Radio 4 Listings for 21/11/2009 - 27/11/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00nwt1q (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00ny29t (Listen)
SAT       Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 5
SAT       By Keith Floyd, with James Steen.
SAT       Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a
SAT       celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on
SAT       location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in
SAT       hand, he inspired a generation to cook.
SAT       Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive
SAT       drinking was about to take its toll.
SAT       Read by Michael Cochrane.
SAT       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
SAT       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nwt1s (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nwt1v (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nwt1x (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00nwt1z (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nwt22 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00nwt24 (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00nwt26 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00nwt28 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00nwvx2 (Listen)
SAT       The Hanbury Crater
SAT       In the Staffordshire countryside, just a few miles from
SAT       Burton-on-Trent, a wire fence surrounds a deep crater
SAT       measuring over half a mile wide. Nearby signs warn passers
SAT       by of the sudden drop and that the land contains
SAT       unexploded bombs which, in the event of an explosion,
SAT       could cause injury or death. This is where what is widely
SAT       believed to be the UK's largest explosion occurred on
SAT       November 27th 1944 when an underground ammunition store at
SAT       nearby Fauld blew up detonating 3-4,000 tons of explosives
SAT       and devastating acres of countryside, killing 70 people,
SAT       hundreds of sheep and cattle and completely obliterating a
SAT       nearby farm. The Cock Inn in Hanbury was so badly damaged
SAT       that it had to be
SAT       On the 65th anniversary of the explosion, Helen Mark
SAT       visits Hanbury, the scene of this wartime tragedy, and
SAT       talks to local people and survivors about their memories
SAT       of that day and how the explosion changed their lives and
SAT       the landscape around them forever. For over 40 years,
SAT       nothing would grow in what became known to locals as the
SAT       'bomb hole' until slowly nature began to reclaim the
SAT       Hanbury Crater. Helen is joined by the Time Team's
SAT       Professor Mick Aston and together they visit the crater
SAT       and go underground at Fauld Gypsum Mine, which dates back
SAT       to Roman times. The mine was connected to the ill-fated
SAT       ammunitions store by the reservoir supplying the steam to
SAT       operate a nearby plastic factory. The gre
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00nwy31 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Rural crafts like hedge laying, thatching and dry-stone
SAT       walling have recently been on the decline, leaving a
SAT       shortage of workers experienced in countryside skills.
SAT       Anna Hill hears that more young people are taking to a
SAT       career in rural Britain and are breathing new life into
SAT       these dying traditions.
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SAT       06:57 Weather b00nwyqd (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00nwyqg (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00nwyqj (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by the actor Robert Lindsay.
SAT       With poetry from Kate Fox.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00nwyql (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores the relationship between human
SAT       rights and travel - what should the responsible tourist be
SAT       aware of whilst journeying? Has the water supply in the
SAT       hotel deprived a local community of theirs? Is your guide
SAT       adequately equipped when he leads you up a mountain? Are
SAT       you intruding by taking photographs of local people going
SAT       about their business? John is joined by lawyer Baroness
SAT       Kennedy and Tourism Concern's Tricia Barnett to discuss
SAT       whether the freedom of the traveller infringes the
SAT       liberties of the host.
SAT       After the White House, Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland,
SAT       is America's most visited house. But there is lot more to
SAT       Memphis musical pilgrimages than replicas of Heartbreak
SAT       Hotel. John talks to two music writers, Patrick Humphries
SAT       and Garth Cartwright, about the attraction of Mississippi
SAT       and Tennessee for those interested in whether juke joints
SAT       still exist, whether 'country' means 'commercial' and the
SAT       survival of the soulful sounds of Stax. John follows the
SAT       heritage trail of Highway 61.
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SAT       10:30 Payola, The Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll
SAT       b00nwyqn (Listen)
SAT       Continuing his fascination with maverick American radio
SAT       DJs, Nick Barraclough tells the story of Alan Freed, the
SAT       Pluggers and the Payola scandal which blew up in the late
SAT       1950s.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00nwyqq (Listen)
SAT       Jackie Ashley examines claims that the Queen's Speech was
SAT       more about scoring political points than ensuring good
SAT       government. She asks if the appointment of an EU President
SAT       has lived up to expectations; and she hears about the help
SAT       being offered to people who wish to stand as INDEPENDENT
SAT       candidates in the general election. There are also
SAT       reflections to mark the 20th anniversary of the arrival of
SAT       the television cameras in the House of Commons.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nwyqs (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       You couldn't make it up! Hugh Sykes, who is just back from
SAT       Kabul, says the story of the linkage between the Taleban,
SAT       Afghanistan and Pakistan would sound far-fetched even in a
SAT       novel. He adds that the Americans and British are
SAT       supporting a country, Pakistan, which has elements who are
SAT       supporting the movement that's killing British and
SAT       American troops.
SAT       'It's déjà vu all over again!' Jeremy Bowen quotes an
SAT       American baseball star as he looks at the building of
SAT       settlements on occupied land in Jerusalem - one of the
SAT       issues dogging President Obama as he tries, with little
SAT       apparent success, to make progress down the path towards
SAT       Middle East peace.
SAT       A lighter look at Jerusalem, and in particular at living
SAT       in within the city's old walls, comes from Heather Sharp.
SAT       She conjures up the characters in her neighbourhood: the
SAT       cats, the smells and the noises in this labyrinth of
SAT       ancient stone alleyways.
SAT       'A town as shrouded in layers of forgetting and denial as
SAT       it is in wet leaves and November mists.' That's the view
SAT       of Tim Whewell, who has been to the Polish town of
SAT       Radzilow, the scene of a massacre of Jews, burned to
SAT       death, in 1941. His account centres on a local man
SAT       determined to uncover the truth about who exactly was
SAT       responsible, however painful and shameful that truth might
SAT       be.
SAT       The scientists were once very excited about Java Man. When
SAT       his bones were uncovered in Indonesia they were convinced
SAT       he was the 'missing link' between the apes and mankind.
SAT       But then another so-called missing link was discovered.
SAT       And then another. Christine Finn has been to the riverbank
SAT       in Indonesia where Java Man, now the forgotten hero of
SAT       science, was found amid great excitement.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00nwyqv (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00nws6r (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 9
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan
SAT       and Sue Perkins.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00nwyqx (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00nwyqz (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00nws6t (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from
SAT       Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, with questions from the
SAT       audience for the panel including: leader of the House
SAT       Harriet Harman; former leader of the Liberal Party Lord
SAT       Steel; the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Philip
SAT       Hammond; and historian Tristram Hunt.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00nwyr1 (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 b00nwz36 (Listen)
SAT       The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
SAT       In 1925, the same year that Franz Kafka's The Trial was
SAT       published, one of the most unusual trials ever seen in a
SAT       United States courtroom took place. Earlier that year, the
SAT       state of Tennessee had passed the Butler Act, which made
SAT       the teaching of evolution illegal. In the stifling July
SAT       heat, and in a courtroom hung with banners proclaiming
SAT       'Read Your Bible Daily', 24-year-old teacher John Scopes
SAT       stood trial.
SAT       Adapted from the original trial transcript by Peter
SAT       Goodchild.
SAT       John Scopes ...... Neil Patrick Harris
SAT       William Jennings Bryan ...... Edward Asner
SAT       Dudley Field Malone ...... Stacy Keach
SAT       Clarence Darrow ...... John de Lancie
SAT       Judge John Raulston ...... Jerry Hardin
SAT       Attorney General Stewart ...... Rob Nagle
SAT       Arthur Garfield Hays ...... Arye Gross
SAT       Howard Morgan ...... Tirosh Schneider
SAT       Mr Riley ...... David Selby
SAT       Mr Robinson ...... James Gleason
SAT       Mr White ...... David Alan Novak
SAT       Court Usher ...... Matt Gaydos
SAT       Directed by Kate McAll.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 The Inner World of Music b00nvdvc (Listen)
SAT       Composer Matthew King discovers how the extraordinary
SAT       abilities of musical savant Derek Paravicini are unlocking
SAT       the secret of how we all makes sense of music.
SAT       Pianist Derek Paravicini is a phenomenon, possessor of a
SAT       truly extraordinary musical mind. His abilities are
SAT       renowned: he can play virtually any piece, in any style
SAT       you wish, in any key, and identify complex chords of more
SAT       than a dozen notes in split seconds. He has wowed crowds
SAT       from London to Las Vegas, performed at Ronnie Scott's and
SAT       Queen Elizabeth Hall, and been the subject of media
SAT       attention across the world.
SAT       Yet Derek was born totally blind, with severe
SAT       developmental and learning disabilities. He finds everyday
SAT       tasks difficult, and requires 24-hour support. Derek is a
SAT       musical 'savant' - owner of a talent that far transcends
SAT       his disability, like the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire
SAT       or Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt in the film
SAT       Rain Man. Over the last three decades Derek has stunned
SAT       experts with his seemingly effortless musical
SAT       understanding, an innate ability to know what 'fits' in
SAT       any musical context, from classical to jazz to rock.
SAT       Prof Adam Ockelford has been Derek's friend and mentor
SAT       since he was a small child. Now one of the UK's leading
SAT       experts in music psychology, Prof Ockelford believes that
SAT       Derek's remarkable abilities may hold the key to
SAT       understanding how humans make sense of music, and the
SAT       unique effect it has on us all.
SAT       Matthew King explores the world of the musical savant,
SAT       meeting Derek Paravicini to try and find out how his brain
SAT       processes, understands and remembers music. The programme
SAT       features contributions from Dr Darold Treffert, adviser on
SAT       Rain Man and the world's most renowned expert on savant
SAT       syndrome, and the parents of a young autistic girl with
SAT       remarkable musical gifts.
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SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00nwzhv (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey.
SAT       Vampires and their allure; the on-line mums putting
SAT       politicians through their paces; the iconic style of
SAT       Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe; the rights of couples who
SAT       cohabit; doulas and their role in pregnancy and
SAT       childbirth; and those washday blues - is it time to ditch
SAT       the dryer?
