Radio 4 Listings for Week Beginning 14/02/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00hgc2k (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00hd9lc (Listen)
SAT       Tequila Oil, Episode 5
SAT       Jot Davies reads Hugh Thomson's account of his 1979 road
SAT       trip through Mexico to Belize, aged 18 and without knowing
SAT       how to drive.
SAT       Finally arriving in Belize, Hugh discovers that the market
SAT       for big American cars is not quite as he had believed it
SAT       to be.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hgck6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hgck8 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hgckb (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00hgckd (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hgckg (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00hgcvh (Listen)
SAT       Tom Symonds presents the weekly interactive current
SAT       affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00hgcvk (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00hh0m9 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00hh0mc (Listen)
SAT       Countryside magazine. Matt Baker travels to Essex to see
SAT       the vast area that the RSPB is turning into a nature
SAT       reserve. In a hungry world, can we justify the surrender
SAT       of prime farmland to the birds?
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today This Week b00hh0mf (Listen)
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00hh0mh (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00hh0mk (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk,
SAT       Thought for the Day, Weather.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00hh0mm (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Richard Coles is joined by American
SAT       crime writer Dennis Lehane, with poetry from Susan
SAT       Richardson.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00hh0mp (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and
SAT       joys of travel.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b00hh0mr (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Crash
SAT       Series in which Paul Gambaccini explores what
SAT       Oscar-winning films can tell us about the American society
SAT       of the time.
SAT       Paul examines the film that was loved and reviled in equal
SAT       measure by the very same LA society whose darker side it
SAT       set out to explore.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00hh28l (Listen)
SAT       A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve
SAT       Richards.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00hh28n (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00hh28q (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00hg7k3 (Listen)
SAT       Series 67, Episode 6
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with
SAT       panellists Jeremy Hardy, Dave Gorman, Andy Hamilton and
SAT       Francis Wheen.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00hh28s (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00hh28v (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00hg7k5 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Richmond,
SAT       North Yorkshire. Panellists are former government minister
SAT       Denis MacShane MP, former Shadow Home Secretary David
SAT       Davis MP, editor-at-large of The Independent on Sunday
SAT       Janet Street-Porter and Jo Swinson MP, who speaks for the
SAT       Liberal Democrats on foreign affairs.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00hh28x (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00hh28z (Listen)
SAT       Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint
SAT       Written and directed by Patrick Barlow. Comic
SAT       interpretation of the story of Joan of Arc performed by
SAT       comic troupe the National Theatre of Brent.
SAT       Joan of Arc ...... Dawn French
SAT       St Catherine ...... Anne Reid
SAT       St Margaret/Madame Dupont ...... Maggie Steed
SAT       Bertram/The Storyteller ...... Nell Barlow
SAT       Monsieur Dupont/Duke de la Rennes ...... John Ramm
SAT       Monsieur D'Arc/Bishop de la Tremouille ...... Kevin Eldon
SAT       Madame D'Arc/Queen Ysabella ...... Cheryl Campbell
SAT       Alphonse Dupont ...... Marc Wootton
SAT       Pastor ...... Patrick Barlow
SAT       Jean de Metz ...... Andrew Dunn
SAT       Dauphin of France ...... Samuel Barnett
SAT       Jean du Cauchon, Chief Inquisitor ...... Jim Broadbent
SAT       Crowd and courtiers played by Beth Nestor, Carrie Quinlan,
SAT       Humphrey Ker, David Reed & Thom Tuck.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00hd27b (Listen)
SAT       Mahler
SAT       Professor Robert Winston explores the relationship between
SAT       the music and the medical conditions of composers who
SAT       suffered mental and physical illness.
SAT       Robert investigates Gustav Mahler, and the crisis in his
SAT       marriage that drove him to consult Sigmund Freud in the
SAT       final year of his life. Psychotherapist Dr Emanuel Garcia
SAT       tells Robert that the meeting with Freud, while curing
SAT       Mahler of his impotence, robbed him of his creativity.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour b00hh2bn (Listen)
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Including:
SAT       More girls are now joining the Scouts and school football,
SAT       but do boys need their own all-boy space? Three mothers
SAT       with sons - sports writer Alyson Rudd, journalist Kathryn
SAT       Flett and Jenni Murray - discuss the issue.
SAT       A conference at the Royal Society of Medicine has
SAT       considered why the maternal mortality rate is plateauing
SAT       and threatening to rise. Professor Philip Steer, President
SAT       of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Section of the Royal
SAT       Soceity of Medicine, and cardiologist Dr Sara Thorne of
SAT       the University Hospital Birmingham discuss the issue.
SAT       The American slumber party - or sleepover party - is here.
SAT       Usually they take palce at someone's house, though these
SAT       days even the Natual HIstory Museum does them. Sue Elliot
SAT       Nichols was the brave host of one for her teenage son for
SAT       a sepcial report.
SAT       Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge, the widow of the Sri
SAT       Lankan journalist who was recently assassinated, talks
SAT       about her husband's death.
SAT       Jane discusses the life and work of the sculpor and artist
SAT       Dora Gordine.
SAT       A discussion of the impending changes expected in a
SAT       reshuffle of the French Cabinet. How will the female
SAT       members fare?
SAT       Reporter Caz Graham meets a group of women known as the
SAT       Mungrisedale Writers who have just released a collection
SAT       of work, Dating at 60 and Other Tribulations.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00hh2bq (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00hh46g (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
SAT       and business leaders talk about the issues that matter to
SAT       their companies and their customers.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hh46j (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00hh46l (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hh46n (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00hh46q (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation,
SAT       comedy and music.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00hh46s (Listen)
SAT       Stephen Sackur profiles John McFall, the chairman of the
SAT       House of Commons Treasury Committee, who has been grilling
SAT       the top bankers at the heart of the economic crisis. A
SAT       former teacher, McFall, Labour MP for West Dumbartonshire,
SAT       has chaired the committee for eight years. Stephen hears
SAT       from those who have been called to his study, including
SAT       the Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00hh46v (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests Adam Mars-Jones, Bidisha and
SAT       Matthew D'Ancona review the week's cultural highlights,
SAT       including Morrissey's new album, Years of Refusal.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00hh46x (Listen)
SAT       Island Dreams
SAT       Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the idea of the island and
SAT       island life, and the ways in which it continues to capture
SAT       the British imagination. She uses drama, talks and
SAT       documentary from the BBC audio archive to illustrate its
SAT       appeal, from reality TV programmes to Desert Island Discs
SAT       and the Shipping Forecast, and also cites the many
SAT       instances of island settings in classic literature,
SAT       including Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Peter Pan and
SAT       Lord of the Flies.
SAT       Including contributions from literary critic Dame Gillian
SAT       Beer, historian Robert Colls, a group of people who tried
SAT       to set up an island utopia in the 1960s and the very last
SAT       man to leave the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00h9vnh (Listen)
SAT       The Invasion - Arab Chronicles of the First Crusade,
SAT       Episode 2
SAT       By Jonathan Myerson. The story of the First Crusade,
SAT       re-imagined from the Arab point of view, using the
SAT       chronicles of the period.
