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SAT SATURDAY 18 DECEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00wlj7l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00wmnpy (Listen) SAT Chasing the Sun, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the SAT universe and that even the sun revolved around us... SAT Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most SAT basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that SAT that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are SAT mere specks..." SAT SAT Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the SAT sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the SAT legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun SAT figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for SAT ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc SAT in the sky is now caught in five epsiodes... SAT SAT 5. How long will the sun shine? And time for the autor to SAT seek the perfect SAT sunset... SAT SAT Reader Allan Corduner. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wlj7n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wlj7q (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wlj7s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00wlj7v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wml5r (Listen) SAT With The Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00wml5t (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 b00wlj7x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00wlj7z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00wmmcy (Listen) SAT Helen Mark is in Dorset to hear how the area around Studland SAT Bay could be affected by a proposed Marine Conservation Zone SAT and how one fishy resident has stirred up passions locally. SAT As parts of the sea around Studland and Swanage are being SAT considered as a possible Marine Conservation Zone, Helen SAT finds out about the possible impacts on the local community; SAT in particular to some of the residents of Studland Bay The SAT bay is home to a colony of breeding sea horses and opinions SAT are divided as to whether the delicate seagrass which is SAT home to these creatures can be harmed by the anchoring of SAT boats. Helen hears from the Seahorse Trust, a charity which SAT has been researching and monitoring the seahorses, and Dr SAT Ken Collins, an expert in seagrass. Helen also hears from SAT some members of the local community who are concerned about SAT the effects a possible no anchor zone could have on the SAT economy of the area and their way of life. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00wmmd0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT News and issues in rural Britain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00wlj81 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00wmwxd (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00wmwxg (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with author Michael Morpurgo and poet Matt Harvey. SAT SAT STUDIO GUEST :: MICHAEL MORPURGO SAT SAT Children's writer Michael Morpurgo is Fi's studio guest this SAT week. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00wmxh2 (Listen) SAT Anita Anand explores the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b00wmxh4 (Listen) SAT Benjamin Franklin's iPod SAT SAT Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor and founding father SAT of the USA was also a song-writer. He wrote drinking songs SAT for his friends, love songs to his wife, and songs of SAT political protest. SAT SAT David Owen Norris recreates the songs and explores what they SAT reveal about a great eccentric. On location in Franklin's SAT house in London, he talks to historians Lady Joan Reid, Dr SAT Catherine Jones and Dr Julie Flavell and plays on Franklin's SAT proudest invention - the glass armonica. With singers SAT 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 b00wmxh6 (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell takes an end of year look at the Westminster SAT scene. SAT SAT The Christmas break may be in sight. But the programme of SAT cuts goes on. Local councils in England were given SAT confirmation this week that their funding will be slashed. SAT The government also announced plans to give new powers to SAT local residents. They'll be able to force referendums on SAT local issues and even take over libraries and post offices SAT threatened with closure. The politicians call it 'localism.' SAT And it's a subject here for the Conservative, Bob Blackman, SAT and Labour's Heidi Alexander. SAT SAT The House of Lords has followed the Commons by voting in SAT favour of tripling university tuition fees in England. But SAT the issue remains divisive. Two peers with long experience SAT of the world of higher education take sides here. They are SAT Labour's Lady Blackstone, Vice-Chancellor of the University SAT of Greenwich, and the Conservative, Lady Perry, the former SAT Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic. SAT SAT Away from the stories that grab big headlines, the SAT government has published a hitherto secret guide to how we SAT are governed. It's called the Cabinet Manual. Here, Labour's SAT Graham Allen, who chairs the Political and Constitutional SAT Reform Committee of MPs, weighs its significance. SAT SAT Finally, two bloggers, Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome SAT and Anthony Wells of UK Polling Report, look ahead to next SAT year and find big challenges facing the three main parties. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00wmxq8 (Listen) SAT What will Kevin Connolly have to say as he leaves the United SAT States after three years as our man in Washington? There are SAT opinions on Americans, their use of English, their food, SAT portions, guns, religion, music and politics. Hear all about SAT it! In this morning's From Our Own Correspondent. SAT SAT Also today: SAT A cocaine factory is blown to pieces in a Colombian jungle SAT clearing. SAT And how an extraordinary year has laid bare the good, and SAT the bad in Chilean society. SAT SAT Colombia is making progress in its long, hard, war on drugs. SAT The big cartels have been broken up, and cocaine production SAT is significantly down. But the fight against the traffickers SAT is far from over, and the security forces continue to take SAT it deep into the jungle on dangerous missions. Frank Gardner SAT joined one of these patrols, and because of the injuries he SAT sustained some years ago while reporting in the Gulf SAT ....Frank arrived in his wheelchair... SAT SAT Algeria is very much part of the Muslim world. But among the SAT landmarks of its capital, Algiers is a fine imposing church. SAT A cathedral, called "Our Lady of Africa", stands high above SAT the Mediterranean -- the sun gleaming on its silver dome... SAT The church has been undergoing years of much-needed SAT renovation work. And Chloe Arnold was there to see the SAT re-opening of the building which....all through Algeria's SAT recent troubles....stood as a symbol of harmony between SAT Islam and Christianity. SAT SAT This has been a year that the people of Chile will never SAT forget. 2010 happens to be the bi-centenary of the country's SAT independence, and during it the nation has been tested in SAT extraordinary ways. The year began with a major earthquake. SAT And it ended with the world looking on as the thirty-three SAT miners were rescued from beneath a mountain. Through all SAT this Gideon Long watched the country's leader, Sebastian SAT Pinera as he encountered both triumph and disaster.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00wmxqb (Listen) SAT Cash or shares? SAT SAT The old debate has been given new life with RPI inflation at SAT 4.7%, and almost no savings account paying that much. And at SAT the same time the FTSE index is rising and rising. SAT SAT So, Paul Lewis asks, should we put our savings into SAT share-based investments to get a real return? SAT SAT Also in the programme: the issue of whether to contract out SAT of the second state pension - or stay in - has made for an SAT interesting debate over the past two decades. SAT SAT But the government is effectively ending the discussion by SAT withdrawing the option in 2012. SAT SAT This hasn't stopped one financial services provider from SAT emailing people to encourage them to contract out though. SAT Reporter Ben Carter investigates. SAT SAT And, what should you do if you know that sometime soon you SAT will have problems paying your mortgage? SAT SAT The Council of Mortgage Lenders says you should contact your SAT lender as soon as you realise there is a danger you might SAT default. And we have often heard similar advice on this SAT programmes SAT SAT But one of our listeners tried to follow this advice - and SAT hit a brick wall. Money Box investigates. SAT SAT Also, the BBC has been investigating claims that one of the SAT country's biggest loan brokers is misleading customers, SAT despite having been told by the Office of Fair Trading to SAT improve its business practices. SAT SAT Money Box first investigated Yes Loans in May 2009, hearing SAT complaints from some customers that they were having trouble SAT getting a refund from the company when they asked for it. SAT SAT More than a year on, some customers are still complaining SAT refunds are not being paid, or are being delayed. The SAT company says these complaints are a small minority, and that SAT it is working hard to improve its service. SAT SAT Plus, new levels of protection for savings are expected to SAT be officially unveiled by the Financial Services Authority. SAT SAT It is thought the limit will be increased from the current SAT £50,000 per financial institution up to £85,000, from SAT December 31, 2010. SAT SAT But, as Bob Howard explains, some savers with building SAT society accounts will need to spread their savings to other SAT institutions to ensure they get maximum protection. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00wlh9p (Listen) SAT Series 32, Xmas Party political indiscretions SAT SAT On the last 'normal' show of the year (next week is The Now SAT Show panto) Marcus Brigstocke talks about the English SAT Defence League and the other Terry Jones; Jon Holmes travels SAT into the Matrix of real and unreal news; Mitch Benn assesses SAT how happy we are this Christmas and our audience reflect on SAT the most memorable moments of 2010. Plus as a one-off SAT exclusive on Radio 7, Boxing Day listen to an extended SAT version of this week's Now Show with extra performances from SAT stand-up Imran Yusuf and music duo Ginger and Black. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00wlj83 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News Briefing b00wlj85 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00wlj72 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the SAT Chrysalis Theatre in the Camphill Community in Milton Keynes SAT with questions for the panel including Oliver Letwin, SAT Cabinet Office Minister, John Healey, Shadow Health SAT Secretary, Laurie Pennie, columnist, and Paul Staines, SAT better known as the blogger Guido Fawkes. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00wmxqd (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 b00wmxw3 (Listen) SAT Shirley Valentine SAT SAT Written by acclaimed writer Willy Russell. SAT SAT Shirley Valentine is a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who SAT reveals her innermost thoughts and fears in a manner that is SAT both insouciant and poignant. Once an incorrigible SAT anti-establishment rebel, Shirley now chafes under the SAT plodding insensitivity of her husband, Joe and the SAT stultifying pace of her suburban routine. Her life enters a SAT new and exciting phase when, after her best friend, Jane, SAT wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece, Shirley is SAT given the opportunity to travel to faraway places without SAT her husband; she begins to see the world, and herself, in a SAT different light. SAT SAT Starring Meera Syal, after a much lauded run at the Menier SAT Chocolate Factory the play transferred to The Trafalgar SAT studio to continued success. Finishing in theatre on October SAT 30th Meera walked straight into the studio to record the one SAT woman play for Radio 4. Based on the original Menier Theatre SAT production directed by Glen Walford. SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00wmy3b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00wmy3s (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00wml5t (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wlj87 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00wlj89 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wlj8c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00wnp9n (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Matt Lucas joins Clive to discuss Les Mis at 25 - Matt Lucas SAT Dreams the Dream, a documentary in which Matt fulfils his SAT dream to perform in the world famous show Les Miserables at SAT the O2 Arena. He'll also be giving Clive the low down on SAT Come Fly With Me, his brand new comedy collaboration with SAT David Walliams. SAT SAT Clive is joined by Steve Bell, cartoonist of the daily If. SAT strip for the Guardian. In his new collection If. Bursts SAT Out, Steve imagines Cleggmania buried under a heap of toads, SAT Gordon Brown's descent from No.10 to Rochdale and Silvio SAT Berlusconi's breast implants. SAT SAT Comedy writer Andy Hamilton and his writing partner Guy SAT Jenkin had already experienced success with Drop The Dead SAT Donkey when they decided to tackle "an authentic evocation SAT of the glorious chaos that is life with small children". The SAT result was the critically acclaimed TV hit Outnumbered. Andy SAT joins Clive to discuss improvising with under-fives and his SAT new Radio 4 comedy Old Harry's Game in which Andy stars as a SAT particularly grumpy Satan who is hell-bent on banning SAT Christmas. SAT SAT And Jo Bunting talks to wine-taster and bon viveur Oz Clarke SAT about his new mission to revive the good old British pub - SAT along with drinking buddy Hugh Dennis - in BBC Two's Oz and SAT Hugh Raise the Bar. SAT SAT With festive music from The Puppini Sisters who perform Let SAT It Snow and All I Want For Christmas from their new album SAT Christmas with the Puppini Sisters. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00wnp9q (Listen) SAT Series 9, Episode 8 SAT SAT The return of the award-winning series FROM FACT TO FICTION SAT - in which writers create a fictional response to the week's SAT news. This week poet Ian McMillan is in the hot seat. SAT Producer - Gary Brown. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00wnpzq (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00x2xfp (Listen) SAT I'm in Charge SAT SAT The London Palladium has always occupied a unique place in SAT Bruce Forsyth's heart: "No theatre on this earth has ever SAT superseded the Palladium in my affections; it's just so SAT special . . . as intimate as a family's front room." SAT SAT It was one night at the Palladium back in 1958 when Bruce SAT Forsyth's career changed forever - a celebrated appearance SAT with the late comedian Dickie Henderson led to Bruce being SAT offered the highly sought after job of compere of the weekly SAT TV variety show, 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. SAT Together, the show and its new presenter, turned out to be a SAT sensation - the highlight of the week for Britain's viewing SAT millions and the topic of conversation in factories, SAT offices, schools and shop floors on Monday mornings. SAT SAT On the eve of the Theatre's 100th birthday - the Palladium SAT first opened its doors to the public on Boxing Day 1919 - SAT Bruce takes Paul Jackson on a tour of the theatre that every SAT star of their day aspired to performing in. If you made the SAT Palladium, you had it made. From Ella Sheilds and Dan Leno SAT to the golden era of American stars like Frank Sinatra and SAT Danny Kaye who had the crowds queuing round the block; from SAT George V & George VI, to Pinky & Perky and Morcambe & Wise, SAT the London Palladium has played host to them all. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00wlbj0 (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Sejanus SAT SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' SAT ground-breaking histories of first-century Rome. SAT SAT As he struggles to keep his throne, the Emperor Tiberius SAT finds his Commander of the Guard, Sejanus, an invaluable SAT aide against treason. And Sejanus finds Claudius an SAT unwilling collaborator in his rise to power. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Livia ..... Harriet Walter SAT Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SAT Sejanus ..... Sam Dale SAT Agrippina ..... Hattie Morahan SAT Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Livilla ..... Leah Brotherhead SAT Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT The Fisherman ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Macro ..... Tony Bell SAT Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SAT Plautius ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Cremutius ..... Sean Baker SAT Officer ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Senator ..... Henry Devas SAT Plancina ..... Claire Harry SAT Aelia ..... Deeivya Meir SAT Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00wlj8f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00wlg5c (Listen) SAT Around 20 million people watched it and many many more words SAT have probably been written about it. The X Factor has SAT finished its series, but if you thought you were in for a SAT break from the incessant drone of popular culture you're SAT wrong. We've got the Strictly Come Dancing final next week SAT and after that a Christmas TV schedule rich with opportunity SAT to veg out and switch off your brain. You may argue that SAT programmes like these are just a bit of fun - water cooler SAT moments that we can all share and enjoy; that in a SAT fragmented society offer us a small piece of common ground. SAT But has our addiction to popular culture got out of hand? Is SAT it like counterfeit currency, driving out quality and any SAT programme that attempts to engage you mentally beyond having SAT to punch a few numbers in to a phone to vote? Is that SAT elitist, patronising snobbery of the worst kind or have SAT these sorts of programmes now become so powerful that SAT they've elevated the cult of celebrity to something we SAT aspire to and admire, while at the same time turning a blind SAT eye to the moral turpitude that so often goes hand in hand SAT with that culture. Post the cultural studies revolution, who SAT now argues that Bach is of more moral worth than Britney? Is SAT that the triumph of democracy or demagoguery? Have the arts SAT given in to the forces of cultural relativism and sacrificed SAT the intellectual high ground in their quest for a wider SAT audience? Or is the problem not the power of programmes like SAT the X Factor, but that those in the arts industry are more SAT interested in talking to each other rather than championing SAT intellectual excellence. How do we judge the moral worth of SAT art? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford SAT Longley and Michael Portillo. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00wlc12 (Listen) SAT (8/17) SAT Four contestants from the North of England join SAT questionmaster Russell Davies in Manchester for the latest SAT heat of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Which of them SAT will win a place in the series semi-finals? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT LINCOLN ALLISON, an author from Leamington Spa; SAT JOAN CHANTRELL, retired, from Hale in Cheshire; SAT GEORGE HASTINGS, retired, from Manchester; SAT MARK KERR, a chartered surveyor from Prescot in Lancashire. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wlbj4 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Waltzing Matilda SAT SAT Was "the alternative Australian national anthem" written as SAT a political statement or a way of impressing a girl? Peggy SAT Reynolds examines Banjo Paterson's lyric Waltzing Matilda, SAT with help from some contemporary Australian voices. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00wnrmn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00cjzrp (Listen) SUN Urban Welsh, White Rabbit SUN SUN White Rabbit by Kate D'Lima. SUN Laura and Jed have always had a stormy relationship but this SUN time the craziness nearly spells disaster. This story was a SUN winner in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Read by SUN Ruth Jones. SUN SUN Produced by Kate McAll SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wnrmq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wnrms (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wnrmv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00wnrmx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00wnrv9 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael, Kingsteignton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Blond on Britain b00wlg5f (Listen) SUN The House of Lords 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 piece he turns his attention to the SUN House of Lords. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00wnrmz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00wnrw8 (Listen) SUN Stories of the Nativity SUN SUN In a Christmas edition of Something Understood, Mark Tully SUN considers the symbolism and meaning of the traditional SUN nativity stories and asks what they can offer us in a SUN contemporary context. SUN SUN Some church historians now argue that, given inconsistencies SUN in the Gospels and a variety of other empirical evidence, SUN accounts of the Nativity should be viewed as stories rather SUN than literal history. If this is the case, what is the SUN significance of the stories that have been handed down to us SUN about the birth of Jesus and what can we learn from them? SUN SUN Mark Tully talks to church historian Professor Diarmaid SUN MacCulloch about his approach to these 'stories' of the SUN Nativity. Different approaches to the Christmas tales are SUN found in the writing of novelist Elizabeth Goudge, poets SUN Moira Andrew and T.S.Eliot and the Syrian mystic Deacon SUN Ephrem and music is by Vaughan Williams, Kathy Mattea and SUN the African Gospel Choir. SUN SUN The readers are Derek Jacobi and Isla Blair. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00wnry5 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham is at a lab in Surrey which is developing a SUN cattle vaccine for Bovine TB. The disease is the most SUN serious animal health problem facing England, Wales and SUN Northern Ireland. Whilst the debate rages on about whether a SUN badger cull would reduce TB in cattle, scientists are SUN working on a vaccine which an independent report said would SUN be the best long term hope of solving the problem. Caz finds SUN out how Professor Glyn Hewinson and his team at the SUN Veterinary Laboratories Agency are trialling the BCG vaccine SUN on cattle. It's the jab which many of us were given as SUN teenagers, to protect against TB. The researchers have to SUN test whether the vaccine is working by trying to infect SUN cattle with TB and Caz visits the high security facility SUN where this takes place. Professor Hewinson tells her that SUN developing a cattle vaccine is a lengthy and costly process, SUN but breakthroughs are being made. He believes, if all goes SUN to plan, a vaccine could be licensed in the UK in 2012. Then SUN the long process of convincing the EU to lift a ban on SUN cattle vaccination for TB will begin in earnest. Caz also SUN finds out about VLA research which shows that cattle can SUN transmit TB to each other at an earlier stage in the disease SUN than had been previously thought. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00wnrn1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00wnrn3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00wnry7 (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00wnry9 (Listen) SUN Fight for Sight SUN SUN Phyllida Law presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Fight for Sight. SUN SUN Donations to Fight for Sight should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Fight SUN for Sight. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide Fight for Sight with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1111438. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00wnrn5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00wnrn7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00wnsql (Listen) SUN The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian SUN Church in Ireland, Dr Norman Hamilton, preaches at the last SUN of our Advent services which visits 4 cities across the SUN nations of the United Kingdom exploring the meaning of the SUN incarnation in daily city life. From the Chapel of Unity, SUN Methodist College, Belfast, with the Chapel Choir, directed SUN by Ruth McCartney. Led by The Revd. David Neilands, the SUN College Chaplain. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00wlj74 (Listen) SUN A Time for Empathy SUN SUN Joan Bakewell contrasts our empathy for fictional characters SUN on the stage and on screen with a reported growing lack of SUN sympathy for real people in need. When the prevailing SUN culture is one of self-regard and narcissism the quiet work SUN of charities deserves all the more applause. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00wnsqn (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00wnsqq (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling 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 Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00wntyl (Listen) SUN Nick Park SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick SUN Park. SUN SUN His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the SUN silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with SUN notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in SUN the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once SUN occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially SUN British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the SUN rain holds off - but their appeal is international. SUN SUN The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and SUN tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life SUN too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing SUN is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little SUN house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, SUN I'm not after yachts or things like that." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00wld4w (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that rewards those SUN who can talk the hind leg off a donkey. SUN SUN The panellists on today's show are Paul Merton, Sheila SUN Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. SUN SUN The aim of the game is to speak on a given subject for sixty SUN seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task SUN much harder than it sounds... SUN SUN Today's show comes from the British Library where the show SUN is a guest of the Evolving English exhibition. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00wntyn (Listen) SUN Alternative Christmas Cakes SUN SUN Panettone and chocolate logs - Sheila Dillon embraces two of SUN the cakes replacing our "traditional" Christmas cakes on our SUN Christmas tables, and ponders what what we mean by SUN traditional when it comes to Christmas cakes. SUN SUN Panettone is a traditional Italian Christmas cake. John SUN Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College SUN London and author of "Delizia! A History of the Italians and SUN their Food" traces the history of this highly industrialised SUN product from its Milanese origins, and the manufacturing of SUN this "tradition". Reporter Dany Mitzman visits the Corsini SUN Biscotti panettone factory in Tuscany where panettone is SUN made in the traditional artisan style, using a mother yeast, SUN slow proving, and cooling tipped upside down to allow the SUN dome shape to set naturally, without additives. Their SUN panettone is sold in through the Sainsbury's Taste the SUN Difference range. But you can make your own - Fred Manson SUN returned from an Andrew Whitley breadmaking course clutching SUN a panettone recipe, and has been making his own ever since. SUN SUN As a teenager Sheila Dillon's Christmas culinary rebellion SUN took the form of baking a bouche de noel, the buttercream SUN sculpted chocolate log believed to originate in France, and SUN still produced by the hundred in smart patisseries today. SUN Yule logs are now a popular range for both patiseries and SUN supermarkets in the UK. This year's BBC Radio 4 Food and SUN Farming Award Food Champion, baker Richard Bertinet, baked SUN Sheila his own take on the classic cake, adorned with gold SUN leaf and powdered cabernet grape, and food historian Ivan SUN Day tells its history in the UK. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00wnrn9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00wntyq (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Young, Muslim and Black b00wntys (Listen) SUN More than two thirds of Muslims in Britain are of South SUN Asian ancestry, leading many to believe that Islam is the SUN preserve of these communities. Yet in the last 2 decades, SUN Islam has arguably become the fastest growing religion among SUN Black people in Britain and at a time when the UK appears SUN more disunited over faith, ethnicity and identity than ever SUN before. SUN SUN In this programme the writer and presenter, Dotun Adebayo, SUN explores this phenomenon and asks why is Islam providing SUN such an attractive religious alternative to Christianity for SUN Black Britons seeking spiritual answers? What do they get SUN from Islam that they can't get from their original faith? SUN Is this just a rebellion against the family and society? SUN SUN He will talk to young black people about the reasons for SUN their conversion and to Bishop Joe Aldred from the Black SUN Churches who explains where he thinks the Black Majority SUN Churches are going wrong and why he thinks they need to SUN smarten up and get their message across to young people so SUN they are comfortable with church. SUN SUN Conversion to Islam also has a darker side in the shape of SUN terrorism. As Dotun Adebayo says "Ever since the penny SUN dropped that the Richard Reid, the shoebomber was The SUN Richard Reid I had lived with when he was a teenager in SUN south London, I have been haunted with the question of SUN whether I could have done anything to dissuade my petty SUN thieving 'good lad at heart' flatmate from going down the SUN route of militant Islam. Twenty years later I have to ask SUN is being "young muslim and black" still a "lovely, precious SUN dream". SUN SUN Producer: Carmel Lonergan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wlh7s (Listen) SUN Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society, Essex SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson are SUN guests of the Purleigh & District Gardeners' Society in SUN Essex. Peter Gibbs is the chairman. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson and Anne Swithinbank are at RHS Hyde Hall, SUN taking an alternative approach to winter pruning. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Star Jelly Mystery b00hl8n6 (Listen) SUN The identity of mystery jelly found across the British SUN countryside and beyond has scientists and outdoor SUN enthusiasts stumped. Could it be alien poo, seagull puke, SUN nappy goo or remnants of a meteorite shower? Euan McIlwraith SUN joins in debate on the origins of 'star jelly'. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00wnyd1 (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Caligula SUN SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' entertaining SUN histories of Imperial Rome. SUN SUN When the Emperor Tiberius dies, the young and popular SUN Caligula succeeds his Uncle. Claudius will be the first to SUN learn his secret. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SUN Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SUN Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SUN Drusilla ..... Deeivya Meir SUN Macro ..... Tony Bell SUN Agrippinilla ..... Claire Harry SUN Thrasyllus ..... Sean Baker SUN Doctor ..... Adeel Akhtar SUN Gaoler ..... Iain Batchelor SUN Senator ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00wnygw (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup picks her personal highlights from a year SUN in the Open Book studio, novelist Rose Tremain discusses the SUN literary and dramatic potential bound up in sibling rivalry SUN and new writer Sunjeev Sahota talks about his novel Ours Are SUN The Streets. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wnygy (Listen) SUN Series 11, The Gate of the Year SUN SUN The Gate of the Year: Peggy Reynolds hears the story behind SUN the poem King George VI quoted in his first Christmas SUN broadcast on 25th December 1939, written by the unknown SUN Minnie Louise Haskins. It takes her from an unassuming SUN suburb of Bristol to Sandringham, via the correspondence SUN pages of The Times and the hand of Queen Elizabeth the Queen SUN Mother, and it has popped up at the opening of two world SUN wars and on countless teatowels, Internet sites and books of SUN inspirational verse. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 Inside the IMF b00wldvt (Listen) SUN In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has SUN come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts to fix SUN the global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to SUN fix the global economy as well. But what do the staff inside SUN this institution in Washington really think about their SUN work? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, SUN Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to find SUN out. SUN SUN Producer: Neil Koenig. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00wnp9q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wnrnc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00wnrnf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wnrnh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00wnyh0 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Producer: Jane Worsley. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00wnyhj (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00wnyjb (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 b00jxh0z (Listen) SUN Red Herrings, Mangia, Mangia, Ti Fa Bene! SUN SUN Short story by acclaimed crime writer Donna Leon. SUN Read by Greta Scacchi. SUN SUN A dark tale that warns against over-indulgence... An SUN attentive Italian housewife prepares a mouth-watering meal SUN to beguile her taciturn husband. The title translates as SUN "Eat! Eat! It's Good for You". SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00wlh2t (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team offer another SUN numbers-eye view of the news. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00wlh84 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on SUN the lives of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 The Report b00wlgq4 (Listen) SUN Ireland's Toxic Tiger SUN SUN How much will British taxpayers suffer from the fallout in SUN Ireland? British banks such as RBS and Lloyds have large SUN debts in the Republic, and are making decisions about which SUN to call in, threatening more pain for local communities. SUN Morland Sanders hears protests from small contractors in SUN Donegal where Ulster Bank want to sell off a prestige SUN residential development at rock bottom prices. This amid SUN questions about the part British institutions actually SUN played in fuelling the property market bubble. SUN SUN As the Irish government deals with the "toxic loans" of the SUN Republic's banks, it's being estimated that 15% of them are SUN in the UK. We explore how this will affect the businesses SUN reliant on that borrowed money, and what will happen to SUN those trophy assets such as Claridges, now 'owned' by the SUN Republic's new holder of its toxic debts, NAMA. SUN SUN The Chancellor, George Osborne may have said the £3.2bn loan SUN to Ireland was to support a friend in need, and protect SUN British exports, but we report on the importance to British SUN banks and British businesses of an economic recovery in SUN Ireland. SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00wlgt1 (Listen) SUN Euro on the Rocks? SUN SUN EURO ON THE ROCKS? SUN SUN Euroland slides into big trouble as the crisis spreads from SUN one country to another. In this change to the advertised SUN programme, Peter Day asks a panel of experts what's SUN happening and why it matters. SUN SUN Producers: Caroline Bayley and Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:56 Radio 4 Appeal b00wnry9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00wnrnk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00wnyk5 (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 b00wnykp (Listen) SUN Episode 32 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 Andrew Pierce takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00wlh9k (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Peter Weir, the director of Witness SUN and The Truman Show, about his new drama, The Way Back SUN SUN The directors of Catfish, one of the big hits of the SUN Sundance Film Festival, discuss their documentary about an SUN on-line romance that takes a turn for the surreal. SUN SUN Nikki Bedi meets the members of a community who saved their SUN cinema from closure in Prestatyn and learns the secrets of SUN their success SUN SUN Writer Andrew Collins considers the influence of video games SUN on modern movies and asks if they really have taken cinema SUN to the next level. SUN SUN Producer Stephen Hughes. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00wnrw8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 DECEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00wnym7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00wlg3c (Listen) MON 'Over by Christmas' - Race, Sport and Politics MON MON When Jack Johnson became heavy-weight champion of the world MON and then knocked out the 'Great White Hope' Jim Jeffries in MON 1910, riots and celebrations broke out throughout the United MON States. Black people had a champion who stood as the finest MON man in the world, and many white people saw that as an image MON which threatened their supremacy. In sporting terms the MON image of the black athlete was forged, a hyper-masculine MON individual characterised by aggression and defined by MON physicality. Laurie is joined by Ben Carrington, author of MON Race, Sport and Politics, and the sociologist Brett St Louis MON to discuss the complex history of that stereotype. An image MON which has been both to the benefit and also to the great MON detriment of black people. MON Also on the programme, Stuart Hallifax discusses why it was MON that people said that the First World War would be over by MON Christmas and whether they truly believed it. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00wnrv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wnym9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wnymc (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wnymf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00wnymh (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wnzwg (Listen) MON With The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00wnzwj (Listen) MON A Lincolnshire vegetable importer talks about how snow and MON severe weather conditions have had a disastrous effect on MON his business coming up to Christmas. MON MON Beer production is the largest sector of the British drinks MON industry. We hear from a brewer who uses traditional fuggles MON and goldings hops, and the Herefordshire farmer who grows MON them. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00wnymk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00wp010 (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 b00wp012 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the sculptor Anthony Caro about the MON development of modern British sculpture. Caro once worked MON out of a small garage at home, creating his growing metal MON structures, and it's the artist's studio that interests the MON art critic, Michael Peppiatt. He's attempting to capture the MON unique atmosphere of the tiny ramshackle studio behind MON Montparnasse where Alberto Giacometti lived and worked for MON nearly 40 years. For the last decade Sir Mark Jones has MON worked out of one of the grandest buildings in London, the MON Victoria and Albert Museum. As he prepares to step down next MON year, he talks about the continuing relevance of a museum MON that showcases objects and design. While the V+A has MON regularly exhibited works of fashion, several haute couture MON shops now pretend to be art galleries, and the writer, MON Justine Picardie asks how far fashion can be considered art. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00wp35s (Listen) MON Finishing the Hat, Episode 1 MON MON To mark his 80th birthday year, musical theatre legend MON Stephen Sondheim appraises his long career and dissects his MON own lyrics from West Side Story to Sweeney Todd. MON MON In today's episode, we hear how his mentor, Oscar MON Hammerstein, influenced the early career of the budding MON composer and lyricist, and how he came to collaborate with MON Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story. MON MON Additional readings by Juliet Stevenson MON MON Produced by Emma Harding. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wp36k (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and MON entertaining women with news, views and interviews of MON topical interest. MON MON Christmas traditions and rituals MON MON What special traditions do you have for the festive season? MON Have you maintained family rituals passed down from MON generation to generation - or made your own new ones? Jane MON will be joined by columnist Lucy Mangan and writer Christina MON Hardyment to hear your stories in our festive phone-in. MON MON You can call us from 9am on Monday on 03700 100 444 MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wp4x6 (Listen) MON The Art of Deception, series 2, Episode 1 MON MON by Philip Palmer. MON MON Two years after faking his own death, notorious art forger MON and conman Daniel Ballantyne re-emerges to resume his cat MON and mouse game with biographer Jessica Brown. But who is MON chasing who? MON MON Daniel Ballantyne ..... David Schofield MON Jessica Brown ..... Hattie Morahan MON Ben ..... Matt Addis MON Andrew Jarrold ..... Harry Myers MON Moisha Perez ..... Stephen Greif MON Lisa ..... Pandora Colin MON MON Directed by Toby Swift MON MON 11:00 The Teetotaller's Guide to Boozing b00wp55d (Listen) MON Safraz Manzoor is teetotal, During his time at Manchester MON University and in his professional life he has got used to MON being on the edge of things as a non-drinker in the UK. In MON this feature he looks at the reliance on booze in the UK and MON asks, 'How British can you be if you don't drink?' MON With more and more people choosing to abstain this may be a MON changing situation, but with Christmas parties looming, MON alcohol still has a major role to play in both leisure and MON business. MON Sarfraz Manzoor on the highs and lows of booze in Britain, MON and how to get by without it. MON MON 11:30 Jeeves in Manhattan b00wr6qm (Listen) MON Martin Jarvis performs 'The Artistic Career of Corky', the MON first of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated 'New York' MON stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet MON Jeeves. MON MON Recorded in front of a live audience - a packed house at the MON Everyman Theatre - it was a highlight of this year's MON Cheltenham Festival of Literature. In this one-man tour de MON force, as well as the characters of Jeeves and Wooster, MON Jarvis also portrays spineless American artist Corky, MON choleric Manhattan millionaire Alexander Worple and winsome MON chorus girl Muriel Singer. The laughs abound! MON MON Wodehouse wrote these sparkling stories in 1925 during the MON period when he was enjoying success in Manhattan as a lyric MON writer for American musicals. The tales provide a MON brilliantly humorous perspective for Jeeves and Bertie MON Wooster on how to deal with eccentric Americans, plus how to MON cope with the Brits abroad. MON MON In 2007, Jarvis's previous one-man Wodehouse at the Festival MON received outstanding reviews. The Times wrote: "Outshining MON all was Martin Jarvis in the funniest performance of the MON year... an astonishing one-man tour-de-force... Jarvis MON switched unerringly from one character to the next, but it MON was more than that. He caught the essence of Wodehouse's MON writing in a way I thought only possible through reading." MON Martin Jarvis received a Theatre World Award for his MON performance as Jeeves in 'By Jeeves' on Broadway. MON MON Producer/Director: Pete Atkin MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00wp55v (Listen) MON What protection is there for consumers who rely on heating MON oil to heat their homes? The industry isn't regulated at the MON moment - we'll be asking if it should be. And we'll ask the MON Federation of Petroleum Suppliers why prices have shot up so MON quickly at a time of cold weather and high demand. MON MON And knitted patterned jumpers are back in vogue. Many are MON based on the traditional patterns which originate on Fair MON Isle. Producers of the original jumpers want to licence the MON name so they benefit if other fashion stores sell similar MON products described as 'Fair Isle'. But can you copyright MON fashion designs? MON MON And we'll take a look at what's been happening in the MON housing market in the last few months. With house prices MON falling, rents rising, and mortgage finance still thin on MON the ground. What do our experts predict for the housing MON market in 2011? MON MON 12:57 Weather b00wnymm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00wp564 (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00wp5h6 (Listen) MON (9/17) Four more contestants join questionmaster Russell MON Davies at London's BBC Radio Theatre, for the latest heat in MON the general knowledge quiz. This week's quartet hail from MON Pevensey in East Sussex, High Wycombe, Cheltenham and the MON Rhondda. One of them will win a place in the series MON semi-finals in the new year. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00wnyhj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00wp5qn (Listen) MON Series 3, Pitiless Storm MON MON By Nick Warburton. Comedy drama starring Trevor Peacock as MON inspirational chef Warwick Hedges . MON Warwick is in buoyant mood, confident of soon-to-be-realised MON wealth. He promises lavish gifts for all this Christmas. MON Which is unsettling. It means he's up to something. MON MON Warwick Hedges...Trevor Peacock MON Jack...Sam Dale MON Marcia...Kate Buffery MON Samuel...John Rowe MON Zofia...Helen Longworth MON Lady Geraldine...Christine Kavanagh MON Doorman...Tony Bell MON MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00x2xfp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Bus Pass Road Trips b00wp71b (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Dominic Arkwright meets the senior citizens who have used MON their bus passes to take to the high road. MON MON Parishioners of St. Edburgs Church, Bicester, wanted a novel MON way to support their 900-year-old church and raise funds for MON a much-needed £1m refurbishment. With very little MON experience of adventuring far by bus, they set out to travel MON from Canterbury to York, staying with fellow christians MON along the way. It was a journey that would change their MON views on bus travel and on the great British countryside. MON As one pilgrim puts it; " This week has been one of the most MON memorable, humbling and happy weeks of my life. God was MON certainly looking down on us.". MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00wntyn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00wp7tl (Listen) MON Philanthropy MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which MON guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives MON 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, Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether MON faith inspires philanthropy and asks if greater personal MON wealth comes with greater responsibility to help others, MON less fortunate. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00wp7tn (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wnymp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Les Kelly's Heroes b00wp7tq (Listen) MON In this one-off special, host Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) gives MON a little tinselly attention to the unsung heroes who make MON Britain great. Les is his usual opinionated, sincere, stupid MON self. The guests are mostly either mad, bad or tragic. This MON is the show that captures the 'we're in this together' MON culture, adds a bit of 'the big society' and some MON Seventies-style schmaltz. The 'real people' on the show MON include a campanologist who plays Away In A Manger with only MON one bell, a man campaigning for guide dogs for sighted MON people, and a lollipop lady with OCD. MON MON also featuring: MON Dave Lamb MON Vicki Pepperdine MON Julian Dutton MON Laurence Howarth MON MON Written by Bill Dare with Julian Dutton. MON Produced by Bill Dare. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00wp7ts (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00wp874 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wp4x6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Freudian Slippage b00wp8hz (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON David Aaronovitch explores the influence of the founder of MON psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud on British society. In the MON mid-twentieth century, Freud's idea of the unconscious had MON an impact well beyond the privacy of the psychoanalyst's MON consulting room. But, David asks, has this influence slipped MON away? MON MON PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00wlgcc (Listen) MON The Two Faces of Bahrain MON MON Bahrain projects itself towards the world as an Arab state MON that is open to investment, progressive about change and MON moving confidently toward democracy. But there is another MON Bahrain where dissent is suppressed and critics jailed. It MON is a country where allegations are rife that political MON prisoners are routinely tortured. Bill Law investigates both MON sides of the Bahrain story and asks what lies behind the MON apparently heavy-handed repression of those who criticize MON the ruling al Khalifa family MON Producer: Caroline Pare. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00wlgmp (Listen) MON 2010 - year of disasters. Floods, wild fires, volcanoes, MON earthquakes, and a record breaking oil spill. Material World MON has time and again been reporting on some of the disasters MON that have struck over the year. And earth scientists gather MON at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San MON Francisco to review their data from each event, Quentin MON Cooper asks how science helped, and what the lessons are for MON the future. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Science and Disasters MON MON Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption by Marco Fulle MON MON Two leading UK researchers – Met Office Chief Scientist MON Julia Slingo and Bristol volcanologist Stephen Sparks – are MON among the keynote speakers at the American Geophysical Union MON Fall Meeting, lecturing on the role of scientists in MON preparing for and reacting to disasters. Together, they were MON deeply involved in the UK response to the Icelandic volcano, MON Eyjafjallajökull. MON MON Deepwater Horizon MON MON The 20 April explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig MON led to the worst oil spill and led to a monumental effort MON both to seal the leak, and to track and monitor the MON pollution. Ocean pollution expert CJ Beegle-Krause was MON quickly hired by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric MON Administration to forecast day by the movement of the oil MON slicks in the Gulf of Mexico, while marine chemist David MON Valentine was among those who went out to sea to monitor MON their effects. MON MON Haiti Earthquake MON MON The earthquake that struck Port au Prince was one of the MON deadliest in history. Although it was not powerful, the MON Haitian fault ruptured close to the surface and close to one MON of the poorest cities on the planet. And researchers believe MON there are still pent up geological stresses in the rocks MON beneath Port au Prince. Susan Hough was sent to Haiti to try MON and understand the events of 12 January, and to help the MON city strengthen itself against a repeat. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00wp012 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00wnymr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00wp8pg (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 b00wp8pj (Listen) MON Jamaica Inn, Episode 1 MON MON Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON MON Tamsin Greig reads episode 1 of Daphne Du Maurier's dark and MON intriguing gothic tale. MON MON Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad MON journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach MON Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the MON coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a MON dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from MON her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. MON MON Producer: Alison Crawford. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00wlgjc (Listen) MON "I don't know" - three little words so hard to say nowadays. MON Doubt and uncertainty are out, confident assertions are in. MON Opinions, even received ones, are the order of the day. The MON temptation is always to bluff our way with some kind of MON response, however little we know about the subject in hand. MON Phil Hammond is a doctor and Kathy Sykes is a science MON professor. John Harris is a journalist whose job is to MON express opinions. Are they able simply to admit: "I don't MON know"? Dominic Arkwright presides over new writing and MON straight-to-the-point discussion. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wp8q7 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 DECEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00wp9pl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00wp35s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wp9pn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wp9pq (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wp9ps (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00wp9pv (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wp9s3 (Listen) TUE With the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00wp9sc (Listen) TUE Rural news. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00wp9sh (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 b00wp9sr (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Suzanne Hook. Born in Saigon at the TUE height of the Vietnam War, she was found under a bush and TUE taken to an orphanage. Suzanne believes her father to be a TUE black American GI, her mother Vietnamese. Brought to Britain TUE and adopted when she was three, she went on to marry and TUE became a successful businesswoman. But a holiday to Vietnam TUE in 2006 changed everything. Suzanne Hook decided to sell all TUE her possessions in the United Kingdom and found an orphanage TUE in the country of her birth. TUE TUE 09:30 I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Into Here b00wp9sy (Listen) TUE Episode 5 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 In the last of the series, Roger takes a journey along the TUE Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide. Along the way TUE he meets the British migrants who have no fear of snakes or TUE spiders and have made the Australian outback their home. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00wv1gc (Listen) TUE Finishing the Hat, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode, Sondheim recounts his experience of TUE writing the lyrics for Gypsy - and of working with the TUE indomitable Ethel Merman. TUE TUE Additional readings by Juliet Stevenson TUE TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wp9tb (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 b00wv6l2 (Listen) TUE The Art of Deception, series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Philip Palmer TUE TUE Jessica nears the end of her search for the supposedly dead TUE art forger Daniel Ballantyne. TUE TUE Daniel Ballantyne ..... David Schofield TUE Jessica Brown ..... Hattie Morahan TUE Stefan Hunt ..... Stephen Greif TUE Lisa ..... Pandora Colin TUE Other parts played by Kenneth Collard, Jude Akuwudike and TUE Sally Orrock. TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00wqb54 (Listen) TUE Episode 34 TUE TUE 34/40 In our special series about "Ladybird Book" Britain, TUE it's summer. What has changed in the 50 years since the TUE first publication of the book? Chris Sperring is out and TUE about finding out for himself and discovers some downs but TUE also some ups. He's very struck by a picture in the book TUE that portrays Cuckoo's being common place and alighting on TUE the washing lines in gardens. Cuckoo's are in serious TUE decline and for largely unkown reasons. But Chris also notes TUE that in his book, written in 1959, it says Sedge Warblers TUE are a rare migrant visitor - as you'll hear, they might not TUE be as numerous as they should be, but most reedbeds of TUE reasonable size and well vegetated ditches, have several TUE pairs - many more than 50 years ago. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Kirsty Henderson TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth b00wqb56 (Listen) TUE 'The Day of the Triffids' is one of the great post war TUE British novels. It was the first big success for its author TUE John Wyndham - and it came late. He was in his 40s when it TUE was published. He went on to write a series of successful TUE books including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The TUE Midwich Cuckoos. TUE TUE His novels are set in middle class British suburbia - and TUE have been accused of being 'cosy catastrophes', but at their TUE heart is a streak of darkness. Wyndham was interested in how TUE ordinary people would cope when extraordinary, and TUE terrifying things happened to them. TUE TUE His greatest successes came in the 1950s and his TUE preoccupations were very much post war and cold war; nuclear TUE annihilation, social breakdown and anxieties over communism. TUE He was also prescient; he touches on climate change, TUE genetically modified crops and species extinction. He was TUE fascinated by evolution; would human beings one day be TUE supplanted by something superior? He was also intriguing TUE when it came to his heroines - they were resourceful, TUE sensible and clever. An occasional tear might be shed, but TUE the Wyndham girl was soon decapitating triffids or felling TUE religious fanatics. TUE TUE In 'No Place Like Earth' Dan Rebellato examines the TUE importance and influence of John Wyndham on the history of TUE British and American science fiction. The programme is TUE produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00wqb58 (Listen) TUE Consumer news. An opportunity to contribute your views to TUE the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00wp9px (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00wqb5b (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Billy Preston: That's the Way God TUE Planned It b00wqb5d (Listen) TUE Billy Preston was a musical genius. A child prodigy, he was TUE first seen as a small boy performing live on national TV TUE with Nat King Cole. He was a star of the Hammond Organ, an TUE accomplished dancer and a talented singer-songwriter. He is TUE the only person 'officially' recognised as the fifth Beatle, TUE although that title would turn out to be more of a millstone TUE than a milestone. By the 1970s he'd written three number one TUE singles, toured and recorded with the Rolling Stones and TUE collaborated with some of the biggest names in pop: Bob TUE Dylan, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Eric Clapton, Sly Stone, TUE the Jackson 5 and Aretha Franklin to name just a few. His TUE musical career was out of this world but his personal life TUE was a disaster. He spent much of his life battling with TUE drugs and even ended up in jail. TUE Fellow keyboard player and fan Rick Wakeman explores his TUE incredible story. With contributions from the likes of Jools TUE Holland, Bill Wyman, Pete Townshend and many more, this TUE documentary also reveals - for the first time - the secret TUE he spent his life suppressing. A secret his former manager TUE Joyce Moore believes fuelled his personal problems. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00wp7ts (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wqbb8 (Listen) TUE What Do You Know? TUE TUE When Natasha Lonsdale, loving mother and respected TUE businesswoman goes missing, neither her husband, her family TUE or even her lover have any idea why. Natasha it appears had TUE a secret life; a life which is now starting to unfold in TUE both the newspapers and on the worldwide web with TUE devastating results. Do any of us ever really know who any TUE one else is - even after 20 years of marriage? Mark TUE Lawson's, 'What do you Know?', suggests not. TUE TUE DCI Parsons - Roger Allam TUE Natasha Lonsdale - Rebecca Saire TUE Barbara - Margot Leicester TUE Desmond - Andrew Sachs TUE Dan - John McAndrew TUE Nick - Richard Dormer TUE Peter - Nick Dunning TUE TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00wqbbq (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 b00ljyw4 (Listen) TUE The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake on the Riviera TUE TUE Written by J.B. Morton. TUE TUE In 1924 the writer J.B. Morton adopted the name TUE 'Beachcomber' and began a humorous column in the Daily TUE Express which was to run for over 50 years. Reading about TUE the odd lives of Beachcomber's characters - whether they TUE were nonsensical, puritanical, pompous or simply insane - TUE became part of the ritual of breakfast throughout the land. TUE TUE A typical example of Beachcomber's gift for creating what TUE G.K. Chesterton described as "a huge thunderous wind of TUE elemental and essential laughter," is Mr Thake. TUE TUE Out of print since the 1930s, The Adventures of Mr Thake is TUE a collection of letters to Beachcomber, sent home from the TUE calamitous travels abroad of a gentleman of considerably TUE more leisure than sense. Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake TUE is, to be blunt, an upper-class twit. TUE TUE Described affectionately as "a caricature of his nation" TUE here we have the fascinating spectacle of a Wooster with no TUE Jeeves to rescue him. Whether he is losing his heart to TUE young gold diggers on board the S.S. Lutetia while losing TUE his hat overboard and wondering whether to stop the ship, or TUE being fleeced in the nightclubs of Paris, Thake never quite TUE understands what is happening to him - or why... TUE TUE Reader: Leslie Phillips TUE TUE Producer/Abridger: Neil Cargill TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Bus Pass Road Trips b00wv757 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who've used their bus passes TUE for adventurous road trips. TUE TUE Today he meets Olwen Leebrook, the Welsh pensioner who set TUE out to visit all thirteen of the old Welsh counties by bus. TUE It was a journey that would open her eyes to the real beauty TUE of her native country. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00wqbdv (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen begins a new series by exploring the British TUE Library's first ever exhibition on the history of English. TUE The exhibition is called "Evolving English", and Michael's TUE guests include David Crystal, the author of the book of the TUE same name. Comics, adverts, text messages and trading TUE records have all been used by the British Library to chart TUE the development of English from a language spoken on a small TUE island to the global language we know today. The curators TUE explain how they chose the exhibits, including the earliest TUE surviving copy of Beowulf, the King James Bible, and the TUE poem "Essay to Miss Catharine Jay", which contains the TUE phrase "I wrote 2 U B 4", printed well over a hundred years TUE before the advent of text messaging. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00wqbjq (Listen) TUE Series 23, Samuel Beckett TUE TUE Business guru Sir Gerry Robinson was born in Ireland but TUE moved to England in his teens, and he chooses Samuel TUE Beckett, another Irishman who lived away for much of his TUE life - in Paris. Gerry, a late convert to Beckett's plays, TUE loves him because he's accepting of the human condition: TUE that we're all locked in this repetitive pattern. We don't TUE want to keep on doing the same thing over and over again, TUE but we do. Presenter Matthew Parris is also joined by Jim TUE Knowlson, who was a personal friend of Samuel Beckett for 19 TUE years, and is his authorised biographer. He reveals that TUE Beckett was far from the dour gloomy figure of popular TUE imagination, and was in fact very good company - as long as TUE you didn't interrupt him when he was watching the rugby on TUE the telly on a Saturday afternoon.. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00wqbjs (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wp9pz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b00wqbjv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Victoria Coren 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 Victoria Coren. TUE TUE Producer: Victoria Payne TUE A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00wqbjx (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00wqch0 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with the TUE Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wv6l2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Listen to the Word! b00wqcnd (Listen) TUE It is as modern as Marconi, as global as Coca-Cola, as TUE race-blind as Benetton and as troubling to authority as TUE Marxism once was. Pentecostalism is a religion that is, very TUE simply, beating modernity at its own game. The Richard TUE Dawkins of this world may think of religion as some TUE throwback to earlier times but Pentecostalism was invented TUE at the beginning of the twentieth century and is the very TUE model of a modern Christianity - disturbing not only to TUE hard-line atheists but even to the Catholic Church and the TUE Chinese Communist Party. TUE TUE Nearly one quarter of the 2 billion Christians in the world TUE are Pentecostals - and counting... This feature will explore TUE just what it is that has made Pentecostalism the TUE indispensable form of today's Christianity. TUE TUE Presenter Philip Dodd explores its extraordinary global TUE reach - from the backstreets of Yorkshire's Grimethorpe to TUE Korea's Seoul, home of the largest Pentecostal church in the TUE world, from Sao Paolo to Washington. He also explores its TUE love affair with modernity - not for nothing was it founded TUE in Los Angeles the same year Marconi experimented with a TUE wireless voice; not for nothing is the mobile phone how it TUE recruits and keeps its believers. TUE TUE The programme also highlights its challenge to the TUE rationalism of the Enlightenment through its loyalty to TUE people's experience of God, unmediated by either the TUE authority of the Word or the reason of secularism. Along TUE with Disney, Pentecostalism is a central part of the TUE contemporary 'experience economy'. TUE TUE Above all, this programme will show that, no less than radio TUE itself, Pentecostalism is committed to the absolute power of TUE the voice. TUE TUE Presenter: Philip Dodd TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00wqd02 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00wqd1w (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on the latest findings in TUE neuroscience and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00wp9sr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00wp9q1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00wqd1y (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 b00wv8g1 (Listen) TUE Jamaica Inn, Episode 2 TUE TUE Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE TUE Tamsin Greig reads episode 2 of Daphne Du Maurier's dark and TUE intriguing gothic tale. TUE TUE After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan has come to live TUE at Jamaica Inn with her Aunt Patience. She has discovered TUE her aunt much changed and living in terror of her vicious TUE husband, Joss Merlyn. Deciding she must stay for the sake of TUE her aunt, Mary is affected by the inn's brooding power and TUE unwillingly drawn into the dark deeds of Joss and his TUE accomplices. TUE TUE Producer: Alison Crawford. TUE TUE 23:00 The Phone b00wqd20 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE By Peter Jukes. TUE TUE A series of late night thrillers, each connected by a TUE mysterious mobile phone. When his daughter goes missing, TUE Matt must track her down by following the clues left on her TUE mobile phone. TUE TUE Matt . . . . . Ivan Kaye TUE Paula . . . . . Christine Kavanagh TUE Gerry . . . . . Sean Baker TUE Caitlin . . . . . Deeivya Meir TUE Raz . . . . . Adeel Ahktar TUE Jade . . . . . Leah Brotherhead. TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wqd22 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00wq9sd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00wv1gc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wq9sg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wq9sj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wq9sl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00wq9sn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wsqv1 (Listen) WED With the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00wsqv3 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00wsqv5 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00wsqv7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00wv1hb (Listen) WED Finishing the Hat, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, he discusses his first outing on WED Broadway with his own music - A Funny Thing Happened on the WED Way to the Forum - and the critical importance of getting WED the opening number just right. WED WED Additional readings by Juliet Stevenson WED WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ws7ms (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 b00wv6m5 (Listen) WED The Art of Deception, series 2, Episode 3 WED WED by Philip Palmer WED WED Jessica has agreed to be painted by Ballantyne. But what WED else does he have designs on? WED WED Daniel Ballantyne ..... David Schofield WED Jessica Brown ..... Hattie Morahan WED WED Directed by Toby Swift WED WED 11:00 Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa b00wsqv9 (Listen) WED Chris Ledgard tells the story of one small-scale WED international cricket exchange and explores its rich history: WED the tradition of overseas cricketers playing for amateur WED clubs in the backwaters of England. WED WED 'Australian wanted for Woodhall Spa Cricket Club'. Such WED adverts can be found on any number of English cricket club WED websites. All over England, small cricket clubs welcome WED foreign players for the summer eason, committing themselves WED to supporting the players - with work or accomodation - on WED the understanding that they'll bring a sparkle to the score WED sheet. WED WED This documentary follows one such exchange at Potterne WED cricket club in Wiltshire and weaves in its rich and WED fascinating history - which has seen some noble names WED playing in obscure places. WED WED Chris meets Zimbabwean cricketer Dylan Higgins, who's come WED to this quintessentially English village club direct from WED Harare. The team captain is Graham Gaiger, who runs the WED construction company that provides Dylan with a job. Will WED the incoming sporting hero meet the expectation of the club? WED And how do overseas players go down with the local girls? WED WED A fascinating, light-hearted observational documentary with WED a backbone of social history, on what happens when a new WED face is brought into the bosom of a tight band of sporting WED fanatics. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wsqvc (Listen) WED Series 6, Calendar Boys WED WED Arthur is informed by Malcolm that there is an emergency WED meeting to be held in order to discuss raising funds for the WED local Church Hall, which is in dire straits and requires WED important improvements to remain open. WED WED In true Arthur style he comes up with an idea or two to help WED the fund-raising process, hoping to involve as many of his WED friends in the process. WED WED With an idea finally put to the committee and inevitably WED agreed to, after Arthur's persuasive words, the 'stage is WED set' for a fund-raising project that will surely turn heads WED and raise Arthur's personal profile as well as the much WED needed funding for the Church... WED WED Cast: WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Man, Wilf, Policeman ...... Alastair Kerr WED Ref, Geoffrey, Child ..... Dave Mounfield WED Mother, Sally,Woman ..... Mel Giedroyc WED Malcolm ..... Terry Kilkelly WED WED Prodcuers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00wsqw2 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00wq9sq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00wsqxr (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00wsqxt (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00wqbjx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jm2nr (Listen) WED Shakespeare a la Carte WED WED One of the highlights of the 2008 Brighton Festival was WED turned into an Afternoon Play for BBC Radio 4. Shakespeare A WED La Carte took the public by storm when it offered audiences WED the chance to order up their favourite bits of Shakespeare, WED together with coffee and croissant. WED WED Peter Quince ..... Richard Hahlo WED Nick Bottom ..... Jonathan Cullen WED Frances Flute ...... Fiona Dunn WED Hermione ..... San Webber WED Crispin ......Richard Attlee WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00wsr2s (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ljyz1 (Listen) WED The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake in America WED WED Written by J.B. Morton. WED WED The hapless traveller sends news home to Beachcomber after WED losing his hat at Niagara Falls... WED WED Reader: Leslie Phillips WED WED Producer/Abridger: Neil Cargill WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Bus Pass Road Trips b00wv78z (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Dominic Arkwright meets senior citizens who have used their WED bus passes to take on adventurous road trips. WED WED Today he meets a man who set out to prove that the humble WED bus pass coule be used to travel the entire length of the WED country - for free. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00wr5mw (Listen) WED Class at Christmas WED WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00wqd1w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00wsr2v (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wq9ss (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Shappi Talk b00wr9q6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Divorce and the Single Mother WED WED Shappi Khorsandi uses her own personal experience by taking WED an acerbic look at what it's like to go through divorce and WED to become an unexpected single mother. She reveals the WED challenges and comic consequences of becoming divorced and WED what it's like raising a young child. WED WED Armed with this experience, Shappi also has a light-hearted WED chat with model and fellow single mother Jerry Hall, where WED they find time to compare fascinating notes! WED WED Australian comedian Celia Pacquola provides some additional WED laughs giving her perspective on the subject and there'll be WED a themed song from Duncan Oakley. WED WED Producer: Paul Russell WED An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00wqf96 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00wsr2z (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with 89-year-old WED designer Bill Gold, who created posters for films including WED Casablanca, The Sting, and more than 30 Clint Eastwood WED movies. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wv6m5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00wsr31 (Listen) WED Lord Bingham WED WED In the first of a new series of Unreliable Evidence, a WED leading member of the former Labour Government reveals how WED his party's post 9/11 anti-terrorism policies were 'morally WED undermined' by one of the greatest judges since the Second WED World War. WED WED Lord Bingham, who died earlier this year, had ruled that WED detention of foreign terror suspects without charge breached WED their human rights. And after retiring in 2008, the former WED senior Law Lord argued that Britain's invasion of Iraq in WED 2003 had contravened international law. WED WED Former Labour Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, joins Supreme WED Court Justices Lord Hope and Lady Hale, and legal academic WED Prof Philippe Sands QC to discuss Lord Bingham's impact on WED public life. WED WED In a remarkably frank contribution, Lord Falconer pays WED tribute to Lord Bingham's brilliance but reveals how his WED judgments, particularly over the detention of terrorist WED suspects in Belmarsh, 'morally undermined' the Government WED and forced it to adopt less tough measures. WED WED Lord Falconer also admits that he had been troubled by Lord WED Bingham's condemnation of the Government's decision to go to WED war against Iraq. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Blond on Britain b00wsr33 (Listen) WED The Church of England WED WED The leading political thinker, Phillip Blond, makes a WED powerful case for some of Britain's ancient institutions. In WED this authored piece, he turns his gaze on the Church of WED England. WED WED 21:00 Science vs The Stradivarius b00nf33g (Listen) WED Can modern technology identify the elusive components that WED give Stradivarius violins a unique voice? Analysts have WED submitted the master instruments to a battery of tests, from WED CT scans to burning original samples of varnish, but are WED they just chasing a myth? Professor Trevor Cox investigates. WED WED (Tasmin Little finishes the programme playing her WED Stradivarius.) WED WED Producer: Erika Wright. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00wsqv7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00wq9sv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00wsr35 (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 b00wv8hv (Listen) WED Jamaica Inn, Episode 3 WED WED Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED WED Tamsin Greig reads the third episode of Daphne Du Maurier's WED dark and intriguing gothic tale. WED WED Mary has discovered the truth about the clandestine WED activities at Jamaica Inn and why her aunt Patience lives in WED terror of her husband, Mary's Uncle Joss. In this episode WED Mary has an encounter with her Uncle's younger brother, Jem WED Merlyn and Squire Bassat pays an unexpected visit. WED WED Producer: Alison Crawford. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00ws7md (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 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 WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED 23:15 Afternoon Reading b00m8qc4 (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, The Hair of The Dead WED WED Written and read by Sarah Millican. WED WED Kitty does the hair of the dead. Just the front... A moving WED (and very funny) short story about a compassionate WED undertaker's assistant. 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. Still to WED come - at the same time over the next couple of Wednesdays - WED are stories by Jon Richardson and Susan Calman. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wsr37 (Listen) WED The latest events from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 DECEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00wq9sx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00wv1hb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wq9sz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wq9t1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wq9t3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00wq9t5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wqd7m (Listen) THU With the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00wqd82 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma THU Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00wqd8n (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00wqdc7 (Listen) THU The Industrial Revolution THU THU In the first of two programmes, Melvyn Bragg and his guests THU discuss the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid THU technological development which brought widespread social THU and intellectual change to Britain. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00wv1jw (Listen) THU Finishing the Hat, Episode 4 THU THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wqdc9 (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 b00wv6rk (Listen) THU The Art of Deception, series 2, Episode 4 THU THU by Philip Palmer. THU THU Ballantyne and Jessica arrive in London with the endgame THU approaching. Who will be the first to make a move? THU THU Daniel Ballantyne ..... David Schofield THU Jessica Brown ..... Hattie Morahan THU DC Morgan ..... Sally Orrock THU Gondolier / Waiter ..... Iain Batchelor THU THU Driected by Toby Swift THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00wqdcc (Listen) THU It is called "Laamb" or "La Lutte Sénégalaise". Originating THU in the countryside as a test of strength for farmers and THU fishermen, Senegalese wresting moved to the city with the THU migrants. It took on punching to become "La Lutte avec THU frappe". It involves special charms, singers, drummers and THU excited crowds, with the champions now earning huge amounts THU of money. In Crossing Continents David Goldblatt examines THU how wrestling has become Senegal's most popular sport, THU deposing even football. THU Producer: John Murphy. THU THU 11:30 Eagle: The Space Age Weekly b00wqdx6 (Listen) THU Sir Tim Rice explores the lasting appeal of British magazine THU Eagle and the impact of its flagship character Dan Dare. THU THU Eagle ran in two main incarnations between 1950 and 1994. THU Dan Dare, often referred to as "Biggles in space", is THU regarded in some circles as the greatest British science THU fiction hero of the 20th century THU THU In this feature we chart the influences behind the comic, THU and explore the life of its creator Marcus Morris, a THU fascinating man who began the publication because of his THU concern over 'horrific' US comics which presented THU 'disturbing' storylines which he felt 'corrupted British youth'. THU THU The programme reveals how Dan Dare was originally envisaged THU as a space chaplain before becoming the popular astronaut. THU It also examines the work of illustrator Frank Hampson who THU introduced technology years ahead of its time. Hampson knew THU the Space Age was on its way while serving in the Second THU World War and seeing the German VI rockets. He made the Dan THU Dare strips as realistic as possible by dressing his team in THU spacesuits and uniforms, basing the look of the fictional THU characters on his colleagues. THU THU We reveal how the stories had educational value and, along THU with Dan Dare, we look at other Eagle offerings including THU Shakespeare's plays and the Greek myths which ran as comic THU strips. THU THU Featuring contributions from author Philip Pullman, Sally THU Morris the daughter of Eagle Creator Marcus and Eagle THU Society member David Britton. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00wqf74 (Listen) THU With some High Street Shops registering temperatures as high THU as those in Jamaica - we get the latest research on the THU amount of energy they're wasting and find out how the THU pressure group Close The Doors is expanding its campaign THU across the UK to highlight the problem. THU THU And we catch up with how sporting preparations are THU progressing for the London Olympics.Can we look forward to a THU clutch of Gold Meals for Team GB in 2012 ? . THU THU 12:57 Weather b00wq9t7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00wqf8h (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00wqf8k (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson returns to Radio 4 with a sparkling new THU series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers THU answers to those intriguing questions of every day life, THU inspired by current events and popular culture. THU THU Now in its eighteenth series, QQ has become something of an THU institution on Radio 4 providing informed and ingenious THU answers to questions such as, How do you know when a volcano THU is extinct? When was the conventional heart icon first THU drawn? How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? What is a THU Siamese Blood Chit? THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU In this richly informative programme all manner of questions THU are looked into. Some recent enquiries that sparked THU particularly large responses included: What happened to all THU the wrought iron fencing that was collected during the THU Second World War? Is it possible to create one sound, which THU completely cancels out another sound? How was the direction THU of writing originally established? THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00wqf96 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wqfg9 (Listen) THU Devil in the Fog, Episode 1 THU THU Highwaymen, duels, swirling fogs, escaped convicts - part THU one of a thrilling two-part dramatisation of Leon Garfield's THU classic 18th C. mystery adventure. THU THU Dramatised by Martin Jameson THU THU Episode 1 of 2 THU THU Mr Treet ..... Tim McMullan THU George ..... Joe Dempsie THU Lady Dexter ..... Juliet Aubrey THU Sir John ..... Sam Dale THU Joseph ..... Sean Baker THU Dr Newby ..... Iain Batchelor THU Mrs Montague ..... Joanna Monro THU Captain Richard ..... Ben Crowe THU Hotspur ..... Raymond Karimi Taheri THU Jane ..... Lauren Mote THU Edward ..... Hugo Docking THU Rose ..... Fern Deacon THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00wmmcy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00wnry9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ljyz3 (Listen) THU The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake and the French Widow THU THU Written by J.B. Morton. THU THU Beachcomber receives word from Paris that the gregarious THU toff has lost his heart - and most of his valuables - to a THU bewitching femme fatale... THU THU Reader: Leslie Phillips THU THU Producer/Abridger: Neil Cargill THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Bus Pass Road Trips b00wv7cf (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Dominic Arkwright meets senior citizens who have used their THU bus passes to take on adventurous road trips. THU Today he meets a free-wheeling woman who makes it up as she THU goes along. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00wnygw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00wqfn4 (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 b00wqfn6 (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 b00wq9t9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00wqfn8 (Listen) THU Christmas Spirit THU THU The sitcom set in hell. Satan runs his infernal world with THU the assistance of his chief demon, Scumspawn. Amongst those THU he torments are Edith, a murdered historian, and Thomas, the THU most repellent human who ever lived. THU THU Full of jokes and broad comedy the show is also a THU philosophical study of the human condition, asking such THU questions as whether man is inherently good or evil. THU THU In this episode Satan decides to ban Christmas. THU THU Satan ..... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ..... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ..... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ..... Jimmy Mulville THU THU Written by Andy Hamilton THU Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00wqfnb (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00wqfnd (Listen) THU Mark Lawson unwraps interviews with the names behind the THU arts headlines of the year, including artist Christian THU Marclay, creator of the acclaimed video The Clock, which THU lasts for 24 hours. THU THU Producer Gavin Heard. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wv6rk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00wqfng (Listen) THU Investigation and insight into a current topical issue. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00wqfnj (Listen) THU Asia Bling THU THU New places are leaping to prominence in the pampered world THU of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the people behind THU the extraordinary hunger for luxury in Asia. THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00wqb54 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00wqdc7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00wq9tc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00wqfnl (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 b00wv8m3 (Listen) THU Jamaica Inn, Episode 4 THU THU Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU THU Tamsin Greig reads the fourth episode of Daphne Du Maurier's THU dark and intriguing gothic tale. Lost on the moor, Mary is THU helped by a local vicar who becomes her confidant. THU THU Producer: Alison Crawford. THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00wqfnn (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU The last episode in the series sees the noble band of THU Questers in a pub and within touching distance of getting THU their hands on the Sword of Asnagar. However, Lord Darkness THU still has a few tricks up his sleeve and he's not about to THU let the possibility of eternal dominion over Lower Earth THU slip through his fingers without pulling out all the stops. THU Will the Questers be strong enough to handle the immense THU power of the Sword. Or, as ever with these things, will they THU be tempted over to the Dark Side...? THU THU An all-star cast, featuring: THU THU Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", 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 (Goodness Gracious THU Me, The Kumars At No.42) THU THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 It Was A Dark and Stormy Night b00nyxvw (Listen) THU We may no longer be familiar with his novels, nor with his THU scientific theories, but thanks largely to the Snoopy THU Cartoons, the Goon show and sundry other borrowers and THU mockers, everyone can quote part of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's THU opening sentence: THU THU "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - THU except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a THU violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is THU in London that our scene lies), rattling along the THU housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the THU lamps that struggled against the darkness." THU THU San Jose University in California now run a very popular THU Dark and Stormy Night competition. The winner is charged THU with writing the opening sentence to the worst of all THU possible novels. THU THU But Ian Peacock has a sneaking feeling that there's more to THU Bulwer-Lytton than being simply the patron saint of THU Victorian gothic kitsch. He was hugely popular in his THU lifetime (Dickens and Mary Shelley were fans). Works like THU 'Pelham' and 'The Last Days of Pompeii' made him a literary THU star. And he was fascinated by scientific discovery, as well THU as the spookier side of life: his novel 'The Coming Race' is THU still dear to the science fiction community. It was in this THU book that he created Vril - electro-magnetic energy which THU fuels flying machines and automata, and even makes telepathy THU possible. Add Vril to bovine and you end up with the popular THU beef-tea energy drink Bovril - another Bulwer-Lytton legacy. THU He also coined the phrases 'the great unwashed' and 'the THU almighty dollar.' As if that isn't enough for one life, THU Bulwer-Lytton became an outrageous dandy, served as an MP, THU dabbled in the occult, and had a wife who publicly heckled THU and libelled him for decades. And Wagner was an enthusiast, THU using one of Lytton's novels as the basis for his early THU opera Rienzi. THU THU Bulwer-Lytton's stormy life, his writing and his popularity THU are Ian's focus in this programme. He visits Knebworth Hall, THU Lytton's home for many years and the source of some of his THU darker writing and he talks to Professor John Sutherland to THU judge his literary merits. Sutherland describes him as, THU amongst other things, 'the father of the English detective THU novel, science fiction, the fantasy novel and the thriller.' THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 DECEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00wq9tf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00wv1jw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wq9th (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wq9tk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wq9tm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00wq9tp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wqfy1 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00wqfy3 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00wqfy5 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00wntyl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00wv1lp (Listen) FRI Finishing the Hat, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, he talks about the inspiration behind FRI the music and lyrics of his 'love song to London' - Sweeney FRI Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. FRI FRI Additional readings by Juliet Stevenson FRI FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wqgmd (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 b00wv6sg (Listen) FRI The Art of Deception, series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Philip Palmer FRI FRI With Ballantyne under arrest, Jessica looks to have FRI delivered the final sting in the tale. FRI FRI Daniel Ballantyne ..... David Schofield FRI Jessica Brown ..... Hattie Morahan FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI 11:00 Merry Christmas Morris Minor! b00wqgmg (Listen) FRI Martin Wainwright sets off through the snow to give seasonal FRI best wishes to the owners of Britain's favourite mass FRI produced car - and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the FRI special edition Morris Minor Million - the rarest minor of FRI all. FRI FRI Highlight of the programme is a special rendition of 'Jingle FRI Bells' from a Morris Minor 'choir.' FRI FRI Martin has a soft spot for the little car - often described FRI as a large jelly mould with a speedometer sitting like a FRI clock on the dashboard, and orange fingers for indicators. FRI For it's time though, according to Stirling Moss, it was a FRI nippy little car. Martin meets a mechanic who 'soups' the FRI car up, owners like Dave Brown from 'The Mighty Boosh' and FRI the drivers who 'danced ' their Morris Minors at the end of FRI the Manchester Commonwealth Games . FRI FRI Finally, using the horn, various clunks and clicks from the FRI car door and boot, and a squeak from the chassis, he FRI conducts a unique version of ' Jingle Bells' by the Morris FRI Minor 'choir.' FRI FRI Producers: Janet Graves and Geoff Bird FRI A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00wqgmj (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. FRI FRI The paper gets a hot tip about a Lib-Dem MP. Could they be FRI about to unseat the coalition.. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI Julie Compton ..... Joanna Monro FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00wqgml (Listen) FRI "Bob's Granny Surprise" - In today's episode Bob's going FRI great guns with an internet bride until her grandmother FRI makes an appearance! The second part of our series on the FRI adaptation of "Delete This At Your Peril - the Bob Servant FRI E-mails" by Neil Forsyth. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00wq9tr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00wqgmn (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00wqgmq (Listen) FRI Tim Harford introduces "A More or Less Christmas Carol". FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00wqfnb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wqgms (Listen) FRI Devil in the Fog, Episode 2 FRI FRI What murky secrets lie at the heart of the fog? Who is the FRI principal? And who is the Devil? Part two of a dramatisation FRI of Leon Garfield's thrilling 18th C. mystery adventure. FRI FRI Dramatised by Martin Jameson FRI FRI Episode 2 of 2 FRI FRI George ..... Joe Dempsie FRI Mr Treet ..... Tim McMullan FRI Captain Richard ..... Ben Crowe FRI Sir John ..... Sam Dale FRI Joseph/The Stranger ..... Sean Baker FRI Mrs Montague ..... Joanna Monro FRI Lady Dexter ..... Juliet Aubrey FRI Bertram ..... George Sanderson FRI Aunt Dexter ..... Claire Harry FRI Hotspur ..... Raymond Karimi Taheri FRI Rose ..... Fern Deacon FRI Edward ..... Hugo Docking FRI Jane ..... Lauren Mote FRI Highwayman ..... Henry Devas FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 15:00 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols b00wqgmv (Listen) FRI The annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols live from the FRI chapel of King's College, Cambridge. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00wqgmx (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Brokeback Mountain star Jake FRI Gyllenhaal about his new comedy Love And Other Drugs. FRI FRI Produced by Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00wqgmz (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 b00wq9tt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wqgn1 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Dr Bruce FRI FRI 15 Minute Musical - a bite-size treat that melts in the ear FRI not in the hand. FRI FRI Bruce Forsyth tirelessly defends his Saturday Tea Time TV FRI dominance in Dr Bruce a 15 Minute Musical delicacy with FRI music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. FRI FRI Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson FRI Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick FRI Music by: Richie Webb FRI Music Production: Matt Katz FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00wqgn3 (Listen) FRI Series 32, Episode 6 FRI FRI The Now Show team take a satirical look back at the year FRI through the medium of pantomime. FRI FRI Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, with Mitch Benn, Marcus FRI Brigstocke, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00wqgq5 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00wqgrg (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson unwraps a further selection of interviews with FRI the names behind the year's arts headlines, including Julian FRI Fellowes, creator of the TV series Downton Abbey. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wv6sg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Marley Was Dead b00wqhlv (Listen) FRI By John Nicholson and Richard Katz. FRI FRI A Christmas Carol, but not as you've ever heard it before. FRI An all-star cast gather to bring Dickens' timeless classic FRI to life. FRI FRI Narrator . . . . . John Nicholson FRI Scrooge . . . . . Richard Katz FRI Cratchit . . . . . Javier Marzan FRI Farhana . . . . . Sirine Saba FRI Claire . . . . . Sophie Russell FRI Oliver . . . . . Joshua Swinney FRI Martha . . . . . Martha Katz FRI Jesse . . . . . Jesse Katz FRI FRI Produced by Steven Canny. FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI 21:00 With Great Pleasure b00wqhm5 (Listen) FRI James Naughtie FRI FRI Political journalist and Today programme presenter James FRI Naughtie shares with an audience some of the pieces of prose FRI and verse which have entertained and inspired him over the FRI years. The readers are Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson and FRI David Haig. FRI FRI Producer Christine Hall. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00wq9tw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00wqhmz (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 b00wv8ql (Listen) FRI Jamaica Inn, Episode 5 FRI FRI Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI FRI Tamsin Greig reads the fifth episode of Daphne Du Maurier's FRI dark and intriguing gothic tale. FRI FRI Mary has found a confidant in the vicar Francis Davey, but FRI he's advised her that any accusations against her uncle are FRI unlikely to hold up in court. In this episode Mary's FRI friendship with Jem deepens and when her uncle Joss embarks FRI on a drinking binge she learns the true nature of his FRI business. FRI FRI Producer: Alison Crawford. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00wqbjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Midnight Mass b00wqhq5 (Listen) FRI Live from The Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of St Chad FRI in Birmingham. The Most Rev'd Bernard Longley, Archbishop of FRI Birmingham, celebrates the First Mass of Christmas and gives FRI the homily. The Cathedral Singers, many of whom are staff FRI and students at the Birmingham Conservatoire sing carols and FRI Christmas hymns to welcome the birth of Christ under the FRI direction of the Director of Music David Saint, accompanied FRI by organist, Nigel Morris. FRI Producer: Clair Jaquiss. FRI
17 December, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 18/12/2010 - 24/12/2010
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