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SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nwzzg (Listen)
SAT       21st November 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       In El Salvador, as rebels continue to occupy the Sheraton
SAT       Hotel, the manager tells the BBC that everything is under
SAT       control; MPs relish their day in the limelight as TV
SAT       cameras are permitted in the House of Commons.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       17:00 PM b00nx0cw (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Glen
SAT       Campbell, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 The Bottom Line b00nw3rx (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to
SAT       discuss creative accounting; do companies try to make
SAT       their books look better than they are? And from the
SAT       featureless to the funky, what is it that makes a
SAT       productive office workplace?
SAT       Evan is joined by Ian Powell, UK chairman of
SAT       PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's biggest
SAT       accountancy firms; Mark Dixon, the chief executive of
SAT       Regus, a global provider of serviced office space; John
SAT       Hitchcox, chairman of Yoo, an international design and
SAT       property development company.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nx0cy (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00nx0d0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nx0d2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00nx0d4 (Listen)
SAT       Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by actresses Alison Steadman and Meera Syal
SAT       and the restaurateur and television chef Raymond Blanc.
SAT       Allegra McEvedy talks to David Quantick about the
SAT       dangerous period of a man's life: middle age!
SAT       With comedy from satirical double act The Black Sheep and
SAT       music from singer-songwriter Pete Molinari and rock group
SAT       Marillion.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00nx0d6 (Listen)
SAT       Series 7, Jam Today?
SAT       Series in which writers create a fictional response to the
SAT       week's news.
SAT       In the week in which Transparency International published
SAT       their Corruption Perceptions Index, citing the MPs'
SAT       expenses scandal as a key factor in the UK's lowest
SAT       placing yet, DJ Britton tells the story of a young
SAT       politician hoping to land a safe seat in the next election.
SAT       With Anne-Marie Duff, Rory Kinnear and John Biggins.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00nx0d8 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelist Linda Grant, literary
SAT       editor Boyd Tonkin and writer and critic Matthew Sweet to
SAT       discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring
SAT       bad habits and good ones.
SAT       The latest film from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man,
SAT       tells the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in
SAT       a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and
SAT       F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics
SAT       professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been
SAT       informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him.
SAT       Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the
SAT       couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker
SAT       at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money
SAT       from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. How
SAT       will Larry cope?
SAT       Poet WH Auden had some bad habits but you would have to
SAT       balance that against his unbreakable urge to write poetry.
SAT       It's one of the subjects of Alan Bennett's new play, The
SAT       Habit of Art, which centres around an extraordinary
SAT       meeting between Auden and composer Benjamin Britten.
SAT       Vladimir Nabokov couldn't shake the creative compulsion
SAT       either, continuing to work on a new novel even in during
SAT       his final illness. He wanted the results destroyed but 30
SAT       years on, his son Dmitri has published it as The Original
SAT       of Laura - a novel in fragments.
SAT       Cast Offs is a new Channel Four drama series that presents
SAT       itself as an unusual twist on reality programming. The
SAT       drama features disabled actors sent to a deserted island,
SAT       but none of them are acting their disability and the drama
SAT       is shaped so that the struggles of life in the wild are
SAT       intercut with the struggles of life in a world shaped for
SAT       the able bodied.
SAT       The Water Table, by Philip Gross, shortlisted for the TS
SAT       Eliot Prize, is a collection of poetry with water at its
SAT       heart.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00nx0db (Listen)
SAT       Politics Between the Covers
SAT       From The West Wing to The Thick of It, politics lends
SAT       itself to high drama. Politicians themselves often write
SAT       thinly-disguised versions of their own experiences as
SAT       fiction, and films and TV are awash with fictionalised
SAT       versions of the political world. Does it really represent
SAT       a truthful portrayal of the machinations of government,
SAT       and to what extent can powerful fiction influence those in
SAT       positions of power?
SAT       Mark Lawson delves into the seamier side of politics to
SAT       consider the fascinating line where fact meets fiction.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00nshqr (Listen)
SAT       Fair Stood The Wind For France, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic
SAT       tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War
SAT       France.
SAT       When a British aircrew ditch over Occupied territory in
SAT       the summer of 1942, injury and suspicion dog their
SAT       attempts to survive and escape.
SAT       Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear
SAT       O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
SAT       Francoise ...... Louise Brealey
SAT       Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington
SAT       Father ...... Bruce Alexander
SAT       Doctor ...... Ewan Hooper
SAT       With Kate Layden and Kenneth Collard.
SAT       Directed by Jonquil Panting.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 Weather b00nx0dd (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00nvx6v (Listen)
SAT       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
SAT       behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor,
SAT       Melanie Phillips and Michael Portillo cross-examine
SAT       witnesses.
SAT       Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised to
SAT       the thousands of child migrants taken from the UK to
SAT       Australia after the war, often without their parents'
SAT       consent. No one in the current government was involved in
SAT       the policy, which ended in 1970 and Kevin Rudd wasn't even
SAT       born when it started. For some, such declarations are at
SAT       best meaningless and at worst offensive. By expressing
SAT       contrition for other people's behaviour, does it make a
SAT       mockery of the very notion of apology?
SAT       From politicians to celebrities, the culture of the public
SAT       apology has been gaining ground. But how do we measure the
SAT       value of these gestures? When should we say sorry and what
SAT       should we apologise for?
SAT       With:
SAT       Douglas Murray
SAT       Author and commentator
SAT       Professor Aaron Lazare
SAT       Author of On Apology, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
SAT       Professor Kathryn Ecclestone
SAT       Professor of Education and Social Inclusion
SAT       Laurie Humphries
SAT       A child migrant - sent from the UK to Australia in 1947.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00nv7j5 (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest, with contestants from the north
SAT       of England.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nshqw (Listen)
SAT       Series 10, To My Dear and Loving Husband
SAT       Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting
SAT       appeal of some well-loved poems.
SAT       Anne Bradstreet's poem has been anthologised in nearly
SAT       every collection of love poetry published. How did a
SAT       near-invalid woman, who had to endure not only the
SAT       privations of migrating to the New World but also the
SAT       strict Puritan ethic established there, manage to write
SAT       something so warm and personal that it still speaks to us
SAT       today?
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SUN       SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00nx0vp (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Original Shorts b008pvmx (Listen)
SUN       Series 3, Sarah
SUN       New short stories by well-known authors.
SUN       Actress Gemma Jones reads her own heartfelt story of an
SUN       impoverished young 1880s farm girl who lives a surprising
SUN       fantasy life.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx0vr (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx0vt (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx0vw (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00nx0vy (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00nx0w0 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Mary's Church in Lymm, Cheshire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nvx6x (Listen)
SUN       Episode 3
SUN       Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our
SUN       lives but which are little known outside the legal world.
SUN       The case of Reginald Woolmington, a young farm labourer
SUN       who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934. But
SUN       had he intended to kill, and thus was it murder? The case
SUN       against him seemed strong, but Woolmington's legal battle
SUN       eventually reinforced the presumption of innocence for all
SUN       defendants.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00nx0w2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00nx0w4 (Listen)
SUN       An Opinion of Dignity
SUN       Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity. For some,
SUN       dignity is an innate and noble quality of humanity, for
SUN       others it is a meaningless notion, and for Dr Johnson it
SUN       is a complicating factor in human relationships.
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah and Nicholas Boulton.
SUN       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00nx14y (Listen)
SUN       Dartford Warbler
SUN       Dartford warbler numbers were reduced to only 20 pairs in
SUN       Britain during the 1960s, thus becoming an iconic emblem
SUN       of conservation. Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB
SUN       reserve in Dorset in an attempt to see one of these rare
SUN       and secretive little birds for himself.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00nx150 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00nx152 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00nx154 (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 b00nx156 (Listen)
SUN       Children in Need
SUN       Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need.
SUN       Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000,
SUN       London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at
SUN       bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03
SUN       numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates
SUN       (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of
SUN       any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any
SUN       network including mobiles.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00nx158 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00nx15b (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00nx15d (Listen)
SUN       A service from St Andrew's Church in Balligan, County
SUN       Down, led by Canon John Bowley.
SUN       Preacher: Canon Noel Battye.
SUN       With the Balligan Consort.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00nws6w (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the revelation of the identity of
SUN       Belle de Jour, the author of The Diary of a London Call
SUN       Girl.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00nx15g (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00nx15j (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00nx7mk (Listen)
SUN       Sir Stuart Rose
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose.
SUN       As the boss of Marks and Spencer, he has held a national
SUN       institution - and the nation's knickers - in his hands.
SUN       After seeing off a hostile takeover bid and revamping its
SUN       tired image, he is regarded by many as the store's
SUN       saviour. Now, after five years in one of the top jobs on
SUN       the high street, his successor has been announced and, in
SUN       this timely interview, Sir Stuart looks to the future and
SUN       considers where life might take him next.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00nv8ng (Listen)
SUN       Series 52, Episode 1
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the Old
SUN       Vic Theatre in London, with Jack Dee taking over the
SUN       chairman's role.
SUN       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
SUN       are joined by Rob Brydon.
SUN       With Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00nx7rh (Listen)
SUN       30th Anniversary: Business
SUN       As the Food Programme celebrates 30 years of broadcasting,
SUN       Sheila Dillon looks at the impact of some of the
SUN       pioneering food businesses featured on the programme over
SUN       the years and assesses their impact on the food world.
SUN       Fair trade, organic, local, authentic - all are concepts
SUN       launched as food products during this time, in the form of
SUN       the likes of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Yeo Valley yogurt,
SUN       the Village Bakery artisan bread and Green and Black's
SUN       ethical chocolate.
SUN       So what challenges do food entrepreneurs face when success
SUN       beckons? How easy is it to grow big enough to supply our
SUN       increasingly large retailers, and what role do private
SUN       equity investors have in progressing small entrepreneurial
SUN       businesses into the big time? We talk to Langholm Capital
SUN       who did just that with Dorset Cereals and Tyrrell's
SUN       crisps. And we ask if it matters when food businesses that
SUN       set out to change the world are themselves consumed by the
SUN       industry's behemoths; is anything crucial lost?
