30 December, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 02/01/2010 - 08/01/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 2 JANUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00pg5vh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvwx (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin, SAT expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy. SAT Prof Baruch Blumberg received the 1976 Nobel Prize for his SAT work on viral infection. He and his colleagues discovered SAT the Hepatitis B virus, diagnostic methods for its SAT detection, and the vaccine. The vaccine, the first SAT anti-cancer vaccine, is now one of the most commonly used SAT world-wide and has prevented many cases of disease and SAT death. He describes the central issues that viruses - SAT unknown to Darwin - raise for biologists looking at the SAT role of cooperation in the history of life; and further, SAT how evolution proved to be fundamental in his later work SAT for NASA, searching for life elsewhere in the universe. SAT Listen to Programme Five SAT Prof Baruch Blumberg SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xr (Listen) SAT Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 5 SAT Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read SAT from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence. SAT Vincent is recovering in hospital following the incident SAT in which he severed his own earlobe. Gauguin has left the SAT yellow house in Arles for good, but the two artists still SAT correspond. Although Vincent recovers physically from the SAT incident, he decides to commit himself to a mental asylum SAT only weeks after leaving hospital. SAT Abridged by Doreen Estall. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pg5vk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pg5vm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pg5vp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00pg5vr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pg5vt (Listen) SAT Prayer for the Day SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. SAT SAT 05:45 A Box of Wittgensteins b00fy2xf (Listen) SAT The Palais Wittgenstein SAT The great-niece of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, SAT Margaret Stonborough, talks to the artist and historian SAT Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of SAT newly-inherited family archives. As she digs deeper into SAT the talented but tortured lives of the Wittgensteins she SAT finds her cramped London house becoming ever more crowded SAT with her larger-than-life forbears. SAT The first object out of the box takes Margaret back to a SAT soiree in Vienna in 1895 at the palatial house of an SAT Austrian steel magnate, Karl Wittgenstein. He was the SAT father of eight children including Ludwig the philosopher, SAT Paul the left-handed pianist and Margaret's own SAT grandmother, who was painted by Gustav Klimt. As the SAT family gathered for the evening, records show that the SAT composer Johannes Brahms arrived at the Palais SAT Wittgenstein. SAT The readers are Sarah Finch, Nicholas Rowe and Dan Starkey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00pg5vw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00physm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00physp (Listen) SAT SouthWest Shipwrecks SAT Helen Mark explores Devon and Corwall to investigate why SAT so many shipwrecks still happen. SAT The grounding of the MSC Napoli in Lyme Bay in January SAT 2007 made headlines around the world. The hull of the SAT 62,000-tonne vessel cracked in waters off The Lizard, and SAT while being towed to safety the situation worsened and she SAT was grounded off Branscombe Beach. Several containers also SAT fell overboard and were washed ashore, leading to SAT scavengers coming from across the UK. The 50 million-pound SAT cleanup operation and breakup was only completed in July SAT 2009. Helen Mark revisits the famous beach to find out how SAT the wreck and the drama affected their lives and landscape. SAT Modern wrecks still happen and the European Maritime SAT Agency records show an increase in the number of ships SAT sunk in European waters in recent years. Helen meets SAT master mariner and lecturer Paul Wright to find out why SAT these accidents still happen. She also learns about the SAT HMS Scylla, a decommissioned frigate which was SAT deliberately sunk off the south-west coast. SAT One reason for the danger is that our records of the sea SAT bed can be surprisingly out of date. Some charts still SAT have recordings made by the Victorians with a lead weight. SAT Other areas have not been charted at all. The Maritime and SAT Coastguard Agency are at the start of a 100-year project SAT to accurately scan the seabed using modern 3D technology. SAT But their findings are also discovering lost ships and SAT submarines and revealing more about the geology of our sea SAT floor. SAT Related Links SAT * Maritime and Coastguard Agency (www.mcga.gov.uk) SAT * Seabed Images (www.mcga.gov.uk) SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00physr (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Charlotte Smith follows a year in the life of four groups SAT of people taking the plunge into farming. The UK needs an SAT estimated 60,000 new entrants to agriculture over the next SAT 10 years to maintain our food supplies. This year SAT economics, animal disease and the weather have all been SAT major challenges to those coming into the business. SAT Charlotte discovers if they have survived the year and if SAT they have managed to make farming pay. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00phzck (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00phzcm (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00phzcp (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Mark SAT Radcliffe. With poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00phzcr (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig talks to American writer and broadcaster SAT Garrison Keillor about his travelling life, his influences SAT and inspiration, about Minnesota and of course about the SAT fictional community of Lake Wobegon. SAT SAT 10:30 Jane Austen's Ipod b00phzvj (Listen) SAT Jane Austen collected songs all her life but many of them SAT have only just come to light, in manuscripts inherited by SAT one of her descendants. Jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert SAT performs Austen's favourite songs, with new piano and SAT clarinet accompaniment by David Owen Norris. At Austen's SAT house in Chawton, Hampshire, scholars and biographers SAT discuss how they cast a new light on one of our best-loved SAT writers. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00phzvl (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. SAT The 2010 general election is likely to be marked by the SAT biggest turnover of MPs since the Second World War. There SAT will be lots of new faces, but what about those backbench SAT MPs who have already announced their intention to stand SAT down in the wake of what has been a miserable year for the SAT House of Commons? Jim Hancock considers what lies in store SAT for a former parliamentarian in the world beyond SAT Westminster and talks to some of those who are saying SAT goodbye about what has gone wrong in Parliament and what SAT needs changing. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00phzvn (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00phzvq (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00pg5rl (Listen) SAT Series 29, Episode 6 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by the usual gang SAT plus lots of special guests, including Jon Culshaw, Jon SAT Richardson and Paul Sinha. Together they look back at the SAT big issues from the last twelve months – not least custard SAT probes, thieving seagulls and poisonous frogs SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00phzvs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00phzvv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b00pg5tn (Listen) SAT Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top SAT correspondents to give their predictions about what will SAT shape our world in the year ahead. Will the global economy SAT turn the corner and rejoin the path to growth? Will the US SAT and its allies defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan or will SAT they pull out? And will China start to assert its SAT new-found power across Asia? SAT SAT This year's panel SAT Stephen will be joined by Defence Correspondent Caroline SAT Wyatt, Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins, World SAT Affairs Correspondent Lyse Doucet, Economics Editor SAT Stephanie Flanders and North America Editor Mark Mardell. SAT SAT 14:00 Listeners Look Ahead b00pmcb6 (Listen) SAT 2010 SAT Stephen Sackur hosts a phone-in during which listeners SAT have the opportunity to air their views on the events SAT which will dominate the news in 2010. SAT Phone 03700 100 444 to have your say. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00phzvx (Listen) SAT Private Lives SAT Comedy by Noel Coward. Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot SAT meet again on their second honeymoons. SAT Amanda ...... Helena Bonham Carter SAT Elyot ...... Bill Nighy SAT Sibyl ...... Andrea Riseborough SAT Victor ...... Paul Ritter SAT Louise ...... AnnaRose Cattanach SAT Pianist: Colin Guthrie SAT Directed by Sally Avens. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00pj0ws (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Jane Garvey celebrates some of the most inspirational SAT achievers who appeared on the programme last year. SAT Katie Piper is a former model and TV presenter who SAT suffered a horrific attack, arranged by her former SAT boyfriend. Acid was thrown into her face, causing SAT extensive third-degree burns and blindness in one eye. She SAT has had over 30 operations and her life has changed beyond SAT recognition. Katie and her mother Diane talk about what SAT happened. SAT Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being SAT influenced by her mother, the author and pacifist Vera SAT Brittain, her father George Catlin, a leading political SAT scientist, encouraged her to have high ambitions for SAT herself. She left the Labour party after 35 years of SAT membership to co-found the Social Democratic Party as one SAT of the Gang of Four. Jenni talks to her about her SAT extraordinary life and career in politics. SAT Jane visits Marguerite Patten, the doyenne of British SAT cookery for more than 60 years. During the Second World SAT War it was her job to insist that the nation made the most SAT of the limited ingredients available, even if this meant SAT creating bananas and cream from parsnip, sugar and banana SAT flavouring. SAT As last year marked the 150th anniversary of district SAT nursing, Irene Sankey, now in her late 90s, shares her SAT experiences of working as a district nurse in the 1940s. SAT And an unusual inspirational high achiever: a performance SAT from Miss Behave, a female sword swallower. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pj0wv (Listen) SAT 2nd January 1990 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT Reorganisation begins in Romania as fledgling political SAT parties take shape. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00pj0wx (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00pj0wz (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pj0x1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00pj0x7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pj0xb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00pj0xk (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson celebrates a year of top entertainment in SAT 2009. SAT With Stephen Fry, June Whitfield, Des O'Connor, Alison SAT Steadman, Dara O Briain, June Brown, Gerry Anderson, Jon SAT Culshaw and Rachael Stirling. SAT Plus comic interludes from John Shuttleworth, Isy Suttie, SAT Stop Messing About's Robin Sebastian and Nigel Harrison, SAT and poet and comedian Tim Key. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00pj0xr (Listen) SAT Fabio Capello SAT As World Cup year begins, England's football hopes centre SAT on manager Fabio Capello. But despite intense media SAT attention this art-loving Italian remains a distant, SAT mysterious figure. Chris Bowlby looks for the man behind SAT the stern facade. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00pj0xy (Listen) SAT At the beginning of 2010 the influence of technology on SAT how we make art, how we experience art and how art is SAT delivered to us has never been greater. This special SAT edition of Saturday Review looks at how art has been SAT shaped by technology over the last ten years and how it SAT may be affected in the future. SAT Writers Paul Morley and John Lanchester and critic SAT Susannah Clapp explore the blurring of the boundaries SAT between visual art, music, theatre and technology, with SAT insights from artist Grayson Perry, theatre director Katie SAT Mitchell and journalist Cory Doctorow. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00pq8vp (Listen) SAT The New York '77 Blackout SAT An exploration of the blackout on 13 July 1977 that SAT plunged a sweltering and near-bankrupt New York City into SAT chaos as the lights went out at 9.27pm. Music stations SAT switched to rolling news and the sound of store alarms was SAT the prelude to a night of fear and unprecedented SAT lawlessness. SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00pdzg9 (Listen) SAT Matilda, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern SAT children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size SAT five-year-old genius. SAT Matilda is determined to save the school and her favourite SAT teacher Miss Honey from the vicious grip of its terrifying SAT headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. SAT Narrator ...... Lenny Henry SAT Matilda ...... Lauren Mote SAT Miss Trunchbull ......Nichola McAuliffe SAT Mrs Wormwood ...... Claire Rushbrook SAT Mr Wormwood ...... John Biggins SAT Miss Honey ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Michael ...... Ryan Watson SAT Lavender ...... Sinead Michael SAT Nigel ...... Bertie Gilbert SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00pj0y6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00pg5d3 (Listen) SAT Justice Denied in the Civil Courts? SAT Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal SAT issues of the day. SAT Civil Court cases, from personal injury to unlawful SAT detention, are increasingly being settled out of court. SAT The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has warned that the SAT civil justice system is failing. But can the system afford SAT to give everyone their day in court? SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00pfpdb (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the twelfth and final heat of the SAT perennial general knowledge contest, with contestants from SAT the north of England. SAT Contestants SAT Richard Beatty from Edinburgh SAT Anne Hegerty from Manchester SAT David Smith from Nantwich SAT Martin Wyatt from Accrington SAT SAT 23:30 The Kalevala: Finland's National Epic b00pf0kd (Listen) SAT Storyteller and musician Nick Hennessey travels to Finland SAT to explore the mythical world of the country's national SAT poem, The Kalevala. SAT First published in 1835, this 50-chapter epic inspired a SAT 19th-century artistic awakening and remains a cornerstone SAT of contemporary Finnish culture. Speaking to musicians and SAT critics, Hennessey finds out how the poem helped shape the SAT nation. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 3 JANUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00pj2dj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Einstein's Fiddle b008fcf4 (Listen) SUN Physicist Brian Foster explores the role of music in the SUN life of Albert Einstein. SUN Although best known for his towering scientific SUN achievements, Einstein was a fine amateur violinist and SUN occasionally played in public. Indeed, he once said that SUN he got the most joy in his life from playing the violin. SUN When he was due to receive his Nobel Prize in 1922, he was SUN in Japan, not only meeting other physicists but also SUN giving performancesof the Kreuzer Sonata, one of the most SUN challenging pieces in the repertoire. SUN Music also played a role in his work as a physicist. He SUN would often break off from a particularly difficult piece SUN of work to play his violin in the hope of seeking SUN inspiration. And he found parallels between the beauty and SUN harmony he saw in scientific laws and the music of SUN composers such as Mozart, which he felt reflected the SUN inner beauty of the universe itself. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fplh (Listen) SUN Pier Shorts, Four Battenburgs SUN Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier. SUN By Michael Odell. SUN All teachers want a bright class, but can a child be too SUN clever by half? Little Tommy Spence turns a school SUN model-making project into a life-or-death situation. SUN Read By Stephen Tompkinson. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pj2dl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pj2dn (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pj2dq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00pj2ds (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00pj2dv (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's Church in Abergavenny. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00pj0xr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00pj2dx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00pj2dz (Listen) SUN Earth's Crammed With Heaven SUN Mark Tully considers where heaven is to be found, in SUN conversation with his friend and veteran documentary maker SUN Jonathan Stedall. SUN The readers are William Gaminara, Emily Raymond and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00pj2f1 (Listen) SUN When Kerala farmer Jacob Mathew read Rachael Carson's SUN classic Silent Spring, he, like many counterparts in SUN Europe and the USA, decided to turn his back on SUN pesticides. It wasn't an instant success but now he has SUN also embraced a traditional style of farming - tall trees SUN for timber, bamboo to help conserve water and soil and a SUN mix of traditional spices, fruits and vegetables in place SUN of rubber trees - and his business is thriving. Steve SUN Peacock visits him at Haritha Farms' The Pimenta and finds SUN he has another thing in common with European farmers - the SUN need to diversify. So among the tall trees, spices and SUN wildlife is another crop - tourists. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00pj336 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00pj338 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00pj3yh (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 b00pj3yk (Listen) SUN Kidscape SUN Anna Raeburn appeals on behalf of Kidscape. SUN Donations to Kidscape should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Kidscape. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide Kidscape with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number 326864. SUN Related Links SUN * Kidscape (www.kidscape.org.uk) SUN Kidscape is a UK charity which works to prevent bullying. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00pj3ym (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00pj3yp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00pj3yr (Listen) SUN Choral Matins for Epiphany from Christ Church Cathedral, SUN Dublin. SUN Preacher: Very Rev Dermot Dunne SUN Director of Music: Judy Martin SUN Organist: Tristan Russcher. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00pg5tq (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00pj3yt (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00pj3yw (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00pj3yy (Listen) SUN John Copley SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. SUN Throughout his 60-year career, Copley has worked with all SUN the greats at the major opera houses of the world. He SUN introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed SUN Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called SUN upon to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years SUN old when he first saw an opera and he loved it straight SUN away; 'I caught opera', he says, 'like the measles'. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00pfr4w (Listen) SUN New Year Special SUN David Mitchell hosts a special New Year's edition of the SUN game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies SUN and compete to see how many items of truth they are able SUN to smuggle past their opponents. The panel includes Rob SUN Brydon, John Lloyd and Stephen Fry. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00pj3z0 (Listen) SUN School Dinner Revolution SUN Sheila Dillon is joined by guests including Jeanette Orrey SUN of the Food for Life Partnership. Known as the school cook SUN who inspired Jamie Oliver, government advisor Jeanette SUN discusses her latest initiative, the School Cooks Network. SUN A hot and healthy daily meal should be taken for granted SUN by all our children and young people. And that's why SUN school meals have been consistently high on the SUN government's agenda, (with a little help from celebrity SUN chefs and dinner ladies). The latest development is a SUN commitment to free school meals for another half a million SUN pupils from low-income families. SUN Faced with complex new nutritional standards, school cooks SUN all over Britain are pushing the boundaries in finding SUN ways of improving the quality of school dinners, using SUN fresh local produce and working within tiny budgets. And SUN ideas of healthy eating and cooking are filtering their SUN way into the curriculum; cooking clubs are multiplying, SUN and increasing numbers of schools have their own kitchen SUN gardens. SUN Producer: Sukey Firth. SUN Related Links SUN * Food for Life Partnership, funded by the Big Lottery SUN Fund (www.foodforlife.org.uk) SUN * The Soil Association (www.soilassociation.org) SUN * Garden Organic (www.gardenorganic.org.uk) SUN * Health Education Trust (www.healthedtrust.com) SUN * Focus on Food Campaign (www.focusonfood.org) SUN * School Food Trust (www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk) SUN * Let’s Get Cooking (www.letsgetcooking.org.uk) SUN * Handmade Catering – the Food Training Co SUN (www.handmadesupplydirect.com) SUN * Local Authority Caterers’ Association SUN (www.laca.co.uk) SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00pj3z2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00pj3z4 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 Bach Fever! b00pfsln (Listen) SUN Exploring the uses and abuses of Bach's music, from the SUN jazz Bach craze of the 1960s to the electronic edifice of SUN Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach recordings. It has provided SUN an incredible resource for pop invention, jazz SUN improvisation, acapella swing, electronic futurism, rock SUN guitar and plain kitsch. SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00plvv6 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are SUN guests of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in SUN Edinburgh. SUN They explore the delights of Alpines and meet members of SUN the Scottish Rock Garden Club. SUN Including gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxpd (Listen) SUN The Kingdom Choir SUN Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the SUN country. SUN Joan reunites with a choir very close to her heart, who SUN performed with her in a tribute song to Nelson Mandela. SUN She hears what distinguishes Gospel singing and how the SUN message and the music come together in praise. SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00pj463 (Listen) SUN The Custom of the Country, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SUN satire of marriage and money in early 20th-century SUN American society. SUN When the beautiful Undine Spragg arrives in New York, she SUN sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, but will he live up to SUN her expectations? SUN Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SUN Mrs Spragg ...... Barbara Barnes SUN Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SUN Abner Spragg/Popple ...... Jonathan Keeble SUN Peter Van Degan ...... William Houston SUN Mr Dagonet ...... Paul McCleary SUN Laura Fairford ...... Provence Maydew SUN Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SUN Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SUN Mabel Lipscombe ...... Tessa Nicholson SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00pj4s2 (Listen) SUN Alexander McCall Smith SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Alexander McCall Smith SUN about 44 Scotland Street, the first novel of his series SUN set in Edinburgh. SUN SUN 16:30 Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines b00pj4s4 (Listen) SUN Can a book of poetry for boys which inspired young men at SUN the beginning of the 20th century work its magic on a new SUN generation? Comedian Miles Jupp revisits his old prep SUN school with a book of Muscular Lines to see if the SUN stirring verse about battles, exploration and moral values SUN is relevant today. Some of today's heroes and explorers SUN reveal the poems that keep them going when times get tough. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pjj15 (Listen) SUN 3rd January 1990 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN In Panama, General Noriega gives himself up to US forces. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 From Tsunami to Drought b00pfv05 (Listen) SUN Andrea Catherwood chairs a series of presentations at the SUN Royal Geographical Society organised by conservation SUN charity Earth Watch, each offering novel solutions to SUN global drought, with a Dragons' Den-style panel and an SUN audience quizzing them about their ideas. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00pj0xr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pjj17 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00pjj19 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pjj1c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00pjj1f (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00pjj6b (Listen) SUN Kenton hits the town in the name of 'research'. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00pjj6d (Listen) SUN Host Kevin Connolly is joined by journalist Farai Chideya SUN to discuss the beginning of 2010. What will be the big SUN stories? What might the decade have in store for America? SUN Kevin talks with Tea-Party Conservatives about what the SUN ideal US government would look like if Tea Partiers SUN continue to succeed in making a powerful impression on the SUN masses dressing up in colonial attire and raising their SUN voices. SUN Comedian Margaret Cho talks about what will be funny in SUN 2010, how to make jokes and complain even if things are SUN going your way. SUN The American football season is coming to a close, with SUN College Bowl football games still to come. Match-ups of SUN college teams bring droves of American fans to bars and SUN parties across the nation. Kevin visits a sports bar in SUN Washington DC to get a sense of the excitement and to talk SUN with Washington Post sports writer Gene Wang. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t4n (Listen) SUN An Italian Bestiary, The Chestnuts and the Wild Pigs SUN Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the SUN animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she SUN has made her home. SUN The wild pigs are the real lords of the forest. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00pg5r8 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Clip (1) SUN * SUN More or Less - Stephen Dubner: why I like numbers SUN Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, explains why he SUN likes numbers, and number 16 in particular. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00pg5rg (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and SUN interest from many walks of life, some famous and some SUN less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00phzvq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00pj3yk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00pg5pj (Listen) SUN Project Alcatraz SUN What makes a businessman turn gangsters into employees? SUN Peter Day talks to Alberto Vollmer of the Santa Teresa Rum SUN Company in Venezuela. He tells Peter how the theft of a SUN security guard's gun led him to set up a project which has SUN cut crime in his area by 40 per cent and has now become an SUN integral part of this 200-year-old family business. SUN Related Links SUN * Project Alcatraz (www.proyectoalcatraz.org) SUN * Alo Presidente (www.alopresidente.gob.ve) SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00pjk17 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00pjkkj (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN More Than A Game. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00pjkyx (Listen) SUN Week ending 2nd January 1990 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN The world comes to Romania's aid, playwright Vaclav Havel SUN is elected President of Czechoslovakia, and Gorbachev and SUN Bush welcome a new decade. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00pj2dz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 4 JANUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00pjls0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pg5d1 (Listen) MON As part of Radio 4's University tour, Laurie Taylor MON travels to the University of Bedfordshire where he's MON joined by an audience of students and panel to discuss MON class and social mobility. MON In 2003 Tony Blair announced he wanted half of all 18 to MON 30-year-olds to participate in higher education by 2010. MON While numbers are up, a report from the Higher Education MON Statistics Agency suggests their social background has MON barely changed, with the middle classes still making up MON the majority of University students. So does education MON provide a means to social mobility, is social mobility MON even a meaningful expression and has society ignored class MON barriers in favour of focusing on identity politics? MON Laurie is joined by Lynsey Hanley, Guardian journalist and MON author of Estates - an Intimate History; Richard Reeves, MON Director of the think tank Demos; Danny Dorling Professor MON of geography at Sheffield University and by Dick Hobbs, MON sociologist at the London School of Economics. They MON discuss these and other questions of class barriers, MON social divides and whether Britain will ever shed its MON class system and the divisions it creates. MON Related Links MON * Demos' the think tank for 'everyday MON democracy' (www.demos.co.uk) MON * Poverty, Wealth and Place in Britain, 1968-2005 MON (www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00pj2dv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pjlxd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjm0c (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pjlz0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjm0y (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pjm6s (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00pjp9b (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00pk7hy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00pjpmz (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 In Our Time b00pk7j0 (Listen) MON In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science, MON Episode 1 MON As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn MON Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific MON learned society of them all: the Royal Society. MON Melvyn travels to Wadham College, Oxford, where under the MON shadow of the English Civil War, the young Christopher MON Wren and friends experimented in the garden of their MON inspirational college warden, John Wilkins. MON Back in London, as Charles II is brought to the throne MON from exile, the new Society is formally founded one night MON in Gresham College. When London burns six years later, it MON is two of the key early Fellows of the Society who are MON charged with its rebuilding. And, as Melvyn finds out, in MON the secret observatory in The Monument to the fire, it is MON science which flavours their plans. MON Related Links MON * The Royal Society (royalsociety.org) MON * Wadham College (www.wadham.ox.ac.uk) MON * Gresham College (www.gresham.ac.uk) MON * The Monument to the Great Fire of London MON (www.themonument.info) MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00pls5b (Listen) MON The Last Matchmaker, Episode 1 MON Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish MON matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, MON this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland MON and its recent past. MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pjpwz (Listen) MON Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. Including: MON Ruthie Henshall is currently reprising her role as 'Roxie MON Hart' in Chicago the musical. She originated the role in MON 1997 when the show first opened in London's West End. The MON award-winning singer, actress and dancer joins Jane to MON talk about reprising the role of Roxie, her long career in MON musicals from Cats to Miss Saigon, and what it means to be MON entered in the prestigious red book - Who's Who. MON Jane hears from the growing band of executive Mr Mums - MON fathers with high income jobs who have been hit by the MON recession and are taking on full-time care of their MON children. She finds out why they are forming their own MON Dads and Toddler clubs. MON In January 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first MON democratically elected female head of state in Africa, MON took office in Liberia, Africa's oldest republic. Liberia MON had emerged from 14 years of civil war, during which women MON and girls experienced unprecedented levels of sexual MON violence - with 3 in 4 women, in some regions, having been MON raped. But evidence suggests that violence against women MON remains an extensive problem during this post-conflict MON era. Jane reflects on the achievements of MON Johnson-Sirleaf's presidency so far, and discusses the MON situation for women who are victims of rape and sexual MON violence. MON MON 11:00 Mother Was A Blackshirt b00pk7zp (Listen) MON In 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell MON with Emmeline Pankhurst for her involvement with the MON Suffragette movement. In 1940 she returned to the same MON prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for her MON involvement with the fascist movement. MON James Maw explores this story and how Norah Elam's fascist MON philosophy grew directly out of her involvement with the MON suffragettes, and how subsequently the British fascist MON movement became largely driven by women. James tells how MON the first British fascist movement was founded by a woman, MON and that it was the leading lights of the Suffragettes MON who, along with Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union MON of Fascists. MON Blackshirts targeted young women from an early age; James MON begins with the story of his own mother, whom - at the MON time working in an ink factory - they attempted to recruit MON when she was 16 in 1937. MON Francis Beckett recounts how his mother was recruited when MON she was sent by the Pitman's secretarial agency to work at MON Mosley's headquarters and how he has been vehemently MON anti-fascist all his life and has worked tirelessly to MON clear the family name of the stigma he feels. MON Angela McPherson had no idea until recently the role her MON own grandmother played at the very centre of the fascist MON movement; she had subconsciously blocked out disturbing MON memories of the events and stories her grandmother told MON her as a child, which were to affect her family until the MON present day. MON James learns how powerful fascist women became and what MON the long-term effects their right-wing beliefs had on MON their children and grandchildren. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00pk7zr (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON Comedy series by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby. MON Giles Wemmbley Hogg returns, having set up his own travel MON company. MON It's Viva Las Vegas as Giles accidentally gets three wives MON in a row and loses the jackpot. MON Giles ...... Marcus Brigstocke MON Tommy 'Tomahawk' Hayes ...... Kerry Shale MON Nadine ...... Matilda Ziegler MON Mr Timmis ...... Adrian Scarborough MON Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd MON Tony ...... Lou Hirsch MON Mikey ...... David Armand. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00pjqc3 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00pjsr9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00pjvq9 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00pk7zt (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the first semi-final of the MON perennial general knowledge contest, with heat winners Mrs MON Ali Arnold from High Wycombe, Ms Marie Coyle from London, MON Rob Hannah from Torquay and Roger Johnson from Chelmsford MON competing for a place in the final. MON Contestants MON Ali Arnold from High Wycombe MON Marie Coyle from London MON Rob Hannah from Torquay MON Roger Johnson from Chelmsford MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00pjj6b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pk7zw (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 6, Jack O' Diamonds MON Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective MON based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James MON McLevy. MON Jean Brash plans revenge on a sadistic client, but the MON malign Mr Caleb Grant has a finger in every criminal pie MON in Edinburgh and is not a man to cross lightly. MON McLevy ...... Brian Cox MON Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach ...... David Ashton MON Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil MON Caleb Grant ...... Graham Crowden MON Donald McIver ...... Andrew Neil MON Jack Brennan ...... Robin Laing MON Nugent ...... Lewis Howden MON Mary Rintoul ...... Molly Innes MON Directed by Patrick Rayner. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00pr3d8 (Listen) MON Carry On Britain MON Carolyn Quinn looks at the Carry On films and asks what MON they tell us about British society between the late 1950s MON and the late 1970s. MON MON 15:45 The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business b00lg9d9 (Listen) MON The Startup Duck MON Richard Collins reveals the links between the worlds of MON business and Beatrix Potter. MON Jemima Puddleduck learns important lessons about how not MON to get her new business off the ground. With commentary MON from startup kings Dharmesh Shah and Sanjiv Menezes and MON private equity director Janet Brooks. MON Dramatised scenes written by John Peacock. Directed by MON Celia de Wolff. MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00pj3z0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00pmcd6 (Listen) MON Aid MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of faith in MON international aid and development. To what extent are MON western aid agencies in danger of imposing secular values MON on developing countries by failing to address spiritual MON matters alongside physical needs? MON MON 17:00 PM b00pk56w (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 b00pk5bt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00pk8z6 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 1 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Panellists MON Paul Merton and Julian Clary reveal, among other things, MON what they think of New Year's Eve parties, and David MON Mitchell and Gyles Brandreth discuss the art of writing a MON book. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00pjvqw (Listen) MON Fallon goes into hiding. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00pk6x0 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the category winners MON of the Costa Book Awards, and a review of Meryl Streep in MON the romantic comedy It's Complicated. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pk6x2 (Listen) MON Six Suspects, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas MON Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog MON Millinaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent Indian MON politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi MON restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate his MON acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? MON Suspect number one: the mobile phone thief with big dreams. MON Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur MON Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala MON Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika MON Mital MON Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari MON Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel MON Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson MON Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani MON Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai MON Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte MON Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi MON Ritu ...... Ira Dubey MON Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal MON Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman MON Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak MON Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... MON Jayant Kripalani MON Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai MON Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani MON Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan MON Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir MON Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon MON Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran MON Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh MON Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote MON Sohrab ...... Caran Arora MON Production team: MON Line producer in India: Nadir Khan MON Assistant director: Toral Shah MON Photography: Ameet Mallapur MON Script editor: Mike Walker MON Sound: Ayush Ahuja MON Additional editing: Steve Bond MON Music: Sacha Putnam MON Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier MON Produced and directed by John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 In Search of the British Work Ethic b00pk8z8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Journalist Melanie Phillips embarks on a personal journey MON to explore what work means to some of the most vulnerable MON and socially-excluded people in Britain. Melanie is known MON for her uncompromising views on the 'workshy' MON beneficiaries of the welfare state but will her theories MON stand up in the face of the complex and difficult lives of MON the people she meets? MON In this first programme Melanie travels to the north-east MON of England to meet unemployed young people who are MON struggling to find their way into the labour market and a MON married couple who are desperate to move themselves into MON work and away from dependency. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00pg5fg (Listen) MON The documentary series that gives a human dimension to the MON big international stories making the headlines. MON MON 21:00 The Vox Project b00pk98g (Listen) MON The Actor's Voice MON Clare Balding, with the help of the Cognitive MON Neuro-Science department of University College, London, MON investigates all aspects of the human voice and the way we MON use it. MON Cicely Berry, the voice coach of the Royal Shakespeare MON Company, divulges the secrets of the trained speaker. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 In Our Time b00pk7j0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00pk725 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00pk74q (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pk74s (Listen) MON The True Deceiver, Episode 6 MON Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. MON Anna is discomfited by Katri's unusual honesty. But what MON game is she playing? MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00pftm5 (Listen) MON A sweet relief for some and painfully uncomfortable for MON others, silence can be one of the most powerful tools in MON speech. From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael MON Rosen investigates the times when staying silent can speak MON volumes. MON MON 23:30 Art for Schools b00dzk96 (Listen) MON Children's writer and illustrator Jackie Morris tells the MON story of how, in the late 1940s, one woman persuaded MON artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Lowry to donate MON prints to be distributed around British schools. MON Determined to help widen access to art, Brenda Rawnsley MON established the School Prints scheme, at first MON commissioning British artists such as Lowry and Henry MON Moore, and then taking a portable printing press to France MON to persuade some of the most well-known artists in the MON world to take part. Jackie Morris tells the story of the MON scheme and the woman behind it, and considers how art MON education has been viewed in Britain since. MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 5 JANUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00pjlrk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00pls5b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pjlvn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjlz2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pjlxg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00pjm0g (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pjm6h (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00pjp8y (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Cath Mackie. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00pjpmp (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 In Our Time b00pk9s1 (Listen) TUE In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science, TUE Episode 2 TUE As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn TUE Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific TUE learned society of them all: the Royal Society. TUE Programme two begins in the coffee house Isaac Newton and TUE the fellows of the early 18th century frequented. At the TUE Royal Observatory, Greenwich, we learn how Newton's feud TUE with the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed tested the lines TUE between government-funded research and public access. In TUE the age of exploration, senior fellows accompany naval TUE expeditions, such as Cook's expedition to Tahiti and TUE subsequent discovery of Australia. International relations TUE are fostered between scientists such as Benjamin Franklin, TUE whose house in London serves as live-in lab and de facto TUE American embassy. TUE By the end of the century the President, Sir Joseph Banks, TUE successfully embeds the Royal Society in the imperial TUE bureaucratic hub of the new Somerset House. But while TUE senior fellows concentrated on foreign fields, a more TUE radical, dissident science and manufacturing base wrought TUE the Industrial Revolution right under their noses. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00pmbws (Listen) TUE The Last Matchmaker, Episode 2 TUE Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish TUE matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, TUE this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland TUE and its recent past. TUE Willie is inducted into the family business by his TUE grandfather. TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pjpwn (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Six Suspects. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00pk9s3 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Britain's Rarest Trees TUE If you thought that all the world's rarest trees were only TUE in virgin rainforest or on remote tropical islands, then TUE prepare to be surprised. Brett Westwood joins botanist Tim TUE Rich from the National Museum of Wales to look for the TUE whitebeam trees, which are found nowhere else in the TUE world. Ley's whitebeam near Merthyr Tydfil has only 17 TUE specimens growing in the wild, and new species are still TUE being described from the Avon Gorge in Bristol. Thanks to TUE analysis of their DNA we know more than ever about these TUE trees and their conservation presents some fascinating TUE challenges. TUE TUE 11:30 Who Was Opal? b00pk9y9 (Listen) TUE Opal Whiteley, born in 1897 in the USA, wrote an TUE extraordinary book and was at the heart of an unsolved TUE mystery. Writer Melanie McFadyean explores Whiteley's TUE childhood in an Oregon lumber village and her rise to fame TUE in America, her exotic adventures and many years in TUE British asylum, where she died in 1992. Her gravestone in TUE Highgate Cemetery bears the inscription 'I spake as a TUE child.' TUE Did she speak as a child or was her diary, said to have TUE been written by her aged six or seven, and published in TUE 1920, a hoax? Entitled The Story of Opal: The Journey of TUE an Understanding Heart, it was an instant bestseller. But TUE then people began to wonder. A gifted amateur naturalist, TUE Opal visited the offices of the periodical Atlantic TUE Monthly, where publisher Ellery Sedgewick asked her if she TUE had ever kept a diary. Opal said an early diary existed, TUE but it had been ripped to pieces by a jealous sister. She TUE had, however, kept the pieces in a hat box. Sedgewick sent TUE for the boxful of fragments and set Opal to work, piecing TUE them together. The task took her nine months. Photographs TUE of the mended manuscript, 150,000 words long, reveal that TUE it was written in crayon, in capital letters, on any paper TUE she could get, even paper bags. TUE But the diary is too complex to be the work of a young TUE child. Threaded through it are concealed acrostics and TUE oddly-detailed references to French royalty, including TUE dates of birth, place names and historical anecdotes. In TUE her introduction Opal claimed she had been adopted by the TUE lumberjack family, the Whiteleys, after her mother had TUE drowned, that her real name was Francoise D'Orleans, and TUE that her real father was Duc Henri, Prince d'Orleans. The TUE Orleans family always denied she was genuinely related, TUE the Whiteleys were devastated that she rejected them and, TUE hounded by the press, changed their names and went to TUE ground. Opal Whitely left the USA in the early 1920s, TUE never to return. She trailed chaos in her wake, but she TUE had charisma and charmed rich and influential people. TUE During the Second World War, Opal lived in a London flat, TUE along with thousands of books. But her mental condition TUE deteriorated and she was placed in Napsbury Hospital, near TUE St Albans, in 1948, where she spent the next 44 years TUE until her death in 1992. We hear from people who met her TUE and knew her, hear extracts from the diary, and musical TUE clips from a recent musical about her life. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00pjqbv (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00pjslp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00pjvbd (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Rock Island Line b00pkbff (Listen) TUE Folk singer and musician Huw Williams tells the story of TUE how Lonnie Donegan's recording of The Rock Island changed TUE the course of popular music forever. Huw talks to The TUE Quarrymen and Peter Donegan, tracing the origins of The TUE Rock Island Line from the prisons of the southern American TUE states via John Lennon's prized 78 to the railroad itself. TUE The programme includes a new recording of The Rock Island TUE Line featuring The Quarrymen and Pete Donegan. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00pjvqw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pr5jk (Listen) TUE ID TUE Dark thriller by Tajinder Singh Hayer about Asian identity TUE in modern Britain. A confused Asian man walks into a TUE Manchester police station and says he needs help because TUE he thinks he's going to kill. He can't remember a thing, TUE not even his name. An attention seeker? Maybe an amnesiac? TUE Or is it something more complicated? TUE Robert ...... Zubin Varla TUE Sonia ...... Shivani Ghai TUE Atkins ...... Andrew Westfield TUE Reena ...... Rina Mahoney TUE Steven ...... Luke Broughton TUE Mr Ali ...... Armand Beasley TUE Anne ...... Eileen O'Brien. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00pkbfk (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading: The Time Being b00pmcqb (Listen) TUE Series 4, Jules TUE Series of original stories by unpublished writers. TUE Jules has been diagnosed as having cancer. But for a TUE number of reasons, not all of them noble, her best friend TUE Kate finds it hard to be as supportive as she should. TUE By Tamara Pollock, read by Nicola Walker. TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business b00lkjyg (Listen) TUE Kings of Credit TUE Richard Collins reveals the links between the worlds of TUE business and Beatrix Potter. TUE Margaret Thatcher famously held Ginger & Pickles to be the TUE only business book worth reading. Not only an instructive TUE manual in cornershop economics, this deceptively simple TUE tale of a shopkeeping cat and dog also turns out to be a TUE blueprint for how to wreck an entire economy. With TUE Supermarket chairman Edwin Booth and BBC economics editor TUE Stephanie Flanders. TUE Dramatised scenes written by John Peacock. Directed by TUE Celia de Wolff. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00pkbh9 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of TUE words, language and the way we speak. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00pkbmf (Listen) TUE Series 20, Nero TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Christopher Biggins champions the life of the Roman TUE Emperor Nero, a man whose modest talent for poetry was TUE overshadowed by his debauchery, extravagance and tyranny. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00pk56y (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 b00pk5bk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pkbmh (Listen) TUE Echo TUE Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of TUE inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. TUE Beagle Team find they are in competition with their TUE nemesis, Terrier Team, on the latest mission. TUE Bill ...... Richard Lumsden TUE Sharla ...... Nina Conti TUE Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya TUE Edward Barraclough MP ...... Paterson Joseph TUE Ros ...... Lucy Montgomery TUE Brian/Customer/Wilco/Reporter ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Norris ...... Joe Thomas TUE Dylis/Secretary ...... Tessa Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00pjvqc (Listen) TUE Optimism takes over for Jazzer. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00pk6lm (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film The Road, TUE based on Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, and TUE starring Viggo Mortensen. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pnngd (Listen) TUE Six Suspects, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas TUE Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog TUE Millinaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent Indian TUE politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi TUE restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate his TUE acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? TUE Suspect number two - the Bollywood actress with the guilty TUE secret. TUE Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur TUE Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala TUE Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika TUE Mital TUE Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari TUE Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel TUE Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson TUE Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani TUE Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai TUE Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte TUE Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi TUE Ritu ...... Ira Dubey TUE Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal TUE Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman TUE Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak TUE Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... TUE Jayant Kripalani TUE Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai TUE Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani TUE Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan TUE Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir TUE Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon TUE Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran TUE Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh TUE Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote TUE Sohrab ...... Caran Arora TUE Production team: TUE Line producer in India: Nadir Khan TUE Assistant director: Toral Shah TUE Photography: Ameet Mallapur TUE Script editor: Mike Walker TUE Sound: Ayush Ahuja TUE Additional editing: Steve Bond TUE Music: Sacha Putnam TUE Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier TUE Produced and directed by John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 Under Surveillance b00pkbmk (Listen) TUE Journalist and writer Phil Harding investigates and TUE evaluates Britain's rapidly increasing use of CCTV systems TUE for tackling crime and asks if they are really being TUE effective. Closed circuit television has become part of TUE our every day lives; on high streets, on the bus and in TUE most of our shops we are frequently being watched by CCTV TUE cameras. But how likely are they to prevent crime and how TUE useful are they as a detection method? Also, who is TUE watching us and are their systems and methods working? TUE What is the evidence that backs up our obsession with CCTV? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00pkbmm (Listen) TUE Peter White talks to actress and comedian Kitty McGeever TUE about her life and the impact her relatively recent sight TUE loss has had on her life. TUE Kitty was the first blind actor to be cast as a permanent TUE character in a UK soap, Emmerdale, which she is loving. TUE She has also just been made guardian of her late best TUE friend's 16-year-old daughter and is in in the midst of TUE moving house. TUE She demonstrates to Peter her CD book which has audible TUE labels telling her which CD is which. She also uses a TUE colour detector as she is very particular about her TUE clothes and the gadget enables her to match her colours. TUE Kitty also tells Peter that one of her favourite gadgets TUE in the kitchen is a pair of long-armed heat-resistant oven TUE gloves, to prevent her burning her hands. TUE She says that unlike Bill Roache in Corrie, she probably TUE wouldn't be in Emmerdale for 50 years as she would hate TUE being told when she could have her hair cut. TUE Kitty McGeever shows Peter her talking CD storage book TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00pkbmp (Listen) TUE Tuberculosis is thought of as a disease of the past, but TUE in our British cities it is still very much a fact of TUE life. Dr Mark Porter hears from Natalie, a 24-year-old TUE mother of two, who has had successful treatment for TB in TUE her kidneys. Doctors think she may have caught it when she TUE was working in a care home. TUE The treatment for TB involves at least six months of TUE taking a number of different antibiotics. The experts TUE explain how - although it's difficult for patients to keep TUE taking them once they start feeling better - it's crucial TUE to be cured, and to avoid resistant strains of the disease TUE from developing. TUE The BCG vaccine is not routinely given these days. Instead TUE certain 'at risk' communities are targeted. Teenagers on TUE gap years, who may not have been vaccinated, might want to TUE think about getting the vaccine which will offer them TUE protection against TB on their travels. TUE TUE 21:30 In Our Time b00pk9s1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00pk70r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00pk727 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pk74v (Listen) TUE The True Deceiver, Episode 7 TUE Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. TUE After visiting Liljeberg the boat maker, Katri starts to TUE make plans for her brother Mats. TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b00pnt6h (Listen) TUE Series 5, Fear of Flying TUE Jon Ronson looks at one of our deepest fears. TUE When Vicky Coren realised her fear of flying was stopping TUE her travelling, she sought help from a specialist TUE councillor. He cured her - only to die a year later in an TUE air crash. Mike Thexton tells Jon of his ordeal on board a TUE hijacked plane, waiting for 12 hours to be shot. Comedian TUE Danny Robins is terrified of death - so terrified that Jon TUE decides to send him to a near death experience festival in TUE Spain to try to cure his phobia. Finally, Jon finds a TUE scientist who is working on finding an answer to eternal TUE life. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pkbxh (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 6 JANUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00pjlrm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00pmbws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pjlvq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjlz4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pjlxj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00pjm0j (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pjm6k (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00pjp90 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00pjpmr (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 In Our Time b00pkth7 (Listen) WED In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science, WED Episode 3 WED As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn WED Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific WED learned society of them all: the Royal Society. WED The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous WED alternative, specialist learned societies and WED associations, all threatening the Royal Society's WED pre-eminence. Attempts to reform the membership criteria - WED marking scientific leadership's painful transition from WED patronage to expertise - are troubled, and organisations WED such as the British Association for the Advancement of WED Science (now the BSA) excite and enliven scientific WED discourse outside of London. Science becomes a realistic WED career and a path of improvement, and by the time HG Wells WED writes science fiction at the end of the 19th century, WED there are sufficient numbers of interested, informed WED readers to suggest that Edwardian society contained the WED beginnings of a scientific society. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw4 (Listen) WED The Last Matchmaker, Episode 3 WED Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish WED matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, WED this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland WED and its recent past. WED How the cultural and social changes of the 1960s began to WED impact on life in rural Ireland. WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pjpwq (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. WED WED 11:00 Based on a True Story b00g63pz (Listen) WED The first production of Howard Brenton's play Never So WED Good brought to life on stage the experiences of Harold WED Macmillan. In this programme, which reflects on real life WED events set against their fictional portrayal, Peter Curran WED discusses the production with Brenton, Jeremy Irons, who WED played Macmillan, and Lord Alexander Stockton, the WED grandson of Macmillan and his close companion in later WED life. WED Producer Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00pktqz (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 6 WED Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the WED 1950s in a Donegal town. WED Will the sisters be able to silence the question of WED exactly how long Councillor Maconchy has been dead? WED Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy WED Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney WED Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley WED Aubrey Frawley ...... Matthew Addis WED Terry Black ...... Mark Lambert WED Pianist: Michael Harrison WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan WED This episode is available until 11.30am on 6th January WED 2010 as part of the Series Catch-up Trial. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00pjqbx (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00pjslr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00pjvbg (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00pktr1 (Listen) WED Edward Stourton presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00pjvqc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c5zsj (Listen) WED Life of Penguins WED By Katie Hims. WED Merle is a penguin keeper at London Zoo. When her sister WED Beth fails to make a date at the cinema, she goes WED searching for her. She soon realises that Beth has been WED abducted by aliens - not for the first time. WED Merle ...... Abigail Davies WED Linus ...... Matthew Wilson WED Gina ...... Serena Bobowski WED Frank ...... Dominic Hawksley WED Beth ...... Madeleine Bowyer WED Ania ...... Ania Tomaszewska WED Chris ...... Chris Nelson WED Directed by Boz Temple-Morris WED A Boz Temple Morris production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00pktr3 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading: The Time Being b00pmcqd (Listen) WED Series 4, The Painter and the Dybbuk WED Series of original stories by unpublished writers. WED In Jewish folklore a Dybbuk is the wandering soul of a WED dead person that enters the body of a living person and WED controls his or her behaviour. A painter's talent has so WED far kept him alive in Auschwitz. But as he starts on a WED portrait of one of the guards, he wonders just who is in WED control. WED By Claire Griffiths, read by Nicholas Farrell. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business b00pk55s (Listen) WED Keeping Track of Stuff WED Richard Collins reveals the links between the worlds of WED business and Beatrix Potter. WED The Tale of Samuel Whiskers is a sinister story of rats WED behind the skirting boards and kittens going missing. WED Beatrix Potter wrote it just as her own royalties from WED Peter Rabbit were mysteriously disappearing. Our reading WED of the tale offers advice on how to run a rolling audit WED from Eddie Stobart CEO Andrew Tinkler and Penguin UK WED managing director, Sally Floyer. WED Dramatised scenes written by John Peacock. Directed by WED Celia de Wolff. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00pktr5 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00pkbmp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00pk570 (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 b00pk5bm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Ayres on the Air b00m6f4m (Listen) WED Series 3, In the Doghouse WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Poems include Toaster, about Pam's son's dog and its WED phobia, I'm the Dog Who Didn't Win a Prize, written by Pam WED after she was asked to be a judge at a competition, and WED Tippy Tappy Feet, about the things you miss when your best WED friend goes to the great kennel in the sky. WED Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and WED Felicity Montagu for sketches about what dogs talk to each WED other about and how a new puppy can cause more excitement WED in some families than a new baby. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00pjvqf (Listen) WED Brenda's finances take an upward turn. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00pk6lp (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pnngg (Listen) WED Six Suspects, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas WED Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog WED Millinaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent Indian WED politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi WED restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate his WED acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? WED Suspect number three: an American who has come to India to WED marry his mail-order bride. WED Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur WED Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala WED Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika WED Mital WED Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari WED Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel WED Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson WED Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani WED Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai WED Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte WED Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi WED Ritu ...... Ira Dubey WED Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal WED Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman WED Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak WED Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... WED Jayant Kripalani WED Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai WED Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani WED Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan WED Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir WED Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon WED Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran WED Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh WED Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote WED Sohrab ...... Caran Arora WED Production team: WED Line producer in India: Nadir Khan WED Assistant director: Toral Shah WED Photography: Ameet Mallapur WED Script editor: Mike Walker WED Sound: Ayush Ahuja WED Additional editing: Steve Bond WED Music: Sacha Putnam WED Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier WED Produced and directed by John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00pkttp (Listen) WED The Law and Drugs WED Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal WED issues of the day. WED There is a growing body of opinion in the legal world that WED the 'war on drugs' has failed and that decriminalisation WED of drugs is the only way ahead. What are the shortcomings WED of the existing Misuse of Drugs Act, and how might drug WED use be regulated in a decriminalised future? WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 More Than A Game b00pktv2 (Listen) WED The Fight WED In June 1938, 64 per cent of Americans who owned a radio WED tuned in to listen to a heavyweight boxing match in New WED York between Joe Louis, known as The Brown Bomber, and the WED German Max Schmeling. Two years before, Schmeling had WED sensationally defeated the seemingly invincible Louis, in WED a propaganda triumph for the Nazi regime The rematch was WED one of the most politically charged matches in history. WED Professor Anthony King of Essex University looks back at WED the fight and explains why it was so politically WED significant. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00pk9s3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 21:30 In Our Time b00pkth7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00pk70t (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00pk729 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pk74x (Listen) WED The True Deceiver, Episode 8 WED Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. WED While Mats shows the plans for his boat to Liljeberg, Anna WED becomes strangely assertive with Katri. WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Weird Tales b00pkv2v (Listen) WED Series 2, Connected WED Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more WED chilling tales. WED By Melissa Murray. When her brother-in-law is killed in a WED car crash, Steph is overcome with sadness. One day, WED feeling maudlin, she rings his mobile number, just wanting WED to hear his voice. The next day he rings her back. WED Steph ...... Fiona Glascott WED Ray ...... Joseph Kloska WED Jamie ...... Piers Wehner WED Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan WED Mother ...... Kate Layden WED Jan/Flight Attendant ...... Melissa Advani WED Passenger ...... Ewan Hooper WED Shop Assistant ...... Rhys Jennings WED Passerby ...... John Biggins WED Passerby 2/Estate Agent ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pkvgd (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00pjlrp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00pmbw4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pjlvs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjlz6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pjlxl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00pjm0l (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pjm6m (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00pjp92 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00pjpmt (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00pkx5q (Listen) THU In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science, THU Episode 4 THU As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn THU Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific THU learned society of them all: the Royal Society. THU The horrors of the First World War were a shocking THU indictment of the power of science. Picking up the thread THU at this hiatus in scientific optimism, this programme, THU recorded in the current home of the Royal Society in THU Carlton House Terrace in London, looks at the more subtle, THU discreet role the Society played in the 20th century, such THU as secretly arranging for refugee scientists to flee THU Germany, co-ordinating international scientific missions THU during the Cold War and quietly distributing government THU grant money to fund the brightest young researchers in the THU land. As ever more important scientific issues face the THU world and Britain today, the programme asks how well THU placed the Royal Society is to take an important lead in THU the future. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw6 (Listen) THU The Last Matchmaker, Episode 4 THU Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish THU matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, THU this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland THU and its recent past. THU Coming from a line of traditional Irish matchmakers, THU Willie's father made his last match a month before he died THU - finding a wife for his son. THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pjpws (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00pkxy2 (Listen) THU Uganda: Battling the Witch-Doctors THU Tim Whewell investigates the causes of a horrific spate of THU child sacrifices in Uganda and follows a former witch THU doctor who is now committed to stamping out the practice. THU THU 11:30 The Frost Collection b00pkxy4 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most THU memorable interviews of his long career. With Esther THU Rantzen, Peter Kellner and Joan Bakewell. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00pjqbz (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00pky9h (Listen) THU High Rise - Low Safety THU John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. THU The deaths of six people in a tower block fire in London THU in July 2009 have revealed poor to non-existent fire THU safety standards in some similar residential buildings. At THU many there was no fire risk assessment - one has even been THU condemned as too unsafe for people to live in. Some THU apartments have been expensively refurbished, seemingly THU with little consideration of fire safety in communal THU areas. We reveal that one tower block had been visited by THU the fire service on a regular basis because of broken THU lifts, but only after the London fire did it become clear THU that the building was unsafe. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00pjslt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00pjvbj (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00pky9k (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00pjvqf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pl1gx (Listen) THU The Killing of the TSR2 THU By Robin Brooks. The true story of the struggle to build THU TSR2, the British-built world-beating fighter jet that THU never was. Years ahead of its time technologically, it was THU scrapped by the Labour government in 1965, after just one THU supersonic test flight. THU Wing Commander Roland Beamont/Harold Wilson ...... Ewan THU Bailey THU Sir George Edwards ...... Bruce Alexander THU Sir Malcolm/Harold Macmillan ...... Jon Glover THU Davis ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole THU Narrator ...... Piers Wehner THU With Rhys Jennings, Nigel Hastings, John Biggins, Kate THU Layden and Emerald O'Hanrahan. THU Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00physp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00pj3yk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading: The Time Being b00pmcqg (Listen) THU Series 4, Smell My Fleece THU Series of original stories by unpublished writers. THU With four fewer teeth and a mouth stuffed with cotton THU wool, Debra isn't having the easiest of days. And then she THU meets Dale. A curious tale of dentistry, stalking and THU poetry. THU By Anna Towers, read by Claire Foy. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business b00pk54y (Listen) THU The Perils of Success THU Richard Collins reveals the links between the worlds of THU business and Beatrix Potter. THU Beatrix Potter wrote about American animals in Timmy THU Tiptoes specifically for the US market to combat piracy of THU her hugely successful books. Potter went public to defend THU the rights of business while remaining fiercely protective THU of her own privacy. Business guests Gerald Ratner and Cory THU Doctorow reflect on self-interest and the thin line THU between public and private when success has you in its THU spotlight. THU Dramatised scenes written by John Peacock. Directed by THU Celia de Wolff. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00pj4s2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00pl1gz (Listen) THU Got an experiment you want to conduct? A pet theory you THU want to test? Here's your chance. Quentin Cooper launches THU 'So You Want to Be A Scientist?' and discusses this unique THU opportunity for ordinary people to do some extraordinary THU science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00pk572 (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 b00pk5bp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Deep Trouble b007j889 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU Comedy series by Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond set THU aboard HMS Goliath, a nuclear stealth submarine. THU A new crew member, a noxious gas, a beetroot smoothie and THU bad haircut spell disaster for Trainor, Wade, Fairbanks THU and the crew. THU Captain Paul Wade ...... Jim Field Smith THU Commander Alison Fairbanks ...... Katherine Jakeways THU Lieutenant Jack Trainor ...... Ben Willbond THU Barry ...... Alice Lowe THU PO Curtis ...... Rufus Jones THU Narrator ...... Jonathan Ryland THU Diana Monk ...... Sue Vincent THU Directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00pjvqh (Listen) THU Kenton goes undercover with Jim. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00pk6lr (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of the film Sex & THU Drugs & Rock & Roll, based on the life of singer Ian Dury, THU and starring Andy Serkis. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pnngk (Listen) THU Six Suspects, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas THU Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog THU Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent THU Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy THU Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate THU his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? THU Suspect number four: Vicky Rai's mother, an ambitious and THU corrupt politician increasingly embarrassed by her son's THU activities. THU Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur THU Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala THU Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika THU Mital THU Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari THU Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel THU Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson THU Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani THU Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai THU Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte THU Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi THU Ritu ...... Ira Dubey THU Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal THU Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman THU Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak THU Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... THU Jayant Kripalani THU Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai THU Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani THU Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan THU Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir THU Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon THU Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran THU Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh THU Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote THU Sohrab ...... Caran Arora THU Production team: THU Line producer in India: Nadir Khan THU Assistant director: Toral Shah THU Photography: Ameet Mallapur THU Script editor: Mike Walker THU Sound: Ayush Ahuja THU Additional editing: Steve Bond THU Music: Sacha Putnam THU Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier THU Produced and directed by John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00pl1h1 (Listen) THU The Criminal Justice Act 2003 modified the ancient legal THU principle of double jeopardy in England and Wales so that THU a person acquitted of a serious crime could be re-tried. THU Now in Scotland there is a clamour to change the law too, THU and the government is committed to introducing legislation THU in 2010. THU But there are voices of dissent, as Simon Cox finds out. THU And if the law is changed, will it enable the reopening of THU the case that is driving the Scottish debate? Helen Scott THU and Christine Eadie were murdered in 1977 after they were THU seen leaving the World's End pub in Edinburgh. Angus THU Sinclair was tried for the killings in 2007, but the case THU collapsed due to insufficient evidence. THU In England and Wales, meanwhile, only a handful of double THU jeopardy cases have returned to court. Is the law working THU as it should? THU THU 20:30 In Business b00pl1h3 (Listen) THU New Age THU Many of the world's biggest countries are on the threshold THU of a new era where an increasing number of old people will THU have to be supported by a shrinking younger workforce. THU Peter Day finds out whether this is a threat to the way we THU live now or an opportunity for new kinds of business. THU THU 21:00 Adventures in Junk b00j022h (Listen) THU Alan Dein discovers the surprising history of the THU adventure playground. The very first adventure playground THU opened in Emdrup, Denmark in 1943. As resistance grew THU against the Nazi occupation, two men pioneered a unique THU space, the children's world turned upside down. THU They were forged in the ideas of modernist and radical THU architects and exported to a postwar Britain by the THU campaigning Lady Allen of Hurtwood. The rubble and rubbish THU of the nation's shattered cities were now reimagined as THU spaces for all sorts of adventures. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00pkx5q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00pk70w (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00pk72c (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pk74z (Listen) THU The True Deceiver, Episode 9 THU Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. THU Tempers flare at the rabbit house. THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 House On Fire b00pl1h7 (Listen) THU Moving In THU Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. THU Vicky and Matt, previously strangers, have decided to buy THU a house together in these credit crunch times. It's day THU one, and only one person can have the spacious top THU bedroom. Who will get it, and what are they prepared to do THU to secure it? THU Vicky ...... Emma Pierson THU Matt ...... Jody Latham THU Col Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart THU Julie ...... Janine Duvitski THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult. THU Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pkvgg (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 8 JANUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00pjlrr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00pmbw6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pjlvv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pjlz8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pjlxn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00pjm0n (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pjm6q (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00pjp94 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00pjpmx (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00pj3yy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw8 (Listen) FRI The Last Matchmaker, Episode 5 FRI Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish FRI matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, FRI this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland FRI and its recent past. FRI A salutary tale warning against messing with the path of FRI true love. FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pjpwv (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. FRI FRI 11:00 NHS Punters Speak Out b00plwqm (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI With the help of dissatisfied NHS patients, Liz Barclay FRI asks if the growing popularity of online feedback can FRI really make a difference to standards of health care and FRI treatment. FRI The culture of customers offering brickbats and bouquets FRI to service providers has now extended beyond hotels and FRI coffee chains to the NHS. Hospital rating websites invite FRI patients to grade their hospital stay out of five stars, FRI and to leave comments about the care they received. FRI Liz invites NHS patients who have used one of these FRI patient rating websites to discuss their experiences and FRI puts their points to the hospitals where they were treated. FRI She asks if the idea of online feedback can be really be FRI applied to our health service and if it can genuinely FRI improve standards of care. Critics suggest the sites are FRI merely window-dressing and that NHS patients are not FRI 'consumers'. Some health professionals claim that the FRI sites can easily just become places where personal scores FRI are settled against NHS staff. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00plzyg (Listen) FRI Series 5, Yes Count Arthur FRI Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur FRI Strong is an expert in everything from the world of FRI entertainment to the origins of the species, all false FRI starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a FRI delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance. FRI Frustrated by a dispute at the local opticians over FRI repairs to his glasses, Arthur decides to stand up for the FRI 'little man' and seeks high office in the local council FRI elections. With his protege Malcolm as his assistant FRI campaigns manager, surely Number 10 has to be the next FRI stop for the Dream Team? FRI With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and FRI Alastair Kerr. FRI A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00pjqc1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00pjslw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00pjvbl (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00plzyj (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00pjvqh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00plzyl (Listen) FRI Family Soup FRI Comedy by Elizabeth Lewis. Charlie's ability to write his FRI weekly family newspaper column is sorely tested when his FRI family decamp to Italy, leaving him with a hyperactive FRI father-in-law and a tame rat. FRI Charlie ...... Philip Jackson FRI Marmaduke ...... Howell Evans FRI Heulwen ...... Manon Edwards FRI Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Carys ...... Lynne Seymour FRI With original music by David Chilton. FRI Directed by Gordon House. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pm0dh (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions from gardeners in Wallasey, Merseyside. FRI Matthew tells the story of Liverpool cotton merchant FRI Arthur Bulley and his love of plants. FRI Bunny explores the skills needed for willow weaving by FRI meeting a group of students on a course, and explains how FRI to create some stunning designs. FRI Including gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business b00pk550 (Listen) FRI Tiddly Widdly Widdly Mrs Tittlemouse FRI Richard Collins reveals the links between the worlds of FRI business and Beatrix Potter. FRI Mrs Tittlemouse and an intrusive toad offer a view of the FRI relationship between management consultants and their FRI clients. With business guests Greg Dyke, author and FRI consultant David Craig and private equity director Janet FRI Brooks. FRI Dramatised scenes written by John Peacock. Directed by FRI Celia de Wolff. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00pm0dk (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 b00pm0dm (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director John Hillcoat about his FRI adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Andy Serkis FRI reveals what it was like to play Ian Dury in the biopic FRI Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, and Fatal Attraction FRI writer James Dearden remembers the work of his father FRI Basil Dearden, the film-maker responsible for Victim, The FRI League Of Gentlemen and Pool Of London. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00pk574 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pk5br (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00pm0dp (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 1 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins, Danielle Ward FRI and Fred Macaulay. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00pjvqk (Listen) FRI It's confession time for Annette. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00pk6lt (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pnngm (Listen) FRI Six Suspects, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas FRI Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog FRI Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent FRI Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy FRI Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate FRI his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? FRI Suspect number five: a tribesman, Eketi. Brought to Delhi FRI by his one-legged welfare officer, Eketi is unwittingly FRI used to help carry out a long-overdue act of vengeance. FRI Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur FRI Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala FRI Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika FRI Mital FRI Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari FRI Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel FRI Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson FRI Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani FRI Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai FRI Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte FRI Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi FRI Ritu ...... Ira Dubey FRI Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal FRI Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman FRI Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak FRI Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... FRI Jayant Kripalani FRI Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai FRI Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani FRI Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan FRI Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir FRI Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon FRI Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran FRI Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh FRI Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote FRI Sohrab ...... Caran Arora FRI Production team: FRI Line producer in India: Nadir Khan FRI Assistant director: Toral Shah FRI Photography: Ameet Mallapur FRI Script editor: Mike Walker FRI Sound: Ayush Ahuja FRI Additional editing: Steve Bond FRI Music: Sacha Putnam FRI Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier FRI Produced and directed by John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00pm0dr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the FRI Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, London. The panellists are FRI Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and FRI Rural Affairs, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, Liberal FRI Democrat energy and climate change spokesman Simon Hughes, FRI and Daily Telegraph columnist Bryony Gordon. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00pm0dt (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00d10m9 (Listen) FRI The Listener FRI Julian Simpson's fast-paced psychological thriller about a FRI man trying to uncover his true identity, set against the FRI backdrop of a war on terror. FRI Mark Willis ...... Mark Bazeley FRI Mia ...... Indira Varma FRI Doctor Gruber ...... Nicola Walker FRI Samson ...... Mark Lewis Jones FRI Charlie ...... Jimmy Akingbola FRI Lenny ...... Paul Panting FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00pk70y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00pk72f (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pk751 (Listen) FRI The True Deceiver, Episode 10 FRI Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. FRI Mats asks Anna and Katri to view the finished boat. But as FRI spring comes, who has been the true deceiver? FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00pkbmf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pkvgj (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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