30 October, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 31/10/2009 - 06/11/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00nh5vp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00nhs7s (Listen) SAT Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 5 SAT Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances SAT Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy SAT American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written SAT between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in SAT postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself, SAT who is now in her 90s. SAT Frances attends the 'wedding of the year' between her SAT brother and Audrey and begins to get used to life alone SAT with Mother - only to realise, perhaps too late, that the SAT most important friend in her life is Mr Bigelow, who has SAT now fallen seriously ill. SAT Abridged by Doreen Estall. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nh5vr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nh68j (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nh68l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00nh6fk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nh68n (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00nh6cm (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00nh6cp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00nhn1l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00nhn1n (Listen) SAT Brian May's 3-D Village SAT Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an SAT Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian SAT photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. SAT May has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting SAT cereal packet picture cards as a boy. He was particularly SAT intrigued by a set of stereoscopic images of village life SAT taken by photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. Further SAT investigation revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures SAT of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken SAT in the 1850s. SAT Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of SAT the village. Together they discover how the people and SAT wildlife of this Thames-side community have changed since SAT Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths, SAT spinners and farm workers. SAT Kerry Lock of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and SAT Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust describes the waxing and waning SAT of wildlife over the past 160 years, while Nicola Verdon SAT of the British Agricultural History Society examines the SAT telling detail in photos taken at the height of farming's SAT golden age. SAT To discuss the past, present and future of 3-D photography SAT Helen is also joined by Brian's collaborator, the photo SAT historian Elena Vidal and by David Burder of the British SAT Stereoscopic Society. Has the boom in 3-D cinema and the SAT launch of a 3-D digital camera come at just the right time SAT for a revival of interest in T.R. Williams and a re-birth SAT of the art of stereoscopic photography? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00nhn1q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Every year 6.7 million tonnes of food are thrown away. SAT That's about 10 billion pounds-worth. Charlotte Smith SAT visits a village where residents are embracing food waste SAT recycling and asks the environment secretary Hilary Benn SAT if similar schemes could be rolled out across the country. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00nhn1s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00nhn1v (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00nhn1x (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Fi Glover is joined by clinical psychologist and writer SAT Dorothy Rowe. SAT With poetry from Elvis McGonagal. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00nhn1z (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores Berlin with the head of tourism and SAT a writer who lives there, and finds a forward-looking and SAT vibrant city coming to terms with a turbulent past. SAT John also meets two former British soldiers who talk about SAT their travelling life with the army. SAT SAT 10:30 Now Wash Your Hands b00nhn21 (Listen) SAT The story of the original Izal Medicated, in the words of SAT people who have a soft spot for hard toilet paper. SAT Featuring songs written by the presenter, Sally Goldsmith, SAT and sung by a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the SAT University of Sheffield and locals of the city, where the SAT paper was originally made. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00nhn23 (Listen) SAT Leaks of what Sir Christopher Kelly is proposing for MPs SAT and their allowances increased the sense of gloom amongst SAT MPs this week. SAT Hilary the former Labour chief whip who is retiring at the SAT next election feels the recommendations will deter women, SAT especially those with children, from becoming MPs. SAT Another topic of conversation at Westminster this week was SAT whether or not Tony Blair should become president of the SAT European council when the Lisbon Treaty is finally SAT ratified. Patricia Hewitt Michael Howard and Ed Davey SAT discuss. SAT Also in the programme SAT How could the government make a misjudgement over the SAT funding of the Territorial Army so soon after having their SAT climb down over the issue of the Ghurkhas? Lindsey Hoyle SAT and Desmond Swayne give their verdict. SAT And two parliamentary prospective candidates Claire Kelley SAT ( Liberal Democrat) and Sean Bailey (Conservative) talk of SAT their expectations of what parliamentary life might SAT involve. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nhn25 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT A talk with a night witch in Moscow; fear, suspicion and SAT heavy artillery on the streets of Conakry, Guinea; what SAT the ancient traditions of Halloween reveal about modern SAT America; an insight into the two rivals about to contest SAT the second round of the Afghan presidential election. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00nhn27 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Pester power - Halifax Bank of Scotland makes changes to SAT its controversial overdraft charges. SAT Where there's a will there's a way - don't forget to write SAT one. SAT How just paying off the minimum on your cards messes with SAT your mind. SAT National Savings enters the best buy tables, and why that SAT is unusual. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00nh0qz (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 6 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, recorded at SAT the University of Bedfordshire. The panel includes Jeremy SAT Hardy, Paul Sinha and Sue Perkins. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00nhn29 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00nhn2c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00nh1cm (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cambridge SAT University. The panellists are the shadow business SAT secretary Kenneth Clarke, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness SAT Shirley Williams, UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen and the former SAT Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00nhn2f (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 b0090f6x (Listen) SAT The Voyage of the Demeter SAT Robert Forrest's chilling tale of the supernatural, set on SAT a schooner sailing from Bulgaria to England in 1867. SAT Something very unpleasant is lurking aboard the ship, and SAT the voyage becomes a terrifying ordeal. SAT Ripelski ...... Finlay Welsh SAT Robash ...... Gary Lewis SAT Kanesky ...... Steven McNicoll SAT Bretov ...... Grant O'Rourke SAT Gentleman ...... Alexander Morton. SAT SAT 15:30 Baroque and Roll: Townshend on Purcell b00nf3kr (Listen) SAT The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks SAT about the band's career and reveals the influence on his SAT songwriting of Baroque composer Henry Purcell. SAT When Pete was a struggling 20-year-old musician he was SAT turned on to Purcell by his manager, Kit Lambert. It was SAT Kit's recommendation of Purcell's Gordian Knot Untied that SAT struck the loudest chord with Pete, awakening him to a SAT lineage in English music that seemed strangely familiar. SAT Immersing himself in the music, he soon set about writing SAT The Who's first album. SAT Pete reveals how he drew on Purcell's dramatic genius for SAT his most intriguing compositions. From his first mini-rock SAT opera to his masterpiece, Tommy, and from his enduring SAT Lifehouse project through to his current musical SAT endeavour, there has always been a Purcellian presence. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00nhn6z (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Sheila McClennon. SAT The best-selling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell SAT talks about her latest book, the 17th to feature Dr Kay SAT Scarpetta, the workaholic forensic scientist. She was SAT first introduced in 1990, and Patricia explains why Kay SAT has been such an enjoyable character to write about for SAT the last 20 years. SAT Listener Sue Green emailed Woman's Hour recently to say SAT that she is something of a running joke among her friends SAT because she continues to use cotton handkerchiefs in SAT favour of the paper variety. But Sue is not alone: the SAT programme hears from another die-hard handkerchief fan, SAT Annalisa Barbieri - who goes so far as to iron her beloved SAT collection - who talks about the history of this small SAT square of cloth. SAT Within the next few months, one million young people under SAT the age of 24 are going to be out of work. With no SAT employment and no direction, the lives of these youngsters SAT can quickly spiral into poverty, family disintegration and SAT homelessness. This is what happened to Elvige. Struggling SAT with a dysfunctional family and the threat of a life on SAT the streets, she dropped out of college but is now a SAT confident young adult studying for a degree and doing work SAT with troubled youngsters. SAT The government wants to scrap the defence of provocation SAT in murder cases where a spouse or partner has been SAT unfaithful. Woman's Hour asks what the bill's defeat in SAT the House of Lords means for women. SAT Kamilya Jurban is a Palestinian singer, instrumentalist SAT and composer, and one of the most prominent contemporary SAT artists in the Middle East. Karine Polwart is a Scottish SAT folk singer songwriter whose debut album won the Radio 2 SAT Folk Album of the Year Award in 2005. They were brought SAT together to perform for the British Council and they give SAT us a taste of their unique collaboration. SAT What do clothes mean to women? Why do some of us find it SAT so hard to give or throw things away that we no longer SAT wear? Justine Picardie, author of My Mother's Wedding SAT Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes', Jay Hunt, style SAT writer and broadcaster, and Oriole Cullen, the curator of SAT fashion and textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, SAT London share their emotional experience of clothes with SAT Jenni Murray. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nhnxp (Listen) SAT 31st October 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson tells the House of Commons SAT why he resigned; shadow energy secretary Tony Blair SAT demands electricity privatisation plans be scrapped; a SAT court investigates a fraud case involving the use of sonic SAT binoculars to fix horse races. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00nhnxr (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00ngzcf (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to SAT discuss those silly bits of paper and metal we call money. SAT Surely someone can invent a better way to pay for things? SAT He also asks what companies are doing to look after their SAT low-income consumers. SAT Evan is joined by Antony Jenkins, chief executive of SAT credit card company Barclaycard, Jim McCarthy, chief SAT executive of the UK chain Poundland, and Chris Dedicoat, SAT European president of Cisco, the world's largest producer SAT of computer network equipment. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nhnxt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00nhnxw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nhnxy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00nhny0 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive Anderson is joined by drummer Ginger Baker, SAT presenter and the new voice of Radio 2's breakfast show, SAT Chris Evans, and actor Alun Armstrong. SAT Robin Ince finds out what everday things, from teacups to SAT memory sticks, can tell us about the universe with SAT cosmologist Marcus Chown. SAT With comedy from Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Tom SAT Wrigglesworth and music from jazz singer-songwriter Jamie SAT Cullum and country blues band Hey Negrita. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen) SAT Jose Manuel Barroso SAT Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career SAT of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel SAT Barroso. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00nhny4 (Listen) SAT Bidisha is joined by comedian Natalie Haynes, historian SAT Tristram Hunt and actor and writer Michael Simkins to SAT review the cultural highlights of the week - featuring SAT hot-headed Mexican revolutionaries, Viennese students in a SAT whirl and Romanian chickens in a truck. SAT Ferdinand Bruckner's 1926 play Pains of Youth is set in SAT Vienna and features a group of bored, disillusioned SAT medical students. In the aftermath of the First World War SAT they view their youth as a kind of sickness and see the SAT future as holding two alternatives: bourgeois existence or SAT suicide. Martin Crimp's new version of the play at the SAT National Theatre in London is directed by Katie Mitchell SAT and features some of her typically striking twists of SAT staging. SAT Barbara Kingsolver's last novel, The Poisonwood Bible, was SAT published more than 10 years ago and became a bestseller. SAT The Lacuna is her new novel and the story of its SAT protagonist - writer Harrison Shepherd - is told through SAT letters and entries in his diary. With a Mexican mother SAT and an American father, his life oscillates between the SAT two countries. As a young man in revolutionary Mexico, he SAT becomes close to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and SAT their houseguest Leon Trotsky, something which comes back SAT to haunt him in the anti-communist climate of postwar SAT America. SAT It is almost 20 years since Nicolae Ceasescu's regime in SAT Romania came to a violent end, but the Ceasescu era is a SAT period which fascinates and inspires the writer and SAT director Cristian Mungiu. His previous film 4 Months, 3 SAT Weeks and 2 Days, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in SAT 2007, concerned a young woman trying to procur an illegal SAT abortion. Tales From The Golden Age is more satirical in SAT tone and while there's pathos here, there's also humour. SAT Five urban myths from the twilight years of the communist SAT era are played out, including a village sent into panic by SAT an official visit and a photographer tasked with making SAT Ceausescu look taller than Valerie Giscard d'Estaing. SAT The title poem of Grace Nichols's poetry collection SAT Picasso, I Want My Face Back is written in the voice of SAT Dora Maar, the photographer who was Picasso's lover and SAT muse for ten years and inspired his 1937 painting Weeping SAT Woman. Van Gogh, Munch and Tracey Emin also find their way SAT into the verse here, which is understandable given SAT Nichols's recent stint as writer in residence at the Tate. SAT It's not all art and artists though; there are also poems SAT about her native Guyana, India and the English landscape. SAT Collision is definitely car-crash TV, but in a literal SAT rather than derogatory sense. The ITV1 drama, written by SAT Anthony Horowitz and scheduled to be broadcast over five SAT successive nights, focuses on a group of characters who SAT are involved in a major traffic accident. Douglas Henshall SAT plays DI John Tolin, who is investigates the accident and SAT tries to determine whether two of his colleagues, who were SAT in pursuit of one of the cars, may have been reponsible. SAT But Tolin finds many unsuspected secrets hidden in the SAT wreckage and also has to come to terms with some skeletons SAT in his own closet. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00nhny6 (Listen) SAT Capering With Ken Campbell SAT Ian McMillan explores the world of the actor and director SAT Ken Campbell, who died in 2008. SAT Campbell's acting credits included Fawlty Towers, The SAT Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brookside, Law and Order SAT and In Sickness and In Health, as well as performing SAT one-man shows. He also directed theatrical events, SAT including the nine-hour Illuminatus trilogy, a 22-hour SAT production of The Warp and Macbeth in pidgin English. SAT His daughter, Daisy, gives Ian McMillan a tour of Ken's SAT home in Essex, where he didn't have a bedroom and had a SAT parrot run in every room. He also talks to Campbell's SAT manager Colin Watkeys, theatre director Richard Eyre, fan SAT and collaborator Ian Potter and fellow actors Julia SAT McKenzie and Jim Broadbent. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00ncwzv (Listen) SAT Howards End, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel. SAT Helen Schlegel is unhappy that her sister Margaret has SAT agreed to marry the recently-widowed Henry Wilcox. SAT Unbeknown to the sisters, Ruth Wilcox bequeathed the SAT Wilcox country home, Howards End, to Margaret, but the SAT note has been destroyed by Henry's son, Charles. 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 b00nhpgc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00nfqzl (Listen) SAT The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan SAT Karadzic has opened at the UN-backed International SAT Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He faces 11 SAT counts of genocide, including complicity in the Srebrenica SAT massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. SAT It was one of the worst acts of atrocity in Europe since SAT the Second World War. But is what we are about to see SAT justice or revenge - A show trial organised by the SAT victors, with TV coverage broadcast throughout the world, SAT and eagerly viewed, especially in the Balkans. Can there SAT ever be any morally certain and globally acceptable SAT definition of what constitutes a war crime or will SAT pragmatism and real politique always SAT Witnesses: SAT John Laughland SAT Author of Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and SAT the Corruption of International Justice, and SAT A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam SAT Hussein. SAT Geoffrey Nice SAT The British QC who led the prosecution of the Serbian SAT leader Slobodan Milosovic SAT Professor David Chandler SAT Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the SAT Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and editor SAT of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding SAT Mark Ellis SAT Executive Director, International Bar Association. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00ndxjr (Listen) SAT Russell Davies welcomes four more guests to take part in SAT the perennial general knowledge contest. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00ncyzd (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems about snow and solitude. SAT There are splashes of colour too, with Goulash by Myra SAT Schneider and Poppies by Carole Satymurti. The readers are SAT Mark Meadows, Tanya Moodie and Osi Okerafor. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00nhpyp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zk (Listen) SUN Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, Sabotage SUN Series of stories by Morven Crumlish. SUN Pressed into service as a bridesmaid at a gay wedding, SUN Jenny almost expected to be miserable. But weird scenes SUN are to follow. SUN Read by Siobhan Redmond. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nhqd3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nhqd5 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nhqd7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00nhqd9 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00nhqdc (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in SUN London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen) SUN Jose Manuel Barroso SUN Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career SUN of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel SUN Barroso. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00nhqdf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00nhqdh (Listen) SUN Building Bridges SUN Writer Christie Dickason considers the physical and SUN metaphorical significance of bridges - connecting peoples, SUN cultures and countries, but also underlining differences. SUN She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous SUN bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of SUN Emily Dickinson and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00nhqdk (Listen) SUN Alex James visits the Isle of Man to meet George SUN Steriopulos, the final nominee for the 2009 BBC Farmer of SUN the Year award. SUN George has been instrumental in re-establishing the SUN island's flock of Manx Loughtan sheep. The breed is famous SUN for its four horns but nearly became extinct in the 1960s SUN as farmers switched to quicker-growing types. The Loughtan SUN has just been granted the EU's Protected Designation of SUN Origin status, ranking it alongside Stilton Cheese and SUN Champagne. Such efforts mean the sheep are once again SUN covering the island's hills in their thousands. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00nhqdm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00nhqdp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00nhsn4 (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 b00nhsn6 (Listen) SUN Meningitis UK SUN Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK. SUN Donations to Meningitis UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Meningitis UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Meningitis UK with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid SUN on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No:1076774. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00nhsn8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00nht55 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00nht57 (Listen) SUN A Great Cloud of Witnesses SUN A service on All Saints Day from St Michael's Church in SUN Aberystwyth. SUN The preacher is Canon Stuart Bell, Rector of Aberystwyth. SUN Musical Director: Andy Herrick. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00nh1cp (Listen) SUN Clive James reflects on the postal workers' dispute and SUN gives his personal view of the modern history of labour SUN relations. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00nht59 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Kevin Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00nht5c (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00nht5f (Listen) SUN Jerry Springer SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Jerry Springer. SUN His life has been split between serving the public and SUN outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as SUN a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working SUN with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his SUN controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show. SUN He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always SUN on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a SUN philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They SUN were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August SUN 1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the SUN entire family. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00nf01t (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 4 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items SUN of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. SUN With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and SUN Shappi Khorsandi. SUN Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00nhtk2 (Listen) SUN Yoghurt SUN Central Asia was the birthplace of yoghurt, as Golden SUN Crescent nomadic tribes domesticated sheep and goats and SUN began to curdle milk. Aylin Bozyap grew up in Istanbul, SUN and as a child used to take the ferry with her family to SUN the port town of Kanlica to eat yoghurt. SUN Recreating the journey, she takes as her guide the SUN political scientist, food historian and author Professor SUN Artun Unsal, who finds the yoghurt a poor immitation of SUN its former self. In search of something better they visit SUN the artisan yoghurt maker Mehmet Nazli, whose family has SUN been making yoghurt for many years, and who still makes it SUN the traditional way. His son and grandson also work in the SUN business, but the work is hard and they don't make much SUN money, with the profits staying mainly with the middlemen SUN and shops. SUN On the other side of Istanbul they visit an artisan SUN yoghurt maker who has had to stop producing; the quality SUN of the milk is no longer good enough, nor the city clean SUN enough, to make real yoghurt any more. SUN Finally they go to the Silivri Yoghurt Festival, an annual SUN celebration of traditional yogurt, and meet one of the SUN winners. They also meet the deputy mayor of Silivri, who SUN takes them to visit a disused yoghurt house that Professor SUN Unsal is keen to see turned into a yoghurt museum. SUN In the studio Sheila Dillon and Aylin taste a range of SUN plain yoghurts, as well as a typical British style yoghurt. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00nhtk4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00nhtk6 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Deighton File b00kjh8g (Listen) SUN Novelist Len Deighton talks to Patrick Humphries about his SUN life and writing career, which began with the publication SUN of his spy novel The Ipcress File in 1962. SUN Deighton has written cookery books and Second World War SUN histories, as well as turning his hand to book SUN illustration and film production. But he is best known for SUN his influential spy novels, including Funeral in Berlin SUN and Billion Dollar Brain. SUN Deighton fan Henrietta Green talks about the writer's SUN Action Cook Book, and Deighton biographer Edward SUN Milward-Oliver and historian Sir Max Hastings discuss SUN Deighton's acclaimed non-fiction work, such as Fighter and SUN Blitzkrieg. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nh06t (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are SUN guests of the Weald Horticultural Society in Sevenoaks, SUN Kent. SUN Bob explores the vineyards in the 'Garden of England', SUN discussing which varieties are best suited to winemaking SUN and how best to care for them. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7h2 (Listen) SUN Global Differences SUN Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural SUN attitudes towards siblings. SUN Islamic countries see sibling relationships develop via SUN wet-nurses. China's one-child policy is having SUN controversial consequences. SUN A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00nhv35 (Listen) SUN Bel Ami, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Frances Byrnes of Guy de Maupassant's SUN story of political corruption in the newspaper world of SUN 19th-century France and the inexorable rise of Georges SUN Duroy - 'Bel Ami' - a charming, ruthless man of little SUN talent but plenty of ambition. SUN Bel Ami is making the perfect match with a society heiress SUN but his past is about to catch up with him, in the shape SUN of Mme de Marelle, his long-term mistress. SUN Bel Ami ...... Jonathan Slinger SUN Marelle ...... Emma Fielding SUN Madeleine ...... Mali Harries SUN Forestier ...... Kieran Self SUN Monsieur Walter ...... Steffan Rhodri SUN Rachel ...... Sara McGaughey SUN Other roles played by Richard Nichols. SUN Directed by Polly Thomas. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00nhv5s (Listen) SUN Linda Grant SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her SUN novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange SUN Prize for Fiction in 2000. SUN Linda is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to SUN most of her writing. 'Scratch a Jew and you've got a SUN story', remarks the main character Evelyn Sert on the SUN story's first page as she looks over her life. The novel SUN follows Evelyn - hairdresser, spy, lover - on her voyage SUN from post-war London to Tel Aviv, where the British are SUN preparing to leave Palestine and the new state of Israel SUN is about to be born. SUN SUN 16:30 High Flight b00nhw26 (Listen) SUN When Anglo-American poet John Magee was killed in a SUN mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in December 1941, aged SUN just 19, he left behind a sonnet started, he claimed, 'at SUN 30,000 feet and finished soon after (he) landed'. The SUN poem, High Flight, has become the most celebrated poem SUN about the intoxication of flying. SUN Sean Street traces the trajectory of the poem and its poet SUN from Rugby School through the Library of Congress and the SUN space race to Ronald Reagan's tribute to the victims of SUN the Challenger space shuttle disaster and beyond, into a SUN unique place in the popular imagination. SUN The programme includes contributions from Andrew Motion, SUN veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force, composer Bob SUN Chilcott and Library of Congress archivist Cheryl Fox. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nhw28 (Listen) SUN 1st November 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN President Bush agrees to meet Chairman Gorbachev on his SUN boat in the Mediterranean for unofficial talks; President SUN Ortega of Nicaragua breaks a 19-month ceasefire with SUN US-backed Contra rebels; a coroner overseeing the inquest SUN into the death of Beverly Lewis demands better community SUN care for the mentally ill. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 1989: How The Wall Fell b00nfn2j (Listen) SUN The fall of the Berlin Wall made revolution look easy. But SUN behind the scenes, people power and the sudden end of Cold SUN War certainties posed all kinds of challenges. As part of SUN Radio 4's 1989 season, John Tusa discovers what happened SUN with key insiders from the British, German, Soviet and SUN other governments of the time. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen) SUN Jose Manuel Barroso SUN Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career SUN of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel SUN Barroso. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nhw2b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00nj7vs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nj7vv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00nj7vx (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past SUN seven days of BBC Radio. SUN Analysis - Radio 4 SUN The Fantastic Book of Everyone's Secrets - Radio 4 SUN Dear Mr Bigelow - Radio 4 SUN Parting Shots - Radio 4 SUN Being Jewish - Blood or Belief - Radio 4 SUN Baroque and Roll - Radio 4 SUN Night Waves - Radio 3 SUN M1 Magic - Radio 4 SUN Bleak Expectations - Radio 4 SUN Capering With Ken Campbell - Radio 4 SUN The Verb - Radio 3 SUN Maida Vale at 75 - Radio 1 & Radio 2 SUN Now Wash Your Hands - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00nj7vz (Listen) SUN The Grundys come back down to earth. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00nj7w1 (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 Americans love golf and President Obama is no exception. SUN Matt Frei takes a swing of the club and a look at how SUN exactly the 44th President of the United States, Barak SUN Obama, manages to make so much time to play. He is SUN squeezing in more golf than his predecessor, even in the SUN midst of juggling the challenges of economic recovery and SUN international diplomacy. SUN Matt Frei talks to former White House press secretary Dana SUN Perino about life on the other side of the podium. After a SUN few years fielding questions on behalf of the George W SUN Bush administration, Perino tells Americana how she feels SUN the Obama administration is handling the media storm so SUN far. SUN If she looks like Sarah Palin and talks like Sarah Palin, SUN does that mean that Michele Bachmann will be the new Sarah SUN Palin? Bachmann has represented Minnesota in the United SUN States House of Representatives for three years. In that SUN short time she has managed to become a well-known voice SUN within the Republican Party. Matt Frei talks to her about SUN how she has amplified her opinions so effectively and what SUN her hopes are for the Republican Party in the future. SUN What exactly does a Governor do? Matt Frei talks with SUN Governor Brian Schweitzer, who moved from ranching to SUN running one of the largest states in the US, Montana. SUN Governor Schweitzer took office in 2009 and shares his SUN insight on what it takes to be one of the 50 most powerful SUN state leaders in the nation. SUN Matt Frei invites the a cappella group Sonos, who are SUN currently touring around the United States, into the SUN Americana studio. With FX pedals and well-known indie SUN tunes, Sonos makes the studio vibrate with a whole new SUN sound. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt7 (Listen) SUN Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Mathilde SUN 3/5. Mathilde, by Hattie Naylor. SUN “I was born in the worst winter ever. It was said that the SUN ground was so hard, the air so cold, the snow so thick, my SUN heart froze the moment I was brought into the world. And SUN then I was brought up by a cat.” SUN Read by Alison Reid. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00nh06r (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00nh0qv (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 b00nhn27 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Pester power - Halifax Bank of Scotland makes changes to SUN its controversial overdraft charges. SUN Where there's a will there's a way - don't forget to write SUN one. SUN How just paying off the minimum on your cards messes with SUN your mind. SUN National Savings enters the best buy tables, and why that SUN is unusual. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nhsn6 (Listen) SUN Meningitis UK SUN Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK. 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SUN Through interviews with psychologists, intelligence SUN officers, whistleblowers and academics, he explores the SUN importance of institutional and personal secrecy, and asks SUN what happens when these two areas overlap, or even collide. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00nj7w3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00nj7w5 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Cases That Changed Our World. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00nj7w7 (Listen) SUN Week ending 31st October 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN Nigel Lawson resigns after six years as Chancellor, Walter SUN Sisulu addresses 70,000 people at the biggest ever ANC SUN rally, and riots in Moscow follow a demonstration outside SUN the KGB headquarters. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00nhqdh (Listen) SUN Building Bridges SUN Writer Christie Dickason considers the physical and SUN metaphorical significance of bridges - connecting peoples, SUN cultures and countries, but also underlining differences. SUN She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous SUN bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of SUN Emily Dickinson and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00nj8j4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nfqzg (Listen) MON While nine out of ten people agree organ donation is a MON good thing, a recent audit found 40 per cent of bereaved MON families, when approached, didn't agree to donate. Laurie MON Taylor discusses new research which uncovers some of the MON reasons behind this apparent anomaly. MON Magi Sque, from the University of Southampton, was part of MON a team who interviewed families who had declined organ MON donation. While many agreed in principle, carried organ MON donor cards and knew their relatives desire to donate, MON they still didn't feel able to let their loved ones organs MON be used. The most common reason families gave for this was MON a simple desire to keep the body intact. They didn't want MON the dead to be 'hurt' any more. MON Magi explains why the research reveals some of our MON deep-seated cultural beliefs, and how those beliefs have MON their roots in wider society's values and, at times of MON grief, can completely overcome our pre-existing views. MON We also hear from Professor Caroline Knowles of Goldsmiths MON College, London who has researched the history, meaning MON and journey of the flip flop sandal. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00nhqdc (Listen) MON The sound of bells from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in MON London. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj90f (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8wp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00nj99b (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00njkl2 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00nj9b3 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00njkl4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00nj9fr (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00njkl6 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses memory, secrets, failed states and MON snobbery with his guests. MON Academic Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks about his new book MON Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age. MON Director Daniel Kramer talks secrets, psychology and the MON accessability of opera as his new production of Bluebeard MON opens at the ENO. Clare Lockhart, Director of the MON Institute for State Effectiveness, talks about how to fix MON failed states by building markets, and Quentin Letts gives MON his thesis on how snobbery will save us. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00nj9jc (Listen) MON The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 1 MON Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of MON Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex MON character. MON In 1892, at the age of 18, Somerset Maugham enrolled at St MON Thomas' medical school, but his heart wasn't in it. What MON he really wanted to do was write. MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier. MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9pl (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Martine McCutcheon started her career as a six-week-old MON baby, when her photo was used for a national political MON poster campaign. She went on to play the part of the much MON loved Tiffany in EastEnders, won a best actress Olivier MON Award for her role in Trevor Nunn's My Fair Lady, and MON starred in Richard Curtis's film Love Actually. She also MON forged a successful music career with a number one single MON and album. Now she has brought out her first novel, The MON Mistress. Martine joins Jane to discuss her newest MON venture. Why turn to writing? What was her inspiration? MON And what's next for the ex-soap star? MON Applications to take children into care have risen by 47 MON per cent since last year say recent figures published by MON Cafcass, the organisation that represents children's MON interests in the family courts. So what is behind this MON enormous increase and what needs to be done to support a MON family justice system already under great strain, MON responsible for supporting some of the youngest and most MON vulnerable in our society? Jane is joined by Parliamentary MON Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and MON Families Baroness Dyleth Morgan, Anthony Douglas, chief MON executive of Cafcass, and children's solicitor Christina MON Blacklaws. MON More than 10,000 people in the UK currently need an organ MON transplant, and of these, 1,000 die every year before they MON receive an organ. Last year 28-year-old singer-songwriter MON Sarah Springett donated one of her kidneys to her MON boyfriend Paul Shepherd after his kidney condition MON worsened. As the NHS launches a new campaign to encourage MON more people to sign the Organ Donor Register, Woman's Hour MON talks to Sarah and Paul about their experience, and to MON their consultant and NHS organ transplant czar Chris Rudge. MON And Grace Nichols's poetry has been described as 'rich in MON music, but also grit and earthy honesty'. The novelist MON Jeannette Winterson admires her work for 'its wit, acidity MON and tenderness'. Grace explains what drew her to write MON about Picasso's muse, Dora Maar, in her latest collection, MON Picasso, I Want My Face Back, and why she wants to MON celebrate the power of laughter. MON MON 11:00 Repossessions in the Sun b00njwd7 (Listen) MON Ray Furlong visits Spain's Mediterranean resorts to hear MON how members of the country's one million-strong British MON expatriate community are weathering the recession. High MON unemployment in the construction and tourist sectors means MON that boom-time on the Costas is over, translating into MON increased home repossessions and divorce rates. MON MON 11:30 Beauty of Britain b00njwd9 (Listen) MON Colour Me Wow 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 has a particularly difficult client, but is MON distracted by her latest business venture. Lynette assures MON Beauty that 'Colour Me Wow' is no pyramid scheme, while MON Anil shows a surprising new side to himself. MON Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien MON Lynette ...... Doon Mackichan MON Sandra ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Sally ...... Felicity Montagu MON Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi MON Anil ...... Paul Sharma MON Dr Kavanagh ...... Phyllida Law MON Hilary ...... Rachel Atkins MON Clare ...... Doon Mackichan MON Music by The West End Gospel Choir. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00njbfv (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00njcns (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00njcpt (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00njxlv (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the fourth heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00nj7vz (Listen) MON The Grundys come back down to earth. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cqdz9 (Listen) MON Goldengrove MON Frances Byrnes' story of the relationship between a young MON working-class girl and the woman who transforms her. MON Margaret, a spinster, teaches Narn, a city child, how to MON shake hands firmly, polish silver and identify birds. Most MON of all, she teaches her how to speak. MON Margaret ...... Jill Balcon MON Narn ...... Jessica Jolleys MON Narn Now ...... Siriol Jenkins MON Josie ...... Beccy Alexander MON Fred ...... Brendan Charleson MON Directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00nhny6 (Listen) MON Capering With Ken Campbell MON Ian McMillan explores the world of the actor and director MON Ken Campbell, who died in 2008. MON Campbell's acting credits included Fawlty Towers, The MON Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brookside, Law and Order MON and In Sickness and In Health, as well as performing MON one-man shows. He also directed theatrical events, MON including the nine-hour Illuminatus trilogy, a 22-hour MON production of The Warp and Macbeth in pidgin English. MON His daughter, Daisy, gives Ian McMillan a tour of Ken's MON home in Essex, where he didn't have a bedroom and had a MON parrot run in every room. He also talks to Campbell's MON manager Colin Watkeys, theatre director Richard Eyre, fan MON and collaborator Ian Potter and fellow actors Julia MON McKenzie and Jim Broadbent. MON MON 15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctx (Listen) MON Education in the Moral Home 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th MON and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, MON pollution, and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores MON how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty MON world. MON Until the late-19th century, home was the only schoolroom MON many British children were to experience, especially if MON they were girls. But was domestic education really so MON inferior to formal schooling? Drawing on diaries she has MON discovered, Prof Vickery explores home education from the MON perspective of both mother and child. 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 b00nhtk2 (Listen) MON Yoghurt MON Central Asia was the birthplace of yoghurt, as Golden MON Crescent nomadic tribes domesticated sheep and goats and MON began to curdle milk. Aylin Bozyap grew up in Istanbul, MON and as a child used to take the ferry with her family to MON the port town of Kanlica to eat yoghurt. MON Recreating the journey, she takes as her guide the MON political scientist, food historian and author Professor MON Artun Unsal, who finds the yoghurt a poor immitation of MON its former self. In search of something better they visit MON the artisan yoghurt maker Mehmet Nazli, whose family has MON been making yoghurt for many years, and who still makes it MON the traditional way. His son and grandson also work in the MON business, but the work is hard and they don't make much MON money, with the profits staying mainly with the middlemen MON and shops. MON On the other side of Istanbul they visit an artisan MON yoghurt maker who has had to stop producing; the quality MON of the milk is no longer good enough, nor the city clean MON enough, to make real yoghurt any more. MON Finally they go to the Silivri Yoghurt Festival, an annual MON celebration of traditional yogurt, and meet one of the MON winners. They also meet the deputy mayor of Silivri, who MON takes them to visit a disused yoghurt house that Professor MON Unsal is keen to see turned into a yoghurt museum. MON In the studio Sheila Dillon and Aylin taste a range of MON plain yoghurts, as well as a typical British style yoghurt. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00njxwm (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 5 MON As Bonfire Night approaches, Simon Cox discovers the role MON computers play in creating spectacular fireworks displays. MON He also learns how technology used in mobile phones is MON helping researchers in Cambridge to monitor pollution. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4p (Listen) MON 2nd November 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON In an unprecedented move, KGB officers take questions from MON the public on live TV; price rises on British Rail fill MON commuters with woe; the Met's first black police officer MON talks about the 'fun and games' in the early days. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00njdbb (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00njg1l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00nk0g7 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00njcq8 (Listen) MON Reality bites for Lilian. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00njgdq (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an MON interview with the crime writer James Ellroy, whose books MON include LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njgds (Listen) MON Singleparentpals.com, You Are Not Alone MON Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between MON two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice MON website. MON When a nervous Tom logs on to a website for lone parents MON for the first time, he finds new friends and an impatient MON response from the formidable Rosie. MON Rosie ...... Maxine Peake MON Tom ...... Kris Marshall MON Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux MON Gill ...... Janice Acquah MON Scott ...... Matt Addis MON Robin ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Directed by David Hunter. MON MON 20:00 Night Witches b00nk0g9 (Listen) MON Lucy Ash tells the extraordinary but little-known tale of MON Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than MON 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front during Second World MON War. At home they were celebrated as Stalin's Falcons, but MON terrified German troops called them the Night Witches. MON Lucy travels to Moscow and Rostov-on-Don to meet a number MON of these formidable women, who are now grandmothers in MON their 80s and 90s. She discovers that their bravery has MON inspired aerobatic champions, comic book artists and even MON a Dutch heavy metal band. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00nk0gc (Listen) MON The Economist's New Clothes MON Many have said that the near collapse of the global MON financial system exposed the failures of 30 years of MON economic thinking. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics MON editor, examines the arguments raging within and outside MON the world of economics and asks what future students MON should learn from the 'great recession'. MON MON 21:00 Aping Evolution b00nk0wl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Professor of Genetics Steve Jones challenges evolutionary MON psychology, the controversial new science of how our MON brains and minds developed. MON Girls like pink better because in Stone Age times they MON needed to be good at picking berries and women have better MON sex with rich men - or so some evolutionary psychologists MON would have us believe. Critics say this isn't science, but MON conjecture. MON Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain human behaviour MON from the hunter-gatherers or our nearest relatives, the MON chimpanzee, and has some seductively simple theories. One MON argument is that we have Stone Age brains in 21st-century MON skulls, from which we can account for everything from the MON violence that men show to their stepchildren to why racism MON exists. Is evolutionary psychology a truly useful addition MON to the canon of ideas to come out of Darwinian evolution MON or a just-so science that can be adjusted to suit the MON researchers' prejudices? MON Steve Jones examines the history of the new science, the MON methods used and asks if it can explain the human drive to MON language, religion and culture. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00njkl6 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses memory, secrets, failed states and MON snobbery with his guests. MON Academic Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks about his new book MON Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age. MON Director Daniel Kramer talks secrets, psychology and the MON accessability of opera as his new production of Bluebeard MON opens at the ENO. Clare Lockhart, Director of the MON Institute for State Effectiveness, talks about how to fix MON failed states by building markets, and Quentin Letts gives MON his thesis on how snobbery will save us. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00njhwg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00njj5t (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj5w (Listen) MON Heartland, Episode 6 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 Jasmine catches up with some friends in London. MON Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b008wr7x (Listen) MON Sir John Major MON Former prime minister Sir John Major chooses some of the MON pieces of writing which have sustained, inspired and MON entertained him. The readers are Nigel Anthony and Lucy MON Briers. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00njkhg (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00nj9jc (Listen) TUE The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 1 TUE Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of TUE Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex TUE character. TUE In 1892, at the age of 18, Somerset Maugham enrolled at St TUE Thomas' medical school, but his heart wasn't in it. What TUE he really wanted to do was write. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8j6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8wr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00nj90h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99d (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00nj99g (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00nj9f5 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b00nk2c2 (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 Michael talks to former banking executive Paul Moore about TUE his choice to blow the whistle on HBOS. TUE TUE 09:30 Parting Shots b00nk2c4 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 The privations of embassy life. In their valedictories, TUE diplomats recount the hardships of foreign service - rat TUE infested rooms, defunct plumbing and death threats. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9t (Listen) TUE The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 2 TUE Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of TUE Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex TUE character. TUE Still struggling to make ends meet, Maugham has a change TUE of fortune when the manager of the Royal Court Theatre TUE decides to stage his play, Lady Frederick. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p2 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com. TUE TUE 11:00 1989: A German Story b00nk2c6 (Listen) TUE Under One Flag TUE Series in which German programme-makers reflect and report TUE on aspects of the reunified country that rarely, if ever, TUE find their way into the British media. TUE Thomas Franke explores the German armed forces, the TUE Bundeswehr. TUE When reunification took place in Germany after the fall of TUE the Berlin Wall in 1989, one of the most painful TUE institutional mergers was of the former East and West TUE German armies. Ex-GDR forces were often obliged to accept TUE lower grades in the united force. Yet today, having had to TUE engage together in combat during the NATO Yugoslav TUE operation of 1999, the Bundeswehr is, perhaps TUE surprisingly, one of the success stories of the reunited TUE nation. Yet, routinely, the annual swearing in ceremony in TUE front of the Reichstag in Berlin is disrupted by noisy TUE protests by those exercised by the notion of an army TUE fighting under the German flag. TUE Thomas goes on patrol with the army around the Kosovan TUE city of Prizren, where they are a part of the TUE peace-keeping force, and visits the annual swearing-in TUE ceremony where new members of the forces take the oath TUE before Chancellor Merkel. But echoes remain of the horror TUE inflicted on Europe by another German army, and such TUE solemn moments are never far from controversy and protest TUE - especially when former peaceniks are now members of a TUE government which sends its young men to bear arms in both TUE Europe and Afghanistan. TUE TUE 11:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Series investigating the history of attacks on art works, TUE from the earliest times to the present day. TUE When does destruction become an act of creation? Lawrence TUE Pollard explores what lies behind some of the more bizarre TUE assaults on contemporary art, including an exploding shed, TUE an artist who destroyed every one of his possessions and TUE art that has been both urinated on and whacked with a TUE hammer. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00njb1p (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00njcb6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00njcnv (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Bell Boys b00nk2xt (Listen) TUE In the heart of London's East End, a team of craftsmen TUE preserves a set of skills dating back to the 1500s, TUE turning out bells for churches and cathedrals across TUE Britain and around the world. Poet and closet TUE campanologist Ian McMillan spends a day among TUE Whitechapel's foundrymen, and follows the birth of a new TUE ring of bells set to bring back life to a church tower TUE which has stood silent since the Second World War. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00njcq8 (Listen) TUE Reality bites for Lilian. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00chp3n (Listen) TUE Dickens Confidential, Why Are We in Afghanistan? 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 Dickens and his team find themselves in the midst of TUE spies, intrigue and dark goings-on at the Russian Embassy, TUE culminating in a heroic balloon chase across the London TUE skyline. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens TUE Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell TUE Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan TUE Nadia Durova ...... Rachel Atkins TUE Alex Burns ...... Dan Starkey TUE Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall TUE Bishop ...... John Rowe TUE Ivan Vitkovich ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00nk4k4 (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nk4lm (Listen) TUE Tales From The Low Countries, My Father's Photo Album TUE Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands, TUE Belgium and Luxembourg. TUE By Abdelkader Benali. TUE When a Dutch-Moroccan man learns that his mother is ill, TUE he is compelled to make a long-overdue visit to his TUE parents' house in Rotterdam. The visit proves to be the TUE start of a journey through his dreams, childhood and TUE family history. TUE Read by Khalid Abdalla. TUE Translated by David McKay. TUE TUE 15:45 A History of Private Life b00njct8 (Listen) TUE The Garden Indoors 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th TUE and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, TUE pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores TUE how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty TUE world. TUE By the mid-19th century, the majority of the British TUE population lived in filthy polluted towns. Yet the TUE Victorians contrived increasingly ingenious ways to TUE domesticate nature, capturing ferns and sea anemones under TUE glass in their parlours. 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 b00nk4wp (Listen) TUE Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former TUE Director of Public Prosecutions, about his five years in TUE the position from 2003 to 2008. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00nk4wr (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to novelists Catherine O'Flynn and TUE Kate Pullinger at the Birmingham Book Festival about their TUE favourite books, including titles by Gordon Burn, Don TUE DeLillo and Alaa Al Aswany. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4f (Listen) TUE 3rd November 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE Protests in East Germany force the resignation of the TUE Mayor of Leipzig and five government hardliners; trouble TUE for Gorbachev as Russian miners down tools; and a high TUE speed link between London and the Channel Tunnel? 'Not in TUE my back yard', say people in Swanley. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00njdb2 (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 b00njfwk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Too Much Information b00nk4wt (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre TUE in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever. TUE Waft Tourist Information resurrects an old Waft tradition, TUE The Day of the Pie, in which the ugliest boy of the TUE village eats a pork pie on the village green. TUE Warren ...... Jeff Rawle TUE Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Heather ...... Liza Sadovy TUE Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey TUE Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill TUE Tourist Information Machine ...... Philip Fox TUE Tyler (Piggy) ...... Rhys Jennings. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00njcpw (Listen) TUE Eddie's good intentions go to pot. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00njg1n (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an TUE interview with director Penny Woolcock, whose work ranges TUE from opera to a new hip-hop musical filmed in Birmingham. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh98 (Listen) TUE Singleparentpals.com, Getting Back on the Horse TUE Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between TUE two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice TUE website. TUE Rosie has an interview for promotion and Tom has his first TUE date for years. Who is the most nervous of the two? TUE Rosie ...... Maxine Peake TUE Tom ...... Kris Marshall TUE Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux TUE Gill ...... Janice Acquah TUE Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler TUE Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00nk55r (Listen) TUE The head of the Financial Services Authority, Lord Turner, TUE has questioned the social usefulness of what banks do. But TUE as he and other regulators wrestle with ways of TUE controlling so-called 'casino operations', Michael TUE Robinson lifts the lid on the latest tricks of the trade TUE which some banks are now using to increase profits. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00nk55t (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00nk5t4 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest TUE scientific research about the brain and the mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b00nk2c2 (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 Michael talks to former banking executive Paul Moore about TUE his choice to blow the whistle on HBOS. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00njhnc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00njj38 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj5y (Listen) TUE Heartland, Episode 7 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 Jasmine unexpectedly bumps in to an old friend from TUE primary school. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00b71ds (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE 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 b00njk8c (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9t (Listen) WED The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 2 WED Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of WED Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex WED character. WED Still struggling to make ends meet, Maugham has a change WED of fortune when the manager of the Royal Court Theatre WED decides to stage his play, Lady Frederick. WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8j8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8wy (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00nj90k (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99j (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00nj99l (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00nj9f7 (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00nk9hx (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Lawrence Dallaglio. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9w (Listen) WED The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 3 WED Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of WED Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex WED character. WED In 1915, with the codename Somerville, Maugham is WED despatched to Geneva to work for British intelligence. WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p4 (Listen) WED With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com. WED WED 11:00 M1: The Modernist Marvel b00nk9hz (Listen) WED As the M1, Britain's first major motorway, celebrates its WED 50th year, performance poet and musician John Hegley WED presents a poetic meditation on the 200-mile stretch of WED road that is the transport backbone of Britain. WED With his mandolin in tow, John slows down, turns off and WED seeks out the overlooked sights and sounds of the M1. He WED learns why there is no Junction 3, discovers that there WED was a scientific formula to the loo break that determined WED how far apart service stations should be built, and WED admires the road for the glimpse on the modern world it WED offers us. WED WED 11:30 Hut 33 b00nk9j1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Spitfire Poker 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 The codebreakers of Bletchley Park are in the doghouse WED again, so to make amends they help raise money for the WED town's Spitfire fund. Unfortunately Charles promptly loses WED the money in a card game, trying to impress an old school WED chum, so the hut must try to win it back somehow. Archie WED can't believe Charles is so desperate to curry favour with WED a former prefect and Minka has trouble understanding the WED rules of gentlemen's clubs. 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 Byron ...... Alex Lowe WED Butler ...... Phillip Fox. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00njb1r (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00njcb8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00njcnx (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00nk9j3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00njcpw (Listen) WED Eddie's good intentions go to pot. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nk9j5 (Listen) WED Ivan and the Dogs WED By Hattie Naylor. The extraordinary true story of Ivan WED Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the WED age of four and spent two years living on the city streets WED where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. WED Ivan ...... Tom Glenister WED Cellist: Sarah Moody WED Directed by Paul Dodgson. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00nkb08 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer listeners' questions on WED the subject of mortgages. WED Guests: WED Paula John, Your Mortgage WED Ray Boulger, mortgage brokers John Charcoal WED Louise Cuming, mortgage specialist, Cuming Associates Ltd. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nmt87 (Listen) WED Tales From The Low Countries, The Fortress at Bruges WED Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands, WED Belgium and Luxembourg. WED By Gregory Norminton, set in the not-so-distant future in WED 'what remains of Belgium'. WED Following floods caused by global warming, most of the Low WED Countries are now under the sea, but the medieval city of WED Bruges has survived due to a feat of engineering called WED The Fortress. The solidarity of two old friends - a WED Walloon historian and a Fleming engineer - is tested by WED the arrival on the scene of Jean's new girlfriend, WED Magdalena. WED Read by Stephen Campbell Moore. WED WED 15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctb (Listen) WED Exporting the 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th WED and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, WED pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores WED how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty WED world. WED Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British WED struggled to create in India, using the diaries and WED letters of colonial settlers. 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 b00nkb0b (Listen) WED In a series of special programmes in association with the WED Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of WED white collar crime, from its late addition to the statute WED books to the increasing difficulty in securing a WED conviction. He speaks to the key academic experts in the WED field, explores the latest sociological research and hears WED from professionals on both sides of the law about the WED culture, the practice and most often the non-prosecution WED of white collar crime. WED In this edition, Laurie considers the culture of the WED crime. What exactly is white collar crime, who commits it WED and why? WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00nk5t4 (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest WED scientific research about the brain and the mind. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4h (Listen) WED 4th November 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED Margaret Thatcher is the least popular prime minister WED since polling began - she will stand down after the next WED election; SDLP leader John Hume throws down the gauntlet WED to the IRA; and, he may have a 'Vision of Britain', but WED Prince Charles is compared to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00njdb4 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00njfwm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00nkb2s (Listen) WED Series 2, Ride With Me WED Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, WED family-run record shop in Birmingham. WED Adam takes his mortality a little too seriously, and finds WED himself confronted with a little too much lycra. WED Adam ...... Lenny Henry WED Rudy ...... Larrington Walker WED Richie ...... Joe Jacobs WED Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey WED Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon WED DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00njcpy (Listen) WED Lilian calls in the experts. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00njg1q (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an WED interview with Ben Elton whose new novel, Meltdown, charts WED the rise and fall of a City trader. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh8w (Listen) WED Singleparentpals.com, Coming Clean WED Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between WED two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice WED website. WED The honesty game backfires on Tom. Is this the end of a WED short but beautiful friendship with Rosie? WED Rosie ...... Maxine Peake WED Tom ...... Kris Marshall WED Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux WED Gill ...... Janice Acquah WED Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Directed by David Hunter. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00nkcfk (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips, WED James Panton and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nknyx (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our WED lives but which are little known outside the legal world. WED The dramatic 1670 trial of two Quakers which established WED the principle that judges cannot intimidate juries, no WED matter how furious the bench may be. WED WED 21:00 A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake b00grftd (Listen) WED Adam Lusekelo tells the story of the MV Ilala, a boat WED built 60 years ago by Yarrow and Company in Glasgow as a WED passenger and cargo ship destined for Lake Nyasa, WED modern-day Lake Malawi. In a remarkable feat of WED engineering, it was shipped out in pieces via Mozambique WED and transported overland to be reconstructed on the shores WED of the inland lake, which has no navigable outlet to the WED sea. Today, it is still sailing the lake, providing a WED vital lifeline to remote communities in Malawi and WED Mozambique. WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00nk9hx (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Lawrence Dallaglio. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00njhnf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3b (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj60 (Listen) WED Heartland, Episode 8 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 Rob is unsettled by the new crowd hanging out in his old WED drinking haunt. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 One b00nkp1w (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 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 b00nkp1y (Listen) WED Red Coat 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 Red Coat. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8f (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00nj8ds (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9w (Listen) THU The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 3 THU Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of THU Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex THU character. THU In 1915, with the codename Somerville, Maugham is THU despatched to Geneva to work for British intelligence. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8jb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8x0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8r1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00nj90m (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99n (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00nj99q (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00nj9f9 (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00nkqrv (Listen) THU The Siege of Münster THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding THU and Charlotte Methuen discuss the Siege of Münster in THU 1534, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New THU Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific THU consequences. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9y (Listen) THU The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 4 THU Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of THU Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex THU character. THU With his marriage to Syrie imploding, Maugham escapes to THU the south of France with Gerald and buys the Villa THU Mauresque. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p6 (Listen) THU With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00nkqrx (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House b00nkqrz (Listen) THU Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas 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 classic scary moments from the movies and THU looks back at some of the great horror actors. THU He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic THU Reeves, Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00njb1t (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00njcbb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00njcnz (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00nks89 (Listen) THU Leaving the Comfort Zone THU Is leaving your comfort zone a form of masochism, or the THU only way to develop in life? Dominic Arkwright is joined THU by comedian Rhona Cameron, mountaineer Andy Cave and THU journalist Agnes Poirier to write about and discuss THU comfort and pain. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00njcpy (Listen) THU Lilian calls in the experts. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nks8c (Listen) THU The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes THU What exactly is it that we’re asked to remember on the 5th THU of November? As the nation prepares for Bonfire Night; THU highly acclaimed comedy trio, The Penny Dreadfuls, take a THU fresh and timely look at a familiar story with a comedic, THU stirring and sometimes graphic exploration of the build-up THU to and aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot for The Afternoon THU Play. THU Recorded in front of an audience at the Radio Theatre in THU London, there's plenty of laughs in places where you least THU expect them – from the boisterously optimistic meetings of THU the conspirators through to Fawke’s internment in the THU Tower of London. THU Starring Kevin Eldon as Guy, The Penny Dreadfuls will also THU be joined on stage by Miles Jupp and Andrew Pugsley. THU The Penny Dreadfuls are David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom THU Tuck. THU The Penny Dreadfuls have previously written and performed THU two series of the Victorian themed Brothers Faversham for THU Radio 7 have just finished their fourth highly successful THU year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. THU Guy Fawkes ...... Kevin Eldon THU Thomas Percy ...... Miles Jupp THU John Wright ...... David Reed THU Robert Catesby ...... Thom Tuck THU Thomas Winter ...... Andrew Pugsley THU Sir William Waad ...... Humphrey Ker. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00nhn1n (Listen) THU Brian May's 3-D Village THU Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an THU Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian THU photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. THU May has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting THU cereal packet picture cards as a boy. He was particularly THU intrigued by a set of stereoscopic images of village life THU taken by photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. Further THU investigation revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures THU of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken THU in the 1850s. THU Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of THU the village. Together they discover how the people and THU wildlife of this Thames-side community have changed since THU Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths, THU spinners and farm workers. THU Kerry Lock of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and THU Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust describes the waxing and waning THU of wildlife over the past 160 years, while Nicola Verdon THU of the British Agricultural History Society examines the THU telling detail in photos taken at the height of farming's THU golden age. THU To discuss the past, present and future of 3-D photography THU Helen is also joined by Brian's collaborator, the photo THU historian Elena Vidal and by David Burder of the British THU Stereoscopic Society. Has the boom in 3-D cinema and the THU launch of a 3-D digital camera come at just the right time THU for a revival of interest in T.R. Williams and a re-birth THU of the art of stereoscopic photography? THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nhsn6 (Listen) THU Meningitis UK THU Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK. THU Donations to Meningitis UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope THU Meningitis UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If THU you are a UK tax payer, please provide Meningitis UK with THU your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid THU on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities THU are not currently available to listeners without a UK THU postcode. THU Registered Charity No:1076774. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nmt7y (Listen) THU Tales From The Low Countries, In Landlocked Frontiers THU Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands, THU Belgium and Luxembourg. THU By Georges Hausemer. THU A nostalgic story about a childhood lived alongside the THU Luxembourgeois railway with a father who worked as a THU pointsman. THU Translated by Michael Hoffman, read by Michael Pennington. THU THU 15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctd (Listen) THU Dunroamin 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th THU and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, THU pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores THU how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty THU world. THU The roots of the suburb lie very deep; but for snobs and THU bohemians, the adjective 'suburban' has always been the THU ultimate put-down. Prof Vickery listens to the experiences THU of those who moved there. THU Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly THU and Simon Tcherniak. THU Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David THU Owen Norris at the keyboard. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00nhv5s (Listen) THU Linda Grant THU James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her THU novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange THU Prize for Fiction in 2000. THU Linda is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to THU most of her writing. 'Scratch a Jew and you've got a THU story', remarks the main character Evelyn Sert on the THU story's first page as she looks over her life. The novel THU follows Evelyn - hairdresser, spy, lover - on her voyage THU from post-war London to Tel Aviv, where the British are THU preparing to leave Palestine and the new state of Israel THU is about to be born. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00nkv3p (Listen) THU DNA is celebrated as the molecule that carries our genes THU from generation to generation. But a small group of THU pioneering chemists are using DNA to build the THU nano-engines of the future. Quentin Cooper hears about THU these miniature biological machines. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4k (Listen) THU 5th November 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more THU difficult for Margaret Thatcher by spilling the beans on THU TV; the Sony Walkman celebrates its 10th birthday but the THU Noise Abatement Society doesn't; the greatest romantic THU pianist of his generation, Vladimir Horowitz, dies. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00njdb6 (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 b00njfwp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nkv3r (Listen) THU Series 3, A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified THU Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. THU Pip Bin faces his most gruelling fate yet at the hands of THU his evil undead ex-guardian and an enormous quantity of THU cheese. But can the spirits of Harvest Festival past, THU present and future show him a way to redemption? THU Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman THU Mr Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ...... Susy Kane. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00njcq0 (Listen) THU Bonfire night keeps its sparkle for Vicky. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00njg1s (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who discusses the THU newly-published and long awaited second volume of TS THU Eliot's letters. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh8y (Listen) THU Singleparentpals.com, The Other Man THU Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between THU two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice THU website. THU Rosie has a new boyfriend but still seeks Tom's advice. THU Rosie ...... Maxine Peake THU Tom ...... Kris Marshall THU Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux THU Gill ...... Janice Acquah THU Scott/Mark ...... Matt Addis THU Directed by David Hunter. THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00nk4wp (Listen) THU Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former THU Director of Public Prosecutions, about his five years in THU the position from 2003 to 2008. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00nkv3t (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 b00nkwz1 (Listen) THU The oldest rocks on Earth are aliens! They are the THU left-over building rubble from the formation of the solar THU system and can be dated to an incredible 4,567 million THU years old. A surprising number fall to Earth each year as THU meteorites. THU November 5th is probably the worst night of the year for THU spotting incandescent rocks streaking through the sky, but THU tracking down a fresh meteorite, before it gets THU contaminated by terrestrial chemicals, is the ultimate THU prize for the hunters. A rare few carry complex carbon THU compounds - perhaps remnants of the material out of which THU the first life on Earth formed. THU Geoff Watts hears from meteorite hunters who scour the THU deserts of Arizona and Australia and the ice of Canada and THU Antarctica to seek out extra-terrestrial rocks and meets THU those who analyse them, using traces of rare elements to THU track their history and reveal their origins. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00nkqrv (Listen) THU The Siege of Münster THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding THU and Charlotte Methuen discuss the Siege of Münster in THU 1534, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New THU Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific THU consequences. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00njhnh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3d (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj62 (Listen) THU Heartland, Episode 9 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 hears some worrying news at school. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Pick Ups b00nrrdc (Listen) THU Series 2, All Bar Nun THU Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi THU company. THU Alan and Lind reveal hidden talents, while Dave seeks a THU nun's advice on infidelity. THU Mike ...... Paul Loughran THU Lind ...... Lesley Sharp THU Dave ...... Phil Rowson THU Alan ...... Parvez Qadir THU Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe THU Drunk ...... Mark E Smith THU Tanya ...... Janie Connolly. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8h (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9y (Listen) FRI The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 4 FRI Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of FRI Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex FRI character. FRI With his marriage to Syrie imploding, Maugham escapes to FRI the south of France with Gerald and buys the Villa FRI Mauresque. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8jd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8x2 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8r3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00nj90p (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99s (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00nj99v (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00nj9fc (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00nht5f (Listen) FRI Jerry Springer FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is Jerry Springer. FRI His life has been split between serving the public and FRI outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as FRI a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working FRI with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his FRI controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show. FRI He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always FRI on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a FRI philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They FRI were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August FRI 1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the FRI entire family. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00nnnb0 (Listen) FRI The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 5 FRI Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of FRI Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex FRI character. FRI When Maugham's companion Gerald Haxton dies, Alan Searle FRI becomes a major part of Maugham's life. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p8 (Listen) FRI With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nkz1r (Listen) FRI Series 5, Play for Tomorrow FRI Documentary series telling original stories about real FRI lives in Britain today. FRI Three sixth formers have the summer to get their band back FRI on track after the bass player and best mate walks out on FRI them. FRI Nick, Christian and Lawrence are all 17 and have lived FRI most of their lives in Grimsby. The closest of friends, FRI they had hoped to spend the summer gigging with their FRI band, Socio Republic. But bassist Reece has just decided FRI he no longer wants to be part of the group. The remaining FRI trio are left shell-shocked by their friend's decision and FRI the future of the band is cast into serious doubt. FRI Alan Dein presents an intimate story of friendship under FRI pressure as the three 'in-betweeners' - not yet men, no FRI longer boys - spend a long wet summer trying to fill FRI Reece's shoes and get some gigs. Yet the weeks pass and FRI the lads - heartbroken and mystified by Reece's departure FRI - are still without a new bass player. But, as Lawrence FRI says, 'good things have to end for better things to FRI begin'. The relentless rain brings on severe boredom and FRI the lads seem paralysed. FRI The three are aware that the clock is ticking. University FRI beckons in a year - when, once again, their friendships FRI will be put to the test. FRI FRI 11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nlx7p (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock FRI star and his search for fulfilment. FRI Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt is persuaded to preview FRI his 'drums-only' version of 1970s classic album, Temple of FRI the Human Mind. FRI Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams FRI Dom ...... Russell Tovey FRI Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham FRI Jane the Guardian journalist ...... Kerry Fox. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00njb1w (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00njcbd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00njcp1 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00nlx8j (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00njcq0 (Listen) FRI Bonfire night keeps its sparkle for Vicky. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nlxph (Listen) FRI The Tony Kay Scandal FRI By Michael McLean. FRI The true story of the case of footballer Tony Kay, who, in FRI 1965, was convicted of match fixing, sent to prison and FRI banned for life by the FA. The play follows the course of FRI events leading up to Kay's trial, imprisonment and FRI release, and features recently-recorded observations from FRI Kay himself. FRI Tony Kay ...... Mikey North FRI Peter Swan ...... Carl Prekopp FRI 'Bronco' Layne ...... Karl Davies FRI Solicitor ...... Andrew Branch FRI Harry Catterick ...... Tom Bevan FRI Jimmy Gauld ...... Ross Sutherland FRI Judge ...... Alan Leith FRI Prison Governor ...... Ian Masters FRI Directed by Martin Jenkins FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nlxzr (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and John Cushnie are FRI guests of Linkinhorne Horticultural Society in Cornwall. FRI Chris meets the man collecting over 200 varieties of FRI Cornish apples, cherries and pears, and Anne celebrates FRI the office plant, revealing the Office Plant of the Year. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctg (Listen) FRI Alternative Homes 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th FRI and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, FRI pollution, and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores FRI how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty FRI world. FRI 'Home means a place to go to when you are in trouble. A FRI place sadly altered by war. A place to glorify when away FRI and rely on always...' So reported one woman to the Mass FRI Observation survey. Prof Vickery explores the enduring FRI pull of a home of one's own. 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 b00nlxzt (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 b00nlyvf (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Matthew Sweet as he continues his FRI campaign to rewrite the history of British cinema and FRI bring to light some neglected classics. Plus, Portuguese FRI director Pedro Costa talks about his trilogy of films set FRI in a Lisbon slum, starring some of its residents. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4m (Listen) FRI 6th November 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI A backlash against East German refugees begins in West FRI Germany; supporters of women's ordination hold an FRI overnight vigil outside Lambeth Palace; and it's nuns FRI versus vicars on the rugby field! FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00njdb8 (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 b00njfwr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00nlyvh (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 7 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Danielle Ward, David Mitchell FRI and Francis Wheen. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00njcq4 (Listen) FRI Jennifer finds the truth is hard to take. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00njg1v (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an FRI interview with the American novelist Paul Auster. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh90 (Listen) FRI Singleparentpals.com, We Can't Go on Meeting Like This FRI Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between FRI two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice FRI website. FRI Tom has a conference in Manchester - is this a chance to FRI meet Rosie in the flesh? FRI Rosie ...... Maxine Peake FRI Tom ...... Kris Marshall FRI Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux FRI Gill ...... Janice Acquah FRI Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler FRI Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Lily ...... Isadora Dooley Hunter FRI Directed by David Hunter. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00nlyvk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from FRI Hartlepool. The panel includes author and documentary FRI maker Carol Gould and Vince Cable, treasury spokesman and FRI deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00nlyvm (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00nlz4c (Listen) FRI Episode 6 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th FRI and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, FRI pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores FRI how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty FRI world. 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 b00njhnk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3g (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj64 (Listen) FRI Heartland, Episode 10 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 It is finally polling day in the local elections. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00nk4wr (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to novelists Catherine O'Flynn and FRI Kate Pullinger at the Birmingham Book Festival about their FRI favourite books, including titles by Gordon Burn, Don FRI DeLillo and Alaa Al Aswany. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8k (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI