29 January, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 30/01/2010 - 05/02/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00q44cj (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 b00q2p6g (Listen) SAT After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Jomon Pot 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 tells the story of a 7,000-year-old Japanese clay pot SAT which has managed to remain almost perfectly intact. Pots SAT began in Japan around 17,000 years ago and by the time SAT this pot was made had achieved a remarkable sophistication. SAT Neil explores the history of this cooking pot and the SAT Jomon, the hunter-gatherer society that made it. SAT Archaeologists Professor Takeshi Doi and Simon Kaner SAT describe the significance of agriculture to the Jomon and SAT the way in which they made their pots and used decorations SAT from the natural world around them. SAT This particular pot is remarkable in that it was lined SAT with gold leaf in perhaps the 18th century and used in SAT that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the tea ceremony. SAT This simple clay object makes a fascinating connection SAT between the Japan of today and the emerging world of SAT people in Japan at the end of the Ice Age. SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q44cl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q917y (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q44cn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00q44cq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q44cs (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00q44cv (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00q44cx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00q9180 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00q9h9c (Listen) SAT In the second of two programmes set within striking SAT distance of the centre of London, Helen Mark seeks a sense SAT of community and being 'away from it all' more usually SAT associated with the countryside. SAT Among the people she meets on the banks of the River SAT Wandle, which flows into the Thames in Wandsworth, are the SAT journalist Richard Sharp who, among other things, harvest SAT grapes from south London allotments and gardens to make a SAT wine known as Chateau Tooting; Theo Pike of the Wandle SAT Trust, which works hard to keep the river clean and full SAT of fish; and anglers, gardeners and walkers who just love SAT messing about on, in or by the river. SAT It can be a challenge; two years ago a chemical spillage SAT from a sewage treatment works caused major pollution and SAT thousands of fish were killed. There is an upside, though: SAT as a result Thames Water has invested 500,000 pounds in SAT the Wandle Trust's work. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00q9h9f (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00q9h9h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00q9h9k (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00q9h9m (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Laurence SAT Shorter. With poetry from Susan Richardson. SAT studio guest :: Laurence Shorter SAT Writer and comedian Laurence Shorter joins Fi in the SAT studio this week. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00q9h9p (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores Germany with two writers who know SAT the country well and asks why, in such a fascinatingly SAT diverse and interesting place, more British tourists don't SAT visit. He also examines the vastly different regions SAT within Germany, their food, their culture and their SAT history. SAT SAT 10:30 Travels With The Prime Minister b00q9h9r (Listen) SAT Every prime minister feels the need to travel. Every so SAT often, usually during the Parliamentary recess, they up SAT and off to foreign parts - to meet other great leaders, to SAT cheer up the troops, to show they're abreast of global SAT affairs, and to impress the voters back home. With them go SAT a motley crew of minders, civil servants and journalists. SAT Julia Langdon, one time political editor of the Daily SAT Mirror, has travelled with four prime ministers. It's a SAT gruelling rather than glamorous experience, constantly SAT crossing time zones, constantly jet lagged and rarely the SAT chance to get a good night's sleep or even do your SAT washing. But it's exciting, it serves democracy and for a SAT journalist it's a great source of stories. SAT Julia talks to some of the others who've gone travelling SAT with the prime minister; she hears what went right, what SAT went wrong and what was fun. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00q9h9t (Listen) SAT All eyes were on Tony Blair's appearance before the SAT Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq this week. Fraser Nelson, editor SAT of The Spectator, and Alex Barker of the Financial Times, SAT who has been attending the inquiry throughout, assess SAT Blair's account of himself. SAT One of the benefits of the Iraq Inquiry is the insight it SAT provides into the internal workings of government. Two SAT publications this week, the Better Government Initiative SAT and a report form the Lords' Constitutional Committee, SAT address the relationship between Downing Street, Whitehall SAT and parliament. Lord Butler, a crossbencher and former SAT Cabinet Secretary, and Lord Norton, Professor of SAT Government at Hull University, discuss. SAT David Laws (Liberal Democrats) and David Willetts SAT (Conservative) talk about the recent LSE report on SAT inequality, plus Professor John Curtice and Anthony Wells SAT of UK Polling Report analyse the conclusions of the most SAT recent social trends survey, which shows Britain moving to SAT the right on economic issues. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00q9h9w (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00q9h9y (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00q43vh (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 4 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins SAT and Carrie Quinlan. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00q9hb0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00q9hb2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00q4430 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from SAT Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The panel includes Labour SAT MP Jon Cruddas, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman SAT Ed Davey, historian and columnist Max Hastings and Priti SAT Patel, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Witham. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00q9hb4 (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 b009x37d (Listen) SAT Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Crime: A for Assassin SAT Comic thriller by David Ashton. SAT Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tackle the teeming London SAT underworld of 1781. How can a man who has shot another at SAT point blank range be saved from the gallows, and how can SAT the power and vested interest of a man highly placed in SAT His Majesty's Government be defeated? SAT Dr Johnson ...... Timothy West SAT James Boswell ...... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Hester Thrale ...... Joanna David SAT Lord Spencer ...... David Shaw-Parker SAT Capt John Porteous ...... Oliver Milburn SAT Tobias Boothroyd ...... Harry Myers SAT Caroline Spencer ...... Abigail Hollick SAT Lady Crewe ...... Teresa Gallagher SAT Serena Boothroyd ...... Cathy Sara SAT Silas Pike ...... Ron Cook SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie. SAT A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00q3frb (Listen) SAT Series 8, Chet Baker SAT Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th SAT Century. SAT By his early twenties, trumpeter Chet Baker was the poster SAT boy of jazz with a beautiful playing style and film star SAT good looks. A leading exponent of 1950s 'cool jazz', his SAT lyrical playing drew comparisons to Miles Davis and his SAT career blossomed. But his life was hampered by drug SAT addiction and came to a brutal end in 1988. SAT Mike Maran, who wrote the recent hit production Chet SAT Baker: A Funny Valentine, joins Ken to discuss Baker's SAT flawed genius. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00q9hb6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Maternity matters: have promises made on choice in SAT childbirth been met? Impressionist Jan Ravens on how much SAT we pick up from our parents; Dame Jane Goodall on her SAT life's work in animal conservation; poet Ruth Padel on why SAT she's turned to novel writing; the impact of the one child SAT policy on China's gender balance; winning women's votes on SAT education - who should run schools? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00q9hb8 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00q439h (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to SAT brainstorm the world economy: where might future growth SAT come from? He also asks if management should be SAT responsible for the health of their employees; is a SAT healthy worker more productive? SAT Evan is joined by Adrian Fawcett, chief executive of the SAT General Healthcare Group, Hugh Hendry, hedge fund manager SAT and founder of Eclectica Asset Management, and Lucius SAT Cary, the founder and managing director of Oxford SAT Technology Management. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q9hvg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00q9hvj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q9hvl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00q9hvn (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by film producer Michael Wearing, football SAT writer Brian Glanville and actress Gemma Arterton. SAT Gideon Coe talks to Monkee Micky Dolenz. SAT With comedy from Alex Horne and music from The Imagine SAT Village and Carolina Chocolate Drops. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen) SAT Chris Morris SAT Claire Bolderson profiles the satirist Chris Morris. SAT Best known for his cult TV shows The Day Today and Brass SAT Eye, he has tackled subjects considered taboo by many SAT people, including paedophilia, incest and suicide. His SAT latest offering, a film poking fun at jihadis, promises to SAT be no different. But who is this intensely private SAT individual, and where does his decidedly angry brand of SAT humour come from? