Radio 4 Listings for 10/10/2009 - 16/10/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00n3k00 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqx (Listen)
SAT       Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 5
SAT       Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she
SAT       spent as a sports reporter.
SAT       By the autumn of 2000, Lynne has been covering sport for
SAT       four years, but a combination of events leads her to ask a
SAT       very simple question - just how important is sport?
SAT       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n3k02 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n3k04 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n3k06 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00n3k08 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n3k0b (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
SAT       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00n3k0d (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00n3k0g (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00n3mpp (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00n3mpr (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 4
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       On the fourth leg of the route, Jon Monks explains to
SAT       Clare why he believes St Oswald's Way is the thinking
SAT       man's walking route.
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.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00n3mpt (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00n3mpw (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00n3mpy (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00n3mq0 (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by the creator and writer of the
SAT       Bafta-winning In The Night Garden and Teletubbies, Andrew
SAT       Davenport.
SAT       With poetry from Kate Fox.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00n3mq2 (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy travels to Japan and Israel in search of
SAT       gardening inspiration and to Bogota in Colombia for a
SAT       knitting experience.
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SAT       10:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen)
SAT       Patrick Humphries tells the little-known story of Errol
SAT       Flynn's final year, much of which he spent in Cuba, filing
SAT       reports to Hearst newspapers and producing two Cuban-based
SAT       movies.
SAT       One of the leading Hollywood stars of the time thanks to
SAT       his roles in a series of swashbuckling epics, Flynn found
SAT       himself at the epicentre of the Cuban revolution. He spent
SAT       time with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra Mountains and
SAT       went on to record the revolution in the documentary film
SAT       Cuban Story, in which he is seen alongside Castro and Che
SAT       Guevara.
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SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00n3mq6 (Listen)
SAT       Are personalities eclipsing politics? With greater
SAT       emphasis now placed on the role of Prime Minister, Andrew
SAT       Rawnsley asks whether we are losing sight of the issues in
SAT       favour of the cult of personality?
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00n3mq8 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00n3pmb (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Are you entitled to part of a 60 million-pound Payment
SAT       Protection Insurance payout?
SAT       High frequency trading is taking off, but could it bring
SAT       the market down?
SAT       And the latest compensation news for Bradford and Bingley
SAT       shareholders.
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SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00n3jrx (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 3
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
SAT       include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00n3pmd (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00n3pmg (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00n3jxf (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle. The
SAT       panellists are government chief whip Nick Brown, shadow
SAT       foreign secretary William Hague, Sir Menzies Campbell, the
SAT       former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Gillian Tett,
SAT       assitant editor of the Financial Times.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00n3ptd (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 b00n3ptg (Listen)
SAT       Shadowlands
SAT       Adaptation by Archie Scottney of the play by William
SAT       Nicholson. The moving true story of the 1950s relationship
SAT       between Oxford don and author CS Lewis and divorced
SAT       American writer Joy Gresham.
SAT       CS 'Jack' Lewis ...... Martin Jarvis
SAT       Joy Gresham ...... Joanne Whalley
SAT       'Warnie' Lewis ...... Kenneth Danziger
SAT       Rev Harry Harrington ...... Julian Sands
SAT       Prof Christopher Riley ...... Julian Holloway
SAT       Douglas ...... Zach Callison
SAT       Alan Gregg ...... Darren Richardson
SAT       Registrar ...... Jean Gilpin
SAT       Doctor ...... Matthew Wolf
SAT       Priest/Oakley ...... Alan Shearman
SAT       Nurse ...... Daisy Hydon
SAT       Directed by Rosalind Ayres
SAT       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00n3qln (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Actress Phyllida Law turns the traditional image of the
SAT       mother-in-law relationship on its head; comedian Jo Brand
SAT       on her teenage years and surviving stand-up; women on the
SAT       prowl for younger men; arguments that question the
SAT       adoption of the veil in western world; the appeal of the
SAT       100-mile stroll; can direct action on climate change be
SAT       justified?
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SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3rch (Listen)
SAT       10th October 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       In East Germany the morning after the demonstrations, the
SAT       police violence that people had feared had not occurred;
SAT       political prisoners including Walter Sislulu are to be
SAT       released in South Africa but Mandela remains in prison; at
SAT       the Tory conference Kenneth Baker summons the spirit of
SAT       Henry V at Agincourt.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00n3qlq (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 b00n1l9h (Listen)
SAT       Stephanie Flanders asks her panel of top business guests
SAT       about the fine art of salesmanship. Now we can all bypass
SAT       those eager shop assistants and go online, are salesmen on
SAT       the way out - or just getting a makeover?
SAT       And training on the job - we've all done it, but does
SAT       formal training pay dividends in the end?
SAT       Stephanie is joined by Marko Ilincic, managing director of
SAT       Lego UK, Michelle Feeney, chief executive of St Tropez and
SAT       Grant Hearn, chief executive of Travelodge.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n3rck (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00n3rcm (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n3rcp (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00n3rcr (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive is joined by Charlie Brooker, Romola Garai and
SAT       Allegra McEvedy. With comedy from Russell Kane and music
SAT       from Noel McKoy and Krystle Warren.
SAT       Columnist and satirist Charlie Brooker is the man behind
SAT       BBC Four's Screenwipe.
SAT       Actress Romola Garai is Emma in BBC One's adaptation of
SAT       Jane Austen's classic Emma.
SAT       Chorley's very own Dave Spikey is a comedian familiar to
SAT       audiences through TV shows and the award-winning sitcom
SAT       Phoenix Nights.
SAT       Allegra McEvedy talks to journalist Chris Horrie, who
SAT       infiltrated Conservative Middle England for his latest
SAT       book.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00n3rct (Listen)
SAT       Alexander Lebedev
SAT       Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian
SAT       owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's
SAT       origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London
SAT       to billionaire businessman, socialite and political
SAT       liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard?
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00n3t6w (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00n3t6y (Listen)
SAT       When Bailey Met Warhol
SAT       Jerry Hall, formerly one of Andy Warhol's muses,
SAT       interviews photographer David Bailey about his
SAT       relationship to the pop artist and tells the story of the
SAT       infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol
SAT       in 1973. Temporarily censored in the UK, it caused the
SAT       greatest national public row over art and censorship since
SAT       the trial over the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
SAT       The relationship between Bailey and Warhol was also an
SAT       encounter of styles: the visual cool of 1960s London met
SAT       the playful irony of the New York art scene, with Bailey's
SAT       East End smarts sometimes thwarted by Warhol's elusive
SAT       musings and those of his Factory acolytes.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00mz9tb (Listen)
SAT       Beau Geste, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of
SAT       honour, love and adventure.
SAT       The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance
SAT       to join the French Foreign Legion, following the
SAT       mysterious disappearance of a valuable family heirloom.
SAT       Beau ...... Chris New
SAT       John ...... Rob Hastie
SAT       Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin
SAT       Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd
SAT       Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley
SAT       Isobel ...... Candida Benson
SAT       Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster
SAT       Burdon ...... Scott Richards
SAT       Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday
SAT       Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill
SAT       Young John ...... Alex Hockaday
SAT       Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe
SAT       Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner
SAT       Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher
SAT       Boldini ...... Laurence Possa
SAT       Hank ...... Greg Wohead
SAT       Buddy ...... Don Mousseau
SAT       The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan
SAT       Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet
SAT       Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield
SAT       Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina.
SAT       Directed by Willi Richards
SAT       An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00n460l (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Afghanistan: Is It Mission Impossible? b00n3lbp (Listen)
SAT       As President Obama debates whether to send even more
SAT       troops to the country, and the British death toll there
SAT       rises, Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in
SAT       London about how close the west is to achieving its
SAT       ambitions in Afghanistan.
SAT       What is its 'mission'? To close down terrorist cells in
SAT       the country, making the UK a safer place? To introduce
SAT       democracy, greater freedom for women, more electricity,
SAT       water?
SAT       Taking part in the debate are:
SAT       Francesc Vendrell, who was the European Union's Special
SAT       Representative for Afghanistan from 2002 to 2008; before
SAT       that he was the Personal Representative of the UN
SAT       Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
SAT       Brigadier Buster Howes, who is the Head of Overseas
SAT       Operations at the MOD.
