Radio 4 Listings for 05/09/2009 - 11/09/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00mcxrd (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 b00m5xp5 (Listen)
SAT       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 5
SAT       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
SAT       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
SAT       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
SAT       Chaloner.
SAT       Chaloner faces trial at the Old Bailey and the threat of
SAT       the gallows at Tyburn.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mcxrg (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mcxrj (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
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SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mcxrl (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
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SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00mcxrn (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mcxrq (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
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SAT       05:45 Wars of The Roses b00fkgng (Listen)
SAT       Episode 2
SAT       Wesley Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its
SAT       bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition.
SAT       Wesley asks the judges what they are looking for from the
SAT       finalists and hears some of the tricks that competitors
SAT       play to win. In Taunton, there are problems with the
SAT       floral displays.
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00mcxrs (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00mdngd (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00mdy0v (Listen)
SAT       Tales From the Serpentine
SAT       Matt Baker starts the day with a splash when he joins the
SAT       early morning swimmers at the Serpentine Lake in London's
SAT       Hyde Park.
SAT       For almost 300 years, the Serpentine has played a role in
SAT       the history of London and formed a central part in the
SAT       lives of the people and wildlife who use it on a daily
SAT       basis. Matt takes a walk around the lake, chatting to the
SAT       people involved with the lake today and with the wildlife
SAT       that live in and around it and finds out more about a
SAT       recent project to improve water quality.
SAT       Created in 1730 when Queen Caroline ordered the damming of
SAT       the River Westbourne, the 40-acre body of water has been
SAT       the playground of poets and queens, a meeting place for
SAT       the fashionable and the not so fashionable, and a favoured
SAT       spot for swimmers. These range from the 10,000 people in
SAT       the mid-19th century who were described as a 'mass of
SAT       human flesh in motion' to the early morning bathers of
SAT       today, described by AA Gill as 'shelled turtles'.
SAT       Matt also takes a trip on the solar-powered shuttle boat
SAT       that silently and effortlessly glides from one side of the
SAT       lake to the other, ferrying visitors from the boat house
SAT       on the north shore to the Princess of Wales Memorial
SAT       Fountain on the south.
SAT       The day ends with a chat with 'Captain Hook', aka actor
SAT       Jonathan Hyde, before he takes to the stage in the current
SAT       production of Peter Pan, running in the
SAT       specially-commissioned state-of-the-art Kensington Gardens
SAT       Theatre Pavilion.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00mdy0x (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00mdy0z (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       07:00 Today b00mdy11 (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00mdy13 (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Hamish
SAT       Anderson. With poetry from Kate Fox.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00mdy15 (Listen)
SAT       Novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who began his
SAT       writing life as a newspaper reporter, talks to John
SAT       McCarthy about his travels in the l960s and early 1970s.
SAT       His visits included Cuba, Russia, Israel, Germany and
SAT       Japan, at a time when there was revolution in the air. He
SAT       tells John about how seeking facts in foreign parts
SAT       inspired his fiction.
SAT       The Grand Canal in China is one of the least known great
SAT       feats of engineering in the world. At over 1,000 miles
SAT       long, it is not only the longest man-made waterway but
SAT       also the oldest, begun in the fifth century BC. Nowadays
SAT       it is a crucial highway ,and travel writer Liam D'Arcy
SAT       Brown travelled its length, hitching rides on the enormous
SAT       barges that carry bulk building materials for China's
SAT       rapid modernisation. He tells John about the insight it
SAT       gave him into a side of China not normally seen.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen)
SAT       Three musicians - Guy Garvey of Elbow, Martin Noble of
SAT       British Sea Power and Marc Riley, formerly of The Fall and
SAT       a BBC 6 Music presenter - explore the rugged terrain of
SAT       Shetland in search of the quail.
SAT       They travel to to Sumburgh Head on the southern tip of
SAT       Shetland Mainland, to a traditional Shetland music session
SAT       in a Lerwick pub and to Mousa Broch, one of the world's
SAT       largest Storm Petrel breeding colonies, on their search
SAT       for the elusive bird. As there are no more than four quail
SAT       seen in the Shetlands during a typical season, the chances
SAT       of seeing one are slim.
SAT       A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mdy19 (Listen)
SAT       Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster
SAT       parliament.
SAT       Mark Devenport examines the track record of devolved
SAT       government in Northern Ireland, 10 years after the
SAT       Assembly was established at Stormont as part of the Good
SAT       Friday Peace Agreement.
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SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mdy1c (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00mdy1f (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Will stock markets continue to rise? The bulls and the
SAT       bears tell us their views.
SAT       A cash boost for children turning seven, but where to
SAT       invest it?
SAT       And could there be more bad news for Key Data investors?
SAT       The administrator talks.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mcxcn (Listen)
SAT       Episode 3
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. With Justin
SAT       Edwards and Russell Kane.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00mdy1h (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00mdy1k (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00mcxcq (Listen)
SAT       The A-Z of Dr Johnson Special
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the
SAT       Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield. The
SAT       panellists are the secretary of state for transport Lord
SAT       Adonis, shadow minister for universities and skills David
SAT       Willetts, Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and author
SAT       Sarah Dunant.
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SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00mdy1m (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00m85kz (Listen)
SAT       Phone
SAT       By Peter Jukes. Eliot is stuck in a rut. When his friend
SAT       Roy, a local gangster, is taken ill, he hands Eliot his
SAT       mobile phone, telling him to wait for it to ring. The
SAT       phone thrusts Eliot into an underworld which is sometimes
SAT       glamorous, often dangerous, and always unexpected.
SAT       Eliot ...... Freddy White
SAT       Kathleen ...... Jemima Rooper
SAT       Sparky ...... Jimmy Akingbola
SAT       Roy Peters ...... Richard Ridings
SAT       Iverson ...... Caroline Guthrie
SAT       Crimp ...... Paul Rider
SAT       Ze ...... Nabil Elouahabi
SAT       Rachel ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Baltazar ...... Matt Addis
SAT       Sarasi ...... Janice Acquah
SAT       Vince ...... Jonathan Tafler
SAT       Teenager ...... Benjamin Askew
SAT       Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Soul Music b00mbkk4 (Listen)
SAT       Series 8, Allegri's Miserere
SAT       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
SAT       emotional appeal.
SAT       Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the
SAT       1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It
SAT       then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart,
SAT       Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in
SAT       the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we
SAT       know today.
SAT       The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and
SAT       never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for
SAT       concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe
SAT       Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman
SAT       explain how they have all been deeply affected by this
SAT       beautiful piece of music.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00mdy46 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       There can be few acts whose music evokes memories of the
SAT       1980s better than Bananarama, whose music epitomised the
SAT       pop culture of the decade. In 1988 they entered the
SAT       Guinness Book of World Records as the all-female group to
SAT       have the most chart entries in history. After a four year
SAT       break they have returned with a new single; they talk to
SAT       Jenni Murray, and tell her about the time Robert de Niro
SAT       really was waiting for them.
SAT       High heels might look great on the catwalk, but are they
SAT       suitable attire for work?
SAT       Sibling relationships are often the longest-lasting
SAT       relationships that we experience. They can outlast
SAT       marriages, survive the death of parents, and overcome
SAT       quarrels that would sink a friendship. But what happens if
SAT       your sibling is disabled or suffers from a chronic
SAT       illness? Whose responsibility is it to look after a
SAT       disabled sibling when a parent dies? And where can you
SAT       turn for support? Jane Garvey visits the parents of Radio
SAT       1 DJ Jo Whiley and her disabled sister Frances and hears
SAT       about what help is available.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00mdyrt (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00mdyrw (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mdyry (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00mdys0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mdys2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00mdys4 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by comedian Ross Noble and author Charlie
SAT       Higson.
SAT       Rachael Stirling talks to the journalist and writer Nina
SAT       Myskow.
SAT       With comedy from Nathan Caton and music from Turin Brakes
SAT       and Kate Walsh.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen)
SAT       Alex Salmond
SAT       Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First
SAT       Minister and the leader of the SNP.
SAT       Salmond is a private man with a very public image.
SAT       Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a
SAT       pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and
SAT       then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four
SAT       years later.
SAT       So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he
SAT       about pursuing Scottish independence?
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00mdys8 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00mdyyf (Listen)
SAT       Five and the Fascists
SAT       In 1929 five leading European conductors - Toscanini,
SAT       Klemperer, Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter -
SAT       met at the Berlin Festival at the height of the Weimar
SAT       Republic, shortly before Hitler took power. Robert
SAT       Giddings explores the confrontation between creativity and
SAT       Fascism through the decisions made by these five musical
SAT       giants.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen)
SAT       Two on a Tower, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of
SAT       star-crossed lovers in the West Country.
SAT       Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance
SAT       and convention conspire against them and painful
SAT       sacrifices have to be made.
SAT       Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill
SAT       Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson
SAT       Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson
SAT       Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys
SAT       Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin
SAT       Louis ...... Richard Heap
SAT       Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon
SAT       Joshua ...... Carter Thomas
SAT       Directed by Stefan Escreet.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00mdzcn (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 b00mbzvw (Listen)
SAT       Episode 3
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       Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford,
SAT       and Dr Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers'
SAT       Magazine, take on power and wealth.
