Radio 4 Listings for 24/10/2009 - 30/10/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00n9ly8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00nctk9 (Listen)
SAT       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 5
SAT       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
SAT       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
SAT       Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to
SAT       drive, tutored by Stirling Moss, and makes a postcard in
SAT       Rome where he only just escapes the advances of Leonard
SAT       Bernstein.
SAT       Abridged by Polly Coles.
SAT       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n9lyb (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n9lyd (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n9lyg (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00n9lyj (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n9lyl (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00n9lyn (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00n9lyq (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00nccrf (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00nccrh (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 6
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       Clare walks the final part of the route in the company of
SAT       the men who were responsible for designing and looking
SAT       after the path, Gary Cambell and Martin Paminter. They
SAT       explain how the route was launched three years ago and
SAT       their plans for its future. Clare is also, once again,
SAT       joined by walking expert Jenny Walters, who wants to
SAT       discover if the advice she gave Clare 90 miles ago has
SAT       helped her remain fit and healthy throughout her journey.
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 b00nccsv (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00ncd4k (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00ncdcv (Listen)
SAT       With Justin Webb and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00ncdcx (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by broadcaster and writer Dame Joan
SAT       Bakewell.
SAT       With poetry from Matt Harvey.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00ncdcz (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy talks to wilderness expert Ray Mears about
SAT       travelling across northern Canada and to wildlife
SAT       photographer Ben Hall about his trip to South America
SAT       following, partially, in the footsteps of Darwin's Beagle
SAT       expedition.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 The Grand Masquerade b00ljymy (Listen)
SAT       Thirty years after the publication of Kit Williams's
SAT       groundbreaking picture puzzle book Masquerade in 1979,
SAT       John O'Farrell reflects on the mayhem that followed as
SAT       millions of readers became caught up in the search for a
SAT       jewel-encrusted hare, buried somewhere in the British
SAT       countryside.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00ncf8f (Listen)
SAT       Peter Riddell of The Times looks behind the scenes at
SAT       Westminster.
SAT       It was clear this week that the saga of MPs' expenses is
SAT       not yet in its concluding stages. There is disquiet
SAT       amongst Commons members over Sir Thomas Legg’s audit of
SAT       expenses and the Kelly report is awaited with some
SAT       trepidation.
SAT       David Curry, the new chairman of the Select Committee on
SAT       Standards and Privileges, and Frank Field discuss the mood
SAT       of despondency in the House of Commons.
SAT       Earlier in the week the Speaker's Conference saw the three
SAT       party leaders taking questions from the conference
SAT       committee looking into ways of attracting a broader range
SAT       of people into politics. Committee members Andrew George
SAT       (Liberal Democrat), Julie Kirkbride (Conservative) and
SAT       Parmjit Dhanda (Labour) assess the results.
SAT       Also in the programme:
SAT       Why has the postal dispute become so political? John
SAT       Robertson, a former member of the CWU union, and Philip
SAT       Dunne, chair of the all-party group on the Post Office, on
SAT       how it should be resolved.
SAT       What are the dividing lines between Labour and
SAT       Conservative on the role of the state? Former cabinet
SAT       minister James Purnell in conversation with Shadow
SAT       University and Skills secretary David Willetts.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ncf8h (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00ncf8k (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Halifax Bank of Scotland offers its customers 'a little
SAT       extra charge'.
SAT       How much do you want to reveal to your mortgage advisor?
SAT       Get ready to get personal.
SAT       Does HMRC owe you money? One Money Box listener reclaims
SAT       over 2,000 pounds.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00n9llz (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 5
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panel
SAT       includes Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner and Francis Wheen.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00ncf8m (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00ncf8p (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00n9lm1 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Burgess
SAT       Hill in West Sussex. The panellists are former home
SAT       secretary Jacqui Smith, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries,
SAT       general secretary of the Communication Workers Union Billy
SAT       Hayes and the director of the counter-extremist think-tank
SAT       Quilliam Foundation, Maajid Nawaz.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00ncf8r (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00ncf8t (Listen)
SAT       Bullitt
SAT       Dramatisation of Robert L Pike's gritty detective story,
SAT       set in New York's rough 52nd Precinct in 1963.
SAT       Lieutenant Clancy, head throbbing from days without sleep,
SAT       is assigned to protect important Mafia witness Johnny
SAT       Rossi. But when he is found dead, Clancy has only a matter
SAT       of hours to find the killer before his enemy, Assistant
SAT       District Attorney Chalmers, finds out.
SAT       Lieutenant Clancy ...... Jason Isaacs
SAT       Ada Chalmers/Barnett/Renick/Johnny Rossi ...... Kerry Shale
SAT       Detective Kaprowski ...... Lou Hirsch
SAT       Captain Wise/Johnny Rossi/Ships Officer ...... John Biggins
SAT       Dr Willard/Pete Rossi ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Doc Freeman/Sergeant ...... Bruce Alexander
SAT       Detenctive Mark Kelly ...... Sasha Pick
SAT       Ann Renick/LAPD Officer ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
SAT       Hotel Manager/Chalmers' Secretary ...... Kate Layden
SAT       Directed by Pauline Harris.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 The Sound of Magnolias b00n5404 (Listen)
SAT       Writer Irma Kurtz travels to Paris and Madrid to
SAT       investigate the period just before the war when blind
SAT       Spanish composer Rodrigo composed his famous Concerto de
SAT       Aranjuez. She goes to the gardens of Aranjuez with his
SAT       only daughter, Cecelia, and talks to guitarist Pepe Romero
SAT       about the music's lasting impact.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00ncfm8 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey.
SAT       'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is
SAT       to write fiction.' Virginia Woolf published these words 80
SAT       years ago, in an essay that became one of the seminal
SAT       feminist texts of our age. A Room of One's Own has shaped
SAT       the way in which creative achievement is viewed, and
SAT       provided a point of reference for generations of female
SAT       writers. Woman's Hour visits a room that Virginia Woolf
SAT       called her own - a specially-constructed writing lodge at
SAT       the bottom of her garden at Monk's House in Sussex.
SAT       Melanie C won universal recognition as Sporty Spice, one
SAT       fifth of the Spice Girls, the group that burst on to the
SAT       music scene in the mid-nineties with 'Girl Power'. They
SAT       had nine number one singles and sold over 50 million
SAT       records. Melanie has gone on to have a successful solo
SAT       career, and she became a mother for the first time earlier
SAT       this year. She talks about her theatrical debut in Willy
SAT       Russell's hit West End musical Blood Brothers
SAT       And, Sexism in the City: how are maternity rights
SAT       impacting on women's success at work?
SAT       
SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ncfmb (Listen)
SAT       24th October 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       Egon Krenz is officially installed as East Germany's new
SAT       leader but protests continue; in America, Zsa Zsa Gabor
SAT       and disgraced TV evangelist Jim Bakker both appear in
SAT       court.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00ncfmd (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 The Bottom Line b00n911b (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to
SAT       discuss technology. From electric cars to satellites to
SAT       jet engines, can it really solve the world's problems? He
SAT       also asks how long is too long to work for the same
SAT       company?
SAT       Evan is joined by Nani Beccalli-Falco, president of
SAT       General Electric International, Candace Johnson, serial
SAT       entrepreneur who co-founded the satellite company SES
SAT       Global, and John Fleming, chief executive of Ford of
SAT       Europe.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ncfmg (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00ncfmj (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ncfml (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00ncfmn (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by the comedian Jack Dee and actors Simon
SAT       Callow and Tamer Hassan.
SAT       Jo Bunting finds out about Stuff White People Like with
SAT       Christian Lander.
SAT       With comedy from Liverpool's John Bishop and country
SAT       soulsters Phantom Limb and Swedish twin sisters Taxi Taxi!
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00ncfmq (Listen)
SAT       Armando Iannucci
SAT       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Armando Iannucci, the comedian
SAT       and writer behind satirical comedies including On The
SAT       Hour, I'm Alan Partridge and The Thick of It.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00ncfmz (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 The Archive Hour b00d1yqx (Listen)
SAT       With God on Our Side
SAT       Amid the horrors of war, what makes one man turn to God
SAT       and another to atheism? Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard
SAT       Holloway explores what happens to faith when one's life is
SAT       on the line.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00n6yws (Listen)
SAT       Howards End, Episode 1
SAT       Two-part dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel.
SAT       When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End, the
SAT       country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along
SAT       with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever.
