13 November, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 14/11/2009 - 20/11/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00nrtlh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00npdgf (Listen) SAT The Magnetic North, The Gulag SAT Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her SAT journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean. SAT Sara journeys to a remote archipelago, visiting the SAT ancient holy site which became one of the most feared SAT places in 20th-century Russia. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nrtlk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nrtlm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nrtlp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00nrtlr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nrtlt (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00nrtlw (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00nrtly (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00nrtvj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00nxhz4 (Listen) SAT A Journey Through the New Forest SAT Matt Baker joins the team involved in a unique restoration SAT project which is using a light railway to help restore SAT areas of New Forest wetland that have been missing since SAT Victorian times. He takes a wander along part of the SAT 800-metre long rail line, learning more about the project SAT which it is hoped will see the return of habitat and SAT wildlife lost to the forest for years. SAT Matt also joins the team involved in the hugely successful SAT British-built Steam Car ahead of its triumphant return SAT home to the New Forest after smashing the 100-year-old SAT world land speed record for a steam-powered car. Finally, SAT Matt reduces his hoof-print even further and rounds off SAT the day at nature's pace by meeting the Suffolk Punch SAT horses of the New Forest Horse-Drawn Omnibus. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00nrvrk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00nrvrm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00nrvrp (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00nrvrr (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Fi Glover is joined by writer William Boyd. SAT With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00nrvrt (Listen) SAT Jan Morris has been travelling and writing about her SAT journeys for more than 50 years. John McCarthy talks to SAT her about some of the individuals she has encountered all SAT over the world in that half century - rich and poor, SAT renowned and obscure, friendly and unwelcoming. They SAT reflect on the nature of travel and whether it is more SAT about places or people. SAT John also talks to travel writer and journalist Dea SAT Birkett, who is a judge for the Oldie magazine Travel SAT Awards. She reveals which was the worst airport, the best SAT railway station and why there should be an award for SAT cruelty to trees. She and John discuss what can make SAT journeys more pleasurable for the older traveller. SAT SAT 10:30 Armatrading for Mayor b00nrvrw (Listen) SAT As the 2009 Lord Mayor's Show gets underway, singer Joan SAT Armatrading - long fascinated by the office of Lord Mayor SAT of London - reports on her time spent with the current SAT mayor, in a world of ceremony, tradition and high finance. SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00nrvry (Listen) SAT Andrew Pierce of The Daily Telegraph looks back over the SAT week’s events in Westminster. SAT A week of remembrance for those killed in conflict brought SAT the war in Afghanistan into sharp focus this week. Two MPs SAT with military backgrounds Eric Joyce (Labour) and Adam SAT Holloway (Conservative) discuss government strategy in SAT Afghanistan. SAT The last week of the parliamentary session, is a time to SAT complete outstanding legislation. One aspect of the SAT Coroner’s and Justice Bill (now an act) allowing sexual SAT infidelity to be considered a qualifying trigger in murder SAT cases, has produced a lot of controversy. The Shadow SAT Attorney General Edward Garnier thinks it is bad law, and SAT Emily Thornberry (Labour) regards it is necessary for the SAT protection of women. SAT Also in the programme: SAT Is nuclear power the best solution to our energy problems? SAT Zac Goldsmith, a Conservative candidate in the next SAT election and an environmental campaigner, discusses SAT Britain’s energy problems with Des Turner,a Labour member SAT of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. SAT And should the Foreign Secretary David Milliband invoke SAT the charge of anti-semitism when criticising the SAT Conservatives for their alliances in the European SAT parliament? Lord Young, former Conservative cabinet SAT minister says it is “gutter politics,” and Louise Ellman, SAT chair of the Jewish Labour Movement says he is only doing SAT his job. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nrvs0 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT A new danger in the Sahara Desert, and it's proving bad SAT for business in Timbuktu. Andrew Harding is in Mali. Both SAT the British and American governments have been warning of SAT the possible dangers of travelling there. Over lamb stew, SAT Andrew talks to the governor, a police chief and an imam. SAT And modern Mali, he later discovers, is a contradictory SAT sort of place: 'crumbling mud houses with satellite dishes SAT on the roof. Turbaned Tuareg tribesmen, texting.' SAT Jo Fidgen in Lusaka reports on a trial that's gripping SAT Zambia. Is it all about pornography, or politics? It SAT started with a nurses' strike, then an anti-government SAT newspaper became involved, and then the president. Jo SAT speculates on what it reveals about Zambian culture. SAT The prayer police go on the offensive in the Spanish city SAT where once Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in blissful SAT harmony. Cordoba, under Islamic rule in the 10th century, SAT was the capital of a flourishing civilisation, a centre of SAT art and learning. Today its population is almost entirely SAT Christian and the historic clash of the three religions SAT there has left it with a tangled legacy. SAT Kieran Cooke takes a boat through the Mississipi Delta to SAT see how violent storms and damage done by the oil industry SAT have combined to bring the Bayou to the brink of collapse. SAT The network of marshes, lagoons and slow-moving streams is SAT rich in wildlife: catfish, crayfish and crocodiles. But SAT this fragile ecosystem is now under extreme pressure. SAT And why do rogues and scoundrels so often find a place in SAT French hearts? There's yet another French film out in SAT which the hero is a baddie. Emma Jane Kirby in Paris SAT contends that, in the affections of France, it's always SAT the good guys who are the losers. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00nrvs2 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Co-operative business banking? Why online customers are SAT logging off for good. SAT 'Sin stocks': can you get a good deal for a bad deed? SAT Are residents of purpose-built retirement homes being SAT exploited? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00nrs1w (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 8 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, recorded at SAT Cardiff University. The panellists include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Holly Walsh and Andy Parsons. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00nrvs4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00nrx5y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00nrs1y (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cardiff SAT University. The panellists are Chuka Umunna, Labour SAT parliamentary candidate for Streatham, Tim Montgomerie, SAT editor of the ConservativeHome website, Claire Fox, SAT director of the Institute of Ideas, and the writer AN SAT Wilson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00nrx60 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00nrx62 (Listen) SAT 1989: The Shape of the Table SAT Originally staged by the National Theatre in 1990, David SAT Edgar's powerful play charts the dramatic and dangerous SAT transition of a fictional eastern European country from SAT hard-line communism to the beginnings of western-style SAT democracy. SAT It is 1989, crowds are gathering in the streets and the SAT Soviets are refusing to send in the troops. The government SAT is on its own and faces a stark choice - suppress the SAT demonstrators or instigate reform. SAT Pavel Prus ...... Tim McInnerny SAT Josef Lutz ...... Henry Goodman SAT Michal Kaplan ...... Jeremy Clyde SAT Victor Spassov ...... Michael Elwyn SAT Petr Vladislav ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT Jan Matkovic ...... Robert Lister SAT Andrei Zietek ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Vera Rousova ...... Carolyn Pickles SAT Jan Milev ...... Christian Rodska SAT Victoria Brodskaya ...... Laura Matthews SAT Monica Freie ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Original music by Malcolm McKee SAT Direcred by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00nrx64 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT How a daughter took on the state to win payment for her SAT mother's dementia care; Caprice on canine chic, Chihuahuas SAT and fashion; lighting up the skies with art on a grand SAT scale; actress Romola Garai on her latest film role; SAT taking anti-depressants in pregnancy; proverbs and their SAT wisdom; Darina Allen cooks sizzling apple fritters. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nrx66 (Listen) SAT 14th November 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT Czechoslovakia eases restrictions on foreign travel; an SAT inquiry begins into the Guilford Four case to establish SAT whether police did in fact falsify evidence; black SAT nationalist party SWAPO wins Namibia's first democratic SAT elections, after 20 years of rule by neighbouring South SAT Africa. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00nrx68 (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Glenn SAT Campbell, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00nrrd7 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests, SAT including two leading Silicon Valley investors, to discuss SAT one of the most successful business clusters of them all SAT and why it is that businesses tend to bunch up. They also SAT explore the future of television; can it survive the SAT downturn in advertising revenues and competition from the SAT internet? SAT Evan is joined by Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia SAT Capital, Dawn Airey, the chief executive of Channel 5, and SAT Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman at SAT LinkedIn and partner at venture capital firm Greylock. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nrx6b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00nrx6d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nrx6g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00nrx6j (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by American singer Jack Jones, comedian Alan SAT Davies and our regular guest interviewer, Emma Freud. SAT Martha Wainwright sings Edith Piaf, there's blues from SAT Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00nrx6l (Listen) SAT Series 7, Episode 2 SAT Playwright Annie Caulfield creates a fictional response to SAT the week's news. SAT As the price of gold hit record levels this week, an SAT Australian exploration company publicised its plans for SAT full-scale production at Scotland's first goldmine in 2011. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00nrxkm (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00nrxkp (Listen) SAT Radio Hollywood SAT Sponsored by a well-known 'toilet soap', the Lux Theater SAT brought the silver screen to the airwaves, with specially SAT adapted versions of new Hollywood products including The SAT Philadelphia Story, The African Queen and The Wizard of SAT Oz. Professor Jeffrey Richards takes us back to the place SAT where cinema and radio united and produced an unlikely SAT lovechild. SAT From its first production in 1935, The Legionnaire and The SAT Lady with Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich, The Lux Radio SAT Theater strove to have the same stars as the films. Over SAT its 19-year history, it boasted the biggest names in SAT Hollywood - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Joan SAT Crawford, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy and SAT many more. SAT Sometimes the original players were not available, so the SAT Theater offered audiences a glimpse of an alternative SAT universe, as listeners discovered what these films would SAT have been like with different actors. On a few occasions SAT the radio version boasted a more stellar cast, for SAT instance when Cary Grant stood in for Montgomery Clift in SAT I Confess. SAT At the start of each show Cecil B De Mille offered SAT 'greetings from Hollywood', gave a short introduction to SAT the film and told listeners a little about the stars. SAT Twenty-five minutes later, he would turn up in the SAT interval for some 'movie news', which was a SAT barely-concealed advertisement for Lux and its frothy SAT lather, and would return at the end for an informal and, SAT of course, unscripted chat with the actors, in which they SAT would invariably reveal their preference for a well-known SAT toilet soap. SAT These productions were performed live with full orchestra, SAT and the audience's reaction was often audible, which SAT occasionally put the actors off their lines. They also had SAT to be half an hour shorter, and were therefore much pacier SAT than the originals, while retaining key dialogue - so SAT phrases like 'this is the beginning of a beautiful SAT friendship' and 'round up the usual suspects' are still SAT present and correct in Casablanca. But being live SAT presented its own problems, with stars sometimes falling SAT ill the day before, or, on one occasion, arriving at the SAT studio 10 minutes after transmission had begun. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00nnrcq (Listen) SAT Bel Ami, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Frances Byrnes of Guy de Maupassant's SAT story of political corruption in the newspaper world of SAT 19th-century France and the inexorable rise of Georges SAT Duroy - 'Bel Ami' - a charming, ruthless man of little SAT talent but plenty of ambition. SAT Bel Ami's first wife and mistress are in the church to see SAT him marry again, but will their knowledge of his past SAT threaten his glittering future? SAT Duroy ...... Jonathan Slinger SAT Marelle ...... Emma Fielding SAT Madeleine ...... Mali Harries SAT Msr Walter ...... Steffan Rhodri SAT Rachel ...... Sara McGaughey SAT Suzanne ...... Catrin Morgan SAT Mme Walter ...... Nickie Rainsford SAT The Bishop ...... Richard Nichols SAT Directed by Polly Thomas. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00nrxt5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00nqj80 (Listen) SAT What is the best way to bring up a child? According to the SAT think tank Demos the answer is clear. Children whose SAT parents adopt a 'tough love approach' are much more likely SAT to develop vital life than those whose parents took a more SAT laissez-faire attitude to rules and boundaries. The SAT research also found it was middle-class and married SAT parents that were most likely to take the tough love SAT approach. Demos believe this study shows the best way to SAT bring up children and it's time to be more honest about SAT the damage that poor parenting is causing our society. SAT With so much at stake should parenting be a private matter SAT or should the state take more action to support the most SAT vulnerable child SAT Witnesses: SAT Sue Cohen, director of Single Parents Action Network SAT Nola Leach, general director of CARE (Christian Action, SAT Research and Education) SAT Dr Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University SAT of Kent SAT Richard Reeves, director of DEMOS. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00npr8j (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the fifth heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nnsrk (Listen) SAT Series 10, Adlestrop SAT Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SAT appeal of some well-loved poems. SAT Written in 1915 about a two-minute stop at a railway SAT station in the Cotswolds, this poem has long been loved SAT for its evocation of high summer, rural England and the SAT intimation of changes to come. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00nryck (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Original Shorts b008pvmw (Listen) SUN Series 3, Blue Afternoon SUN New short stories by well-known authors. SUN Julia Stoneham's moving account of an uneasy sibling SUN relationship, brought to an unusual conclusion in SUN Manhattan. SUN Read by Martin Jarvis. SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nrycm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nrzgk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ns209 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ns20c (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ns20f (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Lamberhurst in SUN Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nqj82 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our SUN lives but which are little known outside the legal world. SUN The curious saga of the Carbolic Smoke Ball, a bizarre SUN Victorian quack medicine. The case established important SUN principles about truth in advertising and the relationship SUN between companies and their customers. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ns20h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ns20k (Listen) SUN Mirror Image SUN Mark Tully reflects on reflections - in mirrors, SUN photographs, film and art. What particular insight do SUN these different reflectors offer us? SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00nsg9g (Listen) SUN Sika Deer SUN Sika Deer are aliens to the UK but now are established as SUN part of the landscape. Lionel Kelleway heads to Purbeck in SUN Dorset to experience the sights and unusual sounds of sika SUN at the start of the rutting season. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00nsg9j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00nsg9l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00nsg9n (Listen) SUN Jane Little 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 b00nsg9q (Listen) SUN Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society SUN Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia SUN Society. SUN Donations to Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope A-T Society. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide A-T SUN Society with your full name and address so they can claim SUN the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1105528. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00nsg9s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00nsg9v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00nsg9x (Listen) SUN Hearing the Voices of Creation SUN During three days in early November leaders from many SUN world faiths, hosted by the Duke of Edinburgh and attended SUN by the Secretary General of the United Nations, gathered SUN at Windsor Castle to announce their own commitments to SUN long term environmental action. SUN This Sunday Worship, specially recorded at the Alliance of SUN Religions and Conservation celebration, is led by Martin SUN Palmer and Sally Magnusson, with Bishop Richard Chartres. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00nrs20 (Listen) SUN Clive James celebrates the honouring of Battle of Britain SUN commander Sir Keith Park with a temporary statue on SUN Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00nsgcj (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00nsgcl (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00nsgg1 (Listen) SUN Julia Donaldson SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia SUN Donaldson. SUN The Gruffalo is her best known creation. Published ten SUN years ago, it's become a modern classic; it has sold more SUN than four million copies, won an armful of awards and been SUN turned into a film. But Julia nearly gave up when she was SUN half way through writing it, and only the encouragement of SUN her son persuaded her to continue. Its latest accolade is SUN that BBC listeners have just voted it their favourite book SUN for reading out loud at bedtime. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00npwh2 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 6 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 Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme SUN Garden. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00nsgjf (Listen) SUN 30th Anniversary SUN Margaret Thatcher became the first woman prime minister SUN and Blondie was in the charts, but 1979 was also the year SUN that The Food Programme first came on air, with Derek SUN Cooper presenting. SUN This programme, the first of two, marks the 30th SUN anniversary with a look back at the people whose ideas SUN have shaped our thinking on food and a look forward to SUN some of the issues that could dominate the next 30 years. SUN Randolph Hodgson of Neal's Yard Dairy, which has also just SUN marked its 30th anniversary, recalls how he decided to SUN devote his life to developing and encouraging British SUN artisan farmhouse cheesemakers. SUN Sheila speaks to John Gummer MP, former minister of SUN agriculture and secretary of state for the environment in SUN the last Conservative government. He discusses how western SUN society has opted for 'fast food' over quality food, and SUN volume rather than value. He abhors the levels of food SUN waste in society and explains how he thinks we have lost SUN respect for food. SUN In the studio, Sheila discusses some of the important SUN global issues for the future of food security in the SUN company of Dr Susan George, author of How the Other Half SUN Dies and The Lugano Report. Also joining Sheila is Alex SUN Evans, author of Feeeding the Nine Billion, which was SUN produced for Chatham House. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00nsgjh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00nshqm (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 The Candidates b00nshqp (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley examines the motivations of aspiring MPs. SUN Following PPC selections for the three main parties, he SUN asks if a new type of candidate is emerging after the SUN expenses row and the subsequent rush of MP retirements. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nrs1p (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are SUN guests of Transport for London at the London Transport SUN Museum. SUN Pippa talks to recent contestants of the Underground in SUN Bloom competition about how to get the best out of SUN container gardening of the most challenging kind. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7h6 (Listen) SUN Foster Siblings, Care Homes, Kindertransports and Gangs SUN Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural SUN attitudes towards siblings. SUN New research looks into non-blood siblings and the bond SUN fostered in a non-family unit. SUN A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00nshqr (Listen) SUN Fair Stood The Wind For France, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic SUN tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War SUN France. SUN When a British aircrew ditch over Occupied territory in SUN the summer of 1942, injury and suspicion dog their SUN attempts to survive and escape. SUN Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear SUN O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Francoise ...... Louise Brealey SUN Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington SUN Father ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Doctor ...... Ewan Hooper SUN With Kate Layden and Kenneth Collard. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00nshqt (Listen) SUN Mariella talks to Frances Fyfield, whose bestselling crime SUN novels are influenced by her previous career as a lawyer SUN for the Crown Prosecution Service. She explains how a SUN recently discovered fascination with her local butcher's SUN shop influenced her latest book, Cold to the Touch. SUN The short story writer John Cheever was sometimes SUN described as the Chekhov of the suburbs. As a new SUN biography of this chronicler of the American middle class SUN is published, Mariella talks to its author, Blake Bailey, SUN and the novelist Paul Bailey, who interviewed him for the SUN BBC 30 years ago, to find out more about Cheever's life SUN and work. SUN And there's advice for another book lover with a problem SUN from The Reading Clinic. The editor of Granta, John SUN Freeman, has some suggestions for an Open Book listener SUN who is in search of reading matter for a trip to San SUN Francisco. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nshqw (Listen) SUN Series 10, To My Dear and Loving Husband SUN Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SUN appeal of some well-loved poems. SUN Anne Bradstreet's poem has been anthologised in nearly SUN every collection of love poetry published. How did a SUN near-invalid woman, who had to endure not only the SUN privations of migrating to the New World but also the SUN strict Puritan ethic established there, manage to write SUN something so warm and personal that it still speaks to us SUN today? SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nshqy (Listen) SUN 15th November 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news in SUN 1989. SUN Chancellor John Major gives his first Autumn Statement - SUN City analysts predict gloom for the 90s; Lech Walesa, SUN leader of Poland's reformist Solidarity party, lobbies the SUN US Senate for financial aid; Mikhail Gorbachev warns the SUN West not to try exporting capitalism to the East. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00nqcy5 (Listen) SUN Some of Britain's police forces are warning of a funding SUN crisis, with staff cuts, stations closing and parts of the SUN motorway network left unpatrolled. Allan Urry investigates SUN the effects on the frontline and asks if the police could SUN still do more to deliver better value from the money they SUN get. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00nrx6l (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 2 SUN Playwright Annie Caulfield creates a fictional response to SUN the week's news. SUN As the price of gold hit record levels this week, an SUN Australian exploration company publicised its plans for SUN full-scale production at Scotland's first goldmine in 2011. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nshr0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00nshr2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nshr4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00nshr6 (Listen) SUN John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN Find Me a New York Jewish Princess - Radio 4 SUN Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up - Radio 4 SUN Child of the State - Radio 4 SUN Whatever Happened to the Teapots? - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN The Choice - Radio 4 SUN Britain's Other Music Hall - Radio 4 SUN How David Hasslehoff Brought Down The Wall - Radio 2 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Radio Hollywood - Radio 4 SUN Between The Ears - Radio 3 SUN A Cymbal Tale - Radio 4 SUN Manilow on Mercer - Radio 2 SUN Chris Evans - Radio 2 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN Calling Time on Student Bars - Radio 4 SUN The Blagger's Guide To Jazz - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00nshr8 (Listen) SUN Lilian gets the inside story. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00nshrb (Listen) SUN Matt Frei talks to newsman George Stephanopoulos and civil SUN rights attorney and political commentator Arsalan Iftikhar SUN about the news that's in the forefront of American minds. SUN The three discuss America's strategy for moving forward in SUN Afghanistan, the healthcare debate and the impact of the SUN Fort Hood shootings on the American military and America's SUN civil liberties. SUN Americana visits Dearborn, Michigan where community SUN members discuss the challenges faced by American Muslims SUN in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood. Dearborn has SUN one of the largest concentrations of American Muslims in SUN the world. Matt Frei talks to Kamran Pasha about how SUN American Muslims at Fort Hood are feeling about their SUN service. SUN The American company Kraft Foods has put in a hostile bid SUN to takeover Cadbury. Americana travels to Hershey, SUN Pennsylvania where Hershey Kisses line the streets and SUN tourists come to visit the chocolate town. Chocolate SUN lovers there are asked, 'How would you like it if an SUN international company tried to launch a hostile takeover SUN of your chocolate company?'. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt9 (Listen) SUN Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Mrs SUN Somerville's Garden SUN By Crysse Morrison. SUN Everyone in Mrs Somerville's family has an opinion on SUN whether she should move from family home to sheltered SUN accommodation. However, she has her own surprising view on SUN the matter. SUN Read by Alison Reid. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00nrs1k (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00nrs1r (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00nrvs2 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Co-operative business banking? Why online customers are SUN logging off for good. SUN 'Sin stocks': can you get a good deal for a bad deed? SUN Are residents of purpose-built retirement homes being SUN exploited? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nsg9q (Listen) SUN Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society SUN Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia SUN Society. SUN Donations to Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope A-T Society. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide A-T SUN Society with your full name and address so they can claim SUN the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1105528. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00npwh8 (Listen) SUN Death to the Deficit! SUN Frances Cairncross explores the UK's options in the face SUN of a growing deficit, and asks if the coming cuts in SUN public service spending might afford us an opportunity SUN rather than represent an unmitigated disaster. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00nshrd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00nshrg (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Cases That Changed Our World. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00nshrj (Listen) SUN Week ending 14th November 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN East Berlin's party chief declares all citizens can leave SUN immediately; bulldozers tear down sections of the Berlin SUN Wall to make more crossing points; 300,000 protestors meet SUN in Leipzig to demand further reforms from the East German SUN government. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ns20k (Listen) SUN Mirror Image SUN Mark Tully reflects on reflections - in mirrors, SUN photographs, film and art. What particular insight do SUN these different reflectors offer us? SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00nsk19 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nqht5 (Listen) MON In a series of special programmes in association with the MON Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of MON white collar crime, from its late addition to the statute MON books to the increasing difficulty in securing a MON conviction. He speaks to the key academic experts in the MON field, explores the latest sociological research and hears MON from professionals on both sides of the law about the MON culture, the practice and most often the non-prosecution MON of white collar crime. MON In this edition, Laurie explores the culture of corporate MON crime and how regulatory bodies serve to keep the police MON at arm's length. In the UK, people are twice as likely to MON suffer a serious injury at work than to be a victim of MON violent crime, yet only a fraction of safety crimes are MON actually prosecuted. MON Globally, more people are killed at work each year than MON are killed in war. Why has corporate crime had a low MON priority, why has it been so hard to prosecute MON corporations and will the new crimes of corporate MON manslaughter and corporate murder make firms more MON responsible for the crimes they commit? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ns20f (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Lamberhurst in MON Kent. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nsmm0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nsmt5 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nsmq1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00nsn2f (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nsnby (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00nsnf4 (Listen) MON Rural crafts like hedge laying, thatching and dry-stone MON walling have recently been on the decline, leaving a MON shortage of workers skilled in countryside tasks. But MON Charlotte Smith hears that more young people are taking to MON a career in rural Britain and are breathing new life into MON these dying traditions. MON Also, as winter approaches, the Farming Today bees have MON their final preparations to get them through the cold days MON and even colder nights. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00ntlyd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00nsnvw (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00ntlyg (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses tradition and modernity with MON musician Nitin Sawhney, drama and wartime plots with MON writer and director Stephen Poliakoff, progress and MON conservation with the science historian Harriet Ritvo, and MON the uses and abuses of scientific ideas with Dennis Sewell. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00nsp2k (Listen) MON Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 1 MON By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. MON Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a MON celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on MON location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in MON hand, he inspired a generation to cook. MON Read by Michael Cochrane. MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier. MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnp0 (Listen) MON Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. MON The row about working parents losing out on MON government-funded childcare vouchers has escalated. The MON government says it wants to target resources at those who MON need help most, using the money instead to provide nursery MON places for some two year olds. The argument can be applied MON more widely to other benefits, including child benefit. MON Woman's Hour look at the arguments for scrapping what one MON think-tank describes as 'middle-class welfare'. MON In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo MON and non-stop across the Atlantic. She set many other MON flying records, and was the epitome of Thirties glamour. MON She confirmed her status as an icon by disappearing over MON the Pacific while attempting a round-the-world flight. As MON a new Hollywood film opens based on her life, we ask why MON she lives on so powerfully in the imagination. MON There are over 600,000 disabled young people between the MON ages of 14 and 25 in the UK. Many wish to lead independent MON lives but a new report shows help varies widely, and that MON many young people and their parents feel isolated and MON unsupported in the move from child to adult services. Jane MON discusses the issues with her guests, including one mother MON whose son was offered a nursing home with elderly people MON when he wanted to leave home at 18. MON It's 'Stir-up Sunday' at the end of this week, when it is MON traditional for people to make their Christmas puddings. MON We explore the history of the pudding that has its roots MON in medieval times and was originally made with meat, and MON food writer Rose Prince will be making a version with an MON interesting modern twist. MON MON 11:00 The Probate Game b00ntlyj (Listen) MON Jolyon Jenkins investigates the probate industry and meets MON genealogists whose job it is to unite people with assets MON and the beneficiaries of intestate estates. He asks why MON there is so little regulation of this often lucrative MON industry and examines how a national register of wills, MON common to most developed countries, could ease the strain MON in times of grief. MON People in the UK are three times as likely to review their MON gas bill than make a will, yet this important document is MON the difference between loved ones receiving our assets MON after their death and not. MON MON 11:30 Tickets Please b00nv6nh (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Comedy drama by Mark Maier about the ongoing trials of the MON staff and passengers on an intercity rail service. MON Why does an intercity journey turn into an emotional MON rollercoaster? Because the train staff have to battle with MON their thwarted infatuations - for each other. And those MON toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters. MON Robin ...... Jeremy Swift MON Nadine ...... Alex Kelly MON Peter ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Carol ...... Tessa Nicholson MON Carl ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Diana ...... Melissa Advani MON Linda ...... Kate Layden MON Keith ...... Stephen Hogan MON Other parts played by Philip Fox and Joseph Cohen-Cole. MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00nsp6q (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00ntbc5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00ntbcw (Listen) MON National and international news with Edward Stourton. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00nv7j5 (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest, with contestants from the north MON of England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00nshr8 (Listen) MON Lilian gets the inside story. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nv7j7 (Listen) MON Forty-Three Fifty-Nine - Wake MON Comedy by Katie Hims. MON The story of Jess' day trip to kiss her dead first love, MON Danny, goodbye. One lie leads to another and, before they MON know it, Jess and her mother Avril are in a real pickle. MON Jess ...... Claire Rushbrook MON Avril ...... Rachel Davies MON Joe ...... John Lightbody MON Tara ...... Emily Beecham MON Shane ...... Tom Meredith MON Fiona ...... Kate Fitzgerald MON Cab Driver ...... David Webber MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00nrxkp (Listen) MON Radio Hollywood MON Sponsored by a well-known 'toilet soap', the Lux Theater MON brought the silver screen to the airwaves, with specially MON adapted versions of new Hollywood products including The MON Philadelphia Story, The African Queen and The Wizard of MON Oz. Professor Jeffrey Richards takes us back to the place MON where cinema and radio united and produced an unlikely MON lovechild. MON From its first production in 1935, The Legionnaire and The MON Lady with Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich, The Lux Radio MON Theater strove to have the same stars as the films. Over MON its 19-year history, it boasted the biggest names in MON Hollywood - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Joan MON Crawford, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy and MON many more. MON Sometimes the original players were not available, so the MON Theater offered audiences a glimpse of an alternative MON universe, as listeners discovered what these films would MON have been like with different actors. On a few occasions MON the radio version boasted a more stellar cast, for MON instance when Cary Grant stood in for Montgomery Clift in MON I Confess. MON At the start of each show Cecil B De Mille offered MON 'greetings from Hollywood', gave a short introduction to MON the film and told listeners a little about the stars. MON Twenty-five minutes later, he would turn up in the MON interval for some 'movie news', which was a MON barely-concealed advertisement for Lux and its frothy MON lather, and would return at the end for an informal and, MON of course, unscripted chat with the actors, in which they MON would invariably reveal their preference for a well-known MON toilet soap. MON These productions were performed live with full orchestra, MON and the audience's reaction was often audible, which MON occasionally put the actors off their lines. They also had MON to be half an hour shorter, and were therefore much pacier MON than the originals, while retaining key dialogue - so MON phrases like 'this is the beginning of a beautiful MON friendship' and 'round up the usual suspects' are still MON present and correct in Casablanca. But being live MON presented its own problems, with stars sometimes falling MON ill the day before, or, on one occasion, arriving at the MON studio 10 minutes after transmission had begun. MON MON 15:45 The Garden b00ntc0w (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON An evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire MON garden through time and the seasons, from its earliest MON creation to the challenges it faces in the 21st century. MON This is a fictional tale based on fact, set against a MON backdrop of specially recorded sounds. MON Throughout the winter, robins have been singing to hold MON their territory, but now, in early spring, they are joined MON by the explosive song of the wren, the beautiful sounds of MON the blackbird and the sharp percussive notes of the great MON tit. MON Narrated by Peter France MON Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00nsgjf (Listen) MON 30th Anniversary MON Margaret Thatcher became the first woman prime minister MON and Blondie was in the charts, but 1979 was also the year MON that The Food Programme first came on air, with Derek MON Cooper presenting. MON This programme, the first of two, marks the 30th MON anniversary with a look back at the people whose ideas MON have shaped our thinking on food and a look forward to MON some of the issues that could dominate the next 30 years. MON Randolph Hodgson of Neal's Yard Dairy, which has also just MON marked its 30th anniversary, recalls how he decided to MON devote his life to developing and encouraging British MON artisan farmhouse cheesemakers. MON Sheila speaks to John Gummer MP, former minister of MON agriculture and secretary of state for the environment in MON the last Conservative government. He discusses how western MON society has opted for 'fast food' over quality food, and MON volume rather than value. He abhors the levels of food MON waste in society and explains how he thinks we have lost MON respect for food. MON In the studio, Sheila discusses some of the important MON global issues for the future of food security in the MON company of Dr Susan George, author of How the Other Half MON Dies and The Lugano Report. Also joining Sheila is Alex MON Evans, author of Feeeding the Nine Billion, which was MON produced for Chatham House. MON MON 16:30 Debating Animals b00jd9kd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Rod Liddle examines our differing responses to related MON animal species and tries to establish what those responses MON tell us not merely about the animals but about ourselves. MON Rod considers the otter and the mink - the one a playful, MON affectionate emblem of British environmental awareness, MON the other invariably depicted as a voracious invader. MON Sir David Attenborough and ecologist Johnny Birks help Rod MON to separate fact from fiction and understand why one MON member of the Mustelid family should have us cooing and MON handing over money to environmental causes while the other MON can expect loathing at best and, more often than not, MON calls for a mass cull. MON A keen amateur naturalist, Rod begins his debate with mink MON expert Johnny Birks on the banks of the River Lugg in MON Herefordshire. Otters and mink roam these banks side by MON side as uneasy neighbours. But the popular myth that mink MON were part of the reason for the dramatic decline in otter MON numbers in the 1950s was just that - a myth - albeit a MON convenient one. MON He also hears from people involved in the Hebridean mink MON cull who are acting to save indigenous bird species in the MON Western Isles. MON As the debate matures, it appears that below the MON biodiversity arguments lies a more fundamental clash MON between the pure Darwinists who believe that nature should MON be left unchecked and those who say it is unrealistic to MON abandon our position of power over the wild animals and MON their habitats. It follows that we must make difficult MON choices about which species we want to control and in some MON cases cull in order to protect the many. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ntd3n (Listen) MON 16th November 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON Foreign secretary Douglas Hurd crosses the Berlin Wall, MON the government publishes its proposals for the future of MON community care and South Africa's president announces that MON its beaches are to be opened to all races. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00ntd94 (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 b00ntd9n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00nv8ng (Listen) MON Series 52, Episode 1 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the Old MON Vic Theatre in London, with Jack Dee taking over the MON chairman's role. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Rob Brydon. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00ntbkz (Listen) MON Helen gets a baptism of fire at Casa Nueva. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ntfkw (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the MON verdict on the film Glorious 39, written and directed by MON Stephen Poliakoff and set on the eve of the Second World MON War. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ntfmw (Listen) MON Our Mutual Friend, Episode 6 MON Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic MON novel. MON Bella Wilfer, whose life has become decidedly more MON comfortable, confides in her father. MON Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings MON Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard MON Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts MON John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp MON Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy MON Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis MON Betty ...... Lynn Farleigh MON Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew MON Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke MON Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox MON Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold MON Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke MON Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross MON Venus ...... Stephen Hogan MON Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles Wildin MON Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman MON Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider MON Radford ...... Jonathan Tafler MON With Janice Acquah. MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer MON This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as MON part of the Series Catch-up Trial. MON MON 20:00 Document b00nv91x (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary MON evidence to throw new light on past events. MON Mike tracks down formerly secret reports from MI5 that MON describe how brainwashing techniques were being used MON inside British intelligence bases in North Africa during MON the Second World War. There, prisoners were exposed to MON truth drugs and other methods that shocked even a senior MON agent who went on to head the secret service. Allegations MON appeared in the press in 1960 and questions were asked in MON parliament. The claims were denied by then prime minister MON Harold Macmillan, but Document has evidence that he misled MON the country. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00nvdgd (Listen) MON Divorcing Europe MON What would happen if Britain chose to leave the European MON Union? The new Lisbon Treaty contains a clause whch sets MON out the exit process for the first time. But, as Chris MON Bowlby reports, the final deal between Britain and its MON former EU partners would depend a lot on the mood of their MON 'divorce' - amicable or acrimonious. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00nvdgg (Listen) MON The placenta is the baby's life support system, but much MON is still not known about how it works and how to help when MON things go wrong. The charity Tommy's has created the UK's MON first placenta clinic in Manchester. Sue Broom meets the MON patients hoping that the scientists in the labs there can MON discover why the placenta can fail to implant or produce MON the wide blood vessels crucial to the baby's growth. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00ntlyg (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses tradition and modernity with MON musician Nitin Sawhney, drama and wartime plots with MON writer and director Stephen Poliakoff, progress and MON conservation with the science historian Harriet Ritvo, and MON the uses and abuses of scientific ideas with Dennis Sewell. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ntfrm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00ntg25 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ntk5c (Listen) MON The Glass Room, Episode 6 MON Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer. MON German troops are advancing across Europe. How long can MON the Landauers, and their new nanny Kata, stay in what is MON left of Czechoslovakia? MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b00lrv4y (Listen) MON Honor Blackman MON Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. MON Honor Blackman introduces a selection of the poetry and MON prose which has inspired her through her long acting MON career. The pieces are read by Eleanor David, Nickolas MON Grace and Honor herself. MON MON 23:30 Happy Feet b00fl05j (Listen) MON Deborah Bull meets Australian tap dancer Nada Karsakov and MON travels with her to Lancashire to find out whether some of MON her dance steps may have originated from the Lancashire MON Clog Dance. They meet dance historians and enthusiasts to MON explore the way in which dance steps have been borrowed, MON improved and taught around the western world for the past MON 300 years. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00nsk11 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00nsp2k (Listen) TUE Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 1 TUE By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. TUE Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a TUE celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on TUE location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in TUE hand, he inspired a generation to cook. TUE Read by Michael Cochrane. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nsmk6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nsmq3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nsmm2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00nsmt7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nsn2h (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00nsnc0 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00nsnvf (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 1989: Simpson Returns b00nvdv3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the TUE story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal TUE stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, TUE the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. TUE John returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through TUE the Velvet Revolution and asks what they feel about what TUE has happened in the two decades since. The Communist TUE regime was overthrown in 1989 but the Communists are still TUE proudly there, and appear to have some fervent new TUE recruits. So did the playwrights, actors and rock TUE musicians deliver the country they had hoped for? TUE TUE 09:30 Parting Shots b00nvdv5 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 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 Valedictories which embarrassed ministers. Featuring TUE interviews with Sir Ivor Roberts, whose 2006 valedictory TUE led to the Foreign Office banning their circulation, and TUE Sir Peter Ricketts, head of the Diplomatic Service. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00ny29m (Listen) TUE Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 2 TUE By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. TUE Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a TUE celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on TUE location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in TUE hand, he inspired a generation to cook. TUE After a short-lived career in journalism and a stint in TUE the army, Keith decided to become a full-time cook. TUE Read by Michael Cochrane. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnng (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. TUE TUE 11:00 1989: A German Story b00nvdv7 (Listen) TUE Westernising East Berlin TUE Series in which German programme-makers reflect and report TUE on aspects of the country that rarely, if ever, find their TUE way into the British media. TUE Award-winning Berlin-based feature maker Jens Jarisch TUE explores the shifting identity of five places in the TUE former eastern sector of the city. TUE For Jarisch, Berlin is a landscape of dreams and TUE nightmares. His tortured picture of low-life on the city's TUE Kurfurstenstrasse (Die K) won some of radio's biggest TUE prizes. Now, he again turns to the city to meet the TUE denizens of several iconic places that were famed in the TUE days of the GDR. He finds that some have changed TUE completely and yet others remain much as they were 20 TUE years ago. TUE TUE 11:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) TUE On the set of her new film, director Gurinder Chadha tells TUE the story of her 'dual nationality'. She discusses how her TUE early life in Southall in west London, where she grew up TUE conscious of both her Asian and British inheritance, has TUE informed and enriched her hit films including Bend It Like TUE Beckham. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00nsp6g (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00ntb6b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00ntbc7 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 The Inner World of Music b00nvdvc (Listen) TUE Composer Matthew King discovers how the extraordinary TUE abilities of musical savant Derek Paravicini are unlocking TUE the secret of how we all makes sense of music. TUE Pianist Derek Paravicini is a phenomenon, possessor of a TUE truly extraordinary musical mind. His abilities are TUE renowned: he can play virtually any piece, in any style TUE you wish, in any key, and identify complex chords of more TUE than a dozen notes in split seconds. He has wowed crowds TUE from London to Las Vegas, performed at Ronnie Scott's and TUE Queen Elizabeth Hall, and been the subject of media TUE attention across the world. TUE Yet Derek was born totally blind, with severe TUE developmental and learning disabilities. He finds everyday TUE tasks difficult, and requires 24-hour support. Derek is a TUE musical 'savant' - owner of a talent that far transcends TUE his disability, like the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire TUE or Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt in the film TUE Rain Man. Over the last three decades Derek has stunned TUE experts with his seemingly effortless musical TUE understanding, an innate ability to know what 'fits' in TUE any musical context, from classical to jazz to rock. TUE Prof Adam Ockelford has been Derek's friend and mentor TUE since he was a small child. Now one of the UK's leading TUE experts in music psychology, Prof Ockelford believes that TUE Derek's remarkable abilities may hold the key to TUE understanding how humans make sense of music, and the TUE unique effect it has on us all. TUE Matthew King explores the world of the musical savant, TUE meeting Derek Paravicini to try and find out how his brain TUE processes, understands and remembers music. The programme TUE features contributions from Dr Darold Treffert, adviser on TUE Rain Man and the world's most renowned expert on savant TUE syndrome, and the parents of a young autistic girl with TUE remarkable musical gifts. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00ntbkz (Listen) TUE Helen gets a baptism of fire at Casa Nueva. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cmb4s (Listen) TUE The Secret Place TUE By Clare Bayley. TUE Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal TUE wedding. There won't even be a wedding night because Andy TUE is serving a life sentence for murder. TUE Andy ...... Paul Hilton TUE Safi ...... Helen Longworth TUE Leyla ...... Tracey Wilkinson TUE Patrick ...... Rod Arthur TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00nvdvf (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfbx (Listen) TUE Series 10, One Of Us TUE Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. TUE By Julia Butler. TUE A young boy struggling to adapt to a new environment comes TUE alive on the football pitch. TUE Read by Simon Tait. TUE TUE 15:45 The Garden b00ntcw4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE An evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire TUE garden through time and the seasons, from its earliest TUE creation to the challenges it faces in the 21st century. TUE This is a fictional tale based on fact, set against a TUE backdrop of specially recorded sounds. TUE It's late spring and the summer migrants return - the TUE swallows, swifts and house martins. A hungry heron preys TUE on frogs in the garden pond, and in March a queen bumble TUE bee is spotted moving among the flower beds, hunting for TUE nectar. TUE Narrated by Peter France TUE Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00nvfg8 (Listen) TUE In a special edition of the programme for Radio 4's 1989 TUE season, Michael Rosen talks to playwright David Edgar TUE about the rise and fall of the language that became TUE synonymous with communism - from the hyperbole of TUE Ceaucescu's Romania ('General Secretary, President, TUE President of the State Council, Chairman of the National TUE Defence Council, Chairman of the Supreme Council for TUE Socio-Economic Development' was his own job description) TUE to phrases that have passed into the very definition of TUE the Marxist-Leninist dialectic. The demolition of the TUE Berlin Wall led to dramatic changes not only in the TUE political and economic lives of those living in the former TUE Eastern Bloc, but also to the l TUE Also, political journalist Anne McElvoy tells of her TUE lingustic adventures in East Germany both before and after TUE 1989, and Dr Zoran Milutinovic examines how Serbo-Croat TUE has changed since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00nvfmz (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to a husband and wife team, literary TUE editor at The Times Erica Wagner and teacher and writer TUE Francis Gilbert, about their favourite books, which TUE include Ursula Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ntd2c (Listen) TUE 17th November 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE A Labour peer declares the chances of catching AIDS TUE through heterosexual relations are statistically invisible TUE and in Prague the police beat protesters as they call for TUE reforms and the ousting of the Czech leadership. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ntd81 (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 b00ntd96 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nvhld (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE She came, she saw, she criticized: stand-up comedian Jo TUE Caulfield holds forth with a glorious mixture of bitchy TUE friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism. TUE In this episode, Jo fails to shut up about the Daily TUE Express, the Leicester Herald, cheese and onion crisps and TUE Zsa Zsa Gabor. TUE With Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell, Simon Greenall. TUE Written by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson, with TUE additional material by Michael Beck, James Branch, Dan TUE Evans, Jules Gregg, Nick Revell and Matt Ross TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00ntbk8 (Listen) TUE Joe has some kind words for a comrade. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ntdf4 (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson interviews Alan Bennett, who reflects on his TUE career and discusses his new stage play, which centres on TUE an imagined meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ntfky (Listen) TUE Our Mutual Friend, Episode 7 TUE Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic TUE novel. TUE A new life for Lizzie Hexam, a new mentor for Charlie, and TUE new complications. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings TUE Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard TUE Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts TUE John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp TUE Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy TUE Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis TUE Betty ...... Lynn Farleigh TUE Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke TUE Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox TUE Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler TUE Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold TUE Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke TUE Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross TUE Venus ...... Stephen Hogan TUE Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles Wildin TUE Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman TUE Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider TUE Radford ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE With Janice Acquah. TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer TUE This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as TUE part of the Series Catch-up Trial. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00nvhlg (Listen) TUE With record gold prices stimulating demand, Jenny Cuffe TUE reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo on the scale TUE of illegal mining and asks if the industry does enough to TUE ensure that gold supplies aren't being used to fund TUE conflict. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00nvhlj (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00nvhvn (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond asks if we can be taught to be happy. TUE Dr Martin Seligman's mission is to promote positive TUE psychology. He says that psychology has spent over a TUE hundred years studying misery and it might be more TUE rewarding to look at what makes people happy. Doing brave TUE things might be one way to make us happier, or at least TUE have interesting results, as Claudia discovers. TUE If Dr Seligman is right, should we be introducing TUE happiness classes into the national curriculum to prevent TUE children becoming depressed adults? Wellington College's TUE headmaster, Anthony Sheldon, has initiated wellbeing TUE classes to teach pupils resilience. Claudia meets some of TUE the pupils and discovers if the teenagers think this is TUE helpful or if they are sceptical about it. TUE Not everyone may want to be cheery, however, and work by TUE American psychologist Julie Norem suggests that defensive TUE pessimism might be a better strategy for some people. TUE TUE 21:30 1989: Simpson Returns b00nvdv3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the TUE story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal TUE stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, TUE the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. TUE John returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through TUE the Velvet Revolution and asks what they feel about what TUE has happened in the two decades since. The Communist TUE regime was overthrown in 1989 but the Communists are still TUE proudly there, and appear to have some fervent new TUE recruits. So did the playwrights, actors and rock TUE musicians deliver the country they had hoped for? TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00ntfmy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00ntfrp (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ntk2k (Listen) TUE The Glass Room, Episode 7 TUE Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer. TUE During the Landauers' first year in exile, Liesel makes a TUE heartbreaking discovery. TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00bfp2j (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social TUE observation and nonsense. TUE Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright, with John TUE Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally TUE Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Macavity's Not There: TS Eliot in the 21st Century TUE b00lp043 (Listen) TUE As a major project begins to edit the works of TS Eliot, TUE author and critic Michael Alexander explores the place of TUE Eliot, and of poetry in general, in national culture. TUE Eliot may be regarded by some as the most significant poet TUE in the English language over the past 100 years, but how TUE much does he mean to modern readers? Only now are his TUE complete writings undergoing full critical editing, and TUE yet times have changed to a point where poets are regarded TUE as barely relevant by many people, and where Eliot himself TUE is probably best known for the poems which provided the TUE inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. TUE Michael Alexander enlists the help of Eliot scholar TUE Christopher Ricks and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr TUE Rowan Williams to assess Eliot's influence and the role of TUE poetry in the modern world. Including TS Eliot reading TUE from his own work. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00nsk13 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00ny29m (Listen) WED Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 2 WED By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. WED Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a WED celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on WED location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in WED hand, he inspired a generation to cook. WED After a short-lived career in journalism and a stint in WED the army, Keith decided to become a full-time cook. WED Read by Michael Cochrane. WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nsmk8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nsmq5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nsmm4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00nsmt9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nsn2k (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00nsnc2 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00nsnvh (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00nvt2k (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including animator Richard Williams. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00ny29p (Listen) WED Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 3 WED By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. WED Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a WED celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on WED location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in WED hand, he inspired a generation to cook. WED Having set up his restaurant, Floyd's, in Bristol, Keith WED agreed to film a cookery slot for local television show, WED RPM. WED Read by Michael Cochrane. WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnnj (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. WED WED 11:00 The Herschel Space Telescope b00nvt8r (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Following the engineers and astronomers who are working on WED the biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the WED most important missions in the history of European WED spaceflight. Jonathon Amos joins Professor Matt Griffin of WED Cardiff University and his international team as they aim WED to peer through the areas in space that are invisible to WED other telescopes. This is the story of how the team is WED aiming to solve the mystery of galaxy and star formation, WED and how these processes eventually gave rise to WED life-bearing planets like Earth. WED In this episode, the team approach the biggest milestone WED in their 20-year project - the launch of their work on a WED rocket from a spaceport in French Guiana. Will it all go WED safely? WED WED 11:30 Hut 33 b00nvtlz (Listen) WED Series 3, Entente Cordiale 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 French resistance operative Marie-Anne is looking for WED brave, resourceful and courageous men to help her on an WED intelligence mission over France. Instead she meets the WED occupants of Hut 33. Archie, Gordon and Charles are all WED keen to impress their new lady friend, while Minka takes WED an irrational dislike to a fellow resistance fighter. WED Could things get any worse? With Joshua in charge of WED supplies and his brother Neville flying the plane, the WED answer is yes. 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 Marie-Ann ...... Tessa Nicholson. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00nsp6j (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00ntb6d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00ntbc9 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00nvtzl (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00ntbk8 (Listen) WED Joe has some kind words for a comrade. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nvtzn (Listen) WED The Loop WED By Nick Perry. When a young boy toys with his dad's mobile WED phone, middle-aged Englishman Nick Perry finds himself WED speaking to a young stranger called Jim in New York - in WED 1959. As they talk, they discover that they are both WED writers: Nick is struggling with his first radio play and WED Jim's just started on an ambitious new TV show, The WED Twilight Zone. WED Nick Perry ...... Ivan Kaye WED Jim Giller ...... Edward Hogg WED Old Man ...... Peter Marinker WED Policeman ...... Rhys Jennings WED Dolores ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Woman ...... Melissa Advani WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00nvvwj (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED pensions. WED Guests: WED Malcolm McLean, The Pensions Advisory Service WED Amanda Davidson, Bairgrie Davis WED Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves WED Lansdown. WED WED 15:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfbz (Listen) WED Series 10, Fifty-One WED Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. WED By Tat Usher. WED A teenager spends her evenings swimming lengths of her WED local pool until a familiar face makes her question her WED motivation. WED Read by Clare Yuille. WED WED 15:45 The Garden b00ntcw6 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED An evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire WED garden through time and the seasons, from its earliest WED creation to the challenges it faces in the 21st century. WED This is a fictional tale based on fact, set against a WED backdrop of specially recorded sounds. WED In summer, the air is filled with sounds of hoverflies, WED bees, butterflies, beetles and dragonflies. The appearance WED of so many insects also provides food for other creatures, WED including hungry nestlings. WED Narrated by Peter France WED Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00nvwg6 (Listen) WED In a series of special programmes in association with the WED Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of WED white collar crime, from its late addition to the statute WED books to the increasing difficulty in securing a WED conviction. He speaks to the key academic experts in the WED field, explores the latest sociological research and hears WED from professionals on both sides of the law about the WED culture, the practice and most often the non-prosecution WED of white collar crime. WED In this edition, Laurie explores the subject of punishing WED white collar crime. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00nvhvn (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond asks if we can be taught to be happy. WED Dr Martin Seligman's mission is to promote positive WED psychology. He says that psychology has spent over a WED hundred years studying misery and it might be more WED rewarding to look at what makes people happy. Doing brave WED things might be one way to make us happier, or at least WED have interesting results, as Claudia discovers. WED If Dr Seligman is right, should we be introducing WED happiness classes into the national curriculum to prevent WED children becoming depressed adults? Wellington College's WED headmaster, Anthony Sheldon, has initiated wellbeing WED classes to teach pupils resilience. Claudia meets some of WED the pupils and discovers if the teenagers think this is WED helpful or if they are sceptical about it. WED Not everyone may want to be cheery, however, and work by WED American psychologist Julie Norem suggests that defensive WED pessimism might be a better strategy for some people. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ntd2f (Listen) WED 18th November 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED Bulgaria witnesses its biggest demonstrations in 40 years, WED European leaders meet to discuss the reshaping of Europe WED and, in Prague, rumours spread that the police have killed WED a Czech student. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ntd84 (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 b00ntd98 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00nvwg8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a WED series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. WED With characters including infuriating call centre staff, WED drunk mothers intent on ruining everyone else's Christmas WED and recently deposed ex-Soviet tyrants trying to settle in WED the British suburbs, Laura continues to turn the things WED that most irritate us all into sharply observed and WED occasionally surreal comic gems. WED With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00ntbkb (Listen) WED Mike and Vicky get some retail therapy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ntdf6 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report WED on a newly-published novel by the late Vladimir Nabokov; WED the text was unfinished when he died in 1977, and he WED wanted it to be destroyed. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ntfl0 (Listen) WED Our Mutual Friend, Episode 8 WED Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic WED novel. WED Wegg comes to an agreement with Venus, as Bradley tries to WED do likewise with Eugene Wrayburn. WED Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings WED Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard WED Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts WED John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp WED Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy WED Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis WED Betty ...... Lynn Farleigh WED Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew WED Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke WED Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox WED Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold WED Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke WED Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross WED Venus ...... Stephen Hogan WED Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles Wildin WED Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman WED Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider WED Radford ...... Jonathan Tafler WED With Janice Acquah. WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer WED This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as WED part of the Series Catch-up Trial. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00nvx6v (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, WED Melanie Phillips and Michael Portillo cross-examine WED witnesses. WED WED 20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nvx6x (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our WED lives but which are little known outside the legal world. WED The case of Reginald Woolmington, a young farm labourer WED who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934. But WED had he intended to kill, and thus was it murder? The case WED against him seemed strong, but Woolmington's legal battle WED eventually reinforced the presumption of innocence for all WED defendants. WED WED 21:00 The Eureka Years b00cdvk0 (Listen) WED Series 4, 1650: Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War WED Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history WED of science. WED The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the WED beginning of a new age of reason. A coffee-powered network WED of scientists, theologians, politicians and traders swap WED ideas and information over a steaming dish of coffee, and WED the true nature of gravity is revealed after a coffeehouse WED argument. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00nvt2k (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including animator Richard Williams. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00ntfn0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00ntfrr (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ntk2m (Listen) WED The Glass Room, Episode 8 WED Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer. WED As war rages in Europe, a letter from Hana brings news of WED what has happened to the Glass Room. WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00g0nmp (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Series of comedy sketches by Emily Watson Howes set in a WED ladies' public toilet, featuring various female characters WED as they come and go. WED Pippa tries to work out why her date with a manic WED depressive is going so badly, in the company of the other WED women in the Ladies. WED With Emily Watson Howes, Kate Donmall, Fran Moulds, WED Suzanne Hislop. WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 All Bar Luke b00d45p6 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Prang WED Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key. WED Luke crashes his car and meets the perfect bystander after WED his brother tells him some shattering news. WED An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00nvyj6 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00nsk15 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00ny29p (Listen) THU Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 3 THU By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. THU Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a THU celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on THU location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in THU hand, he inspired a generation to cook. THU Having set up his restaurant, Floyd's, in Bristol, Keith THU agreed to film a cookery slot for local television show, THU RPM. THU Read by Michael Cochrane. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nsmkb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nsmq7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nsmm6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00nsmtf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nsn2m (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00nsnc4 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00nsnvk (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00nvz72 (Listen) THU The History of Sparta THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and THU Angie Hobbs discuss the history of Sparta and what its THU culture came to represent. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00ny29r (Listen) THU Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 4 THU By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. THU Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a THU celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on THU location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in THU hand, he inspired a generation to cook. THU Keith's television career is revived when his agent calls THU with a three-series deal which will take him to Australia, THU Spain and the Far East. THU Read by Michael Cochrane. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnnl (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00nvz74 (Listen) THU The Congo Connection THU Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and THU Germany are controlling a deadly African militia. For the THU last 15 years, the rebels of the FDLR have enforced their THU control through a series of brutal atrocities. Now THU Crossing Continents has secret intelligence suggesting THU that they were taking orders from political leaders living THU openly in Europe. THU THU 11:30 Oulipo b00nvzys (Listen) THU Writer and typographer Ben Schott investigates Oulipo, the THU French experimental literary group. Founded in 1960 and THU still in existence, Oulipo create work by imposing playful THU restrictions the way a text will be produced. Oulipo THU stands for Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, meaning THU Workshop for Potential Literature. In this humourous THU history of the French literary group, Ben discovers that THU recently, Oulipo have even made a bridgehead into THU English-speaking territory. THU In November 2008, for instance, the Canadian experimental THU poet Christian Bok published a novel called Eunoia THU (meaning 'beautiful thinking'), consisting of five THU chapters, each highlighting one vowel. Bok, who has THU previously created artificial languages for Gene THU Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, says his new novel pays THU direct homage to Oulipo. THU Oulipo's President, Paul Fournel, describes how Oulipo was THU founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais as a THU reaction to the Surrealist movement to which Queneau in THU particular had previously attached himself. Instead of THU freely following the whims of the subconscious, Oulipians THU deliberately introduced conscious constraints, and THU discovered the results could be not only plentiful but THU also intriguing. Oulipians, according to Queneau, are THU 'rats, who build the labyrinth from which they will THU escape'. Queneau's works included Cent Mille Milliards de THU Poemes, or 100,000,000,000,000 Poems, in which each page THU contains a 14-line sonnet, split into 14 strips, which can THU be separated and re-combined in a THU One of Oulipo's most famous members, George Perec, wrote THU an entire novel, La Disparition, as a lipogram, avoiding THU the use of the letter E. Translated into English under the THU title A Void, the novel is now required reading on some THU academic courses for computer programmers. Later, Perec THU devised a 'story-writing machine' based on the knight's THU tour of the chessboard, in the writing of his 1970 novel, THU Life: A User's Manual, which links every occupant in every THU room of a Paris apartment block. THU Some other techniques used by Oulipians to generate work THU include the N+7 method (where every noun is replaced by THU the noun found seven entries further on in a dictionary), THU Cento (a poem patched together out of lines written by THU other poets), palindromes and multiple choice narratives. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00nsp6l (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00ntb6g (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00ntbcc (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00nvzyv (Listen) THU Porky Pies THU According to a recent survey we live in a world full of THU lies - concluding that most people tell at least two THU important lies a day, a third of conversations involve THU some sort of deception and 60 per cent of the population THU have cheated on their partners at least once. THU To debate this and seek out the truth about lies are THU Professor Richard Wiseman, who has spent a lifetime trying THU to discover the clues that give away deception, writer Ian THU Leslie, who described the search for the perfect lie THU detector, and columnist Michele Hanson, whose mother was THU only ever able to tell the truth. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00ntbkb (Listen) THU Mike and Vicky get some retail therapy. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00d0hw2 (Listen) THU Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey THU Poignant comedy drama by Ian Kershaw. THU Alan and Jean Warburton are on vacation, but this is no THU ordinary holiday. They are spending it in their bedroom. THU Alan ...... George Costigan THU Jean ...... Julie Hesmondhalgh THU Dawn ....... Rina Mahoney THU Barbara ...... Melissa Jane Sinden THU Kid ...... Daniel Rogers THU Directed by Gary Brown. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00nxhz4 (Listen) THU A Journey Through the New Forest THU Matt Baker joins the team involved in a unique restoration THU project which is using a light railway to help restore THU areas of New Forest wetland that have been missing since THU Victorian times. He takes a wander along part of the THU 800-metre long rail line, learning more about the project THU which it is hoped will see the return of habitat and THU wildlife lost to the forest for years. THU Matt also joins the team involved in the hugely successful THU British-built Steam Car ahead of its triumphant return THU home to the New Forest after smashing the 100-year-old THU world land speed record for a steam-powered car. Finally, THU Matt reduces his hoof-print even further and rounds off THU the day at nature's pace by meeting the Suffolk Punch THU horses of the New Forest Horse-Drawn Omnibus. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nsg9q (Listen) THU Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society THU Lian Yarlett appeals on behalf of Ataxia-Telangiectasia THU Society. THU Donations to Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society should be sent THU to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of THU your envelope A-T Society. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 THU 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide A-T THU Society with your full name and address so they can claim THU the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone THU donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1105528. THU THU 15:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfc1 (Listen) THU Series 10, Miss Bell and Miss Heaton THU Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. THU By Janette Walkinshaw, read by Ann Louise Ross. THU Jane Bell has some difficult news for her best friend in THU this elegiac tale of love in its many forms. THU THU 15:45 The Garden b00ntcw8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU An evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire THU garden through time and the seasons, from its earliest THU creation to the challenges it faces in the 21st century. THU This is a fictional tale based on fact, set against a THU backdrop of specially recorded sounds. THU When autumn arrives, the bright colours of summer fade. THU The garden is now a quieter place, although not silent, as THU a robin sings to mark its territory. Swallows, swifts and THU house martins leave the garden and migrate south, while THU the frogs and toads search for a suitable place to THU hibernate for the winter. THU Narrated by Peter France THU Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00nshqt (Listen) THU Mariella talks to Frances Fyfield, whose bestselling crime THU novels are influenced by her previous career as a lawyer THU for the Crown Prosecution Service. She explains how a THU recently discovered fascination with her local butcher's THU shop influenced her latest book, Cold to the Touch. THU The short story writer John Cheever was sometimes THU described as the Chekhov of the suburbs. As a new THU biography of this chronicler of the American middle class THU is published, Mariella talks to its author, Blake Bailey, THU and the novelist Paul Bailey, who interviewed him for the THU BBC 30 years ago, to find out more about Cheever's life THU and work. THU And there's advice for another book lover with a problem THU from The Reading Clinic. The editor of Granta, John THU Freeman, has some suggestions for an Open Book listener THU who is in search of reading matter for a trip to San THU Francisco. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00nw3rq (Listen) THU It would have 'algae tubes', be made largely of glass and THU have an 'algae photovoltaic bioreactor' at its heart: the THU Algae House is the award-winning design of a house of the THU future. THU A team of postgraduate students at Cambridge University THU have set out one possible future for the concept THU 'algaetecture'. They plan to exploit the properties of THU algae to generate hydrogen to be used in hydrogen fuel THU cells and to harvest the algae to create biofuels, all in THU the domestic setting of the home. Quentin Cooper meets the THU students who think the future's bright - the future's THU algae green. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ntd2h (Listen) THU 19th November 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU London ambulance workers continue their strike, New Kids THU on the Block reach number one and the Czech demonstrations THU gather pace. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ntd86 (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 b00ntd9b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nw3rs (Listen) THU Series 3, A Horrible Life Un-Ruined And Then Re-Ruined A THU Lot THU Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. THU Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty THU on the banks of the Thames. Will Pip and Harry be able to THU find work, or will they have to end their days eating mud THU and listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent? THU Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman THU Barker Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ...... Susy Kane THU A Vegetarian Lion ...... Mark Evans. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00ntbkd (Listen) THU Leon's charm loses its sparkle. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ntdf8 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ntfl2 (Listen) THU Our Mutual Friend, Episode 9 THU Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic THU novel. THU John Rokesmith sets about straightening his very untidy THU life. THU Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings THU Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard THU Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts THU John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp THU Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy THU Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis THU Betty ...... Lynn Farleigh THU Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew THU Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke THU Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox THU Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler THU Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold THU Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke THU Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross THU Venus ...... Stephen Hogan THU Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles Wildin THU Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman THU Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider THU Radford ...... Jonathan Tafler THU With Janice Acquah. THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer THU This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as THU part of the Series Catch-up Trial. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00nw3rv (Listen) THU The sacking of the government's former chief drugs adviser THU caused outrage in some quarters of the scientific THU community. Professor David Nutt had criticised the THU government's decision to reclassify cannabis from class C THU to class B. James Silver investigates the causes of the THU row and asks if the government's cannabis classification THU policy is in disarray. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00nw3rx (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 b00nw3rz (Listen) THU 2009 has been the International Year of Astronomy. It THU comes, says astronomer-historian Dr Paul Murdin, at the THU climax of the best century astronomers are ever likely to THU have; a period of exploration in which we have had our THU first look through many new windows on the Universe and THU our first close-up encounters with other planets. There is THU plenty left to do, he tells Geoff Watts, but never again THU can we have that exciting first view. THU Our telescopes can see back to the dawn of the Universe, THU but in terms of space exploration, we've hardly stepped THU out of the door. In a year's time, the US Space Shuttle is THU due to be retired from service, leaving NASA without its THU own rocket that can launch humans and supply the THU International Space Station. Geoff hears how the space THU agency is turning to the private sector to design and THU build its launch vehicles and what that implies for a THU return to the Moon and exploration beyond, to Mars. THU Plus news from the past and present of forensic science, THU in fiction and reality. Sherlock Holmes was arguably the THU first fictional character to make use of forensic science, THU but what techniques were available to him and how THU accurately did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle portray them? Today, THU TV series such as Silent Witness and Waking the Dead are THU built on forensic science. How do they compare to the THU realities of moden techniques? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00nvz72 (Listen) THU The History of Sparta THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and THU Angie Hobbs discuss the history of Sparta and what its THU culture came to represent. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00ntfn2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ntfrt (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ntk2p (Listen) THU The Glass Room, Episode 9 THU Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer. THU The Landauers are on the move again but when their train THU is stopped in Occupied France, Viktor faces a devastating THU loss. THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Pick Ups b00nw3s1 (Listen) THU Series 2, Heroes and Villains THU Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi THU company. THU It's decision time - will Simon De Vere call time on THU Irwell Cars, and will Dave choose Milan over Lower THU Broughton Working Men's Club? THU Mike ...... Paul Loughran THU Lind ...... Lesley Sharp THU Dave ...... Phil Rowson THU Alan ...... Parvez Qadir THU Simon De Vere ...... James Quinn THU Stevie ...... Suranne Jones THU Pat the Butcher ...... Andrew Grose. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ntk5h (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00nsk17 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00ny29r (Listen) FRI Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 4 FRI By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. FRI Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a FRI celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on FRI location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in FRI hand, he inspired a generation to cook. FRI Keith's television career is revived when his agent calls FRI with a three-series deal which will take him to Australia, FRI Spain and the Far East. FRI Read by Michael Cochrane. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nsmkd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nsmq9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nsmm8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00nsmth (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nsn2p (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Philip Robinson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00nsnc6 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00nsnvm (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00nsgg1 (Listen) FRI Julia Donaldson FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia FRI Donaldson. FRI The Gruffalo is her best known creation. Published ten FRI years ago, it's become a modern classic; it has sold more FRI than four million copies, won an armful of awards and been FRI turned into a film. But Julia nearly gave up when she was FRI half way through writing it, and only the encouragement of FRI her son persuaded her to continue. Its latest accolade is FRI that BBC listeners have just voted it their favourite book FRI for reading out loud at bedtime. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00ny29t (Listen) FRI Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 5 FRI By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. FRI Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a FRI celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on FRI location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in FRI hand, he inspired a generation to cook. FRI Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive FRI drinking was about to take its toll. FRI Read by Michael Cochrane. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnnn (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nw3wn (Listen) FRI Series 5, Balancing Act FRI When Joni met Howie: the story of a long-distance love FRI affair that blossomed amid the torn ligaments and strained FRI quadriceps of some of Britain's top circus performers. FRI Joni, a leading Mayfair physiotherapist, could only marvel FRI when she met the men and women of No Fit State circus, at FRI the musculature and the perfection equilibrium of their FRI bodies. But Howie, a former horticulturalist, advertising FRI stiltwalker and all-round free spirit was special, and FRI soon they were more than friends. FRI Now, as if keeping their two lives together - ministering FRI to the muscular misfortunes of City financiers and FRI performing high in the Big Top all over Europe - weren't FRI enough, Howie faces a special, personal ordeal. He must FRI undergo much-postponed surgery on his damaged left knee. FRI Meanwhile Joni has her own enormous physical challenges to FRI face. FRI FRI 11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nw3wq (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock FRI star and his search for fulfilment. FRI Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt finds the perfect excuse FRI to get rid of shed-loads of cash when his mum is taken FRI hostage. FRI Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams FRI Dom ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mr Green the Banker ......Geoff McGivern FRI Dimitri the Kidnapper ...... Phil Cornwell FRI Sophie/Waiter ...... Matt Addis. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00nsp6n (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00ntb6j (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00ntbcf (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00nw3ws (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00ntbkd (Listen) FRI Leon's charm loses its sparkle. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nws6h (Listen) FRI Number 10, And Drugs Won... FRI Series of plays by Jonathan Myerson depicting life inside FRI Downing Street. FRI In a pact with the Liberal Democrats, Labour have formed a FRI government. But the new Lib Dem home secretary seems FRI determined to stray off message, and the legalisation of FRI drugs is top of her agenda. FRI Adam ...... Antony Sher FRI Monica ...... Sasha Behar FRI Polly ...... Penny Downie FRI Bill ...... Bill Paterson FRI Steve ...... Stephen Mangan FRI Gwen Donoghue ...... Denise Black FRI Helen Ridout ...... Lucy Robinson FRI Chair of Bolswell North CLP ...... Scott Cherry FRI Lucy, Channel 4 news reporter ...... Charlotte Lucas FRI Chief Superintendant ...... Paul Jesson FRI Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nws6k (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a 'postbag' edition of the programme FRI from Sparhsolt College in Hampshire. FRI Pippa Greenwood, John Cushnie and Anne Swithinbank answer FRI questions sent in via post and email. FRI Plus an update on the slug trials set up at our garden FRI party in Harlow Carr; how have our lettuces faired since FRI September? FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Garden b00ntcwb (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI An evocative series telling the story of an Oxfordshire FRI garden through time and the seasons, from its earliest FRI creation to the challenges it faces in the 21st century. FRI This is a fictional tale based on fact, set against a FRI backdrop of specially recorded sounds. FRI The story reaches the present day. Winter arrives, and for FRI many creatures the garden is a sanctuary offering food and FRI shelter, which may be difficult to find in the surrounding FRI landscape. FRI Narrated by Peter France FRI Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00nws6m (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 b00nws6p (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Joel and Ethan Coen about their FRI new film, A Serious Man. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ntd2m (Listen) FRI 20th November 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI In Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu receives 67 standing FRI ovations during a six-hour speech as he refuses to take FRI note of the changes sweeping Eastern Europe; US secretary FRI of defense Richard Cheney announces the scaling back of FRI troop numbers in Eastern Europe. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ntd89 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ntd9d (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00nws6r (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 9 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan FRI and Sue Perkins. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00ntbkg (Listen) FRI Lynda and Robert get an infant houseguest. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ntdfb (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an FRI interview with the director Richard Linklater, whose new FRI film stars Zac Efron as a young actor cast by Orson Welles FRI in a Shakespeare play on Broadway. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ntfl4 (Listen) FRI Our Mutual Friend, Episode 10 FRI Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic FRI novel. FRI Bradley Headstone has a very clear picture of his future, FRI and enlists Charlie Hexam to help him achieve it. FRI Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings FRI Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard FRI Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts FRI John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp FRI Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy FRI Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis FRI Betty ...... Lynn Farleigh FRI Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke FRI Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox FRI Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler FRI Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold FRI Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke FRI Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross FRI Venus ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles Wildin FRI Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman FRI Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider FRI Radford ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI With Janice Acquah. FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer FRI This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as FRI part of the Series Catch-up Trial. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00nws6t (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from FRI Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. The panel includes the FRI former leader of the Liberal Party, Lord Steel, and FRI columnist Maya Jaggi. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00nws6w (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00ny6r4 (Listen) FRI Vent FRI Comedy drama by Nigel Smith. Ben has survived a crippling FRI brain lesion but he won't engage with the world around FRI him, preferring to stay safely in his own fantasy world. FRI Ben ...... Neil Pearson FRI Mary ...... Fiona Allen FRI Mum ...... Josie Lawrence FRI Blitz ...... Leslie Ash FRI Naz ...... Robert Webb FRI Ellie ...... Rachel Isaac FRI Bitch Nurse ...... Joanna Brookes FRI Karl/HG Wells ...... Matthew Kelly FRI Katy ...... Laura Doddington FRI Mr Arcola ...... Bruce Alexander FRI Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith FRI Directed by Nigel Smith. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00ntfn4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00ntfrw (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ntk2r (Listen) FRI The Glass Room, Episode 10 FRI Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer. FRI Thirty years have passed since Viktor and Liesel left the FRI Landauer House. But Liesel has one more chance to FRI experience the Glass Room. FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00nvfmz (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to a husband and wife team, literary FRI editor at The Times Erica Wagner and teacher and writer FRI Francis Gilbert, about their favourite books, which FRI include Ursula Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ntk5k (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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