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SAT SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00vrywd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00vs4lh (Listen) SAT Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Kerry Shale. Mark Twain maintained that the proper SAT material for an autobiography was to talk about the things SAT that interest you for the moment, as your views on this or SAT that would give an insight into your character. SAT SAT He also decreed that his autobiography should not be SAT published until he'd been dead for 100 years so that he SAT could feel free to speak his "whole frank mind." And his SAT outspoken views on the Moro incident, and the conduct of the SAT American forces in the Philippines, certainly show a very SAT different side to the man who is famous for his childhood SAT classics. SAT SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vrywg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vrywj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vrywl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00vrywn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vtx49 (Listen) SAT With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00vtym4 (Listen) SAT iPM: We launch this year's iPM New Year's Honour, our annual SAT competition that celebrates our listeners. One of last SAT year's nominees has recorded a special fanfare for the SAT launch. We also interview ex-squatter Nick Cobbing, who SAT defends the practice, and describes how his years in a squat SAT helped define the person he has become. Your News is read SAT this week by the Radio 4 legend, Peter Donaldson. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00vrywq (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00vryws (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00vtym7 (Listen) SAT In Open Country this week, Helen Mark visits the Whitelee SAT Plateau in Ayrshire, once a treeless bog grazed by very SAT hardy sheep and cattle but now transformed into a vast SAT conifer plantation of ten million trees. The 'greening' of SAT the Whitelee Plateau was part of a tremendous shift in land SAT use in Scotland, nearly trebling tree cover in just forty SAT years. Historian Ruth Tittensor saw the importance of this SAT change in the Ayrshire landscape and recorded the thoughts SAT and feelings of local people affected by the coming of the SAT forest. She documented enormous social and environmental SAT change, and takes Helen to meet people who remember the SAT plateau before the coming of the trees. SAT SAT Producer : Moira Hickey. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00vtypq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00vrywv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00vtyps (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00vtypv (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by television producer Daisy Goodwin and SAT the poet is Luke Wright. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00vtyq7 (Listen) SAT Medics abroad and Bridges SAT SAT John McCarthy meets ophthalmologist Lucy Mathen who runs an SAT organisation performing cataract operations in north east SAT India and Andrew Ready who leads a team transplanting SAT kidneys in Trinidad and Ghana. He asks them about operating SAT in less than ideal conditions and the impact their work has SAT on the local communities. SAT John also talks to architectural historian and TV presenter SAT Dan Cruickshank about his fascination with bridges and those SAT he has visited on his travels round the world. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue b00vv0ds (Listen) SAT Sue stands 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from SAT head to tail. Her weight is 7 tons, and her skull alone SAT weighs 600 pounds. Her teeth are 7 1/2 to 12 inches long. SAT SAT Sue MacGregor's fascination with the story of Sue, the T Rex SAT began a few years ago when she visited the Field Museum in SAT Chicago, and came face to face with her namesake. In this SAT programme, she recalls the drama of her discovery, her SAT eventual sale for $87 Million and the custody battles that SAT raged around her. SAT SAT In the summer of 1990, fossil-hunter Sue Hendrickson was in SAT South Dakota, working for the Black Hills Institute of SAT Geological Research. Whilst waiting for a flat tyre to be SAT replaced, she stumbled across the fossils of what would be SAT the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex yet discovered. SAT Sue - as the dinosaur was nicknamed - soon sparked an SAT ownership debate that continued for five years, and that SAT meant Sue was not unveiled to public exhibition for an SAT entire decade. SAT SAT The story of the Sue debate began when Maurice Williams, a SAT private rancher in the South Dakota region, invited Peter SAT Larson, the president of a commercial geology company, onto SAT his property to look for fossils. It was on this land that SAT Sue was found. Larson claimed to have bought Sue with a SAT $5,000 cheque- but Williams denied that he reached any sort SAT of agreement with Larson over the sale of the dinosaur. SAT SAT Further complicating the debate was the fact that Sue was SAT discovered within the boundary of a Sioux Indian reservation SAT and Maurice Williams' land, like that of many American SAT Indians, was held in trust by the US government. SAT SAT In 1992, the government stepped into the argument with a SAT search warrant. National Guardsmen and FBI agents raided the SAT Black Hills Institute, removing Sue and many other specimens SAT and documents. SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00vv0dv (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00vv0dx (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00vv0fk (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00vryrs (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 8 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy SAT and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00vrywx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00vrywz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00vrytz (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Alton SAT College in Hampshire with questions for the panel including SAT Chuka Umunna, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed SAT Miliband, Margot James, Conservative MP, Bob Crow, General SAT Secretary of the RMT union and the leader of UKIP Nigel SAT Farage. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00vv0n5 (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00vv0n7 (Listen) SAT And Then There Were None SAT SAT Agatha Christie's famous detective story without a SAT detective, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. SAT SAT Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person SAT none of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, SAT it seems they have all been invited for different reasons. SAT Nothing quite adds up. SAT SAT An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered SAT someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is SAT dead. Stranded by a violent storm and tormented by the SAT nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys', the ten guests fear SAT for their lives. Who is the killer? Is it one of them? SAT SAT Cast in order of appearance SAT SAT Vera Claythorne ..... Lyndsey Marshal SAT Cyril ..... Harry Child SAT Captain Lombard ..... Alex Wyndham SAT Emily Brent ..... Joanna Monro SAT Dr. Armstrong ..... Sean Baker SAT Mr. Justice Wargrave .... Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Anthony Marston ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT Mr. Blore ..... Sam Dale SAT Narracott ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT General Macarthur ..... John Rowe SAT Mr. Rogers ..... Wayne Foskett SAT Mrs. Rogers ..... Sally Orrock SAT Hugo ..... Henry Devas SAT Gramophone Voice ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00vv0rj (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00vv0v9 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00vrxx0 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT In the week that former BP boss Tony Hayward admitted the SAT company had been unprepared for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill SAT in April, Evan and his panel of top business executives SAT consider how companies plan for unexpected events. How SAT prepared actually are they for a crisis or a disaster? SAT SAT And dressing up, dressing down, power dressing, smart casual SAT - they also discuss what to wear at work. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Neil Gaydon, chief executive SAT of set-top box maker Pace; Sara Weller, managing director of SAT retail chain Argos; Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent SAT Drinks. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vryx1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00vryx3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vryx5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00vv11g (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT What with strikes, protests and militancy this week, it's SAT apt that Clive is joined by the outspoken political SAT firebrand and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. His six track SAT CD Pressure Drop is out now and he's about to embark on a UK SAT tour in December. SAT SAT The First Lady of Musical Theatre, Elaine Paige talks about SAT her career and her latest album 'Elaine Page and Friends' an SAT album of duets with the likes of Barry Manilow, Olivia SAT Newton-John, Dionne Warwick and John Barrowman. SAT SAT And Martin Scorsese's Oscar winning film editor of thirty SAT years, Thelma Schoonmaker talks about her involvement in her SAT late husband Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom SAT as it hits its fiftieth anniversary and returns to the big SAT screen. SAT SAT The Now Show's Jon Holmes meets one of the funniest men in SAT Hollywood, the actor and Will and Grace star Leslie Jordan. SAT He'll be bringing his one man show 'My Trip Down the Pink SAT Carpet' to London next year. SAT SAT There's music from Billy Bragg of course and from Iceland's SAT experimental pop pioneers, Hjaltalin. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00vv13t (Listen) SAT Series 9, Reform SAT SAT In response to planned changes to welfare provision SAT announced this week, playwright Nell Leyshon examines the SAT extent to which a big society can fill the gaps. Two years SAT ago Lyn and Tom adopted a vulnerable four year old boy, SAT tonight they must look again at what it means to be a family. SAT SAT LYN.....Claire Rushbrook SAT TOM.....Nicholas Gleaves SAT SAT Produced by Jeremy Mortimer and Ellie Bury SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00vv29v (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00w4dwn (Listen) SAT Archive on Four marks the 70th anniversary of a broadcasting SAT phenomenon - the story of how Yorkshire man J.B. Priestley SAT became the voice of the nation during the darkest days of SAT the Second World War. SAT SAT Using original broadcasts, information stored in BBC files SAT and interviews with his son Tom Priestley and step son SAT Nicolas Hawkes, Archive on Four revisits these extraordinary SAT broadcasts and asks why, in spite of their astonishing SAT popularity, Priestley was taken off air. SAT SAT Presented by Martin Wainwright. SAT Producers: Catherine Plane and Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00vrbq7 (Listen) SAT The Ramayana, Return SAT SAT By Amber Lone. A distinctive modern version of an ancient SAT Indian epic and one of the world's most popular love SAT stories. Sita has been abducted by a ruthless warlord. Rama SAT enlists the help of an army of monkeys to get her back but SAT has she betrayed him with the evil ruler of Lanka? SAT SAT Sita...Manjinder Virk SAT Rama...Lloyd Thomas SAT Lakshman...Adeel Aktar SAT Ravan...Paul Bhattacharjee SAT Surparnaka...Sasha Behar SAT Hanuman...Kulvinder Ghir SAT Sugreeva...Jude Akuwudike SAT Mandodari...Deeivya Meir SAT Kush...Omar Kent SAT Lava...Neil Reynolds SAT SAT Music composed by Niraj Chag SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00vryx7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00vrx5r (Listen) SAT Government welfare reform plans to be released include SAT proposals that the unemployed will be expected to join 4 SAT week long community work projects - if they refuse they'll SAT have their benefit stopped for 3 months. Critics say the SAT idea is a way of punishing the workless and is humiliating SAT people who are already extremely vulnerable. The Archbishop SAT of Canterbury says it could drive them in to a spiral of SAT despair. But why should people be allowed to sit at home on SAT benefits doing nothing? What's wrong with expecting them to SAT give something back to society in return? Perhaps it will SAT also combat the culture of welfare dependency and encourage SAT the poor to take more responsibility for themselves. This SAT new conditionality in the welfare system isn't just a matter SAT of tinkering at the edges - it could mean a fundamental SAT change in what the state requires of us as citizens. In the SAT past benefits were paid on a simple calculation of need, or SAT age. But now there's an extra level - not only do you have SAT to be unemployed, but you also have to do good works for the SAT community. Will this kill off the culture of entitlement? SAT And if so why not introduce the same principles for other SAT benefits? Perhaps pensioners should have to baby sit one SAT evening a week to qualify for their state handout? Ask SAT yourself not what benefit I am entitled to, but what should SAT I do to make myself worthy of receiving it. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00vrt02 (Listen) SAT (3/17) The contestants in the third heat of the nationwide SAT general knowledge contest come from London, Middlesex, SAT Surrey and Cardiff. Russell Davies asks the questions. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME SAT SAT GRAHAM BENNETT, a retired university administrator from SAT Surbiton; SAT CHARMIAN GRIFFITHS, a Blue Badge guide from London; SAT GLEN KIRTON, a sports event management executive from SAT Hampton in Middlesex; SAT MICHAEL PARSONS, a malware researcher from Cardiff. SAT SAT 23:30 The Poet's Indian, The Words are English b00vrbs1 (Listen) SAT Award-winning poet Daljit Nagra explores the place of SAT English in Indian poetry, asking whether it's simply another SAT Indian language to be absorbed by poets, or whether its SAT colonial roots are an issue. SAT SAT Indian poets writing in English have been accused of being SAT elitist, inauthentic and of using the language of the middle SAT classes and colonizers. But over the past 150 years they've SAT also used English to engage in crucial political debate and SAT create a rich poetic language. SAT SAT Daljit will look at the legacy of the first Indian writers SAT in English - nineteenth century poets in India who developed SAT a post-Romantic Indian English style, culminating in the SAT global fame of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, the first SAT Indian writer to win the Nobel Prize. SAT SAT After Indian Independence some wanted to get rid of English SAT altogether, and whereas its poetry had once been SAT nationalistic, romantic, mystical and lyrical, after 1947 SAT the language of the colonisers divided opinion. SAT SAT We explore how the Jewish Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel SAT spearheaded the modern movement in the 50s, absorbing the SAT language of postwar writers like Philip Larkin and Ted SAT Hughes, but creating too a distinct free verse form of his SAT own. Daljit also looks at the influences of other Indian SAT writers including Kamala Das and Ramanujan. SAT SAT Indian poetry in English has flourished over the past SAT decades and is now an energetic and global scene. With poets SAT Imtiaz Dharker, Keki Daruwalla, Meena Alexander, Jeet Thayil SAT and Amit Chaudhuri Daljit rekindles the debate and explores SAT this rich story. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Wheeler SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00vszjp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kdv3x (Listen) SUN Lost and Found, Providence and the Butler SUN SUN This cannily observant early P.G. Wodehouse story was lost SUN for 99 years, now recently discovered. It has some classic SUN "Plum" ingredients: an eccentric Earl, an irresponsible SUN young man, a chorus girl, and of course a butler, not Jeeves SUN (Wodehouse hadn't created him yet!) but the ancient SUN 'Keeling', who has more worldly wisdom than anybody. SUN SUN Reader: Martin Jarvis SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vszjr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vszjt (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vszjw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00vszjy (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00vv5p4 (Listen) SUN For Remembrance, the half-muffled bells of Westminster SUN Abbey, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Wall in the Mind b00vrx5t (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In the first of three essays exploring the subtleties of the SUN barriers to social mobility, the writer Lynsey Hanley asks SUN if our social class still largely determines the education SUN we receive. She examines whether our birth postcode will SUN funnel us into good or bad schools, into academic or SUN vocational learning, and into long-established universities SUN or post-2000 ones. She has a very personal starting point - SUN her own education at a school where girls were trained for SUN hair and beauty and boys for car mechanics. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00vszk0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00vv5p6 (Listen) SUN Voices of Brass SUN SUN What is it in the sound of brass that appeals to our SUN emotions so viscerally? And how it has become the chosen SUN accompaniment to military life? From the walls of Jericho to SUN the last Trump and from Reveille to the Last Post- a SUN programme for Remembrance Sunday. SUN SUN Mark himself played the Tuba and this music has always SUN fascinated him. He talks to members of the Minden Band of SUN the Queen's Own regiment about their experiences playing for SUN troops near the front line in Afghanistan and looks at the SUN enduring emotional appeal of a huge variety of band music SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00vv5pn (Listen) SUN Native Hedgerows SUN SUN Hedgerows are a unique part of the British landscape, and SUN many in Devon are medieval in origin, some even going back SUN as far as the Bronze Age in origin. On a farm in mid Devon, SUN Rob Wolton a hedgerow ecologist continues the management of SUN his hedges in the traditional way. As a result his hedges SUN are home to a surprising number of dormice. In this SUN programme Lionel Kelleway delights in the abundance of many SUN native hedgerow species which he encounters along the field SUN edges, sampling some of the fruits of autumn along the way. SUN While walking this allows for the long held theory that a SUN hedge can be aged by the number of individual species in it SUN to be dispelled. SUN SUN Over centuries, many animal species have become adapted to SUN this unique man made landscape, which itself has provided a SUN safe wildlife corridor for those whom it shelters. And of SUN course dotted along the hedgerows is another important SUN wildlife habitat, hedgerow trees, which themselves can SUN increase biodiversity of species by up to 60%. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00vszk2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00vszk4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00vv5st (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00vv5sw (Listen) SUN International Development Enterprise UK SUN SUN Andrew Marr presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity International Development Enterprise UK. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00vszk6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00vszk8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00vv7yk (Listen) SUN Lest We Forget SUN SUN On the evening of Thursday 14th November 1940, Coventry SUN suffered the most severe air raid to hit the city during the SUN Second World War. The intention of the German Luftwaffe was SUN to destroy Coventry's factories and industrial SUN infrastructure, but damage to the rest of the city was considerable. SUN SUN Coventry was soon ablaze and, by the time the all-clear was SUN sounded at 6.15 on the morning of Friday 15th November, SUN about 600 people had been killed and much of the city, SUN including its cathedral, had been left in smouldering ruins. SUN SUN This service on Remembrance Sunday live from the new SUN cathedral - the inspiration of architect Sir Basil Spence - SUN marks the 70th anniversary of a harrowing night that gave SUN birth to a reconciliation ministry stretching across the SUN world. The service explores the peace and reconciliation SUN Christians believe God wants for the whole of His creation. SUN SUN Service leader: Canon David Stone, Precentor of Coventry SUN Cathedral SUN Preacher: The Very Reverend John Irvine, Dean of Coventry SUN Cathedral SUN The Cathedral Chamber Choir SUN Music director: Kerry Beaumont SUN Organist: Alistair Reid SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00vryv1 (Listen) SUN History through Religion SUN SUN Sarah Dunant finds religion a powerful lens for a fresh look SUN at history bringing into focus an episode like the Babington SUN plot against Queen Elizabeth the First much more sharply SUN than occurs in traditional Tudor soap opera. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 News and Papers b00vv80f (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 09:15 The Archers Omnibus b00vv83x (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer. SUN SUN 10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance SUN from the Cenotaph b00vv85b (Listen) SUN Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for SUN the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice SUN made by so many in the two World Wars and in other more SUN recent conflicts. The traditional music of remembrance is SUN played by the massed bands and, after the Last Post and Two SUN Minutes Silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath SUN on behalf of nation and commonwealth. The Bishop of London SUN leads a short Service of Remembrance, then, during the March SUN Past, both veterans and those involved in present conflicts SUN throughout the world share their thoughts. SUN SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 11:45 In War and Paint: SUN The Diary of the Modern Day War Artist b00vv8k5 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In December and January 2008/2009, artist Xavier Pick spent SUN six weeks with the British, American and Iraqi troops in SUN Basra. SUN SUN As a guest of the Ministry of Defence, he was given SUN exclusive 24 hour access to the army. During his trip he SUN produced hundreds of sketches and paintings of the things he SUN witnessed. It was a life-changing expedition for Xavier who SUN documented his experiences and feelings in audio as well SUN canvas. SUN SUN Here Radio 4 listeners are given a snap shot of what Xavier SUN felt about what he saw as he toured Iraq with the troops. SUN SUN The pictures he painted while in Iraq included everything SUN from soldiers at work, rest and play to sketches depicting SUN the reconstruction of Basra including the building of new SUN schools, hospitals and transport links. SUN SUN He visits Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party headquarters, SUN the Garden of Eden, air raid shelters and the battlefields SUN of the Iran/Iraq war. SUN SUN He spends Christmas and New Year with the troops and SUN reflects on how it must feel to be away from family and SUN friends at special times. In an intimate portrait of day to SUN day life for our troops, he captures the spirit of life in SUN Iraq at a crossroads for both the British army and the Iraqi SUN people. SUN SUN Producer: Daniel Manicolo SUN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00vrt93 (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 1 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Alun SUN Cochrane are the panellists for this, the first of the new SUN series of Just a Minute. SUN SUN This is the long-running panel game which tests whether SUN people have the gift of the gab. Panellists try to speak on SUN a given subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN Much more difficult than it sounds... SUN SUN The suave and usually unflappable Nicholas Parsons is SUN chairman as ever. Today the panellists struggle with a huge SUN range of subjects as diverse as My First Kiss, Conkers and SUN Having a Duvet Day. SUN SUN This show comes from The Quays Theatre at The Lowry Centre SUN in Salford. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00vv8q4 (Listen) SUN Cut Price Fruit SUN SUN Over the past few months Supermarket price wars have halved SUN the cost of one of Britain's best loved fruits - the banana. SUN Even though retailers say they aren't passing cuts down to SUN growers Sheila Dillon asks, whether our appetite for cheap SUN fruit is having an impact on workers at the other end of the SUN supply chain. We travel to Ecuador, one of the world's SUN leading banana exporters, to explore the reaction on a plantation. SUN SUN Elsewhere, in Costa Rica, we hear a disturbing investigation SUN into the lives of pineapple workers who accuse the big SUN exporters of exploitation and union breaking to provide SUN bargain fruit. And on the brighter side of pineapple growing SUN we meet the woman who is working tirelessly to reintroduce SUN farming of the exotic fruit to her island in the Bahamas. SUN SUN Producer: Deiniol Buxton. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00vszkb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00vv8zp (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Ali: When Cassius Met The Beatles b00r8b1k (Listen) SUN The tale of an unexpected encounter between 20th century SUN legends - a meeting which created a new template for global SUN celebrity. SUN SUN February 1964: The Beatles fly into Miami, sparking SUN Beatlemania as they prepare to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. SUN SUN Meanwhile in a low-rent Miami gym, the underdog Cassius Clay SUN trains to fight reigning champion Sonny Liston for the world SUN title. The pundits say Clay hasn't a hope. Quite SUN unexpectedly, the paths of these legendary figures cross. SUN SUN British photographer Harry Benson arranges for The Beatles SUN to visit Cassius Clay in the gym. Clay picks up Ringo and SUN swings him around the ring as if he's no heavier than a SUN toddler, as the other band-members lie at his feet. Clay SUN pretends to knock all four Beatles down with a single punch. SUN The resulting images remain in the memory long after this SUN brief encounter. SUN SUN The Beatles triumph on TV. Cassius Clay amazes all the SUN boxing writers by defeating Liston. They suddenly both find SUN themselves on the cusp of a new kind of stardom - they're SUN young, outspoken and able to capture the global imagination. SUN SUN John Wilson reports from Miami on the background to this SUN unique encounter, with the memories of three people who were SUN there at the time: photographer Harry Benson, who was SUN travelling with the Beatles, writer Robert Lipsyte, who was SUN covering the fight for the New York Times as a rookie SUN reporter, and fight doctor Ferdie Pacheco, then working at SUN the gym in Miami. All witnessed the moment when Cassius met SUN The Beatles. John also taps the memories of Paul McCartney. SUN SUN Producer John Goudie. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vryrg (Listen) SUN Askham Bryan College, North Yorkshire SUN SUN The panel are guests of students and staff at Askham Bryan SUN College in North Yorkshire. SUN SUN Eric Robson seeks some expert advice on growing Himalayan SUN plants at the nearby Harewood House, In London, Matthew SUN Wilson is on site at the 2012 Olympic Park with the park SUN manager and horticulture consultant. Part one in a series. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In War and Paint: SUN The Diary of the Modern Day War Artist b00wcqft (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN In December and January 2008/2009, artist Xavier Pick spent SUN six weeks with the British, American and Iraqi troops in SUN Basra. SUN SUN As a guest of the Ministry of Defence, he was given SUN exclusive 24 hour access to the army. During his trip he SUN produced thousands of sketches and paintings of the things SUN he witnessed. It was a life-changing expedition for Xavier SUN and he documented his experiences and feelings in audio as SUN well canvas. SUN SUN Here Radio 4 listeners are given a snap shot of what Xavier SUN felt about what he saw as he toured Iraq with the troops. SUN SUN The pictures he painted while in Iraq included everything SUN from soldiers at work, rest and play to sketches depicting SUN the reconstruction of Basra including the building of new SUN schools, hospitals and transport links. SUN SUN He visits Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party headquarters, SUN the Garden of Eden, air raid shelters and the battlefields SUN of the Iran/Iraq war. SUN SUN He spends Christmas and New Year with the troops and SUN reflects on how it must feel to be away from family and SUN friends at special times. In an intimate portrait of day to SUN day life for our troops, he captures the spirit of life in SUN Iraq at a crossroads for both the British army and the Iraqi SUN people. SUN SUN Producer: Daniel Manicolo SUN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00vvwq0 (Listen) SUN Alone in Berlin, Episode 1 SUN SUN From the Novel by Hans Fallada. Dramatised for radio by SUN Shelagh Stephenson SUN SUN Primo Levi's declaration that Alone in Berlin is "the SUN greatest book ever written about German resistance to the SUN Nazis" is bold and unequivocal. English readers have had to SUN wait 60 years to explore the 1947 novel in which Otto SUN Quangel, a factory foreman (Ron Cook) and his wife Anna SUN (Margot Leicester) believe themselves morally obliged to SUN take on the full might of the Nazis. SUN SUN When their son is killed "for Fuhrer and Fatherland", the SUN Quangels begin to write anonymous postcards, denouncing the SUN war and the regime, and leave them on the stairwells of SUN public buildings in Berlin. Over two years, the cards become SUN their life. Trapped through a trivial mistake, by their SUN nemesis, Inspector Escherich of the Gestapo (Tim McInnerny) SUN they are put on trial for their lives, but find a strange SUN freedom in a mocking defiance and then in a terrible silence. SUN SUN Alone in Berlin is a grim but heroic story told with laconic SUN determination by a man who lived through the war in Berlin. SUN It is about the quiet moral triumph of a seemingly SUN inconsequential couple - it points to a courage which lay in SUN the hearts of most true Germans, if only angst and SUN overwhelming fear hadn't been allowed to gain the upper hand. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Otto Quangel ..... Ron Cook SUN Anna Quangel ..... Margot Leicester SUN Escherich ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Trudel Bauman ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Eva Kluge ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN Enno Kluge ..... Ian Bartholomew SUN Emil Borkhausen ..... Richard McCabe SUN Frau Rosenthal ..... Joanna Munroe SUN Inspector Rusch ..... John McAndrew SUN Judge Fromm ..... Andrew Sachs SUN Inspector Zott ..... Nickolas Grace SUN Inspector Prall ..... Sam Dale SUN SUN Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00vvx3t (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to comedian Barry Humphries about SUN his five favourite books. SUN SUN Novelist Mohsin Hamid pays tribute to the work of Italy's SUN best kept secret, writer Antonio Tabucchi. SUN SUN Orhan Pamuk's translator Maureen Freely discusses the SUN reasons why translators are so far down the literary pecking order. SUN SUN And as a new thriller Cross Fire joins the ranks of books SUN with identical names, novelist Christopher Brookmyre - SUN author of A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away - muses on what SUN makes a good title. SUN SUN PRODUCER: SALLY SPURRING. SUN SUN 16:30 Oh What a Lively War b00vvx8m (Listen) SUN One of the most famous lines in French poetry was written by SUN Guillaume Apollinaire in the summer of 1915. His "Ah Dieu! SUN que la guerre est jolie" can be roughly translated into SUN English as "Oh! What a lovely war!", but unlike the famous SUN English musical, Apollinaire's line was devoid of irony. SUN Here was a young poet revelling in the excitement, the sheer SUN modernism, of warfare. It's a sentiment very much at odds SUN with our British legacy of war poetry from that time, and SUN it's one that Martin Sorrell, translator of Apollinaire, SUN unpicks in this programme with the help of Professors Susan SUN Harrow and Tim Kendall, and the American poet Brian Turner, SUN who served in the US army in Iraq. SUN SUN Apollinaire was already a well-known poet and leading SUN champion of Cubism when he enlisted in December 1914. His SUN war came to an end in March 1916, when he received a SUN shrapnel wound to the head. He was invalided out, trepanned, SUN made only a partial recovery, and died in November 1918, SUN almost the same day as Wilfred Owen, SUN SUN His early war poetry, written in 1914 and 1915, is infused SUN witrh the marvel and spectacle of war, and continues the SUN experiments with form that made him one of France's great SUN literary innovators. It also celebrates his rich, SUN complicated love life, pursued as and when possible. His SUN letters to the two women with whom he was simultaneously SUN involved are fascinating records of a passionate patriot and SUN an equally passionate lover. It was only as the war SUN progressed and he experienced his own horrifying injury that SUN the poems began to recognise the misery of the trenches and SUN the horror of technological warfare. SUN SUN Apollinaire's poems are read by Paul McGann SUN SUN Presenter Martin Sorrell is Emeritus Professor of Modern SUN Languages at Exeter University. SUN Produced by Sara Davies. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00vrvv0 (Listen) SUN Charities - Giving and Taking SUN SUN Under the Prime Minister's project for The Big Society, the SUN coalition government wants charities to have much greater SUN involvement in the running of public services. SUN At the same time, substantial cuts are expected in official SUN regulators which check that charities are competent and SUN honest. SUN Recent financial scandals have shown the vulnerability of SUN even the most prestigious organisations to systematic fraud. SUN The Charity Commission admits that a quarter of charities SUN fail to file their accounts on time, covering a combined SUN annual income of £6 billion. The Commission also says that SUN in future allegations of fraud may no longer be SUN automatically investigated. SUN Meanwhile, other national charities are facing rebellions SUN from lifelong local supporters over planned reorganisations SUN designed to win huge public contracts. SUN Gerry Northam asks if we can be confident that charities are SUN fit and honest enough to take responsibility from the public SUN sector. SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00vv13t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vszkd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00vszkg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vszkj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00vw01d (Listen) SUN Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00vw02h (Listen) SUN There's a visitor to St Stephens and Clarrie faces a big SUN decision. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00vw03t (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c83jt (Listen) SUN SOS: Save Our Souls, Signing SUN SUN A series of stories inspired by the international Morse Code SUN distress call, 'SOS - Save Our Souls'. SUN SUN A court interpreter is being sent unexpected signals - but SUN will she choose to acknowledge them? SUN SUN Read by Natalie Bennett SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00vryrd (Listen) SUN Presented by Roger Bolton. SUN SUN This week, Justin Webb explains why he wants to toughen up SUN his act. But listeners say please don't as they rather enjoy SUN it when The Today programme was taken off the air by the SUN recent national Union of Journalists' strike. It was SUN replaced by more gentle programmes including an audio essay SUN about The Wash. SUN SUN The novelist Joanna Trollope makes a plea for more SUN adventurous drama on BBC Radio. SUN SUN And should the BBC make people in the rest of the world pay SUN for listening to its domestic services? Roger Bolton finds SUN out it it's even possible. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00vryrj (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Joseph Gavin who led the team that designed and built the SUN lunar module that carried the first men to land on the moon. SUN One of them - Buzz Aldrin - pays tribute. SUN Also the Argentine Admiral Emilio Massera who presided over SUN the systematic torture and killing of thousands of people SUN and began the invasion of the Falkland Islands.. SUN The African American soprano Shirley Verrett who overcame SUN racial prejudice to become a celebrated operatic performer.. SUN Professor Ehud Netzer the archaeologist who discovered the SUN tomb of King Herod SUN And Geoffrey Crawley the scientific journalist who exposed SUN the world's longest running photographic hoax - the SUN Cottingley fairies. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00vv0fk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00vv5sw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00vrt9c (Listen) SUN Criminal rehabilitation: a sub-prime investment? SUN SUN Ken Clarke has promised a "rehabilitation revolution" in SUN which private investors will fund projects aimed at cutting SUN the re-offending rate. If the projects succeed, the SUN government will pay those investors a return. But if the SUN projects fail, the investors will lose their shirts. SUN SUN You can see why the idea is attractive to ministers. In a SUN period of spending restraint - and with a huge and hugely SUN expensive prison population - a 'payment by results' system SUN promises to fund rehabilitation projects from future savings. SUN SUN But will it work? After all, rehabilitation is hardly a new SUN idea. And so far, it seems, most attempts have made little SUN difference. So the question is whether a new way of paying SUN for criminal rehabilitation might deliver better results. SUN There's unrestrained excitement among some of those working SUN with offenders. And deep scepticism among some SUN criminologists. SUN SUN Emma Jane Kirby investigates. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00vszkl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00vw185 (Listen) SUN Mark D'Arcy talks to The Guardian's Chief Political SUN Correspondent Nick Watt about the big political stories. SUN SUN He previews the Westminster week with two newly-elected MPs, SUN the Conservative Harriet Baldwin and Labour's Lisa Nandy. SUN SUN The Liberal Democrat peer and Deputy Leader of the Lords, SUN Tom McNally, discusses the bill which will allow a SUN referendum on changing the voting system and cut the number SUN of Parliamentary constituencies. SUN SUN And Professor Philip Cowley talks to us about the book he's SUN co-authored on this year's general election. He tells us SUN about the impact of the televised leader debates, the SUN performance of the main parties and why we may be entering SUN an era of hung Parliaments. SUN SUN Programme editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00vw187 (Listen) SUN Episode 27 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Dennis Sewell of The SUN Spectator takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00vryrl (Listen) SUN Ralph Fiennes on what every good villain needs, as he SUN reprises his role of Harry Potter bad guy, Lord Voldemort. SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Gruff Rhys, lead singer of The Super SUN Furry Animals, about his Patagonian odyssey in Separado. SUN SUN A report on the Rex cinema in Wareham, Dorset, the first in SUN a new series about the digital revolution and the rise of SUN community cinemas across the country, where Niki Bedi meets SUN some local heroes nominated by listeners. SUN SUN Agnes Poirier discusses the renaissance of controversial SUN French icon Gerard Depardieu. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00vv5p6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vt1z1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00vrx5f (Listen) MON Book publishing - Active Citizenship MON MON Laurie Taylor talks to Cambridge sociologist Professor John MON Thompson about his book 'Merchants of Culture' which MON approaches the US/UK publishing trade from an MON anthropological point of view. Laurie also talks to MP Jesse MON Norman and author Dan Hind about Dan's new book The Return MON of the Public arguing for more active citizenship. MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00vv5p4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vt1z3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vt1z5 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vt1z7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00vt1z9 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vw1v3 (Listen) MON With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00vw1vv (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Melvin MON Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00vt1zc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00vw1yd (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00vw20v (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen MON Adshead about the medicalisation of evil. While human nature MON in a different guise is explored through William Boyd's MON literary everyman, Logan Mounstuart, who moves from the page MON to tv screen in the adaptation of his novel, Any Human MON Heart. The poet Craig Raine compares the composition of a MON poem to the art of dress-making: "We are waiting till it MON feels exact,/ ruthless till we feel the fit." And the MON psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist concludes that the problem MON with modern society can be found in the left side of our brain. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00vw734 (Listen) MON What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Jenny Diski. MON MON Jenny uses her own life as a framework to offer an MON entertaining and rigorous examination of our relationship to MON the wild and the stuffed, the cuddly and the caged. MON MON Beginning with the early rescue of a bird in Regent's Park, MON and an indifferent relationship to childhood pets she moves MON on to look at the way in which fictional animal characters MON are used to explain the ways of the human world to children. MON Adulthood brings a series of relationships with cats and the MON thorny question of how we talk to animals, or if we can. MON Jacques Derrida and Dr Dolittle are both enlisted to help. A MON fear of spiders reveals the lurking possibility of darker MON traumas; a visit to a sheep farm confronts us with innocent MON charm and lunch; whilst an attempt at horse-riding provokes MON the question, 'who's in charge ?' MON MON Read by Lesley Manville MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vw736 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Annie Lennox one of the world's MON best-selling music artists talks about her life and music. MON We look at how children are still being held in Britain's MON detention centres despite coalition pledges to stop the MON practice and we hear from one woman who works as a lock MON keeper on the River Lee running through East London. With MON the Olympics just two years away, the waterways there are MON already playing a crucial role in providing a transport link MON for barges carrying construction materials and building MON waste to and from the site. One of the people who looks MON after the network for British Waterways is Annie Myers. We MON hear from her about her life on the water and how she is MON just one of just a handful of women who do this kind of work MON throughout the country. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vw738 (Listen) MON The Pillow Book, series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Set in 10th Century Japan, this is the third thriller MON inspired by the diaries of Sei Shonagon. MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to investigate MON a murder in the Palace of the Sun Goddess. A favourite of MON the Emperor is found drowned in a pool in the Palace MON Gardens. But before Yukinari can investigate, the body is MON given a ceremonial burial and all trace of the crime washed MON away by the spring rains. MON MON By Robert Forrest. MON MON Shonagon - Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari - Mark Bazeley MON Emperor - Simon Ginty MON Empress - Laura Rees MON Gisaku - Robin Laing MON MON Producer - Lu Kemp. MON MON 11:00 The New MBAs b00vw73v (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON When the global economy crashed spectacularly in 2008 it MON seemed like all the people in charge had an MBA from a top MON business school- from President George W Bush, through MON Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to the heads of Lehman MON Brothers, Merrill Lynch, General Motors and more. Indeed MON many of the collapsed companies were famous for hiring whole MON posses of smart MBAs. MON MON Some Business School heads conceded they share the blame, MON none more readily than the Dean of Cass Business School in MON the City of London- Richard Gillingwater said that although MON ethics and values were 'embedded' in parts of their courses MON they needed to deal more explicitly with topics like short MON versus long-term decision-making, appropriate rewards and MON corporate responsibility. MON MON So in 2009 he set up a review of all the School's graduate MON courses and this programme follows it over 12 months as it MON becomes the 'Ethics, Sustainability and Engagement' project, MON headed by a new Dean of Ethics and guided by their own MON 'Corporate Philosopher in Residence'. The listener will sit MON in on lectures, seminars, debates and discussions that show MON how MBA courses are delivered, and how ethical issues in MON particular are now being tackled. MON MON The programme also looks at other UK schools that were MON already tackling some of these issues successfully: For MON years the international Aspen Institute has rated Nottingham MON University best in the UK for its approach to ethical, MON social and environmental topics in its business curricula. MON And Manchester Business School has an innovative and well MON established project linking MBA students with local MON voluntary groups to develop awareness of the place of MON business in wider society and show that not everyone is MON driven solely by greed. MON MON Producer: Mike Hally MON A Square Dog Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Dave Podmore's History of the Ashes MON in 100 Objects b00vw79q (Listen) MON Andy and Pod begin their quest to compile 'Pod's History of MON the Ashes in 100 Objects' at the British Museum where they MON meet Neil MacGregor and the lady who yodels at the beginning MON of the Radio 4 programme. MON MON Pod only agrees to continue with Andy's show on the MON condition he gets to visit Oz and win his attractive wife MON Jaqcui back from the hairy arms of an Aussie cricketer. On MON the flight Down Under, Pod shows Andy the historically MON significant 69 tins of Fosters with which he's just set the MON all-time England-to-Australia-beer-drinking record. MON MON They visit the Brisbane Museum of Cricket where they see the MON very phone directory Shane Warne used to call up nurses at MON the Brisbane School of Nursing. Pod and Andy then MON accidentally create a diplomatic incident by letting slip MON that both Heartbeat and The Bill have been cancelled in the MON UK, devastating Australian TV schedules for decades. MON MON This upsets the Aussie cricket team who are trying to warm MON up at the first Ashes Test Match in Brisbane, with the MON encouragement of a team of cheerleaders led by none other MON than Pod's wife Jacqui. Pod notes that the pile of vomit he MON left on the outfield in 1989 is still there and suggests it MON to Andy as one of the 100 objects, although to be honest MON he's more interested in the odds that a local bookie is MON offering on the chances of him and Jacqui getting back together. MON MON Pod persuades Jacqui to take him back as the winnings on the MON bet he's just placed will more than make up for his MON shortcomings as a lover, a man and a human being. MON MON Andy reluctantly returns to England having failed almost MON completely in the task to collect 100 objects but with a £50 MON note as his cut of Pod's gambling winnings. MON MON Written by Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick MON Newman MON Producer: Monica Long MON A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00w190t (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00vt1zf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00vxyck (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00vxycm (Listen) MON (4/17) Russell Davies chairs the evergreen general MON knowledge quiz, this week's contest coming from Manchester. MON Contestants from Herefordshire, Carrickfergus, Teesside and MON Cheshire play for a semi-final place. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME MON MON ANNE FINCH, a retired biomedical scientist from Hereford; MON JAMIE JOHNSTON, a retired teacher from Carrickfergus; MON MICHAEL McPARTLAND, a civil servant from Middlesborough; MON DEREK MOODY, a planning and logistics manager from MON Warrington. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00vw02h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vxycp (Listen) MON Number 10, Episode 4 MON MON Written by Jonathan Myerson. Simon was due to meet the US MON National Security Advisor in a room at Heathrow as they both MON crossed planes. Simon is on his way to a European budget MON crisis conference. MON MON But now Simon has to travel out to the plane because MON Buckley, the NSA is jumpy because an arrest warrant has been MON issued against him - alleging war crimes. MON MON Then suddenly a policeman - Inspector Lagan - manages to MON enter the cabin, accompanied by Monica, now a Labour MP and MON a US secret serviceman accidentally shoots him in the arm. MON MON The plane is immediately sealed and Monica is appalled - MON this inspector needs an ambulance! Tempers flare, torture MON allegations are thrown and an international incident looms. MON MON Meanwhile, the economy is crashing - Simon was on his way to MON negotiate with Germany for a bail out for Spain. Simon needs MON to get there - fast. MON MON PM (Simon Laity) ..... Damian Lewis MON Georgie ..... Gina Mckee MON General Buckley ..... Kerry Shale MON Monica ..... Sasha Behar MON Fotini ..... Shelley Conn MON Russo ..... Nigel Cooke MON Inspector Lagan ..... Scott Cherry MON US Secret Serviceman/ MON Paramedic ..... Nicholas Murchie MON Paramedic 2 ..... Charlotte Lucas MON MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 How Myers-Briggs Conquered the Office b00rmst0 (Listen) MON It was created by a mother and daughter team, neither of MON whom were trained as psychologists, yet today it is the MON world's most widely used personality indicator, used by MON leading companies like Shell, Procter and Gamble, Vodafone, MON and the BBC. MON MON Mariella Frostrup tells the story of The Myers-Briggs Type MON Indicator (MBTI), created by Katherine Briggs and her MON daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. Participants are asked a MON series of questions intended to reveal information about MON their thinking, problem solving and communication styles. At MON the end of the process each participant is handed one of 16 MON four-letter acronyms which describes their "type." ENTPs are MON extrovert inventors, ISTJs are meticulous nit pickers. MON Mariella finds out what type she is- will it change the way MON she works? MON MON Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers devised their MON questionnaire during WWII to help women identify the sort of MON war-time jobs where they would be "most comfortable and MON effective." It was a long and arduous struggle to convince MON industry it could be useful to them. Today in academia many MON are still not convinced. MON MON Despite this, as Myers-Briggs rolls out across the globe, MON how does it cope with different cultural attitudes towards MON celebrating individualism, particularly in more reserved MON Asian countries? MON MON Mariella asks the key question; what does Myers-Briggs tell MON us that we couldn't have found out before? MON MON 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b00vxygv (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The first of the shortlisted stories in contention for this MON major award is Tea at the Midland by David Constantine. What MON begins as a romantic outing for a couple turns into an MON afternoon fraught with tension as a piece of artwork exposes MON fundamental differences in their outlooks on life. The MON reader is Sian Thomas. It is followed by the award-winning MON Irish novelist and short story writer, Colm Tóibà n, on a MON very personal selection of extracts from his favourite short MON stories. MON MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins and Emma Harding. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00vv8q4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00vxygx (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON APOCALYPSE! MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for the MON third series of the witty, irreverent science show. In the MON first episode of the series, Brian and Robin are joined by MON comedian Andy Hamilton to discuss some of the wackier MON apocalyptic theories, as well as those more grounded in MON science fact. Did the Mayans know something that we didn't MON with their prediction of global annihilation in 2012, or MON should we be focusing our energies and scientific know-how MON on some of the more likely scenarios, from near earth MON asteroids, through to climate change and deadly pandemics, MON or even the more long term possibilities of our sun burning MON out....although we have got roughly another 5 billion years MON to ponder the challenge of that problem. Recorded in front MON of an audience at the Drill Hall in London. MON MON 17:00 PM b00vxz2t (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vt1zh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00vxz2w (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 2 MON MON The well-loved, long-running panel game with Nicholas MON Parsons at the helm. This week's panellists are Paul Merton, MON Sue Perkins, Kevin Eldon and Julian Clary. MON MON The panellists are asked to speak on subjects given to them MON for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON Much more difficult than it sounds... MON MON This week Sue Perkins describes her experience of Waiting MON Rooms reducing Nicholas to helpless giggles along the way, MON new-boy Kevin Eldon talks tantalisingly about Dressing MON Provocatively and Julian Clary teases Paul Merton about his MON subject My Comedy Hero. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00vxz2y (Listen) MON Tom is determined to get a result and Nigel and Elizabeth MON prepare for the festive season. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00vxz30 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a report on the Thai film Uncle MON Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which won the Palme MON d'Or at this year's Cannes Festival, and arrives in British MON cinemas this week. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vw738 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00vxz48 (Listen) MON Series 6, 1. King Harold MON MON The image of King Harold II, the last of the Saxon Kings, MON the brave but gallant loser of the battle of Hastings in MON 1066 is a powerful one. It's a birth and death of a nation MON moment, the last time these islands were successfully MON invaded. But Michael Portillo looks again at that image of MON Harold. Was he really a noble figure, bravely trying to MON stave off defeat at the hands of the powerful Norman army MON while only days before he'd fought off another band of MON invaders, his brother Tostig amongst them, in the North? In MON fact both Harold and the Kingdom he ruled for less than a MON year were neither stable or heroic. Our last Saxon monarch MON took the crown by virtue of the power of his family. The MON Godwins had been at once a threat and an ally to Edward the MON Confessor throughout his reign. MON But as Michael probes further he finds that Edward's MON reputation as the pious, good hearted ruler is also open to MON debate. Indeed we've not only forgotten that the kingdom was MON fragile, riven with factional Earldoms and the dangers that MON come with an uncertain royal lineage but we scarcely hear MON mention of the one figure, Edgar the Aetheling, who did have MON a genuine claim to the throne in 1066. MON It appears that in the need for a clear image of 1066 and MON all that, an image worked on not only by the Normans in the MON 12th century but by the Victorians in the 19th, that we've MON gone quite a long way down the road of forgetting to MON remember the 'all that' that makes this such a fascinating MON moment in our Island history. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00vxz5m (Listen) MON The deserving and the undeserving poor MON MON Presenter Chris Bowlby asks whether a state welfare system MON can ever distinguish between those who deserve help and MON those who do not. MON As the recession bites and public spending cuts loom there MON have been calls, on both sides of the political debate, for MON a re-moralisation of welfare. Some say that the entitlement MON culture has gone too far, others that the hard-working poor MON should not be footing the bill for those who choose not to MON take a job. When did the language change and what does a MON change in vocabulary really mean? MON And even if desirable can distinctions between welfare MON recipients be made in practice? If there are time limits on MON the receipt of welfare will more people end up better-off in MON work or worse-off unable to work? MON Analysis will look at what history can teach us about making MON moral distinctions between the poor - both when the economy MON is booming & when it's contracting. And what of those, such MON as the children of welfare recipients, caught up in the MON debate : can it ever right to reduce the money which may MON give them a better future? MON Producer : Rosamund Jones. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00vrxwp (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON Bigger bangs at CERN; What made last winter so cold? MON Invisibility cloaks come closer. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Mini Big Bang MON MON Researchers at CERN near Geneva have recently begun using MON the Large Hadron Collider to smash together lead ions to MON create conditions close to those that existed right after MON the Big Bang. On a line from Geneva is particle physicist MON Dr David Evans of Birmingham University who is the UK MON Project Leader on the ALICE detector at the LHC to explain MON how his work could give insights into the birth of our MON Universe billions of years ago. MON MON Snow and climate change MON MON Last winter was one of the coldest in three decades in MON Europe and parts of the USA. With snow and ice in the MON headlines for weeks, it looked like there was more evidence MON that global warming didn’t exist. One year on and a series MON of papers have appeared that look at the scientific details MON surrounding the cold snap, showing it does fit into picture MON of gradual climate change. To discuss this with Quentin is MON Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at Columbia MON University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. MON MON Invisibility material MON MON Scottish researchers have made what they say is a practical MON breakthrough in taking invisibility from fiction to reality MON by using flexible meta-materials to create a thin film to MON steer light waves in bizarre directions. Andrea Di Falco, a MON EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow from the University of St MON Andrews and Ortwin Hess from the Centre for Plasmonics and MON Metamaterials at Imperial College join Quentin in the studio MON to demonstrate an example of this “invisible†material. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00vw20v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00vt1zk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00vxz6q (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vxz6s (Listen) MON Troubles, Episode 6 MON MON The recipient of the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970, J. G. MON Farrell's tragi-comic masterpiece set against the Irish MON struggle for independence, read by Jim Norton. MON MON Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland after the war to MON visit Angela Spencer - the fiancée he appears to have MON accidentally acquired on an afternoon's leave, three years MON before. Arriving in the town of Kilnalough, he finds MON himself in the crumbling surroundings of a grand old Irish MON hotel - the Majestic - with its eccentric owner Edward MON Spencer (Angela's father), community of gently decaying old MON ladies and unceasingly proliferating cats. MON MON Despite an unexpected resolution to his engagement and MON numerous resolutions to leave Ireland, the Major is MON increasingly unable to detach himself from the Majestic's MON faded and verging-on-dilapidated charms - not to mention the MON charms of one Kilnalough resident in particular - while the MON surrounding countryside becomes ever more unsettled and MON violent as the gathering storm of the Irish struggle for MON independence is about to erupt. MON MON Troubles is abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by MON Heather Larmour. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00vrxk3 (Listen) MON On the Road MON MON "The facts are that four out of five male children start MON life predisposed in favour of adventure," wrote Peter MON Fleming in 1933. "They do it because they want to. It suits MON them. It is their cup of tea." MON MON In a travel themed edition of Off The Page, Dominic MON Arkwright asks domestic obsessive Lucy Mangan and Johnny MON Green, the former road manager of the Clash, if this is MON really the case. Writer Justin Marozzi weighs in with a MON compelling account of a mercury drinker he met in MON Uzbekistan, while debate centres on whether the nomadic urge is innate. MON MON "When I first went out On The Road with punk rock terrors MON the Clash," write Johnny Green, "it was madly exciting, MON beyond my considerable wildest dreams." To which Lucy Mangan MON replies, who was feeding the cat ? MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vxz6v (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vtx7s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00vw734 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vtx7v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vtx7x (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vtx7z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00vtx81 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vxzj3 (Listen) TUE With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00vxzj5 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00vxzk2 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00vxzkp (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to André Hanscombe, partner of Rachel TUE Nickell who was murdered on Wimbledon common in 1992. Their TUE three year old son Alex was found clinging to her body. TUE TUE Colin Stagg was charged with the killing. He would turn out TUE to be innocent. Meanwhile the real murderer, Robert Napper, TUE would go on to kill and rape again. It would be more than a TUE decade before advances in DNA enabled the police to link TUE Napper with the murder of Rachel Nickell. TUE TUE André Hanscombe talks for the first time about why he fought TUE to have the full facts of the investigation disclosed by TUE taking a complaint to the Independent Police Complaints TUE Commission. Their report detailed a catalogue of "dreadful TUE mistakes" by the Metropolitan Police which allowed Robert TUE Napper to slip through the net time and time again. André TUE Hanscombe received a public apology from the Police but they TUE declined to offer compensation. TUE TUE 09:30 Africa at 50: Wind of Change b00vxzm7 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Malawi was the first country in the south to gain TUE independence. By 1958, Nyasaland - as it was then called - TUE was experiencing a mounting tide of political unrest. Dr. TUE Hastings Banda, a respected medical doctor based for many TUE years in the UK and Ghana, returned to lead the struggle for TUE independence. TUE TUE Professor Thandika Makandawire was still at school when a TUE state of emergency was declared in Malawi in 1959, and Banda TUE was arrested. It was a turning point in his life, and he TUE became more active with the youth league of the nationalist TUE movement. "You could see colonial rule was coming to an TUE end", says Makandawire. "It was very exciting for a young TUE person." TUE TUE When Harold Macmillan toured southern Africa in early 1960, TUE Makandawire took part in a rowdy demonstration outside his TUE hotel. The police reacted violently, and he was arrested. TUE But he believes that the incident dispelled the "myth of TUE peaceful natives" and helped inform Macmillan's "Wind of TUE Change" speech. TUE TUE In 1962, Thandika Makandawire won a scholarship to study in TUE the USA. "The dream was that I'd go to the US and come back TUE as soon as I could." But within three months of TUE independence, the new government was convulsed by a cabinet TUE crisis and Makandawire's passport was withdrawn. Unable to TUE return to Malawi, he spent 30 years in exile. TUE TUE Despite the price he paid, Makandawire is proud of the role TUE he played in the independence struggle. "In my lifetime, I TUE have seen the whole of the continent liberated. That's TUE priceless." TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00w8nfl (Listen) TUE What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Jenny Diski. Can we ever really hope to TUE communicate with non-human animals? And what on earth would TUE we discuss? French philosopher Jacques Derrida and fictional TUE character Dr Dolittle are both roped into the debate. TUE TUE Read by Lesley Manville TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vxzm9 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vxznn (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book, series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Set in 10th century Japan, this is the third thriller TUE inspired by the diaries of Sei Shonagon. TUE TUE Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to investigate TUE a murder in the Palace of the Sun Goddess. A favourite of TUE the Emperor is found drowned in a pool in the Palace TUE Gardens. But, before Yukinari can investigate, the body is TUE given a ceremonial burial and all trace of the crime washed TUE away by the spring rains. TUE TUE A fan, belonging to one of the court ladies, is found in the TUE dead man's room. Lady Shonagon is shocked to see Yukinari TUE throw all courtesy aside in his ruthless pursuit of the truth. TUE TUE By Robert Forrest. TUE TUE Shonagon - Ruth Gemmell TUE Yukinari - Mark Bazeley TUE Gisaku - Robin Laing TUE Saisho - Vicki Liddelle. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00vxznq (Listen) TUE Episode 29 TUE TUE 29/40. Eagle Owls live in the UK, but should they? These TUE large owls with penetrating orange eyes are formidable TUE predators capable of seizing mammals the size of rabbits. TUE Eagle Owls occur naturally in Scandinavia. The large TUE expanses of forests in North West Europe are a large TUE uninterrupted habitat for several owl species and these are TUE also areas with low densities of people. The Eagle Owls in TUE the UK are largely regarded as invasive species - "aliens" - TUE with most experts believing they are not native to the UK TUE but escapees from private collections. Some argue there is TUE evidence that Eagle Owls once lived in the UK many thousands TUE of years ago and so should be regarded as native. And TUE there's the rub. When is a species an invasive one and when TUE has an invaded species become native? TUE TUE The story of invasive species reaches world-wide. Species TUE continue to invade islands and mainland habitats with direct TUE consequences on the local ecology. Climate change is TUE considered a great force for species invasion and people TUE have introduced animal and plant species for centuries, TUE deliberately or not. TUE TUE The RSPB have successfully eradicated rats from Henderson TUE Island in SE Pacific to save the breeding seabirds there - TUE And on virtually every continent and important archipelago TUE plant and animal eradication programmes occur, but not TUE always with complete support. Examples of controversial TUE programmes include the Ruddy Duck in England and Wales; Mute TUE Swans in the US; Horses in Australia; and Kiore on Little TUE Barrier Island. Concerns are normally based around animal TUE welfare. But concerns can also be based in biodiversity TUE arguments too. TUE TUE In this programme we discuss whether the eradication of TUE invasive species in any one setting is wildlife conservation. TUE TUE Amongst others, we talk to Sarah Simons, based in Kenya, TUE from the IUCN's Global Invasive Species Programme and Tim TUE Blackburn from the Zoological Society of London. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Shimmer and Dazzle: TUE Seeing What Bridget Riley Sees b00vxzns (Listen) TUE To coincide with the celebratory exhibition of Bridget TUE Riley's work at the National Gallery, Louisa Buck explores TUE the work of Britain's leading abstract artist, exploring how TUE she works with light and colour and the character of forms TUE to produce an exquisite shimmering and geometrical dazzling, TUE that conspire to create what is her signature - the restless TUE movement - in her painting. TUE TUE Riley's urge to be an artist came from the pleasure of TUE 'sight' which she developed formally at art school and her TUE exploration of the colour and geometry of the 19th century TUE French painter, Seurat, a 'Pointillist' whose colour TUE theories caused the painting surface to bristle with energy TUE and movement. Riley took on the challenge of developing his TUE vision, and turned to abstraction, recognising that TUE figuration could distract from the visual experience of TUE movement - which might reside in 'the eye's mind', the title TUE of a book of her writing and interviews. TUE TUE Riley is one of the most respected artists in Britain and TUE one of the few contemporary painters with a truly TUE international reputation. Her distinguished career TUE encompasses fifty years of uncompromising and TUE remarkable innovation. TUE TUE She came to critical attention with the famous black and TUE white paintings that she made in the early 60s. Her work was TUE included in a landmark exhibition, The Responsive Eye at The TUE Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1965 which established her TUE as an artist of the first order. This position was endorsed TUE by Riley's representation of Britain at the Venice Biennale TUE in 1968 when she became the first British contemporary TUE painter to win the International Prize for painting. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Bland TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00vxzp9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. A Parliamentary TUE committee has just issued a damning report warning that TUE overcrowding on the railways is set to become even worse TUE despite a ten per cent increase in fares over the next four TUE years. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee also TUE says the Government will miss all targets for making more TUE room available on trains by 2014. Virgin Trains is already TUE considering only allowing passengers to travel at peak times TUE if they have reserved a seat. This would put operators on an TUE equal footing with airlines and other European carriers. It TUE would mark a major change in policy for the national railway TUE which has always offered a walk-on service. Will the fare TUE increases be enough to solve the problem of overcrowding? TUE Has too much been spent on transport in London to the TUE detriment of other areas? Can our rail services survive in TUE the current market place? Will these fare increases be the TUE tipping point for commuters? An opportunity to contribute TUE your views to the programme. Call 03700 100 444 (lines open TUE at 10am on the day) or email youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00vtx83 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00vxzpc (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) TUE Poland, September 1956. Rioters had been shot dead in Poznan TUE weeks before, the invasion of Hungary is just weeks away. TUE The Cold War rages but for 8 young Londoner's, The Dave TUE Burman Jazz Group, their unlikely journey behind the Iron TUE Curtain is an overwhelming surprise. Jazz in Poland had been TUE banned by first the Nazi's and then the Communists but had TUE been played secretly 'in the catacombs' by a few. Now, at TUE the seaside resort of Sopot, some 60,000 mainly young people TUE journeyed from all over Poland to hear jazz and that rarest TUE of attractions a British band. TUE TUE The Dave Burman Jazz group were largely amateurs, had been TUE assembled in just a few weeks, and would never play together TUE again but for those few short weeks the Cold War blew hot as TUE they thumped out Tiger Rag, Basin Street Blues and other TUE standards to crowds of thousands all over the country. Their TUE contact with Polish people was minimal, ushered by Communist TUE officials. But for those Polish musicians taking part in TUE Sopot '56 and all that would follow, this was the beginning TUE of their Jazz Frenzy, of freedom. TUE TUE Dave Burman gave away his cornet to an admiring Polish TUE musician, returned to England and got on with his life. Now, TUE more than 50 years later he returns with his son and TUE producer of the programme to be reunited with his cornet and TUE hear from some of Poland's jazz legends about the year when TUE everything changed and jazz emerged from the 'catacombs' and TUE into a time of frenzy. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00vxz2y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b1mx3 (Listen) TUE Chatterton: The Allington Solution TUE TUE Who or what killed the boy genius Thomas Chatterton? TUE TUE For over two hundred years, everyone thought he committed TUE suicide, a neglected poet driven to despair. Everyone, that TUE is, except Jeremy Allington, a literary historian, who TUE thinks the prevailing wisdom is nonsense. Only he isn't TUE quite as polite as that ... TUE TUE Dangerously close to losing his job and his partner, TUE Allington is determined to prove that history is not as TUE simple as some historians would have us believe. Set in both TUE the present day and the 18th century, Chatterton: The TUE Allington Solution is the first play for Radio 4 by the TUE acclaimed writer, biographer and historian, Peter Ackroyd. TUE TUE Thomas Chatterton ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Jeremy Allington ..... Adrian Scarborough TUE Ruth ..... Rachel Bavidge TUE Partridge ..... David Timson TUE Sam Beaumont ..... Glen McCready TUE Mrs Angel ..... Liza Sadovy TUE Jackman ..... Hugh Ross TUE Mr Crane ..... Jonathan Keeble TUE Coroner ..... Hugh Dickson TUE Mark Lawson ..... Himself TUE TUE Producer: Nicolas Soames TUE A Ukemi Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00vxzvm (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Presenter: Richard Daniel TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b00vxzvp (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE The next of the five stories shortlisted for this TUE prestigious award for published writers is Butcher's Perfume TUE by Sarah Hall. This gritty coming-of-age story is set in TUE Carlisle where a disturbing event binds a teenage girl to TUE the awe-inspiring Slessor family in which the wild blood of TUE the region runs strong. Read by Emma Rydal. Abridged by TUE Sally Marmion. Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Guerilla Gardeners b00vhfk1 (Listen) TUE Toby Amies meets plant enthusiasts determined to make their TUE mark on their neighbourhood, regardless of the rules, by TUE taking trowel and seedbomb in hand to go guerrilla TUE gardening. More and more people are targeting plots of land TUE they regard as abandoned or neglected for a spot of illicit TUE horticulture. TUE TUE Roundabouts and lay-bys, parks and pavements, wastelands and TUE building sites are sprouting flowers, trees and vegetables. TUE The green-fingered guerrillas come from a variety of TUE backgrounds and garden from a variety of motives. For some, TUE it's the joy of making a barren space bloom again, for TUE others it's about neighbourhood renewal and the chance to TUE rebuild a community. Others use plants for political TUE statements. TUE TUE And it's a modern movement with ancient roots. Some TUE guerrilla gardeners hark back to the activities of the TUE Diggers at the time of the Civil War when attempts by groups TUE of people to occupy land and build a community of growers TUE brought them into conflict with the authorities. TUE TUE Today's guerrilla gardeners also run the risk of falling TUE foul of the law; to what extent are they prepared to face TUE down the threat of charges of trespass or criminal damage? TUE By what right do they target public or private land, how far TUE are they prepared to take their hardcore horticulturalism TUE -and what do the owners and authorities make of their TUE activities? TUE TUE Toby meets varied and variegated guerrilla gardeners up and TUE down the country to discover what they do, why they do it TUE and asks whether their activities are anti-social or TUE something the so-called "Big Society" could emulate. TUE TUE Presenter: Toby Amies TUE TUE Producer: Mike Greenwood TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00vy0dw (Listen) TUE Stephanie Cole, Michael Horovitz TUE TUE This week's guests on A Good Read are Stephanie Cole - whose TUE acting career has spanned several decades and every type of TUE work, including television roles in Tenko, Waiting for God TUE and Doc Marten - and the distinguished poet Michael TUE Horovitz. Michael is often recalled for his work in the TUE poetry boom of the 1960s, but his poetic voice has never TUE fallen silent and he is still very much part of contemporary TUE poetry. Sue MacGregor is the presenter for a programme which TUE discusses favourite books including an early 20th century TUE spy novel and a memoir by Jack Kerouac's lively muse. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00vy0dy (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vtx85 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00vy0f0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, TUE Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. Answering TUE the questions you probably never asked, this week's episode TUE explains how the mouse got in the beans and why you should TUE think twice before sponsoring a dog. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00vy0f2 (Listen) TUE It's Race Night at the village hall and Eddie begs a favour TUE from Lilian. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00vy0f4 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with one of the TUE contenders for this year's BBC National Short Story Award. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vxznn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00vy0f6 (Listen) TUE The Great Train Robbery? TUE TUE It's been dubbed the Great Train Robbery, but Allan Urry TUE asks who's robbing who? TUE With fares set to rise, the programme examines why Britain's TUE railways are so much more expensive than other European TUE countries. Passengers in some parts of the UK complain they TUE are caught out by a complex and confusing system of TUE ticketing, which unfairly penalises them. TUE Does it have to be so difficult to find out what the TUE restrictions are on your journey? TUE Why aren't there enough carriages for commuters travelling TUE at peaks times? Overcrowding's got so bad, some are left TUE behind on the platform. TUE Much of the criticism is aimed at the Train Operating TUE Companies, but how much are they to blame? And why does TUE Network Rail, the company responsible for the national TUE infrastructure, soak up the bulk of the 5 billion pounds of TUE taxpayer's subsidy, yet according to its regulator, is 40 TUE per cent less efficient than its EU rivals? TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00vy0f8 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00vy0g0 (Listen) TUE When the Oregon attorney, Brandon Mayfield, was arrested for TUE the Madrid bombing six years ago, the FBI's fingerprint TUE examiners claimed they were 100% sure that his fingerprints TUE were on the bag containing detonators and explosives. But TUE they were wrong. And this sensational error has drawn TUE attention ever since, to the widely held, but erroneous TUE belief, that fingerprint identification is infallible. TUE Cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have challenged TUE forensic science as a whole to raise its game; and TUE acknowledge that errors in fingerprinting and other forensic TUE disciplines are inevitable because of the architecture of TUE cognition and the way our brains process information. TUE Experts say that it's not a case of will an error occur, but when. TUE Claudia Hammond investigates the evidence that forensic TUE examiners are making mistakes simply because they're human, TUE and asks what safeguards are in place to limit the TUE potentially lifethreatening impact of forensic error. TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00vxzkp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00vtx87 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00vy0pj (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vy0pl (Listen) TUE Troubles, Episode 7 TUE TUE The recipient of the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970, J. G. TUE Farrell's tragi-comic masterpiece set against the Irish TUE struggle for independence, read by Jim Norton. TUE TUE Troubles is abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by TUE Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Beautiful Dreamers b00vy0pn (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Nat investigates the story behind Laurel Miller's iconic TUE photograph 'Crazy Bird', the image that captures the moment TUE when ex-con Horace Wiggerley drove across the opening arms TUE of the 23rd Street bridge in New York City. Featuring TUE contributions from Lucian Msamati, Alibe Parsons, Peter TUE Marinker, Ewan Bailey, Sally Orrock, Sean Baker and Lloyd Thomas. TUE TUE Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. TUE Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vy0pq (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vtxh8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00w8nfl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vtxhb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vtxhd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vtxhg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00vtxhj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vy0s3 (Listen) WED With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00vy0vf (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Martin WED Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00vy0vh (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00vy0vk (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00w8nvh (Listen) WED What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Jenny Diski. Lambs are either innocent and full WED of joy as in Blake's Songs of Innocence, or they are simply WED part of a production line for lunch. Or both. The author WED visits a sheep farm. WED WED Read by Lesley Manville WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vy0vm (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy0vp (Listen) WED The Pillow Book, series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Set in 10th century Japan, this is the third thriller WED inspired by the diaries of Sei Shonagon. WED WED Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to investigate WED a murder in the Palace of the Sun Goddess. A favourite of WED the Emperor is found drowned in a pool in the Palace WED Gardens. But, before Yukinari can investigate, the body is WED given a ceremonial burial and all trace of the crime washed WED away by the spring rains. WED WED Yukinari meets his old adversary Lord Tadanobu, but finds WED Tadanobu a changed man, much shaken by recent events within WED the Palace walls. WED WED By Robert Forrest WED WED Shonagon - Ruth Gemmell WED Yukinari - Mark Bazeley WED Emperor - Simon Ginty WED Gisaku - Robin Laing WED Tadanobu - Cal Macaninch WED WED Producer - Lu Kemp. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00vy0vr (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 1 WED WED Alan Dein returns with the series which captures stories WED from modern Britain. WED WED 1 Market Day. The sleepy market town of Bicester is home to WED a smattering of small scale high street stores and a WED plethora of charity shops. Yet less than ten minutes' walk WED from the market square lies one of the UK's most successful WED designer outlet centres - Bicester Village - hosting some of WED the biggest global brands. Visitors flock from the Middle- WED and Far East to snap up a bargain. Alan Dein joins them on WED board the Shopping Express coach and follows them on their WED shopping odyssey - in order to explore the worldwide appeal WED of designer bargain hunting in rural Oxfordshire. WED WED Lives in a Landscape is Radio 4's award-winning documentary WED series, presented by Alan Dein, that tracks down people with WED stories to tell that reflect - in sometimes offbeat ways - WED the pleasure, the pain and the particularity of life in WED contemporary Britain. Also in this series - the villagers of WED a remote Cornish community take on a threat to their WED timeless idyllic home; the story of the men for whom WED recession means good times - the boarders up of empty WED buildings and... fighting it out in the City - inside the WED world of white-collar boxing. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Hazelbeach b00vy0ys (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Hazelbeach WED Part 1 of 4 WED By Caroline and David Stafford WED WED A new series of adventures featuring likeable conman Ronnie WED Hazelbeach and his hapless friend, Nick. Despite a hole in WED the roof, life is fine - until a very unwelcome guest returns. WED WED Ronnie Hazelbeach ..... Jamie Foreman WED Nick ..... Paul Bazely WED James ..... Neil Stuke WED Dancer ..... Sean Baker WED Chloe ..... Claire Harry WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00vy0yv (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00vtxhl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00vy10q (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00vy10s (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00vy0f2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vy10v (Listen) WED Children in Need: Everything WED WED One of two special Radio 4 Afternoon Plays, commissioned WED with BBC Children in Need, 'Everything' tells the story of a WED fourteen-year-old girl who spends 7 days in a refuge for WED runaways. Girl is played by young actress Natasha Watson who WED is currently starring in BBC1's 'Single Father' with David WED Tennant, and will be appearing in 'Donkeys', the sequel to WED 'Red Road' with Kate Dickie and Martin Compston. WED WED Earlier this year, playwright Oliver Emanuel worked with ROC WED - Running Other Choices, part of the Aberlour Child Care WED Trust, a 'Children in Need' supported project. Under WED Scottish law, any young person under the age of sixteen is WED allowed to stay in ROC's refuge for up to seven days without WED parental notification. This is one of only two refuges for WED runaways in the UK. Oliver worked with young people who had WED either been involved with ROC in the past or were currently WED staying at the refuge. In July 2010, the group spent a week WED at Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland) writing, acting, playing WED games and talking about what it means to be a runaway. WED Informed by this experience, Oliver wrote 'Everything'. WED WED Oliver Emanuel: WED 'On the last day of the workshop, I quizzed each of the WED young people about their experiences and what they felt WED about their lives. My last question was what would they want WED if they could have anything in the world. One girl said she WED wanted a big house. Another boy said he wanted a boat for WED him and his mates to hang out. Someone else said they wanted WED their mum and dad to get back together again. When I asked WED the last and youngest of the group he didn't know what to WED say. He just shrugged. I asked him to think about it and he WED eventually said 'Everything. I just kind of want everything'. WED WED Everything by Oliver Emanuel WED WED Girl: Natasha Watson WED Sam: Sandy Grierson WED Beth: Meg Fraser WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00vy1vx (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b00vy1vz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED The next shortlisted story in contention for this major WED award by established writers is If it Keeps on Raining by WED Jon McGregor. Early morning is the time when a man stands in WED his door way looking out at the river, reflecting on the WED traumatic experiences of his past, and his expectations for WED the future. Read by Ron Cook. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00vy1w9 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor talks to Pulitzer prize winner C.J Chivers, a WED former US Marine and currently a journalist at the New York WED Times about the cultural, social and political impact of the WED AK-47 or Kalashnikov. A gun that has transformed how we WED fight wars and who can fight them, the AK-47 is a weapon WED central to many civil wars all over the world. With WED testimony from its inventors, its users and its victims, WED Laurie explores how a single instrument can have been so WED influential as both transformer and destroyer. He also talks WED to Phillip Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology WED at Yale University, about new research looking at public WED incivility. What drives some people to such extremes of WED public rudeness? WED Producer Chris Wilson. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00vy0g0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00vy1xb (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vtxhn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Went Wrong with the Olympics? b00vy1xd (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Spoof documentary set in 2014, looking back at the fiasco WED that WAS the London Olympics, by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. WED WED The preparation for the London Olympics is a huge and very WED funny developing story. Eleven thousand people are now WED employed on the Olympic site to ensure everything is in WED place, on time. One and a half million tons of East End soil WED have been washed. Lorries, arriving on site at the rate of WED one per minute, are subjected to the same rigorous WED timetabling that applies at Heathrow Airport. Visitors WED undergo extensive security checks and are issued with a list WED of over sixty prohibited items (amongst them, animal WED stunners, icepicks and blowtorches). WED It's an exciting race against time; the most important race WED of all being the one to get a memorable Olympic programme on WED air. WED WED Introduced from the standpoint of 2014 by controversial WED reporter Sylvester Halloran (Kevin Eldon), 'What Went Wrong WED With The Olympics?' combines contemporary news reports, WED archive footage, stupid "audio graphics", live interviews WED and fisticuffs in the studio with the key figures WED responsible. We sift through the cock-ups and the WED conspiracies in a tough and revealing probe into the reality WED of what makes Britain run - not very fast. WED WED Starring Kevin Eldon (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Harry & WED Paul, The I.T.Crowd, Big Train), the cast also features WED Vicky Pepperdine (Getting On), Adrian Scarborough WED (Psychoville, Gavin & Stacey), Lewis MacLeod (Dead Ringers, WED The Life Of Hattie Jacques, Harry & Paul) and the real Brian WED Perkins. WED WED Sylvester Halloran ..... Kevin Eldon WED Toby Morrison ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Lloyd Waterhouse ..... Dan Tetsell WED Caroline Grant ..... Vicki Pepperdine WED WED Writers Ian Hislop (Have I Got News For You) & Nick Newman WED (Dave Podmore) are the writing team behind News At Bedtime, WED Murder Most Horrid and My Dad's The Prime Minister. WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00vy21g (Listen) WED Lilian sticks her oar in and Helen is reluctant to take WED advice. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00vy21x (Listen) WED John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy0vp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00vy236 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Anne WED McElvoy and Melanie Philips. WED WED 20:45 Wall in the Mind b00vy238 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED The writer Lynsey Hanley continues her exploration of the WED subtleties of the barriers to social mobility, by assessing WED the impact of our cultural choices in defining our class. WED She argues that the cultural divide in Britain is not WED created by the specific choices we make but about how many WED choices we allow ourselves to have. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00vy27z (Listen) WED Nanoparticles WED WED Nanoparticles are all around us. Some are man-made, others WED occur naturally. Because they're so tiny - one nanometre is WED one millionth of a metre - nanoparticles can only be seen WED through an electron microscope. WED WED Nanoparticles have unique physical properties, and WED scientists are currently looking for ways to exploit these WED characteristics. Nanoparticles are currently used in WED medicine, in food, in clothes and cosmetics. In the future, WED nanoparticles could also be used to help improve energy WED generation and storage. They might also help us remove WED contaminants from polluted water. WED WED In this edition of Frontiers, Richard Hollingham WED investigates how a better understanding of the properties of WED nanoparticles is helping researchers develop some novel WED medical treatments. He talks to Dr Simon Holland at WED GlaxoSmithKline about research into using nanoparticles to WED deliver therapeutic agents to precise locations in the body. WED Richard also visits MagForce, a German research company, WED that's developing a novel therapy using heated nanoparticles WED to destroy brain cancers. WED WED These are beneficial developments, but as scientists find WED more and more uses for nanoparticles, concern's growing WED about the possible cumulative impact of so many microscopic WED particles in our environment. Because they are so tiny, WED nanoparticles can easily be absorbed through our skin or WED when we breathe. The behaviour and characteristics of WED nanoparticles change according to their size and density, so WED it's very hard to predict what longer-term effects they WED might be having. WED WED Producer: John Watkins. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00vy0vk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00vtxhq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00vy281 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vy283 (Listen) WED Troubles, Episode 8 WED WED Troubles is abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by WED Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00vy28h (Listen) WED Bespoken Word, Radio 4's performance poetry series, this WED week features one of the most unusual performance poets on WED the scene: Metis - rapper by night, international banker by WED day. WED WED His topics are 'conscious rap' and include attacks on WED racism, attacks on the selfishness of money, WED self-realisation and the values of the young, but also WED include a lot of light/humourous/romance material. WED WED Also on the bill are former winner of the Radio 4 Slam WED Competition, Ben Mellor; and distinguished bard Alfred Lord WED Telecom. WED WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vy29g (Listen) WED Series 2, Hank Zuttermilk WED WED Hank is a Dutch long distance container driver who lives on WED the estate with his London girlfriend Suzi. When her father WED Ray tells Hank his daughter is pregnant, Hank is faced with WED some troubling choices. WED WED Hank Zuttermilk ..... Phil Cornwell WED Ray Faulkner ..... Ricky Champ WED Ruud ..... Cyril Nri WED Customs Officer 1 ..... Toby Longworth WED Customs Officer 2 ..... Abigail Hollick WED WED Producer: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vy29j (Listen) WED The latest events from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vty79 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00w8nvh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vty7c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vty7f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vty7h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00vty7k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vy2br (Listen) THU With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00vy2c0 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Martin THU Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b00vy2cj (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00vy2dd (Listen) THU Foxe's Book of Martyrs THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Foxe's Acts and THU Monuments, better known today as Foxe's Book of Martyrs. THU First published in 1563, it was one of the most elaborate THU early books produced, and thanks to vivid woodcut THU illustrations reached an audience far beyond the literate THU elite. Its accounts of Christian martyrdom became powerful THU Church propaganda in the late sixteenth century and were THU used by those who wished to banish Catholicism from England THU permanently. But despite its use as an instrument of THU religious factionalism, Foxe's work remains one of the key THU and most read books of the early modern period. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00w8p2j (Listen) THU What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Jenny Diski. Animals can be both help and THU hindrance in the living out of our daily lives. THU Arachnophobia can be a crippling condition but there is help THU on hand as Jenny Diski discovers. THU THU Read by Lesley Manville THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vy305 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy307 (Listen) THU The Pillow Book, series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Set in 10th Century Japan, this is the third thriller THU inspired by the diaries of Sei Shonagon. THU THU Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to investigate THU a murder in the Palace of the Sun Goddess. A favourite of THU the Emperor is found drowned in a pool in the Palace THU Gardens. But before Yukinari can investigate, the body is THU given a ceremonial burial and all trace of the crime washed THU away by the spring rains. THU THU Yukinari begins to understand the extent of Giasaku's power THU over the courtiers in the Palace and to imagine the danger THU that power might have held for some. THU THU By Robert Forrest. THU THU Shonagon - Ruth Gemmell THU Yukinari - Mark Bazeley THU Empress - Laura Rees THU Gisaku - Robin Laing THU Tadanobu - Cal Macaninch THU THU Producer - Lu Kemp. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00vy328 (Listen) THU Road Kill THU THU Millions of people die on our roads each year. Hundreds of THU children are killed as they try to get to school each day. THU Road deaths threaten to overtake malaria and HIV in how many THU lives they take around the world, particularly in poorer THU countries. THU THU Sheena McDonald visits some of the world's most dangerous THU roads in Kenya and Costa Rica to find out why the death toll THU in developing countries is rising, when the solutions to THU road accidents are so simple. Kenya's poor record improves THU and then falls again as new transport ministers come and go; THU while Costa Rica struggles to implement the road safety plan THU it so confidently launched over 5 years ago. THU THU When there's not much money, should reducing road deaths be THU a priority? The Millennium Development Goals push countries THU to work hard to improve the mortality rates for children THU under 5, but there are no goals to stop those same children THU being knocked down when they start school. THU THU Sheena McDonald, who was nearly killed by a speeding police THU car just over 10 years ago, visits accident blackspots, THU meets victims and people campaigning for better road safety THU and challenges those in power who don't believe it's THU important enough. THU Producer: Kirsten Lass. THU THU 11:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) THU Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of THU composer Joseph Haydn by over-zealous fans, shortly after THU his death in 1809. THU THU The man who gave the world The Creation, over a hundred THU symphonies and the blueprint for the string quartet, had his THU head stolen by Karl Rosenbaum, the secretary of Haydn's THU employers, the Esterhazy family, and Johann Nepomuk Peter, THU governor of the provincial prison. Their motivation for THU stealing the skull was, it is believed, 'scientific': there THU was at the time a great interest in phrenology, a THU now-discredited scientific movement that attempted to THU associate mental capacities with aspects of cranial anatomy. THU THU Simon tracks down what happened to the famous head in the THU next 145 years, through being displayed for years at the THU Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Vienna in a specially made THU black wooden casket, until it was finally reunited in 1954 THU with Haydn's other remains in a marble tomb in the THU Bergkirche in Eisenstadt. THU THU He finds out exactly what the phrenologists were hoping to THU achieve with the head of the late composer and ponders the THU curious enthusiasm that fans of classical music have for THU busts of their favourite composers. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00vy32d (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00vty7m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00vy333 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00vy37b (Listen) THU Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate THU ? Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun THU scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In Off THU The Page he writes about his interviews with over a thousand THU so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why THU resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all. THU Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in THU west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why THU his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a THU lucky Reading postcode. THU Dominic Akwright presents, and the producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00vy21g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vy37d (Listen) THU Children in Need: All the Blood in My Veins THU THU One of two special Radio 4 Afternoon Plays, commissioned THU with BBC Children in Need. Earlier this year, award-winning THU playwright Katie Hims worked with Carers Lewisham, a THU 'Children in Need'-supported project, to create the story of THU Viola, a fourteen year old girl, with responsibilities THU beyond her age. The play was then recorded with a mix of THU professional cast and the carers themselves. THU THU Mum ..... Elaine Lordan THU Viola ..... Shannon Tarbet THU Paolo ..... Tyger Drew-Honey THU Elly ..... Katie Angelou THU Jack ..... Alfie Browne-Sykes THU Teacher ..... Jude Akuwidike THU Phil ..... Lloyd Thomas THU Lauren ..... Deeivya Meir THU Kelly ..... Shirena Watt THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00vtym7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00vv5sw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b00vy38d (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU The next shortlisted story in contention for this major THU award for established writers is My Daughter the Racist by THU Helen Oyeyemi. Set against the backdrop of a country THU occupied by foreign soldiers, a mother is determined to see THU her outspoken child grow up and will do whatever it takes to THU protect her daughter's independent spirit from coming to THU harm. Read by Sirine Saba. Abridged and produced by Gemma THU Jenkins. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00vvx3t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00vy38g (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00vy38j (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at THU 5.57pm Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vty7p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00vy38l (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU Another chapter of the Victorian comic epic, and this week THU Pip and Harry journey to the Underworld to rescue Ripely, THU only to find the evil Mister Benevolent has got there first. THU THU Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman THU Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ..... Susy Kane THU THU Writer ..... Mark Evans THU Producer ..... Gareth Edwards THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00vy3kv (Listen) THU Eddie is feeling confident and Fallon tries to play it cool. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00vy3kx (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with another THU contender for the BBC National Short Story Award. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy307 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00vy3kz (Listen) THU Simon Cox looks at airline security in the wake of the East THU Midlands Airport parcel bomb find and asks what more can be THU done by the aviation industry to prevent terrorist attacks. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00vy3l1 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00vxznq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00vy2dd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00vty7r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00vy3n2 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vy3n4 (Listen) THU Troubles, Episode 9 THU THU Troubles is abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by THU Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00vy3n6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU A new series of the fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth. THU The intrepid band of Questers, led by Elven Lord, Vidar, set THU off once again on their search for the Sword of Asnagar THU which is the only thing that can free them from the tyranny THU of the evil Lord Darkness. Joining Vidar on the Quest is THU Dean, the dwarf, Penthiselea, an Amazon warrior princess, THU Sam, the human, and Amis, the Chosen One (formerly Sam's dog THU who took human form when he arrived in Lower Earth - he THU alone can wield the Sword of Asnagar that will defeat Lord THU Darkness). Each episode sees the valiant team on another THU adventure as they heroically try their best not to get killed. THU THU Episode 1 sees the Questers saved from near certain death by THU a strong and charming loner, who goes by the name of THU Byorthnoth the Brave. But is Byorthnoth quite what he seems? THU And does it really matter when he has such lovely hair? THU Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is back from the Void and has THU discovered that he's lost his immortality... THU THU An all-star cast, featuring Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", Kevin Eldon as THU "Dean/Kreech", Darren Boyd as "Vidar", Ben Miles as THU "Byorthnoth", Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" and Dave THU Lamb as "Amis".". THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vy3n8 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vtybk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00w8p2j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vtybm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vtybp (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vtybr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00vtybt (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vy3nt (Listen) FRI With Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00vy3rm (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00vy3rp (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00vy3rr (Listen) FRI Anna Del Conte FRI FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the cookery writer Anna Del FRI Conte. FRI FRI Born to a wealthy Milanese family, she arrived in Britain in FRI 1949 where her Italian ingenuity with food was sorely needed FRI in a nation still facing rationing and no olive oil. Her FRI books, starting with Portrait of Pasta in 1976, helped to FRI change all that, and established her as a food hero for FRI younger cooks like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. FRI FRI She has still more to teach however: whatever you do, she FRI says, you shouldn't serve bolognese with spaghetti as it's FRI just the wrong shape. Tagliatelle is much better. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00w8p2z (Listen) FRI What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Jenny Diski. Who's in charge ? master or animal ? FRI Horse and rider. Jenny Diski observes our relationship with FRI animals from horseback. FRI FRI Read by Lesley Manville FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vy3rt (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy3rw (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book, series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Set in 10th century Japan, this is the third thriller FRI inspired by the diaries of Sei Shonagon. FRI FRI Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to investigate FRI a murder in the Palace of the Sun Goddess. A favourite of FRI the Emperor is found drowned in a pool in the Palace FRI Gardens. But, before Yukinari can investigate, the body is FRI given a ceremonial burial and all trace of the crime washed FRI away by the spring rains. FRI FRI The truth behind the crime now uncovered, Yukinari must FRI decide whether to speak for the dead or whether to let the FRI dead stay silent. FRI FRI By Robert Forrest. FRI FRI Shonagon - Ruth Gemmell FRI Yukinari - Mark Bazeley FRI Emperor - Simon Ginty FRI Empress - Laura Rees FRI Gisaku - Robin Laing FRI FRI Producer - Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 11:00 Let's Go to Misterland b00qm467 (Listen) FRI Stephanie Flanders, BBC economics editor and daughter of the FRI actor and singer Michael Flanders, examines the appeal of FRI Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men books and how these bold, colourful FRI drawings and simple stories continue to capture children's FRI hearts. FRI FRI Created in 1971, the Mr Men books have been an important FRI part of many childhoods. Inspired by the author's son Adam, FRI who one day inquired, 'what does a tickle look like?', the FRI first character was born. The Little Miss books followed ten FRI years later, worldwide sales have exceeded 100 million, and FRI today the brand is flourishing under its new owners. FRI FRI Stephanie takes a look at the Mr Men business and its growth FRI over the years. She speaks to Adam Hargreaves, who tells the FRI story behind the books and what inspired his father to FRI create such a simplistic, yet hugely influential brand. FRI Created in the humble surroundings of a small home office, FRI the characters have reached a global audience, and they FRI appeal to today's children as much as they did to their FRI 1970s counterparts. Although he died in 1988, Roger FRI Hargreaves was still the third-best selling author of the FRI past decade, outstripping such feted writers as Jacqueline FRI Wilson, Terry Pratchett and John Grisham. FRI FRI 11:30 Safety Catch b00vy3st (Listen) FRI Series 3, Uncomfortably Numb FRI FRI A new series of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern FRI morality set in the world of arms dealing. FRI FRI Simon McGrath is a generally nice chap who just happens to FRI be an arms dealer. It's not something he planned, he just FRI fell into it, and despite all his best intentions he just FRI doesn't seem to be able to leave because he has to pay his FRI mortgage like everyone else. Of course his real love is FRI electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds FRI the perfect outlet for his music - okay so the gap has FRI lasted five years but that's not the point. Once he can get FRI himself motivated he'll be out of there and, as his ever FRI supportive mum says, people will always want to kill each FRI other. So that's alright then...... FRI FRI This week Simon is appalled that his boss thinks it's FRI inappropriate for him to empathise with the world's FRI persecuted and oppressed and stop worrying, but when his FRI family generally agree that worrying gets you nowhere he FRI sets out to give himself compassion fatigue so that he can FRI he can stop worrying and not feel guilty about all the FRI bloodshed in the world. Unfortunately his new outlook FRI doesn't seem to change Anna's parents view of him when they FRI come to visit. FRI FRI Simon McGrath ..... Darren Boyd FRI Anna Grieg ..... Joanna Page FRI Boris Kemal ..... Lewis Macleod FRI Judith McGrath ..... Sarah Smart FRI Angela McGrath ..... Brigit Forsyth FRI Madeleine Turnbull ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Glenys ..... Di Botcher FRI Hugh ..... Mike Hayward FRI FRI Written by Laurence Howarth FRI Produced By Dawn Ellis. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00vy3sx (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00vtybw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00vy3sz (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00vy3t9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place for listeners FRI to air their views on the things heard on BBC Radio. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00vy3kv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bcqtg (Listen) FRI An Unchoreographed World FRI FRI One of the truly great dancers of our time, 'An FRI Unchoreographed World' explores a dramatic formative event FRI in the life of the young Margot Fonteyn. It's May 10th 1940, FRI and she is trapped in Holland during the German invasion FRI with her older lover, the composer Constant Lambert, and the FRI fledgling Sadler's Wells Ballet. Frances Byrnes' drama draws FRI on contemporary accounts to evoke a time when, her life FRI threatened, Fonteyn discovers who she really is, and what FRI her destiny might cost her. FRI FRI Margot FonteynSophie Jerrold FRI Constant LambertRichard McCabe FRI Ninette de ValoisKate Littlewood FRI Robert HelpmannOliver Millingham FRI ChorusAnne-Marie Piazza, FRI Maria Askew, FRI Ffion Jolly, FRI Ben Ashton and FRI Coen de Groot. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vy3v0 (Listen) FRI Grayshott Gardeners, Hampshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the panel join the Grayshott Gardeners in FRI Hampshire. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank FRI and Bob Flowerdew. How to maintain your greenhouse over FRI winter: Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood discuss some FRI essential greenhouse care. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:40 BBC National Short Story Award b00vy3xs (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI The first chance to hear the fifth story in contention for FRI this major award for established writers. Read by Hugh FRI Quarshie. Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Now in its fifth year the BBC National Short Story Award is FRI an exciting annual award that celebrates the best of the FRI contemporary British short story and is leading the way in FRI the current revival of the genre. The five stories FRI short-listed for the award will be announced on the evening FRI of Thursday 11th November, on Radio 4's flagship arts FRI programme Front Row. The short-listed stories will be FRI broadcast at 3.30pm on Radio 4, from Monday, 15th to Friday, FRI 19th November, and will be available to download free for FRI the following two weeks. The winning entry will be announced FRI on Front Row on Monday, 29th November, live from the awards FRI ceremony in central London. FRI FRI The BBC National Short Story Award (formerly known as the FRI National Short Story Prize) was created to reward the very FRI best of short story writing by published authors and to FRI foster a new engagement with the form from both the public FRI and the wider publishing industry. The BBC National Short FRI Story Award is funded by the BBC, and is administered in FRI partnership with Booktrust. The winning author will receive FRI £15,000, the runner up £3,000 and the other three FRI short-listed stories £500 each; as well as being broadcast, FRI the stories will appear in a published anthology and, in FRI their audio form, will also be available from AudioGo later FRI in the year. FRI FRI The Short Story has always thrived on Radio 4 and, after a FRI period of neglect at the end of the last century, is now FRI enjoying a renaissance in print and increasingly on-line. FRI Together the BBC and Booktrust are delighted to be part of FRI this papable revival of interest and excitement. Now firmly FRI established in the literary calendar, the BBC NSSA continues FRI to support this progress, to reward both writers and FRI publishers who engage with the genre and to enhance the FRI short story's profile across the literary world. FRI FRI This year's judging panel comprises the writers Shena FRI Mackay, Kamila Shamsie, Owen Sheers, the broadcaster Jim FRI Naughtie and Di Speirs, the Editor of the BBC Readings Unit. FRI This year's Award includes entries by some of the biggest FRI names and the most exciting new talent in British fiction, FRI as well as some new names at the cutting edge of the genre. FRI Read by a selection of the nation's leading acting talent, FRI the broadcast of the short list will undoubtedly bring some FRI of the most exciting established and new writing to our FRI audience and will attract attention throughout the national FRI media. The BBC is the biggest commissioner of short stories FRI in the UK, and possibly the globe, and this week of FRI broadcasts will also highlight the BBC's ongoing commitment FRI to the short story. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00vy3xv (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00vy3xx (Listen) FRI Actress Phyllida Law discusses the Magic Roundabout movie FRI spin-off Dougal And The Blue Cat, written and narrated by FRI her husband Eric Thompson. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00vy3xz (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at FRI 5.57pm Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vtyby (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00vy3y1 (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the FRI topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. FRI Guests include Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00vy3y3 (Listen) FRI Written by: Adrian Flynn FRI Directed by: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer .....Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer .....Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright FRI Des Penwell ..... Lloyd Thomas FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00vy3y5 (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson interviews the theatre director Sir Peter Hall, FRI who is about to celebrate his 80th birthday, and continues FRI to create new productions. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vy3rw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00vy3y7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from FRI Wallington High School for Girls in Wallington, Surrey, with FRI Telegraph writer Simon Heffer. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00vy3y9 (Listen) FRI Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects FRI Omnibus b00vy3zr (Listen) FRI Exploration, Exploitation and Englightenment (AD 1680-1820) FRI FRI Another chance to hear Neil MacGregor, the director of the FRI British Museum in London, continue his global history as FRI told through objects from the Museum's collection. FRI FRI In this episode, he tackles the age of enlightment when FRI scientific learning and philosophical thought flourished. FRI Although often associated with reason, liberty and progress, FRI the Enlightenment was also a period of European imperial FRI expansion when the transatlantic slave trade was at its FRI height. Important advances in navigation allowed European FRI sailors to explore the Pacific more thoroughly, and for the FRI first time the indigenous cultures of Hawaii and Australia FRI were connected with the rest of the world. Europe was not FRI the world's only successful growing economy, China, under FRI the Qing dynasty, was regarded by many as the greatest FRI empire the world had ever seen. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00vtyc0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00vy3zt (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vy40z (Listen) FRI Troubles, Episode 10 FRI FRI Troubles is abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by FRI Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00vy0dw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vy411 (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI
12 November, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 13/11/2010 - 19/11/2010
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