SUN       With the help of recordings from the archive, programme
SUN       finds out how these companies have fared and why food
SUN       entrepreneurs matter to the future food industry. With
SUN       studio guest William Kendall: entrepreneur, farmer, and
SUN       formerly of Green and Blacks.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00nx7rk (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00nx7rm (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen)
SUN       Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager,
SUN       investigates the demise of the traditional face of our
SUN       high street banks.
SUN       For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our
SUN       money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it
SUN       their business to know every detail of the local economy.
SUN       Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash
SUN       machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and
SUN       their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to
SUN       sell, sell, sell.
SUN       Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's
SUN       profession no longer exists, and asks how this change
SUN       reflects on today's consumer society and the banking
SUN       industry's rush to lend money.
SUN       Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire
SUN       of Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on
SUN       the road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style
SUN       Lloyds bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous
SUN       breakdown under the pressure to meet new targets; John
SUN       Hackett, HSBC's Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who
SUN       says that banks are now far more responsive to their
SUN       customers' needs.
SUN       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nws6k (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs a 'postbag' edition of the programme
SUN       from Sparhsolt College in Hampshire.
SUN       Pippa Greenwood, John Cushnie and Anne Swithinbank answer
SUN       questions sent in via post and email.
SUN       Plus an update on the slug trials set up at our garden
SUN       party in Harlow Carr; how have our lettuces faired since
SUN       September?
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7hb (Listen)
SUN       Sibling Rivalry
SUN       Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural
SUN       attitudes towards siblings.
SUN       From the Bible to modern times, sibling rivalry has always
SUN       been present in society.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00nx8k4 (Listen)
SUN       Fair Stood The Wind For France, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic
SUN       tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War
SUN       France.
SUN       John Franklin, a wounded British airman, is finally fit
SUN       and planning his escape from France. He could go the fast
SUN       way - or the slow way.
SUN       Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear
SUN       Francoise ...... Louise Brealey
SUN       Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington
SUN       Father ...... Bruce Alexander
SUN       Boat Man ...... Kenneth Collard
SUN       O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
SUN       With John Biggins, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers
SUN       Wehner.
SUN       Directed by Jonquil Panting.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00nx8k6 (Listen)
SUN       Mariella's guests include the novelist James Meek, who
SUN       talks about his passion for Tolstoy. As a new translation
SUN       of some of the Russian master's shorter fiction is
SUN       published, Meek explains how a man best known for writing
SUN       epic works including War and Peace was also one of the
SUN       supreme geniuses of the short story.
SUN       Novelists often dedicate their work to friends, relatives
SUN       or lovers. Marlene Wagman-Geller, the author of a new book
SUN       which uncovers some of the surprising stories behind these
SUN       dedications, and Peter Kemp, fiction editor of the Sunday
SUN       Times, reveal some of the secrets hidden by writers in
SUN       their inscriptions.
SUN       Five years before the coup which brought him to power in
SUN       France, Napoleon Bonaparte penned a romantic novella. As
SUN       the full text is published in English for the first time,
SUN       Michele Roberts joins Mariella to discuss what this
SUN       unexpected piece of fiction reveals about the sometime
SUN       Emperor of the French.
SUN       And Mariella talks to the author of one of the year's most
SUN       unusual books, a novel masquerading as an auction
SUN       catalogue. Its author Leanne Shapton explains why she
SUN       decided to tell the story of a relationship through the
SUN       medium of photographs of the couple's possessions.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nx8k8 (Listen)
SUN       Series 10, Mending Wall
SUN       Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting
SUN       appeal of some well-loved poems.
SUN       Robert Frost's Mending Wall gave us the epigram 'good
SUN       fences make good neighbours'. They don't, of course, but
SUN       we still need our walls and hedges. Peggy meets sheep
SUN       farmers, wall artists and poetry enthusiasts as she
SUN       explores the stories behind the poem.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nx8kb (Listen)
SUN       22nd November 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       Lebanon's President Muawad is killed, 17 days after being
SUN       elected; in Prague the snow falls and rumours sweep
SUN       through the tens of thousands who continue their protest
SUN       for the sixth successive day in Wenceslas Square.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00nvhlg (Listen)
SUN       With record gold prices stimulating demand, Jenny Cuffe
SUN       reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo on the scale
SUN       of illegal mining and asks if the industry does enough to
SUN       ensure that gold supplies aren't being used to fund
SUN       conflict.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00nx0d6 (Listen)
SUN       Series 7, Jam Today?
SUN       Series in which writers create a fictional response to the
SUN       week's news.
SUN       In the week in which Transparency International published
SUN       their Corruption Perceptions Index, citing the MPs'
SUN       expenses scandal as a key factor in the UK's lowest
SUN       placing yet, DJ Britton tells the story of a young
SUN       politician hoping to land a safe seat in the next election.
SUN       With Anne-Marie Duff, Rory Kinnear and John Biggins.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nx8kd (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00nx8kg (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nx8kj (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00nx8kl (Listen)
SUN       Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Bleak Expectations - Radio 4
SUN       Stirred But Not Shaken - An Autobiography - Radio 4
SUN       Payola, the Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll -
SUN       Radio 4
SUN       The Inner World of Music - Radio 4
SUN       The Probate Game - Radio 4
SUN       Simpson Returns - Radio 4
SUN       Midweek - Radio 4
SUN       Parting Shots - Radio 4
SUN       Politics Between the Covers - Radio 4
SUN       Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking - Radio 4
SUN       The Loop - Radio 4
SUN       Front Row - Radio 4
SUN       Journeys to Glory - The Spandau Ballet Story - Radio 2
SUN       I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00nx8t8 (Listen)
SUN       The old traditions are the best for Phil.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00nx92n (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       As Sarah Palin kicks off her book tour around the nation,
SUN       Americana takes time to learn more about the women that
SUN       represent America as well as the women who work each day
SUN       to make it run. Although females account for over 50 per
SUN       cent of the population, women in the United States are
SUN       under-represented in the halls of Congress and the
SUN       boardrooms of corporate America. Matt Frei talks to
SUN       National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts.
SUN       She's the author of the best-selling book We Are Our
SUN       Mothers' Daughters, and helps to highlight the week's top
SUN       news as well as the many views and characterizations of
SUN       women's lives in the United States.
SUN       Matt Frei talks with Democratic Congresswoman Loretta
SUN       Sanchez of California and Republican Congresswoman Marsha
SUN       Blackburn of Tennessee about the challenges of working in
SUN       positions of political power and representing diverse
SUN       constituencies. American women from around the nation
SUN       weigh in on the challenges of the glass ceiling or lack
SUN       thereof.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008020s (Listen)
SUN       Sputnik, Doors
SUN       A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite
SUN       which started the space race in 1957.
SUN       By Andrew Smith, read by Trevor White.
SUN       Sputnik might be in space but here on earth Ron Paget's
SUN       automated garage door has gone beserk. Is it a Communist
SUN       plot or might it have something to do with his neighbour?
SUN       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00nw3ws (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00nws6m (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 b00nwyqv (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nx156 (Listen)
SUN       Children in Need
SUN       Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need.
SUN       Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000,
SUN       London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at
SUN       bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03
SUN       numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates
SUN       (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of
SUN       any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any
SUN       network including mobiles.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00nvdgd (Listen)
SUN       Divorcing Europe
SUN       What would happen if Britain chose to leave the European
SUN       Union? The new Lisbon Treaty contains a clause whch sets
SUN       out the exit process for the first time. But, as Chris
SUN       Bowlby reports, the final deal between Britain and its
SUN       former EU partners would depend a lot on the mood of their
SUN       'divorce' - amicable or acrimonious.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00nx92q (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00nx92s (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 b00nx92v (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 21st November 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago,
SUN       with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       Bulgaria witnesses its biggest demonstrations in 40 years,
SUN       Lebanon's President Muawad is killed 17 days after being
SUN       elected and in Prague, protesters call for reforms and the
SUN       ousting of the Czech leadership.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00nx0w4 (Listen)
SUN       An Opinion of Dignity
SUN       Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity. For some,
SUN       dignity is an innate and noble quality of humanity, for
SUN       others it is a meaningless notion, and for Dr Johnson it
SUN       is a complicating factor in human relationships.
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah and Nicholas Boulton.
SUN       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00nx96s (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nvwg6 (Listen)
MON       In a series of special programmes in association with the
MON       Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of
MON       white collar crime.
MON       Is it right that middle-class offenders should spend more
MON       of their sentence in open prisons? Should the loss of a
MON       professional position be taken into account when
MON       sentencing white collar criminals? Is our prison system
MON       set up to cope with professionals who offend? Laurie
MON       concludes his exploration of white collar crime and talks
MON       to past offenders including Jonathan Aitken, leading
MON       criminologist Michael Levi, and the former Director of
MON       Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken MacDonald, about the
MON       punishment of white collar criminals.
MON       Is it time we changed our attitude to crime in the
MON       workplace? Should we put more effort into enforcing the
MON       law and detecting white collar crime?
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00nx0w0 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Mary's Church in Lymm, Cheshire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx98v (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9qp (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx9p4 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00nx9wf (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxclg (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00nxcrx (Listen)
MON       The first commercially available 100 per cent British loaf
MON       will be sold in January 2010. Anna Hill finds out why, for
MON       the past 160 years, it's been impossible to use completely
MON       home-produced wheat in bread.
MON       Also, British food which isn't quite British - Farming
MON       Today hears more demands for the laws over food labelling
MON       to be tightened up.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00ny7jy (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00nxd1v (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00ny7k0 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr finds out how much faith and science can tell
MON       us about identity with Tariq Ramadan and Sir Mark Walport;
MON       historian Jonathan Phillips explores the relevance of the
MON       Crusades, and curator Kate Bush on finding the next Young
MON       British Artist.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00nxd1x (Listen)
MON       Family Britain, All Madly Educative
MON       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
MON       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
MON       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
MON       people.
MON       The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end
MON       of austerity.
MON       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
MON       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd7d (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       The Inquiry into the Iraq War is imminent and one of its
MON       priorities is to hear from families of British service
MON       personnel killed in the conflict. Rose Gentle's son Gordon
MON       aged 19, a Royal Highland Fusilier, was killed when the
MON       Land Rover in which he was travelling was hit by a
MON       roadside bomb. She describes her campaign for information
MON       about his death and for the inquiry into the war.