SAT       Eric Joyce, a former major in the army and now a Labour
SAT       MP. He resigned as an aide to the defence secretary,
SAT       calling on Gordon Brown to make clear to the British
SAT       people that the Afghanistan campaign was 'time limited'.
SAT       Lindsey German, a senior organiser of the Stop the War
SAT       Coalition.
SAT       Dr John Mackinlay, a counter-insurgency expert from King's
SAT       College, London.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00n0qb9 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from the south of England and the north of
SAT       England, with all of this edition's questions devised by
SAT       listeners.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00mzdqb (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that chime
SAT       with the theme of 2009's National Poetry Day, that of
SAT       heroes and heroines. Including works by poets as varied as
SAT       Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling.
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SUN       SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00n45zy (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zg (Listen)
SUN       Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, You See Patterns When You
SUN       Close Your Eyes
SUN       Series of stories by Morven Crumlish.
SUN       A young woman starts work for a blind poet and becomes
SUN       absorbed in a strange new world.
SUN       Read by Daniela Nardini.
SUN       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n46bv (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n46bx (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n46bz (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00n46c1 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00n46fw (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in
SUN       Kent.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00n3rct (Listen)
SUN       Alexander Lebedev
SUN       Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian
SUN       owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's
SUN       origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London
SUN       to billionaire businessman, socialite and political
SUN       liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard?
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00n474c (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00n474f (Listen)
SUN       The Power of a Name
SUN       Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our
SUN       sense of self, our wellbeing, our relationships and our
SUN       path through life.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond, Frank Stirling and David
SUN       Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00n474h (Listen)
SUN       An organic farm in Sussex is changing the lives of
SUN       London's homeless. Adam Henson visits Uckfield near Lewes
SUN       to meet people who have vowed to stay drink and drug free
SUN       for a day as they work the land. For some it will be the
SUN       first time they have left London in years. For others,
SUN       planting crops and mucking out stalls has become a regular
SUN       event and has radically altered the way they look at the
SUN       world.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00n474k (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00n474m (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00n474p (Listen)
SUN       Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news
SUN       of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00n474r (Listen)
SUN       APT Enterprise Development
SUN       Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise
SUN       Development.
SUN       Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to
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SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full
SUN       name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
SUN       donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not
SUN       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 290836.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00n474t (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00n474w (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00n474y (Listen)
SUN       A Sound of Sheer Silence
SUN       A service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, Manchester,
SUN       exploring faith through the experiences of those with
SUN       mental health issues.
SUN       With Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze and Andrew Graystone.
SUN       The Daily Service Singers are directed by Paul Leddington
SUN       Wright.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n3jxh (Listen)
SUN       Large Blue
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       The Large Blue butterfly died out in Britain in 1979, but
SUN       why? Investigations pointed to a complex life cycle linked
SUN       to a single species of ant. With this knowledge the Large
SUN       Blue was re-introduced into the British countryside, but
SUN       there is a sinister twist in the tale, in the form of a
SUN       parasitic wasp.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00n4750 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00n4752 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00n4754 (Listen)
SUN       Steve Coogan
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve
SUN       Coogan.
SUN       As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a
SUN       talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently
SUN       he has also found success in films, but is best known for
SUN       the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The
SUN       chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe
SUN       with his crass questions and witless interventions and has
SUN       remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n0qr8 (Listen)
SUN       Series 4, Episode 1
SUN       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
SUN       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
SUN       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
SUN       With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and
SUN       Shappi Khorsandi.
SUN       Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00n47px (Listen)
SUN       Feasts
SUN       Feasts have been a feature of human life since humans
SUN       first mastered fire and climbed out of the trees, but what
SUN       function do feasts have in today's largely urban society?
SUN       Sheila Dillon visits the Thames Festival Feast, a modern
SUN       urban harvest festival, bringing food back into the heart
SUN       of the city and recreating a sense of community. Grape
SUN       treading, sacred mayonnaise making and mobile food gardens
SUN       make a vivid modern feast. Central to it a table spanning
SUN       Southwark Bridge, its tablecloth printed with collections
SUN       of Londoners' food stories.
SUN       The traditional feast has been disappearing from rural
SUN       areas, but the Welcombe community in Devon some years ago
SUN       introduced a Christmas Salamongundi to bring the community
SUN       together to celebrate. Poet and author John Moat explains
SUN       how it came about.
SUN       Sir Roy Strong, author of Feast outlines the social,
SUN       political and religious subtext of historical feasting
SUN       and, with Rev Richard Coles, comments on the dining TV
SUN       reality show, Come Dine With Me.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00n47pz (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00n47q1 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 US Health Reform: Beware of Side Effects! b00n8ss0 (Listen)
SUN       America is the world leader in medical innovation, and
SUN       many advances in medicine have been instrumental in
SUN       helping Americans and people all over the world to live
SUN       longer and healthier lives. So should we be worried in the
SUN       UK that healthcare reform in America may impact on the
SUN       sorts of drugs and technologies that NHS patients have
SUN       access to?
SUN       In 2008, the US pharmaceutical industry spent 65 billion
SUN       dollars on research and development, and they have made it
SUN       clear that 'reform must protect the US's lead in medical
SUN       innovation'.
SUN       Justin Webb investigates whether all that money,
SUN       prohibitively expensive drugs and cutting-edge technology
SUN       translates to better healthcare and asks if cuts can been
SUN       made without stifling innovation.
SUN       He talks to those who are involved in making the decisions
SUN       and those who will be affected by them when the health
SUN       reform bill is delivered to the president, and speaks to
SUN       leading figures in the NHS to ask if American fears are
SUN       well founded.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n3jrq (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie join
SUN       members of the John Innes Conservation Society in London.
SUN       They find about about the man who posthumously founded the
SUN       horticultural institute which is responsible for creating
SUN       the compost which bears his name.
SUN       Also, after Buckingham Palace joined the RHS Grow Your Own
SUN       campaign, Matthew is invited to the Queen's allotment for
SUN       a review of its progress so far.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Food For Thought b00n47q3 (Listen)
SUN       Jung Chang
SUN       Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow
SUN       discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives.
SUN       Settled over a lunch of ma po tofu and bitter melon
SUN       greens, author Jung Chang recalls a life of adjustments
SUN       and accommodations to place, identity and food. She
SUN       describes the powerful memories evoked by a plate of
SUN       double-cooked pork, spiked with her native Sichuan spice,
SUN       and discusses her changing tastes since arriving in
SUN       Britain and the success of her memoir, Wild Swans.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00n47q5 (Listen)
SUN       Beau Geste, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of
SUN       honour, love and adventure.
SUN       The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and
SUN       hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do
SUN       wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign
SUN       Legion. A sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg
SUN       raiders brings matters to a head and provides the
SUN       explanation for the disappearance of the Blue Water
SUN       sapphire.
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 Open Book b00n48k4 (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup talks to the thriller writer Robert
SUN       Harris, whose latest book, Lustrum, set in Ancient Rome,
SUN       is the second volume of a trilogy about the lawyer,
SUN       politican and orator Cicero. Harris explains how modern
SUN       and ancient politics collide, and why this novel about
SUN       ancient intrigue is dedicated to Lord Mandelson.
SUN       The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector is the subject of a
SUN       recent biography; as one of her novels is published in a
SUN       new translation, Mariella is joined by the biographer
SUN       Benjamin Moser to discuss why she is revered as one of the
SUN       greatest writers in the Portugese language.
SUN       And the masterpieces that never were; the author of a new
SUN       history of literary hoaxes, Melissa Katsoulis, and the
SUN       writer Kevin Jackson swap favourite tales of writers who
SUN       pulled the wool over their readers' eyes.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00n48k6 (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday
SUN       from the Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces
SUN       a selection of the most frequently-requested poems from
SUN       the past 30 years. The special guest readers, including
SUN       Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick Malahide, all
SUN       have a strong connection with the city.