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00q9hvs (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00q9hvv (Listen) SAT Flexible Friend or Foe SAT How did a little sliver of plastic take over the world? SAT Journalist Max Flint explores the arrival of the credit SAT card into British life and the huge role it plays today. SAT The credit card was launched by Barclays in the UK in SAT 1966. The Barclaycard was marketed at first as a 'shopping SAT card', rather than a credit card, to thwart the British SAT public's resistance to getting into debt. Barclaycard's SAT first on-screen ad was called Travelling Light; it was SAT targeted at women and featured the famous Barclaycard SAT Bikini Girl who, oblivious to the shocked looks of SAT passers-by, is seen making her way down a busy shopping SAT street buying clothes and records, wearing nothing but a SAT lilac-coloured bikini and carrying her Barclaycard in the SAT bikini bottom. The advert finished with the line, SAT 'Barclaycard: all a girl needs when she goes shopping.' SAT Barclaycard executives admit that the name of the first SAT face of Barclaycard has now been lost in the mists of SAT time. The Bikini Girl and subsequent marketing has now SAT given rise to the biggest cause of personal bankruptcies SAT in the UK. That first card is now accompanied by some SAT 1,700 other credit cards in Britain alone, and we have the SAT unenviable record as the world's most intensive credit SAT card country, with 67 million cards for 59 million people. SAT With the launch of the first card began a technological SAT battle between fraudsters and card companies, and the war SAT is yet to be won. SAT The American credit companies invaded us in the mid-90's SAT and goaded Britain into unheard-of levels of debt. The SAT thrill of the till has created a spending spree which is SAT untempered by all the warnings from the archive news clips SAT in this programme, taken from over the last 40 or so SAT years, all of which tell us all what we already know - SAT that this can't continue. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00q0h3y (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The SAT Honourable Schoolboy, Part 1 SAT Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring SAT intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT Set against the backdrop of the war in Indochina in 1975, SAT spymaster George Smiley uncovers a trail of Russian money SAT leading to a prominent Hong Kong citizen. But what is the SAT money for? SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed SAT Doc De Salis ...... Bruce Alexander SAT Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT Oliver Lacon ...... Anthony Calf SAT Enderby ...... James Laurenson SAT Craw ...... Philip Quast SAT Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SAT The Girl, Phoebe ...... Tessa Nicholson SAT Stubbs/Wilbrahim ...... Nigel Hastings SAT Frost ...... Piers Wehner SAT Drake Ko ...... David Yip SAT Tiu ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 14th February as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00q9hzg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b00q3ld0 (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson and a panel of politicians, civil servants SAT and journalists examine how controversial proposals to SAT tackle binge drinking would fare in Whitehall and SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00q2wjg (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the last semi-final of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, with heat winners Jim Cook from SAT Worcestershire, David Edwards from Staffordshire, Anne SAT Hegerty from Manchester and Simon Pitfield from the SAT Midlands competing for a place in the final. SAT Contestants SAT Jim Cook from Stourport SAT David Edwards from Denstone SAT Anne Hegerty from Manchester SAT Simon Pitfield from Birmingham SAT SAT 23:30 Terezin Dreams b00q0hgk (Listen) SAT A few years ago writer and poet Sibyl Ruth inherited a SAT series of poems written by her German great aunt Rose SAT Scooler in 1944-45 when she was an inmate at Terezin camp. SAT Terezin, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was SAT a ghetto town in occupied Czechoslovakia used by Nazis to SAT hold Jews en route to extermination camps. Many prominent SAT Czech and German musicians and cultural figures passed SAT through Terezin, which was developed into a 'model' camp, SAT where cultural activities were permitted and encouraged, SAT to disguise to the outside world the true Nazi project. In SAT 1944 the authorities permitted a visit by the Red Cross to SAT dispel rumours of genocide, a notorious attempt - and a SAT remarkably successful one - to cover-up the great crime of SAT the Holocaust. SAT The poems, which are read by Eleanor Bron, are powerful SAT and unexpected; they speak with an utterly singular voice: SAT dramatically confident, ironic, often playful and never SAT self-pitying. Although nothing in Rose Scooler's SAT privileged background could have prepared her for life in SAT a Nazi concentration camp, what comes through is a strong, SAT humorous and defiant spirit. The poems are life affirming, SAT and despite the terrible conditions of the camp, full of SAT hope - hope which was, for Rose, if not for others, SAT fulfilled when the camp was liberated. Rose went on to SAT live a long and busy life before dying in the United SAT States at the age of 103. SAT Sibyl Ruth describes how she set about translating the SAT poems, and the journey of discovery about Terezin she made SAT as she did so. The renowned Holocaust historian David SAT Cesarani provides the historical background to Rose SAT Scooler's poems, and explains the role Terezin played in SAT the Nazi extermination project. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00q9j76 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008x3yn (Listen) SUN Cupid Strikes, Stupid Cupid SUN Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day. SUN By David Threlfall. SUN A woman gives her family a rather unexpected Valentine's SUN surprise. SUN Read by Victoria Wood with Simon Treves as the newsreader. SUN Producer Heather Larmour. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9jsm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9jsp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9jsr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00q9jst (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00q9jsw (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from All Saints Church, East Pennard in SUN Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00q9jsy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00q9jt0 (Listen) SUN Signposts and Route Maps SUN Life's not like a scene in a play where each character has SUN his or her own motivation or journey. Life lacks the SUN signposts provided by a script that knows where it's SUN heading. Felicity Finch considers goal-orientated and SUN extemporised lives, drawing on the words of acting teacher SUN Utah Hagen, the writing of Dave Eggers and Milan Kundera, SUN poetry by Joyce Sutphen and Philip Larkin and music by SUN Liszt, Clara Schumann and Ornette Coleman. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00q9jt2 (Listen) SUN Pike SUN The pike has a fearsome reputation as Britain's most SUN successful freshwater river predator. Keen fisherman and SUN retired freshwater biologist Mike Ladle will never forget SUN the first time he landed a pike. He was trying to catch SUN eels, and hauled up a pike instead. When he tried to SUN release the hook from inside its mouth, he soon found out SUN why fishermen treat pike with such respect: their mouths SUN are lined with rows of backwardly pointing teeth. They SUN even have teeth on their tongue, a tongue which is green SUN in colour! So once a pike has trapped its prey in its SUN mouth there is no escape from those rows of thorn-like SUN teeth. SUN Lionel Kelleway joins Mike Ladle on the banks of the River SUN Frome in Dorset for a spot of fishing, using a curved hook SUN and a dace as bait to lure their pike. While the two men SUN watch the cork on the line bobbing in the water, Mike SUN reveals some of the traits which make the pike so SUN successful and why these fish are not choosy about the SUN species of prey but the shape of the prey. Pike are also SUN cannibalistic and will eat their own relatives, and even SUN their own young. SUN Pike have been described as jet-propelled mouths. They are SUN cylindrical in shape and all the large fins are at the SUN rear end of the fish, which gives them the thrust they SUN need to spring forwards in the water after prey. They hide SUN under cover at the edge of the bank and then curl their SUN tail round which then acts like a spring to thrust them SUN forwards at their prey. SUN Years of catching, tagging, releasing and studying pike SUN has given Mike a fascinating knowledge of these formidable SUN creatures, but even so, there still remain some mysteries SUN about the pike as Lionel discovers when he meets a SUN self-confessed 'pikeoholic', gets to peer inside the mouth SUN of a predator and learns about a fish called Isaac. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00q9jt4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00q9jt6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00q9jt8 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news SUN of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen) SUN RETRAK SUN James McAvoy appeals on behalf of RETRAK. SUN Donations to RETRAK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope RETRAK. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide RETRAK with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number: 1122799. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00q9jtg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00q9jtj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00q9jtl (Listen) SUN Holocaust Memorial SUN On 27th January 1945, the Red Army liberated the biggest SUN Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Marking this 65th SUN anniversary, Dr Kevin Franz and Dr Ed Kessler share a SUN first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a visit they had both SUN avoided in the past. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00q4432 (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine compares the reputations of American SUN presidents during their time in office with how they are SUN remembered after leaving the White House. