Radio 4 Listings for 03/10/2009 - 09/10/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00myhdz (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv9 (Listen)
SAT       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 5
SAT       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
SAT       Despite its initial huge promise, the SDP finally wound
SAT       down and merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the
SAT       Liberal Democrats.
SAT       Abridged by Polly Coles.
SAT       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00myhf1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00myhf3 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00myhf5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00myhf7 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00myhf9 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00myhfc (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00myhff (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00myhfh (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00myhfk (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 3
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth
SAT       to Warkworth, in the company of local artisit Sue Fenlon
SAT       and photographer Barbara Aitchison. They explain why they
SAT       find this part of the Northumberland coast so inspiring.
SAT       St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy
SAT       Island in the north, along the stunning Northumberland
SAT       coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's
SAT       Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St
SAT       Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh
SAT       century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity
SAT       to his people.
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00myhfm (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       There are growing calls for school children to learn about
SAT       farming and food production as a core element of the
SAT       national curriculum. Currently, farm visits are optional
SAT       and dependant on the willingness of the school or the
SAT       local authority. Charlotte Smith hears from researchers
SAT       who say that farming could be used to teach a wide range
SAT       of subjects, including maths, science, geography and
SAT       history.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00myhfp (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00mypjr (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00mypjt (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by author and
SAT       broadcaster Kate Mosse. With poetry from Murray Lachlan
SAT       Young
SAT       Major Kerry Clark serves in the Queen Alexandra's Royal
SAT       Army Nursing Corps and in February 2008, she left her
SAT       seven-month-old son to undertake a ten-week tour of duty
SAT       in Iraq.
SAT       Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews were brought together at the
SAT       lowest points of their individual lives - she in a spiral
SAT       of drug addiction and he with a life sentence for a
SAT       contract killing.
SAT       Mike Parker tells us about his love of the ordnance survey
SAT       map.
SAT       Rick Stein choses his inheritance tracks.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00mz3g5 (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores the many, mainly failed, attempts
SAT       to find the fabled Northwest Passage - a sea passage
SAT       across the Arctic linking the Atlantic ocean with the
SAT       Pacific. He also uses a new travel guide to explore
SAT       medieval England as a traveller might have done in the
SAT       14th Century.
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SAT       10:30 Who the Wild Things Are b00c5j0j (Listen)
SAT       Philip Glassborow explores the origins of Maurice Sendak's
SAT       classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are.
SAT       The creatures in the book have beaks, claws, fangs and
SAT       scales, but who exactly are they and why has Max's journey
SAT       to them fascinated so many children and adults since it
SAT       first appeared in the early 1960s?
SAT       Philip looks at the origins of the book and its scary yet
SAT       loveable heroes. Did it grow out of Sendak's sickly
SAT       childhood, the stories told to him by his father, comments
SAT       made by his foreign-sounding aunts and uncles (their hairy
SAT       nostrils and warty faces peering down and declaring
SAT       'you're so good I could eat you up!'), his relationship
SAT       with his editor, or some far deeper source?
SAT       Glassborow talks with Sendak's British editor and to the
SAT       Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner. He discovers
SAT       that in all the extensive press, radio and television
SAT       coverage, nobody seems to have consulted Sendak's target
SAT       audience - children. Putting this to rights, he soon finds
SAT       that angry mothers and fathers with big hairy feet both
SAT       feature in their interpretations.
SAT       The programme features a reading by Henry Goodman and
SAT       extensive use of Jewish Klezmer music.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mz3g9 (Listen)
SAT       As David Cameron puts his case to the Conservative party
SAT       faithful and the electorate at the Conservative Party
SAT       conference, Iain Martin asks what lies behind the Tory
SAT       leadership. Is Cameron purposely fudging his beliefs in
SAT       his bid to win the next election? And, if he wins, how
SAT       will he marry his breed of 'caring conservatism' with cuts
SAT       in public spending?
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SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mz3gc (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Including a toxic find deep in the Colombian rainforest,
SAT       life on the poverty line for poor, white South Africans
SAT       and a park with a difference in New York.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00mz3gf (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Who pays if thieves steal your credit card and then spend
SAT       your money?
SAT       Will a professional fund manager get a better return for
SAT       your savings?
SAT       The credit card companies charging customers for not using
SAT       their cards.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00mydlh (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 2
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and
SAT       Sue Perkins.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00mz3gh (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00mz3pl (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00mydlk (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Altrincham in
SAT       Cheshire. The panellists are health secretary Andy
SAT       Burnham, Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat junior spokesperson
SAT       on foreign affairs, and Eric Pickles, chairman of the
SAT       Conservative Party, and journalist Matthew Parris.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00mz3pn (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00mz3pq (Listen)
SAT       The Von Trapps and Me
SAT       Annie Caulfield's comedy tells the famous story of the Von
SAT       Trapp family singers from the perspective of the Princess
SAT       Yvonne, the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to
SAT       marry Maria.
SAT       Princess Yvonne ...... Helen Froggatt
SAT       Helena ...... Helen Baxendale
SAT       Captain Von Trapp ...... James Fleet
SAT       Maria ...... Helen Ayres
SAT       Boy ...... Benjamin Askew
SAT       Girl ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Reverend Mother ...... Caroline Guthrie
SAT       Sam ...... Mark Meadows
SAT       Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Soul Music b00mw5v5 (Listen)
SAT       Series 8, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs
SAT       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
SAT       emotional appeal.
SAT       Richard Strauss was 84 when he completed his last work. It
SAT       was the Four Last Songs, which, although about death,
SAT       convey a sense of calm acceptance. It was written of its
SAT       time in 1948, but it still touches the hearts of many
SAT       listeners today.
SAT       As the soprano voice delves ever deeper into the richness
SAT       of the music, interviewees tell how the Four Last Songs
SAT       have brought calm and beauty at key moments in their lives.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00mz4fr (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Including:
SAT       Entertainer Roy Hudd on 50 years in showbusiness and the
SAT       women in his life; classroom discipline: are sufficient
SAT       powers available to teachers? Changing attitudes in South
SAT       Africa to lesbians and gay men; Lynne Truss on writing
SAT       from the touchline; Jeanette Winterson on female
SAT       surrealist artists to rival Dali; gender trap clothes for
SAT       the under-fives; the medieval sound of the hurdy-gurdy
SAT       with contemporary performer Stevie Wishart.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00mz4xy (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00mwty5 (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis asks his panel of top business guests about
SAT       discipline at work - whether they like running a tight
SAT       ship or prefer letting spirits run free - and tries to
SAT       shed some light on the mysteries of profit margins.
SAT       His guests are Robert Polet, chief executive of the Gucci
SAT       Group, Garry Watts, chief executive of SSL International,
SAT       whose brands include Durex and Scholl, and Paula Bell,
SAT       finance director of technology and engineering group
SAT       Ricardo.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mz4y2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00mz4y4 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mz4y6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00mz4y8 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive talks to the 'the King of Cool', the 'crooner's
SAT       crooner', Andy Williams, while comedians Vic Reeves,
SAT       Arthur Smith and Armstrong and Miller pay homage in their
SAT       slacks and cardigans.
SAT       Toby Young tells us how Boris met Dave: the Mayor of
SAT       London and the man who could be the next prime minister,
SAT       that is.
SAT       With music from The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir and
SAT       Laura Gibson.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen)
SAT       Sarah Brown
SAT       Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the
SAT       prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party
SAT       Conference again this year and she is growing in
SAT       popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her
SAT       personality and read her Twitter messages with interest.
SAT       But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to
SAT       her husband's political status, or is she successfully
SAT       carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her
SAT       many charities and restoring some of the political ground
SAT       that the Labour Party has lost?
SAT       We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those
SAT       who know her now.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00mz4yd (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen)
SAT       In the Beginning Was the Nerd
SAT       Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000,
SAT       the world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The
SAT       Millennium Bug.
SAT       Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and
SAT       unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive,
SAT       Stephen travels back to the dawn of the digital age to
SAT       argue that a major cause was our attitude to the
SAT       technology and the people we held responsible for it.
SAT       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00mtvgw (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel,
SAT       the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
SAT       As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory
SAT       proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what
SAT       it seems.
SAT       Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
SAT       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
SAT       Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
SAT       Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
SAT       Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe
SAT       Anna ...... Ania Sowinski
SAT       Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
SAT       Control ...... John Rowe
SAT       Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
SAT       Official ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew
SAT       Directed by Marc Beeby
SAT       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as
SAT       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00mz53t (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 From Abacus to Circle Time: The Primary School
SAT       Debate b00mws3r (Listen)
SAT       Following education journalist Mike Baker's three-part
SAT       series on the history of primary schools, Jane Garvey
SAT       chairs a debate on the future of education for the under
SAT       11s.
SAT       2009 sees a critical and uncertain time in primary
SAT       schooling. The 'root and branch reform' of the curriculum
SAT       promised by schools secretary Ed Balls has led to the
SAT       publication of Sir Jim Rose's review. The wider-ranging
SAT       Cambridge Primary Review, led by Prof Robin Alexander, is
SAT       also due. Add to the mix a possible change of political
SAT       leadership before the new system is implemented in
SAT       September 2011, and the only real certainty is that major
SAT       change will come to a primary school near you.