SAT       They visit a church which is challenging the Establishment
SAT       on the treatment of the homeless, hear from a social
SAT       entrepreneur who is creating wealth for poor communities
SAT       in India and Nepal, and visit the House of Lords to
SAT       examine the role of religion in public life.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mbf7k (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       with the south of England team hoping to get their own
SAT       back on the Midlands in a return match.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 In Search of the Wantley Dragon b00m5t0r (Listen)
SAT       Poet Ian McMillan explores the bawdy 17th-century comic
SAT       poem The Dragon of Wantley. He uncovers long-forgotten
SAT       violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour,
SAT       pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den.
SAT       Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its
SAT       day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of
SAT       Robin Hood.
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SUN       SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00mf1s4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088rfs (Listen)
SUN       Telling the World, Lord Shiva and the Death Boon
SUN       Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the
SUN       world.
SUN       Peter Chand tells his version of a story from the Punjab,
SUN       via Wolverhampton.
SUN       A Watershed Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mf1s6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mf1s8 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mf1sb (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00mf1sd (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mf1sg (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Thomas' Church, Oxford.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen)
SUN       Alex Salmond
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First
SUN       Minister and the leader of the SNP.
SUN       Salmond is a private man with a very public image.
SUN       Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a
SUN       pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and
SUN       then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four
SUN       years later.
SUN       So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he
SUN       about pursuing Scottish independence?
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00mf1sj (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00mf1sl (Listen)
SUN       The Vital Green
SUN       Mark Tully explores the many-shaded nature of Green, from
SUN       green imagery in myth, literature, art and faith, to
SUN       green's crucial biological function as 'the cornerstone of
SUN       all life on Earth'.
SUN       The readers are Adjoa Andoh, Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling
SUN       and David Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00mf1sn (Listen)
SUN       Grassland Meadows
SUN       Britain's geology makes for diverse grassland meadows and
SUN       with it wild flowers, as Lionel Kelleway discovers.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00mf1vb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00mf1vd (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00mf26w (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00mf26y (Listen)
SUN       Prospect Burma
SUN       Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma.
SUN       Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
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SUN       payer, please provide PB with your full name and address
SUN       so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The
SUN       online and phone donation facilities are not currently
SUN       available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 802615.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00mf270 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00mf272 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00mf274 (Listen)
SUN       'The Little Flower of Jesus'
SUN       The life and legacy of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the French
SUN       Carmelite nun who died at a young age, is explored in a
SUN       service from the church of Sacred Heart and St Theresa,
SUN       Coleshill, Birmingham. With music from Joanne Boyce and
SUN       Mike Stanley.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mcxcs (Listen)
SUN       The Dodo
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       The dodo is the caricature of extinction. This
SUN       turkey-sized flightless pigeon lived on a remote island
SUN       and was slaughtered by seafarers for its meat. The same
SUN       fate has met other flightless species. Can we learn this
SUN       lesson from history?
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00mf276 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mf278 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 The Reunion b00mf27b (Listen)
SUN       Iranian Embassy Siege
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 those caught up in the siege at the Iranian
SUN       Embassy in London in 1980, which ended with a dramatic
SUN       storming of the building by SAS commandos. With
SUN       contributions from hostages Sim Harris and Mustapha
SUN       Karkouti, police negotiator Max Vernon, BBC reporter Kate
SUN       Adie and Robin Horsfall of the SAS.
SUN       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00mbg96 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 6
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring
SUN       performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Panellists
SUN       include Paul Merton and Sue Perkins.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00mf27d (Listen)
SUN       Shetland's Sunday Teas
SUN       Every summer, for decades, the people of Shetland have
SUN       served up delicious home-baked Sunday afternoon teas in
SUN       the many local community halls dotted around the islands.
SUN       Not only are they a treat for regulars and tourists, but
SUN       they also raise money for charity.
SUN       Simon Parkes drops in on the islanders as they prepare for
SUN       the weekend's feasting in many different kitchens across
SUN       the islands. The tables groan with fare, not all of it
SUN       traditional, as Sunday approaches, and visitors anticipate
SUN       a weekend of culinary over-indulgence.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00mf27g (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00mf27j (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Oscar Marzaroli: The Man Who Captured Scotland
SUN       b00g0nnn (Listen)
SUN       Scottish singer-songwriter Ricky Ross examines the life
SUN       and work of photographer and film-maker Oscar Marzaroli.
SUN       Born in Italy in 1933, Marzaroli moved to Glasgow at the
SUN       age of two. Photographing in black and white, he produced
SUN       a remarkable record of post-Second World War Scotland, and
SUN       became famed for his iconic images of the Gorbals in the
SUN       1960s.
SUN       His photographs and films have become synonymous with
SUN       Scotland, at that time a disaffected nation in the throes
SUN       of regeneration. Marzaroli's images captured ordinary
SUN       people struggling against poverty and social deprivation,
SUN       yet who retained a strong sense of local pride and
SUN       community spirit. During a time of controversial
SUN       rebuilding, alongside a rising tide of Scottish
SUN       nationalism, his photographic record has become a
SUN       historical documentation of a lost society.
SUN       Ricky Ross discusses Marzaroli's life, career and legacy
SUN       with the photographer's family, colleagues and
SUN       contemporaries, including author William McIlvanney and
SUN       Oscar's wife, Anne.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mcwv9 (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer
SUN       questions posed by gardeners in Essex.
SUN       John presents a guide to coastal shelter-belts and
SUN       explains how these are created with the help of a local
SUN       gardener.
SUN       Matthew reports from the Fruit Focus industry event, where
SUN       he unveils a new super-yielding crop and reveals how we
SUN       are soon to benefit from new extra water-efficient
SUN       strawberry plants.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Tribes of Science b00mf27l (Listen)
SUN       The Mathematicians
SUN       Series in which Peter Curran visits members of the many
SUN       and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to
SUN       zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and
SUN       beliefs.
SUN       Peter meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton
SUN       Institute of Mathematics in Cambridge. There are
SUN       blackboards in the lifts and in the loos to encourage
SUN       communication between visiting professors, but not
SUN       everyone shares their mathematical insight.
SUN       A few members of the mathematical tribe do wear the same
SUN       t-shirt for six months and it's often inside-out, but not
SUN       all the stereotypes hold true. Among these mathematicians,
SUN       Peter finds passion, humour and an enviable sense of
SUN       purpose.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00mf2mj (Listen)
SUN       The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode
SUN       1
SUN       Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography
SUN       of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of
SUN       Johnson's birth.
SUN       Young Boswell comes to London to seek out his hero. He
SUN       wants to write a biography of the great man 'in scenes',
SUN       with Johnson's conversation cast as dialogue. Nothing
SUN       quite like this has ever been attempted before.
SUN       Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham
SUN       James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins
SUN       King George ...... David Hargreaves
SUN       Louisa ...... Lizzy Watts
SUN       Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis
SUN       Oliver Goldsmith ...... Stephen Hogan
SUN       Lady Di ...... Annabelle Dowler
SUN       Davies ...... Philip Fox
SUN       Directed by Claire Grove.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Bookclub b00mf31l (Listen)
SUN       Robert Macfarlane
SUN       James Naughtie and readers talk to travel writer and
SUN       literary critic Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild
SUN       Places, in which he sets out to discover if there remain
SUN       any genuinely wild places in Britain and Ireland.
SUN       It is an account of journeys that he made to the remaining
SUN       wilderness in the islands. He climbs hills and mountains,
SUN       walks across moors and bogs, luxuriates beside hidden
SUN       lochs, swims through caves and disappears into forests,
SUN       all in search of that special quality of solitude in
SUN       communion with nature.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 The Poet of Sparty Lea: In Search of Barry
SUN       MacSweeney b00mf3ds (Listen)
SUN       Young poet Tom Chivers reclaims the reputation of
SUN       counter-cultural poet Barry MacSweeney, who wrote his
SUN       first poem at seven, began a lifelong struggle with
SUN       solitary hard drinking at 16 and was nominated for the
SUN       Oxford Poetry Chair at 18.
SUN       A protégée of Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, he was a
SUN       regular at the Morden Tower in Newcastle along with Ted
SUN       Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Dorn.
SUN       MacSweeney was a man of contradictions; a Romantic poet, a
SUN       political journalist who raged against the world but also
SUN       a naturalist whose writing was rooted in the Northumbrian
SUN       landscape. His refusal to engage with the Establishment
SUN       was incompatible with commercial or mainstream success,
SUN       and he died an alcoholic's death, on the fringes of the
SUN       poetry scene.
SUN       A 16-year-old Tom Chivers encountered MacSweeney at what
SUN       would turn out to be his final poetry reading; a week
SUN       later he was dead. Now Tom goes on a personal journey to
SUN       explore the life and work of his hero. Travelling to the
SUN       Northumbrian landscape which anchored MacSweeney's work,
SUN       Tom investigates why his radical style was never palatable
SUN       to the mainstream but also why his work still appeals to a
SUN       new generation of poets today.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Divided Britain b00mbm3l (Listen)
SUN       Gerry Northam follows headteacher Mike Tull as he
SUN       continues his attempts to bridge ethnic divisions through
SUN       education, as part of a radical scheme to tackle
SUN       underachievement and segregation in Lancashire mill towns.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen)
SUN       Alex Salmond
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First
SUN       Minister and the leader of the SNP.
