23 December, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 26/12/2009 - 01/01/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00pdjxg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Christmas Meditation b00pdjxj (Listen) SAT Michael Morpurgo, former Children's Laureate and SAT award-winning author of books including Private Peaceful SAT and War Horse, reflects on the magic of storytelling at SAT Christmas. SAT Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00pbpcm (Listen) SAT Paw Tracks in the Moonlight, Episode 5 SAT Kevin Whately reads from Denis O'Connor's memoir. SAT It's Christmas Day and Denis O'Connor reflects on how much SAT better his life has become since he rescued the kitten, SAT Toby Jug. SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall. SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pdjxl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pdjxn (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pdjxq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00pdjxs (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pdjxv (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. SAT SAT 05:45 Running Away b00f678s (Listen) SAT Baroness Julia Neuberger 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 Baroness Julia Neuberger - rabbi, social reformer and SAT member of the House of Lords - takes a morning stroll SAT through the Victorian gardens and hothouse in the heart of SAT Royal Leamington Spa for a brief respite from a full diary SAT of engagements. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00pdjxx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00pdjy1 (Listen) SAT Blue Moon SAT Helen Mark celebrates December's Blue Moon with artist SAT Elspeth Owen, who is living outside and walking every SAT night as part of an eccentric and unique project. SAT When there are two full moons in one calendar month, the SAT second of those moons is called a Blue Moon. Elspeth Owen, SAT who is in her 70s, has decided to live outside between the SAT first full moon (on the 2nd of December) and the second SAT full moon (on the 31st). She wants to discover something SAT about the dark, about fear and about using her senses SAT differently. SAT For this Open Country special, Helen Mark visits Elspeth, SAT who lives in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester, SAT when the sky is at its darkest - mid-way through her SAT project. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00pdjy3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT The honeybee contributes hundreds of millions of pounds to SAT the economy every year through its role as a pollinator of SAT crops. But the insect has been under increasing threat SAT from disease and unexplained deaths over the past decade. SAT Farming Today has been trying to understand more about the SAT pressures facing the honeybee and, for the past eight SAT months, has been looking after its own hive. Charlotte SAT Smith reports on the hive's progress this year; from SAT disease control to honey competitions, it's been an SAT eventful time. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00pdjy5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00pdjy7 (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00pdjy9 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by rock star SAT physicist Brian May. Maureen MacGregor describes her SAT favourite sound. Campbell Gillespie survived being struck SAT by lightning but with serious repercussions that he still SAT deals with now. Daphne Selfe is enjoying the delights of SAT supermodel stardom in her eighties. Inheritance Tracks SAT from Bertie Ahern and poetry from Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00pdk2n (Listen) SAT Quiz SAT Peter Curran hosts a special travel quiz, in front of an SAT audience in the BBC Radio Theatre. Regular presenters SAT Sandi Toksvig and John McCarthy go head to head, ably SAT assisted by television presenter and osteoarchaeologist Dr SAT Alice Roberts and comedian and playwright Arthur Smith. SAT They scratch their heads over questions concerning twin SAT screw steamers, charcoal spitting and Uruguayan pie and SAT consider which travel writer carried a leg of mutton on a SAT journey and which one packed treacle biscuits. SAT SAT 10:30 Brandreth's Pills b00pdk2q (Listen) SAT Gyles Brandreth tells the story of how his ancestor made a SAT fortune and invented modern marketing, while apparently SAT curing all of America's ills. This is a story that takes SAT us from Liverpool docks in the 1830s to New York in the SAT 1880s, with a cast that includes hucksters, quacks, SAT politicians, millionaires, the pioneers of modern America SAT and the founders of tabloid journalism and modern SAT advertising. SAT In 1835, Gyles's great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin SAT Holmes, left Liverpool for New York. He was 25, had three SAT children and not much capital. But by the time of his SAT death in 1887 he had changed his name to Benjamin SAT Brandreth, was a New York senator, a leading banker, the SAT owner of one of New York's biggest hotels and one of the SAT richest men in America, after making a fortune with his SAT Brandreth's Vegetable Pills, which reputedly cured SAT everything. They were sold into the mass market on the SAT basis that in two to three months they could help your SAT body purge itself of all diseases by 'purifying the SAT blood'. In fact, they were an explosively powerful SAT laxative, based on sasparilla and other purgatives. SAT Brandreth's timing was good. Americans, then as now, were SAT big eaters, and what they liked was starchy, fried food, SAT without much fruit or veg. In other words, junk food. At SAT the same time they were moving from an active rural SAT lifestyle to a sedentary urban one with the result that SAT constipation and indigestion were rampant. What they SAT needed were Brandreth's Pills. Within five years, SAT Brandreth had built a big factory at Ossining, he was SAT churning out pills by the million and was earning a SAT fortune - hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. SAT But America was full of quack cure-alls and snake oil SAT salesmen. What made Brandreth so successful? As one rival SAT wrote, 'Dr Brandreth figures larger in the scale of SAT quackery than all the rest of the fraternity combined.' SAT The answer was that he was the first advertiser to realise SAT the power of the new mass market and the sensational penny SAT press. In the very month that Brandreth started producing SAT his pills, newspaperman Gordon Bennet founded the New York SAT Herald. Bennet and Brandreth hit it off. Before long, SAT Brandreth was by far the Herald's biggest advertiser. SAT Brandreth's advertising budget was the largest in the SAT country. With Gordon Bennet, he developed modern mass SAT advertising and branding. Some say Dr Benjamin Brandreth SAT was a fraud - he wasn't a doctor, Brandreth wasn't his SAT name and his pills did very few of the things he claimed. SAT Others say he was a genius, who gave comfort to millions SAT and made millions in the process. The great showman PT SAT Barnum regarded Brandreth as a role model. SAT Related Links SAT * Westchester County Historical Society SAT (www.westchesterhistory.com) SAT * Gyles Brandreth (www.gylesbrandreth.net) SAT * Roy Greenslade (www.guardian.co.uk) SAT * P T Barnum (www.ptbarnum.org) SAT * Who was Gordon Bennett? (BBC News) SAT * Westchester Archives (www.westchesterarchives.com) SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00pdkbt (Listen) SAT A special edition of the programme to mark the bicentenary SAT of Gladstone's birth, from St Deiniol's Library in North SAT Wales. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00pdkbw (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00pdkby (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00pd6hr (Listen) SAT Series 29, Episode 5 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis go a-carolling; Marcus SAT Brigstocke pulls some ethical crackers; Jon Holmes flicks SAT through the Radio Times; Mitch Benn thinks he might have SAT over done it and the audience tell us what really happens SAT at home at Christmas. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00pdkc0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00pdkc2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 News Review of the Year b00pdkqv (Listen) SAT 2009 SAT Carolyn Quinn looks back at the stories that hit the SAT headlines in 2009. SAT This was the year when MPs were booed and jeered over SAT their expenses, bankers became reviled, public debt and SAT unemployment soared to unimaginable heights, and elections SAT in Iraq and Afghanistan proved corrupt while the death SAT toll mounted. It was also the year when Joanna Lumley won SAT justice for the Gurkhas, England won the Ashes and we all SAT became obsessed with Twitter. SAT SAT 14:00 Tales from the Stave b00pcjh2 (Listen) SAT Chopin: Barcarolle SAT Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores SAT of well-known pieces of music. SAT Frances is joined by Chopin expert Adam Zamoyski and SAT pianist Stephen Hough at the British Library to look at SAT the autographed score of Chopin's Barcarolle. The library SAT is holding a major exhibition in 2010 to mark the 200th SAT anniversary of his birth. SAT The greater part of Chopin's professional career was spent SAT outside his native Poland - most of it in Paris, where he SAT established himself as a fashionable teacher and performer SAT in the houses of the wealthy. With a background of SAT Venetian gondoliers' songs combined with Polish SAT references, the Barcarolle for solo piano was completed in SAT 1846 and meant so much to Chopin that he included it in SAT the programme of a concert he gave in Paris in February SAT 1848. It was to be his last public appearance in his SAT beloved adopted city. His body succumbed to lifelong ill SAT health a year later at the age of 39. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00pdkqx (Listen) SAT Educating Rita SAT By Willy Russell. A comic, sparky and touching portrayal SAT of the relationship between a working-class Open SAT University student and her middle-aged, alcohol-fuelled SAT tutor. SAT Rita ...... Laura Dos Santos SAT Frank ...... Bill Nighy SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams SAT Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00pdwhf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT A musical celebration of performers from the stage-diving SAT Florence and the Machine, to Maria Friedman in 'The King SAT and I', Beth Ditto from Gossip, to Carole King looking SAT back on 50 years as a recording artist. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pdwhh (Listen) SAT 26th December 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT Romania buries its dead. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00pdwhk (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00pdwhm (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pdwhp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00pdwhr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pdwht (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00m56dz (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festival, in front of SAT an audience at The Pleasance Theatre. SAT He is joined by writer, actor and broadcaster Griff Rhys SAT Jones, cultural maverick Malcolm McLaren and actress Diana SAT Quick. SAT Arthur Smith talks to agony aunt Virginia Ironside. SAT With comedy from Wilson Dixon and music from Edwyn Collins SAT and Camille O'Sullivan. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00pdyfl (Listen) SAT Series 7, Chocolate SAT Katie Hims responds to the threatened takeover of British SAT confectionary group Cadbury with a bittersweet love story. SAT With Christine Kavanagh and John Biggins SAT Directed by Abigail le Fleming. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00pdyfn (Listen) SAT 2009 was the year that Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar SAT for best film, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize and SAT Antony Gormley changed the face of Trafalgar Square. Tom SAT Sutcliffe, along with guests Deborah Moggach, Matthew SAT Sweet and Philip Hensher, selects his cultural highlights SAT - and turkeys - from the year that brought us The White SAT Ribbon, Enron, Anish Kapoor, Jedward and the end of Big SAT Brother. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00pj0y2 (Listen) SAT Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes SAT Shaun Ley investigates what happened to 108 missing SAT episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s, why the tapes were SAT wiped and how dedicated fans hunted down copies of other SAT episodes in film collections from Cyprus to New Zealand. SAT And while we may have lost those early programmes, Shaun SAT hears how home recordings ensured all the audio survived. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00pbm1x (Listen) SAT Matilda, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern SAT children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size SAT five-year-old genius. SAT Narrator ...... Lenny Henry SAT Matilda ...... Lauren Mote SAT Miss Trunchbull ......Nichola McAuliffe SAT Mrs Wormwood ...... Claire Rushbrook SAT Mr Wormwood ...... John Biggins SAT Miss Honey ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Mrs Phelps ...... Kate Layden SAT Michael ...... Ryan Watson SAT Bruce Bogtrotter ...... Joshua Swinney SAT Nobby ...... Rhys Jennings SAT Lavender ...... Sinead Michael SAT Hortensia ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00pdyh5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:10 Pick of the Year b00pd69k (Listen) SAT Rob Brydon unwraps the best of the year's offerings from SAT across BBC radio. SAT Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00pbx24 (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the eleventh heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, featuring contestants from the SAT south of England. SAT Contestants SAT Martin Boult from Basingstoke SAT Rosanna Day from Newbury SAT Nancy Dickmann from Oxford SAT Andrew McNab from London SAT SAT 23:30 Thomas Lynch's Season of Innocence b00pbm21 (Listen) SAT Irish-American poet and essayist Thomas Lynch introduces a SAT poignant and insightful programme on poetry that has been SAT inspired by children, with contributions from Carol Ann SAT Duffy, Matthew Sweeney, Frieda Hughes and Robin Robertson. SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 DECEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00pdyhw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Street Circus b00jypr3 (Listen) SUN Midge Ure travels to Cape Town in South Africa to visit SUN Zip Zap School of Circus Arts for Social Change. Midge is SUN expecting the big top, bright lights and clowns in comedy SUN big shoes and red noses, but this is something entirely SUN different. SUN Founded in 1992 by Laurence and Brent van Rensburg, the SUN vision for the Zip Zap circus school was to teach circus SUN skills to South African children from all walks of life - SUN from Cape Town's wealthy middle class elite to children SUN born in the townships. Boys, girls, wealthy, homeless, SUN extroverted, introverted, aged eight to 18, all have their SUN places and responsibilities at Zip Zap, which attempts to SUN embody Mandela's vision of the Rainbow Nation. SUN Midge meets Zip Zap's founders in Cape Town, and joins SUN Shannon and Neville, two trainers from Zip Zap who travel SUN to Khayelitsha township once a week to run the circus SUN outreach programme there for kids born with HIV. SUN Shannon and Neville seem to embody what Zip Zap is all SUN about. The former is a white American from Minneapolis who SUN went over to train with Zip Zap and the latter is a black SUN South African from Khayelitsha township - they got SUN together at Zip Zap. SUN At the Khayelitsha outreach programme, there is no big top SUN or paying audiences, just 25 children aged between eight SUN and 13 who were all born with HIV. They practise circus SUN skills in the street, including juggling, unicycle and SUN throwing hoops. Midge is initially a little sceptical SUN about how teaching circus skills to kids born with HIV can SUN improve their lives. He hears how they have been SUN ostracised by their own communities and how the circus SUN workshops attempt to enable these children to develop SUN their physical strength and abilities, while gaining SUN self-confidence. SUN Midge says, 'I get it now. It's not about building up SUN wonderful performers, it's about integration, it's about SUN self-esteem. The circus works - it gives all these kids a SUN focus, it gives them something to do, something to learn. SUN But most importantly it gives them a little bit of hope.'. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fplc (Listen) SUN Pier Shorts, Don't Turn Around SUN Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier. SUN By Marian Garvey, read by Claire Skinner. SUN Encouraged to skive off work and head for a fun weekend in SUN Brighton, Lexy discovers that all is not quite as it SUN seemed. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pdyq0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pdyq2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pdyq4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00pdyq6 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00pdyq8 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Margaret's Church, Dunham SUN Massey in Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00p6820 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Sir Christopher Meyer, press watchdog until this year as SUN chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former SUN press secretary at Number 10, discusses the role of the SUN press today. Is the press today freedom's guardian or is SUN it a 'feral beast', as Tony Blair described the media at SUN the end of his premiership? SUN Sir Christopher draws on his personal experience as press SUN watchdog and government spokesman. In his six years SUN chairing the PCC, where he dealt with complaints against SUN newspapers and magazines, he championed a free press and SUN self-regulation, but had to contend with controversies SUN that sometimes strained people's trust in the press. SUN His health check on the press comes at a time when opinion SUN is polarised. Is the press out of control, or is it more SUN constrained than ever before by the law? Is the press SUN destroying trust in our democracy, or are politicians SUN giving the press undue importance by courting editors and SUN journalists? Is the press too powerful, or is it SUN vulnerable because of competition from the internet, much SUN of it free and unregulated? SUN And now that the printed word and audio-visual content SUN appear together on the same website, what is the future SUN for self-regulation by the press? SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00pdyqb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00pdyqd (Listen) SUN Born Lucky SUN Mark Tully explores how the circumstances of our birth - SUN year, era, parents, birth order, star sign, religion - SUN shape our personalities and affect the course of our lives. SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Music SUN Music 1: ‘First Born’, by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. SUN Available on the album Dancer with Bruised Knees. Released SUN by Warner. SUN Music 2: ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ composed by Morten SUN Lauridsen, performed by the Bach Choir. Available on the SUN album Noel! A Selection of Carols and Anthems. Released on SUN Priory. SUN Music 3: ‘Partos Trocados’, performed by Ensemble SUN Accentus. Available on the album Sephardic Romances. SUN Released on Naxos records. SUN Music 4: ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’, performed by Albert SUN King. Available on the album I’ll Play the Blues for You. SUN Released on Ace Records. SUN Music 5: ‘Estonian Lullaby ‘I Sing for My Child’’ by Veljo SUN Tormis, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. Available on SUN the album Mnemosyne. Released by ECM records. SUN Music 6: ‘The Birthnight’ composed by Gerald Finzi, SUN performed by Stephen Roberts and Clifford Benson. SUN Available on Songs by Finzi & his Friends. Released by SUN Hyperion. SUN Readings SUN Reading 1: ‘Winter Born’ by Patrick Purnell SJ from the SUN Book of Furrows, published by Way Books. SUN Reading 2: ‘Destiny Vs Free Will’ by David Hamilton. SUN Published by Hay house. SUN Reading 3: ‘Lucky’ by Roger McGough. Published by Viking. SUN Reading 4: “Identity and Violence” by Amartya Sen. SUN Published by Allen Lane. SUN Reading 5: “How the Children Were Born” from Split World: SUN Poems 1990 - 2005 by Moniza Alvi. Published by Bloodaxe. SUN Reading 6: “For Your Birthday” by John O’Donahue. SUN Published by Bantam Press. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00pdz10 (Listen) SUN Adam Henson visits Charbel Akiki, a Lebanese who farms SUN biodynamically and grows produce familiar from his SUN childhood, to examine how the British conditions are SUN favourable to Charbel's methods. Adam also samples the SUN sort of foods associated with the festive period. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00pdz12 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00pdz14 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00pdz16 (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 b00pdz18 (Listen) SUN Alstrom Syndrome UK SUN Kay Parkinson appeals on behalf of Alstrom Syndrome UK. SUN Donations to Alstrom Syndrome UK should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Alstrom Syndrome UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Alstrom Syndrome UK with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number 1071196. SUN Related Links SUN * Alstrom Syndrome UK (www.alstrom.org.uk) SUN Alstrom Syndrome UK SUN Alstrom Syndrome is a very rare genetic condition which is SUN very devastating for the patient as it can lead to SUN progressive blindness, deafness, heart and kidney failure, SUN diabetes and many problems to the main organs in the body. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00pdz1b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00pdz1d (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00g42lw (Listen) SUN Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy collaborated with composer SUN Sasha Johnson Manning to produce what the Independent SUN described as 'the most remarkable suite of new carols to SUN be published in decades', first broadcast on Radio 4 in SUN 2009. Narrated by James Quinn, with the Manchester SUN Carollers and choirs from Manchester schools, and the SUN Northern Chamber Orchestra, led by Nicholas Ward. Director SUN of Music: Richard Tanner. SUN No transcript available due to copyright reasons SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00pd6n4 (Listen) SUN Clive James reflects on the human condition and the need SUN for liberal democracy to spread to allow future SUN generations to enjoy the fruits of progress. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00pdz1j (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00pdz1l (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00pdz1n (Listen) SUN David Tennant SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. SUN He has been voted the best Dr Who ever and has redefined SUN the Time Lord for a generation of parents and children. SUN As a child he was a huge fan of the programme; he reckons SUN he only ever missed one episode, wore a long stripy scarf SUN and queued up to meet Tom Baker and get his autograph. As SUN a role, he says, it appealed not just to his adult self SUN but to the eight-year-old boy who was just below the SUN surface. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00pcb3d (Listen) SUN Series 52, Episode 6 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the SUN Futurist Theatre in Scarborough, with Jack Dee taking the SUN chairman's role. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by SUN Jo Brand and Jeremy Hardy. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00pdz1q (Listen) SUN Bread Skills SUN Sheila Dillon celebrates the rise of real bread. SUN The majority of Britain's bread is highly processed, SUN packed with additives and often made with cost, rather SUN than quality, in mind. But countless bakers, amateur and SUN professional, are fighting back. SUN Sheila finds out about some of the new ventures that are SUN making artisan bread more widely available, and at a SUN competitive price. Reporter Gerard Baker visits the SUN Handmade Bakery in West Yorkshire, a community-supported SUN bakery with dozens of local subscribers. SUN Sheila also hears about St Mary's Bakery in Frensham in SUN Surrey, where Richard Dean started his venture by offering SUN his bread to the neighbours. Sunday Telegraph food SUN columnist Bee Wilson explains what happened to bakers in SUN the Middle Ages when their bread was not up to scratch. In SUN the studio, food writer Rose Prince launches her idea for SUN extending breadmaking skills to the young as well as SUN encouraging more people to enjoy 'real' bread. SUN Related Links SUN * Apprenticeships (www.apprenticeships.org.uk) SUN * Community Supported Bakery (www.loafonline.co.uk) SUN * Handmade Bakery (www.thehandmadebakery.coop) SUN * Real Bread Campaign (www.sustainweb.org) SUN * Great Northumberland Bread Company SUN (www.foodloversbritain.com) SUN Recipes SUN Three-minute Spelt Bread from the The New English Table: SUN Over 200 Recipes That Will Not Cost The Earth by by Rose SUN Prince published by Fourth Estate Ltd, ISBN-10: 0007250932 SUN ISBN-13: 978-0007250936 SUN Making spelt bread is completely different from making SUN conventional wheat bread. The grain reacts aggressively to SUN yeast, and does not have to be mixed, let alone kneaded, SUN for more than a minute. There is also no need to let it SUN rise. SUN This recipe is from Sibille Wilkinson, whose husband, SUN Andrew, grows organic spelt and mills flour on their SUN Northumberland farm. It really does take just three SUN minutes to prepare. SUN Ingredients SUN 500g/1lb 2oz spelt flour SUN 10g/1/4oz fast-action dried yeast SUN ½ teaspoon sea salt SUN 55g/2oz sunflower seeds SUN 55g/2oz sesame seeds** SUN 55g/2oz linseeds SUN 500ml/18fl oz warm water SUN Method SUN Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6. Combine all SUN the ingredients in a bowl, adding the water last. Mix SUN well, and then turn the dough into a greased 900g/2lb loaf SUN tin. Put in the oven immediately and bake for 1 hour, SUN until the loaf has risen, lifts out of the tin easily, and SUN sounds hollow when tapped underneath. Take the loaf out of SUN the tin, and then put it back in the oven for 5–10 minutes SUN to crisp up the sides and base. Remove from the oven and SUN leave to cool on a wire rack. SUN Copyright Sibille Wilkinson SUN Doris Grant Loaf SUN A super simple, no-knead loaf invented by Mrs Grant in the SUN 1940’s. Add a handful of seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, poppy SUN or a mix) to the dough to accentuate the deliciously nutty SUN flavour. SUN Ingredients SUN 1lb/450g strong wholemeal or spelt flour SUN 1 tsp brown sugar or honey SUN ½ sachet easy-blend or easy-bake yeast SUN 2 tsp salt SUN 1 tbsp olive oil or melted butter SUN Method SUN Mix the flour with the sugar or honey, yeast and 2 tsp SUN salt. Stir in the oil or butter and 3/4pt/420ml water to SUN make loose, sticky dough. SUN Scrape the dough into a greased 1lb/450g loaf tin. SUN Cover loosely with