SUN       Including poems by Keats, Hardy, Betjeman, Wendy Cope and
SUN       Carol Ann Duffy.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n48kv (Listen)
SUN       11th October 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       Jive Bunny gets on the Juke Box Jury's nerves; the Tory
SUN       party's environment minister get tough on litter louts but
SUN       Greenpeace are disappointed; calls continue for Nelson
SUN       Mandela's release.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00n11w9 (Listen)
SUN       With a Parliamentary report expected to add to criticism
SUN       of Whitehall's defence purchasing systems, Gerry Northam
SUN       asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for
SUN       our forces.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00n3rct (Listen)
SUN       Alexander Lebedev
SUN       Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian
SUN       owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's
SUN       origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London
SUN       to billionaire businessman, socialite and political
SUN       liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard?
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n48t4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00n48t6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n48t8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00n48tb (Listen)
SUN       Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4
SUN       Book of the Week: Get Her Off The Pitch! - Radio 4
SUN       Twenty Minutes: Once Upon A Time - Radio 3
SUN       Over The Rainbow with Yip Harburg - Radio 4
SUN       Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries - Radio 4
SUN       1989: Day By Day - Radio 4
SUN       1989: Simpson Returns - Radio 4
SUN       The Strand - World Service
SUN       Weston's New Pier - Radio 4
SUN       The Essay - Radio 3
SUN       The Mario Lanza Story - Radio 2
SUN       Benny Hill: The Untold Story - Radio 2
SUN       I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing - Radio 4
SUN       You and Yours - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00n4crr (Listen)
SUN       Caroline goes into damage limitation.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00n4crt (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei is joined by two prominent commentators on the
SUN       American political landscape: Michelle D Bernard, the
SUN       president and CEO of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF)
SUN       and an MSNBC political analyst, and Ron Brownstein, the
SUN       political director for Atlantic Media Company, the
SUN       publisher of The Atlantic and National Journal.
SUN       They find out what is going on with the conservative
SUN       movement these days. Are politicians still wielding power
SUN       or have the top media voices taken centre stage? And how
SUN       is it possible that Sarah Palin's book is wracking up such
SUN       big sales before it has even been released?
SUN       Syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage tells us just how hot
SUN       the United States is for a good sex scandal. In light of
SUN       David Letterman's on-screen announcement about his sexual
SUN       relations, and the sordid history of major figures
SUN       transgressing, Matt talks to Dan about the line between
SUN       the appropriate and the passable in American sexuality.
SUN       The cold shoulder that the US has given Cuba may be
SUN       warming up a little. Matt Frei talks to the BBC's Michael
SUN       Voss in Havana about the changing relationship between the
SUN       US and its communist neighbour.
SUN       90 miles north of Cuba is Miami, Florida, hometown of
SUN       Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Although he has family
SUN       relations to Fidel Castro, he is a fervent anti-communist.
SUN       He argues that the US should not be pandering to the Cuban
SUN       regime.
SUN       Owning a home is key to the 'American dream', but how
SUN       about owning a skyscraper? Matt Frei talks to M Myers
SUN       Mermel about the surprisingly lucrative skyscraper real
SUN       estate market.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9r (Listen)
SUN       Granta Stories, A New World
SUN       Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most
SUN       prestigious literary magazine.
SUN       By VS Pritchett, read by Christopher Hannon.
SUN       As the autumn of the year and the First World War are
SUN       calling, a new world is dawning for Private Dunkley.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00n3jrn (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00n3jrs (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 b00n3pmb (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Are you entitled to part of a 60 million-pound Payment
SUN       Protection Insurance payout?
SUN       High frequency trading is taking off, but could it bring
SUN       the market down?
SUN       And the latest compensation news for Bradford and Bingley
SUN       shareholders.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00n474r (Listen)
SUN       APT Enterprise Development
SUN       Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise
SUN       Development.
SUN       Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope APT. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full
SUN       name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
SUN       donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not
SUN       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 290836.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00n0tw4 (Listen)
SUN       Educating Cinderella
SUN       With youth unemployment in Britain at its highest level
SUN       for decades, new evidence shows that only a tiny
SUN       proportion of school leavers who go on to basic vocational
SUN       courses find jobs at the end of them. Fran Abrams asks
SUN       whether further education in this country has got the
SUN       balance right between a choice-led system and a more
SUN       paternalistic one. Should we be encouraging young people
SUN       to follow their dreams or giving them vocational training
SUN       more closely tied to the job market?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00n4crw (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00n4cry (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Conserving What?
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00n4d4f (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 10th October 1989
SUN       Another chance to look back at the events making the news
SUN       20 years ago, with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       Including events in East Germany: the start of Gorbachev's
SUN       visit to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the GDR,
SUN       protest marches through East Berlin and the subsequent
SUN       police crackdown.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00n474f (Listen)
SUN       The Power of a Name
SUN       Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our
SUN       sense of self, our wellbeing, our relationships and our
SUN       path through life.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond, Frank Stirling and David
SUN       Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00n4dsj (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00n1jbd (Listen)
MON       America's social state is withering at the expense of its
MON       expanding prison system and the UK is heading in the same
MON       direction, with potentially disastrous consequences.
MON       That's the argument of Laurie Taylor's guest, Loic
MON       Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of
MON       California.
MON       From 1980 to 1990, spending by the US government on
MON       operating its prisons and correctional establishments
MON       doubled while at the same time spending on public housing
MON       more than halved. According to Wacquant, this process is
MON       continuing; he says that 'the construction of prisons has
MON       effectively become the country's main housing programme'.
MON       Are America's penal policies too harsh, and if prisons and
MON       correctional facilities are becoming increasingly
MON       important, what are the social consequences?
MON       He talks to Laurie about why he believes America is too
MON       ready to accept a state of poverty for huge sections of
MON       its population and at the same time see the social state
MON       obliterated. Is America punishing its poor and is the UK
MON       at risk of following the same path, overly dependent on
MON       prisons while eroding its social state?
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00n46fw (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in
MON       Kent.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy4 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4f00 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dzk (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00n4z9l (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g4w (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
MON       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00n4g5b (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00n4z9n (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00n4gbp (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00n4z9q (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr's guests include writer Audrey Niffenegger on
MON       her new novel, historian Robert Service on his biography
MON       of Trotsky and the Economist's Edward Carr on why
MON       polymaths are an endangered species. Also, with an
MON       election on the horizon, Anthony Seldon explores the
MON       nature of trust.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00n4h1p (Listen)
MON       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 1
MON       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
MON       British Security Service, MI5.
MON       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
MON       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
MON       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
MON       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
MON       How myth gave rise to reality as the rumour mills of
MON       fiction created a climate of fear and suspicion.
MON       Introduced by Gordon Corera.
MON       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k5p (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Degrees of Separation.
MON       
MON       11:00 Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover b0076lp0 (Listen)
MON       Dame Vera Lynn's wartime classic is British, original, but
MON       not entirely without controversy. Ian Hislop discovers the
MON       chequered history of this musical mainstay of the British
MON       nation in its finest hour. Could it really be a song
MON       weighed down by politics, propaganda and even a touch of
MON       plagiarism? And what about those bluebirds - have you ever
MON       seen any in the Dover area?
MON       Ian meets Dame Vera Lynn, veterans, musicologists and even
MON       an ornithologist in his quest to find the hidden meaning
MON       of this classic wartime song.
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen)
MON       The Lord Lieutenant's Lady
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 is caught between a warring couple, which is a good
MON       distraction from her disastrous crush on worship leader
MON       Wayne.
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Nancy Snow ...... Rosemary Leach
MON       Miss Macleod ...... Anne Reid
MON       Worship Leader Wayne ...... Javone Prince
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Anil ...... Paul Sharma
MON       Mrs Daly/Choir Member ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00n4khc (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00n4klq (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00n4km1 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00n4zgx (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00n4crr (Listen)
MON       Caroline goes into damage limitation.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n4zmr (Listen)
MON       Legacy
MON       By Cath Staincliffe. Probate detectives Rachel and Dan
MON       race to find the rightful heirs to an unclaimed estate and
MON       get a slice of the fortune.