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00q9k4x (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00q9k4z (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00q9k51 (Listen) SUN Mary Beard SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard. SUN A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a SUN university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular SUN books, blog, articles and reviews have led to her being SUN called 'Britain's best-known classicist'. SUN But while her research is steeped in the ancient world, SUN her commentary is all about the here and now. The SUN classical world speaks to us, she says, and makes us see SUN our own world differently. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00q3cm1 (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 4 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The SUN panellists are David Mitchell, Paul Merton, Julian Clary SUN and Gyles Brandreth. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00q9k53 (Listen) SUN Puddings SUN A celebration of British puddings. Not food but medicine, SUN according to food writer Nigel Slater. There to heal and SUN comfort, to cosset and hug. SUN Simon Parkes explores why Britain has excelled at SUN producing puddings through a heritage going back to the SUN Norman Conquest. Mary Norwak, author of English Puddings, SUN explains her passion for trifle, while food writer and SUN publisher Tom Jaine outlines the development of the sweet SUN pudding through history. But how do the shop-bought SUN selections measure up? Award-winning company Manna from SUN Devon explain the success of their hand-made and home-made SUN puddings. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00q9kgf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00q9kgh (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Greening of the Deserts b00lbsbq (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 Ayisha visits the Egyptian settlement of Abu Minqar, which SUN is entirely dependent on water from the ancient Nubian SUN aquifer. SUN Faced with ever-growing population pressure in the fertile SUN Nile delta, and the possibility that, according to some SUN scenarios of global warming, much of the delta may be SUN inundated by rising sea levels, scientists in Egypt are SUN experimenting with high-tech techniques to make the desert SUN bloom. SUN Satellite and radar imaging have enabled ancient SUN groundwater in the deserts to be identified and tapped. SUN Using water pumped from the aquifer deep below the sand, SUN thousands of acres of the Saharan desert have been SUN cultivated. The Egyptian government is keen to encourage SUN people to move to the desert by pressing ahead with a SUN controversial plan to reclaim millions more acres of SUN desert over the next 10 years. But is such a plan SUN practical or sustainable? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00q43p1 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are SUN guests of the North East Hardy Plant Society in Newcastle. SUN Eric Robson rediscovers a long-lost design by 18th-century SUN the Northumbrian garden designer Capability Brown. Chris SUN Beardshaw meets students of Capel Manor College to discuss SUN the fundamentals of garden design. SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Gameboy v The Mongolian Steppe b00clmh9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 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 see a fox being killed. Used to eating food SUN killed by others, or in Sarah's case being a vegetarian, SUN this is the toughest challenge of the journey so far. But SUN the harsh weather and conditions are a reminder of how SUN important meat and fur are to the nomads they are staying SUN with. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00q9l86 (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The SUN Honourable Schoolboy, Part 2 SUN Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring SUN intelligence officer George Smiley. SUN Smiley's operation in Hong Kong becomes increasingly SUN dangerous when the government and American Intelligence SUN begin to take notice. SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville SUN Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SUN Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed SUN Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SUN Doc De Salis ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Craw ...... Philip Quast SUN Tiu ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SUN Pelling ...... John Biggins SUN Mrs Pelling ...... Kate Layden SUN Liese Worth ...... Daisy Haggard SUN Hibbert ...... Ewan Hooper SUN Martello ...... John Guerrasio SUN Eckland ...... Rhys Jennings SUN Luke ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole 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 b00q9lzl (Listen) SUN Neel Mukherjee's debut novel, A Life Apart, has already SUN shared a major Indian literary prize with one of the SUN nation's modern masters, Amithav Ghosh. Neel Mukherjee SUN joins Mariella to discuss the novel. He reveals his SUN feelings about modern India, 17 years after he left the SUN country, and his frustration with many depictions of the SUN country by its own writers. SUN A new yearly anthology brings together fiction writing SUN from more than 30 European countries. The collection's SUN editor, Aleksandar Hemon, talks about compiling the volume SUN and what it reveals about the concerns of contemporary SUN European writers. SUN As a new Hollywood adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's SUN novel A Single Man reaches our screens, the novelist Adam SUN Mars-Jones and Katherine Bucknell, the editor of SUN Isherwood's diaries, discuss the life and legacy of the SUN writer. SUN Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart SUN Publisher: Constable SUN Best European Fiction 2010 (ed. Aleksander Hemon) SUN Publisher: Dalkey Archive SUN Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00q9lzn (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including SUN Stevie Smith's galloping cat and Les Murray's poem SUN defining the quintessentially Australian quality of SUN 'sprawl'. Plus a whirling drunken evening with Tony SUN Harrison and a recollection of high summer from Sylvia SUN Plath and Robert Graves. SUN With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00q3gjj (Listen) SUN A British drug company is being sued by more than 15,000 SUN people in the United States who claim its bestselling SUN antipsychotic drug caused severe weight gain, diabetes and SUN other serious medical conditions. Ann Alexander SUN investigates concerns about the way it was marketed and SUN asks how much the public should be told about the drugs SUN they take. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q9mcl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00q9mcn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q9mcq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00q9mcs (Listen) SUN Steve Hewlett introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00q9mpq (Listen) SUN Clarrie and Will join forces. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00q9n8g (Listen) SUN The US budget is over three trillion dollars. Matt Frei SUN talks to US budget expert Stan Collender to translate what SUN all those zeros in 'trillion' mean for the federal budget SUN and national debt. SUN Matt Frei talks to Grammy Award-winning musician Steve SUN Earle about how one in ten Americans face unemployment. SUN They discuss how those numbers affect real Americans and SUN the songs sung about them. Americana hears from three SUN people who have lost jobs in the last year, from South SUN Dakota, Nashville and Oregon. SUN Americans are counting down the days until one of the SUN largest national unified television viewing experiences SUN arrives, the Superbowl. The Superbowl typically draws over SUN 90 million viewers. It also draws over two million dollars SUN for a 30-second window of advertising. The most SUN controversial ad in the Superbowl line-up this year brings SUN the abortion debate to the field. SUN This will be the 44th Superbowl and sports writer Don SUN Steinberg notes that the nation also just elected its 44th SUN president. Matt Frei talks to Don to learn when, if ever, SUN US leadership is more impressive than in its championship SUN football games. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b737b (Listen) SUN Jennings' Little Hut, The Squatters SUN Mark Williams reads one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic SUN school stories, abridged in five parts by Roy Apps. SUN 'Until Darbishire had finished making his famous SUN ventilating-shaft out of that disused drain-pipe, it was SUN just as well they had got air-conditioned walls.' It was SUN only a little hut, but Jennings was very proud of it. And SUN the other boys at Linbury Court were proud of their huts SUN too. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00q43nz (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00q43p3 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00q9h9y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00q3cnl (Listen) SUN Are environmentalists bad for the planet? SUN The BBC's 'Ethical Man' Justin Rowlatt asks if the SUN environmental movement is bad for the planet. He explores SUN the philosophical roots of a way of thinking that SUN developed decades before global warming was an issue. He SUN also examines some of the ideological baggage that SUN environmentalists have brought to the climate change SUN debate, from anti-consumerism and anti-capitalism to a SUN suspicion about technology and a preference for natural SUN solutions. Could these extraneous aspects of green SUN politics be undermining the environmental cause, and are SUN some environmentalists being distracted from the urgent SUN task of stopping global warming by a more radical agenda SUN for social change? SUN Justin speaks to green capitalists including the SUN Conservative MP John Gummer, who thinks that technology SUN and reinvented markets hold the answer to tackling global SUN warming. He talks to Greenpeace chairman John Sauven about SUN green attitudes to so-called techno fixes, including SUN nuclear power, and discusses green conversion tactics such SUN as so-called identity campaigning with Tom Crompton from SUN the conservation charity WWF and Solitaire Townsend, SUN co-founder of the green public relations company Futerra. SUN The programme also hears from the leading green thinkers SUN Jonathon Porritt and Professor Mike Hulme, founding SUN director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change SUN Research, and from the theologian and United Nations SUN advisor on climate change and world religions Martin SUN Palmer. Martin sees parallels between some parts of the SUN green movement and millenarian cults who have claimed that SUN 'the end of the world is nigh'. Justin also interviews SUN Andrew Simms from the New Economics Foundation, who SUN believes we can only tackle climate change if we are SUN weaned off our addiction to consumption and economic SUN growth. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00q9n9m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00q9nl0 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Turkeys Voting for Christmas. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00q43vf (Listen) SUN Director Lee Daniels discusses his award-winning drama SUN about a 400-pound African-American girl, Precious. He also SUN reveals why Mariah Carey ended up in a role intended for SUN Dame Helen Mirren and the support he was offered by Oprah SUN Winfrey. SUN Havana Marking goes behind the scenes of the Afghan SUN version of Pop Idol and reveals why one of the contestants SUN received death threats and has gone into hiding. SUN Film-maker and critic Mark Cousins waxes lyrical about Ozu. SUN Neil Brand tells us the score about the work of composer SUN Ron Goodwin. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00q9jt0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00q9nqj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00q3lcw (Listen) MON On the 1st of July 1997 Hong Kong passed out of British MON hands and came under Chinese rule, ending more than 150 MON years of British control. It was an emotional moment which MON seemed to signify the final end to an era of British MON history. Many expatriates returned to the UK but a MON minority stayed on. Today there are still 19,000 British MON nationals living in Hong Kong, representing only 0.3 per MON cent of the population. How do they feel about the changes MON in the city? What has happened to the colonial life they MON once lead, and what do they think of people 'back home'? MON Laurie Taylor discusses an in-depth study by Caroline MON Knowles which explores the lives and attitudes of the MON British migrants still living in Hong Kong. MON Laurie also talks to Robert Ford, the co-author of a new MON study exploring the reasons behind people voting for the MON BNP, the most electorally successful far-right party in MON British electoral history. What are the factors behind its MON success? Angry White Men: Individual and Contextual MON Predictors of Support for the British National Party MON examines the social, geographical and attitudinal MON characteristics of the BNP voter. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00q9jsw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zmd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00qb0cw (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0dw (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00qb0w8 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00qbt24 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00qb12z (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00qbt26 (Listen) MON Stewart Brand, a pioneer of the 1960s environmental MON movement, tells Tom Sutcliffe that the green agenda is MON becoming outdated and sentimental, arguing that science MON and technology are the answer to a world lit by nuclear MON energy and fed by GM crops. The investigative journalist MON Felicity Lawrence warns that food science is prone to MON political and financial interference, and Jim Al-Khalili MON attempts to make chemistry exciting and entertaining. MON Throughout, Matthieu Ricard, dubbed by neuroscientists MON 'the happiest man in the world', spreads a little MON meditative calm. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5yf (Listen) MON The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), King Den's MON Sandal Label 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 investigates the impact on human society of large MON numbers of people coming together in the world's first MON cities between 5,000 and 2,000 BC. As they did so, they MON developed new trade links, the first handwriting, and new MON forms of leadership and beliefs. MON All of these innovations are present in a small label made MON of hippo ivory that was attached to the sandal that one of MON the earliest known kings of Egypt, King Den, took his MON grave. The label not only depicts the king in battle MON against unknown foes but also boasts the first writing in MON this history of the world: hieroglyphs that describe the MON king and his military conquests. MON Neil and contributors consider whether this is just the MON first indication that there would never be civilisation MON without war. MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb91p (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbd7 (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), MON Richard MON By Shelagh Stephenson. MON Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down MON she's losing patience. Richard Fallon MP, once the darling MON of the media, now can't get an invitation onto Question MON Time. And he thinks he knows who's to blame. MON Martha ...... Cathy Belton MON Richard ...... Roger Allam MON Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 11:00 Listening to China b00qbv2m (Listen) MON BBC World Affairs Correspondent Emily Buchanan hears the MON little-known story of around 300 young men who were MON selected to learn Chinese at the start of their National MON Service and then sent to Hong Kong to eavesdrop on Chinese MON communications. MON In the mid 1950s, with the Cold War raging and Chairman MON Mao's communists in power in China, the RAF began a MON top-secret programme to select and train a small group of MON National Servicemen to carry out intelligence work in Hong MON Kong. For six years from 1955 about 60 a year spent 12 MON months learning Chinese in England before being flown MON across the world to monitor radio broadcasts from the MON highest peak on Hong Kong Island for six months before MON being demobbed. MON Emily hears fom some of them about their time on a course MON which few had known about or chosen to do, and how it MON changed their lives. They recall the intensive language MON lessons, life in Hong Kong, the work itself and what they MON have since learned about their role in the Cold War. MON Some went on to work in intelligence, others formed the MON basis for a generation of professors of Chinese at British MON universities, and some never used their Chinese again. But MON all recall how the often chance decision to select them MON for the language course changed their lives. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qbv2p (Listen) MON Series 6, Cheese Cricket 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 Despite his assumption that somewhere in the vaults of the MON National Health Service can be found statistics for MON injuries sustained in the kitchen as a result of the dash MON to turn the wireless off at 6.30, Ed finds himself a MON surprise hit when he takes part in a new Radio 4 'topical MON quiz with a tasty twist'. MON Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas MON Olive ...... Stephanie Cole MON Felix ...... John Fortune MON Pearl ...... Rita May MON Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead MON With Dan Tetsell, Katy Wix, Tom Price and Rhys Rusbatch. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00qbc04 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00qbnp1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00qbnrt (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00qbvg7 (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the 2010 final of the perennial MON general knowledge contest. Contestants Ian Bayley from MON Oxford, David Clark from Port Talbot, Anne Hegerty from MON Manchester and Rob Hannah from Torquay compete to be this MON year's winner. MON Contestants MON Ian Bayley from Oxford MON David Clark from Port Talbot MON Rob Hannah from Torquay MON Anne Hegerty from Manchester MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00q9mpq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qbvg9 (Listen) MON The Ditch MON Recorded on location, this chilling tale is written and MON narrated by Paul Evans. MON Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing, MON leaving only a collection of recordings and a notebook. MON These fall into the hands of his radio producer, who tries MON to piece together what has happened. His quest leads him MON back to the disturbing aural landscape of Slaughton Ditch, MON where an obsession with hidden sounds has terrifying and MON fatal consequences. MON Tom Saunders ...... Jimmy Yuill MON Narrator ...... Paul Evans MON Other parts played by Christine Hall and Richard Angwin. MON Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson MON Directed by Sarah Blunt. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00q9hvv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.] MON MON 15:45 Key Matters b009x7g5 (Listen) MON C major MON Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to MON have distinct characteristics and create specific moods. MON 1/5: He looks at the brightest and simplest of keys - C MON major. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00q9k53 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00qbw64 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests examine the rise of new monastic MON communities and ask what characteristics they share with MON traditional orders. MON MON 17:00 PM b00qbqcg (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 b00qbrh6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00qbw66 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 5 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Paul Merton MON and Charles Collingwood explain how to remember people's MON names, and Josie Lawrence and Chris Neill talk about puppy MON love. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00qbnxv (Listen) MON Alan camps it up for Lent. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00qbrkk (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who interviews Martin Amis as he MON publishes a new novel which focuses on the effects of the MON sexual revolution of the 1960s. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5yf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] MON MON 20:00 Robo Wars b00qbxv5 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The pilotless drone aircraft has become key to current MON conflicts such as Afghanistan, but how far can technology MON take over combat? Stephen Sackur investigates a secretive MON and controversial change in how we wage war. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00qbxwj (Listen) MON A Price Worth Paying? MON Investment banks warn that if British taxpayers cease to MON guarantee to bail them out, they will leave the UK. That, MON according to a senior Bank of England official, might be MON 'a price worth paying'. Edward Stourton talks to the MON growing band of experts who believe that risk-taking MON investment banks should be forced to face the consequences MON of their losses and finds out why the government remains MON unconvinced. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00qbz09 (Listen) MON The New Diggers MON In 1649 the chaos of the English Civil War inspired a MON group that declared our land to be a common treasury and MON began to plant fruit and vegetables on common land in MON southern and central England. It was a response to a MON shortage of food and what the Diggers saw as the misuse of MON productive land by the large landowners. MON Alice Roberts meets the new Diggers - groups and MON individuals across the country determined to tackle the MON looming food crisis by making the wasteland grow. MON In Todmorden in West Yorkshire locals began by secretly MON planting up the gardens of their derelict heath centre. MON Today the whole town seems to throb with fertility; new MON allotments fill the retirement home gardens and feed the MON residents, an aquaponics growing system is being built MON behind the secondary school and pak choi self-seeds MON through the cracks in the town centre pavements. MON Near Gateshead a National Trust-owned stately home has MON cleared its enormous Georgian walled garden and invited MON local people in to create their own allotments. Meanwhile, MON a farming estate in Oxfordshire has decided that a MON reliance on arable farming leaves it vulnerable to world MON markets. New farmers and growers are being invited to rent MON small plots of land to try their hand at making the tricky MON transition from amateur grower to real farmer. MON Alice Roberts asks if this grassroots revolution will MON produce enough food to feed Britain. Will it transform the MON shape of our countryside and the look of our towns? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00qbt26 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00qbrmw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrsn (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk3 (Listen) MON The Still Point, Episode 6 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 How Edward Mackley's men survived a terrifying attack by a MON bear and a near-fatal fall through the ice, as Julia MON revisits their journey north through Edward's diaries. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Produced by Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00ny8gr (Listen) MON I'm H.A.P.P.Y. MON From absolute euphoria to a state of contentment, positive MON psychologist Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil Hammond and writer MON Lucy Mangan describe what makes them H.A.P.P.Y. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsnj (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00q9npt (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 b00qb5yf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yky (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00qb06n (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0cz (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v5 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00qb12d (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00qc02y (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Dr Jim Swire, who has waged a long TUE campaign to expose those he believes were responsible for TUE the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in which his daughter died. TUE It has been 21 years since his daughter, Flora, died when TUE Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, yet Jim Swire's TUE demands for a full public enquiry into the incident remain TUE undimmed. Only then, he believes, might the full story be TUE exposed. Jim has also fought for the release of Abdelbaset TUE Ali al-Megrahi, a man he helped bring to trial but has TUE long believed was innocent. TUE TUE 09:30 Famous Footsteps b00qc030 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience TUE of growing up in a creatively successful family. TUE Fiona finds out how creatively successful people cope when TUE things go wrong. What is the impact on a family when TUE something occurs to prick the bubble of success? Fiona TUE talks to songwriter Guy Chambers and his family about the TUE breakdown in his working relationship with Robbie TUE Williams. She also talks to Adrian Edmondson about the ups TUE and downs of managing his daughter, musician Ella TUE Edmondson, and hears from Daphne Du Maurier's daughter TUE about living with the legacy of a famous parent. TUE A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xv (Listen) TUE The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Standard of Ur 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 examines the first great civilisations and one of the TUE most spectacular discoveries of ancient royal goods. TUE Magnificent gold and silver jewellery was found nearly 100 TUE years ago at a royal burial site in the city of Ur in TUE southern Iraq, at the heart of one of the first great TUE civilisations in the world. It leads Neil to contemplate TUE the nature of kingship and power in Mesopotamia. One of TUE the objects buried alongside the dead was The Standard of TUE Ur, a set of mosaic scenes mounted on a single box that TUE show powerful images of battle and regal life and that TUE remain remarkably well preserved given its 4,500-year-old TUE history. TUE Contributors include sociologist Anthony Giddens, on the TUE growing sophistication of societies at this time, and the TUE archaeologist Lamia Al-Gailani, who considers what Ancient TUE Mesopotamia means to the people of modern-day Iraq. TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yc (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbby2 (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), TUE Caroline TUE By Shelagh Stephenson. TUE Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down TUE she's losing patience. Caroline thinks her child's a TUE genius because she bites teachers and dreams of 'being TUE somebody'. Sadly, however, there's rather more to genius TUE than having a mother with vaulting ambition. TUE Martha ...... Cathy Belton TUE Caroline ...... Rebecca Saire TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00qc032 (Listen) TUE Series 4, A Local Patch, part 1 TUE The first of two programmes exploring our relationship TUE with the landscape and the value of getting to know 'a TUE local patch'. TUE Three wildlife enthusiasts share their experiences of TUE their local patch and its wildlife. For wildlife TUE cameraman, John Aitchison, the local patch is the sea loch TUE which is just a stone's throw from his home on the west TUE coast of Scotland. For wildlife sound recordist Chris TUE Watson, the suburban back garden in Newcastle upon Tyne is TUE his local patch, and for wildlife artist writer Jessica TUE Holm, it's the woodland on the Isle of Wight where she TUE spent four years studying red squirrels. TUE Recordings from each location are weaved together, TUE highlighting the value of getting to know a patch of TUE landscape so well that it's like having 'a second skin', TUE as Jessica Holm says. TUE Walking along the shore from his home, John reflects on TUE the memories which are trigged by familiar sights: the TUE stone where the seals haul out, the stream where he's TUE watched the otters bathe, the patch of grass where the TUE lapwings shelter. With time, the unfamiliar has become TUE familiar; his closest neighbours are the curlews, TUE oystercatchers and sea otters. TUE For Chris too, time has bred familiarity and memories of TUE the past are bound up with this garden. His memories are TUE of the sounds of the past - the houses sparrows which used TUE to be so common, the wind sighing among the leaves of the TUE cherry tree, the swifts arriving in the summer. The TUE recordings he has made in his garden also demonstrate how TUE the landscape has changed; the house sparrows once so TUE common are now hardly ever heard in his garden, but the TUE recordings allow him to reconnect with the past, relive TUE memories he associates with the sounds, like his children TUE sleeping in their pram. TUE It is 20 years since Jessica Holm has visited Newton Copse TUE on the Isle of Wight where she spent four years studying TUE red squirrels, and yet the landscape feels the same. She TUE even finds the paths she made to the trees where she had TUE stapled live traps to catch the squirrels she was TUE studying. Walking among the trees she explains, 'I think TUE when you get really attached to a place, it never leaves TUE you ... it becomes part of the fabric of you. And even TUE though I haven't stepped foot in this copse for 20 years, TUE it feels exactly the same as it did all that time ago.' TUE The programme reveals the emotional and spiritual strength TUE each of the three derives from a connection with the TUE landscape that comes through time spent in a landscape, TUE through observing, watching, getting to know a landscape, TUE becoming familiar with its colours, moods and character. TUE It's a revealing and fascinating insight into the power of TUE experience and the relationships between people and place, TUE between Man and Nature. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00qc034 (Listen) TUE Paul Gambaccini TUE Paul Gambaccini has broadcast on just about every BBC TUE radio platform over his decades as a radio presenter, but TUE this is an opportunity to hear something he doesn't TUE normally share - his literary interests. They range from TUE Shakespeare to a graphic novel, via Bob Dylan and Arthur TUE Rubinstein. Paul's readers are John Guerrasio, Kathryn TUE Akin and Philip Rosch. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzf (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00qbnng (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00qbnrf (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00qc036 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Sonny Rollins TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE Century. TUE New York sax player Sonny Rollins is regarded as one of TUE most influential and unique saxophonists in contemporary TUE jazz. He began playing in the late 1940s, rehearsing and TUE performing with such luminaries as Thelonious Monk, Art TUE Blakey and Tadd Dameron. By the mid 1950s he was winning TUE popularity polls and enjoying widespread critical acclaim. TUE He has since gone on to develop a fluid and easily TUE accessible style, often lauded for bringing jazz to a TUE wider audience. TUE Ken talks to Mercury Music Prize-nominated saxophonist TUE Denys Baptiste, a fellow Sonny Rollins fan. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00qbnxv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qc0jp (Listen) TUE The Right Ingredients TUE By Pat Davis. When her world falls to pieces, Lisa resorts TUE to using other people's shopping lists as a means of TUE structuring her life. Her hope is that she will eventually TUE get all the right ingredients for the cake she needs to TUE bake. A delicate and beautiful story of a woman coming to TUE terms with a heart-breaking bereavement. TUE Lisa ...... Jasmine Hyde TUE Jake ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole TUE Ella ...... Helen Longworth TUE Mum ...... Kate Layden TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00qc0jr (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects TUE that help tell A History Of The World. Today, a writing TUE tablet from Roman Cumbria and the original blueprint for TUE garden suburbs. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bs (Listen) TUE A Georgian Trilogy, A Peacock in Sulphur TUE Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin, TUE inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008. TUE Niko Pirosmani was one of Georgia's greatest artists, but TUE was it his art that killed him? TUE Read by Allan Corduner TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Key Matters b00b0g6b (Listen) TUE D minor TUE Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to TUE have distinct characteristics and create specific moods. TUE 2/5: He looks at the saddest of keys, D minor. TUE TUE 16:00 Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means TUE Business b00kp806 (Listen) TUE Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open TUE source' computer software. Much has been said about the TUE likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system TUE Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers TUE scattered around the world collaborate in a 'virtual TUE anthill' to create products that rival more commercial TUE offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how TUE its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business, TUE with some startling results. TUE A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00qc2hn (Listen) TUE Series 20, Bill Hamilton TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Professor Richard Dawkins explains why he believes Bill TUE Hamilton to have been one of the greatest evolutionary TUE theorists of the 20th century. Dr Mary Bliss offers expert TUE advice. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00qbqby (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 b00qbrdm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Act Your Age b00qcj8m (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 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, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson TUE are joined by Jared Christmas, Mark Watson and Eddie Large. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00qbnxd (Listen) TUE Will has an exercise in diplomacy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00qbrh8 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of this year's Oscar TUE nominations. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00qcj8p (Listen) TUE The government has pledged 150 million pounds to combat TUE the threat of improvised explosive devices, which are now TUE the biggest danger to British and other coalition troops TUE in Afghanistan. But is the UK doing enough to tackle the TUE increasing threat they pose? Allan Urry investigates. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00qcj8r (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00qcj8t (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores the health issues of the day. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00qc02y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00qbrkm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrmy (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk5 (Listen) TUE The Still Point, Episode 7 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 Edward's expedition encounters danger, frustration and TUE finally loss. Will he ever return safely to his Emily? TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Produced by Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b00qcj8w (Listen) TUE Series 5, Ambition TUE The writer Jon Ronson asks how our driving ambitions shape TUE us. TUE By interviewing several people at different points in TUE their lives, he sees how ambition can make and break TUE people. He talks to an 11-year-old-boy who has plans to be TUE a world-class architect, a young woman who has set her TUE sights on being prime minister, and an ambitious TUE stockbroker whose success led him down a dangerous path TUE towards a high security prison in the US. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsn6 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00q9npw (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 b00qb5xv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00qb06q (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d1 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v7 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00qb12g (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00qcjdl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xx (Listen) WED The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Indus Seal 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 The ancient city of Harappa lies around 150 miles north of WED Lahore in Pakistan. It was once one of the great centres WED of a civilisation that has largely disappeared, one with WED vast trade connections and boasting several of the world's WED first cities, and it developed at a time when another WED great civilisation was being forged along the banks of the WED river Nile in Egypt. Neil investigates this much less WED well-known civilisation on the banks of the Indus Valley. WED He introduces a series of little stone stamps that are WED 4,500 years old, covered in carved images of animals and WED probably used in trade. The civilisation built over 100 WED cities, some with sophisticated sanitation systems, big WED scale architecture and even designed around a modern grid WED layout. The great modern architect Sir Richard Rogers WED considers the urban planning of the Indus Valley, and the WED historian Nayanjot Lahiri looks at how this lost WED civilisation is remembered by both modern India and WED Pakistan. WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yf (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxt (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), WED Howard WED By Shelagh Stephenson. WED Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down WED she's losing patience. Howard is a chef whose son WED ridicules the idea of cooking, preferring instead to try WED his hand at The X Factor. Sadly, however, he's almost 31 WED and still living at home. WED Martha ...... Cathy Belton WED Howard ...... Tim McInnerny WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 11:00 Weekend Warriors No Longer b00qcjdn (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Martin Bell investigates how the part-time Territorial WED Army is surviving full-time warfare. WED The TA was at one time dismissed as 'weekend warriors', WED but now the military admit they couldn't do without them. WED Martin finds out what makes ordinary people want to give WED up their civilian life to fight in Afghanistan. WED WED 11:30 Towards Zero b00qcjl3 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective WED novel. WED Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey WED for the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find WED her, and MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent. WED Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville WED MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion WED Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook WED Mary ...... Julia Ford WED Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska WED Kay ...... Lizzy Watts WED Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox WED Royde ...... Stephen Hogan WED Sergeant ...... Matt Addis WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzh (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00qbnnj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00qbnrh (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00qcjrz (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00qbnxd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c197q (Listen) WED Listen to the Words WED By Ed Hime. WED Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping WED fellow student Sophie's phone as the only way to WED understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media WED room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates WED a broadcast for his college radio station. WED Tim ...... Joe Dempsie WED Sophie ...... Lizzie Watts WED Damon ...... Sam Crane WED Stella ...... Lisa Stevenson WED Derek ...... Nyasha Hatendi WED Dr Susan ...... Helen Longworth WED Bill Keyes ...... Ben Crowe WED Clive ...... John Rowe WED Zoe ...... Liz Sutherland WED Lecturer ...... Stephen Critchlow WED Toby ...... Dan Starkey WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00qcjwl (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on investing in WED shares. WED Guests: WED Morven Whyte, portfolio manager at Redmayne Bentley WED Stockbrokers WED Gavin Oldham, chief executive officer, The Share Centre WED Rob Burgeman, divisional director, Brewin Dolphin. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bv (Listen) WED A Georgian Trilogy, The Wurst Express From Kakheti WED Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin, WED inspired by his travels in Georgia. WED It is summer 2008 and an impoverished Georgian poet is WED living in Berlin for three months. He is not expecting to WED hear shattering news from his homeland. WED Read by Tom Goodman-Hill WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Key Matters b00b5ltz (Listen) WED B flat WED Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to WED have distinct characteristics and create specific moods. WED 3/5: He looks at the key of B flat. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00qcjwn (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00qcj8t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00qbqc0 (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 b00qbrdp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 2 WED James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary WED correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are WED joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The WED author of the week and subject for pastiche is Irvine WED Welsh, and the reader is Beth Chalmers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00qbnxg (Listen) WED Helen fears the worst for Annette. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00qbrhb (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00qck2s (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, WED Michael Portillo and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Turkeys Voting for Christmas b00qf7sb (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED David Runciman explores the reasons why people often vote WED against their own self interest. WED David penetrates the psyche of the British electorate. He WED asks why inheritance tax is so unpopular among the people WED who have least to lose from it. Is it really true that WED people prefer politicians who make them feel better about WED themselves rather than politicians who make them better WED off? And why are voters so scathing about the focus groups WED designed to help the policy makers do them a good turn? WED WED 21:00 Nature b00qc032 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00qcjdl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00qbrkp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn0 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk7 (Listen) WED The Still Point, Episode 8 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 Julia has a visitor who, without knowing, reveals a WED shocking truth about her family's history. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard b00qck4v (Listen) WED Blairochil Business Awards WED Comedy by David Kay and Gavin Smith. 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, Cora Bissett and David WED Kay. WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgj (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 Food campaigner Jack Spratt and the Tooth Fairy debate the WED nation's nutrition. WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Charlotte Green, Lewis WED MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell. WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsn8 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00q9npy (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 b00qb5xx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00qb06s (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d3 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v9 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00qb12j (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00qckbw (Listen) THU Ibn Khaldun THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and THU Hugh Kennedy discuss the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xz (Listen) THU The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Jade Axe 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 continues his examination of the growing THU sophistication of modern humans around the globe between THU 5000 and 2000 BC. Mesopotamia had built the royal city of THU Ur, the Indus valley boasted the city of Harappa, and the THU great early civilisation of Egypt was beginning to spread THU along the Nile. THU In Britain life was much simpler, although trade links THU with Europe were well established. In this programme, Neil THU tells the story of a beautiful piece of jade, shaped into THU an axe head. It is about 6,000 years old and was THU discovered near Canterbury but was made in the high Alps. THU Neil tells the story of how this object may have been used THU and traded and how its source was cunningly traced to the THU heart of Europe. THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yh (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxw (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), THU Philip and Rose THU By Shelagh Stephenson. THU Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down THU she's losing patience. THU Since Phil's demotion as anchorman of a local TV news THU channel, he and his wife imagine they are dying of THU creeping invisibility. They could be right. THU Martha ...... Cathy Belton THU Philip ...... Tim McInnerny THU Rose ...... Shelagh Stephenson THU Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00qckby (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen) THU On the occasion of an important exhibition of Henry THU Moore's early sculpture at Tate Britain, Moore's daughter, THU Mary, refreshes our view of the life and work of Britain's THU foremost 20th-century sculptor. Contributors include THU Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro, Richard Wentworth and THU Penelope Curtis, the newly-appointed Director of Tate THU Britain. THU Mary takes listeners on a tour of the Moore's home at THU Hoglands in Hertfordshire, a small house crammed with THU extraordinary carvings and paintings from all over the THU world. Being Moore's only child, life for Mary was never THU going to be totally straightforward. Hoglands was besieged THU by people wanting to talk to her father and take THU photographs of the family having tea in the garden. Art THU students, including Gormley, Caro and Wentworth, 'popped THU up'. 'My father was an extremely generous man who had time THU for anyone curious about art, unless of course he was THU watching the tennis,' Mary says. THU The Henry Moore Foundation was formed in the last years of THU Moore's life and it stands as the most important supporter THU for sculpture in Britain. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzk (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00qckg5 (Listen) THU India's City of Tomorrow THU John reports from Lavasa, built across 12,500 acres in the THU Sahyadri Mountains outside Pune. One of the new residents THU will be a campus of the University of Oxford, and THU developers say the project creates jobs and much-needed THU housing. But what has been the effect on those who have THU seen their lands acquired and their livelihoods disappear, THU and what about wider concerns about the impact of these THU kinds lof luxury developments? THU THU 12:57 Weather b00qbnnl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00qbnrk (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00qbz09 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday.] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00qbnxg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qckkv (Listen) THU No Trampy Immigrants THU Inspired by events which took place in Belfast in the THU summer of 2009, Eoin McNamee's play tells the story of a THU community reeling from a shocking racist attack. THU A riot takes place at the height of marching season, but THU not the type of riot you might expect. THU Cyril ...... Adrian Dunbar THU Valerie ...... Brid Brennan THU Helen ...... Frances Tomelty THU Davy ...... Gerard Jordan THU Natasha ...... Cristina Catalina THU Davy ...... Gerard Jordan THU Directed by Heather Larmour. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00q9h9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bx (Listen) THU A Georgian Trilogy, The Soul is Missing Fairy Tales! THU Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin, THU inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008. THU A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down THU on the infamous military highway from Vladikavkaz to THU Tbilisi. It is only nine days since the Russian army THU withdrew from parts of Georgia, but there are rumours of a THU return. THU Read by Ben Miles THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Key Matters b00b6x4s (Listen) THU F sharp THU Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to THU have distinct characteristics and create specific moods. THU 4/5: He looks at the key F sharp. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00q9lzl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00qckkx (Listen) THU Take the carbon dioxide from a power station or factory THU chimney and use it to grow algae which are then turned THU into biofuel. It sounds too good to be true and of course THU there's a snag; you have to disolve the carbon dioxide in THU water before the algae can use it and that only happens THU slowly - unless you inject it as microscopic bubbles, and THU that takes a lot of energy. THU Quentin Cooper hears how researchers in Sheffield have THU developed a much more energy-efficient way of producing THU microbubbles and are applying it both to biofuel THU production and cleaning up pollution. THU THU 17:00 PM b00qbqc2 (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 b00qbrdr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qcn23 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and THU then getting them to vote for the best. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00qbnxj (Listen) THU David's paternal instincts come to the fore. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00qbrhd (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00qf5p7 (Listen) THU The attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on THU Christmas Day has led to claims that young Muslims are THU being radicalised at British universities. Talented THU student turned alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutalib was THU president of the Islamic Student Society at University THU College London. James Silver asks whether some UK campuses THU have become seedbeds for extremism? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00qf5p9 (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 2010: Space Odyssey to Europa b00qf5wp (Listen) THU Astronomer Paul Murdin explores the idea proposed by THU Arthur C Clarke in his novel 2010: A Second Space Odyssey THU that Jupiter's moon Europa might offer suitable conditions THU for living organisms. Four hundred years after Galileo THU first discovered Europa, scientists believe that data from THU the Galileo probe might just prove Clarke right. THU In Clarke's novel, a joint Soviet-American space mission THU is beaten to Jupiter by a Chinese mission, which lands on THU Europa and falls victim to its unknown terrain. The last THU astronaut to die on the alien surface broadcasts a THU message: there is life on Europa. THU Clarke's imaginings were recently backed up by pictures THU and data sent back by the Galileo probe which suggested THU that Europa was the only place in the solar system, apart THU from the Earth, that had deep, liquid water oceans, buried THU beneath an icy crust. Conditions in these oceans - dark THU and hot - could conceivably support biological life. THU In the last year, NASA and the European Space Agency have THU announced their intention to launch a joint mission to THU Jupiter's moons in 2020. One of their key aims is to THU investigate Europa - and its potential for life - in THU greater detail. THU Paul Murdin is a research astronomer at the University of THU Cambridge and Treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society. THU In this programme he speaks to fellow astronomers, to THU astro-biologists and to scientists at NASA and the THU European Space Agency about the importance of Europa and THU the possibility of finding extra-terrestrial life there. THU Readings by Joseph Cohen-Cole. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00qckbw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00qbrkr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn2 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk9 (Listen) THU The Still Point, Episode 9 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 Simon finally puts an end to the threat to his marriage, THU while Julia realises that she's been living far too much THU in the past. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Produced by Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 House On Fire b00qf6ls (Listen) THU Filth THU Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. THU When Matt refuses to do his fair share of cleaning around THU the flat, Vicky decides to down mops. As the dirt gathers, THU so do the flies. Is this the ideal scenario for Vicky to THU introduce her new boyfriend? THU Vicky ...... Emma Pierson THU Matt ...... Jody Latham THU Julie ...... Janine Duvitski THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson 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 b00qbsnb (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00q9nq0 (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 b00qb5xz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00qb06v (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d5 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00qb0vc (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00qb12l (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00q9k51 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5y1 (Listen) FRI The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Early Writing FRI Tablet 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 Between 5000 and 2000 BC, Mesopotamia had created the FRI royal city of Ur, the Indus Valley boasted the city of FRI Harappa and the great early civilisation of Egypt was FRI beginning to spread along the Nile. New trade links were FRI being forged and new forms of leadership and power were FRI created. And, to cope with the increasing sophistication FRI of trade and commerce, humans had invented writing. FRI In this programme, Neil describes a small clay tablet that FRI was made in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago and is FRI covered with sums and writing about local beer rationing. FRI The philosopher John Searle describes what the invention FRI of writing does for the human mind and Britain's top civil FRI servant, Gus O'Donnell, considers the tablet as an example FRI of possibly the earliest bureaucracy. FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yk (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxy (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), FRI Richard Revisits FRI By Shelagh Stephenson. FRI Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down FRI she's losing patience. FRI Richard Fallon MP has hired himself a publicist to up his FRI profile in the media. But it's soon apparent that FRI anonymity is the least of his problems. FRI Martha ...... Cathy Belton FRI Richard ...... Roger Allam FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 11:00 First Nation, First People b00qjwz2 (Listen) FRI With the start of the winter Olympics in Vancouver, the FRI world may discover there are still many uncomfortable FRI realities in Canadian society both past and present. FRI Lovejit Dhaliwal looks at what it means to be an FRI indigenous person of so-called First Nations status. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Cast in Order of FRI Disappearance b00qf6t4 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. FRI Charles Paris goes fishing and finds a dead body. FRI Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy FRI Jodie ...... Martine McCutcheon FRI Frances ...... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ...... Jon Glover FRI Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt FRI Miles ...... Thomas Arnold FRI Dr Mayhew ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Barman ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole FRI Receptionist ...... Tessa Nicholson FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzm (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00qbnnn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00qbnrm (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00qf6t6 (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00qbnxj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cqhr7 (Listen) FRI Bad Faith, Bad Faith FRI By Peter Jukes. FRI As a police chaplain, it is Jake Thorne's job to offer FRI counselling and comfort to officers in trouble, victims FRI and young offenders. But Jake is the epitome of a bad FRI priest. He's lost his faith and has decided, as a test for FRI God, to behave appallingly towards those he's supposed to FRI help. FRI Jake Thorne ...... Lenny Henry FRI Michael ...... Danny Sapani FRI Ruth Thorne ...... Jenny Jules FRI Isaac Thorne ...... Oscar James FRI Helen ...... Helen Longworth FRI Denise ...... Rosie Cavaliero FRI Chantelle ...... Kerri Mclean FRI Declan ...... Ben Crowe FRI TJ ...... Daniel Anderson FRI Barry ...... Edward Clayton FRI Producer Steven Canny FRI Executive Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00qf7bg (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank join FRI gardeners in Linton, Cambridgeshire. FRI Bob draws inspiration for creating winter dazzle in the FRI garden from Cambridge University Botanical Gardens. FRI Plus a profile of one of the nation's favourite flowers, FRI the camelia. FRI FRI 15:45 Key Matters b00bbdm8 (Listen) FRI E flat major FRI Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to FRI have distinct characteristics and create specific moods. FRI He looks at the key E flat major. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00qf7bj (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 b00qf7bl (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Morgan Freeman about his role as FRI Nelson Mandela in Invictus. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00qbqc4 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qbrdt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00qf7bn (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 5 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Micky Flanagan FRI and Jack Dee. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00qbnxl (Listen) FRI Annette makes a surprise decision. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00qbrhg (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang on the art of casting non-professional actors FRI in films and TV dramas, with actor Dominic West and writer FRI Ed Burns from The Wire, and Katie Jarvis, star of Fish FRI Tank. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5y1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00qf7bq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Edgware FRI in Middlesex. The panellists are The Daily Telegraph's FRI chief political commentator Benedict Brogan, Francis FRI Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00qf7lj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00qf9kt (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough), FRI Omnibus FRI An omnibus edition of Shelagh Stephenson's drama about FRI psychotherapist Martha and her dealings with a series of FRI patients. FRI Martha ...... Cathy Belton FRI Richard ...... Roger Allam FRI Caroline ...... Rebecca Saire FRI Howard/Philip ...... Tim McInnerny FRI Rose ...... Shelagh Stephenson FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00qbrkt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn4 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbskc (Listen) FRI The Still Point, Episode 10 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 With the secrets of Julia's family finally laid bare, she FRI and Simon must find a way to resolve the distance between FRI them and to confront their unspoken fears. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00qc2hn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsnd (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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