SUN       Salmond is a private man with a very public image.
SUN       Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a
SUN       pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and
SUN       then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four
SUN       years later.
SUN       So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he
SUN       about pursuing Scottish independence?
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mfcyr (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00mfcyt (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfcyw (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00mfcyy (Listen)
SUN       Edward Stourton introduces his selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Operation Pied Piper - Radio 2
SUN       The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4
SUN       No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4
SUN       The Annual General Boiled Egg Panic - Radio 3
SUN       Between Ourselves - Radio 4
SUN       Random Edition - Radio 4
SUN       Nature - Radio 4
SUN       The Reunion - Radio 4
SUN       Newton and the Counterfeiter - Radio 4
SUN       Jeopardising Justice - Radio 4
SUN       The Beatles At The Beeb - Radio 2
SUN       The Essay - Radio 3
SUN       Biggles: Adventures Through Time - Radio 4
SUN       Twice Ken is Plenty - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00mfcz0 (Listen)
SUN       All's fair in love and cricket for Adam.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00mfcz2 (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       We go to the biggest gambling city of them all, Las Vegas
SUN       - the town that's the capital of blowing itself up and
SUN       reinventing itself, and which is hurting big in the
SUN       recession. The Las Vegas strip today is lined by
SUN       unfinished mega-projects and bankrupt resorts, local
SUN       unemployment and foreclosure rates are surging, and folks
SUN       just aren't imploding casinos like they used to. For an
SUN       insider's look, Matt talks with Las Vegas demolition man
SUN       Josh Clauss.
SUN       Adam Burke leads a sound-rich tour of subterranean Las
SUN       Vegas, including the the storm drains running under the
SUN       casinos which are inhabited by a remarkable community of
SUN       homeless people.
SUN       Matt referees a discussion on diverging approaches to
SUN       homelessness and panhandling in American cities. His
SUN       guests are Anthony David Pirtle, a board member of the
SUN       National Coalition for the Homeless, who was homeless
SUN       himself between 2004 and 2006 due to his schizophrenia,
SUN       and Ron Book, board chair of the Miami-Dade County
SUN       Homeless Trust, and a proponent of never giving money or
SUN       food to panhandlers.
SUN       Plus, a chance to experience the formerly iconic American
SUN       pastime of going to the drive-in to see movies outside -
SUN       with the sound piped through your radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9n (Listen)
SUN       An Audience with Max Wall, When the Dust Has Settled
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 the success he enjoyed in later life as a
SUN       character actor, with parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and
SUN       Terry Gilliam's film Jabberwocky, together with theatre
SUN       work in Krapp's Last Tape and The Entertainer.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00mcwv5 (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford and the More or Less team investigate
SUN       widely-reported estimates of the number of people who
SUN       illegally share files on the internet, and examine the
SUN       abuse of maths by the public relations industry.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00mcxcj (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00mdy1f (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Will stock markets continue to rise? The bulls and the
SUN       bears tell us their views.
SUN       A cash boost for children turning seven, but where to
SUN       invest it?
SUN       And could there be more bad news for Key Data investors?
SUN       The administrator talks.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mf26y (Listen)
SUN       Prospect Burma
SUN       Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma.
SUN       Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope PB.
SUN       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
SUN       payer, please provide PB with your full name and address
SUN       so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The
SUN       online and phone donation facilities are not currently
SUN       available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 802615.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00mcw5z (Listen)
SUN       Media Mayhem
SUN       The twin pincers of global recession and technology
SUN       upheaval are putting traditional newspapers and
SUN       broadcasters through the ringer. Peter Day asks what the
SUN       shape of the new media might be once the troubles are over.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00mfcz4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00mfcz6 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Britain's White House.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00mcxcl (Listen)
SUN       Director Marc Webb discusses his film, 500 Days of Summer,
SUN       a romantic comedy that stands romantic ideals on its head.
SUN       Actor Janet Suzman remembers her role in the jagged-edged
SUN       1960s drama A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, newly released
SUN       on DVD. She also reveals the unconventional casting
SUN       technique for her starring role in the film Nicolas and
SUN       Alexandra.
SUN       Plus an interview with Michael Fassbender, an an actor who
SUN       gives versatility a new dimension and who appears in
SUN       radically contrasting films: Quentin Tarantino's
SUN       Inglourious Basterds and Andrea Arnold's controversial
SUN       movie Fish Tank.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00mf1sl (Listen)
SUN       The Vital Green
SUN       Mark Tully explores the many-shaded nature of Green, from
SUN       green imagery in myth, literature, art and faith, to
SUN       green's crucial biological function as 'the cornerstone of
SUN       all life on Earth'.
SUN       The readers are Adjoa Andoh, Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling
SUN       and David Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00mfdgt (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mbz1k (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
MON       society works.
MON       A new book explores what happens to people who return to
MON       the island of Dominica, the land of their birth, after
MON       living for many years in the UK. Research suggests around
MON       25 per cent of the Caribbean population will go back to
MON       their country of origin, either to work or on retirement.
MON       But what are the forces which dictate this decision, and
MON       why do some people choose to go home and others choose to
MON       stay here? Research suggests that definitions of home are
MON       changing as the world contracts due to global
MON       communication and transport. Laurie talks to Dr Margaret
MON       Byron, a social geographer, and the writer Mike Phillips
MON       about the meaning of return migration.
MON       Also, the limits of ''silver power'; why old age doesn't
MON       lend itself to collective political action and identity.
MON       New research finds that the pensioner movements of the
MON       interwar years, which helped shape the postwar welfare
MON       state, have declined in importance. Laurie discusses the
MON       politics of ageing and pensioner power with Prof Paul
MON       Higgs.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mf1sg (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Thomas' Church, Oxford.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdj8 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdyl (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdkt (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00mff35 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mffdc (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00mfffq (Listen)
MON       Organised criminals are increasingly turning to stealing
MON       expensive farm equipment, which, it is claimed, is proving
MON       to be more lucrative and less risky than dealing in drugs.
MON       The National Equipment Register, which records all such
MON       farm crime, has released new figures which show that
MON       thefts reached record levels in 2008.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00mg0wh (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00mffrs (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00mg0wk (Listen)
MON       Adair Turner
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       If Adair Turner had been in his present job, as Chairman
MON       of the Financial Services Authority, in the run-up to the
MON       banking crisis, would he have seen it coming? Candidly, he
MON       says he is not sure that he would. Appointed in 2008, it
MON       is now his job to help restore trust in the financial
MON       system. He offers his insight into why the regulations
MON       that were in place didn't work and predicts the
MON       consequences of the economic downturn for Britain.
MON       
MON       09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mg0wm (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Helena Kennedy QC examines the ways in which the best
MON       intentions in legal reform can sometimes produce
MON       unexpected and unpalatable consequences.
MON       Helena unravels the recent history of attacks on judicial
MON       independence. In the 1970s and 80s, Helena and a
MON       generation of liberal lawyers attacked the judiciary for
MON       being too right wing and out of touch. Now right-wing
MON       politicians have taken up their language and attack the
MON       judiciary for being too liberal and out of touch.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrv (Listen)
MON       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
MON       Episode 1
MON       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
MON       Nobel Prize-winning author.
MON       His debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected by many
MON       publishers before going on to sell over 20 million copies
MON       in Britain alone. Drawing on a wealth of previously
MON       unpublished material from the Golding family archive,
MON       Carey explores the life and career of an often harshly
MON       self-critical novelist.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg83 (Listen)
MON       Woman's Hour With Jane Garvey. Including:
MON       She's a feminist post-punk lesbian from bible-belt
MON       Arkansas, and has been named the Coolest Person in Rock.
MON       Beth Ditto's electric stage performances and soulfully
MON       howling voice have led to sell-out tours and four albums
MON       for her band the Gossip. And her outlandish fashion sense
MON       and outspoken pride in her 'fat' physique have made her
MON       into both a style icon and champion of misunderstood
MON       youth. Beth talks to Jane about Gossip's fourth album, the
MON       ironically titled Music For Men, and her decision to
MON       launch a range of clothing for plus-sized women.
MON       Barbara Taylor Bradford began her career at 15 as a typist
MON       for the Yorkshire Evening Post. In 1979 she wrote her
MON       first novel, A Woman of Substance, which went on to sell
MON       more than 31 million copies worldwide. It told the story
MON       of Emma Harte, a Yorkshire girl who founded a retail
MON       empire. The popularity of the heroine led Barbara to write
MON       a further 6 books in the Harte family series. Her latest
MON       novel returns to the themes of love, passion and revenge.
MON       Jane talks to Barbara about the enduring appeal of her
MON       work.
MON       The internet is scattered with adverts offering to reveal
MON       the one simple rule we all need to follow to achieve a
MON       flat stomach - but is it ever going to be that simple? And
MON       should we be seeing the flat stomach as desirable or
MON       attainable across the life-course? We find out what
MON       actually happens to a woman's stomach during pregnancy and
MON       birth, and ask whether it's time for us to get over the
MON       overhang.
