13 March, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 14/03/2009 - 20/03/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 14 MARCH 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00j1fhs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00hz020 (Listen) SAT The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 5 SAT Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in SAT Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. SAT Yasmin arrives in London in 1972 and finds a country rife SAT with industrial unrest and casual racism. Terrified by SAT stories of Amin's reprisals back home and shocked by the SAT sights of fellow Ugandans arriving penniless and SAT bewildered at British ariports, Yasmin hopes to find SAT refuge in the ivory towers of Oxford University. SAT Instead she encounters further prejudice, albeit of a less SAT overt nature. Finally, when her fragile marriage buckles SAT under the hedonistic pressures of the hippy revolution, SAT Yasmin retreats to her cookery books and the recipes that SAT were handed down by her beloved mother. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j1fhv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j1fhx (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j1fhz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00j1fj1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j1fj3 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00j1fj5 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00j1hxh (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00j1z09 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00j1z0c (Listen) SAT As Snowdon emerges from a tough winter, Helen Mark meets SAT the people and wildlife that make their home on the SAT highest mountain in Wales. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today This Week b00j1z0f (Listen) SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00j1z0h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00j1z0k (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00j1zzd (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Richard Coles is joined by Sara SAT Stockbridge, who was the 1980s muse of the designer SAT Vivienne Westwood before becoming an actress and now SAT novelist. SAT As Northern Ireland deals with a revival of sectarian SAT violence, Richard talks to a man who helped start a SAT non-sectarian school in that most divided place. SAT Autophobic Paul Craney describes how he overcame his fear SAT of himself. SAT Plus the Saturday Life of Newmarket stable lad George SAT McGrath, the Inheritance Tracks of chef Heston Blumenthal SAT and poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00j1zzg (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and SAT joys of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 Baseball and Me b00j1zzj (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Simon Schama, who has lived in the United States for 30 SAT years, explores his love of baseball. SAT Simon watches the Boston Red Sox take on their arch rivals SAT the New York Yankees. Surrounded by 40,000 baying fans, he SAT wonders why baseball, with its slow pace and low scores, SAT has captured the imagination of artists and artisans alike SAT for the last 100 years. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00j2003 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster, presented by SAT Peter Riddell. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00j2005 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00j22t3 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. Including reports on how government action to SAT boost the economy will reduce pension income for some; SAT complaints that the government loan scheme to help small SAT business is not delivering what it promised; and claims SAT that fraudsters are targeting customers of a SAT communications giant in a mobile phone insurance scam. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00j1f9k (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 2 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Nick Doody. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00j22t5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00j22t7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00j1f9m (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in SAT Londonderry. The panel are Professor Monica McWilliams, SAT chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights SAT Commission, Lord Paul Bew, Professor of Irish Politics at SAT Queen's University, Belfast, political commentator and SAT author Eamonn McCann and editor-in-chief of The Economist, SAT John Micklethwait. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00j22t9 (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 b00j22tc (Listen) SAT The Complete Ripley, Ripley's Game SAT Third in a series of five plays based on the novels by SAT Patricia Highsmith about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley. SAT Tom sets up a man he dislikes to carry out two perfect SAT murders, but an attack of conscience prompts him to take SAT on the Mafia. SAT Tom Ripley ..... Ian Hart SAT Heloise ...... Helen Longworth SAT Madame Annette ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Reeves Minot ...... Paul Rider SAT Jonathan Trevanny ...... Tom Brooke SAT Simone Trevanny ...... Janice Acquah SAT Gauthier ...... Philip Fox SAT Marcangelo ...... Matt Addis SAT Lippo ...... Sam Dale SAT Directed by Steven Canny. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00j0c2f (Listen) SAT Series 7, Charlie Parker SAT Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th SAT Century. SAT Ken talks to British jazz musician Soweto Kinch about SAT saxophonist Charlie Parker, one of the founding fathers of SAT the bebop movement. After moving to New York in 1939, he SAT worked with Dizzy Gillespie and helped to push the SAT boundaries of the form. However, his life and career were SAT blighted by a heroin addiction which killed him at the age SAT of just 34. SAT SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour b00j24qz (Listen) SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. Including reports on Kathleen Sibelius, SAT President Obama's nomination for health secretary, the SAT late Susan Tsvangirai, children's author Jacqueline Wilson SAT on her school days and a discussion on whether a birth SAT that takes place with an epidural is normal or not. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00j24r1 (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 b00j24r3 (Listen) SAT Advertising seems to be everywhere these days, but with SAT new technology on the march and the global economy facing SAT a recession, has the ad industry had its day? Evan Davis SAT talks to marketing chief Sir Martin Sorrell; Guy Laurence, SAT chief executive of Vodafone UK; and Richard Brown of SAT Eurostar. They discuss hindsight - what have they learned SAT from past mistakes that is of any use to them now? SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00j24r5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00j24r7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j24r9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00j24rc (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT comedy and music. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00j24rf (Listen) SAT Declan Ganley SAT Lucy Ash profiles Declan Ganley, the Irish tycoon who has SAT launched his own political party in the UK, Libertas, SAT which aims to bring more democracy to the European Union SAT and plans to fight every seat in the 2009 European SAT elections. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00j24rh (Listen) SAT The week's cultural highlights transport Tom Sutcliffe and SAT his guests to the Middle East, via Zena el Khalil's novel SAT Beirut, I Love You and a promenade play set amid the SAT dangers of Jordan. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00j24rk (Listen) SAT Radio Sales SAT Radio presenter Brian Hayes examines some of the best and SAT worst of independent radio - the adverts. SAT He looks back over the last 80 years of advertising on SAT radio in the UK, the rise and fall of the jingle, how ads SAT have used humour and the changing voices of radio adverts. SAT Brian also looks back to the earliest radio advertising in SAT the UK - on Radio Luxembourg during the interwar period - SAT which drew on expertise from the US and was remarkably SAT sophisticated for its time. SAT The programme features contributions from DJs who have SAT relished their role of on-air salesmen, including Tony SAT Blackburn. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00hy5yt (Listen) SAT Rendezvous with Rama, Episode 2 SAT Mike Walker's dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C SAT Clarke, set in the 22nd Century. SAT What is the secret at the heart of the space object known SAT as Rama and why, years after the event, has Commander SAT William Norton never spoken about what he found there? SAT William Norton ...... Richard Dillane SAT Li Kwok ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SAT Pieter Rousseau ...... Jimmy Akingbola SAT Jimmy Pak ...... Robert Lonsdale SAT Aruna Calvert ...... Archie Panjabi SAT Gerry ...... Inam Mirza SAT Ruby Barnes ...... Janice Acquah SAT Laura Ernst ...... Ania Sowinski SAT Indira Gopal ...... Shelley King SAT Erl King ...... Peter Marinker SAT Tamara Ruiz ...... Jill Cardo SAT Tan Sun ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Henning ...... Paul Rider. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00j24y3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b00j0hbw (Listen) SAT The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on SAT the process by which controversial decisions are reached SAT behind closed doors in Whitehall. With a panel of inside SAT experts, he examines the problems that future governments SAT will face and hear the arguments about how they might be SAT resolved. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00hzf58 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 1 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the first heat of the music quiz, SAT with contestants from the south of England competing at SAT the BBC Radio Theatre in London. Paul puts the questions SAT to amateur music lovers Brenda Mortimer from Camberley, SAT David Roy from Bushey and Paul Tobin from Taunton. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00hy60k (Listen) SAT Roger McGough celebrates the work of Vernon Scannell and SAT Stevie Smith, and looks forward to spring in a selection SAT of listeners' requests including the work of MR Peacocke, SAT a keen observer of the natural world. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00j26wq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00j0ndf (Listen) SUN Crave for Less SUN Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God SUN from their own perspective. Richard Holloway searches for SUN the reality of God's presence in absence. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j26ws (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j26wv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j26wx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00j26wz (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00j26x1 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Bartholomew the Great, SUN Smithfield in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00j24rf (Listen) SUN Declan Ganley SUN Lucy Ash profiles Declan Ganley, the Irish tycoon who has SUN launched his own political party in the UK, Libertas, SUN which aims to bring more democracy to the European Union SUN and plans to fight every seat in the 2009 European SUN elections. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00j26x3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00j26x5 (Listen) SUN Behaving Virtually SUN Mike Wooldridge considers some of the questions raised by SUN the expansion of the digital world. Is it possible to say SUN what is real and what is virtual, or where the line SUN between them lies? Are online communities and SUN relationships 'real', does anonymity make us more or less SUN our real selves in the digital world and is there any room SUN for the spiritual in the virtual? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00j26x7 (Listen) SUN Topical farming magazine. Alex James meets some of the SUN youngsters who spend time at Highfields farm in Derbyshire SUN with its owners Roger and Beryl Hosking. They run a care SUN farm that allows young people aged between 14 and 16 to SUN visit and learn new skills. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00j26x9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00j26xc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00j26xf (Listen) SUN Discussing the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, both familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00j26xh (Listen) SUN St Giles Trust SUN Jenny Agutter appeals on behalf of St Giles Trust. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00j26xk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00j26xm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00j26xp (Listen) SUN Smell SUN Observing Lent through the senses. From St Peter's SUN Cathedral, Belfast. Led by Father Brendan Smyth. Preacher: SUN Father Hugh Kennedy. Director of Music: Nigel McClintock. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00j1f9p (Listen) SUN Katharine Whitehorn reflects on the aged and the part they SUN have to play in mainstream society. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00j26xr (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00j26xt (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00j26xw (Listen) SUN Baaba Maal SUN Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to SUN choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert SUN island. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00hzj3w (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 9 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with SUN panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock and SUN David Mitchell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00j26xy (Listen) SUN Cuba SUN Sheila Dillon learns about how Cuban agriculture coped SUN after the support they had received from the USSR dried up SUN and what their experimentation with self sufficiency, SUN organics and sustainable agriculture can teach the UK. SUN What changes had to take place in the Cuban diet to make SUN use of the food they could grow rather than the imports SUN they had relied on? SUN Sheila talks to Julia Wright about her book assessing the SUN Cuban experiment, its success as a model of organic food SUN production and what lessons can be learned by the UK. She SUN also speaks to Professor Jules Pretty about the work being SUN undertaken in the UK to address the issues of declining SUN oil production and sustainability. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00j2j28 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 World This Weekend b00j2j2b (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 It's My Story b00hgywx (Listen) SUN After Woolworths SUN Following the fortunes of Steve, a former Woolworths SUN employee, as he struggles to find a new job to feed his SUN growing family after the company went into administration SUN in late 2008 and its stores closed, with the loss of over SUN 27,000 staff. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardener's Question Time b00j1f9c (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN John Cushnie, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by gardeners at Chapel-en-le-Frith SUN Gardening Club in Derbyshire. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 My Mile of the River b00j2j2d (Listen) SUN Episode 5 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 enjoys the extremes of weather as winter grips the SUN Wye. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00j2j2g (Listen) SUN Sunset Song, Episode 1 SUN Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis SUN Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and SUN during the First World War. SUN Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her SUN ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father SUN struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's SUN fear of childbirth leads her to despair. SUN Chris Guthrie ...... Lesely Hart SUN John Guthrie ...... Liam Brennan SUN Jean Guthrie ...... Bridget McCann SUN Will Guthrie ...... Gordon Brandie SUN Mistress Munro ...... Estrid Barton SUN Long Rob ...... Matthew Zajac SUN Chae Strachan ...... Douglas Russell SUN Kirsty Strachan ...... Shonagh Price SUN Margot Strachan ...... Sally Reid SUN Ewan Tavendale ...... Finn Den Hertog SUN Directed by David Ian Neville. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00j2jk9 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Marcel Theroux, who SUN explains how his interest in climate change and a trip to SUN northern Siberia provided raw material for his novel Far SUN North. SUN SUN 16:30 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Reluctant Beat b00j2jkc (Listen) SUN A celebration of the 90th birthday of poet, publisher and SUN City Lights Bookstore co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a SUN key figure in the literary scene of 1950s San Francisco SUN and the development of the Beat movement. SUN Featuring new interviews and readings from Ferlinghetti SUN himself, including from his most recent work, Poetry as SUN Insurgent Art. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00j0gdf (Listen) SUN Simon Cox examines the record of the Royal Military Police SUN in dealing with alleged crimes by British forces both SUN during operations and in peacetime. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00j24rf (Listen) SUN Declan Ganley SUN Lucy Ash profiles Declan Ganley, the Irish tycoon who has SUN launched his own political party in the UK, Libertas, SUN which aims to bring more democracy to the European Union SUN and plans to fight every seat in the 2009 European SUN elections. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00j2x2y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00j2x30 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j2x32 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00j2x34 (Listen) SUN Peter White makes his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00j2x36 (Listen) SUN The deal's off for Brenda. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00j2x38 (Listen) SUN Children's magazine. Barney Harwood and the team visit the SUN Cambridge Science Festival. They do sums at the Millennium SUN Maths Project and hear songs about Science Superheroes SUN like Galileo. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b007vhnb (Listen) SUN Caravan Club, Freedom SUN Series of short stories celebrating a British institution. SUN The memories of three generations of a family are stirred SUN by a shabby old caravan parked in an overgrown field. SUN By Patrick Gale, read by John Paul Hurley. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00j1dvx (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00j1f9f (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 b00j22t3 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. Including reports on how government action to SUN boost the economy will reduce pension income for some; SUN complaints that the government loan scheme to help small SUN business is not delivering what it promised; and claims SUN that fraudsters are targeting customers of a SUN communications giant in a mobile phone insurance scam. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00j26xh (Listen) SUN St Giles Trust SUN Jenny Agutter appeals on behalf of St Giles Trust. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00j17xt (Listen) SUN Clever.com SUN Kenan explores the reality behind the stereotype of the SUN 'Google generation', the young people who have become so SUN hooked on the web and computer games that they are unable SUN to think, study and concentrate. SUN This characterisation is motivated by genuine concerns SUN that heavy use of the internet and computer games are SUN actually rewiring the brains of young people. They are SUN learning and thinking differently to their forebears in a SUN massive technological and social experiment. Kenan SUN investigates these concerns and asks Stephen Fry, among SUN others, whether the rise of the digital generation should SUN be a cause for celebration or concern. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00j2x3b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00j2x3d (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00j1f9h (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Julia Roberts about her new SUN espionage comedy, Duplicity. Plus Shirley Anne Field SUN recalls her role in the ground-breaking 1960 British SUN movie, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00j26x5 (Listen) SUN Behaving Virtually SUN Mike Wooldridge considers some of the questions raised by SUN the expansion of the digital world. Is it possible to say SUN what is real and what is virtual, or where the line SUN between them lies? Are online communities and SUN relationships 'real', does anonymity make us more or less SUN our real selves in the digital world and is there any room SUN for the spiritual in the virtual? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MARCH 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00j31v8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00j0h9g (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00j26x1 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Bartholomew the Great, MON Smithfield in London. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j31x3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j32bj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j320c (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00j32gc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j32q3 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00j32qr (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00j3v37 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00j32ry (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00j3v39 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Marcel Theroux, who discusses his travels MON in Japan in a quest to understand the philosophy of wabi MON sabi. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00j334v (Listen) MON A View from the Foothills, Episode 1 MON Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris MON Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour MON government. MON It is July 1999 and soon a call will come from The Man. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j3566 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including fashion trends for spring, MON American singer-songwriter Diana Jones performing in the MON studio, a discussion about moving to another country with MON your family and listener feedback on epidurals and natural MON births. MON Plus drama: MON Seeing is Believing MON By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything MON when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. MON Jon ...... Richard Greenwood MON Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy MON Naomi/Witness 1 ...... Meg Fraser MON Dasa/Newsreader ...... Lesley Hart MON Krish ...... Atta Yaqub MON Ellie ...... Clare Yuille MON Si/Manager ...... Grant O'Rourke MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 11:00 Unseen Britain b00j3v3c (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Peter White goes in search of those who monitor how we MON spend our money, where we travel and the state of our MON health, while remaining unseen themselves. MON Peter meets immigration officers Matt Dyson and Tim MON Weatherall, who explain what a passport says about a MON person and how they can be sure you are who you say you MON are. He also learns about the unseen techniques used to MON flush out those who attempt to smuggle drugs by swallowing MON them. He is put through one of the machines used to detect MON drugs and is shown the largest X-ray machine in the world. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b0082dtq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford. MON Nick's life takes an abrupt turn into surreal chaos when MON he returns to England to find the mysterious Ronnie MON Hazelbeach living in his late father's house. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON James ...... John Dougall MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00j358n (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00j35c0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00j35cd (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00j3vct (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 2 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the second heat of the music quiz MON from Manchester, with contestants from Yorkshire, MON Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Paul puts the questions to MON amateur music lovers Gordon Balmforth from Huddersfield, MON Richard Grothusen from Thornton Cleveleys and Chris MON Stanley from Nottingham. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00j2x36 (Listen) MON The deal's off for Brenda. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00htw7x (Listen) MON Where Three Roads Meet MON Sally Vickers' dramatisation of her own novel. A strange, MON unworldly figure appears in Sigmund Freud's Hampstead MON study to present the truth behind the Oedipus myth that MON the founder of psychoanalysis so famously made his own. MON Freud/Oedipus ...... John Hurt MON Tiresias ...... Paul Rhys MON Jocasta ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel MON Shepherd ...... John Rowe MON Goatherd ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Other parts played by the cast. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00j24rk (Listen) MON Radio Sales MON Radio presenter Brian Hayes examines some of the best and MON worst of independent radio - the adverts. MON He looks back over the last 80 years of advertising on MON radio in the UK, the rise and fall of the jingle, how ads MON have used humour and the changing voices of radio adverts. MON Brian also looks back to the earliest radio advertising in MON the UK - on Radio Luxembourg during the interwar period - MON which drew on expertise from the US and was remarkably MON sophisticated for its time. MON The programme features contributions from DJs who have MON relished their role of on-air salesmen, including Tony MON Blackburn. MON MON 15:45 The Synchrotron View b00j3k8m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Science enthusiast Dave Dodd visits the UK's biggest and MON brightest new experimental facility, the Diamond Light MON Source. MON Fragments of the comet Wild-2 returned to Earth by Nasa's MON Stardust mission are examined under the dazzling light. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00j26xy (Listen) MON Cuba MON Sheila Dillon learns about how Cuban agriculture coped MON after the support they had received from the USSR dried up MON and what their experimentation with self sufficiency, MON organics and sustainable agriculture can teach the UK. MON What changes had to take place in the Cuban diet to make MON use of the food they could grow rather than the imports MON they had relied on? MON Sheila talks to Julia Wright about her book assessing the MON Cuban experiment, its success as a model of organic food MON production and what lessons can be learned by the UK. She MON also speaks to Professor Jules Pretty about the work being MON undertaken in the UK to address the issues of declining MON oil production and sustainability. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00j3vcw (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON Simon Cox presents the topical magazine series covering MON the latest developments and issues in the world of IT. MON Simon visits an air traffic control centre to see the MON computer technology which keeps planes in the air, and MON meets a musician who makes music using the sounds of MON vintage computer systems. MON MON 17:00 PM b00j3kw0 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j3ky0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00j3vcy (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 10 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with MON panellists Paul Merton, Chris Neill, Tony Hawks and Justin MON Moorhouse. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00j3k63 (Listen) MON Life goes full circle for Joe. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00j3kzw (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Actors Mathew MON Horne and James Corden discuss their TV comedy, including MON Gavin and Stacey, and their new film Lesbian Vampire MON Killers. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j3l9v (Listen) MON Seeing is Believing, Episode 1 MON By Sian Evans. MON A man is forced to re-examine everything when he sees a MON UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. MON Jon ...... Richard Greenwood MON Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy MON Naomi/Witness 1 ...... Meg Fraser MON Dasa/Newsreader ...... Lesley Hart MON Krish ...... Atta Yaqub MON Ellie ...... Clare Yuille MON Si/Manager ...... Grant O'Rourke MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00j3vd0 (Listen) MON Switzerland for a Franc MON Miles Warde follows what happened when British businessman MON Bruno Prior responded to an advert in The Times MON advertising a ski resort for sale for one Swiss franc. MON The main lift breaks in Bruno's first season in charge at MON the resort, the falling pound hampers his ability to MON invest and two villagers refuse to sell land where he MON hopes to build a new hotel. MON MON 20:30 Bottom Line b00j24r3 (Listen) MON Advertising seems to be everywhere these days, but with MON new technology on the march and the global economy facing MON a recession, has the ad industry had its day? Evan Davis MON talks to marketing chief Sir Martin Sorrell; Guy Laurence, MON chief executive of Vodafone UK; and Richard Brown of MON Eurostar. They discuss hindsight - what have they learned MON from past mistakes that is of any use to them now? MON MON 21:00 Sound Architecture: The Spaces That Speak b00j3w8k (Listen) MON Science broadcaster Professor Trevor Cox explores the MON science of aural architecture - the relationship between MON sound, design and human experience. MON Building design and city planning is dominated by the MON visual. But a new science has emerged which explores the MON relationship between design, acoustics and the human MON experience, called aural architecture. Every space has its MON own unique soundscape, created by a combination of the MON overall design, the materials used in construction and the MON way that space is used by humans. MON Until very recently, few architects ever gave much thought MON to what affect that soundscape might have on the people MON inhabiting the space, be they office workers, school MON pupils, teachers or shoppers. This has resulted in MON railways stations where train announcements are MON unintelligble, restaurants where you have to shout to be MON heard and open-plan schools in which teaching is all but MON impossible. More recently, research has shown that a poor MON aural experience can have a considerable negative effect MON on how we feel and behave, even at a subconscious level. MON Professor Cox hears for himself how some spaces 'speak' MON and meets architects, designers and researchers hoping to MON transform our aural experience for the better. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00j3v39 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Marcel Theroux, who discusses his travels MON in Japan in a quest to understand the philosophy of wabi MON sabi. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00j3l15 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00j3l1m (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00j3lq0 (Listen) MON Family Money, Episode 6 MON Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller MON which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and MON how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a MON street brawl. MON Fanny struggles with the fear that engulfs her following MON her encounter at the library with the man from the canal MON boat. Why does this meeting trigger memories of the night MON she witnessed the murder? MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00j16kr (Listen) MON Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the theme of MON feeling like an impostor, with guests including MON philosopher Julian Baggini. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00j3lsb (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MARCH 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00j2xfz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00j334v (Listen) TUE A View from the Foothills, Episode 1 TUE Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris TUE Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour TUE government. TUE It is July 1999 and soon a call will come from The Man. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j31vb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j320f (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j31x5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00j32bl (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j32gf (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00j32q5 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00j32rw (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Call Yourself a Feminist b00j3xcz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Historian Bettany Hughes presents the second in a series TUE of three discussions tracing the development of feminist TUE ideas from the 1960s onwards. TUE Bettany's guests are former local government leader Linda TUE Bellos, businesswoman Roz Morris, academic Lynne Segal and TUE author Beatrix Campbell. They discuss feminism in the TUE 1980s and what it meant to them. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00j3xd1 (Listen) TUE Lord Palmerston TUE BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's TUE prime ministers have used their power, responded to the TUE challenges of their time and made the job what it is today. TUE Lord Palmerston, whose colourful private life masked his TUE skill at manipulating the press. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00j7ly5 (Listen) TUE A View from the Foothills, Episode 2 TUE Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris TUE Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour TUE government. TUE It is October 1999 and is it air traffic control or TUE rampant leylandii that will take priority? TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j6m29 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Including drama: TUE Seeing is Believing TUE By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything TUE when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. TUE Unwilling to confide in his wife, Jon turns to someone he TUE meets over the internet. TUE Jon ...... Richard Greenwood TUE Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy TUE Ellie ...... Clare Yuille TUE Krish/Witness 2 ...... Atta Yaqub TUE Naomi ...... Meg Fraser TUE Si ...... Grant O'Rourke TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 11:00 Supersize Surgeries b00j3xd3 (Listen) TUE Penny Marshall asks if new super-sized polyclinics will TUE mean the end of the family GP at the core of the NHS. TUE She hears from a GP in Hereford who is worried that a new TUE polyclinic will destroy his own highly-regarded practice TUE and doctors in London who cannot wait for their own TUE on-site x-rays and blood tests, saving time for both them TUE and their patients. TUE Health minister Ben Bradshaw explains the aims behind the TUE overhaul of primary care, pioneered by renowned surgeon TUE Lord Darzi - who has now become a target of criticism by TUE politicians and doctors alike. TUE TUE 11:30 Ursula Le Guin at 80 b00j3xd5 (Listen) TUE Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction TUE writer Ursula Le Guin. TUE Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the 1960s, her TUE series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, TUE included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction TUE has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying TUE worlds destroyed by environmental catastrophe that TUE prefigured modern concerns about global warming, and TUE societies without gender just as modern-day feminism began TUE to take off. TUE Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain Banks and TUE Margaret Atwood. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00j358d (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00j359g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00j35c2 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00j492t (Listen) TUE Series 7, Fats Waller TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE Century. TUE Fats Waller is most familiar to some as a comic singer, TUE but he was also a skilled jazz pianist. His father had TUE wanted him to follow in his footsteps and become a TUE minister. But the keyboard skills that Fats learned while TUE playing the organ at church services were instead TUE transferred to theatres and cabaret clubs, where he TUE accompanied the likes of Bessie Smith as well as playing TUE his own solos. TUE Ken is joined by singer Gwyneth Herbert, who talks about TUE her love of Waller's music. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00j3k63 (Listen) TUE Life goes full circle for Joe. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j4b3r (Listen) TUE The Presence TUE Welsh poet Dannie Abse's account of his life in the first TUE year after the death of his wife in a car crash. It pays TUE tribute to their 50-year marriage, tells of his grief and TUE the poetry that comforted him. TUE Dannie ...... Glyn Houston TUE Joan ...... Jennifer Hill TUE Susanna ...... Siriol Jenkins TUE Reader ...... Iestyn Jones TUE Wilfred/Dr O'Halloran ...... Howell Evans TUE Keren ...... Sara McGaughey TUE Doctor ...... Matthew Gravelle TUE Fireman ...... Lee Mengo TUE Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00j4d27 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j4d29 (Listen) TUE In Her Element, Skomer Log TUE Series of three readings by women writers that describe TUE their personal connections with the Welsh landscape. TUE Jane Matthews recounts her sojourn with seals and puffins TUE on a small island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Read by TUE Siriol Jenkins. TUE TUE 15:45 The Synchrotron View b00j3kqt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Science enthusiast Dave Dodd visits the UK's biggest and TUE brightest new experimental facility, the Diamond Light TUE Source. TUE Conservation scientists bring samples of pigment from TUE watercolourist Turner's studio and the walls of Pompeii. TUE Something is turning the brilliant red colour to a grimy TUE black, but what is it? TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00j0gd9 (Listen) TUE Clive Coleman explores the acute knife crime problems on TUE the streets and how both young people and the police want TUE to tackle them. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00j4f1p (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to music writer and lecturer Simon TUE Warner and poet and novelist Sophie Hannah about their TUE favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00j3ktj (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j3kw2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00cm9p6 (Listen) TUE Douz TUE Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny TUE charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs TUE are too difficult. TUE Carolyn finds that she has taken more on board than she TUE meant to. TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam TUE Captain Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore TUE Yves Jutteau ...... John Sessions TUE Captain Jessop ...... Rufus Jones TUE Lachlan ...... Robert Harley TUE Habib ...... Ali Amadi. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00j3k5l (Listen) TUE Tom is the bearer of bad tidings. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00j3ky2 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson interviews veteran TUE American actor Robert Wagner, who is publishing a memoir. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j6qc9 (Listen) TUE Seeing is Believing, Episode 2 TUE By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything TUE when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. TUE Unwilling to confide in his wife, Jon turns to someone he TUE meets over the internet. TUE Jon ...... Richard Greenwood TUE Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy TUE Ellie ...... Clare Yuille TUE Krish/Witness 2 ...... Atta Yaqub TUE Naomi ...... Meg Fraser TUE Si ...... Grant O'Rourke TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00j4f1s (Listen) TUE As local authorities struggle to balance the books because TUE of the economic downturn, Allan Urry reports on a crisis TUE in town hall finances. At a time when councils say that TUE they are being forced to lay off thousands of staff, Allan TUE asks why they have been investing a billion pounds of TUE taxpayers' cash in banks which have crashed, with no sign TUE of recovering the money. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00j4f1v (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00j4f1y (Listen) TUE Series 6, Gifted and Talented TUE Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is TUE normal. TUE Vivienne finds out how 'gifted' children are measured and TUE by whom. If a child is in the top five to 10 per cent of TUE their school in an academic subject, they may have been TUE identified as 'gifted' and put on the government's new TUE national register of gifted and talented children. TUE Vivienne discovers that it depends on the discretion of TUE each school to decide this status and talks to pupils and TUE teachers about whether being marked out as different - TUE even in a positive way - just makes children want to be TUE normal. TUE TUE 21:30 Call Yourself a Feminist b00j3xcz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Historian Bettany Hughes presents the second in a series TUE of three discussions tracing the development of feminist TUE ideas from the 1960s onwards. TUE Bettany's guests are former local government leader Linda TUE Bellos, businesswoman Roz Morris, academic Lynne Segal and TUE author Beatrix Campbell. They discuss feminism in the TUE 1980s and what it meant to them. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00j3kzy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00j3l17 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00j3lq2 (Listen) TUE Family Money, Episode 7 TUE Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller TUE which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and TUE how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a TUE street brawl. TUE A surprise encounter with a childhood friend of Delia's TUE distracts Fanny from her preoccupation with Jake, the TUE young man from the canal boat. TUE TUE 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00j4f20 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Comedy series starring Dawn French as Professor Joy Klamp, TUE a specialist in the art of spoiling other people's TUE pleasure. TUE Investigating the fun that can be had by spoiling other TUE peoples' weekend. TUE With Chris Douglas, Sally Grace, Katy Brand, Christopher TUE Douglas, Dan Tetsell, Brian Perkins. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00j3ls0 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00j2xg1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00j7ly5 (Listen) WED A View from the Foothills, Episode 2 WED Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris WED Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour WED government. WED It is October 1999 and is it air traffic control or WED rampant leylandii that will take priority? WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j31vd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j320h (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j31x7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00j32bn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j32gh (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00j32q7 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00j4hjk (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00j4hjm (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00j7ly7 (Listen) WED A View from the Foothills, Episode 3 WED Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris WED Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour WED government. WED June 2003 heralds a re-shuffle and the author has no idea WED of his fate. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j6lyc (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED Including drama: WED Seeing is Believing WED By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything WED when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. WED Jon begins to wonder if he can believe in what he saw - WED until he receives an unexpected phone call. WED Jon ...... Richard Greenwood WED Anna/Voicemail ...... Tamara Kennedy WED Naomi/Witness 3 ...... Meg Fraser WED Colonel Hall/GP ...... Simon Donaldson WED Ellie ...... Clare Yuille WED Si ...... Grant O'Rourke WED Dasa ...... Lesley Hart WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 11:00 Inside The Taj b00j4hjp (Listen) WED Naresh Fernandes, editor of Time Out Mumbai, visits the WED Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, one of the Mumbai hotels WED that was at the centre of the terrorist attacks on the WED city in November 2008, to see the extraordinary recovery WED that it and the city as a whole is making. WED He talks to some of the hostages, the deputy commissioner WED of police and TV presenter Shreenivasan Jain about the WED effect of the attacks on the city and the country. He also WED speaks to Karimbir Kang, the general manager of the Taj, WED who lost his family in the blaze, and to conservation WED specialists about the damage done to the hotel. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b00j4hjr (Listen) WED Series 5, Garden Party WED Comedy by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. WED Clare organises a petition to keep the Sparrowhawk Family WED Centre open and hosts a garden party to get to know her WED new neighbours. 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 b00j358g (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00j359j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00j35c4 (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00j4hjt (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00j3k5l (Listen) WED Tom is the bearer of bad tidings. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j4hjw (Listen) WED Welcome to the Wasteland WED By DJ Britton. As chief executive of her local council, WED Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her WED ambitious environmental plans, but the credit crunch WED continues to put pressure on other priorities. In the WED meantime, her daughter Afrah provides a safe house for a WED fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe. WED Robyn......Lesley Sharp WED Anastasisia......Anamaria Marinca WED Afrah......Lizzy Watts WED Mike......Sam Dale WED Don......Ben Askew WED Bob/Professor Stevens......Stephen Hogan WED Councillor Larby/Sacha......Philip Fox. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00j4hjy (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer questions on tax and WED tax planning. He is joined by John Whiting, a tax partner WED at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Jane Moore, tax faculty WED technical manager at the Institute of Chartered WED Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j4d54 (Listen) WED In Her Element, A Horizontal View WED Series of three readings by women writers that describe WED their personal connections with the Welsh landscape. WED Patricia Barrie recalls the view from her bedroom window WED when she was confined to bed as a child with a serious WED illness. Read by Sharon Morgan. WED WED 15:45 The Synchrotron View b00j3kqw (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Science enthusiast Dave Dodd visits the UK's biggest and WED brightest new experimental facility, the Diamond Light WED Source. WED Unusual iron deposits are implicated in both Parkinson's WED and Alzheimer's disease. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00j4hk0 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00j4f1y (Listen) WED Series 6, Gifted and Talented WED Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is WED normal. WED Vivienne finds out how 'gifted' children are measured and WED by whom. If a child is in the top five to 10 per cent of WED their school in an academic subject, they may have been WED identified as 'gifted' and put on the government's new WED national register of gifted and talented children. WED Vivienne discovers that it depends on the discretion of WED each school to decide this status and talks to pupils and WED teachers about whether being marked out as different - WED even in a positive way - just makes children want to be WED normal. WED WED 17:00 PM b00j3ktl (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j3kw4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00j4hk2 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates WED a stand-up show for a local audience based on what he WED finds out about the area. WED Mark records a show in a livestock auction hall in WED Skipton, Yorkshire, celebrating canals, castles, cows and WED what makes the town and its people distinctive. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00j3k5n (Listen) WED Usha's training is brought to a halt. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00j3ky4 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of WED the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature, WED awarded for a lifetime of achievement and worth over WED 50,000 pounds. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j6qh8 (Listen) WED Seeing is Believing, Episode 3 WED By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything WED when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. WED Jon begins to wonder if he can believe in what he saw - WED until he receives an unexpected phone call. WED Jon ...... Richard Greenwood WED Anna/Voicemail ...... Tamara Kennedy WED Naomi/Witness 3 ...... Meg Fraser WED Colonel Hall/GP ...... Simon Donaldson WED Ellie ...... Clare Yuille WED Si ...... Grant O'Rourke WED Dasa ...... Lesley Hart WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b00j4hk4 (Listen) WED The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on WED the process by which controversial decisions are reached WED behind closed doors in Whitehall. With a panel of inside WED experts, he examines the problems that future governments WED will face and hear the arguments about how they might be WED resolved. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00j4hk6 (Listen) WED Does God Make Mistakes? WED Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God WED from their own perspective. WED Sister Frances Dominica, founder and trustee of Helen and WED Douglas House hospice, reflects on her experiences WED alongside children and their families. WED WED 21:00 Who Killed the Cockney Sparrer? b00j4hk8 (Listen) WED Nature detective Tom Heap investigates who, or what, is WED killing the common sparrow. WED Once one of our most common garden birds, it is now a WED rarity. Since the mid-1990s, London alone has lost more WED than two thirds of its sparrows and there are similar WED cases in Bristol, Edinburgh and Dublin. WED In an attempt to unravel the mystery, Tom delivers a dead WED sparrow to the laboratories of the Zoological Society and WED observes the autopsy which demonstrates that the cause of WED death is not always what it seems. He speaks to experts WED from various conservation bodies including the RSPB and WED the British Trust for Ornithology to weigh the latest WED scientific evidence. WED Tom finds out about the chief suspects, including cats, WED sparrowhawks, unleaded petrol, mobile phones, garden WED make-over programmes and loft conversions. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00j4hjm (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00j3l00 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00j3l19 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00j3lq4 (Listen) WED Family Money, Episode 8 WED Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller WED which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and WED how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a WED street brawl. WED Is Jake's visit the act of a solicitous neighbour or is WED there something more menacing in his intentions? WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00chy8h (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED Performance poetry series, recorded in London's Troubadour WED Coffee House. Featuring Polar Bear, Felix Dennis and WED Scroobius Pip. WED WED 23:15 One b00771sh (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 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, Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud, with Bill WED Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00j3ls2 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00j2xg3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00j7ly7 (Listen) THU A View from the Foothills, Episode 3 THU Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris THU Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour THU government. THU June 2003 heralds a re-shuffle and the author has no idea THU of his fate. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j31vg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j320k (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j31x9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00j32bq (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j32gk (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00j32q9 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00j32z1 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00j4hmv (Listen) THU The Boxer Rebellion THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Rana Mitter and Frances THU Wood discuss the Boxer Rebellion, the moment when the THU 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' purged China THU of foreign influences in the summer of 1900. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00j7ly9 (Listen) THU A View from the Foothills, Episode 4 THU Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris THU Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour THU government. THU It is January 2004 and travelling the baking plains of THU Africa seems far away from Sunderland. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j6lym (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU Including drama: THU Seeing is Believing THU By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything THU when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. THU Jon's wife, Anna, issues an ultimatum. THU Jon ...... Richard Greenwood THU Si/Witness 4 ...... Grant O'Rourke THU Dasa/Clare ...... Lesley Hart THU Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy THU Jude ...... Monica Gibb THU Ellie ...... Clare Yuille THU Naomi ...... Meg Fraser THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00j4hmx (Listen) THU Israel's Goodness Gracious Me THU Mukul Devichand meets the creators and cast of Arab THU Labour, a prime-time Israeli TV comedy that sees the THU humorous side of Arab lives in the Jewish state. THU Israel's elections and its military operation in Gaza have THU polarised relations between Jewish Israelis and the 20 per THU cent Arab minority. Mukul examines the dark humour and THU moral dilemmas of an Arab population caught between THU feelings of Palestinian brotherhood and a determination to THU remain Israeli citizens. THU THU 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00j4hmz (Listen) THU Joanne Harris THU Joanne Harris, author of novels including Chocolat, shares THU her love of great writing, ranging from Molesworth to THU science fiction, plus the radio version of a graphic novel THU by Neil Gaiman. The readers are Amanda Root and Jon THU Strickland. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00j358j (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00j359l (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00j35c6 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00j4hsc (Listen) THU Dominic Arkwright discusses bad taste and guilty pleasures THU with Bidisha, Toby Young and Sarfraz Manzoor. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00j3k5n (Listen) THU Usha's training is brought to a halt. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j4jw7 (Listen) THU Baring Up THU Comedy by Frank Rickarby. Fictionalised account of THU 47-year-old grandmother, Conservative councillor and THU naturist Eileen Jakes' 1979 campaign to win the right to THU bare her naked body on the pebbles of Brighton beach. THU Eileen ...... Paula Wilcox THU Brian ...... Kim Wall THU John Blackman ...... Malcolm Tierney THU Adam Trimingham ...... Stephen Hogan THU Joan ...... Joanna Monro THU Frank ...... Philip Fox THU Alan Goodwin ...... Sam Dale THU Grace Clarke ...... Janice Acquah THU Robin Crossly ...... Benjamin Askew THU Connie Hamilton ...... Caroline Guthrie THU Spike Rawlings ...... Paul Rider THU Chairman of Council ...... Matt Addis THU Henry Ireland ...... Jonathan Tafler THU John Humphys ...... Himself THU Directed By Tracey Neale. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00j1z0c (Listen) THU As Snowdon emerges from a tough winter, Helen Mark meets THU the people and wildlife that make their home on the THU highest mountain in Wales. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00j26xh (Listen) THU St Giles Trust THU Jenny Agutter appeals on behalf of St Giles Trust. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j4d56 (Listen) THU In Her Element, No Refund for Clouds THU Series of three readings by women writers that describe THU their personal connections with the Welsh landscape. THU Hilary Lloyd remembers life on a smallholding in the Welsh THU Marches. Read by Eiry Thomas. THU THU 15:45 The Synchrotron View b00j3kqy (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Science enthusiast Dave Dodd visits the UK's biggest and THU brightest new experimental facility, the Diamond Light THU Source. THU Exploring the mysteries of earthworms. How are they able THU to survive in the copper and arsenic-laced soil of an THU abandoned Devon mine? THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00j2jk9 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Marcel Theroux, who THU explains how his interest in climate change and a trip to THU northern Siberia provided raw material for his novel Far THU North. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00j4kbx (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper hears about medical isotopes, one of the THU staples of modern medicine which allow doctors to track THU down damaged tissue and diseased organs. THU These radioactive tracers are in danger of vanishing from THU our medical shelves because the ageing nuclear reactors THU that they are made in keep breaking down. Quentin talks to THU a supplier of medical isotopes and a leading user, to hear THU about our need for these chemicals and what can be done to THU ensure their availability. THU THU 17:00 PM b00j3ktn (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j3kw6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00j4kbz (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 5 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. THU Satan has become a one-man adoption agency while his chief THU demon is reading Penelope Leach. But can Satan place the THU baby with a good family? THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU God ...... Timothy West THU With Felicity Montagu. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00j3k5q (Listen) THU Brenda gets an unexpected summons. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00j3ky6 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on the THU opening night of the play Madame de Sade, starring THU Rosamund Pike and Judi Dench. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j6qn1 (Listen) THU Seeing is Believing, Episode 4 THU By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything THU when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. THU Jon's wife, Anna, issues an ultimatum. THU Jon ...... Richard Greenwood THU Si/Witness 4 ...... Grant O'Rourke THU Dasa/Clare ...... Lesley Hart THU Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy THU Jude ...... Monica Gibb THU Ellie ...... Clare Yuille THU Naomi ...... Meg Fraser THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 20:00 Anglomania b00g447z (Listen) THU John F Jungclaussen, Die Zeit's UK correspondent, sets out THU to discover why so many of his fellow countrymen are in THU thrall to all things British. THU Among his travels around Germany he experiences British THU Day in Hamburg, with its very own Last Night of the Proms, THU an evening in a Bayreuth pub where the locals only speak THU English and, in the Ruhr valley, a German rock band called THU Claymore, who perform in full Highland dress. THU THU 20:30 Analysis b00j56l9 (Listen) THU The Financial Tsunami THU Ngaire Woods considers how the financial crisis is THU affecting the world's most vulnerable people. As global THU leaders prepare to meet in London to try to clear up the THU western world's economic mess, where does the global THU banking meltdown leave developing countries? THU THU 21:00 Oceans: What Lies Beneath b00j56lc (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Gabrielle Walker explores why we know so little about the THU oceans that make up nearly 80 per cent of our planet. THU Gabrielle meets the oceanographers who have gone where so THU few have gone before - the deep ocean. They have made THU discoveries that the most imaginitive science-fiction THU writers would have trouble imagining. The deep ocean is THU the most unexplored part of our planet, and makes up more THU than 50 per cent of the Earth's surface. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00j4hmv (Listen) THU The Boxer Rebellion THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Rana Mitter and Frances THU Wood discuss the Boxer Rebellion, the moment when the THU 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' purged China THU of foreign influences in the summer of 1900. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00j3l02 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00j3l1c (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00j3lq6 (Listen) THU Family Money, Episode 9 THU Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller THU which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and THU how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a THU street brawl. THU The departure of Jake and his canal boat has unexpected THU consequences for Fanny. THU THU 23:00 The Personality Test b007rlx5 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host every week. All THU the questions are about the host. THU Janet Street-Porter takes the chair, with panellists Sue THU Perkins, Lucy Porter, Nick Doody and Will Smith. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00j3ls4 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00j2xg5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00j7ly9 (Listen) FRI A View from the Foothills, Episode 4 FRI Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris FRI Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour FRI government. FRI It is January 2004 and travelling the baking plains of FRI Africa seems far away from Sunderland. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00j31vj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00j320m (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00j31xc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00j32bs (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00j32gm (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Glenn Jordan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00j32qc (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00j32z3 (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00j26xw (Listen) FRI Baaba Maal FRI Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to FRI choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert FRI island. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00j7lyd (Listen) FRI A View from the Foothills, Episode 5 FRI Sam Dale reads an adaptation of the diary kept by Chris FRI Mullin during his time as a minister in the New Labour FRI government. FRI It is May 2005 and Chris leaves the Foreign Office with FRI his future unclear. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j6lyt (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI Including drama: FRI Seeing is Believing FRI By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything FRI when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. FRI A family crisis forces Jon to reconsider everything. FRI Jon ...... Richard Greenwood FRI Witness/Priest ...... Simon Donaldson FRI Naomi/Witness ...... Meg Fraser FRI Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy FRI Si/Witness ...... Grant O'Rourke FRI Ellie/Witness ...... Clare Yuille FRI Clare/Dasa ...... Lesley Hart FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 11:00 The Accidental Volunteer b00j5883 (Listen) FRI Sian Parri Huws visits Rhayader in Mid Wales which at FRI first glance seems to be run entirely by volunteers. From FRI the retired ladies who help out in the local charity shop FRI to St John Ambulance volunteers, many towns and villages - FRI particularly in rural areas - are increasingly left to FRI depend on such people to provide essential services. FRI But for the army of people giving up their time for free, FRI it can also be an addictive activity, a passion which can FRI take over their whole life - as well as contributing a FRI staggering 40 billion pounds to the economy. FRI Sian meets one such volunteer, Caroline John, who FRI initially intended to help out on a local committee for a FRI few hours a year but who is now in charge of a whole FRI building, a staff of seven and has to deal with the many FRI questions and queries which make up the everyday life of FRI an 'accidental volunteer'. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b00j5885 (Listen) FRI A Bus Pass 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 The work machine has finally excreted Peter and Sam. Now FRI the two friends meet, of all places, in the queue for FRI their senior bus passes. FRI Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Man with no teeth ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Mechanical voice ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00j358l (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00j359n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00j35c8 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00j5887 (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00j3k5q (Listen) FRI Brenda gets an unexpected summons. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j5889 (Listen) FRI Smoke and Daggers FRI Political thriller by Hugh Costello, set in 1997 around FRI the time of Bertie Ahern's election as Taoiseach. FRI Marrying into Dublin's political elite does wonders for FRI Joe Finnerty's personal fortunes, but the unexplained FRI death of his ex-partner casts a shadow which threatens all FRI that Joe holds dear. FRI Joe Finnerty ...... Patrick Fitzsymons FRI Fintan Sheridan ...... Michael J Murphy FRI Oliver McQuaid ...... John Kavanagh FRI Louise Finnerty ...... Amanda Hurwitz FRI Gemma ...... Cathy White FRI Murtagh ...... Hugh Costello FRI DI Glynn ...... Frankie McCafferty FRI Miriam ...... Nicky Doherty FRI Conor Finnerty ...... Padraig Dooney FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardener's Question Time b00j588c (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer FRI gardeners' questions sent in by post and email. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Synchrotron View b00j3kr0 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Science enthusiast Dave Dodd visits the UK's biggest and FRI brightest new experimental facility, the Diamond Light FRI Source. FRI A sample cell is loaded with hydrogen under terrifying FRI pressure and then moved to Diamond, where it is squashed FRI with unimaginable force. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00j58sc (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 b00j58sf (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Michael Sheen about his starring FRI role as Brian Clough in the adaptation of David Peace's FRI novel, The Damned United. She also talks to Polish FRI film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00j3ktq (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00j3kw8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00j58sh (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 3 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Paul Sinha. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00j3k5s (Listen) FRI Tom learns some uncomfortable truths. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00j3ky8 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an FRI interview with the singer and songwriter VV Brown. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j6qny (Listen) FRI Seeing is Believing, Episode 5 FRI By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything FRI when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. FRI A family crisis forces Jon to reconsider everything. FRI Jon ...... Richard Greenwood FRI Witness/Priest ...... Simon Donaldson FRI Naomi/Witness ...... Meg Fraser FRI Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy FRI Si/Witness ...... Grant O'Rourke FRI Ellie/Witness ...... Clare Yuille FRI Clare/Dasa ...... Lesley Hart FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00j58sk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in London. FRI Panellists include Mayor of London Boris Johnson, director FRI of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority FRI Professor Lisa Jardine, and the Bishop of Rochester Dr FRI Michael Nazir-Ali. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00j58sm (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Katharine FRI Whitehorn. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00j58sp (Listen) FRI Stone, Dead Fishes FRI By Chloe Moss. FRI A young man with Down's syndrome admits to killing his FRI mother. Then a woman turns up claiming that he was with FRI her on the day that his mother was killed. Stone must FRI discover who is lying and why. FRI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Eammon ...... Tommy Jessop FRI Jacqueline ...... Christine Brennan FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI David ...... Andrew Grose FRI Jay ...... Andrew Whitehead FRI Weeks ...... Luke Broughton FRI Directed by Stefan Escreet. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00j3l04 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00j3l1f (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00j3lq8 (Listen) FRI Family Money, Episode 10 FRI Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller FRI which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and FRI how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a FRI street brawl. FRI Jake's threatened return spurs Fanny into action, and she FRI makes some decisions that surprise those closest to her. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00j4f1p (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to music writer and lecturer Simon FRI Warner and poet and novelist Sophie Hannah about their FRI favourite books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00j3ls6 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI