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

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