MON       And Iran's first female Minister - how much power will the
MON       new Health Minister have, and what does her appointment
MON       mean for women and women's rights in Iran now?
MON       
MON       11:00 Iraq United b00lny4l (Listen)
MON       Hugh Sykes follows the Iraqi football team as they hope to
MON       unite their country through football.
MON       In 2007, the team surprised the world by winning the Asian
MON       Cup. Thousands celebrated, religious differences were
MON       forgotten and a football team united a troubled country.
MON       It qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South
MON       Africa, a competition that brings together the best teams
MON       in the world, including Spain, Italy and Brazil.
MON       Hugh, who has been reporting from Iraq for the past six
MON       years, follows the team and their supporters as they
MON       compete in Africa's first international football
MON       competition. Travelling with the team and supporters as
MON       Iraq take on the likes of Spain, Hugh learns the
MON       importance of football to Iraqis as a reminder of days
MON       past, before sectarianism ripped the country apart.
MON       The team has lost loved ones and faced death threats, but
MON       survived the years of abuse and torture they suffered at
MON       the hands of Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam who
MON       took direct control of the team for a time. After a series
MON       of coaching changes and poor performances, the team now
MON       faces its biggest test as it hopes to show the world that
MON       Iraq remains united, and not only in football.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mg0wp (Listen)
MON       Series 3, Episode 3
MON       Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum.
MON       Warring curators, wedding cleaners and a dodgy alarm
MON       system all add to the unwanted pressure on Walter.
MON       Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
MON       Walter Brindle ...... Geofrey Palmer
MON       Prunella 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       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00mfg8h (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00mfhhy (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00mfhlv (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mg0wr (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00mfcz0 (Listen)
MON       All's fair in love and cricket for Adam.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mg0wt (Listen)
MON       Best Friends
MON       By Clara Glynn. When Charlotte is convicted of killing her
MON       baby, her best friend Sam begins a campaign to clear her
MON       name and find out the truth.
MON       Sam ...... Shonagh Price
MON       Charlotte ...... Louise Ludgate
MON       David ...... Robin Laing
MON       Hamish/Radio presenter ...... Steven McNicoll
MON       Archie ...... Crawford Logan
MON       Weather girl/Prison guard ...... Kirstin Murray
MON       Rory ...... Cameron McNee
MON       Directed by David Ian Neville.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00mdyyf (Listen)
MON       Five and the Fascists
MON       In 1929 five leading European conductors - Toscanini,
MON       Klemperer, Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter -
MON       met at the Berlin Festival at the height of the Weimar
MON       Republic, shortly before Hitler took power. Robert
MON       Giddings explores the confrontation between creativity and
MON       Fascism through the decisions made by these five musical
MON       giants.
MON       
MON       15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhr7 (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Scientists look back to their ancient forebears and
MON       examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the
MON       test of time.
MON       Iain Hutchison, consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon,
MON       discovers that the nasal reconstructive techniques he uses
MON       today date back to third century BC in south Asia. A
MON       school of surgery, The Sushruta, grew up on the banks of
MON       the river Ganges to help victims of punishment who had had
MON       their noses sliced off.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00mf27d (Listen)
MON       Shetland's Sunday Teas
MON       Every summer, for decades, the people of Shetland have
MON       served up delicious home-baked Sunday afternoon teas in
MON       the many local community halls dotted around the islands.
MON       Not only are they a treat for regulars and tourists, but
MON       they also raise money for charity.
MON       Simon Parkes drops in on the islanders as they prepare for
MON       the weekend's feasting in many different kitchens across
MON       the islands. The tables groan with fare, not all of it
MON       traditional, as Sunday approaches, and visitors anticipate
MON       a weekend of culinary over-indulgence.
MON       
MON       16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mg2v2 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 2
MON       Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice
MON       of researching family history, with the help of resident
MON       genealogist Nick Barratt.
MON       Lucille White has been trying to get to the bottom of a
MON       family that her great, great-grandmother may have been the
MON       illegitimate daughter of Louis XVI, but stories handed
MON       down from one generation to the next are often history as
MON       the teller would like it to have been, not as it really
MON       was. Birth, marriage and death certificates may not tell
MON       the whole story, so Sally and Nick investigate how to
MON       widen the search in order to disentangle myth from truth.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00mfj9z (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
MON       Quinn. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjpj (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00mg2v4 (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 7
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game.
MON       Jenny Eclair and Stephen Fry compare what they shop for
MON       online and Paul Merton and Charles Collingwood discuss how
MON       best to go about making an impression.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00mfhmh (Listen)
MON       Lynda puts her foot down for the footpaths.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00mfk2s (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an
MON       interview with actor Colin Firth, who plays Sir Henry
MON       Wotton in the new film Dorian Gray.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk31 (Listen)
MON       Au Pairs, Episode 1
MON       Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners,
MON       morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The
MON       story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from
MON       Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their
MON       mutual condemnation of modern parenting.
MON       Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
MON       Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin
MON       Directed by Marc Beeby.
MON       
MON       20:00 Where Did It All Go Right? b00mg2v6 (Listen)
MON       Compulsory Seat Belts
MON       Prof Philip Cowley presents a series examining initially
MON       controversial political policies which were later judged
MON       by most people to have been a success.
MON       Attempts during the 1970s and early 1980s to make seat
MON       belt wearing compulsory were hugely controversial. There
MON       were numerous attempts to get it through, and it was
MON       contested by parliamentarians on both left and right.
MON       Organisations like the RAC were also opposed, as were
MON       civil servants, as shown by files from the early 1970s
MON       released from the National Archives.
MON       Once the legislation came into effect in 1983, instances
MON       of seat belt-wearing shot up from under half to over 90
MON       per cent and opposition almost vanished overnight. This
MON       programme looks back at the early debates, why compulsory
MON       wearing was so controversial and how seat belts came to be
MON       so widely accepted.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00mcvgd (Listen)
MON       Gangland in Paradise
MON       With a spectacular natural setting and a prosperous but
MON       laid-back lifestyle, Vancouver is routinely named one of
MON       the best communities in the world in which to live.
MON       But this west coast Canadian city, host to the 2010 Winter
MON       Olympics, is quickly developing another reputation. Bill
MON       Law tells the story of the young gangsters who are
MON       exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar
MON       illicit drugs industry using a combination of business
MON       savvy and bullets.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00mg2v8 (Listen)
MON       Sell-by Dates
MON       In the UK, 370,000 tonnes of food is misguidedly thrown
MON       away each year after passing its best-before date, with a
MON       further 40,000 tonnes not even opened by consumers. An
MON       additional 220,000 tonnes of food is thrown away while
MON       still in date and 440,000 tonnes of food is thrown away
MON       after its use-by date. And that is just the food that
MON       reaches our fridges and fruitbowls. There are an estimated
MON       1.6 million tonnes of food thrown away by British
MON       retailers making up just some of the 5.4 million tonnes of
MON       food the UK throws away every year.
MON       So where does all this confusion come from? According to
MON       one survey, more than one-third of Britons believe that
MON       any product past its 'best-before' date is liable to
MON       poison them and should never be eaten. Added to this
MON       confusion is the less than scientific way in which
MON       'use-by' dates are often set with a 'worse case scenario'
MON       applied to all products, protecting the consumer but also
MON       the industry.
MON       With dates now applied to all kinds of produce, from soft
MON       fruit to hard cheese, Tom Heap seeks to find out where
MON       these dates came from, who sets them, who benefits and how
MON       we might learn to live without them.
MON       
MON       21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00mg0wk (Listen)
MON       Adair Turner
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       If Adair Turner had been in his present job, as Chairman
MON       of the Financial Services Authority, in the run-up to the
MON       banking crisis, would he have seen it coming? Candidly, he
MON       says he is not sure that he would. Appointed in 2008, it
MON       is now his job to help restore trust in the financial
MON       system. He offers his insight into why the regulations
MON       that were in place didn't work and predicts the
MON       consequences of the economic downturn for Britain.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00mfknq (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00mfks0 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4m (Listen)
MON       Love and Summer, Episode 6
MON       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
MON       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
MON       Ireland.
MON       While Miss Connulty plots to avert unbridled emotion,
MON       Florian and Ellie find a meeting place far from her gaze,
MON       at the Lisquin gate-lodge, whose avenue leads only to the
MON       razed ground where the big house once stood.
MON       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
MON       
MON       23:00 The Story of O: The Vice Francaise b00mg2vb (Listen)
MON       Writer and former editor of The Erotic Review, Rowan
MON       Pelling, goes in search of Pauline Reage, pseudonymous
MON       author of the pornographic novel The Story of O, which
MON       caused a sensation upon its publication in Paris in 1954.
MON       Written with an almost hallucinatory erotic intensity in
MON       spare, elegant prose, the purity of the writing took the
MON       literary world in France by storm despite the explicit
MON       scenes of bondage and sadomasochism.