MON       Approximately 350,000 children are born worldwide every
MON       day. In the UK the registration of every birth is taken
MON       for granted, and with it the recognition of every child.
MON       Yet there are around 51 million children born every year
MON       across the globe who do not officially exist. The
MON       children's charity Plan International has just completed a
MON       five-year campaign for Universal Birth Registration,
MON       managing to register 40 million children who did not
MON       exist. So why is registration so important?
MON       Within the past two decades bras have become big news.
MON       Retailers now talk about customers having a 'bra wardrobe'
MON       containing the average woman's sports bras, fashion bras,
MON       T-shirt bras, nude bras, gel bras, sexy bras and more. But
MON       despite this wealth of choice an estimated 80 per cent of
MON       women are still wearing the wrong sized bra. Why are we
MON       all still so confused about bras?
MON       A new BBC drama claims married ballerina Margot Fonteyn
MON       enjoyed a passionate affair with her gay dance partner,
MON       Rudolf Nureyev, 19 years her junior. Their electric
MON       onstage partnership transformed the fortunes of the ageing
MON       Fonteyn, extending her career by 17 years. Jane is joined
MON       by Anne-Marie Duff, the BAFTA nominated Shameless actor
MON       who is playing the title role in the film, and Meredith
MON       Daneman, a former student at the Royal Ballet School and
MON       Margot Fonteyn's biographer.
MON       
MON       11:00 1989: The '89 Generation b00ny7k2 (Listen)
MON       Anne McElvoy meets British politicians to find out what
MON       impact the revolutions of 1989 had on them and on the
MON       worldview they use to govern us.
MON       She compares notes with culture secretary Ben Bradshaw,
MON       who at the time was a BBC reporter in West Berlin, and
MON       plays him archive of his younger self interviewing
MON       Berliners selling bits of the Wall to tourists.
MON       German-born Labour MP Gisela Stuart talks about the
MON       emotional impact of watching the Wall fall, on TV in
MON       Birmingham. And Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles
MON       tells Anne how in 1968 he was a teenage communist, but was
MON       so angry at the sight of Soviet tanks crushing the Prague
MON       Spring that he joined the Tory Party. He talks about his
MON       feelings on watching the final overthrow of communism in
MON       Prague 21 years on.
MON       Anne brings together former London Mayor Ken Livingstone
MON       and shadow schools secretary Michael Gove, who spent part
MON       of the winter of 1989 as a picket, to compare notes about
MON       the impact of 1989 on their personal politics.
MON       Shadow Cabinet member David Willetts recalls how prime
MON       minister Margaret Thatcher stunned guests at a lunch held
MON       by his think-tank in December 1989. When the Wall fell she
MON       responded with joy, but a few weeks later she was greeting
MON       the prospect it opened up - a united Germany - with
MON       vehement hostility.
MON       Anne also talks to foreign secretary David Miliband, his
MON       Conservative shadow William Hague and Liberal Democrat
MON       leader Nick Clegg about the impact that the death of
MON       communism still has today on British foreign policy, our
MON       involvement in global turbo-capitalism and what our
MON       political parties are for.
MON       
MON       11:30 Tickets Please b00ny7k4 (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Comedy drama by Mark Maier about the ongoing trials of the
MON       staff and passengers on an intercity rail service.
MON       The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster
MON       continues as the staff's personal embroilments deepen, and
MON       a member of a wedding party joins in the melee. And why
MON       are there fingerholes in the muffins?
MON       Robin ...... Jeremy Swift
MON       Nadine ...... Alex Kelly
MON       Peter ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Carol ...... Tessa Nicholson
MON       Carl ...... Nicholas Boulton
MON       Diana ...... Melissa Advani
MON       Linda ...... Kate Layden
MON       Keith ...... Stephen Hogan
MON       Other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph
MON       Cohen-Cole.
MON       Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00nxd9s (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00nxdb5 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00nxgd1 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00ny7k6 (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the seventh heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00nx8t8 (Listen)
MON       The old traditions are the best for Phil.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bvz91 (Listen)
MON       Girl from Mars
MON       Eleanor's sister Amy disappeared five years ago. She
MON       simply walked out of her house and into the records of the
MON       'missing'. Lucy Caldwell's play explores her family's
MON       attempts to come to terms with the loss of a daughter and
MON       sister.
MON       Eleanor ...... Alana Kerr
MON       Chris ...... Joe Armstrong
MON       Judith ...... Maggie Cronin
MON       James ...... Kieran Lagan
MON       Darryl ...... Andy Moore
MON       Eleanor aged 15 ...... Hannah R Gordon
MON       Eleanor aged 5 ...... Martha Gordon
MON       Amy aged 10 ...... Naomi Fearnon
MON       Jake aged 5 ...... Harry Robinson
MON       Jake aged 15 ...... Connor Williamson
MON       Amy/Air hostess ...... Nikki Doherty
MON       Police officer/Pilot ...... Patrick Fitzsymons
MON       Police officer/Directory Enq ...... Fo Cullen
MON       Senora Garcia ...... Mary Kelly
MON       Directed by Heather Larmour.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00nx0db (Listen)
MON       Politics Between the Covers
MON       From The West Wing to The Thick of It, politics lends
MON       itself to high drama. Politicians themselves often write
MON       thinly-disguised versions of their own experiences as
MON       fiction, and films and TV are awash with fictionalised
MON       versions of the political world. Does it really represent
MON       a truthful portrayal of the machinations of government,
MON       and to what extent can powerful fiction influence those in
MON       positions of power?
MON       Mark Lawson delves into the seamier side of politics to
MON       consider the fascinating line where fact meets fiction.
MON       
MON       15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nxhhy (Listen)
MON       Whisky
MON       To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir
MON       explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate
MON       the Scottish contribution to the world.
MON       Aasmah finds out if whisky is still as popular a drink
MON       among Scots as its vital contribution to the economy might
MON       suggest.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00nx7rh (Listen)
MON       30th Anniversary: Business
MON       As the Food Programme celebrates 30 years of broadcasting,
MON       Sheila Dillon looks at the impact of some of the
MON       pioneering food businesses featured on the programme over
MON       the years and assesses their impact on the food world.
MON       Fair trade, organic, local, authentic - all are concepts
MON       launched as food products during this time, in the form of
MON       the likes of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Yeo Valley yogurt,
MON       the Village Bakery artisan bread and Green and Black's
MON       ethical chocolate.
MON       So what challenges do food entrepreneurs face when success
MON       beckons? How easy is it to grow big enough to supply our
MON       increasingly large retailers, and what role do private
MON       equity investors have in progressing small entrepreneurial
MON       businesses into the big time? We talk to Langholm Capital
MON       who did just that with Dorset Cereals and Tyrrell's
MON       crisps. And we ask if it matters when food businesses that
MON       set out to change the world are themselves consumed by the
MON       industry's behemoths; is anything crucial lost?
MON       With the help of recordings from the archive, programme
MON       finds out how these companies have fared and why food
MON       entrepreneurs matter to the future food industry. With
MON       studio guest William Kendall: entrepreneur, farmer, and
MON       formerly of Green and Blacks.
MON       
MON       16:30 Debating Animals b00jj13p (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Rod Liddle examines our differing responses to related
MON       animal species and tries to establish what those responses
MON       tell us not merely about the animals but about ourselves.
MON       As the millenium turned a few years back there was
MON       another, less trumpeted shift in emphasis in Britain.
MON       After years, perhaps thousands of years, of ascendancy as
MON       man's favoured domestic animal, the dog gave way to the
MON       cat. It is now cat and dog, literally, at the top of the
MON       popular pet league, and Rod Liddle takes a long, hard
MON       stare at this stand-off and what it tells us about
MON       ourselves.
MON       Cats are the ultimate urban companion. The old debate is
MON       whether you own them or they own you. Independent, brimful
MON       of attitude and well equipped to operate in a semi-feral
MON       environment.
MON       Dogs, on the other hand, spent thousands of years being
MON       honed as servants. They might be perfect for the hunt, for
MON       herding, for guarding or simply for companionship, but
MON       what they never achieved was a capacity for going it
MON       alone. Own a dog and you have to be ready to sacrifice
MON       your time for them.
MON       So is it just a simple question of 21st-century Britain
MON       indulging itself rather than taking on the duties required
MON       of dog ownership? And what are the costs of this shifting
MON       balance? Dogs eat what dogs are given to eat. Cats eat
MON       that and half the urban wildlife around them.
MON       Peter Purves, Ann Widdecombe and Sir David Attenborough
MON       are among those informing this domestic animal debate.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxq (Listen)
MON       23rd November 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       Demonstrations in Prague continue to gather pace and the
MON       Conservative Party faces a leadership challenge as
MON       Margaret Thatcher announces that she is happy to contest
MON       two more elections.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00ny46z (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny48d (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00ny7n8 (Listen)
MON       Series 52, Episode 2
MON       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the Old
MON       Vic Theatre in London, with Jack Dee taking over the
MON       chairman's role.
MON       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
MON       are joined by Rob Brydon.
MON       With Colin Sell at the piano.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00nxgf2 (Listen)
MON       Lilian's patience is tested to the limit.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00ny497 (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
MON       interview with writer Dave Eggers about his screenplay for
MON       Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak's
MON       renowned book.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5pn (Listen)
MON       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 11
MON       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
MON       novel.
MON       Bella visits her parents and tries her hand at cooking,
MON       with mixed results.
MON       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
MON       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
MON       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
MON       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
MON       Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
MON       Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh
MON       Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew
MON       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
MON       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
MON       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
MON       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
MON       Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler
MON       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
MON       Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke
MON       Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah
MON       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
MON       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
MON       Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin
MON       Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider
MON       Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler
MON       Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Music by Roger Goula
MON       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
MON       This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as
MON       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
MON       
MON       20:00 Document b00ny7nb (Listen)
MON       Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary
MON       evidence to throw new light on past events.
MON       Mike investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in
MON       oil-rich Oman. History records that it was a family
MON       affair, but documents reveal London's hidden hand.
