04 December, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 05/12/2009 - 11/12/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00p352h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00p6yws (Listen) SAT The Hair of the Dog and Other Scientific Surprises, SAT Episode 5 SAT Karl Sabbagh book explores the surprising science behind SAT seemingly trivial assumptions. SAT A ship that repaired itself; how the earliest telephones SAT worked without bells; why it's a good thing for SAT skyscrapers to sway; and how Europe to America in an hour, SAT by train, may one day become a reality. SAT Read by Toby Longworth. SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier. SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p352k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p352m (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p352p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00p358j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p358l (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. SAT SAT 05:45 Running Away b00f671m (Listen) SAT Andrew Sachs SAT Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the SAT demands of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for SAT a few hours. SAT Actor Andrew Sachs needs little persuasion to take a SAT well-earned break from penning his autobiography and enjoy SAT a grand day out at the zoo - and a stroll down memory lane. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00p358n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00p3nz0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00p3nz2 (Listen) SAT Gloucestershire Wildlife ER SAT Helen Mark visits Vale Wildlife Rescue, a hospital where SAT wild animals and birds are taken when they're found SAT injured in Gloucestershire and the surrounding region. SAT Perhaps surprisingly, the hospital provides good SAT indicators of the health of local wildlife: it's possible SAT to tell which species are flourishing by the numbers SAT brought in. They also run wildlife rehabilitation courses SAT for people who want to know what to do when they come SAT across an injured animal or bird. SAT Helen talks to the staff, and meets patients and long-term SAT residents, including owls, buzzards, foxes, deer....and a SAT skunk. A colony of skunks has sprung up in the nearby SAT Forest of Dean and one was recently brought into the SAT Rescue centre. The family who captured the skunk tell of SAT their adventure, and why it is that skunks are now to be SAT found living wild in the UK. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00p3nz4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT From robotic milking machines to meat grown in a SAT petri-dish, Farming Today This Week takes a close look at SAT the innovations and advances in agricultural technology SAT that will help to feed future generations. SAT Charlotte Smith puts research and development under the SAT spotlight and meets the farmers and scientists striving to SAT take agriculture forward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00p3nz6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00p3nz8 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00p3nzb (Listen) SAT The Rev Richard Coles is joined by Industry Leader for SAT Technology at Google Sarah Speake. With poetry from Matt SAT Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00p3p53 (Listen) SAT Actor Richard Johnson, star of Hollywood films, stage and SAT radio, was interested in environmental issues long before SAT they became a widespread concern. He talks to Sandi SAT Toksvig about his latest real-life role as the founder of SAT a responsible tourism website which enables people to find SAT and compare green destinations. He has also taken up SAT travel writing for a newspaper and reveals how it has led SAT him to go white water rafting at the age of 82. SAT Angola is often described as war-torn although the civil SAT war, which ravaged the country for decades, is now over. SAT Sandi meets Mike Stead, formerly 'our man in Luanda', SAT about why he has written a guide to a country where there SAT are few tourists and whose facilities for them can be SAT measured by the fact that it has, apparently, only one SAT working escalator. SAT SAT 10:30 Bob Marley: The Chrysler Year b00p3p56 (Listen) SAT Lifelong reggae fan Jonathan Charles traces the missing SAT year when Bob Marley dropped out of the Jamaican music SAT scene and spent a year driving a forklift truck in the SAT Chrysler car factory in Wilmington, Delaware. SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00p3p58 (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell of The Times takes soundings on whether or SAT not President Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan will work. SAT He also unpicks the latest drive for independence by the SAT SNP in Scotland, and hears why a record-breaking number of SAT MPs are standing down at the general election. SAT There's also a look at the latest reforms on conduct and SAT expenses in the House of Lords. What's to be done about SAT peers who don't show up? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00p3pkz (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT It's been a turbulent few days in the history of Guinea on SAT Africa's west coast. The country's military leader was SAT attacked as those around him argued over who would be SAT blamed for a massacre of opposition supporters in SAT September. Mark Doyle's just back from the capital SAT Conakry, where he heard repeated demands for those SAT responsible for the killings to be brought to justice. SAT The days ahead will reveal much about the world's SAT determination - or lack of it - to confront the challenge SAT of global warming. Will the nations gathered at the SAT Copenhagen summit strike the kind of deal that will really SAT make a difference? We'll hear the politicians talk, and SAT watch the activists march. But far from the conference SAT chamber, almost unnoticed, some of the world's poorest SAT people will be struggling to cope with the hard realities SAT of climate change. David Shukman explains what the rising SAT temperatures mean for one neighbourhood in Bolivia. SAT 'The earthquake itself was terrifying. The shaking and SAT shaking went on forever,' said a survivor on the South SAT Pacific island of Samoa. But what came next was even SAT worse. Dozens of people were swept to their death in the SAT tsunami triggered by the quake. All that was about two SAT months ago. And now Samoa's people are gradually coming to SAT terms with the aftermath of the disaster. John Pickford is SAT just back from Samoa and says its society has been drawing SAT on all its traditional resilience. SAT 'Africa's time has come'. Those were the words of the SAT South African delegation as the country claimed the right SAT to stage the World Cup. It's still more than six months to SAT the kick-off, but already you can feel the anticipation SAT mounting. Andrew Harding says there are, of course, all SAT the usual worries. Will there be enough hotel rooms, SAT transport and so on? And in a country which has become SAT associated with incidents of violent crime, will the World SAT Cup visitors be safe? SAT Muslims around the world have just celebrated one of the SAT major events in their calendar, Eid al-Adha. It's a time SAT deeply imbued with notions of sacrifice and obedience to SAT God. But the festival is also an occasion for dressing SAT smartly, visiting relatives, handing out presents and SAT eating! And as Luke Freeman explains, the tradition of the SAT feast means that one particular animal suddenly finds SAT itself in a rather awkward spot. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00p3pl1 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Card transaction fees anger airline customers, but how can SAT you avoid them? SAT Home insulation grants get squeezed. SAT Money Box listeners debate 'feckless' borrowers. SAT And how to be taxed as a foreigner, even if you're born SAT here. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00p34yr (Listen) SAT Series 29, Episode 2 SAT Tonight Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis assess the threat of the SAT nuclear family; Marcus Brigstocke meets his nemesis; Mitch SAT Benn seeks independence for Alex Salmond and Jon Holmes SAT explains why Dubai is worse than Margate. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00p3pl3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00p3pl5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00p34yt (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from SAT Stratford-upon-Avon. Panellists include director of SAT Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, broadcaster John Sergeant, SAT associate editor of The Times Daniel Finkelstein and SAT columnist AA Gill. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00p3pl7 (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00817zc (Listen) SAT Dover Beats the Band SAT Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, dramatised by Paul SAT Mendelson. SAT Inspector Dover, with less than total enthusiasm, SAT investigates the murder of a mild-mannered philatelist in SAT a holiday camp. His sergeant, however, cares a bit too SAT much. But as the investigation begins to uncover a SAT sinister conspiracy, even Scotland Yard's laziest SAT detective becomes determined to catch the killer. SAT Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Sergeant McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Dr Hirst/Nora Hull ...... Joanna Tope SAT Captain Maguire/Sven ...... Michael Mackenzie SAT Sir Egbert Rankin/Rupert Pettit ...... Finlay McLean SAT Inspector Telford/Osmond ...... Nick Underwood SAT Sandra/Doreen Knapper ...... Lucy Paterson SAT Mavis/WPC Elvira Marchmount ...... Samantha Young SAT Other parts played by members of the cast. SAT Directed by David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b00p2cq0 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Bach's B-Minor Mass SAT There are very few scores anywhere in the world of more SAT value than Bach's famous Mass. So fragile is it that the SAT Berlin library where it's kept (the Staatsbibliothek zu SAT Berlin) allows only a very few people ever to see it, let SAT alone touch it. SAT Choral conductor Simon Halsey and the Bach soprano Deborah SAT York join Frances at the Library to get closer to the SAT great German composer's extraordinary industry and to SAT catch a glimpse of his humanity. It is often half-jokingly SAT said that, to his fans, Bach is not so much a composer as SAT a religion; but here, in his neat hand, are the crossings SAT out and re-workings of a man still seeking to perfect SAT music, much of which was written earlier in his life. SAT Simon Halsey has described the B-Minor Mass as 'Bach's SAT greatest hits', since in many ways it is a compilation of SAT pieces he had composed over a number of years. The Berlin SAT score isn't simply a fair copy of this assembly, but shows SAT Bach still hard at work, changing his mind, rewriting - a SAT phrase shifted here, a key modulated there - introducing SAT new instrumentation and striving for something better. SAT There is also an incredible technological story to tell. SAT Bach's pages are literally thick with music - so thick SAT that in many places the ink has actually burned through SAT the paper, leaving it almost impossible to read. So the SAT Library has had to split the single pages open and insert SAT a protective sheet to stabilise the ink-burn. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00p3pl9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Delia Smith's advice on cooking turkeys, puddings and more SAT festive fare; black and white relationships in the era SAT depicted by Andrea Levy's novel Small Island; childbirth SAT and identifying those at risk of serious mental health SAT problems; singer Annie Lennox on World AIDS Day; is there SAT a need for a female alternative to Viagra?; and SAT performance from cabaret artist Camille O'Sullivan. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p3plc (Listen) SAT 5th December 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00p3plf (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00p3plh (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p3plk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00p3plm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p3plp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00p3plr (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by the Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable, SAT entertainer Lionel Blair and restaurateur Oliver Peyton. SAT Emma Freud talks to professional time waster Robin Cooper, SAT a man who delights in sending organisations and clubs SAT absurd letters and phone calls, with humourous results. SAT With music from singer-songwriter Lissie and the soul-jazz SAT sounds of Michael Olatuja. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00p3plt (Listen) SAT Series 7, Ghost Writing SAT The trial of alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk has begun SAT in Munich. Jeremy Front looks at why it's still important SAT to confront one's past. Performed by David Schneider and SAT Geoffrey Hutchings. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00p3q4b (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00p3q4d (Listen) SAT The Turner Prize Turnaround SAT As the Turner Prize reaches its 25th year, art critic SAT Waldemar Januszczak considers its transformation from a SAT widely criticised award to a much anticipated and often SAT controversial annual spectacle. Januszczak looks back at SAT the art and artists that have grabbed the headlines and SAT investigates how the Turner Prize has influenced the SAT appreciation of modern art in Britain, with millions now SAT visiting Tate Modern. SAT The programme includes new interviews with Turner SAT Prize-winner Damien Hirst, Tate director Nicholas Serota SAT and art critics Matthew Collings and Sarah Kent. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00p1fj2 (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, SAT Soldier, Spy, Part 1 SAT Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic SAT novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT Ever since the capture and torture of their agent in SAT Czechoslovakia, the British Secret Intelligence Service SAT has been in trouble. Now, the government has been forced SAT to call George Smiley back from retirement to investigate SAT the whole incident and to seek out the mole they believe SAT to be at the heart of the service. SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SAT Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf SAT Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey SAT Oliver Lacon ...... Alex Jennings SAT Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman SAT Irina ...... Vera Filatova SAT Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed SAT Magyar ...... Peter Majer SAT Roddy Martindale ...... Philip Fox SAT Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00p3qg6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00p2z8m (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, SAT Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses. SAT Can science ever be truly morally neutral? The leaking of SAT e-mails from the University of East Anglia Climate SAT Research Unit has raised the issue of where should we draw SAT the line between science and campaigning? In a complex SAT world of competing interests, it's vital that we have an SAT independent and rational method to judge and inform SAT policies. But is it naive to expect scientists to put SAT their personal views aside when dealing with such an SAT important issue? Do we rely too much on scientific SAT evidence to shape policy and is it driving out political SAT and moral debate in society? SAT Witnesses: SAT Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist Green Peace SAT Professor John Milbank, Professor of Religion, Politics SAT and Ethics at Nottingham University SAT Dr Ben Goldacre, full-time medic, science journalist and SAT author of Bad Science SAT Professor Lewis Wolpert, Emeritus Professor in Cell and SAT Developmental Biology at University College, London. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00p28w7 (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the eighth heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, with contestants from the SAT Midlands. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p1ftk (Listen) SAT Series 10, An Arundel Tomb SAT Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SAT appeal of some well-loved poems. SAT Philip Larkin was disappointed by his 'Tomb poem': one of SAT the pivotal details was wrong and another, he discovered, SAT had been invented by a Victorian restorer 500 years later. SAT 'Muddle to the end,' he complained, and yet it is now one SAT of his best-loved and most quoted poems. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00p3qpg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Original Shorts b008pvmz (Listen) SUN Series 3, Not in Front of Jack Hawkins SUN New short stories by well-known authors. SUN Christopher Matthew's perceptive tale of past and present, SUN in which memory plays tricks at a celebratory memorial SUN service. SUN Read by Martin Jarvis. SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3r41 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p3r43 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3r45 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00p3r47 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00p3r49 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Clement Danes, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Political Roots b00p6qpf (Listen) SUN Liberals SUN Richard Reeves examines the intellectual and philosophical SUN roots of the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00p3r4c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00p3r4f (Listen) SUN Striving for Imperfection SUN Striving for Imperfection: Classicist Llewellyn Morgan SUN considers the problem of aspiring towards perfection, and SUN how an acceptance, and even celebration, of our failings SUN may be the better path to follow. SUN With readings from Orhan Pamuk, Horace and WB Yeats and SUN music from Jascha Heifetz, John Foulds and Alessandro SUN Scarlatti. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00p3sx9 (Listen) SUN Tufty Of Thirlmere SUN The ear tufts of the red squirrel are what help make this SUN much-loved species of the British countryside such an icon SUN for conservation. As the autumn colours of the Lake SUN District intensify, Lionel Kelleway sets off on a quest to SUN find his own autumnal Tufty in the mixed woodlands of SUN Thirlmere. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00p3sxc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00p3sxf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00p3sxh (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00p71gw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal supporting SUN homeless and vulnerable people. Presented by Rev Nicholas SUN Holtam. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00p3sxm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00p3sxp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00p3sxr (Listen) SUN The Day Of His Coming SUN On the second Sunday of Advent, the Archbishop of York, Dr SUN John Sentamu, is the preacher at a service from the SUN University of Huddersfield reflecting on the great SUN choruses of Handel's Messiah during the BBC's Sing SUN Hallelujah weekend. SUN Led by Rev Peter Whittaker with the Huddersfield Choral SUN Society, conducted by Joseph Cullen. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00p34yw (Listen) SUN Clive James reflects that in a democracy we must never be SUN complacent about any government initiative and warns of SUN the dangers that a new plan for calculating funding for SUN universities may pose to academic freedom. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00p3sxt (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 09:45 Received with Thanks b00p6s4j (Listen) SUN Libby Purves reports on how the money from last year's SUN Christmas Appeal has been spent. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00p3sxw (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00p3sxy (Listen) SUN Baroness Scotland SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness SUN Scotland. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p2b01 (Listen) SUN Series 52, Episode 3 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the SUN Festival Theatre in Chichester, with Jack Dee taking the SUN chairman's role. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden SUN are joined by David Mitchell. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00p3sy0 (Listen) SUN Food Memoir SUN Food Memoir has been a growing trend in food writing in SUN recent years. The combination of food writers' SUN recollections and relevant recipes has proved a hit with SUN countless readers. Simon Parkes explores this trend and SUN asks why it's so popular. He talks to Josceline Dimbleby, SUN who is in the middle of writing her own food memoir, SUN Italian food writer Anna del Conte talks about Risotto SUN with Nettles and Yasmin Alibhai Brown discusses The SUN Settler's Cookbook, both published in 2009. SUN In the studio, Kathryn Hughes, biographer of The Short SUN Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, and journalist, SUN novelist and critic John Lanchester discuss the genre and SUN dissect some of the new and not-so-new publications. SUN What attracts established food writers to this literary SUN style? How difficult is it to get right? Do the recipes SUN get in the way of a good story, or is it the other way SUN round? What works and what doesn't? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00p3sy2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00p3sy4 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The House That Jazz Built b00p315y (Listen) SUN Celebrating 50 years of Ronnie Scott's, Paul Merton looks SUN back at the origins of Britain's most famous jazz venue, SUN and examines its impact in the world of music. SUN Ever since his trips in the late-1940s to the jazz clubs SUN of New York's 52nd Street, Ronnie Scott dreamt of opening SUN his own London venue. His vision came true when the first SUN Ronnie Scott's club opened on Gerrard Street, Soho, in SUN 1959. SUN The initial plan was purely to provide a base for British SUN jazz musicians to jam. However, the club quickly developed SUN a reputation for featuring the best in modern jazz and SUN soon provided a platform for the world's greatest jazz SUN musicians. It became a Mecca for jazz music fans and a SUN popular hang-out for politicians, comedians and actors. SUN In 1965 it relocated a short distance to Frith Street, SUN where it remains one of the world's most celebrated jazz SUN rooms, complete with its own studio and record label. SUN Recorded on location at Ronnie Scott's, the programme SUN features interviews with leading jazz artists Salena SUN Jones, Ian Shaw, Jay Phelps and James Pearson, and SUN features music and archive from personalities associated SUN with the venue during its 50-year history. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p34yh (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew are SUN guests of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in SUN Edinburgh. SUN The programme takes a guided tour of the Royal Botanic SUN Garden Edinburgh. SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxp3 (Listen) SUN Warrington Male Voice Choir SUN Joan visits choral assemblies across the country. SUN She meets a long-established male voice choir that is SUN devoted to promoting peace and reconciliation, a mission SUN which assumed greater poignancy after the Warrington SUN bombing 15 years ago. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00p3sy6 (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, SUN Soldier, Spy, Part 2 SUN Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic SUN novel. SUN George Smiley, called back from retirement, tries to piece SUN together the events of the past to find the mole he SUN believes is tearing apart the British Secret Intelligence SUN Service. SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey SUN Percy Alleline ...... Bill Paterson SUN Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman SUN Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale SUN Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast SUN Roy Bland...... David Hargreaves SUN Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00p3v2j (Listen) SUN John Irving SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to celebrated American SUN author John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen SUN Meany. SUN The novel starts with a shock - the eponymous hero hits a SUN foul ball in a baseball match and kills his best friend's SUN mother. It then moves through to spooky premonitions SUN during an amateur performance of A Christmas Carol, to a SUN drunken psychiatrist driving down school steps, to a SUN bloody end during the Vietnam war. Yet there is pattern SUN and meaning in such bizarre antics, and part of the fun SUN for the reader is to work them out. SUN Irving reveals the mysteries of one of fiction's most SUN extraordinary characters, Owen Meany - the little guy with SUN the falsetto voice. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p3v2l (Listen) SUN Series 10, My Last Duchess SUN Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SUN appeal of some well-loved poems. SUN The height of English Gothic, a poem in which an SUN aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his SUN young wife - a Medici no less. Peggy Reynolds teases out SUN the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but SUN groundbreaking poem. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p3v2n (Listen) SUN 6th December 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00p2hnt (Listen) SUN US troops have handed control for security in Iraq back to SUN the Iraqi government, which was supposed to be the first SUN sign that normality was returning to the streets. So why SUN are thousands of Iraqi refugees still refusing to return SUN home? Kate Clark invesigates. SUN SUN 17:40 Received with Thanks b00p6s4j (Listen) SUN Libby Purves reports on how the money from last year's SUN Christmas Appeal has been spent. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p3v2q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00p3v2s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p3v2v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00p3v2x (Listen) SUN Laurie Taylor introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN He's Not the Messiah, He's a Very Naughty Boy - Radio 2 SUN Adventures in Poetry - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN The Good Days - Radio 3 SUN Tales From The Stave - Radio 4 SUN Exchanges at the Frontier - World Service SUN Brick by Brick - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: The Hair of the Dog and Other Scientific SUN Surprises - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN The BBC National Short Story Award - Radio 4 SUN A Jewel in the Comedy Crown - Radio 4 SUN Today Programme - Radio 4 SUN Victoria Derbyshire - Radio 5live SUN The House That Jazz Built - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00p3v6p (Listen) SUN Annette's night takes a deceitful turn. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00p3wpn (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN Matt talks to Joe Lockhart, President Bill Clinton's press SUN secretary during his impeachment trial, and columnist Neil SUN Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times. The three discuss the SUN week's top news including President Obama's plans for SUN Afghanistan and joblessness rates in the US, and offer SUN some public relations advice to Tiger Woods. SUN Americana gathers an informal town hall in Forsyth, SUN Georgia to hear the thoughts and reactions of 'average SUN Joes' to President Obama's decisions on Afghanistan and SUN the challenges ahead. SUN Matt talks to farmers from the open stretches of the SUN United States as they prepare for their civilian SUN deployments to Afghanistan. SUN As the ban on smoking in restaurants takes place across SUN the state of Virginia, Matt talks to local bar owner Barry SUN Pruitt about the last puffs in his bar and about the SUN fading romance between the tobacco leaf and Virginia. SUN Retired four-star General Jack Keane shares his thoughts SUN on President Obama's strategy for Afghanistan. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0080dyv (Listen) SUN Sputnik, Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon SUN A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite SUN which started the space race in 1957. SUN By Tania Hershman. SUN In an Irish village, Mary Margaret receives lessons from a SUN mysterious Russian. SUN Read by Niamh Cusack. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00p346w (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00p34ym (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00p3pl1 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Card transaction fees anger airline customers, but how can SUN you avoid them? SUN Home insulation grants get squeezed. SUN Money Box listeners debate 'feckless' borrowers. SUN And how to be taxed as a foreigner, even if you're born SUN here. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00p71gw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal supporting SUN homeless and vulnerable people. Presented by Rev Nicholas SUN Holtam. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00p33wz (Listen) SUN Small Wonder SUN Microloans have brought credit to millions of poor people SUN shunned by the conventional banking system, but now SUN commercial financial institutions are jumping on the SUN microlending bandwagon. Peter Day wonders whether a SUN microloan bubble is about to burst. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00p3wpq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00p3wps (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Political Roots. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00p3wpv (Listen) SUN Week ending 5th December November 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN Margaret Thatcher and her challenger, Sir Anthony Meyer, SUN submit their nomination papers as the fight begins for the SUN leadership of the Conservative Party. Mikhail Gorbachev SUN becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican; he, SUN along with George Bush meet in Malta and declare the Cold SUN War over. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00p3r4f (Listen) SUN Striving for Imperfection SUN Striving for Imperfection: Classicist Llewellyn Morgan SUN considers the problem of aspiring towards perfection, and SUN how an acceptance, and even celebration, of our failings SUN may be the better path to follow. SUN With readings from Orhan Pamuk, Horace and WB Yeats and SUN music from Jascha Heifetz, John Foulds and Alessandro SUN Scarlatti. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00p3wxh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00p2z8g (Listen) MON Anthropology in an unusual setting: Wall Street. Laurie MON Taylor talks to the anthropologist who gave up her MON academic life for over a year to become an investment MON banker in order to study life on Wall Street. She explains MON why she immersed herself in the culture of high finance, MON high risk and high reward and why she thinks it was the MON culture of Wall Streeters which brought the world's MON financial system to the edge of catastrophe. MON Also in the programme, Laurie asks if there is such a MON thing as an idyllic English village life. While some media MON reports suggest that life in rural communities is MON seriously under threat and even dying, Laurie talks to the MON geographer who thinks that, far from it, village life is MON thriving and in many places a new kind of idyllic life is MON being created. Did the rural idyll ever exist and what MON form might it take in the 21st century? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00p3r49 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Clement Danes, London. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3xdr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p405n (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3xjr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00p4h3t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p4jrx (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00p4jw1 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00p50f3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00p4jww (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00p50f5 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr explores whether the Enlightenment or MON communism is more relevant today, with Tzvetan Todorov MON defending the role of 18th-century thought and Tariq Ali MON demanding a re-evaluation of communist ideals. Andrew MON Graham-Dixon champions Russian art, and, on the 60th MON anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Janine MON di Giovanni celebrates its enduring appeal. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00p5ysq (Listen) MON The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 1 MON Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's MON account of the life of one of the world's most famous MON clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of MON Georgian pantomime. MON The two-year-old Joseph Grimaldi is propelled onto the MON stage at Sadler's Wells by his ruthless, ballet master MON father, the Signor. The infant Joe enters the somewhat MON sordid and perilous world of the 18th-century theatre, MON where he is drilled daily in the arts of mime, acrobatics MON and buffoonery. And when the Signor finally dies of the MON syphilis that has threatened his sanity for decades, the MON nine-year-old clown Joe is forced to become breadwinner MON for Grimaldi family. MON Abridged by Viv Beeby. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p4kb1 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Including: MON Each year 50,000 children are born without any knowledge MON of who their father is. Alesha Dixon from Strictly Come MON Dancing talks about her new BBC 3 documentary: Who's Your MON Daddy. MON What's the best way to help parents whose babies are MON stillborn or die soon after birth? Guidelines from the MON National Institute for Clinical Excellence say that MON mothers should not routinely be encouraged to see or hold MON their dead infant. But some organisations which support MON bereaved parents say the guidance is inconsistent and that MON it may deny parents the chance to see and hold their baby MON after death, should they choose to do so. So what is MON helpful at such a traumatic time? MON Where do you wear your trackie bottoms? To the gym, or do MON you just slouch around the house in them? And how do you MON wear them? Matching top or hoodie? Well think again, for MON the sporty tracksuit bottom has been given a radical MON makeover. Think high heels and jewellery. Will they catch MON on or are they forever associated with Vicky Pollard? MON It is thought that increasing numbers of healthy women are MON seeking surgery to change the shape of the vulva. This MON usually means that the patient is asking to have the size MON of their labia minora reduced. Jane hears why some doctors MON are concerned by the rise in demand for 'labiaplasty'. MON MON 11:00 Policing Britain b00p5x4w (Listen) MON The Police and the Public MON Andy Hayman, former assistant commissioner of the MON Metropolitan Police, examines the challenges facing MON policing in Britain today. MON When Andy Hayman left the Metropolitan Police in 2008 he MON was assistant commissioner, Special Operations, in overall MON charge of counter-terrorism. He had to deal with the MON suicide bomb attacks on London and the tragedy of the de MON Menezes shooting. Andy's 30-year career started straight MON out of school with the police in Essex and took him to the MON position of chief constable of Norfolk. In this series he MON takes a critical look at the challenges facing the police MON service in Britain today. He goes back on the beat and MON talks to former colleagues and those who work with the MON police at every level to ask the question, 'Do we have the MON policing we need in Britain today?' MON A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Tickets Please b00p5xc2 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Comedy drama by Mark Maier about the ongoing trials of the MON staff and passengers on an intercity rail service. MON After delays caused by lightning, a 20-piece orchestra MON practices in Coach G. This offers Robin a plangent MON background for his declaration of love - but can he seize MON his chance? MON Robin ...... Jeremy Swift MON Nadine ...... Alex Kelly MON Peter ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Carol ...... Tessa Nicholson MON Carl ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Diana ...... Melissa Advani MON Linda ...... Kate Layden MON Keith ...... Stephen Hogan MON Other parts played by Philip Fox, Piers Wehner and Joseph MON Cohen-Cole. MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00p4l7x (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00p4lnq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00p4lp9 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00p5xc4 (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest, with contestants from the south MON of England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00p3v6p (Listen) MON Annette's night takes a deceitful turn. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p5xc6 (Listen) MON Zero Degrees of Separation MON Three community writing groups from the Isle of Mull, MON Northern Ireland and London perform their own short plays. MON The Bank Van, by Carla Lamont, Derek Crook, Kirsty Lamont MON and Colin MacIntyre. MON With Stewart Cattanach, Christopher Barlow, Andrea MON McKenna, Roddy Wyness and Mary-Jean Devon. MON Crosswords, by Ballycastle Writer's Group. MON With Daire Buckley, Arlene Brown, Michael Duffin, Rab MON Coyles, Harry McKeirnan. MON Guitarist: Lee Cartwright. MON Directed by Lou Stein MON Shame on You, by The Original Writer's Group, Battersea. MON With Zoe King, Christine Brennan, Becca Thackery and MON members of the group, with Rebecca Noon and Liam Clarke. MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00p3q4d (Listen) MON The Turner Prize Turnaround MON As the Turner Prize reaches its 25th year, art critic MON Waldemar Januszczak considers its transformation from a MON widely criticised award to a much anticipated and often MON controversial annual spectacle. Januszczak looks back at MON the art and artists that have grabbed the headlines and MON investigates how the Turner Prize has influenced the MON appreciation of modern art in Britain, with millions now MON visiting Tate Modern. MON The programme includes new interviews with Turner MON Prize-winner Damien Hirst, Tate director Nicholas Serota MON and art critics Matthew Collings and Sarah Kent. MON MON 15:45 Darwin: My Ancestor b00gvrhk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Writer and poet Ruth Padel investigates the qualities of MON her great great grandfather Charles Darwin and attempts to MON discover the man behind the science. MON Ruth explores how Darwin developed the sense of wonder and MON curiosity about nature which would be so crucial to his MON work. She investigates how important his childhood MON collecting was to him and asks how his enthusiasm MON developed into a scientific understanding of the world MON around him. Among her interviewees are Darwin's biographer MON Janet Browne, geologist Richard Fortey, writer and fellow MON Darwin descendant Randal Keynes and Darwin scholar Gillian MON Beer. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00p3sy0 (Listen) MON Food Memoir MON Food Memoir has been a growing trend in food writing in MON recent years. The combination of food writers' MON recollections and relevant recipes has proved a hit with MON countless readers. Simon Parkes explores this trend and MON asks why it's so popular. He talks to Josceline Dimbleby, MON who is in the middle of writing her own food memoir, MON Italian food writer Anna del Conte talks about Risotto MON with Nettles and Yasmin Alibhai Brown discusses The MON Settler's Cookbook, both published in 2009. MON In the studio, Kathryn Hughes, biographer of The Short MON Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, and journalist, MON novelist and critic John Lanchester discuss the genre and MON dissect some of the new and not-so-new publications. MON What attracts established food writers to this literary MON style? How difficult is it to get right? Do the recipes MON get in the way of a good story, or is it the other way MON round? What works and what doesn't? MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p5yxj (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Series in which physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin MON Ince take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational MON look at the world according to science. MON Robin and Brian are joined by alien abduction expert Jon MON Ronson and Seth Shostack from the SETI Institute in MON California to discuss science conspiracies, UFOs and the MON search for ET. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p4pm5 (Listen) MON 7th December 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00p4py4 (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 b00p4q2l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p604t (Listen) MON Series 52, Episode 4 MON The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the MON Festival Theatre in Chichester, with Jack Dee taking the MON chairman's role. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden MON are joined by David Mitchell. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00p4lt5 (Listen) MON Emotions run high at Ambridge Hall. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00p4q57 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the live MON announcement of the winner of the BBC National Short Story MON Award. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p4qhh (Listen) MON Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials, Episode MON 1 MON Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and MON correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper MON from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives. MON Amy Barbour-James was born in England in 1906 to Guyanese MON parents. Her father was a British civil servant and a MON founder member of the League of Coloured Peoples. In 1963, MON Amy is living in London with her sister Muriel as The Big MON Freeze grips the country. MON Amy ...... Janice Acquah MON Muriel ...... Ellen Thomas MON Joyce/Cathy ...... Fiona Clarke MON Ade ...... Declan Wilson MON Bank Manager ...... Rob Pickavance MON Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen. MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00p604w (Listen) MON Series 5, Joan of Arc MON Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great MON moments of history to discover that they often conceal MON other events of equal but forgotten importance. MON Michael explores the myth and memory of Joan of Arc, and MON discovers that another French woman deserves just as much, MON if not more, credit for saving France in its hour of need. MON Battered by decades of war, riven by internal divsions and MON with large swathes of the country occupied by the English, MON Charles VII's France was on its knees in the 1420s. To its MON rescue came a young woman, Joan of Arc. Under her MON inspiration the fortunes of the country were turned round MON and France appeared saved. Joan's place in history was MON confirmed as she was burned at the stake at the age of 19. MON But Joan's notoriety eclipses the contribution made by MON another, contemporary Frenchwoman, who did as at least as MON much to secure the future of the French nation and its MON monarchy. She was Yolande D'Aragon, the King's MON mother-in-law. It was Yolande who used her position to MON secure the French monarchy by marriage, diplomacy and MON force. It was she who invited the young Joan to court, who MON provided her with her armour and who acted as her sponsor MON as an emblem of hope for the troops. It was also Yolande MON who ditched Joan as soon as she became a liability and MON spent the next decades making laws and allegiances to MON strengthen the French crown. MON Michael invetsigates why her 40 years of service have been MON forgotten, buried in the mythology that has grown around MON Joan. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00p315w (Listen) MON Pakistan Drugs MON Julia Rooke accompanies former heroin dealer, Urfan Azad, MON on a journey back to the remote mountain madrassa in north MON west Pakistan where he received drugs rehabilitation and MON spiritual healing. But during their journey Urfan reveals MON how young recovering addicts and criminals were given MON military training and that some went on to fight in MON Afghanistan. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00p604y (Listen) MON Negotiators at the United Nations Framework Convention on MON Climate Change in Copenhagen are hoping to agree a new MON global climate treaty to limit greenhouse emissions. MON Richard Hollingham discusses the way biotechnology can MON help us develop new crops able to withstand harsher MON growing conditions. He talks to some of the biotech MON companies that want the European Commission to relax its MON attitude towards GMOs (genetically modified organisms). He MON also talks to the European Commission about its policy on MON GM products. MON Crops genetically adapted for climate change need to be MON drought and pest resistant and able to thrive in poor MON quality soil. They also need to provide improved yields. MON These crops are controversial, especially in Europe. MON Historically, European legislators have taken a very MON cautious attitude towards genetically modified food and MON animal feedstuff. Currently, the European Commission MON permits the import of genetically modified cotton, maize, MON oilseed rape, soybean and sugar beet for human and animal MON consumption. So far, the European Commission has issued a MON single licence permitting one variety of GM maize to be MON grown in Europe. MON At present, there are about 50 GM products awaiting MON approval from the European Commission, of which 19 are for MON cultivation. The companies that produce biotech crops want MON the EC to relax its moratorium on new product approvals. MON Apart from the obvious commercial opportunities, they MON argue that if Europe relaxes its attitude towards GM MON crops, developing nations will be more likely to accept MON them too, and it is the developing nations that will be MON most affected by climate change. In that sense, Europe is MON becoming a crucial battlefield as companies lobby to get MON new crops licensed for cultivation. MON There is still huge opposition within Europe to MON genetically modified crops. But is climate change MON beginning to alter the terms of the debate? If the world MON is to sustain its current population levels at a time when MON it is becoming increasingly difficult to cultivate MON traditional crops, have we now reached the point when MON Europe needs to take a more tolerant attitude towards the MON cultivation of GM crops? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00p50f5 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr explores whether the Enlightenment or MON communism is more relevant today, with Tzvetan Todorov MON defending the role of 18th-century thought and Tariq Ali MON demanding a re-evaluation of communist ideals. Andrew MON Graham-Dixon champions Russian art, and, on the 60th MON anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Janine MON di Giovanni celebrates its enduring appeal. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00p4r7p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00p4r86 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p4rjj (Listen) MON Riceyman Steps, Episode 6 MON Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett MON about the poignant struggles of everyday London life. MON The corrosive desire for thrift begins to dominate married MON life at Mr Earlforward's bookshop. Henry's refusal to eat MON properly is beginning to affect his health, but Violet has MON plans to tempt him. MON A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00p2hfw (Listen) MON Michael Rosen asks whether English is one language or a MON thousand. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p4rjx (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00p3wx1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00p5ysq (Listen) TUE The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 1 TUE Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's TUE account of the life of one of the world's most famous TUE clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of TUE Georgian pantomime. TUE The two-year-old Joseph Grimaldi is propelled onto the TUE stage at Sadler's Wells by his ruthless, ballet master TUE father, the Signor. The infant Joe enters the somewhat TUE sordid and perilous world of the 18th-century theatre, TUE where he is drilled daily in the arts of mime, acrobatics TUE and buffoonery. And when the Signor finally dies of the TUE syphilis that has threatened his sanity for decades, the TUE nine-year-old clown Joe is forced to become breadwinner TUE for Grimaldi family. TUE Abridged by Viv Beeby. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3x30 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p404k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3xdt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00p4h3k (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p4jqd (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00p4js0 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00p4jw3 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b00p607d (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Dr Warren Hern about his choice to carry TUE out abortions despite death threats. TUE TUE 09:30 Pilots That Never Flew b00g633v (Listen) TUE Agents and Audiences TUE Series in which Director of the National Youth Theatre TUE Paul Roseby examines the labourious process of creating TUE successful pilot programmes. TUE Paul examines two groups at the sharp end of the process: TUE the agents who have to break bad news about unsuccessful TUE pilots to their clients and the audiences whose response TUE can make the difference between success and failure. TUE Featuring an interview with John Grant of the Conway van TUE Gelder Grant agency. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00p5yss (Listen) TUE The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 2 TUE Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's TUE account of the life of one of the world's most famous TUE clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of TUE Georgian pantomime. TUE The young Grimaldi begins to make his mark as a comic TUE performer on the unruly stages of Georgian London. But TUE just when he seems to have finally found happiness with TUE his new wife and child, tragedy strikes. Joseph seeks TUE consolation in work - and making others laugh - with a new TUE comic creation that will change the face of clowning TUE forever: the pantomime clown Joey, complete with full TUE make-up of white face, blood-red mouth and blackened brows. TUE Abridged by Viv Beeby. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p4kb3 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century 11 TUE - All My Trials. TUE TUE 11:00 Mind Your Slanguage b00p60hx (Listen) TUE Benjamin Zephaniah explores the moral panic surrounding TUE language change and asks why Jamaican patois remains the TUE slang of choice for British teenagers. TUE In 2007, Manchester Academy banned street slang from their TUE classrooms, and reported soaring exam results the TUE following year. Most linguists agree that the key to using TUE street slang successfully is 'appropriacy' - the ability TUE to turn it on and off in different situations. So why do TUE young people today appear less able to discern appropriacy TUE than they were 20 years ago? Is banning slang the answer TUE or, as some experts suggest, should teachers and parents TUE try learning it? TUE Including contributions from Ann Widdecombe MP, BBC 1Xtra TUE DJ Ras Kwame and Tony Thorne of the Slang and New Language TUE Archive, King's College, London. TUE TUE 11:30 Going to Pieces in the Box b00p61zg (Listen) TUE Janet Ellis, host of the 1980s Children's BBC series TUE Jigsaw, presents a celebration of the history and the art TUE of the jigsaw puzzle. TUE More art - typically sentimental, traditional art - has TUE made its way into more homes via the jigsaw puzzle than TUE virtually any other medium. While it has since become the TUE purveyor of comforting landscapes to the masses, it TUE started life as an educational tool championed by the TUE likes of philosopher John Locke. In 1760, London mapmaker TUE John Spilsbury mounted one of his maps on hardboard and TUE cut it into pieces to help children learn geography. TUE Janet tells the story of how, since then, it has become TUE such a core feature of childhoods across the world. She TUE hears how jigsaws hit their first major peak during the TUE Great Depression, when 10 million a week were bought by TUE families looking for cheap pastimes, and how they were TUE used by immigration officers on Ellis Island to determine TUE who should be allowed into the land of the free. Janet TUE also explores how popular culture has flirted with the TUE jigsaw, in novels and films as diverse as Mansfield Park, TUE Citizen Kane and, most powerfully, Georges Perec's novel, TUE Life: A User's Manual. She hears from academics and TUE enthusiasts including Margaret Drabble, who explain the TUE jigsaw's great allure. TUE Janet hears how jigsaws continue to be incredibly popular, TUE having evolved into 3-D puzzles and of course made their TUE way onto the internet, where no young children's games TUE site is without one. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00p4l56 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00p4lff (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00p4lns (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b00p61zj (Listen) TUE Series 5, Tippett: A Child of Our Time TUE Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores TUE of well-known pieces of music. TUE Using the pencil-written score and private notebooks and TUE letters, Frances unpacks the creative story behind Sir TUE Michael Tippett's oratorio, A Child of Our Time. With its TUE Spiritual Choruses mixed with the stark modernity of its TUE forbidding message, it stands now as one of the most TUE powerful statements about man's potential for inhumanity TUE to man. TUE As the letters and notes reveal, the inspiration for the TUE peace was the shooting in 1938 of a German diplomat in TUE Paris by an enraged 17-year-old Jewish boy, powerless to TUE stop the Nazi atrocities against his family in Germany. TUE His actions, twisted by Nazi propaganda, provoked TUE Kristalnacht - a rising against Jewish people and property TUE which resulted in the burning of synagogues and Jewish TUE shops and houses. TUE Already a passionate political thinker, Tippett tried to TUE express his feelings through a three-part oratorio that TUE described the way a man, the child of the title, can be TUE coralled into an act of self-destruction. And set against TUE this dark journey are the spirituals, one of which - TUE 'Steal away to Jesue' - he had heard and been inspired by TUE on a radio broadcast. Like Bach's chorales, they remain a TUE way into the piece for many listeners, commenting on the TUE moods and reflecting on the anger, despair and resignation TUE of the child's journey. TUE As well as revealing Tippett's workings and worryings over TUE the music, the British Library's archive also throws light TUE on the way the libretto developed, being sent for TUE improvement to poet TS Eliot, who promptly sent it back TUE advising the composer that he was managing quite well on TUE his own. TUE Joing Frances are Sarah Walker, who sang the vital mezzo TUE soprano role in a recording made in 1991 with the composer TUE himself conducting; music scholar and writer Paul Banks TUE and graphologist Ruth Rostron. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00p4lt5 (Listen) TUE Emotions run high at Ambridge Hall. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p61zl (Listen) TUE Winter Storm TUE By Bernard MacLaverty. TUE On a Midwinter's day in Iowa in 1996, Scottish poet Andrew TUE Younger steps from his office on a university campus and TUE is engulfed by a severe blizzard. Lost and disorientated, TUE Andrew muses upon the events which have led to him being TUE stranded alone, so far away from home. TUE Andrew ...... John Gordon Sinclair TUE Lorna ...... Maureen Beattie TUE Cleaner ...... Wendy Seager TUE Kris ...... Michael Goldsmith TUE Angela ...... Melody Grove. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00p61zn (Listen) TUE When sea level rises are discussed the focus is, TUE unsurprisingly, on the shrinking land mass. We are, after TUE all, terrestrial creatures. But what about the vast TUE numbers of creatures that live in the seas and oceans? TUE Listeners ask if more water will provide them with more TUE opportunity, and if so could we exploit their gain, TUE replacing farm land with fisheries? Creative thinking is TUE required to solve many of the world's problems so could a TUE need for fresh water in arid countries, a surfeit at the TUE poles and a glut of unused oil tankers be combined in an TUE elegant solution to water shortages? TUE Also, could the move towards burning biomass for energy be TUE boosting an undesirable global trade, just how efficient TUE is evolution and the seaweed invasion that never was. TUE On the panel are sustainable development expert Dr Ros TUE Taylor of Kingston University, marine biologist Professor TUE Graham Underwood of the University of Essex and Professor TUE Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from the TUE University of London. TUE If you have any comments on the topics discussed or any TUE questions you might want to put to future programmes, TUE please do let us know. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p62dq (Listen) TUE Defining Moments, The Lost Weekend TUE Series of short stories by new Irish writers. TUE By Hugo Kelly. A single woman seizes an opportunity to get TUE away for a weekend, only to discover that there are some TUE things that you just can't escape. Read by Katherine TUE Parkinson. TUE TUE 15:45 Darwin: My Ancestor b00h6tpp (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Writer and poet Ruth Padel investigates the qualities of TUE her great great grandfather Charles Darwin and attempts to TUE discover the man behind the science. TUE Ruth explores how her ancestor established relationships TUE as a husband and father and became a family man, able to TUE blend playing with children and working on scientific TUE experiments. She investigates how Darwin's curiosity about TUE nature found expression in the study of his children and TUE she also explores the unique relationship between Darwin TUE and his wife Emma. Ruth also travels to Darwin's home, TUE Down House in Kent, to follow his footsteps in the places TUE that he loved to walk. TUE Among her interviewees are Darwin biographer Janet Browne, TUE writer and fellow Darwin descendant Randal Keynes and TUE Darwin experts from Down House. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00p62jn (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen meets the consultants who will teach you how TUE to speak more clearly, write more grammatically and even TUE become a published author - at a price. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00p62v6 (Listen) TUE Series 20, Henry V TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V TUE and tries to separate fact from myth, with the help of TUE historian Juliet Barker. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p4plj (Listen) TUE 8th December 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE East Germany elects a new leader amid fears that the TUE country is descending into lawlessness. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00p4pvp (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 b00p4py6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00p6307 (Listen) TUE Honeytrap Hotel TUE Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of TUE inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. TUE Beagle Team infringe every civil liberty in the book on TUE behalf of national security. TUE Bill ...... Richard Lumsden TUE Sharla ...... Nina Conti TUE Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya TUE Tony Savage ...... Kevin Eldon TUE Geoff ...... John Biggins TUE Ted ...... Shaban Arifi TUE Nanny/Milij ...... Alex Tregear TUE Mr Smith ...... Nigel Hastings TUE Mrs Smith ...... Kate Layden TUE Bishop:Ewan Hooper. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00p4lsn (Listen) TUE Vicky and Joe get into the festive spirit. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00p4q2n (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a review TUE of Jim Jarmusch's film The Limits of Control, with a cast TUE featuring John Hurt, Tilda Swinton and a cameo role for TUE Bill Murray. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p4qt5 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials, Episode TUE 2 TUE Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and TUE correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper TUE from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives. TUE Amy Barbour-James and her sister, Muriel, have escaped The TUE Big Freeze and are visiting friends in Trinidad. But TUE Muriel takes a turn for the worse. TUE Amy ...... Janice Acquah TUE Muriel ...... Ellen Thomas TUE Audrey ...... Mona Hammond TUE Joyce/Cathy ...... Fiona Clarke TUE Ade/Dr Beaubrun ...... Declan Wilson TUE Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00p66f4 (Listen) TUE The government's forensic science service is crucial to TUE taclking crime, but is shedding hundreds of jobs and TUE closing half its laboratory facilities in a drive to make TUE the organisation more commercial. Fran Abrams investigates TUE whether or not the aggressive cost-cutting in beginning to TUE hit the way the service operates and consequently TUE undermine justice. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00p66f6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00p66f8 (Listen) TUE For decades, psychologists, teachers and employers have TUE used IQ testing to measure learning potential, but now TUE scientists say that instead of IQ, testing 'working TUE memory' is a far more accurate predictor of academic TUE success. Dr Tracy Alloway from Stirling University says TUE that a recent experiment has shown that measuring working TUE memory, or our capacity to learn, helped to predict TUE children's future grades more accurately than IQ tests. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b00p607d (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Dr Warren Hern about his choice to carry TUE out abortions despite death threats. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00p4r59 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00p4r7r (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p4rh1 (Listen) TUE Riceyman Steps, Episode 7 TUE Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett TUE about the poignant struggles of everyday London life. TUE Both Elsie and Violet are increasingly anxious about TUE Henry's weakened state and his refusal to acknowledge that TUE he is ill. Elsie's loyalty prompts her to take matters TUE into her own hands and have a quiet word with the doctor. TUE A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00p66fb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Stirrings in the Night TUE Comedy series by Nigel Smith about a man in a coma, TUE travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own TUE unconscious mind. TUE Ben and Mary's love life needs help; luckily Blitz has TUE found Lord Byron to offer some useful tips. Meanwhile, mum TUE dismantles a toad in the hole in case it gets in the way TUE of romance. TUE Ben ...... Neil Pearson TUE Mary ...... Fiona Allen TUE Mum ...... Josie Lawrence TUE Blitz ...... Leslie Ash TUE Nurse ...... Jo Martin TUE Derek ...... Stephen Frost TUE Marley/Lord Byron ...... Spencer Brown TUE Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith TUE Directed by Nigel Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p4rjl (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00p3wx3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00p5yss (Listen) WED The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 2 WED Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's WED account of the life of one of the world's most famous WED clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of WED Georgian pantomime. WED The young Grimaldi begins to make his mark as a comic WED performer on the unruly stages of Georgian London. But WED just when he seems to have finally found happiness with WED his new wife and child, tragedy strikes. Joseph seeks WED consolation in work - and making others laugh - with a new WED comic creation that will change the face of clowning WED forever: the pantomime clown Joey, complete with full WED make-up of white face, blood-red mouth and blackened brows. WED Abridged by Viv Beeby. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3x32 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p404m (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3xdw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00p4h3m (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p4jqg (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00p4js2 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hilld. WED WED 06:00 Today b00p4jw5 (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00p66s2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Simon Callow. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00p5ysv (Listen) WED The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 3 WED Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's WED account of the life of one of the world's most famous WED clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of WED Georgian pantomime. WED Grimaldi is at the height of his powers, and his WED extraordinary performance in the new pantomime, Mother WED Goose, makes him a fully-fledged star of the Georgian WED stage. Yet, with the dizzying excitement of success comes WED a resurgence of his old melancholy, as he struggles to WED cope with this unexpected fame. WED Abridged by Viv Beeby. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p4kb5 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 11 WED - All My Trials. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00p66s4 (Listen) WED Series 11, The Mapplethorpe Affair WED When a Birmingham art student borrowed a book of WED photographs from her university library, she sparked a WED controversy that left the vice-chancellor facing a WED possible prison sentence. Chris Ledgard examines the work WED of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and opens the WED book West Midlands Police wanted to burn. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00p67dy (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 3 WED Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the WED 1950s in a Donegal town. WED It is 1959. Vera, who runs the manual exchange, has WED 'overheard' a telephone conversation suggesting her WED franchise may be transferred to a new arrival in WED Ballylenon. 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 Guard Gallagher ...... Frankie McCafferty 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 b00p4l58 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00p4lfh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00p4lnv (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00p67f0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00p4lsn (Listen) WED Vicky and Joe get into the festive spirit. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p67f2 (Listen) WED One in A Million WED Crime thriller by Peter Kesterton about guilt, WED mathematical proof and statistics. WED Maths lecturer Jonathan is arrested for an attempted WED assault on a young woman. The case against him is WED overwhelming: the attacker's DNA has been found on the WED victim and the forensic scientists show that there is a WED million to one chance that the DNA is Jonathan's. Can WED Jonathan uses his statistical knowledge to get himself off WED the hook? WED Jonathan Lambert ...... Andy Morton WED Robinson ...... Christian Rodska WED Chloe ...... Alex Tregear WED Katrina/Forensic scientist ...... Saskia Portway WED Mrs Lambert ...... Pameli Benham WED Lawyer ...... Jilly Bond WED Directed by Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00p67tn (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on tax and WED the pre-budget report. WED Guests: WED Leonie Kerswill, tax partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers WED Ian Johnson, tax partner, Grant Thornton WED Anita Monteith, technical manager, Tax Faculty, The WED Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p62ds (Listen) WED Defining Moments, The Westlink Upgrade WED Series of short stories by new Irish writers. WED By Colin Carberry. A young couple begin to realise their WED relationship has changed - they have fallen in love. Read WED by Ciaran McMenamin. WED WED 15:45 Darwin: My Ancestor b00hc944 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Writer and poet Ruth Padel investigates the qualities of WED her great great grandfather Charles Darwin and attempts to WED discover the man behind the science. WED Ruth explores the losses which Darwin experienced in his WED life, how he coped with them and in what ways they shaped WED his view of the world. He saw three of his children die, WED one of which affected him particularly deeply and caused WED him to lose much of his religious belief. He also had to WED cope with the death of his mother when he was a boy, the WED loss of his own health and almost losing his research for WED On the Origin of Species. WED Among Ruth's interviewees are Darwin biographer Janet WED Browne, writer and fellow Darwin descendant Randal Keynes WED and the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00p67tq (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00p66f8 (Listen) WED For decades, psychologists, teachers and employers have WED used IQ testing to measure learning potential, but now WED scientists say that instead of IQ, testing 'working WED memory' is a far more accurate predictor of academic WED success. Dr Tracy Alloway from Stirling University says WED that a recent experiment has shown that measuring working WED memory, or our capacity to learn, helped to predict WED children's future grades more accurately than IQ tests. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p4pll (Listen) WED 9th December 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the Communist Party faces the WED threat of extinction. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00p4pvr (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 b00p4py8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p67ts (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a WED series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. WED Unwelcoming neighbour Annabelle quizzes an unsuspecting WED soul over his windchimes, useless entrepreneur Carole WED Price takes another swing at selling her bad ideas to the WED world and someone travels back from the very near future WED to warn a man about his blind date. WED With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00p4lsq (Listen) WED Peggy keeps up appearances for Jack. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00p4q2r (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including advice WED for anyone in search of classical CDs as part of their WED Christmas shopping. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p4qsx (Listen) WED Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials, Episode WED 3 WED Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and WED correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper WED from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives. WED Amy Barbour-James is struggling to stay on top of her work WED at the Crown Agents Office and find the money to pay for WED her sister's care in Trinidad. She decides to search for a WED nursing home in London. WED Amy ...... Janice Acquah WED Audrey ...... Mona Hammond WED Milly ...... Ellen Thomas WED Joyce/Nurse ...... Fiona Clarke WED Dr Beaubrun ...... Declan Wilson WED Amy's Boss ...... Rob Pickavance WED Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00p681y (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, WED Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Political Roots b00p71ys (Listen) WED Labour WED Richard Reeves delves into the Labour Party and explores WED the background and philosophy of senior cabinet member WED Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. WED WED 21:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p5yxj (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Series in which physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin WED Ince take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational WED look at the world according to science. WED Robin and Brian are joined by alien abduction expert Jon WED Ronson and Seth Shostack from the SETI Institute in WED California to discuss science conspiracies, UFOs and the WED search for ET. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00p66s2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Simon Callow. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00p4r5c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00p4r7t (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p4rh3 (Listen) WED Riceyman Steps, Episode 8 WED Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett WED about the poignant struggles of everyday London life. WED Henry has issued a stern warning to Elsie that she has WED been stealing food from a dying man, but his bluff is WED called when he takes a turn for the worse and the doctor WED is summoned. Dr Raste declares that he will call for Henry WED the following morning to take him to the hospital. WED A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00gdhnr (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Series of comedy sketches by Emily Watson Howes set in a WED ladies' public toilet, featuring various female characters WED as they come and go. WED Audrey has personal toilet problems of her own as a WED neurotic Egyptologist tries to come to terms with her WED heavy workload. WED With Emily Watson Howes, Kate Donmall, Suzanne Hislop, WED Fran Moulds. WED WED 23:15 All Bar Luke b00dgjgg (Listen) WED Series 3, The Hen Night WED Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key. WED Luke is trapped in the hen party from hell when the love WED of his life appoints him chief bridesmaid. WED An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p4rjn (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00p3wx5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00p5ysv (Listen) THU The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 3 THU Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's THU account of the life of one of the world's most famous THU clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of THU Georgian pantomime. THU Grimaldi is at the height of his powers, and his THU extraordinary performance in the new pantomime, Mother THU Goose, makes him a fully-fledged star of the Georgian THU stage. Yet, with the dizzying excitement of success comes THU a resurgence of his old melancholy, as he struggles to THU cope with this unexpected fame. THU Abridged by Viv Beeby. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3x34 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p404p (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3xdy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00p4h3p (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p4jqj (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00p4js4 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00p4jw7 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00p693b (Listen) THU Pythagoras THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas attributed to THU the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras and the THU influence of his followers, the Pythagoreans. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00p5ysx (Listen) THU The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 4 THU Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's THU account of the life of one of the world's most famous THU clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of THU Georgian pantomime. THU As Grimaldi takes the art of pantomime into new THU directions, with the use of satire and lampoonery, he THU becomes known as the Hogarth of the Georgian stage, THU drawing admiration from Lord Byron and the Prince of THU Wales. But, though still only in his 30s, the years of THU physical comedy begin to take their toll on the body of THU the great clown. THU Abridged by Viv Beeby. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p4kb7 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 11 THU - All My Trials. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00p6b3m (Listen) THU Nablus THU For years the West Bank town of Nablus was a community at THU war with Israel following the second Palestinian Intifada, THU or uprising, that began in 2000. Now Israeli checkpoints THU have been dismantled, Palestinian police officers patrol THU their own streets, and Nablus has become a shopping hub THU with an economy that is on the up. THU These kinds of changes are touted by Palestinians and the THU international community as evidence that the Palestinian THU Authority is running what could be a viable state if a THU peace deal were to be brokered with Israel. THU But how profound and durable is this transformation of the THU still-occupied West Bank? Crossing Continents takes the THU temperature in the homes and on the streets of Nablus. THU THU 11:30 Open the Vaults b00p6rr0 (Listen) THU BBC arts correspondent Razia Iqbal examines the tradition THU of banks as patrons of art, as the Royal Bank of Scotland THU finally agrees to make its collection more accessible. THU Since the government bailout in 2008, the bank has been THU under increased pressure to display its art work. But the THU actual contents of the vaults has been shrouded in THU secrecy, and there is concern that the NatWest Collection, THU bought in 2001, could have been damaged in storage. As the THU bank unwraps its rumoured David Hockney, LS Lowry and Jack THU Vettriano, Razia examines the history of banks' patronage THU of the arts and asks what responsibility comes with owning THU great art. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00p4l5b (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00p4lfk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00p4lnx (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00p6rr2 (Listen) THU Me Time THU Having it all is no longer enough; if you haven't factored THU some 'me time' into your diary you're missing out. Dominic THU Arkwright asks journalist Anna Raeburn, clinical THU psychologist Oliver James and writer Phoebe Gibson to THU explain how it works. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00p4lsq (Listen) THU Peggy keeps up appearances for Jack. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p6rr4 (Listen) THU Getting to Four Degrees THU By Sarah Woods. What if we can't limit global warming to THU two degrees? What if it reaches four degrees - or more? THU Three real-life climate change experts spin one average THU family into the future, to look at life on a warmer planet. THU With Professor Kevin Anderson, Mark Lynas and Dr Emma THU Tompkins. THU Ian ...... Don Gilet THU Sue ...... Kate Ashfield THU Chloe ...... Amber Beattie THU Jack ...... Ryan Watson THU Grandad Bill ...... Bruce Alexander THU Louisa ...... Melissa Advani THU Narrator ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00p3nz2 (Listen) THU Gloucestershire Wildlife ER THU Helen Mark visits Vale Wildlife Rescue, a hospital where THU wild animals and birds are taken when they're found THU injured in Gloucestershire and the surrounding region. THU Perhaps surprisingly, the hospital provides good THU indicators of the health of local wildlife: it's possible THU to tell which species are flourishing by the numbers THU brought in. They also run wildlife rehabilitation courses THU for people who want to know what to do when they come THU across an injured animal or bird. THU Helen talks to the staff, and meets patients and long-term THU residents, including owls, buzzards, foxes, deer....and a THU skunk. A colony of skunks has sprung up in the nearby THU Forest of Dean and one was recently brought into the THU Rescue centre. The family who captured the skunk tell of THU their adventure, and why it is that skunks are now to be THU found living wild in the UK. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00p71gw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal THU St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal supporting THU homeless and vulnerable people. Presented by Rev Nicholas THU Holtam. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p62dv (Listen) THU Defining Moments, Art THU Series of short stories by new Irish writers. THU By Anne Harris, read by Jemma Regrave. THU On a weekend abroad, a woman realises that Rome may not be THU quite the city of romance after all. THU THU 15:45 Received with Thanks b00p6s4j (Listen) THU Libby Purves reports on how the money from last year's THU Christmas Appeal has been spent. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00p3v2j (Listen) THU John Irving THU James Naughtie and readers talk to celebrated American THU author John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen THU Meany. THU The novel starts with a shock - the eponymous hero hits a THU foul ball in a baseball match and kills his best friend's THU mother. It then moves through to spooky premonitions THU during an amateur performance of A Christmas Carol, to a THU drunken psychiatrist driving down school steps, to a THU bloody end during the Vietnam war. Yet there is pattern THU and meaning in such bizarre antics, and part of the fun THU for the reader is to work them out. THU Irving reveals the mysteries of one of fiction's most THU extraordinary characters, Owen Meany - the little guy with THU the falsetto voice. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00p6s4l (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks at global plans to monitor the deep THU sea. THU In the USA, fuelled by more than 100 million dollars from THU the Federal Recovery Act, the Ocean Observatories THU Initiative has just begun. It plans to create an THU unprecedented network of underwater surveillance equipment THU in oceans. Europe and Asia also have plans for networks of THU ocean observatories. THU Quentin finds out how monitoring the oceans' depths, THU second by second, will help us understand scientific THU questions as far ranging as the process of ocean THU circulation and the impact of future climate change. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p4pln (Listen) THU 10th December 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU The president of Czechoslovakia swears in the country's THU first non-communist majority government in 41 years. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00p4pvt (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 b00p4pyd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, THU Series 1 of b00p6sd5 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Political comedian Andy Zaltzman presents a THU decade-by-decade comic analysis of the third millennium, THU covering the 2000-2009 period of what is already shaping THU up to be a troubled thousand years. THU Andy applies his signature mix of stand-up, sketches, THU facts and blatant lies to the subject of world politics. THU With Rory Bremner, Bridget Christie, Lucy Montgomery and THU Kim Wall. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00p4lss (Listen) THU Annette searches for an escape. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00p4q2t (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p4qsz (Listen) THU Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials, Episode THU 4 THU Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and THU correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper THU from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives. THU It is 1964 and Amy's sister is thousands of miles away, in THU hospital in Trinidad. Amy faces a dilemma about what is THU best for both of them. THU Amy ...... Janice Acquah THU Joyce ...... Fiona Clarke THU Ade ...... Declan Wilson THU Amy's Boss ...... Rob Pickavance THU Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00p6t26 (Listen) THU Emails taken from the one of the world's major climate THU research centres have been a boon for climate sceptics who THU claim manipulation of the data, and a 'major blow' for THU green activists who are calling for resignations and THU apologies. Simon Cox looks at why a group of climate THU scientists decided to play hardball against the sceptics, THU and, as President Obama heads for the Copenhagen summit, THU what affect the row could have on his climate change bill. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00p6t28 (Listen) THU Sugaring the Pill THU Brazil has been pioneering the use of ethanol for its THU vehicles for over three decades. Ethanol emits 90 per cent THU less emissions than gasoline. As world leaders debate THU climate change in Copenhagen, can Brazil convince the rest THU of the globe that sugar really is good for you? THU THU 21:00 What Scientists Believe b00p6t2b (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Philosopher Stephen Webster investigates the links between THU scientists' personal beliefs and their scientific work. He THU wants to know how an individual scientist's personal, THU psychological and intellectual qualities map onto their THU chosen area of science. How much of a scientist's THU personality is reflected in their work? Should subjective THU private beliefs be a part of objective scientific THU outcomes? What happens if tensions develop between a THU scientist's beliefs and the formal demands of science? If THU tensions arise, how can they be resolved? THU Stephen meets medical consultant Philip Kilner. Philip THU first trained as a doctor and then left medicine and THU retrained as a sculptor, concentrating on water sculptures THU and fluid dynamics. He then returned to medicine. THU Philip is now a Consultant and Reader in Cardiovascular THU Magnetic Resonance at the Royal Brompton Hospital in THU London. One of his water sculptures, Single Cavity THU Flowform, is on display at the hospital. Philip talks to THU Stephen about the combination of artistic and scientific THU insights help him interpret images of the heart. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00p693b (Listen) THU Pythagoras THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas attributed to THU the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras and the THU influence of his followers, the Pythagoreans. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00p4r5f (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00p4r7w (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p4rh5 (Listen) THU Riceyman Steps, Episode 9 THU Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett THU about the poignant struggles of everyday London life. THU After a year's absence, Elsie's sweetheart Joe has THU returned - but he is desperately ill and now she has two THU patients to cope with THU A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Chain Reaction b0090s0r (Listen) THU Series 4, Richard Wilson THU Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the THU following week's interviewer. David Tennant talks to THU Richard Wilson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p4rjq (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00p3wx7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00p5ysx (Listen) FRI The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 4 FRI Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's FRI account of the life of one of the world's most famous FRI clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of FRI Georgian pantomime. FRI As Grimaldi takes the art of pantomime into new FRI directions, with the use of satire and lampoonery, he FRI becomes known as the Hogarth of the Georgian stage, FRI drawing admiration from Lord Byron and the Prince of FRI Wales. But, though still only in his 30s, the years of FRI physical comedy begin to take their toll on the body of FRI the great clown. FRI Abridged by Viv Beeby. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p3x36 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p404r (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p3xf0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00p4h3r (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p4jql (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Graystone. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00p4js6 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00p4jw9 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00p3sxy (Listen) FRI Baroness Scotland FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness FRI Scotland. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00p5ysz (Listen) FRI The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 5 FRI Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's FRI account of the life of one of the world's most famous FRI clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of FRI Georgian pantomime. FRI His body crippled by the years of on-stage clowning, FRI Grimaldi is forced finally to pass the baton to his son, FRI JS. But the young pretender finds the constant comparisons FRI with his famous father hard to bear, and seeks solace in FRI the hard-drinking, hard-living circle of the great actor FRI Edmund Kean. Meanwhile, his father is determined to fill FRI the family's pockets with a final farewell performance; FRI so, on 28th June 1828, barely able to stand on his FRI crippled legs, Grimaldi staggers on to the stage of a FRI packed Drury Lane Theatre. FRI Abridged by Viv Beeby. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p4kb9 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 11 FRI - All My Trials. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00p6thc (Listen) FRI Series 5, Fragile Isle FRI Documentary series telling original stories about real FRI lives in Britain today. FRI Alan Dein travels to Canna, one of the Small Isles in FRI North West Scotland. With a population of 18, six of whom FRI are children, Canna is at a critical point. There are just FRI enough people to keep the island community going. If any FRI leave it will put huge pressures on the others. If new FRI people come, it will inevitably change the fragile balance FRI that exists in such a small, tightly-knit populace. Alan FRI explores the connections between the different families FRI and how they relate to the island as well as managing to FRI feel connected to the wider world. FRI Neil has come from Wales with his family and is the island FRI gardener; Magda is Basque and is the archivist of an FRI enormous collection of Gaelic songs and stories; Murdo and FRI Gerry are the farmers; John and Sheila run the guest FRI house; Ellidh is the teacher in the school where two of FRI the four pupils are her own children; Geoff, her husband, FRI looks after their two year old twins at home. What they FRI all have in common is that they work for the Scottish FRI National Trust, which owns the island and controls its FRI population size. It also controls the destiny of a young FRI community trying to put down roots. FRI FRI 11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00p6v3r (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock FRI star and his search for fulfilment. FRI Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt buys some last-minute FRI holiday Euros and promptly brings down the entire FRI international monetary system. FRI Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams FRI Dom ...... Russell Tovey. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00p4l5d (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00p4lfm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00p4lnz (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00p6v3t (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 b00p4lss (Listen) FRI Annette searches for an escape. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p6v3w (Listen) FRI Number 10, Immortality at Last FRI Series of plays by Jonathan Myerson depicting life inside FRI Downing Street. FRI The removal men are in - Adam Armstrong is finally FRI standing down as PM and the new Conservative leader, Simon FRI Laity, is moving in to Number 10. It seems the whole team FRI will be out of a job - but there is a surprising FRI last-minute offer from an unexpected quarter. FRI Adam ...... Antony Sher FRI Monica ...... Sasha Behar FRI Polly ...... Penny Downie FRI Bill ...... Bill Paterson FRI Steve ...... Stephen Mangan FRI Simon Laity ...... Damian Lewis FRI Nathan Toltz ...... Mike Sengelow FRI Doctor Crawston ...... David Shaw Parker FRI Miss (Jaaey) Twining ...... Charlotte West Oram FRI Susan O'Reilly ...... Flora Montgomery FRI Toby in Number 10 ...... Jo Kloska FRI Reporters ...... Scott Cherry, Theo Fraser FRI Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p6vlb (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 The team investigate the restoration of Liverpool's famous FRI Stanley Park, and Matthew Wilson thumbs through some FRI all-time classic garden literature. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Darwin: My Ancestor b00hjxfk (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Writer and poet Ruth Padel investigates the qualities of FRI her great great grandfather Charles Darwin and attempts to FRI discover the man behind the science. FRI Ruth explores the way in which Darwin became a writer and FRI was able to turn scientific theory into readable prose. FRI She looks at the works he read in his early life that FRI shaped his literary imagination and investigates how his FRI writings on the Beagle voyage marked the beginning of his FRI career as an author. Ruth also investigates the continuing FRI power of his books and asks how later novelists were FRI affected by his work. FRI Among her interviewees are Darwin scholar Gillian Beer, FRI geologist Richard Fortey, writer and fellow Darwin FRI descendant Randal Keynes and the former Bishop of Oxford, FRI Richard Harries. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00p6vld (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 b00p6vlg (Listen) FRI Francine Stock looks back at Fellini's classic Eight and A FRI Half, the subject of a new musical remake, Nine, which FRI stars Daniel Day-Lewis in the role made famous by Marcello FRI Mastroianni. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p4plq (Listen) FRI 11th December 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI The forced repatriation of the Vietnamese Boat People FRI begins, despite protests and pleas from around the world. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00p4pvw (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 b00p4pyg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00p6vlj (Listen) FRI Series 29, Episode 3 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, FRI Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00p4lsv (Listen) FRI Caz finds herself in the presence of a pro. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00p4q2w (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of FRI major new openings on Broadway. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p4qt1 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials, Episode FRI 5 FRI Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and FRI correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper FRI from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives. FRI It is 1965, and Amy is living alone in London following FRI the death of her sister, Muriel. Amy decides to visit an FRI old friend. FRI Amy ...... Janice Acquah FRI Joyce/Cathy ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Ade ...... Declan Wilson FRI Bank Manager/Cabby ...... Rob Pickavance FRI Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00p6vll (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell in FRI Berkshire. The panel includes journalist Amanda Platell FRI and Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00p6vln (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00p6vt9 (Listen) FRI Then We Came to the End FRI Dramatisation by Jeff Young of the tragi-comic novel by FRI Joshua Ferris. FRI A dysfunctional company of misfits in an advertising FRI agency try to come to terms with the effects of the FRI downturn, as boom turns to bust and the lay-offs begin. FRI The Voice ...... James Marsters FRI Tom Mota ...... Gregory Itzin FRI Benny Shassburger ...... Stuart Pankin FRI Benny's Dad ...... Alan Mandell FRI Karen Woo ...... Sandra Tsing Loh FRI Hank Neary ...... Chuma Gault FRI Marcia Dwyer ...... Sarah Rafferty FRI Lynn Mason ...... Susan Sullivan FRI Chris Yop ...... Fred Willard FRI Co-ordinator ...... Jeanie Hackett FRI Carl Garbedian ...... Kyle Colerider-Krugh FRI Marilynn ...... Shannon Cochrane FRI Joe Pope ...... Reed Diamond FRI Genevieve ...... Jen Dede FRI Music by Ed Millington. FRI Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00p4r5h (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00p4r7y (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p4rh7 (Listen) FRI Riceyman Steps, Episode 10 FRI Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett FRI about the poignant struggles of everyday London life. FRI Henry Earlforward has learnt that his wife Violet died FRI shortly after being operated on; the doctors' verdict was FRI that her undernourished state contributed to her death. FRI The shock galvanises him into a final nocturnal visit to FRI his office, where he discovers that Elsie had violated the FRI sanctity of his safe. FRI A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00p62v6 (Listen) FRI Series 20, Henry V FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V FRI and tries to separate fact from myth, with the help of FRI historian Juliet Barker. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p4rjs (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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