SAT       Antioch is under siege from the Crusaders and the local
SAT       Christian men have been expelled from the city for fear of
SAT       betrayal. But, with a little collaboration, The Stitch has
SAT       a plan to end the siege.
SAT       Firuz ...... Andrew Lincoln
SAT       The Stitch ...... Neil Dudgeon
SAT       Rihab ...... Helen Schlesinger
SAT       Yaghi-Siyan ...... Nicholas Woodeson
SAT       Tatikios ...... Peter Polycarpou
SAT       Nadirah ...... Rachel Atkins
SAT       Suleima ...... Jill Cardo
SAT       Anna ...... Janice Acquah
SAT       Peter ...... Chris Pavlo
SAT       Bohemond ...... Stephen Critchlow
SAT       Shams Al-Dawla ...... Dan Starkey
SAT       Other parts played by Gunnar Cauthery, Inam Mirza and
SAT       Malcolm Tierney
SAT       Directed by Jonquil Panting.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00hh46z (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00hdb86 (Listen)
SAT       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
SAT       behind the week's news. Kenan Malik, Claire Fox, Michael
SAT       Portillo and Melanie Phillips cross-examine witnesses.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Quote... Unquote b00hc2hz (Listen)
SAT       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
SAT       of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Catherine
SAT       Bennett, Michael Dobbs, Sir Antony Jay and John Lahr.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00h9vwz (Listen)
SAT       In the lead up to Valentine's Day, Roger McGough
SAT       introduces listeners' requests for poems on the subject of
SAT       love. Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Adjoa Andoh read poems
SAT       by Carol Ann Duffy, Sophie Hannah and WH Auden.
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SUN       SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00hh8s7 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b007v099 (Listen)
SUN       Be Prepared, Imagine
SUN       Stories inspired by the famous motto of the Scouting
SUN       movement.
SUN       The life story of a woman who shows the most incredible
SUN       capacity to look on the bright side.
SUN       By Pauline McLynn, read by Joanna Tope.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhfb5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhfb7 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhfb9 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00hhfbc (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00hhfbf (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Bartholomew's in Sutton cum
SUN       Lound, Nottinghamshire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00hh46s (Listen)
SUN       Stephen Sackur profiles John McFall, the chairman of the
SUN       House of Commons Treasury Committee, who has been grilling
SUN       the top bankers at the heart of the economic crisis. A
SUN       former teacher, McFall, Labour MP for West Dumbartonshire,
SUN       has chaired the committee for eight years. Stephen hears
SUN       from those who have been called to his study, including
SUN       the Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00hhfbh (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00hhfbk (Listen)
SUN       Mysticism and Resistance
SUN       Mark Tully considers the link between mysticism and
SUN       resistance. He tests Thomas Merton's suggestion that the
SUN       monk is essentially someone who takes up a critical
SUN       attitude to the world, and the German theologian Dorothee
SUN       Soelle's insistence that authentic mystical experience
SUN       always leads to resistance to the world as it exists now.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00hhfbm (Listen)
SUN       Mollymawk Manor
SUN       Lionel Kelleway travels to the Falkland Islands in search
SUN       of the mollymawk, the local name for the black-browed
SUN       albatross. This wonderful ocean wanderer alights here to
SUN       nest and breed. Lionel encounters graceful adults, and
SUN       their eggs and chicks, at this critical time in the bird's
SUN       year. He also finds out what new things we are discovering
SUN       about this traveller.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00hhfbp (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00hhfbr (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00hhfbt (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 b00hhfbw (Listen)
SUN       Christian Blind Mission
SUN       Steve Mannion appeals on behalf of Christian Blind Mission.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00hhfby (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00hhfc0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00hhfc2 (Listen)
SUN       Marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth,
SUN       Simon Conway-Morris, Professor of Evolutionary
SUN       Palaeobiology at Cambridge University, reflects on the
SUN       compatibility of faith and science. From St John's College
SUN       Chapel, Cambridge. With Rev Duncan Dormor and the choir of
SUN       St John's College. Director of Music: Andrew Nethsingha.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00hg7k7 (Listen)
SUN       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Harold Evans.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00hhfc4 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00hhfc6 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00hhfc8 (Listen)
SUN       Professor Dame Kay Davies
SUN       Kirsty Young invites Professor Dame Kay Davies, Director
SUN       of Genetics at Oxford University, to choose eight records
SUN       to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00hc4nc (Listen)
SUN       Series 54, Episode 7
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
SUN       panellists are Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and
SUN       Gyles Brandreth.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00hhfcb (Listen)
SUN       Cheese
SUN       Sheila Dillon investigates the production of British
SUN       farmhouse cheeses. The extraordinary revival that they
SUN       have enjoyed is a testament to the hard work and
SUN       dedication of countless cheesemakers, whose attention to
SUN       detail is mirrored in their produce. Getting it right
SUN       requires particular conditions and circumstances, and the
SUN       result seems magical - but get it wrong and the outcome
SUN       can be disastrous.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00hhfcd (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 World This Weekend b00hhfcg (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Fry's English Delight b00d8p82 (Listen)
SUN       Cliche
SUN       Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the
SUN       English language.
SUN       Stephen looks at how cliche operates for both good and
SUN       bad. A cliche crisis affected the writing of Flaubert,
SUN       Joyce and Eliot and helped shape modern language and
SUN       culture.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hg6n5 (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood answer
SUN       questions posed by gardeners.
SUN       Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather
SUN       forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 My Mile of the River b00hhfcj (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
SUN       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
SUN       Mid Wales.
SUN       Chris investigates a fungus which offers nature's
SUN       vegetarian alternative to chicken, strolls through ancient
SUN       woodland on the banks of the Wye, hunts for a yaffle and
SUN       listens to the dusk chorus. He finds you don't have to be
SUN       in the middle of nowhere to get away from it all.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00hhflv (Listen)
SUN       Scoop, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical
SUN       1938 novel.
SUN       Hapless journalist William Boot is mistakenly sent to
SUN       report on a war in Africa.
SUN       William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear
SUN       Lord Copper ...... David Warner
SUN       Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson
SUN       Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow
SUN       Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo
SUN       Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey
SUN       Jakes ...... Paul Rider
SUN       Benito ...... Cyril Nri
SUN       Paleologue ...... Nyasha Hatendi
SUN       Moke ...... Inam Mirza
SUN       Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler
SUN       Julia ...... Fenella Woolgar
SUN       John Boot ...... Nicholas Boulton
SUN       Josephine ...... Imogen Front
SUN       Miss Holloway ...... Janice Acquah
SUN       Secretary ...... Manjeet Mann
SUN       Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney
SUN       Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny
SUN       Directed by Sally Avens.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00hhfnd (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup talks to poet Sophie Hannah, who in the
SUN       last few years has also become a bestselling thriller
SUN       writer. She talks about her new novel The Other Half Lives.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00hhft7 (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems by the late
SUN       Adrian Mitchell, chosen and read by some of his friends
SUN       and fellow poets.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00hd4nh (Listen)
SUN       Lucy Ash investigates the behind-the-scenes role played by
SUN       Egypt and its President Hosni Mubarak in the latest crisis
SUN       in Gaza. Mubarak may have placed himself at the centre of
SUN       attempts to end the conflict, but how will he weather the
SUN       mounting criticism levelled at him both at home and abroad?
