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SAT SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00jnw4g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00jlzzd (Listen) SAT The Music Room, Episode 1 SAT Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical SAT childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his SAT severely epileptic older brother. SAT The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for SAT pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become SAT increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is SAT diagnosed. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jnw8m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jnw8p (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jnw8r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00jnw8t (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jnw8w (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. SAT SAT 05:45 The Estuary b008khxv (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on SAT the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against SAT a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson. SAT As the tide turns and starts to advance across the mud SAT flats, the dunlin, knot, curlew and other feeding birds SAT are forced to move nearer and nearer the shore. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00jnw8y (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00jpyvz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00jpyw1 (Listen) SAT Border Mires of Keilder SAT Matt Baker investigates the work of the Border Mires SAT Project, which has spent one million pounds and uses SAT 21st-century machinery to undertake the difficult work of SAT restoring the fragile ecosystem of the 10,000-year-old SAT Border Mires of the Keilder Forest in Northumberland. SAT Home to rare dragon flies, damselflies and plantlife, the SAT Border Mires may also store carbon more efficiently than SAT the many trees of the forest that surround them. SAT With so much attention now focused on the benefits of SAT trees in storing carbon it seems a harsh decision to cut SAT them down but for the ecologists and forestry SAT professionals of Keilder the rare habitat that can be SAT recovered makes harvesting trees worthwhile. SAT In fact as Matt discovers the forest has only been here a SAT shortwhile. Planted after the first and second world wars SAT to provide timber this is a landscape shaped by conflict. SAT Hadrian's Wall runs between the recovered Mires and at RAF SAT Spadeadam the need to prepare for battle continues. SAT Spadeadam is the only facility in Europe where aircrews SAT can practise manoeuvres and tactics against a variety of SAT threats and targets that they face in contemporary warfare SAT and it is also home to some of the best preserved bog SAT habitat in the country. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00jpyw3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00jpyw5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00jpyw7 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00jq0kp (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Sir Robert SAT Worcester, founder of MORI London research and polling SAT company and Chancellor of the University of Kent. Plus SAT poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00jq0kr (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and SAT joys of travel. SAT Kazakhstan is the world's ninth biggest country and in SAT 2008 Alex Meredith cycled 4,000 kilometres across it from SAT west to east. On the way he saw some of the oldest nomadic SAT peoples and the most modern archtiecture, met Kazakh SAT Hell's Angels, spent the night on a former Soviet missile SAT base and discovered why his journey was worth an orange SAT but not a water melon. He also the discovered the real SAT meaning of the word 'bonking'. SAT Trevor Watson is Director General of the Carvan Club, SAT which has been looking out for caravanners' interests SAT since 1907. With site bookings 40 per cent up on last SAT year, Trevor explains why caravans are proving popular SAT both in a recession and in better times and 20-year-old SAT Jonathan Gray reveals the attraction of caravanning for SAT the younger genration. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jq0kt (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Series which seeks to challenge the prevailing atmosphere SAT of doom and gloom and dares to be optimistic. SAT Disability affairs correspondent Peter White, who is SAT blind, shares some of his reasons to be cheerful - SAT technology which has set him free to scan and read SAT whatever books he wants, the disappearance of the British SAT Sunday which was the bane of his 1950s childhood, and the SAT train announcements which annoy so many people, but are a SAT boon to him. SAT Peter talks to grumpy comedian Arthur Smith and challenges SAT him with his optimism. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00jq7nl (Listen) SAT Iain Martin looks at how politicians, with a general SAT election to fight, are facing up to the prospect of deep SAT cuts in spending to cut spiralling government debt. Will SAT that add a vicious political kick to the downturn? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00jq0pk (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00jq0rh (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00jnr5r (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 7 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00jq0rk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00jq0rm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00jnr5y (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs this week's panel - Conservative SAT party chairman Eric Pickles, Europe Minister Caroline SAT Flint, Times' columnist Giles Coren and Plaid Cymru SAT Assembly Member Helen Mary Jones. SAT With questions from the audience in Ludlow, Shropshire. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00jq0rp (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00jq17x (Listen) SAT Road to Durham SAT Douglas Livingstone's play about Bevin Boys, the young men SAT who were sent down the mines instead of joining the armed SAT forces in the Second World War. Two 80-year-old former SAT Bevin Boys, who have not seen each other for 63 years, SAT decide to go to the Durham Miners' Gala together and SAT confront their memories of the past. SAT Christopher ...... Timothy West SAT Benny ...... Douglas Livingstone SAT Young Christopher ...... Fergus Rees SAT Young Benny ...... Sam Fletcher SAT Sally ...... Faye Castelow SAT Jim ...... Christoher Connel SAT Michael ...... David Whitaker SAT Older Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw SAT Headmaster ...... Brian Lonsdale SAT With recordings made at the Durham Miners' Gala and at SAT West Pelton Primary School. SAT Directed by Jane Morgan SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b00jmqqb (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of SAT three guests to play the track of their choice for the SAT delight or disdain of the others. SAT His guests include musician and composer Nitin Sawhney; SAT actress, comedienne and Radio 2 DJ Liza Tarbuck; and SAT children's author Terry Deary, creator of the the Horrible SAT Histories series of books. SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00jqh87 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Little. SAT We hear from social workers about their day-to-day jobs SAT and how they feel about the pressures they are under in SAT the wake of the Baby P case. SAT As India goes to the polls, Urvashi Butalia, founder of SAT the first women's press in India, and journalist Sonia SAT Faleiro join Jane to discuss the important issues for SAT women voters and the part gender plays in the country's SAT voting habits. SAT Alex Bilmes, features director for GQ, and columnist Jan SAT Moir discuss the notion that women can't be nice to each SAT other any more. In an article in Vogue magazine, Alex SAT claims in the last ten years he has seen a marked increase SAT in women griping about their female friends. SAT Following a special edition of the programme on raising SAT teenagers, we hear from two teens who have not only SAT managed to traverse the potential teenage pitfalls SAT relatively unscathed, but who also want to help others by SAT changing things for the better. With contributions from SAT listeners who contributed to a Woman's Hour phone-in on SAT the subject. SAT And we remember the life and music of Dusty Springfield. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00jqh89 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00jqh8c (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jqh8f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00jqh8h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jqh8k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00jqh8m (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Jason Donovan, Mark Thomas and SAT Kevin McCloud and Natalie Haynes talks to music producer SAT William Orbit. With music from Gomez and Sharon Shannon SAT and comedy from Ava Vidal. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00jqh8p (Listen) SAT Chris Bowlby profiles Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader who is on SAT course to become the next South African president. Zuma is SAT a controversial character. He was a leading figure in the SAT South African Communist Party and the ANC's internal SAT security force and has been accused of corruption and SAT acquitted of rape charges. Yet despite the scandals, Zuma SAT is immensely popular and seen as a man of the people. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00jqh8r (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00g3yqn (Listen) SAT For One Night Illegally - The History of the Bootleg SAT Writer and broadcaster David Hepworth charts the story of SAT secret recordings, artist out-takes and demo tapes that SAT make up the world of bootleg recordings, from Bob Dylan's SAT Great White Wonder in 1969 to the file sharing internet SAT sites of the 21st century, via the Beatles, the Stones, SAT Bruce Springsteen, Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin. SAT David also talks to contemporary artists including Ryan SAT Adams who have come to embrace the bootleggers, and hears SAT from bootleggers of the 1960s and 70s who pitted their SAT wits against security guards, the Feds and the record SAT companies to get their unofficial releases out to the SAT public. SAT A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00jlxr0 (Listen) SAT Therese Raquin, Episode 1 SAT First of a two-part dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of SAT the novel by Emile Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris. SAT Therese is