SAT       The programme is recorded at the Institute of Education in
SAT       London, in front of an audience. The expert panel, made up
SAT       of primary practictioners, educationalists and parents,
SAT       take questions and comments from the audience and set out
SAT       to address the question, 'What is the purpose of primary
SAT       education, and how can we best provide it?'.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mvs8r (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern
SAT       Ireland, versus Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead of Wales.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00mtwd4 (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough introduces requests for Lewis Carroll's
SAT       surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark, told not in verses
SAT       but in eight distinctive 'fits'. Includes archive
SAT       recordings by Ken Campbell and Alec Guinness.
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SUN       SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00mz54v (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zd (Listen)
SUN       Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, The True Story of the Twelve
SUN       Dancing Princesses
SUN       Series of stories by Morven Crumlish.
SUN       Who says the princesses spent their time dancing all
SUN       night? A soldier is exposed to the truth in this quirky
SUN       reworking of the traditional fairy tale.
SUN       Read by Shirley Henderson.
SUN       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mz5qx (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mz5qz (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mz5r1 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00mz5r3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mz5r5 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne
SUN       Priors in Hampshire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen)
SUN       Sarah Brown
SUN       Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the
SUN       prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party
SUN       Conference again this year and she is growing in
SUN       popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her
SUN       personality and read her Twitter messages with interest.
SUN       But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to
SUN       her husband's political status, or is she successfully
SUN       carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her
SUN       many charities and restoring some of the political ground
SUN       that the Labour Party has lost?
SUN       We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those
SUN       who know her now.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00mz5r7 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00mz5r9 (Listen)
SUN       The Ascent
SUN       Writer Sarah Cuddon has always been drawn to the mountains
SUN       - in childhood, to her grandfather's house in the
SUN       Pyrenees, and as an adult to peaks in more remote and
SUN       dangerous locations including the Andes and Himalayas.
SUN       She reflects on this fascination and how writers and
SUN       climbers, from Wordsworth to Andrew Greig, Joe Simpson to
SUN       Robert Macfarlane, have felt about 'the ascent'.
SUN       With music by Clogs, Baka Beyond and Anton Bruckner.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00mz6j0 (Listen)
SUN       Adam Henson meets engineer-turned-farmer Tamara Hall at
SUN       Molescroft Hall in Beverley to find out about her passion
SUN       for wetlands as part of commercial farming.
SUN       Convalescing at home on the family farm after a riding
SUN       accident, Tamara discovered that she could use her
SUN       engineering background to good effect there. She tells
SUN       Adam Henson that the farm, which had previously been run
SUN       on 'traditional' lines, is now diversifying into land
SUN       stewardship programmes, in close partnership with the
SUN       Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.
SUN       After attending some suitable courses and a period of
SUN       on-the-job training, Tamara is now transforming the
SUN       1,000-acre enterprise to include wetlands and a school
SUN       classroom, and developing new innovations in crop
SUN       rotations.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00mz6j2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00mz6j4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00mz6j6 (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 b00mz6j8 (Listen)
SUN       The Disabled Living Foundation
SUN       Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living
SUN       Foundation.
SUN       Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
SUN       your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit
SUN       cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer,
SUN       please provide the Disabled Living Foundation 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: 290069.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00mz6jd (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00mz6jg (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00mz6jj (Listen)
SUN       The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, preaches
SUN       at a Harvest Thanksgiving service in the village church of
SUN       St Cosmus and St Damian in the Blean near Canterbury.
SUN       Led by Rev Dr Stephen Laird.
SUN       Director of Music: Stephen Barker.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mydlm (Listen)
SUN       Amber
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       As a boy, David Attenborough had a piece of amber in which
SUN       lay a blood-sucking fly; he still has it today. Would it
SUN       be possible to extract the DNA from one of these insects
SUN       caught in the resin and, maybe, recreate a dinosaur?
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00mz6jl (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00mz6jn (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00mz6jq (Listen)
SUN       Dame Ellen MacArthur
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen
SUN       MacArthur.
SUN       She was 28 when she became the fastest person to sail solo
SUN       around the world, and has been called the 'first true
SUN       heroine of the 21st century'.
SUN       She still sails with friends and with the charity she set
SUN       up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her
SUN       ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same
SUN       sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When
SUN       your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce
SUN       food and fuel really are.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00mw196 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 10
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Featuring
SUN       Graham Norton and Paul Merton on how to outdo the other
SUN       panellists, Gyles Brandreth on the subject of pretentious
SUN       vocabulary, and Pauline McLynn on junk mail.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00mz6pr (Listen)
SUN       Hops
SUN       English hops are enjoying a renaissance thanks to new
SUN       varieties, greater demand for 'hoppy' ales and the
SUN       incredible growth in micro breweries. Sheila Dillon enjoys
SUN       some of the heady aromas and samples some new ales.
SUN       She visits Shepherd Neame, a brewery in Faversham, Kent
SUN       and talks to head brewer, David Holmes, She visits farm
SUN       owner Tony Redsell, whose family has been growing hops for
SUN       over 50 years, and meets hop driers Derek Elvey and Peter
SUN       Shead.
SUN       Sheila also talks to Dr Peter Darby about The National Hop
SUN       Collection at Queen Court Farm, near Faversham.
SUN       In the studio, she is joined in the studio by Roger Protz,
SUN       beer writer and editor of The Good Beer Guide, and Martin
SUN       Dickie, brewer and co-owner of Brewdog Brewery,
SUN       Fraserburgh.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00mz6pt (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00mz6pw (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen)
SUN       Pianist and broadcaster Simon Townley samples the many
SUN       different ways in which trains and railways have inspired
SUN       composers and songwriters and what it is about this
SUN       particular form of travel that makes it so inspiring.
SUN       They may be a shadow of their former infrastructural
SUN       selves, but railways still hold a curiously affectionate
SUN       place in our national life. Nowhere is this more true than
SUN       in the world of music, where chuffing, whistling, steaming
SUN       and clackety-clacking have been the inspiration for
SUN       hundreds of songs. Simon has never described himself as a
SUN       railway enthusiast, but he has always had an ear for the
SUN       things that inspire composers and songwriters.
SUN       He explores the rhythms, themes and metaphorical uses of
SUN       the train in music, from Honneger's Pacific 231 to
SUN       American blues tracks such as Love in Vain and Freight
SUN       Train Blues.
SUN       Country and western star Laura Cantrell, music professor
SUN       Alan Moore and composer Richard Rodney Bennett contribute
SUN       their thoughts on this mass transit system which has
SUN       provided such a rich seam of inspiration over the last 200
SUN       years.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mx963 (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer
SUN       questions posed by the gardeners of New Waltham, near
SUN       Grimsby.
SUN       John meets some of the characters behind Grimsby in Bloom,
SUN       including the man responsible for galvanising the
SUN       community into gardening action.
SUN       Jeffrey Bates from the RHS offers some tips on how your
SUN       town or village could enter next year's Britain in Bloom
SUN       campaign.
SUN       Pippa Greenwood meets some green-fingered kids in
SUN       Hampshire who are taking part in the Tree Council's Seed
SUN       Gathering Season.
SUN       And Matthew explains how simple it is to sow green manure
SUN       and so avoid exposing the bare earth to winter weather.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Food For Thought b00mz8tj (Listen)
SUN       Shabbat-eve with Rabbi Lionel Blue
SUN       Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow
SUN       discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives.
SUN       With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Lionel Blue looks back
SUN       on his unorthodox life. As Britain's first openly gay
SUN       Rabbi, often referred to as 'cherub-faced', he tells Nina
SUN       how food has been inextricably linked with personal
SUN       transformation, from changing tastes and a fluctuating
SUN       waistline to transformed circumstances and shifting
SUN       beliefs. However, he still remembers watching his
SUN       grandmother cooking potato latkes and eating them on toast
SUN       or with apple sauce. It was the kind of food that fed the
SUN       family, the neighbours and, he implies, the soul.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00mz9tb (Listen)
SUN       Beau Geste, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of
SUN       honour, love and adventure.
SUN       The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance
SUN       to join the French Foreign Legion, following the
SUN       mysterious disappearance of a valuable family heirloom.
SUN       Beau ...... Chris New
SUN       John ...... Rob Hastie
SUN       Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin
SUN       Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd
SUN       Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley
SUN       Isobel ...... Candida Benson
SUN       Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster
SUN       Burdon ...... Scott Richards
SUN       Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday
SUN       Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill
SUN       Young John ...... Alex Hockaday
SUN       Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe
SUN       Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner
SUN       Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher
SUN       Boldini ...... Laurence Possa
SUN       Hank ...... Greg Wohead
SUN       Buddy ...... Don Mousseau
SUN       The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan
SUN       Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet
SUN       Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield
SUN       Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina.
SUN       Directed by Willi Richards
SUN       An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Bookclub b00mzdlq (Listen)
SUN       Gillian Slovo
SUN       James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her
SUN       novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid
SUN       South Africa.