MON       Offically, the architect of the coup was the Sultan's son,
MON       but in papers seen by the programme, Britain is seen to be
MON       calling the shots. Worried that the country's faltering
MON       regime could fall to communism and so threaten its vital
MON       oil interests, London decided to act. Formerly secret
MON       documents clearly show British civil servants and military
MON       leaders plotting regime change in Oman, by the use of
MON       force if necessary. They concealed their plans and only
MON       now can the real story be told.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00nvz74 (Listen)
MON       The Congo Connection
MON       Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and
MON       Germany are controlling a deadly African militia. For the
MON       last 15 years, the rebels of the FDLR have enforced their
MON       control through a series of brutal atrocities. Now
MON       Crossing Continents has secret intelligence suggesting
MON       that they were taking orders from political leaders living
MON       openly in Europe.
MON       
MON       21:00 Frontiers b00ny7nd (Listen)
MON       British physicists are about to start the next phase of
MON       their search for dark matter. Sue Nelson joins them down
MON       the UK's deepest mine and asks why they need to set up
MON       their experiment underground.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00ny7k0 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr finds out how much faith and science can tell
MON       us about identity with Tariq Ramadan and Sir Mark Walport;
MON       historian Jonathan Phillips explores the relevance of the
MON       Crusades, and curator Kate Bush on finding the next Young
MON       British Artist.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00ny644 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00ny655 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ny6vq (Listen)
MON       Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, Mrs
MON       Griffiths and the Carol Singers
MON       Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of
MON       linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on
MON       the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the
MON       fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.
MON       Abridged by Sara Davies.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00nvfg8 (Listen)
MON       In a special edition of the programme for Radio 4's 1989
MON       season, Michael Rosen talks to playwright David Edgar
MON       about the rise and fall of the language that became
MON       synonymous with communism - from the hyperbole of
MON       Ceaucescu's Romania ('General Secretary, President,
MON       President of the State Council, Chairman of the National
MON       Defence Council, Chairman of the Supreme Council for
MON       Socio-Economic Development' was his own job description)
MON       to phrases that have passed into the very definition of
MON       the Marxist-Leninist dialectic. The demolition of the
MON       Berlin Wall led to dramatic changes not only in the
MON       political and economic lives of those living in the former
MON       Eastern Bloc, but also to the l
MON       Also, political journalist Anne McElvoy tells of her
MON       lingustic adventures in East Germany both before and after
MON       1989, and Dr Zoran Milutinovic examines how Serbo-Croat
MON       has changed since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny701 (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Sean Curran.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00nx94t (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00nxd1x (Listen)
TUE       Family Britain, All Madly Educative
TUE       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
TUE       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
TUE       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
TUE       people.
TUE       The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end
TUE       of austerity.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
TUE       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96v (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9p6 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx98x (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qr (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj2 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00nxclj (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00nxcrz (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Choice b00ny8f6 (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 Cathy O'Dowd about the terrible choice
TUE       she had to make when she came across a dying climber on
TUE       Everest.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Pilots That Never Flew b00g633l (Listen)
TUE       Comedy Performers
TUE       Series in which Director of the National Youth Theatre
TUE       Paul Roseby examines the laborious process of creating
TUE       successful pilot programmes.
TUE       Paul talks to comedy performers Alistair McGowan, Bea
TUE       Holland and Samantha Sanns about unsuccessful pilots they
TUE       have made.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00p298n (Listen)
TUE       Family Britain, Family Favourites
TUE       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
TUE       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
TUE       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
TUE       people.
TUE       Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust
TUE       - the core values of family and society begin to fray at
TUE       the edges.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
TUE       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3l (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 1989: Restitching the City b00ny9y2 (Listen)
TUE       Rosie Goldsmith goes underground in Berlin, searching out
TUE       the men and women involved in reunifying the city below
TUE       street level, examining how the tubes, telephone, water
TUE       and electricity systems of east and west were reconnected
TUE       after the fall of the Wall.
TUE       When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the world saw
TUE       images of ecstatic Berliners celebrating a new freedom of
TUE       movement across their city. But after the jubilation had
TUE       died down, council chiefs were faced with a task without
TUE       precedent in any city in the world. Public transport in
TUE       the two halves of the city was in chaos and the main
TUE       arteries of Berlin became clogged with polluting Trabants;
TUE       using the telephone was an infuriating experience; utility
TUE       companies faced similar problems trying to bring together
TUE       two systems which had developed completely separately.
TUE       The great symbolism of the fall of communism had been
TUE       replaced by a more practical but no less crucial question
TUE       - how to reunite the infrastructure and fabric of a vast
TUE       city that had been divided for nearly 30 years.
TUE       Rosie speaks to the key figures involved in the hugely
TUE       costly task of restitching the city - among them former
TUE       West Berlin mayor Walter Momper - as well as ordinary
TUE       Berliners who recall everyday life in the city after the
TUE       fall of the Wall. City officials knew that rebuilding
TUE       their infrastructure was vital to making citizens feel
TUE       that they were part of a city - and a country - that was
TUE       physically as well as symbolically reunited.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Fallout from the Shore b00ny9y4 (Listen)
TUE       Libby Purves considers the impact of On the Beach, Stanley
TUE       Kramer's groundbreaking film which 50 years ago reduced
TUE       cinema-goers to tears with its bleak vision of a
TUE       post-apocalyptic world.
TUE       Based on Nevil Shute's novel and starring Gregory Peck and
TUE       Ava Gardner, On the Beach tells the story of a group of
TUE       Third World War survivors awaiting death from radiation
TUE       from the northern hemisphere moving inexorably towards
TUE       them. The on-screen drama was matched off screen when
TUE       Shute and Kramer clashed over changes the filmmaker made
TUE       to appease his backers and the mainstream audience.
TUE       The programme hears from Shute's daughter and Kramer's
TUE       widow, who describe the impact of the row on both men and
TUE       the difficulties getting the film made in the first place.
TUE       Although not universally acclaimed, On the Beach was
TUE       considered a brave film to make and, judging by audience
TUE       reaction at the time, it was a terrifying warning to the
TUE       world.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7g (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00nxd9v (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00nxg9v (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Nightingale of the Nile b00ny9y6 (Listen)
TUE       Singer-songwriter, record producer and world music expert
TUE       Justin Adams travels to Cairo, where he grew up, to tell
TUE       the story of the woman whose voice dominated the culture
TUE       and politics of the Middle East in the 20th century, Umm
TUE       Kulthum.
TUE       Once described as a combination of 'Ella Fitzgerald,
TUE       Eleanor Roosevelt and Elvis Presley', her radio broadcasts
TUE       often brought the entire Arabic world to a standstill. Her
TUE       incredible voice and skilful handling of the media quickly
TUE       made her the most prominent celebrity in the Arab world at
TUE       the time, and her close friendship with both the royal
TUE       circle of King Farouk I before the revolution, and
TUE       President Nasser in its wake, gave her unprecedented
TUE       political influence.
TUE       Justin Adams is Robert Plant's songwriting partner, record
TUE       producer for the Tuareg desert blues band Tinariwen, among
TUE       others, and an ex-collaborator with Jah Wobble. As the son
TUE       of a British diplomat, Justin grew up in Cairo during
TUE       Kulthum's golden age. Now he travels back, talking to
TUE       those that knew her to discover more about this icon of
TUE       the Arabic world.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00nxgf2 (Listen)
TUE       Lilian's patience is tested to the limit.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b008z61b (Listen)
TUE       Cobwebs
TUE       Psychological drama by David Hodgson.
TUE       Greg Drake is just getting his life back together after
TUE       the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into
TUE       when he is asleep. Nothing is taken, but his peace of mind
TUE       is destroyed.
TUE       Greg ...... Kevin Doyle
TUE       Cathy ...... Fiona Clarke
TUE       Louise ...... Helen Longworth
TUE       Jenny ...... Beth Palmer
TUE       PC Morgan ...... Roy Carruthers
TUE       Denny ...... Mark Winstanley.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00nybx4 (Listen)
TUE       Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions
TUE       about the natural world and our impact on it.
TUE       'Eagled-eyed' implies an ability to spot objects at a
TUE       great distance, but perhaps a more extraordinary skill is
TUE       shown by another bird of prey, the osprey. It can spot
TUE       fish underwater despite the reflected glare of the African
TUE       Sun, and then pick them off with pinpoint accuracy. We
TUE       find out how they manage such a feat and whether we humans
TUE       could learn a trick or two from them.
TUE       Ospreys also use all four limbs - two wings and two legs -
TUE       to pursue and then grab their prey but what is so special
TUE       about the number four. Why do all land vertebrates have
TUE       four limbs?
TUE       We also feature a round up of our warm, wet and windy
TUE       autumn, the key environmental issues. And puzzle over why,
TUE       when we have the same technological know how, Californians
TUE       can buy powerful and versatile electric cars that are
TUE       unavailable to the British consumer.
TUE       On the panel are planning expert Professor Yvonne Rydin;
TUE       sustainable development specialist Dr Ros Taylor and
TUE       Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from
TUE       the University of London.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nyby7 (Listen)
TUE       An Important Passenger, Miss Pearman Takes the Train
TUE       Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by
TUE       the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha
TUE       Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
TUE       By Christobel Kent, read by Anna Massey.
TUE       Artemis Pearman is a spinster of a certain age, with a
TUE       fondness for detective stories. Setting off on a weekend
TUE       to Paris, reading Murder on the Orient Express and
TUE       observing her fellow passengers, she lets her mind wander.
TUE       A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x8 (Listen)
TUE       Golf
TUE       To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir
TUE       explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate
TUE       the Scottish contribution to the world.
TUE       Aasmah visits the Open golf championship at Turnberry to
TUE       discover if the sport invented by Scots is still a valid
TUE       theme for celebration in the Scottish year of Homecoming.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00nycby (Listen)
TUE       Michael Rosen investigates coded language.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00nycc0 (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to poet Kate Clanchy and zoologist and
TUE       director of the Natural History Museum Michael Dixon about
TUE       their favourite books, featuring an acclaimed poetry
TUE       anthology and the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by
TUE       Paul Torday.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxg (Listen)
TUE       24th November 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       The Czech leadership are forced to resign and Alexander
TUE       Dubcek makes his first pubic appearance in Prague for 21
TUE       years.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00ny443 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny471 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nycc2 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       She came, she saw, she criticised: stand-up comedian Jo
TUE       Caulfield holds forth with a glorious mixture of bitchy
TUE       friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism.