SAT       Narrator ...... John Hurt
SAT       Margaret Schlegel ...... Lisa Dillon
SAT       Helen Schlegel ...... Jill Cardo
SAT       Tibby Schlegel ...... Tom Ferguson
SAT       Aunt Juley ...... Alexandra Mathie
SAT       Henry Wilcox ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SAT       Ruth Wilcox ...... Ann Rye
SAT       Charles Wilcox ...... Joseph Kloska
SAT       Leonard Bast ...... Joseph Prospero
SAT       Dolly Wilcox/Jacky Bast ...... Christine Marshall.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00ncfn3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00n8nkc (Listen)
SAT       Michael Buerk and the team travel to Derby University for
SAT       an edition of the programme recorded on campus. He is
SAT       joined by panel members Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips,
SAT       Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor.
SAT       Higher education is more popular than ever; universities
SAT       are crammed to the rafters as they struggle to achieve the
SAT       aim of 50 per cent of young people getting a university
SAT       education. The increased popularity of vocational degrees
SAT       has changed the culture of academia. But students now have
SAT       to balance the increasing cost of getting a degree with
SAT       uncertain job prospects when they graduate. So there's no
SAT       better time to ask the question, 'what are universities
SAT       for and who are they for?'
SAT       Witnesses:
SAT       Professor Dennis Hayes
SAT       Professor of Education, University of Derby. Founder of
SAT       the campaign group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF)
SAT       Professor John Coyne
SAT       Vice Chancellor, University of Derby and chairman of
SAT       skills and enterprise Think Tank CFE, which is an
SAT       independent specialist in skills employment and economic
SAT       development.
SAT       Greg James
SAT       University of Nottingham medical student, anti-tuition
SAT       fees campaigner.
SAT       Andrew Long
SAT       Young entrepreneur and CEO of Ten, named one of the top
SAT       100 fastest-growing companies in the UK by the Sunday
SAT       Times.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00n7zhg (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the second heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00n6z0g (Listen)
SAT       A second programme celebrating the 30th birthday of Poetry
SAT       Please in the show's home town of Bristol. Roger McGough
SAT       is joined at Bristol Old Vic by special guest readers,
SAT       including Stephanie Cole and Patrick Malahide, for some of
SAT       the best-loved poems in its history.
SAT       
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SUN       SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00ncgyf (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zj (Listen)
SUN       Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, The Big the Beautiful Nanda
SUN       Gray
SUN       Stories by Morven Crumlish.
SUN       Nanda Gray is a singer; a big lady with a big personality.
SUN       But the dressing room can be a lonesome place. Waiting
SUN       offstage, she reflects on her life and loves before
SUN       stepping into the limelight for her 'twentieth
SUN       anniversary' performance.
SUN       Read by Lorelei King.
SUN       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ncwn1 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ncwn3 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ncwn5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00ncwn7 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ncwn9 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from the church of the Blessed Virgin
SUN       Mary, Wambrook in Somerset.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00ncfmq (Listen)
SUN       Armando Iannucci
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Armando Iannucci, the comedian
SUN       and writer behind satirical comedies including On The
SUN       Hour, I'm Alan Partridge and The Thick of It.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00ncwnc (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00ncwng (Listen)
SUN       The Consolations of Autumn
SUN       Writer and broadcaster Hazhir Teimourian asks if youth, as
SUN       with spring and summer, is not overrated.
SUN       In the company of sages and poets from the most ancient
SUN       times to our own era, he draws parallels between the
SUN       physical 'age of mists and mellow fruitfulness' and the
SUN       contentment and serenity that can be the gift of old age
SUN       in these days of greater affluence and better medicine.
SUN       From Cicero in Rome 2,000 years ago, through Omar Khayyam
SUN       in medieval Persia and Shakespeare in modern England, he
SUN       reflects on both reminiscences of youth and the praise of
SUN       'the autumn of life'.
SUN       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00ncwnj (Listen)
SUN       Alex James and Chris Haskins visit Bluebell Dairy near
SUN       Derby to meet the Brown family, one of the nominees for
SUN       the 2009 BBC Farmer of the Year award. Rosemary and Geoff
SUN       Brown are tenant farmers with a herd of about 80 milking
SUN       cows. The poor price for milk saw them diversify into ice
SUN       cream at the end of 2008, since when their business has
SUN       thrived.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00ncwnm (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00ncwnp (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00ncwnr (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00ncwnt (Listen)
SUN       Asylum Aid
SUN       Baroness Neuberger appeals on behalf of Asylum Aid.
SUN       Donations to Asylum Aid should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Asylum Aid. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you
SUN       are a UK tax payer, please provide Asylum Aid with your
SUN       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
SUN       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
SUN       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
SUN       postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 328729.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00ncwnw (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00ncwny (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00ncwp0 (Listen)
SUN       A Word in Season
SUN       A service for Bible Sunday from St Martin-in-the-Fields,
SUN       Trafalgar Square, London.
SUN       Led by the Vicar, Rev Nicholas Holtam, with the Choir of
SUN       St Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Andrew Earis.
SUN       The preacher is Rev Prof Richard Burridge, Dean of King's
SUN       College, London.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00n9lm3 (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the importance of scepticism in
SUN       every walk of life, and he criticises extreme reactions to
SUN       those who are sceptical about man-made global warming.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00ncwp2 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00ncwp4 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ncwp6 (Listen)
SUN       Professor Colin Pillinger
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Colin
SUN       Pillinger.
SUN       A world-class planetary scientist, his first job was for
SUN       NASA, analysing the lunar samples brought back by Apollo
SUN       11. He is best known, though, for being the public face of
SUN       Beagle 2, the daring mission to search for life on Mars.
SUN       Although Beagle 2 was unsuccessful, he is adamant that the
SUN       mission was not a failure. Now it is hoped that the
SUN       technology developed for the mission to Mars can be used
SUN       to diagnose TB faster than has ever been possible before.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen)
SUN       Series 4, Episode 3
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 Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme
SUN       Garden.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00ncwwm (Listen)
SUN       Omega 3
SUN       According to scientists, we need to dramatically increase
SUN       our intake of omega 3 fatty acids and reduce our intake of
SUN       omega 6 fatty acids to achieve a healthy balance. It is a
SUN       controversial debate with all sorts of vested interests at
SUN       stake.
SUN       As manufacturers add omega 3 to a whole host of products,
SUN       consumers can be left confused in the face of claim and
SUN       counter claim. What can they believe? What is in the
SUN       products we buy anyway, and how much does it matter?
SUN       Sheila Dillon explores the issues.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00ncwwp (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00ncwwr (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Beyond This Life b00ncwwt (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford,
SUN       confronts our response to death in 21st-century Britain.
SUN       He reflects on how we deal with death as a society and
SUN       considers the relationship between those who have gone and
SUN       those who are left behind. Most people can remember their
SUN       first funeral; everyone can remember the first time they
SUN       saw someone who had died. But how we respond to death and
SUN       our own mortality varies greatly in multicultural Britain?
SUN       Tim finds that having a keepsake of your loved one goes
SUN       far beyond a lock of hair. He attends the National Funeral
SUN       Exhibition and encounters an industry where physical
SUN       immortality is now marketed as a desirable commodity to
SUN       those who have lost their belief in life after death but
SUN       who are terrified of oblivion. Human ashes are made into
SUN       paperweights and an umbilical cord is made into a diamond.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n9llp (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are guests
SUN       of the Aileymill Primary Group in Greenock.
SUN       Matthew Wilson discusses how to achieve multi-coloured
SUN       autumn brilliance in your garden.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7gy (Listen)
SUN       Birth Order
SUN       Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural
SUN       attitudes towards siblings.
SUN       Does birth order make a difference? Can an older brother
SUN       stunt the growth of a younger one, and do the youngest
SUN       siblings remain babies forever?
SUN       A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00ncwzv (Listen)
SUN       Howards End, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel.
SUN       Helen Schlegel is unhappy that her sister Margaret has
SUN       agreed to marry the recently-widowed Henry Wilcox.
SUN       Unbeknown to the sisters, Ruth Wilcox bequeathed the
SUN       Wilcox country home, Howards End, to Margaret, but the
SUN       note has been destroyed by Henry's son, Charles.
SUN       Narrator ...... John Hurt
SUN       Margaret Schlegel ...... Lisa Dillon
SUN       Helen Schlegel ...... Jill Cardo
SUN       Tibby Schlegel ...... Tom Ferguson
SUN       Aunt Juley ...... Alexandra Mathie
SUN       Henry Wilcox ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SUN       Ruth Wilcox ...... Ann Rye
SUN       Charles Wilcox ...... Joseph Kloska
SUN       Leonard Bast ...... Joseph Prospero
SUN       Dolly Wilcox/Jacky Bast ...... Christine Marshall.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00ncyzb (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup presents the second of two programmes in
SUN       which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have
SUN       been unfairly neglected. In this edition, Dame Beryl
SUN       Bainbridge, Howard Jacobson, Joanna Trollope, Michael
SUN       Morpurgo and Val McDermid unveil their choices.
SUN       After the programme, listeners can vote for their
SUN       favourite neglected classic of the ten; the winning title
SUN       will be dramatised on Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00ncyzd (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces poems about snow and solitude.
SUN       There are splashes of colour too, with Goulash by Myra
SUN       Schneider and Poppies by Carole Satymurti. The readers are
SUN       Mark Meadows, Tanya Moodie and Osi Okerafor.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ncyzg (Listen)
SUN       25th October 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       The BBC's Panorama programme asks whether Britain is about
SUN       to face a crack epidemic, and recently-freed South African
SUN       activist Oscar Mpetha sends a wry thank you to Margaret
SUN       Thatcher.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Return from Guantanamo b00ncb0x (Listen)
SUN       In 2001 a journalist called Sami al-Hajj was arrested on
SUN       the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For more than
SUN       six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay
SUN       detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released.
SUN       In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about
SUN       what happened to him, and why.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00ncfmq (Listen)
SUN       Armando Iannucci
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Armando Iannucci, the comedian
SUN       and writer behind satirical comedies including On The
SUN       Hour, I'm Alan Partridge and The Thick of It.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ncyzj (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00ncyzl (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ncyzn (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00ncyzq (Listen)
SUN       Gerry Northam introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00nczk0 (Listen)
SUN       Eddie does what he does best.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00nczk2 (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       Matt Frei examines what some might call the engine of Wall
SUN       Street: greed. The Obama administration is going after the
SUN       hefty bonuses paid out in America's financial district,
SUN       and Matt visits the street itself to get insider scoop
SUN       from Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi, The Nation
SUN       magazine's Katrina vanden Heuvel, and bonus consultant
SUN       Marc Hodak. We also hear from a man who has been selling
SUN       New York skyscrapers at a discount.
SUN       Americans minds have begun to turn to thoughts of gloom
SUN       and doom, anghosties and goblins. With the Halloween
SUN       season upon us, we hear an excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe's
SUN       The Raven, dramatized for us by Emon Hassan, producer,
SUN       director and editor of Hassberry Theatre Company.
SUN       Adaptation of The Raven radio script by William Spear;
SUN       narrated by Thos Shipley, with an original score by Kevin
SUN       Mahonchak.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt6 (Listen)
SUN       Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Out of Time
SUN       By Joe Hollins.
SUN       The cargo of the Phoenix, wrecked off the south Devonshire
SUN       coast 200 years ago, rises from the ashes in a very
SUN       21st-century manner.
SUN       Read by Michael Maloney.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00n9llm (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00n9llr (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 b00ncf8k (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Halifax Bank of Scotland offers its customers 'a little
SUN       extra charge'.
SUN       How much do you want to reveal to your mortgage advisor?
SUN       Get ready to get personal.
SUN       Does HMRC owe you money? One Money Box listener reclaims
SUN       over 2,000 pounds.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ncwnt (Listen)
SUN       Asylum Aid
SUN       Baroness Neuberger appeals on behalf of Asylum Aid.
SUN       Donations to Asylum Aid should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Asylum Aid. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you
SUN       are a UK tax payer, please provide Asylum Aid with your
SUN       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
SUN       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
SUN       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
SUN       postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 328729.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00n80b5 (Listen)
SUN       Ayatollogy
SUN       Edward Stourton asks if a battle over theology could help
SUN       bring about the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
SUN       The demonstrations have been suppressed and the president
SUN       is still in power, so has the storm that blew up in Iran
SUN       after this summer's elections been stilled? Far from it,
SUN       and now the opposition is coming from where you'd least
SUN       expect. Some of the country's top theologians and
SUN       clergymen think that President Ahmadinejad is doing grave
SUN       damage to the standing of Islam and they want him out.
SUN       The programme contains an exclusive email interview with
SUN       one of Shia Islam's most senior and respected clerics,
SUN       Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, who calls on Iran's
SUN       clerics to work with political activists to bring about
SUN       reform and 'be in step with the people'. Other
SUN       interviewees include Professor Ali Ansari from the
SUN       Institute for Iranian Studies, journalists Amir Taheri,
SUN       Baqer Moin and Nazenin Moshiri, theologian Mehdi Khalaji
SUN       and human rights campaigner Roya Kashefi.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00nczk5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00nczk7 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Avoiding The Question.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00nczpl (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 24th October 1989
SUN       Another chance to look back at the events making the news
SUN       20 years ago, with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       The Guildford Four have their sentence overturned after 14
SUN       years in prison, thousands of protesting East Germans
SUN       surround their parliament, and Mrs Thatcher dramatically
SUN       disagrees with a statement by Commonwealth leaders on
SUN       sanctions against South Africa.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00ncwng (Listen)
SUN       The Consolations of Autumn
SUN       Writer and broadcaster Hazhir Teimourian asks if youth, as
SUN       with spring and summer, is not overrated.
SUN       In the company of sages and poets from the most ancient
SUN       times to our own era, he draws parallels between the
SUN       physical 'age of mists and mellow fruitfulness' and the
SUN       contentment and serenity that can be the gift of old age
SUN       in these days of greater affluence and better medicine.
SUN       From Cicero in Rome 2,000 years ago, through Omar Khayyam
SUN       in medieval Persia and Shakespeare in modern England, he
SUN       reflects on both reminiscences of youth and the praise of
SUN       'the autumn of life'.
SUN       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00nczy0 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00n8m2s (Listen)
MON       How do housing estates and suburbs serve or fail to serve
MON       their residents? Three out of four British people live in
MON       the suburbs, many of which grew as cities and their
MON       populations expanded. Laurie Taylor is joined by Paul
MON       Barker and Lynsey Hanley to discuss housing estates and
MON       suburbs. What form of housing most fulfills people's
MON       desires? And will urban planning ever be able to fulfill
MON       Aneurin Bevan's dream of social integration?
MON       Also on the programme, why modernity makes us forgetful.
MON       Does the speed and transience of life today damage our
MON       shared and individual memories? The social anthropologist
MON       Paul Connerton thinks it does. He discusses his latest
MON       book with Laurie Taylor.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ncwn9 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from the church of the Blessed Virgin
MON       Mary, Wambrook in Somerset.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nczzf (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nd00x (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nd00l (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00nd0dg (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nd0dz (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00nd1cl (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00ndwc0 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00nd1kk (Listen)
MON       With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00ndwc2 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week, in
MON       conversation with the former British Ambassador to the
MON       United States, Sir Christopher Meyer, the religious
MON       historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and the writer Sara Wheeler,
MON       who talks about the Arctic.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00nd1ww (Listen)
MON       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 1
MON       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
MON       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
MON       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
MON       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
MON       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
MON       who is now in her 90s.
MON       Frances enlightens Mr Bigelow about rationing, the
MON       differences between Britons and Americans, and her endless
MON       problems with her elderly mother.
MON       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nd1zk (Listen)
MON       With Sheila McClennon.
MON       By the time the new Equality Bill has gone through
MON       parliament we may have had a change of government. So how
MON       keen would a new administration be to enforce what is seen
MON       as the most far-reaching discrimination legislation for
MON       many years, legislation which will have a major impact on
MON       every employer in the country? Woman's Hour finds out how
MON       women and other groups will be affected by the bill. With
MON       Teresa May and Vera Baird.
MON       Kamilya Jurban is a Palestinian singer, instrumentalist
MON       and composer and one of the most prominent contemporary
MON       artists in the Middle East. Karine Polwart is a Scottish
MON       folk singer-songwriter whose debut album won the Radio 2
MON       Folk Album of the Year Award in 2005. They have been
MON       brought together to perform at the Barbican and will be
MON       giving a taste of their unique collaboration, live in the
MON       studio.
MON       More than half a million women die each year from
MON       complications during pregnancy or labour. As the UN
MON       Population Fund meets to try and push this issue higher up
MON       the development agenda, Sheila asks what can be learnt
MON       from the countries that have already successfully tackled
MON       the problem.
MON       'To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the
MON       suffering of life.' Gyles Brandreth has heeded his hero
MON       Oscar Wilde's advice and has been writing a daily diary
MON       since he was eleven. Gyles and Oona King, the former
MON       Labour MP, discuss what compels people to publish their
MON       private observations and confessions, and whether men and
MON       women approach diaries differently.