MON       Rachel ...... Maxine Peake
MON       Dan ...... Tony Mooney
MON       Young Bill ...... Thomas Rolinson
MON       Young Victor ...... Daniel Rogers
MON       Young Violet ...... Lowri Evans
MON       Older Violet ...... Eileen O'Brien
MON       Nun/Secretary ...... Fiona Clarke
MON       Older Victor ...... Claude Close
MON       Directed by Nadia Molinari.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00n3t6y (Listen)
MON       When Bailey Met Warhol
MON       Jerry Hall, formerly one of Andy Warhol's muses,
MON       interviews photographer David Bailey about his
MON       relationship to the pop artist and tells the story of the
MON       infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol
MON       in 1973. Temporarily censored in the UK, it caused the
MON       greatest national public row over art and censorship since
MON       the trial over the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
MON       The relationship between Bailey and Warhol was also an
MON       encounter of styles: the visual cool of 1960s London met
MON       the playful irony of the New York art scene, with Bailey's
MON       East End smarts sometimes thwarted by Warhol's elusive
MON       musings and those of his Factory acolytes.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyz (Listen)
MON       Tea
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       Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins
MON       in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for
MON       inspection.
MON       Thanks to the introduction of tea in the 18th century,
MON       even people who were not rich and who did not have
MON       servants could afford to entertain. The home was opened up
MON       to inspection; suddenly people were arriving to judge your
MON       china, your curtains, and your manners.
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 b00n47px (Listen)
MON       Feasts
MON       Feasts have been a feature of human life since humans
MON       first mastered fire and climbed out of the trees, but what
MON       function do feasts have in today's largely urban society?
MON       Sheila Dillon visits the Thames Festival Feast, a modern
MON       urban harvest festival, bringing food back into the heart
MON       of the city and recreating a sense of community. Grape
MON       treading, sacred mayonnaise making and mobile food gardens
MON       make a vivid modern feast. Central to it a table spanning
MON       Southwark Bridge, its tablecloth printed with collections
MON       of Londoners' food stories.
MON       The traditional feast has been disappearing from rural
MON       areas, but the Welcombe community in Devon some years ago
MON       introduced a Christmas Salamongundi to bring the community
MON       together to celebrate. Poet and author John Moat explains
MON       how it came about.
MON       Sir Roy Strong, author of Feast outlines the social,
MON       political and religious subtext of historical feasting
MON       and, with Rev Richard Coles, comments on the dining TV
MON       reality show, Come Dine With Me.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00n510j (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Episode 2
MON       Simon Cox looks into the future of GPS, with the help of a
MON       four-legged friend. With even our pets sporting the latest
MON       in GPS tracker units, is there no limit to what we can
MON       load onto what is after all a 30-year-old satellite system?
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x7h (Listen)
MON       12th October 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       Chancellor Nigel Lawson speaks at the Conservative Party
MON       conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate; East
MON       German minister for ideology calls for reform of the
MON       political system; plans for a commercial nuclear bunker
MON       near Peterborough are scrapped because the world is 'too
MON       peaceful'.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00n4x9t (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
MON       Quinn. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n4xj0 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n510l (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 2
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 Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00n4w49 (Listen)
MON       Brian stamps on Lynda's plans for the footpaths.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00n4y1q (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
MON       interview with John Irving, whose novels include The World
MON       According to Garp and The Cider House Rules.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n4y1s (Listen)
MON       Degrees Of Separation, Empty Nest
MON       Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme
MON       of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's
MON       Hour listeners.
MON       When Sheila and Simon's daughter leaves home for a gap
MON       year trip, Sheila is inconsolable. It is the separation
MON       she has dreaded, and Simon's attempts to comfort her only
MON       make things worse. It is not until an eccentric elderly
MON       neighbour asks for help that she begins to think about
MON       something other than her own grief.
MON       Sheila ...... Jilly Bond
MON       Simon ...... Richard Mitchley
MON       Edie ...... June Barrie.
MON       
MON       20:00 Brighton: The Bomb That Changed Politics b00n510n (Listen)
MON       In 1984, the Provisional IRA mounted their most audacious
MON       terrorist attack - attempting to blow up the British
MON       cabinet at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton.
MON       Michael Dobbs, a former senior adviser to Margaret
MON       Thatcher and John Major, was at the Grand Hotel when the
MON       bomb detonated.
MON       He believes its legacy has had a profound impact on our
MON       politics, especially at party conferences and Westminster.
MON       Revisiting Brighton for the first time since 1984 and
MON       talking to leading political figures, he asks if we have
MON       struck the right balance in protecting politicians and
MON       ensuring they are not cocooned from the people they serve.
MON       Featuring contributions from Lord Tebbit, Ken Livingstone,
MON       Alastair Campbell, Charles Clarke, Charles Kennedy and
MON       Francis Maude.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00n51z3 (Listen)
MON       Small States
MON       Bronwen Maddox, chief foreign commentator of The Times,
MON       asks if small nations can survive as independent states.
MON       Tiny states like Liechtenstein, Brunei and Monaco give
MON       hope to independence movements elsewhere that size does
MON       not matter. Bronwen Maddox asks if the world's smallest
MON       countries are quite as independent as they appear and
MON       examines the difficulties of being small but truly
MON       sovereign.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00n51z5 (Listen)
MON       Who really makes the biggest difference on climate change
MON       - those living on the edge or those working firmly within
MON       the system? Tell us about your experience of environmental
MON       campaigning via the Costing the Earth Facebook site (link
MON       below).
MON       A recent Christian Aid survey found that 93 per cent of
MON       people think everyone in the UK should have the right to
MON       peaceful protest, 50 per cent think the police are too
MON       heavy handed, and 18 per cent are put off protesting in
MON       the future due to heavy-handed policing. Costing the Earth
MON       finds out about those who continue to campaign on the
MON       planet's behalf; is it really getting harder for them to
MON       make an impact on how we and our governments behave?
MON       Mark Carter has been on hunger strike for over 46 days to
MON       highlight the plight of the seal. Some might see his
MON       actions as mad, but for Mark this is the only way to
MON       affect the government's proposed marine bills. During the
MON       last 10 years the common seal population has declined by a
MON       third but they are still being killed and for Mark, at
MON       least, the only solution is a ban on these culls. What
MON       effect will 500 signatures have against the interests of
MON       the fishing industry, and, whatever the results, how will
MON       he react?
MON       Jonathan Porritt recently resigned his post at the Forum
MON       for the Future with the dire warning that, 'A combination
MON       of political paralysis, corporate vested interest and our
MON       conservative-co-opted media' alongside 'basic entitlements
MON       protecting the rights of dissenting voices being eroded'
MON       mean tough times for green activists.
MON       The recent G20 protests saw some of the most draconian
MON       police tactics for some time. Using laws intended to
MON       prevent terrorists in the wake of 9/11 like Stop and
MON       Search, green activists have often found themselves at the
MON       front line of human rights issues. At the same time, the
MON       government's recent moves to change planning laws and rush
MON       through proposals for wind farms and nuclear plants via
MON       the Infrastructure Planning Commission quango could mean
MON       that contentious plans go ahead before activists have time
MON       to launch protests.
MON       Is it really getting harder for people like Tim, a regular
MON       at Climate Camp who has been informed that his photo and
MON       details are on police file, to affect change?
MON       Equally important is whether the long-used methods of mass
MON       camps, extreme acts and even advertising really have the
MON       impact that changing policy and people's behaviour
MON       requires. A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund
MON       suggests not. Could Whitehall workers or investment
MON       bankers be making a bigger difference without even trying,
MON       and if these methods haven't worked, what next?
MON       We follow Mark and Tim's stories to find out what one
MON       individual's efforts can achieve and look at the big
MON       protests of recent years to find out what the future of
MON       green activism might hold.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00n4z9q (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr's guests include writer Audrey Niffenegger on
MON       her new novel, historian Robert Service on his biography
MON       of Trotsky and the Economist's Edward Carr on why
MON       polymaths are an endangered species. Also, with an
MON       election on the horizon, Anthony Seldon explores the
MON       nature of trust.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00n4ybq (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00n4yyf (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4z16 (Listen)
MON       And Another Thing..., Episode 1
MON       Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide
MON       to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter
MON       Serafinowicz.
MON       There is very nearly tea and biscuits.
MON       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b008w3xp (Listen)
MON       Brian Patten
MON       Poet Brian Patten chooses pieces of writing which have
MON       been inspirational to him in his work and his life.
MON       Readers are Christian Rodska and Alison Reid.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z5z (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Sean Curran.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq5 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00n4h1p (Listen)
TUE       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 1
TUE       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
TUE       British Security Service, MI5.
