Radio 4 Listings for 22/08/2009 -28/08/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00m463q (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yy (Listen)
SAT       My Father's Places, Episode 5
SAT       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
SAT       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
SAT       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
SAT       The cracks in Dylan and Caitlin's marriage begin to show
SAT       and Aeronwy feels the effects.
SAT       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
SAT       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m463s (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m463v (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m463x (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00m463z (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m4641 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Backstreet Business b008pxt0 (Listen)
SAT       Episode 5
SAT       Nicola Heywood Thomas visits five small businesses. Peter
SAT       Nardi invents conjuring tricks and produces the equipment
SAT       for them at his workshop in Kent.
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00m4643 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00m52st (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00m52sw (Listen)
SAT       Cumbrian Power
SAT       One of the proposed sites for the new generation of
SAT       nuclear power stations is farmland near the villages of
SAT       Kirksanton and Silecroft on the Cumbrian coast. Helen Mark
SAT       finds people there fighting the plans, but also some who
SAT       support the idea.
SAT       Kirksanton lies south of Sellafield, and many in this
SAT       rural community, which nestles between the most southerly
SAT       fells of White Combe and Black Combe, were shocked to hear
SAT       of the plans. Many villagers believe that the development
SAT       would destroy the tranquility and beauty of the area they
SAT       love. Others welcome the plans and the opportunity they
SAT       may bring to reinvent the Millom area as a centre for
SAT       excellence in the nuclear industry, providing jobs,
SAT       improving infrastrucure and ensuring young people have a
SAT       future in the area.
SAT       Helen considers what would be gained and what would be
SAT       lost.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00m52vk (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Ready meals are here to stay, whether you think it's the
SAT       height of laziness or a way to feed a time-pressed
SAT       population. We eat more than 800 million of them each year
SAT       in the UK, and there is huge variety of them, from a basic
SAT       frozen lasagne to a fancy risotto.
SAT       Charlotte Smith finds out who is now buying ready meals,
SAT       what's in them and how much of the contents is, or could
SAT       come, from British farms.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00m52vm (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00m52vp (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00m535p (Listen)
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by Madness frontman Suggs. With poetry
SAT       from Kate Fox.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00m535r (Listen)
SAT       Sandi Toksvig explores Iraq, Greece, Turkey and Egypt in
SAT       the footsteps of Greek historian Herodotus, who died
SAT       around 2,500 years ago, and finds out what India, Tibetan
SAT       singing bowls and a computerised piece of music lasting
SAT       1,000 years have in common.
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SAT       10:30 I Want to Work in... b00m535t (Listen)
SAT       Laurie Taylor - himself a former careers master at a
SAT       comprehensive school - takes an affectionate look back at
SAT       50 years of careers advice.
SAT       He goes back to the time when careers were really only for
SAT       middle-class boys; girls and the lower orders were
SAT       expected to make do with mere jobs. This was reflected in
SAT       the inadequate careers advice handed out at the time by
SAT       school careers masters and by the often patronising
SAT       schools TV films about everything from working in
SAT       insurance to the distinctive pleasures of shelf-filling in
SAT       a supermarket. How much was anyone helped by such sources
SAT       of information?
SAT       Laurie finds out how different the situation is today,
SAT       when fewer and fewer children follow in their parents'
SAT       career footsteps and when even the notion of a 'career'
SAT       itself is under attack by the proponents of the
SAT       'portfolio' society. He talks to experts and visits a jobs
SAT       fair for graduates, and asks if, over the past 50 years of
SAT       careers advice, anybody has taken a blind bit of notice.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m535w (Listen)
SAT       Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster
SAT       parliament. In the wake of voters' anger with their
SAT       elected representatives over expenses, Ben Wright explores
SAT       the growth of direct democracy and asks whether it can
SAT       ever work on a large scale.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m535y (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Including a rare visit to a Catholic shrine in Northern
SAT       Sri Lanka, why Uganda and Kenya are threatening to go to
SAT       war over a tiny speck of land, and an Arabic lesson in
SAT       Damascus.
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SAT       12:00 Money Box b00m5360 (Listen)
SAT       Coping with the Recession, Episode 2
SAT       Penny Haslam examines how we are coping with the
SAT       recession. The economic crisis is not just about money and
SAT       paying bills; it is also about dealing with the
SAT       psychological pressures of the downturn. Penny
SAT       investigates whether we focus too much on the negatives
SAT       when many people will end up better off.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m44s1 (Listen)
SAT       Episode 1
SAT       Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two
SAT       teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The
SAT       show asks both the big and the little questions, and
SAT       provides thoroughly silly answers to both.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00m53q8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00m53qb (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00m45d0 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Middle
SAT       Wallop, Hampshire. The panellists are writer Kate Mosse,
SAT       environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt, writer and
SAT       broadcaster James Delingpole and lawyer Mark Stephens.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00m53qd (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00m53qg (Listen)
SAT       Slow Boat to Leningrad
SAT       Black comedy by David Pownall following events of August
SAT       1939, when the British and French were seriously
SAT       out-manoeuvred by Stalin and Hitler when they unexpectedly
SAT       agreed to sign a non-aggression pact.
SAT       Doumenc ...... Keith Drinkel
SAT       Drax/Chamberlain ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
SAT       Burnett ...... Ian Masters
SAT       Ribbentrop ...... Nicholas Boulton
SAT       Hitler ...... Michael Maloney
SAT       Stalin ...... Michael Jayston
SAT       Voroshilov/Churchill ...... Christian Rodska
SAT       Molotov ...... Jonathan Tafler
SAT       Directed by Martin Jenkins
SAT       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Luting the Past b00m17qg (Listen)
SAT       Celebrated soprano Emma Kirkby tells the story of a unique
SAT       musical instrument, a 400 year old lute whose ancient wood
SAT       presents a vivid window into a golden age of music making.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00m552d (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00m56dt (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00m56dw (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m552g (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00m552j (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m552l (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00m56dz (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation,
SAT       music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festival, in front of
SAT       an audience at The Pleasance Theatre.
SAT       He is joined by writer, actor and broadcaster Griff Rhys
SAT       Jones, cultural maverick Malcolm McLaren and actress Diana
SAT       Quick.
SAT       Arthur Smith talks to agony aunt Virginia Ironside.
SAT       With comedy from Wilson Dixon and music from Edwyn Collins
SAT       and Camille O'Sullivan.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00m552n (Listen)
SAT       Neil Morrissey
SAT       Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who
SAT       was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and
SAT       television.
SAT       He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and
SAT       invested his money in property, with rather less success.
SAT       As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found
SAT       himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid
SAT       bankruptcy in order to pay them back.
SAT       Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business
SAT       partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving
SAT       Badly and Bob The Builder.
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SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00m552q (Listen)
SAT       Inglourious Basterds, a title with inventive spelling, is
SAT       the new film by director Quentin Tarantino. Set during the
SAT       first year of the Nazi occupation of France, a Jewish
SAT       girl, Shosanna, witnesses the execution of her family by a
SAT       Nazi colonel. She escapes and flees to Paris where she
SAT       forges a new identity as the owner of a cinema. Meanwhile
SAT       a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as The Basterds
SAT       are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the
SAT       Third Reich by brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon
SAT       cross paths with Shosanna and target her cinema, with
SAT       explosive results.
SAT       Outbreak 1939 is an ITV documentary, accompanied by an
SAT       exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, marking 70 years of
SAT       the radio announcement that informed the nation that
SAT       Britain was at war. The documentary uses the words of
SAT       those who were there and footage from the time to tell the
SAT       story, hour by hour, of the day that Britain declared war
SAT       on Nazi Germany, 3rd September 1939.
SAT       The Outbreak 1939 special exhibition at the Imperial War
SAT       Museum explores the build-up and preparations for war, an
SAT       overview of the key events of 3rd September and an account
SAT       of the early months of conflict.
SAT       Living with the Infidels is a new online comedy short
SAT       series about a gang of Bradford-based Muslim extremists
SAT       who share a flat and spend their days incompetently
SAT       plotting a huge terror outrage. Created by Aasaf Ainapore
SAT       with the support of the Muslim Council of Britain, it has
SAT       already received criticism from reviewers for its
SAT       controversial storyline.
SAT       The latest book by novelist Diana Evans explores a young
SAT       man's search for meaning. Lucas grew up on a narrowboat,
SAT       believing all children who had lost their parents lived on
SAT       water. At 25, he still lives there with his sister and is
SAT       now desperate to find his 'own stride'. Before he can
SAT       progress, however, he needs to delve into the past and the
SAT       strange disappearance of his charismatic Jamaican father,
SAT       the founder of a famous black dance company. The narrative
SAT       shifts between west London and Kingston, Jamaica, and
SAT       between generations, as Lucas learns about the events that
SAT       led to his father's final disappearance.
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SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00lxsrj (Listen)
SAT       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Michael Grade
SAT       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
SAT       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
SAT       re-examination of their lives.
SAT       Michael Grade reflects on the soundtrack to his life drawn
SAT       through over 30 years of the BBC sound archives.
SAT       From his earliest job as a sports writer on the Daily
SAT       Mirror to his varied career as controller of BBC One,
SAT       chief executive of Channel 4 and now in charge of ITV, his
SAT       life has been a very public one. Coming from a
SAT       showbusiness family, with an agent for a father and uncles
SAT       Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont in theatre and television,
SAT       Grade has seen at first hand how the language of variety
SAT       and vaudeville can work.
SAT       In his six-year career at the Daily Mirror, as 'Mike
SAT       Grade', he had a sports column and learned how to work
SAT       with the press. His move into TV came in the 1970s, and
SAT       from the 1980s he was a major player in BBC television,
SAT       becoming controller of BBC One.
SAT       He hears the sound archive of his life and ponders what he
SAT       has learned and how he has developed, from his earliest
SAT       writings to his return to the BBC in 2004 and his
SAT       subsequent move to ITV.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00m0jvz (Listen)
SAT       Ruth, Episode 3
SAT       Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth
SAT       Gaskell.
SAT       The unexpected return of Bellingham presents real danger,
SAT       and a distant connection from Ruth's past threatens to
SAT       reveal the truth about Leonard. Meanwhile Mr Bradshaw's
SAT       two eldest children face very different dilemmas.
SAT       Ruth ...... Laura Rees
SAT       Benson ...... Anton Lesser
SAT       Faith ...... Anne Reid
SAT       Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear
SAT       Bradshaw ...... David Schofield
SAT       Sally ...... Marcia Warren
SAT       Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank
SAT       Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw
SAT       Farquhar ...... Gus Brown
SAT       Mrs Pearson ...... Anna Francolini
SAT       Dr Davies ...... Tim Hardy
SAT       Leonard ...... Jordan Clarke
SAT       Directed by Ellen Dryden.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00m552s (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m1nlm (Listen)
SAT       Episode 1
SAT       Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to
SAT       apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people
SAT       they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion.
SAT       Public debates between those who believe in God and those
SAT       who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever,
SAT       often obscuring central human questions about how we
SAT       should live and how modern ethics should work.
SAT       In this programme, atheist philosopher Dr Miranda Fricker
SAT       and Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of
SAT       Oxford, tackle suffering and death.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00m107y (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from Wales and Northern Ireland.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen)
SAT       Paul Morley traces the life and works of Manchester punk
SAT       poet John Cooper Clarke.
SAT       Paul looks back at the punk movement in the mid 1970s, its
SAT       DIY ethic and popular appeal and how Cooper Clarke, as the
SAT       poet of the people, fit into the scene.
SAT       Through exclusive new interviews with Cooper Clarke, Paul
SAT       delves into the most significant moments of his life and
SAT       career, from his first job as a lab technician at Salford
SAT       University to touring with some of the world's most famous
SAT       punk bands, his domestic partnership and shared heroin
SAT       addiction with Nico, the use of one of his songs in The
SAT       Sopranos, his signing to the same label as Bob Dylan and
SAT       his appearance in a Sugar Puffs advert.
SAT       Cooper Clarke has continued to tour and write new work for
SAT       30 years and despite being exasperated by the 1980s'
SAT       flamboyant reaction to punk's DIY ethic, his influence
SAT       today should not be underestimated. Jarvis Cocker, Noel
SAT       Gallagher, Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen
SAT       and Kate Nash have all cited Clarke as an influence, as
SAT       his distinctive style continues to pervade popular music.
SAT       Contributors include Mark E Smith, Pete Shelly, Kate Nash,
SAT       Phill Jupitus and Clarke himself.
SAT       An All Out production for BBC Radio 4.
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SUN       SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00m5qz2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0081193 (Listen)
SUN       Cheltenham Festival Readings, Tommy Sparkle's Bright Ideas
SUN       Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
SUN       Mother starts praying when father comes up with another
SUN       bright idea. Written and read by Biyi Bandele.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5qz4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5qz6 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5qz8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00m5qzb (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m5qzd (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Andover.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00m552n (Listen)
SUN       Neil Morrissey
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who
SUN       was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and
SUN       television.
SUN       He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and
SUN       invested his money in property, with rather less success.
SUN       As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found
SUN       himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid
SUN       bankruptcy in order to pay them back.
SUN       Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business
SUN       partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving
SUN       Badly and Bob The Builder.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00m5qzg (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00m5qzj (Listen)
SUN       Laugh and the World Laughs With You
SUN       The ability to laugh can help us through the best and
SUN       worst of times. Irma Kurtz reflects on laughter and its
SUN       importance to spiritual wellbeing.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00m5rbt (Listen)
SUN       Heath Fritillary
SUN       The Heath Fritillary butterfly was on the verge of
SUN       extinction in Exmoor in 2001. Now, thanks to some targeted
SUN       conservation work between the National Trust and Butterfly
SUN       Conservation, this checkerboard-marked rare butterfly is
SUN       increasing in numbers. Lionel Kelleway heads to a valley
SUN       near Dunkery Beacon in the north of Exmoor National Park
SUN       in search of one of Britain's rarest butterflies.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00m5rrd (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00m5rrg (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00m5rrj (Listen)
SUN       Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news
SUN       of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen)
SUN       Blood Pressure Association
SUN       Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure
SUN       Association.
SUN       Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
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SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your
SUN       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
SUN       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
SUN       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
SUN       postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No:1058944.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00m5rrn (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00m5rrq (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00m5rrs (Listen)
SUN       Faith, Hope and Love
SUN       Faith, Hope and Love: Royal School of Church Music choir
SUN       members celebrate St Paul's words in choral works from
SUN       across the world and throughout the ages in Bath Abbey.
SUN       Canon Robert Jones, RSCM course chaplain, leads the
SUN       service. The preacher is Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector
SUN       of Bath Abbey. Director of Music: Geoff Weaver. Organist:
SUN       Stephen Grahl.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m45d2 (Listen)
SUN       Faking Fossils
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Sir David recalls a key moment in his life, when he broke
SUN       open a piece of Leicestershire limestone and there in his
SUN       hand was an ammonite. Over the intervening years, fossils
SUN       have fascinated him and he has become a great collector,
SUN       even of the odd fake.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00m5rrv (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m5rrx (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 The Reunion b00m5rrz (Listen)
SUN       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
SUN       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
SUN       history.
SUN       Sue reunites some of those involved in the great cricket
SUN       split caused by the launch of World Series Cricket by
SUN       Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer in 1977. She is
SUN       joined by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd,
SUN       Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson, Tony Greig, who was
SUN       England captain at the time, Mike Denness, team manager
SUN       for Packer's World Series, and the commentator and writer
SUN       Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who reported the story as it
SUN       broke
SUN       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00m10h9 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 4
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
SUN       panellists are Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Gyles
SUN       Brandreth and Kit Hesketh-Harvey.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00m5rs1 (Listen)
SUN       Chefs' Choices Number 3: Raspberries
SUN       Chef and food writer Jeremy Lee indulges his passion for
SUN       raspberries by returning to his native Scotland to meet
SUN       raspberry growers, pickers, processors and breeders. He
SUN       explains how a mysterious combination of soil, rainfall,
SUN       temperature and sunshine has produced the 'terroir' that
SUN       makes Scotland the perfect place for that particular crop.
SUN       In the 1950s, the Raspberry Express train brought
SUN       Perthshire 'rasps' every day from Fife to Covent Garden in
SUN       London, but since those days the growers have faced
SUN       competition from eastern Europe and from Spanish varieties
SUN       as well as the ever-present threat of root disease.
SUN       How have the growers adapted to changing markets? Jeremy
SUN       finds optimism in the air, as demand for home-grown
SUN       raspberries continues to grow.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00m5rs3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00m5rs5 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Political Club b00ljqf5 (Listen)
SUN       Michael Crick reveals how politicians are increasingly
SUN       becoming a professionalised and separate class, who use
SUN       their status to channel taxpayers' money into the coffers
SUN       of their parties.
SUN       The recent scandal over MPs' expenses has revealed how
SUN       politicians are spending taxpayers' money on themselves,
SUN       but what has not been revealed - until now - is how much
SUN       public money is being diverted to political parties, or
SUN       how that development is intimately related to the rise of
SUN       a new club of professional politician. Michael reveals the
SUN       extent - and cost - of this development, and what it means
SUN       for our democracy.
SUN       He speaks to former cabinet ministers and members of both
SUN       local councils and the European Parliament to find out why
SUN       this has happened, what it means, and whether it is
SUN       inevitable.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m44rv (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer
SUN       questions posed by members of Much Marcle, near Ledbury in
SUN       Herefordshire.
SUN       Bunny draws inspiration from a medieval knot garden,
SUN       adapting forgotten gardening techniques to the modern
SUN       kitchen garden, and Bob wanders the ancient woodland of
SUN       Hallwood, investigating the wealth of native British
SUN       trees. Also, Peter gives his definitive guide to
SUN       micro-climates, with examples from the Hereford area.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m8plt (Listen)
SUN       The Botanists
SUN       Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied
SUN       disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to
SUN       explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs.
SUN       Peter meets the botanists who won the lottery. Seed
SUN       conservation used to be rather marginal to the main
SUN       scientific activity at The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
SUN       That is, until, the scientists who preserve seeds for
SUN       future generations asked for and received 30 million
SUN       pounds.
SUN       At the Millenium Seed Bank in Sussex, the gentle world of
SUN       botany and the rude world of commerce come together in a
SUN       rampant hybrid.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen)
SUN       Two on a Tower, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of
SUN       star-crossed lovers in the West Country.
SUN       When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome
SUN       young astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on
SUN       her estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins.
SUN       Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill
SUN       Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson
SUN       Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson
SUN       Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys
SUN       Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin
SUN       Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson
SUN       Louis ...... Richard Heap
SUN       Joshua ...... Carter Dowland
SUN       Directed by Stefan Escreet.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00m5t0p (Listen)
SUN       Muriel Gray talks to novelist Iain Banks, whose latest
SUN       book, Transition, brings together science fiction and the
SUN       contemporary concerns of terrorism and global financial
SUN       collapse. Plus biographer Paula Byrne discussing the
SUN       eccentric family who inspired Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead
SUN       Revisited.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poems for Infant Minds b0076p8n (Listen)
SUN       Nigel Forde looks at the development of children's poetry,
SUN       from the finger-wagging moral tales of the 18th and 19th
SUN       centuries, which warned girls and boys against the dangers
SUN       of being naughty, to the zany nonsense of the last
SUN       century. Has the moral message wrapped in verse really
SUN       changed all that much? Featuring writing by the Taylor
SUN       sisters, Lear, Stevenson, De La Mere and Dr Seuss.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 An Interior Life b00m6y96 (Listen)
SUN       The story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who lives in
SUN       south London.