MON       
MON       11:00 Planning For Pandemic b00ndxjm (Listen)
MON       Winifred Robinson tracks the plans that have been put in
MON       place to protect us from a swine flu pandemic, following
MON       members of the Health Protection Agency as they roll out
MON       the vaccination programme.
MON       It is a massive undertaking, and problems abound. The
MON       difficulties range from a world shortage of vaccine supply
MON       to identifying those most at risk and persuading them that
MON       the vaccine is safe to take. GP surgeries have already
MON       encountered difficulties storing the vaccine and
MON       nationwide delivery is likely to prove a challenge.
MON       The programme goes behind the scenes of the Agency as it
MON       addresses all these issues, and the stakes are high.
MON       Behind this planning is the fear that a second wave of
MON       swine flu cases will put enormous pressure on NHS
MON       resources through staff absence and hospital admissions.
MON       This massive vaccination programme offers a chance to
MON       reduce the likelihood of this - as long as the problems
MON       can be worked through.
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00ndxjp (Listen)
MON       Pastor Dave
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.
MON       Beauty is quite taken with the charismatic Pastor Dave, a
MON       visiting clergyman at Mrs Blanchard's local church, but is
MON       he the real deal? Should she pursue him or the gorgeous
MON       double-breasted mini-trench coat she has seen in the
MON       Mencap shop?
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Sister Olu ...... Diveen Henry
MON       Pastor Ndu ...... Javone Prince
MON       Mrs Blanchard ...... Alison Steadman
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Minister Lee ...... Dan Tetsell
MON       Pastor Dave ...... Felix Dexter
MON       Female Assistant ...... Diveen Henry
MON       Cabbie ...... Dan Tetsel
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00ndljg (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00ndllj (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00ndlnz (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00ndxjr (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies welcomes four more guests to take part in
MON       the perennial general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00nczk0 (Listen)
MON       Eddie does what he does best.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00ndzsy (Listen)
MON       Lifeline
MON       By PG Morgan. Three people fly to Bangkok on an
MON       all-expenses paid trip to test a new asthma treatment.
MON       Nick is an actor whose last big job was in a recently-axed
MON       soap, Lynne needs to pay back debts caused by her secret
MON       addiction and Rob is a drugs trial veteran with a family
MON       to support. But when the injections begin, everything
MON       starts to unravel.
MON       Lynne ...... Shelley Rees
MON       Nick ...... Steffan Rhodri
MON       Rob ...... Brendan Charleson
MON       Alison ...... Britta Gartner
MON       Dr Zubir ...... Narinder Samra
MON       Directed by Kate McAll.
MON       
MON       15:00 The Archive Hour b00d1yqx (Listen)
MON       With God on Our Side
MON       Amid the horrors of war, what makes one man turn to God
MON       and another to atheism? Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard
MON       Holloway explores what happens to faith when one's life is
MON       on the line.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00ndn43 (Listen)
MON       Magnificence
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       These days we take it for granted that the home is a place
MON       of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was
MON       an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores
MON       the invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in
MON       creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
MON       The story of a celebrity divorce - a huge scandal, because
MON       the husband was the prime minister. The question then, as
MON       now, was what was the woman going to walk away with?
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 b00ncwwm (Listen)
MON       Omega 3
MON       According to scientists, we need to dramatically increase
MON       our intake of omega 3 fatty acids and reduce our intake of
MON       omega 6 fatty acids to achieve a healthy balance. It is a
MON       controversial debate with all sorts of vested interests at
MON       stake.
MON       As manufacturers add omega 3 to a whole host of products,
MON       consumers can be left confused in the face of claim and
MON       counter claim. What can they believe? What is in the
MON       products we buy anyway, and how much does it matter?
MON       Sheila Dillon explores the issues.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00ndzw4 (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Episode 4
MON       Simon Cox asks if websites are doing enough to make
MON       content accessible to the disabled. Plus, plans to give
MON       robots intelligence modelled on the human brain.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ndqt3 (Listen)
MON       26th October 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       Nigel Lawson resigns after six years as Chancellor of the
MON       Exchequer, prompting a further drop in the pound;
MON       President Gorbachev promises unilateral disarmament in the
MON       Baltic; Nirvana record their first session for Radio 1.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00ndqvb (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ndqw3 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00nf01t (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 4
MON       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
MON       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
MON       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
MON       With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and
MON       Shappi Khorsandi.
MON       Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00ndlpk (Listen)
MON       Ed and Will return to form.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00ndtmt (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the
MON       verdict on An Education, a film based on Lynn Barber's
MON       memoir of her teenage years, with a screenplay by Nick
MON       Hornby.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ndtnb (Listen)
MON       The Dead Hour, Episode 6
MON       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
MON       set in Glasgow in 1984.
MON       A leading female lawyer has been murdered; the following
MON       day her former boyfriend commits suicide and the police
MON       believe he is the murderer. Cub reporter Paddy Meehan
MON       knows the identity of the real killer, but can she prove
MON       it?
MON       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
MON       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
MON       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
MON       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
MON       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
MON       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
MON       JT ...... Finlay McLean
MON       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
MON       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
MON       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
MON       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
MON       Lafferty ...... Stewart Porter
MON       Knox ...... Andrew Byatt
MON       Bernie ...... Richard Conlon
MON       Other parts played by the cast.
MON       Directed by Bruce Young.
MON       
MON       20:00 Being Jewish: Blood or Belief? b00nf01w (Listen)
MON       One child's battle to get a place at a state Jewish school
MON       has led to a landmark court ruling with major implications
MON       for other faith schools, the role of the state and the
MON       very definition of religion. As the case goes to the new
MON       UK Supreme Court, Tim Whewell examines why it has aroused
MON       such strong feelings both inside and outside the Jewish
MON       community.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00nf0my (Listen)
MON       Knowing Too Much
MON       As a campaigning investigative journalist, Martin Bright
MON       has devoted much of his energy into uncovering things
MON       people in power want to be kept secret. He calls himself a
MON       'freedom of information fundamentalist'. But in this
MON       programme, he plays devil's advocate and asks if the truth
MON       is really always desirable or always in the wider public
MON       interest.
MON       Through interviews with psychologists, intelligence
MON       officers, whistleblowers and academics, he explores the
MON       importance of institutional and personal secrecy, and asks
MON       what happens when these two areas overlap, or even collide.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00nf0n0 (Listen)
MON       Countdown to Copenhagen
MON       Tom Heap looks behind the jargon and political
MON       scene-shifting to ask whether or not a definitive new deal
MON       on climate change will come out of the talks at Copenhagen
MON       in December 2009.
MON       Politicians from around the world will attempt to thrash
MON       out a deal in Denmark's capital city to limit the damage
MON       that the changing climate on the planet. Most now accept
MON       that this means drastic cuts in the use of oil, coal and
MON       gas. Getting agreement on how that should be achieved
MON       among 192 nations seems impossible. Tom seeks to find out
MON       how to interpret the codes of official statements and
MON       off-the-record briefings.
MON       He also hears from some of the people who will have to
MON       live with the consequences and ask how their voices are
MON       working their way into the Copenhagen process. These
MON       include the President of the Maldives, who warns that his
MON       fight against the encroaching seas is our fight too.
MON       Children in Sri Lanka who have been exchanging experiences
MON       with English counterparts by the sea in Essex, and a group
MON       of children working under the banner Generation Green
MON       struggle to produce an action plan for Downing Street.
MON       And in case anyone thinks the Jeremy Clarkson worldview
MON       has withered in the face of this upsurge of youthful
MON       greenery, Tom joins a group of boy and girl racers in
MON       Cheltenham for a petrol-fuelled conversation about living
MON       now and paying later.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00ndwc2 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week, in
MON       conversation with the former British Ambassador to the
MON       United States, Sir Christopher Meyer, the religious
MON       historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and the writer Sara Wheeler,
MON       who talks about the Arctic.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00ndvhg (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00ndvst (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ndvt8 (Listen)
MON       Heartland, Episode 1
MON       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
MON       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
MON       community of Cinderheath.
MON       Cinderheath is in a state of flux: the Tipton Three are in
MON       Guantanamo, a mosque is about to be built on the site of
MON       the disused steel works and the BNP are standing in the
MON       forthcoming local elections. Only the World Cup offers any
MON       sign of relief.
