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SAT SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00wdl8z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00wgznx (Listen) SAT The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search SAT for the Good Life, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Bettany Hughes. SAT SAT Socrates lived in a city that nurtured the key ingredients SAT of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, SAT drama, rational thought- yet, as he wrote nothing in his SAT lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. "The Hemlock SAT Cup" tells his story, setting him in the context of the SAT Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with SAT him as he himself dealt with the world. SAT SAT The Spartans break down Athenian walls and Socrates is SAT barred from associating with the city's youth. His card is marked. SAT SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Reader: Bettany Hughes SAT SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wdl91 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wdl93 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wdl95 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00wdl97 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wklcv (Listen) SAT With Michelle Marken. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00wklwn (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00wdl99 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00wdl9c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00wklwq (Listen) SAT Wildlife Crime SAT SAT Richard Uridge joins South Cumbrian Wildlife Crime Officers, SAT volunteers and members of the local community on the trail SAT of poachers in an attempt to crack down on wildlife crime. SAT Wildlife Officers receive several wildlife crime reports a SAT month, many of which relate to deer poaching which is SAT becoming big business for criminals, particularly in the run SAT up to Christmas. This year has also seen hundreds of sheep SAT rustled across Cumbria and hundreds of ewes and lambs have SAT been stolen in several separate incidents. SAT Richard hears from Bob Jarratt, of the local Deer Management SAT Group, about the extent of the problem of deer poaching in SAT the area and meets up with some of the people affected by SAT wildlife crime and poaching including Keith Loxam, Warden of SAT Hay Bridge Nature Reserve, who recently lost a prize stag, SAT and farmer Andrew Allen who has been the victim of sheep SAT rustling twice in the last 6 years. Estate owner, Myles SAT Sandys of Graythwaite Hall tells Richard about how the SAT success of 'Poacher Watch' has helped put a stop to the SAT problem of losing deer from his land. Later, as night falls, SAT Richard joins Wildlife Crime Officer, PC John Baldwin and SAT Bob Jarrett from the Deer Management Group on their latest SAT poacher watch operation, as they scour local hotspots in at SAT attempt to thwart the poachers' next move. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00wklws (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00wdl9f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00wkm6z (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00wkm71 (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Tom Hollander SAT and poet Aoife Mannix. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00wkmfd (Listen) SAT Anita Anand explores pilgrim routes from Canterbury to SAT Kerala and meets Tony Giles, the blind and severely deaf SAT traveller, who has undertaken two solo trips around the world. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b00wkmfg (Listen) SAT Emma Hamilton's iPod SAT SAT Emma Hamilton, Nelson's mistress, was an accomplished singer SAT and a famous dancer- at the height of her fame, women all SAT over Europe were dancing to her tunes. Haydn wrote specially SAT for her. SAT SAT David Owen Norris discovers how her favourite songs reflect SAT an extraordinary life. With biographer Kate Williams and SAT historians Quintin Colville and Rachel Cowgill, he looks SAT through Emma's songbooks and recreates the music she loved SAT all her life. Recorded at the National Maritime Museum. With SAT singers Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie and Laura Crowther. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00wkmfj (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00wkmg1 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00wkmgm (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00wdl7h (Listen) SAT Series 32, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a topical trip around SAT tuition fees and Today tongue-twisters. Musical Mitch Benn SAT sees the world through Lennon's eyes; German stand-up SAT Henning Wehn probes our World Cup hypocrisy; John Finnemore SAT wonders at the sexual magnetism of a certain Lib Dem MP and SAT Laura Shavin reveals what every woman wants for Christmas. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00wdl9h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00wdl9k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00wdl7p (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from The SAT Queen Katherine School in Kendal with questions for the SAT panel including Rory Stewart, Conservative MP, Andy Burnham, SAT Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Laurie Pennie, SAT columnist and writer Harry Mount. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00wkmgp (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 b00h9dl2 (Listen) SAT On the Ceiling SAT SAT by Nigel Planer SAT SAT Lapo ..... Phil Daniels SAT Loti ..... Bryan Dick SAT Pope Julius ..... Gary Waldhorn SAT Cardinal Alidosi ..... Roger Lloyd Pack SAT SAT Composer ..... Adam Cork SAT Directed by Mary Peate SAT SAT High up on the wooden scaffolding tower of the Sistine SAT Chapel, two fresco plasterers get on with the day's work SAT preparing the ceiling for their boss Michelangelo who has SAT not bothered to turn up for work again. As they do so, they SAT bemoan the uselessness of the great master. SAT SAT Pope Julius and Cardinal Alidosi visit the chapel to inspect SAT the progress of their commission. They are never very SAT impressed, and the Pope is more concerned about getting SAT Michelangelo to do his funeral monument at a knock-down price. SAT SAT On the Ceiling is not about great artists; it is about those SAT people whose names don't go down in history: the ones who do SAT the essential drudge work, their frustration at their lack SAT of genius and their pride in their own technical expertise. SAT In this version of events, low elements combine to make high SAT art. SAT SAT 15:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo b00wdgr5 (Listen) SAT As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, SAT Ernest Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to SAT take 2lbs of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. SAT One exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's SAT banjo saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental SAT medicine." SAT SAT So it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to SAT sail to South Georgia to get help, he left behind on SAT Elephant Island twenty-two men. They lived for months under SAT an upturned boat and some old sails. Every Saturday the SAT banjo-playing meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed SAT songs and whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his SAT banjo. He played, the men sang - and anger and depression SAT were kept at bay. SAT SAT Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the SAT National Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen SAT signatures of members of the failed expedition to the South Pole. SAT SAT Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and SAT singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National SAT Theatre. But he also plays the banjo. Tim explores the SAT character of Hussey and the role he and his banjo played in SAT saving the sanity of the explorers. He plays some of his SAT songs - sadly not on Hussey's banjo, which is too fragile, SAT but on his own, made by Pete Stanley, who sheds some light SAT on the original instrument. SAT SAT Tim also hears from Pieter van der Merwe of the National SAT Maritime Museum about the importance of music in expeditions SAT and, thanks to some remarkable archive recordings, Hussey SAT himself. He plays the tune Shackleton asked for the night he SAT died. Hussey reveals, too, that his banjo had seen action in SAT warmer climes, "having among other things been played to an SAT audience of cannibals in Africa." SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00wkmh2 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00wcsdj (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00wklwn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wdl9m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00wdl9p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wdl9r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00wkmnw (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by David Sedaris, American humorist and SAT best-selling author. In his new collection of stories SAT Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary, David SAT contemplates sex education for storks, interspecies dating SAT and the existential torment of lab rats. SAT SAT Jean Marsh is about to reprise her role of Rose Buck in the SAT new series of Upstairs Downstairs, which Jean devised with SAT fellow actress Eileen Atkins in 1971. She joins Clive to SAT discuss revisiting her past. SAT SAT Comedy writer Jane Bussman gave up her job interviewing SAT A-list celebrities in LA and travelled to Uganda in order to SAT track down human rights activist John Prendergast. In an SAT attempt to gain the affections of this modern-day Indiana SAT Jones, Jane found her self investigating the abduction of SAT 25,000 children and writing her book The Worst Date Ever Or SAT How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Africa's Secret War. SAT SAT And Emma Freud talks to Anneka Rice about her Radio 4 SAT documentary Inside the Life Drawing Class, in which SAT art-lover Anneka investigates the world of artists and SAT models, and explores the fascination with the human nude. SAT SAT With music from American superstar Josh Groban, who was SAT named the number one best selling artist in the United SAT States in 2007. Josh plays his single 'Hidden Away' from his SAT recently released album Illuminations. SAT SAT And British soul singer Alice Russell performs her single SAT Let Us Be Loving. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00wkmpf (Listen) SAT Series 9, Episode 7 SAT SAT From Fact to Fiction: Frozen. SAT SAT Two strangers in a remote cottage by a frozen lake.One is SAT about to release an incendiary secret video clip on the SAT internet. The other wants to stop him. What are the SAT consequences? A haunting, lyrical drama by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SAT SAT Harry... Conrad Nelson SAT Paul... David Fleeshman SAT SAT Producer Gary Brown SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00wknl4 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00wv3vt (Listen) SAT Blair versus Hitchens: The Religion Debate SAT SAT Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens discuss the proposition SAT that religion is a force for good in the world. Recorded in SAT front of a live audience in the Canadian city of Toronto, SAT the debate is chaired by Rudyard Griffiths, and forms part SAT of the twice yearly series of Munk Debates. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00wdcy0 (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Tiberius SAT SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' classic SAT Roman histories. SAT SAT Growing up amid the intrigues of the Imperial family, SAT Claudius learns his grandmother Livia's true ambition - and SAT finds himself and his brother Germanicus in danger. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Augustus ..... Derek Jacobi SAT Livia ..... Harriet Walter SAT Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Pollio ..... Trevor Peacock SAT Germanicus ..... Joseph Kloska SAT Agrippina ..... Hattie Morahan SAT Sejanus ..... Sam Dale SAT Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SAT Postumus ..... Henry Devas SAT Livilla ..... Leah Brotherhead SAT Cassius Chaerea ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Pomponius ..... Sean Baker SAT Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Castor ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Piso ..... Tony Bell SAT Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT Young Caligula ..... James Warner SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00wdl9t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00wdjgj (Listen) SAT The government has announced that it's going ahead with SAT legislation that will allow employers to select workers on SAT the basis of their sex, race or disability. It's argued the SAT new law is needed because despite years of SAT anti-discrimination laws there are still invisible barriers SAT in the workplace for some groups in society. The government SAT call it "positive action" - if two people going for the same SAT job are equally qualified it will enable firms to chose SAT women, ethnic minorities or disabled if they feel those SAT groups are under represented in their business. Although, if SAT you're the person who doesn't get the job it may feel more SAT like positive discrimination. SAT SAT How far should we go in tackling inequalities in the work SAT place? Combating prejudice is the key to an equitable SAT society, so isn't it time we took it seriously, from the SAT boardroom to the building site? If the law hasn't worked up SAT to now, why not quotas? But are we in danger of sacrificing SAT one set of prejudices for another? What becomes of the SAT principle of meritocracy, where you get on on the basis of SAT your skills and not on your sex or race? Does this SAT legislation encourage identity politics and blur the line SAT between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome? Are SAT we really all born equal? Or is inequality a vital part of SAT the human condition that encourages competition and SAT motivates people to strive to better themselves? Or is this SAT the thinly veiled prejudice of vested interests that is SAT always trotted out to defend the indefensible? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Melanie SAT Philips and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00wdf4l (Listen) SAT (7/17) Russell Davies welcomes four contestants to the BBC SAT Radio Theatre in London, for the seventh heat in the current SAT series of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. This week's SAT competitors come from South Wales and the South East of SAT England. As always, there's an opportunity for a listener to SAT outwit them, in 'Beat the Brains'. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT RICHARD HEDGES, a Communications Director from Flitwick in SAT Bedfordshire; SAT TONY MARCOVECCHIO, a journalist from Newent in SAT Gloucestershire; SAT CHLOE STONE, a teacher from Dorking in Surrey; SAT ANDY TUCKER, a consultant and former diplomat from SAT Winchester. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wdcy4 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Episode 1 SAT SAT "Adventures in Poetry" returns to unpack a new series of SAT classic poems whose lines or images have entered our SAT national consciousness. SAT SAT This week, presenter Peggy Reynolds asks what it is about SAT Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning" which has kept SAT it relevant since 1957. The phrase itself turns up endlessly SAT in newspapers, both red-tops and broadsheets, and is SAT particularly loved by writers on sports pages - not, you SAT might think, the obvious place to look for soul-searching SAT poetry. But underneath the snappy economy of the first line SAT runs a complex and universal emotional truth, examined here SAT by a Samaritan, a sports writer and Stevie Smith's SAT biographer. SAT SAT Produced by Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00wkb22 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00cn2sf (Listen) SUN Urban Welsh, Last Dance at Johnny's SUN SUN Stories by Welsh writers. In Craig Hawes's tale, Johnny SUN doesn't dance any more. However, when the music is turned up SUN loud, two old mates can't resist having one last rave. Read SUN by Matthew Rhys. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkb24 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkb26 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkb28 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00wkb2b (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00wkp84 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Blond on Britain b00wgqjb (Listen) SUN The Monarchy SUN SUN Some of the ancient institutions of Britain - the monarchy, SUN the House of Lords and the Church of England are often SUN derided as archaic, outmoded and out of touch with the SUN contemporary world. The leading political thinker Phillip SUN Blond makes a powerful case for their continuing SUN significance. In this authored piece he defends the monarchy. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00wkb2d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00wkp9y (Listen) SUN On Walking SUN SUN What many of us take for granted as a rather mundane SUN activity is elevated for others into a creative, spiritual SUN or philosophical meditation. SUN SUN Drawing on the writings of a Buddhist monk, the artist SUN Richard Long and the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard, among SUN others, Melissa Viney explores walking's physical and SUN psychological benefits. Also, with music from Herb Alpert, SUN Mozart, Ella and Elvis. SUN SUN And she talks to Mark Hennessy, who's having to learn to SUN walk all over again following a brain injury. SUN SUN Readers: Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00wkr4s (Listen) SUN In the first of a series of two programmes, Caz Graham SUN visits Tiverton in Devon to speak to farmers who support SUN Government proposals to allow them to shoot badgers to SUN control TB in cattle. SUN SUN Farmers and landowners will be able to apply for licences to SUN cull badgers across large areas where TB is a major problem. SUN Farmers can then shoot them or vaccinate them at their own SUN expense. Conservation groups such as the Wildlife Trust and SUN the RSPCA have said they'll oppose the cull and intend to SUN campaign against it. SUN SUN Caz Graham talks to two farmers in Tiverton about how TB has SUN affected them financially and emotionally and asks whether SUN this proposal is the way to combat the disease. Next week, SUN On Your Farm will talk to conservation groups campaigning SUN against a cull and investigate why they believe the proposal SUN for a badger cull is the wrong way to tackle bovine TB. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Varle. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00wkb2g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00wkb2j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00wkr5v (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00wkr67 (Listen) SUN Ross Noble presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Riders for Health. SUN SUN Donations to Riders for Health should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Riders for Health. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Riders for Health SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1054565 501. SUN SUN Riders for Health SUN SUN Ross Noble appeals on behalf of Riders for Health, a charity SUN which provides health workers with reliable transport so SUN that they can reach rural communities in Africa. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00wkb2l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00wkb2n (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00wlbhk (Listen) SUN Miracles for City People SUN SUN The third of our services for Advent which visits 4 cities SUN across the nations of the United Kingdom exploring the SUN meaning of incarnation in daily city life. SUN Live from St. David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire; led by the SUN Dean, the Very Rev Jonathan Lean. Preacher: The Bishop of SUN St. David's, the Right SUN Rev Wyn Evans. Musical Director: Alexander Mason. Producer: SUN Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00wdl7r (Listen) SUN Extreme Food SUN SUN Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00wlbhm (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00wlbhp (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Hay Dealer ..... Shaun Prendergast. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00wlbhr (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway week is the aviator, inventor and SUN arts patron, Sir Torquil Norman. SUN SUN He comes from a family where derring-do is in the DNA - his SUN grandfather was a pioneering airman, his grandmother an SUN adventurer and his father also a keen pilot. SUN SUN Torquil ended up in the toy trade where the skills needed SUN were, he says, a close attention to detail combined with the SUN outlook on life of a seven year old. He was, he admits, SUN perfectly qualified. In retirement he set about his biggest SUN project - he bought a disused railway engine shed and raised SUN tens of millions of pounds to safeguard its future as a SUN venue for performing arts and a centre for young people. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00wdffp (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the grandaddy of all panel games SUN with Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and Kevin Eldon SUN as the panellists. The aim of the game is to speak on a SUN subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Much, SUN much harder than it sounds... SUN SUN On today's show Julian Clary talks about Building Bridges, SUN Paul Merton reveals all about his Relationship with the SUN Chairman, Kevin Eldon reels off Seven Ways to Say Goodbye SUN and Sue Perkins dazzles on the subject of Dostoyevsky. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00wlbht (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon explores the varieties of venison - wild and SUN farmed - we can now find in butchers and supermarkets in the SUN UK. She joins a stalker in Berkshire and talks to the SUN biggest game dealer in the country. SUN SUN Producer Dilly Barlow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00wkb2q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00wlbhw (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Moments of Genius b00wq9v2 (Listen) SUN Geoff Watts and guests, Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt and Mark SUN Henderson, listen to and discuss the week's Moments of SUN Genius and ask if scientists get the recognition they deserve. SUN SUN Moments include the discovery of the structure of DNA when SUN playing with cardboard cutouts of the different building SUN blocks; how Hooke's observations of the behaviour of a metal SUN spring launched modern science and the moment Edward Jenner SUN proved the principle of vaccination, experimenting on an SUN eight year old boy. SUN SUN Producer: Anna Buckley. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wdkfg (Listen) SUN RHS Conference Centre, London SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a horticultural discussion at the RHS SUN Conference Centre in London. The panel this week are SUN Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness. SUN SUN This programme replaces the Northumberland show advertised, SUN which had to be cancelled due to severe weather conditions. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In The Footsteps of Giants b00rzvft (Listen) SUN Susan Greenfield on Rita Levi-Montalcini SUN SUN Eminent neurologist Susan Greenfield, a professor at Oxford, SUN life peer and recipient of the Royal Society's Michael SUN Faraday Prize looks into the life of someone who has SUN inspired her own career, Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini. SUN SUN She draws upon the parallels in their lives- both Jewish SUN women in the field of neurology- and delves into Rita SUN Levi-Montalcini's extraordinary career, while questioning SUN whether she could ever have the stamina to overcome the SUN stumbling blocks that were placed in Professor SUN Levi-Montalcini's way. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00wlbj0 (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Sejanus SUN SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' SUN ground-breaking histories of first-century Rome. SUN SUN As he struggles to keep his throne, the Emperor Tiberius SUN finds his Commander of the Guard, Sejanus, an invaluable SUN aide against treason. And Sejanus finds Claudius an SUN unwilling collaborator in his rise to power. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Livia ..... Harriet Walter SUN Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SUN Sejanus ..... Sam Dale SUN Agrippina ..... Hattie Morahan SUN Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN Livilla ..... Leah Brotherhead SUN Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN The Fisherman ..... Adeel Akhtar SUN Macro ..... Tony Bell SUN Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SUN Plautius ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Cremutius ..... Sean Baker SUN Officer ..... Iain Batchelor SUN Senator ..... Henry Devas SUN Plancina ..... Claire Harry SUN Aelia ..... Deeivya Meir SUN Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00wlbj2 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer SUN about her collected short fiction, which spans a fifty year SUN career. They discuss the appeal of writing short stories, SUN and how re-reading early work influences the writing process. SUN SUN Mariella also explores the legacy of the iconic novel, I, SUN Claudius, set in ancient Rome. Historian Tom Holland SUN explains why it has provided a template for so many Roman SUN novels which have followed. SUN SUN Plus, the never-ending allure of railways in fiction is SUN examined with the help of three train-mad writers - poet Ian SUN McMillan and novelists Tessa Hadley and Andrew Martin. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wlbj4 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 2 SUN SUN Was "the alternative Australian national anthem" written as SUN a political statement or a way of impressing a girl? Peggy SUN Reynolds examines Banjo Paterson's lyric Waltzing Matilda, SUN with help from some contemporary Australian voices. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 A Level Playing Field for the Paralympics b00wdh4t (Listen) SUN The Beijing Paralympics in 2008 brought the full glories of SUN disabled sport to a worldwide audience and set up a host of SUN expectations for 2012 . But behind the scenes of triumph, SUN longstanding controversies were raging which have dogged SUN many Paralympic Games over the decades. In this programme, SUN to mark the 50th anniversary of the Paralympics, Peter White SUN explores the issues behind the Games and asks what changes SUN are being made to improve conditions for athletes in time SUN for London 2012. SUN SUN One of these controversies centres on the classification of SUN disabled athletes, a system which uses medical evidence, SUN examination and in-competition appraisals to try to ensure SUN parity of ability. However, over the years, the process, SUN which divides the athletes into many, often confusing SUN sub-groups has become fraught with problems and anomalies. SUN In 2008, the British competitor Rebecca Chinn had a silver SUN medal taken away after being judged to have been put in the SUN wrong category. SUN SUN Another issue which has dogged the Paralympics recently has SUN been whether to include athletes with learning disabilities. SUN Although they had previously taken part in many events, they SUN were ejected from the Paralympics after the Sydney Games in SUN 2000, when fit Spanish athletes pretended to have learning SUN difficulties and won gold. London's bid contained plans to SUN include them again, and in this programme, we follow the new SUN testing methods which have been developed to bring these SUN athletes back in 2012. SUN SUN The programme also explores the deep-rooted tension within SUN the Paralympics - are they the home of quasi-professionalism SUN with big money tie-ins, or should they retain the school SUN sports day tradition from which they emerged, of gentle SUN encouragement and the odd race rerun when something goes wrong? SUN SUN To mark the 50th anniversary of the Paralympics, Peter White SUN explores the preparations for the next games and SUN investigates past and potential inconsistencies underlying SUN them. He hears the athletes' stories and draws on archive SUN from the past to contextualise today's debates and look SUN forward to 2012. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Kingsley. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00wkmpf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wkb2s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00wkb2x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wkb2z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00wlbj6 (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00wlbkc (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00wlbkf (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 b00c83jp (Listen) SUN SOS: Save Our Souls, The Weight of the Earth SUN and the Lightness of the Human Heart SUN SUN Short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of the SUN international distress call. SUN SUN In Linda Cracknell's tale, a climber teeters between life SUN and death on the slopes of a remote mountain. SUN SUN Read by Ralph Riach. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00wdkf9 (Listen) SUN We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on SUN undergraduate tuition fees in England. Are the changes fair SUN and progressive? Are they dropping future students into a SUN deep hole of debt? Or are they both? SUN SUN Do traffic lights do more harm than good? That's the SUN suspicion of one listener with a professional interest - SUN he's a London bus driver. As ever, we look for the evidence. SUN SUN Wikileaks revealed last week that Britain and the US are SUN concerned about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. SUN And this week Iran claimed that it is now self-sufficient in SUN the production of uranium - a necessary material for any SUN aspiring nuclear nation. But how worried should we be? The SUN physicist Richard A Muller gives us the numbers. SUN SUN David Lammy - a Labour MP who was Minister of State for SUN Innovation, Universities and Skills in the last government - SUN published an article in the Guardian on this week in which SUN he included a statistic that caught everyone's imagination: SUN "Just one British black Caribbean student was admitted to SUN Oxford last year," he wrote. We check his sums. SUN SUN Those of you who followed the World Cup might recall Paul SUN the Octopus, who alerted us all to the miraculous and SUN potentially world-transforming technology of using zoo SUN animals to forecast the results of sporting contests. Paul SUN sadly passed away in October but we remained curious about SUN the phenomenon. So we asked Jack, a Newcastle-based monkey, SUN to forecast the results of the Ashes. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00wdl79 (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Sir Peter Wakefield, British diplomat in Cairo during the SUN Suez crisis and in Libya during the coup which brought SUN Colonel Gaddafi to power. SUN Bill White, who studied human skeletons to reveal our SUN history, and kept hundreds of bones in his garage SUN TV comedy producer and director Douglas Argent who brought SUN us classics like "The Liver Birds" and "Till Death Us Do SUN Part". Warren Mitchell pays tribute. SUN Samuel Cohen who invented the neutron bomb, which he SUN described as a "sane and moral weapon". SUN And Peter Hofman, the German tenor who made his name as a SUN sexy Siegmund in Wagner's Ring, but made his money by SUN covering easy listening standards. SUN They're all coming up after the news at four. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00wkmgm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00wkr67 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00wdjyg (Listen) SUN Bitter Pills SUN SUN Britain's pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of SUN millions of pounds in a search for new drugs and treatments SUN which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised SUN when the money was spent. It is a problem for the whole SUN global industry, too. Peter Day talks to GlaxoSmithKline CEO SUN Andrew Witty about the ways he is changing the company's SUN quest for drug discovery and discusses the way ahead for big SUN pharma. SUN Producer : Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00wkb31 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00wlbld (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00wlbls (Listen) SUN Episode 31 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 Anne McElvoy takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00wdl7c (Listen) SUN The creators of Airplane, Jerry and David Zucker, discuss SUN the comedy's 30 year legacy and its star Leslie Nielsen SUN SUN Ex-Bond villain Matthieu Amalric reveals some of 007's SUN secrets SUN SUN The Film Programme continues its series on the quiet SUN revolution in community cinemas, talking to local film SUN heroes and taking an audio 'snapshot' of some of the most SUN lively and memorable places to watch film around the country. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00wkp9y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 DECEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00wkdrs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00wdjd2 (Listen) MON Cuban Cure - Moral Panics MON MON With the huge investment needed and patents which have the MON potential to generate a lot of money, biochemistry is MON perhaps the most capitalistic strain of science. How did MON Cuba - a socialist, embargoed, isolated, developing world MON country - manage to become one of the world's leaders in MON genetic modification and bioscience? Laurie talks to Simon MON Reid Henry, Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary London about MON his new book The Cuban Cure; Reason and Resistance in Global MON Science. MON Also on the programme - 'moral panics'. The phrase was first MON defined by Stan Cohen in an analysis of the reaction to Mods MON and Rockers fighting on Britain's beaches. Since then it has MON been used many times by social scientists to describe media MON reaction to everything from dangerous dogs to binge MON drinking, but how useful is the term? Does it falsely imply MON that there is no underlying reason for social concern? MON Laurie discusses the uses and abuses of the notion of moral MON panic with Chas Critcher, Emeritus Professor of MON Communications at Sheffield Hallam University and Jewel MON Thomas, Post Graduate Researcher, Oxford University. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00wkp84 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkdrv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkdrx (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkdrz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00wkds1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wlbsj (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Michelle Marken. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00wlbsl (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00wkds3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00wlbsn (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 b00wlbsq (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the conductor Semyon Bychkov about MON Tannhauser, Wagner's tortured artist, out of place in MON conventional society. While the scientist Mark Miodownik MON takes a measure of the world, and asks 'Does size matter?' MON in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Author MON Susan Hill ponders kindness, grief and miracles and the MON television screenwriter Tony Jordan forsakes EastEnders to MON take on 'the greatest story ever told', the Nativity. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00wlbss (Listen) MON Chasing the Sun, Episode 1 MON MON In the first of five episodes, abridged by Penny Leicester, MON the author highlights some MON of the astounding myths associated with the sun, then he MON views the pefect sunrise... MON MON Reader Allan Corduner MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlbsv (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. The menopause and HRT - your MON questions and concerns. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wlbsx (Listen) MON Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse, Episode 1 MON MON The characters in Lynne Truss's new comedy drama live under MON the shadow of The Rock, an impressively large geological MON feature at a remote Golf Club in Wales, where it has been MON raining for twenty years. There's the severely repressed MON Angharad, 'Mad' Auntie Susan, who is clearly a man, Riddle, MON the disgusting old greenkeeper, and poor long suffering MON Charles who has devoted his life to saving each and every MON one of the club's members from an untimely death, only to MON fail. At this Club it's easy to make a fatal mistake, all MON you have to do is break one of the rules. Inadvertently MON enter the wrong score on your partner's scorecard, or let MON your wife order her own drink at the bar and you'll probably MON be spikes up by tea-time. And when Jaci Hughes the young MON cartographer from distant Cardiff turns up, all manner of MON skeletons come rattling out of the closet. Margaret John, MON otherwise known as Doris in the BBC's comedy Gavin and MON Stacey, stars as Angharad, Brian Hibbard as Aunty Susan, and MON comedian Tom Allen as Charles. Lynne Seymour plays Jaci, Lee MON Mengo is Uncle Gwyn and Howell Evans plays Riddle. MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Thesiger At 100 b00wlbvv (Listen) MON This year is the centenary of photographer and traveller MON Wilfred Thesiger, whose 38000 photographs of Africa and the MON Arabian Peninsula are celebrated in a new exhibition at MON Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. BBC Security correspondent MON Frank Gardner, who was encouraged by Thesiger to learn MON Arabic, looks back on his fascinating life and reflects how MON it is through Thesiger's work that we currently have such an MON understanding of the North African and Arab world. Thesiger MON lived among the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, and he also MON became famous for crossing the Rub' al Khali, the "Empty MON Quarter" of Saudi Arabia, surviving on less than a pint of MON water a day. MON MON Gardner talks to Christopher Morton of the Pitt Rivers about MON Thesiger's work, and what it reveals of past ways of life, MON and he also speaks to the curator of the exhibition, Philip MON N Grover about ways of interpreting the graphic imagery of MON the photographs. Thesiger's biographer Alexander Maitland MON tells the story of his wartime service with the SAS and SOE, MON and explorer Benedict Allen assesses the importance of MON Thesiger's travels and writing. Despite Thesiger's keen MON appreciation of desert peoples and their way of life, he MON hated modern society. The only modern invention he valued MON was the camera. We hear his voice in historic broadcasts MON from the 1940s and 50s, his elegant prose recalling his MON travels in what is now a lost age. MON MON Producer: Alyn Shipton MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery b00wlbvx (Listen) MON Murder in the Title, Episode 4 MON MON By Jeremy Front MON Based on the novel by Simon Brett MON MON Someone wants to close The Regent MON Theatre, and is willing to murder to do so. MON MON Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy MON Frances ..... Suzanne Burden MON Maurice ..... Jon Glover. MON Tony ..... Sam Dale MON Sean ..... Iain Batchelor MON Elaine ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Phoebe ..... Claire Harry MON Chris ..... Henry Devas MON Martha ..... Sally Orrock MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00wlc0y (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00wkds5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00wlc10 (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00wlc12 (Listen) MON (8/17) MON Four contestants from the North of England join MON questionmaster Russell Davies in Manchester for the latest MON heat of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Which of them MON will win a place in the series semi-finals? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00wlbkc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00wlc2c (Listen) MON Series 3, The Dream Insists MON MON By Nick Warburton. Comedy drama starring Trevor Peacock as MON inspirational chef Warwick Hedges. Warwick has a strange, MON recurring dream featuring a ramshackle hut out on the MON Cambridgeshire Fens. Odd job man Samuel has the same dream. MON But when Warwick discovers that the hut in his dream really MON exists, he decides to investigate. MON MON Warwick Hedges...Trevor Peacock MON Jack...Sam Dale MON Marcia...Kate Buffery MON Samuel...John Rowe MON Zofia...Helen Longworth MON MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00wv3vt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Head to Head b00t9t6t (Listen) MON Series 2, Bertrand Russell and Hugh Gaitskell MON MON In a returning series, Edward Stourton revisits passionate MON broadcast debates of the 1960s and 70s when keen intellects MON clashed on matters of real moment. Each programme explores MON the ideas, the great minds behind them and echoes of the MON arguments in present-day politics. MON MON The first episode is taken from Prospects of Mankind (1960), MON a television series chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the former MON US first lady. The subject: Britain's place in the rivalry MON of the cold war. MON MON At 88, Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest 20th-century MON thinkers, battles for Britain's neutrality in a dangerous MON world. In Hugh Gaitskell 'the best prime minister we never MON had', some say, the grand old man of pacifism meets his MON match. The then leader of the Labour party argues for MON Britain's continued close relations with the United States MON and the need for nuclear arms to avert Armageddon. MON MON Should Britain keep a nuclear deterrent? And continue to MON nurture its 'special relationship' with the White House? The MON current discussion over Trident was never more relevant. MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate are Tony Benn, whose MON political career goes back to the Gaitskell days, and Ray MON Monk, professor of philosophy at Southampton University and MON Russell's biographer. MON MON Producer: Dominic Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00wlbht (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00wlcb2 (Listen) MON The Supernatural MON MON Ernie Rea returns with a new series of Radio 4's discussion MON programme in which guests from different faith and non-faith MON perspectives debate the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us. MON MON In this programme, the first in a new series, Ernie and MON guests discuss the supernatural and ask whether there are MON always rational explanations for the apparently inexplicable. MON MON Why does belief in the supernatural appear to have increased MON in recent years? Can it be explained by an increase in MON visibility in books, television and the internet or could MON our fascination with ghosts, spirits and the hereafter be MON filling a void left by organised religion. MON MON The panellists hear from a medium and paranormal MON investigator who claims to have daily visions and has helped MON police forces solve murder cases. MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the supernatural are Gordon Smith, MON one of Britain's best known psychic mediums, the Reverend MON Anthony Delaney, pastor of Ivy Church in Manchester and MON Professor Christopher French, head of the Anomalistic MON Psychology Research Unit in the Department of Psychology at MON Goldsmiths College, London. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00wld4t (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wkds7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00wld4w (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that rewards those MON who can talk the hind leg off a donkey. MON MON The panellists on today's show are Paul Merton, Sheila MON Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. MON MON The aim of the game is to speak on a given subject for sixty MON seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task MON much harder than it sounds... MON MON Today's show comes from the British Library where the show MON is a guest of the Evolving English exhibition. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00wld4y (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00wld50 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including the pick of new fiction for MON teenagers, for anyone planning a seasonal trip to the bookshop. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wlbsx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Freudian Slippage b00wld52 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON David Aaronovitch explores the influence of the founder of MON psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud on British theatre, film, MON novels and biography and asks: has his impact on our writers MON and directors been slipping away? MON MON On the stage of the Old Vic Theatre in London, David MON Aaronovitch meets Michael Billington, theatre critic of the MON Guardian, who tells him how arguably the greatest British MON actor of the last century, Laurence Olivier, was strongly MON influenced by Freud's ideas, along with his pioneering MON director, Tyrone Guthrie. MON David and Michael also explore how Olivier's landmark, MON Oscar-winning movie version of Hamlet in 1948, was overtly MON Freudian - to the point where an American journalist was MON moved to lambast Olivier for overdoing it. MON MON And David meets Jonathan Miller, whose production of MON Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the early 1970s was set MON in Freud's Vienna. Miller criticises Olivier's MON over-enthusiasm for Freud, which he says was widely shared MON by actors in the following decades, but has since worn off. MON MON With the film historian Matthew Sweet, David looks at one of MON the biggest hit British movies of the 1940s: The Seventh MON Veil, starring James Mason. This shows how Freud's ideas MON seemed to offer a kind of magic key that could open up and MON explain any character - whether newly written, or as old as MON Hamlet. MON MON Sweet argues that, for a time, audiences' familiarity with MON Freud gave directors and screenwriters a powerful new set of MON stories. But, he argues, since the work of screenwriter Leo MON Marks (Peeping Tom, Twisted Nerve) and of the director Ken MON Russell (Women in Love, Mahler), few British directors have MON made work as overtly engaged with such ideas as the 'split MON personality' and sexual repression. MON MON The novelist A.S. Byatt charts the profound but often MON ambivalent relationship with Freud of her predecessors, from MON DH Lawrence to Irish Murdoch. She recalls her own resistance MON to the Freudian orthodoxies of Oxbridge in the 1950s, and MON how she has fought free of them. And she reveals how her new MON novel features psychoanalysts as characters, without looking MON at the world through a Freudian lens. MON MON The biographer Hermione Lee explains why 'psychobiography' MON flowered from the 1920s to the 1960s and how the notion that MON psychoanalysis could unlock every facet of a famous figure MON has faded, even as a more subtle Freudian influence endures. MON MON And classicist Fiona Macintosh explains how the work most MON associated with Freud - Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Tyrannos MON - is now performed far less often than in the first half of MON the twentieth century. And how, when it is, directors now MON tend to resist or avoid Freud's once ubiquitous 'complex'. MON MON PRODUCER: Phil Tinline. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00wdjrd (Listen) MON Nichi Vendola MON MON Rosie Goldsmith profiles Nichi Vendola, the governor of MON Puglia and the hope for the Italian left. Can this gay, MON Catholic poet and environmentalist challenge Silvio Berlusconi? MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00wdjvf (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. In the programme this week he MON discusses the new government proposals to include fewer MON science voices on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of MON Drugs. Getting into space is still proving harder than it MON looks, Quentin looks back on recent mishaps in man's MON attempts to conquer space. Also in the programme, will we MON soon be sequencing our own genomes in our own homes? MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Drugs Policy, Scientific Advice MON MON The government is proposing to change the composition of the MON Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Critics say they MON are getting rid of expert advice they're unwilling to hear. MON Home Office minister James Brokenshire MP explains their MON thinking; and Imran Khan of the Campaign for Science and MON Engineering outlines his concerns. MON MON Trouble in Space MON MON A series of mishaps has grounded the space shuttle MON Discovery, lost two Russian satellites and sent Japan's MON Venus probe into the wrong orbit. Astronomy writer Stuart MON Clark explains why space is still so difficult. MON Picture: Courtesy of NASA MON MON Towards the personal genome MON MON The race is on for a machine that will sequence a persons MON genome for a thousand dollars. Quentin hears from Jonathan MON Rothberg, who has developed Ion Torrent, a gene sequencer MON costing just $50,000, which he argues could win that race. MON Professor Mike Hubank of the Institute of Child Health, says MON how such a machine might help. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00wlbsq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00wkds9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00wld6y (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 b00wld70 (Listen) MON The Betrayal, Episode 6 MON MON In her latest novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to MON the Soviet Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history MON she so powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. Now, MON a decade later, starvation and bitter cold have been MON replaced with fear and suspicion, as the people of Leningrad MON do their best to keep their heads down and their lives MON unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the MON midnight knock at the door. For one young doctor, who has MON had no choice but to treat the son of a high-ranking Secret MON Service official, life has become more and more dangerous as MON the child's condition worsens and his father looks for a MON scape-goat. MON MON In today's episode: With the stakes rising, Anna and Andrei MON know they must try to protect Kolya - then an early morning MON call confirms their worst fears. MON MON The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion MON and the producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00wdjrn (Listen) MON Never Trust a Writer, or you'll end up in their book, and MON you might not like what you read. Is everything fair game in MON the artistic process? Three writers who have all either MON dished on their loved ones or been dished on - Antonia MON Quirke, Terence Blacker and Bill Coles, battle it out, MON refereed by presenter Dominic Arkwright. New writing and MON heated debate in Off the Page. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wld72 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00wkj4v (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00wlbss (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkj4x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkj4z (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkj51 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00wkj53 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wldd1 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Michelle Marken. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00wldd3 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00wldd5 (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 b00wldd7 (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Mohsen Sazegara. He was at the heart TUE of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime from the moment the spiritual TUE leader returned to Iran in 1979. Sazegara helped found the TUE now feared Revolutionary Guard. He watched as those who TUE dissented were executed in their hundreds. But then the TUE regime began to turn against him. Following an interrogation TUE in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, Mohsen Sazegara began to TUE speak out against the Islamic state he had helped create - a TUE dangerous course of action. TUE TUE 09:30 I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Into Here b00wldd9 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE When Spitting Image came to an end, Roger Law decided it was TUE time for a fresh start. Having made one attempt to emigrate TUE to Australia in the 1960s, thwarted by the cultural attaché TUE who told him that it was 'a one way ticket to hell' , Ten TUE years ago, Roger decided to give it a second shot. He's now TUE living in Bondi Beach concentrating on in-depth surfing, and TUE he's never looked back. TUE TUE This week he travels to the Blue Mountains to meet up with TUE Chris Darwin, the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, TUE who takes him for a trip into Australia's great outdoors. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00wmnby (Listen) TUE Chasing the Sun, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. How has the sun cast its influence in such diverse TUE activies as warfare TUE and holiday-making? TUE TUE Reader Allan Corduner. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlddc (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 b00wmp5s (Listen) TUE Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second episode of Lynne Truss's new comedy drama, TUE something miraculous happens when Jaci Hughes, a young TUE cartographer, arrives to map The Rock, an massive large TUE geological feature overhanging a remote Golf Club in Wales, TUE where it has been raining for twenty years. No one is glad TUE to see Jaci - not severely repressed Angharad, nor 'Mad' TUE Auntie Susan, who is clearly a man dressed up, nor Riddle, TUE the disgusting old greenkeeper, and certainly not Charles TUE who is desperate to prevent the curse claiming another TUE victim. Margaret John stars as Angharad, former Flying TUE Picket Brian Hibbard as Aunty Susan, and comedian Tom Allen TUE as Charles. Lynne Seymour plays Jaci, Lee Mengo is Uncle TUE Gwyn and Howell Evans plays Riddle TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00wldf8 (Listen) TUE Episode 33 TUE TUE 33/40. We tend to think of Sloths living in the Amazon, but TUE they also live on the islands off the Atlantic coast of TUE Panama. Linked to a natural history film "Decade of TUE Discovery", being broadcast this week on BBC 2, Saving TUE Species has been sent a report by our team out there about TUE the pressures impacting on the Sloths that live on these TUE islands at the end of the Caribbean chain. TUE TUE We have the first of our special Ladybird Book series which TUE has been recorded through the year. Chris Sperring takes the TUE first editions of the famous book series about Spring, TUE Summer, Autumn and Winter - published in 1959 - and explores TUE what species have gone, what have arrived and what hasn't TUE changed. For sure, it's full of surprises. TUE TUE And sharks. With news of two species of sharks attacking TUE holiday makers in the Red Sea what does this do to the TUE efforts to save sharks from extinction?. We talk to one TUE expert who works with sharks on a daily basis and to another TUE expert in the conservation of the White-tip shark, a species TUE implicated in the attacks. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Inside the Life Drawing Class b00wldfx (Listen) TUE Anneka Rice invites us to discover a hidden community of TUE amateur and professional artists who frequent the thousands TUE of life-drawing classes that happen every week, all around TUE the country. Anneka tells us why she loves to draw, and TUE talks to artists, models and teachers about our endless TUE fascination with the naked human body. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00wldfz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Call 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am on the day) or email youandyours@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Has Wikileaks struck a blow for the open society by TUE underlining that in the internet age nothing is liable to TUE remain secret forever? TUE TUE If knowledge is power then who has been empowered by the TUE Wikileaks and how? What do we have the right to know? TUE TUE Governments claim that a level of confidentially and secrecy TUE is required to operate in even the most open of societies- TUE do you agree? How does wikileaks dumping thousands of pages TUE of diplomatic gossip differ from journalists hacking the TUE phone calls of the rich and famous? TUE TUE What is the correct response to the leaks? Prosecute the TUE leakers on grounds of national security, or accept that if TUE you do not want someone to know what you are saying about TUE them then don't say it or create better data security system. TUE TUE And if the data security surrounding the most confidential TUE government documents can find its way into the public domain TUE can we ever take government or business seriously when they TUE promise to look after data they hold about us? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00wkj55 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00wldg1 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 The Big Squeeze b00wldht (Listen) TUE When an American cheese company was looking for a musical TUE instrument to symbolise the stringy, bland and synthetic TUE product of its rival it turned to the accordion. This, TUE surely, was the low point for an instrument routinely TUE associated with French cafe scenes on TV and buskers of TUE dubious musical ability. But for James Crabb, it's time to TUE give the instrument a break, time people really heard what TUE the 'stomach Steinway' can do. TUE TUE It's certainly an instrument with an incredible history. In TUE the tiny Italian town of Castelfidardo, just outside TUE Bologna, he discovers the beating heart of the global TUE accordion industry, a workforce which at one time was TUE competing head-on with Fiat as the country's number one TUE exporter. And it continues to this day: factory after TUE factory of craftsmen hand-making instruments which in many TUE cases contain as many as 10,000 parts. TUE TUE Crabb's real passion is the classical accordion. And this TUE turns out to be an instrument which needed a double TUE revolution. First there was the invention of a new TUE instrument, one capable of escaping the tyranny of the TUE oom-pah. It sounds crazy, but for years accordionists could TUE play only chords with their left hand. No wonder they got a TUE reputation for music that all sounded the same. But with a TUE radical redesign along came a new repertoire. No longer were TUE accordionists relegated to bit-parts in operas where they TUE played in an on-stage dance band. Now accordion composers, TUE and accordion players, were limited by their imagination TUE alone.... TUE TUE Royal Academy of Music TUE TUE The Royal Academy of Music was the first British TUE conservatoire to introduce teaching for the classical TUE accordion, and its curriculum include masterclasses, TUE accordion history and instrument maintenance. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00wld4y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fz12l (Listen) TUE Wodehouse in Hollywood TUE TUE In 1929 MGM shipped PG Wodehouse out West and thrust TUE $104,000 into his hand - in return for zilch. The stories TUE and novels that Wodehouse created out of his Hollywood TUE experience were his satiric riposte to those that had made a TUE dishonest man out of him. Comedy combining Wodehouse's own TUE writing with dramatised fictional scenes by Tony Staveacre. TUE TUE PG Wodehouse......Tim McInnerny TUE Ethel Wodehouse.....Fenella Woolgar TUE Sam Marx......Rowe David McClelland TUE Dorothy......Fiona Clarke TUE Clarence......Declan Wilson TUE Thalberg/Bobby......Paul Ryder TUE TUE Directed by Stefan Escreet. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00wldv7 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wldv9 (Listen) TUE For the Love of a Child, Chocolate Pudding TUE TUE The first of three stories about relationships between TUE adults and children, drawn from real-life. TUE TUE 1. Chocolate Pudding TUE TUE A psychiatrist is perplexed by several cases of coma in a TUE young child. With patience and bowls of chocolate pudding he TUE manages to wake the child, by describing how delicious the TUE pudding is and putting it under the child's nose. The story TUE is inspired by conversations with the psychiatrist and his TUE descriptions of 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome'. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. TUE TUE 15:45 Head to Head b00tdmqt (Listen) TUE Series 2, AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper TUE TUE Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast TUE debates of the 1960s and 70s exploring the ideas, the great TUE minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day TUE politics. TUE TUE This episode pitches AJP Taylor against Hugh Trevor-Roper, TUE two big-name historians and the 'telly dons' of their time. TUE TUE It's 1961 and the fall-out of world war two is still fresh TUE in the minds of the British people. Taylor had just TUE published his provocative revision of the orthodox view of TUE the causes of the war in 1939 - that Britain had scuppered a TUE lunatic dictator's plans of world domination. Taylor argued TUE instead that Hitler was a rational statesman who carried out TUE the expected foreign policies of any German leader, and that TUE a war against Britain and France was unintended. TUE TUE It caused outrage. TUE TUE Also on the table is the question of Munich - were tweaks to TUE Germany's frontiers to save another world war morally right? TUE The inflation of the term 'appeasement' has many TUE contemporary connotations. TUE TUE In the studio dissecting the debate is Adam Sisman, TUE biographer of both AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper, and TUE Richard Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. TUE TUE Producer: Dominic Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Waking Up in the Dock b00wldvd (Listen) TUE As legal defences go, it seems to have more in common with TUE the sensational novels of Wilkie Collins than with cutting TUE edge research - but with sleepwalking increasingly being TUE used in court as a defence against strangulation, TUE smothering, rape and stabbing, Edi Stark investigates how TUE scientists are seeking to bring our knowledge about TUE parasomnia out of the Victorian era. TUE TUE The sleepwalking defence has now been used to clear about 70 TUE people worldwide of murder, including Brian Thomas, found TUE not guilty of murdering his wife in a caravan as they slept TUE last year. Thomas had a genuine sleep disorder, but there is TUE serious concern in scientific circles that the sleepwalking TUE defence is misused. TUE TUE The brain activity occurring during parasomnia is still not TUE fully understood, but it's thought any sleepwalker does not TUE have control over their emotions. Edi explores how TUE scientists are trying to wrestle the judgement on whether an TUE accused person is a genuine sleepwalker- or a genuine TUE murderer - from the jury room to the laboratory. TUE TUE Produced by Lucy Lloyd. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00wldvg (Listen) TUE Series 23, DH Lawrence TUE TUE DH Lawrence was, in the words of Geoff Dyer, a man with thin TUE wrists and thick trousers. He was also the author of Women TUE in Love, Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. But TUE poet and performer John Hegley has chosen him above all for TUE the quality of his poetry, an admiration presenter Matthew TUE Parris also shares. TUE TUE Lawrence died aged just 44. An obituary at the time reckoned TUE he was 'a rebel against all the accepted values of modern TUE civilization'. Certainly his life - born in Eastwood, Notts, TUE became a teacher only to run off with a German-born mother TUE of three to embark on his 'savage pilgrimage' around the TUE world - was unpredictable. As indeed was this programme, TUE recorded in front of an audience at the Arnolfini in TUE Bristol, with John Hegley using both music and verse to make TUE his point. Geoff Dyer, the author of Out of Sheer Rage, TUE makes the case that Lawrence's unpredictability was a sign TUE of strength, and that his best work lies in his letters and TUE not his books. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00wldvj (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wkj57 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b00wldvl (Listen) TUE Series 2, Sheila Hancock TUE TUE Rufus Hound hosts this six-part comedy series in which TUE celebrities are asked to revisit their teenage diaries and TUE read them out in public for the very first time. This week, TUE Sheila Hancock. TUE TUE Producer: Victoria Payne TUE A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00wldvn (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00wldvq (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with comedian TUE Russell Howard, and a re-assessment of the American TUE illustrator Norman Rockwell. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wmp5s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Inside the IMF b00wldvt (Listen) TUE In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has TUE come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts to fix TUE the global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to TUE fix the global economy as well. But what do the staff inside TUE this institution in Washington really think about their TUE work? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, TUE Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to find TUE out. TUE TUE Producer: Neil Koenig. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00wldvw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00wldvy (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on the latest findings in TUE neuroscience and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00wldd7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00wkj59 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00wldw0 (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 b00wmpf0 (Listen) TUE The Betrayal, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode: Dr Brodskaya has been arrested. Now, in TUE the dead of night, a car door slams beneath Andrei and TUE Anna's flat. TUE TUE The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion TUE and the producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 The Phone b00wldw2 (Listen) TUE All Night Cafe TUE TUE By Rebecca Lenkiewicz. TUE TUE A series of late night thrillers, each connected by a TUE mysterious mobile phone. In Rebecca Lenkiewicz's drama, an TUE insomniac mathematician is forced to turn hero when he TUE answers a phone belonging to a prostitute. TUE TUE Abraham . . . . . Toby Jones TUE Sybil . . . . . Niamh Cusack TUE Kate . . . . . Sarah Goldberg TUE June . . . . . Kate Williams TUE Max . . . . . Adeel Akhtar TUE Manager . . . . . Christine Kavanagh TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wldw4 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 DECEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00wkl2y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00wmnby (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkl30 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkl32 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkl34 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00wkl36 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wldx3 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Michelle Marken. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00wldx5 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00wldy4 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00wldz9 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Jamelia. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00wmngc (Listen) WED Chasing the Sun, Episode 3 WED WED 3. The author journeys across the world to witness the most WED dramatic of eclipses... WED WED Reader Allan Corduner. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlf00 (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 b00wmp70 (Listen) WED Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse, Episode 3 WED WED Jaci Hughes's arrival has caused all sort of ructions at the WED Golf Club. For one thing it's stopped raining after twenty WED years. For another she's revealed her golfer's arms to WED Riddle, the digusting old greenkeeper, to whom those arms WED look strangely familiar. Meanwhile, spurred on by sexual WED jealousy after years of repression matters come to a head WED for Angharad, so to speak, in Riddle's hut. To make matters WED worse, Mad Aunty Susan, the lady owner of the Club who looks WED suspiciously like a rugby prop forward, has gone missing. WED WED Margaret John, otherwise known as Doris in the BBC's comedy WED Gavin and Stacey, stars as Angharad, Brian Hibbard as Aunty WED Susan, and comedian Tom Allen as Charles. Lynne Seymour WED plays Jaci, Lee Mengo is Uncle Gwyn and Howell Evans plays WED Riddle. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00wlf19 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Hall WED WED In the heart of London's former docklands on the Isle of WED Dogs, surrounded by the steel and glass of Canary Wharf WED stands an outpost of an old London that's all but WED disappeared. St John's Community Centre is a little hall WED that's used seven days a week by a staggering variety of WED people, from the devout evangelical Christians who hold WED services there to the Moslem worshippers for whom the same WED space is their mosque. But for tango dancers it's the East WED End's equivalent of Buenos Aires, while for the bingo WED brigade, it's Full House - and for those who fancy a pint of WED an evening, St John's is simply the Local: at St John's, WED when one group have finished, another one is poised to move in. WED WED At the hub of these extraordinarily diverse groups and WED juggling the space's complex timetable is George, now in his WED 70s but still working as piermaster just down the road at WED Canary Wharf. As a fifth generation stevedore, George Pye WED has seen the ships disappear from the river and the old WED wharves nearby transformed into gentrified pads for wealthy WED loft-dwellers. With Christmas approaching George has his WED time cut out to meet the many demands on the the little WED space that's been home to so many people for more than three WED decades. WED WED Producer: Neil McCarthy. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wlf1c (Listen) WED Series 6, Citizens' Advice WED WED Count Arthur Strong - one-time Variety Star and now sole WED proprietor & owner of Doncaster's 'Academy of Performance' - WED is a show-business legend, raconteur & lecturer WED extraordinaire. In each of the 6 episodes of this sixth WED series we hear, as ever, a confused, muddled & often WED challenging 'day-in-the-life' of Count Arthur - with his WED mixed-up delivery of words and forthright self-delusion. WED WED When Arthur attempts to return an item of clothing to a WED local shop, things don't go quite to plan - leading him to WED take some 'legal' advice at the Citizen's Advice Bureau. WED With an ever-increasing list of complaints, plus the WED possibility of having to acquire a puppy (or puppies) to WED boot, Arthur's day doesn't go quite as he'd hoped. WED WED The occasion does give him a chance to take a trip down WED memory lane, however, re-living an acting moment in a legal WED TV drama - which of course enables Arthur to give some sound WED advice of his own! WED WED Cast: WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Announcer, Shop Worker, Mr Smith & Wilf ..... Alastair Kerr WED Geoffrey, Jack, Person & Advisor ..... Dave Mounfield WED Sally, Brillo & Receptionist ..... Mel Giedroyc WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe and John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00wlf49 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00wkl38 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00wlf4c (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00wlf4f (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00wldvn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wlf5m (Listen) WED How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience WED WED by Colin Shindler WED WED In 1944, PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, WED was questioned by MI5 after broadcasting to America from a WED German internment camp. One of the interrogators was an up WED and coming journalist called Malcolm Muggeridge. The other WED was Major EJP Cussen, who later became a high court judge. WED The stakes were high: one of Britain's best loved authors WED was facing the possibility of the death penalty. WED WED Wodehouse - Tim McInnerny WED Muggeridge - Alex Jennings WED Cussen - Anton Lesser WED Connor - Stephen Critchlow WED Flannery - Gunnar Cauthery WED WED Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00wlg37 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wlg39 (Listen) WED For the Love of a Child, Call Me and I'll Come to You WED WED The second of three stories about relationships between WED adults and children, drawn from real-life. WED WED Written and read by Julia Blackburn, whose most recent book WED 'The Three Of Us' has won the 2009 Pen/Ackerley prize for WED memoir and autobiography, the stories have Julia's WED mesmerising delicacy of touch in the way they describe human WED relationships and her capacity to find the best in people WED while encompassing their frailty. WED WED 2. Call me and I'll Come to You WED WED At a low ebb, Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to WED her before his death. He describes how the love between a WED parent and child is not diminished by death. Julia is WED comforted, as if her father was with her in that moment. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery WED Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. WED WED 15:45 Head to Head b00tgd1d (Listen) WED Series 2, AJ Ayer and Edward de Bono WED WED Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from WED the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind WED them and echoes of the arguments in present-day politics. WED WED In this episode, two leading minds thrash out the question WED of whether democracy works. It was a meeting of logical and WED lateral thinking in 1976 when celebrity philosopher AJ Ayer WED discussed the fairness and efficiency of democracy with WED Edward de Bono, the original lateral thinker. WED WED The 1970s were trying economic times in the UK and the WED British public was losing faith in its government. Why was WED it Britain had won the war yet countries such as France and WED Germany were prospering and we weren't? In this context, WED Ayer and de Bono explore the fault lines in representative WED government: do elected politicians actually represent the WED interests of the population? Are these politicians equipped WED to do the job? And who makes the big decisions anyway - WED ministers or civil servants? WED WED Their debate is in part a search for innovative solutions - WED not unlike the current UK political situation. WED WED In the studio dissecting the debate are Ben Rogers, WED Associate Fellow at think tank Demos and writer of Ayer's WED biography, and author Piers Dudgeon, who wrote de Bono's WED biography. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00wlg3c (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00wldvy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00wlg3f (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wkl3b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00wlg3h (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman WED Fast Show for BBC Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent WED of Lucy Montgomery. Featuring Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, WED Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter. WED WED Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by WED Steven Burge, Jon Hunter and Joe Wilkinson. WED Music by Philip Pope WED Produced by Katie Tyrrell WED WED In the final episode of the series, posh privately educated WED teenagers Daisy and Maisie show prospective parents around WED their school. Joanna Lumley visits her mother with a WED Christmas present and the Mona Lisa lets us into a secret. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00wlg3y (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00wlg4b (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with violinist WED Thomas Zehetmair, whose recent discs include a prize-winning WED recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto. WED WED Producer Gavin Heard. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wmp70 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00wlg5c (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford WED Longley and Michael Portillo. WED WED 20:45 Blond on Britain b00wlg5f (Listen) WED The House of Lords WED WED Some of the ancient institutions of Britain - the monarchy, WED the House of Lords and the Church of England are often WED derided as archaic, outmoded and out of touch with the WED contemporary world. The leading political thinker Phillip WED Blond makes a powerful case for their continuing WED significance. In this piece he turns his attention to the WED House of Lords. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Ivory Tower b00wlg73 (Listen) WED Many scientists in British universities now have close links WED with industry. Spin-off companies are a feature of academic WED life. The Government applauds this entrepreneurial spirit, WED pointing out that it boosts the economy and helps to pay the WED cost of higher learning. But critics argue that the WED commercial imperative distorts research priorities and WED undermines the established values of the university system. WED Geoff Watts asks are they right. Is the urge to make profit WED subverting the search for knowledge? WED WED Producer: Beth Eastwood. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00wldz9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00wkl3d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00wlg79 (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 b00wmpfn (Listen) WED The Betrayal, Episode 8 WED WED In her latest novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to WED the Soviet Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history WED she so powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. Now, WED a decade later, starvation and bitter cold have been WED replaced with fear and suspicion, as the people of Leningrad WED do their best to keep their heads down and their lives WED unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the WED midnight knock at the door. For one young doctor, who has WED had no choice but to treat the son of a high-ranking Secret WED Service official, life is becoming more and more dangerous. WED WED In today's episode: Andrei has been arrested. Will anyone WED help Anna to help him? And how much danger is she putting WED herself and their unborn child in with her inquiries? WED WED The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion WED and the producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00wr7v2 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy WED series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and WED David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the WED head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, WED Sean Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week WED / News At Bedtime). WED WED We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and WED environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD WED says that trying to predict the end of the world is as WED pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. WED WED In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul WED - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be WED worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining WED apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is WED a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to WED accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel WED world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a WED lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks). A succession of WED comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel WED world. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED Cast: WED SIMON DAY ..... IAN WED DAVID SOUL .....THE NARRATOR WED with WED ROSIE CAVALIERO WED ALEX MACQUEEN WED DAN TETSELL WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED 23:15 Afternoon Reading b00m69wz (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, May Contain Nuts WED WED Written and read by Janey Godley. WED WED "If I'm slowly turning into my dad, then I'd better start WED collecting owl calendars and squirrels." WED WED A woman glimpses her own mortality when she calculates that WED only twenty-seven years separate her from her cantankerous WED father. Brilliant, unsentimental insight into the father / WED daughter relationship. WED WED Another chance to hear this series of short stories by WED leading comedians recorded live in front of a packed WED audience at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. Coming WED up, at the same time over the next three Wednesdays, are WED stories by Sarah Millican, Jon Richardson and Susan Calman. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wlg8l (Listen) WED The latest events from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 DECEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00wkl69 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00wmngc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkl6c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkl6f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkl6h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00wkl6k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wlg9t (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Michelle Marken. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00wlg9w (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00wlg9y (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00wlgbg (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism. An ancient THU Chinese tradition of philosophy and religious belief, Daoism THU first appeared more than two thousand years ago. For THU centuries it was the most popular religion in China; in the THU West its religious aspects are not as well known as its THU practices, which include meditation and Feng Shui, and for THU its most celebrated text, the Daodejing. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00wmnlj (Listen) THU Chasing the Sun, Episode 4 THU THU 4. Throughout the ages artists have caught THU the sun on canvas with astonishing results... THU THU Reader Allan Corduner. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlgc9 (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 b00wmp7s (Listen) THU Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse, Episode 4 THU THU In the penultimate episode of Lynne Truss's comedy drama THU Charles has finally realised that his Aunty Susan is in fact THU Tony Llewellyn the famous Welsh golfer, cartographer Jaci THU Hughes seems to have fallen subject to the Club curse and THU probaby only has hours to live, and Angharad is suffering THU post-coital tristesse after her liaison with the disgusting THU old greenkeeper, Riddle. Could things get any worse? Well THU yes, actually. Margaret John, otherwise known as Doris in THU the BBC's comedy Gavin and Stacey, stars as Angharad, Brian THU Hibbard as Aunty Susan, and comedian Tom Allen as Charles. THU Lynne Seymour plays Jaci, Lee Mengo is Uncle Gwyn and Howell THU Evans plays Riddle. THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00wlgcc (Listen) THU The Two Faces of Bahrain THU THU Bahrain projects itself towards the world as an Arab state THU that is open to investment, progressive about change and THU moving confidently toward democracy. But there is another THU Bahrain where dissent is suppressed and critics jailed. It THU is a country where allegations are rife that political THU prisoners are routinely tortured. Bill Law investigates both THU sides of the Bahrain story and asks what lies behind the THU apparently heavy-handed repression of those who criticize THU the ruling al Khalifa family THU Producer: Caroline Pare. THU THU 11:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows THU of the Wacky Warbler b00wlgg4 (Listen) THU Lesley Garrett tells the fascinating story of operatic THU comedienne Joan Turner. THU THU Joan Turner was a larger-than-life star who enjoyed a THU successful stage and television career in the 1960s and 70s. THU She was born in Belfast in 1922 and made her debut at the THU Finsbury Empire as a singing comedienne. THU THU Joan could perform pop or opera with her THU four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, impersonate Judy THU Garland and Bette Davis, and then change to stand-up comic. THU THU In her early career she worked with The Crazy Gang, appeared THU at many Royal Events, recorded for Pye Records and became THU the highest-earning female singer in Britain. After touring THU all the major music halls she was considered a 'female Harry THU Secombe', and in the States they billed her as "The Wacky THU Warbler". THU THU One reviewer described her as having "the voice of an angel THU and the wit of a devil". THU THU Even though she gained a reputation for being difficult and THU unpredictable she remained a much loved figure on the show THU business circuit. THU THU Her daughter Susanna Page always believed that "the best way THU to describe Mum is that she thought every day was THU Christmas". She was to discover painfully that it was not. THU THU By the late nineties an unkind reverse reduced her to the THU status of a bag lady walking the streets of Las Vegas and THU Los Angeles searching for work. This downturn in her life THU and career was a result of a long term battle with gambling THU and alcoholism. THU THU A few film and television roles saw a short revival in her THU fortunes but her last live comeback attempt ended in a THU drunken shambles. She spent her final years in sheltered THU accommodation in Surrey. THU THU The programme features interviews with Actor Harry THU Dickman,Variety entertainer Roy Hudd and Joan's daughter THU Susanna page. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00wlggk (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00wkl6m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00wlgj9 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00wlgjc (Listen) THU "I don't know" - three little words so hard to say nowadays. THU Doubt and uncertainty are out, confident assertions are in. THU Opinions, even received ones, are the order of the day. The THU temptation is always to bluff our way with some kind of THU response, however little we know about the subject in hand. THU Phil Hammond is a doctor and Kathy Sykes is a science THU professor. John Harris is a journalist whose job is to THU express opinions. Are they able simply to admit: "I don't THU know"? Dominic Arkwright presides over new writing and THU straight-to-the-point discussion. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00wlg3y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wlglj (Listen) THU Chequebook and Pen THU THU Written by Andrew Lynch and Johnny Vegas. THU THU Johnny Vegas pays tribute to the legendary Les Dawson in a THU comic flight of fancy. Les has a way with words but is THU northern, rather crumpled, a little shambolic and an unknown THU quantity, and delightfully unpredictable when he is faced THU with representing a national institution. THU THU Nicholas Parsons is Farson, a resplendent foil for Dawson. THU Farson embraces and embodies the hammiest forces of the THU 'traditional BBC'. THU THU A nemesis to Les and all he stands for and aims to subvert. THU THU This homage is a pure joyous farce, taking full artistic THU license in imagining how the BBC might have engaged the THU iconic Les to become a game show great in its eighties THU flagship, Blankety Blank. THU THU Cast: THU Les ..... Johnny Vegas THU Farson ..... Nicholas Parsons THU Helen ..... Shobna Gulati THU Dave Parkins ..... Mick Miller THU BBC Executive ..... Mark Chatterton THU Number Two ...... Paul Foot THU Doris (Barmaid) ..... Catherine Kinsella THU Other parts ..... Peter Slater (and cast). THU THU Directed by Jim Poyser THU Producer: Sally Harrison THU A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00wklwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00wkr67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wlgmm (Listen) THU For the Love of a Child, Three Buzzing Boys THU THU The last of three stories about relationships between adults THU and children, drawn from real-life. The stories are written THU and read by Julia Blackburn, whose most recent book 'The THU Three Of Us' has won the 2009 Pen/Ackerley prize for memoir THU and autobiography. The stories have Julia's mesmerising THU delicacy of touch in the way they describe human THU relationships and her capacity to find the best in people THU while encompassing their frailty. THU THU 3. Three Buzzing Boys THU When Julia meets Dominique she is reminded of naturalist THU Gilbert White's account of a young boy in the village of THU Selbourne. The boy sleeps by the hearth during the winter THU and wakes in the spring, going from hive to hive, eating THU honey, keeping live bees under his shirt, and buzzing with THU strange contentment. THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery THU Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. THU THU 15:45 Head to Head b00tjf54 (Listen) THU Series 2, Malcolm X and James Farmer THU THU Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast THU debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great THU minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day THU politics. THU THU In this last episode, two leading black activists clash at THU the very height of the Civil Rights movement. It was summer THU 1963 when the radical Muslim Malcolm X met mainstream THU campaigner James Farmer. They were fired up by the same THU ideals but were divided on how to achieve them. Malcolm X THU demanded the creation of an all-black nation, by violent THU means if necessary. Farmer believed in de-segregation THU through peaceful protest and the law - using the US THU constitution to fulfill its promise of an America free for all men. THU THU Whether segregation still exists today is up for question. THU In the studio dissecting the debate are the author Bonnie THU Greer, who was a teenager in 1960s Chicago, and Dr Stephen THU Tuck, lecturer in American Studies at Oxford University. THU THU Producer: Dominic Byrne THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00wlbj2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00wlgmp (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 THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00wlgmr (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 b00wkl6p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00wlgnn (Listen) THU Series 4, A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied THU THU Volume 4, Chapter 6: "A life destroyed, and then repaired THU and re-happied." THU THU Pip in the company of Pippa, the Reverend Fecund and Harry THU Biscuit, now just a brain in a jar, have tracked Mister THU Benevolent to the heart of the vast Russian Empire. But when THU they find him he is at the head of a mighty army. Who will THU triumph in the final battle between good and evil? Will THU Harry get a new body? Will Mister Benevolent detonate his THU infamous cheese bomb? And what is the correct way to spell THU Czar? As fate decides these crucial questions it seems there THU are a few surprises in store for Pip. 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 Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell THU THU Writer ..... Mark Evans THU Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00wlgp5 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00wlgph (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including a report on the work of the THU pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, in the light of a THU major retrospective exhibition in Liverpool. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wmp7s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00wlgq4 (Listen) THU Ireland's Toxic Tiger THU THU How much will British taxpayers suffer from the fallout in THU Ireland? British banks such as RBS and Lloyds have large THU debts in the Republic, and are making decisions about which THU to call in, threatening more pain for local communities. THU Morland Sanders hears protests from small contractors in THU Donegal where Ulster Bank want to sell off a prestige THU residential development at rock bottom prices. This amid THU questions about the part British institutions actually THU played in fuelling the property market bubble. THU THU As the Irish government deals with the "toxic loans" of the THU Republic's banks, it's being estimated that 15% of them are THU in the UK. We explore how this will affect the businesses THU reliant on that borrowed money, and what will happen to THU those trophy assets such as Claridges, now 'owned' by the THU Republic's new holder of its toxic debts, NAMA. THU THU The Chancellor, George Osborne may have said the £3.2bn loan THU to Ireland was to support a friend in need, and protect THU British exports, but we report on the importance to British THU banks and British businesses of an economic recovery in THU Ireland. THU THU Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00wlgt1 (Listen) THU Euro on the Rocks? THU THU Euroland slides into big trouble as the crisis spreads from THU one country to another. In this change to the advertised THU programme, Peter Day asks a panel of experts what's THU happening and why it matters. THU THU Producers: Caroline Bayley and Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00wldf8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00wlgbg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00wkl6r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00wlgt3 (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 b00wld70 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 22:45 on Monday] THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00wlgt5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU The Questers continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar. THU This time they accidentally trespass upon grounds of the THU Emperor Jackie. Jackie claims to have the Sword of Asnagar THU but he'll only hand it over if the Questers, and THU particularly Penthiselea, stay with him for a while. THU THU In the meantime, Lord Darkness' main evil priest, Gaydok, is THU upset - he doesn't believe Darkness is evil anymore. In a THU fit of pique Darkenss fires him. But it's not long before he THU realises that keeping the faith with the evil hordes isn't THU as easy as he originally thought... THU THU An all-star cast, featuring: THU THU Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", THU Sanjeev Bhaskar as "Emperor Jackie", THU Kevin Eldon as "Dean/Kreech", THU Darren Boyd as "Vidar", THU Dave Lamb as "Amis - The Chosen One" THU Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" THU THU Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wlgt7 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 DECEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00wkl8y (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00wmnlj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wkl90 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wkl92 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wkl94 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00wkl96 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wlgx2 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Michelle Marken. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00wlgx4 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00wlgx6 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00wlbhr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00wmnpy (Listen) FRI Chasing the Sun, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5. How long will the sun shine? And time for the autor to FRI seek the perfect FRI sunset... FRI FRI Reader Allan Corduner. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlgz2 (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 b00wmp8m (Listen) FRI Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode of Lynne Truss's comedy drama, the FRI secret of Uncle Gwyn's swingeing curse is finally revealed. FRI Well, sort of. In a violent storm the giant Golf Ball Rock FRI has come careering down the hill, across the course and into FRI the bunker on the fourth, narrowly missing cartographer Jaci FRI Hughes, a slightly flushed Angharad, and Mad Aunty Susan, FRI who has now been revealed to be Tony Llewellyn, the famous FRI Welsh golfer who disappeared years ago after winning a big FRI tournament. Not only that but Tony Llewellyn, it turns out, FRI is actually Jaci Hughes's father. And to catch you up with FRI other events, Angharad has had a shameful tryst with FRI disgusting greenkeeper Riddle in his abominable hut. What FRI could possibly happen next? Margaret John, otherwise known FRI as Doris in the BBC's comedy Gavin and Stacey, stars as FRI Angharad, Brian Hibbard as Aunty Susan, and comedian Tom FRI Allen as Charles. Lynne Seymour plays Jaci, Lee Mengo is FRI Uncle Gwyn and Howell Evans plays Riddle. FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 A Friend in Need b00wlgz4 (Listen) FRI Lost your job and need a bogus boss to fool your family that FRI you're still in work? Can't think who to have as your best FRI man at your wedding? FRI FRI The BBC's Tokyo correspondent Roland Buerk investigates FRI Japan's growing "rent a friend" service sector. Several FRI agencies now rent out fake spouses, best men, relatives, FRI friends, colleagues, boyfriends and girlfriends to help FRI clients get through social functions such as weddings, FRI parents' evenings - and even funerals. FRI FRI Ryuichi Ichinokawa launched his Hagemashi Tai - which FRI translates as "I Want to Cheer You Up" - agency four years FRI ago and the requests have been flooding in. He now employs FRI 30 agents of various ages and both sexes, working all over FRI Japan. They research their assignments assiduously so that FRI they appear totally convincing. FRI FRI We hear from one client who not only rented a fake mother to FRI introduce to his prospective in-laws, but also hired 30 FRI guests to attend his wedding. In fact, only two of the FRI "guests" on the groom's side were genuine. Even his 'boss' FRI who made a speech was fake, as he had just been made FRI redundant. When, however, he finally confessed to his wife FRI and her family, their response was not to be furious about FRI the lies, but grateful that he had done it for them and to FRI protect their social standing. FRI FRI Is the rise of the phoney friend a symptom of social and FRI economic changes and increasing isolation or a logical FRI extension of a consumer society where money will buy you FRI almost anything? As Japan enters a third decade of FRI recession, how much is this phenomenon a result of Japan's FRI changing labour market ? With more temporary jobs, people FRI have less opportunity to make friends at work, but social FRI expectations seem to be lagging behind economic reality. FRI FRI Producer: Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00wlh0y (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world FRI of newspapers. Maddox takes a moral stance FRI with disastrous results. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI With Joanna Monro, Sean Baker FRI Adeel Akhtar,Henry Devas FRI and Sam Dale FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00wlh18 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00wkl98 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00wlh21 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00wlh2t (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00wlgp5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wlh7q (Listen) FRI The Other Simenon: Striptease FRI FRI Georges Simenon is best known for Maigret but he published FRI scores of other novels - many of them tough, gripping and FRI psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives FRI confounded by fate and circumstance. Ronald Frame dramatises FRI a Simenon story set in a night club in Cannes in 1958. FRI Celita is the mistress of the club owner - but she faces a FRI younger rival for her lover's affections when he hires a FRI sensational new dancer. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wlh7s (Listen) FRI Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society, Essex FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson are FRI guests of the Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society in FRI Essex. Peter Gibbs is the chairman. FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank presents part three in her houseplants FRI series: This week, a guide to growing cacti and succulents. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Head to Head b00wlh7v (Listen) FRI Series 2, Foucault and Chomsky FRI FRI Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast FRI debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great FRI minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day FRI politics. FRI FRI In this episode, two thinkers discuss the nature of power FRI and oppression in contemporary society. This rare footage FRI was recorded on Dutch television in 1971 with a backdrop of FRI social unrest the world over. Michel Foucault, the French FRI philosopher, had emerged in his own country as a militant FRI leader after the 1968 student riots. Across the Atlantic, FRI amid growing civil unrest, the American intellectual Noam FRI Chomsky was central to the anti-Vietnam War movement. FRI FRI Both men of the left, but with two distinct ideas about how FRI power is wielded. Chomsky saw groups of elites in charge - FRI the military, the economic and multinational elites. But FRI also an intellectual elite that feeds ideas into the public FRI domain and thus controls the flow if ideas and how people FRI think. Foucault, however, thought the mechanisms behind FRI oppression were more deceptive. Social institutions, such as FRI universities, psychiatric hospitals and prisons, subtly FRI imposed restrictions on knowledge and the way people behave. FRI And if a theory can be put into practice, what of civil FRI disobedience and how to justify it? FRI FRI In the studio dissecting the debate are David Macey, FRI Professor in Translation at Nottingham University, who wrote FRI a biography of Foucault, and John Taylor, Professor of FRI Politics at London's South Bank University. FRI FRI Producer: Dominic Byrne FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00wlh84 (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 b00wlh9k (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks film music with Richard Rodney Bennett, FRI and speaks to the directors of Catfish, one of the big hits FRI of the Sundance Film Festival. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00wlh9m (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 b00wkl9b (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00wlh9p (Listen) FRI Series 32, Episode 5 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 Marcus Brigstocke, Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and FRI Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00wlhbg (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00wlhbj (Listen) FRI Arts interviews, news and reviews, with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wlbsx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00wlj72 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the FRI Chrysalis Theatre in the Camphill Community in Milton Keynes FRI with questions for the panel including Oliver Letwin, FRI Cabinet Office Minister, John Healey, Shadow Health FRI Secretary, Barbara Stocking, CEO of Oxfam, and Paul Staines, FRI better known as the blogger Guido Fawkes. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00wlj74 (Listen) FRI Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00wlj76 (Listen) FRI Banished: Mugabe of Zimbabwe FRI FRI By Andrew Whaley. FRI It is 2000, and Aurelia, studying in FRI London, returns home to Zimbabwe following her father's FRI death. Years before he had worked with Robert Mugabe, and FRI now Aurelia learns that the President is to attend the FRI funeral. Their meeting is the start of a dark and FRI frightening journey. FRI FRI Aurelia ...Tariro Foote FRI Ignatius ... Danny Sapani FRI Mother ...Adjoa Andoh FRI Ratidzo.. .Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI Robert Mugabe...Lucian Msamati FRI Ruth.. . Pamela Nomvete FRI Paradzai...Jude Akuwudike FRI With Ben Onwukwe, Lloyd Thomas, Michael Shelford FRI Directed by Jeremy Mortimer FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00wkl9d (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00wlj78 (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 b00wmqkf (Listen) FRI The Betrayal, Episode 10 FRI FRI In her latest novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to FRI the Soviet Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history FRI she so powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. Now, FRI a decade later, starvation and bitter cold have been FRI replaced with fear and suspicion, as the people of Leningrad FRI do their best to keep their heads down and their lives FRI unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the FRI midnight knock at the door. FRI FRI In today's final episode: in a final act before his fall FRI from grace, Volkov, Commissar of the secret police, has FRI given Andrei a way out. Instead of execution he will be sent FRI to Siberia. Meanwhile Anna is in hiding, waiting for the FRI birth of their baby. FRI FRI The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion FRI and the producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00wldvg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wlj7b (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI
10 December, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 11/12/2010 - 17/12/2010
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