22 January, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 23/01/2010 - 29/01/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00pxwdr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7t (Listen) SAT Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Clovis Spear Point SAT The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, SAT retells the history of human development from the first SAT stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects SAT from the Museum. SAT Neil describes an object that dates from the earliest SAT settlement of North America, around 13,000 years ago. It SAT is a deadly hunting weapon, used by the first inhabitants SAT of the Americas. SAT This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread SAT across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from SAT north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north SAT America; within 2,000 years they had populated the whole SAT continent. How did these hunters live, and how does their SAT Asian origin sit with the creation stories of modern-day SAT Native Americans? SAT Including contributions from Michael Palin and American SAT archaeologist Gary Haynes. SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pxwdt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pxwdw (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pxwdy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00pxwf0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pxwf2 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. SAT SAT 05:45 A Box of Wittgensteins b00g9dgp (Listen) SAT The Survivors SAT The great-niece of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, SAT Margaret Stonborough, talks to the artist and historian SAT Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of SAT newly-inherited family archives and investigates the lives SAT of her talented, but tortured, forbears. SAT Margaret and her brother, Jerome Stonborough, discover SAT documents which stir childhood memories of their talented, SAT stylish but difficult family. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00pxwf4 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00pzp5h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00pzp5k (Listen) SAT Eel Pie Island SAT Most people who know anything about Eel Pie Island know it SAT was home to traditonal jazz, British blues and some pretty SAT wild weekends for teenagers and art students in the 1950s SAT and 60s. The bohemian days are long gone but the memories SAT live on for at least one islander, the septugenarian SAT inventor of the clockwork radio Trevor Baylis. SAT Helen Mark meets him as she tours the tiny island in the SAT Thames and discovers it is possible to have it all - the SAT peace, the wildlife and the community spirit of country SAT life combined with the convenience of being 20 minutes SAT from the centre of London. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00pzp5m (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT A farmer fight's to stop TB infecting her prize herd of SAT cattle. She tells Charlotte Smith why she thinks a badger SAT cull planned in Wales is the right thing to do. We also SAT hear from campaigners trying to stop the cull, and why SAT they think a badger vaccination programme proposed in SAT parts of England is the best solution. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00pzp6l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00pzgyg (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00q05vk (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Barbara SAT Dickson. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00q06gj (Listen) SAT Travelling independently and away from well-worn tourist SAT routes can present hazards which should be borne in mind SAT at the planning stage. These could be anything between SAT tummy upsets and terrorism. Charlie McGrath advises SAT travellers from gap year trekkers to journalists in SAT hostile environments about how to minimise the risks SAT without removing the thrill of adventurous travel. SAT Sarah Porter and James Lewis are a couple who were not put SAT off by tales of danger when they decided to go hiking in SAT North Pakistan as part of a gap year. They were delighted SAT to find an awe-inspiring landscape and welcoming, friendly SAT people and where the greatest perils were on the highways. SAT Claire Boobyer loves Cuba and is a frequent visitor there. SAT She recently drove herself on a 5,000-kilometre journey SAT all over the island and tells John what this fascinating SAT country has to offer away from the main tourist areas of SAT Havana and the coast. SAT SAT 10:30 What's So Great About ...? b00q0728 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Jackson Pollock SAT Lenny takes on the often misunderstood work of the SAT American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. SAT Pollock's art, characterised by an intricate web of lines SAT and layers of paint, has always polarised critics. His SAT detractors dismiss his 'drip painting' technique as little SAT more than random splashes on the canvas. His supporters SAT tap into a nervous energy inside his paintings which SAT expands under strict control. Either way, Pollock's work SAT still stirs strong emotions about the meaning of modern SAT art and, although he died in 1956, he is arguably still SAT the most important artist to have come out of the United SAT States. SAT Lenny puts Jack the Dripper's work to the test by talking SAT to jazz musicians, critics, mathematicians and artists who SAT all value the importance and uniqueness of the art of SAT Jackson Pollock. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00q072b (Listen) SAT Steve Richards looks behind the scenes at Westminster this SAT week. SAT Much has been said about the conduct of Tony Blair's SAT cabinet, particularly in relation to the war in Iraq. SAT Margaret Beckett was foreign secretary from 2006 to 2007 SAT and before that secretary of state for the environment. SAT She talks of her own experience in cabinet. SAT A new group, Charter 2010, has launched a website arguing SAT that a hung parliament could be beneficial in the current SAT financial circumstances, if properly planned for. Lord SAT Owen and Labour peer Lord Chandos, founding members of SAT this group, make the case for stable power sharing. SAT This week the left-wing Compass group held a conference in SAT London on the future of the centre-left in Europe. Neal SAT Lawson of Compass and Thorben Albrecht of Germany's SPD SAT analyse the problems they face. SAT It seems many of the posts for parliamentary private SAT secretaries are not being filled at the moment. Former MP SAT Gyles Brandeth reveals the secrets of this particular path SAT to power. SAT Related Links SAT * Charter 2010 (www.charter2010.co.uk) SAT * Neal Lawson of Compass (www.compassonline.org.uk) SAT * Thorben Albrecht of the German SPD (www.spd.de) SAT * Gyles Brandreth (www.gylesbrandreth.net) SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00q0784 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00q0786 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00pxvr7 (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 3 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman SAT and Sue Perkins. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00q0788 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00q078b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00pxvr9 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the BBC SAT Radio Theatre in London. The panel includes author Anthony SAT Horowitz, journalist Amanda Platell, chief executive of SAT Turning Point Lord Victor Adebowale, and Bob Crow, general SAT secretary of the RMT. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00q078d (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 b00q07c7 (Listen) SAT Raven Black SAT Dramatisation by Iain Finlay MacLeod of the crime novel by SAT Anne Cleeves, set in Shetland during midwinter. Detective SAT Jimmy Perez, a native of Fair Isle, investigates when a SAT teenage girl is found strangled. SAT Jimmy Perez ...... Grant O'Rourke SAT Duncan Hunter ...... Kenny Blyth SAT Catherine Ross ...... Melody Grove SAT Robert Ibister ...... John Kielty SAT DI Taylor ...... Robin Laing SAT Euan Ross ...... Greg Powrie SAT Magnus Tait ...... John Shedden SAT Fran Hunter ...... Rosalind Sydney SAT Annie Perez ...... Sandra Voe SAT Sally Henry ...... Clare Yuille SAT Producer Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00pxmcx (Listen) SAT Series 8, Cannonball Adderley SAT Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th SAT Century. SAT Florida-born saxophonist Cannonball Adderley first made SAT his name alongside his brother Nat in the 1950s. Moving to SAT New York, he quickly found success and before long was SAT playing with Miles Davis. Drawing influence from many of SAT the greats, including Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and SAT Louis Jordan, Cannonball was one of the leading pioneers SAT of hard-bop. By the 1960s he was also prominent in the SAT soul jazz scene, becoming increasingly experimental SAT towards the end of the decade. SAT Leading British sax player Alan Barnes talks to Ken about SAT Cannonball's eclectic career. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00q07c9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Julie Walters on playing Mo Mowlam; the health costs of SAT Britain's booze culture; the secret of true Italian SAT bolognese; why black's never out of fashion; long-term SAT relationships and why some succeed; forget the natural SAT look - why make-up is big and bold this season. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00q07cc (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Felicity SAT Evans, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00q07gg (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q07gj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Shipping Forecast b00q07gl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q07gn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00q07gq (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by actors Sir Ian McKellen and Shameless SAT star David Threlfall. Aleks Krotoski celebrates the 20th SAT anniversary of the world wide web. SAT Jo Bunting asks Katherine Hibbert what happens when you SAT walk away from everything you think you can't live without. SAT With comedy from the award-winning Richard Herring and SAT music from Fyfe Dangerfield and Marcus Bonfanti. SAT SAT Sir Ian McKellen joins Clive Anderson for this weeks Loose SAT Ends. The star of film (‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Gods and SAT Monsters’, ‘X-Men’), theatre ('Richard III', 'King Lear') SAT reprises his role in 'Waiting for Godot' at The Theatre SAT Royal Haymarket until Friday 2 April. SAT SAT The Bafta award-wi nning series Shameless returns for it’s SAT seventh series . David Threlfall talks about directing and SAT playing the likable yet drunken, drugtaking, bigamist SAT absentee father, Frank Gallagher . Shameless begins SAT Tuesday 26 January on Channel 4 at 10 pm . SAT SAT The World Wide Web is twenty years old this year and to SAT celebrate , journalist, academic and presenter Dr Aleks SAT Krotoski fronts a four part series that explores the SAT impact the digital revolution has made on our lives. The SAT Virtual Revolution starts on Saturday 30 January at SAT 20.30pm on BBC Two. SAT SAT ‘Imagine no possessions. It’s easy if you try’. Jo Bunting SAT has no trouble heeding the words of John Lennon when she SAT talks to Katharine Hibbert about her latest book 'Free - SAT Adventures on the margins of a wasteful society ' . What SAT happens when you walk away from everything you think you SAT can't live without? ‘ published by Ebury. SAT SAT Comedy from Richard Herring, who in his latest show tries SAT to reclaim the toothbrush moustache from Hitler back to SAT comedy (after all Charlie Chaplin had it first!). His SAT show, exploring the thorny issues of racism, political SAT apathy, comedy ethics and styled facial hair tours the SAT country from Friday 29 January. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00q07gs (Listen) SAT Scott Brown SAT Claire Bolderson looks at the colourful life of the SAT senator elect for Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown. SAT His victory in the previously safe Democrat seat, held by SAT the late Ted Kennedy, is a huge blow for President Obama SAT and his legislative plans. Dubbed Senator Beefcake in the SAT US media, Scott Brown is a lawyer, an athlete and a former SAT model. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00q07gv (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00q08xn (Listen) SAT So Much Older Then SAT Journalist Katharine Whitehorn, now in her 80s, reviews SAT archive recordings that span her lifetime in order to SAT arrive at some conclusions about old age. SAT How long should we work and what should we do when we SAT retire? Does age make us wise or merely boring? Should a SAT woman fight the effects of age with facelifts and high SAT heels? And when is it time to go? SAT An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00psqvj (Listen) SAT The Custom of the Country, Episode 3 SAT Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SAT satire of marriage and money in early-20th century SAT American society. SAT Undine's plans to secure a better future for herself move SAT on apace, but will she ever find real happiness? SAT Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SAT Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SAT Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SAT Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SAT Marquise de Chelles ...... Olwen May SAT Raymond de Chelles ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Princess Estradina ...... Provence Maydew SAT Paul ...... Daniel Rogers SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00q09mt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b00pxqzc (Listen) SAT How to abolish the BBC licence fee? Nick and a panel of SAT former political insiders examine how a government which SAT wanted to abolish the BBC licence fee could get its way, SAT and ask what opposition it would face in Whitehall, SAT Westminster and White City. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00pxjzx (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs another semi-final of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, with heat winners Martin Boult SAT from Basingstoke, David Clark from Port Talbot, Jane Ann SAT Liston from St Andrews and Anthony Payne from St Bees in SAT Cumbria competing for a place in the final. SAT Contestants SAT Martin Boult from Basingstoke SAT David Clark from Port Talbot SAT Jane Ann Liston from St Andrews SAT Anthony Payne from St Bees SAT SAT 23:30 Consorting With Angels b00psqvn (Listen) SAT A tribute to the life and work of American poet Anne SAT Sexton. SAT Featuring poetry, home video archive and dramatised SAT transcripts of audio tapes recorded during Sexton's SAT psychotherapy sessions. Anne's daughters Linda and Joyce SAT remember their mother, and her close friend JD McClatchy SAT and former psychiatric nurse and poet Anne Rouse share SAT their thoughts on a truly remarkable woman. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 JANUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00q09rf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008xmqp (Listen) SUN Cupid Strikes, Consuming Celia SUN Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day. SUN By Kate Perry. SUN Celia has a list of gifts she doesn't want for Valentine's SUN Day, but the one thing she really wants it seems money SUN just can't buy. SUN Read by Tamsin Greig. SUN Producer Heather Larmour. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q0b5b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q0b5d (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q0b5g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00q0b5j (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00q0b5l (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00q07gs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00q0b5n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00q0b5q (Listen) SUN Wrestling and Resting SUN Mark Tully explores different approaches to the SUN intractable issues in our lives. When is it better to SUN wrestle with them head-on, and when is it better to seek a SUN gentler resolution? SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and William Gaminara. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Music SUN Music 1: ‘Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 Allegro molto’ composed SUN by Sergei Rachmaninoff performed by the Royal Philharmonic SUN Orchestra. Available on the album The Best of SUN Rachmaninoff. Released by Philips. SUN Music 2: ‘I Wander by the Edge’ composed by Peter Warlock, SUN performed by Ian Partirdge and the Music Group of London. SUN Available on A Warlock Centenary Album, released by EMI SUN Records. SUN Music 3: ‘Where I Go’ by Natalie Merchant. Available on SUN the album Tigerlily. Released by Elektra. SUN Music 4: ‘The Voice Out of The Whirlwind’ composed by SUN Vaughan Williams, performed by the Royal Liverpool SUN Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra. Available on the album SUN Willow-Wood, released by Naxos. SUN Music 5: ‘That Don’t Make It Junk’ by Leonard Cohen. SUN Available on the album Ten New Songs. Released on Columbia. SUN Music 6: ‘Geistliches Lied Op.30’ composed by Johannes SUN Brahms, performed by Gerhard Dickel. Available on SUN Chorwerke, released by Deutsche Grammophon. SUN Readings SUN Reading 1: “Meeting with Remarkable Men” by G.I. SUN Gurdjieff. Published by Penguin. SUN Reading 2: “Till God Will” by Mary Ward, edited by SUN Emmanuel Orchard. Published by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. SUN Reading 3: “A Calendar of Wisdom” by Leo Tolstoy, SUN translated by Peter Sekirin. Published by Prentice Hall. SUN Reading 4: ‘Letters from Baron von Hugel to a Niece’ by SUN David Scott. From Selected Poems. Published by Bloodaxe. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00q0b5s (Listen) SUN When Nick Padwick took over the Stoughton Estate farm near SUN Leicester, he was faced with quite a challenge. Ageing SUN machinery meant high repair costs and it was clear things SUN had to change. They did, and now Stoughton, the flagship SUN farm for the Co-operative Group, is a pioneer of new SUN technologies, leading farm improvements for all the SUN Co-op's farms. SUN Tom Heap meets Nick, who was named Farm Manager of the SUN Year for 2009, and sees the new technology in action, from SUN soil analysis to tractors that always follow the same SUN tracks. And he sees why Nick is known as one of the most SUN enthusiastic and 'can do' farmers in the business. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00q0bck (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00q0bs6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00q0bs8 (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 b00q0bsb (Listen) SUN Mental Health Foundation SUN Patricia Gallimore appeals on behalf of Mental Health SUN Foundation. SUN Donations to Mental Health Foundation should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Mental Health Foundation. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Mental Heatlh Foundation with your full name and address SUN so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number England: 801130, Scotland: SC SUN 039714. SUN Related Links SUN * Mental Health Foundation (www.mentalhealth.org.uk) SUN The Mental Health Foundation SUN The Mental Health Foundation uses research and practical SUN projects to help people survive, recover from and prevent SUN mental health problems. We work to influence policy, SUN including government at the highest levels. And we use our SUN knowledge to raise awareness and to help tackle the stigma SUN attached to mental illness. We reach millions of people SUN every year through our media work, information booklets SUN and online services.” SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00q0bsd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00q0bsg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00q0bsj (Listen) SUN One Body in the Spirit SUN A service for the week of prayer for Christian unity from SUN the Chapel of Worcester College, Oxford, led by the SUN Chaplain, Rev Dr Jonathan Arnold, with the Chapel Choir SUN directed by Thomas Allery. Preacher: Fr Nicholas King SJ. SUN Related Links SUN * Lent Resources - People on the Edge of His Pain SUN (www.ctbi.org.uk) SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00pxvrc (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine on the importance of science education for SUN national prosperity, and a failed attempt in the late 19th SUN century to change our culture to be more pro-science. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00q0dbs (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00q0dbv (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00q0dbx (Listen) SUN Frank Warren SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank SUN Warren. SUN He has managed and promoted some of the biggest names in SUN the sport, including Joe Calzaghe, Prince Naseem Hamed, SUN Ricky Hatton and the Olympic medal winner Amir Khan. SUN Over the past three decades he has lost fortunes and SUN remade them, survived an assassination attempt and even a SUN run-in with Mike Tyson. Boxing has been good to him, he SUN says, but now he says he wants to find something that will SUN nourish his soul too. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00pxk23 (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 3 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at SUN Derby University. The panellists are Josie Lawrence, SUN Justin Moorhouse, Tony Hawks and Dave Gorman. Subjects SUN include how to spot a mature student and three ways to pay SUN back your student loan. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00q0dc0 (Listen) SUN City Food Lecture SUN It's predicted that the world population will reach nine SUN billion in 2050. Simon Parkes reports from the City Food SUN Lecture, where former Chief Scientist Sir David King SUN spells out his vision for how we can meet that challenge. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00q0dc2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00q0dc4 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Greening of the Deserts b00l5j3j (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Ayisha Yahya explores predictions from some scientists and SUN meteorologists that some deserts, including the Sahara, SUN could get greener in the future and experience more SUN rainfall. SUN This runs contrary to more usual predictions about the SUN future of global warming in Africa that envisage more SUN drought, floods, land degradation, epidemics and resource SUN wars. Ayisha travels to Mali and Egypt to explore the SUN arguments. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pxvdx (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the popular SUN horticultural forum. SUN Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matt Biggs answer SUN listeners' questions sent in by post and email. SUN Jon Stokes of The Tree Council joins the programme to SUN discuss the problem of sudden oak death. SUN Related Links SUN * Forest Research - Sudden Oak Death Information SUN (www.forestresearch.gov.uk) SUN To report incidences of Sudden Oak Death, please email: SUN ddas.ah@forestry.gsi.gov.uk SUN SUN 14:45 Gameboy v The Mongolian Steppe b00clmh7 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Series following the exploits of a computer games-obsessed SUN 14-year-old with learning difficulties who is taken to SUN Mongolia by his father to experience the more exciting SUN side of life. SUN The family arrive at their location and meet Eagle Hunter SUN Number 2, who is going to take them out riding for the SUN first time on Mongolian horses. They also discover that SUN computer games have made their way to the very remotest SUN parts of the country. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00q0h3y (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The SUN Honourable Schoolboy, Part 1 SUN Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring SUN intelligence officer George Smiley. SUN Set against the backdrop of the war in Indochina in 1975, SUN spymaster George Smiley uncovers a trail of Russian money SUN leading to a prominent Hong Kong citizen. But what is the SUN money for? SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville SUN Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SUN Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed SUN Doc De Salis ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SUN Oliver Lacon ...... Anthony Calf SUN Enderby ...... James Laurenson SUN Craw ...... Philip Quast SUN Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SUN The Girl, Phoebe ...... Tessa Nicholson SUN Stubbs/Wilbrahim ...... Nigel Hastings SUN Frost ...... Piers Wehner SUN Drake Ko ...... David Yip SUN Tiu ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 14th February as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00q0hgh (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup's guest is Henning Mankell, creator of SUN the popular detective Kurt Wallander, who discusses his SUN new political thriller The Man From Beijing. SUN SUN 16:30 Terezin Dreams b00q0hgk (Listen) SUN A few years ago writer and poet Sibyl Ruth inherited a SUN series of poems written by her German great aunt Rose SUN Scooler in 1944-45 when she was an inmate at Terezin camp. SUN Terezin, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was SUN a ghetto town in occupied Czechoslovakia used by Nazis to SUN hold Jews en route to extermination camps. Many prominent SUN Czech and German musicians and cultural figures passed SUN through Terezin, which was developed into a 'model' camp, SUN where cultural activities were permitted and encouraged, SUN to disguise to the outside world the true Nazi project. In SUN 1944 the authorities permitted a visit by the Red Cross to SUN dispel rumours of genocide, a notorious attempt - and a SUN remarkably successful one - to cover-up the great crime of SUN the Holocaust. SUN The poems, which are read by Eleanor Bron, are powerful SUN and unexpected; they speak with an utterly singular voice: SUN dramatically confident, ironic, often playful and never SUN self-pitying. Although nothing in Rose Scooler's SUN privileged background could have prepared her for life in SUN a Nazi concentration camp, what comes through is a strong, SUN humorous and defiant spirit. The poems are life affirming, SUN and despite the terrible conditions of the camp, full of SUN hope - hope which was, for Rose, if not for others, SUN fulfilled when the camp was liberated. Rose went on to SUN live a long and busy life before dying in the United SUN States at the age of 103. SUN Sibyl Ruth describes how she set about translating the SUN poems, and the journey of discovery about Terezin she made SUN as she did so. The renowned Holocaust historian David SUN Cesarani provides the historical background to Rose SUN Scooler's poems, and explains the role Terezin played in SUN the Nazi extermination project. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00pxng0 (Listen) SUN In 2009, 2,445 cases, including allegations of police SUN brutality, deaths in custody and serious negligence, were SUN referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. SUN But is it truly independent, and does its record over five SUN years encourage public confidence? Gerry Northam SUN investigates. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00q07gs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q0hhz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00q0hj1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q0hj3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00q0hj5 (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce introduces his selection of SUN highlights from the past week on BBC radio. SUN Obama's Babies - Radio 4 SUN Jon Ronson On... - Radio 4 SUN The History of the World in 100 Objects - Radio 4 SUN At Cupid's Cove - Radio 3 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Taking A Stand - Radio 4 SUN More Than a Game - Radio 4 SUN Season of Migration to the North - Radio 3 SUN Too White to be Black - Radio 4 SUN Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show - Radio 4 SUN Some Secluded Glade - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes: To Chekhov's Memory - Radio 3 SUN The House That Chekhov Built - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00q0hj7 (Listen) SUN Helen shows what true friends are for. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00q0hnm (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 A look at Massachusetts - what makes a mostly blue state SUN go red? Two local state leaders take sides to explain the SUN Massachusetts of today. They weigh in on what elections in SUN November may look like with the recent Supreme Court SUN ruling which removes monetary limits on corporate spending SUN during federal elections. SUN As American troops arrive on the ground in Haiti, the SUN picture of American military operations overseas is SUN refreshed. It's not all about fighting terrorism. SUN After a week of pointed jokes and fierce deliberations, SUN Conan O'Brien agrees to a 45 million dollar severance SUN package to leave NBC's Tonight Show. Americana learns SUN about the legacy of the late night show and what might SUN come next as host Jay Leno returns to the spotlight. SUN Considered one of the 100 most influential figures in the SUN United States, talk show host Tavis Smiley talks to Matt SUN Frei about The Tavis Smiley Show and his goals for the SUN future. SUN Massachusetts- What Makes a Mostly Blue State Go Red? SUN Matt Frei talks to Republican State Senator Bob Hedlund SUN and Democratic State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz about the SUN new Republican who takes the seat Senator Ted Kennedy left SUN behind. SUN The two explain what the change means for a state with a SUN long Democratic history in the Senate. They also discuss SUN the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to remove SUN restrictions on corporate election spending may have in SUN subsequent federal elections. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t4v (Listen) SUN An Italian Bestiary, Mules and the Motor Car SUN Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the SUN animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she SUN has made her home. SUN The mules lost their importance when the roads came, SUN although they took a long time coming. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00pxvdv (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00pxvr3 (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 b00q0786 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00q0bsb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00pxsyk (Listen) SUN Ready to Wear SUN Many of our clothes are made by low-paid workers in SUN low-cost countries. But when In Business got involved, a SUN factory was closed and working conditions improved. From SUN Bangladesh, Peter Day found out what happens when SUN westerners intervene. SUN Related Links SUN * International Textile Garment and Leatherworkers SUN Federation (www.itglwf.org) SUN * Inditex (www.inditex.com) SUN * Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters SUN Association (bgmea.com.bd) SUN * Read more about improving factory conditions for SUN garment workers in Bangladesh (BBC News) SUN Contributors to this programme: SUN The late Neil Kearney SUN General Secretary, International Textile Garment and SUN Leatherworkers Federation SUN Javier Chercoles SUN Director Corporate Social Responsibility, Inditex SUN Mesbah uddin Khan SUN Managing Director, Windy Group SUN Khorshed Alam SUN The Alternative Movement for Resources and Freedom Society SUN Amirul Haque Amin SUN President, National Garment Workers Federation, Bangladesh SUN A.M.A. Muhit SUN Finance Minister, Bangladesh Government SUN Shafiul Islam SUN Vice President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and SUN Exporters Association SUN Israfil Alam SUN Chairman, Standing Committee of Labour and Employment, SUN Bangladesh Parliament SUN Worker at the new Windy Group factory SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00q0hnr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00q0hnt (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Turkeys Voting for Christmas. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00pxvr5 (Listen) SUN Noel Clarke counts down to his latest movie 4-3-2-1 and SUN reveals why he never intended to make his last film SUN Adulthood, which topped the British box office charts. SUN Old Boy director Park Chan Wook discusses vampires, SUN religion and guilt, all of which play a major part in his SUN new horror film Thirst. SUN Professor Roger Luckhurst visits District 9, the science SUN fiction allegory about apartheid. SUN Colin Shindler presents the film news from 1960. SUN NOEL CLARKE SUN 4-3-2-1 will be released in cinemas in May. SUN About Noel Clarke SUN DISTRICT 9 SUN District 9 is available on DVD, certificate 15. SUN BROTHERS SUN Brothers is in cinemas, certificate 15. SUN PARK CHAN WOOK - THIRST SUN Park Chan Wook's vampire film Thirst is available on DVD SUN this Monday, certificate 18. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00q0b5q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 JANUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00q2m8n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pxqz9 (Listen) MON Twitter, Broadband, BlackBerries, Globalisation - are they MON all forces ranged against out traditional concept of work MON or does a deeper analysis favour continuity over change? MON Laurie Taylor discusses the workplace of the future with MON Richard Donkin, author of The Future of Work, and with MON Kevin Doogan from Bristol University. Are we all set to MON become 'portfolio workers' or is the factory system in MON place since the Industrial Revolution and the office 9 to MON 5 set to continue for a while yet. MON Also, what have you been doing with your teddy lately? MON Schools have begun sending young children home with teddy MON bears to write diaries of their shared experiences over MON holidays or half-terms. So widespread has this practice MON become that children as far apart as China and Norway are MON jotting down the daily experiences they share with these MON teds. A unique opportunity for a sociologist to compare MON childhood experiences in these two places. Laurie's guest MON Randi Waerdahl talks about her research. MON Richard Donkin MON Richard Donkin, author and a visiting fellow of Cass MON Business School MON The Future of Work MON Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 0230576389 MON ISBN-13: 978-0230576384 MON Find out more about Richard Donkin MON Kevin Doogan MON Kevin Doogan, Jean Monnet Professor of European Policy MON Studies; Senior Lecturer in Employment Policy MON School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol MON New Capitalism? MON Publisher: Polity MON ISBN-10: 0745633250 MON ISBN-13: 978-0745633251 MON Find out more about Kevin Doogan MON Randi Waerdahl MON Dr Randi Waerdahl, Post doctoral researcher at the MON Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of MON Oslo MON Paper: Teddy Diaries: A Method for Studying the Display of MON Family Life MON http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/6/1141 MON Marit Haldar and Randi Wærdahl (authors) MON Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 6, 1141-1150 (2009) MON DOI: 10.1177/0038038509345694 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00q0b5l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q2mkm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q2mnl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q2mls (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00q2mqv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q2mss (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00q2mvv (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00q2w7w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00q2nhg (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00q2w7y (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses 'How to Live' with the help of MON Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell and the writer Will MON Self, the geneticist Steve Jones asks how much the mapping MON of the human genome really tells us about who we are, and MON the conductor Charles Hazlewood attempts to recapture the MON spirit of the 18th-century satire The Beggar's Opera. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p66 (Listen) MON After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), MON Bird-shaped Pestle MON The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, MON retells the history of human development from the first MON stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects MON from the Museum. MON Neil explores the profound changes that humans experienced MON at the end of the Ice Age. By this period, humanity is MON reconsidering its place in the world and turning its MON attention to food, power, worship and human relationships. MON But then, as now, one of the most important parts of human MON existence was finding enough food to survive. Taking a MON pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil asks why MON our ancestors decided to cook foods, rather than just eat MON them raw. The answer provides us with a telling insight MON into the way early humans settled on the land. Becoming MON farmers and eating food that was harder for other animals MON to digest made us a formidable force in the food chain. MON The impact on our environment of this shift to cookery and MON cultivation is still being felt. MON Neil is joined by Indian food writer Madhur Jaffrey, MON campaigner Sir Bob Geldof and archaeologist Professor MON Martin Jones. MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00q2pkv (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON As part of Woman's Hour's pre-election series on Winning MON Women's Votes, we look at education and consider who MON should run schools. The traditional model of state schools MON run centrally by Whitehall and administered by Local MON Education Authorities is under threat. The City Academies, MON introduced by New Labour, act as independent schools and MON are run by private sponsors, but remain within the state MON sector. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats MON support academies. But are they the answer? The MON Conservatives want to go a step further and make it easier MON for everyone to set up schools within the state sector as MON a way, they say, of introducing innovation, choice and MON diversity into the public sector. Journalist Toby Young is MON currently campaigning for a parent-run academy in his MON patch of west London. Jane Garvey talks to him about his MON plans and is joined by journalist and education campaigner MON Fiona Millar, Anthony Seldon, Master at Wellingon College MON (sponsor of a new academy in Wiltshire), and Julian Astle MON from CentreForum. MON Sophie Okonedo talks to Jane about her role as Winnie MON Mandela in a one-off biopic on BBC4. The fact-based drama MON follows Mrs Mandela from the 1950s to 1990, when her MON husband was released from prison after 27 years. It charts MON her progress from country girl to politicised fighter MON against apartheid. How Sophie, a Brit, feel about playing MON arguably South Africa's most controversial character? How MON easy was it to get the right balance in portraying Winnie MON Mandela's fight against apartheid, but also her MON convictions for kidnapping, fraud and theft? And how did MON she manage to act the part of a woman as she aged through MON three decades? MON Binding your stomach after birth is becoming increasingly MON popular as new products like The Cinch or the Belly Bandit MON promise a flat tummy. But the Royal College of Midwives MON has warned that they can cause health problems. Popular MON with A-list celebrities and mums who can afford the price MON tag, such abdominal binders can be worn a day after birth. MON But do they work? And should mums really be focusing on MON their tummies? Haven't they got enough to do? MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00q2psk (Listen) MON About Love, The Man in a Case MON In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's MON birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer MON presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of MON marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade. MON A repressed schoolmaster has marriage on his mind. MON Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington MON Belikov ...... Jasper Britton MON Kovalenko ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Varenka ...... Zoe Waites MON Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Signs of Change b00q2w80 (Listen) MON On 4th February 1970, 22 students from the University of MON Aberystwyth stormed into the High Court in London and MON staged a sit-in to highlight their campaign for bilingual MON road signs in Wales. It was the first time the campaign MON had been taken to the heart of the English establishment MON and 14 of the protestors were jailed. MON On the 40th anniversary of the sit-in, Sian Pari Huws MON meets those student campaigners to relive their protest MON and its aftermath. She discovers how their act of civil MON disobedience eventually changed British law and how, for MON some of them, the fight goes on. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00q2w82 (Listen) MON Series 6, The Cruise MON Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. MON Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger MON and master of the abusive email, attempts to survive in a MON world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying MON charlatans. MON Ed, surprisingly, has had a brilliant idea for a book and, MON even more surprisingly, Ping agrees. So when an MON opportunity arises to go on a cruise with Jaz and the MON band, Ed takes up the offer in order to find creative MON reinvigoration at sea. MON Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas MON Olive ...... Stephanie Cole MON Ray ...... Simon Greenall MON Geoff McGivern ...... Cliff MON Jaz ...... Philip Jackson MON Pearl ...... Rita May MON Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead MON With Kim Wall and Lewis McCleod. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00q2pyx (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00q2pzf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00q2q7v (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00q2wjg (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the last semi-final of the perennial MON general knowledge contest, with heat winners Jim Cook from MON Worcestershire, David Edwards from Staffordshire, Anne MON Hegerty from Manchester and Simon Pitfield from the MON Midlands competing for a place in the final. MON Contestants MON Jim Cook from Stourport MON David Edwards from Denstone MON Anne Hegerty from Manchester MON Simon Pitfield from Birmingham MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00q0hj7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b1czp (Listen) MON Mr Larkin's Awkward Day MON Chris Harrald's play takes a light-hearted look at a MON chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet. MON One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a MON very official looking letter which sends him into a spin. MON Philip Larkin ...... Adrian Scarborough MON Mrs Giddings ..... Anne Reid MON Mrs C ...... Lynne Verrall MON Inspector Clough ...... Alan Williams MON Bob ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Roger ...... John Rowe MON Shopkeeper ...... Dan Starkey MON Mary ...... Helen Longworth MON Tom ...... Ben Crowe MON Mr Stenning ...... Chris Pavlo. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00q08xn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.] MON MON 15:45 Images That Changed The World b00q2qjj (Listen) MON X-ray MON Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced MON Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical MON imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the MON world. MON The image of a ghostly skeletal hand, wearing an enormous MON wedding ring, shocked and fascinated the public when it MON hit the front page of newspapers around the world in MON January 1896. This was the first X-ray, taken by Wilhelm MON Roentgen of his wife Bertha. It sparked a worldwide trend MON for DIY X-ray kits, until the dangers emerged. Mark MON Lythgoe looks at how medical images have changed our MON culture beyond the realm of medicine. In this episode, he MON explains how seeing living skeletons revolutionised our MON view of the body. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00q0dc0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00q3clz (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether self-inflicted pain MON is a valid or offensive form of spiritual discipline. MON MON 17:00 PM b00q2r42 (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 b00q2rcy (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00q3cm1 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 4 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The MON panellists are David Mitchell, Paul Merton, Julian Clary MON and Gyles Brandreth. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00q2q8j (Listen) MON There's a cash flow crisis at Keeper's Cottage. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00q2rdl (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p66 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] MON MON 20:00 Overexposed b00q3cm3 (Listen) MON Miles Warde presents the story of a group of MON photojournalists who set out to witness world events. They MON went to Yugoslavia, Angola, Chechnya, Gaza and Iraq. Two MON of them were shot dead. A compelling portrait of youthful MON ambition and the power of photography to change the world. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00q3cnl (Listen) MON Are environmentalists bad for the planet? MON 'Ethical man' Justin Rowlatt asks if it is time the green MON movement ditched some of its ideological excess baggage. MON Although apparently united in their goal to tackle climate MON change, some environmentalists attach other dogmas to the MON cause - from a preference for the natural over the hi-tech MON to a hatred of consumption, capitalism and urbanisation. MON Could these extraneous aspects of green politics be MON undermining the environmental cause? MON MON 21:00 Super Recognisers b00q3fbv (Listen) MON Claudia Hammond investigates the science of face MON recognition. MON Imagine looking in the mirror and not recognising who was MON staring back at you. Or not knowing which is your own MON child at the school gates. People with prosopagnosia or MON face blindness have those kinds of experiences every day. MON Neuroscientists have just discovered a group at the other MON extreme, so-called 'super recognisers' who literally can't MON forget a face even if they've only had a fleeting MON encounter decades earlier. Claudia uncovers the MON extraordinary extremes of a skill that is fundamental to MON social interaction and yet science is only just beginning MON to understand. MON Prosopagnosia is surprisingly common. As many as one in MON twenty people are face blind but not all will know, with MON huge implications for border control, policing and MON eyewitness evidence. If you can find your car in the car MON park but not your wife at a party, what does this say MON about how our brains are organised? Claudia talks to the MON neuroscientist who is doing some of the first FMRi brain MON scans to find out. And can a computer ever recognise a MON face as well as a human? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00q2w7y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00q2rhf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00q2rym (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00q2rzg (Listen) MON The Still Point, Episode 1 MON Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about MON true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two MON couples, living a hundred years apart, collide MON unexpectedly one summer's day. MON At the turn of the 20th century, Arctic explorer Edward MON Mackley set out for the North Pole and disappeared into MON the icy landscape. He left behind a young wife, Emily, who MON awaited his return for decades, during which her dreams of MON life with her heroic husband gradually froze into lonely MON widowhood. A hundred years later, on a sweltering summer's MON day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia is searching through MON the family house, trying to make some sense of the decades MON of clutter and the memories from that ill-fated MON expedition. As Julia continues her research into the Artic MON journey that ended the life of her beloved ancestor, she MON can't help but notice the deepening cracks within her own MON marriage MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Produced by Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00nks89 (Listen) MON Leaving the Comfort Zone MON Is leaving your comfort zone a form of masochism, or the MON only way to develop in life? Dominic Arkwright is joined MON by comedian Rhona Cameron, mountaineer Andy Cave and MON journalist Agnes Poirier to write about and discuss MON comfort and pain. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00q2vz4 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00q2m2b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p66 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q2m8q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q2mlv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q2mkp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00q2mnn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q2mqx (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00q2msv (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00q2nh2 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00q3fr2 (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to people who have taken risks and made TUE sacrifices to stand up for what they believe in. TUE TUE 09:30 Famous Footsteps b00q3fr4 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience TUE of growing up in a creatively successful family. TUE Fiona examines the burden of expectation felt by the TUE children of creatively successful parents. If a child TUE chooses to follow a similar path, how debilitating is the TUE worry about comparisons being made with their parent? Does TUE the fear of failure stifle potential creativity at birth? TUE Or is it the weight of parental expectation that is the TUE most daunting? Fiona talks to songwriter Guy Chambers, Sir TUE Jonathan Miller's son William, and Jennifer Saunders, TUE Adrian Edmondson and their children. TUE A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p68 (Listen) TUE After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Ain Sakri TUE Lovers Figurine TUE The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, TUE retells the history of human development from the first TUE stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects TUE from the Museum. TUE Neil investigates a palm-sized stone sculpture that was TUE made in Northern Israel 12,000 years ago, which clearly TUE shows a couple entwined in the act of love. Sculptor Marc TUE Quinn responds to the stone as art, and archaeologist Dr TUE Ian Hodder considers the Natufian society that produced TUE it. What was human life and society actually like all TUE those years ago? Possibly a lot more sophisticated than we TUE imagine. TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00q2phl (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00q3f31 (Listen) TUE About Love, The Black Monk TUE In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's TUE birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer TUE presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of TUE marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade. TUE A haunting story of love, obsession and the supernatural. TUE Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington TUE The Black Monk ...... Jasper Britton TUE Kovrin ...... Nicholas Boulton TUE Tanya ...... Zoe Waites TUE Yegor ...... Philip Voss TUE Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00q3fr6 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Shingle Street TUE Dungeness is place to listen and to watch. It is a place TUE to watch new land being made by the sea's shovelling of TUE shingle; a place to watch the manufacture of power, a TUE place to watch the migrating birds and moths find a TUE transitory refuge. But watching is about far more than TUE just looking, as writer and naturalist Paul Evans reveals TUE in this powerful and haunting sound portrait of one of TUE Britain's most unsettling landscapes, the shingle flats of TUE Dungeness. TUE Situated between New Romney, Lydd and Camber on the Romney TUE Marsh in Kent, Dungeness is a vast landscape of shingle TUE ridges, accreted over the centuries by longshore drift. It TUE is a landscape of contrasts and contradictions; nuclear TUE power stations and fishing nets, wild birds and moth TUE traps, shingle flats and wooden houses; an unsettling but TUE fascinating place. It is the terminus for a railway line. TUE There are no trees, no forests, but always the wind. At TUE night shadows shift; fairy-lights glint in the dark where TUE during the day there is the grey hulk of a power station. TUE Above the ever-present drone and hum of the power station TUE there are the calls of the birds; in October a group of TUE chattering Swallows wait for the wind to take them south. TUE The wind also carries the smack and hiss of the sea as TUE waves boil into froth and are sucked under. The sea TUE unloads its cargo of shingle and England grows. TUE Dungeness has been described as 'one of the most valuable TUE and yet vulnerable nature conservation sites in Great TUE Britain'. It is one of the best examples of a shingle TUE beach in the world, and home to many uncommon plants TUE including lacey white night-scented Nottingham catchfly, TUE as well as rare moths as well and a landing site for vast TUE numbers of migratory birds in the spring and autumn, which TUE are counted and studied by the Dungeness Bird Observatory. TUE The Observatory has been based here since the 1950s and is TUE housed at one end of five cottages originally built for TUE the RNSSS, the Royal Navy signalling corps. Where today TUE the washing line stands was once 'a tall flagpole which TUE signalled coded flag messages between ships at sea and TUE watching signallers inland'. Lighthouses have come and TUE gone at Dungeness. The most recent was built in 1967. A TUE spiral staircase leads the way to a vast lens and a place TUE from which to gaze at the white cliffs of Dover and across TUE the Channel. TUE Dungeness has long been a place to watch and be watched. TUE Related Links TUE * The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway TUE (www.rhdr.org.uk) TUE * Dungeness Bird Observatory TUE (www.dungenessbirdobs.org.uk) TUE * The Old Lighthouse Dungeness TUE (www.dungenesslighthouse.com) TUE * R.S.P.B. Dungeness (www.rspb.org.uk) TUE * Dungeness 'A' Power Station (www.nda.gov.uk) TUE * Dungeness 'B' Power Station (www.british-energy.co.uk) TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00q3fr8 (Listen) TUE Fay Weldon TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Novelist Fay Weldon shares some of her favourite pieces of TUE writing with an audience in Bridport, Dorset. TUE Her readers are Pippa Haywood and Peter Marinker. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00q2px9 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00q2pyz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00q2q1t (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00q3frb (Listen) TUE Series 8, Chet Baker TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE Century. TUE By his early twenties, trumpeter Chet Baker was the poster TUE boy of jazz with a beautiful playing style and film star TUE good looks. A leading exponent of 1950s 'cool jazz', his TUE lyrical playing drew comparisons to Miles Davis and his TUE career blossomed. But his life was hampered by drug TUE addiction and came to a brutal end in 1988. TUE Mike Maran, who wrote the recent hit production Chet TUE Baker: A Funny Valentine, joins Ken to discuss Baker's TUE flawed genius. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00q2q8j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00q3g3x (Listen) TUE The Ca'd'oro Cafe TUE Dark and moving comedy about love, money and desperation TUE by Donna Franceschild. TUE Melanie ...... Elspeth Brodie TUE Billy ...... Robin Laing TUE Tramp ...... John Kazek TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00q3g5h (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge pulls together more objects from A TUE History of the World, including the nurse's uniform worn TUE by one of only eight women to land with the troops on TUE D-Day. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00q3g74 (Listen) TUE Once Seen, The Lodger TUE Series of three stories inspired by a very modern TUE small-ads phenomenon. TUE By Anna Maxted, read by Sandra Duncan. TUE Victoria is widowed, middle-aged and living in cold, wet TUE London rather than her hot, sunny adopted homeland, TUE Portugal. She has a lodger she is singularly ill-equipped TUE to cater for; nonetheless he is grateful to her. This is a TUE surprise for Victoria, which then leads to another. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Images That Changed The World b00q2qyk (Listen) TUE Brain Scan TUE Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced TUE Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical TUE imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the TUE world. TUE December 2007: the front cover of Time magazine is an TUE image of a brain scan with the title 'What makes us TUE Good/Evil'. Mark Lythgoe asks neuroscientists and TUE philosophers how this new-found ability to picture TUE thoughts has changed our concept of consciousness. TUE TUE 16:00 Frontline Kenya b00qc2ql (Listen) TUE The Kenyan government has stepped up patrols along the TUE Somali border as the Islamist group, Al Shabaab, grows in TUE strength. Jenny Cuffe investigates claims that the Somali TUE militants - said to be linked to al-Qaeda - are now TUE recruiting within Kenya itself and asks how big a threat TUE they pose to the stability of the region. TUE Jobless Kenyans admit fighting for al-Shabab TUE Jenny Cuffe reports on how the Somali Islamic militant TUE group al-Shabab is recruiting young Kenyans with the TUE promise of money. The militants are also active in TUE Nairobi's Eastleigh neighbourhood, known as 'Little TUE Mogadishu', because of the high percentage of Somali TUE refugees living there. TUE Read Jenny Cuffe's report on al-Shabab recruitment in TUE Kenya TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00q3gjd (Listen) TUE Series 20, Agustin Barrios Mangore TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Guitarist John Williams explains why he believes TUE Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios Mangore is one of the TUE greatest musicians of all time. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00q2r2v (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 b00q2r44 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Act Your Age b00q3gjg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh TUE are joined by Jack Whitehall, Sarah Kendall and Ronnie TUE Golden. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00q2q7y (Listen) TUE New image, new attitude for Pip. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00q2rd0 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with the poet Tom Paulin, who has created a new TUE version of the Greek tragedy Medea. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p68 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00q3gjj (Listen) TUE A British drug company is being sued by more than 15,000 TUE people in the United States who claim its bestselling TUE antipsychotic drug caused severe weight gain, diabetes and TUE other serious medical conditions. Ann Alexander TUE investigates concerns about the way it was marketed and TUE asks how much the public should be told about the drugs TUE they take. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00q3gjl (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00q3gjn (Listen) TUE One in two women in the UK over the age of 50 will break a TUE bone because of osteoporosis, where bones become brittle. TUE Everyone's bones lose some density as a natural part of TUE the ageing process but what makes some more susceptible to TUE porous bones than others? TUE Dr Mark Porter visits a clinic in Sheffield to hear about TUE the latest drugs available to treat osteoporosis, which TUE you only need to take once a year. He hears about the role TUE that screening plays in detecting those at risk and why TUE smoking or bowel conditions like Crohn's disease increases TUE the risk of developing osteoporosis. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00q3fr2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00q2rft (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00q2rhh (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00q2ryp (Listen) TUE The Still Point, Episode 2 TUE Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about TUE true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two TUE couples, living a hundred years apart, collide TUE unexpectedly one summer's day. TUE As Julia looks at her reflection in the mirror, the very TUE same mirror that her great-aunt Emily glanced into before TUE meeting the dashing explorer Edward Mackley back in 1897, TUE she reflects on her own meeting with her future husband. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Produced by Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b00q3gjq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Being Alone TUE The writer Jon Ronson asks if we are more ourselves or TUE less ourselves when we are alone. TUE He confronts David Quantick, who Jon noticed avoiding him TUE in the street one day. Father Ted writer Graham Linehan TUE reveals the moment he was ignored. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, the TUE world's most prolific inventor, talks about the moment he TUE invents - alone and under water. Finally Jon hears from TUE the British man who was jailed in Japan and wasn't allowed TUE to speak to anyone in his daily life for nearly three TUE years. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00q2vyw (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00q2m2d (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p68 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q2m8s (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q2mlx (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q2mkr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00q2mnq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q2mqz (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00q2msz (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00q2nh4 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00q3kmq (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6b (Listen) WED After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Egyptian WED Clay Model of Cattle WED The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, WED retells the history of human development from the first WED stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects WED from the Museum. WED Neil selects four miniature clay cows to show the major WED changes that early man was undergoing at the end of the WED Ice Age. These four frail-looking cows were made from Nile WED mud in Egypt 5,500 years ago, long before the time of the WED pyramids or the pharaohs. Why did the Egyptians start WED burying objects like this one with their dead? Neil goes WED in search life and death on the Nile and discovers how the WED domestication of cattle transformed human existence. WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00q2phq (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00q3f33 (Listen) WED About Love, The Huntsman WED In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's WED birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer WED presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of WED marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade. WED A haunting tale of unrequited love. WED Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington WED Count Sergei ...... Nicholas Boulton WED Pelageya ...... Zoe Waites WED Yegor Vlasych ...... Jasper Britton WED Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Bridging the Gap b00q3kvw (Listen) WED A vivid sound portrait of the Tyne Bridge which draws on WED the voices and sounds of the river, the bridge, local WED people and wildlife to explore the history, construction WED and role of this iconic bridge. WED It straddles the river between Newcastle and Gateshead, WED bridging the gap between past and present, north and south. WED The earliest bridge across the Tyne, Pons Aelius, was WED built by the Romans near the location of the present Tyne WED Bridge. After it fell into disrepair a stone bridge was WED built in 1270, but this was destroyed by the great flood WED of 1717. The idea for the present Tyne Bridge dates back WED to 1883, but it wasn't until 1825 that work began. The WED design is based on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and while WED work on the Sydney bridge began first, the Tyne Bridge was WED finished and opened first by King George V on 10th October WED 1928. WED The establishment of the Tyne Bridge was essential to the WED development of the city of Newcastle. The river was the WED reason that the Romans first settled in the area in 120AD, WED and centuries later the river was a significant factor in WED Newcastle's huge shipbuilding and coal industries. WED The Tyne is a major artery through the city, the Tyne WED Bridge a vital span; a thoroughfare of business and trade, WED a link between Gateshead and Newcastle, between north and WED south. As a giant arch, the bridge is an engineering WED triumph and hugely symbolic. It spans place and time, and WED as a port-way it's symbolic of the changes which have WED taken place in the north east. Today, the wildlife has WED moved into the gaps vacated by the industrial past; the WED river is home to otters and salmon and the bridge is a WED nesting site for kittiwakes, a species of ocean-travelling WED gull. The birds which nest here and on the Baltic on the WED Gateshead riverbank make it the furthest inland breeding WED site of kittiwakes in the world. WED With recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, WED the sounds of the waves, the wind and the wildlife are WED combined with the voices of the river in this powerful and WED vivid portrait of a magnificent bridge. WED WED 11:30 Towards Zero b00q3kvy (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective WED novel. WED Lady Tresselian is discovered murdered in her bed, leaving WED everyone in the house party very distressed. Inspector WED Leach leads the investigation. WED Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville WED MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion WED Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook WED Kay ...... Lizzy Watts WED Royde ...... Stephen Hogan WED Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox WED Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska WED Sergeant ...... Matt Addis WED Doctor Lazenby ...... Benjamin Askew WED Constable ...... David Hargreaves WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00q2pxc (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00q2pz1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00q2q1w (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00q3kw0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00q2q7y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00q3kw2 (Listen) WED The Journey WED By Richard Monks. A chance sighting on a news report leads WED to an extraordinary reunion between two siblings and the WED father they cremated four years previously. A play WED exploring the emotional hinterland of reconciliation. WED Stephen ...... Robert Glenister WED Clare ...... Suranne Jones WED Sophie ...... Joanne Mitchell WED Alan ...... David Hargreaves WED Nurse/Reporter/TV Reporter/Custody Sergeant/Mechanic WED ...... Terence Mann WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00q3lct (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer questions on equity WED release. WED Guests: WED Andrea Rozario, Director General, Safe Home Income Plans WED Dean Mirfin, Group Director, Key Retirement Solutions WED Tom Maloney, Consumer Credit Counselling Service, Equity WED Release Service. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00q934h (Listen) WED Once Seen, It's A Guy Thing WED Series of three stories inspired by a very modern WED small-ads phenomenon. WED By Alexandra Potter, read by Ben Allen. WED When Adam and Sebastian meet for coffee, Adam sees a girl WED and decides that she's 'The One'. But he can't bring WED himself to talk to her so he places a 'once seen' ad - WED with some curious results. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Images That Changed The World b00q2qym (Listen) WED Ultrasound WED Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced WED Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical WED imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the WED world. WED When a technique used in the shipping industry was first WED applied to seeing an unborn baby, the image was fuzzy, but WED the implications went far beyond medicine. Mark Lythgoe WED asseses the wider cultural impact of foetal ultrasound and WED hears from one of the early pioneers that 3D imaging has WED changed his views on the legal abortion limit. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00q3lcw (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00q3gjn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00q2r2x (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q2r46 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Write Stuff b00q3lcy (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 1 WED James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary WED correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are WED joined by Mark Billingham and John O'Farrell. The author WED of the week and subject for pastiche is Sir Arthur Conan WED Doyle, and the reader is Beth Chalmers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00q2q80 (Listen) WED Lynda aims for a position of power. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00q2rd2 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b00q3ld0 (Listen) WED Nick Robinson and a panel of politicians, civil servants WED and journalists examine how controversial proposals to WED tackle binge drinking would fare in Whitehall and WED Westminster. WED WED 20:45 Turkeys Voting for Christmas b00qgyfc (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Why is it that people so often vote against their own WED interests? Are pragmatic politics patronising or simply a WED turn off? David Runciman investigates the unpopularity of WED President Obama's healthcare reforms and he asks why so WED many Americans seem angry about efforts to make them WED better off. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00q3fr6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00q3kmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00q2rfw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00q2rhk (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00q2ryr (Listen) WED The Still Point, Episode 3 WED Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about WED true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two WED couples, living a hundred years apart, collide WED unexpectedly one summer's day. WED Leaving Emily in Norway, Edward finally sets out for the WED Pole and, after months of journeying, reaches solid ice. WED They celebrate Christmas 1899 Arctic-style, complete with WED roast reindeer and plum pudding. Back in England, the WED young Emily is celebrating a very different Christmas meal WED with her new brother- and sister-in-law. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard b00q3ld2 (Listen) WED Quest WED Comedy by David Kay, Jack Docherty, Gordon Kennedy and WED Cora Bissett. WED Mordrin is a 2,000-year-old wizard living in the modern WED world, where regular bin collections and watching WED Countdown are just as important as slaying dragons. WED With Gordon Kennedy, Jack Docherty and David Kay. WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The News At Bedtime b00nvyj4 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present WED in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories WED happening this 'once upon a time'. WED The scandal of Jack and his genetically-modified beanstalk. WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, Lewis WED MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell. WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00q2vyy (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00q2m2g (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q2m8v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q2mlz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q2mkt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00q2mns (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q2mr1 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00q2mt1 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00q2nh6 (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 b00q4310 (Listen) THU Silas Marner THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and THU Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's novel Silas THU Marner. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6d (Listen) THU After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Maya THU Maize God Statue THU The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, THU retells the history of human development from the first THU stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects THU from the Museum. THU Neil focuses on the world of the Mayan civilisation and a THU stone Maize God, discovered on the site of a major Mayan THU city in present-day Honduras. This large statue is wearing THU a headdress in the shape of a giant corn cob. THU Maize was not only worshipped at that time but the Maya THU also believed that all their ancestors were descended from THU maize. Neil reveals why maize, which is notoriously THU difficult to refine for human consumption, became so THU important to the emerging agriculture of the region. THU Neil is joined by the anthropologist Professor John THU Staller and the restaurateur Santiago Calva, who explain THU the complexity of Mayan mythological belief and the THU ongoing power of maize in Central America today. THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00q2phs (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00q3f35 (Listen) THU About Love, The Lady with the Little Dog THU In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's THU birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer THU presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of THU marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade. THU A beautiful tale of love and betrayal. THU Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington THU Anna ...... Zoe Waites THU Gurov ...... Jasper Britten THU Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00q4393 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Frost Collection b00q4395 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most THU memorable interviews with world leaders and influential THU figures over several decades. He shares his memories with THU a panel of guests at the BBC Radio Theatre. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00q2pxf (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00q4397 (Listen) THU The Recruits THU As youth unemployment continues to rise, John Waite THU investigates a training operation which has left hundreds THU of young people around the country without the training THU they signed up for or the jobs they were promised. Instead THU they are thousands of pounds in debt. The training THU provider folded, the recruitment company is apparently no THU longer operating and now the first payments on the loans THU are being demanded. How did one of Britain's biggest banks THU get involved in a programme which proved so worthless for THU many of its students?! THU THU 12:57 Weather b00q2pz3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00q2q1y (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00q4399 (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00q2q80 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cxqqd (Listen) THU Two-Pipe Problems, The Trusty Valet and the Crusty Butler THU By Michael Chaplin, set in The Old Beeches, a retirement THU home for elderly thespians. Inmates William and Sandy THU still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one THU another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s THU television series. THU William and Sandy venture outside the Old Beeches to a THU movie set, accompanied by the intrepid care assistant THU Karen, as they take on the world of celluloid. THU Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter THU William Parnes ...... Richard Briers THU Inspector Bradstreet ...... David Shaw-Parker THU Karen ...... Tracy Wiles THU Laura Lyons ...... Ellie Beaven THU Thaddeus Sholto ...... Lloyd Hutchinson THU John Barrymore ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00pzp5k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00q0bsb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00q9342 (Listen) THU Once Seen, The Up Escalator THU Series of three stories inspired by a very modern THU small-ads phenomenon. THU By Matt Beaumont. THU As the narrator travels up towards daylight on the THU escalators at London's Holborn tube station, the second THU longest on the network, she gazes into the startling grey THU eyes of a man coming down. He looks at her for the entire THU length of the journey, even turning round once they've THU passed. But how will she ever gaze upon them again? THU Perhaps an ad is the answer. THU Read by Jane Collingwood. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Images That Changed The World b00q2qyp (Listen) THU Microscopy THU Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced THU Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical THU imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the THU world. THU A hunched figure peering down a microscope is the ultimate THU symbol of the scientist - from George Eliot's Dr Lydgate THU in Middlemarch to adverts for cocoa powder. Mark Lythgoe THU explores the cultural implications of revealing a hidden THU kingdom and visits a doughnut-shaped microscope the size THU of five football pitches near Oxford. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00q0hgh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00q439c (Listen) THU There are hundreds of different diseases we call cancer, THU and hundreds of different human cell types they affect, so THU it's perhaps not suprising that many cancer drugs are THU ineffective in many patients. Personalised medicine might THU lead to more effective treatments sooner, saving millions THU of pounds' worth of wasted drugs along the way. Quentin THU Cooper meets scientist and entrepreneur Dr Darrin Disley, THU who has set up a company to develop test-tube cultures of THU different human cell types that can then speed up drug THU testing and tailor treatments for individual patients. THU THU 17:00 PM b00q2r2z (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 b00q2r49 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Deep Trouble b007ngfv (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU Comedy series by Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond set THU aboard HMS Goliath, a nuclear stealth submarine. THU Goliath is coming to the end of its voyage and the crew THU are preparing for some revelry. Barry finds a donkey, Wade THU finds a baby, Fairbanks finds an admiral and Trainor finds THU a jazz band. THU Captain Paul Wade ...... Jim Field Smith THU Commander Alison Fairbanks ...... Katherine Jakeways THU Lieutenant Jack Trainor ...... Ben Willbond THU Barry ...... Alice Lowe THU PO Curtis ...... Rufus Jones THU Narrator ...... Jonathan Ryland THU Directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00q2q83 (Listen) THU Lilian mourns what might have been. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00q2rd4 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an THU interview with writers Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, whose THU show Ghost Stories, at Liverpool Playhouse, aims to shock THU and chill its audiences. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00q439f (Listen) THU The weekend before Christmas five trains became marooned THU in the Channel Tunnel leaving thousands of passengers to THU fare as best they could. Wesley Stephenson explores the THU full story, which led to a very long and eventful night THU spent underground. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00q439h (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Hot House Kids b00gqzvy (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Former prima ballerina Deborah Bull investigates the THU advantages and the pitfalls of being an elite performer in THU the arts and sport and what young people need to succeed, THU as well as the psychological advantages and problems of THU attaining perfection. THU To achieve the levels of excellence necessary to compete THU on the global job market today a performer needs to start THU young, taking advantage of the brain's early plasticity THU and the increased potential for muscle flexibility in THU pre-adolescents. But in some cases the cost can be the THU stable emotional development of the child. THU In certain countries of Eastern Europe and Asia children THU can enter full-time training as young as three - THU gymnastics and ballet training are key examples - and THU undergo challenging physical and mental regimes in order THU to ensure that they are ready to compete and achieve the THU highest standards as soon as they reach double figures. THU For the growing child as it moves into adolescence, THU interaction with a parent is vital to its emotional THU development. Yet, as the programme discovers, the intense THU training regime needed to hothouse gifted children to the THU supreme levels of performance frequently involves taking THU the child away for hours of training. THU On a journey that takes Deborah to the Ukraine, she visits THU the National Ballet School in Kiev, the elite football THU training centre at Dynamo Kiev and the National Gymnastics THU centre in Kiev, where she discovers why elite athletes are THU achieving such high levels of achievement in Eastern THU Europe. Back in Britain she visits the Chelsea Academy, THU the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Central School of Ballet THU to find out if our softly, softly approach will work in THU such a competitive market. THU The programme also includes contributions from members of THU the National Ballet School of Korea, reflecting the THU growing number of top-class performers today emerging from THU Asian nations. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00q4310 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00q2rfy (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00q2rhm (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00q2ryt (Listen) THU The Still Point, Episode 4 THU Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about THU true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two THU couples, living a hundred years apart, collide THU unexpectedly one summer's day. THU As Edward's expedition inches closer to the Pole, Julia THU reads the letters he wrote to his wife and imagines her THU great-aunt waiting for her hero to return. Meanwhile, THU Simon is troubled by events in the present. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Produced by Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 House On Fire b00q439k (Listen) THU Emergency THU Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. THU Paying bills seems such a bore and mainly irrelevant - THU until the phone gets cuts off, that is. Matt hasn't got THU any money but has to prove to Vicky that the land line has THU to be restored at all costs. THU Vicky ...... Emma Pierson THU Matt ...... Jody Latham THU Col. Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart THU Donny ...... Sebastian Cardinal THU With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult THU Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00q2vz0 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00q2m2j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q2m8x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q2mm1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q2mkw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00q2mnv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q2mr3 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00q2mt3 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00q2nh8 (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00q0dbx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6g (Listen) FRI After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Jomon Pot FRI The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, FRI retells the history of human development from the first FRI stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects FRI from the Museum. FRI Neil tells the story of a 7,000-year-old Japanese clay pot FRI which has managed to remain almost perfectly intact. Pots FRI began in Japan around 17,000 years ago and by the time FRI this pot was made had achieved a remarkable sophistication. FRI Neil explores the history of this cooking pot and the FRI Jomon, the hunter-gatherer society that made it. FRI Archaeologists Professor Takeshi Doi and Simon Kaner FRI describe the significance of agriculture to the Jomon and FRI the way in which they made their pots and used decorations FRI from the natural world around them. FRI This particular pot is remarkable in that it was lined FRI with gold leaf in perhaps the 18th century and used in FRI that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the tea ceremony. FRI This simple clay object makes a fascinating connection FRI between the Japan of today and the emerging world of FRI people in Japan at the end of the Ice Age. FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00q2phv (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00q3f37 (Listen) FRI About Love, Rothschild's Violin FRI In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's FRI birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer FRI presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of FRI marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade. FRI A story of regret about a coffin maker whose wife of 50 FRI years is taken seriously ill. FRI Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington FRI Maxim Nikolayevich ...... Nicholas Boulton FRI Rothschild ...... Jasper Britton FRI Yakov ...... Philip Voss FRI Marfa ...... Zoe Waites FRI Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Who Pays for the High Road North? b00q43nv (Listen) FRI The two iconic bridges of the Forth Estuary are about to FRI see a new neighbour: a 21st-century road bridge deemed FRI vital to Scotland's economy. But there is disagreement FRI between Holyrood and Westminster as to who should pay, and FRI neither side will budge. Douglas Fraser explores how FRI Scotland's biggest ever infrastructure project has come to FRI encapsulate the difficult relationship between the two FRI parliaments. FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Cast in Order of FRI Disappearance b00q43nx (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. FRI Actor, dipsomaniac and amateur sleuth Charles Paris FRI investigates when a vampire film claims victims on set and FRI off. FRI Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy FRI Jodie ...... Martine McCutcheon FRI Frances ...... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ...... Jon Glover FRI Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt FRI Elspeth ...... Kate Layden FRI Zoe ...... Tessa Nicholson FRI DJ ...... Piers Wehner FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00q2pxh (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00q2pz5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00q2q20 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00q43nz (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00q2q83 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b722v (Listen) FRI Higher FRI Joyce Bryant's satire on tertiary education. FRI Karen is the new head of the Geography Department - FRI renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, FRI which isn't quite part of the elite Russell Group of top FRI universities. In fact it ranks 132nd. It is open day for FRI the department and Karen is keen that she attracts the FRI right students. FRI Karen ...... Sophie Thompson FRI David ...... Mark Heap FRI Jim ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI Barbara ...... Sue Ryding FRI Maura ...... Maggie Fox FRI Angela ...... Sue Kelly FRI Harry ...... Ben Hood FRI Directed by Gary Brown. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00q43p1 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are FRI guests of the North East Hardy Plant Society in Newcastle. FRI Eric Robson rediscovers a long-lost design by 18th-century FRI Northumbrian garden designer Capability Brown. Chris FRI Beardshaw meets students of Capel Manor College to discuss FRI the fundamentals of garden design. FRI FRI 15:45 Images That Changed The World b00q2qyr (Listen) FRI The Double Helix FRI Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced FRI Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical FRI imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the FRI world. FRI The famous twisting simplicity of the Double Helix has FRI captivated architects and designers ever since it was FRI first discovered by Watson and Crick. Mark Lythgoe FRI examines the cultural impact of this iconic image and FRI assesses the implications its discovery has had on crime FRI fiction. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00q43p3 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00q43vf (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director Havana Marking about her FRI documentary on the Afghan version of Pop Idol, Afghan FRI Star. Composer Neil Brand celebrates the work of Ron FRI Goodwin, best known for the theme tune to 633 Squadron. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00q2r31 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q2r4c (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00q43vh (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 4 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins FRI and Carrie Quinlan. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00q2q85 (Listen) FRI Eddie resists a role reversal. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00q2rd6 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an FRI interview with Andrea Levy, whose new novel, The Long FRI Song, is partly set in Jamaica in the last years of FRI slavery. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00q4430 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Goring in FRI Oxfordshire. The panel includes Labour MP Jon Cruddas, FRI historian Tom Holland and Priti Patel, Conservative FRI Parliamentary candidate for Witham. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00q4432 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00q4465 (Listen) FRI Let's Murder Vivaldi FRI A radio production of David Mercer's 1968 BBC TV Wednesday FRI Play. An unsettling study of destructive relationships. FRI Ben ...... Toby Stephens FRI Julie ...... Clare Lawrence-Moody FRI Monica ...... Haydn Gwynne FRI Gerald ...... Patrick Malahide. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00q2rg0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00q2rhp (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00q2ryw (Listen) FRI The Still Point, Episode 5 FRI Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about FRI true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two FRI couples, living a hundred years apart, collide FRI unexpectedly one summer's day. FRI Simon remembers how Julia's famous ancestor brought him to FRI her one warm spring day, but fears that his wife is now FRI lost in the past. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00q3gjd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00q2vz2 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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