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00hh46s (Listen)
SUN       Stephen Sackur profiles John McFall, the chairman of the
SUN       House of Commons Treasury Committee, who has been grilling
SUN       the top bankers at the heart of the economic crisis. A
SUN       former teacher, McFall, Labour MP for West Dumbartonshire,
SUN       has chaired the committee for eight years. Stephen hears
SUN       from those who have been called to his study, including
SUN       the Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hhgmf (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00hhgmh (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hhgmk (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00hhgmm (Listen)
SUN       John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the
SUN       past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00hhgmp (Listen)
SUN       Mike and Clarrie go undercover.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Go4it b00hhgmr (Listen)
SUN       Children's magazine. Barney Harwood and the team find out
SUN       about Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum, where
SUN       they meet up with the authors of What Darwin Saw, Mick
SUN       Manning and Brita Granstrom. Plus Kirsten O'Brien talks to
SUN       David Attenborough.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b007vhns (Listen)
SUN       Caravan Club, Not Wanted on Voyage
SUN       Series of short stories celebrating a British institution.
SUN       On a fractious family holiday, a young boy is charged with
SUN       looking after his erratic grandfather.
SUN       By Sian Preece, read by Grant O'Rourke.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00hg6n1 (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00hg6n7 (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 The Choice b00cv5mn (Listen)
SUN       Michael Buerk interviews people who have made
SUN       life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole
SUN       process, from the original dilemma to living with the
SUN       consequences.
SUN       Dutch politician Geert Wilders discusses his decision to
SUN       make a provocative anti-Islamic film.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00hhfbw (Listen)
SUN       Christian Blind Mission
SUN       Steve Mannion appeals on behalf of Christian Blind Mission.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00hdd63 (Listen)
SUN       Prophet Motive
SUN       Peter Day hears about the influence of religion on
SUN       business.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00hhjg1 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00hhjg7 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn
SUN       Quinn. Including the second part of 'I Was Put on Trial by
SUN       al-Qaeda'.
SUN       
SUN       23:02 The Film Programme b00hg6n9 (Listen)
SUN       Francine Stock talks to Bruce Robinson, the writer and
SUN       director of cult favourite Withnail and I, as he prepares
SUN       to make his first movie for 17 years, The Rum Diary.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00hhfbk (Listen)
SUN       Mysticism and Resistance
SUN       Mark Tully considers the link between mysticism and
SUN       resistance. He tests Thomas Merton's suggestion that the
SUN       monk is essentially someone who takes up a critical
SUN       attitude to the world, and the German theologian Dorothee
SUN       Soelle's insistence that authentic mystical experience
SUN       always leads to resistance to the world as it exists now.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00hhjmg (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00hdb82 (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
MON       society works.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00hhfbf (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Bartholomew's in Sutton cum
MON       Lound, Nottinghamshire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhjp6 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhjr3 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhjwl (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00hhjz1 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hhk13 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00hhk3w (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00hhthj (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00hhk4j (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00hhthl (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week.
MON       Director Mike Figgis, whose films includes Internal
MON       Affairs and Leaving Las Vegas, talks about how digital
MON       technology is affecting film making.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00hhk5k (Listen)
MON       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, London Fields
MON       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
MON       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
MON       London and his own life there.
MON       The cement pearly king and queen and an assailant with an
MON       egg.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00hhklr (Listen)
MON       With Sheila McClennon. Including adult lunch boxes, the
MON       paraplegic adventurer Karen Darke, making parental contact
MON       work and the Monday Panel discussion.
MON       Plus drama:
MON       The Elegance of the Hedgehog
MON       By Muriel Barbery. In a Parisian apartment building,
MON       lonely concierge Renee and 12-year-old Paloma, who lives
MON       in the building and plans to kill herself on her 13th
MON       birthday, are brought together by the sudden death of one
MON       of their wealthy neighbours and the arrival of a new owner.
MON       Renee ...... Heather Williams
MON       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
MON       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
MON       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
MON       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
MON       Directed by Sara Davies.
MON       
MON       11:00 What is a Wife? b00hhthn (Listen)
MON       Writer Geraldine Bedell examines the role of the wife in
MON       modern society and asks why anyone would still want to be
MON       one. By 2011, it is predicted that less than half of us
MON       will be married. This may well be because no one knows
MON       what wives are for any more - and if they do, they don't
MON       want to be one.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Yellowplush Papers b00hhthq (Listen)
MON       Captain Rook
MON       Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray,
MON       adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of
MON       early-19th Century footman Charles Yellowplush.
MON       Charles helps his new employer Captain Rook, a wily and
MON       roguish cardsharp, to fleece a rich but naive gentleman.
MON       Charles Yellowplush ...... Adam Buxton
MON       Rook ...... Stephen Critchlow
MON       Blewitt ...... Dan Starkey
MON       Dawkins ...... Inam Mirza
MON       Becky ...... Donnla Hughes
MON       James/Waiter ...... Robert Lonsdale
MON       Clerk ...... Jonathan Tafler
MON       Directed by Abigail le Fleming.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00hhksn (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00hhkvb (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00hhm2f (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Quote... Unquote b00hhths (Listen)
MON       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
MON       of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Bonnie Greer, Ken
MON       Follett, John Simpson and Sir Richard Eyre.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00hhgmp (Listen)
MON       Mike and Clarrie go undercover.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00hhthv (Listen)
MON       All At Sea
MON       Topical thriller by Colin MacDonald. David Murdoch is on a
MON       post-redundancy cruise in the Indian Ocean. Facing an
MON       uncertain future but with a healthy payoff, he is enjoying
MON       the holiday of a lifetime when the ship runs into trouble
MON       off the pirate-ridden coast of Somalia.
MON       David Murdoch ...... Grant O'Rourke
MON       Guleed ...... Maynard Eziashi
MON       Lena ...... Claire Knight
MON       Samatar ...... John Macaulay
MON       Captain ...... Nick Underwood.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00hh46x (Listen)
MON       Island Dreams
MON       Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the idea of the island and
MON       island life, and the ways in which it continues to capture
MON       the British imagination. She uses drama, talks and
MON       documentary from the BBC audio archive to illustrate its
MON       appeal, from reality TV programmes to Desert Island Discs
MON       and the Shipping Forecast, and also cites the many
MON       instances of island settings in classic literature,
MON       including Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Peter Pan and
MON       Lord of the Flies.
MON       Including contributions from literary critic Dame Gillian
MON       Beer, historian Robert Colls, a group of people who tried
MON       to set up an island utopia in the 1960s and the very last
MON       man to leave the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides.