SUN       Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding
SUN       members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First,
SUN       an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces
SUN       in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's
SUN       own experience of coming face to face with her mother's
SUN       killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the
SUN       new South Africa.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00mzdqb (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that chime
SUN       with the theme of 2009's National Poetry Day, that of
SUN       heroes and heroines. Including works by poets as varied as
SUN       Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00mwms4 (Listen)
SUN       Following criticism of the NHS over the system failures
SUN       which allowed a man with schizophrenia to kill two people,
SUN       Miriam O'Reilly investigates claims of widespread problems
SUN       in community mental health services which are allowing
SUN       dangerous patients to commit violent offences or to harm
SUN       themselves.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen)
SUN       Sarah Brown
SUN       Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the
SUN       prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party
SUN       Conference again this year and she is growing in
SUN       popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her
SUN       personality and read her Twitter messages with interest.
SUN       But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to
SUN       her husband's political status, or is she successfully
SUN       carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her
SUN       many charities and restoring some of the political ground
SUN       that the Labour Party has lost?
SUN       We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those
SUN       who know her now.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mzg1y (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00mzg20 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzg22 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00mzg24 (Listen)
SUN       Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Chain Reaction - Radio 4
SUN       Great Lives - Radio 4
SUN       Calling Hereford - Radio 4
SUN       David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4
SUN       Hoffnung: Drawn to Music - Radio 4
SUN       Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors - Radio 2
SUN       Soul Music - Radio 4
SUN       The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4
SUN       Analysis - Radio 4
SUN       In Tune - Radio 3
SUN       World Book Club - World Service
SUN       Archive on 4: In the Beginning Was the Nerd - Radio 4
SUN       Black Men Can't Swim - Radio 4
SUN       That Mitchell And Webb Sound - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00mzg26 (Listen)
SUN       Jim gets the casting vote at the AGM.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00mzg28 (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       After Chicago learns that it will not host the 2016 Summer
SUN       Olympic Games, Americana talks to locals to learn who the
SUN       real winners and losers are.
SUN       Swag - the mugs, scarves, baseball hats and t-shirts sold
SUN       on corners around the world - can be big money-makers and
SUN       big message-senders. T-shirt fans from around the US weigh
SUN       in on the impact a t-shirt can have.
SUN       As the US Supreme Court begins its new session, Americana
SUN       talks to top constitutional law experts about what's on
SUN       the Court's docket and the possible implications these
SUN       Supreme Court cases may have on the future of justice in
SUN       the United States.
SUN       Chickens are clucking and pecking their way into some
SUN       surprisingly urban locations across the United States.
SUN       Writer Susan Orlean reflects on what it means to have the
SUN       feathered friends close at hand.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9q (Listen)
SUN       Granta Stories, Operation
SUN       Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most
SUN       prestigious literary magazine.
SUN       By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by Janice Acquah.
SUN       A victim's photograph on the wall of a newsroom in Lagos
SUN       brings to life this gripping memoir.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00mx8rf (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       Evan Davis talks about crashing the pips and listeners ask
SUN       if former prisoners, such as Jonathan Aitken, should be
SUN       the subject of sympathetic programmes.
SUN       We also have more of your comments on PM.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00mx965 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00mz3gf (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Who pays if thieves steal your credit card and then spend
SUN       your money?
SUN       Will a professional fund manager get a better return for
SUN       your savings?
SUN       The credit card companies charging customers for not using
SUN       their cards.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mz6j8 (Listen)
SUN       The Disabled Living Foundation
SUN       Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living
SUN       Foundation.
SUN       Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
SUN       your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit
SUN       cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer,
SUN       please provide the Disabled Living Foundation 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: 290069.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00mw2nh (Listen)
SUN       Who's Afraid of the BNP?
SUN       With the BNP hitting the headlines over their 2009 success
SUN       in the European elections, Kenan Malik asks what the
SUN       liberal response should be. Is it simply enough to
SUN       demonise this far-right party, or has the time arrived for
SUN       us all to open up to a more sophisticated debate which
SUN       allows for a greater understanding of what the BNP stands
SUN       for?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00mzg9w (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00mzg9y (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Conserving What?
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00mydlf (Listen)
SUN       The grandmother of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda, on
SUN       her life with Jacques Demy.
SUN       The film version of The Battle Of Britain remembered by
SUN       two men who risked their lives filming the epic dog-fights.
SUN       The first instalment of Matthew Sweet's guide to forgotten
SUN       British gems,There Ain't No Justice, directed by doomed
SUN       film-maker Pen Tennyson.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00mz5r9 (Listen)
SUN       The Ascent
SUN       Writer Sarah Cuddon has always been drawn to the mountains
SUN       - in childhood, to her grandfather's house in the
SUN       Pyrenees, and as an adult to peaks in more remote and
SUN       dangerous locations including the Andes and Himalayas.
SUN       She reflects on this fascination and how writers and
SUN       climbers, from Wordsworth to Andrew Greig, Joe Simpson to
SUN       Robert Macfarlane, have felt about 'the ascent'.
SUN       With music by Clogs, Baka Beyond and Anton Bruckner.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4r (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mwrhh (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor discusses the language of crime and the
MON       codes of criminal communication with Diego Gambetta, mafia
MON       scholar and criminal sociologist. He finds out why, in
MON       order to survive in the criminal underworld, language
MON       requires subtle, coded and sometimes gruesome modes of
MON       communication to avoid being found out by rivals or police.
MON       Laurie is joined by Dick Hobbs, sociologist from the LSE,
MON       to find out why the language of the criminal underworld is
MON       often written in code.
MON       Also, what makes a scandal? Ari Adut from the University
MON       of Texas discusses.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mz5r5 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne
MON       Priors in Hampshire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7n (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mztcb (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt90 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00mztcn (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztkl (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00mztlc (Listen)
MON       It is conker season, but children may be disappointed this
MON       year as horse chestnut trees face a little invader with
MON       big consequences. Charlotte Smith finds out what is being
MON       done to control the rapid spread of 'leaf miner'. Also,
MON       Charlotte asks whether NIMBYS (Not In My Back Yard) are
MON       friend or foe of the countryside.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00n03z8 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00mztyd (Listen)
MON       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00n03zb (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week.
MON       His guests include PD James on the art of writing
MON       detective fiction, former MI5 director general Stella
MON       Rimington on her new novel, Present Danger, and former
MON       Sunday Times editor Harold Evans on his memoir, My Paper
MON       Chase. Andrew also celebrates the life and work of
MON       composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00mztyg (Listen)
MON       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 1
MON       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
MON       spent as a sports reporter.
MON       How does a woman of literary tastes and neither knowledge
MON       of nor interest in sport end up covering great and
MON       not-so-great events for the sports section of a national
MON       newspaper? As Lynne explains, it all starts over lunch...
MON       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv1h (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       It was widely reported last week that, 'Children of
MON       working mothers are less healthy' - which prompted
MON       columnists and bloggers to bemoan yet more negative
MON       scrutiny directed at women who juggle paid work and
MON       parenting. Jane discusses the truth behind the news copy,
MON       and asks how useful the term 'working mother' is today.
MON       Claire Martin has been voted Best Vocalist a record five
MON       times at the BBC British Jazz Awards. She has opened
MON       concerts for Tony Bennett and worked with artists
MON       including Curtis Stigers, Jamie Cullum and Sir Richard
MON       Rodney Bennett, and is known to thousands of jazz fans as
MON       presenter of Jazz Line-Up on BBC Radio 3. Currently
MON       touring the UK, Claire joins Jane to discuss her career
MON       and to play from her new album.
MON       A recent report commissioned by Italy's parliamentary
MON       anti-Mafia commission suggests that 13 million Italians
MON       still live in areas where organised crime exerts influence
MON       over everyday life. But in some parts of Italy, business
MON       owners are determined to stand up against the power of the
MON       Mafia. Five years ago a group of students in Palermo
MON       formed Addiopizzo; many of those at the forefront of the
MON       movement are women and young people who are tired of the
MON       reality of Mafia control. Jane finds out if they have made
MON       an impact.
MON       There is no one way to sum up the sister relationship -
MON       best friend, worst enemy, greatest rival, closest
MON       confidante. Luisa Dillner talks to Jane about her latest
MON       anthology, looking at sisters through the ages.
MON       
MON       11:00 Influenced By Banksy b00n0n29 (Listen)
MON       Bristol's own Banksy is rich and famous for his 'street
MON       art', yet aspiring teenage artists in the city are being
MON       charged with criminal damage for following his example.
MON       This programme hears from the vandals, the artists, and
MON       those who are trying to distinguish between them.
MON       Following the success of Bristol City Museum's Banksy
MON       exhibition, which drew in more than 300,000 visitors, the
MON       council want Bristolians to vote on whether graffiti
MON       should be left on buildings or removed. They say they want
MON       to promote street art - but has anyone told the police?
MON       They are continuing to track down law breakers, no matter
MON       how good the art is.
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n0prf (Listen)
MON       Seagulls over Sue Ryder
MON       Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty
MON       Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and
MON       sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls
MON       hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed
MON       milk. We see Britain through her eyes - its overheated
MON       houses, its disappointing church services and its
MON       over-fondness for cauliflower cheese.
MON       Beauty discovers the glories of Weston-super-Mare's
MON       charity shops and experiences the disappointment of her
MON       first British funeral.
