in MON Buckinghamshire, looking after his children and writing MON the stories which would make him one of the most famous MON authors of the 20th century. MON We hear about the many lives of Roald Dahl through the MON voices of himself, his family and those who knew him MON throughout his 74 years. MON MON 15:45 Hidden Henry b00kj039 (Listen) MON Henry, Medicine and Health MON Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and MON surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. MON Henry was a hypochondriac before the word was invented, MON with some good reason. He was, though, the first monarch MON to recognise the need for a qualified medical profession. MON He gave the first royal charter to the Barber Surgeons and MON ordered an astronomical clock for Hampton Court so that he MON could measure his wellbeing by the stars. MON Historian Dr Elisabeth Hurren explores parts of the palace MON that reveal his preoccupation with health - his own and MON the public's - the herb garden, the astronomical clock and MON an area even the king could not enter, the birthing suite MON where his pregnant wives were confined. MON She considers, too, the famous Holbein portrait of the MON king which portrays a man in the peak of health and at the MON height of his powers, but also reveals some of the health MON troubles that were to plague him. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00khky0 (Listen) MON Wine in the Recession MON Sheila Dillon finds out how the wine market is coping in MON the recession. Who is raising a glass and who are drowning MON their sorrows? MON Simon Parkes reports from the 2009 London International MON Wine Fair, which has been overshadowed by concerns over MON the credit crunch, currency collapse and excise duties. He MON speaks to producers and retailers, samples some of the new MON east European wines currently enjoying a mini MON 'renaissance', and finds out if Georgia really is the MON cradle of wine making. MON In the studio, Sheila Dillon discusses some of the issues MON raised with Peter Richards, one of the UK's youngest MON award-winning wine writers and broadcasters. MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00kj9ys (Listen) MON Series 5, The British Seaside MON Katie Derham presents the holiday magazine which examines MON our holiday and travel trends. MON With recession and the high cost of the Euro, British MON seaside resorts are optimistically preparing for what MON could be a bumper season. Katie finds out about how MON Margate is reinventing itself as 'the Bilbao of the Kent MON coast' by embracing its links with the 19th century MON Romantic painter, Turner. MON Plus writer Josie Barnard sees how self-catering in the MON far west of Cornwall is bucking the credit crunch by MON offering a touch of high-end glamour. MON MON 17:00 PM b00kj0dv (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 b00kj0gx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00kj9yv (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three MON guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary MON museum. With John Hodgman, Oliver James and Charlotte MON Uhlenbroek. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00kj000 (Listen) MON Brenda does it for the girls at the Single Wicket. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00kj137 (Listen) MON Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records 50 years ago MON in Kingston, Jamaica, talks to John Wilson about the MON history of the label which brought artists such as Bob MON Marley to a global audience. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kj1g3 (Listen) MON Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 6 MON Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey MON Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. MON Falco visits Varga, a drunken fresco artist, who seems to MON know more than he is letting on. MON Falco ...... Anton Lesser MON Helena ...... Anna Madeley MON Petronius ...... Ben Crowe MON Varga ...... John Flitcroft MON Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 20:00 Hearts and Minds b00kj9yx (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Nick Fraser considers the proper role of intellectuals in MON relation to world events and world conflict. MON The Cold War was fought on intellectual as well as MON strategic grounds, but did intellectuals abandon their own MON standards in the battle for 'hearts and minds'? Nick MON considers the matter in the run-up to the centenary of the MON birth of Isaiah Berlin, one of Britain's foremost MON political philosophers and opponents of Soviet communism, MON and takes the figures known as 'liberal anti-communists' MON during the Cold War as an historic peak of the Western MON intellectual's power and influence. MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Wall: An Essay by David Hare b00kjb73 (Listen) MON David Hare, one of Britain's foremost playwrights, MON provides a personal view of the physical, political and MON psychological impact of the combination of trenches, MON ditches, watchtowers, checkpoints, concrete and razor coil MON that may one day form a border between Israel and MON Palestine. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00kj9z1 (Listen) MON The Carteret Islands - Sharks In The Garden MON Tom Heap reports on the first large scale human evacuation MON due to climate change. The Carteret Islands, a small coral MON atoll in the South Pacific are slowly being submerged by MON the rising sea, forcing the removal of hundreds of MON islanders to nearby Papua New Guinea. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00kj2dw (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel, MON who gives this year's Reith Lectures on A New Citizenship, MON addressing the 'prospect for a new politics of the common MON good'. MON Plus novelist Giles Foden on his new book Turbulence, the MON developmental psychologist Bruce Hood on why he thinks we MON all have a 'supersense', the propensity to believe in the MON supernatural, and astronomer Carolin Crawford on the MON science and beauty of nebulae. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00kj1js (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00kj1nb (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kj1z2 (Listen) MON The Outlander, Episode 1 MON Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in MON Canada in 1903. Pursued by armed men with dogs, a strange MON young woman tears across the moonlit wilderness. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00cb5x6 (Listen) MON Nanny Wouldn't Like It MON Dominic Arkwright presents a discussion on nannies, with MON columnist Guy Browning; author of The Victorian Governess, MON Kathryn Hughes; and Anna Raeburn. Browning considers the MON nanny as the queen of arrested development, while Hughes MON volunteers a long list of men who have fallen for the MON nanny's charms. MON MON 23:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jq0kt (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Series which seeks to challenge the prevailing atmosphere MON of doom and gloom and dares to be optimistic. MON Disability affairs correspondent Peter White, who is MON blind, shares some of his reasons to be cheerful - MON technology which has set him free to scan and read MON whatever books he wants, the disappearance of the British MON Sunday which was the bane of his 1950s childhood, and the MON train announcements which annoy so many people, but are a MON boon to him. MON Peter talks to grumpy comedian Arthur Smith and challenges MON him with his optimism. MON A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 MAY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00khmq1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00khw3z (Listen) TUE Radio Head, Episode 1 TUE Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the TUE radio stations of Britain. TUE Partly to relieve the boredom of a series of temping jobs, TUE and partly to feed his curiosity about our national TUE airwaves, John decides to listen to a different radio TUE station everyday. His first tuning stops include Virgin TUE Radio and the BBC Asian Network. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00khms1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00khnh0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00khnf3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00khnkt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00khsh5 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00khskj (Listen) TUE Charlotte Smith reports that polytunnels are proving TUE popular not only with farmers but also with smallholders. TUE Some companies are reporting that sales are up a hundred TUE per cent on last year. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00khszf (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of ... b00kjb68 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gibraltar TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE Gibraltar. TUE TUE 09:30 The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On TUE b00gkrtw (Listen) TUE An Ordinary Life 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 meets middle-class Iranians for whom a new life in TUE the UK often meant limited job prospects, financial TUE insecurity, and a sudden loss of social status. One, a TUE successful builder, left his wife and daughter in Tehran TUE and ended up in Manchester. Lonely and with little TUE English, he had to work nights, selling pizza and kebabs. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00klbsn (Listen) TUE Radio Head, Episode 2 TUE Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the TUE radio stations of Britain. TUE The mellow tones of Wogan are contrasted with the TUE testosterone of talkSPORT. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00khy3m (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE As the numbers of MPs standing down at the next election TUE appears to grow by the day, Esther Rantzen's declaration TUE that she is likely to stand as an independent MP against TUE Margaret Moran in Luton South has caused a mixed response. TUE Despite her high profile background does she have the TUE necessary qualities and experience to be an effective MP? TUE To discuss what characteristics are needed to embrace and TUE survive a term or more in Parliament, Jane Garvey is TUE joined by Clare Short, Independent MP for Birmingham TUE Ladywood who will end her time in the House at the next TUE election after more than 25 years, the broadcaster and TUE journalist Amanda Platell, who considered becoming an MP, TUE and Lynn Faulds Wood, most well-known for TUE When Angus Cleaver's wife Abigail developed breast cancer TUE he found himself on a steep learning curve. Working out TUE how best to support her through the emotional and physical TUE consequences of the diagnosis took time, and inevitably he TUE made the odd mistake. Angus joins us to talk about why he TUE hopes he can pass on what he's learned to other partners TUE through his new website. TUE Claire Tomalin, the Whitbread Award-winning biographer, TUE always knew that her mother had been a published composer TUE in the 30s and 40s. But it was not until years after TUE Muriel Herbert's death that Claire opened up the fragile TUE manuscripts and discovered what an extraordinary talent TUE she possessed. Born in the Edwardian era, when women TUE composers were practically unheard of, Muriel was a TUE prolific musician whose 'art songs' were highly regarded. TUE Poets such as James Joyce and WB Yeats allowed her to set TUE their work to music. Claire joins Jane to discuss why she TUE was inspired to create a new recording of her mother's TUE best-known work. TUE Nicky Jecks left school as an uninterested 16-year-old TUE with few GCSEs. Thirteen years on, she now has four TUE children - and almost certainly a place to study medicine TUE at Cambridge. She has consistently achieved high grades TUE and scored 100 per cent in four of her A-level papers TUE despite having to unexpectedly deliver her fourth child TUE alone at home during her studies. Unsurprisingly, she has TUE now won an Adult Learner of the Year award and she tells TUE Jane how she has managed it all. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00kjf12 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Decline In Migrants TUE Brett Westwood searches for the reasons behind the TUE declining numbers of many of our migrant songbirds - TUE including the cuckoo, turtle dove and spotted flycatcher - TUE and where the birds are most vulnerable. TUE Speaking to researchers from the RSPB and British Trust TUE for Ornithology, he explores the dual world of our TUE migrants, like the pied flycatcher which spends its TUE summers in the lush oak woods in the British Isles but TUE winters in west African savannah woods. For some species, TUE such as the cuckoo which evolved in Africa, northern TUE Europe is a treasure trove of habitats and food supplies TUE to be exploited, and many of our successful migrants are TUE birds which originated in Africa but then moved north to TUE cooler areas to breed. TUE Do the reasons for them now being under threat lie here in TUE the UK or south of the Sahara in their winter homes, and TUE will they be able to evolve new wintering or summering TUE areas to compensate for losses? TUE TUE 11:30 The Deighton File b00kjh8g (Listen) TUE Novelist Len Deighton talks to Patrick Humphries about his TUE life and writing career, which began with the publication TUE of his spy novel The Ipcress File in 1962. TUE Deighton has written cookery books and Second World War TUE histories, as well as turning his hand to book TUE illustration and film production. But he is best known for TUE his influential spy novels, including Funeral in Berlin TUE and Billion Dollar Brain. TUE Deighton fan Henrietta Green talks about the writer's TUE Action Cook Book, and Deighton biographer Edward TUE Milward-Oliver and historian Sir Max Hastings discuss TUE Deighton's acclaimed non-fiction work, such as Fighter and TUE Blitzkrieg. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00khztd (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00khzvr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00khzx1 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Mr Haydn's London Experience b00kjh8j (Listen) TUE Composer Matthew King looks at Joseph Haydn's two visits TUE to London between 1791 and 1795, during which he wrote his TUE last 12 symphonies. TUE In 1791, the 58-year-old composer took a sabbatical from TUE his post as master of music at the Vienna court of Prince TUE Esterhazy and travelled to England. Having spent a life TUE time in servitude, this son of a wheelwright suddenly TUE found himself fêted by the highest echelons of British TUE society, including King George III and the Prince of TUE Wales, and lauded by public and press alike. TUE As well as composing his 12 London Symphonies, Haydn found TUE the visits creatively and emotionally liberating, and he TUE was rewarded for his work with wealth beyond his dreams. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00kj000 (Listen) TUE Brenda does it for the girls at the Single Wicket. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kjhgj (Listen) TUE Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, Alone and Without TUE a Leader TUE Adaptation by Richard Stoneman of the novel by John TUE Mortimer. TUE Young Horace Rumpole defends a young man accused of TUE murder, maintaining that he is innocent until proven TUE guilty. He faces opposition from the Establishment and TUE receives support from unexpected quarters. TUE Elder Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West TUE Young Horace Rumpole ...... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Lord Jessop ...... David Shaw-Parker TUE CH Wystan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Hilda Wystan ...... Jasmine Hyde TUE Simon Jerold ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Bonny Bernard ...... Matthew Morgan TUE Reggie Proudfoot ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Daisy ...... Emma Fielding TUE Peter Benson ...... Andy de la Tour TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie. TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00kjhgl (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kksh3 (Listen) TUE Winnie the Pooh, Episode 1 TUE Read by Alan Bennett. Pooh's predilection for honey is TUE first revealed and he gets stuck at Rabbit's place. TUE TUE 15:45 Hidden Henry b00kntht (Listen) TUE Henry the Scholar TUE Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and TUE surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. TUE Speaking fluent Latin and the author of four books, Henry TUE was not a boorish, uncultured tyrant. He was one of the TUE most educated of our monarchs, a Renaissance Man. TUE Historian Dr Steven Gunn from Merton College, Oxford, and TUE Dr Andrea Clarke, curator of the Henry VIII: Man and TUE Monarch exhibition at the British Library, present the TUE unexpectedly studious side of Henry. TUE The young Henry was well versed in poetry, music and TUE religious discourse. He was keen to be seen as a TUE philosopher king, and the notes in the margins of his TUE books reveal how closely he read, and his intellectual TUE striving. His love letters to Anne Boleyn show a man with TUE a vast vocabulary and a keen sense of amour courtois. TUE Joining the discussion is Professor James Carley, who has TUE catalogued Henry VIII's books - and he had several TUE thousand. It was his collection of books which is at the TUE centre of what became the British Library. TUE TUE 16:00 The Eureka Years b00cqj26 (Listen) TUE Series 4, 1879 - The Light Bulb and Moving Pictures. TUE Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history TUE of science. TUE The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared, and TUE a scientist did a great service to dieters when he forgot TUE to wash his hands before eating his sandwiches. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00kjhv3 (Listen) TUE Series 18, Giovanni Falcone TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Journalist Misha Glenny remembers the life of anti-Mafia TUE campaigner Giovanni Falcone, whose work on the 1986 Maxi TUE trial contributed to over 3,000 convictions. Falcone was TUE blown up by the Mafia near Palermo airport in May 1992. TUE Matthew and Misha are joined by Diego Gambetta, who offers TUE expert comment. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00kj05p (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 b00kj0dx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Clement Freud on Just a Minute: A Celebration TUE b00kjhxb (Listen) TUE When Clement Freud died in April 2009, Just A Minute TUE suffered the loss of its longest-serving panellist. For TUE over 20 years, Paul Merton shared a stage with Clement at TUE recordings of the show, and in this special programme he TUE shares his memories of the veteran player and introduces a TUE selection of clips of him in action. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00khzzr (Listen) TUE Marshall is on best behaviour at Home Farm. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00kj12w (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an TUE interview with the artist Tracey Emin, as she prepares for TUE a new exhibition of her work. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kj1g6 (Listen) TUE Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 7 TUE Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey TUE Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. TUE Varga, the drunken fresco painter, finds himself getting TUE plastered in a different way when he receives a visit from TUE Falco and his dad - now known as The Didius Boys. With TUE Carus and Servia turning the screw, they need to work TUE quickly to discover the truth. TUE Falco ...... Anton Lesser TUE Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock TUE Varga ...... John Flitcroft TUE Carus ...... Joseph Mydell TUE Servia ...... Jilly Bond TUE Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00kjjpf (Listen) TUE Allan Urry investigates more claims of bad behaviour on TUE the part of bankers, and follows the David and Goliath TUE struggle of a group of small business owners who are TUE battling to force one of the high street giants to take TUE responsibility for the decisions that they claim left them TUE in ruins. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00kjjph (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00kjjpk (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest TUE scientific research about the brain and the mind. TUE More than a third of Britons say that they believe in TUE ghosts and nearly as many claim to have actually seen one. TUE Could these paranormal experiences be due to TUE naturally-occurring electro-magnetic fields and low level TUE sound, which make people feel that something 'strange' is TUE happening? Claudia hears from scientists who actually TUE built their own 'haunted room' in an attempt to show that TUE they could induce a haunting by manipulating energy fields TUE and sound. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00kjb68 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gibraltar TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE Gibraltar. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00kj1jj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00kj1my (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kmywh (Listen) TUE The Outlander, Episode 2 TUE Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in TUE Canada in 1903. TUE Mary Boulton, widowed by her own hand, is on the run. She TUE finds refuge with Mrs Cawthra-Elliot, but for how long? TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better TUE b00cxr1s (Listen) TUE Series 2, Courage TUE Mark Watson turns his wit to the subject of virtue, with TUE stand-up comedy on courage. Assistants Tim Key and Tom TUE Basden provide poems, songs and feats of cowardice. TUE TUE 23:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jwq6f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Series which seeks to challenge the prevailing atmosphere TUE of doom and gloom and dare to be optimistic. TUE Actress Diana Quick attempts to challenge the culture of TUE nostalgia which threatens to overtake us. She is cheerful TUE about the fact that women have more opportunities than TUE they did in the 1960s and that we live longer, healthier TUE lives. She takes on actress Annette Crosbie who thinks TUE that there is nothing to be said for getting older and TUE that the world really is going to hell in a handcart. TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00khmq3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00klbsn (Listen) WED Radio Head, Episode 2 WED Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the WED radio stations of Britain. WED The mellow tones of Wogan are contrasted with the WED testosterone of talkSPORT. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00khms3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00khnh3 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00khnf5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00khnkw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00khsh7 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00khskl (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. WED WED 06:00 Today b00khszh (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00kjjq8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00klbsb (Listen) WED Radio Head, Episode 3 WED Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the WED radio stations of Britain. WED John's adventures continue with a look at the history of WED the Radio Times and a first-hand encounter with the very WED best of local radio - as Radio Humberside online brings WED him the latest from the epicentre of 2008's UK earthquake. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00khy3p (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold. WED WED 11:00 The Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering b007cm16 (Listen) WED Billy Bragg meets the surviving members of a unique group WED of Second World War conscientious objectors who formed WED themselves into unique farming communities. WED In the Lincolnshire village of Holton-Cum-Beckering, three WED such societies were established. Made up of artistic and WED creative people, the communities became famous for their WED recitals, plays and readings as well as the amateur WED dramatic society which still performs today. WED But as the war came to an end, the utopian ideal fell WED apart. WED WED 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00kjjyp (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a WED Yorkshire sandwich bar. WED Today's the day that Jodie opens her own business, a WED sandwich bar in Beverley, East Yorkshire, and she is WED excited and a bit anxious. But fortunately for her she has WED Hope, who has just left her husband and come to live on WED Jodie's floor, and is very willing to help. WED Hope ...... Suranne Jones WED Jodie ...... Susan Cookson WED Milkman ...... Shaun Prendergast WED Dustbinman ...... Ben Crowe WED Directed by Chris Wallis. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00khztg (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00khzvt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00khzx4 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00kjjyr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00khzzr (Listen) WED Marshall is on best behaviour at Home Farm. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b008jvjz (Listen) WED A Warning to the Furious WED By Robin Brooks. WED A feminist film-maker and her crew visit the Suffolk coast WED to make a documentary about ghost story writer MR James. WED They hope to discover how an outwardly respectable WED bachelor could produce such disturbing horrors. WED Karen ...... Lucy Robinson WED Zara ...... Catherine Shepherd WED Guy ...... Carl Prekopp WED Bob ...... Gerard McDermott WED Bookshop Man ...... Andrew Wincott WED Directed by Fiona McAlpine WED An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00kjjyt (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of experts answer calls on WED student finance. WED His guests are Keith Houghton of Kingston University, WED David Malcolm of the NUS and Alan Scott of SAAS. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kksjl (Listen) WED Winnie the Pooh, Episode 2 WED Series of three extracts from AA Milne's children's WED classic, read by Alan Bennett. Pooh goes in search of the WED Woozle and Eeyore's tail goes missing. WED WED 15:45 Hidden Henry b00knthw (Listen) WED Henry the Father WED Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and WED surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. WED Tudor historian Dr Susan Doran and Lucy Wooding, author of WED the most recent biography of Henry, consider what it would WED have been like to have had Henry as your father. Looking WED at letters, books, gifts and portraits, they discuss how WED he seems to have been closest to his illegitimate son. WED He humiliated his daughter Mary, and Elizabeth's fear of WED commitment and even her bearing can be attributed to her WED contact with him. Henry's children lived in fear of their WED terrifying father and yet modelled themselves on him. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00kjjyw (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00kjjpk (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest WED scientific research about the brain and the mind. WED More than a third of Britons say that they believe in WED ghosts and nearly as many claim to have actually seen one. WED Could these paranormal experiences be due to WED naturally-occurring electro-magnetic fields and low level WED sound, which make people feel that something 'strange' is WED happening? Claudia hears from scientists who actually WED built their own 'haunted room' in an attempt to show that WED they could induce a haunting by manipulating energy fields WED and sound. WED WED 17:00 PM b00kj05r (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 b00kj0dz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Elvenquest b00k9d80 (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. WED Sam has his death foretold by The Oracle of Fenrog, Lord WED Darkness books himself in for a retox and Kreech WED unwittingly releases the dreaded Nightdemon, whose WED intentions for the future of the universe are not good. WED Vidar ...... Darren Boyd WED Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon WED Amis ...... James Bachman WED Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan WED Sam ...... Stephen Mangan WED Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00khzzt (Listen) WED Ed has a crisis of conscience. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00kj131 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports from Tate WED Liverpool on a major exhibition which focuses on the WED significance of colour in the art of the last 50 years. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kj1g8 (Listen) WED Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 8 WED Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey WED Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. WED Falco and Geminus travel to Capua and track down the WED sculptor Orontes to discover more about his role in the WED art scam. After a hard day's work, Falco finally gets to WED celebrate his birthday. WED Falco ...... Anton Lesser WED Helena ...... Anna Madeley WED Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock WED Phoebe ...... Kate Layden WED Orontes ...... Richard Katz WED Rubinia ...... Laura Matthews WED Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00kjk0p (Listen) WED The Law and Climate Change WED Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal WED issues of the day. WED Are our environmental laws robust enough to save the WED planet for humankind? The Climate Change Act 2008 commits WED the UK to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent WED by 2050, but can this be legally enforced? What law and WED penalties are available to force industry, individuals and WED even the government to reduce their carbon footprint? WED WED 20:45 Letters to Mary b00kjk4b (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series in which three writers send an informal letter to WED the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, WED updating her on the progress of her often radical ideas in WED the 250 years since her birth. WED Writer and feminist Natasha Walter looks at WED Wollstonecraft's central work, A Vindication of the Rights WED of Woman. WED This was a book written in a hurry, during the turbulent WED years at the end of the 18th century when it seemed to WED some that the Revolution in France might truly be ushering WED in a new age of freedom and equality. Mary completed it in WED just six weeks, taking pages to the printers before the WED book was finished. Loosely argued and sometimes showing WED signs of the speed with which it was composed, her central WED argument is nevertheless as simple and powerful as ever - WED that the existence of inequality between the sexes did not WED prove that women were intrinsically inferior. WED Natasha happily updates Mary on the immense advances that WED have been made in equality of the sexes since her day, WED considering how delighted she would be with the many WED opportunities which women now rightly take for granted in WED terms of education, careers and political engagement. But WED she also looks at Mary's own experience of family life and WED considers how, in this key area, there is still some way WED to go before Mary's dreams are truly achieved. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00kjf12 (Listen) WED Series 2, Decline In Migrants WED Brett Westwood searches for the reasons behind the WED declining numbers of many of our migrant songbirds - WED including the cuckoo, turtle dove and spotted flycatcher - WED and where the birds are most vulnerable. WED Speaking to researchers from the RSPB and British Trust WED for Ornithology, he explores the dual world of our WED migrants, like the pied flycatcher which spends its WED summers in the lush oak woods in the British Isles but WED winters in west African savannah woods. For some species, WED such as the cuckoo which evolved in Africa, northern WED Europe is a treasure trove of habitats and food supplies WED to be exploited, and many of our successful migrants are WED birds which originated in Africa but then moved north to WED cooler areas to breed. WED Do the reasons for them now being under threat lie here in WED the UK or south of the Sahara in their winter homes, and WED will they be able to evolve new wintering or summering WED areas to compensate for losses? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00kjjq8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00kj1jl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00kj1n0 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kmyw7 (Listen) WED The Outlander, Episode 3 WED Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in WED Canada in 1903. With her brothers-in-law seeking WED vengeance, Mary has ridden into the mountains. WED WED 23:00 Self-Storage b007znbd (Listen) WED Series 1, House Hunting WED Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power. WED Still homeless and separated from his wife, Dave plans to WED move out of the Storage Garden, while Geoff plans to move WED in. WED Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith WED Geoff ...... Mark Heap WED Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero WED Sarah ...... Susan Earl WED Estate agent ...... Phil Nichol. WED WED 23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007xnrn (Listen) WED Penelope Sway WED Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. WED Renowned broadcaster Roydon Postlethwaite remembers the WED long and glistening career of Dame Penny, arguably the WED finest actress of her generation not to be offered a cameo WED in a Harry Potter film. WED Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern WED Penelope Sway ...... Phyllida Law WED Boo Newman ...... Rula Lenska WED Lil ...... Liza Sadovy WED Lloyd Powell ...... James Holmes WED Mark Lawson ...... Howard Read WED NW Ainley ...... Christopher Douglas WED Theatre Goer ...... Chris Chantler. WED WED 23:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jwphw (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED A series which seeks to challenge the prevailing WED atmosphere of doom and gloom and dare to be optimistic. WED Comedian Stephen K Amos offers an antidote to grumpiness. WED He is cheerful that school pupils no longer have to wear WED tank tops, classrooms are generally cheerier places and WED that houses are more individual than when he was growing WED up. WED He is also pleased that racism is no longer so overt, and WED talks to former MP Oona King and grumpy comedian Felix WED Dexter, who concedes that things have improved since the WED days of The Black and White Minstrel Show and Love Thy WED Neighbour. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 MAY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00khmq5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00klbsb (Listen) THU Radio Head, Episode 3 THU Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the THU radio stations of Britain. THU John's adventures continue with a look at the history of THU the Radio Times and a first-hand encounter with the very THU best of local radio - as Radio Humberside online brings THU him the latest from the epicentre of 2008's UK earthquake. THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00khms5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00khnh5 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00khnf7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00khnky (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00khsh9 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00khskn (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. THU THU 06:00 Today b00khszk (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00kjk8z (Listen) THU St Paul THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and THU influence of the Christian Apostle, St Paul. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00klbsd (Listen) THU Radio Head, Episode 4 THU Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the THU radio stations of Britain. THU Romance is on the schedule with the adventurous beginnings THU of pirate radio, but can that compete with the seductive THU allure of an on-air dedication? THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00khy3r (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kjk91 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 A Very Theatrical Revolution b00kjk93 (Listen) THU Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare's THU Globe, goes in search of Shakespeare's indoor playhouse, THU the immensely influential but now little-known Blackfriars THU Theatre. THU He uncovers the history of the playhouse, which opened in THU 1609 in the teeth of opposition from local residents who THU feared that it would damage the reputation of the area. THU Dominic meets experts, directors, designers and actors to THU recreate what it would have been like to perform or to be THU in the audience at the Blackfriars, and examines the THU influence that the theatre has had on all subsequent drama THU in this country. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00khztj (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00khzvw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00khzx7 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00kj9z1 (Listen) THU The Carteret Islands - Sharks In The Garden THU Tom Heap reports on the first large scale human evacuation THU due to climate change. The Carteret Islands, a small coral THU atoll in the South Pacific are slowly being submerged by THU the rising sea, forcing the removal of hundreds of THU islanders to nearby Papua New Guinea. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00khzzt (Listen) THU Ed has a crisis of conscience. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b008fy2d (Listen) THU The Making of Ivan the Terrible THU Black comedy by Hattie Naylor based on events in 1944. THU Sergei Eisenstein suffered a heart attack during a banquet THU to celebrate winning the prestigious Stalin Prize for his THU film Ivan the Terrible Part 1. Stalin had been delighted THU with the depiction of Ivan as a cruel and ruthless ruler. THU Earlier that day, however, Eisenstein had delivered Part 2 THU of his intended trilogy, in which Ivan was portrayed as THU neurotic, mad and vindictive. THU Eisenstein ...... Tim McInnerny THU Nikolai ...... Tim McMullan THU Vsevolod ..... Andy Taylor THU Stalin ...... Bill Wallis THU Interviewer ...... Paul Dodgson THU Zdhanov ...... Ewan Bailey THU Molotov ...... Daniel Goode THU Directed by Paul Dodgson. THU THU 15:02 Ramblings b00kgd75 (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 1 THU Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, THU body and soul. THU Clare joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison, who THU shares with her the inspirational landscape of Benjamin THU Britten's Suffolk - journeying from the rich sounds of the THU ocean crashing on the shingle beach at Aldeburgh to the THU watery reed beds of Snape Maltings, the site of the annual THU Aldeburgh Festival. THU Britten would often walk this land, consuming the sights THU and sounds and composing great works that were later THU notated at his piano back at The Red House, the Aldeburgh THU home that he shared with partner and collaborator Peter THU Pears. It was at this house that, as a student, Richard THU first met Britten, shortly before his death in 1976. THU Travelling along the historic Sailor's Path, infused with THU the sounds of Britten's Peter Grimes, Richard recalls this THU first meeting and discusses the relationship between THU music, mind and the landscape. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00khhpx (Listen) THU Save the Rhino THU Clive Anderson appeals on behalf of Save the Rhino. Save THU the Rhino works to conserve viable populations of THU critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. THU Donations to Save the Rhino should be sent to Freepost BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Save THU the Rhino. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you THU are a UK tax payer, please provide Save the Rhino with THU your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift THU Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online THU and phone donation facilities are not currently available THU to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1035072. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kksjn (Listen) THU Winnie the Pooh, Episode 3 THU Series of extracts from AA Milne's children's classic, THU read by Alan Bennett. Pooh spies a heffalump. THU THU 15:45 Hidden Henry b00knthy (Listen) THU Henry the Image-maker THU Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and THU surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. THU Dr Kent Rawlinson, the curator of buildings at Hampton THU Court, explores the way the buildings, grounds and THU artefacts express the king's concern with his image. For THU instance, the second most valuable objects now owned by THU the British Crown are the sumptuous wall hangings he THU designed himself, to be used when foreign dignitaries THU arrived. Each displays an aspect of his kingly prowess THU which he wished to demonstrate. THU Henry's corporate image was very carefully thought through THU - the buildings themselves, his art collection, which was THU greater than Charles II's, right down to his clothes. They THU all contributed to the image that the young king projected. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00khm8y (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to author of The Long Firm, Jake THU Arnott. He discusses the subject of his latest novel, The THU Devil's Paintbrush, which centres on Major-General Sir THU Hector Macdonald, a distinguished officer in the British THU army who committed suicide in 1903 after being accused of THU homosexuality. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00kjkjd (Listen) THU The 1930s 'dust bowl' in the American midwest provoked one THU of the greatest migrations in human history. Quentin THU Cooper talks to the scientists who are only now THU unravelling the causes, and looking for the lessons in a THU warming climate which raises the prospect of prolonged THU drought in the USA. THU THU 17:00 PM b00kj05t (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 b00kj0f1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Hut 33 b00bvzfh (Listen) THU Series 2, Yellow 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 The staff have to get their yellow fever vaccinations. The THU only problem is Charles is too much of a snob to be THU injected by an Australian doctor, Archie is scared of THU needles and Gordon still needs a note from his mum. 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 b00khzzw (Listen) THU Tom's plans are put on hold. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00kj133 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an THU interview with the American comedy performer and singer THU Sandra Bernhard. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kj1gb (Listen) THU Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 9 THU Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey THU Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. THU A grisly discovery at Flora's Bar throws light on Falco's THU murder accusation, while Helena realises that there is THU something mysterious about the upstairs room. THU Falco ...... Anton Lesser THU Helena ...... Anna Madeley THU Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock THU Petronius ...... Ben Crowe THU Baebius ...... Adrian Grove THU Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00kk0xr (Listen) THU Simon Cox gets behind the headlines engulfing MPs about THU their expenses and explores how the system of allowances THU was allowed to get out of control. The programme charts THU the origin of the row back to the enactment of freedom of THU information laws and reveals how proposed changes, which THU could have averted the crisis, were repeatedly thwarted by THU MPs themselves. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00kk226 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00kk0xt (Listen) THU Geoff Watts asks why people need to fly into space and THU finds out the use of scientific experiments in THU weightlessness. THU He joins scientists from the European Space Agency for the THU 50th in a series of what they call 'parabolic flight THU campaigns'. It used to be known as the vomit comet, though THU now it is an Airbus A300. It flies out over the Atlantic THU and then free-falls for up to 30 seconds, a cycle that is THU repeated 30 times each flight. THU The result is weightlessness, a brief taste of conditions THU in orbit. What can researchers hope to achieve in such THU brief bursts of zero-gravity? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00kjk8z (Listen) THU St Paul THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and THU influence of the Christian Apostle, St Paul. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00kj1jn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00kj1n2 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kmyw9 (Listen) THU The Outlander, Episode 4 THU Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in THU Canada in 1903. Can Mary trust the man they call The THU Ridgerunner? THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b008w3xt (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 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 Baseball and Me b00hxv2p (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Simon Schama, who has lived in the United States for 30 THU years, explores his love of baseball. THU He first walked into a ballpark in the early 1980s. From THU the moment he saw the floodlit green of the Fenway Park THU turf and the theatrical attire of the Boston Red Sox he THU was smitten. Before then, cricket had been his sport, but THU all too quickly wickets became bases and bowlers became THU pitchers. THU Simon fell in love with baseball - its statistics, THU language, characters and history. Now he seeks to explain THU why he, and the United States, are so infatuated with a THU game that the British so often dismiss. THU Simon gains behind-the-scenes access to his adopted team, THU the Boston Red Sox. The lockeroom, the scoreboard operator THU and, most importantly, the man who sells the famous Fenway THU Frank hotdog are all players in a pageant that holds a THU nation in its thrall. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 MAY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00khmq7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00klbsd (Listen) FRI Radio Head, Episode 4 FRI Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the FRI radio stations of Britain. FRI Romance is on the schedule with the adventurous beginnings FRI of pirate radio, but can that compete with the seductive FRI allure of an on-air dedication? FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00khms7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00khnh7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00khnf9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00khnl0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00khshc (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Ann Holt. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00khskq (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00khszm (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00khkxy (Listen) FRI Barry Humphries FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer FRI Barry Humphries. FRI For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque FRI comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage FRI and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. FRI Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in FRI literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time FRI spent on the desert island would allow him to devote FRI himself to painting. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00klbsg (Listen) FRI Radio Head, Episode 5 FRI Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the FRI radio stations of Britain. FRI John explores the future of radio - is it digital, is it FRI online and what will it sound like? FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00khy3t (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Falco: Poseidon's Gold. FRI FRI 11:00 To Err is Human b00cxkrp (Listen) FRI Phil Hammond explores human error in the medical FRI profession. Thousands of patients die each year because FRI doctors and nurses, although technically skilled, are not FRI alert to the risk of a potentially life-threatening FRI mistake. Airline pilot Martin Bromiley, whose wife was a FRI victim of such an error, talks about his experience. FRI Contributors include health minister Lord Darzi, chief FRI medical officer Liam Donaldson and American surgeon Atul FRI Gawande. FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Chain Reaction b007746h (Listen) FRI Series 3, Jeremy Hardy FRI Talk show in which the previous guest becomes the host. FRI Jack Dee talks to fellow comedian Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00khztl (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00khzvy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00khzx9 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00kk36n (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00khzzw (Listen) FRI Tom's plans are put on hold. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kk4cc (Listen) FRI Listen Up FRI By Glen Neath. The true story of Italian radio enthusiasts FRI who intercept transmissions from early Russian space FRI missions and listen in as the earliest men and women in FRI space call in vain for help. FRI It is 1964 and the Americans are losing the space race. FRI The Soviets are way ahead and the Americans have failed FRI utterly in gaining any intelligence on their rivals' space FRI programme. So it seems fairly outrageous when two young FRI Italian brothers turn up at NASA claiming to have FRI successfully recorded almost every Russian space mission FRI over the previous seven years. NASA has to take notice FRI when they realise that the brothers have also intercepted FRI American missions and have tapes of classified FRI transmissions by John Glenn, the first American in space. FRI As it happens they have been sending these recordings to FRI NASA since the outset, but no one has believed them. No FRI one except Carla Pettigrew, an audio analyst who is now FRI trying to persuade Major Will Spencer, NASA's technical FRI director, that he should believe what they have to say. FRI Featuring some of the actual recordings made by the FRI Judica-Cordiglia brothers, including the sound of a woman FRI dying in space as her craft burns up on re-entry. FRI Achille ...... Giacomo Valdameri FRI Gian ...... Simeon Perlin FRI Maria Teresa ...... Silvia Mercuriali FRI Will ...... Nathan Osgood FRI Eugene ...... Dominic Hawksley FRI Carla ...... Serena Bobowski FRI Mike ...... Francesco Calabretta FRI Other parts played by members of the company. FRI Directed by Boz Temple-Morris FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kkd91 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are FRI guests of Middleton Cheney Garden Club near Banbury. FRI The final instalment in our sustainable gardening series FRI looks at why rain water is such an invaluable resource. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Hidden Henry b00kntj0 (Listen) FRI Henry the Musician FRI Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and FRI surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. FRI Dr Stephen Rice, who researches and plays little-known FRI Renaissance music, investigates Henry VIII's musical FRI abilities. Did he really compose Greensleeves and other FRI pieces which have been attributed to him? He was certainly FRI a patron of music, appreciating visits from foreign FRI musicians and expanding the royal musical household. FRI Dr Rice introduces music from the period, recently FRI recorded by the Brabant Ensemble. He is joined by FRI Elizabeth Kenny, one of the UK's leading lutenists, and FRI together they demonstrate how the repertoire reflected FRI Henry's personal concerns, his political outlook, his FRI religious convictions and his practical abilities as a FRI musician and composer. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00kkd93 (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 b00kkd95 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director Richard Lester about his FRI career, which includes films such as A Hard Day's Night, FRI The Knack and The Three Musketeers. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00kj05w (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kj0f3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00kkd97 (Listen) FRI Series 68, Episode 5 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists FRI include Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Danielle Ward. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00khzzy (Listen) FRI Jolene suspects an ulterior motive for Matt. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00kj135 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including a FRI profile of pioneering jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, FRI who is the curator of the 2009 Meltdown festival in London. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kj1gd (Listen) FRI Falco: Poseidons Gold, Episode 10 FRI Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey FRI Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. FRI Falco discovers the true nature of his brother's death in FRI battle and the identity of the mysterious owner of FRI Flora's. Meanwhile, the plan to get their own back on FRI Carus and Servia doesn't go precisely according to plan. FRI Falco ...... Anton Lesser FRI Helena ...... Anna Madeley FRI Geminus ...... Trevor Peacock FRI Mother ...... Frances Jeater FRI Carus ...... Joseph Mydell FRI Servia ...... Jilly Bond FRI Prisoner ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00kkdq8 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Dartmouth. FRI Panellists include the shadow justice secretary, Dominic FRI Grieve. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00kkdqb (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00kkdqd (Listen) FRI Sunny Afternoon FRI By Doug Lucie. The normality of a sunny London afternoon FRI is brutally shattered when a man is killed in the street. FRI Testimonies from passers-by and residents who witnessed FRI the event reveal the personal, unforeseen and lasting FRI repercussions of such an incident. Their lives will never FRI be the same again. FRI Roy ...... Michael Begley FRI Johnny ...... Tom Hollander FRI Kayleigh ...... Tashie Jackson FRI David ...... Richard McCabe FRI Pam ...... Cheryl Campbell FRI WPC Flannagan ...... Colette Brown FRI Avelina ...... Christianne Oliverira FRI Interpreter ...... Teresa Gallagher FRI Directed by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00kj1jq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00kj1n4 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kmywc (Listen) FRI The Outlander, Episode 5 FRI Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in FRI Canada in 1903. Deserted by The Ridgerunner, Mary now FRI heads for the mining town of Frank. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00kjhv3 (Listen) FRI Series 18, Giovanni Falcone FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Journalist Misha Glenny remembers the life of anti-Mafia FRI campaigner Giovanni Falcone, whose work on the 1986 Maxi FRI trial contributed to over 3,000 convictions. Falcone was FRI blown up by the Mafia near Palermo airport in May 1992. FRI Matthew and Misha are joined by Diego Gambetta, who offers FRI expert comment. FRI FRI 23:30 Baseball and Me b00j1zzj (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Simon Schama, who has lived in the United States for 30 FRI years, explores his love of baseball. FRI Simon watches the Boston Red Sox take on their arch rivals FRI the New York Yankees. Surrounded by 40,000 baying fans, he FRI wonders why baseball, with its slow pace and low scores, FRI has captured the imagination of artists and artisans alike FRI for the last 100 years. FRI FRI FRI

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22 May, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 23/05/2009 - 29/05/2009

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