28 August, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 29/08/2009 - 04/09/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00m75lj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tpx (Listen) SAT When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 5 SAT Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said SAT Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. SAT Now grown up, Said takes a job in the corporate offices of SAT the lifestyle expert Martha Stewart. He loves buying SAT designer accoutrements for his tiny apartment and falls in SAT love with a co-worker, Karen. His mother comes to visit SAT and asks if he has heard from his father. He has not, but SAT he reminisces about the last time they met. He was 17 and SAT it was a very uncomfortable meal. He hugs his now frail SAT mom and rides away on the subway with Karen. SAT Abridged by Francois Smit. SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m75ln (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m75ls (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m75lx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00m75m1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m75p1 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. SAT SAT 05:45 Wars of The Roses b00ffvrk (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Welsey Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its SAT bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. SAT Taunton joins its rivals at the National Seminar in SAT Scarborough to cast a wary eye over the competition. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00m75p3 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00m76gx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00m82lx (Listen) SAT Dunluce Castle SAT So many stories are told about Dunluce Castle and its SAT surrounds that it is hard to separate fact from fiction. SAT Helen Mark visits the ruins on the north Antrim coast to SAT try to establish some facts at the first major SAT archaeological dig to be held there. SAT The archaeological team have been astounded by the wealth SAT and quality of their finds, which include an entire lost SAT merchants' town and the location of a 13th-century SAT settlement. SAT Helen also goes underground to find how the sea caves and SAT their legends have inspired a photographer to capture SAT their image. But does Helen's experience of unexplained SAT howls add more to the myths than to dispel them? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00m82lz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Birds of Prey are on the rise, and their numbers are now SAT back to 19th century levels. Charlotte Smith talks to SAT conservationists, gamekeepers and falconers to see how our SAT countryside is coping. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00m82m1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00m83nt (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00m83nw (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by classicist SAT Mary Beard. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00m83ny (Listen) SAT The Yorkshire seaside town of Filey first attracted SAT visitors like Charlotte Bronte and Frederick Delius in the SAT 19th century, and in the 20th was host to a large Butlin's SAT holiday camp. Sandi Toksvig visits Filey to discover how SAT it is faring in the 21st century, now that Butlin's has SAT closed. Has it managed to retain its individuality while SAT attracting visitors in hard economic times? SAT Sandi tours the town with former Mayor Marion Wright as SAT her guide and looks at how two current holiday SAT developments are aiming to keep Filey on the holiday map. SAT SAT 10:30 Bryn Terfel Masters Wine b00m83p0 (Listen) SAT Opera singer Bryn Terfel explores his love of wine and SAT attempts to become a master sommelier. Taking a break from SAT the stage, Bryn meets some of the world's finest wine SAT experts and finds out what the role of sommelier involves, SAT from tasting to service to food matching. SAT Featuring contributions from wine writer Sarah Ahmed, SAT chief examiner for The Court of Master Sommeliers Brian SAT Julyan, managing director of Cullen Wines Vanya Cullen, SAT sommelier at Gidleigh Park Restaurant Edouard Oger, SAT restaurant manager at High Timber Restaurant Neleen SAT Strauss and Master of Wine at Berry Bros Alun Griffiths. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m83p2 (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. SAT Crowded roads, trains and airports blight our transport SAT system, so politicians with bright ideas for sorting out SAT the mess could be vote winners. But with budgets SAT tightening and environmental worries rising, Iain Martin SAT asks how radical the main political parties will be. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m83p4 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Including the link between mobile phones and the violence SAT in eastern Congo, the confessions of a Colombian petrol SAT smuggler, and how to find the best hotels in Africa. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00m83p6 (Listen) SAT Coping with the Recession, Episode 3 SAT The housing price crash seems to have entered a different SAT phase, with prices in some parts of the UK starting to SAT rise again. Paul Lewis asks what this means for first-time SAT buyers and for places like Northern Ireland which are SAT still seeing steep price falls. SAT SAT 12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m74rp (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two SAT teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The SAT show asks both the big and the little questions, and SAT provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Andy SAT Parsons and Justin Edwards. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00m85ks (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00m85kv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00m74rr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Chipping SAT Norton, Oxfordshire. The panellists are former SAT Conservative deputy leader Lord Heseltine, former Labour SAT cabinet minister Tony Benn, columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown SAT and Professor Colin Mayer, Dean of Oxford University's SAT Saïd Business School. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00m85kx (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 b00760w8 (Listen) SAT Lockerbie on Trial SAT With the Lockerbie bombing once again in the news, another SAT chance to hear Peter Goodchild's dramatised reconstruction SAT of the extraordinary story of one of the longest, SAT costliest and most complicated trials in legal history. SAT Few would have predicted the verdict in February 2001, SAT when Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted and Al Amin SAT Khalifa Fhimah acquitted of blowing up Pam Am flight 103. SAT The prosecution are sure they have got their men, but a SAT succession of witnesses who prove to be CIA double agents, SAT convicted terrorists and arms dealers with shady histories SAT begin to undermine a case which is skilfully and SAT passionately contested by the defence. SAT Presented by Sheena MacDonald. SAT With Ian McDiarmid, Denis Lawson and Hugh Fraser. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00m85wm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT :ncluding: SAT Author Michelle Paver's series for children, Chronicles of SAT Ancient Darkness, is a worldwide bestseller. She talks SAT about the extensive research she has done to make her SAT stories as real as possible, research that has included SAT learning the ways of the Inuit people, swimming with SAT killer whales, eating seal blubber and getting to know SAT some wolves. SAT Deaf spouses, and the impact of being deaf on those around SAT you. Comedian Steve Day discusses how losing your hearing SAT can change a relationship. SAT New shoes. As the summer is nearly over and school is SAT about to begin, it's that time again. Do you dread that SAT visit to the shoe shop with your kids, but continue to SAT insist on properly fitted leather shoes? Or have you SAT thrown in the towel and given in to cheap trainers and SAT ballet pumps? And how much does it really matter? SAT Podiatrist Emma Supple and journalist Kathryn Flett SAT discuss the rights and wrongs of buying shoes for children. SAT And Through the Eye of a Needle: the journalist who cuts SAT his child's hair, saves apple pips and makes all his own SAT clothes. John-Paul Flintoff joins Jane with his crochet SAT hook to talk about his decision to create his own everyday SAT outfits, from fitted shirts and jeans, right down to his SAT Y-fronts. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00m85wp (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00m85wr (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m85wt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00m85ww (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m86zy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00m8700 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by the writer and comedian Alexei Sayle, SAT wildlife presenter Kate Humble and author Simon Hoggart. SAT Jo Bunting talks to choirmaster Gareth Malone. SAT With music from The Bookhouse Boys and Eric Roberson. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00m8702 (Listen) SAT Benjamin Netanyahu SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli SAT Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that SAT could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the SAT occupied West Bank. SAT Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi SAT Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from SAT Netanyahu's past. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00m8731 (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by writer Paul Morley, comedian SAT Natalie Haynes and poet Paul Farley to discuss the SAT cultural highlights of the week - featuring war as a drug, SAT a fictional cult rocker and monkeys in the desert. SAT The Hurt Locker follows a three man American bomb disposal SAT squad on its tour of duty in Baghdad in 2004. The epigraph SAT at the beginning of Kathryn Bigelow's film is 'war is a SAT drug' and certainly for Staff Sergeant Will James (Jeremy SAT Renner), there seems to be something dreadfully compelling SAT about the long walk towards what everybody else is running SAT away from. The first Iraq War film to be a US box office SAT hit. SAT In Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby revisits his familiar SAT territory of men, music and obsession. Duncan is devoted SAT to the work of cult US singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe, SAT although nothing has been heard of Crowe for 20 years. SAT Duncan's partner Annie shares his enthusiasm to some SAT extent, but when a new album is released, containing demo SAT versions of the tracks on his most famous release, their SAT lives veer off in unexpected directions. SAT After a second album which, almost inevitably, failed to SAT achieve the stellar success of their debut, Arctic Monkeys SAT evidently decided they should look for a change of SAT direction for their third release. This led them to the SAT Mojave Desert studio of Queens of the Stone Age frontman SAT Josh Homme where they recorded the majority of the songs SAT for their third album, Humbug, with Homme at the desk. The SAT heavier, darker sound may not be to the taste of all the SAT band's fans, but it certainly signals some kind of SAT transition. SAT Don Paterson's reputation as a poet has been growing SAT steadily since his debut collection Nil Nil was published SAT in 1993. Born in Dundee, his first job after leaving SAT school was as editor of DC Thompson's Commando magazine. SAT He also has a parallel career as a respected jazz SAT musician. Rain is his latest collection of poems which SAT includes Phantom, an extended elegy for fellow poet SAT Michael Donaghy. SAT When Geraldine McEwan hung up her straw hat as ITV's Miss SAT Marple, the baton (or knitting bag) was passed to Julia SAT McKenzie. Her first outing as the spinster sleuth is in A SAT Pocketful of Rye in which she investigates some rum SAT goings-on at Yew Tree Lodge. A star-studded cast mills SAT around, dusting off their alibis. Whatever the twists and SAT turns along the way, wickedness will not go unpunished. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00m88t6 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Clare Short SAT High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, SAT replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a SAT re-examination of their lives. SAT Clare Short has spent her life in the public eye, never SAT less than passionate and never short of opinions. From her SAT first appearance as a community activist in the early SAT 1980s, through to her announcement that she will be SAT standing down as an MP at the next election, her career SAT has always been controversial. What does she think now of SAT her early causes: her opposition to Page 3 and support for SAT the legalisation of cannabis? And what of those SAT resignations? Was she really, as she claimed at the time, SAT 'making a sacrifice to a higher purpose' by staying inside SAT the Cabinet despite her opposition to the Iraq War? SAT As Clare meets herself coming back over nearly 30 years of SAT sound recordings, is she proud, pleased, or driven, as she SAT says she often is, to think, 'Oh, shut up Clare', for her SAT insistance on always speaking up, even when staying quiet SAT might be a wiser choice? SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) SAT Two on a Tower, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of SAT star-crossed lovers in the West Country. SAT When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome SAT young astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on SAT her estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins. SAT Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill SAT Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson SAT Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson SAT Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys SAT Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin SAT Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson SAT Louis ...... Richard Heap SAT Joshua ...... Carter Dowland SAT Directed by Stefan Escreet. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00m88t8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m6ggf (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to SAT apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people SAT they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. SAT Public debates between those who believe in God and those SAT who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever, SAT often obscuring central human questions about how we SAT should live and how modern ethics should work. SAT Here, Professor AC Grayling and Lord Harries of SAT Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, visit a faith SAT school and then meet the organiser of an atheist summer SAT camp to explore where we get our values from and whether SAT you need God to be Good. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00m67w3 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from the north of England and the south of SAT England. SAT SAT 23:30 Poems for Infant Minds b0076p8n (Listen) SAT Nigel Forde looks at the development of children's poetry, SAT from the finger-wagging moral tales of the 18th and 19th SAT centuries, which warned girls and boys against the dangers SAT of being naughty, to the zany nonsense of the last SAT century. Has the moral message wrapped in verse really SAT changed all that much? Featuring writing by the Taylor SAT sisters, Lear, Stevenson, De La Mere and Dr Seuss. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00m892c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088n9j (Listen) SUN Telling the World, The Girl Who Fell SUN Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the SUN world. SUN Nick Hennessey tells the creation story from the Karelian SUN epic The Kalevala, an ancient myth from the Finno-Ugric SUN people of the Baltic. It starts at the very beginning, SUN with the ocean and the wind. SUN A Watershed Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m892f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m892h (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m892k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00m892m (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m8p70 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from the church of St John the Baptist, SUN Burford. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00m8702 (Listen) SUN Benjamin Netanyahu SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli SUN Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that SUN could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the SUN occupied West Bank. SUN Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi SUN Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from SUN Netanyahu's past. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00m8p72 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00m8p74 (Listen) SUN The Extraordinary Mary Ward SUN Mike Wooldridge explores the life and legacy of an SUN extraordinary Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who scandalised SUN the Church authorities of the early 17th century by SUN redefining religious life for women. SUN She walked across the Alps several times to plead her SUN cause in Rome, suffered imprisonment and ill-treatment, SUN and, when she died, her few remaining companions had to SUN bribe a vicar to bury her. But 400 years on, the Orders SUN she founded are working throughout the world and vast SUN congregations are gathering to celebrate her story. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00m8p76 (Listen) SUN Great Bustards SUN The Great Bustard has long been extinct from the British SUN countryside, but, as Lionel Kelleway discovers, a SUN determined re-introduction programme from a captive-born SUN stock of animals might change all that. Now, the first SUN chicks have been born outside captivity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00m8p78 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00m8p7b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00m8p7d (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 b00m8p7g (Listen) SUN ClearVision SUN Gary O'Donoghue appeals on behalf of ClearVision. SUN Donations to ClearVision should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN ClearVision. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide ClearVision with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1012850. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00m8p7j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00m8p7l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00m8p7n (Listen) SUN A service from Trinity Methodist Church in Penarth, south SUN Wales, led by Rev Teddy Kalongo. The preacher is Rev Dr SUN Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist SUN Church. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m74rt (Listen) SUN Coelacanth SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN The Coelacanth is a primitive bony fish thought to be an SUN important ancestor to all back-boned animals that ventured SUN onto land. David Attenborough brought to television the SUN first film of a living fish in Life on Earth. But is it SUN the living fossil it was claimed to be? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00m8p7q (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m8p7s (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00m8p7v (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN In Ethiopia, close to eight million people became famine SUN victims during the drought of 1984, and over one million SUN died. The international relief effort that followed was SUN the largest ever mounted, culminating in the Live Aid SUN concert in 1985. SUN Reporter Michael Buerk, nurse Claire Bertschinger, former SUN head of Oxfam Hugh Goyder, Major Dawit Wolde Giorgis of SUN the Ethiopian relief effort and Sir Brian Barder, SUN Ambassador to Ethiopia at the time, join Sue to recall the SUN events. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00m67w9 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 5 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at SUN the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The panellists include Paul SUN Merton and Sue Perkins. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00m8p7x (Listen) SUN Chefs' Choices Number 4: Lemongrass SUN Raymond Blanc explains how travelling to Thailand and SUN Malaysia led to a culinary love affair with lemongrass, SUN and ambitious plans to grow a south-east Asian garden at SUN Les Manois Aux Quat' Saisons in Oxford. SUN He explains, with the help of chef David Thompson, food SUN writer Roger Owen and herb grower Jekka McVicar, why SUN lemongrass is such a prized ingredient in Asian cooking. SUN It is a herb with many uses; outside the kitchen it is SUN regarded as an important medicinal herb and has even been SUN used by the SAS as a source of moisture in the Malaysian SUN jungle. SUN Raymond Blanc has been using lemongrass for decades to SUN give dishes a light and fragrant flavour. In the programme SUN he prepares two dishes: a fillet of brill on a bed of SUN spinach and, for dessert, a summer berry soup infused with SUN the flavours of lemongrass. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00m8p7z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00m8p81 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Garden Room Girls b00lgm1r (Listen) SUN Some of the elite band of secretaries who have worked at SUN Downing Street over the last 50 years reveal their untold SUN stories of life at Number 10 and how it operates. SUN Interviewed for the first time, they talk to Naomi Grimley SUN about working for Prime Ministers since Churchill, and SUN Tony Blair discloses how the PM's office could not work SUN without them. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m74gb (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Hertfordshire. SUN Anne Rowe, a landscape historian at Cambridge University, SUN discovers the lost gardens of Hertfordshire. Pippa SUN Greenwood is joined by a leading bulb expert to reveal SUN next year's exciting daffodil trends. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m5rs7 (Listen) SUN The Astronomers SUN Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied SUN disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to SUN explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. SUN Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory. SUN For 50 years, astronomers at the Jodrell Bank worked with SUN colleagues around an iconic radio telescope that famously SUN spotted Sputnik. But now most of the Jodrell tribe are SUN leaving their telescope in the middle of the Cheshire SUN countryside and moving to Manchester. The telescope will SUN survive as it is a listed building, but will the tribe? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) SUN Two on a Tower, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of SUN star-crossed lovers in the West Country. SUN Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance SUN and convention conspire against them and painful SUN sacrifices have to be made. SUN Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill SUN Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson SUN Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson SUN Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys SUN Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin SUN Louis ...... Richard Heap SUN Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon SUN Joshua ...... Carter Thomas SUN Directed by Stefan Escreet. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00m8qwv (Listen) SUN Nick Hornby talks to Alex Clark about his new novel, SUN Juliet, Naked, and explains his fascination with obsessive SUN music fans. SUN Fay Weldon and Henry Porter discuss the attractions and SUN difficulties of setting a novel in the near future. SUN SUN 16:30 In Search of the Wantley Dragon b00m5t0r (Listen) SUN Poet Ian McMillan explores the bawdy 17th-century comic SUN poem The Dragon of Wantley. He uncovers long-forgotten SUN violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour, SUN pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den. SUN Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its SUN day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of SUN Robin Hood. SUN SUN 17:00 Says Who? The Rise of the Community Leader b00m6c40 (Listen) SUN Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah investigates the SUN changing role of the community leader. The media turns to SUN them to respond to the latest crisis and they are happy to SUN oblige, but on whose authority do community leaders speak? SUN Kwame visits Birmingham to meet leaders from the Muslim SUN and Afro-Caribbean communities. He discovers how these SUN individuals are selected to voice the concerns of others, SUN finds out how their agendas have responded to our SUN increasingly diverse society and questions whether the SUN idea of 'community' is still realistic in a world of SUN multiplying lifestyles and opinions. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00m8702 (Listen) SUN Benjamin Netanyahu SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli SUN Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that SUN could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the SUN occupied West Bank. SUN Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi SUN Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from SUN Netanyahu's past. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m9h1v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00m9h1x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m9h1z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00m9h21 (Listen) SUN Miriam O'Reilly introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00m9h23 (Listen) SUN Wayne earns a crust in the kitchens. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00m9h25 (Listen) SUN Kevin Connolly asks if the political influence of Irish SUN America is over with the death of Ted Kennedy. SUN He also explores the continuing love affair between SUN Americans and Sir Winston Churchill, and talks to a woman SUN who may have met an angel on September 11th. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9m (Listen) SUN An Audience with Max Wall, The Crumbling Wall SUN Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this SUN series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the SUN Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden. SUN Max describes his invention of the character Prof SUN Wallowski, dressed in a ridiculous bald wig, indecent SUN black tights, green waistcoat and big shoes. But by the SUN 1950s, Max's career is in decline. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00m74g6 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine more numbers SUN in the news, including whether Britain's record on SUN prosecuting rape is as bad as headlines suggest. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00m74n4 (Listen) SUN The lives of Senator Edward Kennedy; geologist and African SUN adventurer Campbell Bridges; Gregory's Girl producer Clive SUN Parsons; jazz guitarist Lawrence Lucie. With Matthew SUN Bannister. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00m9h27 (Listen) SUN The Long Wait for a Law SUN John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. SUN Imagine a series of arson attacks on the homes next door SUN to you, or bulldozers demolishing homes their owners have SUN been forced to sell. These ares the antics of some of the SUN unscrupulous landlords working in the mobile home SUN industry. John Waite investigates why the government is SUN only now consulting on new legislation to stop thousands SUN of elderly people living in fear. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m8p7g (Listen) SUN ClearVision SUN Gary O'Donoghue appeals on behalf of ClearVision. SUN Donations to ClearVision should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN ClearVision. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide ClearVision with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1012850. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00m721v (Listen) SUN Squeaky Clean SUN WD40 is one of those rare products that users deeply SUN identify with. In San Diego, Peter Day investigates the SUN company's secret formula and finds out how to run an SUN international business by using the promise of the SUN original brand to navigate into the future. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00m9h29 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00m9h2c (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Britain's White House. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00m74rm (Listen) SUN Described by some as the world's greatest living SUN cinematographer, Douglas Slocombe has worked on films SUN including Kind Hearts and Coronets and Raiders of the Lost SUN Ark. Now in his 90s, he talks to Matthew Sweet about his SUN extraordinary career. SUN Mark Gatiss from The League of Gentlemen concludes his SUN alternative guide to British cinema. SUN Listeners, screenwriters and directors including Bertrand SUN Tavernier, Alex Cox, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Jake Arnott SUN nominate the British classics they think have been SUN neglected by posterity. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00m8p74 (Listen) SUN The Extraordinary Mary Ward SUN Mike Wooldridge explores the life and legacy of an SUN extraordinary Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who scandalised SUN the Church authorities of the early 17th century by SUN redefining religious life for women. SUN She walked across the Alps several times to plead her SUN cause in Rome, suffered imprisonment and ill-treatment, SUN and, when she died, her few remaining companions had to SUN bribe a vicar to bury her. But 400 years on, the Orders SUN she founded are working throughout the world and vast SUN congregations are gathering to celebrate her story. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 AUGUST 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00m9hgh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00m6gg9 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor discusses the life and work of leading MON cultural commentator Richard Hoggart, asking why his time MON is coming again. MON Hoggart's evidence in the Lady Chatterley trial changed MON censorship for ever, his influence on the Pilkington MON Committee established the norms of public service MON broadcasting still in operation today and his academic MON work led to the invention of cultural studies in the UK. MON He is considered a titan of contemporary culture and his MON famous book The Uses of Literacy combined sociology with MON literature and biography, going on to have a huge MON influence on the way popular culture was viewed. That MON influence has been on the wane in recent decades, but now MON a new edition of Hoggart's book is about to be published, MON a biography is being written and a recent conference was MON dedicated to his work. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m8p70 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from the church of St John the Baptist, MON Burford. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hwr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hph (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00m9hx4 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j09 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00m9jbb (Listen) MON Anne-Marie Bullock visits the Cain Valley in MON Montgomeryshire to see how farmer Peter Lewis has improved MON the water quality of the River Cain and how it has MON improved life on his farm. MON Just one drop of organophosphate sheep dip could kill off MON the insects in a kilometre of river. Farmers can face MON prosecution for careless pollution of rivers, but now the MON Environment Agency is trying to work alongside farmers to MON help prevent the build-up of 'diffuse pollution' such as MON slurry and silage being washed into streams. A build-up of MON contaminants along a valley can also have an impact on MON life in the streams. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00mb9pb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00m9nyb (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00mb9pf (Listen) MON John Varley MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON The chief executive of Barclays Bank, John Varley, gives MON an insider's view of how it felt to watch bank after bank MON teeter on the brink of collapse over the weekend of MON October 11, 2008, and how he feared that, unless the MON government intervened, there would be a crisis of MON confidence in the whole banking system. He tells Robert MON how it felt to watch thousands of Barclays employees MON coming in to work on the Monday morning unsure whether or MON not the bank had been nationalised. MON MON 09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mb9ph (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Helena Kennedy QC examines the ways in which the best MON intentions in legal reform can sometimes produce MON unexpected and unpalatable consequences. MON The rise of the victims' movement. Helena began her career MON championing the victim's voice, but is now worried it has MON gained such strength that it is beginning to threaten the MON rights of defendants. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00m69k2 (Listen) MON Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 1 MON Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of MON Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century MON London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William MON Chaloner. MON After nearly 30 years of academic life at Cambridge, MON Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint. He was soon in MON charge of the colossal task of re-casting all of England's MON currency - almost seven million pounds - and took a MON hands-on approach to the interrogation of suspected MON counterfeiters held in Newgate prison. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph4 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents a special edition to mark 100 years MON of the Girl Guides. MON On 4th September 1909 a group of girls, disguised in boys' MON uniforms, snuck into a Scout rally in London and demanded MON 'something for the girls'. A century later the Girl Guide MON movement has flourished, and almost half the women in the MON UK have been involved in Guiding at some stage in their MON lives. MON Jane speaks to Guides past and present, and the BBC MON Breakfast presenter Kate Silverton recounts her MON experiences as a Queen's Guide. We also hear from several MON generations at camp in Lancashire, from seven-year-old MON Brownies to a lifelong member, Betty Lowe, who is 101. MON With badges and activities ranging from air mechanic and MON hostess, chocolate and circus skills, to the crate MON challenge and abseiling, Jane discusses how the movement MON has modernised over the century and its relevance to girls MON today. MON MON 11:00 Merry Widows b00mb9pk (Listen) MON Women whose much-loved husbands have died describe finding MON unexpected happiness late in life, and the challenge of MON creating a new identity. Restarting a life when one MON suddenly finds oneself alone, having been married for MON decades, and for all of one's adult life, is never easy. MON There are contributions from women who had never lived on MON their own: people who married early, and happily, and MON stayed married. But then comes the blow of their husbands' MON death; they explain what happened next - and it surprised MON everyone MON A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mbbkh (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON Walter Brindle has staff to cull and a broken heart to MON overcome but, worst of all, his wife has come back to him MON and seems intent on pandering to his every whim. MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer MON Prunela Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins MON Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond MON Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern MON Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin MON Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley MON Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo MON Psychiatrist ...... Stephen K Amos. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00m9v3q (Listen) MON Fake UGG Boots MON 20,000 counterfeit pairs of UGG boots have been seized by MON Customs. Complaints to Consumer Direct about fake copies MON of the fashionable sheepskin UGG boots have tripled since MON last year. MON Calgary Avansino, Vogue's executive fashion editor, and MON Jim Jarvey of HM Revenue and Customs discuss. MON Liverpool Musical Heritage MON Is there more to Liverpool's music than the Fab Four? MON Stephanie Power reports on attempts to attract tourists to MON Merseyside by emphasising a musical culture beyond the MON Beatles. MON Hotel Ratings MON The boss of Jurys Inns has called for the star rating MON system to be scrapped. How effective are hotel inspections MON and how reliable are the gradings that hotels are given? MON Mark Jones, owner of Colson House guest house in Brighton, MON and Simon Numphud, manager of AA hotel services, discuss. MON Food Crises MON In the fifth and final part of our series examining the MON food crises which have occurred in recent years, Simon MON Parkes tracks the development of BSE and its impact on MON consumers and the food industry. We ask how well-protected MON today's consumers are. How much confidence can we have in MON the safety of the food we eat? MON Discussing these questions are Lord Haskins, former chair MON of Northern Foods, Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at MON London's City University, and Jenny Morris, Principal MON Policy Officer at the Chartered Institute of Environmental MON Health. MON Staycations MON Is holidaying in the UK an enjoyable experience? The MON so-called 'staycation' has been the buzz word of the MON summer. Charlotte Smith is one such 'staycationer', and MON she gives her thoughts on her recent trip to Devon. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00m9y0q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mfhk7 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mbf7k (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON with the south of England team hoping to get their own MON back on the Midlands in a return match. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00m9h23 (Listen) MON Wayne earns a crust in the kitchens. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mbf7m (Listen) MON What Might Have Been MON By Joseph O'Connor. Inspired by the story of Joseph and MON Bridget Moore, real-life Irish immigrants, as they MON struggle to cope with life in a New York tenement on the MON Lower East Side in 1869. MON America is not, as anticipated, the land of milk and MON honey, but it is most certainly the home of the brave. MON With Stephen Rea MON Original music composed by Graeme Stewart MON Violinist: Ruby Colley. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00m88t6 (Listen) MON Meeting Myself Coming Back, Clare Short MON High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, MON replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a MON re-examination of their lives. MON Clare Short has spent her life in the public eye, never MON less than passionate and never short of opinions. From her MON first appearance as a community activist in the early MON 1980s, through to her announcement that she will be MON standing down as an MP at the next election, her career MON has always been controversial. What does she think now of MON her early causes: her opposition to Page 3 and support for MON the legalisation of cannabis? And what of those MON resignations? Was she really, as she claimed at the time, MON 'making a sacrifice to a higher purpose' by staying inside MON the Cabinet despite her opposition to the Iraq War? MON As Clare meets herself coming back over nearly 30 years of MON sound recordings, is she proud, pleased, or driven, as she MON says she often is, to think, 'Oh, shut up Clare', for her MON insistance on always speaking up, even when staying quiet MON might be a wiser choice? MON MON 15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00d6zqd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of MON people who were labelled child prodigies. MON He meets Mark Bennet, a vicar in Essex who was one of the MON brightest schoolboy mathematicians of his generation. He MON won a gold medal and scored full marks in the MON International Maths Olympiad in 1981. He went on to MON Cambridge, intent on staying there to become a professor. MON Tiring of academic life, however, he entered the church. MON Has he any regrets? MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00m8p7x (Listen) MON Chefs' Choices Number 4: Lemongrass MON Raymond Blanc explains how travelling to Thailand and MON Malaysia led to a culinary love affair with lemongrass, MON and ambitious plans to grow a south-east Asian garden at MON Les Manois Aux Quat' Saisons in Oxford. MON He explains, with the help of chef David Thompson, food MON writer Roger Owen and herb grower Jekka McVicar, why MON lemongrass is such a prized ingredient in Asian cooking. MON It is a herb with many uses; outside the kitchen it is MON regarded as an important medicinal herb and has even been MON used by the SAS as a source of moisture in the Malaysian MON jungle. MON Raymond Blanc has been using lemongrass for decades to MON give dishes a light and fragrant flavour. In the programme MON he prepares two dishes: a fillet of brill on a bed of MON spinach and, for dessert, a summer berry soup infused with MON the flavours of lemongrass. MON MON 16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mbf7p (Listen) MON Series 4, Tracing Your Roots - Wartime Losses MON Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice MON of researching family history. MON For 60 years, Stella Collis has only known her German PoW MON father's name, but now she is united with her father's MON military records. This is just one of many wartime stories MON that Sally explores, in a programme marking the 70th MON anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. MON MON 17:00 PM b00m9z39 (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 b00mb0q1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00mbg96 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 6 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring MON performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Panellists MON include Paul Merton and Sue Perkins. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00m9yhm (Listen) MON There's a cash crisis at The Lodge. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mb139 (Listen) MON Writer William Trevor rarely gives interviews, usually MON preferring to let the words on the page speak for him. In MON a special edition of Front Row with Mark Lawson, the MON author - who celebrated his 81st birthday earlier this MON year - reflects on his long career as a novelist, short MON story writer and sculptor. MON William Trevor's work has won him many awards and he has MON just reached the 2009 Man Booker long-list with his MON fourteenth novel, Summer and Love. He has also MON successfully adapted several short stories - including The MON Ballroom of Romance - for television and film. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb13c (Listen) MON Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 1 MON Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and MON correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa MON Rosenthal. MON The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and MON a divorcee 13 years her senior. MON It is July 1964 and drama student Stella Kaufman travels MON to Israel on a quest to 'find herself', but is left with MON more questions than answers. MON Stella ...... Rebecca Callard MON Tom ...... John Lightbody MON Avnair ...... Greg Wood MON Maurice ...... Robert Pickavance. MON MON 20:00 Where Did It All Go Right? b00mbg98 (Listen) MON The National Minimum Wage MON Prof Philip Cowley presents a series examining MON initially-controversial political policies which were MON later judged by most people to have been a success. MON The National Minimum Wage used to have plenty of critics MON among business and the Conservative Party, but it is less MON well-known that it was unpopular with many on the left, MON too. Cabinet minister Ed Balls used to be strongly MON opposed, as were most trade unions. Rodney Bickerstaffe MON campaigned for decades to persuade the trade unions and MON Labour Party to adopt the minimum wage, and finally MON succeeded in the mid-1980s. MON In the run-up to Labour's election victory in 1997, MON business and conservative critics argued that it would MON cause many job losses. But once it came into effect, many MON business organisations came to support it, and so did the MON Tories. Philip Cowley looks back at the early debates, and MON examines the impact of the minimum wage. MON Interviewees who were formerly critical but later came to MON support the minimum wage include Boris Johnson, Michael MON Portillo and Jack Dromey, Unite deputy general secretary. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00lyrb4 (Listen) MON Bihar MON David Goldblatt reports from a small town in the Indian MON state of Bihar that has turned into something of an MON academic hothouse. More than 50 students from the poor MON weaving community of Patwatoli have gained entry to the MON IITs, India's scientific equivalent of Oxbridge, in the MON last ten years. It is the week before the annual entrance MON exam, and the tension among the students is mounting. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00mbgwf (Listen) MON Turbines or Tearooms MON All over the country renewable energy schemes are being MON thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and MON bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful MON doorsteps in Britain. MON In the first of a new series of ‘Costing the Earth’ Tom MON Heap asks if radical action is needed to break through the MON blockade. Should the new planning laws intended to rush MON through urgently needed road and airport projects be MON extended to all green energy projects? Or should MON developers make more effort to get local people on board? MON If locals can see an immediate financial benefit will they MON drop their opposition? MON Tom Heap travels from Sussex to Orkney to meet the MON protestors and find out how they can be brought on board MON the green energy revolution. MON MON 21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00mb9pf (Listen) MON John Varley MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON The chief executive of Barclays Bank, John Varley, gives MON an insider's view of how it felt to watch bank after bank MON teeter on the brink of collapse over the weekend of MON October 11, 2008, and how he feared that, unless the MON government intervened, there would be a crisis of MON confidence in the whole banking system. He tells Robert MON how it felt to watch thousands of Barclays employees MON coming in to work on the Monday morning unsure whether or MON not the bank had been nationalised. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00mfkh3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb33x (Listen) MON Love and Summer, Episode 1 MON Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor MON about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of MON Ireland. MON In the little town of Rathmoye, Miss Connulty has had MON years to mourn the youth she never had, and the brief MON happiness sundered from her. Now, watching from her MON boarding house, she observes a nascent friendship between MON Ellie Dillahan, child of an institution, and the MON newly-arrived Florian Kilderry, a dark-haired young MON photographer. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 From Jean Brodie to Carrie Bradshaw: Spinsters in MON Popular Cu b00htl98 (Listen) MON Ann Widdecombe explores how single women have been MON depicted in popular culture. From Dickens's terrifying MON Miss Havisham and Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie to MON Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and Bridget Jones, why MON are single women so often represented as manipulative, MON bitter, or just desperate for a man? MON Ann is content with her single status, and wants to know MON why it is hard to find examples of truly happy spinsters MON in books or on screen. She explores the horror that David MON Lean's depiction of Miss Havisham evoked in many of the MON generation that came of age in the 1940s. She goes back to MON her old school in Bath to meet her former teacher and to MON contemplate the reality of life for single women of that MON generation. MON Ann finds out why the author of Not Married, Not Bothered, MON Carol Clewlow, believes that even today Jane Austen is MON capable of being a 'spinster heroine' and why many women MON seem to loathe the word 'spinster'. She also asks whether MON Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones have as much to offer us MON as Barbara Pym's 'excellent women' of the 1950s and 60s. MON Finally, she discovers that the word 'spinster' might be MON loathed, but it is far from defunct, as some journalists MON are now referring to single men as 'male spinsters'. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fkw8l (Listen) MON Series 4, The Queens of Coal MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON Alan Dein meets former Coal Queens at a reunion of these MON former beauty queens who were elected by miners to MON represent their mines. MON In the days of coal, each pit used to elect a Coal Queen MON to represent the mine. The daughter or granddaughter of a MON miner would be put forward and if she claimed the crown, MON she went on to compete in county and even national MON championships. A recent reunion of Coal Queens brought MON together former beauty queens from all over the coal MON mining regions of England, along with their memories and MON memorabilia. Alan Dein meets them and explores the lives MON of two in particular to hear how that event, in their MON youth, changed the course of their lives. MON Helen Coleman went on to open a beauty salon and married MON the drummer of Britain's leading Queen tribute band. MON Maureen Griffiths ran a working men's club and is still MON remembered by locals for that golden day in 1951. Both MON have watched the changing face of life after coal. The MON Miners' Strike of 1984 brought an end to the Coal Queen MON tradition and changed pit community life forever, but what MON has happened since and why has a tradition like the Coal MON Queen beauty pageant endured in the memories of older MON generations while the teenagers barely know what coal is? MON MON TUE TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00m69k2 (Listen) TUE Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 1 TUE Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of TUE Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century TUE London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William TUE Chaloner. TUE After nearly 30 years of academic life at Cambridge, TUE Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint. He was soon in TUE charge of the colossal task of re-casting all of England's TUE currency - almost seven million pounds - and took a TUE hands-on approach to the interrogation of suspected TUE counterfeiters held in Newgate prison. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00m9hwt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0c (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5g (Listen) TUE A new UK and world record has been set with the sale of a TUE sheep for 231,000 thousand pounds. Deveronvale Perfection TUE was sold at the Scottish National Texel sale and his price TUE beat the previous world record, held by an Australian TUE Merino, by around 100,000 pounds. Charlotte Smith talks to TUE the farmer who is now nearly a quarter of a million pounds TUE better off. TUE Also, the highs and lows of farming. We speak to a family TUE selling up after nearly 100 years milking cows. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00m9nxp (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mbhqv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Baroness Jane Campbell TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy TUE back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where TUE she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll and TUE wanting to be no different from her able-bodied friends. TUE TUE 09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mbhqx (Listen) TUE The Cradle of Civilisation TUE Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick TUE Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very TUE different missing works of art. TUE One of the little-reported but culturally significant TUE effects of the war in Iraq has been the loss of works of TUE antiquity from the country's museums. From the Iraq Museum TUE in Baghdad alone, it is estimated that 15,000 objects TUE dating from the dawn of civilisation have disappeared. TUE Rick Gekoski examines how and why these Mesopotamian TUE artefacts were looted and speculates on what may have TUE happened to them. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xnz (Listen) TUE Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 2 TUE Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of TUE Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century TUE London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William TUE Chaloner. TUE The foundation of the Bank of England and the first bank TUE notes provide a new business opportunity for TUE arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph6 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey TUE Including: TUE Seventy years ago, with the outbreak of WWII, as many as TUE three million children and their teachers were evacuated TUE from Britain's cities to safer places in the countryside. TUE Dubbed Operation Pied Piper, the entire process took just TUE four days and remains the largest mass movement of people TUE in British history. The children left home with no idea of TUE where they were going, nor when they would be coming back. TUE For some the experience of being billeted with new TUE families was deeply traumatic; for others it was more of TUE an adventure. Now the sociologist Monica Morris, herself TUE an evacuee, has collected testimonies from some of those TUE who left their families. She joins Jane to talk about TUE evacuees' experiences and the TUE Our relationships with brothers and sisters are often the TUE longest lasting of our lives. They can outlast marriages, TUE survive the death of parents and overcome quarrels that TUE would sink a friendship. But what happens if your sibling TUE is disabled or suffers from a chronic illness? Whose TUE responsibility is it to look after a disabled sibling when TUE a parent dies? And where can you turn for support? Jane TUE has been to visit the family of Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, who TUE has a disabled sister, Frances, and is joined in the TUE studio by Monica McCaffrey from the charity Sibs, which TUE helps people who grow up with a disabled brother or sister. TUE From the start of this month, children reaching their TUE seventh birthday will be eligible to receive the second TUE payment into their Child Trust Fund. The scheme was TUE started by the government in 2005 as a way of encouraging TUE parents and children to save for their future, and starts TUE every child off with 250 pounds when they are born. But TUE since the scheme's launch, around a quarter of parents TUE have failed to choose a fund in which to invest their TUE child's money, perhaps because many parents are unsure TUE about the best way to invest the money. Jane is joined by TUE personal finance journalist Sarah Pennells to find out TUE more. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00mbkk0 (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Sea of Cortez TUE The Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico, is a whale and TUE dolphin hotspot where the widest variety of cetaceans on TUE earth can be found in one place. Along with close TUE encounters with whales, Tessa McGregor also reflects on TUE the prophetic words of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck in TUE their book, The Log of the Sea of Cortez. TUE TUE 11:30 Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth TUE Williams b00mbkk2 (Listen) TUE A special broadcast of a lost script written for Kenneth TUE Horne and Kenneth Williams in 1966 by Horne and his ghost TUE writer, Mollie Millest. Robin Sebastian and Jonathan Rigby TUE take the lead roles as the two Kenneths, with TUE contributions from Charles Armstrong, who takes on the TUE role as the announcer. TUE The plot, evoking memories of Round the Horne, finds the TUE two Kenneths working together in advance of their own TUE radio programme and follows them as they journey around TUE Broadcasting House meeting a weird and wonderful TUE assortment of characters. TUE The script was discovered by writer and broadcaster Wes TUE Butters, who purchased a collection of Kenneth Williams TUE memorabilia from Williams's godson. Butters introduces the TUE performance, which was recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre TUE in London and features old sound effects and props, TUE including the famous door from the popular Tommy Handley TUE radio series, It's That Man Again. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00m9ty5 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00m9xwg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00m9y0s (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00mbkk4 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Allegri's Miserere TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their TUE emotional appeal. TUE Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the TUE 1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It TUE then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, TUE Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in TUE the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we TUE know today. TUE The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and TUE never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for TUE concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe TUE Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman TUE explain how they have all been deeply affected by this TUE beautiful piece of music. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00m9yhm (Listen) TUE There's a cash crisis at The Lodge. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mbz1h (Listen) TUE Hindenburg TUE By Christopher William Hill. Helen Ashbourne, a reclusive TUE English former photographer living in New York, is TUE approached by gallery owner Josh, who hopes to display her TUE collection of photographs taken aboard the airship TUE Hindenburg. But as arrangements for the exhibition TUE progress, suspicions are aroused about her past and TUE exactly what she was doing in Germany in 1937, before she TUE boarded the fated airship. TUE Helen ...... Sian Phillips TUE Josh ...... Corey Johnson TUE Annie ...... Fenella Woolgar TUE Yusef ...... Raad Rawi. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00mbl58 (Listen) TUE We all know that mighty oaks spring from tiny acorns, and TUE that some trees can reach a truly massive girth. Why then, TUE asks one listener, are so many urban trees planted in TUE girdles of concrete with no room to expand? Are they TUE doomed to die as they outgrow their constraints, or do the TUE planters know something we don't about tree growth? TUE Have you ever sat in your car at a traffic light thinking TUE that there has to be a better way to manage traffic? One TUE listener writes to ask whether it would be possible to TUE coordinate traffic control measures to ease vehicles TUE through congested areas, reducing carbon emissions at the TUE same time. TUE Sticking with carbon dioxide release, why is it that, TUE despite huge amounts pouring into our atmosphere, global TUE temperatures have gone down over the last seven years? TUE If you have spent any time on Britain's south coast this TUE year you may have noticed huge growths of seaweed TUE blanketing beaches, mudflats and harbours. Rather than TUE letting it rot, could it be harvested and put to good use TUE as fertiliser or fuel for biodigesters? And when does TUE planting forests cause more problems than it solves? TUE Teasing these questions apart are Prof Philip Stott, TUE forestry expert Dr Anna Lawrence, and Prof Andrew TUE Watkinson, the chair of Living With Environmental Change. TUE As always we want to hear your comments on the topics TUE discussed and any questions you might want to put to TUE future programmes. TUE Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House TUE Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have TUE they bred successfully? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbl9q (Listen) TUE The Heart of Saturday Night, Come On Up to the House TUE Series of stories which take their inspiration from the TUE unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy TUE world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of TUE society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and TUE longing. TUE Written by AL Kennedy and inspired by a Waits song of the TUE same name. TUE A man finds himself reaching out to a perfect stranger in TUE the wee small hours of the morning. TUE Read by Peter Capaldi. TUE TUE 15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00d9l4d (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of TUE people who were labelled child prodigies. TUE Jocelyn Lavin shone both academically and musically at TUE primary school. She won a place at the prestigious TUE Chetham's School in Manchester, where she was a classmate TUE of Anna Markland, BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1982. TUE But she can't find a job and doesn't understand why her TUE talents seem to mean nothing to potential employers. TUE Jocelyn and Anna reflect on their fortunes since leaving TUE school. TUE TUE 16:00 A Small Business b00mbm3d (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners TUE of the small businesses which keep our economy running. TUE Does keeping it in the family make for better business? TUE How do you avoid accusations of nepotism? What happens if TUE junior doesn't want to take over the reins? And just how TUE do you sack Dad? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00mbm3g (Listen) TUE Series 19, Sir Kyffin Williams TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Rolf Harris discusses the life of the Welsh painter Sir TUE Kyffin Williams. Famous for his paintings inspired by the TUE north Wales landscape, Williams never chose to be a TUE painter; he was told by a doctor to take up art for his TUE health when he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Prof Derec TUE Llwyd Morgan joins the discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00m9z31 (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 b00mb0ml (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mbm3j (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 2 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE An exciting new reality show uses soap stars, cutting-edge TUE surgery and some horses in Make Me a Celebrity Centaur; we TUE learn all about the forecasters' secret weapon, the TUE 'Weatherbrain'; and the dramatic story of Jeremiah TUE Internet and the first ever 'at' sign. And where are we TUE going to put all those Gurkhas? TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00m9yh7 (Listen) TUE Jim shows Daniel life in the fast lane. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mb0sp (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with Booker Prize-winning writer Margaret Atwood. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb13f (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 2 TUE Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and TUE correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa TUE Rosenthal. TUE The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and TUE a divorcee 13 years her senior in the mid-1960s. TUE Stella Kaufman is a Jewish girl from Manchester studying TUE drama in London. Much to the disapproval of her parents, TUE she is in a relationship with Gentile Tom Rennard, who is TUE older and a divorcee. TUE Stella ...... Rebecca Callard TUE Tom ...... John Lightbody TUE Dr Kaufman ...... David Fleeshman TUE Mrs Kaufman ...... Olwen May TUE Susie ...... Fiona Clarke. TUE TUE 20:00 Divided Britain b00mbm3l (Listen) TUE Gerry Northam follows headteacher Mike Tull as he TUE continues his attempts to bridge ethnic divisions through TUE education, as part of a radical scheme to tackle TUE underachievement and segregation in Lancashire mill towns. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00mbm3n (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00mbm3q (Listen) TUE Ultrasound TUE Dr Mark Porter traces the rise of the use of ultrasound in TUE medicine. He visits Dr Kypros Nicolaides's foetal medicine TUE clinic, where he finds out how state-of-the-art ultrasound TUE is being used to check the development of pregnancies. TUE TUE 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mbhqv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Baroness Jane Campbell TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy TUE back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where TUE she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll and TUE wanting to be no different from her able-bodied friends. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00mb2hx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2jy (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb33z (Listen) TUE Love and Summer, Episode 2 TUE Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor TUE about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of TUE Ireland. TUE Ellie Dillahan, child of an institution, married too young TUE to a good man haunted by a moment's misjudgement, has been TUE disturbed by the arrival of a dark-haired young TUE photographer in Rathmoye. While for Florian Kilderry, the TUE child of exiles, about to go into exile himself, the girl TUE on the bicycle might offer a moment's friendship and the TUE chance to forget. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00jhvn6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are David Baddiel, Germaine TUE Greer and Rufus Hound. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b008ds14 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand, TUE Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy TUE Brand. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xnz (Listen) WED Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 2 WED Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of WED Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century WED London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William WED Chaloner. WED The foundation of the Bank of England and the first bank WED notes provide a new business opportunity for WED arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00m9hww (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0f (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5j (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00m9nxr (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00mbynr (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 5 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two personal columnists, Katherine WED Whitehorn, who wrote for The Observer, and Liz Jones, who WED writes for You magazine. They discuss when getting WED personal is too personal, how their friends and families WED react to being written about and what the changing face of WED columns in the last 50 years tells us about women's lives. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00mbynt (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's WED Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform WED itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing' WED modern museum. WED Rosie joins V & A curators in India to consider the WED museum's growing international work. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp1 (Listen) WED Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 3 WED Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of WED Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century WED London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William WED Chaloner. WED Newly released from Newgate prison, William Chaloner WED advises Parliament on corruption at the heart of the Royal WED Mint. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph8 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10 WED - Tom and Stella. WED WED 11:00 Random Edition b00mbynw (Listen) WED Outbreak of War Special WED Peter Snow presents a special edition of the history WED series in which the stories are provided by archive WED newspapers. WED He revisits the pages of The Guardian for September 4, WED 1939 to re-create stories from the previous day, when WED Neville Chamberlain announced Britain's declaration of war WED on Germany. Within hours a U-boat had sunk the passenger WED liner Athenia. London taxi drivers rushed to join the WED Auxiliary Fire Service. Novelist Jilly Cooper describes WED how pets fared in the crisis, and singer Gracie Fields was WED back home but heading for trouble. WED WED 11:30 Ayres on the Air b00mbz1c (Listen) WED Series 3, On Yer Bike WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Pam is joined by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu WED for poems about French cycling holidays, the up-side to WED riding a tandem, getting fit on gym bikes and how to WED banish the middle-age blues by getting kitted out with a WED motorbike and leathers. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00m9tyh (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00m9xwj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00m9y0v (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00mbz1f (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00m9yh7 (Listen) WED Jim shows Daniel life in the fast lane. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b007nthz (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 1 WED Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester WED legal practice. WED When Dee Dee's estranged son is arrested for shoplifting, WED only his stepfather Frank Twist can come to the rescue. WED Frank ...... David Schofield WED Dee Dee ...... Denise Welch WED Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah WED James ...... Mikey North WED Johnny ...... Andrew Schofield WED McGregor/Milo ...... Rod Matthew WED DC Highton ...... James Quinn WED DC Price ...... Deborah McAndrew. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00m83p6 (Listen) WED Coping with the Recession, Episode 3 WED The housing price crash seems to have entered a different WED phase, with prices in some parts of the UK starting to WED rise again. Paul Lewis asks what this means for first-time WED buyers and for places like Northern Ireland which are WED still seeing steep price falls. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbxfb (Listen) WED The Heart of Saturday Night, Muriel WED Series of stories which take their inspiration from the WED unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy WED world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of WED society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and WED longing. WED By Willy Vlautin. WED A small-town forklift truck driver returns to his old WED neighbourhood and the bar he used to drink in before his WED breakdown. All the characters are still there, but he WED cannot help but notice how they all do their best to avoid WED mentioning his dead wife Muriel. WED Read by Ed Stoppard. WED WED 15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00djcgl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of WED people who were labelled child prodigies. WED Demis Hassabis was once the highest-ranked twelve-year-old WED chess player in the world. He wanted a career in chess and WED hoped one day to become world champion. Then he gave up WED playing the game seriously, a decision he doesn't regret. WED Why does chess have such a hold on so many bright young WED people? International Masters Bill Hartston and Malcolm WED Pein join the debate. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mbz1k (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00mbm3q (Listen) WED Ultrasound WED Dr Mark Porter traces the rise of the use of ultrasound in WED medicine. He visits Dr Kypros Nicolaides's foetal medicine WED clinic, where he finds out how state-of-the-art ultrasound WED is being used to check the development of pregnancies. WED WED 17:00 PM b00m9z33 (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 b00mb0mn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00h8q40 (Listen) WED Series 5, Dave Gorman WED Chat show in which last week's interviewee becomes this WED week's interviewer. WED Robert Llewellyn interviews Dave Gorman, the comedian WED responsible for shows like Are You Dave Gorman?, WED Googlewhack Adventure and Genius. Robert asks Dave about WED cycling across Britain, online stalkers and WED life-threatening trips to Mexico. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00m9yh9 (Listen) WED Lynda and Elizabeth turn secret gardeners. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mb0sr (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an WED interview with Julia McKenzie as she takes on the role of WED Agatha Christie's renowned sleuth Miss Marple on TV. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb19f (Listen) WED Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 3 WED Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and WED correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa WED Rosenthal. WED The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and WED a divorcee 13 years her senior. WED It is 1965 and Stella gets her first professional job as WED an actress, but it means more separation for her and Tom. WED Stella ...... Rebecca Callard WED Tom ...... John Lightbody WED Frankie ...... Christine Brennan WED Nigel ...... Greg Wood WED Bank Manager ...... Roger Morlidge. WED WED 20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00mbzvw (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to WED apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people WED they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. WED Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, WED and Dr Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' WED Magazine, take on power and wealth. WED They visit a church which is challenging the Establishment WED on the treatment of the homeless, hear from a social WED entrepreneur who is creating wealth for poor communities WED in India and Nepal, and visit the House of Lords to WED examine the role of religion in public life. WED WED 20:45 Britain's White House b00mbzvy (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Sadiq Khan MP remembers the careers of Britain's first WED Asian MPs. Dadabhai Naoroji and Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee WED Bhownaggree entered the House of Commons in 1892 and 1895, WED but, as Sadiq finds out, some of the challenges they faced WED are still relevant to today's political world. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00mbkk0 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Sea of Cortez WED The Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico, is a whale and WED dolphin hotspot where the widest variety of cetaceans on WED earth can be found in one place. 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WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k0 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb341 (Listen) WED Love and Summer, Episode 3 WED Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor WED about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of WED Ireland. WED For Ellie Dillahan, the arrival of Florian Kilderry in WED Rathmoye has opened up a whole new world. For Florian, WED about to leave behind all he knows and the crumbling house WED in which he has always lived, the girl in the blue dress WED offers a summer's friendship and a chance to forget the WED love of his life. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b007772j (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key WED and Lloyd Woolf. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007x6jb (Listen) WED Series 1, Nights to Remember WED Comedy-drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite WED monastery where the brown habit is no protection against WED the problems and temptations of the modern world. WED Brother Butterscotch's Fresh Whip turns out to be a WED commercial success, but Father Michael's plan to make the WED lives of the older brothers more comfortable might not be WED such a good idea. WED Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina WED Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice WED Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis WED Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson WED Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres WED Directed by Pete Atkin. WED WED THU THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xp1 (Listen) THU Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 3 THU Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of THU Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century THU London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William THU Chaloner. THU Newly released from Newgate prison, William Chaloner THU advises Parliament on corruption at the heart of the Royal THU Mint. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00m9hwy (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0h (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5l (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00m9nxt (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00mcv5q (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets US army helicopter pilot Major Tammy THU Duckworth. She recounts the ambush in Iraq which led to THU her helicopter being shot down, resulting in her losing THU both legs. While recovering in the Walter Reed Hospital, THU she tells how she counted backwards using an old clock to THU convince herself that she was still alive. She says that THU she went five days without sleep, wracked with guilt that THU she had crashed her helicopter. THU Out of hospital, Tammy became an opponent of the war and THU decided to run for Congress, just a few months into her THU rehabilitation. Although she was narrowly beaten in the THU election, she is now working in President Obama's team to THU improve the welfare of veterans. THU Tammy describes how she rejected a realistic-looking THU feminine leg, which only reminded her of what she had THU lost, in favour of a robotic machine which would enable THU her to fly solo, drive and dive again, all of which she THU has now achieved. THU THU 09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00mcv5s (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have THU been shaped by the media. THU Kenan discusses Islamophobia with Inayat Bunglawala of the THU Muslim Council of Britain and others. Kenan questions the THU concept of Islamophobia, while acknowledging the reality THU of anti-Muslim prejudice and the dangers of THU self-censorship in an increasingly heated debate. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp3 (Listen) THU Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 4 THU Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of THU Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century THU London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William THU Chaloner. THU The Warden of the Royal Mint sets out to crush his THU accuser, the self-appointed counterfeiting expert William THU Chaloner. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9phb (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10 THU - Tom and Stella. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00mcvgd (Listen) THU Gangland in Paradise THU With a spectacular natural setting and a prosperous but THU laid-back lifestyle, Vancouver is routinely named one of THU the best communities in the world in which to live. THU But this west coast Canadian city, host to the 2010 Winter THU Olympics, is quickly developing another reputation. Bill THU Law tells the story of the young gangsters who are THU exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar THU illicit drugs industry using a combination of business THU savvy and bullets. THU THU 11:30 Biggles: Adventures Through Time b00mcvgg (Listen) THU Alexander Armstrong explores the lasting appeal of action THU hero Biggles and examines the life of his creator, Captain THU WE Johns. THU Captain James Bigglesworth could easily have been found in THU any Royal Flying Corps mess during the grand days of 1917 THU and 1918 when air combat had become the order of the day THU and air duelling was a fine art. The 'spirit' of Biggles THU still exists today, and his influence and impact can be THU seen on screen, music and in numerous comic parodies. THU Biggles memorabilia is much sought after by collectors, THU who bid thousands of pounds on internet auction sites. THU His adventures through time total almost 100 books, which THU have seen him journey through two world wars, finally THU ending with the Special Air Police. He first took to the THU skies in 1916 in his FE2 'pusher' and made his final THU descent, 50 years later, in a Hawker Hunter. THU Armstrong examines Biggles' origins and how the character THU contrasts with that of his creator. He reveals why the THU Biggles books were also surprisingly enjoyed by women, THU considering their negative portrayal in them. He also THU considers whether some of Biggles' stories, with their THU perceived imperialist and alleged racist content, are THU still acceptable reading in public libraries and schools THU today. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00m9typ (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00m9xwl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00m9y0x (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00mbgwf (Listen) THU Turbines or Tearooms THU All over the country renewable energy schemes are being THU thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and THU bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful THU doorsteps in Britain. THU In the first of a new series of ‘Costing the Earth’ Tom THU Heap asks if radical action is needed to break through the THU blockade. Should the new planning laws intended to rush THU through urgently needed road and airport projects be THU extended to all green energy projects? Or should THU developers make more effort to get local people on board? THU If locals can see an immediate financial benefit will they THU drop their opposition? THU Tom Heap travels from Sussex to Orkney to meet the THU protestors and find out how they can be brought on board THU the green energy revolution. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00m9yh9 (Listen) THU Lynda and Elizabeth turn secret gardeners. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mcvyc (Listen) THU Fireflies THU By Tena Štivicic. Chance encounters and strange THU revelations abound as six people wait in a THU weather-stricken airport. THU Martin ...... James Fleet THU Clara ...... Helena Breck THU Olga ...... Lizzy Watts THU Oliver ...... David Hargreaves THU Jeanne ...... Annabelle Dowler THU Nate ...... Stephen Hogan THU Customs Officer/Felipe (bartender) ...... Benjamin Askew THU Loud speaker announcer/Charles ...... Philip Fox THU Music composed and peformed by Russell Taylor and Steve THU Cooke. THU Directed by Peter Kavanagh. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00m82lx (Listen) THU Dunluce Castle THU So many stories are told about Dunluce Castle and its THU surrounds that it is hard to separate fact from fiction. THU Helen Mark visits the ruins on the north Antrim coast to THU try to establish some facts at the first major THU archaeological dig to be held there. THU The archaeological team have been astounded by the wealth THU and quality of their finds, which include an entire lost THU merchants' town and the location of a 13th-century THU settlement. THU Helen also goes underground to find how the sea caves and THU their legends have inspired a photographer to capture THU their image. But does Helen's experience of unexplained THU howls add more to the myths than to dispel them? THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m8p7g (Listen) THU ClearVision THU Gary O'Donoghue appeals on behalf of ClearVision. THU Donations to ClearVision should be sent to FREEPOST BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope THU ClearVision. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you THU are a UK tax payer, please provide ClearVision with your THU full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on THU your donation. The online and phone donation facilities THU are not currently available to listeners without a UK THU postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1012850. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbxdw (Listen) THU The Heart of Saturday Night, Step Right Up THU Series of three stories which take their inspiration from THU the unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy THU world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of THU society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and THU longing. THU By Ian Rankin. A young Jack-the-lad finds himself taken THU under the wing of a London market trader, known locally as THU Saviour. Soon he begins to wonder how his mentor got his THU name. THU Read by Dominic Cooper. THU THU 15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00dghmg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of THU people who were labelled child prodigies. THU Jonathan Cocking could read Shakespeare and remember long THU sequences of numbers at the age of three. In 1950, he THU featured in the national press. But Jonathan firmly denies THU that he was a prodigy and has been living down the label THU ever since. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00m8qwv (Listen) THU Nick Hornby talks to Alex Clark about his new novel, THU Juliet, Naked, and explains his fascination with obsessive THU music fans. THU Fay Weldon and Henry Porter discuss the attractions and THU difficulties of setting a novel in the near future. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00mcvyf (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00m9z35 (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 b00mb0mq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 4 at the Fringe b00mcw5v (Listen) THU 2009, Episode 2 THU Micky Flanagan introduces comedy and music from the THU Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Pleasance THU Theatre and featuring John Gordillo, Lucy Porter, Alistair THU McGowan and Tom Basden. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00m9yhc (Listen) THU Wayne hits the bullseye with the darts team. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mb0st (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb199 (Listen) THU Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 4 THU Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and THU correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa THU Rosenthal. THU The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and THU a divorcee 13 years her senior. THU It is 1966 and Stella's love for Tom grows stronger, but THU so too does her parents' pressure to prevent the THU relationship. THU Stella ...... Rebecca Callard THU Tom ......John Lightbody THU Dr Kaufman ......David Fleeshman THU Mrs Kaufman ...... Olwen May THU Frankie ...... Christine Brennan THU Richard III/Simon ...... Dermot Daly. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00mcw5x (Listen) THU Bombings on the holiday island of Mallorca by the Basque THU separatist group ETA have brought a nationalist conflict THU to the door of British tourists and expats. Linda Pressly THU investigates whether the latest bombings are the THU resurgence of an organisation whose cause has been in THU decline or the actions of a desperate band who know their THU time is running out. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00mcw5z (Listen) THU Media Mayhem THU The twin pincers of global recession and technology THU upheaval are putting traditional newspapers and THU broadcasters through the ringer. Peter Day asks what the THU shape of the new media might be once the troubles are over. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00mcwc0 (Listen) THU Geoff Watts meets Lord May, President of the British THU Science Association, who has held many of the most senior THU scientific offices in the land, having been government THU chief science advisor and President of the Royal Society. THU Never afraid of speaking his mind - perhaps a product of THU his Australian upbringing - Bob May famously accused THU President George W Bush of being a modern-day Nero over THU climate change. THU His address at this year's Science Festival in Guildford THU will focus on his own subject of population biology and THU the apparent problem of natural selection; why do we do THU things for the common good when 'survival of the fittest' THU is a key principle of evolutionary theory? THU Also, insect art comes to London's South Bank in a THU 'Pestival' of the amazing, inventive and sometimes THU artistic world of six-legged creatures. THU THU 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00mcv5q (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets US army helicopter pilot Major Tammy THU Duckworth. She recounts the ambush in Iraq which led to THU her helicopter being shot down, resulting in her losing THU both legs. While recovering in the Walter Reed Hospital, THU she tells how she counted backwards using an old clock to THU convince herself that she was still alive. She says that THU she went five days without sleep, wracked with guilt that THU she had crashed her helicopter. THU Out of hospital, Tammy became an opponent of the war and THU decided to run for Congress, just a few months into her THU rehabilitation. Although she was narrowly beaten in the THU election, she is now working in President Obama's team to THU improve the welfare of veterans. THU Tammy describes how she rejected a realistic-looking THU feminine leg, which only reminded her of what she had THU lost, in favour of a robotic machine which would enable THU her to fly solo, drive and dive again, all of which she THU has now achieved. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00mb2j1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k2 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb343 (Listen) THU Love and Summer, Episode 4 THU Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor THU about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of THU Ireland. THU As Miss Connulty observes the nascent friendship between THU Ellie and Florian, the memory of her own tragedy stirs in THU her anew. Meanwhile, in the streets of Rathmoye, Florian THU and Ellie meet again. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dp4w9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Mark Steel THU Marcus Brigstocke invites Mark Steel to try new THU experiences. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076wm8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Living in the Past THU Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson looks at the human THU condition with the help of interviewees and reporters from THU the world of writing and performance. THU Jon investigates why often it is so difficult to leave a THU particular incident in the past. He he looks back to the THU time when he was thrown into a lake by his school friends, THU and confronts his bullies at his school reunion. Father THU Ted writer Graham Linehan remembers his own bully, and THU comedians Dan Tetsell and Robert Popper discover that they THU have parallel stories: one has a Nazi grandfather, the THU other a Jewish evacuee grandmother. THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xp3 (Listen) FRI Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 4 FRI Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of FRI Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century FRI London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William FRI Chaloner. FRI The Warden of the Royal Mint sets out to crush his FRI accuser, the self-appointed counterfeiting expert William FRI Chaloner. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00m9hx0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0k (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5p (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00m9nxw (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00m8p7v (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI In Ethiopia, close to eight million people became famine FRI victims during the drought of 1984, and over one million FRI died. The international relief effort that followed was FRI the largest ever mounted, culminating in the Live Aid FRI concert in 1985. FRI Reporter Michael Buerk, nurse Claire Bertschinger, former FRI head of Oxfam Hugh Goyder, Major Dawit Wolde Giorgis of FRI the Ethiopian relief effort and Sir Brian Barder, FRI Ambassador to Ethiopia at the time, join Sue to recall the FRI events. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp5 (Listen) FRI Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 5 FRI Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of FRI Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century FRI London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William FRI Chaloner. FRI Chaloner faces trial at the Old Bailey and the threat of FRI the gallows at Tyburn. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9phd (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10 FRI - Tom and Stella. FRI FRI 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b00mcwv1 (Listen) FRI The Sinking Islands FRI The 2009 winner of the BBC/Royal Geographical Society's FRI annual competition for the most enterprising dream travel FRI idea, Dan Box, attempts to reach the remote Carteret FRI Islands in the South Pacific, where, with sea levels FRI rising, the world's first mass evacuation as the result of FRI climate change is now taking place. FRI These low-lying islands, part of Papua New Guinea, rise FRI barely a metre above the level of the surrounding ocean, FRI and with what are known as King Tides threatening every FRI year, rising sea levels as a result of global warming are FRI a threat that is already a reality for the Carteret FRI Islanders. Last winter's great storm resulted in the FRI islands being badly flooded, their productive soil FRI rendered useless by the salt in the water. Now the FRI Carteret people have no way of growing crops in their FRI plots, or 'gardens', and the local authorities have FRI started a process of mass evacuation. Eventually thousands FRI of men, women and children will be resettled in the FRI neighbouring island community of Bougainville. FRI Dan Box was determined to watch the world's first FRI organised exodus as a result of climate change as it got FRI underway. But first he had to negotiate the tricky journey FRI - diplomatic as well as physical - that would take him to FRI these tiny spikes of coral amid the vastness of the FRI Pacific Ocean. FRI FRI 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mcwv3 (Listen) FRI Kaws and Effect FRI By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the FRI highly-respected, now retired, English master of FRI Haunchurst School for boys, looks back on his favourite FRI pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on FRI school reports and their letters to him after they left. FRI Dr Pickerskill encourages Francis Kaws, whose great FRI engineering talents are being wasted on clever and FRI inventive school pranks, putting him in danger of being FRI expelled. Pickerskill harnesses the boy's gifts and FRI encourages him to adapt an old tractor to run on FRI Haunchurst's defunct narrow-gauge railway line. FRI Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid FRI Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ...... Philip Madoc FRI Francis Kaws ...... Louis Williams FRI The Colonel ...... Richard Johnson FRI Mike Poulson Jabby ...... Mike Feast FRI Stanislaw ...... Mike Sarne FRI Jack Rousseau ...... Tony Gardner FRI A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00m9tyy (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00m9xwn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00m9y0z (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00mcwv5 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00m9yhc (Listen) FRI Wayne hits the bullseye with the darts team. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mcwv7 (Listen) FRI Sons FRI By Nell Leyshon. Teacher Elizabeth and stay-at-home mum FRI Jane have just one thing in common: they each have a son. FRI Gabriel and Ryan met at the local secondary school, where FRI they fell in love. The mothers reacted very differently to FRI their sons' relationship. Then something happens which FRI forces Elizabeth to confront Jane. FRI Jane ...... Noreen Kershaw FRI Elizabeth ...... Lorraine Ashbourne. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mcwv9 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Essex. FRI John presents a guide to coastal shelter-belts and FRI explains how these are created with the help of a local FRI gardener. FRI Matthew reports from the Fruit Focus industry event, where FRI he unveils a new super-yielding crop and reveals how we FRI are soon to benefit from new extra water-efficient FRI strawberry plants. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00dnhtd (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of FRI people who were labelled child prodigies. FRI Retired civil servant David Heigham spent years looking FRI for someone to explain why his schooling left him FRI incapable of fulfilling his intellectual talents. Then he FRI found Professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University, whose FRI theories David believes offer important lessons to anyone FRI dealing with a gifted child. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00mcxcj (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 b00mcxcl (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Janet Suzman about the 1972 movie FRI A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which has finally been FRI released on DVD. Award-winning actor Michael Fassbender FRI discusses his career, from Hunger to Inglourious Basterds FRI to Fish Tank. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00m9z37 (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 b00mb0ms (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mcxcn (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two FRI teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The FRI show asks both the big and the little questions, and FRI provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Justin FRI Edwards and Russell Kane. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00m9yhf (Listen) FRI Fallon confides in an old flame. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mb0sw (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb19c (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 5 FRI Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and FRI correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa FRI Rosenthal. FRI The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and FRI a divorcee 13 years her senior. FRI It is 1966 and Stella is engaged to Tom. But will her FRI parents ever accept him or the marriage? FRI Stella ...... Rebecca Callard FRI Tom ......John Lightbody FRI Avnair ...... Greg Wood FRI Maurice ...... Robert Pickavance. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00mcxcq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Lichfield FRI in Staffordshire, marking the 300th anniversary of the FRI birth of Dr Samuel Johnson. FRI On the panel facing questions from the audience are Lord FRI Adonis, Secretary of State for Transport; Shadow Secretary FRI of State for Universities and Skills, David Willetts; FRI novelist and broadcaster, Sarah Dunant; literary scholar, FRI Professor Jonathan Bate. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mcxcs (Listen) FRI The Dodo FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI The dodo is the caricature of extinction. This FRI turkey-sized flightless pigeon lived on a remote island FRI and was slaughtered by seafarers for its meat. The same FRI fate has met other flightless species. Can we learn this FRI lesson from history? FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b009tzcl (Listen) FRI An Unhappy Countess FRI Documentary film maker Paul Watson's play is based on the FRI story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a sensual young woman who FRI inherited a legacy of 600,000 pounds, a huge sum in 1786. FRI Every adventurer in the land was seeking a slice of her FRI good fortune, and she was to discover that nobody could be FRI trusted. FRI Lady Strathmore ...... Susannah Harker FRI Stoney Bowes ...... John Lynch FRI Paddy's Progress ...... Robert Glenister FRI Walker ...... Russell Floyd FRI Gray ...... Nicholas Farrell FRI Mary Morgan ...... Joanne Froggatt FRI Mingay/Bate ...... Ian McNeice FRI Dorothey/Landlady ...... Sara Markland FRI Battie/Erskine ...... Ian Masters FRI Judge/Peacock ...... Keith Drinkel FRI Constable Smith/Vicar ...... Andrew Branch FRI Lucas/Witness Hull ...... Sam Dale FRI Witness Foot/Landlord ...... Ian Shaw FRI Servant ...... Tom Watson. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00mb2j3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k4 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb345 (Listen) FRI Love and Summer, Episode 5 FRI Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor FRI about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of FRI Ireland. FRI Watching from her boarding house, Miss Connulty has FRI observed Ellie and Florian's tentative friendship, FRI conjuring within it a reflection of her own youthful FRI tragedy. For Ellie, the quiet pattern of her life with FRI Dillahan offers no solace and little distraction. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00mbm3g (Listen) FRI Series 19, Sir Kyffin Williams FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Rolf Harris discusses the life of the Welsh painter Sir FRI Kyffin Williams. Famous for his paintings inspired by the FRI north Wales landscape, Williams never chose to be a FRI painter; he was told by a doctor to take up art for his FRI health when he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Prof Derec FRI Llwyd Morgan joins the discussion. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b00fl0gk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the past week of radio. FRI FRI FRI

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