17 October, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 17/10/2009 - 23/10/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00n5w91 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvz (Listen) SAT The Defence of the Realm, Episode 5 SAT Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the SAT British Security Service, MI5. SAT Using material released by the organisation's archives to SAT mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and SAT failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the SAT complex modern world of counter-terrorism. SAT Bringing the story up to date. SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n5w93 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n5w95 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n5w97 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00n5w99 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n5w9c (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00n5w9f (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00n5w9h (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00n6tc7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00n6tc9 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 5 SAT Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in SAT Northumberland. SAT Former hill shepherd Russell Tait, Northumberland's answer SAT to George Clooney, is Clare's guide as she walk's the SAT fifth leg of the route from Rothbury to Simonside. 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 b00n6v43 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT It's troubled times for the organic sector. The recession SAT means fewer people are prepared to pay a premium - income SAT for the sector is down 13 per cent on 2008. SAT Now some supermarkets have decided to cut organic lines by SAT a third. The cause hasn't been helped by a recent report SAT from the Food Standards Agency which said organic is not SAT nutritionally any better than conventionally grown food. SAT Charlotte Smith is in Warwickshire to find out how one SAT organic farmer is coping. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00n6v45 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00n6v47 (Listen) SAT With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the SAT Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00n6v49 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Rev Richard Coles is joined by five-time Olympic gold SAT medal winner Sir Steve Redgrave. SAT With poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00n6v4c (Listen) SAT The urge to visit the scene of a family member's wartime SAT experiences often follows the realisation of what dangers SAT they have been through. Journalist Tom Carver's father SAT escaped from a prison camp in Italy in 1943 and went on SAT the run behind German lines. Tom found himself tracking SAT down the Italian family who had helped him and exploring SAT the cave in the Abruzzi countryside where his father had SAT hidden out. Julie Summers's grandfather was the senior SAT British officer building the bridge on the River Kwai, and SAT when she went there she found the real story very SAT different from the image given in the famous film - most SAT notably the fact that it is still in use. SAT John McCartthy also talks to Diego Torres, an SAT award-winning tour guide from Ecuador, who explains that, SAT although his country lies firmly on the Equator, it is far SAT from being just Equatorial. It has a dazzling variety of SAT landscapes from jungle to mountain plains, as well as the SAT renowned Galapagos Islands. SAT SAT 10:30 Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth SAT Williams b00mbkk2 (Listen) SAT A special broadcast of a lost script written for Kenneth SAT Horne and Kenneth Williams in 1966 by Horne and his ghost SAT writer, Mollie Millest. Robin Sebastian and Jonathan Rigby SAT take the lead roles as the two Kenneths, with SAT contributions from Charles Armstrong, who takes on the SAT role as the announcer. SAT The plot, evoking memories of Round the Horne, finds the SAT two Kenneths working together in advance of their own SAT radio programme and follows them as they journey around SAT Broadcasting House meeting a weird and wonderful SAT assortment of characters. SAT The script was discovered by writer and broadcaster Wes SAT Butters, who purchased a collection of Kenneth Williams SAT memorabilia from Williams's godson. Butters introduces the SAT performance, which was recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre SAT in London and features old sound effects and props, SAT including the famous door from the popular Tommy Handley SAT radio series, It's That Man Again. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00n6v70 (Listen) SAT This week the Week In Westminster devotes most of the SAT programme to an extended interview with the speaker of the SAT House of Commons John Bercow. SAT In his first full length interview since elected to his SAT new role, he talks to Steve Richards about the ongoing SAT saga of MPs expenses, the reform of that system, and how SAT to modernise parliamentary procedures to make the SAT institution more accessible to the public at large. SAT Also in the programme: SAT Andrew Cooper, of the polling organisation Populus, and SAT the BBC’s head of political research, David Cowling, SAT discuss the main parties’ current standing in the polls SAT after the party conference season. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00n6v72 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Alan Little reports from Bosnia, as a date is set for the SAT war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic. SAT A mad cow adds to the woes of American soldiers on patrol SAT in Iraq, as Gabriel Gatehouse discovers in Kirkuk. SAT Venezuelan police try to shed a dubious reputation, as SAT Will Grant observes. SAT Kevin Connolly tells of how the modern world is taking on SAT an all-American hero on the Great Plains. SAT And is the Russian car manufacturer Lada nearing the end SAT of the road? Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out, on the SAT banks of the Volga River. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00n6wfj (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT We reveal a major loophole in one bank's chip and PIN SAT security. SAT How to find the best low-cost pension schemes. SAT Could a high court ruling help hundreds of thousands of SAT Equitable Life policyholders? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00n5w35 (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 4 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans SAT and Sue Perkins. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00n6wfl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00n6wfn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00n5w37 (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Cerne Abbas in SAT Dorset. The panellists are the Leader of the House of SAT Lords, Baroness Royall, columnist and writer Viv Groskop, SAT Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics, SAT and Grant Shapps, shadow minister for housing, communities SAT and local government. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00n6wfq (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 b00n6wfs (Listen) SAT Emil and the Detectives SAT Dramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's SAT detective novel by Erich Kaestner. SAT Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first SAT time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to SAT help him catch a thief. SAT Emil ...... Joshua Swinney SAT Kaestner ...... Bruce Alexander SAT Grundeis ...... Ewan Hooper SAT Gustav ...... Daniel Cooper SAT Professor ...... Neil Reynolds SAT Traut ...... Bertie Gilbert SAT Peters ...... Josh Robinson SAT Tuesday ...... Harry Child SAT Pony ...... Agnes Bateman SAT Mrs Tischbein ...... Melissa Advani SAT Cashier ...... Tessa Nicholson SAT Jeschke ...... John Biggins SAT Guard ...... Rhys Jennings SAT Taxi Driver ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole SAT Grandma ...... Kate Layden SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT SAT 15:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House b00n8swn (Listen) SAT Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has converted a disused SAT garage in Gaborone, Botswana, into an opera house and is SAT training local people to sing in its opening production, a SAT new opera he has written about baboons. SAT Pauline McLean charts the progress of this wacky project SAT with McCall Smith himself, Botswana's ex-minster of health SAT and the country's only semi-professional baritone, a SAT schoolteacher named Gape Motswaledi, who believes that SAT there is a career to be made from the venture. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00n6wfv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. SAT Singer Leona Lewis on her rise to fame; Sheryl Gascoigne SAT talks about life before and after Gazza; one woman's story SAT of transforming the lives of children in the Philippines; SAT opera singer Rachel Nicholls performs the work of Handel; SAT the experience of being the first in a family to go to SAT university; can you ever be too old to wear jeans? SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n6wfx (Listen) SAT 17th October 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT The Guildford Four have their sentence overturned after 14 SAT years in prison, ambulance workers threaten hunger strike SAT to demand higher pay, and an earthquake measuring seven on SAT the Richter scale strikes San Francisco in the evening SAT rush hour, causing a double-decker motorway to collapse. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00n6wfz (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00n5rc9 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis presents a special edition of the business SAT magazine from the University of Derby. He asks his panel SAT of guests about the role played by lawyers in business and SAT how we can fill the hole left by financial services in the SAT UK. SAT Evan is joined by: SAT Ian Livingstone, life president of Eidos Interactive, the SAT company that produced Lara Croft, one of the best-selling SAT video games of all time SAT Colin Walton, chairman of Bombardier Transportation, who SAT runs the only train factory left in the UK SAT David Gold, senior partner at Herbert Smith, one of SAT Britain's leading law firms. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n6wg1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00n6wg3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n6wg5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00n6wg7 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive talks to Katherine Jenkins, Liverpudlian actor David SAT Morrissey talks about directing his first feature film and SAT David Heathcote discusses his new series, Art Deco Icons. SAT Jon Holmes interviews surrealist comedian Rich Fulcher, SAT star of The Mighty Boosh. SAT With music from Seasick Steve and Mumford and Sons, and SAT comedy from teenage stand-up Daniel Sloss. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen) SAT Sir Thomas Legg SAT Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through SAT the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent SAT out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered SAT many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the SAT retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the SAT centre of a media and political storm. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00n6wgc (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00n6wgf (Listen) SAT The Anniversary Anniversary SAT Dominic Sandbrook explores the compelling appeal of the SAT anniversary. How often on the radio, on television or in SAT print is our attention enticed by the simple fact that an SAT event, a birth or a death happened a year, or five or ten, SAT fifty, even several hundred years ago? SAT There is a huge category of archive material dedicated to SAT particular happenings or personalities which would never SAT have been produced without the prompt of an anniversary. SAT Remembering war predates broadcasting, but in the past the SAT remembering was cast in stone, unchanging even as the SAT memories of those involved frayed and faded. In SAT broadcasting, that increasing remoteness results in the SAT memories being endlessly reworked with a different slant SAT and attitude. Ten years after the end of Second World War, SAT the response was limited but jovially triumphal. Sixty SAT years on and there is a far greater energy in remembering SAT and rediscovering, particularly of the details that didn't SAT seem to matter at the time. A perfect example is The Radio SAT Four series Coming Home. SAT Dominic also looks at artistic, literary, sporting and SAT musical anniversaries. In music there seems to be a SAT constant stream of anniversary commemorations, fuelled by SAT the recording industry. For example, there is the 200th SAT anniversary of Mozart's death or the 250th anniversary of SAT his birth; and, if that's not enough, then there are SAT similar anniversaries for each of his operas. SAT At the very heart of all this is the simple business of SAT marking the turning of the years, best illustrated by the SAT birthday, that most domestic of anniversaries. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00n47q5 (Listen) SAT Beau Geste, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of SAT honour, love and adventure. SAT The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and SAT hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do SAT wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign SAT Legion. A sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg SAT raiders brings matters to a head and provides the SAT explanation for the disappearance of the Blue Water SAT sapphire. SAT Beau ...... Chris New SAT John ...... Rob Hastie SAT Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin SAT Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd SAT Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley SAT Isobel ...... Candida Benson SAT Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster SAT Burdon ...... Scott Richards SAT Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday SAT Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill SAT Young John ...... Alex Hockaday SAT Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe SAT Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner SAT Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher SAT Boldini ...... Laurence Possa SAT Hank ...... Greg Wohead SAT Buddy ...... Don Mousseau SAT The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan SAT Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet SAT Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield SAT Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina SAT Directed by Willi Richards SAT An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00n6wgh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00n59ww (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie SAT Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor SAT cross-examine witnesses. SAT When should we forgive and should we ever forget? It's the SAT 25th anniversary of the Brighton Bomb and the man who SAT planted it will be sharing a platform in Parliament with SAT the daughter of one of the people he killed - talking SAT about forgiveness. Is anyone ever beyond redemption? Are SAT any crimes ever too heinous to forgive? How do we balance SAT the desire for retribution with society's need to pursue SAT wider understanding and reconciliation? SAT Witnesses: SAT Paul Bowman SAT Father of Sally Anne Bowman who was murdered in 2005 SAT Bishop Peter Price SAT Bishop of Bath and Wells SAT Ruth Dudley Edwards SAT Historian, commentator and author of Aftermath: The Omagh SAT Bombings and The Families Pursuit of Justice SAT Hon Timothy Knatchbull SAT Lost his grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, and twin brother SAT 30 years ago in IRA bombing. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00n4zgx (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00n48k6 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday SAT from the Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces SAT a selection of the most frequently-requested poems from SAT the past 30 years. The special guest readers, including SAT Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick Malahide, all SAT have a strong connection with the city. SAT Including poems by Keats, Hardy, Betjeman, Wendy Cope and SAT Carol Ann Duffy. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00n6wq0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zh (Listen) SUN Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, Day to Day Dilemmas of Modern SUN Martyrs SUN Series of stories by Morven Crumlish. SUN After a day spent consoling a stressed-out single mum, SUN Rebecca sets about addressing some issues of her own. SUN Read by Neve McIntosh. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n6wq2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n6wq4 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n6wq6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00n6wq8 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00n6x6f (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow on the SUN Wold in Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen) SUN Sir Thomas Legg SUN Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through SUN the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent SUN out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered SUN many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the SUN retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the SUN centre of a media and political storm. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00n6x6h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00n6x6k (Listen) SUN The Bullying Circle SUN Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and SUN the circle of bystanders and followers who make bullying SUN possible. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead, Frank SUN Stirling and Jordan Scowen. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00n6x6m (Listen) SUN Alex James visits Woodlands Organic Farm in Boston to meet SUN one of the nominees for the 2009 BBC Farmer of the Year SUN award. Andrew Dennis does organic on a big scale with SUN cereals, traditional livestock and vegetables. But the SUN decision in the mid-1990s to make the conversion from SUN conventional agriculture was a risk. Alex discovers how SUN Andrew has made it a success and whether the recession SUN threatens such large-scale organic farming. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00n6x6p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00n6x6r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00n6x6t (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 b00n6x6w (Listen) SUN Fauna & Flora International SUN Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora SUN International. SUN Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope FFI. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1011102. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00n6x6y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00n6x70 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00n6x72 (Listen) SUN From the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast, SUN conducted by Rev David Neilands. Preacher: Rev Dr Ruth SUN Patterson. Director of Music: Ruth McCartney. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n5w39 (Listen) SUN Collecting SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Why do we collect things? Is it a male response to ancient SUN hunting instincts to provide food for the family? Today, SUN collecting by children is in decline, and with it the SUN development of an early fascination with the natural world SUN around them. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00n6x74 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00n6x76 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00n6x78 (Listen) SUN Jan Pienkowski SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. SUN He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and SUN lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood SUN in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his SUN home in England more than 60 years ago. SUN The folk traditions of central Europe are still much in SUN evidence in his work though; twice winner of the Kate SUN Greenaway Medal, his illustrations see childhood terrors SUN realised in gothic scenes, with witches a constant SUN presence. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n510l (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 2 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items SUN of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. SUN With Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00n6x7b (Listen) SUN Duck Shoots SUN Eaten any duck recently? More duck is being cooked at SUN home, served in gastro pubs and used in the ubiquitous Hoi SUN Sin duck wrap. It is now the second most bred species in SUN the world. So where is all this meat coming from? How is SUN it being reared? How have factory systems changed in SUN recent years, and is the gap in taste between wild and SUN farmed birds changing? SUN As the duck shooting season gets underway, and consumption SUN climbs steadily towards Christmas, Sheila Dillon SUN investigates the culinary value and welfare conditions of SUN wild and farmed duck. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00n6x7d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00n6x7g (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Beyond This Life b00n6x7j (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, SUN confronts our response to death in 21st-century Britain. SUN He reflects on how we deal with death as a society and SUN considers the relationship between those who have gone and SUN those who are left behind. SUN Most people can remember their first funeral - everyone SUN can remember the first time they saw someone who had died. SUN But how we respond to death and our own mortality varies SUN greatly in multicultural Britain? SUN Two teenagers face the unexpected death of their SUN schoolfriend and seek the comfort of an afterlife despite SUN not believing in God. And a 70-year-old British Hindu SUN takes his fight to have an open funeral pyre to the High SUN Court, believing that, if he doesn't, his soul will haunt SUN those left behind. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n5vrf (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood meet SUN the valley gardeners of Itchen Abbas, near Winchester. SUN The country's top groundsman advises on autumn lawn SUN maintenance and keeping the perfect lawn or sports field. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Runaway Train b00n6ygv (Listen) SUN March 9th 1987 began as a normal day for railwayman Wesley SUN MacDonald as he made up a train of 50 cars of ore at a SUN mine in northern Canada. But that all changed when the SUN brakes failed to hold the load and Wesley suddenly found SUN himself aboard a runaway train. This programme tells the SUN story of what happened next, featuring actual audio SUN footage of the radio communication between him and the SUN rail traffic controller as he wrestles with the decision SUN on whether to jump or take his chances onboard. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00n6yws (Listen) SUN Howards End, Episode 1 SUN Two-part dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel. SUN When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End, the SUN country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along SUN with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever. SUN Narrator ...... John Hurt SUN Margaret Schlegel ...... Lisa Dillon SUN Helen Schlegel ...... Jill Cardo SUN Tibby Schlegel ...... Tom Ferguson SUN Aunt Juley ...... Alexandra Mathie SUN Henry Wilcox ...... Malcolm Raeburn SUN Ruth Wilcox ...... Ann Rye SUN Charles Wilcox ...... Joseph Kloska SUN Leonard Bast ...... Joseph Prospero SUN Dolly Wilcox/Jacky Bast ...... Christine Marshall. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00n6z0d (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the first of two programmes in SUN which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have SUN been unfairly neglected. In this edition William Boyd, SUN Ruth Rendell, Colm Toibin, Hari Kunzru and Susan Hill SUN unveil their choices. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00n6z0g (Listen) SUN A second programme celebrating the 30th birthday of Poetry SUN Please in the show's home town of Bristol. Roger McGough SUN is joined at Bristol Old Vic by special guest readers, SUN including Stephanie Cole and Patrick Malahide, for some of SUN the best-loved poems in its history. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n702x (Listen) SUN 18th October 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN Erich Honecker, the East German leader of 18 years and SUN architect of the Berlin Wall, resigns; all Commonwealth SUN countries agree on sanctions against South Africa - except SUN for the UK; the Atlantis Space Shuttle launches SUN successfully from Cape Canaveral, initiating a six-year SUN research mission to Jupiter. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00n569w (Listen) SUN Fears over deep cuts in council jobs and services have SUN brought predictions of a winter of discontent and strife SUN unlike anything seen for 30 years. But as councils prepare SUN to wield the axe, Julian O'Halloran asks if some SUN authorities have added to their budget crises by awarding SUN over-the-top pay, perks and severance terms to their own SUN top executives. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen) SUN Sir Thomas Legg SUN Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through SUN the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent SUN out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered SUN many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the SUN retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the SUN centre of a media and political storm. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n7031 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00n7033 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n7035 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00n70bx (Listen) SUN John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN The Mario Lanza Story - Radio 2 SUN Brighton: The Bomb That Changed Politics - Radio 4 SUN Terry Nutkins: in the Ring of Bright Water - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: The Anniversary Anniversary - Radio 4 SUN The Choice - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN Lyrical Ballads - Radio 4 SUN Beyond This Life - Radio 4 SUN Legacy - Radio 4 SUN The No. 1 Ladies Opera House - Radio 4 SUN My Yiddisher Mother Tongue - Radio 4 SUN Le Chanson de Serge - Radio 2 SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN World Routes - Radio 3. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00n70bz (Listen) SUN Lynda masters the art of compromise. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00n70c1 (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 President Barack Obama makes his first visit to New SUN Orleans since becoming president. Matt Frei talks to New SUN Orleans-born trumpeter Irvin Mayfield about what life is SUN like these days in the city still coming back to life from SUN the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. SUN As major news networks scramble to innovate and meet the SUN changing demands of their audiences, Matt Frei talks to SUN former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather about the ways SUN Americans consume news. SUN Many American big-city newspapers are holding on for dear SUN life - and sometimes not holding on at all - but some SUN small-town papers are doing just fine. Matt Frei talks to SUN publisher Gloria Trotter in Oklahoma, who has co-published SUN the Tecumseh Countywide News and Sun for the last 26 SUN years. She explains how small papers like hers are SUN managing to continue going strong. SUN After 40 years of Monty Python humour, many Americans can SUN still quote a trove of the troupe's lines, verbatim, and SUN with very bad English accents. Hayes Davenport, editor of SUN the Harvard Lampoon, tries to explain why. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt5 (Listen) SUN Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Zippin' Up Your SUN Boots SUN By Gill Edwards. SUN Every middle-aged person needs to know certain things when SUN asked to a school reunion, especially if they are planning SUN to lie about almost everything they have done since SUN leaving. SUN Read by Alison Reid. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00n5vjq (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00n5vt7 (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and SUN interest from many walks of life, some famous and some SUN less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00n6wfj (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN We reveal a major loophole in one bank's chip and PIN SUN security. SUN How to find the best low-cost pension schemes. SUN Could a high court ruling help hundreds of thousands of SUN Equitable Life policyholders? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00n6x6w (Listen) SUN Fauna & Flora International SUN Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora SUN International. SUN Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope FFI. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1011102. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00n51z3 (Listen) SUN Small States SUN Bronwen Maddox, chief foreign commentator of The Times, SUN asks if small nations can survive as independent states. SUN Tiny states like Liechtenstein, Brunei and Monaco give SUN hope to independence movements elsewhere that size does SUN not matter. Bronwen Maddox asks if the world's smallest SUN countries are quite as independent as they appear and SUN examines the difficulties of being small but truly SUN sovereign. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00n70c3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00n70c5 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Conserving What? SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00n70c7 (Listen) SUN Week ending 17th October 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago. SUN Chancellor Nigel Lawson speaks at the Conservative party SUN conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate, SUN Douglas Hurd declares war on the 'scourge of acid house SUN parties', and ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from SUN prison, sparking nationwide celebrations. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00n6x6k (Listen) SUN The Bullying Circle SUN Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and SUN the circle of bystanders and followers who make bullying SUN possible. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead, Frank SUN Stirling and Jordan Scowen. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00n7cyf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00n58kh (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead MON and why. From clothes to jewellery, photographs, hats, eye MON glasses, walking sticks, letters and even food, alcohol MON and tobacco, the objects mourners leave in the coffins and MON caskets of their loved ones tells us a huge amount about MON our attitudes to death and the rituals it involves. MON Laurie talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre MON for Death and Society at the University of Bath, whose new MON study about 'modern-day grave goods' uncovers the MON fascinating, touching and often moving examples of our MON gifts to the dead and why the objects we leave today are MON remarkably similar to the kinds of items uncovered by MON archaeologists in graves going back thousand of years. MON Duncan Sayer, archaeologist from the Centre for Death and MON Society, discusses how human society has buried their dead. MON Also in the programme: alcohol as a lens to understand MON social change. The links between drink, national identity MON and economic prosperity. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00n6x6f (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow on the MON Wold in Gloucestershire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7czv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f9q (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d0c (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00n7fcz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fmj (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmz (Listen) MON It's costing farmers and taxpayers tens of thousands of MON pounds every day as organised crime muscles in on MON fly-tipping in the countryside. MON With 10 rural pub closing each week, Charlotte Smith hears MON many are now growing their own veg and rearing their own MON animals to help make ends meet. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00n7ym8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00n7gf3 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00n7ymb (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses game theory with CIA advisor Bruce MON Bueno de Mesquita, Charles II with Jenny Uglow, the MON Russian holocaust with historian Orlando Figes and Kwame MON Kwei-Armah's new play Seize the Day. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00n7gf5 (Listen) MON The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 1 MON Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, MON charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. MON The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange MON interview with Michael Heseltine. MON Abridged by Polly Coles. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gl4 (Listen) MON Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. Including: MON The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson has said MON that it is important for pregnant women to be immunised MON against swine flu as they have a particularly high risk of MON complications. Why are pregnant women so at risk from the MON infection? Is swine flu any more dangerous than seasonal MON flu? And when in the pregnancy should women be vaccinated? MON How much should you ration your children's screen time - MON their use of computers, games consoles, TVs and all the MON other electronic gadgets on the market? Are we in danger MON of rearing a generation of emotionally stunted children MON with deficient attention spans, no creativity and an MON inability to interact in the real world, all because of MON the excessive time they've spent in front of a screen? Or MON do computer games teach essential life skills to children? MON 'Dear Mr Bigelow'. In 1949, Frances Woodsford started MON writing letters to a wealthy American widower called MON Commodore Paul Bigelow. There was no romance between the MON two, and they never met, but in the twelve years that MON followed they delighted in receiving each other's letters. MON Frances talks about her correspondence, and about becoming MON a published author for the first time at the age of 94. MON In 2002, Jennifer Pike became the youngest ever winner of MON the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, when she scooped MON the prize aged just twelve. She'll be playing live and MON talking about finding success so young. MON MON 11:00 How to Run a City b00lb26t (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present MON and future stars of English local authorities who are MON bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the MON water. MON Shari meets some of the trainees on the National Graduate MON Development Programme, set up to encourage bright MON graduates to do a job they might not previously have MON considered - working for council. MON She follows Saima Khan, an ambitious and idealistic MON trainee in Stafford, as she goes about setting up a scheme MON to help council workers volunteer. Shari also meets MON Natalie Howard, who swapped a glamorous career with a high MON street fashion retailer for a job in local government, and MON is trying to bring the dynamism of the business world into MON her new role. On the other hand, she also meets Dominic MON Campbell, who was running a team of more than 20 people by MON the age of 26 yet left to set up a consultancy business. MON So can the brightest graduates thrive in local government MON and help change the sector, or will they be lured away - MON particularly in the face of coming cuts? MON MON 11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen) MON Girl With A Polycotton Tabard 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. MON Beauty wonders why so many British men get stuck in the MON emotional wilderness and find it hard to communicate with MON each other, as she deals with an elderly gentleman and his MON son. Beauty's dreams of becoming a model are given a boost MON when she applies to be the Face of the Social Services. MON Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien MON Mr Clark ...... Geoffrey Palmer MON Julian ...... Christopher Douglas MON Georgie ...... Emma Fryer MON Sally ...... Felicity Montagu MON Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi MON Anil ...... Paul Sharma MON Race Commentator ...... Christopher Douglas MON Music by The West End Gospel Choir. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00n7gp7 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00n7h54 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00n7jcz (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00n7zhg (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the second heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00n70bz (Listen) MON Lynda masters the art of compromise. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n7zq2 (Listen) MON Filthy Rich MON Black comedy by Michael Butt. Max is set to inherit a MON small fortune when he turns 25, but standing between him MON and the money is his sister Katrin. And then there's the MON grandmother. It's dog-eat-dog on the mean streets of MON Weston-super-Mare. MON Max ......William Beck MON Katrin ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Maria ......Anna Massey MON Susie ...... Rachel Spence MON Dougie ...... Piers Wehner MON Man ...... Rhys Jennings MON Young Katrin ...... Isadora Dooley Hunter MON Young Max ...... Joshua Swinney MON Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00n6wgf (Listen) MON The Anniversary Anniversary MON Dominic Sandbrook explores the compelling appeal of the MON anniversary. How often on the radio, on television or in MON print is our attention enticed by the simple fact that an MON event, a birth or a death happened a year, or five or ten, MON fifty, even several hundred years ago? MON There is a huge category of archive material dedicated to MON particular happenings or personalities which would never MON have been produced without the prompt of an anniversary. MON Remembering war predates broadcasting, but in the past the MON remembering was cast in stone, unchanging even as the MON memories of those involved frayed and faded. In MON broadcasting, that increasing remoteness results in the MON memories being endlessly reworked with a different slant MON and attitude. Ten years after the end of Second World War, MON the response was limited but jovially triumphal. Sixty MON years on and there is a far greater energy in remembering MON and rediscovering, particularly of the details that didn't MON seem to matter at the time. A perfect example is The Radio MON Four series Coming Home. MON Dominic also looks at artistic, literary, sporting and MON musical anniversaries. In music there seems to be a MON constant stream of anniversary commemorations, fuelled by MON the recording industry. For example, there is the 200th MON anniversary of Mozart's death or the 250th anniversary of MON his birth; and, if that's not enough, then there are MON similar anniversaries for each of his operas. MON At the very heart of all this is the simple business of MON marking the turning of the years, best illustrated by the MON birthday, that most domestic of anniversaries. MON MON 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kth (Listen) MON Servants 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 When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences MON of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of MON those who had no family or home of their own? MON Many servants in the 18th century didn't even have a bed MON of their own, sleeping in passageways or across their MON masters' doors like guard dogs. And maids were notoriously MON vulnerable to sexually predatory men, to their master's MON droit de seigneur. 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 b00n6x7b (Listen) MON Duck Shoots MON Eaten any duck recently? More duck is being cooked at MON home, served in gastro pubs and used in the ubiquitous Hoi MON Sin duck wrap. It is now the second most bred species in MON the world. So where is all this meat coming from? How is MON it being reared? How have factory systems changed in MON recent years, and is the gap in taste between wild and MON farmed birds changing? MON As the duck shooting season gets underway, and consumption MON climbs steadily towards Christmas, Sheila Dillon MON investigates the culinary value and welfare conditions of MON wild and farmed duck. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00n809z (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 3 MON Simon Cox delves into the world of augmented reality; what MON can a digitally-enhanced landscape offer that the real one MON can't? He also speaks to a man who is creating an online MON archive of his entire life. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7ml6 (Listen) MON 19th October 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON The Guildford four are released; volunteers help to deal MON with the effects of the recent San Francisco earthquake; MON ANC leader Walter Sisulu considers the end of the armed MON struggle in South Africa. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00n7mls (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 b00n7nmd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 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 Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme MON Garden. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00n7jd9 (Listen) MON Jazzer reveals his softer side at The Bull. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00n7p1r (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the newly MON redeveloped Ulster Museum and reviews Jane Horrocks on MON stage in a new production of Annie Get Your Gun. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n7p1t (Listen) MON The Dead Hour, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina, MON set in Glasgow in 1984. MON Cub reporter Paddy Meehan is called to a domestic dispute MON in a wealthy suburb where a female lawyer has been MON injured. A well-dressed man at the house slips 50 pounds MON into Paddy's hand and shuts the door. Next day the lawyer MON is found murdered. MON Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson MON Billy ...... Stevie Hannan MON Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson MON Trisha ...... Cara Kelly MON Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry MON Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey MON JT ...... Finlay McLean MON Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh MON Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark MON Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke MON Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell MON Other parts played by the cast. MON Directed by Bruce Young. MON MON 20:00 Morecambe: Chill Winds on the Bay b00n0qrb (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Following 12 months in the life of the seaside town of MON Morecambe. MON The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season, but MON in the chill of recession, its fortunes will depend on the MON vagaries of the British weather. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00n80b5 (Listen) MON Ayatollogy MON It is Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's belief in a MON radical strand of Shia Islam that, according to some MON critics, makes him a danger to the world. He is said to be MON intent on a confrontation with the West, believing that MON any resulting chaos will only hasten the return of Islam's MON prophesied saviour, the Mahdi. MON Edward Stourton explores the extent to which millenarian MON populism motivates Iran's leader, at tensions between MON Ahmadinejad and Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, and at the MON prospects for the more traditional ayatollahs' vision of a MON society that is less totalitarian, more secular but MON nonetheless Islamic. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00n80vl (Listen) MON Guilt-Free Flying MON Can technology turn aviation green? A new report suggests MON that flying has a 4.9 per cent share of the overall MON contribution to climate change. That is a figure that MON seems certain to rise once the dampening effects of MON recession disappear. MON Tom Heap asks if this means that the era of cheap flights MON is over, or can man's infinite capacity for invention keep MON the industry alive? Tom explores the options with Iron MON Maiden singer, professional pilot and keen enthusiast for MON 'green aviation', Bruce Dickinson. MON They examine the use of lighter materials for aircraft, MON changes in air traffic control to cut down time spent in MON the air and more radical solutions, from biofuels to the MON rebirth of the airship. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00n7ymb (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses game theory with CIA advisor Bruce MON Bueno de Mesquita, Charles II with Jenny Uglow, the MON Russian holocaust with historian Orlando Figes and Kwame MON Kwei-Armah's new play Seize the Day. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00n7pm9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00n7y3k (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3m (Listen) MON And Another Thing..., Episode 6 MON Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide MON to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter MON Serafinowicz. MON The dangers of posting videos on the Sub-Etha. MON Abridged by Penny Leicester. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b008xh3z (Listen) MON Martha Kearney MON Martha Kearney chooses pieces of writing which have a MON special meaning for her, either personally or in her work MON as a broadcaster. Readers are Niamh Cusack and David MON Morrissey. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y51 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00n7gf5 (Listen) TUE The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 1 TUE Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, TUE charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. TUE The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange TUE interview with Michael Heseltine. TUE Abridged by Polly Coles. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7q (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7czx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9s (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd1 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00n7fml (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00n7fzh (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b00n811n (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE He talks to Father Aidan Troy about his decision to face TUE sectarian violence and death threats in Belfast. TUE TUE 09:30 Parting Shots b00n85qk (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Matthew Parris marks the passing of the valedictory TUE despatch, the traditional final telegram home in which TUE British ambassadors could let their hair down and settle a TUE few scores. The series features newly declassified Foreign TUE Office files alongside interviews with the diplomats who TUE wrote them. TUE Matthew delves into the archives to find valedictories in TUE which ambassadors heading into retirement poked fun at TUE foreign nations where they had served. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00ncttt (Listen) TUE The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 2 TUE Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, TUE charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. TUE The advent of the TV satellite link made interviews TUE possible with people like Tammy Faye Bakker and Willie TUE Nelson. TUE Abridged by Polly Coles. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj4 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Dead Hour. TUE TUE 11:00 How to Run a City b00n86h2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present TUE and future stars of English local authorities who are TUE bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the TUE water. TUE Shari meets two dynamic, innovative chief executives who TUE explode the stereotypical image of a local authority boss TUE - Katherine Kerswell in Northamptonshire, and Sean Harriss TUE in Bolton, who became a chief executive at 38. TUE With access to the inner workings at the top of both TUE authorities, Shari explores how Harriss and Kerswell are TUE each bringing business methods, and people, into their TUE authorities to help drive up performance. TUE Shari watches Harriss joust with leading Bolton TUE councillors and map out tactics for handling senior staff TUE undergoing a pay review. In Northamptonshire she asks TUE Kerswell why, when she was so upset by her staff's lack of TUE pride in their work, she tackled it by inviting them to TUE 'taste the strawberry' via an online video. TUE But, Shari asks, are they paid too much, do they have too TUE much power, and how well do their new methods work? TUE TUE 11:30 Gormley on Epstein b00n86t3 (Listen) TUE Artist Jacob Epstein attracted criticism during his TUE turbulent career - his work was seen as too graphic or TUE hard hitting, too 'ugly' or 'distorted', even 'cannibal'. TUE After his death, the younger sculptor Henry Moore paid TUE tribute to his courage as a pioneering artist who bore the TUE brunt of critical derision, but even today, Epstein has TUE never been properly celebrated for his work at the TUE vanguard of British art. TUE In this programme, which marks the 50th anniversary of TUE Epstein's death, contemporary artist Antony Gormley TUE redresses the balance, to show Epstein's vital position in TUE art. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00n7gl6 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00n7gp9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00n7j35 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Sound of Magnolias b00n5404 (Listen) TUE Writer Irma Kurtz travels to Paris and Madrid to TUE investigate the period just before the war when blind TUE Spanish composer Rodrigo composed his famous Concerto de TUE Aranjuez. She goes to the gardens of Aranjuez with his TUE only daughter, Cecelia, and talks to guitarist Pepe Romero TUE about the music's lasting impact. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00n7jd9 (Listen) TUE Jazzer reveals his softer side at The Bull. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c833g (Listen) TUE Dickens Confidential, The Deal 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 Rob Kinsman. TUE When a timid doctor is accused of murdering his wealthy TUE older lover, Dickens alone is convinced of his innocence. TUE His journalistic team's investigations descend into the TUE harsh territory of the debtors' prison. Everything, it TUE seems, comes down to money. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens TUE Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell TUE Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan TUE Brickman ...... Gerard McDermott TUE Harper ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Blind Bill ...... John Rowe TUE Maria ...... Liz Sutherland TUE Dr Widdershins ...... Simon Treves TUE Prosecutor ...... Nyasha Hatendi TUE Turnkey ...... Dan Starkey TUE Judge ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00n87sl (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge joins the residents of Mildenhall in TUE Suffolk as they remember the early aviators who took part TUE in an air race to Melbourne in 1934. On the coast she TUE meets the team from the University of East Anglia that is TUE mapping Second World War defences, and near Norwich she TUE sees the human remains that may well shine a new light on TUE the world of Boudicca. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881p (Listen) TUE A Glimpse of Stocking, Hold-ups TUE Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings. TUE By Jojo Moyes, read by Siobhan Redmond. TUE Alice Herring seems like the perfect witness, but all is TUE not as it seems in this comic tale of robberies, romance TUE and cubic zirconia. TUE TUE 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kt7 (Listen) TUE Bachelors 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 When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences TUE of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of TUE those who had no family or home of their own? TUE In the 17th and 18th century, bachelorhood was supposed to TUE be a temporary state best solved by marriage. This TUE programme tells the poignant and hilarious story of law TUE student Dudley Ryder and his search for a wife. 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 Law in Action b00n88cz (Listen) TUE Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has TUE created a more open society and changed the culture of TUE government. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00n88d1 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to environmental campaigner Tony TUE Juniper and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins TUE about their favourite books. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjg (Listen) TUE 20th October 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE Nuns lose their fight to save 5,000 chickens, and actors TUE pay a final tribute to Sir Laurence Olivier at Westminster TUE Abbey. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00n7ml8 (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 b00n7msm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Music Group b00nd105 (Listen) TUE In a special edition from the courtroom at the University TUE of Derby, the musical tastes of NUS president Wes TUE Streeting, agony aunt Anna Raeburn and comedian and TUE 'Inbetweener' Simon Bird are rigorously put on trial. Dr TUE Phil Hammond grills his guests about a record of their TUE choosing and hears what the jury has to say. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00n7jd1 (Listen) TUE The pressure takes its toll on Matt. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00n7nr2 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with architect David Chipperfield. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncbyt (Listen) TUE The Dead Hour, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina, TUE set in Glasgow in 1984. TUE Cub reporter Paddy Meehan is pursuing the biggest scoop of TUE her career, but it is a story the police don't want her to TUE report. TUE Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson TUE Billy ...... Stevie Hannan TUE Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson TUE Trisha ...... Cara Kelly TUE Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry TUE Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey TUE JT ...... Finlay McLean TUE Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh TUE Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark TUE Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke TUE Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Directed by Bruce Young. TUE TUE 20:00 Return from Guantanamo b00ncb0x (Listen) TUE In 2001 a journalist called Sami al-Hajj was arrested on TUE the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For more than TUE six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay TUE detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released. TUE In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about TUE what happened to him, and why. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00n89k4 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Trials For Life b00n89kx (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Vivienne Parry explores the world of clinical trials. TUE Doctors can offer traditional treatments or places on TUE clinical trials, but, when all else fails, what can TUE patients do for themselves? Vivienne visits a Challenging TUE Pain course run by Arthritis Care in Plymouth and hears TUE how patients are trialling their own pain relieving TUE techniques at home. TUE Rheumatoid arthritis affects the whole body, but TUE especially the joints, and it can be so painful that a TUE normal life is not possible. Even the newest 'biologic' TUE drugs - which target individual molecules that cause the TUE inflammation and damage in the joints - don't work for TUE everybody, and so ongoing research is needed. Patients who TUE volunteer for such studies are closely monitored and often TUE hope for success for future patients, as well as relief of TUE their own pain. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b00n811n (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE He talks to Father Aidan Troy about his decision to face TUE sectarian violence and death threats in Belfast. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00n7pkt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxj (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3p (Listen) TUE And Another Thing..., Episode 7 TUE Stephen Mangan reads from Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas TUE Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Read by TUE Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz. TUE Discovering the importance of the Cheese. TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 23:00 Strictly Dave Podmore b00nct5b (Listen) TUE Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds, with TUE Nick Newman. TUE The behind-the-scenes story of Strictly Come Dancing TUE series seven when Dave Podmore, England's least TUE co-ordinated cricketer, gets the nod to appear on the TUE show, stumbling in the footsteps of Messrs Ramprakash, TUE Gough and Tuffnell. But has journeyman Pod, never known TUE for his footwork and timing on the field, got what it TUE takes to impress the Strictly judges? TUE Dave Podmore ...... Christopher Douglas TUE Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds TUE With Nicola Sanderson and Simon Greenall. TUE A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4s (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00ncttt (Listen) WED The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 2 WED Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, WED charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. WED The advent of the TV satellite link made interviews WED possible with people like Tammy Faye Bakker and Willie WED Nelson. WED Abridged by Polly Coles. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7s (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7czz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9v (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd3 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmn (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00n7fzk (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00n8b3d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk3 (Listen) WED The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 3 WED Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, WED charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. WED The TV postcard series saw Clive travelling the world. He WED remembers Las Vegas, San Francisco and a surreal stay at WED the mansion owned by Hugh Hefner. WED Abridged by Polly Coles. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj6 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour. WED WED 11:00 How to Run a City b00n8b3g (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present WED and future stars of English local authorities who are WED bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the WED water. WED Shari meets chief executives who have left local WED authorities for the national stage, to find out what they WED have brought with them from local government, and why they WED left. WED Sir Bob Kerslake used to run Sheffield City Council - now WED he runs the Homes and Communities Agency. Walking through WED rainswept central London streets, he takes Shari to see an WED impoverished part of Pimlico which to him embodies the WED local causes at the heart of his national job. WED Carolyn Downs, meanwhile, went from running Shropshire WED County Council to becoming Deputy Permanent Secretary at WED the Ministry of Justice. So how different is her new role? WED Lin Homer succeeded Sir Michael Lyons as chief executive WED of Birmingham's huge city council. Shari visits each of WED them in their current roles - Homer is now head of the UK WED Borders Agency, and Sir Michael is chair of the BBC Trust. WED Each explains how the sometimes punishing experience of WED running a city has prepared them for their present work. WED And Shari asks Sir Howard Bernstein, chief executive of WED Manchester City Council, another of the country's biggest WED authorities, why, even after 40 years with the same WED authority, he finds the prospect of working in London WED utterly untempting. WED WED 11:30 Hut 33 b00n8b3j (Listen) WED Series 3, Big Machine WED Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Three WED code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as WED they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate WED each other. WED Gordon invents a new form of computing device to help WED break codes. WED Charles ...... Robert Bathurst WED Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Minka...... Olivia Colman WED Gordon ...... Fergus Craig WED Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen WED Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley WED Ian Trent ...... Stephen Hogan. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00n7gl8 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00n7gpc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00n7j37 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00n8b3l (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00n7jd1 (Listen) WED The pressure takes its toll on Matt. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n8b3n (Listen) WED Those Hard to Reach Places WED Comedy by Daniel Thurman. 'Cleaner...only dirtier' is a WED slogan unlikely to be used by your average domestic WED cleaner. But Rita is anything but your average domestic WED cleaner, as an unfortunate former mayor is about to WED discover. WED Fawcett ...... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Mrs Randle ...... Anne Reid WED Rita ...... Janet Dibley WED Bus Driver ...... Piers Wehner WED Phone voice ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00n8b3q (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on energy WED saving. WED Guests: WED Clare Corbett, energy campaigner, Which? WED Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy, Uswitch WED Rob Bell, Energy Saving Trust. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881r (Listen) WED A Glimpse of Stocking, The Hostess with the Mostest WED Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings. WED By Laura Marney, read by Gayanne Potter. WED If bus hostess Jill is to afford a summer holiday, she has WED to win the monthly customer satisfaction bonus. All that WED stands in her way are some curling sandwiches, a WED top-loading video cassette player and a pair of American WED Tan tights. Well, it is 1984. WED WED 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kt9 (Listen) WED Spinsters 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 When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences WED of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of WED those who had no family or home of their own? WED Probably as many as one in five women never married in WED 18th-century England. What about their story? What did the WED comforts of home mean for them? Prof Vickery tells the WED story of one admirable and disabled spinster, whose WED letters she discovered in a record office in Reading. 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 b00n8m2s (Listen) WED From suburbs to housing estates, Laurie Taylor explores WED the history and future of urban planning and asks if where WED we live affects how we live. WED How do housing estates and suburbs serve their residents WED and what is the future for planning our towns and cities? WED Social housing has its roots in Victorian philanthropy, WED and in 1979 nearly half of Britain's population lived in WED local authority housing. Many suburbs grew as cities and WED their populations expanded. WED Laurie is joined by Paul Barker and Lynsey Hanley to WED discuss housing estates and suburbs. Will urban planning WED ever be able to fulfill Aneurin Bevan's dream of social WED integration? WED WED 16:30 Trials For Life b00n89kx (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Vivienne Parry explores the world of clinical trials. WED Doctors can offer traditional treatments or places on WED clinical trials, but, when all else fails, what can WED patients do for themselves? Vivienne visits a Challenging WED Pain course run by Arthritis Care in Plymouth and hears WED how patients are trialling their own pain relieving WED techniques at home. WED Rheumatoid arthritis affects the whole body, but WED especially the joints, and it can be so painful that a WED normal life is not possible. Even the newest 'biologic' WED drugs - which target individual molecules that cause the WED inflammation and damage in the joints - don't work for WED everybody, and so ongoing research is needed. Patients who WED volunteer for such studies are closely monitored and often WED hope for success for future patients, as well as relief of WED their own pain. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjj (Listen) WED 21st October 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED Thousands of protestors march through East Germany; a BBC WED survey suggests one third of British muslims believe WED Salman Rushdie should be killed because of his book, The WED Satanic Verses. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00n7mlb (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 b00n7msp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00n8nk9 (Listen) WED Series 2, Oh Carolina WED Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in the finest, WED feistiest, family-run record shop in Birmingham. WED Adam ...... Lenny Henry WED Rudy ...... Larrington Walker WED Richie ...... Joe Jacobs WED Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey WED Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon WED Doreen/Ms Rogers ...... Claire Benedict WED Policeman ...... Andrew Brooke. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00n7jd3 (Listen) WED Old habits die hard for Ed and Will. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00n7nr4 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an WED interview with novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby5 (Listen) WED The Dead Hour, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina, WED set in Glasgow in 1984. WED Paddy decides to tell the police that she has been bribed WED by the killer. WED Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson WED Billy ...... Stevie Hannan WED Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson WED Trisha ...... Cara Kelly WED Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry WED Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey WED JT ...... Finlay McLean WED Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh WED Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark WED Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke WED Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell WED Other parts played by the cast. WED Directed by Bruce Young. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00n8nkc (Listen) WED Michael Buerk and the team travel to Derby University for WED an edition of the programme recorded on campus. WED With higher education more popular than ever, there is no WED better time to ask what a degree is worth and what our WED universities are for. With a new emphasis on vocational WED studies and employability, have we sacrificed the idea of WED scholarship for its own sake? WED Michael Buerk is joined by panel members Melanie Philips, WED Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Conserving What? b00n8nkf (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series in which Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of WED Conservatism through its philosophical roots and the WED character of different Conservative governments. WED Peter tries to discover where David Cameron sits in WED Conservatism's intellectual and emotional tradition. WED WED 21:00 The Plight of the Bumblebee b00n8pdk (Listen) WED It is commonly known that honeybees have been dying in WED large numbers, but much less well known that bumblebees WED are just as important when it comes to pollinating crops WED and flowers, and that they too are in serious decline. WED Louise Batchelor investigates the reasons for their plight WED and looks at efforts to conserve the most threatened WED species - and even reverse the last extinction. The WED programme also features the world's first working WED bumblebee sniffer dog, trained to find their elusive WED nests, which is a vital part of the research. WED A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00n8b3d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00n7pkw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxm (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3r (Listen) WED And Another Thing..., Episode 8 WED Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide WED to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter WED Serafinowicz. WED An immortal battle is waged. WED Abridged by Penny Leicester. WED WED 23:00 One b00n8pdm (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 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 b00n8pdp (Listen) WED The 22nd of May 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 22nd of May. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4v (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00nctk3 (Listen) THU The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 3 THU Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, THU charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. THU The TV postcard series saw Clive travelling the world. He THU remembers Las Vegas, San Francisco and a surreal stay at THU the mansion owned by Hugh Hefner. THU Abridged by Polly Coles. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cym (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7v (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d01 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9x (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd5 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmq (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00n7fzm (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00n8t48 (Listen) THU The Geological Formation of Britain THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and THU Sanjeev Gupta discuss the geological formation of Britain. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk6 (Listen) THU The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 4 THU Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, THU charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. THU The star interview became a regular feature and Clive THU gained revealing insights about Katharine Hepburn, Roman THU Polanski and Luciano Pavarotti. THU Abridged by Polly Coles. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj8 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n8t4q (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Texting Andy Warhol b00n9097 (Listen) THU Novelist Bidisha considers the role of text in art. Does a THU picture made from words count as literature or art? She THU talks to gallery visitors reading Richard Long's words on THU the walls, asks how it is different from a book by Dali, THU and considers text as art with Keith Tyson, Fiona Banner, THU Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00n7glb (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00n7gpf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00n7j39 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00n80vl (Listen) THU Guilt-Free Flying THU Can technology turn aviation green? A new report suggests THU that flying has a 4.9 per cent share of the overall THU contribution to climate change. That is a figure that THU seems certain to rise once the dampening effects of THU recession disappear. THU Tom Heap asks if this means that the era of cheap flights THU is over, or can man's infinite capacity for invention keep THU the industry alive? Tom explores the options with Iron THU Maiden singer, professional pilot and keen enthusiast for THU 'green aviation', Bruce Dickinson. THU They examine the use of lighter materials for aircraft, THU changes in air traffic control to cut down time spent in THU the air and more radical solutions, from biofuels to the THU rebirth of the airship. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00n7jd3 (Listen) THU Old habits die hard for Ed and Will. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n90tt (Listen) THU The Decoy THU Thriller by Matthew Broughton. Daniel is plucked from the THU factory floor and groomed by the state as a body-double. THU Daniel ...... Ifan Meredith THU Victor ...... Stephen Hogan THU Katrina ......Abigail Hollick THU Adam ...... Joseph Cohen Cole THU Simon ...... Rhys Jennings THU Other parts played by Kate Layden, Piers Wehner, Rhys THU Jennings, Emerald O'Hanrahan, Tessa Nicholson and Melissa THU Advani. THU Directed by Faith Collingwood. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00n6tc9 (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 5 THU Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in THU Northumberland. THU Former hill shepherd Russell Tait, Northumberland's answer THU to George Clooney, is Clare's guide as she walk's the THU fifth leg of the route from Rothbury to Simonside. 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 b00n6x6w (Listen) THU Fauna & Flora International THU Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora THU International. THU Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope FFI. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If THU you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI with your full THU name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your THU donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not THU currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1011102. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881t (Listen) THU A Glimpse of Stocking, A Silly Gigolo THU Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings. THU By Shena Mackay, read by Joanna Tope . THU A shy schoolgirl feels the pull of the stage after a THU humiliating encounter with a glamorous fellow pupil. THU THU 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7ktc (Listen) THU Widows 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 When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences THU of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of THU those who had no family or home of their own? THU Widows had enormous status and power in the 18th century. THU And for some women, the death of a spouse was a fairytale THU release. This programme tells the story of the richest THU widow in England, Elizabeth Montagu, and how she spent her THU late husband's coal fortune. 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 Open Book b00n6z0d (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup presents the first of two programmes in THU which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have THU been unfairly neglected. In this edition William Boyd, THU Ruth Rendell, Colm Toibin, Hari Kunzru and Susan Hill THU unveil their choices. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00n90tw (Listen) THU NASA plans to launch its massive Ares 1 rocket, the first THU test flight of its vehicle planned to replace the Shuttle THU in the next decade. Quentin Cooper looks forward to this THU first step in NASA's Constellation programme for human THU space exploration. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjl (Listen) THU 22nd October 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU Margaret Thatcher causes consternation at the Commonwealth THU over sanctions against South Africa, and, following the THU release of the Guildford Four, the Irish prime minister THU calls for a review of the Birmingham Six case. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00n7mld (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 b00n7msr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen) THU Series 4, Coach Trip 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 After an attempted coach trip to Bridlington goes terribly THU wrong, Arthur decides the only way out of a sticky THU situation is to go 'native'. THU With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and THU Alastair Kerr. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00n7jd5 (Listen) THU Jack and Peggy get a glimpse of the future. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00n7nr6 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports on Richard THU Wilson's debut for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as THU Malvolio in Twelfth Night. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby7 (Listen) THU The Dead Hour, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina, THU set in Glasgow in 1984. THU As redundancies loom at the newspaper, Paddy tries to sell THU her murder investigation to the new editor. THU Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson THU Billy ...... Stevie Hannan THU Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson THU Trisha ...... Cara Kelly THU Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry THU Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey THU JT ...... Finlay McLean THU Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh THU Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark THU Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke THU Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell THU Other parts played by the cast. THU Directed by Bruce Young. THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00n88cz (Listen) THU Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has THU created a more open society and changed the culture of THU government. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00n911b (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 b00n911d (Listen) THU Geoff Watts meets robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey THU and explores the relationship between humans and robots - THU past, present and future. They look at how 'human' robots THU can seem and at the essential differences between 'them' THU and 'us'. THU One day in the early 1940s, a boy playing in the basement THU of his house discovered a robot; it became his secret THU playmate. A few years later the robot disappeared, and THU they didn't meet again for 50 years. The robot, called THU Elektro, was built by Westinghouse corporation in 1937. THU Over two metres tall, it was remarkably advanced for the THU time. Although he was actually intended as a PR stunt, he THU was designed by some of the finest engineers of the time THU and represented the forefront of technology. Elektro THU rapidly became a superstar, and received a rapturous THU welcome at the New York World's Fair in 1939. For a couple THU of years he lived the high life - then everything changed. THU When war came he was packed away and ended up in a THU basement where the boy found him. After the war, he (the THU robot that is) fell in with the wrong people and ended up THU playing a randy robot called Thinko in a 1960 porn movie. THU After that he disappeared, only to be rediscovered THU recently by his playmate, now in his 70s. THU Now, robots are taking on new tasks beyond assembly lines THU and science fiction films. Can robot nannies look after THU our child care and befriend the elderly? Should they be THU left in charge of our weapons systems? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00n8t48 (Listen) THU The Geological Formation of Britain THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and THU Sanjeev Gupta discuss the geological formation of Britain. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00n7pky (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxp (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3t (Listen) THU And Another Thing..., Episode 9 THU Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide THU to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter THU Serafinowicz. THU More fighting, but thankfully no Vogon poetry. THU Abridged by Penny Leicester. THU THU 23:00 Pick Ups b00n911g (Listen) THU Series 2, The Angel of Death THU Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi THU company. THU Mike ...... Paul Loughran THU Lind ...... Lesley Sharp THU Dave ...... Phil Rowson THU Rebel ..... Parvez Qadir THU Carol-Ann ...... Anne Hornby. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4x (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00nctk6 (Listen) FRI The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 4 FRI Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, FRI charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. FRI The star interview became a regular feature and Clive FRI gained revealing insights about Katharine Hepburn, Roman FRI Polanski and Luciano Pavarotti. FRI Abridged by Polly Coles. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d03 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9z (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd7 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00n7fms (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00n7fzp (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00n6x78 (Listen) FRI Jan Pienkowski FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. FRI He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and FRI lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood FRI in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his FRI home in England more than 60 years ago. FRI The folk traditions of central Europe are still much in FRI evidence in his work though; twice winner of the Kate FRI Greenaway Medal, his illustrations see childhood terrors FRI realised in gothic scenes, with witches a constant FRI presence. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk9 (Listen) FRI The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 5 FRI Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, FRI charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye. FRI Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to FRI drive, tutored by Stirling Moss, and makes a postcard in FRI Rome where he only just escapes the advances of Leonard FRI Bernstein. FRI Abridged by Polly Coles. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gjb (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour. FRI FRI 11:00 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n9l1h (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved from London to the FRI isolated West Highlands to live and work with writer Gavin FRI Maxwell, whose most famous book is Ring of Bright Water. FRI Forty years after Maxwell's death, Terry tells in detail, FRI and for the first time, of the years he spent at Sandaig. FRI The romantic setting of Camusfearna (as Sandaig was called FRI in the book) has become almost mythical since Ring of FRI Bright Water was written - it is now a place of pilgrimage FRI for people who love the otters, the landscape and the FRI wildlife it describes. FRI But, according to Terry, the purity of this little white FRI cottage in pristine surroundings was sullied after Maxwell FRI made his money from the book - the cottage was extended, FRI pools were constructed for the otters and Maxwell himself FRI became a reluctant celebrity, under constant pressure to FRI live up to the reputation he had established for himself. FRI Maxwell, a homosexual, entered into an unhappy marriage, FRI the otters began a series of savage attacks and a fire FRI devastated Sandaig House. FRI Terry speaks to Maxwell's former wife, Lavinia Hankinson, FRI to naturalist and writer Sir John Lister Kaye, who knew FRI Maxwell shortly before his death, and to Maxwell's FRI biographer, Douglas Botting. FRI FRI 11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n9llk (Listen) FRI In Praise of Love FRI Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. FRI Inspector Steine is compering a beauty pageant on Brighton FRI seafront. But when Brunswick's old flame Doris reappears FRI as a contestant, Brunswick is thrown into emotional FRI turmoil - which is probably why he doesn't notice that the FRI south east's big-shot criminals are converging on Brighton. FRI Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm FRI Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green FRI Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro FRI Doris/Maisie ...... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy ...... Douglas Hodge FRI Diamond Tony ...... David Holt. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00n7gld (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00n7gph (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00n7j3c (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00n9llm (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00n7jd5 (Listen) FRI Jack and Peggy get a glimpse of the future. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c5j0n (Listen) FRI The Day the Planes Came FRI Romantic comedy by Caroline and David Stafford. FRI The events of 9/11 cause many American flights to be FRI diverted to Canada. The sleepy town of Gander in FRI Newfoundland finds itself accommodating over 6,000 FRI stranded passengers, including Sarah and her teenage FRI daughter Polly. A selfless and put-upon divorcee, Sarah is FRI seduced by the local people's hospitality. Finally, she FRI learns to let her hair down. She has her first kiss in FRI years, catches a fish, meets Crazy Pete, dabbles in a bit FRI of karaoke and finally gets the few hours of sleep that FRI have eluded her for so long. FRI Sarah ...... Rosie Cavaliero FRI Polly ...... Jade Williams FRI Gary ...... William Hope FRI Chris ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Airport Announcer ...... Peter Marinker FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n9llp (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are guests FRI of the Aileymill Primary Group in Greenock. FRI Matthew Wilson discusses how to achieve multi-coloured FRI autumn brilliance in your garden. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7ktf (Listen) FRI Widowers 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 When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences FRI of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of FRI those who had no family or home of their own? FRI The story of two different widowers and their desperate FRI search for a new wife, based on original material from two FRI unusual sets of diaries which Prof Vickery found in FRI Lincoln. 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 b00n9llr (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 b00n9llt (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director John Landis about his FRI cult horror comedy An American Werewolf in London, which FRI is being re-released in cinemas. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjn (Listen) FRI 23rd October 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI A quarter of a million East Germans march in Leipzig in FRI the country's biggest-ever demonstration; in Hungary, tens FRI of thousands of people remember the victims of their 1956 FRI anti-communist uprising; Garry Kasparov beats the computer FRI Deep Thought at chess. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00n7mlg (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n7mst (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00n9llz (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 5 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panel FRI includes Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner and Francis Wheen. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00n7jd7 (Listen) FRI The truth comes out for Matt and Lilian. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00n7nr8 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby9 (Listen) FRI The Dead Hour, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina, FRI set in Glasgow in 1984. FRI Paddy refuses to accept the police theory that the murder FRI was committed by an ex-boyfriend. FRI Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson FRI Billy ...... Stevie Hannan FRI Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson FRI Trisha ...... Cara Kelly FRI Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry FRI Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey FRI JT ...... Finlay McLean FRI Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh FRI Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark FRI Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke FRI Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell FRI Other parts played by the cast. FRI Directed by Bruce Young. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00n9lm1 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Burgess FRI Hill in West Sussex. The panellists are former home FRI secretary Jacqui Smith, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, FRI journalist and historian Anthony Howard and Sir John Tusa, FRI chairman of the University of the Arts, London. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00n9lm3 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n9lm5 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 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 life was like for those who had no family or home of FRI their own. 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 b00n7pl0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxr (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3w (Listen) FRI And Another Thing..., Episode 10 FRI Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide FRI to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter FRI Serafinowicz. FRI We come to an end. FRI Abridged by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00n88d1 (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to environmental campaigner Tony FRI Juniper and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins FRI about their favourite books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4z (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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