TUE       In this episode, Jo fails to shut up about about Scotland
TUE       in general, Scotsmen in particular and a little tea shop
TUE       in Dundee.
TUE       With Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell and Paul Sneddon.
TUE       Written by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson, with
TUE       additional material by Michael Beck, Dan Evans
TUE       Brian Mitchell, Joseph Nixon, Matt Ross, and Paul Sneddon.
TUE       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00nxgd3 (Listen)
TUE       Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00ny48h (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the
TUE       announcement of the shortlists for the 2009 Costa Book
TUE       Awards.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nm (Listen)
TUE       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 12
TUE       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
TUE       novel.
TUE       Rogue Riderhood comes face to face with fate on a dark
TUE       Thames night.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
TUE       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
TUE       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
TUE       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
TUE       Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
TUE       Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh
TUE       Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew
TUE       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
TUE       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
TUE       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
TUE       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
TUE       Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler
TUE       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
TUE       Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke
TUE       Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah
TUE       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
TUE       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
TUE       Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin
TUE       Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider
TUE       Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler
TUE       Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Music by Roger Goula
TUE       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
TUE       This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as
TUE       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00nycc4 (Listen)
TUE       With around 8,000 people waiting for an organ transplant
TUE       in the UK, hospitals are having to use organs from the
TUE       elderly, smokers, cancer sufferers and drug abusers. Gerry
TUE       Northam examines the dilemmas posed for doctors and
TUE       assesses the risks to transplant patients.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00nycc6 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00nycc8 (Listen)
TUE       The wisdom of adopted children having ongoing contact with
TUE       their birth family has achieved axiomatic status in
TUE       adoption and fostering services, but some professionals
TUE       are now challenging the current orthodoxy. When children
TUE       aren't told the full truth about their early maltreatment,
TUE       they argue, ongoing contact amounts to a 'grievous
TUE       mistake'. Claudia Hammond talks to adopting and fostering
TUE       families about the harm they believe was caused by their
TUE       child maintaining a relationship with their birth
TUE       families, and hears why some professionals think the
TUE       policy should be re-thought.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Choice b00ny8f6 (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 Cathy O'Dowd about the terrible choice
TUE       she had to make when she came across a dying climber on
TUE       Everest.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00ny61k (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00ny646 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsj (Listen)
TUE       Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The
TUE       Auspicious Meeting
TUE       Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of
TUE       linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on
TUE       the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the
TUE       fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.
TUE       A chance meeting in a country lane brings together two
TUE       keen but lonely musicians. When they are joined by a
TUE       visiting genealogist with a bassoon, the Famous
TUE       Notwithstanding Wind Quartet is well on its way to
TUE       formation.
TUE       Abridged by Sara Davies.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Vent b00nyccb (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 1
TUE       Comedy series by Nigel Smith about a man in a coma,
TUE       travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own
TUE       unconscious mind.
TUE       Ben makes the ambulance journey home to begin life in a
TUE       wheelchair. On the way he remembers an argument about
TUE       cheesecake, invents a panel game and meets Buzz Aldrin.
TUE       Ben ...... Neil Pearson
TUE       Mary ...... Fiona Allen
TUE       Mum ...... Josie Lawrence
TUE       Blitz ...... Leslie Ash
TUE       Nurse ...... Jo Martin
TUE       Derek ...... Stephen Frost
TUE       Marley ...... Spencer Brown
TUE       Chairman ...... Robert Webb
TUE       Buzz ...... Peter Banks
TUE       Announcer ...... Bruce Alexander
TUE       Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith
TUE       Directed by Nigel Smith.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zq (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Susan Hulme.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00nx94y (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00p298n (Listen)
WED       Family Britain, Family Favourites
WED       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
WED       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
WED       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
WED       people.
WED       Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust
WED       - the core values of family and society begin to fray at
WED       the edges.
WED       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
WED       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96x (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9p8 (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx98z (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qt (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj4 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00nxclm (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00nxcs1 (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00nycw1 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00p298q (Listen)
WED       Family Britain, God Save Our Queen
WED       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
WED       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
WED       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
WED       people.
WED       While the country is spellbound by the Coronation of 1953,
WED       another royal soap opera is about to unfold.
WED       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
WED       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3n (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
WED       
WED       11:00 The Herschel Space Telescope b00nycw3 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Following the engineers and astronomers working on the
WED       biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most
WED       important missions in the history of European spaceflight.
WED       Jonathon Amos joins Professor Matt Griffin of Cardiff
WED       University and his international team as they aim to peer
WED       through the areas in space that are invisible to other
WED       telescopes. This is the story of their aim to solve the
WED       mystery of how galaxies and stars were formed, and how
WED       these processes eventually gave rise to life-bearing
WED       planets like Earth.
WED       In this episode, the telescope is blasted into space; can
WED       the team's 20-year project bring discovery and future
WED       promise for the waiting astronomers back on Earth?
WED       
WED       11:30 Ballylenon b00nydb9 (Listen)
WED       Series 7, Episode 1
WED       Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the
WED       1950s in a Donegal town.
WED       It is 1959. When Muriel experiences a 'miraculous
WED       apparition' on pilgrimage to Lourdes, Phonsie Doherty is
WED       quick to seize on its business potential for Ballylenon.
WED       Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy
WED       Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker
WED       Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy
WED       Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney
WED       Rev Samuel Hawthorne ...... Miche Doherty
WED       Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley
WED       Pianist: Michael Harrison
WED       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
WED       This episode is available until 11.30am on 6th January
WED       2010 as part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7j (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00nxd9x (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00nxg9x (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00nyf2k (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00nxgd3 (Listen)
WED       Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00fl092 (Listen)
WED       Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood
WED       Exploration of life with bipolar disorder by Trevor
WED       Preston. When Thomas dreams, he's in the world of the
WED       crime thriller; his daily life is rather less glamorous.
WED       Thomas ...... Rory Kinnear
WED       Dr Klein ...... Susan Engel
WED       Amy ...... Fenella Woolgar
WED       Lizzie ...... Janice Acquah
WED       Peter ...... Paul Rider
WED       Dr Beard ...... Jonathan Tafler
WED       Nita ...... Manjeet Mann
WED       Ratched ...... Inam Mirza
WED       Directed by Toby Swift.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00nyf2m (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of answer calls on renting
WED       and letting.
WED       Guests:
WED       Simon Gordon, chair, National Landlords Association
WED       John Gallagher, principal solicitor, Shelter
WED       Tracey Bloom, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers,
WED       specialist in housing law.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p27f1 (Listen)
WED       An Important Passenger, The Plymouth Express
WED       Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by
WED       the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha
WED       Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
WED       By Agatha Christie, read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
WED       When a murdered woman's body is found hidden in the
WED       first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express, Hercule
WED       Poirot is once more called to investigate a perplexing
WED       murder on a train.
WED       A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x0 (Listen)
WED       Great Minds
WED       To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir
WED       explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate
WED       the Scottish contribution to the world.
WED       Scottish inventors have made a huge contribution to the
WED       world, from the steam engine to the telephone; but what
WED       has Scotland done for the world lately? Aasmah finds out
WED       if Scotland still has the spirit of invention.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00nyfhk (Listen)
WED       Barack Obama famously used new technologies in his 2008
WED       election campaign. Could those same techniques be used to
WED       reinvigorate the next UK general elction in the same way
WED       it did for Obama's Web 2.0 campaign? From MySpace and
WED       Facebook, text messages to email, will new media transform
WED       the election in the same way it did for America? Or is the
WED       UK too party political for digital technology to have the
WED       same impact? Laurie Taylor discusses with Rachel Gibson,
WED       Professor of Political Science at the University of
WED       Manchester.
WED       Also, how musicians performing can give new insights into
WED       negotiation, learning and decision making. Howard S
WED       Becker, professional jazz player and acclaimed
WED       sociologist, joins Laurie to discuss what jazz and music
WED       can teach the rest of the world.
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00nycc8 (Listen)
WED       The wisdom of adopted children having ongoing contact with
WED       their birth family has achieved axiomatic status in
WED       adoption and fostering services, but some professionals
WED       are now challenging the current orthodoxy. When children
WED       aren't told the full truth about their early maltreatment,
WED       they argue, ongoing contact amounts to a 'grievous
WED       mistake'. Claudia Hammond talks to adopting and fostering
WED       families about the harm they believe was caused by their
WED       child maintaining a relationship with their birth
WED       families, and hears why some professionals think the
WED       policy should be re-thought.
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxj (Listen)
WED       25th November 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for
WED       free elections, while schoolchildren in Buckinghamshire
WED       organise a protest against Nestle for its promotion of
WED       dried milk in the Third World.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00ny445 (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 b00ny473 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00nywl0 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 2
WED       Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a
WED       series of sketches, monologues and one-liners.
WED       Olga the ex-tyrant takes on a British Post Office, a man
WED       tries to buy his mother a gift in an expensive department
WED       store and Sandrine, the Parisian radio host, chats about
WED       why French culture is much better then the culture of,
WED       say, Britain.
WED       With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00nxgd7 (Listen)
WED       Lynda has some lessons in parenting.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00ny48k (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a review
WED       of the stage version of Terry Pratchett's book Nation,
WED       adapted for the National Theatre by Mark Ravenhill.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5np (Listen)
WED       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 13
WED       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
WED       novel.
WED       Silas Wegg is determined to find a copy of old Harmon's
WED       will.
WED       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
WED       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
WED       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
WED       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
WED       Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
WED       Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh
WED       Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew
WED       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
WED       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
WED       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
WED       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
WED       Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler
WED       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
WED       Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke
WED       Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah
WED       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
WED       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
WED       Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin
WED       Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider
WED       Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler
WED       Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney
WED       Music by Roger Goula
WED       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
WED       This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as
WED       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00nywwg (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor,
WED       Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley cross-examine
WED       witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nywwj (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our
WED       lives but which are little known outside the legal world.
