02 October, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 03/10/2009 - 09/10/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00myhdz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv9 (Listen) SAT Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 5 SAT Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. SAT Despite its initial huge promise, the SDP finally wound SAT down and merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the SAT Liberal Democrats. SAT Abridged by Polly Coles. SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00myhf1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00myhf3 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00myhf5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00myhf7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00myhf9 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00myhfc (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00myhff (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00myhfh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00myhfk (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 3 SAT Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in SAT Northumberland. SAT Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth SAT to Warkworth, in the company of local artisit Sue Fenlon SAT and photographer Barbara Aitchison. They explain why they SAT find this part of the Northumberland coast so inspiring. SAT St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy SAT Island in the north, along the stunning Northumberland SAT coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's SAT Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St SAT Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh SAT century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity SAT to his people. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00myhfm (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT There are growing calls for school children to learn about SAT farming and food production as a core element of the SAT national curriculum. Currently, farm visits are optional SAT and dependant on the willingness of the school or the SAT local authority. Charlotte Smith hears from researchers SAT who say that farming could be used to teach a wide range SAT of subjects, including maths, science, geography and SAT history. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00myhfp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00mypjr (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00mypjt (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by author and SAT broadcaster Kate Mosse. With poetry from Murray Lachlan SAT Young SAT Major Kerry Clark serves in the Queen Alexandra's Royal SAT Army Nursing Corps and in February 2008, she left her SAT seven-month-old son to undertake a ten-week tour of duty SAT in Iraq. SAT Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews were brought together at the SAT lowest points of their individual lives - she in a spiral SAT of drug addiction and he with a life sentence for a SAT contract killing. SAT Mike Parker tells us about his love of the ordnance survey SAT map. SAT Rick Stein choses his inheritance tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00mz3g5 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the many, mainly failed, attempts SAT to find the fabled Northwest Passage - a sea passage SAT across the Arctic linking the Atlantic ocean with the SAT Pacific. He also uses a new travel guide to explore SAT medieval England as a traveller might have done in the SAT 14th Century. SAT SAT 10:30 Who the Wild Things Are b00c5j0j (Listen) SAT Philip Glassborow explores the origins of Maurice Sendak's SAT classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are. SAT The creatures in the book have beaks, claws, fangs and SAT scales, but who exactly are they and why has Max's journey SAT to them fascinated so many children and adults since it SAT first appeared in the early 1960s? SAT Philip looks at the origins of the book and its scary yet SAT loveable heroes. Did it grow out of Sendak's sickly SAT childhood, the stories told to him by his father, comments SAT made by his foreign-sounding aunts and uncles (their hairy SAT nostrils and warty faces peering down and declaring SAT 'you're so good I could eat you up!'), his relationship SAT with his editor, or some far deeper source? SAT Glassborow talks with Sendak's British editor and to the SAT Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner. He discovers SAT that in all the extensive press, radio and television SAT coverage, nobody seems to have consulted Sendak's target SAT audience - children. Putting this to rights, he soon finds SAT that angry mothers and fathers with big hairy feet both SAT feature in their interpretations. SAT The programme features a reading by Henry Goodman and SAT extensive use of Jewish Klezmer music. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mz3g9 (Listen) SAT As David Cameron puts his case to the Conservative party SAT faithful and the electorate at the Conservative Party SAT conference, Iain Martin asks what lies behind the Tory SAT leadership. Is Cameron purposely fudging his beliefs in SAT his bid to win the next election? And, if he wins, how SAT will he marry his breed of 'caring conservatism' with cuts SAT in public spending? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mz3gc (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Including a toxic find deep in the Colombian rainforest, SAT life on the poverty line for poor, white South Africans SAT and a park with a difference in New York. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00mz3gf (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Who pays if thieves steal your credit card and then spend SAT your money? SAT Will a professional fund manager get a better return for SAT your savings? SAT The credit card companies charging customers for not using SAT their cards. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00mydlh (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 2 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and SAT Sue Perkins. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00mz3gh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00mz3pl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00mydlk (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Altrincham in SAT Cheshire. The panellists are health secretary Andy SAT Burnham, Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat junior spokesperson SAT on foreign affairs, and Eric Pickles, chairman of the SAT Conservative Party, and journalist Matthew Parris. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00mz3pn (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00mz3pq (Listen) SAT The Von Trapps and Me SAT Annie Caulfield's comedy tells the famous story of the Von SAT Trapp family singers from the perspective of the Princess SAT Yvonne, the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to SAT marry Maria. SAT Princess Yvonne ...... Helen Froggatt SAT Helena ...... Helen Baxendale SAT Captain Von Trapp ...... James Fleet SAT Maria ...... Helen Ayres SAT Boy ...... Benjamin Askew SAT Girl ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Reverend Mother ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Sam ...... Mark Meadows SAT Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00mw5v5 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their SAT emotional appeal. SAT Richard Strauss was 84 when he completed his last work. It SAT was the Four Last Songs, which, although about death, SAT convey a sense of calm acceptance. It was written of its SAT time in 1948, but it still touches the hearts of many SAT listeners today. SAT As the soprano voice delves ever deeper into the richness SAT of the music, interviewees tell how the Four Last Songs SAT have brought calm and beauty at key moments in their lives. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00mz4fr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Including: SAT Entertainer Roy Hudd on 50 years in showbusiness and the SAT women in his life; classroom discipline: are sufficient SAT powers available to teachers? Changing attitudes in South SAT Africa to lesbians and gay men; Lynne Truss on writing SAT from the touchline; Jeanette Winterson on female SAT surrealist artists to rival Dali; gender trap clothes for SAT the under-fives; the medieval sound of the hurdy-gurdy SAT with contemporary performer Stevie Wishart. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00mz4xy (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00mwty5 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis asks his panel of top business guests about SAT discipline at work - whether they like running a tight SAT ship or prefer letting spirits run free - and tries to SAT shed some light on the mysteries of profit margins. SAT His guests are Robert Polet, chief executive of the Gucci SAT Group, Garry Watts, chief executive of SSL International, SAT whose brands include Durex and Scholl, and Paula Bell, SAT finance director of technology and engineering group SAT Ricardo. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mz4y2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00mz4y4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mz4y6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00mz4y8 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive talks to the 'the King of Cool', the 'crooner's SAT crooner', Andy Williams, while comedians Vic Reeves, SAT Arthur Smith and Armstrong and Miller pay homage in their SAT slacks and cardigans. SAT Toby Young tells us how Boris met Dave: the Mayor of SAT London and the man who could be the next prime minister, SAT that is. SAT With music from The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir and SAT Laura Gibson. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen) SAT Sarah Brown SAT Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the SAT prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party SAT Conference again this year and she is growing in SAT popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her SAT personality and read her Twitter messages with interest. SAT But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to SAT her husband's political status, or is she successfully SAT carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her SAT many charities and restoring some of the political ground SAT that the Labour Party has lost? SAT We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those SAT who know her now. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00mz4yd (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen) SAT In the Beginning Was the Nerd SAT Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000, SAT the world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The SAT Millennium Bug. SAT Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and SAT unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive, SAT Stephen travels back to the dawn of the digital age to SAT argue that a major cause was our attitude to the SAT technology and the people we held responsible for it. SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00mtvgw (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, SAT the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. SAT As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory SAT proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what SAT it seems. SAT Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy SAT Haldane ...... Philip Jackson SAT Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann SAT Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe SAT Anna ...... Ania Sowinski SAT Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar SAT Control ...... John Rowe SAT Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT Official ...... Philip Fox SAT Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00mz53t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 From Abacus to Circle Time: The Primary School SAT Debate b00mws3r (Listen) SAT Following education journalist Mike Baker's three-part SAT series on the history of primary schools, Jane Garvey SAT chairs a debate on the future of education for the under SAT 11s. SAT 2009 sees a critical and uncertain time in primary SAT schooling. The 'root and branch reform' of the curriculum SAT promised by schools secretary Ed Balls has led to the SAT publication of Sir Jim Rose's review. The wider-ranging SAT Cambridge Primary Review, led by Prof Robin Alexander, is SAT also due. Add to the mix a possible change of political SAT leadership before the new system is implemented in SAT September 2011, and the only real certainty is that major SAT change will come to a primary school near you. SAT The programme is recorded at the Institute of Education in SAT London, in front of an audience. The expert panel, made up SAT of primary practictioners, educationalists and parents, SAT take questions and comments from the audience and set out SAT to address the question, 'What is the purpose of primary SAT education, and how can we best provide it?'. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mvs8r (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern SAT Ireland, versus Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead of Wales. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00mtwd4 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for Lewis Carroll's SAT surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark, told not in verses SAT but in eight distinctive 'fits'. Includes archive SAT recordings by Ken Campbell and Alec Guinness. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00mz54v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zd (Listen) SUN Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, The True Story of the Twelve SUN Dancing Princesses SUN Series of stories by Morven Crumlish. SUN Who says the princesses spent their time dancing all SUN night? A soldier is exposed to the truth in this quirky SUN reworking of the traditional fairy tale. SUN Read by Shirley Henderson. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mz5qx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mz5qz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mz5r1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00mz5r3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mz5r5 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne SUN Priors in Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen) SUN Sarah Brown SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the SUN prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party SUN Conference again this year and she is growing in SUN popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her SUN personality and read her Twitter messages with interest. SUN But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to SUN her husband's political status, or is she successfully SUN carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her SUN many charities and restoring some of the political ground SUN that the Labour Party has lost? SUN We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those SUN who know her now. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00mz5r7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00mz5r9 (Listen) SUN The Ascent SUN Writer Sarah Cuddon has always been drawn to the mountains SUN - in childhood, to her grandfather's house in the SUN Pyrenees, and as an adult to peaks in more remote and SUN dangerous locations including the Andes and Himalayas. SUN She reflects on this fascination and how writers and SUN climbers, from Wordsworth to Andrew Greig, Joe Simpson to SUN Robert Macfarlane, have felt about 'the ascent'. SUN With music by Clogs, Baka Beyond and Anton Bruckner. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00mz6j0 (Listen) SUN Adam Henson meets engineer-turned-farmer Tamara Hall at SUN Molescroft Hall in Beverley to find out about her passion SUN for wetlands as part of commercial farming. SUN Convalescing at home on the family farm after a riding SUN accident, Tamara discovered that she could use her SUN engineering background to good effect there. She tells SUN Adam Henson that the farm, which had previously been run SUN on 'traditional' lines, is now diversifying into land SUN stewardship programmes, in close partnership with the SUN Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. SUN After attending some suitable courses and a period of SUN on-the-job training, Tamara is now transforming the SUN 1,000-acre enterprise to include wetlands and a school SUN classroom, and developing new innovations in crop SUN rotations. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00mz6j2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00mz6j4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00mz6j6 (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 b00mz6j8 (Listen) SUN The Disabled Living Foundation SUN Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living SUN Foundation. SUN Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide the Disabled Living Foundation with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 290069. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00mz6jd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00mz6jg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00mz6jj (Listen) SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, preaches SUN at a Harvest Thanksgiving service in the village church of SUN St Cosmus and St Damian in the Blean near Canterbury. SUN Led by Rev Dr Stephen Laird. SUN Director of Music: Stephen Barker. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mydlm (Listen) SUN Amber SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN As a boy, David Attenborough had a piece of amber in which SUN lay a blood-sucking fly; he still has it today. Would it SUN be possible to extract the DNA from one of these insects SUN caught in the resin and, maybe, recreate a dinosaur? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00mz6jl (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00mz6jn (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00mz6jq (Listen) SUN Dame Ellen MacArthur SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen SUN MacArthur. SUN She was 28 when she became the fastest person to sail solo SUN around the world, and has been called the 'first true SUN heroine of the 21st century'. SUN She still sails with friends and with the charity she set SUN up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her SUN ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same SUN sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When SUN your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce SUN food and fuel really are. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00mw196 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 10 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Featuring SUN Graham Norton and Paul Merton on how to outdo the other SUN panellists, Gyles Brandreth on the subject of pretentious SUN vocabulary, and Pauline McLynn on junk mail. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00mz6pr (Listen) SUN Hops SUN English hops are enjoying a renaissance thanks to new SUN varieties, greater demand for 'hoppy' ales and the SUN incredible growth in micro breweries. Sheila Dillon enjoys SUN some of the heady aromas and samples some new ales. SUN She visits Shepherd Neame, a brewery in Faversham, Kent SUN and talks to head brewer, David Holmes, She visits farm SUN owner Tony Redsell, whose family has been growing hops for SUN over 50 years, and meets hop driers Derek Elvey and Peter SUN Shead. SUN Sheila also talks to Dr Peter Darby about The National Hop SUN Collection at Queen Court Farm, near Faversham. SUN In the studio, she is joined in the studio by Roger Protz, SUN beer writer and editor of The Good Beer Guide, and Martin SUN Dickie, brewer and co-owner of Brewdog Brewery, SUN Fraserburgh. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00mz6pt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00mz6pw (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) SUN Pianist and broadcaster Simon Townley samples the many SUN different ways in which trains and railways have inspired SUN composers and songwriters and what it is about this SUN particular form of travel that makes it so inspiring. SUN They may be a shadow of their former infrastructural SUN selves, but railways still hold a curiously affectionate SUN place in our national life. Nowhere is this more true than SUN in the world of music, where chuffing, whistling, steaming SUN and clackety-clacking have been the inspiration for SUN hundreds of songs. Simon has never described himself as a SUN railway enthusiast, but he has always had an ear for the SUN things that inspire composers and songwriters. SUN He explores the rhythms, themes and metaphorical uses of SUN the train in music, from Honneger's Pacific 231 to SUN American blues tracks such as Love in Vain and Freight SUN Train Blues. SUN Country and western star Laura Cantrell, music professor SUN Alan Moore and composer Richard Rodney Bennett contribute SUN their thoughts on this mass transit system which has SUN provided such a rich seam of inspiration over the last 200 SUN years. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mx963 (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer SUN questions posed by the gardeners of New Waltham, near SUN Grimsby. SUN John meets some of the characters behind Grimsby in Bloom, SUN including the man responsible for galvanising the SUN community into gardening action. SUN Jeffrey Bates from the RHS offers some tips on how your SUN town or village could enter next year's Britain in Bloom SUN campaign. SUN Pippa Greenwood meets some green-fingered kids in SUN Hampshire who are taking part in the Tree Council's Seed SUN Gathering Season. SUN And Matthew explains how simple it is to sow green manure SUN and so avoid exposing the bare earth to winter weather. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Food For Thought b00mz8tj (Listen) SUN Shabbat-eve with Rabbi Lionel Blue SUN Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow SUN discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. SUN With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Lionel Blue looks back SUN on his unorthodox life. As Britain's first openly gay SUN Rabbi, often referred to as 'cherub-faced', he tells Nina SUN how food has been inextricably linked with personal SUN transformation, from changing tastes and a fluctuating SUN waistline to transformed circumstances and shifting SUN beliefs. However, he still remembers watching his SUN grandmother cooking potato latkes and eating them on toast SUN or with apple sauce. It was the kind of food that fed the SUN family, the neighbours and, he implies, the soul. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00mz9tb (Listen) SUN Beau Geste, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of SUN honour, love and adventure. SUN The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance SUN to join the French Foreign Legion, following the SUN mysterious disappearance of a valuable family heirloom. SUN Beau ...... Chris New SUN John ...... Rob Hastie SUN Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin SUN Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd SUN Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley SUN Isobel ...... Candida Benson SUN Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster SUN Burdon ...... Scott Richards SUN Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday SUN Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill SUN Young John ...... Alex Hockaday SUN Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe SUN Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner SUN Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher SUN Boldini ...... Laurence Possa SUN Hank ...... Greg Wohead SUN Buddy ...... Don Mousseau SUN The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan SUN Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet SUN Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield SUN Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina. SUN Directed by Willi Richards SUN An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00mzdlq (Listen) SUN Gillian Slovo SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her SUN novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid SUN South Africa. SUN Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding SUN members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First, SUN an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces SUN in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's SUN own experience of coming face to face with her mother's SUN killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the SUN new South Africa. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00mzdqb (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that chime SUN with the theme of 2009's National Poetry Day, that of SUN heroes and heroines. Including works by poets as varied as SUN Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00mwms4 (Listen) SUN Following criticism of the NHS over the system failures SUN which allowed a man with schizophrenia to kill two people, SUN Miriam O'Reilly investigates claims of widespread problems SUN in community mental health services which are allowing SUN dangerous patients to commit violent offences or to harm SUN themselves. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00mz4yb (Listen) SUN Sarah Brown SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Sarah Brown, the wife of the SUN prime minister. She introduced him at the Labour Party SUN Conference again this year and she is growing in SUN popularity among delegates and activists who warm to her SUN personality and read her Twitter messages with interest. SUN But is she simply a 'first lady' who owes her influence to SUN her husband's political status, or is she successfully SUN carving out a career behind the scenes, working on her SUN many charities and restoring some of the political ground SUN that the Labour Party has lost? SUN We talk to childhood friends, former colleagues and those SUN who know her now. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mzg1y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00mzg20 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzg22 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00mzg24 (Listen) SUN Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Calling Hereford - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN Hoffnung: Drawn to Music - Radio 4 SUN Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors - Radio 2 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN Analysis - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN World Book Club - World Service SUN Archive on 4: In the Beginning Was the Nerd - Radio 4 SUN Black Men Can't Swim - Radio 4 SUN That Mitchell And Webb Sound - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00mzg26 (Listen) SUN Jim gets the casting vote at the AGM. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00mzg28 (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 After Chicago learns that it will not host the 2016 Summer SUN Olympic Games, Americana talks to locals to learn who the SUN real winners and losers are. SUN Swag - the mugs, scarves, baseball hats and t-shirts sold SUN on corners around the world - can be big money-makers and SUN big message-senders. T-shirt fans from around the US weigh SUN in on the impact a t-shirt can have. SUN As the US Supreme Court begins its new session, Americana SUN talks to top constitutional law experts about what's on SUN the Court's docket and the possible implications these SUN Supreme Court cases may have on the future of justice in SUN the United States. SUN Chickens are clucking and pecking their way into some SUN surprisingly urban locations across the United States. SUN Writer Susan Orlean reflects on what it means to have the SUN feathered friends close at hand. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9q (Listen) SUN Granta Stories, Operation SUN Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most SUN prestigious literary magazine. SUN By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by Janice Acquah. SUN A victim's photograph on the wall of a newsroom in Lagos SUN brings to life this gripping memoir. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00mx8rf (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN Evan Davis talks about crashing the pips and listeners ask SUN if former prisoners, such as Jonathan Aitken, should be SUN the subject of sympathetic programmes. SUN We also have more of your comments on PM. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00mx965 (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 b00mz3gf (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Who pays if thieves steal your credit card and then spend SUN your money? SUN Will a professional fund manager get a better return for SUN your savings? SUN The credit card companies charging customers for not using SUN their cards. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mz6j8 (Listen) SUN The Disabled Living Foundation SUN Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living SUN Foundation. SUN Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide the Disabled Living Foundation with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 290069. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00mw2nh (Listen) SUN Who's Afraid of the BNP? SUN With the BNP hitting the headlines over their 2009 success SUN in the European elections, Kenan Malik asks what the SUN liberal response should be. Is it simply enough to SUN demonise this far-right party, or has the time arrived for SUN us all to open up to a more sophisticated debate which SUN allows for a greater understanding of what the BNP stands SUN for? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00mzg9w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00mzg9y (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Conserving What? SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00mydlf (Listen) SUN The grandmother of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda, on SUN her life with Jacques Demy. SUN The film version of The Battle Of Britain remembered by SUN two men who risked their lives filming the epic dog-fights. SUN The first instalment of Matthew Sweet's guide to forgotten SUN British gems,There Ain't No Justice, directed by doomed SUN film-maker Pen Tennyson. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00mz5r9 (Listen) SUN The Ascent SUN Writer Sarah Cuddon has always been drawn to the mountains SUN - in childhood, to her grandfather's house in the SUN Pyrenees, and as an adult to peaks in more remote and SUN dangerous locations including the Andes and Himalayas. SUN She reflects on this fascination and how writers and SUN climbers, from Wordsworth to Andrew Greig, Joe Simpson to SUN Robert Macfarlane, have felt about 'the ascent'. SUN With music by Clogs, Baka Beyond and Anton Bruckner. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mwrhh (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor discusses the language of crime and the MON codes of criminal communication with Diego Gambetta, mafia MON scholar and criminal sociologist. He finds out why, in MON order to survive in the criminal underworld, language MON requires subtle, coded and sometimes gruesome modes of MON communication to avoid being found out by rivals or police. MON Laurie is joined by Dick Hobbs, sociologist from the LSE, MON to find out why the language of the criminal underworld is MON often written in code. MON Also, what makes a scandal? Ari Adut from the University MON of Texas discusses. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mz5r5 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne MON Priors in Hampshire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mztcb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt90 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00mztcn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztkl (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00mztlc (Listen) MON It is conker season, but children may be disappointed this MON year as horse chestnut trees face a little invader with MON big consequences. Charlotte Smith finds out what is being MON done to control the rapid spread of 'leaf miner'. Also, MON Charlotte asks whether NIMBYS (Not In My Back Yard) are MON friend or foe of the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00n03z8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00mztyd (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00n03zb (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON His guests include PD James on the art of writing MON detective fiction, former MI5 director general Stella MON Rimington on her new novel, Present Danger, and former MON Sunday Times editor Harold Evans on his memoir, My Paper MON Chase. Andrew also celebrates the life and work of MON composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00mztyg (Listen) MON Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 1 MON Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she MON spent as a sports reporter. MON How does a woman of literary tastes and neither knowledge MON of nor interest in sport end up covering great and MON not-so-great events for the sports section of a national MON newspaper? As Lynne explains, it all starts over lunch... MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv1h (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON It was widely reported last week that, 'Children of MON working mothers are less healthy' - which prompted MON columnists and bloggers to bemoan yet more negative MON scrutiny directed at women who juggle paid work and MON parenting. Jane discusses the truth behind the news copy, MON and asks how useful the term 'working mother' is today. MON Claire Martin has been voted Best Vocalist a record five MON times at the BBC British Jazz Awards. She has opened MON concerts for Tony Bennett and worked with artists MON including Curtis Stigers, Jamie Cullum and Sir Richard MON Rodney Bennett, and is known to thousands of jazz fans as MON presenter of Jazz Line-Up on BBC Radio 3. Currently MON touring the UK, Claire joins Jane to discuss her career MON and to play from her new album. MON A recent report commissioned by Italy's parliamentary MON anti-Mafia commission suggests that 13 million Italians MON still live in areas where organised crime exerts influence MON over everyday life. But in some parts of Italy, business MON owners are determined to stand up against the power of the MON Mafia. Five years ago a group of students in Palermo MON formed Addiopizzo; many of those at the forefront of the MON movement are women and young people who are tired of the MON reality of Mafia control. Jane finds out if they have made MON an impact. MON There is no one way to sum up the sister relationship - MON best friend, worst enemy, greatest rival, closest MON confidante. Luisa Dillner talks to Jane about her latest MON anthology, looking at sisters through the ages. MON MON 11:00 Influenced By Banksy b00n0n29 (Listen) MON Bristol's own Banksy is rich and famous for his 'street MON art', yet aspiring teenage artists in the city are being MON charged with criminal damage for following his example. MON This programme hears from the vandals, the artists, and MON those who are trying to distinguish between them. MON Following the success of Bristol City Museum's Banksy MON exhibition, which drew in more than 300,000 visitors, the MON council want Bristolians to vote on whether graffiti MON should be left on buildings or removed. They say they want MON to promote street art - but has anyone told the police? MON They are continuing to track down law breakers, no matter MON how good the art is. MON MON 11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n0prf (Listen) MON Seagulls over Sue Ryder MON Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty MON Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and MON sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls MON hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed MON milk. We see Britain through her eyes - its overheated MON houses, its disappointing church services and its MON over-fondness for cauliflower cheese. MON Beauty discovers the glories of Weston-super-Mare's MON charity shops and experiences the disappointment of her MON first British funeral. MON Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien MON Mr Collinson ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Jill ...... Pippa Haywood MON Sally ...... Felicity Montagu MON Karen/Bus Driver/Shop Assistant ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi MON Anil ...... Paul Sharma MON Derek/Waiter/Church Reader ...... Christopher Douglas MON Minister ...... Dan Tetsell MON Music by The West End Gospel Choir. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00mzvjy (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00mzvnh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mzvqx (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00n0qb9 (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from the south of England and the north of MON England, with all of this edition's questions devised by MON listeners. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00mzg26 (Listen) MON Jim gets the casting vote at the AGM. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n0qbc (Listen) MON Audio Recordings of Human Traffic MON Comedy thriller by Louise Wallinger. MON Confined to her flat after a skiing accident, Monica MON listens in to her neighbours' lives. A local woman has MON disappeared and Monica begins to suspect that the man MON above is somehow involved. When a noise officer from the MON council turns up, her investigations begin in earnest. MON Monica ...... Jemima Rooper MON Lucas ...... Andrew Scott MON PC Murray ...... Ben Crowe MON Judy ...... Lizzy Watts MON Tim ...... Ben Askew MON Carole ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Jackson ...... David Hargreaves MON Tony ...... Philip Fox. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen) MON In the Beginning Was the Nerd MON Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000, MON the world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The MON Millennium Bug. MON Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and MON unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive, MON Stephen travels back to the dawn of the digital age to MON argue that a major cause was our attitude to the MON technology and the people we held responsible for it. MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4f (Listen) MON All My Life is A Struggle With Dirt MON Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals MON the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on MON first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of MON which have never been heard before. Including songs which MON have been specially recorded for the series. MON The endless struggle against dirt, vermin and decay, and a MON song which has never been recorded before, The Housewife's MON Lament. How women came to see laundry and the linen MON cupboard as part of their moral mission, caring for their MON families and also keeping the household morally pure. MON Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly MON and Simon Tcherniak. MON Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David MON Owen Norris at the keyboard. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00mz6pr (Listen) MON Hops MON English hops are enjoying a renaissance thanks to new MON varieties, greater demand for 'hoppy' ales and the MON incredible growth in micro breweries. Sheila Dillon enjoys MON some of the heady aromas and samples some new ales. MON She visits Shepherd Neame, a brewery in Faversham, Kent MON and talks to head brewer, David Holmes, She visits farm MON owner Tony Redsell, whose family has been growing hops for MON over 50 years, and meets hop driers Derek Elvey and Peter MON Shead. MON Sheila also talks to Dr Peter Darby about The National Hop MON Collection at Queen Court Farm, near Faversham. MON In the studio, she is joined in the studio by Roger Protz, MON beer writer and editor of The Good Beer Guide, and Martin MON Dickie, brewer and co-owner of Brewdog Brewery, MON Fraserburgh. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00n0qr6 (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 1 MON Simon Cox presents the topical magazine series covering MON the latest developments and issues in the world of IT. MON Simon discovers how computer modelling technology used by MON Hollywood movies is being used to ease congestion in MON London's Oxford Circus. And he fills his home with gadgets MON to explore another type of congestion - how household MON devices could be interfering with WiFi networks. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n0tw2 (Listen) MON 5th October 1989 MON A look back at the events making the news in 1989. MON A chilling warning is delivered to East Germany's MON opposition groups: 'remember Tiananmen'; thousands of MON jubilant East Germans arrive in West Germany on the MON so-called Freedom Trains; the Dalai Lama receives the MON Nobel Peace Prize. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00mzxvv (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzyxh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n0qr8 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and MON Shappi Khorsandi. MON Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00mzvr9 (Listen) MON Lynda and Vicky join forces for the footpaths. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mzzsq (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report MON on the new exhibition of work by the four artists MON competing to win the 2009 Turner Prize. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005f (Listen) MON TwilightBaby.com, Episode 1 MON By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find MON themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late MON forties. MON Cass is 46 and her kids are grown up - time to kick back, MON but nature has a surprise in store. MON Cass ...... Jenny Eclair MON Ken ...... Kevin Eldon MON Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole MON Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Penny ...... Felicity Montagu MON Doctor ...... Philip Fox MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON MON 20:00 Female Sexual Abuse: Breaking the Silence b00n80b3 (Listen) MON Penny Marshall investigates the dark secret of women who MON sexually abuse children. MON Female sexual abuse of children goes against everything we MON want to believe about women. The thought of mothers MON overstepping the boundaries of love to abuse their MON children is so threatening and shameful that it has become MON one of the most under-reported of crimes. However, recent MON research suggests that they are responsible for up to 20 MON per cent of all abuse. Because there was often denial that MON women could behave in such a way, it has remained MON under-researched and many incorrect assumptions and MON beliefs still surround the subject, even among MON professionals. MON Penny hears shattering stories from the abused and talks MON to those working with offenders to try to understand their MON behaviour and motivations. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00n0tw4 (Listen) MON Educating Cinderella MON With youth unemployment in Britain at its highest level MON for decades, new evidence shows that only a tiny MON proportion of school leavers who go on to basic vocational MON courses find jobs at the end of them. Fran Abrams asks MON whether further education in this country has got the MON balance right between a choice-led system and a more MON paternalistic one. Should we be encouraging young people MON to follow their dreams or giving them vocational training MON more closely tied to the job market? MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00n0tw6 (Listen) MON The Three Peaks Challenge MON Every year around 60,000 people set out on the Three Peaks MON Challenge, aiming to climb the highest mountains in MON England, Wales and Scotland. Most do it to raise money for MON charity but there are increasing worries that the MON challenge is putting too much pressure on the environment, MON destroying some of our most beautiful places. MON Alice Roberts sets out with a group of enthusiastic MON trekkers to find out if the environment is suffering as MON charities prosper. MON The Challenge used to be centred around the longest day in MON June, giving trekkers the chance to climb Ben Nevis, MON Snowdon and Scafell Pike in daylight. More recently, MON however, it has become such a charity money-spinnner that MON groups tackle the peaks from April to October. At the MON height of the season as many as 1,000 people can be MON trekking up each mountain, often in the dark. The MON Challenge speeds up the erosion of paths, damages fragile MON Alpine plant systems and adds to the pressure on the MON areas' toilets and litter bins. MON Banning the Challenge would destroy an important income MON source for hundreds of charities and breach the principle MON of open access to these iconic mountains. Can Alice find a MON solution? Can people enjoy the physical challenge of the MON mountain environment and continue to raise money for MON charity without destroying some of Britain's wildest and MON most beautiful places? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00n03zb (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON His guests include PD James on the art of writing MON detective fiction, former MI5 director general Stella MON Rimington on her new novel, Present Danger, and former MON Sunday Times editor Harold Evans on his memoir, My Paper MON Chase. Andrew also celebrates the life and work of MON composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00n011c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00n011g (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bp (Listen) MON Fathers and Sons, Episode 6 MON Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First MON published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from MON university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, MON shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of MON the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older MON generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was MON both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing MON times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of MON the eternal difficulties between generations. MON Bazarov's cool and clinical approach to life fails him, MON and the idyll of the past few weeks is broken up. MON Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b008z746 (Listen) MON Michael Morpugo MON Children's writer Michael Morpurgo takes a literary MON journey through his life, with pieces of prose and poetry MON read by Alison Reid and Christian Rodska. MON MON 23:30 Scum b00kpzdb (Listen) MON Critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode examines the history MON of and controversy surrounding the film Scum. MON Originally made by the BBC in 1977, its brutal depiction MON of life in the borstal system was deemed to be too MON controversial for broadcast and it was banned by the MON Corporation. However, it was then re-made for the cinema MON two years later and became one of the most infamous MON British films of the 1980s. Mark investigates the accuracy MON of the film and offers a portrait of its uncompromising MON director Alan Clarke. MON Featuring new interviews, including screenwriter Roy MON Minton, actor Mick Ford, former director of BBC television MON Alasdair Milne and the producers of both the BBC and MON theatrical versions. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00mzt49 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00mztyg (Listen) TUE Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 1 TUE Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she TUE spent as a sports reporter. TUE How does a woman of literary tastes and neither knowledge TUE of nor interest in sport end up covering great and TUE not-so-great events for the sports section of a national TUE newspaper? As Lynne explains, it all starts over lunch... TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt67 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt92 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00mztcd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdt (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00mztkn (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00mztts (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 1989: Simpson Returns b00n0v36 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the TUE story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal TUE stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, TUE the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. TUE John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who TUE influenced events at the time, as well as those whose TUE lives changed forever. TUE TUE 09:30 The Good Samaritan b00n0wyt (Listen) TUE Gordon's Story TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping TUE hand, with varying consequences. TUE The man who stopped by the roadside to help some swans in TUE distress, only to have his luxury car stolen. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqs (Listen) TUE Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 2 TUE Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she TUE spent as a sports reporter. TUE In 1999 Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to cover TUE the fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis for TUE the heavyweight championship of the world. TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv0z (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00n0wyw (Listen) TUE Series 3, Insect Soundings TUE In an unusual sound safari, Paul Evans is our guide to the TUE musicians of the insect world. There are head-banging TUE beetles, tymbal-clicking cicadas, stridulating crickets, TUE whining mosquitoes, pulsating moths, and toe-tapping plant TUE hoppers. The world vibrates to the rhythms of insects. TUE Their songs announce their presence, define their TUE territory, lure potential mates and even shock predators. TUE In Japan, the songs of crickets have long been admired, TUE and tiny caged insects are kept in the pocket or hung up TUE in temples or houses where their songs are enjoyed as much TUE as the dawn chorus of birds is appreciated in the west. TUE For some insects, sound is a weapon. For example, species TUE of tiger moths produce pulses of sounds which they use to TUE deter hunting bats. One explanation is that the moth's TUE signals jams the bat's echolocation calls, in an aerial TUE battle of sounds. TUE On the ground, another battle is being fought using sound TUE as a secret weapon. Scientists at York University are TUE developing hand-held recorders and sound recognition TUE systems to detect wood-boring larvae in imported wood. TUE With no sign of infestation on the outside, the larvae can TUE be detected inside the wood by listening to the sounds TUE they make as they tunnel and feed on the internal tissues. TUE TUE 11:30 I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing b00n0wyy (Listen) TUE Janet Ellis heads to Cornwall, Preston and Macclesfield to TUE speak to authors, storytellers and academics about the TUE power of the mermaid image and its origins. TUE She hears from the man who came up with the Starbucks TUE logo, perhaps the most prevalent mermaid in modern TUE culture, and finds out the identity of the 'girl next TUE door' on whom it was based. Janet also trawls through the TUE myriad mermaid references in art and literature, from TUE Robert Graves and TS Eliot to the Pre-Raphaelites, who TUE used the mermaid as a powerful image of voluptuous TUE sexuality. TUE The legend of the mermaid is said to date back to the days TUE when sailors far from home would mistake sea mammals like TUE manatees and dugongs for semi-human creatures. Since the TUE days of Homer, the image of the mysterious female luring TUE sailors to their deaths has remained extremely powerful in TUE the popular imagination, and has survived numerous TUE reinventions over the centuries. With the help of the TUE likes of Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney, mermaids TUE have become as much a mainstay of modern childhood as TUE pirates and princesses. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgr (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00mzvk0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00mzvnk (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Over The Rainbow With Yip Harburg b00n0xfq (Listen) TUE Broadcaster Stephen Evans explores the life and work of TUE lyricist Yip Harburg, who became known as the 'social TUE conscience' of Broadway, and discovers his contemporary TUE relevance. TUE Harburg became famous for writing the lyrics to The Wizard TUE of Oz and the anthem of the Great Depression era, Brother, TUE Can You Spare A Dime? His strong socialist views led him TUE to become a victim of the infamous Hollywood TUE anti-communist blacklist in the 1950s. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00mzvr9 (Listen) TUE Lynda and Vicky join forces for the footpaths. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c0ncj (Listen) TUE Dickens Confidential, The Man Who Robbed the Bank of TUE England TUE Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the TUE head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the TUE news to the masses. TUE By Mike Walker. TUE Mourning the loss of Jack Marshall, Dickens and his TUE investigative team are determined to find the connection TUE between financier Iron Billy and a cunning plot aimed at TUE the heart of the country's financial system. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens TUE Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell TUE Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan TUE Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall TUE Mickey's Jim ...... Gerard Murphy TUE Iron Billy ...... John Rowe TUE Bank manager ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Vicar ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Butler ...... Nyasha Hatendi TUE Commissionaire ...... Dan Starkey TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00n0z4l (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n0z4n (Listen) TUE 1989: Writing on the Wall, The Quest for Christa T TUE Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three TUE writers associated with East Germany's literary scene. TUE By Christa Wolf. TUE Christa T represents a generation who grew up under the TUE shadow of the Berlin Wall. While they were believers in TUE the ideals of socialism, they were frustrated by the TUE realities of an oppressive state system. In this extract, TUE the gulf between those who built up the East German state TUE and the next generation is all too apparent. TUE Read by Sian Thomas. TUE Translated by Christopher Middleton. TUE TUE 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4j (Listen) TUE Pots and Pans TUE Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals TUE the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on TUE first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of TUE which have never been heard before. Including songs which TUE have been specially recorded for the series. TUE Why do pots and pans matter? TUE Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly TUE and Simon Tcherniak. TUE Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David TUE Owen Norris at the keyboard. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Advertising: The Most Fun You Can Have With Your TUE Clothes On! b00gbc9b (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Advertising executive Robin Wight presents a history of TUE the advertising industry. TUE Robin returns to the location of his first job in TUE advertising in the late 1960s, a time when advertising was TUE still comparatively dull and simplistic. Including TUE contributions from Maurice Saatchi and Sir Alan Parker. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00n0z6f (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to theatre director Tom Morris and TUE cartoonist Martin Rowson about their favourite books. TUE Tom's choice is a tense thriller set in the dank and murky TUE world of London's sewers, Martin's selection is a caustic TUE satire of British society, and Sue proposes a Booker Prize TUE contender penned by a chimpanzee. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m1j (Listen) TUE 6th October 1989 TUE A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago. TUE Gorbachev begins a historical visit to East Germany to TUE help celebrate the GDR's 40th anniversary; East German TUE leader Eric Honecker continues to take a hard line; acid TUE house parties have been disturbing the peace TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00mzxth (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzxvx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Too Much Information b00n1023 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre TUE in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever. TUE Waft Tourist Information attempt to justify a huge TUE donation from the Heritage Lottery Fund with a hastily TUE erected papier-mache historical model, which turns out TUE disastrously sexual. TUE Warren ...... Jeff Rawle TUE Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Heather ...... Liza Sadovy TUE Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey TUE Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill TUE Mr Jefferson ...... Stephen Hogan. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00mzvqz (Listen) TUE Jim launches trouble at The Stables. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mzyxk (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson discusses autumn 2009's crop of major literary TUE and political biographies with critic Peter Kemp, TUE historian Tristram Hunt and biographer Hermione Lee. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005h (Listen) TUE TwilightBaby.com, Episode 2 TUE By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find TUE themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late TUE forties. TUE Cass struggles to come to terms with pregnancy and being TUE made homeless. TUE Cass ...... Jenny Eclair TUE Ken ...... Kevin Eldon TUE Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole TUE Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Penny ...... Felicity Montagu TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00n11w9 (Listen) TUE With a Parliamentary report expected to add to criticism TUE of Whitehall's defence purchasing systems, Gerry Northam TUE asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for TUE our forces. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00n1204 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Trials For Life b00n126g (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical TUE trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping TUE for future cures. TUE Doctors ard patients both want the best chance of recovery TUE from an illness, but when the condition is cancer - and TUE curent treatments have failed - what hope do clinical TUE trials offer? Now that cancer treatments are becoming more TUE individually tailored and effective, is it worth the risk TUE of trying to develop new drugs which may only be slightly TUE better? TUE TUE 21:30 1989: Simpson Returns b00n0v36 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the TUE story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal TUE stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, TUE the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. TUE John visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who TUE influenced events at the time, as well as those whose TUE lives changed forever. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00n00hc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00n011j (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12b7 (Listen) TUE Fathers and Sons, Episode 7 TUE Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First TUE published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from TUE university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, TUE shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of TUE the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older TUE generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was TUE both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing TUE times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of TUE the eternal difficulties between generations. TUE His heart broken, Bazarov makes his own prodigal return to TUE his doting parents, with Arkady as his guest. But TUE friendship and filial duty soon begin to pall. TUE Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Boyle's Law b00n12rr (Listen) TUE Pilot for a new comedy by Suk Pannu about tough-talking TUE cop Inspector Vincent Boyle, head of data storage. Banned TUE from doing any actual detecting nowadays, he saves his TUE 'catlike' instincts for reading difficult situations among TUE workmates and acting as a father figure to the community TUE support officers. TUE Boyle ...... Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE Fox ...... Anna Chancellor TUE Adams ...... Meredith MacNeill TUE Commander Norris ...... Nicholas Farrell TUE Shankar ...... Nitin Ganatra TUE Waitres ...... Kate Layden. TUE TUE 23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007j7tc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his TUE field, with no ability whatsoever. TUE Elected Mayor of London, Milton plays Twister at the UN, TUE hosts the Olympics and floods Wandsworth. TUE Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy TUE Montgomery. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqs (Listen) WED Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 2 WED Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she WED spent as a sports reporter. WED In 1999 Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to cover WED the fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis for WED the heavyweight championship of the world. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt69 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt94 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7s (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00mztcg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdw (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00mztkq (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00mzttv (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00n1jb2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including the Duchess of Rutland. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00n3vhz (Listen) WED Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 3 WED Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she WED spent as a sports reporter. WED Watching sport is one thing, but playing it is quite WED another. Lynne describes how she developed an enduring WED passion for golf. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv11 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com. WED WED 11:00 The Story of Scrap Metal b00n1jb4 (Listen) WED Martin Wainwright rummages around in his own private scrap WED yard at the bottom of his garden, looking for bits of WED metal to help him find the true worth of scrap. WED As a child in Yorkshire he remembers the piles of metal WED left on the pavement for the rag and bone man, but WED discovers that today's industry is a global one. WED Encouraged by the high value of metal, Martin takes his WED assortment of scrap to a local scrap yard for weighing and WED valuing, and embarks on a journey which will follow scrap WED to the other side of the world. WED A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b008psw5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Flying Down to Greenock WED Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. WED By Michael Chaplin. WED A centenarian Glaswegian, making his first ever flight, WED remembers life during the blitz over Clydeside. WED James ...... Stanley Baxter WED Isabel ...... Patricia Kerrigan WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgt (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00mzvk2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00mzvnm (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00n1jb6 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00mzvqz (Listen) WED Jim launches trouble at The Stables. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n1jb8 (Listen) WED Life Complicated - Status Pending WED By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates WED each invent their own imaginative and challenging WED three-week project. As the schemes unfold, they are each WED forced to confront what they really want from life. WED KC ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Freddie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole WED Max ...... Piers Wehner WED Ben ...... Rhys Jennings WED Rosie ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00n1jbb (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial WED issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n54p5 (Listen) WED 1989: Writing on the Wall, Across the Fence WED Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three WED writers associated with East Germany's literary scene. WED By Stefan Heym. WED Although Heym won East Germany's National Prize in 1969, WED his political criticisms later brought him into conflict WED with the state. Set in Czeckoslovakia, this short story WED explores the nature of power in an oppressive state and WED its impact on personal life. WED Read by Fenella Woolgar. WED WED 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4l (Listen) WED Kitchen Physic WED Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals WED the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on WED first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of WED which have never been heard before. Including songs which WED have been specially recorded for the series. WED From rabies to madness and piles, the housewives of the WED past were expected to concoct medicines which would cure WED any condition. WED Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly WED and Simon Tcherniak. WED Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David WED Owen Norris at the keyboard. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00n1jbd (Listen) WED America's social state is withering at the expense of its WED expanding prison system and the UK is heading in the same WED direction, with potentially disastrous consequences. WED That's the argument of Laurie Taylor's guest, Loic WED Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of WED California. WED From 1980 to 1990, spending by the US government on WED operating its prisons and correctional establishments WED doubled while at the same time spending on public housing WED more than halved. According to Wacquant, this process is WED continuing - he says that 'the construction of prisons has WED effectively become the country's main housing programme'. WED Are America's penal policies too harsh, and if prisons and WED correctional facilities are becoming increasingly WED important, what are the social consequences? WED He talks to Laurie about why he believes America is too WED ready to accept a state of poverty for huge sections of WED its population and at the same time see the social state WED obliterated. Is America punishing its poor and is the UK WED at risk of following the same path, overly dependent on WED prisons while eroding its social state? WED WED 16:30 Trials For Life b00n126g (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical WED trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping WED for future cures. WED Doctors ard patients both want the best chance of recovery WED from an illness, but when the condition is cancer - and WED curent treatments have failed - what hope do clinical WED trials offer? Now that cancer treatments are becoming more WED individually tailored and effective, is it worth the risk WED of trying to develop new drugs which may only be slightly WED better? WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m12 (Listen) WED 7th October 1989 WED A look back at the events making the news in 1989. WED Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of WED the Gethsemane clash with police; Hungarian communists WED vote to become a democracy but some hardliners don't get WED it; in the West, the Beastie Boys tell us what's up. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00mzxtk (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzxvz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00n1jbg (Listen) WED Series 5, Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow WED Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next WED week's interviewer. WED Alistair McGowan interviews actor Simon Callow. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00mzvr1 (Listen) WED Jack takes a walk down memory lane. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mzyxm (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report WED from the opening night of David Hare's new play The Power WED of Yes, an account of the recent financial crisis. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005k (Listen) WED TwilightBaby.com, Episode 3 WED By Julie Balloo and Jenny Éclair. Cass and Ken find WED themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late WED forties. WED It's Cass's birthday but she isn't coping too well, and WED still hasn't told the children about her pregnancy. WED Cass ...... Jenny Éclair WED Ken ...... Kevin Eldon WED Charlie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole WED Kate ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Graham ...... Philip Fox WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED 20:00 Afghanistan: Is It Mission Impossible? b00n3lbp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in London WED about Britain's role in Afghanistan. WED In October 2008 a Radio 4 poll suggested that 68 per cent WED of Britons wanted to see UK troops withdraw from WED Afghanistan within 12 months. Now, a year later, Britain WED seems more mired in the conflict than ever and the troops WED remain in place. WED An expert panel debate the case for Britain's continued WED military presence and give their views on whether or not WED the attempt to create a stable Afghanistan was ever WED achievable. WED WED 20:45 Conserving What? b00n1jth (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of Conservatism and WED tries to discover where David Cameron sits in its WED intellectual tradition. WED In this programme, he explores the party's philosophical WED roots. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00n0wyw (Listen) WED Series 3, Insect Soundings WED In an unusual sound safari, Paul Evans is our guide to the WED musicians of the insect world. There are head-banging WED beetles, tymbal-clicking cicadas, stridulating crickets, WED whining mosquitoes, pulsating moths, and toe-tapping plant WED hoppers. The world vibrates to the rhythms of insects. WED Their songs announce their presence, define their WED territory, lure potential mates and even shock predators. WED In Japan, the songs of crickets have long been admired, WED and tiny caged insects are kept in the pocket or hung up WED in temples or houses where their songs are enjoyed as much WED as the dawn chorus of birds is appreciated in the west. WED For some insects, sound is a weapon. For example, species WED of tiger moths produce pulses of sounds which they use to WED deter hunting bats. One explanation is that the moth's WED signals jams the bat's echolocation calls, in an aerial WED battle of sounds. WED On the ground, another battle is being fought using sound WED as a secret weapon. Scientists at York University are WED developing hand-held recorders and sound recognition WED systems to detect wood-boring larvae in imported wood. WED With no sign of infestation on the outside, the larvae can WED be detected inside the wood by listening to the sounds WED they make as they tunnel and feed on the internal tissues. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00n1jb2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including the Duchess of Rutland. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00n00hf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00n011l (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12b9 (Listen) WED Fathers and Sons, Episode 8 WED Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First WED published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from WED university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, WED shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of WED the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older WED generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was WED both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing WED times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of WED the eternal difficulties between generations. WED Without Arkady at Marino, Bazarov oversteps the bounds. An WED outraged Pavel Petrovich demands satisfaction. WED Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 One b00n1jtk (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item WED features more than one voice. WED With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and WED David Quantick. WED WED 23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00m6gpk (Listen) WED The Mountain Girl WED Series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the WED sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre oddities of human WED behaviour. Rik tells the tale of The Mountain Girl. WED WED 23:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) WED With working men's clubs on the verge of extinction, Dave WED Spikey, who co-wrote and appeared in the comedy Phoenix WED Nights, charts their history. He examines their social, WED cultural and political impact and celebrates those that WED continue to bring life to communities on the margins of WED 21st-century Britain. WED WED THU THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00n3vhz (Listen) THU Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 3 THU Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she THU spent as a sports reporter. THU Watching sport is one thing, but playing it is quite THU another. Lynne describes how she developed an enduring THU passion for golf. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt6c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt96 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00mztcj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztdy (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00mztks (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00mzttx (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00n1l95 (Listen) THU The Dreyfus Affair THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and THU Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal THU which divided opinion in France for a generation. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqv (Listen) THU Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 4 THU Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she THU spent as a sports reporter. THU To outsiders, what could be better than to be paid to THU attend and write about world-class sporting events? Well, THU they don't know the half of it. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv13 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n1l97 (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 The Negro Tragedian b00n1l99 (Listen) THU Kwame Kwei-Armah traces the life and work of Ira Aldridge, THU a black actor who defied racial prejudice to become one of THU Britain's finest Shakespearean actors. THU When Aldridge first appeared on the London stage in 1825, THU he was enthusiastically received by the public but the THU critics hated him, The Times going so far as to say that THU he could not pronounce English properly, 'owing to the THU shape of his lips'. Here was a black man daring to break THU into the heartland of the British 'classics', which had THU hitherto been the exclusive domain of white actors. THU But, undeterred by the racial hostility of the press, THU Aldridge became a perpetually touring player, an exotic THU 'star', honing his skills in the provinces and across THU Europe. In a career spanning 30 years, he became one of THU Britain's finest Shakespearean players, and had more THU honours showered upon him than any other actor of his time. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgw (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00mzvk4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00mzvnp (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00n0tw6 (Listen) THU The Three Peaks Challenge THU Every year around 60,000 people set out on the Three Peaks THU Challenge, aiming to climb the highest mountains in THU England, Wales and Scotland. Most do it to raise money for THU charity but there are increasing worries that the THU challenge is putting too much pressure on the environment, THU destroying some of our most beautiful places. THU Alice Roberts sets out with a group of enthusiastic THU trekkers to find out if the environment is suffering as THU charities prosper. THU The Challenge used to be centred around the longest day in THU June, giving trekkers the chance to climb Ben Nevis, THU Snowdon and Scafell Pike in daylight. More recently, THU however, it has become such a charity money-spinnner that THU groups tackle the peaks from April to October. At the THU height of the season as many as 1,000 people can be THU trekking up each mountain, often in the dark. The THU Challenge speeds up the erosion of paths, damages fragile THU Alpine plant systems and adds to the pressure on the THU areas' toilets and litter bins. THU Banning the Challenge would destroy an important income THU source for hundreds of charities and breach the principle THU of open access to these iconic mountains. Can Alice find a THU solution? Can people enjoy the physical challenge of the THU mountain environment and continue to raise money for THU charity without destroying some of Britain's wildest and THU most beautiful places? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00mzvr1 (Listen) THU Jack takes a walk down memory lane. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bzgx8 (Listen) THU Septimus Greabe THU By Mike Harris. THU In the early 19th century, the Society for the Suppression THU of Vice, inspired by William Wilberforce, would stop at THU nothing in their efforts to stamp out sin and corruption - THU even if this meant employing the most unscrupulous of THU characters to carry out their good work. THU Septimus Greabe ...... David Troughton THU Thomas Buxton ...... Will Keen THU Hannah ...... Kellie Shirley THU John Bowles ...... Paul Jesson THU Joseph Merceron ...... Nigel Cooke THU Eva Bowles ...... Perdita Avery THU Directed by Clive Brill. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00myhfk (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 3 THU Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in THU Northumberland. THU Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth THU to Warkworth, in the company of local artisit Sue Fenlon THU and photographer Barbara Aitchison. They explain why they THU find this part of the Northumberland coast so inspiring. THU St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy THU Island in the north, along the stunning Northumberland THU coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's THU Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St THU Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh THU century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity THU to his people. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mz6j8 (Listen) THU The Disabled Living Foundation THU Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of the Disabled Living THU Foundation. THU Donations to the Disabled Living Foundation should be sent THU to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of THU your envelope the Disabled Living Foundation. Credit THU cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, THU please provide the Disabled Living Foundation with your THU full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on THU your donation. The online and phone donation facilities THU are not currently available to listeners without a UK THU postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 290069. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n54nv (Listen) THU 1989: Writing on the Wall, Place of Birth: Berlin THU Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three THU writers associated with East Germany's literary scene. THU By Monika Maron, who grew up in East Berlin where her THU stepfather was a minister. In this piece, which is a love THU song to the city of her youth, Maron reflects on what it THU was like to grow up and live in a divided city. THU Read by Eleanor Bron. THU Translated by Lyn Marven. THU THU 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4n (Listen) THU Ornamenting the Home THU Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals THU the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on THU first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of THU which have never been heard before. Including songs which THU have been specially recorded for the series. THU Sewing was believed to be part of a wife's essential duty THU in the 17th and 18th century, and also a way of keeping THU women at home safely occupied. If you were sewing you THU couldn't be wandering about or reading novels. But a THU fascinating diary by a woman who suffered from depression THU reveals that sewing could also give meaning to life and THU act as a valuable therapy. THU Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly THU and Simon Tcherniak. THU Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David THU Owen Norris at the keyboard. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00mzdlq (Listen) THU Gillian Slovo THU James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her THU novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid THU South Africa. THU Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding THU members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First, THU an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces THU in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's THU own experience of coming face to face with her mother's THU killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the THU new South Africa. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00n1l9c (Listen) THU With the announcement of a new batch of Nobel Prizes in THU Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, Quentin Cooper assesses THU the new Laureates' impact on science. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m14 (Listen) THU 8th October 1989 THU A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago. THU Eyewitnesses in East Berlin describe a police crackdown on THU protestors; one of West Germany's elder statesman sees the THU beginning of 'the most critical week in the GDR'; the Pope THU calls for reunification. THU . THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00mzxtm (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mzxw1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen) THU Series 4, An Audience With THU Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur THU Strong is an expert in everything from the world of THU entertainment to the origins of the species, all false THU starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a THU delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance. THU A timely visit from the vicar interrupts Arthur's artistic THU flow as he pens a new novel, and reminds him that he needs THU to organise entertainment for a fundraiser that night. THU The choice of headliner is obvious, but who will he get to THU support? Surely some auditions in the Shoulder of Mutton THU will tempt some local talent out of the woodwork. THU With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and THU Alastair Kerr. THU A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for THU BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00mzvr3 (Listen) THU Peggy has a big change of heart. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mzyxp (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang talks to author Eoin Colfer, who has published THU a new instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, THU the series created by the late Douglas Adams. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005m (Listen) THU TwilightBaby.com, Episode 4 THU By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find THU themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late THU forties. THU Ken is convinced his novel will be a bestseller - Cass THU thinks it won't even get published. A separation is THU inevitable. THU Cass ...... Jenny Eclair THU Ken ...... Kevin Eldon THU Magda ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Jacob ...... Stephen Hogan THU Man in Shop ...... Philip Fox THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00n1l9f (Listen) THU The RMT union claims to be Britain's fastest-growing trade THU union; it is also arguably the most confrontational. The THU union's favoured tactic of repeated strike ballots has won THU enviable high rates of pay and annual leave for its THU members. It has also earned the RMT general secretary the THU tag of 'the most hated man in London'. Simon Cox THU investigates the RMT's strength, why managers refuse to THU take it on and the attempts to curb its power. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00n1l9h (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00n1lnc (Listen) THU Geoff Watts investigates life in extreme polar THU environments and the perils facing scientists who study it. THU In polar regions, life hangs by a thread. It's hard enough THU for the scientists studying it, braving the cold and ice, THU not to mention bears and giant mosquitoes in Arctic THU regions. For the organisms that live there all the year THU round without heating or protective clothing, extreme THU strategies are essential. THU Dr Pete Convey, of the British Antarctic Survey, THU introduces Geoff to tardigrades, tiny creatures resembling THU six-legged teddy bears the size of a full stop. They can THU dry to a husk or freeze in liquid nitrogen. But a drop of THU liquid water and they pop back to life and walk away. THU Geoff also hears from Antarctica, where the biggest land THU creatures could hide behind the letters of this text; from THU Austria, where beetles follow in the path of a retreating THU glacier; and from Alaska, where the permafrost is thawing THU and tundra-surfing could become a new sport. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00n1l95 (Listen) THU The Dreyfus Affair THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and THU Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal THU which divided opinion in France for a generation. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00n00hj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00n011n (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bc (Listen) THU Fathers and Sons, Episode 9 THU Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First THU published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from THU university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, THU shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of THU the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older THU generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was THU both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing THU times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of THU the eternal difficulties between generations. THU Happy amidst the parklands of Nikolskoye, Arkady lays bare THU his heart and Anna Sergeyevna finds her expectations THU confounded. THU Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Poetry Slam b00n1p9v (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Six finalists from around the British Isles compete at the THU Birmingham Book Festival, held at the Birmingham THU Conservatoire, for the title of Radio 4 Poetry Slam winner THU for 2009. Hosted by performance poet Dreadlock Alien, who THU is on home ground as a former Birmingham Poet Laureate. THU A slam is a knockout performance poetry competition in THU which poets perform their own work to a time limit and are THU given scores based on content, style, delivery and level THU of audience response. In the space of two minutes, THU performers must demonstrate their wordplay, performance THU skills and inventiveness; over two or three rounds, poets THU are knocked out until one top scorer emerges as the THU winner. Slams attract a wide range of performers and THU styles, from heartfelt love poetry to searing social THU commentary, uproarious comic routines and bittersweet THU personal confessional pieces. THU Slams began in the United States in the 1980s. The slam THU scene quickly spread from cities like Chicago and New York THU and is now thriving all around the world. There are THU hundreds of slams run regularly in clubs, bars, pubs, THU theatres and at festivals all over Britain every year. The THU very best contemporary slam talent from the current scene THU will be highlighted in this final programme of the Radio 4 THU Poetry Slam, as slam winners from all round the country THU pit their skills against one other. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076x49 (Listen) THU Building Bridges THU Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson asks why and how we THU learn to metaphorically build bridges. THU He talks to Tom Hart Dyke, who was kidnapped by Colombian THU rebels when out orchid hunting and spent nine months THU trying to build bridges with his captors. He hears how THU writer Jesse Armstrong remembers failing to build bridges THU while working in politics. THU Jon also takes his producer to a workplace mediator to THU find out if he really is a difficult person to work with. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00mzt4h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqv (Listen) FRI Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 4 FRI Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she FRI spent as a sports reporter. FRI To outsiders, what could be better than to be paid to FRI attend and write about world-class sporting events? Well, FRI they don't know the half of it. FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mzt6f (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mzt98 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mzt7x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00mztcl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mztf0 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00mztkv (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00mzttz (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00mz6jq (Listen) FRI Dame Ellen MacArthur FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen FRI MacArthur. FRI She was 28 when she became the fastest person to sail solo FRI around the world, and has been called the 'first true FRI heroine of the 21st century'. FRI She still sails with friends and with the charity she set FRI up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her FRI ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same FRI sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When FRI your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce FRI food and fuel really are. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00n3wqx (Listen) FRI Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 5 FRI Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she FRI spent as a sports reporter. FRI By the autumn of 2000, Lynne has been covering sport for FRI four years, but a combination of events leads her to ask a FRI very simple question - just how important is sport? FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mzv15 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: TwilightBaby.com. FRI FRI 11:00 Weston's New Pier b00n1qvk (Listen) FRI In July 2008, fire destroyed the famous pavilion on FRI Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier. But, while other piers FRI crumble, this one is being re-built. Some experts say the FRI new pavilion will make it the best seaside pier in the FRI world. FRI Chris Ledgard meets the owners, architects and builders to FRI relive the day of the fire, investigate the building FRI project, and find out what the future holds for one of FRI Britain's best-known seaside resorts. FRI FRI 11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n1s1c (Listen) FRI Harlequinade FRI Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. FRI Brunswick is in mortal danger, but Inspector Steine is too FRI busy organising a road safety demonstration to notice. Can FRI Twitten and Mrs Groynes find Brunswick before it's too FRI late? FRI Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm FRI Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green FRI Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro FRI Unknown Villain ...... Adrian Bower FRI Albert ...... David Holt. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00mzvgy (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00mzvk6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00mzvnr (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00n3jrn (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00mzvr3 (Listen) FRI Peggy has a big change of heart. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c1d1r (Listen) FRI Foundling FRI By Nick Warburton. FRI A man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small FRI town. Why will he not help a young woman find her lost FRI child? FRI Laura ...... Emma Fielding FRI Roach ...... Peter Marinker FRI Gilbert ...... Ben Crowe FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n3jrq (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie join FRI members of the John Innes Conservation Society in London. FRI They find about about the man who posthumously founded the FRI horticultural institute which is responsible for creating FRI the compost which bears his name. FRI Also, after Buckingham Palace joined the RHS Grow Your Own FRI campaign, Matthew is invited to the Queen's allotment for FRI a review of its progress so far. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mzw4q (Listen) FRI Mistress and Servants FRI Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals FRI the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on FRI first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of FRI which have never been heard before. Including songs which FRI have been specially recorded for the series. FRI The fascinating household diaries of Elizabeth Shackleton, FRI trying to run a house in Lancashire with a floating FRI population of unreliable and drunken servants. Elizabeth FRI cared for a young serving girl, and treated her like the FRI daughter she never had. But the girl turned on her, and FRI abandoned her. FRI Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly FRI and Simon Tcherniak. FRI Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David FRI Owen Norris at the keyboard. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00n3jrs (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 b00n3jrv (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to a schoolteacher from Reading, FRI Peter Strickland, about his revenge tragedy Katalin Varga, FRI which was shot in Transylvania and in Hungarian, a FRI language he doesn't even speak. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3m16 (Listen) FRI 9th October 1989 FRI A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago. FRI At Leipzig's Monday prayer service for freedom, protests FRI approach a historical and perhaps dangerous moment - the FRI East German people now appear to refuse to be intimidated; FRI Soviet news agency Tass reports that 10-foot-tall aliens FRI have been spotted visiting the industrial city of Voronezh. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00mzxtp (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 b00mzxw3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00n3jrx (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 3 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists FRI include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00mzvr5 (Listen) FRI The party's over for Ian at Grey Gables. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mzyxr (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n005p (Listen) FRI TwilightBaby.com, Episode 5 FRI By Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair. Cass and Ken find FRI themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late FRI forties. FRI Both Ken and Penny want to be Cass' birthing partner. But FRI when the big day arrives Cass is left to face it alone. FRI Cass ...... Jenny Eclair FRI Ken ...... Kevin Eldon FRI Penny ...... Felicity Montagu FRI Jacob ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Midwife ...... Kate Layden FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00n3jxf (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle. FRI Panellists include political commentator Anthony Howard, FRI and Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for FRI housing. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n3jxh (Listen) FRI Large Blue FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI The Large Blue butterfly died out in Britain in 1979, but FRI why? Investigations pointed to a complex life cycle linked FRI to a single species of ant. With this knowledge the Large FRI Blue was re-introduced into the British countryside, but FRI there is a sinister twist in the tale, in the form of a FRI parasitic wasp. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n3jxk (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Omnibus edition of Prof Amanda Vickery's series revealing FRI the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on FRI first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of FRI which have never been heard before. Including songs which FRI have been specially recorded for the series. FRI What letters and diaries reveal about running the home in FRI the 16th and 17th centuries. FRI The readers are Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine FRI Brolly and Simon Tcherniak. FRI The singers are Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with FRI David Owen Norris at the keyboard. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00n00hl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00n011q (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n12bf (Listen) FRI Fathers and Sons, Episode 10 FRI Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First FRI published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from FRI university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, FRI shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of FRI the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older FRI generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was FRI both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing FRI times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of FRI the eternal difficulties between generations. FRI Bazarov returns home and seems to be finding a new way FRI when a moment's carelessness leads to tragedy. FRI Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00n0z6f (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to theatre director Tom Morris and FRI cartoonist Martin Rowson about their favourite books. FRI Tom's choice is a tense thriller set in the dank and murky FRI world of London's sewers, Martin's selection is a caustic FRI satire of British society, and Sue proposes a Booker Prize FRI contender penned by a chimpanzee. FRI FRI 23:30 Misfits in France b00f85ky (Listen) FRI Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen FRI Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the FRI connections between a group of Victorian writers and FRI artists who crossed the English Channel for different FRI reasons. FRI The series ends in Rouen, where Oscar Wilde rekindled his FRI relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas after a lonely FRI summer in exile outside Dieppe. The museum in Rouen also FRI holds a collection of paintings by Monet, Sisley and FRI Walter Sickert's friend and patron - Jacques Emile Blanche. FRI Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale FRI Claude Monet ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow. FRI FRI FRI