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Mr Collinson ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Jill ...... Pippa Haywood
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen/Bus Driver/Shop Assistant ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Anil ...... Paul Sharma
MON       Derek/Waiter/Church Reader ...... Christopher Douglas
MON       Minister ...... Dan Tetsell
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00mzvjy (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00mzvnh (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00mzvqx (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00n0qb9 (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from the south of England and the north of
MON       England, with all of this edition's questions devised by
MON       listeners.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00mzg26 (Listen)
MON       Jim gets the casting vote at the AGM.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n0qbc (Listen)
MON       Audio Recordings of Human Traffic
MON       Comedy thriller by Louise Wallinger.
MON       Confined to her flat after a skiing accident, Monica
MON       listens in to her neighbours' lives. A local woman has
MON       disappeared and Monica begins to suspect that the man
MON       above is somehow involved. When a noise officer from the
MON       council turns up, her investigations begin in earnest.
MON       Monica ...... Jemima Rooper
MON       Lucas ...... Andrew Scott
MON       PC Murray ...... Ben Crowe
MON       Judy ...... Lizzy Watts
MON       Tim ...... Ben Askew
MON       Carole ...... Annabelle Dowler
MON       Jackson ...... David Hargreaves
MON       Tony ...... Philip Fox.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen)
MON       In the Beginning Was the Nerd
MON       Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000,
MON       the world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The
MON       Millennium Bug.
MON       Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and
MON       unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive,
MON       Stephen travels back to the dawn of the digital age to
MON       argue that a major cause was our attitude to the
MON       technology and the people we held responsible for it.
MON       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4f (Listen)
MON       All My Life is A Struggle With Dirt
MON       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
MON       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
MON       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
MON       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
MON       have been specially recorded for the series.
MON       The endless struggle against dirt, vermin and decay, and a
MON       song which has never been recorded before, The Housewife's
MON       Lament. How women came to see laundry and the linen
MON       cupboard as part of their moral mission, caring for their
MON       families and also keeping the household morally pure.
MON       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
MON       and Simon Tcherniak.
MON       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
MON       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
MON       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00mz6pr (Listen)
MON       Hops
MON       English hops are enjoying a renaissance thanks to new
MON       varieties, greater demand for 'hoppy' ales and the
MON       incredible growth in micro breweries. Sheila Dillon enjoys
MON       some of the heady aromas and samples some new ales.
MON       She visits Shepherd Neame, a brewery in Faversham, Kent
MON       and talks to head brewer, David Holmes, She visits farm
MON       owner Tony Redsell, whose family has been growing hops for
MON       over 50 years, and meets hop driers Derek Elvey and Peter
MON       Shead.
MON       Sheila also talks to Dr Peter Darby about The National Hop
MON       Collection at Queen Court Farm, near Faversham.
MON       In the studio, she is joined in the studio by Roger Protz,
MON       beer writer and editor of The Good Beer Guide, and Martin
MON       Dickie, brewer and co-owner of Brewdog Brewery,
MON       Fraserburgh.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00n0qr6 (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Episode 1
MON       Simon Cox presents the topical magazine series covering
MON       the latest developments and issues in the world of IT.
MON       Simon discovers how computer modelling technology used by
MON       Hollywood movies is being used to ease congestion in
MON       London's Oxford Circus. And he fills his home with gadgets
MON       to explore another type of congestion - how household
MON       devices could be interfering with WiFi networks.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n0tw2 (Listen)
MON       5th October 1989
MON       A look back at the events making the news in 1989.
MON       A chilling warning is delivered to East Germany's
MON       opposition groups: 'remember Tiananmen'; thousands of
MON       jubilant East Germans arrive in West Germany on the
MON       so-called Freedom Trains; the Dalai Lama receives the
MON       Nobel Peace Prize.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00mzxvv (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 b00mzyxh (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n0qr8 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 1
MON       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
MON       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
MON       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
MON       With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and
MON       Shappi Khorsandi.
MON       Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00mzvr9 (Listen)
MON       Lynda and Vicky join forces for the footpaths.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00mzzsq (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
MON       on the new exhibition of work by the four artists
MON       competing to win the 2009 Turner Prize.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005f (Listen)
MON       TwilightBaby.com, Episode 1
MON       By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find
MON       themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late
MON       forties.
MON       Cass is 46 and her kids are grown up - time to kick back,
MON       but nature has a surprise in store.
MON       Cass ...... Jenny Eclair
MON       Ken ...... Kevin Eldon
MON       Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
MON       Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
MON       Penny ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Doctor ...... Philip Fox
MON       Directed by Sally Avens.
MON       
MON       20:00 Female Sexual Abuse: Breaking the Silence b00n80b3 (Listen)
MON       Penny Marshall investigates the dark secret of women who
MON       sexually abuse children.
MON       Female sexual abuse of children goes against everything we
MON       want to believe about women. The thought of mothers
MON       overstepping the boundaries of love to abuse their
MON       children is so threatening and shameful that it has become
MON       one of the most under-reported of crimes. However, recent
MON       research suggests that they are responsible for up to 20
MON       per cent of all abuse. Because there was often denial that
MON       women could behave in such a way, it has remained
MON       under-researched and many incorrect assumptions and
MON       beliefs still surround the subject, even among
MON       professionals.
MON       Penny hears shattering stories from the abused and talks
MON       to those working with offenders to try to understand their
MON       behaviour and motivations.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00n0tw4 (Listen)
MON       Educating Cinderella
MON       With youth unemployment in Britain at its highest level
MON       for decades, new evidence shows that only a tiny
MON       proportion of school leavers who go on to basic vocational
MON       courses find jobs at the end of them. Fran Abrams asks
MON       whether further education in this country has got the
MON       balance right between a choice-led system and a more
MON       paternalistic one. Should we be encouraging young people
MON       to follow their dreams or giving them vocational training
MON       more closely tied to the job market?
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00n0tw6 (Listen)
MON       The Three Peaks Challenge
MON       Every year around 60,000 people set out on the Three Peaks
MON       Challenge, aiming to climb the highest mountains in
MON       England, Wales and Scotland. Most do it to raise money for
MON       charity but there are increasing worries that the
MON       challenge is putting too much pressure on the environment,
MON       destroying some of our most beautiful places.
MON       Alice Roberts sets out with a group of enthusiastic
MON       trekkers to find out if the environment is suffering as
MON       charities prosper.
MON       The Challenge used to be centred around the longest day in
MON       June, giving trekkers the chance to climb Ben Nevis,
MON       Snowdon and Scafell Pike in daylight. More recently,
MON       however, it has become such a charity money-spinnner that
MON       groups tackle the peaks from April to October. At the
MON       height of the season as many as 1,000 people can be
MON       trekking up each mountain, often in the dark. The
MON       Challenge speeds up the erosion of paths, damages fragile
MON       Alpine plant systems and adds to the pressure on the
MON       areas' toilets and litter bins.
MON       Banning the Challenge would destroy an important income
MON       source for hundreds of charities and breach the principle
MON       of open access to these iconic mountains. Can Alice find a
MON       solution? Can people enjoy the physical challenge of the
MON       mountain environment and continue to raise money for
MON       charity without destroying some of Britain's wildest and
MON       most beautiful places?
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00n03zb (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week.
MON       His guests include PD James on the art of writing
MON       detective fiction, former MI5 director general Stella
MON       Rimington on her new novel, Present Danger, and former
MON       Sunday Times editor Harold Evans on his memoir, My Paper
MON       Chase. Andrew also celebrates the life and work of
MON       composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00n011c (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00n011g (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bp (Listen)
MON       Fathers and Sons, Episode 6
MON       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
MON       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
MON       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
MON       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
MON       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
MON       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
MON       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
MON       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
MON       the eternal difficulties between generations.
MON       Bazarov's cool and clinical approach to life fails him,
MON       and the idyll of the past few weeks is broken up.
MON       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b008z746 (Listen)
MON       Michael Morpugo
MON       Children's writer Michael Morpurgo takes a literary
MON       journey through his life, with pieces of prose and poetry
MON       read by Alison Reid and Christian Rodska.
MON       
MON       23:30 Scum b00kpzdb (Listen)
MON       Critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode examines the history
MON       of and controversy surrounding the film Scum.
MON       Originally made by the BBC in 1977, its brutal depiction
MON       of life in the borstal system was deemed to be too
MON       controversial for broadcast and it was banned by the
MON       Corporation. However, it was then re-made for the cinema
MON       two years later and became one of the most infamous
MON       British films of the 1980s. Mark investigates the accuracy
MON       of the film and offers a portrait of its uncompromising
MON       director Alan Clarke.
MON       Featuring new interviews, including screenwriter Roy
MON       Minton, actor Mick Ford, former director of BBC television
MON       Alasdair Milne and the producers of both the BBC and
MON       theatrical versions.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00mzt49 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00mztyg (Listen)
TUE       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 1
TUE       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
TUE       spent as a sports reporter.
TUE       How does a woman of literary tastes and neither knowledge
TUE       of nor interest in sport end up covering great and
TUE       not-so-great events for the sports section of a national
TUE       newspaper? As Lynne explains, it all starts over lunch...
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt67 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt92 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7q (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00mztcd (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdt (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00mztkn (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00mztts (Listen)
TUE       With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 1989: Simpson Returns b00n0v36 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the
TUE       story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal
TUE       stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany,
TUE       the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
TUE       John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who
TUE       influenced events at the time, as well as those whose
TUE       lives changed forever.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Good Samaritan b00n0wyt (Listen)
TUE       Gordon's Story
TUE       Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping
TUE       hand, with varying consequences.
