18 September, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 19/09/2009 - 25/09/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00mm0dy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00mjmvk (Listen) SAT Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 5 SAT Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, SAT covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. SAT Lots of kissing, the rushes look good, and a career swerve SAT into world travel beckons. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mm0v9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mm0vc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mm0vf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00mm0vh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mm0vk (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. SAT SAT 05:45 Wars of The Roses b00frp64 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Wesley Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its SAT bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. SAT Wesley finds out who the winners are at the Britain in SAT Bloom awards, as dozens of finalists from across the SAT country gather for a gala event at Chester Racecourse. SAT Will Taunton have done enough to win the prestigious gold SAT medal and be crowned Best Large Town in Britain? SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00mm101 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00mp51z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00mp521 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 1 SAT Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in SAT Northumberland. SAT The first section of the route takes Clare from Holy SAT Island to St Cuthbert's Cave. She is joined by local SAT clergyman Michael Mountney, the creator of the route, who SAT conceived the idea as a millenium project for his parish. SAT They are joined by long-distance walking expert Jenny SAT Walters, who offers Clare advice on how to keep her feet SAT in shape for the miles ahead and the kit she needs to keep SAT on track. SAT St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy SAT Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland SAT coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's SAT Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St SAT Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early seventh SAT century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity SAT to his people. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00mp5rc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT It's been an emtional week for many after the e.coli SAT outbreak at Godstone Farm in Surrey. As another farm SAT closes, Charlotte Smith investiagtes what impact this SAT could have on farms which open to the public. A number of SAT petting farms have told us they have seen a drop in the SAT number of visitors since the outbreak. Charlotte visits a SAT farm in Worcester which opens its doors on a regular basis SAT to organised school visits, to find out how safe farms SAT really are. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00mp5rf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00mp5rh (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00mp5wk (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by musician and SAT actor Gary Kemp. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00mp5wm (Listen) SAT Oil wealth transforms cities but in very different ways. SAT Sandi Toksvig hears about Abu Dhabi from Jo Tatchell, who SAT was brought up there. Its high-rise glitz and cultural SAT aspirations, coupled with caution and reserve, contrast SAT vividly with the chaos and corruption - but liveliness - SAT of Lagos, Nigeria, as seen by the former Financial Times SAT correspondent there, Michael Peel. SAT Sandi also finds out from Middle East travel writer SAT Matthew Teller about why the ultra-modern Gulf states, SAT where there is no shortage of cheap petrol, want to take a SAT 19th-century lesson and build a railway linking the SAT countries. SAT SAT 10:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star SAT b00mp5zb (Listen) SAT Robin Denselow profiles the musician Youssou N'Dour as he SAT reaches his 50th birthday, and travels to Senegal to SAT interview the singer in his home city of Dakar. SAT Denselow analyses not just his music but the way N'Dour SAT has used it for the benefit of his country and his SAT continent. He had huge success with the duet 7 Seconds SAT with Neneh Cherry in 1994, but he has been making music SAT for nearly 40 years and has collaborated with many SAT international artists. SAT Contributors include Peter Gabriel, Branford Marsalis, DJ SAT Charlie Gillett and Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab. SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mp5zd (Listen) SAT Ten years after Labour introduced the ASBO, anti-social SAT behaviour is still a worry to many voters. With both SAT government and opposition promising a crackdown, Ben SAT Wright asks how much power politicians really have over SAT our behaviour and hears claims that too much interference SAT by the state is damaging society. SAT Trying to make us behave better has been one of the Labour SAT government's missions. Nuisance neighbours, troublesome SAT teenagers, yobs and louts have been in the sights of SAT successive home secretaries and the government has SAT legislated with zeal. It is ten years since the first SAT antisocial behaviour order - or ASBO - was issued. Since SAT then the government has built up a vast arsenal of SAT measures to combat a wide number of problems, from crack SAT houses to high hedges. But have the dispersal orders, SAT behaviour contracts, parenting orders and noise notices SAT made any difference in the worst-affected areas? And how SAT has the ASBO industry that has developed over the past SAT decade affected our ability to resolve disputes among ou SAT He speaks to Assistant Chief Constable Constable Garry SAT Shewan of Greater Manchester Police, to Paul Cullen from SAT Manchester City Council and to Eric Allison, a long-time SAT Gorton resident and the Guardian's prisons correspondent. SAT We also hear from the Labour MP Frank Field, who wants SAT communities to be given more power to deal with nuisance SAT neighbours directly, and from sociologist Stuart Whaiton, SAT who thinks politicians who call for more crackdowns on SAT antisocial behaviour are indulging in a 'politics of SAT fear'. Finally, Home office minister David Hanson and SAT Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling debate current policy SAT on the issue. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mp5zg (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00mp63v (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mlxft (Listen) SAT Episode 5 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 Will SAT Smith, Paul Sinha and Sarah Millican. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00mp63x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00mp63z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00mlxpr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Ashbourne SAT in Derbyshire. The panellists are former cabinet minister SAT Margaret Beckett, Shadow Secretary of State for SAT International Development Andrew Mitchell, broadcaster and SAT contestant in The Apprentice Saira Khan and Julia Unwin, SAT chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00mp66c (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 b00mpjnh (Listen) SAT Choice of Straws SAT Dramatisation by Roy Williams of the novel by ER SAT Braithwaite. 1960, London's East End: twins Jack and Dave SAT Bennett are a happy-go-lucky, rootless pair. If they do SAT occasionally rough-up a black guy it's just a game to them SAT - until a victim in Whitechapel fights back and Dave pulls SAT a knife. SAT Jack ...... Harry Hepple SAT Dave ...... Luke Norris SAT Michelle ...... Gugu Mbatha-Raw SAT Mum ...... Ellie Haddington SAT Dad ...... David Hargreaves SAT Ruth ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT Mr Spencer ...... Alex Lanipekun SAT Officer ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00mk6tc (Listen) SAT Series 8, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas SAT Tallis SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their SAT emotional appeal. SAT When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910, SAT he changed the course of British music. Here at last was a SAT piece of music which was no longer under the Teutonic SAT influence, but which drew on old English hymn tunes and SAT folk idioms for its themes. As the string music builds to SAT a climax, interviewees tell how this music has brought SAT solace and hope in times of tragedy and changed the course SAT of their lives. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00mpjnm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Including Royal biographer William Shawcross on his SAT biography of the Queen Mother, Maeve Binchy on her life as SAT a novelist, the popularity and influence of German SAT chancellor Angela Merkel, Margaret Drabble on writers' SAT relationship with the British landscape; the backlash SAT against the sexualisation of young girls, and extended SAT paternity leave and whether dads really want to stay at SAT home. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00mpjnp (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00mpjnr (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mpjny (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00mpjp2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mpjp4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00mpjpd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by Python and traveller Michael Palin, the SAT comedians Mitchell and Webb and the actress Jane Horrocks. SAT With comedy from Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Tim Key, SAT and music from Fiery Furnaces and Duke and the King. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen) SAT Christopher Bailey SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher SAT Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York SAT and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the SAT unwanted attention of the chavs. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00mpjpz (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mpjq7 (Listen) SAT Scott of Slimbridge SAT From the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in SAT Gloucestershire, Frank Gardner reflects on the career of SAT Sir Peter Scott - ornithologist, author, painter, SAT sportsman, war hero and broadcaster, whose television SAT programme Look ran for over 25 years. SAT Born 100 years ago, the son of Scott of the Antarctic, he SAT was dubbed the patron saint of conservation. He was the SAT first to campaign for the preservation of endangered SAT species and to warn against the destruction of natural SAT habitats. SAT A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00mjklh (Listen) SAT The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode SAT 2 SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography SAT of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of SAT Johnson's birth. SAT Boswell visits Johnson only intermittently, but relies on SAT him more and more. Johnson meets Hester Thrale, who SAT becomes his devoted friend and confidante, and the most SAT important person in his life. SAT Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins SAT Hester Thrale ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT David Garrick ...... David Hargreaves SAT Mrs Desmoulins ...... Susan Jameson SAT Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis SAT Dilly ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Wilkes ...... Philip Fox SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00mpjqk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b00mkbyn (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Edward Stourton chairs a discussion series in which guests SAT set out their strong views on a subject, before being SAT challenged by a panel of experts. SAT Kenyan economist James Shikwati argues that aid to SAT developing countries does more harm than good. He says SAT that aid promotes corruption and complacency, damages SAT local economies and teaches people to be beggars. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mjrxs (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Wales and the north of England. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00mjklm (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents requests for much-loved poems that SAT contrast the joy of living with the experience of memory SAT loss. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00mplq8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088v2z (Listen) SUN Telling the World, The Glamoury Ointment SUN Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the SUN world. SUN Hugh Lupton tells a story from English folklore featuring SUN the powerful magic of the fair. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mplqb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mplqd (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mplqg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00mplqj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mplql (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat in SUN Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen) SUN Christopher Bailey SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher SUN Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York SUN and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the SUN unwanted attention of the chavs. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00mplqn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00mplqq (Listen) SUN Reinventing Ritual SUN Mark Tully asks how, in an increasingly secular age, our SUN deep need for rituals and rites of passage is being SUN expressed and nourished. How do new rituals develop and in SUN response to what needs? SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00mplqs (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith takes tea with Emma, Duchess of Rutland, SUN to talk about the reorganisation at Belvoir Castle estate. SUN Aimed at encouraging younger farmers to stay in the area, SUN the Home Farm is being redistributed to tenant farmers. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00mplqv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00mplqx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00mplqz (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 b00mplr1 (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Finn Care SUN Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care. SUN Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 207812. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00mplr3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00mpmlw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00mpmly (Listen) SUN A Fiery Light SUN Early in the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen was given SUN into the care of an enclosed religious community. Her SUN visions, writings and music speak of the depths of the SUN mystery of God. SUN Michael Ford travels to Germany with singer Sasha Johnson SUN Manning to explore Hildegard's life. The preacher is SUN medieval scholar Sister Benedicta Ward. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mlxpv (Listen) SUN Bird's Nest Soup SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Filming the birds that make the nests of saliva so prized SUN by Chinese gourmet chefs in the total darkness of a Borneo SUN cave proved difficult, until a conical mound of bat guano SUN provided a natural platform. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00mpmm0 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mpmm2 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00mpmm4 (Listen) SUN Stonewall SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN Sue brings together the men and women who founded the gay SUN rights campaign group, Stonewall. She is joined by Sir Ian SUN McKellen, Matthew Parris, Lisa Power, Michael Cashman and SUN Olivette Cole-Wilson. SUN In 1989 a small group joined forces in a campaign against SUN a law now known as Section 28. This law banned councils SUN from 'promoting homosexuality' or 'promoting the teaching SUN in any maintained school of the acceptability of SUN homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. SUN The gay rights scene at the time was radical and activist SUN and there were no campaign groups engaging both gay men SUN and lesbians together. Stonewall aimed to create a SUN professional lobbying group that would fight against the SUN discrimination of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Dubbed SUN Stonewall to signal doggedness and to commemorate the New SUN York riots in which gay protestors had fought back against SUN police brutality two decades before, it called for full SUN legal rights, which still seemed a loony-left pipe dream. SUN Stonewall's moderate tone attracted criticism from more SUN radical veterans of the gay rights movement, but also lent SUN its advocates greater media respectability and a hearing SUN from government ministers. SUN Since its inception, Stonewall has led the way with an SUN impressive number of reforms, pressing ministers and SUN taking test cases to court. These reforms include the SUN repeal of Section 28, equalising the age of consent, SUN permitting civil partnerships and overturning the ban on SUN gays in the military. Another legacy has been to allow gay SUN and lesbian politicians into the mainstream - not just SUN demanding equal rights, but as representatives of the SUN wider community. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00mk5x7 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 8 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The SUN panellists are Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth, Paul Merton SUN and Suki Webster. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00mpmm6 (Listen) SUN Food Myths SUN Britain is famed for its many local and national SUN traditional dishes, with recipes handed down over SUN centuries. But how accurate is the history relating to SUN these foods? Some have an association with a particular SUN village, county or country and have become icons of SUN identity. SUN However, many of the stories told about their origins are SUN either spurious or exaggerated. Other foods, associated SUN with national events, have a curious background with SUN interesting changes in their nature and usage. For SUN example, simnel cake, which we associate with Easter, was SUN actually linked to Mothering Sunday. SUN Sheila Dillon delves into the past and explodes a few SUN myths along the way, with plenty of surprises in store. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00mpn0j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00mpn0l (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 If You're Reading This b00c0ltb (Listen) SUN Documentary looking at the letters soldiers write, to be SUN read only in the event of their death in conflict. SUN Featuring letters from the American Civil War, Allied SUN forces in both world wars, and Japanese kamikaze pilots. SUN The programme also hears from veterans of the Falklands SUN and Gulf wars, who wrote letters that never had to be sent SUN or read. SUN Also focusing on the current conflicts in Iraq and SUN Afghanistan, and featuring letters and the last blogs and SUN poems from British and American soldiers. Some have used SUN their final words to criticise the wars, others to leave SUN simple heartfelt messages of love for those left behind. SUN The programme also hears from a family whose son was SUN killed in Afghanistan, and how his last letters are their SUN sole comfort. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mlxfm (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN questions posed at the annual Gardeners' Question Time SUN Summer Garden Party, which is held at the programme's SUN northern garden at RHS Harlow Carr in Yorkshire. SUN Set against the hustle and bustle of this all-day event, SUN Peter Gibbs offers an expert's guide to running a DIY SUN weather station, and Bob Flowerdew faces his very own SUN scrapheap challenge - in the process, he grants an old SUN bicycle a new lease of life. Listeners are able to extend SUN their plant collection at the GQT Plant Swap Shop and seek SUN expert advice at Pippa Greenwood's pest and diseases SUN clinic. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Food For Thought b00mpn0n (Listen) SUN Making Porridge with Erwin James SUN Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow SUN discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. SUN The bags of oats at one prison where Erwin James was an SUN inmate were all stamped 'Canadian pig meal, grade 3'. The SUN porridge was made with water. However, as Erwin explains, SUN adding full cream milk, honey and pine nuts to his own SUN breakfast recipe, they were an important part of his diet SUN and rehabilitation, after a chaotic itinerant lifestyle SUN and living rough as a child. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00mpn0q (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, SUN the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. SUN When word reaches The Department that Soviet missiles are SUN being installed close to the West German border, they SUN seize the opportunity to relive former glories. SUN Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy SUN Haldane ...... Philip Jackson SUN Woodford ...... David Hargeaves SUN Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler SUN Taylor/Sutherland ...... Philip Fox SUN Peersen ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Lansen ...... Matt Addis SUN Girl ...... Lizzy Watts SUN Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00mpn62 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville, winner of the SUN 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Since then he SUN has branched out into detective fiction with his popular SUN novels published under the pen name Benjamin Black. He SUN explains how his alter ego influenced his new book, The SUN Infinities, and why this tale set in a rambling Irish SUN country house is narrated by a Greek god. SUN The poet Ian McMillan explains his enthuasiasm for the SUN work of Malcolm Lowry, the alcoholic whose masterpiece SUN Under The Volcano is cited by some as one of the greatest SUN novels of the 20th century. SUN As a new biography of Charles Dickens is published - the SUN first major survey of his life in almost 20 years - SUN Mariella talks to its author, Michael Slater. They discuss SUN how Dickens's sometimes troubled childhood prompted his SUN social activism and his love of public performance. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00mpndq (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for works with SUN an environmental theme, including Alan Brownjohn's SUN deceptively simple, unsettling poem from the 1960s, We Are SUN Going to See the Rabbit, and two of Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow SUN poems, written in response to the BSE crisis. SUN SUN 17:00 Persuading Us to Be Good b00mk7rq (Listen) SUN Danny Finkelstein explores how and to what extent the SUN increasingly popular and important ideas of social SUN psychology and behavioural economics can be exploited to SUN make us behave better - to recycle more, conserve energy, SUN litter less, eat healthily, drink less, and turn up for SUN our medical appointments. It is becoming a more SUN significant issue, as the economic situation means that SUN politicians are looking for ways of achieving public SUN policy outcomes that do not cost a great deal of money. SUN The programme examines how these ideas are being SUN considered by David Cameron and George Osborne and SUN includes interviews with leading American thinkers whose SUN ideas are now spreading to Britain - Richard Thaler, SUN co-author of Nudge, who has been advising the Tories; and SUN Bob Cialdini, author of the best-selling book Influence, SUN who spoke at a seminar in Downing Street. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen) SUN Christopher Bailey SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher SUN Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York SUN and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the SUN unwanted attention of the chavs. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mpnds (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00mpndv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mpndx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00mpndz (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN Scott Of Slimbridge - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN You're Entering The Twilight Zone - Radio 4 SUN Inside The Bermuda Triangle - Radio 4 SUN Titter Ye Not - Radio 2 SUN The A-Z Of Dr Jonhson - Words, Words, Words - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN A River Runs Through It - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Dreams From My Mother - World Service SUN That Mitchell And Webb Sound - Radio 4 SUN Halfway To Hollywood - Radio 4 SUN Tom Jones - From The Valleys To Vegas - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00mpnjl (Listen) SUN Vicky stakes her claim at the Flower and Produce Show. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00mpnjn (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 Matt Frei talks to Tom Friedman about President Obama's SUN busy media schedule and Washington's policy promises. SUN Thomas L Friedman, author and journalist, joined The New SUN York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in SUN OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief SUN diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics SUN correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, his SUN foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the SUN Times, is syndicated to 100 other newspapers worldwide. SUN Americana takes a look at why so many people in the US SUN move so often. From Michigan to Arkansas, moving SUN companies, storage centres and truck rental services help SUN Americans to help themselves move. SUN Demographer and sociologist William H Frey breaks down the SUN truths about migration across the United States - the SUN hotspots and burnt-out locations that motivate relocation. SUN William H Frey specialises in US demographics. He is SUN currently a Senior Fellow with the Metropolitan Policy SUN Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, SUN and Research Professor at the University of Michigan's SUN Institute for Social Research. Dr Frey received his PhD SUN from Brown University in 1974. SUN From coast to coast, Americans think about the so-called SUN American Dream, but for some, the goal of owning their own SUN home and the obsession with success can distrupt their SUN actual slumber. Producer Krissy Clarke probes the American SUN dreamworld. SUN Matt Frei asks pollster John Zogby if the pulse of America SUN is picking up or slowing down these days. Zogby has been SUN keeping tabs for 25 years. SUN John Zogby is head of Zogby International, an interactive SUN polling group that focuses on public opinion. His company SUN examines the nuances of language and has successfully SUN predicted election results with its unique research SUN methods. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9n (Listen) SUN Granta Stories, Cary Grant's Suit SUN Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most SUN prestigious literary magazine. SUN Todd McEwan contemplates the suit worn by the star of SUN North By North West. SUN Read by Nathan Osgood. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00mlxfh (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton is joined by Bob Shennan, the controller of SUN Radio 2 to discuss Terry Wogan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans SUN and the station's music policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00mlxfp (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. SUN BBC Foreign Correspondent Brian Barron - correspondents SUN Martin Bell and Michael Nicholson, and cameraman Eric SUN Thirer pay tribute; Keith Floyd - Rick Stein and TV SUN producer David Pritchard remember the TV chef; memories of SUN agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug from his friend Dr SUN Ed Runge; and Alan Alda and Stephen Armstrong remember SUN comedy writer Larry Gelbart. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00mp63v (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mplr1 (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Finn Care SUN Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care. SUN Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 207812. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00ml2r3 (Listen) SUN Hard to Credit SUN Smaller businesses are still struggling to cope with the SUN impact of the credit crunch as banks stay tough on their SUN customers and vital trade insurance is hard to get, as SUN Peter Day reports. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00mpnjq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00mpnjs (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00mlxfr (Listen) SUN Francine Stock interviews actor Paul Bettany and director SUN Sam Mendes about their latest projects. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00mplqq (Listen) SUN Reinventing Ritual SUN Mark Tully asks how, in an increasingly secular age, our SUN deep need for rituals and rites of passage is being SUN expressed and nourished. How do new rituals develop and in SUN response to what needs? SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00mpnrv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mkbyj (Listen) MON What is the best way to settle a dispute, and if you are a MON victim of crime what is the best way to get justice? MON Laurie Taylor finds out about an alternative to police and MON courts and the conventional criminal justice system. MON The idea of restorative justice is to try to find a new MON way to settle arguments and bring justice so that MON offenders and victims can carry on living side by side. MON Can bringing victims and culprits together to talk or MON making a guilty party compensate the injured one provide MON the answer? And can it work for all crimes, however MON serious? Laurie talks to Anna Eriksson and Heather Strang MON about the use of restorative justice in Northern Ireland. MON For countries with a long history of violence in their MON communities, can restorative justice be used to heal the MON wounds? MON Also in the programme, what lessons can we learn from MON history about how to live our lives? Laurie talks to Prof MON Fred Inglis about the life of philosopher Robin MON Collingwood and how we can live the good life by learning MON our lessons from the past. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mplql (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat in MON Somerset. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mppm6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpp1s (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00mppms (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppyt (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00mq3tc (Listen) MON Thanks to a new law, the whole of the English coastline MON could soon be open to all, including large areas of MON agricultural land. Charlotte Smith hears from coastal MON landowners who fear the worst for their business, and from MON ramblers, who welcome the new law. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00mqc1c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00mq4ls (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mqc1f (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed MON to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. MON Peter catches up with 18-year-old Janani, who has become a MON key activist in student sit-ins supporting the Tamil MON Tigers, all the while trying to reassure her many MON concerned uncles that she is still on track with her MON studies. MON And Danielle, as her first year at university draws to an MON end, prepare with her friends to move into their first MON house - if only they can decide on who gets which room. MON MON 09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mqc1h (Listen) MON Episode 4 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 examines the rise of litigation and so-called MON compensation culture in the UK. It has resulted partly as MON a consequence of the campaigns for greater access and MON accountability pioneered by those very liberal lawyers who MON are now the compensation culture's sternest legal critics. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4m7 (Listen) MON Elizabeth's Women, Episode 1 MON Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of MON Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with MON the women in her life. These women brought out the best MON and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind MON but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced MON Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The MON Virgin Queen. MON Anne Boleyn takes centre stage, and the influence of her MON life and death on Elizabeth's future. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mq4qd (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Alan Clark died in 1999 and is best remembered for his MON political career, military history and sensational MON diaries, along with his passion for cars and women. Ion MON Trewin edited his diaries and has now written the MON authorised biography of his fascinating life story. Alan's MON widow, Jane, gave her full co-operation, along with MON unrestricted access to papers, diaries and letters MON contained at their family home of Saltwood Castle in Kent. MON She gives Jane Garvey her side of the story. MON Alison Stephens was just seven years old when she first MON asked to play the mandolin. The instrument was deeply MON unfashionable in this country and it was no easy task to MON find her a teacher. But Alison persisted, she became the MON first graduate of mandolin from Trinity College of Music, MON London and is now our leading exponent of classical MON mandolin. She joins Jane to talk about the history and the MON cultural eclecticism of the instrument - it is hugely MON popular in countries as diverse as Latin America, Germany MON and Japan - and her performances with Louis de Bernieres. MON She plays from her latest CD - a mix of solos and mandolin MON and guitar duos of music from around the world. MON Bedwetting is a hidden but distressing problem for many MON children, making them anxious about normal activities like MON sleepovers and school trips. The British Medical Journal MON says that by age seven, most children have stopped wetting MON the bed but about five per cent of ten-year-olds, and MON three per cent of 15-year-olds have difficulty controlling MON their bladders at night. Jane hear about what it's like MON for a child who bedwets and some possible solutions. MON The recent string of child neglect cases has brought into MON sharp focus the need to consider the way children are MON monitored and protected. But a new report argues that the MON needs of parents are being overlooked. Could children reap MON the benefits if the parent is targeted? Yvonne Roberts, a MON senior associate at the Young Foundation and co-author of MON the report, and Eileen Hayes, a parenting expert and MON advisor to the NSPCC, discuss whether we've swung too far MON in focusing on the child. MON MON 11:00 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen) MON Jolyon Jenkins explores the world of street performance MON and busking, and takes to the streets of Cardiff as part MON of a course with the School of Busking, founded by Mario MON Morris. Jolyon meets fellow students, including a German MON juggler and a naked unicyclist, and learns tips from the MON Great Soprendo and Gazzo, the world's finest exponent of MON the cups and balls. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mqhqt (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON The museum is due to send an exhibition of its finest MON artefacts around Europe, but can Walter find a suitably MON experienced and diplomatic staff member to curate it? MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey 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/Van Driver ...... Chris Pavlo MON Barman ...... Stephen Hogan. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00mq503 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00mq529 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mq554 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mqhqw (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Scotland and the Midlands. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00mpnjl (Listen) MON Vicky stakes her claim at the Flower and Produce Show. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mqhqy (Listen) MON Blame the Parents, Episode 1 MON Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about MON teenagers caught up in a violent crime outside their MON school. MON How much do parents really know about what their teenagers MON are up to? As far as the parents of Ben, Rory and Kris are MON concerned, their children have the world at their feet. MON But behind the promise of university and sporting MON achievement lies a much darker reality. MON Lekha Balaji ...... Bharti Patel MON Nitin Balaji ...... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Kris Balaji ...... Ashwin Bolar MON Millie Balaji ...... Chandeep Uppal MON Shona Peattie ...... Deborah McAndrew MON Malcolm Peattie ...... Tom Roberts MON Rory Peattie ...... James Rastall MON Linda Swann ...... Claire Benedict MON Ben Swann ...... Daniel Anderson MON Directed by Steven Canny and Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mpjq7 (Listen) MON Scott of Slimbridge MON From the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in MON Gloucestershire, Frank Gardner reflects on the career of MON Sir Peter Scott - ornithologist, author, painter, MON sportsman, war hero and broadcaster, whose television MON programme Look ran for over 25 years. MON Born 100 years ago, the son of Scott of the Antarctic, he MON was dubbed the patron saint of conservation. He was the MON first to campaign for the preservation of endangered MON species and to warn against the destruction of natural MON habitats. MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved MON b00mq5x8 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the MON Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this MON mysterious area. MON Tom tracks down one of the original Bermuda Triangle MON authors and discovers that the pursuit of truth was not MON necessarily the priority when the story was first told. MON A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00mpmm6 (Listen) MON Food Myths MON Britain is famed for its many local and national MON traditional dishes, with recipes handed down over MON centuries. But how accurate is the history relating to MON these foods? Some have an association with a particular MON village, county or country and have become icons of MON identity. MON However, many of the stories told about their origins are MON either spurious or exaggerated. Other foods, associated MON with national events, have a curious background with MON interesting changes in their nature and usage. For MON example, simnel cake, which we associate with Easter, was MON actually linked to Mothering Sunday. MON Sheila Dillon delves into the past and explodes a few MON myths along the way, with plenty of surprises in store. MON MON 16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mr0rj (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice MON of researching family history. MON Sally and resident genealogist Nick Barratt explore the MON roots of Britain's immigrant families. John Millar's MON father never talked about his Lithuanian roots after MON starting a new life with a new name in Scotland, but MON family research revealed that he is still a hero in his MON native country. MON MON 17:00 PM b00mq6b4 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6bj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00mr0rl (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 9 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The MON panellists are Tony Hawks, Pam Ayres, Sue Perkins and Tim MON Rice. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00mq58p (Listen) MON Jolene gets her priorities in order. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mq833 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review MON of Joe Wright's film The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx as a MON gifted musician confronting homelessness and mental MON illness. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mq835 (Listen) MON The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane MON Gardam. MON Barrister Edward Feathers and his wife Elizabeth's lives MON are intertwined with that of his hated rival, Terry MON Veneering, as their relationships play out from 1950s Hong MON Kong to present-day Dorset. MON Eddie ...... Michael York MON Betty ...... Olivia Williams MON Terry ...... Lloyd Owen MON Amy ...... Moira Quirk MON Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour MON Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu MON Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon MON Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger MON Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf MON Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis MON Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis MON A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) MON Under pressure, when we are on our own, many of us hear MON the words or songs we learnt by heart as a child. This MON programme features people discussing how these songs have MON helped them in situations of extreme pressure and danger. MON Heidi Vincent is a secondary school teacher in Devon whose MON son Theo was born prematurely at 23 weeks. She describes MON her four months of waiting in intensive care as being MON 'like in some kind of shifted reality'. MON Ghias Aljundi was a political prisoner of conscience who MON was tortured and held in a Syrian prison cell for four MON years without charge. He was comforted by a poem he had MON memorised called My Mother. MON Peter Shaw from south Wales was kidnapped while working in MON Georgia and held underground for four months. He found MON that music and songs which he had learned from his father MON helped him. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00mr16g (Listen) MON In Defence of Targets MON As NHS targets fall out of political fashion, journalist MON Michael Blastland argues that they could be good for our MON health. MON Targets, once seen by New Labour as the key to improving MON public services, look as if they may be on the way out. MON The devolved health services of Wales and Scotland have MON already retreated from their previous target regimes, the MON Conservative Party has pledged to scrap them in England MON and there are signs that some of Gordon Brown's ministers MON are losing faith in them, too. MON Why then does Michael believe that there is still a case MON for targets? MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00mr1wc (Listen) MON Supergrid MON Carbon-free energy could become a greater possibility if MON we help to form a Europe-wide 'Supergrid', but what is it, MON how will it work and who will pay for it? Tom Heap finds MON out. MON Even if it does sound like science fiction, the European MON Union want to be able to power the entire continent with MON green energy: from solar panels to wind and wave turbines, MON from geothermal to hydroelectric power stations. The MON 'Supergrid' project will lie from the North Sea, going MON down to the Sahara Desert, from Iceland's volcanoes to the MON tides of Finland, from the winds of Scotland to the Black MON Sea and to the sun of the Middle East. MON MON 21:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mqc1f (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed MON to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. MON Peter catches up with 18-year-old Janani, who has become a MON key activist in student sit-ins supporting the Tamil MON Tigers, all the while trying to reassure her many MON concerned uncles that she is still on track with her MON studies. MON And Danielle, as her first year at university draws to an MON end, prepare with her friends to move into their first MON house - if only they can decide on who gets which room. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00mq86r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00mqbrs (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbs5 (Listen) MON Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 6 MON David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam MON Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is MON pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. MON Adam's hiding place by Chelsea Bridge has been discovered, MON so he becomes a lodger in Mhouse's flat. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b00cxr9l (Listen) MON Will Hutton MON Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. MON Will Hutton, chief executive of the Work Foundation, MON shares his admiration for not just JM Keynes but also MON writers such as Dickens and Umberto Eco. Readers are MON Michelle Terry and William Hope. MON MON 23:30 Black Screen Britain b00jck88 (Listen) MON Ambassadors for the Race MON Burt Caesar's series exploring how British film and MON television drama portrayed post-war African-Caribbean MON migrants and created opportunities for pioneering black MON actors such as Earl Cameron, Cy Grant and Mona Hammond. MON How the first generation of African-Caribbean immigrants MON were portrayed in early British television and film dramas. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4m7 (Listen) TUE Elizabeth's Women, Episode 1 TUE Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of TUE Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with TUE the women in her life. These women brought out the best TUE and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind TUE but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced TUE Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The TUE Virgin Queen. TUE Anne Boleyn takes centre stage, and the influence of her TUE life and death on Elizabeth's future. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnrx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1v (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00mppm8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp2 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nj (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00mq3tf (Listen) TUE With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mr232 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Kwame Kwei-Armah TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to TUE Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian TUE childhood there in the 1970s. TUE TUE 09:30 The Good Samaritan b00mr234 (Listen) TUE Sylvia's Story TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping TUE hand, with varying consequences. TUE After serving just two days of her prison sentence for TUE failing to pay her full council tax, pensioner Sylvia TUE Hardy had her protest ruined when an anonymous benefactor TUE paid her arrears and she was released. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lv (Listen) TUE Elizabeth's Women, Episode 2 TUE Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of TUE Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with TUE the women in her life. These women brought out the best TUE and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind TUE but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced TUE Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The TUE Virgin Queen. TUE Elizabeth's stepmother Katherine Parr sets an inspiring TUE example, but an ill-judged flirtation threatens all. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbx (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden TUE Hat. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00mr2fg (Listen) TUE Series 3, Calf of Man TUE It has taken many years for the BBC Natural History Unit TUE to get onto the Calf of Man, a rugged island to the south TUE of the Isle of Man. The weather and tides need to be right TUE to get on and off the Calf, and for this programme it also TUE had to be a new moon in order to meet a particularly TUE enigmatic seabird which is yet to breed on the island. TUE TUE 11:30 Calvin and Hobbes b00mr2fj (Listen) TUE Phill Jupitus celebrates Calvin and Hobbes, the comic TUE strip about the little boy and his stuffed tiger named TUE after eminent philosphers. TUE Over the course of ten years, the strip became an TUE international phenomenon, being syndicated in 2,500 TUE newspapers worldwide. It tells the tale of a young boy TUE whose stuffed tiger is as real to him as the people around TUE him, and deals in the process with philosophical issues TUE about free will and the meaning of life, via the TUE perspective of a child with an extraordinary imagination. TUE Its creator, the reclusive Bill Watterson, could have TUE become a multi-millionaire through merchandising deals and TUE film offers, but turned them all down without hesitation. TUE Phill sets out to discover more about the characters and TUE the man behind them. In Watterson's absence, Jupitus heads TUE to Oxford to speak with artists, merchandisers, TUE booksellers and philosophers to find out what makes the TUE strip so popular, over a decade after Watterson drew the TUE final frame. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00mq4x8 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00mq505 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00mq52c (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00mr2wr (Listen) TUE Series 8, You've Got a Friend TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their TUE emotional appeal. TUE Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, TUE You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this TUE programme people tell how this song has affected their TUE life. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00mq58p (Listen) TUE Jolene gets her priorities in order. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mr31n (Listen) TUE Blame the Parents, Episode 2 TUE Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about TUE teenagers caught up in a violent crime outside their TUE school. TUE In the days after the knifing, the three sets of parents TUE try to comprehend how their children could have become TUE involved. TUE Lekha Balaji ...... Bharti Patel TUE Nitin Balaji ...... Paul Bhattacharjee TUE Kris Balaji ...... Ashwin Bolar TUE Millie Balaji ...... Chandeep Uppal TUE Shona Peattie ...... Deborah McAndrew TUE Malcolm Peattie ...... Tom Roberts TUE Rory Peattie ...... James Rastall TUE Linda Swann ...... Claire Benedict TUE Ben Swann ...... Daniel Anderson TUE Directed by Steven Canny and Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00mr37s (Listen) TUE There's a distinctly avian hue to this programme as we TUE reveal the results of our summer-long house martin survey. TUE Just how have these birds fared in 2009? How do they TUE manage to live alongside the apparently similar swifts and TUE swallows, are they competing for a limited supply of food, TUE or is there something else going on? And just why did one TUE listener's house become a magnet for little owls? TUE We also keep our gaze upwards to answer two astronomical TUE queries. Does the Moon appear different to observers in TUE the southern hemisphere and are there really more stars in TUE the universe than grains of sand on the beach? TUE On the panel are astronomer Dr Carolin Crawford, TUE ornithologist Graham Appleton and Prof Philip Stott, an TUE environmental scientist from the University of London. TUE As always we want to hear your comments on the topics TUE discussed and any questions you might want to put to TUE future programmes. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc8t (Listen) TUE Countryman's Cooking, Of Pigeon and Pastry TUE Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery TUE manual for men. TUE First sold 40 years ago by Willie Fowler in his local pub TUE and recently rediscovered in a charity shop, these TUE joyfully wicked musings retain a surprising relevance TUE today. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved TUE b00mq5t8 (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the TUE Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this TUE mysterious area. TUE Tom pursues the truth about Charles Berlitz, the man who TUE wrote the all-time Bermuda Triangle bestseller. He hears TUE from critics of Berlitz's para-science and speaks to TUE Berlitz's biggest fan, his surviving daughter, Lin Hilton. TUE A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the TUE Primary S b00mr3qm (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Education journalist Mike Baker traces the controversial TUE changes to the ways we have educated our youngest children TUE over the past 150 years, from the rigidity of the TUE Victorian age to the occasionally anarchic, experiential TUE learning of the progressive 1970s. TUE Mike explores the birth of progressive and informal TUE teaching methods in the 1960s. The landmark Plowden Report TUE banished the Victorian concept of children as 'vessels to TUE be filled', bringing in instead the idea of the TUE 'developmental age' - the notion that children are TUE individuals who develop at different and uneven rates. TUE Calling on archive recordings and the personal TUE reminiscences of pupils, parents and teachers, plus an TUE interview with the only surviving member of the Plowden TUE Committee, Mike hears how progressive teaching was loved TUE by some and reviled by others. He also traces the fierce TUE political backlash in the 1980s, as public concerns grew TUE over school standards and fears that anarchy was taking TUE over in primary school classrooms. TUE Key contemporary policy-makers, including Baroness Shirley TUE Williams, Lord Ken Baker and David Blunkett, help to TUE explain why arguments over curriculum, teaching methods TUE and testing are deeply rooted in our ideas about the TUE nature, development and role of the youngest members of TUE society. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00mr4w1 (Listen) TUE Series 19, Harry Houdini TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini. They are TUE joined by Houdini biographer William Kalush, who argues TUE that the master escapologist may have been murdered by TUE spiritualists. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00mq68v (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6b6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mr4w3 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 5 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE Including how to leave your body to evil, a date with a TUE slightly disappointing superhero, the perils of compulsory TUE workplace drinking, and the god of Easter Island puts a TUE brave face on an unwanted gift. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00mq58f (Listen) TUE Matt tests the patience of his legal team. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mq7nn (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an TUE interview with actor and musician Harry Shearer, whose TUE many credits include Spinal Tap and The Simpsons. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbmy (Listen) TUE The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane TUE Gardam. TUE News that a plane carrying schoolchildren to England has TUE crashed over the Indian Ocean provokes surprising TUE reactions. TUE Eddie ...... Michael York TUE Betty ...... Olivia Williams TUE Terry ...... Lloyd Owen TUE Amy ...... Moira Quirk TUE Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour TUE Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu TUE Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon TUE Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger TUE Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf TUE Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis TUE Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00mr4w5 (Listen) TUE As the government's strategy for combating extremism is TUE revised to focus on white racist groups as well as Islamic TUE radicals, Allan Urry assesses the threat of attacks by TUE right-wing extremists and fears that they could lead to a TUE rise in racial tensions. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00mr52m (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00mr52p (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter sorts out the good from the bad in terms of TUE health advice online. As more people turn to self TUE diagnosis on the internet, he asks where we can find TUE helpful and accurate information. And will chronic TUE conditions be monitored over the web in the future? TUE TUE 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mr232 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Kwame Kwei-Armah TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to TUE Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian TUE childhood there in the 1970s. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00mq85g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86t (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrv (Listen) TUE Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 7 TUE David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam TUE Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is TUE pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. TUE The killer is still on Adam's trail, so he has moved in to TUE live with Vladimir. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00jyc77 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. The panellists are comedians Frank TUE Skinner and Arthur Smith and journalist Lucy Mangan. TUE TUE 23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007cnxp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his TUE field, with no ability whatsoever. TUE This programme finds him in the guise of a world-famous TUE explorer. Clad only in his trusty cagoule, he tries to TUE find the source of the longest zip in the world. TUE Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy TUE Montgomery. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00mpnql (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lv (Listen) WED Elizabeth's Women, Episode 2 WED Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of WED Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with WED the women in her life. These women brought out the best WED and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind WED but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced WED Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The WED Virgin Queen. WED Elizabeth's stepmother Katherine Parr sets an inspiring WED example, but an ill-judged flirtation threatens all. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnrz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1x (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00mppmb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp4 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nl (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00mq3th (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00mr5n8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lx (Listen) WED Elizabeth's Women, Episode 3 WED Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of WED Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with WED the women in her life. These women brought out the best WED and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind WED but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced WED Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The WED Virgin Queen. WED The public world of Elizabeth's court as she begins her WED reign, and the more intimate realm of her private WED apartments, where she is attended by her Ladies in Waiting. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbj (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden WED Hat. WED WED 11:00 Bowling For Love b00mr5r6 (Listen) WED Following a bowls community, and the friendships and WED romances formed on and off the green. When Brian and Meryl WED joined Adastra Bowls Club in Hassocks, they were looking WED for a new hobby. But as their lives changed, the crown WED green became the setting for another sort of interest. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b008nw1c (Listen) WED Series 2, Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro WED Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. WED By Rona Munro. WED An Italian cafe owner in Glasgow employs a little guile WED and cunning to defend the honour and the environment of WED his beloved native land. WED Sandy ...... Stanley Baxter WED Antonia ...... Luisa Pretolani WED Christina ...... Tracy Wiles WED Christopher ...... John Kazek WED Rockafella ...... John Guerrasio WED Radio Interviewer ...... Gordon Kennedy WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xb (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00mq507 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00mq52f (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00mr5tn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00mq58f (Listen) WED Matt tests the patience of his legal team. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b007s1b7 (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 4 WED Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester WED legal practice. WED Frank gets Debbie out of trouble, but Sarah is WED unsympathetic. WED Frank ...... David Schofield WED DeeDee ...... Denise Welch WED Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah WED Sarah ...... Gina Bellman WED Debbie ...... Emma Atkins WED Doug ...... Rod Matthew WED Julie ...... Sue Kelly WED DS Perry ...... David Fleeshman WED Music by Carl Harms. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00mrc8j (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on tax WED and self assessment. WED Guests are: WED Leonie Kerswill, tax partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers WED Mike Warburton tax partner, Grant Thornton WED Anita Monteith, technical manager, Tax Faculty, The WED Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc92 (Listen) WED Countryman's Cooking, Of Poultry and Poison WED Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery WED manual for men. WED Willie realises that the jolly, bucolic animal-loving WED Farmer Giles is a myth. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved WED b00mq5tb (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the WED Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this WED mysterious area. WED Tom examines the relationship between the supposedly WED inexplicable disappearance of hundreds of seamen and WED aviators in the Bermuda Triangle, and the mythical lost WED kingdom of Atlantis. WED A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mrc8l (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00mr52p (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter sorts out the good from the bad in terms of WED health advice online. As more people turn to self WED diagnosis on the internet, he asks where we can find WED helpful and accurate information. And will chronic WED conditions be monitored over the web in the future? WED WED 17:00 PM b00mq68x (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6b8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00mrc8n (Listen) WED Series 5, Alastair Campbell WED Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the WED following week's interviewer. WED Eddie Izzard interviews former Labour spin doctor Alastair WED Campbell. He asks him about his breakdown, working for WED Tony Blair and his beginnings as a soft porn writer. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00mq58h (Listen) WED Jim and Kenton hit the road. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mq7nt (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report WED on Moctezuma, a major British Museum exhibition examining WED Aztec civilisation and culture. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn0 (Listen) WED The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane WED Gardam. WED Difficulties for Betty and Eddie in London and phone calls WED from Hong Kong. WED Eddie ...... Michael York WED Betty ...... Olivia Williams WED Terry ...... Lloyd Owen WED Amy ...... Moira Quirk WED Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour WED Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu WED Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon WED Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger WED Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf WED Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis WED Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00mrd9g (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 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 Cambridge lawyer, Prof John Spencer, says that we should WED make it legal for young teenagers to have sex. He says the WED age of consent, fixed at 16 by the Sexual Offences Act WED 2003, makes criminals of half the population. WED WED 20:45 Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It b00mrd9j (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED It is 40 years since the Troubles started and ten since WED they stopped, but has that decade brought Northern Ireland WED ten years closer to normality? Are headlines dominated by WED race, health and education issues, or is terrorism a black WED hole from which the news agenda can never fully escape? WED Reporter Tara Mills talks to the generations of WED journalists and politicians who have had their WED professional lives dominated by violence. She looks at WED their efforts to find a way out of it and asks how they WED have made the transition to peacetime roles. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00mr2fg (Listen) WED Series 3, Calf of Man WED It has taken many years for the BBC Natural History Unit WED to get onto the Calf of Man, a rugged island to the south WED of the Isle of Man. The weather and tides need to be right WED to get on and off the Calf, and for this programme it also WED had to be a new moon in order to meet a particularly WED enigmatic seabird which is yet to breed on the island. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00mr5n8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00mq85j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86w (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrx (Listen) WED Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 8 WED David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam WED Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is WED pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. WED The chairman of Calenture-Deutz has discovered that Keegan WED had a meeting with Philip Wang hours before he was WED murdered. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b007h55q (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 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 b00g38n0 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. WED Charles heads for America to investigate a lead in the WED case. WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden WED Juliet Paris ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Maurice ...... Jon Glover WED Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson WED Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond WED Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo WED Jamie ...... Alex Lanipekun WED Toby ...... Paul Rider WED Customs Officer ...... Jill Cardo WED Fat Freddy ...... Gunnar Cauthrey WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lx (Listen) THU Elizabeth's Women, Episode 3 THU Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of THU Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with THU the women in her life. These women brought out the best THU and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind THU but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced THU Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The THU Virgin Queen. THU The public world of Elizabeth's court as she begins her THU reign, and the more intimate realm of her private THU apartments, where she is attended by her Ladies in Waiting. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpns1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1z (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00mppmd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp6 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nn (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00mq3tk (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00mrfwq (Listen) THU The Invention of Calculus THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and THU Jackie Stedall discuss the dispute between Sir Isaac THU Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lz (Listen) THU Elizabeth's Women, Episode 4 THU Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of THU Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with THU the women in her life. These women brought out the best THU and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind THU but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced THU Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The THU Virgin Queen. THU Elizabeth is compelled to confront that 'bosom serpent', THU Mary Queen of Scots, and much anguish follows. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbl (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden THU Hat. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00mrgrd (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen) THU Nick Barraclough delves into the world of backing THU vocalists, from the fluffy 50s to the stunning THU sophistication of today's jazzers, the innovations brought THU by The Beatles and The Beach Boys and the multi-tracked THU world of Joni Mitchell and The Carpenters. THU A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xd (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00mq509 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00mq52h (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00mr1wc (Listen) THU Supergrid THU Carbon-free energy could become a greater possibility if THU we help to form a Europe-wide 'Supergrid', but what is it, THU how will it work and who will pay for it? Tom Heap finds THU out. THU Even if it does sound like science fiction, the European THU Union want to be able to power the entire continent with THU green energy: from solar panels to wind and wave turbines, THU from geothermal to hydroelectric power stations. The THU 'Supergrid' project will lie from the North Sea, going THU down to the Sahara Desert, from Iceland's volcanoes to the THU tides of Finland, from the winds of Scotland to the Black THU Sea and to the sun of the Middle East. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00mq58h (Listen) THU Jim and Kenton hit the road. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b009ts31 (Listen) THU Good Evening THU Roy Smiles' celebration of the Beyond the Fringe team THU takes a funny and affectionate look at how four young men THU from Oxbridge changed the face of British comedy. THU Alan Bennett ...... Matt Addis THU Peter Cook ...... Rory Kinnear THU Jonathan Miller ...... Jonathan Aris THU Dudley Moore ...... Benedict Cumberbatch THU A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00mp521 (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 1 THU Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in THU Northumberland. THU The first section of the route takes Clare from Holy THU Island to St Cuthbert's Cave. She is joined by local THU clergyman Michael Mountney, the creator of the route, who THU conceived the idea as a millenium project for his parish. THU They are joined by long-distance walking expert Jenny THU Walters, who offers Clare advice on how to keep her feet THU in shape for the miles ahead and the kit she needs to keep THU on track. THU St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy THU Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland THU coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's THU Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St THU Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early seventh THU century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity THU to his people. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mplr1 (Listen) THU Elizabeth Finn Care THU Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care. THU Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If THU you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care THU with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift THU Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation THU facilities are not currently available to listeners THU without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 207812. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc9b (Listen) THU Countryman's Cooking, Of Gin and Soft-Soap THU Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery THU manual for men. THU Willie reveals why kissing the pastry-maker too early can THU be disastrous. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved THU b00mq5td (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the THU Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this THU mysterious area. THU Tom returns to the peculiar story of British South THU American Airways and the last flight of Star Ariel, which THU disappeared without trace in the Bermuda Triangle in 1949. THU He uncovers new evidence suggesting that, far from being a THU mystery, the disappearance was in fact down to one small, THU but fatal, flaw. THU A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00mpn62 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville, winner of the THU 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Since then he THU has branched out into detective fiction with his popular THU novels published under the pen name Benjamin Black. He THU explains how his alter ego influenced his new book, The THU Infinities, and why this tale set in a rambling Irish THU country house is narrated by a Greek god. THU The poet Ian McMillan explains his enthuasiasm for the THU work of Malcolm Lowry, the alcoholic whose masterpiece THU Under The Volcano is cited by some as one of the greatest THU novels of the 20th century. THU As a new biography of Charles Dickens is published - the THU first major survey of his life in almost 20 years - THU Mariella talks to its author, Michael Slater. They discuss THU how Dickens's sometimes troubled childhood prompted his THU social activism and his love of public performance. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00mrgvg (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00mq68z (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6bb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00lh5pd (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU With newspaper circulation dropping, a round of swingeing THU job cuts are predicted. But who will survive the bloodbath? 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 With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00mq58k (Listen) THU Brian asserts his authority in the boardroom. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mq7nx (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn2 (Listen) THU The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane THU Gardam. THU After more than 20 years in Hong Kong, are Betty and Eddie THU destined to be lifetime expats? THU Eddie ...... Michael York THU Betty ...... Olivia Williams THU Terry ...... Lloyd Owen THU Amy ...... Moira Quirk THU Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour THU Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu THU Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon THU Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger THU Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf THU Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis THU Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00mrw7t (Listen) THU Simon Cox explores the US healthcare debate. Why has the THU path towards reform been so difficult and what forces are THU at work, as various groups in the lobbying battle compete THU to get their voices heard? THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00mrw7w (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00mrw7y (Listen) THU Violinist and music psychologist Paul Robertson tells THU Geoff Watts about his lifelong journey to find out why THU humans have always been a musical species, a quest that THU has introduced him to neuroscientists and therapists as THU well as musicians, and taken him from concert hall to THU brain scanner. THU Musicality, he believes, is more than a form of 'brain THU candy', an accidental side effect of our biological THU evolution. Perhaps it is central to highly-prized human THU capacities such as verbal and emotional communication, THU abstract and symbolic representation, memory and even THU identity. THU Geoff hears, from discussion and performance, how music THU transforms the life of gifted autistic musicians, how it THU can play a key role in child development, and how musical THU appreciation maps our minds. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00mrfwq (Listen) THU The Invention of Calculus THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and THU Jackie Stedall discuss the dispute between Sir Isaac THU Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00mq85l (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86y (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrz (Listen) THU Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 9 THU David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam THU Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is THU pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. THU Adam has discovered that all the children who died during THU the drug trials were moved out of the de Vere Wing before THU they passed away. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Poetry Slam b00mrwng (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU The first of two semi-finals from the Radio 4 poetry THU competition, in which spoken word performers from all THU around the country battle it out for the title of Radio 4 THU Slam Winner 2009. Hosted by poetry performer Dreadlock THU Alien and recorded at The Bluecoat in Liverpool. THU Nine regional heats have been held, from Exeter to THU Edinburgh via Birmingham, Belfast, Brighton, Newport, THU Newcastle, Manchester and London, with two performers from THU each heat getting through to the semi-finals. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076pmb (Listen) THU How to Be Invisible THU Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson tries to find out THU how to be invisible with the help of a collection of THU extraordinary stories which try to illuminate the human THU condition. THU He talks to Frank Ahearn, whose job it is to make people THU vanish; comedian Jon Holmes, whose parents are 'invisible' THU to him as he is adopted; and Maggie O'Farrell who recalls THU her time as a chamber maid, cleaning hotel rooms while THU guests carried on extremely personal activities. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lz (Listen) FRI Elizabeth's Women, Episode 4 FRI Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of FRI Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with FRI the women in her life. These women brought out the best FRI and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind FRI but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced FRI Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The FRI Virgin Queen. FRI Elizabeth is compelled to confront that 'bosom serpent', FRI Mary Queen of Scots, and much anguish follows. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpns3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp21 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnxc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00mppmg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp8 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nq (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00mq3tm (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00mpmm4 (Listen) FRI Stonewall FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI Sue brings together the men and women who founded the gay FRI rights campaign group, Stonewall. She is joined by Sir Ian FRI McKellen, Matthew Parris, Lisa Power, Michael Cashman and FRI Olivette Cole-Wilson. FRI In 1989 a small group joined forces in a campaign against FRI a law now known as Section 28. This law banned councils FRI from 'promoting homosexuality' or 'promoting the teaching FRI in any maintained school of the acceptability of FRI homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. FRI The gay rights scene at the time was radical and activist FRI and there were no campaign groups engaging both gay men FRI and lesbians together. Stonewall aimed to create a FRI professional lobbying group that would fight against the FRI discrimination of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Dubbed FRI Stonewall to signal doggedness and to commemorate the New FRI York riots in which gay protestors had fought back against FRI police brutality two decades before, it called for full FRI legal rights, which still seemed a loony-left pipe dream. FRI Stonewall's moderate tone attracted criticism from more FRI radical veterans of the gay rights movement, but also lent FRI its advocates greater media respectability and a hearing FRI from government ministers. FRI Since its inception, Stonewall has led the way with an FRI impressive number of reforms, pressing ministers and FRI taking test cases to court. These reforms include the FRI repeal of Section 28, equalising the age of consent, FRI permitting civil partnerships and overturning the ban on FRI gays in the military. Another legacy has been to allow gay FRI and lesbian politicians into the mainstream - not just FRI demanding equal rights, but as representatives of the FRI wider community. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4m1 (Listen) FRI Elizabeth's Women, Episode 5 FRI Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of FRI Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with FRI the women in her life. These women brought out the best FRI and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind FRI but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced FRI Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The FRI Virgin Queen. FRI In the final years of her reign, Elizabeth begins to lose FRI her grip on matters at court. This state of affairs is FRI reflected in the loosening morals of her newer and younger FRI Ladies-in-Waiting, who she fittingly terms her 'flouting FRI wenches'. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbn (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden FRI Hat. FRI FRI 11:00 Lost Souls of Ireland b00mrwzc (Listen) FRI As a new and damning report into institutional abuse in FRI Ireland's Catholic state schools is published, reporter FRI Ruth McDonald examines the scandal's impact on Irish FRI society. FRI Cathy Spillane, 48, sent a letter from her Norfolk home to FRI the Irish Times in which she documented the horrific abuse FRI her father had suffered as a child brought up in one of FRI Ireland's institutional schools, and her anger towards the FRI Catholic Church, which had failed to admit culpability. FRI She is not alone. The earlier Ryan Report, published in FRI May 2009, exposed a secret which many had refused to FRI believe about how widespread the abuse was. It is FRI estimated that a third of all survivors now live in the FRI UK, having fled Ireland. Many among this group of exiles FRI had never spoken of what happened to them until recently. FRI FRI 11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mrwzf (Listen) FRI While The Sun Shines FRI Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. FRI Back from a secondment at Scotland Yard, Twitten is FRI alarmed to find Brunswick in a deep depression. To cheer FRI him up he arranges for Brunswick's favourite crime FRI reporter, Harry Jupiter, to interview him. But when Steine FRI takes Jupiter to Brighton Pier, disaster ensues and FRI Brunswick's thoughts turn to murder. FRI Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm FRI Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green FRI Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro FRI Harry Jupiter ...... Philip Jackson FRI Cecil/Pierre/Albert ...... David Holt. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xg (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00mq50c (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00mq52k (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00mrygc (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00mq58k (Listen) FRI Brian asserts his authority in the boardroom. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mrygf (Listen) FRI Wednesdays With Strangers FRI Comedy by Nick Leather. FRI When a welcome pack to the UK offers advice on how to talk FRI to strangers, a migrant worker decides to spend his one FRI day off each week attempting to get to know the people of FRI Britain and prove to his disillusioned flatmate that there FRI is such a thing as the British Dream after all. FRI Mirek ...... Matt McGuirk FRI Alex ...... Eddie Capli FRI Andy ...... James Quinn FRI Frank ...... Greg Wood FRI Joy ...... Sue Kelly. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mrzf7 (Listen) FRI The second of two programmes recorded at the annual FRI Gardeners' Question Time garden party, held at RHS Harlow FRI Carr in North Yorkshire, GQT's base in the north. FRI Peter Gibbs chairs and the panel are Anne Swithinbank, FRI Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie. FRI Peter explores how Harlow Carr is addressing the problems FRI posed by future climate change. Pippa puts the fun into FRI fungi, and Anne launches the GQT slug deterrent trial. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved FRI b00mq5tg (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the FRI Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this FRI mysterious area. FRI Tom concludes his rigorous investigation into the FRI mysteries of the Triangle by visiting Bermuda itself. The FRI extraordinary experiences of local fishermen and treasure FRI divers seem at odds with the empirical evidence collected FRI by oceanographers, air traffic controllers and air sea FRI rescue officers. So where does the truth lie? FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00mrzf9 (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 b00mrzmt (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Sally Potter about her latest FRI film, Rage, a humorous exposé of the inner lives of people FRI working at a New York fashion house. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00mq691 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6bd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00mrzmw (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 1 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists include Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel and Jeremy FRI Hardy. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00mq58m (Listen) FRI Kenton kick-starts his social life. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mq7nz (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an FRI interview with the virtuoso violinist Sarah Chang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn4 (Listen) FRI The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane FRI Gardam. FRI Does old age mean that Hong Kong secrets will finally be FRI revealed? FRI Eddie ...... Michael York FRI Betty ...... Olivia Williams FRI Terry ...... Lloyd Owen FRI Amy ...... Moira Quirk FRI Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour FRI Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu FRI Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon FRI Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger FRI Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf FRI Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis FRI Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00mrzmy (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Wells in FRI Somerset. The panellists are the secretary of state for FRI culture, media and sport Ben Bradshaw, shadow defence FRI secretary Liam Fox, the Liberal Democrats' home office FRI spokesperson Chris Huhne, and businesswoman Deborah FRI Meaden, from the TV show Dragons' Den. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mrzn0 (Listen) FRI Adam's Face FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI What are human eyebrows for? Possibly to allow FRI communication without the use of words. Testing the value FRI of eyebrow communication came into its own when David FRI Attenborough met the men of an aboriginal tribe in New FRI Guinea where there was no other common language. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00mrzrm (Listen) FRI I Am Emma Humphreys FRI Dramatisation by Shelley Silas of the true story of Emma FRI Humphreys, who in 1985, aged 16, murdered her pimp, Trevor FRI Armitage, who had found her homeless on the streets of FRI Nottingham. FRI Emma's case changed the law and may yet contribute to FRI further controversial changes in the defence laws for FRI murder. FRI Emma Humphreys ...... Joanne Froggatt FRI Trevor Armitage ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Stuart ...... Delroy Brown FRI Vera Baird ...... Susan Jameson FRI Harriet Wistrich ...... Lynne Verrall FRI Lord Justice Hirst ...... David Hargreaves FRI Nottingham Judge ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00mq85n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00mq870 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbs1 (Listen) FRI Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 10 FRI David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam FRI Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is FRI pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. FRI Jonjo has been taken off the hunt for Adam Kindred but he FRI still feels he has a score to settle. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00mr4w1 (Listen) FRI Series 19, Harry Houdini FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini. They are FRI joined by Houdini biographer William Kalush, who argues FRI that the master escapologist may have been murdered by FRI spiritualists. FRI FRI 23:30 Misfits in France b00f24f8 (Listen) FRI Wilde about Dieppe FRI Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the FRI connections between a group of Victorian writers and FRI artists who crossed the English Channel for different FRI reasons. FRI Examining the differing fortunes of Oscar Wilde and the FRI painter Walter Sickert, who both flouted Victorian moral FRI conventions, during their time in the French town of FRI Dieppe. FRI At 4am on May 20th 1897, Sebastian Melmoth, better known FRI as Oscar Wilde, arrived at Dieppe Docks seeking refuge FRI following his release from Reading Gaol, but he quickly FRI moved out of town. FRI Walter Sickert is known as a Camden Town painter but his FRI painter friend Jaques Emile Blanche called him 'the FRI Canaletto of Dieppe'. His long association with the resort FRI began with childhood holidays and included an affair with FRI one of the local fishwives. FRI Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale FRI Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Arthur Symons ...... Jonathan Tafler. FRI FRI FRI

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