MON       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b00j4hmz (Listen)
MON       Joanne Harris
MON       Joanne Harris, author of novels including Chocolat, shares
MON       her love of great writing, ranging from Molesworth to
MON       science fiction, plus the radio version of a graphic novel
MON       by Neil Gaiman. The readers are Amanda Root and Jon
MON       Strickland.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ndw54 (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with David Wilby.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00nczrj (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00nd1ww (Listen)
TUE       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 1
TUE       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
TUE       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
TUE       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
TUE       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
TUE       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
TUE       who is now in her 90s.
TUE       Frances enlightens Mr Bigelow about rationing, the
TUE       differences between Britons and Americans, and her endless
TUE       problems with her elderly mother.
TUE       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nczy2 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nd00n (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nczzh (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00nd066 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nd0dj (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00nd1c8 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00nd1j2 (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 b00nf1bv (Listen)
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       He talks to single mother Alex Bell about her choice to
TUE       adopt children with Down's syndrome.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Parting Shots b00nf33d (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Matthew Parris marks the passing of the valedictory
TUE       despatch, the traditional final telegram home in which
TUE       British ambassadors could let their hair down and settle a
TUE       few scores. The series features newly declassified Foreign
TUE       Office files alongside interviews with the diplomats who
TUE       wrote them.
TUE       How successful diplomacy requires an ambassador to both
TUE       see beyond the shortcomings of their foreign hosts and
TUE       persuade them to look kindly on our own.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00nhs7z (Listen)
TUE       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 2
TUE       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
TUE       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
TUE       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
TUE       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
TUE       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
TUE       who is now in her 90s.
TUE       As the nation mourns the death of the King, Frances gears
TUE       up for her first driving lesson, learns how to deal with a
TUE       firebomb at Civil Defence classes and, with rationing
TUE       still very much in force, is faced with the stark choice
TUE       of kidney soup and consomme de tapioca at Bournemouth's
TUE       smartest restaurant in town.
TUE       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nd2mc (Listen)
TUE       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Science vs The Stradivarius b00nf33g (Listen)
TUE       Can modern technology identify the elusive components that
TUE       give Stradivarius violins a unique voice? Analysts have
TUE       submitted the master instruments to a battery of tests,
TUE       from CT scans to burning original samples of varnish, but
TUE       are they just chasing a myth? Professor Trevor Cox
TUE       investigates.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Series investigating the history of attacks on art works,
TUE       from the earliest times to the present day.
TUE       Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow looks at some of
TUE       the most renowned attacks on art carried out in the name
TUE       of politics and religion. What leads someone to blow up a
TUE       statue, destroy photos with ink and scalpel, take the
TUE       heads off angels or slash a painting of a naked woman? Tim
TUE       looks at the impact on the work itself and the wider
TUE       cultural and social implications of such attacks.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00ndlg9 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00ndljj (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00ndlll (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Baroque and Roll: Townshend on Purcell b00nf3kr (Listen)
TUE       The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks
TUE       about the band's career and reveals the influence on his
TUE       songwriting of Baroque composer Henry Purcell.
TUE       When Pete was a struggling 20-year-old musician he was
TUE       turned on to Purcell by his manager, Kit Lambert. It was
TUE       Kit's recommendation of Purcell's Gordian Knot Untied that
TUE       struck the loudest chord with Pete, awakening him to a
TUE       lineage in English music that seemed strangely familiar.
TUE       Immersing himself in the music, he soon set about writing
TUE       The Who's first album.
TUE       Pete reveals how he drew on Purcell's dramatic genius for
TUE       his most intriguing compositions. From his first mini-rock
TUE       opera to his masterpiece, Tommy, and from his enduring
TUE       Lifehouse project through to his current musical
TUE       endeavour, there has always been a Purcellian presence.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00ndlpk (Listen)
TUE       Ed and Will return to form.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00cq7p6 (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, Murder in the Red Barn
TUE       Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the
TUE       head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the
TUE       news to the masses.
TUE       By Mike Walker.
TUE       When the body of a young baby is found floating on the
TUE       River Thames, the Herald's chief correspondent Daniel
TUE       Parker is given the task of finding out why.
TUE       While his investigations take him and Charles Dickens into
TUE       the poverty stricken areas of the City, Agnes is in the
TUE       thick of philanthropy and theatricals in Belgravia.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Mr Dudman ...... Henry Goodman
TUE       Mrs Dudman ...... Joan Walker
TUE       Sarah ...... Liz Sutherland
TUE       Mrs Kindly ...... Helen Longworth
TUE       The Boatman ...... John Rowe
TUE       Equerry/Stallholder/PC ...... Chris Pavlo
TUE       Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00nflx6 (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       Are some green lanes and place names in southern England a
TUE       reminder of an earlier Welsh invasion?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nfmkn (Listen)
TUE       The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, The Octopus Nest
TUE       Series of chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's
TUE       first short story collection.
TUE       Claire and Timothy have no idea why there's a strange
TUE       woman appearing in so many of their family photographs. As
TUE       Claire stumbles across the answer, she is more frightened
TUE       than ever.
TUE       Read by Helen Bradbury.
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00ndm9q (Listen)
TUE       Taste
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       These days we take it for granted that the home is a place
TUE       of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was
TUE       an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores
TUE       the invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in
TUE       creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
TUE       Taste - and the making of a marriage. The story of an
TUE       18th-century couple, the Graftons - fashionable, rich, and
TUE       deeply in love - who spend life together doing up their
TUE       magnificent houses.
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 Law in Action b00nfmtq (Listen)
TUE       Clive Coleman talks to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge,
TUE       about the key issues currently facing the criminal justice
TUE       system.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00nfmts (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to playwright David Edgar and novelist
TUE       Helen Cross at the Birmingham Book Festival about their
TUE       favourite books, including titles by Graham Greene,
TUE       Anthony Trollope and Naomi Wolf.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ndqrm (Listen)
TUE       27th October 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Margaret Thatcher's leadership style comes under fire
TUE       after a quick Cabinet reshuffle; the IRA admits killing a
TUE       British soldier and his six-month-old baby in West
TUE       Germany; new East German premier Egon Krenz agrees to
TUE       release reformist protestors.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00ndqt5 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
TUE       Quinn. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ndqvd (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Too Much Information b00n88d3 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre
TUE       in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever.
TUE       Waft Tourist Information introduces local walks for
TUE       visitors, but, for a young honeymooning couple, the walks
TUE       end up being both painfully boring and spectacularly
TUE       dangerous.
TUE       Warren ...... Jeff Rawle
TUE       Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Heather ...... Liza Sadovy
TUE       Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey
TUE       Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill
TUE       Roger ...... Piers Wehner
TUE       Becca ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00ndlp1 (Listen)
TUE       Lilian makes an unexpected journey.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00nds0k (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ndtmw (Listen)
TUE       The Dead Hour, Episode 7
TUE       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
TUE       set in Glasgow in 1984.
TUE       Paddy has a one-night stand with a policeman and falls out
TUE       with her night-shift driver.
TUE       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
TUE       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
TUE       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
TUE       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
TUE       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
TUE       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
TUE       JT ...... Finlay McLean
TUE       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
TUE       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
TUE       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
TUE       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
TUE       Lafferty ...... Stewart Porter
TUE       Knox ...... Andrew Byatt
TUE       Bernie ...... Richard Conlon
TUE       Other parts played by the cast.
TUE       Directed by Bruce Young.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 1989: How The Wall Fell b00nfn2j (Listen)
TUE       The fall of the Berlin Wall made revolution look easy. But
TUE       behind the scenes, people power and the sudden end of Cold
TUE       War certainties posed all kinds of challenges. As part of
TUE       Radio 4's 1989 season, John Tusa discovers what happened
TUE       with key insiders from the British, German, Soviet and
TUE       other governments of the time.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00nfq2j (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Metaphor for Healing b00nfq2l (Listen)
TUE       Dr Phil Hammond finds out how the use of metaphorical
TUE       language in health care is increasingly accepted as a
TUE       powerful aid to healing.
TUE       The power of the right metaphor, long exploited in poetry,
TUE       politics and marketing, is being increasingly recognised
TUE       in health care, coaching and therapy, engaging the
TUE       unconscious to activate self-healing. Dr Phil talks to
TUE       patients, doctors and therapists, and discovers why
TUE       doctors should pay closer attention to the answer to their
TUE       routine question, 'And what does it feel like?'.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Choice b00nf1bv (Listen)
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       He talks to single mother Alex Bell about her choice to
TUE       adopt children with Down's syndrome.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00ndvg4 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00ndvhj (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ndvsw (Listen)
TUE       Heartland, Episode 2
TUE       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
TUE       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
TUE       community of Cinderheath.