TUE       The man who stopped by the roadside to help some swans in
TUE       distress, only to have his luxury car stolen.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqs (Listen)
TUE       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 2
TUE       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
TUE       spent as a sports reporter.
TUE       In 1999 Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to cover
TUE       the fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis for
TUE       the heavyweight championship of the world.
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv0z (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00n0wyw (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Insect Soundings
TUE       In an unusual sound safari, Paul Evans is our guide to the
TUE       musicians of the insect world. There are head-banging
TUE       beetles, tymbal-clicking cicadas, stridulating crickets,
TUE       whining mosquitoes, pulsating moths, and toe-tapping plant
TUE       hoppers. The world vibrates to the rhythms of insects.
TUE       Their songs announce their presence, define their
TUE       territory, lure potential mates and even shock predators.
TUE       In Japan, the songs of crickets have long been admired,
TUE       and tiny caged insects are kept in the pocket or hung up
TUE       in temples or houses where their songs are enjoyed as much
TUE       as the dawn chorus of birds is appreciated in the west.
TUE       For some insects, sound is a weapon. For example, species
TUE       of tiger moths produce pulses of sounds which they use to
TUE       deter hunting bats. One explanation is that the moth's
TUE       signals jams the bat's echolocation calls, in an aerial
TUE       battle of sounds.
TUE       On the ground, another battle is being fought using sound
TUE       as a secret weapon. Scientists at York University are
TUE       developing hand-held recorders and sound recognition
TUE       systems to detect wood-boring larvae in imported wood.
TUE       With no sign of infestation on the outside, the larvae can
TUE       be detected inside the wood by listening to the sounds
TUE       they make as they tunnel and feed on the internal tissues.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing b00n0wyy (Listen)
TUE       Janet Ellis heads to Cornwall, Preston and Macclesfield to
TUE       speak to authors, storytellers and academics about the
TUE       power of the mermaid image and its origins.
TUE       She hears from the man who came up with the Starbucks
TUE       logo, perhaps the most prevalent mermaid in modern
TUE       culture, and finds out the identity of the 'girl next
TUE       door' on whom it was based. Janet also trawls through the
TUE       myriad mermaid references in art and literature, from
TUE       Robert Graves and TS Eliot to the Pre-Raphaelites, who
TUE       used the mermaid as a powerful image of voluptuous
TUE       sexuality.
TUE       The legend of the mermaid is said to date back to the days
TUE       when sailors far from home would mistake sea mammals like
TUE       manatees and dugongs for semi-human creatures. Since the
TUE       days of Homer, the image of the mysterious female luring
TUE       sailors to their deaths has remained extremely powerful in
TUE       the popular imagination, and has survived numerous
TUE       reinventions over the centuries. With the help of the
TUE       likes of Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney, mermaids
TUE       have become as much a mainstay of modern childhood as
TUE       pirates and princesses.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgr (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00mzvk0 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00mzvnk (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Over The Rainbow With Yip Harburg b00n0xfq (Listen)
TUE       Broadcaster Stephen Evans explores the life and work of
TUE       lyricist Yip Harburg, who became known as the 'social
TUE       conscience' of Broadway, and discovers his contemporary
TUE       relevance.
TUE       Harburg became famous for writing the lyrics to The Wizard
TUE       of Oz and the anthem of the Great Depression era, Brother,
TUE       Can You Spare A Dime? His strong socialist views led him
TUE       to become a victim of the infamous Hollywood
TUE       anti-communist blacklist in the 1950s.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00mzvr9 (Listen)
TUE       Lynda and Vicky join forces for the footpaths.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c0ncj (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, The Man Who Robbed the Bank of
TUE       England
TUE       Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the
TUE       head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the
TUE       news to the masses.
TUE       By Mike Walker.
TUE       Mourning the loss of Jack Marshall, Dickens and his
TUE       investigative team are determined to find the connection
TUE       between financier Iron Billy and a cunning plot aimed at
TUE       the heart of the country's financial system.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall
TUE       Mickey's Jim ...... Gerard Murphy
TUE       Iron Billy ...... John Rowe
TUE       Bank manager ...... Stephen Critchlow
TUE       Vicar ...... Chris Pavlo
TUE       Butler ...... Nyasha Hatendi
TUE       Commissionaire ...... Dan Starkey
TUE       Directed by David Hunter.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00n0z4l (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n0z4n (Listen)
TUE       1989: Writing on the Wall, The Quest for Christa T
TUE       Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three
TUE       writers associated with East Germany's literary scene.
TUE       By Christa Wolf.
TUE       Christa T represents a generation who grew up under the
TUE       shadow of the Berlin Wall. While they were believers in
TUE       the ideals of socialism, they were frustrated by the
TUE       realities of an oppressive state system. In this extract,
TUE       the gulf between those who built up the East German state
TUE       and the next generation is all too apparent.
TUE       Read by Sian Thomas.
TUE       Translated by Christopher Middleton.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4j (Listen)
TUE       Pots and Pans
TUE       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
TUE       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
TUE       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
TUE       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
TUE       have been specially recorded for the series.
TUE       Why do pots and pans matter?
TUE       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
TUE       and Simon Tcherniak.
TUE       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
TUE       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
TUE       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Advertising: The Most Fun You Can Have With Your
TUE       Clothes On! b00gbc9b (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Advertising executive Robin Wight presents a history of
TUE       the advertising industry.
TUE       Robin returns to the location of his first job in
TUE       advertising in the late 1960s, a time when advertising was
TUE       still comparatively dull and simplistic. Including
TUE       contributions from Maurice Saatchi and Sir Alan Parker.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00n0z6f (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to theatre director Tom Morris and
TUE       cartoonist Martin Rowson about their favourite books.
TUE       Tom's choice is a tense thriller set in the dank and murky
TUE       world of London's sewers, Martin's selection is a caustic
TUE       satire of British society, and Sue proposes a Booker Prize
TUE       contender penned by a chimpanzee.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m1j (Listen)
TUE       6th October 1989
TUE       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago.
TUE       Gorbachev begins a historical visit to East Germany to
TUE       help celebrate the GDR's 40th anniversary; East German
TUE       leader Eric Honecker continues to take a hard line; acid
TUE       house parties have been disturbing the peace
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00mzxth (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 b00mzxvx (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Too Much Information b00n1023 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre
TUE       in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever.
TUE       Waft Tourist Information attempt to justify a huge
TUE       donation from the Heritage Lottery Fund with a hastily
TUE       erected papier-mache historical model, which turns out
TUE       disastrously sexual.
TUE       Warren ...... Jeff Rawle
TUE       Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Heather ...... Liza Sadovy
TUE       Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey
TUE       Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill
TUE       Mr Jefferson ...... Stephen Hogan.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00mzvqz (Listen)
TUE       Jim launches trouble at The Stables.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00mzyxk (Listen)
TUE       Mark Lawson discusses autumn 2009's crop of major literary
TUE       and political biographies with critic Peter Kemp,
TUE       historian Tristram Hunt and biographer Hermione Lee.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005h (Listen)
TUE       TwilightBaby.com, Episode 2
TUE       By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find
TUE       themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late
TUE       forties.
TUE       Cass struggles to come to terms with pregnancy and being
TUE       made homeless.
TUE       Cass ...... Jenny Eclair
TUE       Ken ...... Kevin Eldon
TUE       Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
TUE       Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
TUE       Penny ...... Felicity Montagu
TUE       Directed by Sally Avens.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00n11w9 (Listen)
TUE       With a Parliamentary report expected to add to criticism
TUE       of Whitehall's defence purchasing systems, Gerry Northam
TUE       asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for
TUE       our forces.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00n1204 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Trials For Life b00n126g (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical
TUE       trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping
TUE       for future cures.
TUE       Doctors ard patients both want the best chance of recovery
TUE       from an illness, but when the condition is cancer - and
TUE       curent treatments have failed - what hope do clinical
TUE       trials offer? Now that cancer treatments are becoming more
TUE       individually tailored and effective, is it worth the risk
TUE       of trying to develop new drugs which may only be slightly
TUE       better?
TUE       
TUE       21:30 1989: Simpson Returns b00n0v36 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the
TUE       story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal
TUE       stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany,
TUE       the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
TUE       John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who
TUE       influenced events at the time, as well as those whose
TUE       lives changed forever.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00n00hc (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00n011j (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12b7 (Listen)
TUE       Fathers and Sons, Episode 7
TUE       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
TUE       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
TUE       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
TUE       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
TUE       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
TUE       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
TUE       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
TUE       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
TUE       the eternal difficulties between generations.
TUE       His heart broken, Bazarov makes his own prodigal return to
TUE       his doting parents, with Arkady as his guest. But
TUE       friendship and filial duty soon begin to pall.
TUE       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Boyle's Law b00n12rr (Listen)
TUE       Pilot for a new comedy by Suk Pannu about tough-talking
TUE       cop Inspector Vincent Boyle, head of data storage. Banned
TUE       from doing any actual detecting nowadays, he saves his
TUE       'catlike' instincts for reading difficult situations among
TUE       workmates and acting as a father figure to the community
TUE       support officers.
