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.
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