TUE       Rob has returned home to the Black Country after an
TUE       unsuccessful football career, and now helps out in his old
TUE       school.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00b4j53 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       3/6. Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social
TUE       observation and nonsense.
TUE       Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright, with John
TUE       Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally
TUE       Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ndw4t (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Sean Curran.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00nczrl (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00nhs7z (Listen)
WED       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 2
WED       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
WED       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
WED       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
WED       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
WED       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
WED       who is now in her 90s.
WED       As the nation mourns the death of the King, Frances gears
WED       up for her first driving lesson, learns how to deal with a
WED       firebomb at Civil Defence classes and, with rationing
WED       still very much in force, is faced with the stark choice
WED       of kidney soup and consomme de tapioca at Bournemouth's
WED       smartest restaurant in town.
WED       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nczy4 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nd00q (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nczzk (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00nd068 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nd0dl (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00nd1cb (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00nd1j4 (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 b00nfqz4 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including bear expert Dr Lynn Rogers.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00nhs7n (Listen)
WED       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 3
WED       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
WED       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
WED       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
WED       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
WED       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
WED       who is now in her 90s.
WED       Frances and her mother take to the road in her
WED       temperamental old banger, Frances becomes a bona fide
WED       'fire putter-outer' at Civil Defence classes and enjoys
WED       the spectacle of the coronation before a four-inch
WED       television screen.
WED       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nd2l8 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
WED       
WED       11:00 M1 Magic b00nfqz6 (Listen)
WED       Marking its 50th anniversary, historian Juliet Gardiner
WED       explores the surprising story of how 'Motorway One' came
WED       to be built, slashing through the English countryside.
WED       With contributions from people who helped build it.
WED       
WED       11:30 Hut 33 b00nfqz8 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Back to Your Post
WED       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Three
WED       code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as
WED       they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate
WED       each other.
WED       Everything German is under suspicion in 1942 and Bletchley
WED       Park is no exception. Charles has German relatives and is
WED       threatened with internment. Will Archie help his colleague
WED       and can Charles avoid Minka's attentions, now she knows
WED       there is a true German in their midst?
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       Judge ...... Alex Lowe.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00ndlgc (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00ndljl (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00ndlln (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00nfqzb (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00ndlp1 (Listen)
WED       Lilian makes an unexpected journey.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00dghmq (Listen)
WED       A Tokyo Murder, The Parents
WED       By John Dryden and Miriam Smith.
WED       Jennifer and Peter Whitelock arrive in Japan to help find
WED       their daughter Daisy's murderer. Frustrated with the
WED       progress of the police investigation, Peter puts his trust
WED       in TV producer Norio Ito, who promises to champion their
WED       cause on his popular 'news and entertainment' show, while
WED       Jennifer tries to discover what her daughter's life in
WED       Tokyo was like. Then she starts getting calls from a man
WED       claiming to be the killer.
WED       Jennifer Whitelock ...... Lynne Hobday
WED       Peter Whitelock ...... Martin Burns
WED       Akira Takahashi ...... Nariyasu Kato
WED       Norio Ito ...... Ryuji Yoshimura
WED       Brie ...... Erika Hirokawa
WED       Other parts played by Junnichi Takahashi, Sachiko Yamada,
WED       Gemma Nokes, Shinji Kobata, Michael Ryhs, Hiroyuki Nojima,
WED       Teruhiko Nakajima, Adam Browning, Masaru Yoshihara, Harumi
WED       Tsumoto, Takako Anami, Kei Katsumoto.
WED       Directed by John Dryden.
WED       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00nfqzd (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on benefits
WED       and tax credits.
WED       Guests:
WED       Jean French, advice and information manager, Carers UK
WED       Sally West, policy manager, Age Concern and Help the Aged'
WED       Rachel Hadwen, advisor, Working Families.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nfmkq (Listen)
WED       The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, Friendly Amid
WED       the Haters
WED       Series of chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's
WED       first short story collection.
WED       A woman asks a joiner to re-hang some doors, but when she
WED       challenges his laid-back approach with sarcasm, he flips
WED       and she is left in fear of her life. Worse is her feeling
WED       that she deserves her shame and humilation.
WED       Read by Kathryn Hunt.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00ndm9s (Listen)
WED       Science and Nature 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       These days we take it for granted that the home is a place
WED       of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was
WED       an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores
WED       the invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in
WED       creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
WED       A room constructed entirely of feathers, a hermitage in
WED       the garden of a Lincolnshire vicarage, Alexander Pope's
WED       grotto - how eccentric homes reflected wider 18th-century
WED       ideas about science and nature.
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 b00nfqzg (Listen)
WED       While nine out of ten people agree organ donation is a
WED       good thing, a recent audit found 40 per cent of bereaved
WED       families, when approached, didn't agree to donate. Laurie
WED       Taylor discusses new research which uncovers some of the
WED       reasons behind this apparent anomaly.
WED       Magi Sque, from the University of Southampton, was part of
WED       a team who interviewed families who had declined organ
WED       donation. While many agreed in principle, carried organ
WED       donor cards and knew their relatives desire to donate,
WED       they still didn't feel able to let their loved ones organs
WED       be used. The most common reason families gave for this was
WED       a simple desire to keep the body intact. They didn't want
WED       the dead to be 'hurt' any more.
WED       Magi explains why the research reveals some of our
WED       deep-seated cultural beliefs, and how those beliefs have
WED       their roots in wider society's values and, at times of
WED       grief, can completely overcome our pre-existing views.
WED       
WED       16:30 Metaphor for Healing b00nfq2l (Listen)
WED       Dr Phil Hammond finds out how the use of metaphorical
WED       language in health care is increasingly accepted as a
WED       powerful aid to healing.
WED       The power of the right metaphor, long exploited in poetry,
WED       politics and marketing, is being increasingly recognised
WED       in health care, coaching and therapy, engaging the
WED       unconscious to activate self-healing. Dr Phil talks to
WED       patients, doctors and therapists, and discovers why
WED       doctors should pay closer attention to the answer to their
WED       routine question, 'And what does it feel like?'.
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ndqrp (Listen)
WED       28th October 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       A pro-democracy rally in Prague turns violent after police
WED       move in; a Northern Irish peace train is held overnight
WED       due to a bomb scare; Prince Charles calls on politicians
WED       and business leaders to tackle global warming.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00ndqt7 (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 b00ndqvg (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00nfqzj (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Daddy Cool
WED       Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest,
WED       family-run record shop in Birmingham.
WED       When his teenage son won't be seen in public with him,
WED       Adam is determined to prove that he's got what it takes to
WED       be cool. And his elderly dad, Rudy, is on hand to give
WED       some unexpected advice.
WED       Adam ...... Lenny Henry
WED       Rudy ...... Larrington Walker
WED       Richie ...... Joe Jacobs
WED       Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
WED       Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
WED       Doreen ...... Claire Benedict
WED       DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke
WED       Tunde ...... Femi Elufowoju
WED       Rapper ...... Doc Brown.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00ndlp3 (Listen)
WED       Brian and Jennifer fear the worst.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00nds0m (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on why vampires
WED       continue to inspire best-selling books, new films and TV
WED       series, with guests including Dacre Stoker,
WED       great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ndtmy (Listen)
WED       The Dead Hour, Episode 8
WED       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
WED       set in Glasgow in 1984.
WED       Paddy discovers that the murder victim had a sister - who
WED       has gone missing.
WED       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
WED       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
WED       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
WED       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
WED       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
WED       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
WED       JT ...... Finlay McLean
WED       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
WED       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
WED       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
WED       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
WED       Lafferty ...... Stewart Porter
WED       Knox ...... Andrew Byatt
WED       Bernie ...... Richard Conlon
WED       Other parts played by the cast.
WED       Directed by Bruce Young.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00nfqzl (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips,
WED       Michael Portillo and Matthew Taylor cross-examine
WED       witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 Avoiding the Question b00nfqzn (Listen)
WED       Jon Sopel explores the techniques used by different
WED       politicians to avoid questions in interviews and how it
WED       affects their public image.
WED       
WED       21:00 The Oldest Bible b00dp74r (Listen)
WED       Roger Bolton tells the story of the Codex Sinaiticus, the
WED       world's oldest bible, found in 1844 in a monastery in the
WED       Sinai Desert. It is soon to become one of the British
WED       Library's greatest treasures and accessible to a worldwide
WED       audience. Its history is contentious, and its contents
WED       controversial.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00nfqz4 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including bear expert Dr Lynn Rogers.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00ndvg6 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00ndvhl (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ndvsy (Listen)
WED       Heartland, Episode 3
WED       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
WED       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
WED       community of Cinderheath.