SUN       Bernard has been alone for five years following the death
SUN       of his long-term partner, Ron. As he follows his regular
SUN       routine making breakfast, watching television and feeding
SUN       the birds, Bernard reflects on how life has changed since
SUN       his loss. He has become increasingly confined to his home
SUN       and expresses the profound sense of loneliness and
SUN       isolation with which he has been afflicted over the last
SUN       five years.
SUN       Bernard charts his life story, recounting his childhood in
SUN       the 1920s and 30s and, as manhood approached, the inner
SUN       struggle to accept his homosexuality at a time when sex
SUN       between men was illegal. He describes the great loves of
SUN       his life: his first partner George, Ron and classical
SUN       music.
SUN       But just as Bernard's situation becomes desperate, his
SUN       life takes yet another twist and the chance of an end to
SUN       his isolation emerges.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00m552n (Listen)
SUN       Neil Morrissey
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who
SUN       was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and
SUN       television.
SUN       He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and
SUN       invested his money in property, with rather less success.
SUN       As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found
SUN       himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid
SUN       bankruptcy in order to pay them back.
SUN       Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business
SUN       partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving
SUN       Badly and Bob The Builder.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m5ts4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00m5ts6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m5w45 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00m5w47 (Listen)
SUN       Ian McMillan introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Programmes featured this week were:
SUN       Gold - World Service
SUN       Fry's English Delight - Radio 4
SUN       Luting The Past - Radio 4
SUN       How To Write An Instruction Manual - Radio 4
SUN       Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance - Radio 4
SUN       My Father's Places - Radio 4
SUN       Tea and Biscuits - Radio 4
SUN       Dave Podmore's Ashes - Radio 4
SUN       The Strand - World Service
SUN       Travels Through France and Italy - Radio 4
SUN       Ayres on the Air - Radio 4
SUN       A Problem with Noise - Radio 4
SUN       Written in Stone - Radio 4
SUN       In Tune - Radio 3
SUN       Flesh and Blood - Radio 4
SUN       Bells on Sunday - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00m5w49 (Listen)
SUN       Ian shows his PR skills.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00m5w4c (Listen)
SUN       Kevin Connolly meets a woman who was rejected by Dragon's
SUN       Den but made it big with her invention in America.
SUN       He also hears drag racers' thoughts on the future of the
SUN       American car industry, and discovers the perennial appeal
SUN       of Julia Child, the woman who turned America on to the
SUN       joys of French cooking.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9l (Listen)
SUN       An Audience with Max Wall, Cracks in the Wall
SUN       Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this
SUN       series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the
SUN       Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden.
SUN       Max describes his tempestuous relationship with his mother
SUN       Stella. When war breaks out in 1939, Max becomes a
SUN       wireless operator in the RAF, but continues to entertain.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00m44rq (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford and the team test the reliability of swine flu
SUN       data and speak to one of the creators of the 'financial
SUN       weapons of mass destruction' which, two years ago, led to
SUN       the credit crisis.
SUN       An Open University co-production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00m44rx (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 Face the Facts b00m5w4f (Listen)
SUN       Losing out to Lehman's
SUN       John Waite presents the investigative consumer series.
SUN       When the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in
SUN       September 2008, thousands of UK investors were shocked to
SUN       learn that the financial products they had bought from
SUN       other companies were tied up with the humbled financial
SUN       giant.
SUN       As John Waite discovers, many of those who now stand to
SUN       lose their life savings had never been told their
SUN       investments were backed by Lehman Brothers. Now they want
SUN       their money back, claiming they had no idea that their
SUN       capital could be at risk.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen)
SUN       Blood Pressure Association
SUN       Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure
SUN       Association.
SUN       Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
SUN       your envelope BPA. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your
SUN       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
SUN       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
SUN       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
SUN       postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No:1058944.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00m40wj (Listen)
SUN       Battery Power
SUN       The world may soon need huge supplies of the lightest
SUN       metal, lithium, if plug-in cars really are a future
SUN       replacement for the internal combustion engine. Half the
SUN       world's supplies of lithium are high up in the Andes in
SUN       the landlocked country of Bolivia. Peter Day asks if
SUN       Bolivia really could become what experts are calling 'the
SUN       Saudi Arabia of lithium'.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00m5w4h (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00m5w4k (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       The Public Meeting.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00m44rz (Listen)
SUN       Pedro Almodovar explains why he remade Women On The Verge
SUN       Of A Nervous Breakdown as part of his new film, Broken
SUN       Embraces. The outlandish comedy was Pedro's breakthrough
SUN       hit in the 1980s and the director describes the profound
SUN       effects of turning the clock back 20 years.
SUN       97-year-old cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky looks back
SUN       at a career that took him from mining documentaries to Get
SUN       Carter.
SUN       Mark Gatiss buffs up another neglected gem of British
SUN       cinema.
SUN       Critic Jane Graham struts her stuff on the subject of
SUN       dance in the movies.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00m5qzj (Listen)
SUN       Laugh and the World Laughs With You
SUN       The ability to laugh can help us through the best and
SUN       worst of times. Irma Kurtz reflects on laughter and its
SUN       importance to spiritual wellbeing.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00m5w7j (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00m1nlh (Listen)
MON       Tom Rees has conducted research into religion and personal
MON       insecurity in 50 countries. Using figures on how much
MON       people pray and how unequal income is in each of them, he
MON       claims to have found evidence to show that the most
MON       religious societies are the most unequal, and concludes
MON       the inequality leads to religion. Is it fear and hardship
MON       that makes people of one country more religious than
MON       another, or is there a mysterious third factor that can
MON       explain why some nations pray so much more than others?
MON       Laurie Taylor talks to Tom Rees about his findings, and to
MON       sociologist of religion David Voas.
MON       What are the key factors the underlie acceptance to Oxford
MON       University? New research explores the influence of
MON       cultural factors on the decisions that admissions tutors
MON       make at the elite university. After allowing for exam
MON       results and for cultural knowledge, Alice Sullivan tells
MON       Laurie that men were twice as likely to get a Science
MON       place than women and that some ethnic minorities faced an
MON       even greater disadvantage.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m5qzd (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Andover.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8r (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbt (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5wb9 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00m5x5d (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5xgw (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00m5xgy (Listen)
MON       The Birds and the Bees
MON       Birds of prey are thriving, while 20 per cent of the UK's
MON       bees died in the winter of 2008. The bee parasite Verroa
MON       is one of the reasons for the decline, and Charlotte Smith
MON       reports on ways to tackle it.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00m66k3 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00m5xnx (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00m67vv (Listen)
MON       Jim Chanos
MON       As the first anniversary of the 2008 global financial
MON       meltdown approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert
MON       Peston talks to four key individuals who were in the eye
MON       of the storm. Why did they fail to see the warning signs
MON       of economic catastrophe and what are the long term
MON       consequences?
MON       Hedge fund managers and 'short-sellers': evil market
MON       manipulators who contributed to the financial mess, or
MON       canny soothsayers who predicted what politicians and
MON       bankers wouldn't or couldn't see?
MON       Jim Chanos is a hedge fund pioneer. He made his fortune
MON       spotting and exposing irregularities in companies like
MON       Enron and gambling that their share price would collapse.
MON       He offers an insight in the psychology of short selling
MON       and why it allowed people like him to see what others did
MON       not.
MON       
MON       09:30 The Call b00m67vx (Listen)
MON       The Win
MON       Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made
MON       life-changing phone calls.
MON       Some people cry, some feel sick, some throw a 24-hour
MON       party, and some are millionaires already. Winning the
MON       lottery can be a traumatic event, but what is it like for
MON       the operators on the other end of the line?
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tzf (Listen)
MON       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 1
MON       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
MON       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
MON       Confident that his absent father will one day lead a
MON       revolution, young Said is content to join in the struggle
MON       - until he finds that the rules extend to boycotting
MON       certain foods. The more his mother tells him that it is
MON       shameful to eat grapes because capitalists are not giving
MON       farm workers their rights, the more succulent the
MON       forbidden fruit seems.
MON       Abridged by Francois Smit.
MON       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m62j0 (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Jane talks to author Amanda Craig and the Founder of
MON       Netmums Siobhan Freegard about why boredom in children may
MON       not be such a bad thing, and whether unsupervised play is
MON       actually good for them.
MON       The England Women's Football team are due to play Italy in
MON       their first match of the UEFA European Women's
MON       Championship 2009, being held in Finland. Jane is joined
MON       by England's captain Faye White and goalkeeper Rachel
MON       Brown to discuss the team's chances and how the women's
MON       game has developed in recent years.
MON       In India, there have long been warnings that the country
MON       faces a demographic crisis because of the practice of
MON       aborting female foetuses. It was made illegal in 1994, but
MON       studies since then have consistently shown that far fewer
MON       girls are born in the country than boys. Now, research
MON       endorsed by the local government in Delhi has announced
MON       that in 2008, more girls were born in the city than boys.
MON       The government has attributed the change to a new scheme
MON       whereby parents are given a cash bonus for every female
MON       child. Jane discusses the issues and finds out whether
MON       this new scheme is proving successful.