MON       
MON       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hhmf0 (Listen)
MON       Too Proud to Fight
MON       The sinking of the Lusitania and Woodrow Wilson's fight to
MON       keep America out of the First World War.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00hhfcb (Listen)
MON       Cheese
MON       Sheila Dillon investigates the production of British
MON       farmhouse cheeses. The extraordinary revival that they
MON       have enjoyed is a testament to the hard work and
MON       dedication of countless cheesemakers, whose attention to
MON       detail is mirrored in their produce. Getting it right
MON       requires particular conditions and circumstances, and the
MON       result seems magical - but get it wrong and the outcome
MON       can be disastrous.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00hhthx (Listen)
MON       Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world,
MON       teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths
MON       behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00hhmq6 (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 b00hhmz8 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00hhz2z (Listen)
MON       Series 54, Episode 8
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with
MON       panellists Paul Merton, Chris Neill, Justin Moorhouse and
MON       Tony Parks.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00hhm3g (Listen)
MON       Usha gives Alan a lesson in virtuousness.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00hhn5r (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
MON       interview with Clint Eastwood, who discusses his changing
MON       political views and his new film, Gran Torino.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hhnbg (Listen)
MON       The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Episode 1
MON       By Muriel Barbery.
MON       In a Parisian apartment building, lonely concierge Renee
MON       and 12-year-old Paloma, who lives in the building and
MON       plans to kill herself on her 13th birthday, are brought
MON       together by the sudden death of one of their wealthy
MON       neighbours and the arrival of a new owner.
MON       Renee ...... Heather Williams
MON       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
MON       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
MON       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
MON       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
MON       Directed by Sara Davies.
MON       
MON       20:00 It's My Story b00hhz31 (Listen)
MON       18
MON       Following a group of Bristol teenagers who are about to
MON       turn 18, hearing how they plan to mark the transition to
MON       adulthood at a time when 'youth' is the subject of more
MON       discussion, legislation, fear and opprobrium than ever.
MON       These young people offer a snapshot of a generation at a
MON       point of change, as some prepare for University, some for
MON       vocational training, others face unemployment or even
MON       parenthood.
MON       
MON       20:30 Bottom Line b00hh46g (Listen)
MON       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
MON       and business leaders talk about the issues that matter to
MON       their companies and their customers.
MON       
MON       21:00 Islam and Science b00hj0jp (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Writer and journalist Ehsan Masood explores the status of
MON       science in the modern Islamic world, and asks whether
MON       measures taken to promote science are having an impact on
MON       the working lives of Muslim scientists.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00hhthl (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week.
MON       Director Mike Figgis, whose films includes Internal
MON       Affairs and Leaving Las Vegas, talks about how digital
MON       technology is affecting film making.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00hhnln (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00hhnm3 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hpc4v (Listen)
MON       An Equal Stillness, Episode 6
MON       Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a
MON       painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with
MON       her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.
MON       Jennet completes the frescos at Mount Street and takes her
MON       family to Cornwall on the proceeds. On the beach,
MON       surrounded by her children, a more contented David and her
MON       friends, she is at peace - but for how long?
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b00cqhtw (Listen)
MON       Catherine Bott
MON       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
MON       Classical singer and broadcaster Catherine Bott shows how
MON       writers as diverse as JM Coetzee and Joyce Grenfell have
MON       attempted to convey what music means in words. Sharing her
MON       deep love of the Archers, the readers are Patricia Greene
MON       and Tim Bentinck (Jill and David Archer).
MON       
MON       23:30 Byzantium Unearthed b00dxdcs (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Historian Bettany Hughes begins a series that uses the
MON       latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the
MON       empire of Byzantium and the people who ruled it.
MON       Bettany learns how treasures found in the empire's
MON       capital, modern-day Istanbul, reveal much about the life
MON       and importance of a civilisation that, whilst being
MON       devoutly Christian and the inheritors of the Romans, was
MON       also exotic and eastern.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00hhjhn (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00hhk5k (Listen)
TUE       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, London Fields
TUE       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
TUE       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
TUE       London and his own life there.
TUE       The cement pearly king and queen and an assailant with an
TUE       egg.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhjmj (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhjp8 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhjr5 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00hhjwn (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hhjz3 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00hhk15 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00hhk3y (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Long View b00hn8wy (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       He examines the parallels between the relationship between
TUE       football and business today and the story of a Victorian
TUE       club with expensive imported players which folded when its
TUE       profits fell. The company that owned the New Brighton
TUE       resort on The Wirral set up a football club, New Brighton
TUE       Tower, to maintain profits during the winter months. The
TUE       founders set about buying up quality players from other
TUE       top clubs but were initially denied entry to the Football
TUE       League and tickets to their home games at their massive
TUE       stadium proved too expensive for the local population,
TUE       with attendances barely scraping 1,000. With the club not
TUE       making money as planned, and having failed to gain
TUE       promotion to the first division of the Lea
TUE       Jonathan takes local historian Tom Sault and footballing
TUE       lecturer Rogan Taylor to the Wirral to tell the story of
TUE       New Brighton Tower and to draw parallels with today's
TUE       uneasy mix of the worlds of sport and business.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Darwin: My Ancestor b00hjxfk (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
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 the way in which Darwin became a writer and
TUE       was able to turn scientific theory into readable prose.
TUE       She looks at the works he read in his early life that
TUE       shaped his literary imagination and investigates how his
TUE       writings on the Beagle voyage marked the beginning of his
TUE       career as an author. Ruth also investigates the continuing
TUE       power of his books and asks how later novelists were
TUE       affected by his work.
TUE       Among her interviewees are the Darwin scholar Gillian
TUE       Beer, geologist Richard Fortey, writer and fellow Darwin
TUE       descendant Randal Keynes and the former Bishop of Oxford
TUE       Richard Harries.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00hn6rw (Listen)
TUE       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Mare Street
TUE       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
TUE       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
TUE       London and his own life there.
TUE       The cult of the cyclist and the history of the Town Hall.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00hlfnb (Listen)
TUE       With Jenni Murray.
TUE       Including drama:
TUE       The Elegance of the Hedgehog
TUE       By Muriel Barbery.
TUE       Both Renee and Paloma have reasons to welcome the arrival
TUE       of a Japanese gentleman in the apartment on the fourth
TUE       floor.
TUE       Renee ...... Heather Williams
TUE       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
TUE       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
TUE       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
TUE       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
TUE       Directed by Sara Davies.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Vive La France b00hjzxl (Listen)
TUE       American satirist Joe Queenan travels to Amiens, Lyons and
TUE       Paris to find out why France and the United States, two
TUE       countries with so much in common, continually fall out.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Talking about Lionel b00fr715 (Listen)
TUE       Eddie Mair tells the story of composer Lionel Bart,
TUE       creator of Britain's most successful post-war musical,
TUE       Oliver!
TUE       From the height of his fame in the 1960s, Bart endured a
TUE       series of flops, leading to eventual bankruptcy, and he
TUE       suffered serious health problems, including long battles
TUE       with alcoholism and depression.
TUE       Eddie tells the story of this sensitive and troubled
TUE       artist with the help of those who knew him intimately.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00hhkqv (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00hhksq (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00hhkvd (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00hjzxn (Listen)
TUE       Ravel
TUE       Professor Robert Winston explores the relationship between
TUE       the music and the medical conditions of composers who
TUE       suffered mental and physical illness.