TUE       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
TUE       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
TUE       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
TUE       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
TUE       How myth gave rise to reality as the rumour mills of
TUE       fiction created a climate of fear and suspicion.
TUE       Introduced by Gordon Corera.
TUE       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsm (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzm (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00n4g2y (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g30 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
TUE       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00n4g4y (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00n4gbc (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Choice b00n52kv (Listen)
TUE       Stuart Howarth
TUE       Michael Buerk interviews people who have made
TUE       life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole
TUE       process, from the original dilemma to living with the
TUE       consequences.
TUE       Michael talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill
TUE       his abusive father.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Good Samaritan b00n52kx (Listen)
TUE       Episode 5
TUE       Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping
TUE       hand, with varying consequences.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vw7 (Listen)
TUE       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 2
TUE       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
TUE       British Security Service, MI5.
TUE       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
TUE       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
TUE       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
TUE       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
TUE       The advice of those with access to German informants goes
TUE       ignored by the Chamberlain government in the months
TUE       leading up to the Second World War.
TUE       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2g (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Degrees of Separation.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00n52kz (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Migrating Stones
TUE       Poet and writer Alyson Hallett travels to Australia with a
TUE       large piece of limestone as a companion, inscribed with a
TUE       line from one of her poems. This is the third journey
TUE       Alyson has made with a stone; each destination has been
TUE       different, each stone has been different, but each has
TUE       been similarly inscribed by the sculptor and lettering
TUE       artist Alec Peever.
TUE       It is a project which began seven years ago, inspired by a
TUE       dream and an encounter with an erratic - a huge boulder
TUE       that had broken away from its motherbed centuries ago,
TUE       lodged in ice and then set off on long, slow journey,
TUE       until eventually it was deposited on a Welsh mountainside.
TUE       It was here that Alyson encountered the boulder.
TUE       Fascinated by the idea that stones are fellow companions
TUE       and movement is an essential part of their nature, Alyson
TUE       started to explore the cultural importance of stones, and
TUE       embarked on her project, The Migration Habits of Stones.
TUE       Alyson takes a journey with her third stone to Koonawara
TUE       in Australia. We also hear from stone letterer Alec Peever
TUE       and Bill Morris, warden of Leigh Woods in Bristol, the
TUE       site of the first migrating stone.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen)
TUE       Musician and comedian Mitch Benn takes a journey back to
TUE       the 1970s in search of the symphonic narrative concept
TUE       album.
TUE       Meeting some of the leading artists and fans of the genre,
TUE       including Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne, David Bedford, Brian
TUE       Blessed and Stuart Maconie, he battles capes and keyboard
TUE       solos to rediscover the wondrous stories behind these epic
TUE       musical extravaganzas.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00n4kcw (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00n4khf (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00n4kls (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House b00n8swn (Listen)
TUE       Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has converted a disused
TUE       garage in Gaborone, Botswana, into an opera house and is
TUE       training local people to sing in its opening production, a
TUE       new opera he has written about baboons.
TUE       Pauline McLean charts the progress of this wacky project
TUE       with McCall Smith himself, Botswana's ex-minster of health
TUE       and the country's only semi-professional baritone, a
TUE       schoolteacher named Gape Motswaledi, who believes that
TUE       there is a career to be made from the venture.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00n4w49 (Listen)
TUE       Brian stamps on Lynda's plans for the footpaths.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c50ht (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, Dickens and Dizzy
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       In the weeks leading up to Queen Victoria's coronation,
TUE       Dickens meets Benjamin Disraeli, a journalist and
TUE       ambitious young politician. There is an instant rivalry
TUE       and unease between the two men, which only increases when
TUE       the team believe they have uncovered a secret that
TUE       Disraeli wants to keep hidden.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Benjamin Disraeli ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
TUE       William Percy ...... Bertie Carvel
TUE       Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis ...... Liz Sutherland
TUE       Lady Londonderry ...... Joan Walker
TUE       Rachel ...... Lydia Leonard
TUE       Official ...... Ben Crowe
TUE       Footman ...... Nyasha Hatendi
TUE       Archbishop ...... Dan Starkey
TUE       Speaker ...... Stephen Critchlow
TUE       Rabbi ...... Alan Lee
TUE       Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00n55lz (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past. Is the skin that
TUE       binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a
TUE       listener's ancestor?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n55n4 (Listen)
TUE       Lyrical Ballads, Lewti and The Thorn
TUE       A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798
TUE       collaboration which marked the beginning of the English
TUE       Romantic poetry movement.
TUE       The poems Lewti, Coleridge's 'love chant' to an enigmatic
TUE       and stony-hearted woman, and The Thorn, Wordsworth's
TUE       ballad about a mysterious outcast and the superstitions
TUE       that the locals have attached to her. Recorded on location
TUE       in Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset, and in
TUE       the Quantock Hills.
TUE       Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
TUE       William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows
TUE       The Captain ...... Peter Gruffydd
TUE       Adapted by Emma Harding.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyj (Listen)
TUE       Domestic Harmony
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       Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins
TUE       in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for
TUE       inspection.
TUE       Family music-making was a way of creating domestic
TUE       harmony, and it was your best chance of finding a partner.
TUE       Includes the diary of one hapless bachelor who falls for
TUE       one girl after another upon hearing them sing and play at
TUE       musical evenings.
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! b00gl57t (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Advertising executive Robin Wight presents a history of
TUE       the advertising industry.
TUE       How clients watched advertising bosses grow rich in the
TUE       1990s and so turned to new media, prompting the rise of
TUE       internet advertising. Robin also examines how the industry
TUE       creates memorable advertising campaigns that work away
TUE       from TV screens. Including contributions from Richard
TUE       Dawkins, John Hegarty and Gemma Calvert, professor of
TUE       neuro-imaging at Warwick University.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00n55sn (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to broadcaster Vanessa Feltz and
TUE       journalist Johann Hari about their favourite books.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5f (Listen)
TUE       13th October 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Margaret Thatcher address the Tory conference on her 64th
TUE       birthday to chants of '10 more years', Douglas Hurd
TUE       declares war on the 'scourge of acid house parties', and
TUE       shares plunge in the last hour of trading on Wall Street,
TUE       sparking fears of another Black Monday.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00n4x7k (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 b00n4x9w (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Too Much Information b00n55sq (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre
TUE       in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever.
TUE       Waft Tourist Information struggle to attract visitors by
TUE       promoting their most famous local resident, a local doctor
TUE       who burps. But when a genuinely famous dissolute TV comic
TUE       stops off to spend a penny, they are to determined not to
TUE       let him leave.
TUE       Warren ...... Jeff Rawle
TUE       Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Heather ...... Liza Sadovy
TUE       Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey
TUE       Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill
TUE       Ricky ...... Phillip Fox
TUE       George ...... Stephen Hogan.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00n4w3q (Listen)
TUE       History repeats itself for Fallon.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00n4xj2 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reviews Terry
TUE       Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which
TUE       features the late Heath Ledger.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjw (Listen)
TUE       Degrees Of Separation, Fatima the Catima
TUE       Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme
TUE       of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's
TUE       Hour listeners.
TUE       While Karen's husband is fighting in Afghanistan, she
TUE       tries hard to keep normal family life going and her
TUE       anxieties at bay for the sake of their children.
TUE       Karen ...... Alison Reid.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00n569w (Listen)
TUE       Fears over deep cuts in council jobs and services have
TUE       brought predictions of a winter of discontent and strife
TUE       unlike anything seen for 30 years. But as councils prepare
TUE       to wield the axe, Julian O'Halloran asks if some
TUE       authorities have added to their budget crises by awarding
TUE       over-the-top pay, perks and severance terms to their own
TUE       top executives.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00n569y (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Trials For Life b00n5sxk (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in
TUE       clinical trials.
TUE       Cystic fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening
TUE       inherited disease, affecting many areas of the body.
TUE       Vivienne talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to
TUE       replace the gene at fault.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Choice b00n52kv (Listen)
TUE       Stuart Howarth
TUE       Michael Buerk interviews people who have made
TUE       life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole
TUE       process, from the original dilemma to living with the
TUE       consequences.
TUE       Michael talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill
TUE       his abusive father.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00n4y85 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybs (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyh (Listen)
TUE       And Another Thing..., Episode 2
TUE       Stephen Mangan reads from Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas
TUE       Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Read by
TUE       Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
TUE       An old friend appears.