MON       At the age of 44, and the mother of two young children,
MON       Sarah Gabriel was diagnosed with
MON       breast cancer. She has inherited a genetic mutation from
MON       her mother, who herself died of cancer. Sarah joins Jane
MON       in the studio to talk about her experience of the disease.
MON       From the Women of the Qu'ran series: listener feedback on
MON       the issue of whether men should wear tight or loose
MON       swimming shorts.
MON       
MON       11:00 Love At First Site b00m67vz (Listen)
MON       Sarfraz Manzoor explores the world of matrimonial websites
MON       aimed at the Asian diaspora around the world and the
MON       alternative they present to the traditional arranged
MON       marriage.
MON       Arranged marriages may have traditionally been a part of
MON       Asian culture, but these days who is doing the arranging?
MON       Sarfraz examines the new market for Asian marriage
MON       websites, which allow the users to choose their potential
MON       partners based on such factors as their profession and
MON       height.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Maltby Collection b00m67w1 (Listen)
MON       Series 3, Episode 1
MON       Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum.
MON       Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
MON       Walter Brindle ...... Geofrey Palmer
MON       Prunela Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
MON       Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
MON       Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
MON       Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
MON       Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin
MON       Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
MON       Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo
MON       Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson Wood.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00m64c8 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00m64dp (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00m64f2 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00m67w3 (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from the north of England and the south of
MON       England.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00m5w49 (Listen)
MON       Ian shows his PR skills.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m67w5 (Listen)
MON       Dog Dazed Afternoon
MON       By Ben Crompton.
MON       Liam and Mickey's dog-walking scheme looks set to fail
MON       when, amid stolen cars and local gangsters, they lose
MON       their first client. With their friendship at breaking
MON       point, their only hope is Mickey's skill in kung fu.
MON       Liam ...... Carl Rice
MON       Mickey ...... Graeme Hawley
MON       Alan ...... James Quinn
MON       Sheila ...... Siobhan Finneran
MON       Hayley ...... Sara Sadeghi
MON       Wonky ...... Ryan Pope
MON       Alison ...... Sally Carman
MON       Directed by Nadia Molinari.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00lxsrj (Listen)
MON       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Michael Grade
MON       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
MON       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
MON       re-examination of their lives.
MON       Michael Grade reflects on the soundtrack to his life drawn
MON       through over 30 years of the BBC sound archives.
MON       From his earliest job as a sports writer on the Daily
MON       Mirror to his varied career as controller of BBC One,
MON       chief executive of Channel 4 and now in charge of ITV, his
MON       life has been a very public one. Coming from a
MON       showbusiness family, with an agent for a father and uncles
MON       Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont in theatre and television,
MON       Grade has seen at first hand how the language of variety
MON       and vaudeville can work.
MON       In his six-year career at the Daily Mirror, as 'Mike
MON       Grade', he had a sports column and learned how to work
MON       with the press. His move into TV came in the 1970s, and
MON       from the 1980s he was a major player in BBC television,
MON       becoming controller of BBC One.
MON       He hears the sound archive of his life and ponders what he
MON       has learned and how he has developed, from his earliest
MON       writings to his return to the BBC in 2004 and his
MON       subsequent move to ITV.
MON       
MON       15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m64n9 (Listen)
MON       Arrivals on the Long White Cloud
MON       Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival
MON       of the British on the indigenous Maori people after
MON       Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the
MON       European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches
MON       this new world had to offer.
MON       Dan considers the arrival of both the Maori and Captain
MON       Cook on the land first known as Aotearoa or The Long White
MON       Cloud.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00m5rs1 (Listen)
MON       Chefs' Choices Number 3: Raspberries
MON       Chef and food writer Jeremy Lee indulges his passion for
MON       raspberries by returning to his native Scotland to meet
MON       raspberry growers, pickers, processors and breeders. He
MON       explains how a mysterious combination of soil, rainfall,
MON       temperature and sunshine has produced the 'terroir' that
MON       makes Scotland the perfect place for that particular crop.
MON       In the 1950s, the Raspberry Express train brought
MON       Perthshire 'rasps' every day from Fife to Covent Garden in
MON       London, but since those days the growers have faced
MON       competition from eastern Europe and from Spanish varieties
MON       as well as the ever-present threat of root disease.
MON       How have the growers adapted to changing markets? Jeremy
MON       finds optimism in the air, as demand for home-grown
MON       raspberries continues to grow.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00m67w7 (Listen)
MON       Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world,
MON       teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths
MON       behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00m64xr (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64zh (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00m67w9 (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 5
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at
MON       the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The panellists include Paul
MON       Merton and Sue Perkins.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00m64gk (Listen)
MON       Lynda and Elizabeth take gardening underground.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00m662d (Listen)
MON       With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with director
MON       Judd Apatow about his new film Funny People. Plus critic
MON       and writer John Carey on William Golding.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m662g (Listen)
MON       The Quest, Episode 1
MON       By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir
MON       Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
MON       King Arthur has been mortally wounded, and talks to Merlin
MON       as death approaches.
MON       Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
MON       Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss
MON       Percival ...... Mark Meadows
MON       Morgan Le Fay ...... Jasmine Hyde
MON       Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan
MON       Leodegrance ...... Paul Mundell
MON       Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain
MON       Lot ...... David Collins
MON       Directed by Tim Dee.
MON       
MON       20:00 It's My Story b00m68c0 (Listen)
MON       Accepting Jack - Six Years On...
MON       In 2003, Kim Normanton spoke to a set of parents coming to
MON       terms with having a child with special needs. She revisits
MON       them to see how their stories have developed.
MON       In the original programme Kevin, father to Jack who has
MON       Down's Syndrome, felt unable to celebrate his son's birth.
MON       Now Kevin is a secondary school teacher and talks
MON       regularly to his students about his son. Jack, now eight,
MON       has two siblings and several good friends in his
MON       mainstream school.
MON       In the original programme Jo, mother to Briony who was
MON       born with learning difficulties and is partially deaf,
MON       couldn't bring herself to even hold her daughter, fearing
MON       that she wouldn't be able to bear the pain of losing her.
MON       Brionny is now a healthy 15-year-old and a day pupil at a
MON       school for deaf children. She has a close relationship
MON       with her mother, who works for Mencap and champions the
MON       cause of families with children with special needs.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00m36bj (Listen)
MON       Afghanistan
MON       Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, many fear it is
MON       unwinnable. In response, the US-led international force
MON       has decided to adopt a counter-insurgency strategy,
MON       abandoning 40 years of military doctrine. It emphasises
MON       security and development for the civilian population
MON       rather than simply battling the Taliban.
MON       Lyse Doucet investigates if the US army can embrace a
MON       radical new strategy and if it will be successful.
MON       
MON       21:00 Who Knows What the Dogs Nose Knows? b00h6xlk (Listen)
MON       Sue Broom investigates the world of the sniffer dog. She
MON       visits Bas Wood and his golden labrador Hattie, one of 16
MON       Fire Investigation Dog Units operating in the UK. Hattie
MON       can find a drop of petrol in a burnt-out house, making the
MON       investigation of possible cases of arson rapid and
MON       relatively indisputable. She finds out if any dog can be
MON       trained as a detection dog, or whether it takes a special
MON       breed or individual to make the grade.
MON       
MON       21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00m67vv (Listen)
MON       Jim Chanos
MON       As the first anniversary of the 2008 global financial
MON       meltdown approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert
MON       Peston talks to four key individuals who were in the eye
MON       of the storm. Why did they fail to see the warning signs
MON       of economic catastrophe and what are the long term
MON       consequences?
MON       Hedge fund managers and 'short-sellers': evil market
MON       manipulators who contributed to the financial mess, or
MON       canny soothsayers who predicted what politicians and
MON       bankers wouldn't or couldn't see?
MON       Jim Chanos is a hedge fund pioneer. He made his fortune
MON       spotting and exposing irregularities in companies like
MON       Enron and gambling that their share price would collapse.
MON       He offers an insight in the psychology of short selling
MON       and why it allowed people like him to see what others did
MON       not.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00m66dv (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00m66fk (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g30 (Listen)
MON       A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 1
MON       Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte
MON       to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
MON       The difficulties of hiring the perfect coach and four,
MON       especially when you are distracted by a beautiful
MON       unaccompanied woman.
MON       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00m17ql (Listen)
MON       The Plain English Campaign is 30 years old this summer,
MON       but are they champions of common sense and clarity, or a
MON       self-appointed censor? Chris Ledgard talks to their
MON       founder and gets some lessons in language.
MON       
MON       23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fgpt5 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Stars, Stripes and Chalfont St Giles
MON       Documentary series telling original stories about real
MON       lives in Britain today.
MON       Alan Dein meets members of the Chiltern American Women's
MON       Club, a 200-member club which caters for expat women whose
MON       husbands have been seconded to work in the UK. The club
MON       ensures that there is something to do almost every day of
MON       the week, from newcomers' coffees with advice on how to
MON       drive around roundabouts and use UK washing machines, to
MON       organised hikes in the local countryside and volunteering
MON       for the annual charity bazaar. Alan follows the lives of
MON       the club's president, Louise Fortier, and some of the
MON       newcomers who have yet to fully settle into their
MON       temporary life in the UK.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00m5w65 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tzf (Listen)
TUE       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 1
TUE       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
TUE       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
TUE       Confident that his absent father will one day lead a
TUE       revolution, young Said is content to join in the struggle
TUE       - until he finds that the rules extend to boycotting
TUE       certain foods. The more his mother tells him that it is
TUE       shameful to eat grapes because capitalists are not giving
TUE       farm workers their rights, the more succulent the
TUE       forbidden fruit seems.
TUE       Abridged by Francois Smit.