TUE       Boyle ...... Sanjeev Bhaskar
TUE       Fox ...... Anna Chancellor
TUE       Adams ...... Meredith MacNeill
TUE       Commander Norris ...... Nicholas Farrell
TUE       Shankar ...... Nitin Ganatra
TUE       Waitres ...... Kate Layden.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007j7tc (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 4
TUE       Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his
TUE       field, with no ability whatsoever.
TUE       Elected Mayor of London, Milton plays Twister at the UN,
TUE       hosts the Olympics and floods Wandsworth.
TUE       Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy
TUE       Montgomery.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4c (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqs (Listen)
WED       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 2
WED       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
WED       spent as a sports reporter.
WED       In 1999 Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to cover
WED       the fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis for
WED       the heavyweight championship of the world.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt69 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt94 (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7s (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00mztcg (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdw (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00mztkq (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00mzttv (Listen)
WED       With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00n1jb2 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including the Duchess of Rutland.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00n3vhz (Listen)
WED       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 3
WED       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
WED       spent as a sports reporter.
WED       Watching sport is one thing, but playing it is quite
WED       another. Lynne describes how she developed an enduring
WED       passion for golf.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv11 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com.
WED       
WED       11:00 The Story of Scrap Metal b00n1jb4 (Listen)
WED       Martin Wainwright rummages around in his own private scrap
WED       yard at the bottom of his garden, looking for bits of
WED       metal to help him find the true worth of scrap.
WED       As a child in Yorkshire he remembers the piles of metal
WED       left on the pavement for the rag and bone man, but
WED       discovers that today's industry is a global one.
WED       Encouraged by the high value of metal, Martin takes his
WED       assortment of scrap to a local scrap yard for weighing and
WED       valuing, and embarks on a journey which will follow scrap
WED       to the other side of the world.
WED       A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b008psw5 (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Flying Down to Greenock
WED       Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.
WED       By Michael Chaplin.
WED       A centenarian Glaswegian, making his first ever flight,
WED       remembers life during the blitz over Clydeside.
WED       James ...... Stanley Baxter
WED       Isabel ...... Patricia Kerrigan
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgt (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00mzvk2 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00mzvnm (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00n1jb6 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00mzvqz (Listen)
WED       Jim launches trouble at The Stables.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n1jb8 (Listen)
WED       Life Complicated - Status Pending
WED       By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates
WED       each invent their own imaginative and challenging
WED       three-week project. As the schemes unfold, they are each
WED       forced to confront what they really want from life.
WED       KC ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
WED       Freddie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
WED       Max ...... Piers Wehner
WED       Ben ...... Rhys Jennings
WED       Rosie ...... Tessa Nicholson
WED       Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00n1jbb (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial
WED       issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n54p5 (Listen)
WED       1989: Writing on the Wall, Across the Fence
WED       Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three
WED       writers associated with East Germany's literary scene.
WED       By Stefan Heym.
WED       Although Heym won East Germany's National Prize in 1969,
WED       his political criticisms later brought him into conflict
WED       with the state. Set in Czeckoslovakia, this short story
WED       explores the nature of power in an oppressive state and
WED       its impact on personal life.
WED       Read by Fenella Woolgar.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4l (Listen)
WED       Kitchen Physic
WED       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
WED       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
WED       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
WED       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
WED       have been specially recorded for the series.
WED       From rabies to madness and piles, the housewives of the
WED       past were expected to concoct medicines which would cure
WED       any condition.
WED       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
WED       and Simon Tcherniak.
WED       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
WED       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
WED       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00n1jbd (Listen)
WED       America's social state is withering at the expense of its
WED       expanding prison system and the UK is heading in the same
WED       direction, with potentially disastrous consequences.
WED       That's the argument of Laurie Taylor's guest, Loic
WED       Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of
WED       California.
WED       From 1980 to 1990, spending by the US government on
WED       operating its prisons and correctional establishments
WED       doubled while at the same time spending on public housing
WED       more than halved. According to Wacquant, this process is
WED       continuing - he says that 'the construction of prisons has
WED       effectively become the country's main housing programme'.
WED       Are America's penal policies too harsh, and if prisons and
WED       correctional facilities are becoming increasingly
WED       important, what are the social consequences?
WED       He talks to Laurie about why he believes America is too
WED       ready to accept a state of poverty for huge sections of
WED       its population and at the same time see the social state
WED       obliterated. Is America punishing its poor and is the UK
WED       at risk of following the same path, overly dependent on
WED       prisons while eroding its social state?
WED       
WED       16:30 Trials For Life b00n126g (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical
WED       trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping
WED       for future cures.
WED       Doctors ard patients both want the best chance of recovery
WED       from an illness, but when the condition is cancer - and
WED       curent treatments have failed - what hope do clinical
WED       trials offer? Now that cancer treatments are becoming more
WED       individually tailored and effective, is it worth the risk
WED       of trying to develop new drugs which may only be slightly
WED       better?
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m12 (Listen)
WED       7th October 1989
WED       A look back at the events making the news in 1989.
WED       Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of
WED       the Gethsemane clash with police; Hungarian communists
WED       vote to become a democracy but some hardliners don't get
WED       it; in the West, the Beastie Boys tell us what's up.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00mzxtk (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 b00mzxvz (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Chain Reaction b00n1jbg (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow
WED       Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next
WED       week's interviewer.
WED       Alistair McGowan interviews actor Simon Callow.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00mzvr1 (Listen)
WED       Jack takes a walk down memory lane.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00mzyxm (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
WED       from the opening night of David Hare's new play The Power
WED       of Yes, an account of the recent financial crisis.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005k (Listen)
WED       TwilightBaby.com, Episode 3
WED       By Julie Balloo and Jenny Éclair. Cass and Ken find
WED       themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late
WED       forties.
WED       It's Cass's birthday but she isn't coping too well, and
WED       still hasn't told the children about her pregnancy.
WED       Cass ...... Jenny Éclair
WED       Ken ...... Kevin Eldon
WED       Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
WED       Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
WED       Graham ...... Philip Fox
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       20:00 Afghanistan: Is It Mission Impossible? b00n3lbp (Listen)
WED       Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in London
WED       about Britain's role in Afghanistan.
WED       In October 2008 a Radio 4 poll suggested that 68 per cent
WED       of Britons wanted to see UK troops withdraw from
WED       Afghanistan within 12 months. Now, a year later, Britain
WED       seems more mired in the conflict than ever and the troops
WED       remain in place.
WED       An expert panel debate the case for Britain's continued
WED       military presence and give their views on whether or not
WED       the attempt to create a stable Afghanistan was ever
WED       achievable.
WED       
WED       20:45 Conserving What? b00n1jth (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of Conservatism and
WED       tries to discover where David Cameron sits in its
WED       intellectual tradition.
WED       In this programme, he explores the party's philosophical
WED       roots.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00n0wyw (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Insect Soundings
WED       In an unusual sound safari, Paul Evans is our guide to the
WED       musicians of the insect world. There are head-banging
WED       beetles, tymbal-clicking cicadas, stridulating crickets,
WED       whining mosquitoes, pulsating moths, and toe-tapping plant
WED       hoppers. The world vibrates to the rhythms of insects.
WED       Their songs announce their presence, define their
WED       territory, lure potential mates and even shock predators.
WED       In Japan, the songs of crickets have long been admired,
WED       and tiny caged insects are kept in the pocket or hung up
WED       in temples or houses where their songs are enjoyed as much
WED       as the dawn chorus of birds is appreciated in the west.
WED       For some insects, sound is a weapon. For example, species
WED       of tiger moths produce pulses of sounds which they use to
WED       deter hunting bats. One explanation is that the moth's
WED       signals jams the bat's echolocation calls, in an aerial
WED       battle of sounds.
WED       On the ground, another battle is being fought using sound
WED       as a secret weapon. Scientists at York University are
WED       developing hand-held recorders and sound recognition
WED       systems to detect wood-boring larvae in imported wood.
WED       With no sign of infestation on the outside, the larvae can
WED       be detected inside the wood by listening to the sounds
WED       they make as they tunnel and feed on the internal tissues.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00n1jb2 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including the Duchess of Rutland.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00n00hf (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00n011l (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12b9 (Listen)
WED       Fathers and Sons, Episode 8
WED       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
WED       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
WED       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
WED       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
WED       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
WED       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
WED       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
WED       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
WED       the eternal difficulties between generations.
WED       Without Arkady at Marino, Bazarov oversteps the bounds. An
WED       outraged Pavel Petrovich demands satisfaction.
WED       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00n1jtk (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 1
WED       Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item
WED       features more than one voice.
WED       With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah
WED       Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and
WED       David Quantick.
WED       
WED       23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00m6gpk (Listen)
WED       The Mountain Girl
WED       Series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the
WED       sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre oddities of human
WED       behaviour. Rik tells the tale of The Mountain Girl.
WED       
WED       23:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen)
WED       With working men's clubs on the verge of extinction, Dave
WED       Spikey, who co-wrote and appeared in the comedy Phoenix
WED       Nights, charts their history. He examines their social,
WED       cultural and political impact and celebrates those that
WED       continue to bring life to communities on the margins of
WED       21st-century Britain.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4f (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00n3vhz (Listen)
THU       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 3
THU       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
THU       spent as a sports reporter.