TUE       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00b7qs7 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social
TUE       observation and nonsense.
TUE       Guests include Juliet Stevenson, Steve Wright, John
TUE       Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Ewan Bailey and Jon Culshaw.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z61 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Susan Hulme.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq7 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vw7 (Listen)
WED       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 2
WED       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
WED       British Security Service, MI5.
WED       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
WED       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
WED       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
WED       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
WED       The advice of those with access to German informants goes
WED       ignored by the Chamberlain government in the months
WED       leading up to the Second World War.
WED       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsp (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzq (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy8 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00n4g32 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g34 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
WED       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00n4g50 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00n4gbf (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00n58cr (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Maureen Lipman.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvv (Listen)
WED       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 3
WED       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
WED       British Security Service, MI5.
WED       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
WED       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
WED       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
WED       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
WED       The recruiting of spies was never an exact science, owing
WED       much to the clubbable atmosphere of Oxbridge and public
WED       schools.
WED       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2j (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation.
WED       
WED       11:00 Home Grown b00n58ct (Listen)
WED       Yasmeen Khan investigates the growing trend among
WED       second-generation British Asian men to bypass British
WED       Asian women and instead marry women from their parents'
WED       native countries, often leading to culture shock,
WED       unhappiness and divorce - and a generation of unmarried
WED       British Asian women.
WED       
WED       11:30 Hut 33 b00n58cw (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Know Thyne Enemy
WED       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in the 1940s.
WED       It's 1942, the war is not going well and the codebreakers
WED       of Bletchley Park are under even more pressure than
WED       before. Hut 33, the worst performing hut, resorts to
WED       desperate measures to improve results. Archie, Gordon and
WED       Charles try to think like Germans to help them predict the
WED       letter combinations on the Enigma machine. Unfortunately
WED       their experiment in psychological warfare goes very badly
WED       awry.
WED       Charles ...... Robert Bathurst
WED       Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
WED       Minka...... Olivia Colman
WED       Gordon ...... Fergus Craig
WED       Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen
WED       Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00n4kcy (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00n4khh (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00n4klv (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00n58cy (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00n4w3q (Listen)
WED       History repeats itself for Fallon.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n58d1 (Listen)
WED       The Island With No Name
WED       By Alison Joseph. Hebridean island life isn't for
WED       everyone, yet when Kathleen decides to sell her family's
WED       croft and head to Glasgow, her friends are appalled. Her
WED       decision becomes a catalyst that causes people in the
WED       small community to re-examine their heart's desires.
WED       Kathleen ...... Elspeth Brodie
WED       Martinn ...... Finn Den Hertog
WED       Wendy ...... Meg Fraser
WED       Fergus ...... Jamie Lee
WED       Grandmother ...... Dolina MacLennan
WED       Trina ...... Sally Reid.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00n58kf (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial
WED       issues, live from the BBC's Money Matters Roadshow at the
WED       Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.
WED       His guests are:
WED       Graham Hooper, Bestinvest
WED       Jackie Coyne, MacDonald Reid Scott Financial Services
WED       John Douglas, Finesco Financial Services.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k19 (Listen)
WED       Lyrical Ballads, The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems
WED       A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798
WED       collaboration which marked the beginning of the English
WED       Romantic poetry movement.
WED       The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which
WED       he disputes the traditional association of the nightingale
WED       with melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems
WED       about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded
WED       on location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye
WED       Valley, Monmouthshire.
WED       Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
WED       William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows
WED       Adapted by Emma Harding.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyl (Listen)
WED       Men at Home
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       Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins
WED       in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for
WED       inspection.
WED       Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette - these are the
WED       stories of family 'black sheep', and how embarrassing they
WED       were. And the moving diary of life with an alcoholic
WED       husband, who brought his servants back with him from the
WED       alehouse and trashed the parlour.
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 b00n58kh (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead
WED       and why. From clothes to jewellery, photographs, hats, eye
WED       glasses, walking sticks, letters and even food, alcohol
WED       and tobacco, the objects mourners leave in the coffins and
WED       caskets of their loved ones tells us a huge amount about
WED       our attitudes to death and the rituals it involves.
WED       Laurie talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre
WED       for Death and Society at the University of Bath, whose new
WED       study about 'modern-day grave goods' reveals fascinating
WED       insights into our attitudes to death, how we grieve, the
WED       ritual of death and mourning. She points out that the
WED       objects we leave today are remarkably similar to the kinds
WED       of goods uncovered by archaeologists in graves going back
WED       thousand of years.
WED       
WED       16:30 Trials For Life b00n5sxk (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in
WED       clinical trials.
WED       Cystic fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening
WED       inherited disease, affecting many areas of the body.
WED       Vivienne talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to
WED       replace the gene at fault.
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5h (Listen)
WED       14th October 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       Hungarian-born Estee Lauder opens the first cosmetics shop
WED       in the new-look socialist Belgrade, Poland faces 1,000 per
WED       cent inflation and London Fashion Week anticipates the 90s
WED       look.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00n4x7m (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 b00n4x9y (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00n594p (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Ill Communication
WED       Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in the finest,
WED       feistiest, family-run record shop in Birmingham.
WED       Adam ...... Lenny Henry
WED       Rudy ...... Larrington Walker
WED       Richie ...... Joe Jacobs
WED       Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
WED       Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
WED       Doreen/Ms Rogers ...... Claire Benedict
WED       Policeman ...... Andrew Brooke.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00n4w3s (Listen)
WED       Three's a crowd for Ed and Mike.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00n4xj4 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjp (Listen)
WED       Degrees Of Separation, The Boy in the Library
WED       Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme
WED       of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's
WED       Hour listeners.
WED       Billy lives in the same town as his son and grandson, but
WED       he has never seen the little boy because of a family
WED       quarrel. When he sees a boy in the local library who he
WED       believes is his grandson, he sets in train a series of
WED       events which threaten to land him in trouble with the
WED       police.
WED       Billy ...... Richard Bremner
WED       Janice ...... Janice Acquah
WED       Karen ...... Alison Reid.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00n59ww (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie
WED       Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor
WED       cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 Conserving What? b00n5ngf (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of Conservatism and
WED       tries to discover where David Cameron sits in its
WED       intellectual tradition.
WED       Peter searches for clues in the character of different
WED       Conservative governments.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00n52kz (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Migrating Stones
WED       Poet and writer Alyson Hallett travels to Australia with a
WED       large piece of limestone as a companion, inscribed with a
WED       line from one of her poems. This is the third journey
WED       Alyson has made with a stone; each destination has been
WED       different, each stone has been different, but each has
WED       been similarly inscribed by the sculptor and lettering
WED       artist Alec Peever.
WED       It is a project which began seven years ago, inspired by a
WED       dream and an encounter with an erratic - a huge boulder
WED       that had broken away from its motherbed centuries ago,
WED       lodged in ice and then set off on long, slow journey,
WED       until eventually it was deposited on a Welsh mountainside.
WED       It was here that Alyson encountered the boulder.
WED       Fascinated by the idea that stones are fellow companions
WED       and movement is an essential part of their nature, Alyson
WED       started to explore the cultural importance of stones, and
WED       embarked on her project, The Migration Habits of Stones.
WED       Alyson takes a journey with her third stone to Koonawara
WED       in Australia. We also hear from stone letterer Alec Peever
WED       and Bill Morris, warden of Leigh Woods in Bristol, the
WED       site of the first migrating stone.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00n58cr (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Maureen Lipman.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00n4y87 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybv (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyk (Listen)
WED       And Another Thing..., Episode 3
WED       Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide
WED       to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter
WED       Serafinowicz.
WED       A deal is struck and there is some bad Vogon poetry.
WED       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00n5ngh (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 2
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 b00n5ngk (Listen)
WED       Train to Paris
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 Train to Paris.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z63 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with David Wilby.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq9 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvv (Listen)
THU       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 3
THU       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
THU       British Security Service, MI5.
THU       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
THU       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
THU       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
THU       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
THU       The recruiting of spies was never an exact science, owing
THU       much to the clubbable atmosphere of Oxbridge and public
THU       schools.
