11 December, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 12/12/2009 - 18/12/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00p6w7k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00p5ysz (Listen) SAT The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 5 SAT Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's SAT account of the life of one of the world's most famous SAT clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of SAT Georgian pantomime. SAT His body crippled by the years of on-stage clowning, SAT Grimaldi is forced finally to pass the baton to his son, SAT JS. But the young pretender finds the constant comparisons SAT with his famous father hard to bear, and seeks solace in SAT the hard-drinking, hard-living circle of the great actor SAT Edmund Kean. Meanwhile, his father is determined to fill SAT the family's pockets with a final farewell performance; SAT so, on 28th June 1828, barely able to stand on his SAT crippled legs, Grimaldi staggers on to the stage of a SAT packed Drury Lane Theatre. SAT Abridged by Viv Beeby. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p6w7m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p6w7p (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p6w7r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00p6w7t (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p6w7w (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. SAT SAT 05:45 Running Away b00fdf7k (Listen) SAT Nitin Sawhney SAT Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the SAT demands of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for SAT a few hours. SAT Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney escapes the dark SAT confines of his studio to the hustle and bustle of the SAT Science Museum and one of his favourite pastimes - the SAT search for connections between Hindu philosophy and SAT quantum physics. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00p6w7y (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00p6w80 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00nrvrh (Listen) SAT Ripples of the Ballinderry River SAT Helen Mark visits Northern Ireland to find out about an SAT exciting new community project taking place along the SAT banks of the Ballinderry River. Along the way Helen meets SAT people who have grown up with the Ballinderry and who are SAT taking part in a very special project, protecting the SAT environment and the wildlife around it and reconnecting SAT people with the river. SAT Helen begins by going on a hunt for the endangered SAT white-clawed crayfish, once a common sight in rivers and SAT lakes and now on an ever-increasing list of globally SAT threatened species. She also meets local people involved SAT with RIPPLE, a project designed to encourage people to get SAT more involved in planning the future of their river, and SAT takes to the water with canoeing enthusiasts. SAT Further along the river, Helen meets local sound artist SAT Paul Moore to hears the river sing, before finishing her SAT journey on the shores of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in SAT the British Isles and the winter home for a huge number SAT and variety of birds. But are there as still as many SAT arriving as the 90,000 that wintered here in the late SAT 1980s? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00p7g80 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT PGIs, PDOs, TSGs might not mean much to most people, but SAT they do matter to some food producers who spend years SAT striving to achieve protected food name status. This means SAT Melton Mowbray pork pies, Cumberland sausages and Stilton SAT cheese among others can only be made to certain SAT specifications - both culinary and geographical. SAT Charlotte Smith meets some of the farmers and producers SAT who've fought hard to gain this status, and asks Secretary SAT of State, Hilary Benn, why it matters so much. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00p7g82 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00p7g84 (Listen) SAT With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00p7g86 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Fi Glover is joined by the grand dame of Fleet Street and SAT author of An Education, Lynn Barber. SAT With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00p7g88 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig with the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT Lady Mary Fretwell found out about the difficulties of SAT travelling across international borders with dogs during SAT her life as a diplomat's wife and resolved to tackle SAT Britain's strict quarantine laws. She tells Sandi how her SAT organisation 'Passports for Pets' helped achieve this and SAT how the current rules work. And Belinda Harley fell in SAT love with an unwanted dog in Greece and relates the SAT problems she experienced bringing him back to Britain. SAT Travel writer Rob Crossan has just returned from the SAT Vietnamese capital Hanoi where, despite the single-party SAT socialist regime, capitalism flourishes. Among experiences SAT to be had are unlikely visits to the impressive Ho Chi SAT Minh mausoleum and restaurants that specialise in serving SAT up...dog. SAT SAT 10:30 Shelved b00p7g8b (Listen) SAT Shaun Ley recounts how the political circumstances of the SAT late 1970s resulted in three of the most popular TV SAT series' of the time - Dr Who, Secret Army and The SAT Professionals - each having at least one episode scrapped SAT after filming. Interviewees include the then Dr Who, Tom SAT Baker. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00p7g8d (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The pre-Budget report is largely seen as the opening SAT gambit of the 2010 general election campaign. In 1992, SAT Lord Heseltine fought a Conservative general election SAT campaign against a background of economic uncertainty, and SAT his party won. In the 1997 general election Geoffrey SAT Robinson campaigned then for Labour when the economy had SAT taken a turn for the better, and his party reaped the SAT benefit. They discuss the part the economy plays in these SAT battles. SAT The bankers are currently so unpopular with voters, that SAT the Chancellor this week was forced to reflect the public SAT mood by slapping a hefty tax on their bonuses. In the past SAT trade unions have been the focus for public anger, so how SAT far is the anger justified and is it fair? MPs Kim SAT Howells, former Labour minister and member of the miners' SAT union during the 1980s, and Andrew Tyrie, once adviser to SAT Nigel Lawson, give their judgments. SAT Why is climate change becoming a left/right issue? Will SAT Straw of the website site Left Foot Forward and Tim SAT Montgomerie of ConservativeHome website explain why this SAT is. SAT And do political novels reflect the real world of SAT politics? Steven Fielding of Nottingham Uinversity SAT explores this rich seam in literature. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00p7g8g (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00p7g8j (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00p6vlj (Listen) SAT Series 29, Episode 3 SAT Tonight Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis explore the taxing SAT complexities of class; Mitch Benn waxes lyrical about the SAT twinning of Swindon with Disneyland and Jon Holmes is up SAT in arms about Christmas decorations. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00p7gmr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00p7g8l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00p6vll (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell, SAT Berkshire. The panellists are Northern Ireland secretary SAT Shaun Woodward, shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa SAT May, David Laws, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on SAT children, schools and families, and Dr Ben Goldacre, SAT author of Bad Science. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00p7g8n (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00p7g8q (Listen) SAT The Middle SAT By Amelia Bullmore. SAT Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a SAT formidable matriarch, Luca. Clare meets and quickly SAT marries Martin, who falls just as much in love with her SAT fun, sparky family. But Martin makes a mistake and sets in SAT train a series of events which brings the family to its SAT knees. SAT Clare ...... Emma Cunniffe SAT Martin ...... Ben Miles SAT Nicky ...... Anna Madeley SAT Justine ...... Eve Matheson SAT Luca ...... Paola Dionisotti SAT Karl ...... Nigel Pilkington SAT Owen ...... Baxter Willis SAT Mick ...... John Biggins SAT Ed ...... Piers Wehner SAT Donna ...... Melissa Advani SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b00p61zj (Listen) SAT Series 5, Tippett: A Child of Our Time SAT Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores SAT of well-known pieces of music. SAT Using the pencil-written score and private notebooks and SAT letters, Frances unpacks the creative story behind Sir SAT Michael Tippett's oratorio, A Child of Our Time. With its SAT Spiritual Choruses mixed with the stark modernity of its SAT forbidding message, it stands now as one of the most SAT powerful statements about man's potential for inhumanity SAT to man. SAT As the letters and notes reveal, the inspiration for the SAT peace was the shooting in 1938 of a German diplomat in SAT Paris by an enraged 17-year-old Jewish boy, powerless to SAT stop the Nazi atrocities against his family in Germany. SAT His actions, twisted by Nazi propaganda, provoked SAT Kristalnacht - a rising against Jewish people and property SAT which resulted in the burning of synagogues and Jewish SAT shops and houses. SAT Already a passionate political thinker, Tippett tried to SAT express his feelings through a three-part oratorio that SAT described the way a man, the child of the title, can be SAT coralled into an act of self-destruction. And set against SAT this dark journey are the spirituals, one of which - SAT 'Steal away to Jesue' - he had heard and been inspired by SAT on a radio broadcast. Like Bach's chorales, they remain a SAT way into the piece for many listeners, commenting on the SAT moods and reflecting on the anger, despair and resignation SAT of the child's journey. SAT As well as revealing Tippett's workings and worryings over SAT the music, the British Library's archive also throws light SAT on the way the libretto developed, being sent for SAT improvement to poet TS Eliot, who promptly sent it back SAT advising the composer that he was managing quite well on SAT his own. SAT Joing Frances are Sarah Walker, who sang the vital mezzo SAT soprano role in a recording made in 1991 with the composer SAT himself conducting; music scholar and writer Paul Banks SAT and graphologist Ruth Rostron. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00p7g8s (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. Tamzin Outhwaite discusses her stage and SAT screen success. Also: fashion and the return of the SAT tracksuit bottom; present buying for men; asking if Sally SAT Bercow was right to speak out about her past; stillbirth SAT and help for parents of babies who die; and, twenty years SAT on, the impact of the murders of fourteen women by a man SAT who said he hated feminists. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p7g8v (Listen) SAT 12th December 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de SAT facto leader Hans Modrow. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00p7g8x (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00p7g8z (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p7g91 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00p7g93 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p7g95 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00p7h3r (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by the actor Rupert Penry-Jones, I'm Sorry SAT I Haven't a Clue's Barry Cryer and Sir Christopher Meyer, SAT former Chair of the Press Complaints Commission. SAT Jo Bunting talks to the comedian and sex therapist SAT Wolfgang Weinberger. SAT A fitting tribute to Eric Morecame with comedy from the SAT stage show Morecame. SAT With music from Sheffield folk-rock duo Slow Club and SAT southern Californian singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00p7h3t (Listen) SAT Series 7, What is the Custom of Your Grief? SAT This week witnessed the death of the 100th British soldier SAT to be killed in Afghanistan this year, the 237th since SAT 2002. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? playwright SAT Timberlake Wertenbaker imagines the correspondence between SAT two young girls bereaved by the conflict. SAT Performed by Betsabeh Emran and Emerald O'Hanrahan. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00p7h3w (Listen) SAT John Wilson is joined by novelists Louise Doughty and SAT Michael Arditti, and writer James Runcie to discuss the SAT cultural highlights of the week - featuring a tortured SAT artist, wild things and the re-emergence of silent films. SAT The play Red by John Logan, directed by Michael Grandage, SAT features the contemporary artist Mark Rothko. Set in his SAT New York studio in 1958, under the watchful gaze of his SAT young assistant and the threatening presence of a new SAT generation of artists, Rothko takes on his greatest SAT challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an SAT extraordinary setting. SAT Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic SAT children's story, has been made into a film with a SAT screenplay by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. It tells the SAT story of Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without SAT his supper, who creates his own world - a forest inhabited SAT by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. SAT Has the story made a successful transition from page to SAT screen? SAT The pantomime season is upon us and our reviewers have SAT been to see some of the latest productions including SAT Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk. Are they still popular SAT among children and adults? SAT With reviews of some of the best of the winter's young SAT teenage fiction, including The Graveyard Book by Neil SAT Gaiman, Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera, and The Ask and The SAT Answer by Patrick Ness. All are novels with dark stories; SAT is this a trend? SAT Sky 1 television is sending filmmakers back to basics. SAT They have brought together established writers, actors and SAT directors in a series of silent short films to be SAT broadcast this festive season on consecutive nights as Ten SAT Minutes Tales. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00plt1n (Listen) SAT The My Lai Tapes SAT Robert Hodierne reveals the truth about the infamous My SAT Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, based on the transcript of SAT a Pentagon enquiry conducted by Lt General William Peers. SAT The findings of the investigation were so uncomfortable SAT for the US Military that they were suppressed. Some 400 SAT hours of tape show that US soldiers raped and murdered SAT hundreds of civilians in not just one but three villages SAT in an orgy of killing that proved to be a turning point in SAT the Vietnam War. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00p3sy6 (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, SAT Soldier, Spy, Part 2 SAT Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic SAT novel. SAT George Smiley, called back from retirement, tries to piece SAT together the events of the past to find the mole he SAT believes is tearing apart the British Secret Intelligence SAT Service. SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SAT Control ...... John Rowe SAT Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey SAT Percy Alleline ...... Bill Paterson SAT Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman SAT Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale SAT Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast SAT Roy Bland...... David Hargreaves SAT Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00p7h40 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00p681y (Listen) SAT It's that time of year again when the forces of greed and SAT conspicuous consumption do battle with guilt and pious SAT sentiment. So how do you have a merry and a moral SAT Christmas? Michael Buerk and the panel settle down around SAT the festive table to try to find out. SAT Witnesses: SAT Ruth Rosselson, writer, Ethical Consumer Magazine SAT Julian Baggini, philosopher and author SAT Jonathan Bartley, director of Ekklesia, a web-based SAT think-tank promoting theological ideas in the public SAT sphere. SAT Susie Boyt, author and journalist. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00p5xc4 (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, with contestants from the south SAT of England. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p3v2l (Listen) SAT Series 10, My Last Duchess SAT Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SAT appeal of some well-loved poems. SAT The height of English Gothic, a poem in which an SAT aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his SAT young wife - a Medici no less. Peggy Reynolds teases out SAT the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but SAT groundbreaking poem. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00p7hdm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fpl3 (Listen) SUN Pier Shorts, Ghost Train SUN Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier. SUN By Ambreen Hameed, read by Nina Wadia. SUN A young Muslim girl has a devastating experience on a SUN school trip to Brighton. Haunted by the past, she finds SUN herself mysteriously drawn back to the pier 20 years later. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7hdp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7hdr (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7hdt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00p7hdw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00p7hdy (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton SUN in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Political Roots b00p71ys (Listen) SUN Labour SUN Richard Reeves delves into the Labour Party and explores SUN the background and philosophy of senior cabinet member SUN Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00p7hf0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00p7hf2 (Listen) SUN The Blizzard's Dance SUN Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold SUN and deep snow. What is this primal yearning for what is SUN described by one writer as 'the thrill of the north coming SUN to visit and staying for a while'? SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00p7hf4 (Listen) SUN Adam Henson visits Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire to SUN learn how Iron Age Britons grew and produced food. SUN What can we learn about food and farming from ancient SUN times that could help us in the 21st century, as food SUN security becomes an increasing concern? The farm also SUN keeps some of the ancient breeds of animal that our SUN ancestors would have farmed including boar and soay sheep. SUN Adam hears how the animals fed small settlements of people SUN who stored the meat underground, where it would keep for SUN months, and watches David Freeman, an archeologist and SUN expert in food, grinding a type of grain used 2,000 years SUN ago to make bread. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00p7hf6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00p7hf8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00p7hfb (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 b00p7hfd (Listen) SUN Help the Hospices SUN Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices. SUN Donations to Help the Hospices should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Help the Hospices. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Help the SUN Hospices with your full name and address so they can claim SUN the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number 1014851. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00p7hfg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00p7hfj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00p7hfl (Listen) SUN The People that walked in darkness (Isaiah 9:2-7) SUN A service for Advent from St Arvans Parish Church near SUN Chepstow, led by Father Michael Gollop. SUN With the Polyphonic Choir, directed by Neil Ferris. SUN Organist: David Geoffrey Thomas. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00p6vln (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. Clive James SUN reflects on the media coverage of man-made global warming SUN and the need for minds to be open. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00p7hfn (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00p7hfq (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00p7hfs (Listen) SUN Lord Coe SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe. SUN It is more than a quarter of a century since his rivalry SUN with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett enraptured SUN the nation. SUN After retiring from the racetrack, he enjoyed a career in SUN politics. Now, though, his focus is on the Olympics once SUN again - not on individual medals this time, but ensuring SUN the 2012 games in London are a success. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p604t (Listen) SUN Series 52, Episode 4 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the SUN Festival Theatre in Chichester, with Jack Dee taking the SUN chairman's role. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden SUN are joined by David Mitchell. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00p7hfv (Listen) SUN Food and Art SUN Since cavemen first daubed images of bison on cave walls, SUN food has proved a source of inspiration for artists. SUN Caravaggio, Breugel, Cezanne and others all brought us the SUN sensual delight, and symbolism, of food. SUN Sheila Dillon finds out what contemporary artists are SUN making of this staple of the repetoire, visiting two SUN exhibitions: A Net of Eels, created by artist Jake Tilson SUN and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and Pot Luck: Food and SUN Art, co-curated on the principles of a pot luck dinner by SUN Cynthia Morrison-Bell, including works by Antony Gormley, SUN Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum and Gayle Chong Kwan. SUN Sheila is joined by art historian and critic Frank SUN Whitford and Jake Tilson who give their views. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00p7hfx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00p7hfz (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Music from Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) SUN Prof Paul Robertson examines the claims and counter-claims SUN for musical mediumship and asks whether musical SUN inspiration comes from within ourselves or if it could SUN come from somewhere beyond. SUN He recounts the story of how, 40 years ago, a Balham SUN housewife and medium with little musical training created SUN a sensation when she claimed to have received new works SUN from beyond the grave from Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven, SUN Rachmaninov and other great composers. Rosemary Brown's SUN abilities divided the musical world, with her supporters SUN convinced that the works were genuine while her critics SUN dismissed them as pastiche. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p6vlb (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions from gardeners in Wallasey, Merseyside. SUN The team investigate the restoration of Liverpool's famous SUN Stanley Park, and Matthew Wilson thumbs through some SUN all-time classic garden literature. SUN SUN 14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxp5 (Listen) SUN WorldSong SUN Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the SUN country. SUN She attends a rehearsal of WorldSong, a mixed voice choir SUN in Coventry which specialises in singing unaccompanied SUN songs from across the globe and whose founding principle SUN is that anyone can sing. Joan also talks to the scientist SUN who believes that singing really is beneficial to our SUN health. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00p7kyd (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, SUN Soldier, Spy, Part 3 SUN Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic SUN novel. SUN George Smiley, called back from retirement, is reaching SUN the end of his hunt to find the mole he believes is SUN tearing the British Secret Intelligence Service apart. SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey SUN Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf SUN Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham SUN Magyar ...... Peter Majer SUN Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman SUN Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale SUN Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast SUN Karla ...... Philip Fox SUN Polyakov ...... Stephen Greif SUN Steve Mackelvore ...... Piers Wehner SUN Mrs McCraig ...... Kate Layden SUN Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00p7m9g (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann about his new SUN novel Let The Great World Spin, which won the 2009 SUN prestigious National Book Award in America. With Philippe SUN Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the then SUN unfinished World Trade Center Towers at its axis, it SUN focuses on the lives of a disparate group of New York SUN characters, including the viewpoint of Petit himself, SUN whose own story was the subject of the award winning SUN documentary Man on Wire. The novel celebrates the richness SUN and diversity of New York through a range of rich and SUN varied characters. SUN After Borders bookshop chain announced it was going into SUN administration, the CEO of Hachette UK, Tim Hely SUN Hutchinson; editor of The Bookseller, Neill Denny; and SUN independent bookseller Patrick Neale discuss the future of SUN the bookshop on the high street. Author Patrick Gale SUN provides the writers' perspective. SUN There are over 1500 independent bookshops and 300 SUN Waterstones, but the threat from online selling, the SUN supermarket and the arrival of the e-book have all had an SUN impact on where books are sold, and we consider the SUN serious threat to the bookshop. SUN Producer Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p7m9j (Listen) SUN Series 10, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer SUN Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SUN appeal of some well-loved poems. SUN 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...' Keats' SUN sonnet - his first great poem - begins. Keats couldn't SUN read Greek and the poem records him touching the ancient SUN world through translation and his already fecund SUN imagination. Peggy explores the stories behind its SUN creation and its enduring appeal. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p7mcj (Listen) SUN 13th December 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00p66f4 (Listen) SUN The government's forensic science service is crucial to SUN taclking crime, but is shedding hundreds of jobs and SUN closing half its laboratory facilities in a drive to make SUN the organisation more commercial. Fran Abrams investigates SUN whether or not the aggressive cost-cutting in beginning to SUN hit the way the service operates and consequently SUN undermine justice. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00p7h3t (Listen) SUN Series 7, What is the Custom of Your Grief? SUN This week witnessed the death of the 100th British soldier SUN to be killed in Afghanistan this year, the 237th since SUN 2002. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? playwright SUN Timberlake Wertenbaker imagines the correspondence between SUN two young girls bereaved by the conflict. SUN Performed by Betsabeh Emran and Emerald O'Hanrahan. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p7mdr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00p7mhb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p7mhd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00p7mhg (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea introduces his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN The Choice - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN World on 3 - Radio 3 SUN The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi - Radio 4 SUN Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium - Radio 4 SUN Mind Your Slanguage - Radio 4 SUN Stuart Hall Night - Radio 5live SUN Going to Pieces in the Box - Radio 4 SUN Winter Storm - Radio 4 SUN Lead Belly - A Secret History of Rock and Roll - Radio 2 SUN Between the Ears - The Great Bell - Radio 3 SUN The Ladies of Pleasure - Radio Scotland SUN Tales From the Stave - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00p7mjw (Listen) SUN Annette searches for a safe house. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00p7mjy (Listen) SUN What do an American lumberjack, an ocean fisherwoman, a SUN Republican senator and an evangelical Christian all have SUN in common? They each have an opinion on climate change. SUN Host Matt Frei is joined by Jon Meacham, the editor of SUN Newsweek, to discuss American views on climate change and SUN the week's other top news. SUN Matt Frei leads a roundtable discussion with American moms SUN about the responsibilities they shoulder in times of SUN economic crisis and in times of holiday cheer. SUN Hanukah begins this week and according to writer and SUN performer Josh Lefkowitz, 'tis the season for Christmas SUN envy. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0080dyw (Listen) SUN Sputnik, Gleeking SUN A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite SUN which started the space race in 1957. SUN By Benjamin Markovits, read by Ryan McCluskey. SUN All-American Sam is less than thrilled with his new SUN Yugoslavian stepbrother, known to his classmates as SUN Sputnik. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00p6v3t (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team ask if claims made SUN about energy efficient lightbulbs are true and if SUN economies can grow forever. And they meet one of their SUN greatest heroes: Sesame Street's Count von Count. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00p6vld (Listen) SUN Marking the lives of Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, SUN ex-director of Radio Free Europe Jim Brown, campaigner for SUN ordination of women Barbara Cawthorne and writer Geoffrey SUN Moorhouse. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00p7g8j (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00p7hfd (Listen) SUN Help the Hospices SUN Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices. SUN Donations to Help the Hospices should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Help the Hospices. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Help the SUN Hospices with your full name and address so they can claim SUN the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number 1014851. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00p6t28 (Listen) SUN Sugaring the Pill SUN Brazil has been pioneering the use of ethanol for its SUN vehicles for over three decades. Ethanol emits 90 per cent SUN less emissions than gasoline. As world leaders debate SUN climate change in Copenhagen, can Brazil convince the rest SUN of the globe that sugar really is good for you? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00p7mmn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00p7mmq (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Watchdog and the Feral Beast. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00p7mn9 (Listen) SUN Week ending 12th December 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge, East SUN Germany elects a new leader and the president of SUN Czechoslovakia swears in the country's first non-communist SUN majority government in 41 years. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00p7hf2 (Listen) SUN The Blizzard's Dance SUN Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold SUN and deep snow. What is this primal yearning for what is SUN described by one writer as 'the thrill of the north coming SUN to visit and staying for a while'? SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 DECEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00p7n3c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00p67tq (Listen) MON The number of people living in single person households MON has doubled since 1971. Why are more people living alone MON and what are the consequences for the environment and the MON economy? How do ideas in the popular press of the single MON lifestlye really match reality? Laurie Taylor talks to MON Lynn Jamieson, Professor of Sociology at the University of MON Edinburgh, and to Jan MacVarish from the University of MON Kent about one of the biggest demographic shifts since MON World War Two. MON Also in the programme, Laurie discusses anthropological MON research into the culture of Wall Street. How much is the MON global economy influenced by the culture of bankers; are MON wider, brutal economic forces the more powerful player? MON Laurie talks to Professor of Sociology Robin Blackburn, MON from the University of Essex. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00p7hdy (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton MON in Devon. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4q (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n94 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n6n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00p7nc7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nhw (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00p7njb (Listen) MON What will you be serving this Christmas lunch? Charlotte MON Smith hears that goose sales are on the rise as an MON alternative to turkey and about plans for all Olympians to MON go to work on a free range egg. We also catch up with MON Geoff and Sue Nicholls who started farming their MON smallholding in January to see how they have fared this MON year. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00p87qt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00p7qlq (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00p87qw (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe explores the pitfalls of the web, with MON Evgeny Morozov arguing that it's exploited by dictators, MON and Andrew Dalby gives his views on Wikipedia. Amanda MON Goodall decries the prevalence of the professional MON manager, and the art historian David Boyd Haycock talks MON about the 'crisis of brilliance' of the Young British MON Artists of the early 1900s. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00pcdpk (Listen) MON Dear Granny Smith, Episode 1 MON A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and MON delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the MON past, present and future role of one of the oldest British MON institutions, the Postie. MON Why postmen used to have the best job in the world, and MON why it's heading towards becoming the worst. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00p84dy (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to MON consider whether reimbursement paid to egg donors should MON be increased. This is partly in response to the shortage MON of egg donors. But is it a good idea? Jane is joined by MON Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the HFEA, to discuss this. MON Three-times Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver is MON most widely known for playing tough-talking action hero MON Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films. Thirty years after MON her first appearance in Alien, she plays a lead role in MON another science fiction adventure - James Cameron's long MON awaited Avatar, said to be the most expensive film ever MON made. Sigourney plays two roles: scientist Dr Grace MON Augustine and her genetically-bred counterpart, a hybrid MON creature who resembles Grace - except for being ten feet MON tall and blue. She talks to Jane about her latest role. MON There are always the occasional shocking headlines about MON irresponsible parents disappearing on holiday and leaving MON their children behind, but would you leave an MON eight-year-old in the house while you went to the corner MON shop? Would you leave a twelve-year-old in charge of a MON six-year-old? Author Amanda Craig and the NSPCC's MON parenting advisor Eileen Hayes discuss the issues of MON leaving children home alone. MON Christmas is coming, and on the day itself the kitchen can MON become either a battlefield or a refuge of warmth and MON sharing. Some people will gather the family round and MON share out the tasks of peeling and scrubbing. Others turn MON downright nasty at the thought of someone invading their MON domain. So is there a happy medium? Jane is joined by MON author Sophie King and Masterchef finalist Fiona Bird to MON debate how best to organise the cooking harmoniously on MON Christmas Day. MON MON 11:00 Policing Britain b00p87qy (Listen) MON Policing for the 21st Century MON Andy Hayman, former assistant commissioner of the MON Metropolitan Police, examines the challenges facing MON policing in Britain today. MON When Andy Hayman left the Metropolitan Police in 2008 he MON was assistant commissioner, Special Operations, in overall MON charge of counter-terrorism. He had to deal with the MON suicide bomb attacks on London and the tragedy of the de MON Menezes shooting. Andy's 30-year career started straight MON out of school with the police in Essex and took him to the MON position of chief constable of Norfolk. In this series he MON takes a critical look at the challenges facing the police MON service in Britain today. He goes back on the beat and MON talks to former colleagues and those who work with the MON police at every level to ask the question, 'Do we have the MON policing we need in Britain today?' MON A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00p87r0 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Comedy series by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby. MON A struggle takes place between the Apollonian and MON Dionysian principles, as Giles travels to Greece on a MON desperate rescue mission and eats far too much halloumi. MON Giles ...... Marcus Brigstocke MON Professor Bakoyannis ...... Jack Klaff MON Mr Timmis ...... Adrian Scarborough MON Charlotte Wemmbley-Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd MON Jeremy ...... James Bachman MON Luke ...... Mark Evans MON Aphrodite ...... Nina Millns MON Colonel Yiannis ...... Chris Pavlo MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00p84qk (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00p84v9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00p84y5 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00p87r2 (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the tenth, heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest, with four contestants from MON Wales. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00p7mjw (Listen) MON Annette searches for a safe house. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p8hk4 (Listen) MON The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer MON By Iain Heggie. Glasgow, 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington MON detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchant princes, but MON can't resist being bought off by them. That's when he's MON not busy being distracted by his daughter Euphemia, his MON sceptical housekeeper Widow McKay and her spiritual MON advisor, the startlingly prescient soothsayer Madam Zapata. MON Dalmellington ...... Ian McDiarmid MON Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00p03hw (Listen) MON Lord Clark - Seeing Through The Tweed MON Kenneth Clark is remembered as a tweedy patrician who MON lectured on the arts from a position of immense privilege. MON But Richard Weight argues that Clark was in fact a toff MON with a democratic mission, and that the BBC's MON Civilisation, first broadcast in 1969, was the culmination MON of a career that reveals much about 20th-century Britain. MON MON 15:45 My Mile of the River b00hhfcj (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the MON River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in MON Mid Wales. MON Chris investigates a fungus which offers nature's MON vegetarian alternative to chicken, strolls through ancient MON woodland on the banks of the Wye, hunts for a yaffle and MON listens to the dusk chorus. He finds you don't have to be MON in the middle of nowhere to get away from it all. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00p7hfv (Listen) MON Food and Art MON Since cavemen first daubed images of bison on cave walls, MON food has proved a source of inspiration for artists. MON Caravaggio, Breugel, Cezanne and others all brought us the MON sensual delight, and symbolism, of food. MON Sheila Dillon finds out what contemporary artists are MON making of this staple of the repetoire, visiting two MON exhibitions: A Net of Eels, created by artist Jake Tilson MON and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and Pot Luck: Food and MON Art, co-curated on the principles of a pot luck dinner by MON Cynthia Morrison-Bell, including works by Antony Gormley, MON Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum and Gayle Chong Kwan. MON Sheila is joined by art historian and critic Frank MON Whitford and Jake Tilson who give their views. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p87r6 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty, MON irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world MON according to science. MON Physicist turned comedian Ben Miller joins Brian and Robin MON to discuss quantum physics, and if astrology really shares MON its roots with more scientific pursuits. They also discuss MON the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken, MON currently storming ahead in a large underground tunnel MON just outside Geneva. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qn (Listen) MON 14th December 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON Chile elects a civilian president to replace Augusto MON Pinochet. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00p85sv (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 b00p85v0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p885p (Listen) MON Series 52, Episode 5 MON The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the MON Futurist Theatre in Scarborough, with Jack Dee taking the MON chairman's role. MON Regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by MON Jo Brand and Jeremy Hardy. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00p8501 (Listen) MON Will's temper explodes at the shoot. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00p86bw (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the MON verdict on James Cameron's epic and expensive 3D film MON Avatar. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p86by (Listen) MON Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 1 MON Financial thriller by Mike Walker. MON When disgraced City trader Tim Ng is offered immunity from MON prosecution by the FSA, he is alarmed to discover what it MON is they want in return. MON Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing MON Angela Chapman ...... Lizzie McInnerny MON Kathy ...... Michelle Tate MON Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim MON Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00p8998 (Listen) MON Series 5, 'Peace for Our Time' MON Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great MON moments of history to discover that they often conceal MON other events of equal but forgotten importance. MON Michael examines one of the most notorious events in MON Britain's 20th century history, Neville Chamberlain's MON declaration of 'peace for our time' to jubilant crowds on MON 30th September 1938. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00p6b3m (Listen) MON Nablus MON Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada - or MON uprising - was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus. MON This was an era when Palestinian militants regularly MON battled the Israeli Defence Force in the streets. The MON BBC's Alan Johnston reported from Nablus in those dark, MON dangerous days. Now, on his first assignment back in the MON Middle East since he was kidnapped in Gaza, he returns to MON the town to find out how life has changed. MON He finds a community transformed: Israeli checkpoints have MON been dismantled, Palestinian troops patrol their own MON streets, and the economy is on the up; Nablus is breathing MON once more. But in the absence of a more lasting Middle MON East peace settlement, the mood is far from optimistic, MON and the outlook is complicated by disturbing allegations MON of human rights abuses within the occupied territories MON emanating from the Fatah/Hamas split in Palestinian MON politics. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00p89f4 (Listen) MON The Border Agency is part way through its Human Provenance MON Pilot Project, trialling suggestions that DNA and isotope MON data can test asylum seekers' credentials. But scientific MON experts in these techniques say the science cannot MON deliver. Gerry Northam investigates. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00p87qw (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe explores the pitfalls of the web, with MON Evgeny Morozov arguing that it's exploited by dictators, MON and Andrew Dalby gives his views on Wikipedia. Amanda MON Goodall decries the prevalence of the professional MON manager, and the art historian David Boyd Haycock talks MON about the 'crisis of brilliance' of the Young British MON Artists of the early 1900s. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00p86h0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00p86ml (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p86mn (Listen) MON The Ingoldsby Legends, The Lady Rohesia MON Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection MON of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly MON written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but MON actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published MON in book form in 1840. MON A distraught husband sits at the foot of his dying wife's MON bed, and considers who he might marry next. MON Abriged by Robin Brooks. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00p62jn (Listen) MON Michael Rosen meets the consultants who will teach you how MON to speak more clearly, write more grammatically and even MON become a published author - at a price. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qk (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 DECEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00pcdpk (Listen) TUE Dear Granny Smith, Episode 1 TUE A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and TUE delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the TUE past, present and future role of one of the oldest British TUE institutions, the Postie. TUE Why postmen used to have the best job in the world, and TUE why it's heading towards becoming the worst. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6q (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4s (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00p7n96 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nc9 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00p7nhy (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00p7qhk (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Defining The Decade b00p89jk (Listen) TUE A Googling We Go TUE Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which TUE history has been put on fast forward. There has been a TUE revolution in the way we communicate, widespread alarm TUE about the planet's very survival and a challenge to the TUE world order. What does it mean for the way we live as we TUE head into 2010? TUE The impact of the internet - dreamt up by visionaries, TUE embraced by commerce and full of (not always welcome) TUE surprises. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm8l (Listen) TUE Dear Granny Smith, Episode 2 TUE A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and TUE delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the TUE past, present and future role of one of the oldest British TUE institutions, the Postie. TUE The special relationship between the postman and his TUE clients, and what it's like to be up at the crack of dawn. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pcht4 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires. TUE TUE 11:00 Sable Island: A Dune Adrift b00p8c15 (Listen) TUE One hundred miles east of Nova Scotia lies a 30-mile-long TUE sand dune, Sable Island. It has a population of just two, TUE who work in the weather and research station, and is also TUE home to 300 wild horses. Sean Street reveals how this TUE remote place is providing information vital to us all, and TUE how it has gained a powerful presence in the imagination. TUE In the middle of the world's worst weather systems, held TUE tentatively in place by ocean currents, Sable Island is TUE the perfect place to monitor climate change, and air and TUE sea pollution. More than 500 ships have been wrecked here. TUE There have been several attempts at colonisation, by the TUE Portuguese, the French (Sable is the French word for Sand) TUE and even a group of prominent Bostonians, and all have TUE failed. The story is cultural as well. Thomas Raddell, TUE Nova Scotia's finest writer, was a radio operator on Sable TUE for a year, and this inspired his novel The Nymph and the TUE Lamp. The poet Elizabeth Bishop visited and wrote about TUE the island. TUE Sean examines wreckage from some of more than 500 ships TUE that have come to grief on the island. There is poignant TUE baby's crib made from wreck wood, there being no trees. At TUE the Natural History Museum in Halifax, he witnesses the TUE unpacking of the latest consignment of bones and specimens TUE - extraordinary ancient walrus skulls - collected as they TUE are exposed in storms by Zoe Lucas, who has been on the TUE island for decades. Sean meets artist Roger Savage, who TUE had to tie his easel down, clamp his paper and battle with TUE the scouring sand as he captured the landscape of the TUE place in his paintings. And he meets a man who dedicated TUE years to studying the rare Ipswich Sparrow, which nests TUE only on Sable Island. TUE What emerges is that Sable Island is for the Canadians TUE what the Galapagos are for the people of Ecuador, or TUE Easter Island for Chileans. It is important scientifically TUE and historically, but more than this it is important TUE culturally, as part of their identity, even though hardly TUE any of the Canadian population will ever go there. TUE Indeed, because of concern about climate change and damage TUE to a unique and fragile ecosystem, people are now anxious TUE not to go there. Which is just as well, because getting TUE to, and from, Sable is difficult, with there being no TUE harbour or regular air service. The wind blows almost TUE constantly, and there is often thick fog. Access is TUE restricted by the Canadian government as well as by nature. TUE TUE 11:30 Harry Worth: The Man in the Window b00p8c17 (Listen) TUE Glenn Mitchell pays tribute to the master of comic TUE confusion, Harry Worth, one of the most popular - and TUE subsequently most neglected - comedians of the 1960s. TUE Mitchell interviewed Worth in 1987 and his recording forms TUE the backbone of this tribute, in the 20th anniversary year TUE of the comedian's death. TUE Harry Worth's television and radio shows drew comparisons TUE with Tony Hancock, and the famous opening gag of his TV TUE series, that of Harry posing beside a shop window so that TUE his reflection suggests a man spreadeagled in mid-air, is TUE still fondly remembered - and imitated - by public and TUE professionals alike. TUE The programme tells his story through interviews with TUE Harry and his friends and colleagues and, perhaps for the TUE first time, explains why his career lost direction for TUE over a decade before getting back on track shortly before TUE his death. Including contributions from producers John TUE Ammonds and William G Stewart and actor Jonathan Cecil. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00p84j9 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00p84qm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00p84vc (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b00p8c19 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Holst: The Planets TUE Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores TUE of well-known pieces of music. TUE Holst apparently hated the popularity of The Planets. He TUE sat down to compose it in 1914 and it had its first TUE performance in 1918. Given that English audiences were TUE used to Elgar, this massive 'modern' orchestral work came TUE as a huge surprise to concert goers, and they loved it. TUE From the opening 5/4 tempo of the first movement of Mars, TUE this could be considered one of the first great pieces of TUE 20th-century English music. TUE Holst had recently heard the revolutionary compositions of TUE Schoenberg and Stravinsky and in The Planets, he mixes TUE harmonies and rhythms in the most dramatic way. Not all of TUE the score is in his own hand, as he suffered from TUE neuritis, so he sometimes used copyists to help with his TUE composition. TUE Frances' guests select their favourite movements from the TUE score, which is held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, TUE and they are joined by the curator Martin Holmes, who TUE looks after the precious manuscripts there. TUE The seven movements don't include Pluto; that was only TUE discovered in 1930, four years before his death. The TUE success of The Planets overshadowed Holst's other TUE compositions, which are quite different in style from his TUE astrological depictions. While the piece is still popular TUE in concert halls around the UK, its also familiar to film TUE fans as it is frequently used in movies. What would Holst TUE have made of its enduring popularity, 75 years after his TUE death, and what would he have made of its use in computer TUE games? TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00p8501 (Listen) TUE Will's temper explodes at the shoot. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p8c1c (Listen) TUE High-Lites TUE Farce by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, set in and TUE around Bev's hairdressing salon, High-Lites, where a TUE little lie spreads through the village like wildfire. TUE Beverley ...... Lorraine Ashbourne TUE Shirley ...... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Matthew ...... Rhys Jennings TUE Alice ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Enid ...... Kate Layden TUE Nigel ...... John Biggins TUE Lois ...... Joannah Tincey TUE Butt ...... Ewan Hooper TUE Paramedic ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00p8c1f (Listen) TUE It's a biology based programme as we tackle your questions TUE on insects and sea life. What, for example, killed the TUE large number of bumblebees whose corpses were found TUE beneath a tree last summer? Why are moths placid and easy TUE to handle while their fluttery cousins, butterflies, are TUE skittish and difficult to trap? And why do butterflies TUE flit rather than simply flying in a straight line to their TUE destination? TUE Then there's the challenge of taxonomy. Identifying TUE closely related species is difficult, but getting it wrong TUE can have dire implications for their conservation. Also, a TUE question about evolution in action. Is anything evolving TUE to eat the mountain of plastic pollution sloshing around TUE in the oceans? TUE On the panel are marine biologist Dr Helen Scales; TUE entomologist Richard Jones and environmental scientist TUE from the University of London, Professor Philip Stott. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8cph (Listen) TUE Too Much Happiness, Free Radicals TUE Series of short stories from the new collection by TUE Canadian author Alice Munro. TUE A newly widowed woman, who is herself dying, is alone in TUE the home she and her husband made their own after she had TUE played the role of 'home wrecker' and replaced his first TUE wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when TUE a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table. TUE Read by Barbara Barnes. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 15:45 My Mile of the River b00hmpzh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the TUE River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in TUE Mid Wales. TUE It is summer on the River Wye, and Chris reports on the TUE two-person wheelbarrow championship as it races through a TUE ford, listens to the Wye Valley Axemen and witnesses the TUE coronation of the Carnival Queen. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00p8dk8 (Listen) TUE George Orwell left us a set of rules for writing about TUE politics and public affairs - do they still apply? Michael TUE Rosen and a panel of critics offer an Orwellian TUE perspective on just one day in the discourse of the nation. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00p8dkb (Listen) TUE Series 20, Tennessee Williams TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE American stand-up comedian Rich Hall discusses the life of TUE playwright Tennessee Williams, whose work he first TUE remembers seeing at a Kentucky drive-in cinema, rather TUE than the theatre. With their vivid portrayal of the TUE American south, poetic language and dark themes, works TUE such as Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire TUE were snapped up by Hollywood as well as changing the TUE direction of American theatre. TUE Rich Hall is joined by Williams' friend and biographer TUE Dotson Rader to talk about the man himself: the early TUE unhappiness that shaped his creative life, the prejudice TUE he encountered due to his homosexuality, and his later TUE unpopularity and decline into drink and prescription TUE drugs. They discover a writer with a strong sense of TUE humour, a devotion to his family and a desire to TUE experiment with writing throughout his career. Was TUE Williams' life a wasted one? TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qd (Listen) TUE 15th December 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE Soviet human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov dies. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00p85rm (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p85sx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00p8dkd (Listen) TUE Storm Warning TUE Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of TUE inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. TUE Beagle Team are tasked with the surveillance of a Russian TUE billionaire. The nation's security and gas supply are at TUE stake. TUE Bill ...... Richard Lumsden TUE Sharla ...... Nina Conti TUE Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya TUE Captain Le Clerc ...... Kevin Eldon TUE Bolkonski ...... Shaban Arifi TUE Boris ...... John Biggins TUE Russian Girls ...... Alex Tregear, Kate Layden TUE Russian Crew ...... Nigel Hastings, Ewan Hooper. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00p84y7 (Listen) TUE Fallon gives some lessons in love. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00p85v4 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a TUE jukebox jury who give their verdict on the hits and misses TUE among the 2009 sack of Christmas releases. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv9 (Listen) TUE Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 2 TUE Financial thriller by Mike Walker. TUE Though disgraced City trader Tim Ng has been offered TUE immunity from prosecution, his ransacked apartment TUE suggests he is not quite out of the woods. TUE Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing TUE Kathy ...... Michelle Tate TUE Grant Brunner ...... Nigel Hastings TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 20:00 The New Art of Diplomacy b00p8dz6 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE James Naughtie asks if British diplomacy is still fit for TUE purpose. TUE A century ago, much of the map of the world was coloured TUE with the pink of the British Empire. Britain's diplomats TUE reigned supreme, with the reassurance of a gunboat to TUE support them. Much has changed since that time, and TUE continues to change. As Britain faces new threats and new TUE priorities across the globe, how are the foreign office TUE and its diplomats changing? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00p8fv8 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00p8fvb (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest TUE scientific research about the brain and the mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Defining The Decade b00p89jk (Listen) TUE A Googling We Go TUE Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which TUE history has been put on fast forward. There has been a TUE revolution in the way we communicate, widespread alarm TUE about the planet's very survival and a challenge to the TUE world order. What does it mean for the way we live as we TUE head into 2010? TUE The impact of the internet - dreamt up by visionaries, TUE embraced by commerce and full of (not always welcome) TUE surprises. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00p86fs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h2 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8p (Listen) TUE The Ingoldsby Legends, The Leech of Folkestone, Part 1 TUE Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection TUE of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly TUE written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but TUE actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published TUE in book form in 1840. TUE In the depths of Romney Marsh, an avaricious woman, bored TUE with her tedious husband, plots with her doctor to get rid TUE of her spouse. But it seems that more than normal TUE medication is to be employed. TUE Abriged by Robin Brooks. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00p8g0h (Listen) TUE Series 3, Victoria TUE Comedy series by Nigel Smith about a man in a coma, TUE travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own TUE unconscious mind. TUE Ben is beginning to resent being pushed around. He TUE imagines a different life back in Victorian times when he TUE might have got things his own way a bit more often - until TUE he gets into an argument with Benjamin Disraeli. TUE Ben ...... Neil Pearson TUE Mary ...... Fiona Allen TUE Mum ...... Josie Lawrence TUE Blitz ...... Leslie Ash TUE Nurse ...... Jo Martin TUE Derek ...... Stephen Frost TUE Marley ...... Spencer Brown TUE Disraeli/Karl ...... Matthew Kelly TUE Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith TUE Grocer ...... Nigel Hastings TUE Directed by Nigel Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qc (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1w (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm8l (Listen) WED Dear Granny Smith, Episode 2 WED A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and WED delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the WED past, present and future role of one of the oldest British WED institutions, the Postie. WED The special relationship between the postman and his WED clients, and what it's like to be up at the crack of dawn. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3h (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6s (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00p7n98 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7ncc (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj0 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00p7qhm (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day, Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00p8hjs (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Val Doonican. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7m (Listen) WED Dear Granny Smith, Episode 3 WED A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and WED delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the WED past, present and future role of one of the oldest British WED institutions, the Postie. WED Delivering letters is just the tip of the iceberg - how WED does the right letter end up in the right letterbox? WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsm (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00p8hjw (Listen) WED Series 11, The Afghan Crisis WED Contemporary history series. WED Jolyon Jenkins talks to the pilots, passengers and WED policemen involved in the UK's longest plane hijack, in WED February 2000, when an airliner on a routine internal WED flight in Afghanistan was forced at gunpoint to fly to WED Britain. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00p8hjy (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 4 WED Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the WED 1950s in a Donegal town. WED It is 1959. Monsignor McFadden has declared that Miss WED McConkey's alleged 'vision' at Lourdes needs careful WED investigation, jeopardising Phonsie Doherty's plans for a WED festival of light. WED Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy WED Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney WED Rev Samuel Hawthorne ...... Miche Doherty WED Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley WED Aubrey Frawley ...... Matthew Addis WED Daniel O'Searcaigh ...... James Greene WED Pianist: Michael Harrison WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan WED This episode is available until 11.30am on 6th January WED 2010 as part of the Series Catch-up Trial. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00p84jc (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00p84qp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00p84vf (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00p8hk2 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00p84y7 (Listen) WED Fallon gives some lessons in love. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p87r4 (Listen) WED Guilty Until Proved Innocent WED By Deborah Davis. When Dina and Jake rush their baby WED daughter to hospital, little do they realise that it is WED the beginning of a Kafkaesque nightmare from which it WED seems there is no escape. WED Dina ...... Maxine Peake WED Jake ...... Dan Stevens WED With Kate Layden, David Hargreaves, Melissa Advani, Joseph WED Cohen-Cole, Tessa Nicholson, Rhys Jennings, Piers Wehner WED and Nigel Pilkington. WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00p8hk6 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions, including credit cards, loans and WED repairing your credit report. WED Guests: WED James Jones, Consumer Education Manager, Experian WED Peter Harrison, Cards Channel Manager, Moneysupermarket WED David Black, Banking Specialist, Defaqto. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8d9s (Listen) WED Too Much Happiness, Some Women WED Series of short stories from the new collection by WED Canadian author Alice Munro. WED Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water WED to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia WED went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a WED tragic atmosphere, they died.' WED At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at WED work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the WED young girl brought in to help care for him begins to WED understand the complexities of adult life. WED Read by Barbara Barnes. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 15:45 My Mile of the River b00hs8xl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the WED River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in WED Mid Wales. WED Chris walks the banks of the Wye and discovers how WED important the river has been to the economy of the town of WED Rhayader - legally and not so legally. Stories of WED tanneries, mills, flannel works, electricity and poaching. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00p912j (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the history of clothing behind bars. WED From broad arrows on prisoners suits in the 19th century WED to the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of the Guantanamo WED Bay detention camp, the uniform prisoners wear is used by WED penal institutions to weild power over, punish, and WED sometimes humiliate their prisoners. Prison uniforms WED reveals the culture of the time. WED Laurie is joined by Juliet Ash from the Royal Collge of WED Art to undress the history of prison clothing and discuss WED what it reveals about the social cultural and political WED context of the time. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00p8fvb (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest WED scientific research about the brain and the mind. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qg (Listen) WED 16th December 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED East Germany discusses what do to after dismantling the WED Stasi. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00p85rp (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 b00p85sz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p912l (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a WED series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. WED Naive office worker Adrian is offered a job as the new WED Robson and Jerome, the United Planetary Super Council is WED invaded by a space-fiend and a strange German woman takes WED over the Shipping Forecast. WED With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00p84y9 (Listen) WED Jazzer's good intentions miss the mark. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00p85v6 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a WED selection of the best new crime fiction of 2009, for WED anyone hoping to track down a gift in the bookshop. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv1 (Listen) WED Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 3 WED Financial thriller by Mike Walker. WED After Tim's visit to Grant Brunner, someone ran him off WED the road and tried to kill him. He decides to pay Brunner WED another visit to find out why. WED Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing WED Angela Chapman ...... Lizzie McInnerny WED Kathy ...... Michelle Tate WED Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim WED Grant Brunner ...... Nigel Hastings WED Spook ...... Rhys Jennings WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00p91qf (Listen) WED European Law: After Lisbon WED Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal WED issues of the day. WED European law has been described as an incoming tide which WED cannot be held back. Will the coming into force of the WED Lisbon Treaty generate a legal tsunami which will WED overwhelm British sovereignty? Are we governed by our own WED laws or the law of Europe? WED WED 20:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00p2z8p (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Sir Christopher Meyer, ex-chairman of the Press Complaints WED Commission and a former press secretary at Number 10, WED examines the press. WED Does the press act as freedom's guardian or is it a 'feral WED beast', in Tony Blair's phrase? WED WED 21:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p87r6 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty, WED irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world WED according to science. WED Physicist turned comedian Ben Miller joins Brian and Robin WED to discuss quantum physics, and if astrology really shares WED its roots with more scientific pursuits. They also discuss WED the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken, WED currently storming ahead in a large underground tunnel WED just outside Geneva. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00p8hjs (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Val Doonican. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00p86fv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h4 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8r (Listen) WED The Ingoldsby Legends, The Leech of Folkestone, Part 2 WED Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection WED of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly WED written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but WED actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published WED in book form in 1840. WED In the depths of Romney Marsh, an avaricious woman, bored WED with her tedious husband, plots with her doctor to rid WED herself of her spouse. But it seems that more than normal WED medication is to be employed. WED Abriged by Robin Brooks. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00lh2dp (Listen) WED Mr Gee presents the performance poetry series. Scroobius WED Pip gives his update on a classic theme with his poem Mr WED Otis Regrets. Also appearing are Dockers MC and Matthew WED Duffy. WED WED 23:15 All Bar Luke b00dkgrz (Listen) WED Series 3, The Cruise WED Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key. WED Luke gets stranded on his way home from Calais with a WED people-carrier full of wedding booze and a comatose WED groom-to-be. WED An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qf (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm7m (Listen) THU Dear Granny Smith, Episode 3 THU A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and THU delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the THU past, present and future role of one of the oldest British THU institutions, the Postie. THU Delivering letters is just the tip of the iceberg - how THU does the right letter end up in the right letterbox? THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6v (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00p7n9b (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7ncf (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj2 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00p7qhp (Listen) THU With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 1989: Simpson Returns b00p91x6 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the THU story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal THU stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, THU the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. THU John witnessed at first hand the bloody overthrow of the THU Ceausescu regime. The brutal dictator and his wife were THU executed on Christmas Day 1989, with the dramatic scenes THU played out on TV. John returns to Bucharest 20 years later THU to assess what has happened since. THU THU 09:30 Avoiding the Question b00nfqzn (Listen) THU Jon Sopel explores the techniques used by different THU politicians to avoid questions in interviews and how it THU affects their public image. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7p (Listen) THU Dear Granny Smith, Episode 4 THU A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and THU delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the THU past, present and future role of one of the oldest British THU institutions, the Postie. THU The end of the team talk and the beginning of new-fangled THU machinery. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsp (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00p91x8 (Listen) THU Rio Law THU Brazil is booming economically and growing in confidence THU on the world stage, but in the city of Rio de Janeiro law THU and order have been turned upside down. Gangs run the THU prisons and ruthless militias - often made up of former THU police officers - control many shanty towns, killing with THU impunity. Lucy Ash asks if the authorities can end the THU rule of gangs, guns and greed. THU THU 11:30 Protected by Faith b00p928z (Listen) THU John Waite investigates the restoration and conservation THU work undertaken by the Vatican Secret Archives laboratory, THU one of the world's most technologically advanced THU conservation labs. THU John visits the lab and asks how cutting-edge science and THU religion sit side by side, why the Vatican undertakes this THU task, what types of documents are hidden away in the THU Archive and who has access to them. THU Away from the Vatican, he discovers how the work of the THU Secret Archives compares to other conservation and THU preservation teams. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00p84jf (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00p84qr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00p84vh (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00p93sw (Listen) THU How's My Driving? THU Having a driving licence used to be proof you'd grown up THU and could move about on your own; now it is almost a THU guilty pleasure. THU Dominic Arkwright borrowed a car to get to the studio to THU meet entrepreneur Alison Larkman (who walked), broadcaster THU Chris Serle (on his motor scooter) and actor Patrick Field THU (bike, train and bike) to consider the point of driving in THU the 21st century. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00p84y9 (Listen) THU Jazzer's good intentions miss the mark. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b007w0j2 (Listen) THU Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, Truth Makes All Things THU Plain THU Another case for John Mortimer's foxy barrister. THU If one man can be counted on to fight injustice and insist THU on a fair and decent trial for everyone, whatever their THU circumstances, Horace Rumpole is he. So when beautiful THU Tiffany Khan learns that her husband has been arrested on THU suspicion of terrorism, she calls on him right away. THU Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West THU Hilda Rumpole ...... Prunella Scales THU Judge Bullingham ...... Christopher Benjamin THU Tiffany Khan ...... Lily Bevan THU 'Soapy Sam' Ballard ...... Michael Cochrane THU Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander THU Dr Mahmood Khan ...... Shiv Grewal THU Barrington Whiteside ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Will Timson ...... Ben Crowe THU Peter Plaistow ...... Christopher Scott THU Mrs Justice Templett ...... Joanna David THU Fred Sugden ...... Kim Durham THU Ian Antrim ...... Nigel Anthony THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00nrvrh (Listen) THU Ripples of the Ballinderry River THU Helen Mark visits Northern Ireland to find out about an THU exciting new community project taking place along the THU banks of the Ballinderry River. Along the way Helen meets THU people who have grown up with the Ballinderry and who are THU taking part in a very special project, protecting the THU environment and the wildlife around it and reconnecting THU people with the river. THU Helen begins by going on a hunt for the endangered THU white-clawed crayfish, once a common sight in rivers and THU lakes and now on an ever-increasing list of globally THU threatened species. She also meets local people involved THU with RIPPLE, a project designed to encourage people to get THU more involved in planning the future of their river, and THU takes to the water with canoeing enthusiasts. THU Further along the river, Helen meets local sound artist THU Paul Moore to hears the river sing, before finishing her THU journey on the shores of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in THU the British Isles and the winter home for a huge number THU and variety of birds. But are there as still as many THU arriving as the 90,000 that wintered here in the late THU 1980s? THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00p7hfd (Listen) THU Help the Hospices THU Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices. THU Donations to Help the Hospices should be sent to FREEPOST THU BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope THU Help the Hospices. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Help the THU Hospices with your full name and address so they can claim THU the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone THU donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity Number 1014851. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8d9v (Listen) THU Too Much Happiness, Wood THU Series of short stories from the new collection by THU Canadian author Alice Munro. THU The story of a marriage and a moment in time when what was THU lost is regained, and the mixed emotions that engenders. A THU late afternoon in a snowy wood and a casual, careless slip THU are all it takes THU Read by Barbara Barnes. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 15:45 My Mile of the River b00hy5yr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the THU River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in THU Mid Wales. THU On a freezing autumn morning, Chris watches at dawn for THU otters. And on a freezing morning, he invokes the sights THU and sounds of his patch as the town wakes up. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00p7m9g (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann about his new THU novel Let The Great World Spin, which won the 2009 THU prestigious National Book Award in America. With Philippe THU Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the then THU unfinished World Trade Center Towers at its axis, it THU focuses on the lives of a disparate group of New York THU characters, including the viewpoint of Petit himself, THU whose own story was the subject of the award winning THU documentary Man on Wire. The novel celebrates the richness THU and diversity of New York through a range of rich and THU varied characters. THU After Borders bookshop chain announced it was going into THU administration, the CEO of Hachette UK, Tim Hely THU Hutchinson; editor of The Bookseller, Neill Denny; and THU independent bookseller Patrick Neale discuss the future of THU the bookshop on the high street. Author Patrick Gale THU provides the writers' perspective. THU There are over 1500 independent bookshops and 300 THU Waterstones, but the threat from online selling, the THU supermarket and the arrival of the e-book have all had an THU impact on where books are sold, and we consider the THU serious threat to the bookshop. THU Producer Hilary Dunn. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00p337y (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper dissects the week's science. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qj (Listen) THU 17th December 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU Labour select Peter Mandelson to stand as an MP. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00p85rr (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 b00p85t1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, THU Series 1 of b00p940t (Listen) THU The Global Economy THU Political comedian Andy Zaltzman presents a THU decade-by-decade comic analysis of the third millennium, THU covering the 2000-2009 period of what is already shaping THU up to be a troubled thousand years. THU Andy applies his twisted logic to subjects including THU banking, corporate fraud and the credit crunch. Where did THU it all go wrong? THU With Rory Bremner, Bridget Christie, Lucy Montgomery and THU Kim Wall. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00p84yc (Listen) THU Kirsty goes on the defensive. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00p85vb (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review THU of the new staging of the children's classic The Cat in THU the Hat, and the pick of the year's best audio books. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv3 (Listen) THU Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 4 THU Financial thriller by Mike Walker. THU Disgraced City trader Tim Ng has been offered immunity THU from persecution by the FSA, but it soon becomes clear THU that the real subject of their investigations is Tim's THU father, a billionaire banker living in Hong Kong. THU Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing THU Kathy ...... Michelle Tate THU Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim THU Father ...... Lobo Chan THU Politician ...... Nigel Hastings THU Spook ...... Rhys Jennings THU Restaurateur ...... Kate Layden THU Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00p944h (Listen) THU On the eve of what 999 ambulance crews have dubbed Black THU Friday - traditionally their busiest day of the year - THU Gill Dummigan investigates how they are meeting tough new THU government targets for response times. Critics say it's THU resulting in some areas getting inadequate cover with THU critically ill patients enduring long waits for medical THU help. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00p944k (Listen) THU Let Me Entertain You THU What can business leaders learn from rock musicians and THU improvisational comedians? Peter Day finds out. THU THU 21:00 What Scientists Believe b00p945q (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Philosopher Stephen Webster investigates the links between THU scientists' personal beliefs and their scientific work. He THU wants to know how an individual scientist's personal, THU psychological and intellectual qualities map onto their THU chosen area of science. How much of a scientist's THU personality is reflected in their work? Should subjective THU private beliefs be a part of objective scientific THU outcomes? What happens if tensions develop between a THU scientist's beliefs and the formal demands of science? If THU tensions arise, how can they be resolved? THU Stephen meets Clare Lloyd, Professor of Respiratory THU Immunology, who runs a busy medical research lab at THU Imperial College, London. Her lab investigates asthma and THU how allergens can inflame nasal airways, especially in THU small babies. Clare talks to Stephen about the pressures THU of running a research lab, and how she goes about THU providing her team with a productive working environment. THU As a Principal Investigator, Clare has to encourage and THU inspire her researchers. She also has to secure finance THU for her research projects and make sure the lab runs THU smoothly and effectively, because ultimately, Clare's THU success as a scientist will be judged by her academic THU results. THU THU 21:30 1989: Simpson Returns b00p91x6 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the THU story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal THU stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, THU the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. THU John witnessed at first hand the bloody overthrow of the THU Ceausescu regime. The brutal dictator and his wife were THU executed on Christmas Day 1989, with the dramatic scenes THU played out on TV. John returns to Bucharest 20 years later THU to assess what has happened since. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00p86fx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h6 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8t (Listen) THU The Ingoldsby Legends, Bloudie Jacke THU Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection THU of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly THU written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but THU actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published THU in book form in 1840. THU A grisly and comic poetic tale concerning a local THU Bluebeard, intent on causing havoc wherever he roams. THU Abriged by Robin Brooks. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Chain Reaction b0092j13 (Listen) THU Series 4, Richard Wilson interviews Arabella Weir THU Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next THU week's interviewer. Richard Wilson talks to Arabella Weir. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qh (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Mark D'Arcy. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00p7n20 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm7p (Listen) FRI Dear Granny Smith, Episode 4 FRI A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and FRI delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the FRI past, present and future role of one of the oldest British FRI institutions, the Postie. FRI The end of the team talk and the beginning of new-fangled FRI machinery. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3m (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00p7n9d (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nch (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj4 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00p7qhs (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00p7hfs (Listen) FRI Lord Coe FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe. FRI It is more than a quarter of a century since his rivalry FRI with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett enraptured FRI the nation. FRI After retiring from the racetrack, he enjoyed a career in FRI politics. Now, though, his focus is on the Olympics once FRI again - not on individual medals this time, but ensuring FRI the 2012 games in London are a success. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7r (Listen) FRI Dear Granny Smith, Episode 5 FRI A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and FRI delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the FRI past, present and future role of one of the oldest British FRI institutions, the Postie. FRI The tale of Tom and Jerry and the big grey boxes. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsr (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires. FRI FRI 11:00 The Silent Killer b00l30sb (Listen) FRI Justin Webb finds out what the future holds for his son, FRI Sam, who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the FRI millions of other children like him. FRI He explores why rates of type 1 are rising in the UK, in FRI younger children and more aggressively. Through his own FRI experience with Sam, he discovers the complexities FRI involved in keeping a diabetic child healthy. FRI Justin talks to some of the world's leading figures FRI working at the frontier of biomedicine who think they may FRI have unlocked the key to curing the disease and those who FRI are trying to find a way of preventing it. And he finds FRI out what uphill struggles they face when trying to beat a FRI disease for which the causes remain unclear. FRI As a parent struggling to understand the impact that FRI diabetes will have on his son's life, both immediately and FRI in the long term, Justin explores what options are FRI available to his child, and the thousands of children like FRI him. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00p94fm (Listen) FRI Series 5, Beer Cruise FRI Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur FRI Strong is an expert in everything from the world of FRI entertainment to the origins of the species, all false FRI starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a FRI delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance. FRI It's an early start for Arthur as he sets off on a day FRI trip to France with his old friends Wilf, Sally and FRI Geoffrey. Having brushed up on his French the night FRI before, Arthur shows them all just how to communicate in a FRI foreign tongue. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be FRI many French people about to converse with. Still, there's FRI always the wine! FRI With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and FRI Alastair Kerr. FRI A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00p84jh (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00p84qt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00p84vk (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00p94fp (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00p84yc (Listen) FRI Kirsty goes on the defensive. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b007wh3p (Listen) FRI Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, The Past Catches up with FRI us All FRI Abother case for John Mortimer's foxy barrister. FRI As he struggles to win justice for his client, Rumpole FRI also becomes embroiled in the mysterious ways of She Who FRI Must Be Obeyed. His marriage, rather like his waistcoat, FRI suddenly appears to be straining at the seams. FRI Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West FRI Hilda Rumpole ...... Prunella Scales FRI Claude Erskine-Brown ...... Nigel Anthony FRI Fred Sugden ...... Kim Durham FRI Dr Mahmood Khan ...... Shiv Grewal FRI Will Timson ...... Ben Crowe FRI Judge Bullingham ...... Christopher Benjamin FRI Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander FRI Barrington Whiteside ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Peter Plaistow ...... Christopher Scott FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p959x (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and John Cushnie answer FRI questions from gardeners in Cuffley, Hertfordshire. FRI Authors Beth Chatto and Christine Walkden join Matthew FRI Wilson to discuss contemporary garden literature. FRI FRI 15:45 My Mile of the River b00j2j2d (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the FRI River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in FRI Mid Wales. FRI Chris enjoys the extremes of weather as winter grips the FRI Wye. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00p99n1 (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 b00p99n3 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to artist Sam Taylor-Wood about her FRI feature film debut, Nowhere Boy. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85ql (Listen) FRI 18th December 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI Troops have fired on protestors in Romania. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00p85rt (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 b00p85t3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00p99n5 (Listen) FRI Series 29, Episode 4 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, FRI Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00p84yf (Listen) FRI Father Christmas is a no-show at Lower Loxley. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00p85vd (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv5 (Listen) FRI Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 5 FRI Financial thriller by Mike Walker. FRI Tim's father appeals to stop the investigations into his FRI alleged unlimited derivatives, but it appears that Tim may FRI already know too much for his own safety. FRI Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing FRI Kathy ...... Michelle Tate FRI Father ...... Lobo Chan FRI Gerry ...... Nigel Hastings FRI Selma Giddings ...... Kate Leyden FRI York ...... Rhys Jennings FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00p99n7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Masham, FRI North Yorkshire. The panel includes housing minister John FRI Healey and Conservative MP David Davis. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00p99nb (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00p99nd (Listen) FRI The Dependent FRI By Angela Clarke. When Sonia, full-time carer to her FRI disabled son Jack, injures herself and is forced to call FRI on support services, Jack gets a taste of what he's been FRI missing. FRI Sonia ...... Julia Ford FRI Jack ...... Paul Henshall FRI Les ...... Paul Wyett FRI Lil ...... Angela Clarke FRI Stephanie ...... Annabelle Dowler FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00p86fz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h8 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8w (Listen) FRI The Ingoldsby Legends, Jerry Jarvis' Wig FRI Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection FRI of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly FRI written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but FRI actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published FRI in book form in 1840. FRI Is it possible for a wig to be possessed? And can it, in FRI turn, possess a person foolish enough to wear it? FRI Abriged by Robin Brooks. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00p8dkb (Listen) FRI Series 20, Tennessee Williams FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI American stand-up comedian Rich Hall discusses the life of FRI playwright Tennessee Williams, whose work he first FRI remembers seeing at a Kentucky drive-in cinema, rather FRI than the theatre. With their vivid portrayal of the FRI American south, poetic language and dark themes, works FRI such as Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire FRI were snapped up by Hollywood as well as changing the FRI direction of American theatre. FRI Rich Hall is joined by Williams' friend and biographer FRI Dotson Rader to talk about the man himself: the early FRI unhappiness that shaped his creative life, the prejudice FRI he encountered due to his homosexuality, and his later FRI unpopularity and decline into drink and prescription FRI drugs. They discover a writer with a strong sense of FRI humour, a devotion to his family and a desire to FRI experiment with writing throughout his career. Was FRI Williams' life a wasted one? FRI FRI 23:30 O Lucky Man! b00djtj2 (Listen) FRI John Harris presents a documentary investigating the life FRI and work of the film director Lindsay Anderson. The FRI programme focuses on If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia FRI Hospital, the trilogy of films Anderson made with Malcolm FRI McDowell featuring the character Mick Travis. FRI With contributions from McDowell himself, Stephen Frears, FRI Helen Mirren and writer David Sherwin, Harris examines FRI Anderson's vision of Britain and his contradictory FRI character. FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI FRI

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