THU       Watching sport is one thing, but playing it is quite
THU       another. Lynne describes how she developed an enduring
THU       passion for golf.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt6c (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt96 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7v (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00mztcj (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdy (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00mztks (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00mzttx (Listen)
THU       With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00n1l95 (Listen)
THU       The Dreyfus Affair
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and
THU       Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal
THU       which divided opinion in France for a generation.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqv (Listen)
THU       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 4
THU       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
THU       spent as a sports reporter.
THU       To outsiders, what could be better than to be paid to
THU       attend and write about world-class sporting events? Well,
THU       they don't know the half of it.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv13 (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n1l97 (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 The Negro Tragedian b00n1l99 (Listen)
THU       Kwame Kwei-Armah traces the life and work of Ira Aldridge,
THU       a black actor who defied racial prejudice to become one of
THU       Britain's finest Shakespearean actors.
THU       When Aldridge first appeared on the London stage in 1825,
THU       he was enthusiastically received by the public but the
THU       critics hated him, The Times going so far as to say that
THU       he could not pronounce English properly, 'owing to the
THU       shape of his lips'. Here was a black man daring to break
THU       into the heartland of the British 'classics', which had
THU       hitherto been the exclusive domain of white actors.
THU       But, undeterred by the racial hostility of the press,
THU       Aldridge became a perpetually touring player, an exotic
THU       'star', honing his skills in the provinces and across
THU       Europe. In a career spanning 30 years, he became one of
THU       Britain's finest Shakespearean players, and had more
THU       honours showered upon him than any other actor of his time.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgw (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00mzvk4 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00mzvnp (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00n0tw6 (Listen)
THU       The Three Peaks Challenge
THU       Every year around 60,000 people set out on the Three Peaks
THU       Challenge, aiming to climb the highest mountains in
THU       England, Wales and Scotland. Most do it to raise money for
THU       charity but there are increasing worries that the
THU       challenge is putting too much pressure on the environment,
THU       destroying some of our most beautiful places.
THU       Alice Roberts sets out with a group of enthusiastic
THU       trekkers to find out if the environment is suffering as
THU       charities prosper.
THU       The Challenge used to be centred around the longest day in
THU       June, giving trekkers the chance to climb Ben Nevis,
THU       Snowdon and Scafell Pike in daylight. More recently,
THU       however, it has become such a charity money-spinnner that
THU       groups tackle the peaks from April to October. At the
THU       height of the season as many as 1,000 people can be
THU       trekking up each mountain, often in the dark. The
THU       Challenge speeds up the erosion of paths, damages fragile
THU       Alpine plant systems and adds to the pressure on the
THU       areas' toilets and litter bins.
THU       Banning the Challenge would destroy an important income
THU       source for hundreds of charities and breach the principle
THU       of open access to these iconic mountains. Can Alice find a
THU       solution? Can people enjoy the physical challenge of the
THU       mountain environment and continue to raise money for
THU       charity without destroying some of Britain's wildest and
THU       most beautiful places?
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00mzvr1 (Listen)
THU       Jack takes a walk down memory lane.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bzgx8 (Listen)
THU       Septimus Greabe
THU       By Mike Harris.
THU       In the early 19th century, the Society for the Suppression
THU       of Vice, inspired by William Wilberforce, would stop at
THU       nothing in their efforts to stamp out sin and corruption -
THU       even if this meant employing the most unscrupulous of
THU       characters to carry out their good work.
THU       Septimus Greabe ...... David Troughton
THU       Thomas Buxton ...... Will Keen
THU       Hannah ...... Kellie Shirley
THU       John Bowles ...... Paul Jesson
THU       Joseph Merceron ...... Nigel Cooke
THU       Eva Bowles ...... Perdita Avery
THU       Directed by Clive Brill.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00myhfk (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 3
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth
THU       to Warkworth, in the company of local artisit Sue Fenlon
THU       and photographer Barbara Aitchison. They explain why they
THU       find this part of the Northumberland coast so inspiring.
THU       St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy
THU       Island in the north, along the stunning Northumberland
THU       coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's
THU       Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St
THU       Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh
THU       century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity
THU       to his people.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mz6j8 (Listen)
THU       The Disabled Living Foundation
THU       Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living
THU       Foundation.
THU       Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent
THU       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
THU       your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit
THU       cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer,
THU       please provide the Disabled Living Foundation 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: 290069.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n54nv (Listen)
THU       1989: Writing on the Wall, Place of Birth: Berlin
THU       Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three
THU       writers associated with East Germany's literary scene.
THU       By Monika Maron, who grew up in East Berlin where her
THU       stepfather was a minister. In this piece, which is a love
THU       song to the city of her youth, Maron reflects on what it
THU       was like to grow up and live in a divided city.
THU       Read by Eleanor Bron.
THU       Translated by Lyn Marven.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4n (Listen)
THU       Ornamenting the Home
THU       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
THU       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
THU       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
THU       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
THU       have been specially recorded for the series.
THU       Sewing was believed to be part of a wife's essential duty
THU       in the 17th and 18th century, and also a way of keeping
THU       women at home safely occupied. If you were sewing you
THU       couldn't be wandering about or reading novels. But a
THU       fascinating diary by a woman who suffered from depression
THU       reveals that sewing could also give meaning to life and
THU       act as a valuable therapy.
THU       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
THU       and Simon Tcherniak.
THU       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
THU       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
THU       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:00 Bookclub b00mzdlq (Listen)
THU       Gillian Slovo
THU       James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her
THU       novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid
THU       South Africa.
THU       Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding
THU       members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First,
THU       an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces
THU       in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's
THU       own experience of coming face to face with her mother's
THU       killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the
THU       new South Africa.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00n1l9c (Listen)
THU       With the announcement of a new batch of Nobel Prizes in
THU       Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, Quentin Cooper assesses
THU       the new Laureates' impact on science.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m14 (Listen)
THU       8th October 1989
THU       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago.
THU       Eyewitnesses in East Berlin describe a police crackdown on
THU       protestors; one of West Germany's elder statesman sees the
THU       beginning of 'the most critical week in the GDR'; the Pope
THU       calls for reunification.
THU       .
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00mzxtm (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 b00mzxw1 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen)
THU       Series 4, An Audience With
THU       Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur
THU       Strong is an expert in everything from the world of
THU       entertainment to the origins of the species, all false
THU       starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a
THU       delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
THU       A timely visit from the vicar interrupts Arthur's artistic
THU       flow as he pens a new novel, and reminds him that he needs
THU       to organise entertainment for a fundraiser that night.
THU       The choice of headliner is obvious, but who will he get to
THU       support? Surely some auditions in the Shoulder of Mutton
THU       will tempt some local talent out of the woodwork.
THU       With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and
THU       Alastair Kerr.
THU       A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for
THU       BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00mzvr3 (Listen)
THU       Peggy has a big change of heart.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00mzyxp (Listen)
THU       Kirsty Lang talks to author Eoin Colfer, who has published
THU       a new instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
THU       the series created by the late Douglas Adams.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005m (Listen)
THU       TwilightBaby.com, Episode 4
THU       By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find
THU       themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late
THU       forties.
THU       Ken is convinced his novel will be a bestseller - Cass
THU       thinks it won't even get published. A separation is
THU       inevitable.
THU       Cass ...... Jenny Eclair
THU       Ken ...... Kevin Eldon
THU       Magda ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
THU       Jacob ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Man in Shop ...... Philip Fox
THU       Directed by Sally Avens.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00n1l9f (Listen)
THU       The RMT union claims to be Britain's fastest-growing trade
THU       union; it is also arguably the most confrontational. The
THU       union's favoured tactic of repeated strike ballots has won
THU       enviable high rates of pay and annual leave for its
THU       members. It has also earned the RMT general secretary the
THU       tag of 'the most hated man in London'. Simon Cox
THU       investigates the RMT's strength, why managers refuse to
THU       take it on and the attempts to curb its power.
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00n1l9h (Listen)
THU       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
THU       and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to
THU       their companies and their customers.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00n1lnc (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts investigates life in extreme polar
THU       environments and the perils facing scientists who study it.
THU       In polar regions, life hangs by a thread. It's hard enough
THU       for the scientists studying it, braving the cold and ice,
THU       not to mention bears and giant mosquitoes in Arctic
THU       regions. For the organisms that live there all the year
THU       round without heating or protective clothing, extreme
THU       strategies are essential.
THU       Dr Pete Convey, of the British Antarctic Survey,
THU       introduces Geoff to tardigrades, tiny creatures resembling
THU       six-legged teddy bears the size of a full stop. They can
THU       dry to a husk or freeze in liquid nitrogen. But a drop of
THU       liquid water and they pop back to life and walk away.
THU       Geoff also hears from Antarctica, where the biggest land
THU       creatures could hide behind the letters of this text; from
THU       Austria, where beetles follow in the path of a retreating
THU       glacier; and from Alaska, where the permafrost is thawing
THU       and tundra-surfing could become a new sport.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00n1l95 (Listen)
THU       The Dreyfus Affair
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and
THU       Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal
THU       which divided opinion in France for a generation.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00n00hj (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00n011n (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bc (Listen)
THU       Fathers and Sons, Episode 9
THU       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
THU       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
THU       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
THU       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
THU       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
THU       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
THU       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
THU       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
THU       the eternal difficulties between generations.