THU       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dst (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzs (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dyb (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00n4g36 (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g38 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
THU       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00n4g52 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00n4gbh (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00n5nqr (Listen)
THU       The Death of Elizabeth I
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen
THU       Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its
THU       impact on how Britain was ruled.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvx (Listen)
THU       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 4
THU       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
THU       British Security Service, MI5.
THU       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
THU       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
THU       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
THU       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
THU       The most publicly turbulent disagreements between the
THU       spies and the politicians to whom they reported occurred
THU       during Harold Wilson's final term in office.
THU       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2l (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n5nqt (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 My Yiddisher Mother Tongue b00n5nz2 (Listen)
THU       Writer and comedian David Schneider goes on a personal
THU       journey through Yiddish culture and language.
THU       Schneider, who first came to fame on The Day Today and I'm
THU       Alan Partridge, is the grandson of a Yiddish playwright
THU       and a Yiddish actress. He returns to Whitechapel and
THU       Vienna where his grandparents performed and considers the
THU       rich thousand-year history of the language.
THU       Contributors include Yiddish enthusiasts including Michael
THU       Grade and General Colin Powell, who picked up the language
THU       in his teens when he worked in a Jewish toy store in New
THU       York.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00n4kd0 (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00n4khk (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00n4klx (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00n51z5 (Listen)
THU       Who really makes the biggest difference on climate change
THU       - those living on the edge or those working firmly within
THU       the system? Tell us about your experience of environmental
THU       campaigning via the Costing the Earth Facebook site (link
THU       below).
THU       A recent Christian Aid survey found that 93 per cent of
THU       people think everyone in the UK should have the right to
THU       peaceful protest, 50 per cent think the police are too
THU       heavy handed, and 18 per cent are put off protesting in
THU       the future due to heavy-handed policing. Costing the Earth
THU       finds out about those who continue to campaign on the
THU       planet's behalf; is it really getting harder for them to
THU       make an impact on how we and our governments behave?
THU       Mark Carter has been on hunger strike for over 46 days to
THU       highlight the plight of the seal. Some might see his
THU       actions as mad, but for Mark this is the only way to
THU       affect the government's proposed marine bills. During the
THU       last 10 years the common seal population has declined by a
THU       third but they are still being killed and for Mark, at
THU       least, the only solution is a ban on these culls. What
THU       effect will 500 signatures have against the interests of
THU       the fishing industry, and, whatever the results, how will
THU       he react?
THU       Jonathan Porritt recently resigned his post at the Forum
THU       for the Future with the dire warning that, 'A combination
THU       of political paralysis, corporate vested interest and our
THU       conservative-co-opted media' alongside 'basic entitlements
THU       protecting the rights of dissenting voices being eroded'
THU       mean tough times for green activists.
THU       The recent G20 protests saw some of the most draconian
THU       police tactics for some time. Using laws intended to
THU       prevent terrorists in the wake of 9/11 like Stop and
THU       Search, green activists have often found themselves at the
THU       front line of human rights issues. At the same time, the
THU       government's recent moves to change planning laws and rush
THU       through proposals for wind farms and nuclear plants via
THU       the Infrastructure Planning Commission quango could mean
THU       that contentious plans go ahead before activists have time
THU       to launch protests.
THU       Is it really getting harder for people like Tim, a regular
THU       at Climate Camp who has been informed that his photo and
THU       details are on police file, to affect change?
THU       Equally important is whether the long-used methods of mass
THU       camps, extreme acts and even advertising really have the
THU       impact that changing policy and people's behaviour
THU       requires. A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund
THU       suggests not. Could Whitehall workers or investment
THU       bankers be making a bigger difference without even trying,
THU       and if these methods haven't worked, what next?
THU       We follow Mark and Tim's stories to find out what one
THU       individual's efforts can achieve and look at the big
THU       protests of recent years to find out what the future of
THU       green activism might hold.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00n4w3s (Listen)
THU       Three's a crowd for Ed and Mike.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bz4cm (Listen)
THU       Dropping Bombs
THU       A bittersweet generational comedy by Paul Cotter.
THU       Sixty five years after a bungled bombing raid, a former
THU       RAF pilot, with wife and son in tow, makes the long drive
THU       to Germany to deliver an apology. The trip turns out to be
THU       explosive for all concerned.
THU       Valerie ...... Rosemary Leach
THU       Alistair ...... Nigel Anthony
THU       Ross ...... Ivan Kaye
THU       German Woman ...... Susan Engel
THU       Manager/Official ...... Kenneth Collard
THU       Weert ...... Dan Starkey.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00n3mpr (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 4
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       On the fourth leg of the route, Jon Monks explains to
THU       Clare why he believes St Oswald's Way is the thinking
THU       man's walking route.
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 b00n474r (Listen)
THU       APT Enterprise Development
THU       Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise
THU       Development.
THU       Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope APT. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
THU       you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full
THU       name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
THU       donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not
THU       currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 290836.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k0l (Listen)
THU       Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey and Love
THU       A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798
THU       collaboration which marked the beginning of the English
THU       Romantic poetry movement.
THU       Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,
THU       Wordsworth's celebrated exploration of the relationship
THU       between the contemplation of nature and his sense of the
THU       divine. And Coleridge's pseudo-medieval ballad, Love, in
THU       which a minstrel woos his beloved with the dramatic tale
THU       of a knight and his lady. Recorded on location in Tintern
THU       Abbey, the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire and the Quantock
THU       Hills in Somerset.
THU       Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
THU       William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows
THU       The Captain ...... Peter Gruffydd
THU       Adapted by Emma Harding.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyn (Listen)
THU       Secrets at Home - Illicit Guests
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       Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins
THU       in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for
THU       inspection.
THU       Stories from adultery cases about women sneaking lovers
THU       into the house and how impossible it was to keep anything
THU       from prying servants, who were literally peering through
THU       the keyhole.
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 Open Book b00n48k4 (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup talks to the thriller writer Robert
THU       Harris, whose latest book, Lustrum, set in Ancient Rome,
THU       is the second volume of a trilogy about the lawyer,
THU       politican and orator Cicero. Harris explains how modern
THU       and ancient politics collide, and why this novel about
THU       ancient intrigue is dedicated to Lord Mandelson.
THU       The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector is the subject of a
THU       recent biography; as one of her novels is published in a
THU       new translation, Mariella is joined by the biographer
THU       Benjamin Moser to discuss why she is revered as one of the
THU       greatest writers in the Portugese language.
THU       And the masterpieces that never were; the author of a new
THU       history of literary hoaxes, Melissa Katsoulis, and the
THU       writer Kevin Jackson swap favourite tales of writers who
THU       pulled the wool over their readers' eyes.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00n5psk (Listen)
THU       'The ultimate free lunch' is physicist Alan Guth's
THU       description of the universe. Created out of nothing, the
THU       universe is now unimagineably large, contains billions of
THU       stars, and provides home to us. Thirty years after
THU       Professor Guth first pondered the initial moments that
THU       fashioned a cosmos, he tells Quentin Cooper how his
THU       theories are shaping up.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5k (Listen)
THU       15th October 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from prison sparking
THU       nationwide celebrations, the UN agrees a global ban on the
THU       ivory trade, and Jive Bunny, the cartoon rabbit, reaches
THU       number one in the charts.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00n4x7p (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 b00n4xb0 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00grrzy (Listen)
THU       Series 4, Pub Quiz
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       Promoting himself to team captain of the Three Musketeers,
THU       Arthur enters the Shoulder of Mutton pub quiz. Can he win
THU       the 50 pound rollover, or will it all end in tears?
THU       With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and
THU       Alastair Kerr.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00n4w3w (Listen)
THU       Jazzer has trouble escaping the past.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00n4xj6 (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to Peter Hook of
THU       New Order about his memories of the Hacienda club, and
THU       reports on the art works being recreated for the House of
THU       Lords.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjr (Listen)
THU       Degrees Of Separation, Twins
THU       Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme
THU       of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's
THU       Hour listeners.
THU       Janice already has two boisterous boys and is delighted
THU       when she discovers that one of the twins she is carrying
THU       is a girl. She dreams of the little dresses she will buy,
THU       how she'll fix her hair and how lovely it will be to have
THU       a dainty little creature around. Of course she's looking
THU       forward to another boy as well, but it's the little girl
THU       she is really excited about. But when the twins are born
THU       and she must be separated from one of them, her dreams
THU       come crashing down around her head.