WED       Clive revisits Donohue vs Stevenson, better known as The
WED       Case of the Paisley Snail. Finding a snail (or was it a
WED       slug?) in a bottle of ginger beer may seem a minor upset,
WED       but the resulting case in 1932 produced the first
WED       comprehensive definition of neglect in tort law and
WED       established the meaning of the 'duty of care'.
WED       
WED       21:00 The Eureka Years b00cmb4q (Listen)
WED       Series 4, 1893 - The Internal Combustion Engine
WED       Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history
WED       of science.
WED       Henry Ford builds his first car, Karl Benz constructs his
WED       first four-wheeler and Gottlieb Daimler succeeds in
WED       putting his new engines in horseless carriages. The
WED       internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to
WED       London's pollution problem, is born.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00nycw1 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00ny61n (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00ny648 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsl (Listen)
WED       Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The
WED       Happy Death of the General
WED       Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of
WED       linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on
WED       the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the
WED       fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.
WED       Although he has dressed himself carefully, as always, for
WED       his shopping trip into town, there is one thing the
WED       General has forgotten.
WED       Abridged by Sara Davies.
WED       
WED       23:00 The Ladies b00g3dtz (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Series of comedy sketches by Emily Watson Howes set in a
WED       ladies' public toilet, featuring various female characters
WED       as they come and go.
WED       An unattended bag left by the sinks causes panic and
WED       confusion, and Lisa tries to deal with her pushy mother.
WED       With Emily Watson Howes, Kate Donmall, Fran Moulds.
WED       A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:15 All Bar Luke b00d75p4 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, The Date
WED       Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key.
WED       Luke tries to move on from Hayley by going on a dinner
WED       date with an older woman.
WED       An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zs (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with David Wilby.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00nx951 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00p298q (Listen)
THU       Family Britain, God Save Our Queen
THU       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
THU       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
THU       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
THU       people.
THU       While the country is spellbound by the Coronation of 1953,
THU       another royal soap opera is about to unfold.
THU       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
THU       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96z (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9pb (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx991 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qw (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj6 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00nxclp (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00nxcs3 (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00nyxvr (Listen)
THU       A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and
THU       Declan Kiberd discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
THU       Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing
THU       up in Catholic Ireland.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00p298s (Listen)
THU       Family Britain, Brisk Buying and Selling
THU       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
THU       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
THU       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
THU       people.
THU       A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising
THU       and the arrival of commercial television.
THU       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
THU       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3q (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00nyxvt (Listen)
THU       A Small Town in Mississippi
THU       In 1995, four people were murdered in Winona, Mississippi.
THU       The black man charged with their murders is now facing his
THU       sixth trial. Racial tensions helped lead to three
THU       convictions being overturned and two trials were
THU       deadlocked by hung juries. Tom Mangold visits the Deep
THU       South to investigate and to speak to those most closely
THU       involved. What he discovers says much about whether the
THU       high hopes of an increasingly race-neutral America are
THU       still justified at the close of the first year of Barack
THU       Obama's presidency.
THU       
THU       11:30 It Was A Dark and Stormy Night b00nyxvw (Listen)
THU       Ian Peacock reveals the dark and gothic life of the
THU       Victorian writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the
THU       archetypally gothic opening line, 'It was a dark and
THU       stormy night'.
THU       We may no longer be familiar with his novels, nor with his
THU       scientific theories, but thanks largely to the Snoopy
THU       cartoons, The Goon Show and sundry other borrowers and
THU       mockers, everyone can quote part of Bulwer-Lytton's famous
THU       opening sentence: 'It was a dark and stormy night; the
THU       rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals,
THU       when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept
THU       up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies),
THU       rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the
THU       scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the
THU       darkness'.
THU       San Jose University in California now run a very popular
THU       Dark and Stormy Night competition - the winner is charged
THU       with writing the opening sentence to the worst of all
THU       possible novels.
THU       But Ian Peacock has a sneaking suspicion that there is
THU       more to Bulwer-Lytton than being simply the patron saint
THU       of Victorian gothic kitsch. He was hugely popular in his
THU       lifetime; Dickens and Mary Shelley were both fans, as was
THU       Wagner, who used one of Lytton's novels as the basis for
THU       his early opera Rienzi.
THU       Works like Pelham and The Last Days of Pompeii made
THU       Bulwer-Lytton a literary star. And he was fascinated by
THU       scientific discovery, as well as the spookier side of life
THU       - his novel The Coming Race is still popular among the
THU       science fiction community. It was in this book that he
THU       created Vril, electro-magnetic energy which fuels flying
THU       machines and automata and even makes telepathy possible.
THU       Add Vril to bovine and you end up with the popular
THU       beef-tea energy drink Bovril - another Bulwer-Lytton
THU       legacy.
THU       He also coined the phrases 'the great unwashed' and 'the
THU       almighty dollar'. And as if that wasn't enough for one
THU       life, Bulwer-Lytton became an outrageous dandy, served as
THU       an MP, dabbled in the occult and had a wife who publicly
THU       heckled and libelled him for decades.
THU       Ian explores the writer's stormy life, his work and his
THU       popularity among his contemporaries. He visits Knebworth
THU       Hall, Lytton's home for many years and the source of some
THU       of his darker writing, and talks to Professor John
THU       Sutherland to judge Lytton's literary merits. Sutherland
THU       describes him as, among other things, 'the father of the
THU       English detective novel, science fiction, the fantasy
THU       novel and the thriller'.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7l (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00nxd9z (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00nxg9z (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00ny8fz (Listen)
THU       Last Orders
THU       With pubs all over Britain closing at a rate of 52 per
THU       week, the role of the public house is called in to
THU       question by three writers who have spent many hours
THU       propping up the bar. Ian Marchant went on a nationwide pub
THU       crawl and wrote a book about his adventures, Simon
THU       Fanshawe remembers winding up the locals in 1970s
THU       Brighton, and Melissa Cole, who is also a professional
THU       beer taster, deconstructs one of the key phrases in
THU       drinking culture: 'fancy a pint?' Presented by Dominic
THU       Arkwright.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00nxgd7 (Listen)
THU       Lynda has some lessons in parenting.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00b4jd0 (Listen)
THU       Far North
THU       By Louis Nowra.
THU       A boy and his young mother take to the road across
THU       Australia in search of the freedom and love she craves.
THU       Directed by Jane Ulman.
THU       A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC
THU       Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00nwvx2 (Listen)
THU       The Hanbury Crater
THU       In the Staffordshire countryside, just a few miles from
THU       Burton-on-Trent, a wire fence surrounds a deep crater
THU       measuring over half a mile wide. Nearby signs warn passers
THU       by of the sudden drop and that the land contains
THU       unexploded bombs which, in the event of an explosion,
THU       could cause injury or death. This is where what is widely
THU       believed to be the UK's largest explosion occurred on
THU       November 27th 1944 when an underground ammunition store at
THU       nearby Fauld blew up detonating 3-4,000 tons of explosives
THU       and devastating acres of countryside, killing 70 people,
THU       hundreds of sheep and cattle and completely obliterating a
THU       nearby farm. The Cock Inn in Hanbury was so badly damaged
THU       that it had to be
THU       On the 65th anniversary of the explosion, Helen Mark
THU       visits Hanbury, the scene of this wartime tragedy, and
THU       talks to local people and survivors about their memories
THU       of that day and how the explosion changed their lives and
THU       the landscape around them forever. For over 40 years,
THU       nothing would grow in what became known to locals as the
THU       'bomb hole' until slowly nature began to reclaim the
THU       Hanbury Crater. Helen is joined by the Time Team's
THU       Professor Mick Aston and together they visit the crater
THU       and go underground at Fauld Gypsum Mine, which dates back
THU       to Roman times. The mine was connected to the ill-fated
THU       ammunitions store by the reservoir supplying the steam to
THU       operate a nearby plastic factory. The gre
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nx156 (Listen)
THU       Children in Need
THU       Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need.
THU       Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000,
THU       London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at
THU       bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03
THU       numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates
THU       (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of
THU       any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any
THU       network including mobiles.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p27dv (Listen)
THU       An Important Passenger, Death By Elocution
THU       Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by
THU       the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha
THU       Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
THU       By Malcolm Pryce, read by Sandra Duncan.
THU       A strangely familiar collection of characters - Laura
THU       Jesson and Dr Harvey from Brief Encounter, Noel Coward, a
THU       soldier and a parson - find themselves on a train journey.
THU       Their conversation is interrupted by a hideous voice -
THU       then there's a scream.
THU       A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x2 (Listen)
THU       Ancestry
THU       To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir
THU       explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate
THU       the Scottish contribution to the world.
THU       Scottish immigrants have had an impact all over the world;
THU       now, more and more of their descendents are returning to
THU       rediscover their roots - especially in this special year
THU       of Homecoming. Aasmah talks to those visiting for the
THU       celebrations to find out if their image of Scotland is
THU       realistic or one clouded by myth and romance.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00nx8k6 (Listen)
THU       Mariella's guests include the novelist James Meek, who
THU       talks about his passion for Tolstoy. As a new translation
THU       of some of the Russian master's shorter fiction is
THU       published, Meek explains how a man best known for writing
THU       epic works including War and Peace was also one of the
THU       supreme geniuses of the short story.
THU       Novelists often dedicate their work to friends, relatives
THU       or lovers. Marlene Wagman-Geller, the author of a new book
THU       which uncovers some of the surprising stories behind these
THU       dedications, and Peter Kemp, fiction editor of the Sunday
THU       Times, reveal some of the secrets hidden by writers in
THU       their inscriptions.
THU       Five years before the coup which brought him to power in
THU       France, Napoleon Bonaparte penned a romantic novella. As
THU       the full text is published in English for the first time,
THU       Michele Roberts joins Mariella to discuss what this
THU       unexpected piece of fiction reveals about the sometime
THU       Emperor of the French.