TUE       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7l (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbc (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8t (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00m5x47 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5g (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh1 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00m5xj2 (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 Fry's English Delight b00m68s5 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Hallo!
TUE       Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the
TUE       English language.
TUE       Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about
TUE       'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's
TUE       favourite words.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m68s7 (Listen)
TUE       Has Anybody Seen a Copy of Et Tu Healy?
TUE       Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick
TUE       Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very
TUE       different missing works of art.
TUE       Written by James Joyce in 1891 when he was just nine years
TUE       old as a protest at the death of the Irish nationalist
TUE       leader Charles Parnell, the poem Et Tu Healy was printed
TUE       by his proud father and distributed to friends and family;
TUE       even the Pope was sent a copy.
TUE       But it was never published, and, apart from three lines,
TUE       no copy of it has ever been found. Rick Gekoski asks where
TUE       might one be, and, if one were to be found, how much it
TUE       might be worth.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpq (Listen)
TUE       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 2
TUE       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
TUE       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
TUE       Said, now aged ten, and his mother move from Brooklyn to
TUE       Pittsburgh and into a squalid apartment. While she attends
TUE       Socialist Workers Party meetings, a lonely Said faces the
TUE       terrors of strange noises and eerie shadows which only the
TUE       TV can keep at bay. So when his mother hides the cord to
TUE       the TV set, he is bereft.
TUE       Abridged by Francois Smit.
TUE       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnm (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Quest.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00m68s9 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Restoring Heathlands
TUE       Brett Westwood investigates the potential for restoring
TUE       large areas of heathland that could be unlocked by the
TUE       thinning of Forestry Commission woodlands.
TUE       Made famous by Thomas Hardy and purple with heather in
TUE       late summer, lowland heaths are some of the UK's rarest
TUE       habitats and are home to some of our most specialised
TUE       wildlife including sand lizards, insectivorous plants and
TUE       the strange nightjar. They have steadily declined over the
TUE       last century, but a new open habitats consultation could
TUE       spell the restoration of large tracts of heathland from
TUE       Forestry Commission woodland.
TUE       Brett talks to foresters and conservationists about the
TUE       possibilities that opening up our woods present for people
TUE       and for wildlife.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 With Great Pleasure b00m69jw (Listen)
TUE       Clive Stafford Smith
TUE       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
TUE       Lawyer and human rights activist Clive Stafford Smith
TUE       chooses a selection of the writing which has inspired,
TUE       amused or uplifted him.
TUE       In 1999 Clive founded the pressure group Reprieve, which
TUE       fights for the human rights of prisoners.
TUE       Clive's readers for the programme, which was recorded in
TUE       front of an audience in Dorset, are Pippa Haywood and
TUE       Peter Marinker.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00m62ys (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00m64cb (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00m64dr (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen)
TUE       Pianist and broadcaster Simon Townley samples the many
TUE       different ways in which trains and railways have inspired
TUE       composers and songwriters and what it is about this
TUE       particular form of travel that makes it so inspiring.
TUE       They may be a shadow of their former infrastructural
TUE       selves, but railways still hold a curiously affectionate
TUE       place in our national life. Nowhere is this more true than
TUE       in the world of music, where chuffing, whistling, steaming
TUE       and clackety-clacking have been the inspiration for
TUE       hundreds of songs. Simon has never described himself as a
TUE       railway enthusiast, but he has always had an ear for the
TUE       things that inspire composers and songwriters.
TUE       He explores the rhythms, themes and metaphorical uses of
TUE       the train in music, from Honneger's Pacific 231 to
TUE       American blues tracks such as Love in Vain and Freight
TUE       Train Blues.
TUE       Country and western star Laura Cantrell, music professor
TUE       Alan Moore and composer Richard Rodney Bennett contribute
TUE       their thoughts on this mass transit system which has
TUE       provided such a rich seam of inspiration over the last 200
TUE       years.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00m64gk (Listen)
TUE       Lynda and Elizabeth take gardening underground.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m69wv (Listen)
TUE       The Incomplete Works of Dave McCabe
TUE       Romantic comedy, with music, by Nick Underwood.
TUE       Singer-songwriter Dave is given the opportunity to meet
TUE       his muse and woo her with a song. But he has a problem: he
TUE       cannot get past the opening lines.
TUE       Dave ...... Simon Donaldson
TUE       Mike ...... Sandy Grierson
TUE       Malena ...... Claire Knight
TUE       Lola ...... Lorraine M McIntosh
TUE       Queenie ...... Ann Scott-Jones
TUE       Frank ...... Finlay Welsh
TUE       Directed by Kirsty Williams.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00m69wx (Listen)
TUE       Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions
TUE       about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it,
TUE       from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental
TUE       science.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m69wz (Listen)
TUE       Comic Fringes, May Contain Nuts
TUE       Series of short stories written and performed by leading
TUE       new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as
TUE       part of the Festival Fringe.
TUE       A woman glimpses her own mortality when she calculates
TUE       that only 27 years separate her from her cantankerous
TUE       father.
TUE       By Janey Godley.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84p6 (Listen)
TUE       Better Relations with the Natives
TUE       Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival
TUE       of the British on the indigenous Maori people after
TUE       Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the
TUE       European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches
TUE       this new world had to offer.
TUE       Dan is ferried out to sea, to a cove where Cook
TUE       encountered friendly and inquisitive Maori, and both sides
TUE       learned from each other.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 A Small Business b00m6b04 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners
TUE       of the small businesses which keep our economy running.
TUE       Starting up in a recession.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00m6c3y (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Freya Stark
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses the life of another
TUE       fearless woman traveller, Freya Stark. Stark roamed across
TUE       Arabia and Persia, frequently risking her life, and during
TUE       the Second World War set up a pro-British intelligence
TUE       network in Cairo. She was brave but also infuriating, and
TUE       was liable to make impossible demands on her friends, such
TUE       as John Murray, who joins the discussion.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00m64t9 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64xt (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00m6bhh (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, Episode 1
TUE       Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert
TUE       Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland.
TUE       Featuring an orthopaedic supplies company with its very
TUE       own trans-galactic portal, the secret of how Saturday
TUE       night TV shows are invented and a mysterious discovery at
TUE       the Institute of Creatures. Plus some old ladies with
TUE       something very important to say.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00m64g3 (Listen)
TUE       The honeymooners sail into Ambridge.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00m657v (Listen)
TUE       With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Pedro Almodovar's
TUE       new film Broken Embraces with Penelope Cruz.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gft (Listen)
TUE       The Quest, Episode 2
TUE       By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir
TUE       Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
TUE       King Arthur has fallen for the wrong girl; there will be
TUE       trouble ahead.
TUE       Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
TUE       Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss
TUE       Morgan Le Fay/Agravain ...... Jasmine Hyde
TUE       Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan
TUE       Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain
TUE       Galahad ...... Paul Mundell
TUE       Directed by Tim Dee.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 Says Who? The Rise of the Community Leader b00m6c40 (Listen)
TUE       Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah investigates the
TUE       changing role of the community leader. The media turns to
TUE       them to respond to the latest crisis and they are happy to
TUE       oblige, but on whose authority do community leaders speak?
TUE       Kwame visits Birmingham to meet leaders from the Muslim
TUE       and Afro-Caribbean communities. He discovers how these
TUE       individuals are selected to voice the concerns of others,
TUE       finds out how their agendas have responded to our
TUE       increasingly diverse society and questions whether the
TUE       idea of 'community' is still realistic in a world of
TUE       multiplying lifestyles and opinions.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00m6c42 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00m6c44 (Listen)
TUE       IVF
TUE       Dr Mark Porter visits a fertility clinic to learn about
TUE       the latest developments in the field of
TUE       in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF), and clarifies what the NHS
TUE       now offers, and to whom.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Forbidden Families b00d0sj8 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Bettany Hughes tells the stories of remarkable women
TUE       denied their families by the march of history.
TUE       Brilliana Harley was an aristocrat whose husband's
TUE       Parliamentarian sympathies led to her being besieged in
TUE       her own castle home on the Shropshire borders during the
TUE       English Civil War. She died emaciated and ill, but wrote
TUE       375 letters, smuggled out in vegetable boxes, describing
TUE       her hopes, her frustrations and her faith in her absent
TUE       husband and son. Throughout her ordeal, her faith in the
TUE       power of love and the delight of having a family never
TUE       wavered.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00m6675 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00m66dx (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g32 (Listen)
TUE       A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 2
TUE       Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte
TUE       to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
TUE       Yorick encounters Smelfungus and is pressed to hire a
TUE       French manservant while meeting a man mourning for the
TUE       death of his donkey.
TUE       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00bzdgj (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 5
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Guests are Sue Perkins, Rev Richard
TUE       Coles and Simon Evans.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 The Hollow Men b008crlg (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 4
TUE       Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand,
TUE       Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy
TUE       Brand.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00m5w67 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tpq (Listen)
WED       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 2
WED       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
WED       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
WED       Said, now aged ten, and his mother move from Brooklyn to
WED       Pittsburgh and into a squalid apartment. While she attends
WED       Socialist Workers Party meetings, a lonely Said faces the
WED       terrors of strange noises and eerie shadows which only the
WED       TV can keep at bay. So when his mother hides the cord to
WED       the TV set, he is bereft.
WED       Abridged by Francois Smit.
WED       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7n (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbf (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8w (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00m5x49 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5j (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh3 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00m5xj4 (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Between Ourselves b00m6dfq (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 4
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two barristers, prosecutor Nicholas
WED       Hilliard and defence lawayer Dexter Dias, about whether
WED       justice can be bought by getting a good barrister, if
WED       their reputation for arrogance is deserved and the cases
WED       that still haunt them.