THU       Janice ...... Janice Acquah
THU       Dan ...... Mark Meadows
THU       Doctor ...... Saikat Ahamed.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00n5qbn (Listen)
THU       Rob Walker investigates the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. What
THU       has made it the longest and most expensive inquiry in
THU       British legal history?
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00n5rc9 (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 b00n5rcc (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts meets Richard Holmes, winner of the 2009
THU       Science Book Prize, and hears how history and biography
THU       can reveal the workings of science.
THU       Also, does technology evolve? According to W Brian Arthur,
THU       a professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and
THU       author of The Nature of Technology, machines develop in
THU       some ways akin to biological organisms.
THU       Instead of natural selection, humans and markets force the
THU       changes. Instead of genes, sub-systems and new materials
THU       come together from diverse sources. And sometimes there
THU       are innovations rather than incremental developments - jet
THU       engines did not result from gradual changes to propeller
THU       engines. But overall, the argument is that technologies do
THU       indeed evolve.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00n5nqr (Listen)
THU       The Death of Elizabeth I
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen
THU       Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its
THU       impact on how Britain was ruled.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00n4y8c (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybx (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yym (Listen)
THU       And Another Thing..., Episode 4
THU       Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide
THU       to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter
THU       Serafinowicz.
THU       A far-off planetoid is in need of a presiding god, as are
THU       some hitchhikers.
THU       i
THU       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
THU       
THU       23:00 Pick Ups b00n5rwp (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Little Grey Cells
THU       Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi
THU       company.
THU       Dave's marriage proposal is temporarily postponed by an
THU       omelette.
THU       Mike ...... Paul Loughran
THU       Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Dave ...... Phil Rowson
THU       Rebel ..... Parvez Qadir
THU       Drunk ...... Mark E Smith
THU       Stevie ...... Suranne Jones
THU       Pat the Butcher ...... Andrew Grose.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z66 (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00n4dqc (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvx (Listen)
FRI       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 4
FRI       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
FRI       British Security Service, MI5.
FRI       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
FRI       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
FRI       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
FRI       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
FRI       The most publicly turbulent disagreements between the
FRI       spies and the politicians to whom they reported occurred
FRI       during Harold Wilson's final term in office.
FRI       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsy (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzv (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dyd (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00n4g3b (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g3d (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris
FRI       Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00n4g54 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00n4gbk (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
FRI       Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00n4754 (Listen)
FRI       Steve Coogan
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve
FRI       Coogan.
FRI       As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a
FRI       talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently
FRI       he has also found success in films, but is best known for
FRI       the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The
FRI       chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe
FRI       with his crass questions and witless interventions and has
FRI       remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvz (Listen)
FRI       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 5
FRI       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
FRI       British Security Service, MI5.
FRI       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
FRI       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
FRI       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
FRI       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
FRI       Bringing the story up to date.
FRI       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2n (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n5td6 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 1
FRI       When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved from London to the
FRI       isolated West Highlands to live with the writer Gavin
FRI       Maxwell, whose most famous book is Ring of Bright Water.
FRI       Forty years after Maxwell's death, Terry tells the
FRI       remarkable story of his life with this mercurial man and
FRI       his famous otters, Edal and Teko.
FRI       Ring of Bright Water is regarded by some as the finest
FRI       book ever written about a man's relationship with
FRI       landscape and wildlife. Published in 1959, it tells the
FRI       story of Maxwell's life in the now almost mythical setting
FRI       of Camusfearna. His poetic observations of otter behaviour
FRI       and the detailed sketches and photographs in the book
FRI       helped to change the reputation of these animals, which
FRI       were widely persecuted at the time.
FRI       During his time with Maxwell, Terry Nutkins had a Boy's
FRI       Own adventure with a pet otter in a uniquely beautiful
FRI       landscape. But he also found himself living a peculiar
FRI       existence, in virtual isolation, with a man who was as
FRI       charming as he was difficult, and whose depression led to
FRI       severe mood swings. As Terry reveals, he had to grow up
FRI       quickly.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n5tzr (Listen)
FRI       Variation on A Theme
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       Brunswick is back with his dear friends from the station,
FRI       just in time for the annual cricket match between the
FRI       villains and the police. But Steine's life continues to be
FRI       under threat. So if it's not Brunswick, who is reponsible?
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 b00n4kd2 (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00n4khm (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00n4klz (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00n5vjq (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00n4w3w (Listen)
FRI       Jazzer has trouble escaping the past.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n5vjs (Listen)
FRI       A Dose of Fame
FRI       By Stephen Wakelam. In the final stages of writing Howards
FRI       End and nervous of success, EM Forster grapples with a
FRI       mysterious death, his own sexuality and the seed of an
FRI       idea for his next novel, Maurice.
FRI       Morgan ...... Stephen Campbell Moore
FRI       Lily ...... Diana Quick
FRI       Masood ...... Navin Chowdhry
FRI       Malcolm ...... Matt Addis
FRI       Ernest ...... Benjamin Askew
FRI       Unwin ...... Sam Dale
FRI       Edward Arnold ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Roger Fry ...... Malcolm Tierney
FRI       Hilda ...... Caroline Guthrie
FRI       Directed by David Hunter.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n5vrf (Listen)
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood meet
FRI       the valley gardeners of Itchen Abbas, near Winchester.
FRI       The country's top groundsman advises on autumn lawn
FRI       maintenance and keeping the perfect lawn or sports field.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyq (Listen)
FRI       Domestic Violence
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       Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins
FRI       in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for
FRI       inspection.
FRI       The dark side of private life, and how home became a trap.
FRI       The moving diary of Ellen Weeton, who was duped into
FRI       marriage with a man who abused her, keeping her locked up
FRI       in a back room and forbidding her access to their
FRI       daughter. What were her options for escape?
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 b00n5vt7 (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 b00n5w33 (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock presents a special edition of the programme
FRI       with Terry Gilliam.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5m (Listen)
FRI       16th October 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       The financial markets recover after Friday's Wall Street
FRI       crash, averting another Black Monday; rehearsals begin for
FRI       the first televised coverage of parliament; 120,000 East
FRI       Germans gather in Leipzig for the largest anti-government
FRI       demonstration in the nation's history.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00n4x7r (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
FRI       Mair. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n4xb2 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00n5w35 (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 4
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
FRI       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans
FRI       and Sue Perkins.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00n4w3z (Listen)
FRI       Susan's future hangs in the balance.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00n4xj8 (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on
FRI       Johnny Mad Dog, an award-winning feature film about child
FRI       soldiers in Africa.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjt (Listen)
FRI       Degrees Of Separation, Ashes
FRI       Series of linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme of
FRI       separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's Hour
FRI       listeners.
FRI       Rishi is a doctor whose sister has unexpectedly died,
FRI       leaving the family, and especially her mother, grief
FRI       stricken. The old lady turns on Leela's husband Paolo, who
FRI       is trying to cope with his own loss.
FRI       Rishi Hussein ...... Saikat Ahamed
FRI       Vanhi ...... Taru Devani
FRI       Paolo ...... Andy Morton.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00n5w37 (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Cerne Abbas in
FRI       Dorset. The panel includes the Leader of the House of
FRI       Lords, Baroness Royall, columnist and comedian Viv Groskop
FRI       and Howard Davies, Director of the London School of
FRI       Economics.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n5w39 (Listen)
FRI       Collecting
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Why do we collect things? Is it a male response to ancient
FRI       hunting instincts to provide food for the family? Today,
FRI       collecting by children is in decline, and with it the
FRI       development of an early fascination with the natural world
FRI       around them.
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FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n5w7h (Listen)
FRI       Episode 3
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       How the home was opened up in the 18th century, as
FRI       visiting began.
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 b00n4y8f (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybz (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyr (Listen)
FRI       And Another Thing..., Episode 5
FRI       Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide
FRI       to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter
FRI       Serafinowicz.
FRI       An immortal challenge must be faced.
FRI       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00n55sn (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to broadcaster Vanessa Feltz and
FRI       journalist Johann Hari about their favourite books.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z68 (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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