TUE       Robert investigates Maurice Ravel, who died in 1937 after
TUE       suffering for a number of years from a form of dementia,
TUE       now thought to be Pick's disease. The effect of the
TUE       disease was that while his creativity stayed alive, the
TUE       music that was still being created in his brain remained
TUE       trapped there. Robert discusses Ravel's condition with
TUE       neurologists Jason Warren and Eric Baek, Ravel expert
TUE       Deborah Mawer and composer Matthew King.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00hhm3g (Listen)
TUE       Usha gives Alan a lesson in virtuousness.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00hk12x (Listen)
TUE       McLevy - Series 5, The Reckoning
TUE       Four-part series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian
TUE       detective based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector
TUE       James McLevy.
TUE       Jean is busy with preparations for Hannah and Donald's
TUE       wedding. But somewhere in the city someone is planning a
TUE       terrible revenge, and death stalks McLevy's footsteps.
TUE       McLevy ...... Brian Cox
TUE       Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond
TUE       Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
TUE       Roach ...... David Ashton
TUE       Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil
TUE       Marianna ...... Claire Knight
TUE       Cyrus ...... Angus Macinnes
TUE       Donald ...... Andrew Neil
TUE       Mrs Gulliver ...... Sheila Donald
TUE       Craigie ...... Robin Laing
TUE       Directed by Patrick Rayner.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00hk1cn (Listen)
TUE       Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions
TUE       about the environment and the natural world.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00hk1cq (Listen)
TUE       The First Person, The Child
TUE       Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith.
TUE       A woman shopper finds her trolley occupied by someone
TUE       else's baby. When she tries to persuade others that the
TUE       child is not hers, no one believes her and she is forced
TUE       to take the peculiar child home. Read by Jackie Morrison.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hhmdf (Listen)
TUE       A World Safe for Democracy
TUE       Series charting the history of America, written and
TUE       presented by David Reynolds. America enters the war in
TUE       Europe and accepts female suffrage at home.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Law in Action b00hkc6t (Listen)
TUE       After winning his case against the News of the World, FIA
TUE       president Max Mosley says he wants the law changed so that
TUE       journalists who breach privacy could face jail. He tells
TUE       Clive Coleman how he is pursuing cases through the courts
TUE       across Europe and about the idea of a fighting fund to
TUE       help individuals do battle with the newspapers. Private
TUE       Eye editor Ian Hislop responds.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00hkc6w (Listen)
TUE       Kate Mosse talks to director and playwright Jonathan
TUE       Holloway and playwright Nicholas McInerny about their
TUE       favourite books.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00hhmmx (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 b00hhmq8 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Broken Arts b00hkc6y (Listen)
TUE       Episode 6
TUE       David Quantick and company poke fun at the ridiculous in
TUE       popular culture. Featuring a guest appearance from Gilbert
TUE       and Sullivan and special correspondents Dan Maier, Richie
TUE       Webb, Jane Lamacraft and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00hhm2h (Listen)
TUE       The future looks bleak for Tom.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00hhn5f (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
TUE       interview with Peter Flannery, whose writing credits range
TUE       from Our Friends in the North to a new work for the
TUE       National Theatre set in Stalin's Russia.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hlxh0 (Listen)
TUE       The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Episode 2
TUE       By Muriel Barbery.
TUE       Both Renee and Paloma have reasons to welcome the arrival
TUE       of a Japanese gentleman in the apartment on the fourth
TUE       floor.
TUE       Renee ...... Heather Williams
TUE       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
TUE       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
TUE       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
TUE       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
TUE       Directed by Sara Davies.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00hkc70 (Listen)
TUE       Michael Robinson investigates the legacy of toxic lending
TUE       by British banks and reveals why the threat it poses to UK
TUE       jobs, homes and incomes is especially acute.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00hkc72 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00hkc74 (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter joins ambulance crews as they go out to
TUE       calls. He finds out what treatment paramedics are now able
TUE       to deliver to people with medical emergencies and what
TUE       they leave until they get to hospital.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Long View b00hn8wy (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       He examines the parallels between the relationship between
TUE       football and business today and the story of a Victorian
TUE       club with expensive imported players which folded when its
TUE       profits fell. The company that owned the New Brighton
TUE       resort on The Wirral set up a football club, New Brighton
TUE       Tower, to maintain profits during the winter months. The
TUE       founders set about buying up quality players from other
TUE       top clubs but were initially denied entry to the Football
TUE       League and tickets to their home games at their massive
TUE       stadium proved too expensive for the local population,
TUE       with attendances barely scraping 1,000. With the club not
TUE       making money as planned, and having failed to gain
TUE       promotion to the first division of the Lea
TUE       Jonathan takes local historian Tom Sault and footballing
TUE       lecturer Rogan Taylor to the Wirral to tell the story of
TUE       New Brighton Tower and to draw parallels with today's
TUE       uneasy mix of the worlds of sport and business.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00hhnkh (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00hhnlq (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hjn4p (Listen)
TUE       An Equal Stillness, Episode 7
TUE       Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a
TUE       painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with
TUE       her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.
TUE       Finally in a position to secure her future, and that of
TUE       the children, Jennet finds a wreck of a house by the banks
TUE       of the Thames to renovate. In her studio the river's
TUE       watery light begins to make its way into her painting.
TUE       International recognition brings an invitation to
TUE       represent Britain's young artists at the Venice Biennale,
TUE       but where does that leave David?
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Weird Tales b00hkjr5 (Listen)
TUE       The Fly
TUE       Series of four chilling and intimate plays.
TUE       Lonely, middle-aged computer programmer Alan knows
TUE       everything there is to know about flies. Then one day,
TUE       online, he meets Amber, a Californian lady who knows
TUE       everything there is to know about spiders.
TUE       Lovecraft/Colby ...... Stephen Hogan
TUE       Mother ...... Stella Gonet
TUE       Alan ...... Alec Newman
TUE       Amber ...... Rachel Ogilvy
TUE       Other parts played by Caroline Guthrie, Janice Acquah and
TUE       Paul Rider.
TUE       Directed by Luke Fresle.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Byzantium Unearthed b00dxdd3 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Historian Bettany Hughes presents a series that uses the
TUE       latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the
TUE       empire of Byzantium and the people who ruled it.
TUE       Bettany examines the public and private life of the
TUE       Byzantines. Women had unprecedented power in the Empire,
TUE       as did the mysterious 'third sex' of eunuchs. But in this
TUE       part-Roman, part-fundamentalist Christian state, dangerous
TUE       political factions would keep the blood of political
TUE       dynasties flowing.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00hhjhq (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00hn6rw (Listen)
WED       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Mare Street
WED       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
WED       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
WED       London and his own life there.
WED       The cult of the cyclist and the history of the Town Hall.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhjml (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhjpb (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhjr7 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00hhjwq (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hhjz6 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00hhk17 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00hhk40 (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00hkl7d (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00hn6ry (Listen)
WED       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, The Triangle
WED       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
WED       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
WED       London and his own life there.
WED       How Jayne Mansfield came to Hackney - together with half
WED       the world's paparazzi - and the philosophy of
WED       arch-criminal Tony Lambrianou, stout defender of the Kray
WED       brothers.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00hlfnd (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray.
WED       Including drama:
WED       The Elegance of the Hedgehog
WED       By Muriel Barbery.
