04 September, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 05/09/2009 - 11/09/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00mcxrd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xp5 (Listen) SAT Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 5 SAT Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of SAT Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century SAT London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William SAT Chaloner. SAT Chaloner faces trial at the Old Bailey and the threat of SAT the gallows at Tyburn. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mcxrg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mcxrj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mcxrl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00mcxrn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mcxrq (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 05:45 Wars of The Roses b00fkgng (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Wesley Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its SAT bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. SAT Wesley asks the judges what they are looking for from the SAT finalists and hears some of the tricks that competitors SAT play to win. In Taunton, there are problems with the SAT floral displays. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00mcxrs (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00mdngd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00mdy0v (Listen) SAT Tales From the Serpentine SAT Matt Baker starts the day with a splash when he joins the SAT early morning swimmers at the Serpentine Lake in London's SAT Hyde Park. SAT For almost 300 years, the Serpentine has played a role in SAT the history of London and formed a central part in the SAT lives of the people and wildlife who use it on a daily SAT basis. Matt takes a walk around the lake, chatting to the SAT people involved with the lake today and with the wildlife SAT that live in and around it and finds out more about a SAT recent project to improve water quality. SAT Created in 1730 when Queen Caroline ordered the damming of SAT the River Westbourne, the 40-acre body of water has been SAT the playground of poets and queens, a meeting place for SAT the fashionable and the not so fashionable, and a favoured SAT spot for swimmers. These range from the 10,000 people in SAT the mid-19th century who were described as a 'mass of SAT human flesh in motion' to the early morning bathers of SAT today, described by AA Gill as 'shelled turtles'. SAT Matt also takes a trip on the solar-powered shuttle boat SAT that silently and effortlessly glides from one side of the SAT lake to the other, ferrying visitors from the boat house SAT on the north shore to the Princess of Wales Memorial SAT Fountain on the south. SAT The day ends with a chat with 'Captain Hook', aka actor SAT Jonathan Hyde, before he takes to the stage in the current SAT production of Peter Pan, running in the SAT specially-commissioned state-of-the-art Kensington Gardens SAT Theatre Pavilion. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00mdy0x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00mdy0z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00mdy11 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00mdy13 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Hamish SAT Anderson. With poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00mdy15 (Listen) SAT Novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who began his SAT writing life as a newspaper reporter, talks to John SAT McCarthy about his travels in the l960s and early 1970s. SAT His visits included Cuba, Russia, Israel, Germany and SAT Japan, at a time when there was revolution in the air. He SAT tells John about how seeking facts in foreign parts SAT inspired his fiction. SAT The Grand Canal in China is one of the least known great SAT feats of engineering in the world. At over 1,000 miles SAT long, it is not only the longest man-made waterway but SAT also the oldest, begun in the fifth century BC. Nowadays SAT it is a crucial highway ,and travel writer Liam D'Arcy SAT Brown travelled its length, hitching rides on the enormous SAT barges that carry bulk building materials for China's SAT rapid modernisation. He tells John about the insight it SAT gave him into a side of China not normally seen. SAT SAT 10:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) SAT Three musicians - Guy Garvey of Elbow, Martin Noble of SAT British Sea Power and Marc Riley, formerly of The Fall and SAT a BBC 6 Music presenter - explore the rugged terrain of SAT Shetland in search of the quail. SAT They travel to to Sumburgh Head on the southern tip of SAT Shetland Mainland, to a traditional Shetland music session SAT in a Lerwick pub and to Mousa Broch, one of the world's SAT largest Storm Petrel breeding colonies, on their search SAT for the elusive bird. As there are no more than four quail SAT seen in the Shetlands during a typical season, the chances SAT of seeing one are slim. SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mdy19 (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. SAT Mark Devenport examines the track record of devolved SAT government in Northern Ireland, 10 years after the SAT Assembly was established at Stormont as part of the Good SAT Friday Peace Agreement. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mdy1c (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00mdy1f (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Will stock markets continue to rise? The bulls and the SAT bears tell us their views. SAT A cash boost for children turning seven, but where to SAT invest it? SAT And could there be more bad news for Key Data investors? SAT The administrator talks. SAT SAT 12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mcxcn (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two SAT teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The SAT show asks both the big and the little questions, and SAT provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Justin SAT Edwards and Russell Kane. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00mdy1h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00mdy1k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00mcxcq (Listen) SAT The A-Z of Dr Johnson Special SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the SAT Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield. The SAT panellists are the secretary of state for transport Lord SAT Adonis, shadow minister for universities and skills David SAT Willetts, Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and author SAT Sarah Dunant. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00mdy1m (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 b00m85kz (Listen) SAT Phone SAT By Peter Jukes. Eliot is stuck in a rut. When his friend SAT Roy, a local gangster, is taken ill, he hands Eliot his SAT mobile phone, telling him to wait for it to ring. The SAT phone thrusts Eliot into an underworld which is sometimes SAT glamorous, often dangerous, and always unexpected. SAT Eliot ...... Freddy White SAT Kathleen ...... Jemima Rooper SAT Sparky ...... Jimmy Akingbola SAT Roy Peters ...... Richard Ridings SAT Iverson ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Crimp ...... Paul Rider SAT Ze ...... Nabil Elouahabi SAT Rachel ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Baltazar ...... Matt Addis SAT Sarasi ...... Janice Acquah SAT Vince ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Teenager ...... Benjamin Askew SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00mbkk4 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Allegri's Miserere SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their SAT emotional appeal. SAT Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the SAT 1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It SAT then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, SAT Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in SAT the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we SAT know today. SAT The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and SAT never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for SAT concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe SAT Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman SAT explain how they have all been deeply affected by this SAT beautiful piece of music. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00mdy46 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT There can be few acts whose music evokes memories of the SAT 1980s better than Bananarama, whose music epitomised the SAT pop culture of the decade. In 1988 they entered the SAT Guinness Book of World Records as the all-female group to SAT have the most chart entries in history. After a four year SAT break they have returned with a new single; they talk to SAT Jenni Murray, and tell her about the time Robert de Niro SAT really was waiting for them. SAT High heels might look great on the catwalk, but are they SAT suitable attire for work? SAT Sibling relationships are often the longest-lasting SAT relationships that we experience. They can outlast SAT marriages, survive the death of parents, and overcome SAT quarrels that would sink a friendship. But what happens if SAT your sibling is disabled or suffers from a chronic SAT illness? Whose responsibility is it to look after a SAT disabled sibling when a parent dies? And where can you SAT turn for support? Jane Garvey visits the parents of Radio SAT 1 DJ Jo Whiley and her disabled sister Frances and hears SAT about what help is available. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00mdyrt (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00mdyrw (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mdyry (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00mdys0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mdys2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00mdys4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by comedian Ross Noble and author Charlie SAT Higson. SAT Rachael Stirling talks to the journalist and writer Nina SAT Myskow. SAT With comedy from Nathan Caton and music from Turin Brakes SAT and Kate Walsh. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen) SAT Alex Salmond SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First SAT Minister and the leader of the SNP. SAT Salmond is a private man with a very public image. SAT Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a SAT pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and SAT then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four SAT years later. SAT So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he SAT about pursuing Scottish independence? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00mdys8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mdyyf (Listen) SAT Five and the Fascists SAT In 1929 five leading European conductors - Toscanini, SAT Klemperer, Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter - SAT met at the Berlin Festival at the height of the Weimar SAT Republic, shortly before Hitler took power. Robert SAT Giddings explores the confrontation between creativity and SAT Fascism through the decisions made by these five musical SAT giants. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) SAT Two on a Tower, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of SAT star-crossed lovers in the West Country. SAT Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance SAT and convention conspire against them and painful SAT sacrifices have to be made. SAT Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill SAT Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson SAT Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson SAT Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys SAT Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin SAT Louis ...... Richard Heap SAT Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon SAT Joshua ...... Carter Thomas SAT Directed by Stefan Escreet. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00mdzcn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Atheist and the Bishop b00mbzvw (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to SAT apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people SAT they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. SAT Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, SAT and Dr Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' SAT Magazine, take on power and wealth. SAT They visit a church which is challenging the Establishment SAT on the treatment of the homeless, hear from a social SAT entrepreneur who is creating wealth for poor communities SAT in India and Nepal, and visit the House of Lords to SAT examine the role of religion in public life. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mbf7k (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT with the south of England team hoping to get their own SAT back on the Midlands in a return match. SAT SAT 23:30 In Search of the Wantley Dragon b00m5t0r (Listen) SAT Poet Ian McMillan explores the bawdy 17th-century comic SAT poem The Dragon of Wantley. He uncovers long-forgotten SAT violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour, SAT pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den. SAT Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its SAT day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of SAT Robin Hood. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00mf1s4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088rfs (Listen) SUN Telling the World, Lord Shiva and the Death Boon SUN Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the SUN world. SUN Peter Chand tells his version of a story from the Punjab, SUN via Wolverhampton. SUN A Watershed Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mf1s6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mf1s8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mf1sb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00mf1sd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mf1sg (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Thomas' Church, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen) SUN Alex Salmond SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First SUN Minister and the leader of the SNP. SUN Salmond is a private man with a very public image. SUN Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a SUN pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and SUN then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four SUN years later. SUN So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he SUN about pursuing Scottish independence? SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00mf1sj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00mf1sl (Listen) SUN The Vital Green SUN Mark Tully explores the many-shaded nature of Green, from SUN green imagery in myth, literature, art and faith, to SUN green's crucial biological function as 'the cornerstone of SUN all life on Earth'. SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh, Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling SUN and David Westhead. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00mf1sn (Listen) SUN Grassland Meadows SUN Britain's geology makes for diverse grassland meadows and SUN with it wild flowers, as Lionel Kelleway discovers. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00mf1vb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00mf1vd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00mf26w (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 b00mf26y (Listen) SUN Prospect Burma SUN Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma. SUN Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope PB. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide PB 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 No: 802615. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00mf270 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00mf272 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00mf274 (Listen) SUN 'The Little Flower of Jesus' SUN The life and legacy of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the French SUN Carmelite nun who died at a young age, is explored in a SUN service from the church of Sacred Heart and St Theresa, SUN Coleshill, Birmingham. With music from Joanne Boyce and SUN Mike Stanley. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mcxcs (Listen) SUN The Dodo SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN The dodo is the caricature of extinction. This SUN turkey-sized flightless pigeon lived on a remote island SUN and was slaughtered by seafarers for its meat. The same SUN fate has met other flightless species. Can we learn this SUN lesson from history? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00mf276 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mf278 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00mf27b (Listen) SUN Iranian Embassy Siege SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN Sue reunites those caught up in the siege at the Iranian SUN Embassy in London in 1980, which ended with a dramatic SUN storming of the building by SAS commandos. With SUN contributions from hostages Sim Harris and Mustapha SUN Karkouti, police negotiator Max Vernon, BBC reporter Kate SUN Adie and Robin Horsfall of the SAS. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00mbg96 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 6 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring SUN performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Panellists SUN include Paul Merton and Sue Perkins. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00mf27d (Listen) SUN Shetland's Sunday Teas SUN Every summer, for decades, the people of Shetland have SUN served up delicious home-baked Sunday afternoon teas in SUN the many local community halls dotted around the islands. SUN Not only are they a treat for regulars and tourists, but SUN they also raise money for charity. SUN Simon Parkes drops in on the islanders as they prepare for SUN the weekend's feasting in many different kitchens across SUN the islands. The tables groan with fare, not all of it SUN traditional, as Sunday approaches, and visitors anticipate SUN a weekend of culinary over-indulgence. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00mf27g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00mf27j (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Oscar Marzaroli: The Man Who Captured Scotland SUN b00g0nnn (Listen) SUN Scottish singer-songwriter Ricky Ross examines the life SUN and work of photographer and film-maker Oscar Marzaroli. SUN Born in Italy in 1933, Marzaroli moved to Glasgow at the SUN age of two. Photographing in black and white, he produced SUN a remarkable record of post-Second World War Scotland, and SUN became famed for his iconic images of the Gorbals in the SUN 1960s. SUN His photographs and films have become synonymous with SUN Scotland, at that time a disaffected nation in the throes SUN of regeneration. Marzaroli's images captured ordinary SUN people struggling against poverty and social deprivation, SUN yet who retained a strong sense of local pride and SUN community spirit. During a time of controversial SUN rebuilding, alongside a rising tide of Scottish SUN nationalism, his photographic record has become a SUN historical documentation of a lost society. SUN Ricky Ross discusses Marzaroli's life, career and legacy SUN with the photographer's family, colleagues and SUN contemporaries, including author William McIlvanney and SUN Oscar's wife, Anne. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mcwv9 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Essex. SUN John presents a guide to coastal shelter-belts and SUN explains how these are created with the help of a local SUN gardener. SUN Matthew reports from the Fruit Focus industry event, where SUN he unveils a new super-yielding crop and reveals how we SUN are soon to benefit from new extra water-efficient SUN strawberry plants. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b00mf27l (Listen) SUN The Mathematicians SUN Series in which Peter Curran visits members of the many SUN and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to SUN zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and SUN beliefs. SUN Peter meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton SUN Institute of Mathematics in Cambridge. There are SUN blackboards in the lifts and in the loos to encourage SUN communication between visiting professors, but not SUN everyone shares their mathematical insight. SUN A few members of the mathematical tribe do wear the same SUN t-shirt for six months and it's often inside-out, but not SUN all the stereotypes hold true. Among these mathematicians, SUN Peter finds passion, humour and an enviable sense of SUN purpose. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00mf2mj (Listen) SUN The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode SUN 1 SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography SUN of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of SUN Johnson's birth. SUN Young Boswell comes to London to seek out his hero. He SUN wants to write a biography of the great man 'in scenes', SUN with Johnson's conversation cast as dialogue. Nothing SUN quite like this has ever been attempted before. SUN Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham SUN James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins SUN King George ...... David Hargreaves SUN Louisa ...... Lizzy Watts SUN Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis SUN Oliver Goldsmith ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Lady Di ...... Annabelle Dowler SUN Davies ...... Philip Fox SUN Directed by Claire Grove. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00mf31l (Listen) SUN Robert Macfarlane SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to travel writer and SUN literary critic Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild SUN Places, in which he sets out to discover if there remain SUN any genuinely wild places in Britain and Ireland. SUN It is an account of journeys that he made to the remaining SUN wilderness in the islands. He climbs hills and mountains, SUN walks across moors and bogs, luxuriates beside hidden SUN lochs, swims through caves and disappears into forests, SUN all in search of that special quality of solitude in SUN communion with nature. SUN SUN 16:30 The Poet of Sparty Lea: In Search of Barry SUN MacSweeney b00mf3ds (Listen) SUN Young poet Tom Chivers reclaims the reputation of SUN counter-cultural poet Barry MacSweeney, who wrote his SUN first poem at seven, began a lifelong struggle with SUN solitary hard drinking at 16 and was nominated for the SUN Oxford Poetry Chair at 18. SUN A protégée of Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, he was a SUN regular at the Morden Tower in Newcastle along with Ted SUN Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Dorn. SUN MacSweeney was a man of contradictions; a Romantic poet, a SUN political journalist who raged against the world but also SUN a naturalist whose writing was rooted in the Northumbrian SUN landscape. His refusal to engage with the Establishment SUN was incompatible with commercial or mainstream success, SUN and he died an alcoholic's death, on the fringes of the SUN poetry scene. SUN A 16-year-old Tom Chivers encountered MacSweeney at what SUN would turn out to be his final poetry reading; a week SUN later he was dead. Now Tom goes on a personal journey to SUN explore the life and work of his hero. Travelling to the SUN Northumbrian landscape which anchored MacSweeney's work, SUN Tom investigates why his radical style was never palatable SUN to the mainstream but also why his work still appeals to a SUN new generation of poets today. SUN SUN 17:00 Divided Britain b00mbm3l (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam follows headteacher Mike Tull as he SUN continues his attempts to bridge ethnic divisions through SUN education, as part of a radical scheme to tackle SUN underachievement and segregation in Lancashire mill towns. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00mdys6 (Listen) SUN Alex Salmond SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles Alex Salmond, Scotland's First SUN Minister and the leader of the SNP. SUN Salmond is a private man with a very public image. SUN Passionate about horse racing and renewable energy, he a SUN pragmatic nationalist, a leader who reshaped his party and SUN then abruptly left as leader in 2000, only to return four SUN years later. SUN So who is the real Alex Salmond and how serious is he SUN about pursuing Scottish independence? SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mfcyr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00mfcyt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfcyw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00mfcyy (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton introduces his selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN Operation Pied Piper - Radio 2 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4 SUN The Annual General Boiled Egg Panic - Radio 3 SUN Between Ourselves - Radio 4 SUN Random Edition - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN The Reunion - Radio 4 SUN Newton and the Counterfeiter - Radio 4 SUN Jeopardising Justice - Radio 4 SUN The Beatles At The Beeb - Radio 2 SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN Biggles: Adventures Through Time - Radio 4 SUN Twice Ken is Plenty - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00mfcz0 (Listen) SUN All's fair in love and cricket for Adam. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00mfcz2 (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 We go to the biggest gambling city of them all, Las Vegas SUN - the town that's the capital of blowing itself up and SUN reinventing itself, and which is hurting big in the SUN recession. The Las Vegas strip today is lined by SUN unfinished mega-projects and bankrupt resorts, local SUN unemployment and foreclosure rates are surging, and folks SUN just aren't imploding casinos like they used to. For an SUN insider's look, Matt talks with Las Vegas demolition man SUN Josh Clauss. SUN Adam Burke leads a sound-rich tour of subterranean Las SUN Vegas, including the the storm drains running under the SUN casinos which are inhabited by a remarkable community of SUN homeless people. SUN Matt referees a discussion on diverging approaches to SUN homelessness and panhandling in American cities. His SUN guests are Anthony David Pirtle, a board member of the SUN National Coalition for the Homeless, who was homeless SUN himself between 2004 and 2006 due to his schizophrenia, SUN and Ron Book, board chair of the Miami-Dade County SUN Homeless Trust, and a proponent of never giving money or SUN food to panhandlers. SUN Plus, a chance to experience the formerly iconic American SUN pastime of going to the drive-in to see movies outside - SUN with the sound piped through your radio. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9n (Listen) SUN An Audience with Max Wall, When the Dust Has Settled SUN Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this SUN series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the SUN Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden. SUN Max describes the success he enjoyed in later life as a SUN character actor, with parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and SUN Terry Gilliam's film Jabberwocky, together with theatre SUN work in Krapp's Last Tape and The Entertainer. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00mcwv5 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team investigate SUN widely-reported estimates of the number of people who SUN illegally share files on the internet, and examine the SUN abuse of maths by the public relations industry. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00mcxcj (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 b00mdy1f (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Will stock markets continue to rise? The bulls and the SUN bears tell us their views. SUN A cash boost for children turning seven, but where to SUN invest it? SUN And could there be more bad news for Key Data investors? SUN The administrator talks. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mf26y (Listen) SUN Prospect Burma SUN Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma. SUN Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope PB. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide PB 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 No: 802615. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00mcw5z (Listen) SUN Media Mayhem SUN The twin pincers of global recession and technology SUN upheaval are putting traditional newspapers and SUN broadcasters through the ringer. Peter Day asks what the SUN shape of the new media might be once the troubles are over. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00mfcz4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00mfcz6 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Britain's White House. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00mcxcl (Listen) SUN Director Marc Webb discusses his film, 500 Days of Summer, SUN a romantic comedy that stands romantic ideals on its head. SUN Actor Janet Suzman remembers her role in the jagged-edged SUN 1960s drama A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, newly released SUN on DVD. She also reveals the unconventional casting SUN technique for her starring role in the film Nicolas and SUN Alexandra. SUN Plus an interview with Michael Fassbender, an an actor who SUN gives versatility a new dimension and who appears in SUN radically contrasting films: Quentin Tarantino's SUN Inglourious Basterds and Andrea Arnold's controversial SUN movie Fish Tank. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00mf1sl (Listen) SUN The Vital Green SUN Mark Tully explores the many-shaded nature of Green, from SUN green imagery in myth, literature, art and faith, to SUN green's crucial biological function as 'the cornerstone of SUN all life on Earth'. SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh, Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling SUN and David Westhead. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00mfdgt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mbz1k (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON A new book explores what happens to people who return to MON the island of Dominica, the land of their birth, after MON living for many years in the UK. Research suggests around MON 25 per cent of the Caribbean population will go back to MON their country of origin, either to work or on retirement. MON But what are the forces which dictate this decision, and MON why do some people choose to go home and others choose to MON stay here? Research suggests that definitions of home are MON changing as the world contracts due to global MON communication and transport. Laurie talks to Dr Margaret MON Byron, a social geographer, and the writer Mike Phillips MON about the meaning of return migration. MON Also, the limits of ''silver power'; why old age doesn't MON lend itself to collective political action and identity. MON New research finds that the pensioner movements of the MON interwar years, which helped shape the postwar welfare MON state, have declined in importance. Laurie discusses the MON politics of ageing and pensioner power with Prof Paul MON Higgs. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mf1sg (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Thomas' Church, Oxford. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdj8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdyl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdkt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00mff35 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mffdc (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00mfffq (Listen) MON Organised criminals are increasingly turning to stealing MON expensive farm equipment, which, it is claimed, is proving MON to be more lucrative and less risky than dealing in drugs. MON The National Equipment Register, which records all such MON farm crime, has released new figures which show that MON thefts reached record levels in 2008. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00mg0wh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00mffrs (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00mg0wk (Listen) MON Adair Turner MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON If Adair Turner had been in his present job, as Chairman MON of the Financial Services Authority, in the run-up to the MON banking crisis, would he have seen it coming? Candidly, he MON says he is not sure that he would. Appointed in 2008, it MON is now his job to help restore trust in the financial MON system. He offers his insight into why the regulations MON that were in place didn't work and predicts the MON consequences of the economic downturn for Britain. MON MON 09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mg0wm (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Helena Kennedy QC examines the ways in which the best MON intentions in legal reform can sometimes produce MON unexpected and unpalatable consequences. MON Helena unravels the recent history of attacks on judicial MON independence. In the 1970s and 80s, Helena and a MON generation of liberal lawyers attacked the judiciary for MON being too right wing and out of touch. Now right-wing MON politicians have taken up their language and attack the MON judiciary for being too liberal and out of touch. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrv (Listen) MON William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, MON Episode 1 MON Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the MON Nobel Prize-winning author. MON His debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected by many MON publishers before going on to sell over 20 million copies MON in Britain alone. Drawing on a wealth of previously MON unpublished material from the Golding family archive, MON Carey explores the life and career of an often harshly MON self-critical novelist. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg83 (Listen) MON Woman's Hour With Jane Garvey. Including: MON She's a feminist post-punk lesbian from bible-belt MON Arkansas, and has been named the Coolest Person in Rock. MON Beth Ditto's electric stage performances and soulfully MON howling voice have led to sell-out tours and four albums MON for her band the Gossip. And her outlandish fashion sense MON and outspoken pride in her 'fat' physique have made her MON into both a style icon and champion of misunderstood MON youth. Beth talks to Jane about Gossip's fourth album, the MON ironically titled Music For Men, and her decision to MON launch a range of clothing for plus-sized women. MON Barbara Taylor Bradford began her career at 15 as a typist MON for the Yorkshire Evening Post. In 1979 she wrote her MON first novel, A Woman of Substance, which went on to sell MON more than 31 million copies worldwide. It told the story MON of Emma Harte, a Yorkshire girl who founded a retail MON empire. The popularity of the heroine led Barbara to write MON a further 6 books in the Harte family series. Her latest MON novel returns to the themes of love, passion and revenge. MON Jane talks to Barbara about the enduring appeal of her MON work. MON The internet is scattered with adverts offering to reveal MON the one simple rule we all need to follow to achieve a MON flat stomach - but is it ever going to be that simple? And MON should we be seeing the flat stomach as desirable or MON attainable across the life-course? We find out what MON actually happens to a woman's stomach during pregnancy and MON birth, and ask whether it's time for us to get over the MON overhang. MON And Iran's first female Minister - how much power will the MON new Health Minister have, and what does her appointment MON mean for women and women's rights in Iran now? MON MON 11:00 Iraq United b00lny4l (Listen) MON Hugh Sykes follows the Iraqi football team as they hope to MON unite their country through football. MON In 2007, the team surprised the world by winning the Asian MON Cup. Thousands celebrated, religious differences were MON forgotten and a football team united a troubled country. MON It qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South MON Africa, a competition that brings together the best teams MON in the world, including Spain, Italy and Brazil. MON Hugh, who has been reporting from Iraq for the past six MON years, follows the team and their supporters as they MON compete in Africa's first international football MON competition. Travelling with the team and supporters as MON Iraq take on the likes of Spain, Hugh learns the MON importance of football to Iraqis as a reminder of days MON past, before sectarianism ripped the country apart. MON The team has lost loved ones and faced death threats, but MON survived the years of abuse and torture they suffered at MON the hands of Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam who MON took direct control of the team for a time. After a series MON of coaching changes and poor performances, the team now MON faces its biggest test as it hopes to show the world that MON Iraq remains united, and not only in football. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mg0wp (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON Warring curators, wedding cleaners and a dodgy alarm MON system all add to the unwanted pressure on Walter. MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geofrey Palmer MON Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins MON Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond MON Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern MON Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin MON Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley MON Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00mfg8h (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00mfhhy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mfhlv (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mg0wr (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00mfcz0 (Listen) MON All's fair in love and cricket for Adam. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mg0wt (Listen) MON Best Friends MON By Clara Glynn. When Charlotte is convicted of killing her MON baby, her best friend Sam begins a campaign to clear her MON name and find out the truth. MON Sam ...... Shonagh Price MON Charlotte ...... Louise Ludgate MON David ...... Robin Laing MON Hamish/Radio presenter ...... Steven McNicoll MON Archie ...... Crawford Logan MON Weather girl/Prison guard ...... Kirstin Murray MON Rory ...... Cameron McNee MON Directed by David Ian Neville. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mdyyf (Listen) MON Five and the Fascists MON In 1929 five leading European conductors - Toscanini, MON Klemperer, Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter - MON met at the Berlin Festival at the height of the Weimar MON Republic, shortly before Hitler took power. Robert MON Giddings explores the confrontation between creativity and MON Fascism through the decisions made by these five musical MON giants. MON MON 15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhr7 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Scientists look back to their ancient forebears and MON examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the MON test of time. MON Iain Hutchison, consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon, MON discovers that the nasal reconstructive techniques he uses MON today date back to third century BC in south Asia. A MON school of surgery, The Sushruta, grew up on the banks of MON the river Ganges to help victims of punishment who had had MON their noses sliced off. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00mf27d (Listen) MON Shetland's Sunday Teas MON Every summer, for decades, the people of Shetland have MON served up delicious home-baked Sunday afternoon teas in MON the many local community halls dotted around the islands. MON Not only are they a treat for regulars and tourists, but MON they also raise money for charity. MON Simon Parkes drops in on the islanders as they prepare for MON the weekend's feasting in many different kitchens across MON the islands. The tables groan with fare, not all of it MON traditional, as Sunday approaches, and visitors anticipate MON a weekend of culinary over-indulgence. MON MON 16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mg2v2 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice MON of researching family history, with the help of resident MON genealogist Nick Barratt. MON Lucille White has been trying to get to the bottom of a MON family that her great, great-grandmother may have been the MON illegitimate daughter of Louis XVI, but stories handed MON down from one generation to the next are often history as MON the teller would like it to have been, not as it really MON was. Birth, marriage and death certificates may not tell MON the whole story, so Sally and Nick investigate how to MON widen the search in order to disentangle myth from truth. MON MON 17:00 PM b00mfj9z (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjpj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00mg2v4 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 7 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. MON Jenny Eclair and Stephen Fry compare what they shop for MON online and Paul Merton and Charles Collingwood discuss how MON best to go about making an impression. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00mfhmh (Listen) MON Lynda puts her foot down for the footpaths. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mfk2s (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an MON interview with actor Colin Firth, who plays Sir Henry MON Wotton in the new film Dorian Gray. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk31 (Listen) MON Au Pairs, Episode 1 MON Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, MON morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The MON story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from MON Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their MON mutual condemnation of modern parenting. MON Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin MON Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 20:00 Where Did It All Go Right? b00mg2v6 (Listen) MON Compulsory Seat Belts MON Prof Philip Cowley presents a series examining initially MON controversial political policies which were later judged MON by most people to have been a success. MON Attempts during the 1970s and early 1980s to make seat MON belt wearing compulsory were hugely controversial. There MON were numerous attempts to get it through, and it was MON contested by parliamentarians on both left and right. MON Organisations like the RAC were also opposed, as were MON civil servants, as shown by files from the early 1970s MON released from the National Archives. MON Once the legislation came into effect in 1983, instances MON of seat belt-wearing shot up from under half to over 90 MON per cent and opposition almost vanished overnight. This MON programme looks back at the early debates, why compulsory MON wearing was so controversial and how seat belts came to be MON so widely accepted. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00mcvgd (Listen) MON Gangland in Paradise MON With a spectacular natural setting and a prosperous but MON laid-back lifestyle, Vancouver is routinely named one of MON the best communities in the world in which to live. MON But this west coast Canadian city, host to the 2010 Winter MON Olympics, is quickly developing another reputation. Bill MON Law tells the story of the young gangsters who are MON exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar MON illicit drugs industry using a combination of business MON savvy and bullets. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00mg2v8 (Listen) MON Sell-by Dates MON In the UK, 370,000 tonnes of food is misguidedly thrown MON away each year after passing its best-before date, with a MON further 40,000 tonnes not even opened by consumers. An MON additional 220,000 tonnes of food is thrown away while MON still in date and 440,000 tonnes of food is thrown away MON after its use-by date. And that is just the food that MON reaches our fridges and fruitbowls. There are an estimated MON 1.6 million tonnes of food thrown away by British MON retailers making up just some of the 5.4 million tonnes of MON food the UK throws away every year. MON So where does all this confusion come from? According to MON one survey, more than one-third of Britons believe that MON any product past its 'best-before' date is liable to MON poison them and should never be eaten. Added to this MON confusion is the less than scientific way in which MON 'use-by' dates are often set with a 'worse case scenario' MON applied to all products, protecting the consumer but also MON the industry. MON With dates now applied to all kinds of produce, from soft MON fruit to hard cheese, Tom Heap seeks to find out where MON these dates came from, who sets them, who benefits and how MON we might learn to live without them. MON MON 21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00mg0wk (Listen) MON Adair Turner MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON If Adair Turner had been in his present job, as Chairman MON of the Financial Services Authority, in the run-up to the MON banking crisis, would he have seen it coming? Candidly, he MON says he is not sure that he would. Appointed in 2008, it MON is now his job to help restore trust in the financial MON system. He offers his insight into why the regulations MON that were in place didn't work and predicts the MON consequences of the economic downturn for Britain. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00mfknq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00mfks0 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4m (Listen) MON Love and Summer, Episode 6 MON Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor MON about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of MON Ireland. MON While Miss Connulty plots to avert unbridled emotion, MON Florian and Ellie find a meeting place far from her gaze, MON at the Lisquin gate-lodge, whose avenue leads only to the MON razed ground where the big house once stood. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 The Story of O: The Vice Francaise b00mg2vb (Listen) MON Writer and former editor of The Erotic Review, Rowan MON Pelling, goes in search of Pauline Reage, pseudonymous MON author of the pornographic novel The Story of O, which MON caused a sensation upon its publication in Paris in 1954. MON Written with an almost hallucinatory erotic intensity in MON spare, elegant prose, the purity of the writing took the MON literary world in France by storm despite the explicit MON scenes of bondage and sadomasochism. MON Rowan goes in search of the real Pauline Reage and MON discovers that she was, in fact, an impeccably dressed, MON demure intellectual, and that she had written the novel as MON a love letter for her lover. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fpx7j (Listen) MON Series 4, Gone East MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON In the dead of night, presenter Alan Dein once listened to MON the troubles of young teenager Hannah, pouring out her MON woes from a phone box during a turbulent night in the MON centre of the Kent resort town of Margate. MON Alan went on to make a Radio 4 feature programme about MON Hannah's story; now, he finally encounters Hannah and her MON family. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrv (Listen) TUE William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, TUE Episode 1 TUE Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the TUE Nobel Prize-winning author. TUE His debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected by many TUE publishers before going on to sell over 20 million copies TUE in Britain alone. Drawing on a wealth of previously TUE unpublished material from the Golding family archive, TUE Carey explores the life and career of an often harshly TUE self-critical novelist. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdgw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdxx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00mff2s (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8h (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00mffdf (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00mfffs (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mg2xx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Professor Steve Jones TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy TUE back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to TUE uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific TUE discovery. TUE TUE 09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mg3yq (Listen) TUE The Destroyed Portrait of Winston Churchill TUE Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick TUE Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very TUE different missing works of art. TUE Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill, TUE commissioned by both Houses of Parliament as a tribute to TUE Churchill on the occasion of his 80th birthday, was TUE destroyed after his death by his wife because she hated it TUE so much. Photographs taken before its demise show the TUE Prime Minister hunched with age and dark in mood. A TUE detailed study by the artist for the destroyed painting TUE still hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. TUE Rick tells the story behind this lost portrait and asks if TUE the rights of an owner override those of the public, and TUE if the Churchills had the moral right to destroy it. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrx (Listen) TUE William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, TUE Episode 2 TUE Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the TUE Nobel Prize-winning author. TUE After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a TUE provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch TUE hour. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6p (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Au Pairs. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00mg3ys (Listen) TUE Series 3, Manx Marine Nature Reserve TUE The Isle of Man government is considering designating an TUE area of their coastline as a marine nature reserve, TUE protecting invaluable habitats and species. The island is TUE famous for its marine life, not least the basking shark, TUE so, Brett Westwood asks, how feasible is it to set up a TUE conservation area in the sea? TUE TUE 11:30 Winnie the Who? b00gntcy (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen explores the enduring popularity in Russia TUE of translations of the Winnie the Pooh stories. TUE In Soviet Russia, Winnie the Pooh became Vinni Pukh, and TUE the original illustrations were replaced by an entirely TUE new animation that became a spectacular hit. From TUE Vladivostock to Tallin there was scarely a TUE Russian-speaking child who couldn't recite large chunks of TUE Vinni Pukh, or garble back the words of Petachok (Piglet) TUE or moan the lines of Oslik (Eeyore). It came as a shock to TUE many of them that an Englishman was able to create such TUE quintessentially Russian characters. TUE Michael finds out about the Russian translations, why they TUE chose to remove Christopher Robin from the action, why TUE they ignored both the Shepherd and ultimately the Disney TUE cartoon drawings, and why their version was, and still is, TUE such an important part of their cultural history. TUE And Strictly Come Dancing star Lilia Kopylova, among, TUE others, recalls her love of this very Russo-English Bear. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00mfg85 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00mfhhh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00mfhkw (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00mg3yv (Listen) TUE Series 8, The Look of Love TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their TUE emotional appeal. TUE Hal David discusses writing The Look of Love, for the TUE soundtrack of the spoof 1967 James Bond film Casino TUE Royale, with Burt Bacharach. Dusty Springfield's former TUE backing singer, Simon Bell, remembers being on stage at TUE the Albert Hall when Dusty laughed her way through a TUE performance of the song, and musician Jonathan Cohen TUE describes how the samba rhythm underscoring Dusty's smooth TUE vocals combine to make this an enduringly popular love TUE song. TUE It has been covered many times by artists including Isaac TUE Hayes, Gladys Knight and the French singer Mirielle TUE Mathieu. This programme hears from people whose personal TUE memories of love and loss are forever linked with The Look TUE of Love. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00mfhmh (Listen) TUE Lynda puts her foot down for the footpaths. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mg4k3 (Listen) TUE Meryl the Mounted TUE Black comedy by Colin Hough. Meryl is a mounted police TUE constable with an unhealthy love for her horse; Aiden is a TUE young stable boy with an unhealthy love for Meryl. When TUE their sergeant is found murdered, the pair investigate. TUE Meryl Gunn ...... Rosalind Sydney TUE Aiden Cole ...... Scott Fletcher TUE Perry Wold/DCI Butler ...... Robert Jack TUE Bunty Lobe ...... Una McLean TUE Sergeant Singer/Mahogany Bob ...... Sean Scanlan TUE Dean Gallop ...... James Young TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00mg4k5 (Listen) TUE Our planet is peppered with great valleys and depressions, TUE many of which are both arid and below sea level. We are TUE concerned that rising sea levels will threaten coastal TUE populations, so could we not kill two birds with one stone TUE by pumping sea water into, say, the Great African Rift TUE Valley? It could also generate power by running the water TUE through hydro-electric turbines. Once done, the once-arid TUE areas would be overflowing with sea water, good for algae TUE but not for the majority of land grown crops. So could TUE genetic engineering step in to produce salt tolerant TUE plants able to feast on this bounty/ TUE Plus a discussion of the world's distribution of oxygen, TUE tackling invasive plants by targeting their friendly TUE funghi and how much we can allow scepticism to stifle TUE action on climate change. TUE On the panel are Prof Sue Buckingham, Director of Centre TUE for Human Geography at Brunel University, planet TUE geneticist Prof Denis Murphy of the University of TUE Glamorgan, and Prof Philip Stott, an environmental TUE scientist from the University of London. As always we want TUE to hear listeners' comments on the topics discussed and TUE any questions to put to future programmes. TUE Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House TUE Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have TUE they bred successfully? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6my (Listen) TUE The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 1 TUE Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel TUE Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and TUE introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of TUE English at King's College, London, David Nokes. TUE Johnson's early biography, The Life of Richard Savage, and TUE his best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhwt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and TUE examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the TUE test of time. TUE As you check the time rushing to work or boiling an egg, TUE you are making a Babylonian calculation. Dr Anne Curtis of TUE the National Physical Laboratory discovers the origins of TUE 'base 60'. TUE TUE 16:00 A Small Business b00mg74r (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners TUE of the small businesses which keep our economy running. TUE Liz encounters Brian, who retired from the Special Branch TUE and now protects dignitaries and celebrities on visits to TUE Britain; Trevor, who has swapped a career in banking for a TUE life of lawn care; and Sarah, who left teaching to start TUE up an insect circus. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00mg74v (Listen) TUE Series 19, Samuel Johnson TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, nominates Samuel TUE Johnson, writer of the great dictionary. Dr Johnson's TUE biographer, Peter Martin, joins the discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00mfj9k (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mg8mx (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 3 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE A horse makes his own packed lunch, a boy's effectiveness TUE as a wolf early-warning system is compromised, an TUE evangelist refuses to tell anyone about Jesus, and advice TUE on how to become the next Zorro. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00mfhlx (Listen) TUE Mike sees how the other half live at Ambridge Hall. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mfjpl (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including news of TUE the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize and an TUE interview with songwriter and novelist Nick Cave. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk2v (Listen) TUE Au Pairs, Episode 2 TUE Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, TUE morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The TUE story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from TUE Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their TUE mutual condemnation of modern parenting. TUE Alvy and Dorika have a night off. And that's just their TUE first mistake. TUE Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin TUE Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 20:00 Top Dogs: Britain's New Supreme Court b00mg8mz (Listen) TUE The UK Supreme Court is replacing the House of Lords as TUE the highest court in the land. Yet hardly anyone knows who TUE its justices are, why the reform has been made and how it TUE will change our lives. Joshua Rozenberg goes behind the TUE scenes to talk to the judges and to visit their new court, TUE and discovers from leading politicians how the new court TUE was created. He also asks if Parliament will find the new TUE judicial top dogs to be dangerous rivals for power. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00mg8n1 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00mg8n3 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter on how best to help people rebuild their TUE lives after a head injury. Damage to the brain affects TUE people in all kinds of ways, both physically and TUE emotionally. At the Bath Neuro Rehabiliation Services, TUE Mark discovers how timely intervention can reduce problems. TUE TUE 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mg2xx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Professor Steve Jones TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy TUE back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to TUE uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific TUE discovery. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00mfkm3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00mfkns (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4p (Listen) TUE Love and Summer, Episode 7 TUE Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor TUE about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of TUE Ireland. TUE The dog days of August and Florian Kilderry realises that TUE there is less time left than he had imagined. As he TUE prepares to break his news to Ellie, he stumbles on a TUE long-forgotten treasure, and a purpose for the rest of his TUE life. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00jmv1v (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are Rev Richard Coles, TUE journalist Matthew Norman and comedian Mark Steel. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b008g3df (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 TUE Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand, TUE Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy TUE Brand. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrx (Listen) WED William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, WED Episode 2 WED Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the WED Nobel Prize-winning author. WED After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a WED provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch WED hour. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdgy (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdxz (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00mff2v (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8k (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00mffdh (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00mfffv (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00mg8w8 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 6 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two women who were raped by men they met WED on a night out and asks why conviction rates in the UK are WED so low compared with the rest of Europe. WED WED 09:30 The Missing Penny b009s0z6 (Listen) WED In 1933, only a handful of pennies were minted, and at WED least one remains unaccounted for. Such a discovery would WED be worth thousands of pounds. Numismatic journalist Phil WED Mussell sets about tracking it down. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00mffrz (Listen) WED William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, WED Episode 3 WED Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the WED Nobel Prize-winning author. WED In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with WED life as a celebrity. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6r (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs. WED WED 11:00 The Last Chance Court b00mg8wb (Listen) WED Jenny Cuffe reports on the UK's first family, drug and WED alcohol court, a groundbreaking experiment designed to WED keep children of addicts from going into care. WED Parents sign up for an intensive course of counselling and WED rehabilitation, agreeing to frequent drug tests and WED reporting regularly to the court. Those who fail will go WED back to a conventional court, where there is a strong WED chance that the children will be taken away from them. WED Halfway through a three-year trial period for the court, WED the programme hears from families, their lawyers, judges WED and the specialist team of counsellors. WED Jenny meets mothers like Catherine, a heroin addict, who WED gave birth to her third child in a hostel toilet. At a WED recent hearing, the judge praised her parenting skills and WED said he was proud of her. Tim Quinn, the scheme's clinical WED nurse, says that there is an urgent need to stop the WED damage and chaos of parental drug and alcohol abuse being WED transmitted to the next generation. WED WED 11:30 Ayres on the Air b00mg9fy (Listen) WED Series 3, Shopping WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Pam is joined on stage by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity WED Montagu for poems and sketches on the subject of Shopping. WED Featuring sketches about braving the cosmetics department, WED and how some shop assistants think anyone over 40 should WED only wear beige. WED Pam's shopping poems include Nowadays We Worship at Saint WED Tesco, the Contact Lens poem and I Can't Find Nice WED Knickers, one of her briefer poems. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00mfg87 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00mfhhk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00mfhky (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00mg9g0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00mfhlx (Listen) WED Mike sees how the other half live at Ambridge Hall. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b007qwpd (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 2 WED Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester WED legal practice. WED When new recruit Debbie joins the team, she ruffles more WED than a few feathers. WED Frank ...... David Schofield WED DeeDee ...... Denise Welch WED Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah WED James ...... Mikey North WED Sarah ...... Gina Bellman WED Debbie ...... Emma Atkins WED Jackie Hargreaves ...... Leanne Best WED Inspector Bryant ...... Kevin Harvey WED Music by Carl Harms. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00mgd7z (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n0 (Listen) WED The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 2 WED Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel WED Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and WED introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of WED English at King's College, London, David Nokes. WED Two contrasting essays from The Idler series, published WED weekly in the Universal Chronicle. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhww (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and WED examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the WED test of time. WED Prof Graeme Maidment explores the earliest methods of WED surviving a hot climate. Does ancient Egypt hold the key WED to an urgent modern need for sustainable cooling? He goes WED to an unlikely place to find out - Bluewater shopping WED centre, just off the M25. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mgd81 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00mg8n3 (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter on how best to help people rebuild their WED lives after a head injury. Damage to the brain affects WED people in all kinds of ways, both physically and WED emotionally. At the Bath Neuro Rehabiliation Services, WED Mark discovers how timely intervention can reduce problems. WED WED 17:00 PM b00mfj9m (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00mgd83 (Listen) WED Series 5, Frank Skinner WED Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next WED week's interviewer. WED Dave Gorman interviews Frank Skinner, asking him about his WED return to stand up, censorship in comedy and the merits of WED outdoor toilets. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00mfhlz (Listen) WED Wayne reaps what he sows at The Bull. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mfjpn (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an WED interview with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfk2x (Listen) WED Au Pairs, Episode 3 WED Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, WED morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The WED story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from WED Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their WED mutual condemnation of modern parenting. WED It is Louis' birthday. The cake is prepared and the games WED are organised - what could possibly go wrong? WED Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin WED Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00mgwhy (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which WED guests set out their strong views on a subject, before WED being challenged by a panel of experts. WED Economist and writer Philippe Legrain argues that Britain WED should abolish all immigration controls. The movement of WED people across our borders should, he says, be as free as WED the movement of goods and services. WED Legrain's views are challenged by Sir Andrew Green, WED chairman of Migrationwatch UK, Labour MP for Keighley and WED Ilkeley Ann Cryer and Tony Saint, a writer and former WED immigration officer. WED WED 20:45 Britain's White House b00mgwj0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Sadiq Khan MP remembers the careers of Britain's first WED Asian MPs. WED Sadiq remembers his radical predecessor, Shapurji WED Saklatvala. One of Britain's first Asian MPs, Saklatvala's WED political career began in 1922 when he was elected as a WED Labour MP for South London. By the end of the decade, WED Saklatvala had been re-elected as Parliament's sole WED Communist MP, been imprisoned for sedition and become WED famous for his brilliant oratory and campaign for Indian WED independence. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00mg3ys (Listen) WED Series 3, Manx Marine Nature Reserve WED The Isle of Man government is considering designating an WED area of their coastline as a marine nature reserve, WED protecting invaluable habitats and species. The island is WED famous for its marine life, not least the basking shark, WED so, Brett Westwood asks, how feasible is it to set up a WED conservation area in the sea? WED WED 21:30 Between Ourselves b00mg8w8 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 6 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two women who were raped by men they met WED on a night out and asks why conviction rates in the UK are WED so low compared with the rest of Europe. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00mfkm5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknv (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4r (Listen) WED Love and Summer, Episode 8 WED Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor WED about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of WED Ireland. WED With little time left to them and the scent of autumn in WED the air, Ellie comes to Shelhanagh House for the first WED time. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b0079nt1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key WED and Lloyd Woolf. WED WED 23:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of The Mic WED b00ft5bd (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. WED Actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris lands a job on the WED BBC Radio Rep, and before long a murder takes place in WED Broadcasting House. WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden WED Juliet Paris ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Maurice/John ...... Jon Glover WED Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson WED Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond WED Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo WED Charlotte Green ...... Herself WED Kasia/Actress ...... Jill Cardo WED Annie ...... Manjeet Mann WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00mffrz (Listen) THU William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, THU Episode 3 THU Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the THU Nobel Prize-winning author. THU In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with THU life as a celebrity. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdh0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdy1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00mff2x (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8m (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00mffdk (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00mfffx (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Simpson in Afghanistan b00mh2t3 (Listen) THU The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been THU travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen THU Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban THU takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a THU country still at war eight years after the American-led THU intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong. THU THU 09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00mgx81 (Listen) THU Conclusion THU Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have THU been shaped by the media. THU Kenan examines the impact that television shows may have THU had on the treatment of Muslim detainees, and the THU responsibilities programme makers and artists face when THU dealing with Islamic issues. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00mffs1 (Listen) THU William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, THU Episode 4 THU Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the THU Nobel Prize-winning author. THU Golding fails miserably in his attempts to research his THU Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6t (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00mgx83 (Listen) THU Egypt THU Magdi Abdelhadi explores what kind of society Egyptian THU president Hosni Mubarak, who has no obvious successor in THU place, will leave behind when he dies. THU Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and THU is pivotal for stability in the region and beyond, but THU after nearly three decades in power, the absence of a THU potential successor to the 81-year-old President Mubarak, THU has raised fears of a succession crisis. THU Magdi finds, to his surprise, that nearly 60 years after THU the military seized power and abolished the monarchy, THU Egyptians still look to the army for a saviour. THU THU 11:30 Ena b00mgx85 (Listen) THU Mark Radcliffe explores the life of Violet Carson, the THU actress who played Ena Sharples, the Victorian relic who THU dominated Coronation Street in its' golden age of the THU 1960s. THU A talented classical pianist and established BBC radio THU star, Carson was branching out into Shakespearian roles THU when the call from Granada came to play the hatchet-faced THU harridan in a hairnet. The genteel Violet Carson became THU overshadowed by her character and claimed that Ena THU ultimately destroyed her. THU But she left a rich legacy; Ena Sharples was television's THU prototype battleaxe and epitomised a particular kind of THU woman who dominated life in northern working-class THU communities. Mark Radcliffe came across women like Ena in THU the brick mill terraces of Bolton where his grandparents THU lived. THU By day, Ena would be polishing the woodwork in the Glad THU Tidings Mission Hall, where she was caretaker; by night, THU she was installed in the snug of the Rovers Return with THU her two cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, THU gossiping over a milk stout and never taking their hats THU and coats off, even when they planned to stay all evening. THU Featuring contributions from Tony Warren, creator of THU Coronation Street and of Ena Sharples. Geoffrey Wheeler, THU who worked with Violet Carson at the BBC, traces the THU quickfire delivery of Ena back to the northern music hall THU tradition. Melvyn Bragg talks about how Ena Sharples THU reflected life in the black and white world of the north THU in the 1950s. Scriptwriter Adele Rose discusses the THU pivotal relationship between Ena Sharples and her bete THU noir, Elsie Tanner. THU The programme also includes archive of Violet Carson, THU reflecting on the mixed blessing that playing Ena Sharples THU was to her career and to her life. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00mfg89 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00mfhhm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00mfhl0 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00mg2v8 (Listen) THU Sell-by Dates THU In the UK, 370,000 tonnes of food is misguidedly thrown THU away each year after passing its best-before date, with a THU further 40,000 tonnes not even opened by consumers. An THU additional 220,000 tonnes of food is thrown away while THU still in date and 440,000 tonnes of food is thrown away THU after its use-by date. And that is just the food that THU reaches our fridges and fruitbowls. There are an estimated THU 1.6 million tonnes of food thrown away by British THU retailers making up just some of the 5.4 million tonnes of THU food the UK throws away every year. THU So where does all this confusion come from? According to THU one survey, more than one-third of Britons believe that THU any product past its 'best-before' date is liable to THU poison them and should never be eaten. Added to this THU confusion is the less than scientific way in which THU 'use-by' dates are often set with a 'worse case scenario' THU applied to all products, protecting the consumer but also THU the industry. THU With dates now applied to all kinds of produce, from soft THU fruit to hard cheese, Tom Heap seeks to find out where THU these dates came from, who sets them, who benefits and how THU we might learn to live without them. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00mfhlz (Listen) THU Wayne reaps what he sows at The Bull. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mgy5c (Listen) THU Cold THU Comedy by Tony Bagley, set in 1959 at the Common Cold THU Unit. Medical researchers are certain that a cure for the THU cold is just around the corner. But they haven't foreseen THU a revolution within their own walls. THU Barry ...... Paul Reynolds THU John ...... Philip Fox THU Nurse Bader ...... Melissa Advani THU Doctor ...... Michael Fenton Stevens THU Lillian ...... Alex Tregear THU Geraldine ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Narrator ...... Piers Wehner THU Junior Doctor/Wandering Man ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00mdy0v (Listen) THU Tales From the Serpentine THU Matt Baker starts the day with a splash when he joins the THU early morning swimmers at the Serpentine Lake in London's THU Hyde Park. THU For almost 300 years, the Serpentine has played a role in THU the history of London and formed a central part in the THU lives of the people and wildlife who use it on a daily THU basis. Matt takes a walk around the lake, chatting to the THU people involved with the lake today and with the wildlife THU that live in and around it and finds out more about a THU recent project to improve water quality. THU Created in 1730 when Queen Caroline ordered the damming of THU the River Westbourne, the 40-acre body of water has been THU the playground of poets and queens, a meeting place for THU the fashionable and the not so fashionable, and a favoured THU spot for swimmers. These range from the 10,000 people in THU the mid-19th century who were described as a 'mass of THU human flesh in motion' to the early morning bathers of THU today, described by AA Gill as 'shelled turtles'. THU Matt also takes a trip on the solar-powered shuttle boat THU that silently and effortlessly glides from one side of the THU lake to the other, ferrying visitors from the boat house THU on the north shore to the Princess of Wales Memorial THU Fountain on the south. THU The day ends with a chat with 'Captain Hook', aka actor THU Jonathan Hyde, before he takes to the stage in the current THU production of Peter Pan, running in the THU specially-commissioned state-of-the-art Kensington Gardens THU Theatre Pavilion. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mf26y (Listen) THU Prospect Burma THU Maureen Lipman appeals on behalf of Prospect Burma. THU Donations to Prospect Burma should be sent to FREEPOST BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope PB. THU Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax THU payer, please provide PB with your full name and address THU so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The THU online and phone donation facilities are not currently THU available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 802615. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n2 (Listen) THU The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 3 THU Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel THU Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and THU introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of THU English at King's College, London, David Nokes. THU Johnson's Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare and THU one of his final pieces of biography and literary THU criticism, examining the life and work of the poet THU Alexander Pope. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhwz (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and THU examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the THU test of time. THU Science writer Gabrielle Walker goes punting on the River THU Cam to discover if Aristotle's treatise on meteorology THU stands up to modern scrutiny. Aristotle likens earthquakes THU to bodily ructions but remarkably knew that, 'where there THU is dry land there will one day be sea'. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00mf31l (Listen) THU Robert Macfarlane THU James Naughtie and readers talk to travel writer and THU literary critic Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild THU Places, in which he sets out to discover if there remain THU any genuinely wild places in Britain and Ireland. THU It is an account of journeys that he made to the remaining THU wilderness in the islands. He climbs hills and mountains, THU walks across moors and bogs, luxuriates beside hidden THU lochs, swims through caves and disappears into forests, THU all in search of that special quality of solitude in THU communion with nature. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00mgy5f (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper hears what became of the Large Hadron THU Collider, one year on from the much-vaunted Big Bang Day. THU In September 2008, Radio 4 decamped to the Swiss THU countryside to broadcast the launch of the most THU complicated experiment ever attempted, the giant, THU atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility. THU But before the month was out, the experiment was THU suspended, after a major electrical failure. THU Quentin hears about progress towards the re-opening of the THU LHC and finds out when it is likely to work again. THU THU 17:00 PM b00mfj9p (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00l63v8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU The paper hires a reality star as a columnist and Maddox THU must find a way of rewriting her copy without upsetting THU her. THU Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay THU Oliver ...... Alex Jennings THU Freddy ...... Ben Willbond THU Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar THU Masha ...... Debbie Chazen THU Debbie ...... Lizzy Watts THU Announcer ...... Matt Addis THU With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00mfhm1 (Listen) THU Reality bites for The Ambridge Fraudster. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mfjpq (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an THU interview with Barry Humphries, as he prepares for live THU shows starring Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfkgz (Listen) THU Au Pairs, Episode 4 THU Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, THU morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The THU story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from THU Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their THU mutual condemnation of modern parenting. THU Alvy and Dorika go to the zoo. Lock up your children. THU Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin THU Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00mgy5h (Listen) THU James Silver examines the potential effect of the decison THU to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on THU trade relations between Libya and the West. The former THU pariah state has some of the world's biggest reserves of THU oil and gas - might British industry benefit from Libya's THU desire to develop its economy? THU THU 20:30 In Business b00mgy5k (Listen) THU Student Start-Ups THU Britain's universities are alive with a new wave of THU business activity, and in many of them the largest student THU societies are the ones which bring would-be entrepreneurs THU together with potential backers and mentors. THU Peter Day samples some of the start-up ideas on show at THU Cambridge University and hears how academic attitudes to THU business have changed over the past few decades. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00mgyr1 (Listen) THU Geoff Watts reports from the British Science Association's THU Festival in Guildford. THU At the 2008 Festival, Prof Michael Reiss suggested that THU science teachers should be prepared to discuss creationist THU beliefs in the classroom if asked about them by pupils. THU The resulting controversy led to his departure from the THU post of Education Director at the Royal Society. He is now THU Professor of Science Education at the Institute of THU Education and returns to the Festival to argue the case THU for discussing controversial issues in science classes. THU Geoff follows up several aspects of communication: how THU animals and people communicate emotions and recognise THU faces, the prehistoric basis of language and artistic THU communication among our ancestors, and the role of brain THU function in stimulating creative expression. THU THU 21:30 Simpson in Afghanistan b00mh2t3 (Listen) THU The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been THU travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen THU Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban THU takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a THU country still at war eight years after the American-led THU intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00mfkm7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknx (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4t (Listen) THU Love and Summer, Episode 9 THU Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor THU about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of THU Ireland. THU As Florian's departure date approaches, Ellie makes THU another journey to Shelhanagh, and Orpen Wren goes in THU search of someone in particular to hear his story. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dwjd7 (Listen) THU Series 1, Tim Brooke-Taylor THU Marcus Brigstocke invites Tim Brooke-Taylor to try new THU experiences. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b007ng62 (Listen) THU Series 3, Uncontrollable Responses THU Jon Ronson continues his look at human behaviour by THU finding the moments where we respond in an uncontrollable THU way. THU Comedian Robert Popper couldn't stop his drunken friend THU from putting their lives at risk while at a wedding in THU Israel. The story involved a pair of underpants, but no THU hilarious consequences. THU Another interviewee, who survived the 7/7 terrorist THU attacks, found herself - during the period of her recovery THU - uncontrollably joining in with message boards accusing THU her of being a government plant on one of the bombed THU trains. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00mfdfx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00mffs1 (Listen) FRI William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, FRI Episode 4 FRI Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the FRI Nobel Prize-winning author. FRI Golding fails miserably in his attempts to research his FRI Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mfdh2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mfdy3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mfdjj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00mff2z (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mff8p (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Stephen Shipley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00mffdm (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00mfffz (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00mf27b (Listen) FRI Iranian Embassy Siege FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI Sue reunites those caught up in the siege at the Iranian FRI Embassy in London in 1980, which ended with a dramatic FRI storming of the building by SAS commandos. With FRI contributions from hostages Sim Harris and Mustapha FRI Karkouti, police negotiator Max Vernon, BBC reporter Kate FRI Adie and Robin Horsfall of the SAS. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00mffs3 (Listen) FRI William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, FRI Episode 5 FRI Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the FRI prize-winning author. FRI In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mfg6w (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Au Pairs. FRI FRI 11:00 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) FRI Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager, FRI investigates the demise of the traditional face of our FRI high street banks. FRI For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our FRI money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it FRI their business to know every detail of the local economy. FRI Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash FRI machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and FRI their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to FRI sell, sell, sell. FRI Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's FRI profession no longer exists, and asks how this change FRI reflects on today's consumer society and the banking FRI industry's rush to lend money. FRI Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire FRI of Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on FRI the road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style FRI Lloyds bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous FRI breakdown under the pressure to meet new targets; John FRI Hackett, HSBC's Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who FRI says that banks are now far more responsive to their FRI customers' needs. FRI A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mgz1p (Listen) FRI Cadmus Wilcox FRI By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the FRI highly-respected, now retired, English master of FRI Haunchurst School for boys, looks back on his favourite FRI pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on FRI school reports and their letters to him after they left. FRI A pupil with American diplomat parents is denied access to FRI the senior cadets shooting team by the Colonel because he FRI is not a British citizen, even though he is the only hope FRI the school have of winning the prestigious inter-schools FRI shooting cup. But when he visits Haunchurst as an adult FRI with an Olympic medal for shooting with his US team, the FRI Colonel is totally unimpressed. FRI Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid FRI Colonel Bradshaw ...... Richard Johnson FRI ARF Somerset-Stephenson.............Mike Sarne FRI Cadmus Wilcox (Boy) ...... Tom Kane FRI Cadmus Wilcox (Adult) ...... Dominic Hawksley FRI Wentworth ...... Louis Williams FRI Directed by Andrew McGibbon FRI A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00mfg8c (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00mfhhp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00mfhl2 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00mh27z (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00mfhm1 (Listen) FRI Reality bites for The Ambridge Fraudster. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mh2g0 (Listen) FRI The Second Best Bed FRI Comic monologue by Christopher Green. A feisty woman has FRI taken to her bed in the spare room and she is not getting FRI up - ever. She's 39 and has decided that she is not having FRI children. She claims her boyfriend is in denial, though in FRI reality he is in Zurich. FRI With Caroline Quentin. FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mh2yp (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions sent in by post at the Gardeners' Question Time FRI potting shed at Sparsholt College in Hampshire. FRI If you are eternally battling the dreaded Japanese FRI Knotweed, Dr Richard Shaw has some ideas about a new bio FRI control. FRI Plus the latest news on the garden trials with Sparsholt FRI College's Rosie Yeomans, including an update on our FRI treasured courgettes and plans for over-wintering Dahlias. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Test of Time b00mfhx1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Five scientists look back to their ancient forebears and FRI examine how much of that early knowledge still stands the FRI test of time. FRI Prof Gus Mcgrouther finds striking parallels between his FRI wound-healing research in Manchester and the earliest FRI methods recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00mh2yr (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 b00mj10h (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to writer and director Nora Ephron FRI about her latest film Julie and Julia, and a career that FRI includes When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00mfj9r (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mfjh7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mj10k (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two FRI teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The FRI show asks both the big and the little questions, and FRI provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Justin FRI Edwards, Paul Sinha and Justin Moorhouse. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00mfhm3 (Listen) FRI Matt finds all is not lost with Lilian. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mfjps (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report FRI on a new museum in Portugal dedicated to the work of FRI painter Paula Rego. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mfkd2 (Listen) FRI Au Pairs, Episode 5 FRI Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, FRI morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The FRI story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from FRI Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their FRI mutual condemnation of modern parenting. FRI Major life changes beckon. If only Alvy and Dorika can get FRI that vase off Louis' head. FRI Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin FRI Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00mj16f (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from FRI Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mj16h (Listen) FRI Tracks FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Following the tracks left by animals is a great craft FRI owned by many aboriginal people. Doing the same with FRI fossilised tracks is much the same skill, but with a whole FRI new set of extraordinary revelations. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b008hsky (Listen) FRI The Wooden Overcoat FRI Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in FRI 1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss. FRI Much to his surprise, Benji Cann has got away with murder. FRI He gravitates to the Asterisk Club, a place of refuge for FRI those who have strayed beyond the pale and not paid the FRI ultimate price. But then Benji turns up dead. Who killed FRI him and how will they be able to get rid of the body FRI without the neighbours noticing? FRI Peter ...... David Tennant FRI Fan ...... Julia Davis FRI Rex ...... David Benson FRI Beesum ...... Alan David FRI Colonel Quincey ...... Graham Crowden FRI Creaker ...... David Ryall FRI Flush ...... John Castle FRI Benji ...... Tom Allen FRI Mrs Barratt ...... Barbara Kirby FRI Lilli Cluj ...... Katherine Jakeways. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00mfkm9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00mfknz (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mfl4w (Listen) FRI Love and Summer, Episode 10 FRI Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor FRI about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of FRI Ireland. FRI Passive in the face of Ellie's determination, Florian has FRI offered her the chance to come with him to Scandinavia. FRI Now Ellie must weigh the damage and make her choice. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00mg74v (Listen) FRI Series 19, Samuel Johnson FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, nominates Samuel FRI Johnson, writer of the great dictionary. Dr Johnson's FRI biographer, Peter Martin, joins the discussion. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the past week of radio. FRI FRI FRI

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