THU       Happy amidst the parklands of Nikolskoye, Arkady lays bare
THU       his heart and Anna Sergeyevna finds her expectations
THU       confounded.
THU       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
THU       
THU       23:00 Poetry Slam b00n1p9v (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Episode 3
THU       Six finalists from around the British Isles compete at the
THU       Birmingham Book Festival, held at the Birmingham
THU       Conservatoire, for the title of Radio 4 Poetry Slam winner
THU       for 2009. Hosted by performance poet Dreadlock Alien, who
THU       is on home ground as a former Birmingham Poet Laureate.
THU       A slam is a knockout performance poetry competition in
THU       which poets perform their own work to a time limit and are
THU       given scores based on content, style, delivery and level
THU       of audience response. In the space of two minutes,
THU       performers must demonstrate their wordplay, performance
THU       skills and inventiveness; over two or three rounds, poets
THU       are knocked out until one top scorer emerges as the
THU       winner. Slams attract a wide range of performers and
THU       styles, from heartfelt love poetry to searing social
THU       commentary, uproarious comic routines and bittersweet
THU       personal confessional pieces.
THU       Slams began in the United States in the 1980s. The slam
THU       scene quickly spread from cities like Chicago and New York
THU       and is now thriving all around the world. There are
THU       hundreds of slams run regularly in clubs, bars, pubs,
THU       theatres and at festivals all over Britain every year. The
THU       very best contemporary slam talent from the current scene
THU       will be highlighted in this final programme of the Radio 4
THU       Poetry Slam, as slam winners from all round the country
THU       pit their skills against one other.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076x49 (Listen)
THU       Building Bridges
THU       Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson asks why and how we
THU       learn to metaphorically build bridges.
THU       He talks to Tom Hart Dyke, who was kidnapped by Colombian
THU       rebels when out orchid hunting and spent nine months
THU       trying to build bridges with his captors. He hears how
THU       writer Jesse Armstrong remembers failing to build bridges
THU       while working in politics.
THU       Jon also takes his producer to a workplace mediator to
THU       find out if he really is a difficult person to work with.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4h (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqv (Listen)
FRI       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 4
FRI       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
FRI       spent as a sports reporter.
FRI       To outsiders, what could be better than to be paid to
FRI       attend and write about world-class sporting events? Well,
FRI       they don't know the half of it.
FRI       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt6f (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt98 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7x (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00mztcl (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztf0 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00mztkv (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00mzttz (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00mz6jq (Listen)
FRI       Dame Ellen MacArthur
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen
FRI       MacArthur.
FRI       She was 28 when she became the fastest person to sail solo
FRI       around the world, and has been called the 'first true
FRI       heroine of the 21st century'.
FRI       She still sails with friends and with the charity she set
FRI       up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her
FRI       ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same
FRI       sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When
FRI       your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce
FRI       food and fuel really are.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqx (Listen)
FRI       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 5
FRI       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
FRI       spent as a sports reporter.
FRI       By the autumn of 2000, Lynne has been covering sport for
FRI       four years, but a combination of events leads her to ask a
FRI       very simple question - just how important is sport?
FRI       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv15 (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Weston's New Pier b00n1qvk (Listen)
FRI       In July 2008, fire destroyed the famous pavilion on
FRI       Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier. But, while other piers
FRI       crumble, this one is being re-built. Some experts say the
FRI       new pavilion will make it the best seaside pier in the
FRI       world.
FRI       Chris Ledgard meets the owners, architects and builders to
FRI       relive the day of the fire, investigate the building
FRI       project, and find out what the future holds for one of
FRI       Britain's best-known seaside resorts.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n1s1c (Listen)
FRI       Harlequinade
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       Brunswick is in mortal danger, but Inspector Steine is too
FRI       busy organising a road safety demonstration to notice. Can
FRI       Twitten and Mrs Groynes find Brunswick before it's too
FRI       late?
FRI       Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
FRI       Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
FRI       Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green
FRI       Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro
FRI       Unknown Villain ...... Adrian Bower
FRI       Albert ...... David Holt.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgy (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00mzvk6 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00mzvnr (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00n3jrn (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00mzvr3 (Listen)
FRI       Peggy has a big change of heart.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c1d1r (Listen)
FRI       Foundling
FRI       By Nick Warburton.
FRI       A man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small
FRI       town. Why will he not help a young woman find her lost
FRI       child?
FRI       Laura ...... Emma Fielding
FRI       Roach ...... Peter Marinker
FRI       Gilbert ...... Ben Crowe
FRI       Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n3jrq (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie join
FRI       members of the John Innes Conservation Society in London.
FRI       They find about about the man who posthumously founded the
FRI       horticultural institute which is responsible for creating
FRI       the compost which bears his name.
FRI       Also, after Buckingham Palace joined the RHS Grow Your Own
FRI       campaign, Matthew is invited to the Queen's allotment for
FRI       a review of its progress so far.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4q (Listen)
FRI       Mistress and Servants
FRI       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
FRI       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
FRI       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
FRI       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
FRI       have been specially recorded for the series.
FRI       The fascinating household diaries of Elizabeth Shackleton,
FRI       trying to run a house in Lancashire with a floating
FRI       population of unreliable and drunken servants. Elizabeth
FRI       cared for a young serving girl, and treated her like the
FRI       daughter she never had. But the girl turned on her, and
FRI       abandoned her.
FRI       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
FRI       and Simon Tcherniak.
FRI       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
FRI       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
FRI       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00n3jrs (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 b00n3jrv (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to a schoolteacher from Reading,
FRI       Peter Strickland, about his revenge tragedy Katalin Varga,
FRI       which was shot in Transylvania and in Hungarian, a
FRI       language he doesn't even speak.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m16 (Listen)
FRI       9th October 1989
FRI       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago.
FRI       At Leipzig's Monday prayer service for freedom, protests
FRI       approach a historical and perhaps dangerous moment - the
FRI       East German people now appear to refuse to be intimidated;
FRI       Soviet news agency Tass reports that 10-foot-tall aliens
FRI       have been spotted visiting the industrial city of Voronezh.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00mzxtp (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
FRI       Quinn. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzxw3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00n3jrx (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 3
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
FRI       include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00mzvr5 (Listen)
FRI       The party's over for Ian at Grey Gables.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00mzyxr (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005p (Listen)
FRI       TwilightBaby.com, Episode 5
FRI       By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find
FRI       themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late
FRI       forties.
FRI       Both Ken and Penny want to be Cass' birthing partner. But
FRI       when the big day arrives Cass is left to face it alone.
FRI       Cass ...... Jenny Eclair
FRI       Ken ...... Kevin Eldon
FRI       Penny ...... Felicity Montagu
FRI       Jacob ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Midwife ...... Kate Layden
FRI       Directed by Sally Avens.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00n3jxf (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle.
FRI       Panellists include political commentator Anthony Howard,
FRI       and Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for
FRI       housing.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n3jxh (Listen)
FRI       Large Blue
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       The Large Blue butterfly died out in Britain in 1979, but
FRI       why? Investigations pointed to a complex life cycle linked
FRI       to a single species of ant. With this knowledge the Large
FRI       Blue was re-introduced into the British countryside, but
FRI       there is a sinister twist in the tale, in the form of a
FRI       parasitic wasp.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n3jxk (Listen)
FRI       Episode 2
FRI       Omnibus edition of Prof Amanda Vickery's series revealing
FRI       the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on
FRI       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
FRI       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
FRI       have been specially recorded for the series.
FRI       What letters and diaries reveal about running the home in
FRI       the 16th and 17th centuries.
FRI       The readers are Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine
FRI       Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.
FRI       The singers are Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with
FRI       David Owen Norris at the keyboard.
FRI       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00n00hl (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00n011q (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bf (Listen)
FRI       Fathers and Sons, Episode 10
FRI       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
FRI       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
FRI       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
FRI       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
FRI       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
FRI       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
FRI       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
FRI       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
FRI       the eternal difficulties between generations.
FRI       Bazarov returns home and seems to be finding a new way
FRI       when a moment's carelessness leads to tragedy.
FRI       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00n0z6f (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to theatre director Tom Morris and
FRI       cartoonist Martin Rowson about their favourite books.
FRI       Tom's choice is a tense thriller set in the dank and murky
FRI       world of London's sewers, Martin's selection is a caustic
FRI       satire of British society, and Sue proposes a Booker Prize
FRI       contender penned by a chimpanzee.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Misfits in France b00f85ky (Listen)
FRI       Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen
FRI       Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the
FRI       connections between a group of Victorian writers and
FRI       artists who crossed the English Channel for different
FRI       reasons.
FRI       The series ends in Rouen, where Oscar Wilde rekindled his
FRI       relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas after a lonely
FRI       summer in exile outside Dieppe. The museum in Rouen also
FRI       holds a collection of paintings by Monet, Sisley and
FRI       Walter Sickert's friend and patron - Jacques Emile Blanche.
FRI       Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale
FRI       Claude Monet ...... Jonathan Tafler
FRI       Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow.
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