WED       Both Renee and Paloma find themselves drawn to the new
WED       resident on the fourth floor.
WED       Renee ...... Heather Williams
WED       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
WED       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
WED       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
WED       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
WED       Directed by Sara Davies.
WED       
WED       11:00 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00hkl7g (Listen)
WED       From Engels to Oasis
WED       Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an
WED       impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain.
WED       After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of
WED       class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you
WED       identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems,
WED       if you are white.
WED       Sarfraz visits Manchester, the site of the world's first
WED       industrial proletariat, where he spent his student years,
WED       to examine the origins and the modern reality of the
WED       working class.
WED       Featuring contributions from Hazel Blears MP, photographer
WED       Shirley Baker, Leslie Holmes of Salford Lads' Club, author
WED       Andrew Davies, football fan Colin Hendry, historian Selina
WED       Todd and resident of the Gorton area of Manchester Audrey
WED       Hurley.
WED       
WED       11:30 Clare in the Community b00hklfr (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Name Calling
WED       Comedy by Harry Venning and David Ramsden.
WED       There are still plenty of challenges out there for an
WED       involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
WED       Clare ...... Sally Phillips
WED       Brian ...... Alex Lowe
WED       Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck
WED       Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
WED       Megan/Nali ...... Nina Conti
WED       Irene ...... Ellen Thomas
WED       Simon ...... Andrew Wincott.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00hhkqx (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00hhkss (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00hhkvg (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00hklvr (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00hhm2h (Listen)
WED       The future looks bleak for Tom.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00ftd09 (Listen)
WED       The Lottery Ticket
WED       Black comedy by Donna Franceschild. An unlikely friendship
WED       blossoms when an asylum seeker and a migrant worker find a
WED       stray lottery ticket and think it may be the answer to all
WED       their problems.
WED       Salih ...... Nitzan Sharron
WED       Jacek ...... John Kazek
WED       Woman ...... Meg Fraser
WED       Directed by Kirsty Williams.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00hkpr7 (Listen)
WED       As part of the BBC Money Matters Roadshow, Paul Lewis and
WED       guests take financial questions from shoppers at The
WED       Trafford Centre in Manchester. He is joined by Ray Boulger
WED       of John Charcol mortgage advisers, Beccy Boden-Wilks of
WED       National Debtline, Graham Hooper of Bestinvest and Sandie
WED       Lock of Citizens Advice.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00hk1j9 (Listen)
WED       The First Person, Writ
WED       Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith.
WED       A middle-aged woman returns home one day to find her
WED       14-year-old self sitting in her lounge. But what do you
WED       say to the person you used to be, and how much do you tell
WED       them about the future? Read by Siobhan Redmond.
WED       
WED       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hhmdk (Listen)
WED       The Lost Peace
WED       Series charting the history of America, written and
WED       presented by David Reynolds. The battle to form a fair
WED       peace and create the League of Nations.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00hkpr9 (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00hkc74 (Listen)
WED       Dr Mark Porter joins ambulance crews as they go out to
WED       calls. He finds out what treatment paramedics are now able
WED       to deliver to people with medical emergencies and what
WED       they leave until they get to hospital.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00hhmmz (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
WED       Mair.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hhmqb (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hkprc (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Dame Joan Bakewell
WED       Dame Joan Bakewell listens to the Arctic Monkeys, has a
WED       beat boxing lesson and places a horse racing bet.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00hhm2k (Listen)
WED       The truth comes out for Ryan.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00hhn5h (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hlxl9 (Listen)
WED       The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Episode 3
WED       By Muriel Barbery.
WED       Both Renee and Paloma find themselves drawn to the new
WED       resident on the fourth floor.
WED       Renee ...... Heather Williams
WED       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
WED       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
WED       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
WED       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
WED       Directed by Sara Davies.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00hkprf (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk celebrates the 500th edition of the
WED       programme with a debate held at the Royal Society of
WED       Medicine in London. Melanie Philips, Michael Portillo,
WED       Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 I Was Put on Trial by Al Qaeda b00hkpvq (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Allan Little describes his own terrifying interaction in
WED       November 1993 with a group of mujahideen volunteers who
WED       were fighting on behalf of Bosnian Muslims during the war
WED       there.
WED       He examines what we now know about the presence of
WED       hundreds of men from other parts of the Muslim world who
WED       came to train and fight in the Balkans during the conflict
WED       there. Known as the Bosnian Mujahedeen, some were
WED       eventually put on trial at the International Criminal
WED       Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.
WED       
WED       21:00 A Life With ... b00hkqw8 (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Salmon
WED       Grant Sonnex meets people whose lives have been
WED       inextricably linked with Alaskan wildlife.
WED       Grant visits Daniel Schindler and his wife Laura, who
WED       spend their summers with their five-year-old daughter
WED       studying the spawning grounds of the world's last great
WED       salmon run. He finds out what is so exciting about
WED       studying a fish and what it is like to live surrounded by
WED       bears, wolves and wilderness.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00hkl7d (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00hhnkk (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00hhnls (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hjn4r (Listen)
WED       An Equal Stillness, Episode 8
WED       Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a
WED       painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with
WED       her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.
WED       Betrayal on both sides has irrevocably damaged the already
WED       fragile Heaton marriage. In a moment of rashness, Jennet
WED       dares all with David.
WED       
WED       23:00 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hkrbb (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Comedy series in which Josie Long attempts to better
WED       herself through learning from reference books, with help
WED       from Irish comedienne Maeve Higgins and special guests.
WED       Josie uses the book Astronomy for Dummies to try and
WED       unravel the greater mysteries of the cosmos.
WED       
WED       23:15 One b007716v (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 1
WED       The sketch show where no sketch features more than one
WED       voice.
WED       Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie
WED       Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan
WED       Antopolski and Jeremy Clarkson as himself.
WED       
WED       23:30 Byzantium Unearthed b00dzlc7 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Historian Bettany Hughes presents a series that uses the
WED       latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the
WED       empire of Byzantium and the people who ruled it.
WED       Bettany ventures to the eastern edge of the empire, where
WED       the new religion of Islam first gained a foothold.
WED       For nearly a thousand years the empire made war and peace
WED       with the Muslim countries to its south and east. However,
WED       the fatal blow to Byzantium came not, as is widely thought
WED       from the Ottoman Turks in 1453, but from the Christian
WED       West 250 years earlier.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00hhjhs (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00hn6ry (Listen)
THU       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, The Triangle
THU       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
THU       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
THU       London and his own life there.
THU       How Jayne Mansfield came to Hackney - together with half
THU       the world's paparazzi - and the philosophy of
THU       arch-criminal Tony Lambrianou, stout defender of the Kray
THU       brothers.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhjmn (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhjpd (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhjr9 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00hhjws (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hhjz8 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00hhk19 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00hhk42 (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00hmpdd (Listen)
THU       The Observatory at Jaipur
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests including Chandrika Kaul and David
THU       Arnold discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00hn6s0 (Listen)
THU       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Millfields
THU       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
THU       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
THU       London and his own life there.