oiled cling film; leave in a warm place SUN for 30 minutes (until dough has risen by a third). SUN Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/gas mark 7. SUN Bake for half an hour. Slip out of the tin and check that SUN the base sounds hollow when tapped (if not, give it SUN another 5-10 minutes). Cool on a rack. SUN Copyright Doris Grant SUN Book: Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - SUN The Dark History of the Food Cheats SUN Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The SUN Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson, published SUN by John Murray, ISBN-10: 0719567769 SUN ISBN-13: 978-0719567766 SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00pdz1s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00pdz1v (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned SUN Police Box b00l59rk (Listen) SUN Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, explores the SUN hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and SUN 80s, published by Target books. Featuring some of the best SUN excerpts from the books and interviews with publishers, SUN house writers, illustrators and the actors whose SUN adventures the books tirelessly depicted. SUN In an age before DVD and video, the Target book series of SUN Doctor Who fiction was conceived as the chance for SUN children to 'keep' and revisit classic Doctor Who. They SUN were marketed as such, written in a highly visual house SUN style. Descriptive passages did the work of the TV camera SUN and the scripts were more or less faithfully reproduced as SUN dialogue. SUN The books were as close to the experience of watching as SUN possible, and were adored by a generation of children who SUN grew up transfixed by the classic BBC series. Target SUN Doctor Who books became a children's publishing phenomenon SUN - they sold over 13 million copies worldwide. From 1973 SUN until 1994, the Target Doctor Who paperbacks were a SUN mainstay of the publishing world. SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pdz3s (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum, which SUN celebrates its Christmas party at the Museum of Garden SUN History in south London. SUN Bob Flowerdew, John Cushnie and Pippa Greenwood reflect on SUN the troubles and trials of the year just passed. SUN Including gardening weather forecast. SUN The GQT Christmas Special Team (picture) SUN (L-R) Howard Shannon ( producer ), Eric Robson, Tim SUN Rumball (Editor, Amateur Gardening Magazine), Kathy SUN Clugston (Radio 4 Newsreader), Adam Pasco (Editor, BBC SUN Gardeners' World Magazine), John Cushnie, Pippa Greenwood SUN and Bob Flowerdew. SUN Carol Singers at the GQT Christmas Recording SUN (L-R) Davina Barron, Rachel McLaughlin, Matt Flinn and Ned SUN Stuart-Smith. SUN SUN 14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxp9 (Listen) SUN Scunthorpe Co-Op Junior Choir SUN Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the SUN country. SUN Joan meets the young members of the Scunthorpe SUN Co-Operative Junior Choir, aged three and upwards, as they SUN prepare for the Choir of the Year contest. With Howard SUN Goodall, the UK's 'Singing Tsar'. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00pdzg9 (Listen) SUN Matilda, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern SUN children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size SUN five-year-old genius. SUN Matilda is determined to save the school and her favourite SUN teacher Miss Honey from the vicious grip of its terrifying SUN headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. SUN Narrator ...... Lenny Henry SUN Matilda ...... Lauren Mote SUN Miss Trunchbull ......Nichola McAuliffe SUN Mrs Wormwood ...... Claire Rushbrook SUN Mr Wormwood ...... John Biggins SUN Miss Honey ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Michael ...... Ryan Watson SUN Lavender ...... Sinead Michael SUN Nigel ...... Bertie Gilbert SUN Directed by Claire Grove. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00pf0kb (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss a generally SUN unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor. SUN Mariella talks to Diana Athill, the former editor of SUN novelists including VS Naipaul, John Updike and Jean Rhys, SUN and herself the author of Stet, an acclaimed memoir of her SUN life in publishing. SUN John Carey, the author of a recent biography of William SUN Golding, explains how Golding's masterpiece Lord of the SUN Flies was saved from the rejects pile - and extensively SUN remodelled - by Golding's first editor. SUN The editor and writer Jenny Uglow reveals some of the SUN tricks of her trade, and the novelists Giles Foden and DJ SUN Taylor discuss how novelists rely on - and sometimes SUN ignore - their editors, from Dickens to the present day. SUN Book List: SUN Diana Athill: Life Class SUN Publisher: Granta SUN John Carey: William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the SUN Flies SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Giles Foden: Turbulence SUN Publisher: Faber SUN D J Taylor: Ask Alice SUN Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN Jenny Uglow: A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration SUN Publisher: Faber SUN SUN 16:30 The Kalevala: Finland's National Epic b00pf0kd (Listen) SUN Storyteller and musician Nick Hennessey travels to Finland SUN to explore the mythical world of the country's national SUN poem, The Kalevala. SUN First published in 1835, this 50-chapter epic inspired a SUN 19th-century artistic awakening and remains a cornerstone SUN of contemporary Finnish culture. Speaking to musicians and SUN critics, Hennessey finds out how the poem helped shape the SUN nation. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pf0kg (Listen) SUN 27th December 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN The world comes to Romania's aid. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The New Art of Diplomacy b00pckm3 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN James Naughtie asks if British diplomacy is still fit for SUN purpose. SUN A century ago, much of the map of the world was coloured SUN with the pink of the British Empire. Britain's diplomats SUN reigned supreme, with the reassurance of a gunboat to SUN support them. Much has changed since that time, and SUN continues to change. As Britain faces new threats and new SUN priorities across the globe, how are the foreign office SUN and its diplomats changing? SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00pdyfl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pf0kj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00pf0kl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pf0kn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00pf0kq (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00pf37t (Listen) SUN Helen loses her rose-tinted glasses. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00pf37w (Listen) SUN Host Matt Frei is joined by evening news anchor Katie SUN Couric to discuss the most striking American stories of SUN the past decade. SUN As many across the United States enjoy a white Christmas SUN weekend, a cappella ensemble Sonos warms up the Americana SUN studios with their performance of White Winter Hymnal. SUN Matt Frei talks to author Sherman Alexie about Christmas SUN in Native American homes, both on and off the American SUN Indian reservations. Alexie's most recent book, War SUN Dances, explores the many shapes and styles of fatherhood SUN found across the United States. SUN And Americana hears about one particularly disastrous SUN Christmas dinner. A simple sandwich next year might turn SUN out to be a better option than this family feast. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t5w (Listen) SUN An Italian Bestiary, At Home with Dormice SUN Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the SUN animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she SUN has made her home. SUN A family of dormice are sleeping in a crack in the outside SUN wall. SUN SUN 20:00 Archive on 4 b00lj8zs (Listen) SUN Walking on the Moon SUN To mark the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing in SUN July 1969, Buzz Aldrin relives the dangerous and dramatic SUN moments of the final descent to the lunar surface. The SUN programme features unique oral archive from NASA, SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00pdkby (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00pdz18 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00pd297 (Listen) SUN Organising Salvation SUN Management guru Peter Drucker called the Salvation Army SUN the most 'effective organisation in America'. Peter Day SUN asks if that is true in Britain and finds out how the Army SUN is bringing innovation to salvation. SUN Related Links SUN * Salvation Army, The Sandwich People SUN (www2.salvationarmy.org.uk) SUN * 40/20 Furniture Project (www.safurniture.org.uk) SUN * Cass Business School (www.cass.city.ac.uk) SUN * Crisis (www.crisis.org.uk) SUN Contributors to this programme: SUN Bill Cochrane SUN Commissioner, Salvation Army’s international headquarters SUN Daniel Rous SUN Project Manager, 40/20 Project SUN Lieut-Colonel Marion Drew SUN UK Salvation Army SUN Maff Potts SUN Director of Homeless Services, Booth House SUN Brian Gibbs SUN Centre Manager, Booth House SUN Lieut-Colonel Alan Burns SUN Scottish Secretary and district commander for East SUN Scotland, Salvation Army and 40/20 Furniture Project, Perth SUN Liz Osbourne SUN Business projects coordinator, Booth House SUN Leslie Morphy SUN Chief executive, Crisis SUN Professor Cathy Pharoah SUN Co-director of the Centre for Charitable Giving and SUN Philanthropy, Cass Business School in London SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00pf3fy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 News b00pf3jn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 22:10 News Review of the Year b00pdkqv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00pf3jq (Listen) SUN Week ending 26th December November 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN US forces looking for General Noriega invade Panama, SUN intense fighting continues in Romania and President SUN Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife are captured and executed. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00pdyqd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 DECEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00pf3sl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pclfj (Listen) MON The new bourgeoisie played an enormously important role in MON the history of industrial and imperial Britain. The extent MON to which cousin marriage proliferated in the 19th century MON relates to the central question as to which people were MON going to lead Industrial England. MON Close-knit families in Victorian England delivered MON enormous advantages. They shaped vocations, generated MON patronage, yielded vital commercial information and gave MON access to capital; no wonder that marriage within the MON family, between cousins or between in-laws, was a MON characteristic strategy of this new bourgeoisie. MON Laurie Taylor discusses private life in 19th-century MON England with Adam Kuper, the author of Incest and MON Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England, and MON Catherine Hall, professor of modern British social and MON cultural history at University College, London. MON Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University MON Incest and Infuence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England MON Publisher: Harvard University Press MON ISBN-10: 0674035895 MON ISBN-13: 978-0674035898 MON Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class MON 1780-1850 MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415290651 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415290654 MON Henrietta Garnett, writer, biographer and a descendent of MON the Bloomsbury Group MON Family Skeletons MON Publisher: Sceptre MON ISBN-10: 0340417285 MON ISBN-13: 978-0340417287 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00pdyq8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3xz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf410 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3zq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00pf43n (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43z (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00pf4wt (Listen) MON Farming Today takes an in-depth look at pig production, MON following one sow on a Yorkshire farm from pregnancy to MON progeny. From artificial insemination to electronic MON feeders controlled by the sows themselves, modern pig MON breeding is a hi-tech business driven by market forces. MON Sarah Falkingham also finds out why some boars are on MON farms but never mate, how pigs develop a hierarchy and can MON even, it seems, measure time. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00pfp8g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00pf4xq (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00pfp8j (Listen) MON Andrew Marr looks at the ideas and issues that have MON dominated the world of science in the past year, and those MON that will be vitally important in the year ahead. MON Sir Roy Anderson looks at the developments and mutations MON of swine flu and how the world deals with global MON pandemics. As a former government advisor, he also MON explores that thorny issue of when politics and science MON collide. Richard Dawkins reflects on a year dominated by MON Darwin, Professor John Shepherd on the blue-sky thinking MON to combat climate change with a report on geoengineering, MON and Barbara Sahakian considers whether taking pills to MON make us clever, well-behaved and sociable will become the MON norm in the years ahead. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00pfs2w (Listen) MON Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 1 MON Mark Rylance and Julius D'Silva read from a new edition of MON Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence. MON This selection illustrates the artist's contradictions and MON complexities: his self-doubt and his passionate ambition; MON his close bond with his brother Theo; and his sometimes MON troubled relationships with other family members and MON fellow artists. What emerges above all is his overriding MON passion for his art. MON Abridged by Doreen Estall. MON Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. MON Related Links MON * Read all 902 letters to and from Van Gogh MON (vangoghletters.org) MON * Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (English version) MON (www.vangoghmuseum.nl) MON * Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, 23 January - MON 18 April 2010 (www.royalacademy.org.uk) MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nn (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON A special edition devoted to the role of men on the MON programme, who make up almost 40 per cent of listeners. MON Joining Jane to reflect on the past year's output are the MON writer Tony Parsons, the musician and poet Benjamin MON Zephaniah and the writer John O'Farrell. They share their MON personal opinions and experiences on subjects ranging from MON fatherhood to fertility, inspirational women who've had an MON influence on their lives, and they discuss the notion of MON the male mid-life crisis. MON Several male listeners share their thoughts; Roy Hudd MON describes why he owes much of his irrepressible sense of MON humour to the grandmother who brought him up, and Nicky MON Campbell reveals what inspired him to write a swing album. MON MON 11:00 Living with the In-Laws b00pfp8l (Listen) MON Perminder Khatkar explores the realities for Asian women MON who move in with their in-laws when they get married. For MON some the advantages of free childcare and shared living MON costs work out well, but others move out as the friction MON becomes unbearable. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00pfp8n (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON Comedy series by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby. MON Giles Wemmbley-Hogg returns, having set up his own travel MON company. MON Giles takes four cross ladies and a piece of lead piping MON on a septuagenarian trans-Balkan hen party with an Agatha MON Christie theme. MON Giles ...... Marcus Brigstocke MON Lady Flench ...... Alison Steadman MON MrsHadleigh-Broome ...... Morwenna Banks MON Mrs Gunthorne ...... Janet Henfrey MON Mr Timmis ...... Adrian Scarborough MON Charlotte Wemmbley-Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd MON Hugo ...... Ben Willbond MON David ...... David Armand MON Mehmet ...... Nej Adamson. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00pf5y5 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00pf71b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00pfksl (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00pfpdb (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the twelfth and final heat of the MON perennial general knowledge contest, with contestants from MON the north of England. MON Contestants MON Richard Beatty from Edinburgh MON Anne Hegerty from Manchester MON David Smith from Nantwich MON Martin Wyatt from Accrington MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00pf37t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pfpdd (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 6, End of the Line MON Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective MON based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James MON McLevy. MON Two ladies make an unusual discovery on Waverley station: MON the body of a drunken Italian aristocrat. What on earth MON was he doing on a late-night train from Newcastle? MON McLevy ...... Brian Cox MON Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach ...... David Ashton MON Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil MON Pettigrew ...... Paul Young MON Senga ...... Wendy Seager MON Margaret ...... Monica Gibb MON Jennie ...... Eliza Langland MON Angus ...... Jimmy Chisholm MON Directed by Patrick Rayner. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00pj0y2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.] MON MON 15:45 A View Through a Lens b00ghrfd (Listen) MON Seals MON Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in MON isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe MON filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the MON uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the MON fragility of life and the connections which unite society MON and nature across the globe. MON Despite a raging storm, John struggles across the rocky MON shore of Brownsman Island off the coast of Northumberland MON to film grey seals giving birth at night. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00pdz1q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00pfpdg (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the popularity of angels MON in contemporary culture. Angels appear in almost every MON religious tradition; what are they and why are so many MON people prepared to believe in angels but not in God? MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl5n (Listen) MON 28th December 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON Jimi Hendrix is deployed against General Noriega. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00pfl7j (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl92 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgj (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present MON in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories MON happening this 'once upon a time'. MON Food campaigner Jack Spratt and the Tooth Fairy debate the MON nation's nutrition. MON With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Charlotte Green, Lewis MON MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell. MON Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00pfr4w (Listen) MON New Year Special MON David Mitchell hosts a special New Year's edition of the MON game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies MON and compete to see how many items of truth they are able MON to smuggle past their opponents. The panel includes Rob MON Brydon, John Lloyd and Stephen Fry. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00pfkvv (Listen) MON Pip has a crisis of confidence. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00pflxt (Listen) MON Mark Lawson examines the lives of three acclaimed writers MON as revealed in three major new biographies. MON The novelist and playwright Somerset Maugham enjoyed MON immense literary success and wealth during his lifetime, MON but as his biographer Selina Hastings reveals, his MON personal life led to a 2009 newspaper headline describing MON him as possibly the most debauched man of the 20th century. MON John Carey's biography of Nobel Laureate William Golding MON also attracted headlines, in the light of details MON discovered in Golding's previously unseen journals. John MON Carey reflects on whether or not this new information MON changed his opinion of Golding as a writer. MON The complex life of Muriel Spark presented considerable MON problems for biographer Martin Stannard. He discusses his MON approach to the novelist still perhaps best known for The MON Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Muriel Spark herself MON remembers key incidents from her life from a Front Row MON archive interview recorded in 2004, just two years before MON she died. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflyb (Listen) MON My Mad Grandad, Episode 1 MON By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels MON and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in MON Lancashire. MON After being moved away from bad influences to live in a MON quiet village, 12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is MON the oldest, blackest sheep in his family - his grandad, MON just released from the asylum, who thinks boys need MON catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer. MON Mum ...... Alison Steadman MON Dad ...... Matthew Kelly MON Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill MON Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham MON Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas MON Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell MON Gil ...... Stephen Rac MON Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney MON Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan MON Directed by Dirk Maggs MON A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00pfr4y (Listen) MON Series 5, The Glorious Revolution 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 The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is remembered for MON establishing the supremacy of Parliament over the Crown, MON setting Britain on the path towards constitutional MON monarchy and parliamentary democracy. Yet what's forgotten MON is that the events of 1688 actually constituted a foreign MON invasion of England by another European power, the Dutch MON Republic. MON When William of Orange landed at Torbay in Devon on 5 MON November 1688, with a fleet four times the size of the MON Armada of the previous century, it was ostensibly at the MON invitation of seven Whig supporters who were anxious to MON avoid a Catholic succession to James II's reign. But MON William's invasion was central to his plan of war with MON France, ensuring that England would not add her armed MON force to that of the French; he was set on becoming king MON himself and was leading his troops as an occupying force. MON The last comparable event was a previous William's MON invasion in 1066. MON Even though bloodshed in England was limited - though far MON from the entirely 'Bloodless' revolution that has been MON mythologised - the revolution was only secured in Ireland MON and Scotland by force and with much loss of life. Michael MON investigates the uncomfortable facts of invasion and MON occupation which lie behind the popular celebration of MON 1688. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00pcn0y (Listen) MON Sweden MON Writer Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart MON of Sweden still lives on in the modern age. In an MON entertaining and unpredictable journey he goes in search MON of wolves, egg-tossing merrymakers and the ideal of the MON Swedish summer. MON MON 21:00 The Dragons' Lab b00pfr50 (Listen) MON What happens when economists, neuroscientists, biologists, MON engineers and psychologists spend a week in the same room MON trying to think of ways to spend a few of million pounds? MON Trevor Cox lifts the lid on the funding game as he spends MON a week with some hopeful researchers out to win their MON share of several million pounds of public money in a MON unique funding event called The Ideas Factory - or, as he MON dubs it, The Dragons' Lab. MON Each year the UK research councils share out 2.8 billion MON pounds of taxpayers' money. But how do they decide who MON should get it? With grants dwindling under new government MON spending plans, research funding squabbles are getting MON more fraught. MON But the UK research council model for funding science is MON often intrinsically conservative: if you know what the MON outcome of research will be, why do you need to spend all MON that money on it? Furthermore, grants are awarded by the MON cognoscenti to the cognoscenti, and there is often little MON space for fresh perspectives or interdisciplinary overlap. MON There is a also a gap in the public's awareness of how MON these important decisions are taken on its behalf. MON Related Links MON * EPSRC - IDEAS Factory (www.epsrc.ac.uk) MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00pfp8j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00pfmmb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00pfms9 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Roger MON Hearing. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pfmsc (Listen) MON The True Deceiver, Episode 1 MON Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. MON Winter settles over the Swedish fishing village of MON Västerby. Katri offers to run errands for the ageing MON artist who lives on the outskirts. But what does this MON strange young woman want in return from Anna Aemelin? MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00pck26 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes apart some jokes to try to find out MON why they're funny. After he puts them back together, they MON don't seem to work very well. MON MON 23:30 A Life With ... b00lk12y (Listen) MON Series 5, Microbes MON Writer and naturalist Paul Evans meets Prof Lynn Margulis, MON whose study of the Earth's smallest creatures led to a MON revolutionary theory for all life on Earth. The cell, MON symbiosis, Gaia and a row with Richard Dawkins all combine MON to offer a new perspective on evolution. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 DECEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Dear Darwin b00g9xhy (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin, TUE expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy. TUE Dr Craig Venter, one of the men who first successfully TUE mapped the human genome, tells Darwin about his own TUE experiences as a collector and hands-on biologist, from TUE boyhood toad fascination to his Sorcerer II voyage, which TUE circumnavigated the globe in the manner the young Darwin TUE did aboard HMS Beagle. Nowadays, however, Craig collects TUE genes rather than pickled specimens. He tells Darwin of TUE his Institute's current efforts to produce the world's TUE first synthetic lifeform, completely fabricated by man, TUE yet otherwise untouched by nature and therefore arguably TUE unevolved. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00pfs2w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zs (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00pf412 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43q (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tr (Listen) TUE Farms are well known to be dangerous places and the TUE countryside in general is not a good place to have a TUE serious accident because you could be a long way from your TUE nearest paramedic. But help is at hand from a group of TUE ex-army survival experts who are putting the the medical TUE skills they learned on battlefields from the Falkland TUE Islands and Afghanistan into practice on farms and country TUE estates. Steve Peacock joins one of their training courses TUE to find out how to survive a serious accident when the TUE ambulance is more than an hour away. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00pf4ww (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Defining The Decade b00pfrmm (Listen) TUE Mission Accomplished 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 A decade which began with untrammelled American power and TUE ended with America's reputation damaged and its dominance TUE challenged by the rise of China. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xk (Listen) TUE Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 2 TUE Mark Rylance reads from a new edition of Van Gogh's TUE prodigious correspondence. TUE Vincent begins his artistic studies in earnest under the TUE guidance of the artist Anton Mauve. He also embarks on a TUE relationship with a pregnant prostitute, Christien, whom TUE he decides to take under his wing. But this brings him TUE into conflict with his family. TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nd (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Best known as Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw in Sex TUE and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker stars in a new romantic TUE comedy, Did You Hear About the Morgans? with Hugh Grant. TUE She talks to Jane about the film, the new twins in her TUE life and why Carrie Bradshaw means so much to women. TUE There's an increase in the number of women, including TUE young mums, who are addicted to gambling. To combat this, TUE a clinic in London is offering childcare to encourage TUE sufferers to get treatment. The programme hears from a TUE former addict receiving treatment at the Soho Clinic, and TUE Jane talks to the clinic's director, Dr Henrietta Bowden TUE Jones, and to Liz Karter from the charity Gamcare, which TUE helps problem gamblers. TUE In August 1920 Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, which TUE went on to sell a million copies in one year alone. Mamie TUE Smith paved the way for the better-known women blues TUE singers who followed her and as such is one of the most TUE influential of the iconic black women singers collected on TUE Document Records. In the last of the series on these TUE iconic women, Judi Herman talks to the husband and wife TUE team behind the record label to learn more about Mamie TUE Smith. TUE And what do you like to wear in bed - a sexy nighty, warm TUE pyjamas or absolutely nothing? And how would you respond TUE to the latest trend in nightwear - the slanket, a soft TUE blanket with sleeves? Jane discusses the ins and outs of TUE nightwear with Beatrice Behlen, Curator of Fashion and TUE Decorative Arts at the Museum of London, and Kerry Potter, TUE features director at Elle magazine. TUE TUE 11:00 Where Do You Want Me (A Comic in Continental Crisis) TUE b00nmz81 (Listen) TUE Johnny Vegas is at a turning point in his professional TUE status. He has a thriving career but knows deep down that TUE audiences are getting younger and his shelf-life within TUE showbusiness could be too close to perishable for comfort. TUE What will become of Johnny should The Mighty Boosh demand TUE it is time for him to take his final bow? Johnny sees that TUE with the demise of working men's clubs and the unforgiving TUE nature of popular culture, many household names have TUE followed their ageing audiences to the Spanish coast, TUE where they are still revered and can play once more to TUE packed houses of grateful punters. TUE Is Benidorm merely the elephants' graveyard for TUE entertainers who just don't know when to call it a day, or TUE a shining tribute to the glories of past comedy? Is it a TUE fate that awaits Johnny himself? And what if Benidorm TUE itself is nearing the end of a golden age, now that it is TUE under threat as global recession bites. TUE TUE 11:30 Van Gogh: Seeing Red b00pfrzs (Listen) TUE Richard Cork explores the mind of Vincent van Gogh through TUE his correspondence, which will form a vital part of a new TUE exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. TUE A keen and expressive correspondent who regaled TUE acquaintances with his views on love, religion and sex, he TUE put pen to paper with the same creative vigour as he put TUE paintbrush to canvas. By the time he walked into a field TUE in the town of Auvers-sur-Oise and shot himself in the TUE chest, the 37-year-old van Gogh had left behind a rich TUE literary legacy that would, like his painting, outlive his TUE short and tortured life. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wk (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00pf5y7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00pfks6 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Bach Fever! b00pfsln (Listen) TUE Exploring the uses and abuses of Bach's music, from the TUE jazz Bach craze of the 1960s to the electronic edifice of TUE Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach recordings. It has provided TUE an incredible resource for pop invention, jazz TUE improvisation, acapella swing, electronic futurism, rock TUE guitar and plain kitsch. TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00pfkvv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pfslq (Listen) TUE Cattle Market TUE By Shane Connaughton. Deep in rural Northern Ireland, cows TUE are two a penny; sadly, for one farming community, finding TUE love and the perfect partner is proving more elusive. If TUE only these eligible farmers could find a way to advertise TUE themselves. TUE Kate ...... Geraldine Hughes TUE Ryan ...... Liam McMahon TUE Evie ...... Emma Kearney TUE Alfie ......Stephen Darcy TUE Betty ...... Frances Tomelty TUE Ben ...... Miche Doherty TUE Bill Turner ...... James Greene TUE Simon ...... PAtrick Fitzsymons TUE Maureen ...... Myrtle Johnson TUE Directed by Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00pfsls (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfslv (Listen) TUE Bright Young Things, Jeeves and the Yuletide Sprit TUE Series of three classic short stories celebrating the TUE riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the TUE 1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'. TUE By PG Wodehouse. An unexpected invitation to spend the TUE festive season in the country throws Jeeves's plans for a TUE yuletide break in Monte Carlo into disarray. But as the TUE halpess Bertie Wooster gaily wreaks havoc in the season of TUE goodwill, his loyal manservant soon has Monte Carlo back TUE in his sights. TUE Read by Julian Rhind Tutt. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. TUE TUE 15:45 A View Through a Lens b00gq4nb (Listen) TUE Shadows TUE Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view TUE of life as he finds himself in isolated and often TUE dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife. TUE Squatting on a tiny platform 30 metres offshore, John TUE waits for young black-footed albatrosses to embark on TUE their first flight from the shore. Below him in the water, TUE shadows are patrolling back and forth, waiting for the TUE birds to land on the waves. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00pftm5 (Listen) TUE A sweet relief for some and painfully uncomfortable for TUE others, silence can be one of the most powerful tools in TUE speech. From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael TUE Rosen investigates the times when staying silent can speak TUE volumes. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00pftm7 (Listen) TUE Series 20, Hannah Arendt TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Munira Mirza, the London Mayoral advisor on arts and TUE culture, chooses the influential political philosopher TUE Hannah Arendt. TUE She is regarded as a highly influential 20th-century TUE political philosopher, although Arendt would have refuted TUE the title 'philosopher' herself. Born into a secular TUE German Jewish family, she grew up in what is now Hanover TUE and Berlin. A student with Heidegger (with whom she had a TUE tumultuous relationship; they divorced in 1929), Arendt TUE survived being interrogated by the Gestapo and moved to TUE Paris, where she lived for a number of years before TUE immigrating to America in the 1940s, settling in New York. TUE Arendt was a lively part of an intellectual circle and TUE held a number of academic posts until her death. Little TUE known in the UK, Arendt is chosen by Munira Mirza, the TUE London Mayoral advisor on arts and culture and a founding TUE member of the Manifesto Club. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl32 (Listen) TUE 29th December 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE Playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of TUE Czechoslovakia. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00pfl5q (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7l (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgl (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present TUE in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories TUE happening this 'once upon a time'. TUE Jim reports live from the launch site of the Nurseyland TUE space programme as preparations are finalised to put a cow TUE over the moon. TUE With Peter Donaldson, Lewis MacLeod, Alex MacQueen, Lucy TUE Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell. TUE Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. TUE TUE 18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pfv03 (Listen) TUE Special Relationship TUE Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of TUE inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. TUE Beagle Team are joined by a CIA operative on an exchange TUE visit. TUE Bill ...... Richard Lumsden TUE Sharla ...... Nina Conti TUE Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya TUE Colonel ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Bristow ...... John Biggins TUE Sean ...... Joseph Cohen Cole TUE Lenny ...... Piers Wehner TUE Ignatius/Fuego ...... Nigel Hastings. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00pfkvj (Listen) TUE David and Ruth face a parenting challenge. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00pfl94 (Listen) TUE According to some predictions, the rise of e-readers - TUE electronic devices which can contain hundreds of books TUE digitally - mark the end of the traditional book. In a TUE special edition of Front Row, Mark Lawson speaks to TUE readers, writers, publishers and e-book manufacturers TUE about whether methods of consuming and producing TUE literature - which we now take for granted - are coming to TUE an end. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflxw (Listen) TUE My Mad Grandad, Episode 2 TUE By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels TUE and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in TUE Lancashire. TUE Gil takes his first trip in a car and Grandad finds TUE something to laugh at in the crematorium. TUE Mum ...... Alison Steadman TUE Dad ...... Matthew Kelly TUE Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill TUE Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham TUE Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas TUE Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell TUE Gil ...... Stephen Rac TUE Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney TUE Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan TUE Directed by Dirk Maggs TUE A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 From Tsunami to Drought b00pfv05 (Listen) TUE Andrea Catherwood chairs a series of presentations at the TUE Royal Geographical Society organised by conservation TUE charity Earth Watch, each offering novel solutions to TUE global drought, with a Dragons' Den-style panel and an TUE audience quizzing them about their ideas. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00pg4xg (Listen) TUE Peter White meets Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of TUE Devonshire, at her home in Derbyshire. She has lived there TUE since leaving Chatsworth House, which she and her late TUE husband Andrew, the Duke of Devonshire, lived for almost TUE 50 years. TUE The Duchess has had macular degeneration for about five TUE years and says the thing she most struggles with is TUE reading. She says she is fortunate to have many friends TUE and helpers at the house who read things to her, although TUE sometimes what they read to her from the newspapers isn't TUE always the bit she might choose. Magnifiers help her only TUE for the odd word or two and she prefers to use people TUE rather than gadgets to help her. TUE The Duchess talks about her life as the youngest of the TUE famous Mitford sisters and tells Peter about the time she TUE went to Austria with her mother to see her sister Unity, TUE and together they were invited to have tea with Hitler in TUE his flat. The Duchess said it was strange as she remembers TUE he rang a bell, but nobody came. She also speaks of her TUE passion for Elvis Presley and says she has visited his TUE former home, Graceland, twice. She also has an Elvis TUE novelty phone and a piece of his garden fence as souvenirs. TUE The Duchess thought her family was quite normal when she TUE was younger, and only later reaslied that maybe it was a TUE little different - one of the differences being that the TUE man she called Uncle Harold was known to the rest of the TUE country as prime minister Harold MacMillan. The Duchess TUE takes Peter to see her hens, for which she also has a TUE passion, and has owned her own hens since she was six TUE years old. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00pg4xj (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter reports on the unique study that is TUE tracking obesity from childhood. Researchers in Plymouth TUE have been following the progress of a group of 300 TUE children since they were born. Now they are teenagers, and TUE data from taking blood samples and weighing them has TUE helped the scientists to reveal that obesity follows TUE gender lines and that diet is more important than exercise TUE when it comes to losing weight. TUE Related Links TUE * The Earlybird Diabetes Trust TUE (www.earlybirddiabetes.org) TUE * BBC - Childhood obesity TUE * Possible obesity gene (www.telegraph.co.uk) TUE * Every Child Matters, govt programme (www.dcsf.gov.uk) TUE TUE 21:30 Defining The Decade b00pfrmm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00pfmkj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmd (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv9c (Listen) TUE The True Deceiver, Episode 2 TUE Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. TUE As Katri visits the rabbit house more often, Anna gets TUE first sight of the young woman's unusual qualities. TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00pg50h (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Stand-In 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 stages a sit-in at the post office. Meanwhile a shiny TUE new Ben is trying to write him out of his own life. 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 Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith TUE Assistant 1 ...... Kate Leyden TUE Assistant 2 ...... Tara Lynch TUE Lorraine ...... Tessa Nicholson TUE Mr Shah ...... Bruce Alexander TUE Martin ...... Nigel Hastings TUE Copper 1 ...... Tom Price TUE Copper 2 ...... Abigail Burdiss TUE Ten-year-old Boy ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Directed by Nigel Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 A Life With ... b00lpkd7 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Loons TUE Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to Maine to meet TUE David Evers, a conservation biologist who has spent a life TUE with loons, the enigmatic bird of northern lakes known in TUE the UK as the Great Northern Diver. TUE Related Links TUE * BioDiversity Research Institute - Loon conservation TUE project (www.briloon.org) TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvwv (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin, WED expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy. WED Sir Jonathan Miller takes issue with Darwin's thoughts on WED reproduction. Darwin had no conception of modern genetics, WED but by the very nature of his work was tempted to WED speculate on the mechanism of reproduction. Jonathan WED questions why in this, one of the most central problem of WED biology, Darwin deviated from his otherwise exacting WED empirical standards, and support a just-so story of WED reproduction that could not even explain why circumcision WED was not inherited. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00pf414 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43s (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tt (Listen) WED Charlotte Smith follows a year in the life of four WED brothers who are new to farming. Economics, animal disease WED and the weather have all been obstacles. Charlotte WED discovers if they overcame these and managed to make WED farming pay. WED WED 06:00 Today b00pf4wy (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00pg52c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with guests including WED Fiona Shaw and Billy Childish. WED Related Links WED * Wilton's Music Hall (www.wiltons.org.uk) WED * Billy Childish (www.billychildish.com) WED * Eva Jiricna (www.ejal.com) WED * UK Friends of Czech Historic Buildings WED (www.ukczechfriends.org) WED * The Congregation of Jesus (www.cjengland.org) WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xm (Listen) WED Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 3 WED Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read WED from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence. WED Vincent leaves Paris for the light and warmth of Arles in WED the south of France. His new surroundings quickly revive WED both his spirits and his zest for painting, and he plans WED to establish a new artistic community there. But his hopes WED to persuade Paul Gauguin to move south and join him in the WED little yellow house appear, at first, to be met with some WED resistance. WED Abridged by Doreen Estall. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5ng (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including: WED At this time of year, with New Year's Eve coming up, WED babysitters are much in demand. Traditionally the job has WED been a way for teenage girls to make a bit of extra money, WED but more and more boys are also keen to take on the role. WED Louise Adamson went along to a training course set up by a WED mother of two to find out what the boys are learning and WED what they feel they have to offer as babysitters. WED Although hard-partying Amy Winehouse may not seem like WED ideal mentor material for a young schoolgirl, she's WED certainly a good person to have as your godmother if you WED have pop stardom on your mind. So impressed was Amy by WED 13-year-old Dionne Bromfield's powerfully soulful singing WED voice that she made her the first signing on her own WED record label. Dionne tells Jenni how she balances concerts WED and photo shoots with her schoolwork, and performs live in WED the studio. WED In December 1919, the first piece of equal opportunities WED legislation entered the statute book. The Sex WED Disqualification (Removal) Act enabled women to join the WED professions for the first time. They could now become WED lawyers, vets and accountants; they could sit on juries WED and become magistrates. But not all feminists were happy WED with the legislation. Ninety years after the Act was WED passed, Woman's Hour explores both the jubilation and the WED frustration it caused and considers the case of Helena WED Normanton, the first woman to be called to the Bar. WED This last decade, words like Twitter, blogging, iPhone, WED X-box, MySpace, Facebook, message boards, have entered the WED English language and become daily parlance. The online WED world used to be seen as a geeky male domain, but now WED we're hearing a lot about female social networking sites WED such as Mumsnet, which infiltrated politics with the WED 'Biscuitgate' affair. How much is new technology WED benefitting the 'ordinary' woman, and are these WED developments all positive news? Jenni talks to writer WED India Knight and clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Bryon. WED WED 11:00 UK Confidential b00pg52f (Listen) WED As tens of thousands of previously secret government files WED are released to the public, Martha Kearney, in WED conversation with former government ministers, reveals the WED truth behind the headlines from 1979. WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 WED Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wm (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00pf5y9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00pfks8 (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00pg52h (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett looks back over the media year with former WED Times editor Simon Jenkins, The Sun's former political WED editor Trevor Kavanagh, Mehdi Hasan, the senior politics WED editor for the New Statesman, and Emily Bell of The WED Guardian. They discuss the Telegraph's handling of the MPs WED expenses scandal, the coverage of the BBC executive pay WED revelations, libel laws and privacy, and The Sun changing WED sides from Labour to the Conservatives. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00pfkvj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5cx (Listen) WED What Did I Say? WED By Mark Lawson. When Max Coleman is suspended from work WED for an allegedly offensive remark, he just can't figure WED out what on earth he might have said. WED Max Coleman ...... Neil Pearson WED Juliet Coleman ...... Amy Marston WED Chubbs ...... Piers Wehner WED Tom Neades ...... Chris McHallem WED Susan Brogan ...... Aine McCartney WED Alice Irvine ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00pg5cz (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on saving WED and investing. WED Guests: WED Graham Hooper, head of marketing, Bestinvest WED Clare Francis, site editor, Moneysupermarket WED Justin Urquhart Stewart, managing director, Seven WED Investment Management. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqt (Listen) WED Bright Young Things, The Garden Party WED Series of three classic short stories celebrating the WED riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the WED 1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'. WED By Katherine Mansfield. A lavish party at the luxurious WED Sheridan family home is jeopardised when a local workman WED meets with a tragic death. WED Read by Romola Garai. WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton. WED WED 15:45 A View Through a Lens b00gsv4v (Listen) WED Poyang Lake WED Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view WED of life as he finds himself in isolated and often WED dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife. WED Having set up his hide at the edge of Poyang Lake in WED China, John waits for dawn and watches the birds nearby as WED he reflects on everyday miracles like feathers, boatmen WED and Chinese worms. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00pg5d1 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00pg4xj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl35 (Listen) WED 30th December 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED The lavish home of Romanian dictator Ceausescu is revealed WED to the world. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00pfl5s (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7n (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgn (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present WED in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories WED happening this 'once upon a time'. WED Mary Mary reports on a medical mystery involving and old WED woman who swallowed a fly. WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Fi Glover, Lewis MacLeod, WED Alex MacQueen, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan WED Tetsell. WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 18:30 Ayres on the Air b00m19m6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Passion WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Featuring poems about the difficulty of getting a new WED mattress up the stairs - the heartfelt plea Don't Ask Me WED to the Wedding - and a poem dedicated to her husband, WED entitled I Still Haven't Given Up Hope. WED Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and WED Felicity Montagu for sketches about speed dating, trying WED to inject a bit of excitement into a relationship and how WED to pay your husband back when he interrupts your favourite WED Bruce Springsteen DVD. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00pfkvm (Listen) WED Ruth and Pip strike a deal. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00pfl96 (Listen) WED John Wilson reports on the new generation of British WED female singers and songwriters, who have celebrated WED success in 2009. He talks to Florence and the Machine's WED Florence Welch, Lily Allen, Natasha Khan, aka Bat for WED Lashes, La Roux front-woman Elly Jackson and Mercury Prize WED winner Speech Debelle. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflxy (Listen) WED My Mad Grandad, Episode 3 WED By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels WED and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in WED Lancashire. WED Grandad scares the life out of Gil with his tales of the WED trenches. WED Mum ...... Alison Steadman WED Dad ...... Matthew Kelly WED Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill WED Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham WED Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas WED Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell WED Gil ...... Stephen Rac WED Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney WED Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan WED Directed by Dirk Maggs WED A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00pg5d3 (Listen) WED Justice Denied in the Civil Courts? WED Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal WED issues of the day. WED Civil Court cases, from personal injury to unlawful WED detention, are increasingly being settled out of court. WED The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has warned that the WED civil justice system is failing. But can the system afford WED to give everyone their day in court? WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00pg5df (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Sir Christopher Meyer, press watchdog until this year as WED chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former WED press secretary at Number 10, discusses the role of the WED press today. Is the press today freedom's guardian or is WED it a 'feral beast', as Tony Blair described the media at WED the end of his premiership? WED Sir Christopher draws on his personal experience as press WED watchdog and government spokesman. In his six years WED chairing the PCC, where he dealt with complaints against WED newspapers and magazines, he championed a free press and WED self-regulation, but had to contend with controversies WED that sometimes strained people's trust in the press. WED His health check on the press comes at a time when opinion WED is polarised. Is the press out of control or is it more WED constrained than ever before by the law? Is the press WED destroying trust in our democracy or are politicians WED giving the press undue importance by courting editors and WED journalists? Is the press too powerful or is it vulnerable WED because of competition from the internet, much of it free WED and unregulated? WED And now that the printed word and audio-visual content WED appear together on the same website, what is the future WED for self-regulation by the press? WED WED 21:00 The Eureka Years b00g3t1f (Listen) WED Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of WED Christmas, with balloons, stars and a stockingful of toys. WED He travels to the town of Lauscha in Germany, where glass WED baubles are still blown by hand, a tradition that goes WED back to the mid-1830s. Adam finds a dizzying description WED of the first Christmas tree lit by electric light bulbs, WED looks at X-rays of teddy bear skeletons and pulls a WED cracker in the name of scientific investigation. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00pg52c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00pfmkl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmg (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8g (Listen) WED The True Deceiver, Episode 3 WED Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. WED Eyebrows are raised in the village as Katri and Mats spend WED more and more time at the rabbit house. WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 All Bar Luke b00pg5dh (Listen) WED Christmas Special WED Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key. WED Luke ferries Lee and Hayley between Christmas dinners with WED their parents nursing family conflict, marital breakdown WED and his own broken heart in typically fumbling style. WED An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 A Life With ... b00lsyql (Listen) WED Series 5, Ospreys WED Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to the Highlands of WED Scotland to meet Roy Dennis OBE, statesman of British WED conservation, who has spent a life with ospreys - the WED iconic fish hawks which are slowly returning to Britain. WED Paul asks Roy what other creatures he would like to see WED back in the British countryside. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00pf3ng (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvws (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin, THU expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy. THU Prof Jerry Coyne's main research scours the heart of THU Darwin's great work, On the Origin of Species. Using the THU humble fruit fly, case study of so much modern biology, THU Jerry's team seek to understand the mechanism by which THU related generations first become 'reproductively THU isolated'; in other words, how does a new species emerge? THU Over the years Jerry has, therefore, been embroiled in THU plenty of the discussion surrounding Intelligent Design. THU He tells Darwin about the huge body of evidence that has THU been discovered in the century since that supports his THU theory. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3ss (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zx (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00pf416 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43v (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tw (Listen) THU Geoff and Sue Nicholls began farming their 25 acre THU smallholding in Devon back in January 2009, and throughout THU the year Farming Today has been following their progress. THU From a humble beginning with a handful of cattle, some THU chickens and the beginnings of a small orchard, we THU discover how the agricultural year has gone for Geoff and THU Sue as they endeavoured to forge their new beginning. THU Sarah Swadling pays a final visit to their smallholding as THU Geoff and Sue reflect on their first year in farming. THU THU 06:00 Today b00pf4x0 (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00pg5dr (Listen) THU Mary Wollstonecraft THU Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and THU Barbara Taylor discuss the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xp (Listen) THU Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 4 THU Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read THU from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence. THU Gauguin finally joins Vincent in the yellow house in THU Arles. Initially the arrangement is beneficial to both THU artists but their relationship soon begins to deteriorate, THU in parallel with Vincent's state of mental health. THU Abridged by Doreen Estall. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nj (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Celebrating women poets and their THU writing. Including drama: My Mad Grandad. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00pg5fg (Listen) THU The documentary series that gives a human dimension to the THU big international stories making the headlines. THU THU 11:30 The Frost Collection b00pg5fj (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most THU memorable interviews of his long career. With Sir Tim THU Rice, Imogen Stubbs and Anne Atkins. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wp (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00pf5yc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00pfksb (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00pg5fl (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00pfkvm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5fn (Listen) THU Fireworks at the Villa Lucia THU Comedy drama by Paul Mendelson. THU When Pete, a struggling TV writer, and his wife Julie find THU themselves staying in the same Italian villa as cult movie THU director David Joe Jakes, he tries to sell his dog-eared THU screenplay as the true story of how he met his wife. The THU fireworks begin when he pressgangs his wife into THU pretending to be a fiery, psychotic, Venezuelan ex-soap THU star, while he masquerades as her psychoanalyst. THU With Philip Whitchurch, Samantha Bond, Kerry Shale, Megg THU Nicol. THU Pete ...... Philip Whitchurch THU Julie/Julia ...... Samantha Bond THU David ...... Kerry Shale THU Cassie ...... Megg Nicol THU Lucia/Mrs Booth ...... Flamina Cinque THU Elio/Eric ...... Dan Starkey THU Directed by David Ian Neville. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00pdjy1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00pdz18 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqw (Listen) THU Bright Young Things, Bernice Bobs Her Hair THU Series of three classic short stories celebrating the THU riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the THU 1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'. THU By F Scott Fitzgerald. The dowdy Bernice becomes a THU 'society vampire' after guidance from her popular cousin THU Marjorie. But when the new party girl Bernice begins to THU threaten her cousin's own popularity, Marjorie lays a THU fiendish trap for her gullible cousin. THU Read by Laurel Lefkow. THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton. THU THU 15:45 A View Through a Lens b00h4d2v (Listen) THU Flying Elk THU Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view THU of life as he finds himself in isolated and often THU dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife. THU John films a flight from Sweden to Scotland. But this is THU no ordinary flight as his companions include two moose, THU and in order to fit the moose in the plane the toilet had THU to be removed and the moose seduced. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00pf0kb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00pg5g5 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the continuing role of THU enthusiasts at the front line of research. THU Related Links THU * The British Trust for Ornithology (www.bto.org) THU * 'Nature’ journal (www.nature.com) THU * British Science Association CREST Awards THU (www.britishscienceassociation.org) THU * Society for Amateur Scientists (USA) (www.sas.org) THU * Society for Popular Astronomy (www.popastro.com) THU * Tom Boles’ observatory (myweb.tiscali.co.uk) THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl37 (Listen) THU 31st December 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU A new Europe sees in a new year. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00pfl5v (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgq (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present THU in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories THU happening this 'once upon a time'. THU Mary Mary has shocking news of an egg on a wall. THU With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Lewis MacLeod, Alex THU MacQueen, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell. THU Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. THU THU 18:30 Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, THU Series 1 of b00pg5g7 (Listen) THU Planet Earth 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 As the decade teeters on the edge of its own existence, THU Andy looks at the planet we live on and the people who THU live on it and judges whether or not the world is still THU fit for purpose. THU With Rory Bremner, Bridget Christie, Lucy Montgomery and THU Kim Wall. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00pfkvp (Listen) THU Jazzer finally cuts to the chase. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00pfl98 (Listen) THU Mark Lawson talks to leading actors about their choices of THU work and the power of directors, with guests including THU Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins and Clint Eastwood. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pfly0 (Listen) THU My Mad Grandad, Episode 4 THU By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels THU and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in THU Lancashire. THU Gil gets his Saturday gobstopper and discovers why parents THU like Sunday school. THU Mum ...... Alison Steadman THU Dad ...... Matthew Kelly THU Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill THU Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham THU Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas THU Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell THU Gil ...... Stephen Rac THU Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney THU Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan THU Directed by Dirk Maggs THU A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00pg5pg (Listen) THU The home secretary has admitted that the government had THU been 'maladroit' in its past handling of immigration. THU Ministers hope what they call their 'tough' new THU points-based system of allocating visas will restore the THU public's faith in their ability to manage migration. Phil THU Kemp investigates claims that, far from strengthening our THU borders, the new rules have made it easier to play the THU system. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00pg5pj (Listen) THU Project Alcatraz THU What makes a businessman turn gangsters into employees? THU Peter Day talks to Alberto Vollmer of the Santa Teresa Rum THU Company in Venezuela. He tells Peter how the theft of a THU security guard's gun led him to set up a project which has THU cut crime in his area by 40 per cent and has now become an THU integral part of this 200-year-old family business. THU Related Links THU * Project Alcatraz (www.proyectoalcatraz.org) THU * Alo Presidente (www.alopresidente.gob.ve) THU Contributors to this programme: THU Alberto Vollmer THU Santa Teresa Rum Company THU Jordan Piper THU Employee and Project Alcatraz member THU Willman Gustares THU Employee and Project Alcatraz member THU Julie Ball, Alberto Vollmer and Peter Day THU THU 21:00 Legion Of Swine b00pgn1b (Listen) THU Telling the story of the 2009 swine flu epidemic - from THU the point of view of the virus itself. A mixture of poetry THU and science reveals the devious route this strain of THU influenza has followed from its distant relative, the THU Spanish Flu which killed millions after the First World THU War, into birds and pigs and back into humans and around THU the world. What has the virus got to say for itself? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00pg5dt (Listen) THU Mary Wollstonecraft THU Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and THU Barbara Taylor discuss the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00pfmkn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmj (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Felicity THU Evans. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8j (Listen) THU The True Deceiver, Episode 4 THU Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. THU Katri takes action which changes the lives of Mats and THU Anna as well as her own. THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 UK Confidential b00pg52f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU FRI FRIDAY 1 JANUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvx8 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin, FRI expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy. FRI Dr Peter Bentley, who works at the cutting edge of digital FRI biology, tells Darwin about the emerging field of FRI evolutionary computing. Peter tells of how Darwin's FRI elegantly simple algorithm lies at the heart of so much FRI complexity in our world, and how abstracting it from 'wet' FRI biology and into the digital realm allows this most FRI powerful of natural processes to be harnessed in industry, FRI finance, medicine and even one day perhaps to construct FRI true artificial life; self replicating, self-designing, FRI self-adapting, self-repairing, self-everything devices. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00pf418 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43x (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00pf4ty (Listen) FRI Anna Hill follows the progress of Dameon Layt, a new FRI entrant to farming. He began keeping sheep at the FRI beginning of 2009 and producing gourmet lamb burgers. But FRI the transition to full time farmer is not yet complete, as FRI he cannot afford to give up his other paid employment. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00pf4x2 (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00pdz1n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xr (Listen) FRI Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 5 FRI Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read FRI from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence. FRI Vincent is recovering in hospital following the incident FRI in which he severed his own earlobe. Gauguin has left the FRI yellow house in Arles for good, but the two artists still FRI correspond. Although Vincent recovers physically from the FRI incident, he decides to commit himself to a mental asylum FRI only weeks after leaving hospital. FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nl (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Julian Fellowes and Jenny Uglow discuss FRI life above and below stairs and Ivan Day cooks food fit FRI for a society dinner. Including drama: My Mad Grandad. FRI FRI 11:00 Spitting In Russian b00pg5pn (Listen) FRI At the height of its success in the 1980s, Spitting Image FRI commanded audiences from around the world. The Russians FRI decided that they would like to have their own version of FRI the show and came to London to learn the magical art of FRI making political puppets. Now Roger Law heads to Moscow to FRI track them down and find out what happened to their risky FRI satirical venture. FRI Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pg5r6 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Keep Fit 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 Not one to turn down a free dinner, when Arthur sees an FRI advert in the paper for free trial membership of a new FRI gym, there's no stopping him. There's just one thing - to FRI qualify he has to get the doctor to give him a clean bill FRI of health. Still, that won't be a problem. Or will it? 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 Food and Farming Awards b00nz1bf (Listen) FRI A special 10th anniversary edition of the BBC Food and FRI Farming Awards with an all-star line up including Raymond FRI Blanc, Alex James and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. FRI After sifting through thousands of nominations a team of FRI judges has spent the last few weeks travelling around the FRI UK visiting this year's finalists, watching them at work FRI and tasting their food. FRI In the programme the winners in nine different categories FRI will be revealed. Find out who is producing the nation's FRI Best Takeaway, which pupils are being served the best FRI school meals and who has won the much coveted title of BBC FRI Food Personality of The Year. FRI Sheila Dillon, presenter of The Food Programme, hosts the FRI awards, and is joined by two special guests. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00pf5yf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00pfksd (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00pg5r8 (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 b00pfkvp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5rb (Listen) FRI Lamia FRI Adaptation of Keats's sensual narrative poem about the FRI ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the FRI innocent mortal Lycius. FRI Narrator ...... Paterson Joseph FRI Lamia ...... Charlotte Emmerson FRI Lycius ...... Tom Ferguson FRI Hermes ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI With original music by John Harle FRI Singer: Sarah Leonard. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pg5rd (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are FRI guests of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in FRI Edinburgh. FRI They explore the delights of Alpines and meet members of FRI the Scottish Rock Garden Club. FRI FRI 15:45 A View Through a Lens b00h9vgy (Listen) FRI Wolves FRI Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view FRI of life as he finds himself in isolated and often FRI dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife. FRI John travels to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to FRI film wolves hunting elk, something that has rarely been FRI seen let alone filmed. It is a hugely challenging task, as FRI temperatures plummet below freezing, but the results are FRI both exhilarating and shocking. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00pg5rg (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and FRI interest from many walks of life, some famous and some FRI less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00pg5rj (Listen) FRI Francine Stock revisits some of her favourite interviews FRI and looks forward to the year ahead in cinema. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl39 (Listen) FRI 1st January 1990 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI Gorbachev and Bush welcome a new decade. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00pfl5x (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgs (Listen) FRI Episode 7 FRI Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present FRI in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories FRI happening this 'once upon a time'. FRI It's New Year's Day and riot police are called in as the FRI Teddy Bears try to have their picnic. FRI With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Kate FRI Leyden, Lewis MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, FRI Dan Tetsell. FRI Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00pg5rl (Listen) FRI Series 29, Episode 6 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by the usual gang FRI plus lots of special guests, including Jon Culshaw, Jon FRI Richardson and Paul Sinha. Together they look back at the FRI big issues from the last twelve months – not least custard FRI probes, thieving seagulls and poisonous frogs FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00pfkvr (Listen) FRI Helen makes a New Year's resolution. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00pg5tl (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reports on a new generation of British FRI playwrights, with guests including Lucy Prebble, Polly FRI Stenham, Chloe Moss, Lucy Kirkwood, Ella Hickson and Alia FRI Bano. FRI FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS FRI Image: Toby Regbo and Bel Powley in the Royal Court's FRI production of Polly Stenham's Tusk Tusk. Photo by Johan FRI Persson. FRI ALIA BANO FRI Alia has recently won The Charles Wintour Award for Most FRI Promising Playwright for her play Shades, at The 2009 FRI London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. It is about a FRI young, single Muslim woman living in modern London. FRI According to the theatre critic Charles Spencer, who was FRI one of the judges, ‘Shades turns out to be something both FRI special and unexpected - a Muslim Bridget Jones's Diary’. FRI Alia teaches A-Level and GCSE English in Haringey in FRI London. Shades is her first play. Her early work was read FRI at Theatre Royal, Stratford East during the BritAsia FRI Festival in 2005. She was subsequently invited to join FRI Soho Theatre’s Core Writing Group, and took part in the FRI Royal Court’s Unheard Voices programme in 2008. Alia is FRI currently part of the National Theatre’s New Connections FRI Programme 2011. FRI POLLY STENHAM FRI Polly was 19 when she wrote her first play That Face which FRI received FRI its world premiere in 2007 at the Royal Court, starring FRI Lindsay Duncan. FRI When the play transferred to the West End, Polly became at FRI the age of 21, the youngest playwright since Christopher FRI Hampton in 1966 to achieve such a feat. FRI She went on to win both the Evening Standard’s Charles FRI Wintour Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising FRI Playwright as well as the TMA Award for Best Play. The FRI original cast of That Face were nominated for the Laurence FRI Olivier Outstanding Achievement in an Affliliate Theatre FRI Award, and the West End transfer was recently nominated FRI for the Laurence Olivier Best New Play Award. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pfly2 (Listen) FRI My Mad Grandad, Episode 5 FRI By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels FRI and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in FRI Lancashire. FRI Gil's mysterious and mischievous Grandad reveals a miracle FRI egg and cons the local Conservative Club. FRI Mum ...... Alison Steadman FRI Dad ...... Matthew Kelly FRI Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill FRI Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham FRI Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas FRI Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell FRI Gil ...... Stephen Rac FRI Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney FRI Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan FRI Directed by Dirk Maggs FRI A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Correspondents Look Ahead b00pg5tn (Listen) FRI Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top FRI correspondents to give their predictions about what will FRI shape our world in the year ahead. Will the global economy FRI turn the corner and rejoin the path to growth? Will the US FRI and its allies defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan or will FRI they pull out? And will China start to assert its FRI new-found power across Asia? FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00pg5tq (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Play b00pg5ts (Listen) FRI Big in Samoa FRI By Marcy Kahan. Dog walker Caleb's life is about to FRI change: an album he cut in his twenties and forgot about FRI now has a huge online following. FRI Caleb Swander ...... Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Rafe Swander ...... Hugh Bonneville FRI Lori Swander ...... Barbara Barnes FRI Theo Swander ...... Jack Crutch FRI Dina ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI Jez ...... Sani Muliaumaseali'I FRI Molly ...... Janice Acquah FRI Guitarist ...... Louis Bamber FRI Original songs by Tarek Merchant. FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00pfmkq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmml (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Felicity FRI Evans. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8l (Listen) FRI The True Deceiver, Episode 5 FRI Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. FRI After the 'break-in' Anna adjusts to life in the rabbit FRI house with Katri and Mats. FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00pftm7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 The Music Group b00kdtq0 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 6 FRI Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of FRI three guests to play the track of their choice for the FRI delight or disdain of the others. FRI Phil is joined by poet Grace Nichols and former Slade FRI frontman Noddy Holder. Noddy uses the record he brings in FRI to help explain his love of rock'n'roll, and Grace's FRI record offers a Caribbean take on Don Juan. FRI A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Related Links FRI * Grace Nichols (www.bloodaxebooks.com) FRI * Derek Walcott (nobelprize.org) FRI * Galt MacDermott (www.galtmacdermot.com) FRI * The Trinidad Theatre Workshop (www.ttw.org.tt) FRI * The Patron Saint of Losers (www.johnotway.com) FRI This week's Music Group. FRI Come on feel the noise. In the last programme of the FRI present series, Phil Hammond finally gets to talk about FRI his own choice of music, at length. Cue laughter from FRI former Slade frontman Noddy Holder who is very familiar FRI with the object of Phil’s adoration and polite FRI appreciation of the comedy punk rock aesthetic from FRI Caribbean poet, Grace Nichols. FRI The other songs up for analysis include a cinematic slice FRI of shiny-suit-wearing rock’n’roll and a Trinidadian take FRI on Don Juan. Talk turns to calypso, standing up at the FRI piano and some toilet rolls are thrown in for good FRI measure. At times it gets a bit raucous, a bit wop bop a FRI loo bop a lop bam bam. FRI (The Joker of Seville, with words by Nobel prize winner FRI Derek Walcott, was written by Galt MacDermott and FRI performed by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1974.) FRI Music choices FRI The Girl Can’t Help It by Little Richard – Noddy Holder’s FRI choice FRI Sans Humanité by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop – Grace FRI Nichol’s choice FRI Beware Of The Flowers (Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You FRI Yeh!) and Geneve by John Otway – from Phil FRI FRI

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