WED       Jim is worried about the forthcoming local elections.
WED       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00nfqzq (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 4
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 b00nfqzs (Listen)
WED       Jimmy's Bangkok Coffee
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 Jimmy's Bangkok Coffee.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ndw4w (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Robert Orchard.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00nczrn (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00nhs7n (Listen)
THU       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 3
THU       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
THU       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
THU       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
THU       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
THU       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
THU       who is now in her 90s.
THU       Frances and her mother take to the road in her
THU       temperamental old banger, Frances becomes a bona fide
THU       'fire putter-outer' at Civil Defence classes and enjoys
THU       the spectacle of the coronation before a four-inch
THU       television screen.
THU       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nczy6 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nd00s (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nczzm (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00nd06b (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nd0dn (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00nd1cd (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00nd1j6 (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 b00nfrrz (Listen)
THU       Schopenhauer
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests AC Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and
THU       Christopher Janaway discuss the dark, pessimistic
THU       philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which set the tone for
THU       much 20th-century thought.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00nhs7q (Listen)
THU       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 4
THU       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
THU       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
THU       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
THU       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
THU       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
THU       who is now in her 90s.
THU       Frances marvels at Arthur Miller's extraordinary new wife,
THU       Marilyn Monroe, at the London debut of his new play. She
THU       cuts quite a dash herself in her new silver fox fur, but,
THU       on finally meeting her brother's wealthy new fiancee,
THU       begins to wonder what the future will hold for her.
THU       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nd2lb (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00nfsjw (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House b00nfsjy (Listen)
THU       An Appointment with Fear
THU       Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty
THU       illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience
THU       inside the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney.
THU       Reece examines some classic scary moments from British
THU       radio and television and explores the ingredients for a
THU       classic horror story.
THU       He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic
THU       Reeves, Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00ndlgf (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00ndljn (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00ndllq (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00nf0n0 (Listen)
THU       Countdown to Copenhagen
THU       Tom Heap looks behind the jargon and political
THU       scene-shifting to ask whether or not a definitive new deal
THU       on climate change will come out of the talks at Copenhagen
THU       in December 2009.
THU       Politicians from around the world will attempt to thrash
THU       out a deal in Denmark's capital city to limit the damage
THU       that the changing climate on the planet. Most now accept
THU       that this means drastic cuts in the use of oil, coal and
THU       gas. Getting agreement on how that should be achieved
THU       among 192 nations seems impossible. Tom seeks to find out
THU       how to interpret the codes of official statements and
THU       off-the-record briefings.
THU       He also hears from some of the people who will have to
THU       live with the consequences and ask how their voices are
THU       working their way into the Copenhagen process. These
THU       include the President of the Maldives, who warns that his
THU       fight against the encroaching seas is our fight too.
THU       Children in Sri Lanka who have been exchanging experiences
THU       with English counterparts by the sea in Essex, and a group
THU       of children working under the banner Generation Green
THU       struggle to produce an action plan for Downing Street.
THU       And in case anyone thinks the Jeremy Clarkson worldview
THU       has withered in the face of this upsurge of youthful
THU       greenery, Tom joins a group of boy and girl racers in
THU       Cheltenham for a petrol-fuelled conversation about living
THU       now and paying later.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00ndlp3 (Listen)
THU       Brian and Jennifer fear the worst.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00dhfsf (Listen)
THU       A Tokyo Murder, The Detective
THU       By John Dryden and Miriam Smith.
THU       Detective Inspector Julie Hill is sent to Tokyo to
THU       investigate the disappearance of British teacher Daisy
THU       Whitelock. Working with the Tokyo police, who are
THU       reluctant to have a foreign police officer interfering
THU       with the case, she has to overcome cultural and
THU       bureaucratic obstacles as she attempts to untangle what
THU       really happened at the foreign language school Daisy
THU       taught at.
THU       Julie Hill ...... Rachel Ferguson
THU       Assistant Inspector Takasugi ...... Takuya Matsumoto
THU       Superintendent Yamagawa ...... Teruhiko Nakajima
THU       Alex ...... Micheal Naishtut
THU       Brie ...... Erika Hirokawa
THU       Akira Takahashi ...... Nariyasu Kato
THU       Other parts played by Ken Endo, Daan Archer, Shinji
THU       Kobata, Hiroyuki Nojima, Masaru Yoshihara, Takako Anami,
THU       Rika Wakasugi and Kei Katsumoto.
THU       Directed by John Dryden.
THU       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00nccrh (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 6
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       Clare walks the final part of the route in the company of
THU       the men who were responsible for designing and looking
THU       after the path, Gary Cambell and Martin Paminter. They
THU       explain how the route was launched three years ago and
THU       their plans for its future. Clare is also, once again,
THU       joined by walking expert Jenny Walters, who wants to
THU       discover if the advice she gave Clare 90 miles ago has
THU       helped her remain fit and healthy throughout her journey.
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 b00ncwnt (Listen)
THU       Asylum Aid
THU       Baroness Neuberger appeals on behalf of Asylum Aid.
THU       Donations to Asylum Aid should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
THU       Asylum Aid. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you
THU       are a UK tax payer, please provide Asylum Aid with your
THU       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
THU       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
THU       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
THU       postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 328729.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nfmks (Listen)
THU       The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, You Are A
THU       Gongedip
THU       Series of chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's
THU       first short story collection.
THU       When William's daily routine is interrupted by an irate
THU       woman he vaguely recognises, he is irritated and soon
THU       shakes her off. But he vastly underestimates her capacity
THU       for revenge.
THU       Read by Charles Swift.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00ndm9v (Listen)
THU       Courtship and Setting Up Home
THU       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
THU       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
THU       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
THU       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
THU       have been specially recorded for the series.
THU       These days we take it for granted that the home is a place
THU       of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was
THU       an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores
THU       the invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in
THU       creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
THU       The story of two 18th-century marriages and how the
THU       husbands prepared new houses for their bride. One got it
THU       right, the other destroyed any chance of a happy
THU       partnership.
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 b00ncyzb (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup presents the second of two programmes in
THU       which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have
THU       been unfairly neglected. In this edition, Dame Beryl
THU       Bainbridge, Howard Jacobson, Joanna Trollope, Michael
THU       Morpurgo and Val McDermid unveil their choices.
THU       After the programme, listeners can vote for their
THU       favourite neglected classic of the ten; the winning title
THU       will be dramatised on Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00ngyvy (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper explores the territory where imagination
THU       meets reality, and hears from participants in a new
THU       collaboration between writers and scientists, assembled by
THU       novelist Geoffrey Ryman.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ndqrr (Listen)
THU       29th October 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       Walter Sisulu addresses 70,000 people at the biggest ever
THU       ANC rally; East Berlin's Communist party chief tells
THU       socialists, 'we need to practise democracy'; the great
THU       British cup of tea comes under threat as prices rise by 10
THU       per cent.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00ndqt9 (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 b00ndqvj (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Bleak Expectations b00ngz6q (Listen)
THU       Series 3, A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More
THU       Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans.
THU       Pip Bin's happiness is shattered once again. Fog-filled
THU       streets, murders, and ghastly apparitions from beyond the
THU       grave abound, and through it all echoes the terrible
THU       menacing coo of a possessed and evil pigeon.
THU       Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
THU       Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen
THU       Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
THU       Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
THU       Inspector Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
THU       Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland
THU       Pippa ...... Susy Kane.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00ndlp5 (Listen)
THU       The Grundys make themselves at home.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00nds0p (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an
THU       interview with novelist Anita Desai, shortlisted three
THU       times for the Booker Prize, and her daughter Kiran, who
THU       won it in 2006.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ndtn0 (Listen)
THU       The Dead Hour, Episode 9
THU       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
THU       set in Glasgow in 1984.
THU       Paddy goes into hiding when she starts to believe she
THU       could be the killer's next victim.
THU       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
THU       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
THU       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
THU       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
THU       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
THU       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
THU       JT ...... Finlay McLean
THU       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
THU       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
THU       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
THU       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
THU       Lafferty ...... Stewart Porter
THU       Knox ...... Andrew Byatt
THU       Bernie ...... Richard Conlon
THU       Other parts played by the cast.
THU       Directed by Bruce Young.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00nfmtq (Listen)
THU       Clive Coleman talks to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge,
THU       about the key issues currently facing the criminal justice
THU       system.