THU       The story of Joe Kerr, head of Critical and Historical
THU       Studies at the Royal College of Art and a Hackney bus
THU       driver.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00hlfng (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray.
THU       Including drama:
THU       The Elegance of the Hedgehog
THU       By Muriel Barbery.
THU       Concierge Renee and precocious 12-year-old Paloma find
THU       that they have a lot in common, including their friendship
THU       with Kakuro.
THU       Renee ...... Heather Williams
THU       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
THU       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
THU       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
THU       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
THU       Directed by Sara Davies.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00hlbp0 (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 Blasted: The Life and Death of Sarah Kane b00hlbp2 (Listen)
THU       Dan Rebellato explores the life and work of playwright
THU       Sarah Kane, who caused controversy with her first play,
THU       Blasted, before committing suicide aged just 28.
THU       Blasted, which dealt with the horrors of the Balkan
THU       conflict, was described by one critic as a 'disgusting
THU       feast of filth', and its scenes of extreme violence,
THU       including rape and cannibalism, led to Kane being
THU       pilloried in the press. However, it is now considered by
THU       some to be a modern classic, with performances put on all
THU       over the world.
THU       Kane's work is credited with fundamentally changing
THU       British theatre, yet, after Blasted, she wrote just four
THU       more plays. Her final work, 4.48 Psychosis, was a
THU       meditation on mental illness. She killed herself just days
THU       after its completion.
THU       The programme features interviews with those who knew
THU       Sarah Kane, including her brother Simon, her agent Mel
THU       Kenyon, director James MacDonald and playwright Mark
THU       Ravenhill.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00hhkqz (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00hhksv (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00hhkvj (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00hlbp4 (Listen)
THU       Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the word
THU       'organisation' with former director general of the British
THU       Council Sir David Green, punk poet Attila the Stockbroker
THU       and writer Jay Griffiths.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00hhm2k (Listen)
THU       The truth comes out for Ryan.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b007721h (Listen)
THU       Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
THU       A new translation of the famous poem by Simon Armitage,
THU       narrated by Ian McKellen.
THU       Set in Arthurian Britain at Christmas time with the
THU       knights of the Round Table, whose festivities at Camelot
THU       are disrupted by the appearance of a green knight. The
THU       stranger has come to lay down a challenge - a test of
THU       courage and heart which Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew,
THU       accepts.
THU       Sir Gawain ...... Samuel West
THU       The Green Knight/Sir Bertilak ...... David Fleeshman
THU       Bertilak's wife ...... Deborah McAndrew
THU       Arthur/Servant ...... Conrad Nelson
THU       With specially composed music by Gary Yershon.
THU       
THU       15:02 Open Country b00hh0mc (Listen)
THU       Countryside magazine. Matt Baker travels to Essex to see
THU       the vast area that the RSPB is turning into a nature
THU       reserve. In a hungry world, can we justify the surrender
THU       of prime farmland to the birds?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00hhfbw (Listen)
THU       Christian Blind Mission
THU       Steve Mannion appeals on behalf of Christian Blind Mission.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00hk1jc (Listen)
THU       The First Person, The First Person
THU       Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith.
THU       A couple debate and fabricate possible scenarios for their
THU       life together. Read by Ali Smith.
THU       
THU       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hhmdq (Listen)
THU       100 Percent American
THU       Series charting the history of America, written and
THU       presented by David Reynolds. America wrestles with the
THU       impact that its diverse population will bring.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00hhfnd (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup talks to poet Sophie Hannah, who in the
THU       last few years has also become a bestselling thriller
THU       writer. She talks about her new novel The Other Half Lives.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00hlcr2 (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper investigates the cultural and genetic
THU       evolution of language.
THU       Professor Nick Chater of University College, London,
THU       believes that the evolution of language is cultural,
THU       rather than genetic. He argues because language is so
THU       unstable and quick to change, it is a creation of culture,
THU       and is bolted onto humans' biological abilities to adapt
THU       and process changing information.
THU       While Professor Mark Pagel of Reading University builds
THU       family trees for the words in a language, linking them to
THU       their cousins and ancestors. He has identified some
THU       meanings whose words evolve slowly enough to have time
THU       depths of at least 20,000 years, making them candidates
THU       for deep reconstruction of prehistoric, Neolithic
THU       languages. Professor Pagel has also shown how up to a
THU       third of the words in a language can change quite rapidly
THU       if a group of people split off and form a culturally or
THU       geographically new society.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00hhmn1 (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 b00hhmqd (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 Old Harry's Game b00hlcr4 (Listen)
THU       Series 7, Episode 1
THU       Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.
THU       Hell is thrown into confusion when a dog turns up. Animals
THU       are not supposed to end up in Satan's care because they
THU       are not evil - except for dolphins of course.
THU       Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
THU       Edith ...... Annette Crosbie
THU       Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan
THU       Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
THU       With Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00hhm2m (Listen)
THU       Alistair and Shula deal with the fallout.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00hhn5k (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report
THU       from Leeds on the opening night of a new production of
THU       Othello, with Lenny Henry in the title role.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hlxm6 (Listen)
THU       The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Episode 4
THU       By Muriel Barbery.
THU       Concierge Renee and precocious 12-year-old Paloma find
THU       that they have a lot in common, including their friendship
THU       with Kakuro.
THU       Renee ...... Heather Williams
THU       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
THU       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
THU       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
THU       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
THU       Directed by Sara Davies.
THU       
THU       20:00 Chinua Achebe: A Hero Returns b00hlczn (Listen)
THU       Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society,
THU       joins African novelist Chinua Achebe on his first trip
THU       back to his homeland of Nigeria for many years. The
THU       expectations of Nigerians are massive, but can Achebe, who
THU       is nearly 80, inspire a new generation to help the country
THU       achieve its enormous potential?
THU       
THU       20:30 Analysis b00hlczq (Listen)
THU       Rolling Stones
THU       Alison Wolf asks whether human beings have an innate need
THU       to travel and, if so, whether that raises profound
THU       questions for transport policy.
THU       As we get richer, so we choose to travel faster, despite
THU       the damage it does to the planet. But what does the wrong
THU       kind of travelling or no travelling at all mean for our
THU       personal health and happiness?
THU       How should governments respond to this complex side of our
THU       psyche? Is it right to subsidise any form of transport or
THU       should towns and cities be designed in such a way that we
THU       are forced to abandon our cars?
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00hlczs (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of
THU       science.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00hmpdd (Listen)
THU       The Observatory at Jaipur
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests including Chandrika Kaul and David
THU       Arnold discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00hhnkm (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00hhnlv (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hjn4t (Listen)
THU       An Equal Stillness, Episode 9
THU       Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a
THU       painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with
THU       her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.
THU       Jennet discovers that she is carrying a child - but whose?
THU       It is time to start over, but nothing can prepare her for
THU       the way events will turn out and nothing will assuage her
THU       guilt.
THU       
THU       23:00 Inside Alan Francis b00hlf5j (Listen)
THU       Episode 1
THU       Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the
THU       workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends
THU       and long-suffering girlfriend Jane.
THU       Alan realises he must have done something wrong to annoy
THU       Jane, but cannot remember what it is.
THU       With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock.
