20 February, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for Week Beginning 21/02/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00hlxwz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00hn6s2 (Listen) SAT Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Hackney Brook SAT Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the SAT chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East SAT London and his own life there. SAT Iain attempts to locate the lost river of Hackney and in SAT so doing finds himself on the set of EastEnders, by way of SAT the Olympic construction site. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hm576 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hm578 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hm57b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00hm57d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hm57g (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00hm57j (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00hm57l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00hmbvq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00hmbvs (Listen) SAT Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped SAT Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' SAT distillery in Roseisle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today This Week b00hmbxd (Listen) SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00hmbxg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00hmbxj (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00hmby5 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Clare Balding is joined by DJ Bob SAT Harris. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00hmc50 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and SAT joys of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b00hmc52 (Listen) SAT Series 2, West Side Story SAT Series in which Paul Gambaccini explores what SAT Oscar-winning films can tell us about the American society SAT of the time. SAT Paul tells the story of how West Side Story won 10 Oscars SAT in 1961 and hears from producers, stars and musicians SAT involved in the film. It tackles tough issues through the SAT medium of the musical. With a fresh young cast that SAT included Natalie Wood in her first adult role, the movie SAT sizzles with colour, drama, the outstanding choreography SAT of Jerome Robbins, the music of Leonard Bernstein and the SAT lyrics of a young Stephen Sondheim. Behind the scenes, SAT however, there were arguments, dubbings and overuns, plus SAT issues over racial casting and 'blacking up'. Yet what SAT emerged from a tumultuous production was a trumph. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00hmc54 (Listen) SAT Series looking at politics beyond and outside the SAT Westminster parliament. Andrew Rawnsley discovers how SAT political parties are appealing to more mature voters and SAT asks if the Tories' apparent advantage with that section SAT of the electorate will persist. Among Britain's SAT population, older people are more likely to vote than SAT younger ones and are more inclined to favour the SAT Conservatives. But will the 1960s generation change this? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00hmc87 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00hmcw7 (Listen) SAT Repossession Rises SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. As the number of homes in the UK repossessed by SAT lenders rose last year by 54 percent, why aren't lenders SAT doing more to help struggling homeowners? Are you covered SAT by your credit card provider if you buy something online SAT that turns out to be faulty? And what should you do if you SAT have some savings but do not want to see them withering SAT away? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00hlspn (Listen) SAT Series 67, Episode 7 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with SAT panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Shappi Khorsandi SAT and Mark Steel. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00hmcw9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00hmcwc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00hlspq (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Manchester. SAT The panellists are secretary of state for culture, media SAT and sport Andy Burnham, Conservative Party chairman SAT Francis Maude, Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin and SAT author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00hmcwf (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 b00hmlhk (Listen) SAT The Lady in the Van SAT Adaptation of the autobiographical stage play by Alan SAT Bennett about his relationship with Miss Shepherd, an SAT eccentric old vagrant who took refuge in a van in his SAT front garden in 1971 and ended up staying there for over SAT 15 years. SAT Miss Shepherd ...... Maggie Smith SAT Alan Bennett ...... Adrian Scarborough SAT Alan Bennett 2 ...... Alan Bennett SAT Mam ...... Marcia Warren SAT Rufus ...... Matt Addis SAT Pauline ...... Janice Acquah SAT Underwood ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Social Worker ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Fairchild ...... Philip Fox SAT Doctors ...... Jonathan Tafler and Malcolm Tierney SAT Adapted and directed by Gordon House. SAT SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour b00hmll4 (Listen) SAT With Sheila McClennon. SAT Including: SAT Lindsay Duncan talks about the challenge of playing former SAT prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a new BBC production SAT that dramatises the demise of Britain's first female prime SAT minister. SAT Breast Cancer Screening: According to a recent letter in SAT The Times, many healthy women in this country are SAT receiving unnecessary surgery, chemotherapy and SAT radiotherapy. The 23 signatories say the government is not SAT providing women with all the facts when they go for breast SAT screening and cite research by Peter Gotzsche of the SAT Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen in support of their SAT claims. Jenni speak to Prof Stephen Duffy and Dr Paul SAT Paroah about the issue. SAT As Nick Clegg approaches fatherhood for the third time, he SAT argues that the recession could provide us with an SAT opportunity to rethink old assumptions about who cares for SAT children. SAT Paraplegic adventurer Karen Darke talks about her recent SAT expedition where she sea-kayaked to the San Rafael glacier SAT in Patagonia and about a new lecture tour she is to begin. SAT We examine a new report from the International Research SAT Unit at the Warwick Business School that has found male SAT actors have longer careers than their female counterparts SAT and ask why so few of the opinion writers in the national SAT newspapers are women. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00hmll6 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00hmn81 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs SAT and business leaders talk about the issues that matter to SAT their companies and their customers. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hmn83 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00hmn85 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hmn87 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00hmn89 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT comedy and music. He is joined by Nigel Planer, Simon SAT Yates and Adam Nicolson, and Jo Bunting finds out about SAT Karl Pilkington's unique take on the world. With music SAT from Woodpigeon and Soap and Skin and comedy from Keith SAT Farnan. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00hmn8c (Listen) SAT Stephen Sackur profiles MIA, the British-born Tamil singer SAT and artist who has become known for her fiery and SAT politicised style of songwriting and has been nominated SAT for an Oscar for the song she contributed to the SAT soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire. Stephen hears about MIA SAT from friends, family and fellow musicians and asks if, SAT amid the success and the hype, she is the real deal or SAT whether she may be just another world music flash in the SAT pan. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00hmn8f (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights, including Clint Eastwood's new movie Gran SAT Torino. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00hmn8h (Listen) SAT Agony SAT Jenni Murray presents a history of personal advice, from SAT the mythical, kindly agony aunts of women's magazines to SAT the public confessional of the radio phone-in. SAT The advice column began life in the women's magazines. It SAT was the role of the kindly, but mythical aunt to SAT re-enforce the social codes of the day, dispensing jaunty, SAT practical, nearly always morally serious advice to their SAT readers. SAT Radio brought a new outlet for those doling out advice. It SAT started in the buttoned-up 1940s with paternalistic SAT lectures from Charles Hill, the Radio Doctor (and later SAT chairman of BBC) on subjects such as tummy trouble and SAT melancholia and bloomed into the frank and sometimes SAT shocking phone-ins. SAT Today, the 'advice industry' has expanded from radio to SAT TV, the internet and advice columns in the newspapers, SAT where readers can offer their own comments. Throughout the SAT history of agony we have moved from social etiquette to SAT sexual etiquette in terms of the questions that are being SAT asked, and agony aunts have both reflected and influenced SAT trends. SAT The increasing candour of the programmes reflects a SAT parallel shift in British emotional engagement and the SAT rise of therapy culture, which, some would argue, is not SAT necessarily something to be celebrated. SAT The programme tracks these developments, exploring the SAT phenomenon of the agony aunt and examining how the way SAT advice is delivered has changed to suit the times. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00hhflv (Listen) SAT Scoop, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical SAT 1938 novel. SAT Hapless journalist William Boot is mistakenly sent to SAT report on a war in Africa. SAT William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Lord Copper ...... David Warner SAT Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson SAT Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo SAT Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey SAT Jakes ...... Paul Rider SAT Benito ...... Cyril Nri SAT Paleologue ...... Nyasha Hatendi SAT Moke ...... Inam Mirza SAT Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler SAT Julia ...... Fenella Woolgar SAT John Boot ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT Josephine ...... Imogen Front SAT Miss Holloway ...... Janice Acquah SAT Secretary ...... Manjeet Mann SAT Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny SAT Directed by Sally Avens. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00hmn9b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00hkprf (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk celebrates the 500th edition of the SAT programme with a debate held at the Royal Society of SAT Medicine in London. Melanie Philips, Michael Portillo, SAT Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses SAT Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark, Professor Alistair SAT McGrath, Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and SAT Culture at King's College and author of The Dawkins SAT Delusion, Peter Cave, chair of the British Humanist SAT Philosophers group and author of Humanism: a Beginner's SAT Guide, and Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris. SAT Michael and the panel consider the question. if you do not SAT believe in a set of divinely inspired moral rules, how do SAT you decide right from wrong in a world with complex and SAT competing interests? We live in an age where there is no SAT longer general agreement on religion and the time when our SAT society was united by a common set of values based on a SAT belief in God is long gone. Is it hopelessly optimistic to SAT believe that Man can create an ethical framework based on SAT a belief in individual responsibility and mutual respect, SAT or are those secular values a much a better guide than any SAT sectarian dogma or religious text? Can a post-religious SAT society be a moral society, and if so, whose morals will SAT we live by? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00hhths (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Bonnie Greer, Ken SAT Follett, John Simpson and Sir Richard Eyre. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00hhft7 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems by the late SAT Adrian Mitchell, chosen and read by some of his friends SAT and fellow poets. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00hmp1f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b007v09b (Listen) SUN Be Prepared, Man's Best Friend SUN Series of stories inspired by the famous motto of the SUN Scouting movement. SUN The dark story of a futuristic Britain in which dogs sniff SUN out terrorist threats. SUN By Des Dillon, read by Nick Underwood. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hmp1r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hmp1t (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hmp1w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00hmp6y (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00hmp70 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00hmn8c (Listen) SUN Stephen Sackur profiles MIA, the British-born Tamil singer SUN and artist who has become known for her fiery and SUN politicised style of songwriting and has been nominated SUN for an Oscar for the song she contributed to the SUN soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire. Stephen hears about MIA SUN from friends, family and fellow musicians and asks if, SUN amid the success and the hype, she is the real deal or SUN whether she may be just another world music flash in the SUN pan. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00hmp72 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00hmp74 (Listen) SUN The Road Taken SUN Mike Wooldridge explores what happens when we have to SUN choose between different paths in life. How are our lives SUN shaped by such decisions, and how are we changed by what SUN we say 'yes' to and what we turn away from? He talks to SUN Hollywood composer Matthew Ferraro about the decisions SUN that have shaped his life and which have helped to bring SUN about his massive new work The Tension of Opposites. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00hmp76 (Listen) SUN Southern Sea Shores SUN Lionel Kelleway travels to the Falkland Islands to find SUN out how marine life in the Southern Atlantic compares with SUN beachcombing back home. He joins the Shallow Marine Seas SUN Survey team as they endeavour to chart what lives here. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00hmp78 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00hmp7b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00hmp7d (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 b00hmp7g (Listen) SUN The Place2Be SUN Simon Marshall, headteacher, appeals on behalf of The SUN Place2Be. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00hmpbn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00hmpbq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00hmpbs (Listen) SUN Another Music SUN A celebration of the 17th-century priest and poet George SUN Herbert from Bemerton Church near Salisbury, where he was SUN rector for three years. Led by Canon Judy Rees, with SUN Ronald Blythe, Vikram Seth and the Farrant Singers SUN directed by Daniel Cook. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00hlsps (Listen) SUN Katharine Whitehorn considers the importance of words, SUN their changing meanings and the influence they have on our SUN perception of things. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00hmpbv (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00hmpbx (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00hmpbz (Listen) SUN David Walliams SUN Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose SUN eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00hhz2z (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 8 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with SUN panellists Paul Merton, Chris Neill, Justin Moorhouse and SUN Tony Hawks. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00hmpz9 (Listen) SUN Potatoes SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the history of the potato - its SUN arrival in Europe and economic significance. She discusses SUN the growing popularity of 'heritage' potatoes and visits SUN chef Simon Hopkinson to sample some of his simple but SUN exotic potato dishes. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00hmpzc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 World This Weekend b00hmpzf (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 Letters to Myself b00dx16j (Listen) SUN An insight into the experiences of people who have written SUN letters to themselves to be opened in years to come. Some SUN have sent letters to a website that acts as a temporary SUN library before emailing them back to be read at a later SUN date. The programme also follows a group of young adults SUN as they open letters that they wrote to themselves years SUN ago as school leavers. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hls6m (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Pippa Greenwood SUN answer questions posed by gardeners at Topsham Allotments SUN and Garden Club, near Exeter. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 My Mile of the River b00hmpzh (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the SUN River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in SUN Mid Wales. SUN It is summer on the River Wye, and Chris reports on the SUN two-person wheelbarrow championship as it races through a SUN ford, listens to the Wye Valley Axemen and witnesses the SUN coronation of the Carnival Queen. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00hmpzk (Listen) SUN Scoop, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical SUN 1938 novel. SUN William finds life as a war correspondent somewhat SUN tedious, but he does fall in love and find himself in the SUN middle of a revolution. SUN William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear SUN Katchen ...... Claudie Blakeley SUN Lord Copper ...... David Warner SUN Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson SUN Frau Dressler ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman SUN Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey SUN Secret Policeman ...... Jude Akuwudike SUN Benito ...... Cyril Nri SUN Moke ...... Inam Mirza SUN Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler SUN Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney SUN Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock ...... Michael Simkins SUN Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow SUN Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo SUN News Editor ...... Paul Rider SUN Hechel ...... Gunnar Cauthery SUN Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny SUN Directed by Sally Avens. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00hmpzm (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Sanjida O'Connell about her SUN novel The Naked Name of Love and Dame Beryl Bainbridge SUN reflects on her admiration for the work of the German SUN writer Hans Fallada. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00hmpzp (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by SUN Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny SUN Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, SUN Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00hkc70 (Listen) SUN Michael Robinson investigates the legacy of toxic lending SUN by British banks and reveals why the threat it poses to UK SUN jobs, homes and incomes is especially acute. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00hmn8c (Listen) SUN Stephen Sackur profiles MIA, the British-born Tamil singer SUN and artist who has become known for her fiery and SUN politicised style of songwriting and has been nominated SUN for an Oscar for the song she contributed to the SUN soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire. Stephen hears about MIA SUN from friends, family and fellow musicians and asks if, SUN amid the success and the hype, she is the real deal or SUN whether she may be just another world music flash in the SUN pan. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hmq2g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00hmq2j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hmq2l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00hmq2n (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton introduces his selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00hmq2q (Listen) SUN There is a Grundy homecoming at Casa Nueva. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00hmq2s (Listen) SUN Children's magazine presented by Barney Harwood. Angela SUN Robson hears about a Comic Relief project in southern SUN Ethiopia that is helping children to get to school. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b007vhn7 (Listen) SUN Caravan Club, Wayfaring Days SUN Series of short stories celebrating a British institution. SUN Series of short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of a SUN British institution. SUN A boy holidaying in a well-appointed caravan park meets an SUN eccentric hermit who prefers to travel without mod cons. SUN By Andrew Martin, read by Mark McDonnell. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00hls6k (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00hlspj (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 b00hmcw7 (Listen) SUN Repossession Rises SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. As the number of homes in the UK repossessed by SUN lenders rose last year by 54 percent, why aren't lenders SUN doing more to help struggling homeowners? Are you covered SUN by your credit card provider if you buy something online SUN that turns out to be faulty? And what should you do if you SUN have some savings but do not want to see them withering SUN away? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00hmp7g (Listen) SUN The Place2Be SUN Simon Marshall, headteacher, appeals on behalf of The SUN Place2Be. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00hlczq (Listen) SUN Rolling Stones SUN Alison Wolf asks whether human beings have an innate need SUN to travel and, if so, whether that raises profound SUN questions for transport policy. SUN As we get richer, so we choose to travel faster, despite SUN the damage it does to the planet. But what does the wrong SUN kind of travelling or no travelling at all mean for our SUN personal health and happiness? SUN How should governments respond to this complex side of our SUN psyche? Is it right to subsidise any form of transport or SUN should towns and cities be designed in such a way that we SUN are forced to abandon our cars? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00hmq4d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00hmq4g (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including How to Explain Europe. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00hlspl (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Sacha Gervasi, the director of SUN Anvil, a new documentary about an old Canadian heavy metal SUN band that is already attracting a cult audience. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00hmp74 (Listen) SUN The Road Taken SUN Mike Wooldridge explores what happens when we have to SUN choose between different paths in life. How are our lives SUN shaped by such decisions, and how are we changed by what SUN we say 'yes' to and what we turn away from? He talks to SUN Hollywood composer Matthew Ferraro about the decisions SUN that have shaped his life and which have helped to bring SUN about his massive new work The Tension of Opposites. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00hnc59 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00hkpr9 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00hmp70 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hnc9v (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hncgp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hncby (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00hndl8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hnfhy (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00hnfld (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00hpdnz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00hnmgd (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00hpdp1 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Amos Oz, Miri Rubin, Alistair Crooke and MON Penny Woolcock. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00hnn57 (Listen) MON Constable in Love, Episode 1 MON Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early MON career of John Constable and his long battle to win the MON hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on MON correspondence between the pair. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hp7l0 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Including drama: MON Heartburn MON Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, MON by Nora Ephron. MON Pregnant Washington-based cookery expert Rachel discovers MON that her journalist husband is having an affair. MON Rachel ...... Lorelei King MON Mark ...... William Hope MON Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross MON Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio MON Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard MON Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello MON Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston MON Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon MON Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Directed by Sara Davies. MON MON 11:00 Gangs, Guns and Families b00hphbl (Listen) MON Professor Jon Silverman takes a mother who grew up on the MON notorious Stonebridge Park estate in north west London, MON and now studies criminology, back to the estate to see the MON changes experienced by those who live there and the MON growing prevalence of knife and gun crime. MON Suzella Palmer is about to complete a PhD on youth crime MON at the University of Bedfordshire. She has garnered much MON of her academic research from the experiences of her MON 16-year-old son Zane, who has spent time in prison for MON violent affray and mixes with people who carry knives and MON would not hesitate to use them. MON MON 11:30 The Yellowplush Papers b00hphbn (Listen) MON Deuceace MON Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, MON adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of MON early-19th Century footman Charles Yellowplush. MON Charles finds himself in Paris in attendance on a young MON aristocrat of very dubious morals who has fled England to MON escape his creditors. MON Charles Yellowplush ...... Adam Buxton MON Deuceace ...... Chris Pavlo MON Crabs ...... Trevor Peacock MON Lady Griffin ...... Jill Cardo MON Matilda ...... Laura Molyneux MON Bailiff ...... Dan Starkey MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00hp9fv (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00hp9h8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00hp9k6 (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00hpj94 (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Celia Walden, MON Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00hmq2q (Listen) MON There is a Grundy homecoming at Casa Nueva. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hpj96 (Listen) MON The Nine Days Queen MON By Amanda Whittington. The story of the trial of Lady Jane MON Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of MON 16, nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a MON year, dead. MON Jane ...... Loo Brealey MON Nurse Ellen ...... Emma Stansfield MON Frances ...... Helen Sclesinger MON Young Jane ...... Agnes Bateman MON Katharine Parr ...... Janice Acquah MON Henry ...... Paul Rider MON Guilford ...... Robert Lonsdale MON Northumberland ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Gentleman-Gaoler ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Judge ...... Zebedee Soanes. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00hmn8h (Listen) MON Agony MON Jenni Murray presents a history of personal advice, from MON the mythical, kindly agony aunts of women's magazines to MON the public confessional of the radio phone-in. MON The advice column began life in the women's magazines. It MON was the role of the kindly, but mythical aunt to MON re-enforce the social codes of the day, dispensing jaunty, MON practical, nearly always morally serious advice to their MON readers. MON Radio brought a new outlet for those doling out advice. It MON started in the buttoned-up 1940s with paternalistic MON lectures from Charles Hill, the Radio Doctor (and later MON chairman of BBC) on subjects such as tummy trouble and MON melancholia and bloomed into the frank and sometimes MON shocking phone-ins. MON Today, the 'advice industry' has expanded from radio to MON TV, the internet and advice columns in the newspapers, MON where readers can offer their own comments. Throughout the MON history of agony we have moved from social etiquette to MON sexual etiquette in terms of the questions that are being MON asked, and agony aunts have both reflected and influenced MON trends. MON The increasing candour of the programmes reflects a MON parallel shift in British emotional engagement and the MON rise of therapy culture, which, some would argue, is not MON necessarily something to be celebrated. MON The programme tracks these developments, exploring the MON phenomenon of the agony aunt and examining how the way MON advice is delivered has changed to suit the times. MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hp9py (Listen) MON From Boom to Bust MON Series charting the history of America. The story of the MON Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression and the failure of MON Herbert Hoover. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00hmpz9 (Listen) MON Potatoes MON Sheila Dillon looks at the history of the potato - its MON arrival in Europe and economic significance. She discusses MON the growing popularity of 'heritage' potatoes and visits MON chef Simon Hopkinson to sample some of his simple but MON exotic potato dishes. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00hpj98 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world, MON teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths MON behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. MON MON 17:00 PM b00hpb05 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hpb1n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00hpj9b (Listen) MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with MON panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock and MON David Mitchell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00hp9kl (Listen) MON Walls have ears for Matt and Chalky. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00hpb23 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the MON verdict on The International, a film starring Clive Owen MON as an agent investigating a global bank. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hpb3z (Listen) MON Heartburn, Episode 1 MON Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, MON by Nora Ephron. MON Pregnant Washington-based cookery expert Rachel discovers MON that her journalist husband is having an affair. MON Rachel ...... Lorelei King MON Mark ...... William Hope MON Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross MON Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio MON Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard MON Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello MON Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston MON Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon MON Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Directed by Sara Davies. MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen) MON The Boxing Civil Servant MON Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her MON fifty-something friend Miranda Carter, a high-flying civil MON servant at the Department of Transport, astonished friends MON and family when she announced that she was applying for a MON licence as a boxing promoter. By day she continues to work MON in the corridors of power in Whitehall, but in the MON evenings and at weekends she mixes with the raucous boxing MON crowd of York Hall, Bethnal Green, in the East End of MON London. MON MON 20:30 Bottom Line b00hmn81 (Listen) MON Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs MON and business leaders talk about the issues that matter to MON their companies and their customers. MON MON 21:00 Islam and Science b00hpj9g (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Writer and journalist Ehsan Masood explores the status of MON science in the modern Islamic world, and asks whether MON measures taken to promote science are having an impact on MON the working lives of Muslim scientists. MON A series of damning reports have thrown the dismal state MON of science in Islamic countries into the spotlight. MON Speaking to young scientists in Pakistan, Ehsan assesses MON whether new investment in scientific research is having an MON effect. He asks whether, after years of neglect, science MON could once again play a key role in the fortunes of the MON Islamic world. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00hpdp1 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include Amos Oz, Miri Rubin, Alistair Crooke and MON Penny Woolcock. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00hpb98 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00hpb9x (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hjn4m (Listen) MON The White Tiger, Episode 1 MON Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning MON satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, MON the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural MON poverty of his village into the bright lights and MON corruption of the city. MON The White Tiger gets his name. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00hlbp4 (Listen) MON Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the word MON 'organisation' with former director general of the British MON Council Sir David Green, punk poet Attila the Stockbroker MON and writer Jay Griffiths. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hpct3 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00hnc51 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00hnn57 (Listen) TUE Constable in Love, Episode 1 TUE Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early TUE career of John Constable and his long battle to win the TUE hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on TUE correspondence between the pair. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hnc8p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hncc0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hnc9x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00hncgr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hndlg (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00hnfj0 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00hnflg (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00hc54x (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE He examines the parallels between the murder of Liverpool TUE youngster Rhys Jones in 2007 and another murder of a child TUE by another child in Liverpool in 1883. Michael Burns was TUE an innocent bystander, set upon by a gang of youths and TUE left for dead in one of the city's 'no-go areas' for TUE police. This 'shocking brutality among boys' created a new TUE moral panic in 19th-Century England. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00hpjlc (Listen) TUE Sir Robert Walpole TUE BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's TUE prime ministers have used their power, responded to the TUE challenges of their time and made the job what it is today. TUE The first of Nick's eight portraits is of Sir Robert TUE Walpole, the first and longest serving prime minister, who TUE moved into Downing Street in 1721. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00hslbl (Listen) TUE Constable in Love, Episode 2 TUE Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early TUE career of John Constable and his long battle to win the TUE hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on TUE correspondence between the pair. TUE Constable first met Maria Bicknell, the daughter of a TUE wealthy lawyer, in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt TUE when he was 24 and she was 12. Nine years later they began TUE courting. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hq728 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Including drama: TUE Heartburn TUE Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, TUE by Nora Ephron. TUE Rachel walks out on her cheating husband Mark and goes to TUE New York, where a session with her therapy group turns TUE violent. TUE Rachel ...... Lorelei King TUE Mark/Charlie ...... William Hope TUE Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross TUE Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio TUE Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard TUE Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello TUE Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston TUE Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon TUE Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 11:00 Colour Me White b00hpjzy (Listen) TUE Aasmah Mir reports on the skin lightening industry in TUE Britain and asks why some British Asians feel pressurised TUE by both their peers and the media to have paler skin. Her TUE journey takes her to Oldham and Wembley, and shows how TUE what is happening in Asia is influencing taste and fashion TUE in Britain. TUE TUE 11:30 There Was a Young Man from Limerick b00hpk00 (Listen) TUE John Hegley celebrates the limerick and delves into the TUE history of this versatile form of comic verse, TUE encountering nursery rhymes, Shakespearian songs, nonsense TUE poems and some smut along the way. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00hp9dd (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00hp9fx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00hp9hb (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00hpk02 (Listen) TUE Ivor Gurney TUE Series in which Professor Robert Winston explores the TUE relationship between the music and the medical conditions TUE of composers who suffered mental and physical illness. TUE Robert investigates the tragic case of English composer TUE and poet Ivor Gurney, who died of tuberculosis in the City TUE of London Mental Hospital, Dartford, in 1937. TUE For many years he was thought to have been the victim of TUE shell-shock as a result of his service in the trenches of TUE the First World War, but that diagnosis is now discounted TUE and there is even evidence in his letters to suggest that TUE the physical activity and comradeship of military service TUE may have been a saviour to his mental health. TUE Robert hears from Gurney biographer Pamela Blevins, TUE chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society Anthony Boden and TUE singer and Royal Academy of Music researcher April TUE Frederick. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00hp9kl (Listen) TUE Walls have ears for Matt and Chalky. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hpk3t (Listen) TUE Mole TUE Richard Monks' comic tale of an amateur gardener who TUE becomes dangerously obsessed with hunting down the mole TUE that has dared to desecrate his pristine lawn. But his TUE obsession hides a deeper and more damaging problem. TUE Margaret ...... Lesley Sharp TUE Colin ...... Neil Dudgeon TUE Mathew ...... Robert Lonsdale TUE Jonte ...... Paul Rider TUE Nurse ...... Manjeet Mann TUE Doctor ...... Gunnar Cauthery TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00hpk4d (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b007zkt7 (Listen) TUE Walk the Blue Fields, Walk the Blue Fields TUE Waiting at the altar for a bride, a priest battles with TUE his memories of a love affair. Read by Dermot Crowley. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hp9pp (Listen) TUE New Deal TUE Series charting the history of America. How Franklin D TUE Roosevelt got America working again. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00hpm2f (Listen) TUE Clive Coleman reports on legal issues behind the headlines. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00hpm2h (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to actress Jenny Agutter and scientist TUE and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis about their favourite TUE books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00hp9wk (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hpb07 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00cb5k4 (Listen) TUE Abu Dhabi TUE Sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom TUE no job is too small and many jobs are too difficult. TUE The town of Bristol, a cat and a thermostat combine to TUE present Martin with a career-breaking crisis. TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole TUE First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam TUE Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore TUE ATC Fitton ...... Ewen MacIntosh TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00hp9k8 (Listen) TUE Kenton makes a meal of Pancake Day. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00hpb1q (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets all four TUE members of U2 in their Dublin rehearsal studio to discuss TUE music, politics and their home city. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hq7d9 (Listen) TUE Heartburn, Episode 2 TUE Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, TUE by Nora Ephron. TUE Rachel walks out on her cheating husband Mark and goes to TUE New York, where a session with her therapy group turns TUE violent. TUE Rachel ...... Lorelei King TUE Mark ...... William Hope TUE Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross TUE Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio TUE Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard TUE Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello TUE Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston TUE Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon TUE Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00hpndg (Listen) TUE Grant Ferrett investigates whether the sanctions imposed TUE on Zimbabwe by Britain and Europe are adequate to stop TUE wealth being channelled out of the country by people close TUE to the Mugabe government. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00hpndj (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00hpndl (Listen) TUE Series 6, Lung function TUE Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is TUE normal. TUE She asks what is 'normal' lung function? Many factors TUE include age, weight, height, fitness, gender, ethnic TUE origin and smoking. Healthy lungs help us run faster, TUE laugh louder and live longer, but do we take them for TUE granted? TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00hc54x (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE He examines the parallels between the murder of Liverpool TUE youngster Rhys Jones in 2007 and another murder of a child TUE by another child in Liverpool in 1883. Michael Burns was TUE an innocent bystander, set upon by a gang of youths and TUE left for dead in one of the city's 'no-go areas' for TUE police. This 'shocking brutality among boys' created a new TUE moral panic in 19th-Century England. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00hpb6y (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00hpb9b (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hqbbm (Listen) TUE The White Tiger, Episode 2 TUE Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning TUE satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, TUE the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural TUE poverty of his village into the bright lights and TUE corruption of the city. TUE Balram finds work in a teashop, but his eyes are set on TUE greater things. When the chance of a job as a chauffeur TUE comes up, he sees a way out of his family's grinding TUE poverty. TUE TUE 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00hpnk0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Comedy series starring Dawn French as Professor Joy Klamp, TUE a specialist in the art of spoiling other people's TUE pleasure. TUE Investigating the fun that can be had, at other people's TUE expense, through DIY. TUE With Chris Douglas, Sally Grace, Katy Brand, Christopher TUE Douglas, Dan Tetsell, Brian Perkins. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hpct5 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00hnc53 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00hslbl (Listen) WED Constable in Love, Episode 2 WED Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early WED career of John Constable and his long battle to win the WED hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on WED correspondence between the pair. WED Constable first met Maria Bicknell, the daughter of a WED wealthy lawyer, in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt WED when he was 24 and she was 12. Nine years later they began WED courting. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hnc8r (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hncc2 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hnc9z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00hncgt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hndlv (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00hnfj2 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00hnflj (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00hq0n7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00hsl9y (Listen) WED Constable in Love, Episode 3 WED Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early WED career of John Constable and his long battle to win the WED hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on WED correspondence between the pair. WED Lacking 'that necessary article - cash', the courtship WED between Maria and John was never going to be WED straightforward, particularly when Maria's family began to WED make their disapproval felt. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hq720 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED Including drama: WED Heartburn WED Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, WED by Nora Ephron. WED Mark wants a reconciliation. Rachel cannot stand to see a WED man cry, so heads back to Washington. WED Rachel ...... Lorelei King WED Mark/Charlie ...... William Hope WED Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard WED Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross WED Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio WED Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello WED Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston WED Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon WED Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Directed by Sara Davies. WED WED 11:00 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00hq0n9 (Listen) WED A Taste of Money WED Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an WED impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain. WED After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of WED class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you WED identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems, WED if you are white. WED Sarfraz is taken on a tour of musical Manchester by DJ WED Dave Haslam, who reveals how the city has reinvigorated WED itself through an association with working class youth WED culture. WED He also talks to a theatre group that creates plays for WED the working people of the city and to Gerald Kaufman MP WED about the role of education in his journey into WED 'classlessness'. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b00hq0nc (Listen) WED Series 5, Too Cool for School WED Comedy by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. WED Control freak Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and WED personal basis, so making friends is not easy. However, on WED this occasion she manages it. WED Clare ...... Sally Phillips WED Brian ...... Alex Lowe WED Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck WED Ray ...... Richard Lumsden WED Megan/Nali ...... Nina Conti WED Irene ...... Ellen Thomas WED Simon ...... Andrew Wincott WED Chloe ...... Alex Tregear WED Mrs Bengo ...... Anna Bengo. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00hp9dg (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00hp9fz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00hp9hd (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00hq1z4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00hp9k8 (Listen) WED Kenton makes a meal of Pancake Day. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hq1z6 (Listen) WED My Name is Iqbal Masih WED By Bettina Gracias. The moving true story of Iqbal Masih, WED a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labour in WED a carpet factory at the age of four, an international WED figurehead for the Bonded Liberation Front at the age of WED 11 and brutally murdered in 1995 at the age of 12. WED Iqbal Masih ...... Sagar Radia WED Khan ...... Bhasker Patel WED Carpet Master ...... Kaleem Janjua WED Mustaf ...... Inam Mirza WED Hasim ...... Gagan Sharma WED Journalist ...... Janice Acquah WED American ...... Chris Pavlo WED Policeman/Worker/Pakistani Man ...... Saikat Ahamed WED Directed by David Hunter. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00hq2mr (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on equity release. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b007zkt8 (Listen) WED Walk the Blue Fields, The Parting Gift WED A selection of stories from Claire Keegan's collection. WED While the scent of hay drifts up from neighbouring fields, WED a young woman comes downstairs to the family kitchen and WED explains why she is leaving. Read by Niamh Cusack. WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hp9pr (Listen) WED A War for the Survival of Democracy WED Series charting the history of America. The fight to keep WED America neutral and at peace while arming the allies. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00hq2xx (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00hpndl (Listen) WED Series 6, Lung function WED Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is WED normal. WED She asks what is 'normal' lung function? Many factors WED include age, weight, height, fitness, gender, ethnic WED origin and smoking. Healthy lungs help us run faster, WED laugh louder and live longer, but do we take them for WED granted? WED WED 17:00 PM b00hp9wm (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hpb09 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hq2xz (Listen) WED Series 2, Jan Ravens WED Impressionist Jan Ravens has a boxing lesson, has her WED eyebrows threaded and builds a brick wall. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00hp9kb (Listen) WED Mike and Clarrie's plans are put to the test. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00hpb1s (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. He meets director WED Laurent Cantet, whose film about an inner city French WED school won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival last year. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hq7g6 (Listen) WED Heartburn, Episode 3 WED Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, WED by Nora Ephron. WED Mark wants a reconciliation. Rachel cannot stand to see a WED man cry, so heads back to Washington. WED Rachel ...... Lorelei King WED Mark ...... William Hope WED Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross WED Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio WED Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard WED Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello WED Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston WED Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon WED Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Directed by Sara Davies. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00hq2y1 (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. With Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, WED Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 How to Explain Europe b00hvsjn (Listen) WED The BBC's Europe Editor Mark Mardell reveals why it is so WED difficult to explain what goes on in Brussels to a British WED audience. WED WED 21:00 A Life With ... b00hrg65 (Listen) WED Series 4, Tundra WED Grant Sonnex meets people whose lives have been WED inextricably linked with Alaskan wildlife. WED Grant Sonnex talks to Pete Abraham, a Yupik Eskimo who WED grew up in a tiny settlement with pet seagulls, seals and WED otters. But when he sold his pet otter to the fur trader WED his life as a subsistence hunter began. Grant hears about WED Pete's life, Yupik culture and why brown bear is his WED favourite meat. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00hq0n7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00hpb70 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00hpb9d (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hqb3d (Listen) WED The White Tiger, Episode 3 WED Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning WED satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, WED the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural WED poverty of his village into the bright lights and WED corruption of the city. WED Balram quickly learns the ropes in his new position as WED number two driver and leaves his family, his village and WED his scruples behind as he sets his sights on promotion. WED WED 23:00 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hqhzh (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Comedy series in which Josie Long attempts to better WED herself through learning from reference books, with help WED from Irish comedienne Maeve Higgins and special guests. WED Josie explores the history of collecting things and WED discovers the Enlightenment. She tries to defy her arty WED past by becoming more scientific and takes controversial WED anatomist and Bodyworks impresario Professor Gunther von WED Hagens to task for being a 'demon with ready access to WED plasticine'. WED With Henning Wehn. WED WED 23:15 One b00771by (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Comedy show where no sketch features more than one voice. WED Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie WED Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan WED Antopolski, Simon Greenall, Kate Gielgud and Bill Oddie as WED himself. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hpct7 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00hnc55 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00hsl9y (Listen) THU Constable in Love, Episode 3 THU Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early THU career of John Constable and his long battle to win the THU hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on THU correspondence between the pair. THU Lacking 'that necessary article - cash', the courtship THU between Maria and John was never going to be THU straightforward, particularly when Maria's family began to THU make their disapproval felt. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hnc8t (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hncc4 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hncb1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00hncgw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hndlz (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00hnfj4 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00hnfll (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00hlb38 (Listen) THU The Wasteland and Modernity THU Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and THU Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The THU Wasteland and its ambivalence to the modern world of THU technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged THU around it. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00hslb0 (Listen) THU Constable in Love, Episode 4 THU Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early THU career of John Constable and his long battle to win the THU hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on THU correspondence between the pair. THU Opposition to the courtship between John and Maria was THU particularly fierce from her wealthy and influential THU grandfather, Dr Rhudde. But Constable remained as THU determined that they should marry as he was to succeed as THU a landscape painter. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hq722 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU Including drama: THU Heartburn THU Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, THU by Nora Ephron. THU There is nothing like mashed potatoes when you are feeling THU down, but a proposal from an old friend is even more THU effective. THU Rachel ...... Lorelei King THU Mark/Charlie ...... William Hope THU Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard THU Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross THU Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio THU Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello THU Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston THU Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon THU Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler THU Directed by Sara Davies. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00hr4lf (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Art of Litter b00hr4lh (Listen) THU John Wilson explores the reasons why some artists use THU rubbish in their work. THU Picasso, Dali, Georges Braque and Joan Miro all used THU discarded objects in their art, and in the last few THU decades there has been an explosion of artists using THU 'found objects' in their work to communicate many THU different messages about waste, consumerism and the THU dispensability of modern life. THU Some artists are campaigners and artists in equal measure. THU John meets Fran Crowe, who creates installations and THU engages in performance art with the rubbish she finds on THU the beaches near her Suffolk home. He also talks to Sir THU Peter Blake, who celebrates litter and tries to create THU something of aesthetic value from it, and sculptor Gavin THU Turk, who looks for the beauty in objects that have been THU thrown away. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00hp9dj (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00hp9g1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00hp9hg (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00hr4lk (Listen) THU Meeting A Star THU Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on fame in all its THU forms. Guests James Delingpole, Agnes Poirier and Michael THU Simkins reveal the agony and ecstasy of meeting a star. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00hp9kb (Listen) THU Mike and Clarrie's plans are put to the test. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b007tcmf (Listen) THU A Short Ride to Dusseldorf THU By Janice Okoh. THU A chance meeting in a job centre offers Alison some easy THU money. All she has to do is fly to Germany and marry a THU complete stranger. THU Alison ...... Katy Cavanagh THU Friday ...... Steve Toussaint THU Cher ...... Nadine Marshall THU Sarah ...... Ayesha Antoine THU Frau Nitsche ...... Liza Sadovy THU Samson ...... Chu Omambala THU German Official ...... Simon Treves THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00hmbvs (Listen) THU Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped THU Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' THU distillery in Roseisle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00hmp7g (Listen) THU The Place2Be THU Simon Marshall, headteacher, appeals on behalf of The THU Place2Be. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b007zktb (Listen) THU Walk the Blue Fields, Dark Horses THU A selection of stories from Claire Keegan's collection. A THU farmer dreams of a fine woman and her hunter. Read by THU Dermot Crowley. THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hp9pt (Listen) THU Floundering into War THU Series charting the history of America, written and THU presented by David Reynolds. The attack on Pearl Harbor THU and the decision to go to war. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00hmpzm (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to Sanjida O'Connell about her THU novel The Naked Name of Love and Dame Beryl Bainbridge THU reflects on her admiration for the work of the German THU writer Hans Fallada. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00hr4lm (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper tells the story of Emil Abderhalden, the THU biochemist who rose to the heart of the German scientific THU establishment on the back of a bogus theory of 'protective THU enzymes' he first conceived 100 years ago. THU By the 1930s, his theory was being used in futile blood THU tests for pregnancy and schizophrenia, and the infamous Dr THU Josef Mengele employed them in his experiments at THU Auschwitz. Despite doubts about his work across the world, THU Abderhalden was nominated 51 times for the Nobel Prize. THU THU 17:00 PM b00hp9wp (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 b00hpb0c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00hr4lp (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 2 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. THU Satan needs to sort stuff out with God, but God has gone THU off to have some 'me-time'. Then Hell receives its THU strangest visitor yet. THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU With Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00hp9kd (Listen) THU Brenda makes a dangerous decision. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00hpb1v (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson is joined by Lord THU Puttnam to announce the long-list for the Art Fund Prize THU for Museum of the Year. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hq7h9 (Listen) THU Heartburn, Episode 4 THU Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, THU by Nora Ephron. THU There is nothing like mashed potatoes when you are feeling THU down, but a proposal from an old friend is even more THU effective. THU Rachel ...... Lorelei King THU Mark ...... William Hope THU Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross THU Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio THU Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard THU Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello THU Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston THU Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon THU Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler THU Directed by Sara Davies. THU THU 20:00 Seven Days b00hr4lr (Listen) THU In Stoke-on-Trent THU Jenny Cuffe, spends a week in the Potteries to see how the THU recession is affecting the area. THU In one day in January 2009, Stoke-on-Trent lost over 1,000 THU jobs. It may be one of few remaining centres of British THU manufacturing, but the area has been in decline for THU several years. Now Wedgwood and JCB, key employers in the THU area, have been hard hit, and plans for regeneration are THU threatened. THU Jenny meets a family of three who all lost their job on THU the same day, and the company boss who, with his staff THU already on a four-day week, is desperate to secure new THU orders. THU THU 20:30 Analysis b00hr4lt (Listen) THU Anti Social Housing THU Richard Reeves, director of the independent think tank THU Demos, argues that social housing has failed everyone - THU those who cannot get housing, those in social housing and THU the taxpayers who pay for it. The government is committed THU to a new wave of affordable housing, but have we learnt THU the lessons of the past? THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00hr4lw (Listen) THU Geoff Watts with the latest stories from the world of THU science. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00hlb38 (Listen) THU The Wasteland and Modernity THU Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and THU Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The THU Wasteland and its ambivalence to the modern world of THU technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged THU around it. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00hpb72 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00hpb9g (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hqb3l (Listen) THU The White Tiger, Episode 4 THU Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning THU satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, THU the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural THU poverty of his village into the bright lights and THU corruption of the city. THU Balram's wealthy employers are moving to Delhi, but only THU one driver will be needed - Balram is determined to make THU sure the job is his. THU THU 23:00 Inside Alan Francis b00hr4mz (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the THU workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends THU and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. THU Alan has come to the conclusion that he needs to talk to THU Jane about their relationship. THU With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hpct9 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00hnc57 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00hslb0 (Listen) FRI Constable in Love, Episode 4 FRI Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early FRI career of John Constable and his long battle to win the FRI hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on FRI correspondence between the pair. FRI Opposition to the courtship between John and Maria was FRI particularly fierce from her wealthy and influential FRI grandfather, Dr Rhudde. But Constable remained as FRI determined that they should marry as he was to succeed as FRI a landscape painter. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hnc8w (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hncc6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hncb3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00hncgy (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hndm5 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00hnfj7 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00hnfln (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00hmpbz (Listen) FRI David Walliams FRI Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose FRI eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00hslb2 (Listen) FRI Constable in Love, Episode 5 FRI Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early FRI career of John Constable and his long battle to win the FRI hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on FRI correspondence between the pair. FRI After seven years of courtship, Maria and John finally FRI married in a quiet ceremony with no family members in FRI attendance. Now the serious production of paintings and of FRI children could begin in earnest. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hq724 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI Including drama: FRI Heartburn FRI Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, FRI by Nora Ephron. FRI Even a new baby cannot save Rachel's marriage, and, as she FRI discovers further evidence of Mark's treachery, she takes FRI sweet revenge at a dinner party. FRI Rachel ...... Lorelei King FRI Mark/Charlie ...... William Hope FRI Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard FRI Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross FRI Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio FRI Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello FRI Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston FRI Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon FRI Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Directed by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 11:00 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hr5kt (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies FRI barbershop chorus, Second City Sound, as they prepare to FRI compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop FRI Singers in Harrogate. FRI Kit attends rehearsals in Birmingham, where he meets the FRI 60-strong chorus of singers and they put him through his FRI musical paces. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b00hr5p5 (Listen) FRI A Commute FRI Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the FRI misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his FRI trouble-making colleague. FRI Both late for work, Peter and Sam meet on the train, FRI fearful of a call from their new boss. But is that him in FRI the next carriage? FRI Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Nigel ...... Paul Rider FRI Guard ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00hp9dl (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00hp9g3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00hp9hj (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00hr5py (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00hp9kd (Listen) FRI Brenda makes a dangerous decision. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hx63q (Listen) FRI This Repulsive Woman FRI By Christopher Reason. Probation officer Tony is sent to FRI assess Deborah, a mother who has been convicted of an FRI appalling crime under the 1978 Protection of Children Act. FRI As Deborah awaits sentencing, Tony must decide if she is FRI depraved or just deprived. FRI Deborah Hurst ...... Maxine Peake FRI Tony Jukes ...... Neil Dudgeon. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hr5wl (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions posed by gardeners at Long Eaton and District FRI Horticultural Society, near Nottingham. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00hp9pw (Listen) FRI A Hell of A War FRI Written and presented by David Reynolds. Segregation among FRI the troops, the death of FDR and the atomic bomb. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00hr5wn (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00hr5wq (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Clive Owen, the star of The FRI International, a thriller set in the world of banking and FRI money laundering. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00hp9wr (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 b00hpb0f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00hr5ws (Listen) FRI Series 67, Episode 8 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with FRI panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Francis Wheen and FRI Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00hp9kg (Listen) FRI There is light at the end of the tunnel for Tom. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00hpb1x (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hq7lb (Listen) FRI Heartburn, Episode 5 FRI Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set, FRI by Nora Ephron. FRI Even a new baby cannot save Rachel's marriage, and, as she FRI discovers further evidence of Mark's treachery, she takes FRI sweet revenge at a dinner party. FRI Rachel ...... Lorelei King FRI Mark ...... William Hope FRI Mother/Vera ...... Liza Ross FRI Richard/Man ...... Jon Guerrasio FRI Betty ...... Laurence Bouvard FRI Father/Leo ...... Vince Marzello FRI Julie/Nurse ...... Debora Weston FRI Detective Nolan/Arthur ...... Garrick Hagon FRI Jonathan ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Directed by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00hr5wv (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00hr5wx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Katharine FRI Whitehorn. FRI FRI 21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00hr5wz (Listen) FRI Boom to Bomb FRI Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of FRI America, written and presented by David Reynolds. FRI The Great Depression and the New Deal which got America FRI working again. Plus how America floundered into war after FRI Pearl Harbor and ended hostilities by dropping the atomic FRI bomb on Japan. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00hpb74 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00hpb9j (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hqb3p (Listen) FRI The White Tiger, Episode 5 FRI Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning FRI satire on contemporary India. The story of Balram Halwai, FRI the son of a rickshaw puller, who escapes the rural FRI poverty of his village into the bright lights and FRI corruption of the city. FRI Balram has made it to the city, and quickly learns that he FRI will need some sharp survival tactics to make his way. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00hpm2h (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to actress Jenny Agutter and scientist FRI and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis about their favourite FRI books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hpctc (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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