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

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SAT       SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00nrtlh (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week 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.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nrtlk (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
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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.
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SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nrtlp (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
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SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00nrtlr (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00nrvrk (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nrx6b (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00nrx6d (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nrx6g (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SUN       the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone
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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