THU       
THU       23:30 Crossing Continents b00776vc (Listen)
THU       The Gay Prince of Rajpipla
THU       Linda Pressly reports from India, where gay sex is a
THU       crime. When the son of a Maharajah came out publicly in
THU       the conservative state of Gujarat, he was shunned by his
THU       family and the local community.
THU       But Manvendra Singh Gohil is unfazed. He is breaking new
THU       ground by working with the wives of men who have sex with
THU       men, to protect them and their husbands from the HIV/Aids
THU       virus.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00hhjhv (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00hn6s0 (Listen)
FRI       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Millfields
FRI       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
FRI       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
FRI       London and his own life there.
FRI       The story of Joe Kerr, head of Critical and Historical
FRI       Studies at the Royal College of Art and a Hackney bus
FRI       driver.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hhjmq (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hhjpg (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hhjrc (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00hhjwv (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hhjzc (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Tina Beattie.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00hhk1c (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00hhk44 (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00hhfc8 (Listen)
FRI       Professor Dame Kay Davies
FRI       Kirsty Young invites Professor Dame Kay Davies, Director
FRI       of Genetics at Oxford University, to choose eight records
FRI       to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00hn6s2 (Listen)
FRI       Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Hackney Brook
FRI       Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the
FRI       chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East
FRI       London and his own life there.
FRI       Iain attempts to locate the lost river of Hackney and in
FRI       so doing finds himself on the set of EastEnders, by way of
FRI       the Olympic construction site.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00hlfnj (Listen)
FRI       iWith Jenni Murray.
FRI       Including drama:
FRI       The Elegance of the Hedgehog
FRI       By Muriel Barbery.
FRI       In learning Renee's secret, Paloma learns something about
FRI       herself, and both their lives are changed for ever.
FRI       Renee ...... Heather Williams
FRI       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
FRI       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
FRI       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
FRI       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
FRI       Directed by Sara Davies.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Lenny Henry Plays Othello b00hlp7l (Listen)
FRI       Following Lenny Henry as he prepares to take on the role
FRI       of Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, from
FRI       coaching sessions and boot fittings to TV appearances and
FRI       trips to Africa for Comic Relief. Lenny keeps an audio
FRI       diary of his hopes and fears for the show and, as
FRI       rehearsals get under way, the microphones inside the
FRI       rehearsal room listen to the slow process of building
FRI       performance and production, right up to the first night.
FRI       The idea for Lenny to take on the challenge of Othello
FRI       stemmed from the last radio encounter between Lenny and
FRI       Barrie Rutter, who appeared in a pair of documentaries
FRI       that the comedian made for Radio 4 called Lenny and Will.
FRI       In these, Lenny discussed his previously fraught love-hate
FRI       relationship with Shakespeare and, by way of expiation,
FRI       was treated to three hours of intense work with the
FRI       director on Othello. At the end of the session, Barrie
FRI       offered Lenny the part, which is where the next stage of
FRI       Lenny's own personal odyssey began.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 HR b00hls1b (Listen)
FRI       An Away-Day
FRI       Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the
FRI       misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his
FRI       trouble-making colleague.
FRI       Peter and Sam both hate team away-days, but equally fear
FRI       performing badly and putting their jobs at risk. But is it
FRI       a good idea to try out bonding skills while inebriated?
FRI       Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
FRI       Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost
FRI       Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00hhkr1 (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00hhksz (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00hhkvl (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with James Robbins.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00hls6k (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00hhm2m (Listen)
FRI       Alistair and Shula deal with the fallout.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00hg6n3 (Listen)
FRI       The Last Smoker
FRI       Julia Dover's adaptation of a short story by Yasutaka
FRI       Tsutsui, set in modern-day Japan. Cantankerous novelist
FRI       Haruki, the world's last smoker, is hounded to a fate
FRI       worse than death by do-gooders and self-righteous
FRI       journalists, as they try to eradicate smoking once and for
FRI       all.
FRI       Haruki ...... John Byrne
FRI       Haruki's wife ...... Eileen McCallum
FRI       Yumi ...... Madeleine Worrall
FRI       Kuskabe ...... Stewart Conn
FRI       Doctor on the train ...... Madeleine Brolly
FRI       Translated by Andrew Driver
FRI       Directed by Matt Thompson.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hls6m (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Pippa Greenwood
FRI       answer questions posed by gardeners at Topsham Allotments
FRI       and Garden Club, near Exeter.
FRI       Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather
FRI       forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hhmdw (Listen)
FRI       The Jazz Age Hits Main Street
FRI       How a surfeit of music, sex and freedom ushered in the
FRI       Prohibition and fundamental religious belief.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00hlspj (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 b00hlspl (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Sacha Gervasi, the director of
FRI       Anvil, a new documentary about an old Canadian heavy metal
FRI       band that is already attracting a cult audience.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00hhmn3 (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
FRI       Mair.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hhmqg (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00hlspn (Listen)
FRI       Series 67, Episode 7
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with
FRI       panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Shappi Khorsandi
FRI       and Mark Steel.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00hhm2p (Listen)
FRI       Tom builds bridges at Bridge Farm.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00hhn5m (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hlxn3 (Listen)
FRI       The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Episode 5
FRI       By Muriel Barbery.
FRI       In learning Renee's secret, Paloma learns something about
FRI       herself, and both their lives are changed for ever.
FRI       Renee ...... Heather Williams
FRI       Paloma ...... Holly Bodimeade
FRI       Kakuro Ozu ...... Togo Igawa
FRI       Manuela ...... Pippa Haywood
FRI       Mme Pallieres ...... Kim Hicks
FRI       Directed by Sara Davies.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00hlspq (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Manchester.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00hlsps (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Katharine
FRI       Whitehorn.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00hlspv (Listen)
FRI       War and Peace
FRI       Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of
FRI       America, written and presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       From the sinking of the Lusitania to entry into First
FRI       World War and the years beyond - the Jazz Age, Prohibition
FRI       and a growing struggle to decide how America should manage
FRI       its diverse population.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00hhnkp (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00hhnlx (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hjn4w (Listen)
FRI       An Equal Stillness, Episode 10
FRI       Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a
FRI       painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with
FRI       her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother.
FRI       Jennet gradually finds a way to move forward and leave the
FRI       pain of the past behind. Under the over-arching skies of
FRI       her native Yorkshire, she paints her finest work yet.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00hkc6w (Listen)
FRI       Kate Mosse talks to director and playwright Jonathan
FRI       Holloway and playwright Nicholas McInerny about their
FRI       favourite books.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Crossing Continents b00cyl87 (Listen)
FRI       India - The Real Slumdog Story
FRI       Mukul Devichand reports from Mumbai on a controversial
FRI       scheme that may be able to provide the answer to the
FRI       developing world's slum problem.
FRI       Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, has gained greater exposure
FRI       thanks to the film Slumdog Millionaire. The scheme to raze
FRI       it to the ground is said by its backers to be the template
FRI       for slum re-development across the developing world.
FRI       Private companies are being asked to re-house the poor in
FRI       tower blocks in return for prime real estate.
FRI       But is this audacious scheme an innovative solution or
FRI       simply masking a land-grab from the poor?
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