MON       Rowan goes in search of the real Pauline Reage and
MON       discovers that she was, in fact, an impeccably dressed,
MON       demure intellectual, and that she had written the novel as
MON       a love letter for her lover.
MON       
MON       23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fpx7j (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Gone East
MON       Documentary series telling original stories about real
MON       lives in Britain today.
MON       In the dead of night, presenter Alan Dein once listened to
MON       the troubles of young teenager Hannah, pouring out her
MON       woes from a phone box during a turbulent night in the
MON       centre of the Kent resort town of Margate.
MON       Alan went on to make a Radio 4 feature programme about
MON       Hannah's story; now, he finally encounters Hannah and her
MON       family.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfq (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrv (Listen)
TUE       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
TUE       Nobel Prize-winning author.
TUE       His debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected by many
TUE       publishers before going on to sell over 20 million copies
TUE       in Britain alone. Drawing on a wealth of previously
TUE       unpublished material from the Golding family archive,
TUE       Carey explores the life and career of an often harshly
TUE       self-critical novelist.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdgw (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdxx (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjb (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00mff2s (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8h (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00mffdf (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00mfffs (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mg2xx (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Professor Steve Jones
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy
TUE       back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to
TUE       uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific
TUE       discovery.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mg3yq (Listen)
TUE       The Destroyed Portrait of Winston Churchill
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       Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill,
TUE       commissioned by both Houses of Parliament as a tribute to
TUE       Churchill on the occasion of his 80th birthday, was
TUE       destroyed after his death by his wife because she hated it
TUE       so much. Photographs taken before its demise show the
TUE       Prime Minister hunched with age and dark in mood. A
TUE       detailed study by the artist for the destroyed painting
TUE       still hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
TUE       Rick tells the story behind this lost portrait and asks if
TUE       the rights of an owner override those of the public, and
TUE       if the Churchills had the moral right to destroy it.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrx (Listen)
TUE       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
TUE       Nobel Prize-winning author.
TUE       After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a
TUE       provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch
TUE       hour.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6p (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Au Pairs.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00mg3ys (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Manx Marine Nature Reserve
TUE       The Isle of Man government is considering designating an
TUE       area of their coastline as a marine nature reserve,
TUE       protecting invaluable habitats and species. The island is
TUE       famous for its marine life, not least the basking shark,
TUE       so, Brett Westwood asks, how feasible is it to set up a
TUE       conservation area in the sea?
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Winnie the Who? b00gntcy (Listen)
TUE       Michael Rosen explores the enduring popularity in Russia
TUE       of translations of the Winnie the Pooh stories.
TUE       In Soviet Russia, Winnie the Pooh became Vinni Pukh, and
TUE       the original illustrations were replaced by an entirely
TUE       new animation that became a spectacular hit. From
TUE       Vladivostock to Tallin there was scarely a
TUE       Russian-speaking child who couldn't recite large chunks of
TUE       Vinni Pukh, or garble back the words of Petachok (Piglet)
TUE       or moan the lines of Oslik (Eeyore). It came as a shock to
TUE       many of them that an Englishman was able to create such
TUE       quintessentially Russian characters.
TUE       Michael finds out about the Russian translations, why they
TUE       chose to remove Christopher Robin from the action, why
TUE       they ignored both the Shepherd and ultimately the Disney
TUE       cartoon drawings, and why their version was, and still is,
TUE       such an important part of their cultural history.
TUE       And Strictly Come Dancing star Lilia Kopylova, among,
TUE       others, recalls her love of this very Russo-English Bear.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00mfg85 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00mfhhh (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00mfhkw (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Soul Music b00mg3yv (Listen)
TUE       Series 8, The Look of Love
TUE       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
TUE       emotional appeal.
TUE       Hal David discusses writing The Look of Love, for the
TUE       soundtrack of the spoof 1967 James Bond film Casino
TUE       Royale, with Burt Bacharach. Dusty Springfield's former
TUE       backing singer, Simon Bell, remembers being on stage at
TUE       the Albert Hall when Dusty laughed her way through a
TUE       performance of the song, and musician Jonathan Cohen
TUE       describes how the samba rhythm underscoring Dusty's smooth
TUE       vocals combine to make this an enduringly popular love
TUE       song.
TUE       It has been covered many times by artists including Isaac
TUE       Hayes, Gladys Knight and the French singer Mirielle
TUE       Mathieu. This programme hears from people whose personal
TUE       memories of love and loss are forever linked with The Look
TUE       of Love.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00mfhmh (Listen)
TUE       Lynda puts her foot down for the footpaths.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mg4k3 (Listen)
TUE       Meryl the Mounted
TUE       Black comedy by Colin Hough. Meryl is a mounted police
TUE       constable with an unhealthy love for her horse; Aiden is a
TUE       young stable boy with an unhealthy love for Meryl. When
TUE       their sergeant is found murdered, the pair investigate.
TUE       Meryl Gunn ...... Rosalind Sydney
TUE       Aiden Cole ...... Scott Fletcher
TUE       Perry Wold/DCI Butler ...... Robert Jack
TUE       Bunty Lobe ...... Una McLean
TUE       Sergeant Singer/Mahogany Bob ...... Sean Scanlan
TUE       Dean Gallop ...... James Young
TUE       Directed by Kirsty Williams.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00mg4k5 (Listen)
TUE       Our planet is peppered with great valleys and depressions,
TUE       many of which are both arid and below sea level. We are
TUE       concerned that rising sea levels will threaten coastal
TUE       populations, so could we not kill two birds with one stone
TUE       by pumping sea water into, say, the Great African Rift
TUE       Valley? It could also generate power by running the water
TUE       through hydro-electric turbines. Once done, the once-arid
TUE       areas would be overflowing with sea water, good for algae
TUE       but not for the majority of land grown crops. So could
TUE       genetic engineering step in to produce salt tolerant
TUE       plants able to feast on this bounty/
TUE       Plus a discussion of the world's distribution of oxygen,
TUE       tackling invasive plants by targeting their friendly
TUE       funghi and how much we can allow scepticism to stifle
TUE       action on climate change.
TUE       On the panel are Prof Sue Buckingham, Director of Centre
TUE       for Human Geography at Brunel University, planet
TUE       geneticist Prof Denis Murphy of the University of
TUE       Glamorgan, and Prof Philip Stott, an environmental
TUE       scientist from the University of London. As always we want
TUE       to hear listeners' comments on the topics discussed and
TUE       any questions to put to future programmes.
TUE       Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House
TUE       Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have
TUE       they bred successfully?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6my (Listen)
TUE       The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 1
TUE       Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel
TUE       Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and
TUE       introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of
TUE       English at King's College, London, David Nokes.
TUE       Johnson's early biography, The Life of Richard Savage, and
TUE       his best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhwt (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and
TUE       examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the
TUE       test of time.
TUE       As you check the time rushing to work or boiling an egg,
TUE       you are making a Babylonian calculation. Dr Anne Curtis of
TUE       the National Physical Laboratory discovers the origins of
TUE       'base 60'.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 A Small Business b00mg74r (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners
TUE       of the small businesses which keep our economy running.
TUE       Liz encounters Brian, who retired from the Special Branch
TUE       and now protects dignitaries and celebrities on visits to
TUE       Britain; Trevor, who has swapped a career in banking for a
TUE       life of lawn care; and Sarah, who left teaching to start
TUE       up an insect circus.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00mg74v (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Samuel Johnson
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, nominates Samuel
TUE       Johnson, writer of the great dictionary. Dr Johnson's
TUE       biographer, Peter Martin, joins the discussion.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00mfj9k (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
TUE       Quinn. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh1 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mg8mx (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, Episode 3
TUE       Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert
TUE       Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland.
TUE       A horse makes his own packed lunch, a boy's effectiveness
TUE       as a wolf early-warning system is compromised, an
TUE       evangelist refuses to tell anyone about Jesus, and advice
TUE       on how to become the next Zorro.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00mfhlx (Listen)
TUE       Mike sees how the other half live at Ambridge Hall.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00mfjpl (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including news of
TUE       the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize and an
TUE       interview with songwriter and novelist Nick Cave.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk2v (Listen)
TUE       Au Pairs, Episode 2
TUE       Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners,
TUE       morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The
TUE       story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from
TUE       Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their
TUE       mutual condemnation of modern parenting.
TUE       Alvy and Dorika have a night off. And that's just their
TUE       first mistake.
TUE       Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
TUE       Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin
TUE       Directed by Marc Beeby.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 Top Dogs: Britain's New Supreme Court b00mg8mz (Listen)
TUE       The UK Supreme Court is replacing the House of Lords as
TUE       the highest court in the land. Yet hardly anyone knows who
TUE       its justices are, why the reform has been made and how it
TUE       will change our lives. Joshua Rozenberg goes behind the
TUE       scenes to talk to the judges and to visit their new court,
TUE       and discovers from leading politicians how the new court
TUE       was created. He also asks if Parliament will find the new
TUE       judicial top dogs to be dangerous rivals for power.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00mg8n1 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00mg8n3 (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter on how best to help people rebuild their
TUE       lives after a head injury. Damage to the brain affects
TUE       people in all kinds of ways, both physically and
TUE       emotionally. At the Bath Neuro Rehabiliation Services,
TUE       Mark discovers how timely intervention can reduce problems.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mg2xx (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Professor Steve Jones
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy
TUE       back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to
TUE       uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific
TUE       discovery.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00mfkm3 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00mfkns (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4p (Listen)
TUE       Love and Summer, Episode 7
TUE       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
TUE       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
TUE       Ireland.