WED       
WED       09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
WED       b00m6f4k (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's
WED       Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform
WED       itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing'
WED       modern museum.
WED       Rosie finds out how an exhibition is put together, from
WED       concept to reality.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tps (Listen)
WED       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 3
WED       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
WED       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
WED       Said has a treasured photo of his father giving a speech,
WED       which hangs above his bed. It is blurred and eventually
WED       Said conflates his father's image with that of another
WED       hero his mother tells him about: Che Guevara. One night
WED       his mother receives a rare phone call from her estranged
WED       husband and is so distraught that she takes the phone off
WED       its hook every night. Just as Said feels that his father
WED       has abandoned them, he receives a letter from him. Oddly,
WED       his dad congratulates him for selling a record number of
WED       Militants at a demonstration but Said, at ten, is too
WED       young to have been given such a task, although now he
WED       badly wants to make money for the revolution.
WED       Abridged by Francois Smit.
WED       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnp (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest.
WED       
WED       11:00 Rebooting RBS b00mbvy1 (Listen)
WED       After the catastrophic collapse of the Royal Bank of
WED       Scotland, Douglas Fraser goes inside the bank that came to
WED       symbolise the worst of the financial crisis to discover
WED       if, and how, the new management are turning the brand, and
WED       the bank, around.
WED       
WED       11:30 Ayres on the Air b00m6f4m (Listen)
WED       Series 3, In the Doghouse
WED       Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry,
WED       anecdotes and sketches.
WED       Poems include Toaster, about Pam's son's dog and its
WED       phobia, I'm the Dog Who Didn't Win a Prize, written by Pam
WED       after she was asked to be a judge at a competition, and
WED       Tippy Tappy Feet, about the things you miss when your best
WED       friend goes to the great kennel in the sky.
WED       Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and
WED       Felicity Montagu for sketches about what dogs talk to each
WED       other about and how a new puppy can cause more excitement
WED       in some families than a new baby.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00m62yv (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00m64cd (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00m64dt (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00m6f4p (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00m64g3 (Listen)
WED       The honeymooners sail into Ambridge.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m6gg7 (Listen)
WED       My Lovely Man
WED       Comedy by Paul Watson about the world of the 'blue blood'
WED       debutantes, set in 1958.
WED       Jemima Courtney's parents advise her in her bid to secure
WED       a match with Claude, son of the ageing Viscount Tudely.
WED       Unfortunately, however, there are many others in the
WED       cattle market who are competing for a noble but crumbling
WED       pile garlanded with the title Viscountess, the Lady Tudely.
WED       Jemima ...... Honeysuckle Weeks
WED       Claude ...... Bertie Carvel
WED       Viscount Tudely ...... David Collings
WED       Viviane Courtney ...... Jemma Redgrave
WED       Coral ...... Sarah Kants
WED       Sarah Jane ...... Lydia Leonard
WED       Sally/Victoria ...... Amanda Ryan
WED       Margaret Pownall ...... Sarah Badel
WED       Madame Vacani/Boues ...... Rachel Atkins
WED       Plant/Butler ...... Keith Drinkel
WED       Stanley ...... Daniel Weyman
WED       Daddy/General ...... Guy Henry
WED       Henry ...... Samuel Yeomans
WED       Directed by Paul Watson.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box b00m5360 (Listen)
WED       Coping with the Recession, Episode 2
WED       Penny Haslam examines how we are coping with the
WED       recession. The economic crisis is not just about money and
WED       paying bills; it is also about dealing with the
WED       psychological pressures of the downturn. Penny
WED       investigates whether we focus too much on the negatives
WED       when many people will end up better off.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m8qc4 (Listen)
WED       Comic Fringes, The Hair of The Dead
WED       Series of short stories written and performed by leading
WED       new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as
WED       part of the Festival Fringe.
WED       By Sarah Millican. Kitty does the hair of the dead. Just
WED       the front.
WED       
WED       15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84nt (Listen)
WED       Wars, Treaties and Missionaries
WED       Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival
WED       of the British on the indigenous Maori people after
WED       Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the
WED       European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches
WED       this new world had to offer.
WED       Dan takes on the complex task of explaining the
WED       Inter-Tribal and Land Wars that almost decimated the Maori
WED       and ended in a confusing treaty that was misinterpreted
WED       and misunderstood. He visits an ancient Pa site, a Mission
WED       House and also does some fish spotting.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00m6gg9 (Listen)
WED       In a special edition of the programme, Laurie Taylor
WED       discusses the life and work of leading cultural
WED       commentator Richard Hoggart, asking why his time is coming
WED       again.
WED       Hoggart's evidence in the Lady Chatterley trial changed
WED       censorship for ever, his influence on the Pilkington
WED       Committee established the norms of public service
WED       broadcasting still in operation today and his academic
WED       work led to the invention of cultural studies in the UK.
WED       He is considered a titan of contemporary culture and his
WED       famous book The Uses of Literacy combined sociology with
WED       literature and biography, going on to have a huge
WED       influence on the way popular culture was viewed. That
WED       influence has been on the wane in recent decades but now a
WED       new edition of Hoggart's book is about to be published, a
WED       biography is being written and a recent conference was
WED       dedicated to his work.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00m6c44 (Listen)
WED       IVF
WED       Dr Mark Porter visits a fertility clinic to learn about
WED       the latest developments in the field of
WED       in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF), and clarifies what the NHS
WED       now offers, and to whom.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00m64tc (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
WED       Mair. Plus Weather.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64xw (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00m6ggc (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Sketch show show for anyone who is beginning to find this
WED       exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish
WED       previous centuries.
WED       With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and
WED       Katherine Parkinson.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00m64g5 (Listen)
WED       David puts Eddie out to grass.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00m657x (Listen)
WED       With Mark Lawson. Including interviews with American
WED       novelist Nicholson Baker and Lee Hall, the playwright
WED       behind Billy Eliot.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gfw (Listen)
WED       The Quest, Episode 3
WED       By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir
WED       Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
WED       Mordred, the result of King Arthur's ill-judged frolic
WED       with his half sister, comes to call.
WED       Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
WED       Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss
WED       Percival ...... Mark Meadows
WED       Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan
WED       Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain
WED       Galahad ...... Paul Mundell
WED       Mordred ...... Samuel Barnett
WED       Baron the First ...... David Collins
WED       Directed by Tim Dee.
WED       
WED       20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m6ggf (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to
WED       apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people
WED       they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion.
WED       Public debates between those who believe in God and those
WED       who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever,
WED       often obscuring central human questions about how we
WED       should live and how modern ethics should work.
WED       Here, Professor AC Grayling and Lord Harries of
WED       Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, visit a faith
WED       school and then meet the organiser of an atheist summer
WED       camp to explore where we get our values from and whether
WED       you need God to be Good.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Public Meeting b00mbhyk (Listen)
WED       Sparsely attended, frequently heckled, the public
WED       political meeting fell out of favour in the television
WED       age. John Beesley investigates the contribution of public
WED       meetings to our democracy, and asks whether they are due a
WED       resurgence.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00m68s9 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Restoring Heathlands
WED       Brett Westwood investigates the potential for restoring
WED       large areas of heathland that could be unlocked by the
WED       thinning of Forestry Commission woodlands.
WED       Made famous by Thomas Hardy and purple with heather in
WED       late summer, lowland heaths are some of the UK's rarest
WED       habitats and are home to some of our most specialised
WED       wildlife including sand lizards, insectivorous plants and
WED       the strange nightjar. They have steadily declined over the
WED       last century, but a new open habitats consultation could
WED       spell the restoration of large tracts of heathland from
WED       Forestry Commission woodland.
WED       Brett talks to foresters and conservationists about the
WED       possibilities that opening up our woods present for people
WED       and for wildlife.
WED       
WED       21:30 Between Ourselves b00m6dfq (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 4
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two barristers, prosecutor Nicholas
WED       Hilliard and defence lawayer Dexter Dias, about whether
WED       justice can be bought by getting a good barrister, if
WED       their reputation for arrogance is deserved and the cases
WED       that still haunt them.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00m6678 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00m66dz (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g34 (Listen)
WED       A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 3
WED       Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte
WED       to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
WED       Upon stepping into a glove seller's to ask directions,
WED       Yorick is so enchanted by the glove seller that he feels
WED       compelled to buy several pairs, whether they fit him or
WED       not.
WED       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Cowards b00776sr (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 1
WED       Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key
WED       and Lloyd Woolf.
WED       
WED       23:30 Kicking the Habit b007wjxh (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Old Spots Before the Eyes
WED       Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite
WED       monastery where the brown habit is no protection against
WED       the problems and temptations of the modern world.
WED       Unholy writ states that, 'Pig movements must be
WED       accompanied by a completed AML2 document. The movement
WED       must be reported by the recipient of the animals to their
WED       Local Authority within three days of the movement taking
WED       place using the appropriate AML form.' And that applies as
WED       much to Carmelite friars as to anyone else.
WED       Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina
WED       Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice
WED       Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis
WED       Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson
WED       Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres
WED       Pilgrims and Friars ...... Kenneth Danziger, Alan
WED       Shearman, Tracy Pattin, and Moira Quirk.
WED       Directed by Pete Atkin
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00m5w69 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tps (Listen)
THU       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 3
THU       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
THU       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
THU       Said has a treasured photo of his father giving a speech,
THU       which hangs above his bed. It is blurred and eventually
THU       Said conflates his father's image with that of another
THU       hero his mother tells him about: Che Guevara. One night
THU       his mother receives a rare phone call from her estranged
THU       husband and is so distraught that she takes the phone off
THU       its hook every night. Just as Said feels that his father
THU       has abandoned them, he receives a letter from him. Oddly,
THU       his dad congratulates him for selling a record number of
THU       Militants at a demonstration but Said, at ten, is too
THU       young to have been given such a task, although now he
THU       badly wants to make money for the revolution.
THU       Abridged by Francois Smit.
THU       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7q (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbh (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8y (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00m5x4c (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5l (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh5 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00m5xj6 (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m6zpk (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter meets British fashion designer Betty Jackson.
THU       Although it is often reported in the press that she lost
THU       one of her legs in a car accident when she was 21, she
THU       actually had her leg amputated when she was just six years
THU       old. She describes how difficult it must have been for her
THU       parents to make the decision to have her leg removed and
THU       why she is thankful they took that decision.
THU       Betty led an active and normal life with her artificial
THU       leg, but when she had a serious car accident aged 21, she
THU       then developed walking difficulties and medical
THU       complications which left her unable to have children.
THU       For Betty, having only one leg is irrelevant to how she
THU       does her job and to her success. She does confess, though,
THU       that rather than being a role model for disabled people
THU       coming into the fashion world, she counsels caution: it is
THU       fine for them to become pattern cutters or designers, but
THU       the catwalk is not the place they should aspire to.
THU       
THU       09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00m6zpm (Listen)
THU       Changing Perceptions
THU       Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have
THU       been shaped by the media.
THU       Kenan considers how our perceptions of Muslims have
THU       changed over the years. What has been the effect of events
THU       such as 9/11 and their coverage by the media?
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpv (Listen)
THU       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 4
THU       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
THU       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
THU       It is the time of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Said
THU       is bullied at school because he says that the American
THU       diplomats were spies. Out of the blue, his mother leaves
THU       the Socialist Workers Party and devotes herself to writing
THU       magazine stories, which are all rejected. One night Said
THU       discovers that she has taken all her medication but he is
THU       able to get her to a doctor, even as she repeatedly tells
THU       him she does not want to live.
THU       Abridged by Francois Smit.
THU       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnr (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00lyrb4 (Listen)
THU       Bihar
THU       David Goldblatt reports from a small town in the Indian
THU       state of Bihar that has turned into something of an
THU       academic hothouse. More than 50 students from the poor
THU       weaving community of Patwatoli have gained entry to the
THU       IITs, India's scientific equivalent of Oxbridge, in the
THU       last ten years. It is the week before the annual entrance
THU       exam, and the tension among the students is mounting.
THU       
THU       11:30 When Harry Met Sally At 20 b00m6zpr (Listen)
THU       Film critic Sarah Churchwell celebrates the classic
THU       romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally on its 20th
THU       anniversary. The film famously asked whether a man and a
THU       woman can really be friends. Sarah looks back at its
THU       iconic scenes which saw Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal spar
THU       and flirt over issues of gender politics, and considers
THU       how things have changed over the past two decades.
THU       Featuring contributions from the film's writer Nora
THU       Ephron, producer and fan of the film Dan Mazer, agony aunt
THU       Irma Kurtz, novelist Ava Rice and historian of the
THU       romantic comedy Frank Krutnik of Sussex University.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00m62yx (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. Including
THU       Face the Facts, presented by John Waite.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00m64cg (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00m64dw (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Questions, Questions b00m6zpt (Listen)
THU       Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from
THU       everyday life.
THU       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00m64g5 (Listen)
THU       David puts Eddie out to grass.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m721l (Listen)
THU       A Pattern in Shrouds
THU       By Christopher Lee. On August 27th 1979, two linked
THU       terrorist attacks by the IRA assassinated Earl Mountbatten
THU       and killed 18 British soldiers. Two days later, and in
THU       utmost secrecy, three Whitehall grandees discuss how the
THU       tragedy is likely to resonate down the years.
THU       Sir Richard Coke ...... Ian Ogilvy
THU       George Lothbury ...... Jared Harris
THU       Henry ...... Alfred Molina
THU       Other parts played by Kenneth Danziger, Matthew Wolf and
THU       Shay Duffin.
THU       Directed by Martin Jarvis
THU       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00m52sw (Listen)
THU       Cumbrian Power
THU       One of the proposed sites for the new generation of
THU       nuclear power stations is farmland near the villages of
THU       Kirksanton and Silecroft on the Cumbrian coast. Helen Mark
THU       finds people there fighting the plans, but also some who
THU       support the idea.
THU       Kirksanton lies south of Sellafield, and many in this
THU       rural community, which nestles between the most southerly
THU       fells of White Combe and Black Combe, were shocked to hear
THU       of the plans. Many villagers believe that the development
THU       would destroy the tranquility and beauty of the area they
THU       love. Others welcome the plans and the opportunity they
THU       may bring to reinvent the Millom area as a centre for
THU       excellence in the nuclear industry, providing jobs,
THU       improving infrastrucure and ensuring young people have a
THU       future in the area.
THU       Helen considers what would be gained and what would be
THU       lost.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen)
THU       Blood Pressure Association
THU       Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure
THU       Association.
THU       Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent
THU       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
THU       your envelope BPA. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
THU       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your
THU       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
THU       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
THU       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
THU       postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No:1058944.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m8qbt (Listen)
THU       Comic Fringes, Gone Phishing
THU       Series of short stories written and performed by leading
THU       new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as
THU       part of the Festival Fringe.
THU       By Jon Richardson. A tale of love and betrayal set in a
THU       remote village in the Yorkshire Dales.
THU       
THU       15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84nw (Listen)
THU       The Whale Rider, The Meeting House and the Haka
THU       Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival
THU       of the British on the indigenous Maori people after
THU       Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the
THU       European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches
THU       this new world had to offer.
THU       Dan visits a traditional Maori Meeting House and the
THU       village where Pikea, the legendary Whale Rider, was said
THU       to have come ashore. He also watches a modern-day Haka,
THU       warning young men to take responsibility for children they
THU       have fathered and neglected.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00m5t0p (Listen)
THU       Muriel Gray talks to novelist Iain Banks, whose latest
THU       book, Transition, brings together science fiction and the
THU       contemporary concerns of terrorism and global financial
THU       collapse. Plus biographer Paula Byrne discussing the
THU       eccentric family who inspired Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead
THU       Revisited.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00m721n (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper hears about the English astronomer who
THU       spotted an extraordinary solar eruption that in September
THU       1859 created the most brilliant and extensive auroras ever
THU       witnessed on Earth, and which put out of action the
THU       newly-built telegraph networks. The impact of such a storm
THU       on today's telecommunications infrastructure could be huge.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00m64tf (Listen)
THU       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
THU       Mair. Plus Weather.
THU       
THU       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64xy (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 4 At the Fringe b00m721q (Listen)
THU       Micky Flanagan introduces comedy and music from the
THU       Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Pleasance
THU       Theatre and featuring Russell Kane, Rich Hall, Fred
THU       MacAulay and Ali McGregor.
THU       Each year the Edinburgh Fringe hosts some of the best
THU       comedians from Britain and around the world, and in 2009
THU       there are over 750 comedy productions being staged.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00m64g7 (Listen)
THU       Alan and Usha camp it up with the neighbours.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00m657z (Listen)
THU       With Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with Scottish
THU       actor Alan Cumming as he starts a stand-up tour.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gfy (Listen)
THU       The Quest, Episode 4
THU       By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir
THU       Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
THU       Merlin worries he is losing his mind. Star Trek might be
THU       to blame.
THU       Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
THU       Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss
THU       Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain
THU       Galahad ...... Paul Mundell
THU       Teenager ...... Samuel Barnett
THU       Sir Kay ...... David Collins
THU       Welsh King ...... Mark Meadows
THU       Directed by Tim Dee.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00m721s (Listen)
THU       Babies are big business: more than 35,000 women undergo
THU       fertility treatment in the UK each year. With many couples
THU       facing a postcode lottery for free IVF treatment on the
THU       NHS, some have turned to an illegal market in fertility
THU       drugs to make the process affordable. Nadene Ghouri
THU       investigates the trade and examines claims that it could
THU       lead to women taking big risks with their health.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00m721v (Listen)
THU       Squeaky Clean
THU       WD40 is one of those rare products that users deeply
THU       identify with. In San Diego, Peter Day investigates the
THU       company's secret formula and finds out how to run an
THU       international business by using the promise of the
THU       original brand to navigate into the future.
THU       
THU       21:00 The Great Climate Change Hijack b00m721x (Listen)
THU       The BBC's environment correspondent Richard Black
THU       investigates if climate change is diverting attention away
THU       from other environmental problems such as air pollution,
THU       acid oceans and species extinction.
THU       Talk about climate change is everywhere, from the
THU       classroom to the UN. It is undoubtedly an important issue,
THU       but has our enthusiasm for tackling climate change led us
THU       to neglect other pressing and arguably more immediate
THU       environmental concerns, such as poor air quality in our
THU       major cities? Why has climate change attracted so much
THU       political attention and the loss of plant and animal
THU       species so little?
THU       Far from being an 'inconvenient truth', could the climate
THU       change debate actually be rather politically covenient?
THU       
THU       21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m6zpk (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter meets British fashion designer Betty Jackson.
THU       Although it is often reported in the press that she lost
THU       one of her legs in a car accident when she was 21, she
THU       actually had her leg amputated when she was just six years
THU       old. She describes how difficult it must have been for her
THU       parents to make the decision to have her leg removed and
THU       why she is thankful they took that decision.
THU       Betty led an active and normal life with her artificial
THU       leg, but when she had a serious car accident aged 21, she
THU       then developed walking difficulties and medical
THU       complications which left her unable to have children.