THU       
THU       20:30 The Bottom Line b00ngzcf (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 b00ngzch (Listen)
THU       The human race's brief relationship with element 92,
THU       uranium, has been a tempestuous one, from Nazi research
THU       and Hiroshima to Iran and North Korea. Geoff Watts opens
THU       secret archives and hears the science behind the fragile
THU       peace that has held since 1946.
THU       With a few notable exceptions, including North Korea,
THU       India and Pakistan, most of the major nations have signed
THU       the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Most of those,
THU       with exceptions such as the USA, China and Iran, have
THU       ratified the treaty, agreeing not to let off a nuclear
THU       explosion anywhere on or within the Earth. But how can
THU       scientists tell if the treaty has been broken?
THU       Geoff Watts investigates the shady world of nuclear
THU       weapons testing and asks how UN inspectors can tell if
THU       there has been an illegal underground test. He hears about
THU       major exercises in Kazakhstan and Slovakia to see just
THU       what the inspectors are able to find out.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00nfrrz (Listen)
THU       Schopenhauer
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests AC Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and
THU       Christopher Janaway discuss the dark, pessimistic
THU       philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which set the tone for
THU       much 20th-century thought.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00ndvg8 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00ndvhn (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ndvt0 (Listen)
THU       Heartland, Episode 4
THU       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
THU       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
THU       community of Cinderheath.
THU       Rob witnesses a stabbing on the local estate.
THU       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Pick Ups b00ngzck (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Stags and Bucks
THU       Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi
THU       company.
THU       An old school friend rocks Dave's world, while Mike gets
THU       involved in a gay stag night - on the straight side of
THU       town.
THU       Mike ...... Paul Loughran
THU       Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Dave ...... Phil Rowson
THU       Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
THU       Ashley ...... Jonathan Mayor
THU       Darren ...... Chris Hoyle.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ndw4y (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with David Wilby.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00nczrq (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00nhs7q (Listen)
FRI       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 4
FRI       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
FRI       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
FRI       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
FRI       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
FRI       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
FRI       who is now in her 90s.
FRI       Frances marvels at Arthur Miller's extraordinary new wife,
FRI       Marilyn Monroe, at the London debut of his new play. She
FRI       cuts quite a dash herself in her new silver fox fur, but,
FRI       on finally meeting her brother's wealthy new fiancee,
FRI       begins to wonder what the future will hold for her.
FRI       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nczy8 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nd00v (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nczzp (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00nd06d (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nd0dq (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev John Cairns.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00nd1cg (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00nd1j8 (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 b00ncwp6 (Listen)
FRI       Professor Colin Pillinger
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Colin
FRI       Pillinger.
FRI       A world-class planetary scientist, his first job was for
FRI       NASA, analysing the lunar samples brought back by Apollo
FRI       11. He is best known, though, for being the public face of
FRI       Beagle 2, the daring mission to search for life on Mars.
FRI       Although Beagle 2 was unsuccessful, he is adamant that the
FRI       mission was not a failure. Now it is hoped that the
FRI       technology developed for the mission to Mars can be used
FRI       to diagnose TB faster than has ever been possible before.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00nhs7s (Listen)
FRI       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 5
FRI       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
FRI       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
FRI       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
FRI       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
FRI       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
FRI       who is now in her 90s.
FRI       Frances attends the 'wedding of the year' between her
FRI       brother and Audrey and begins to get used to life alone
FRI       with Mother - only to realise, perhaps too late, that the
FRI       most important friend in her life is Mr Bigelow, who has
FRI       now fallen seriously ill.
FRI       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nd2ld (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 The Entrepreneur's Wound b00nh06m (Listen)
FRI       What drives some of Britain's most successful business
FRI       people? BBC business editor Robert Peston speaks to Sir
FRI       Stuart Rose of Marks and Spencer and others about the
FRI       effect that their traumatic childhood had on them.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00nh06p (Listen)
FRI       The Deep Blue Sea
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       It is Twitten's birthday but no one's in the mood to
FRI       celebrate - Mrs Groynes has a problem with contraband and
FRI       lovesick Brunswick is threatening to resign, so Twitten
FRI       suggests that a boat trip might solve things all round.
FRI       Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
FRI       Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
FRI       Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green
FRI       Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro
FRI       Adelaide Vine ...... Janet Ellis.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00ndlgh (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00ndljq (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00ndlls (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00nh06r (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00ndlp5 (Listen)
FRI       The Grundys make themselves at home.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00dhhcq (Listen)
FRI       A Tokyo Murder, The Daughter
FRI       By John Dryden and Miriam Smith.
FRI       Daisy Whitelock arrives in Japan to teach English at a
FRI       foreign language school in Tokyo. Her desire to scratch
FRI       beneath the surface of Japanese society leads her to shun
FRI       the companionship of the other ex-pat teachers in her
FRI       shared apartment, and exposes her to the terrifying
FRI       reality of a disturbed mind.
FRI       Daisy Whitelock ...... Sophie Cartman
FRI       Akira Takahashi ...... Nariyasu Kato
FRI       Brie ...... Erika Hirokawa
FRI       Alex ...... Michael Naishtut
FRI       Other parts played by Junnichi Takahashi, Sachiko Yamada,
FRI       Adam Browning, Shinji Kobata, Rika Wakasugi, Kei
FRI       Katsumoto, Ken Endo, Masaru Yoshihara, Takako Anami, Erika
FRI       Akiyama, Hikari Motohashi.
FRI       Directed by John Dryden.
FRI       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nh06t (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are
FRI       guests of the Weald Horticultural Society in Sevenoaks,
FRI       Kent.
FRI       Bob explores the vineyards in the 'Garden of England',
FRI       discussing which varieties are best suited to winemaking
FRI       and how best to care for them.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00ndm9x (Listen)
FRI       Neat and Not too Showy
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       These days we take it for granted that the home is a place
FRI       of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was
FRI       an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores
FRI       the invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in
FRI       creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
FRI       Moving into the 19th century, Prof Vickery explores the
FRI       homes of people lower down the social scale and their
FRI       ideas about how they wanted them to look. She draws on a
FRI       series of funny and revealing letters which she discovered
FRI       in the archive of a wallpaper company.
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 b00nh0qv (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 b00nh0qx (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Nick Hornby about his adaptation
FRI       of Lynn Barber's memoir, An Education.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00ndqrt (Listen)
FRI       30th October 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       Riots in Moscow follow a demonstration outside the KGB
FRI       headquarters; the Bishop of London warns the Church
FRI       against an invasion of female priests; Margaret Thatcher's
FRI       leadership style causes grumblings among the Tory grass
FRI       roots.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00ndqtc (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 b00ndqvl (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
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FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00nh0qz (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 6
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, recorded at
FRI       the University of Bedfordshire. The panel includes Jeremy
FRI       Hardy, Paul Sinha and Sue Perkins.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00ndlp7 (Listen)
FRI       Matt gets to know the locals.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00nds0r (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews. John Wilson presents a special
FRI       edition live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, reporting
FRI       on their 75-year history of recording and broadcasting
FRI       classical, pop and radiophonic music, and radio drama.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ndtn2 (Listen)
FRI       The Dead Hour, Episode 10
FRI       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
FRI       set in Glasgow in 1984.
FRI       Paddy confronts the killer, just as he is about to strike
FRI       again.
FRI       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
FRI       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
FRI       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
FRI       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
FRI       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
FRI       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
FRI       JT ...... Finlay McLean
FRI       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
FRI       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
FRI       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
FRI       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
FRI       Lafferty ...... Stewart Porter
FRI       Knox ...... Andrew Byatt
FRI       Bernie ...... Richard Conlon
FRI       Other parts played by the cast.
FRI       Directed by Bruce Young.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00nh1cm (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cambridge
FRI       University. The panel includes shadow business secretary
FRI       Kenneth Clarke and Baroness Shirley Williams, former
FRI       leader of Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00nh1cp (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00nh1w5 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
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       These days we take it for granted that home is a place of
FRI       refuge in which we express our true self - an idea which
FRI       was an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery
FRI       explores the invention of taste and the role of interior
FRI       decor in creating both social prestige and a successful
FRI       marriage.
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 b00ndvgb (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00ndvhq (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ndvt2 (Listen)
FRI       Heartland, Episode 5
FRI       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
FRI       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
FRI       community of Cinderheath.
FRI       Jim makes an unwelcome discovery on his son's computer.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00nfmts (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to playwright David Edgar and novelist
FRI       Helen Cross at the Birmingham Book Festival about their
FRI       favourite books, including titles by Graham Greene,
FRI       Anthony Trollope and Naomi Wolf.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ndw50 (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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