TUE       The dog days of August and Florian Kilderry realises that
TUE       there is less time left than he had imagined. As he
TUE       prepares to break his news to Ellie, he stumbles on a
TUE       long-forgotten treasure, and a purpose for the rest of his
TUE       life.
TUE       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00jmv1v (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 2
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Panellists are Rev Richard Coles,
TUE       journalist Matthew Norman and comedian Mark Steel.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 The Hollow Men b008g3df (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 6
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 9 SEPTEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfs (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrx (Listen)
WED       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
WED       Episode 2
WED       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
WED       Nobel Prize-winning author.
WED       After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a
WED       provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch
WED       hour.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdgy (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdxz (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjd (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00mff2v (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8k (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00mffdh (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00mfffv (Listen)
WED       With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Between Ourselves b00mg8w8 (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 6
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 women who were raped by men they met
WED       on a night out and asks why conviction rates in the UK are
WED       so low compared with the rest of Europe.
WED       
WED       09:30 The Missing Penny b009s0z6 (Listen)
WED       In 1933, only a handful of pennies were minted, and at
WED       least one remains unaccounted for. Such a discovery would
WED       be worth thousands of pounds. Numismatic journalist Phil
WED       Mussell sets about tracking it down.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrz (Listen)
WED       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
WED       Episode 3
WED       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
WED       Nobel Prize-winning author.
WED       In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with
WED       life as a celebrity.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6r (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs.
WED       
WED       11:00 The Last Chance Court b00mg8wb (Listen)
WED       Jenny Cuffe reports on the UK's first family, drug and
WED       alcohol court, a groundbreaking experiment designed to
WED       keep children of addicts from going into care.
WED       Parents sign up for an intensive course of counselling and
WED       rehabilitation, agreeing to frequent drug tests and
WED       reporting regularly to the court. Those who fail will go
WED       back to a conventional court, where there is a strong
WED       chance that the children will be taken away from them.
WED       Halfway through a three-year trial period for the court,
WED       the programme hears from families, their lawyers, judges
WED       and the specialist team of counsellors.
WED       Jenny meets mothers like Catherine, a heroin addict, who
WED       gave birth to her third child in a hostel toilet. At a
WED       recent hearing, the judge praised her parenting skills and
WED       said he was proud of her. Tim Quinn, the scheme's clinical
WED       nurse, says that there is an urgent need to stop the
WED       damage and chaos of parental drug and alcohol abuse being
WED       transmitted to the next generation.
WED       
WED       11:30 Ayres on the Air b00mg9fy (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Shopping
WED       Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry,
WED       anecdotes and sketches.
WED       Pam is joined on stage by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity
WED       Montagu for poems and sketches on the subject of Shopping.
WED       Featuring sketches about braving the cosmetics department,
WED       and how some shop assistants think anyone over 40 should
WED       only wear beige.
WED       Pam's shopping poems include Nowadays We Worship at Saint
WED       Tesco, the Contact Lens poem and I Can't Find Nice
WED       Knickers, one of her briefer poems.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00mfg87 (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00mfhhk (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00mfhky (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00mg9g0 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00mfhlx (Listen)
WED       Mike sees how the other half live at Ambridge Hall.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b007qwpd (Listen)
WED       Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 2
WED       Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester
WED       legal practice.
WED       When new recruit Debbie joins the team, she ruffles more
WED       than a few feathers.
WED       Frank ...... David Schofield
WED       DeeDee ...... Denise Welch
WED       Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah
WED       James ...... Mikey North
WED       Sarah ...... Gina Bellman
WED       Debbie ...... Emma Atkins
WED       Jackie Hargreaves ...... Leanne Best
WED       Inspector Bryant ...... Kevin Harvey
WED       Music by Carl Harms.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00mgd7z (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on
WED       financial issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n0 (Listen)
WED       The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 2
WED       Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel
WED       Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and
WED       introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of
WED       English at King's College, London, David Nokes.
WED       Two contrasting essays from The Idler series, published
WED       weekly in the Universal Chronicle.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhww (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and
WED       examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the
WED       test of time.
WED       Prof Graeme Maidment explores the earliest methods of
WED       surviving a hot climate. Does ancient Egypt hold the key
WED       to an urgent modern need for sustainable cooling? He goes
WED       to an unlikely place to find out - Bluewater shopping
WED       centre, just off the M25.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mgd81 (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00mg8n3 (Listen)
WED       Dr Mark Porter on how best to help people rebuild their
WED       lives after a head injury. Damage to the brain affects
WED       people in all kinds of ways, both physically and
WED       emotionally. At the Bath Neuro Rehabiliation Services,
WED       Mark discovers how timely intervention can reduce problems.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00mfj9m (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
WED       Quinn. Plus Weather.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh3 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Chain Reaction b00mgd83 (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Frank Skinner
WED       Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next
WED       week's interviewer.
WED       Dave Gorman interviews Frank Skinner, asking him about his
WED       return to stand up, censorship in comedy and the merits of
WED       outdoor toilets.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00mfhlz (Listen)
WED       Wayne reaps what he sows at The Bull.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00mfjpn (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an
WED       interview with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk2x (Listen)
WED       Au Pairs, Episode 3
WED       Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners,
WED       morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The
WED       story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from
WED       Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their
WED       mutual condemnation of modern parenting.
WED       It is Louis' birthday. The cake is prepared and the games
WED       are organised - what could possibly go wrong?
WED       Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
WED       Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin
WED       Directed by Marc Beeby.
WED       
WED       20:00 Iconoclasts b00mgwhy (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Episode 1
WED       Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which
WED       guests set out their strong views on a subject, before
WED       being challenged by a panel of experts.
WED       Economist and writer Philippe Legrain argues that Britain
WED       should abolish all immigration controls. The movement of
WED       people across our borders should, he says, be as free as
WED       the movement of goods and services.
WED       Legrain's views are challenged by Sir Andrew Green,
WED       chairman of Migrationwatch UK, Labour MP for Keighley and
WED       Ilkeley Ann Cryer and Tony Saint, a writer and former
WED       immigration officer.
WED       
WED       20:45 Britain's White House b00mgwj0 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Sadiq Khan MP remembers the careers of Britain's first
WED       Asian MPs.
WED       Sadiq remembers his radical predecessor, Shapurji
WED       Saklatvala. One of Britain's first Asian MPs, Saklatvala's
WED       political career began in 1922 when he was elected as a
WED       Labour MP for South London. By the end of the decade,
WED       Saklatvala had been re-elected as Parliament's sole
WED       Communist MP, been imprisoned for sedition and become
WED       famous for his brilliant oratory and campaign for Indian
WED       independence.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00mg3ys (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Manx Marine Nature Reserve
WED       The Isle of Man government is considering designating an
WED       area of their coastline as a marine nature reserve,
WED       protecting invaluable habitats and species. The island is
WED       famous for its marine life, not least the basking shark,
WED       so, Brett Westwood asks, how feasible is it to set up a
WED       conservation area in the sea?
WED       
WED       21:30 Between Ourselves b00mg8w8 (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 6
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 women who were raped by men they met
WED       on a night out and asks why conviction rates in the UK are
WED       so low compared with the rest of Europe.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00mfkm5 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknv (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4r (Listen)
WED       Love and Summer, Episode 8
WED       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
WED       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
WED       Ireland.
WED       With little time left to them and the scent of autumn in
WED       the air, Ellie comes to Shelhanagh House for the first
WED       time.
WED       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED       
WED       23:00 Cowards b0079nt1 (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 3
WED       Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key
WED       and Lloyd Woolf.
WED       
WED       23:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of The Mic
WED       b00ft5bd (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett.
WED       Actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris lands a job on the
WED       BBC Radio Rep, and before long a murder takes place in
WED       Broadcasting House.
WED       Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy
WED       Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden
WED       Juliet Paris ...... Tilly Gaunt
WED       Maurice/John ...... Jon Glover
WED       Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson
WED       Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond
WED       Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo
WED       Charlotte Green ...... Herself
WED       Kasia/Actress ...... Jill Cardo
WED       Annie ...... Manjeet Mann
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfv (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrz (Listen)
THU       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
THU       Episode 3
THU       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
THU       Nobel Prize-winning author.
THU       In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with
THU       life as a celebrity.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdh0 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdy1 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjg (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00mff2x (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8m (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00mffdk (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00mfffx (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 Simpson in Afghanistan b00mh2t3 (Listen)
THU       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been
THU       travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen
THU       Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban
THU       takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a
THU       country still at war eight years after the American-led
THU       intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong.
THU       
THU       09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00mgx81 (Listen)
THU       Conclusion
THU       Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have
THU       been shaped by the media.