THU       For Betty, having only one leg is irrelevant to how she
THU       does her job and to her success. She does confess, though,
THU       that rather than being a role model for disabled people
THU       coming into the fashion world, she counsels caution: it is
THU       fine for them to become pattern cutters or designers, but
THU       the catwalk is not the place they should aspire to.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00m667b (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00m66f1 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g36 (Listen)
THU       A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 4
THU       Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte
THU       to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
THU       After checking into a hotel, Yorick is struck by the
THU       prettiness of his chambermaid; although nothing would
THU       induce him to consider anything improper. Moments later,
THU       however, he is given an advanced lesson in the art of
THU       begging.
THU       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dkzls (Listen)
THU       Series 1, Paul Daniels
THU       Marcus Brigstocke invites Paul Daniels to try new
THU       experiences.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b007lz6n (Listen)
THU       Series 3, The Internet Date from Hell
THU       Journalist Jon Ronson investigates the extraordinary story
THU       of Mary Turner Thompson, who experienced the worst
THU       internet date ever which lasted seven years and was to
THU       cause the total devastation of her life.
THU       Edinburgh-based Mary met and married a man who told her he
THU       was a CIA agent. Jon visits her in Scotland and hears the
THU       incredible twisting and turning love story of Will and
THU       Mary. Will carried a gun and had to dash off to Israel at
THU       a moment's notice; Mary was left holding the baby, never
THU       knowing when he would come back, and was unable to contact
THU       him. She even feared a terrorist attack on her home. But
THU       the most bizarre twist was still to come.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00m5w6c (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tpv (Listen)
FRI       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 4
FRI       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
FRI       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
FRI       It is the time of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Said
FRI       is bullied at school because he says that the American
FRI       diplomats were spies. Out of the blue, his mother leaves
FRI       the Socialist Workers Party and devotes herself to writing
FRI       magazine stories, which are all rejected. One night Said
FRI       discovers that she has taken all her medication but he is
FRI       able to get her to a doctor, even as she repeatedly tells
FRI       him she does not want to live.
FRI       Abridged by Francois Smit.
FRI       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7s (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbk (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w90 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00m5x4f (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5n (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh7 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00m5xj8 (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 The Reunion b00m5rrz (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
FRI       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
FRI       history.
FRI       Sue reunites some of those involved in the great cricket
FRI       split caused by the launch of World Series Cricket by
FRI       Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer in 1977. She is
FRI       joined by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd,
FRI       Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson, Tony Greig, who was
FRI       England captain at the time, Mike Denness, team manager
FRI       for Packer's World Series, and the commentator and writer
FRI       Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who reported the story as it
FRI       broke
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpx (Listen)
FRI       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 5
FRI       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
FRI       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
FRI       Now grown up, Said takes a job in the corporate offices of
FRI       the lifestyle expert Martha Stewart. He loves buying
FRI       designer accoutrements for his tiny apartment and falls in
FRI       love with a co-worker, Karen. His mother comes to visit
FRI       and asks if he has heard from his father. He has not, but
FRI       he reminisces about the last time they met. He was 17 and
FRI       it was a very uncomfortable meal. He hugs his now frail
FRI       mom and rides away on the subway with Karen.
FRI       Abridged by Francois Smit.
FRI       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnt (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 It's My Story b00lb2cq (Listen)
FRI       The 99
FRI       DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa,
FRI       the psychologist and businessman who has created the first
FRI       collection of Muslim comic book superheroes - The 99 -
FRI       that are sweeping the Arab world, and arriving soon in
FRI       Europe. Based on the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran,
FRI       the cartoons are not without controversy. Bobby visits
FRI       Naif in Kuwait on the eve of the opening of The 99's first
FRI       theme park, and tells the story of his quest to become
FRI       known as 'the Walt Disney of the Arabic world'.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00j67mn (Listen)
FRI       Harry Hindle-Rand
FRI       By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the
FRI       highly-respected, now retired, English master of
FRI       Haunchurst School for boys. He looks back on his favourite
FRI       pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on
FRI       their school reports and their letters to him after they
FRI       left.
FRI       Harry Hindle-Rand, an apparently saintly pupil and school
FRI       chorister, secretly encourages one of the masters'
FRI       weakness for altar wine in exchange for answers to end of
FRI       term exams. While the boy may be a heavenly singer,
FRI       Pickerskill uncovers Hindle Rand's darker motives and
FRI       predicts correctly that he will become successful as an
FRI       adult. Just not in the way he might have expected.
FRI       Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid
FRI       Harry Hindle Rand ...... Thamas Sangster
FRI       Lefty Rogers ...... Tony Gardener
FRI       The Chaplain ...... Mike Feast
FRI       The Colonel ...... Richard Johnson
FRI       Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ...... Philip Madoc
FRI       Collyer ...... Tom Kane
FRI       Stealgroynes ...... Louis Williams
FRI       Directed by Andrew McGibbon
FRI       A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00m62yz (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00m64cj (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00m64dy (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00m74g6 (Listen)
FRI       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
FRI       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
FRI       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00m64g7 (Listen)
FRI       Alan and Usha camp it up with the neighbours.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m74g8 (Listen)
FRI       The Last Tsar
FRI       Ian Curteis's drama examines an enduring mystery of the
FRI       First World War - the apparent refusal of King George V to
FRI       give sanctuary in England to his cousin Tsar Nicholas and
FRI       his young family after the Tsar had been forced to
FRI       abdicate following the Russian Revolution.
FRI       King George V ...... Derek Jacobi
FRI       Queen Mary ...... Phyllida Law
FRI       Lord Stamfordham ...... David Hargreaves
FRI       Lloyd George ...... Owen Teale
FRI       Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
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FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m74gb (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer
FRI       questions posed by gardeners in Hertfordshire.
FRI       Anne Rowe, a landscape historian at Cambridge University,
FRI       discovers the lost gardens of Hertfordshire. Pippa
FRI       Greenwood is joined by a leading bulb expert to reveal
FRI       next year's exciting daffodil trends, and wildlife author
FRI       Michael Clarke offers specialist advice on protecting
FRI       those bulbs from persistent pests.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
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FRI       15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84ny (Listen)
FRI       Walking Backwards to the Future
FRI       Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival
FRI       of the British on the indigenous Maori people after
FRI       Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the
FRI       European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches
FRI       this new world had to offer.
FRI       Dan hears from the Maori about their attitude to the past,
FRI       what they hope for in the future and how they are coming
FRI       to terms with the threat to their land and culture set in
FRI       train by Cook's arrival 240 years ago.
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FRI       16:00 Last Word b00m74n4 (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 b00m74rm (Listen)
FRI       Matthew Sweet talks to Peter Capaldi about In The Loop,
FRI       which is being released on DVD.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00m64th (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
FRI       Mair. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64y0 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
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FRI       18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m74rp (Listen)
FRI       Episode 2
FRI       Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two
FRI       teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The
FRI       show asks both the big and the little questions, and
FRI       provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Andy
FRI       Parsons and Justin Edwards.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00m64g9 (Listen)
FRI       Fallon changes her allegiance.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00m6581 (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gg0 (Listen)
FRI       The Quest, Episode 5
FRI       By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir
FRI       Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
FRI       Galahad meets an angel and Arthur meets his end.
FRI       Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
FRI       Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss
FRI       Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain
FRI       Galahad ...... Paul Mundell
FRI       Percival ...... Mark Meadows
FRI       Mordred ...... Samuel Barnett
FRI       Angel ...... Jasmine Hyde
FRI       Directed by Tim Dee.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00m74rr (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Chipping
FRI       Norton, Oxfordshire. The panellists are former
FRI       Conservative deputy leader Lord Heseltine, former Labour
FRI       cabinet minister Tony Benn, columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
FRI       and Professor Colin Mayer, Dean of Oxford University's
FRI       Saïd Business School.
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FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m74rt (Listen)
FRI       Coelacanth
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       The Coelacanth is a primitive bony fish thought to be an
FRI       important ancestor to all back-boned animals that ventured
FRI       onto land. David Attenborough brought to television the
FRI       first film of a living fish in Life on Earth. But is it
FRI       the living fossil it was claimed to be?
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00m74rw (Listen)
FRI       The Black Bono
FRI       By Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Gideon Gordon, film star and
FRI       celebrity campaigner for human rights, is murdered in
FRI       Africa, and the main suspect is his brother Ken. What can
FRI       have driven the brothers apart?
FRI       Christine Giddis ...... Chipo Chung
FRI       Simon Giddis ...... Gabriel Bisset-Smith
FRI       Gideon Gordon ...... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
FRI       Ken Gordon ...... Jude Akuwudike
FRI       Juliet Gordon ...... Clare Perkins
FRI       Peter Champion ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Detective Bolton ...... Paul Rider
FRI       Danni/African Woman ...... Janice Acquah
FRI       Sian ...... Caroline Guthrie
FRI       With Matt Addis, Stephen Hogan, Jonathan Tafler.
FRI       Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00m667f (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00m66f3 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g38 (Listen)
FRI       A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 5
FRI       Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte
FRI       to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
FRI       Forced to take refuge in a roadside inn, Yorick is forced
FRI       to share a bedroom with a stranger and her maid. The
FRI       precautions for managing such a situation border on the
FRI       Baroque.
FRI       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00m6c3y (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Freya Stark
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses the life of another
FRI       fearless woman traveller, Freya Stark. Stark roamed across
FRI       Arabia and Persia, frequently risking her life, and during
FRI       the Second World War set up a pro-British intelligence
FRI       network in Cairo. She was brave but also infuriating, and
FRI       was liable to make impossible demands on her friends, such
FRI       as John Murray, who joins the discussion.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b00fgt0r (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Episode 1
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the past week of radio.
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