THU       And Mariella talks to the author of one of the year's most
THU       unusual books, a novel masquerading as an auction
THU       catalogue. Its author Leanne Shapton explains why she
THU       decided to tell the story of a relationship through the
THU       medium of photographs of the couple's possessions.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00nyy8q (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper dissects the week's science.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxl (Listen)
THU       26th November 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       Czechoslovakia's prime minister has his first meeting with
THU       the country's leading dissident, Vaclav Havel; Lady
THU       Mosley, Sir Oswald's wife, talks to Sue Lawley on Desert
THU       Island Discs.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00ny447 (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 b00ny475 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nyy8s (Listen)
THU       Series 3, An Evil Life Sort of Explained
THU       Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans.
THU       Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent find
THU       themselves trapped in the vast emptiness of space. As
THU       their doom looks increasingly inevitable, Mr Benevolent
THU       finally explains just why it is that he is so very very
THU       evil.
THU       Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
THU       Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen
THU       Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
THU       Lovely Benevolent ...... Jane Asher
THU       Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
THU       Hardthrasher/Sternbeater/Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey
THU       Whitehead
THU       Miss Christmasham ...... Sarah Hadland
THU       Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00nxgd9 (Listen)
THU       Helen's insecurities come to the fore.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00ny48n (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nr (Listen)
THU       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 14
THU       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
THU       novel.
THU       Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer meet at last, at a funeral
THU       in a country churchyard.
THU       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
THU       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
THU       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
THU       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
THU       Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh
THU       Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew
THU       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
THU       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
THU       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
THU       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler
THU       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
THU       Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke
THU       Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah
THU       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
THU       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
THU       Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin
THU       Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider
THU       Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler
THU       Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney
THU       Music by Roger Goula
THU       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
THU       This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as
THU       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00nyz7j (Listen)
THU       Current affairs series which combines original insights
THU       into major news stories with topical investigations.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00nz005 (Listen)
THU       Unlimited Company
THU       In a world where banks and conventional companies have
THU       taken a big battering in the recession, perhaps there are
THU       better ways of running an business. Peter Day listens to
THU       some people who are trying to do things completely
THU       differently.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00nyz7n (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts examines the impact of Darwin's On The Origin
THU       of Species on science, society and religion, then and now,
THU       on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
THU       He visits an international conference in Egypt that brings
THU       together scientists and religious thinkers from east and
THU       west to discuss how ideas about evolution have informed
THU       biological science, but also have been hijacked to support
THU       prejudice. He also looks into some of the big questions
THU       being asked of evolution today.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00nyxvr (Listen)
THU       A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and
THU       Declan Kiberd discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
THU       Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing
THU       up in Catholic Ireland.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00ny61q (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00ny64b (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsn (Listen)
THU       Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, Rabbit
THU       Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of
THU       linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on
THU       the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the
THU       fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.
THU       The major, his wife and Leafy Barkwell have a
THU       heartbreaking encounter on an evening walk.
THU       Abridged by Sara Davies.
THU       
THU       23:00 Bespoken Word b00n56sw (Listen)
THU       Special edition of Radio 4's performance poetry show from
THU       Cardiff University. Featuring Brit School graduate Laura
THU       Dockrill, who regularly gigs with Kate Nash and has just
THU       published her second book, Ugly Shy Girl, which looks at
THU       the experiences of the sixth-form loner girl, the kind who
THU       feels 'like a tiny speck of dust that the Hoover has
THU       forgotten to suck up'. Plus the winner of the Radio 4
THU       Poetry Slam competition Dizraeli, who makes you listen to
THU       rap with new ears, and Siadwell from the TV comedy series
THU       Naked Video.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zv (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00nx953 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00p298s (Listen)
FRI       Family Britain, Brisk Buying and Selling
FRI       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
FRI       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
FRI       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
FRI       people.
FRI       A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising
FRI       and the arrival of commercial television.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
FRI       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx971 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9pd (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx993 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qy (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj8 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00nxclr (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00nxcs5 (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Food and Farming Awards b00nz1bf (Listen)
FRI       Announcing the 2009 winners of Radio 4's annual
FRI       competition.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00p298v (Listen)
FRI       Family Britain, A Pretty Mess
FRI       Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and
FRI       intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the
FRI       letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary
FRI       people.
FRI       An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked
FRI       by the Suez crisis.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Greenwood.
FRI       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3s (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nz1bh (Listen)
FRI       Series 5, The Maryfield Writers
FRI       Alan Dein goes to Northern Ireland to talk to former Royal
FRI       Ulster Constabulary officers who have formed a writing
FRI       group. The Maryfield Writers meet once a month to share
FRI       and discuss their work. Alan spends time with three of
FRI       them to understand why they write about their chosen
FRI       subjects and finds that each of them deals with the past
FRI       in different ways.
FRI       Bob has made a clean break with his police past. He served
FRI       for 22 years, was shot at, had bombs placed under his car
FRI       and was forced to move house a number of times. He chooses
FRI       to write children's stories about fantasy and escape and
FRI       has had a number of books published. Keith is working on
FRI       screenplays which fall into the police-procedural genre
FRI       but avoid autobiographical references. Not entirely at
FRI       ease with modern Northern Ireland, Keith spends a lot of
FRI       time at home, writing. Teresa spent 20 years in Juvenile
FRI       Liaisons and, as a Catholic, was in a minority in the RUC.
FRI       Her poetry has allowed her some catharsis as years of
FRI       difficult experiences during the Troubles have now found a
FRI       creative outlet.
FRI       They each reflect on their motivations for joining the
FRI       police and the importance of their new lives as writers in
FRI       post-Troubles Northern Ireland.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nz1bk (Listen)
FRI       Episode 4
FRI       Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock
FRI       star and his search for fulfilment.
FRI       Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt contemplates the
FRI       purchase of an African village to complement his
FRI       afternoons-only radio station.
FRI       Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams
FRI       Dom ...... Russell Tovey
FRI       Naomi, the Charity Worker ...... Ayesha Antoine
FRI       Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham
FRI       Ken, the Maintenance Man ...... Phil Cornwell.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7n (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00nxdb1 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00nxgb1 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00nz1bm (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00nxgd9 (Listen)
FRI       Helen's insecurities come to the fore.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nz2n9 (Listen)
FRI       Number 10, The Visigoths Are Coming...
FRI       Series of plays by Jonathan Myerson depicting life inside
FRI       Downing Street.
FRI       The Angolan Navy have occupied the British territory of St
FRI       Helena. After six days, the PM and the Angolan Ambassador
FRI       are locked in talks to try to prevent a declaration of
FRI       war. But who has prompted this seemingly mad act of
FRI       aggression?
FRI       Adam ...... Antony Sher
FRI       Steve ...... Stephen Mangan
FRI       Genoveva ...... Adjoa Andoh
FRI       Angolan Ambassador/Virgilio, Angolan Military Attache
FRI       ...... Ray Fearon
FRI       Paul, US Deputy Secretary of State ...... Colin Stinton
FRI       Simon Laity ...... Damian Lewis
FRI       Merlin Helicopter Pilot ...... Theo Fraser
FRI       Command HQ ...... Scott Cherry
FRI       Directed by Clive Brill
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nz93r (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Gibbs answer
FRI       questions posed by gardeners in Mayfield, East Sussex.
FRI       With Christmas just around the corner, the team give their
FRI       top tips for which new books to buy, and Bunny Guinness
FRI       checks out some new gadgets and gizmos that might be
FRI       making an appearance in your garden some time soon.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x4 (Listen)
FRI       Robert Burns
FRI       To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir
FRI       explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate
FRI       the Scottish contribution to the world.
FRI       Scotland's year of Homecoming has been inspired by the
FRI       250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth. Aasmah asks what
FRI       Burns' real legacy is - his body of work or the social
FRI       principles he celebrated?
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00nz93v (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 b00nz93y (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Ken Russell about his adventures
FRI       in motion pictures.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxn (Listen)
FRI       27th November 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       Margaret Thatcher defends her record on the BBC's Panorama
FRI       and Michael Buerk reports from Ethiopia, where millions
FRI       are facing starvation.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00ny449 (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
FRI       Quinn. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny477 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00nz940 (Listen)
FRI       Series 29, Episode 1
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Jon Holmes and Shazia Mirza.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00nxgdc (Listen)
FRI       A new guest books in at Ambridge Hall.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00ny48q (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including the
FRI       announcement of the contenders for the BBC National Short
FRI       Story Award.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nt (Listen)
FRI       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 15
FRI       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
FRI       novel.
FRI       Impetuous and headstrong Bella Wilfer finally takes a
FRI       stand.
FRI       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
FRI       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
FRI       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
FRI       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
FRI       Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
FRI       Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh
FRI       Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew
FRI       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
FRI       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
FRI       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
FRI       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler
FRI       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
FRI       Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke
FRI       Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah
FRI       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
FRI       Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin
FRI       Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider
FRI       Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler
FRI       Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney
FRI       Music by Roger Goula
FRI       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
FRI       This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as
FRI       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00nz942 (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Tidworth
FRI       in Wiltshire. The panellists include Timothy Garton Ash,
FRI       Professor of European Studies at Oxford University.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00nz944 (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00nz946 (Listen)
FRI       Shirleymander
FRI       Tragic comedy by Gregory Evans depicting the principal
FRI       events of Shirley Porter's time as leader of Westminster
FRI       city council in the 1980s.
FRI       Leader ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
FRI       Wet ...... Maggie Steed
FRI       Senior Council Official ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
FRI       Exec Director ...... Piers Wehner
FRI       Deputy ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       The Doctor ...... Sagar Arya
FRI       District Auditor ...... Bruce Alexander
FRI       QC/Father ...... Ewan Hooper
FRI       Chairman, Tesco ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Labour Councillor ...... John Biggins
FRI       Female interviewer ...... Tessa Nicholson
FRI       Directed by Marc Beeby.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00ny61s (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00ny64d (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsq (Listen)
FRI       Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The
FRI       Broken Heart
FRI       Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of
FRI       linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on
FRI       the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the
FRI       fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.
FRI       When Obadiah Oak sells up and moves away from
FRI       Notwithstanding, he leaves his heart behind.
FRI       Abridged by Sara Davies.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00nycc0 (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to poet Kate Clanchy and zoologist and
FRI       director of the Natural History Museum Michael Dixon about
FRI       their favourite books, featuring an acclaimed poetry
FRI       anthology and the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by
FRI       Paul Torday.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zx (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
FRI       
FRI       
FRI