THU       Kenan examines the impact that television shows may have
THU       had on the treatment of Muslim detainees, and the
THU       responsibilities programme makers and artists face when
THU       dealing with Islamic issues.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00mffs1 (Listen)
THU       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
THU       Episode 4
THU       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
THU       Nobel Prize-winning author.
THU       Golding fails miserably in his attempts to research his
THU       Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6t (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00mgx83 (Listen)
THU       Egypt
THU       Magdi Abdelhadi explores what kind of society Egyptian
THU       president Hosni Mubarak, who has no obvious successor in
THU       place, will leave behind when he dies.
THU       Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and
THU       is pivotal for stability in the region and beyond, but
THU       after nearly three decades in power, the absence of a
THU       potential successor to the 81-year-old President Mubarak,
THU       has raised fears of a succession crisis.
THU       Magdi finds, to his surprise, that nearly 60 years after
THU       the military seized power and abolished the monarchy,
THU       Egyptians still look to the army for a saviour.
THU       
THU       11:30 Ena b00mgx85 (Listen)
THU       Mark Radcliffe explores the life of Violet Carson, the
THU       actress who played Ena Sharples, the Victorian relic who
THU       dominated Coronation Street in its' golden age of the
THU       1960s.
THU       A talented classical pianist and established BBC radio
THU       star, Carson was branching out into Shakespearian roles
THU       when the call from Granada came to play the hatchet-faced
THU       harridan in a hairnet. The genteel Violet Carson became
THU       overshadowed by her character and claimed that Ena
THU       ultimately destroyed her.
THU       But she left a rich legacy; Ena Sharples was television's
THU       prototype battleaxe and epitomised a particular kind of
THU       woman who dominated life in northern working-class
THU       communities. Mark Radcliffe came across women like Ena in
THU       the brick mill terraces of Bolton where his grandparents
THU       lived.
THU       By day, Ena would be polishing the woodwork in the Glad
THU       Tidings Mission Hall, where she was caretaker; by night,
THU       she was installed in the snug of the Rovers Return with
THU       her two cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell,
THU       gossiping over a milk stout and never taking their hats
THU       and coats off, even when they planned to stay all evening.
THU       Featuring contributions from Tony Warren, creator of
THU       Coronation Street and of Ena Sharples. Geoffrey Wheeler,
THU       who worked with Violet Carson at the BBC, traces the
THU       quickfire delivery of Ena back to the northern music hall
THU       tradition. Melvyn Bragg talks about how Ena Sharples
THU       reflected life in the black and white world of the north
THU       in the 1950s. Scriptwriter Adele Rose discusses the
THU       pivotal relationship between Ena Sharples and her bete
THU       noir, Elsie Tanner.
THU       The programme also includes archive of Violet Carson,
THU       reflecting on the mixed blessing that playing Ena Sharples
THU       was to her career and to her life.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00mfg89 (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00mfhhm (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00mfhl0 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00mg2v8 (Listen)
THU       Sell-by Dates
THU       In the UK, 370,000 tonnes of food is misguidedly thrown
THU       away each year after passing its best-before date, with a
THU       further 40,000 tonnes not even opened by consumers. An
THU       additional 220,000 tonnes of food is thrown away while
THU       still in date and 440,000 tonnes of food is thrown away
THU       after its use-by date. And that is just the food that
THU       reaches our fridges and fruitbowls. There are an estimated
THU       1.6 million tonnes of food thrown away by British
THU       retailers making up just some of the 5.4 million tonnes of
THU       food the UK throws away every year.
THU       So where does all this confusion come from? According to
THU       one survey, more than one-third of Britons believe that
THU       any product past its 'best-before' date is liable to
THU       poison them and should never be eaten. Added to this
THU       confusion is the less than scientific way in which
THU       'use-by' dates are often set with a 'worse case scenario'
THU       applied to all products, protecting the consumer but also
THU       the industry.
THU       With dates now applied to all kinds of produce, from soft
THU       fruit to hard cheese, Tom Heap seeks to find out where
THU       these dates came from, who sets them, who benefits and how
THU       we might learn to live without them.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00mfhlz (Listen)
THU       Wayne reaps what he sows at The Bull.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mgy5c (Listen)
THU       Cold
THU       Comedy by Tony Bagley, set in 1959 at the Common Cold
THU       Unit. Medical researchers are certain that a cure for the
THU       cold is just around the corner. But they haven't foreseen
THU       a revolution within their own walls.
THU       Barry ...... Paul Reynolds
THU       John ...... Philip Fox
THU       Nurse Bader ...... Melissa Advani
THU       Doctor ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
THU       Lillian ...... Alex Tregear
THU       Geraldine ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
THU       Narrator ...... Piers Wehner
THU       Junior Doctor/Wandering Man ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00mdy0v (Listen)
THU       Tales From the Serpentine
THU       Matt Baker starts the day with a splash when he joins the
THU       early morning swimmers at the Serpentine Lake in London's
THU       Hyde Park.
THU       For almost 300 years, the Serpentine has played a role in
THU       the history of London and formed a central part in the
THU       lives of the people and wildlife who use it on a daily
THU       basis. Matt takes a walk around the lake, chatting to the
THU       people involved with the lake today and with the wildlife
THU       that live in and around it and finds out more about a
THU       recent project to improve water quality.
THU       Created in 1730 when Queen Caroline ordered the damming of
THU       the River Westbourne, the 40-acre body of water has been
THU       the playground of poets and queens, a meeting place for
THU       the fashionable and the not so fashionable, and a favoured
THU       spot for swimmers. These range from the 10,000 people in
THU       the mid-19th century who were described as a 'mass of
THU       human flesh in motion' to the early morning bathers of
THU       today, described by AA Gill as 'shelled turtles'.
THU       Matt also takes a trip on the solar-powered shuttle boat
THU       that silently and effortlessly glides from one side of the
THU       lake to the other, ferrying visitors from the boat house
THU       on the north shore to the Princess of Wales Memorial
THU       Fountain on the south.
THU       The day ends with a chat with 'Captain Hook', aka actor
THU       Jonathan Hyde, before he takes to the stage in the current
THU       production of Peter Pan, running in the
THU       specially-commissioned state-of-the-art Kensington Gardens
THU       Theatre Pavilion.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mf26y (Listen)
THU       Prospect Burma
THU       Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma.
THU       Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope PB.
THU       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
THU       payer, please provide PB with your full name and address
THU       so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The
THU       online and phone donation facilities are not currently
THU       available to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 802615.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n2 (Listen)
THU       The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 3
THU       Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel
THU       Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and
THU       introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of
THU       English at King's College, London, David Nokes.
THU       Johnson's Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare and
THU       one of his final pieces of biography and literary
THU       criticism, examining the life and work of the poet
THU       Alexander Pope.
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhwz (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and
THU       examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the
THU       test of time.
THU       Science writer Gabrielle Walker goes punting on the River
THU       Cam to discover if Aristotle's treatise on meteorology
THU       stands up to modern scrutiny. Aristotle likens earthquakes
THU       to bodily ructions but remarkably knew that, 'where there
THU       is dry land there will one day be sea'.
THU       
THU       16:00 Bookclub b00mf31l (Listen)
THU       Robert Macfarlane
THU       James Naughtie and readers talk to travel writer and
THU       literary critic Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild
THU       Places, in which he sets out to discover if there remain
THU       any genuinely wild places in Britain and Ireland.
THU       It is an account of journeys that he made to the remaining
THU       wilderness in the islands. He climbs hills and mountains,
THU       walks across moors and bogs, luxuriates beside hidden
THU       lochs, swims through caves and disappears into forests,
THU       all in search of that special quality of solitude in
THU       communion with nature.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00mgy5f (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper hears what became of the Large Hadron
THU       Collider, one year on from the much-vaunted Big Bang Day.
THU       In September 2008, Radio 4 decamped to the Swiss
THU       countryside to broadcast the launch of the most
THU       complicated experiment ever attempted, the giant,
THU       atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility.
THU       But before the month was out, the experiment was
THU       suspended, after a major electrical failure.
THU       Quentin hears about progress towards the re-opening of the
THU       LHC and finds out when it is likely to work again.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00mfj9p (Listen)
THU       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
THU       Quinn. Plus Weather.
THU       
THU       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh5 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Electric Ink b00l63v8 (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
THU       media in the newspaper industry.
THU       The paper hires a reality star as a columnist and Maddox
THU       must find a way of rewriting her copy without upsetting
THU       her.
THU       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
THU       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
THU       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
THU       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
THU       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
THU       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
THU       Debbie ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       Announcer ...... Matt Addis
THU       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00mfhm1 (Listen)
THU       Reality bites for The Ambridge Fraudster.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00mfjpq (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
THU       interview with Barry Humphries, as he prepares for live
THU       shows starring Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfkgz (Listen)
THU       Au Pairs, Episode 4
THU       Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners,
THU       morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The
THU       story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from
THU       Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their
THU       mutual condemnation of modern parenting.
THU       Alvy and Dorika go to the zoo. Lock up your children.
THU       Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
THU       Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin
THU       Directed by Marc Beeby.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00mgy5h (Listen)
THU       James Silver examines the potential effect of the decison
THU       to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on
THU       trade relations between Libya and the West. The former
THU       pariah state has some of the world's biggest reserves of
THU       oil and gas - might British industry benefit from Libya's
THU       desire to develop its economy?
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00mgy5k (Listen)
THU       Student Start-Ups
THU       Britain's universities are alive with a new wave of
THU       business activity, and in many of them the largest student
THU       societies are the ones which bring would-be entrepreneurs
THU       together with potential backers and mentors.
THU       Peter Day samples some of the start-up ideas on show at
THU       Cambridge University and hears how academic attitudes to
THU       business have changed over the past few decades.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00mgyr1 (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts reports from the British Science Association's
THU       Festival in Guildford.
THU       At the 2008 Festival, Prof Michael Reiss suggested that
THU       science teachers should be prepared to discuss creationist
THU       beliefs in the classroom if asked about them by pupils.
THU       The resulting controversy led to his departure from the
THU       post of Education Director at the Royal Society. He is now
THU       Professor of Science Education at the Institute of
THU       Education and returns to the Festival to argue the case
THU       for discussing controversial issues in science classes.
THU       Geoff follows up several aspects of communication: how
THU       animals and people communicate emotions and recognise
THU       faces, the prehistoric basis of language and artistic
THU       communication among our ancestors, and the role of brain
THU       function in stimulating creative expression.
THU       
THU       21:30 Simpson in Afghanistan b00mh2t3 (Listen)
THU       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been
THU       travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen
THU       Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban
THU       takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a
THU       country still at war eight years after the American-led
THU       intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00mfkm7 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknx (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4t (Listen)
THU       Love and Summer, Episode 9
THU       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
THU       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
THU       Ireland.
THU       As Florian's departure date approaches, Ellie makes
THU       another journey to Shelhanagh, and Orpen Wren goes in
THU       search of someone in particular to hear his story.
THU       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
THU       
THU       23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dwjd7 (Listen)
THU       Series 1, Tim Brooke-Taylor
THU       Marcus Brigstocke invites Tim Brooke-Taylor to try new
THU       experiences.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b007ng62 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Uncontrollable Responses
THU       Jon Ronson continues his look at human behaviour by
THU       finding the moments where we respond in an uncontrollable
THU       way.
THU       Comedian Robert Popper couldn't stop his drunken friend
THU       from putting their lives at risk while at a wedding in
THU       Israel. The story involved a pair of underpants, but no
THU       hilarious consequences.
THU       Another interviewee, who survived the 7/7 terrorist
THU       attacks, found herself - during the period of her recovery
THU       - uncontrollably joining in with message boards accusing
THU       her of being a government plant on one of the bombed
THU       trains.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfx (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00mffs1 (Listen)
FRI       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
FRI       Episode 4
FRI       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
FRI       Nobel Prize-winning author.
FRI       Golding fails miserably in his attempts to research his
FRI       Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdh2 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdy3 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjj (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00mff2z (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8p (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00mffdm (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00mfffz (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 The Reunion b00mf27b (Listen)
FRI       Iranian Embassy Siege
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 those caught up in the siege at the Iranian
FRI       Embassy in London in 1980, which ended with a dramatic
FRI       storming of the building by SAS commandos. With
FRI       contributions from hostages Sim Harris and Mustapha
FRI       Karkouti, police negotiator Max Vernon, BBC reporter Kate
FRI       Adie and Robin Horsfall of the SAS.
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00mffs3 (Listen)
FRI       William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies,
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the
FRI       prize-winning author.
FRI       In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6w (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen)
FRI       Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager,
FRI       investigates the demise of the traditional face of our
FRI       high street banks.
FRI       For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our
FRI       money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it
FRI       their business to know every detail of the local economy.
FRI       Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash
FRI       machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and
FRI       their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to
FRI       sell, sell, sell.
FRI       Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's
FRI       profession no longer exists, and asks how this change
FRI       reflects on today's consumer society and the banking
FRI       industry's rush to lend money.
FRI       Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire
FRI       of Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on
FRI       the road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style
FRI       Lloyds bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous
FRI       breakdown under the pressure to meet new targets; John
FRI       Hackett, HSBC's Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who
FRI       says that banks are now far more responsive to their
FRI       customers' needs.
FRI       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mgz1p (Listen)
FRI       Cadmus Wilcox
FRI       By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the
FRI       highly-respected, now retired, English master of
FRI       Haunchurst School for boys, looks back on his favourite
FRI       pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on
FRI       school reports and their letters to him after they left.
FRI       A pupil with American diplomat parents is denied access to
FRI       the senior cadets shooting team by the Colonel because he
FRI       is not a British citizen, even though he is the only hope
FRI       the school have of winning the prestigious inter-schools
FRI       shooting cup. But when he visits Haunchurst as an adult
FRI       with an Olympic medal for shooting with his US team, the
FRI       Colonel is totally unimpressed.
FRI       Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid
FRI       Colonel Bradshaw ...... Richard Johnson
FRI       ARF Somerset-Stephenson.............Mike Sarne
FRI       Cadmus Wilcox (Boy) ...... Tom Kane
FRI       Cadmus Wilcox (Adult) ...... Dominic Hawksley
FRI       Wentworth ...... Louis Williams
FRI       Directed by Andrew McGibbon
FRI       A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00mfg8c (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00mfhhp (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00mfhl2 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00mh27z (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 b00mfhm1 (Listen)
FRI       Reality bites for The Ambridge Fraudster.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mh2g0 (Listen)
FRI       The Second Best Bed
FRI       Comic monologue by Christopher Green. A feisty woman has
FRI       taken to her bed in the spare room and she is not getting
FRI       up - ever. She's 39 and has decided that she is not having
FRI       children. She claims her boyfriend is in denial, though in
FRI       reality he is in Zurich.
FRI       With Caroline Quentin.
FRI       Directed by Claire Grove.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mh2yp (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs answer
FRI       questions sent in by post at the Gardeners' Question Time
FRI       potting shed at Sparsholt College in Hampshire.
FRI       If you are eternally battling the dreaded Japanese
FRI       Knotweed, Dr Richard Shaw has some ideas about a new bio
FRI       control.
FRI       Plus the latest news on the garden trials with Sparsholt
FRI       College's Rosie Yeomans, including an update on our
FRI       treasured courgettes and plans for over-wintering Dahlias.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhx1 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and
FRI       examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the
FRI       test of time.
FRI       Prof Gus Mcgrouther finds striking parallels between his
FRI       wound-healing research in Manchester and the earliest
FRI       methods recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00mh2yr (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 b00mj10h (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to writer and director Nora Ephron
FRI       about her latest film Julie and Julia, and a career that
FRI       includes When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00mfj9r (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
FRI       Quinn. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh7 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mj10k (Listen)
FRI       Episode 4
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 Justin
FRI       Edwards, Paul Sinha and Justin Moorhouse.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00mfhm3 (Listen)
FRI       Matt finds all is not lost with Lilian.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00mfjps (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
FRI       on a new museum in Portugal dedicated to the work of
FRI       painter Paula Rego.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfkd2 (Listen)
FRI       Au Pairs, Episode 5
FRI       Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners,
FRI       morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The
FRI       story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from
FRI       Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their
FRI       mutual condemnation of modern parenting.
FRI       Major life changes beckon. If only Alvy and Dorika can get
FRI       that vase off Louis' head.
FRI       Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
FRI       Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin
FRI       Directed by Marc Beeby.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00mj16f (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from
FRI       Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mj16h (Listen)
FRI       Tracks
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Following the tracks left by animals is a great craft
FRI       owned by many aboriginal people. Doing the same with
FRI       fossilised tracks is much the same skill, but with a whole
FRI       new set of extraordinary revelations.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Saturday Play b008hsky (Listen)
FRI       The Wooden Overcoat
FRI       Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in
FRI       1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss.
FRI       Much to his surprise, Benji Cann has got away with murder.
FRI       He gravitates to the Asterisk Club, a place of refuge for
FRI       those who have strayed beyond the pale and not paid the
FRI       ultimate price. But then Benji turns up dead. Who killed
FRI       him and how will they be able to get rid of the body
FRI       without the neighbours noticing?
FRI       Peter ...... David Tennant
FRI       Fan ...... Julia Davis
FRI       Rex ...... David Benson
FRI       Beesum ...... Alan David
FRI       Colonel Quincey ...... Graham Crowden
FRI       Creaker ...... David Ryall
FRI       Flush ...... John Castle
FRI       Benji ...... Tom Allen
FRI       Mrs Barratt ...... Barbara Kirby
FRI       Lilli Cluj ...... Katherine Jakeways.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00mfkm9 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknz (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4w (Listen)
FRI       Love and Summer, Episode 10
FRI       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
FRI       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
FRI       Ireland.
FRI       Passive in the face of Ellie's determination, Florian has
FRI       offered her the chance to come with him to Scandinavia.
FRI       Now Ellie must weigh the damage and make her choice.
FRI       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00mg74v (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Samuel Johnson
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, nominates Samuel
FRI       Johnson, writer of the great dictionary. Dr Johnson's
FRI       biographer, Peter Martin, joins the discussion.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Episode 3
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the past week of radio.
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