forced by her aunt to marry her sickly son, SAT Camille. However, upon moving to Paris, she and her lover SAT Laurent conspire to murder Camille so that they may love SAT freely. SAT Therese ...... Charlotte Riley SAT Laurent ...... Andrew Buchan SAT Camille ...... Toby Hadoke SAT Mme Raquin ...... Pauline Jefferson SAT Michaud ...... Rob Pickavance SAT Suzanne ...... Deborah McAndrew SAT Manager/Assistant ...... Carl Cieka SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00jqmc2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00jn4fn (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with SAT families, experts and policy-makers. SAT Mariella and her guests ask what parents can do to help SAT children with mental health problems and what constitutes SAT a 'normal' level of unhappiness in childhood and SAT adolescence. She hears from a mother who fears her unhappy SAT 11-year-old-son will go off the rails in adolescence and a SAT mother and daughter on the drawbacks and benefits of SAT having a mental health diagnosis. SAT With guests the family therapist Jan Parker, Richard SAT Reeves of the thinktank Demos and Roger Catchpole of SAT YoungMinds. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00jm2np (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 6 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the sixth heat of the music quiz, SAT with contestants from Hampshire and East Sussex. The SAT competitors are Brian Haines from London, Dr Alastair SAT Smith from Lymington and Nicholas Tucker from Lewes. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b00jlyyq (Listen) SAT WH Davies SAT Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of SAT lesser-known or forgotten poets. SAT WH Davies travelled the world from his native Wales, SAT sleeping rough and jumping trains. His work has a SAT simplicity which is still revered in the form of his SAT well-known lines: 'What is this life if, full of care, We SAT have no time to stand and stare?' SAT But few people know that it was Davies who wrote them. SAT Brian remembers a poet whose work helped set him on his SAT own way as a writer. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00jqn0z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084s1k (Listen) SUN The Big Chill, Blood in Stone SUN Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side SUN of life. SUN John Smith sets off through the woods at night in search SUN of the haunted house he grew up in, equipped with matches SUN and cans of petrol. SUN By Frances Fyfield, read by Nicholas Gleaves. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jqn11 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jqn13 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jqn15 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00jqn17 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00jqn19 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00jqh8p (Listen) SUN Chris Bowlby profiles Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader who is on SUN course to become the next South African president. Zuma is SUN a controversial character. He was a leading figure in the SUN South African Communist Party and the ANC's internal SUN security force and has been accused of corruption and SUN acquitted of rape charges. Yet despite the scandals, Zuma SUN is immensely popular and seen as a man of the people. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00jqn1c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00jqn1f (Listen) SUN Yearning to be Heroes SUN Mark Tully asks if we all have it within us to be heroes, SUN and how the heroic can be awakened within us. Is it SUN possible to train ourselves to act heroically in a SUN once-in-a-lifetime moment of crisis and how are we shaped SUN by the heroic archetypes of myth and legend? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00jqn1h (Listen) SUN Heavy Horses SUN Elinor Goodman meets a Devon farmer who has swapped SUN tractors and combine harvesters for heavy horses. But it's SUN not all plain sailing, as Elinor sees when one heavy horse SUN with a mighty powerful kick refuses to be broken. SUN One hundred years ago, heavy horses were used on farms SUN throughout England to work the land. But as mechanisation SUN has taken over, these Shires, Clydesdales and Suffolk SUN Punches have little use on most 21st century fields and SUN the skills used to break them in and handle them are SUN gradually being lost. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00jqxjp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00jqxjr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00jqxjt (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 b00jqxjw (Listen) SUN Cerebra SUN Jules Hudson appeals on behalf of Cerebra. Donations to SUN this appeal should be sent to Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, SUN please mark the back of your envelope Cerebra. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Or you can give via the SUN website. SUN Cerebra supports children with a wide range of SUN neurological conditions. Their grant scheme funds SUN expensive equipment that parents often cannot afford. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Cerebra with SUN your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1089812. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00jqxjy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00jqxk0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00jqxk2 (Listen) SUN The service comes from the Upper Basilica of St Francis in SUN Assisi celebrating 800 years of the Franciscan friars. Led SUN by Mgr Tony Rogers. Preacher: Fr Thomas Riest. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00jnr60 (Listen) SUN Clive James reflects on the resignation of the Prime SUN Minister's senior aide Damian McBride and the SUN inappropriateness of the new-fangled phrase 'reputational SUN damage' - in contrast to the true meaning of a good SUN reputation. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00jqxk4 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00jqxl3 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00jqxl5 (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor brings together some of the young artists SUN who emerged in the 1990s to create the Brit Art movement - SUN Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Mat Collishaw and SUN Gregor Muir. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00jm32n (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items SUN of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. SUN With Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Jack Dee and Will Self. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00jqxp2 (Listen) SUN From farm gate to the school plate and to the high-end SUN restaurant menu, Sheila Dillon looks at the farmers' SUN co-operative that is supplying quality organic produce SUN from Essex. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00jqxp4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00jqxp6 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton b00fm031 (Listen) SUN Children's author Anne Fine examines the enduring appeal SUN of the stories of Enid Blyton. SUN Rereading some of the stories that she had loved as a SUN child, Anne is reminded that, despite the years of SUN disapproval and accusations of sexism and racism that have SUN dogged the books, they remain real page turners. SUN Including extracts from an interview with Blyton's only SUN surviving daughter, Imogen Smallwood, and contributions SUN from Blyton's biographer, Barbara Stoney, and leading SUN Blyton scholar Dr David Rudd, Professor of Children's SUN literature at Bolton University. Plus archive recordings SUN of Blyton herself, her elder daughter Gillian Baverstock, SUN and her brother Hanley. SUN The reader is Miriam Margolyes. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jnlxd (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN John Cushnie, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in the Peak District. SUN The forensic unit at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, has SUN been key in solving a large number of crimes, including SUN murder. Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs visit and SUN discover the secrets of the Jodrell Laboratory. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 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 15:00 Classic Serial b00jqz5x (Listen) SUN Therese Raquin, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of the novel by Emile SUN Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris. SUN Therese and Laurent have murdered Camille and are free to SUN marry. Their wedding night is not joyous - it is a night SUN of terror, and each night is the same as they feel the SUN ghost of Camille infiltrate their every thought and action. SUN Therese ...... Charlotte Riley SUN Laurent ...... Andrew Buchan SUN Camille ...... Toby Hadoke SUN Mme Raquin ...... Pauline Jefferson SUN Michaud ...... Rob Pickavance SUN Suzanne ...... Deborah McAndrew SUN Pierre/Beggar ...... Drew Carter Cain SUN Music consultancy: Philip Tagney SUN Directed by Pauline Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00jqz5z (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to American crime novelist Elmore SUN Leonard, whose work has found heavyweight fans such as SUN Saul Bellow and Martin Amis as well as enjoying success in SUN film adaptations such as Get Shorty. He talks about his SUN new book, Comfort To The Enemy, and explains why he thinks SUN he has made the most of his limitations. SUN With a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies SUN becoming an unexpected bestseller, Mariella and her guests SUN discuss Jane Austen's continuing cultural significance. SUN Claire Harman, the author of Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen SUN Conquered the World, and Deborah Moggach, who adapted SUN Pride and Prejudice for the 2005 film starring Kiera SUN Knightley, look at Austen's rediscovery in the 19th SUN century and reinvention in the 20th. SUN Plus the novelist Andrey Kurkov, author of the cult SUN classic Death and the Penguin, celebrates another SUN satirical masterpiece, Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 novel The SUN Heart of a Dog. SUN SUN 16:30 Blood, Sweat, Tears and Poetry b00dsk23 (Listen) SUN Patience Agbabi and some of her fellow poets explore the SUN relationship between poetry and the workplace. 2008's SUN National Poetry Day theme was 'Work', and Patience talks SUN to poets and the people who welcomed them into the SUN workplace to find out what the experience meant to both SUN parties. SUN SUN 17:00 Blair's Faith Foundation b00jmv21 (Listen) SUN Christopher Landau, who has followed the setting up of SUN Tony Blair's Faith Foundation to promote religious SUN dialogue and understanding, asks whether it can succeed in SUN promoting religion as a force for progress. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00jqh8p (Listen) SUN Chris Bowlby profiles Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader who is on SUN course to become the next South African president. Zuma is SUN a controversial character. He was a leading figure in the SUN South African Communist Party and the ANC's internal SUN security force and has been accused of corruption and SUN acquitted of rape charges. Yet despite the scandals, Zuma SUN is immensely popular and seen as a man of the people. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jqz61 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00jqz63 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jqz65 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00jqz67 (Listen) SUN Miriam O'Reilly with her selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00jqz69 (Listen) SUN Robert uses his loaf at Ambridge Hall. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00jqz6c (Listen) SUN Children's magazine with Kirsten O'Brien, who meets some SUN of the lucky 50 children from 600 who auditioned to join SUN the London Children's Ballet production of Snow White. And SUN Go4it meets a group of Brownies in Keighley who learnt the SUN fine art of laying bricks as part of the Children's SUN University. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008nwjy (Listen) SUN Portraits of East Anglia, The Red Digger SUN Specially commissioned stories by local authors, inspired SUN by paintings of the East Anglian landscape. Recorded in SUN front of an audience in Halesworth, Suffolk, the readings SUN are introduced by Neil Innes. SUN Jules and Dino have arranged to meet their Dad on the SUN beach after his fishing trip to walk the dog. But when the SUN dog appears and Dad doesn't, the teenagers fear the worst. SUN By Raffaella Barker, read by Alex Tregear. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00jnlmn (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN Tim investigates the numbers behind the drug legalisation SUN debate, tests a former home secretary's maths and finds SUN out why drowning cats can help explain the credit crunch. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00jnlxg (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00jq0rh (Listen) SUN The latest news from the world of personal finance with SUN Paul Lewis. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00jqxjw (Listen) SUN Cerebra SUN Jules Hudson appeals on behalf of Cerebra. Donations to SUN this appeal should be sent to Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, SUN please mark the back of your envelope Cerebra. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Or you can give via the SUN website. SUN Cerebra supports children with a wide range of SUN neurological conditions. Their grant scheme funds SUN expensive equipment that parents often cannot afford. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Cerebra with SUN your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1089812. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00jnj2z (Listen) SUN Power Drive SUN As the world's biggest car companies appeal for government SUN bailouts, fearless newcomers are seeking to revolutionise SUN the global automobile industry with electric cars. Peter SUN Day takes a test drive in a plug-in Chinese newcomer and SUN hears from an Israel start-up company that wants to charge SUN by the mile. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00jqz7x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00jqz7z (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00jnm3f (Listen) SUN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave, SUN Francine Stock talks to Stephen Frears, director of SUN Dangerous Liaisons and My Beautiful Laundrette, and Get SUN Carter creator Mike Hodges about their first time with the SUN films of Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00jqn1f (Listen) SUN Yearning to be Heroes SUN Mark Tully asks if we all have it within us to be heroes, SUN and how the heroic can be awakened within us. Is it SUN possible to train ourselves to act heroically in a SUN once-in-a-lifetime moment of crisis and how are we shaped SUN by the heroic archetypes of myth and legend? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 APRIL 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00jr2q4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00jn4f8 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON There is a revolution happening in security and the human MON body is at the centre of new ways of monitoring and MON controlling the way we live. From fingerprinting to MON retinal scans. Laurie Taylor explores the way that the MON history of biometrics has changed the relationship between MON the citizen and the state. What are the new measures that MON are due to be introduced? How are new technological MON developments likely to change the way we live? Laurie MON talks to anthropologist Mark Maguire about changes which MON mean that the body becomes our passport and asks whether MON the so-called 'securitization of identity' will change the MON way we think of ourselves. MON Plus, is it possible for a social scientist to always MON remain uninvolved in the world he is studying? When does MON it become impossible to keep your mouth shut? Laurie talks MON to two medical sociologists, Charles Bosk and Clare MON Williams, about the ethical questions they have had to MON face. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00jqn19 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jr2qb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jr2qg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jr2ql (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00jr2qn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jr2qs (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00jr2qx (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith hears how daffodils grown for a dementia MON drug could be the salvation of Welsh hill farmers. The MON flowers are the first commercial crop for a Welsh company MON which will extract a natural compound from them to make a MON drug which relieves some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's MON disease. As Charlotte Smith discovers, it doesn't work MON with any old daff, nor on any old hillside. You need the MON magic of the Black Mountains. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00jr2r7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00jr4qm (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00jr4qt (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON Software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani believes that India MON is at a critical point in its history. The country needs MON to harness the power of its wealth of young people and MON build up the infrastructure of its cities and welfare MON state, but this is all dependent on the outcome of the MON general election. Imagining India: Ideas for the New MON Century is published by Allen Lane. MON Andrew Feinstein was elected as an ANC Member of MON Parliament in South Africa's first democratic elections, MON but later resigned in protest. He discusses how the MON post-apartheid democratic dream came under pressure and MON considers the prospects for the country as it goes to the MON polls to elect a new government. After the Party: MON Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future is MON published by Verso. MON Writer Petina Gappah is optimistic about Zimbabwe's MON future. In a collection of short stories she highlights MON the many sides of Zimbabwe which are not depicted in the MON news headlines, and shows their humour and resilience. An MON Elegy for Easterly is published by Faber and Faber. MON Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same MON day in 1809. Author Adam Gopnik believes that this is more MON than an 'intriguing coincidence' and that the similarities MON between the two men tell us much about the mid-19th MON century. Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, MON Lincoln and Modern Life is published by Quercus. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00jr4tp (Listen) MON The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 1 MON RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa MON went missing from the Louvre. In the Salon Carre there is MON a gap on the wall where the painting once hung. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jr551 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including girls and public speaking, MON single sex schooling, marriage law protests in MON Afghanistan, and drinking during pregnancy. MON Plus the drama Lady Audley's Secret. MON MON 11:00 It's My Story b00j3vd0 (Listen) MON Switzerland for a Franc MON Miles Warde follows what happened when British businessman MON Bruno Prior responded to an advert in The Times MON advertising a ski resort for sale for one Swiss franc. MON The main lift breaks in Bruno's first season in charge at MON the resort, the falling pound hampers his ability to MON invest and two villagers refuse to sell land where he MON hopes to build a new hotel. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b008crhw (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford. MON Ronnie organises a disastrous birthday party and Nick MON finally finds his father's will. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON James ...... John Dougall MON Andrea ...... Liza Sadovy MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00jrnw0 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00jrnw2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00jrnw4 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00jrnw6 (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 7 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the seventh heat of the music quiz, MON with contestants from the south of England. The MON competitors are David Dean from London, Gillian MON Hensley-Gray from Croydon and Peter Whitehead from Bromley. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00jqz69 (Listen) MON Robert uses his loaf at Ambridge Hall. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b007x07b (Listen) MON Waiting for Di MON By Colin Bytheway. On the eve of Princess Diana's funeral, MON two unlikely strangers find themselves thrown together as MON they mourn the loss of someone they never knew. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00g3yqn (Listen) MON For One Night Illegally - The History of the Bootleg MON Writer and broadcaster David Hepworth charts the story of MON secret recordings, artist out-takes and demo tapes that MON make up the world of bootleg recordings, from Bob Dylan's MON Great White Wonder in 1969 to the file sharing internet MON sites of the 21st century, via the Beatles, the Stones, MON Bruce Springsteen, Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin. MON David also talks to contemporary artists including Ryan MON Adams who have come to embrace the bootleggers, and hears MON from bootleggers of the 1960s and 70s who pitted their MON wits against security guards, the Feds and the record MON companies to get their unofficial releases out to the MON public. MON A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrnw8 (Listen) MON Cary Grant - The Influence of Hollywood MON Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and MON male peacockery through the ages. MON In a small screening theatre, Laurence and fashion MON journalist Bronwyn Cosgrave celebrate the stars and the MON movies that have redefined mens' fashion. from Clark Gable MON to Mad Men. MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00jqxp2 (Listen) MON From farm gate to the school plate and to the high-end MON restaurant menu, Sheila Dillon looks at the farmers' MON co-operative that is supplying quality organic produce MON from Essex. MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00jrpgs (Listen) MON Series 5, Wilderness MON Katie Derham presents the programme which examines our MON holiday and travel trends. MON Places that were once considered dangerous and MON frighteningly isolated have become increasingly desirable MON holiday destinations. Katie examines this trend and hears MON what is on offer for the wilderness traveller. Her guests MON include author Robert Macfarlane. MON A Just Radio/Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00jrppy (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jrpq0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00jrpq2 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Sean Lock, Arthur Smith, Sue Perkins and Miranda Hart. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00jrpq4 (Listen) MON It's a bittersweet day at Keeper's Cottage. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00jrpq6 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the MON verdict on Russell Crowe in the film State of Play, an MON American version of the acclaimed TV drama by Paul Abbott. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jr553 (Listen) MON Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary MON Elizabeth Braddon. MON Lucy Graham gains all the wealth she desires when she MON marries rich older widower Sir Michael Audley, and her MON maid, Phoebe, watches with envy as Lucy delights in the MON luxury of her new life. MON Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan MON Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson MON Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale MON Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts MON Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. MON MON 20:00 Inside The Child Prisons b00jrpvq (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Winifred Robinson follows the fortunes of some of the MON 300-plus violent and damaged youngsters in Britain who are MON detained in secure children's homes to prevent them MON harming themselves or others. MON The number of secure units is falling, down from 28 MON earlier this decade to just 19 and with a further four MON scheduled to close in 2009. The government is keen to MON examine alternatives to custody, including intensive MON fostering. But how do outcomes compare over the long term MON and what proves to be effective in addressing offending MON behaviour? MON Work that goes on in places like the Vinney Green secure MON unit in Bristol includes a great emphasis on vocational MON skills to equip teenagers who may have been excluded from MON mainstream schools. Winifred examines these intensive MON efforts and talks to some of the youngsters and their MON families about what the future holds. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00jn8h1 (Listen) MON Croatia MON Matt Prodger examines the effects of organised crime and MON corruption in Croatia, as the country stands on the brink MON of EU membership. The execution-style assassination of a MON young woman, a car bomb explosion killing the country's MON most famous newspaper editor and journalists and MON businessmen being beaten in the streets are just some of MON the events that have rocked Croatia in recent months. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00jwy3l (Listen) MON Virtual Warming MON Every twitter, Facebook posting and You Tube video viewed MON has a carbon cost that is becoming increasingly dear, as MON our use of computers grows exponentionally. MON The expanding digital cloud contributes 2 per cent of MON global emissions of carbon dioxide, about the same as MON aviation, and it's rising. The high energy demands of the MON massive data centres needed to store all our information MON are of growing concern to both the government and MON industry. But how can they be made greener and more MON efficient? Costing the Earth investigates. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00jr4qt (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON Software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani believes that India MON is at a critical point in its history. The country needs MON to harness the power of its wealth of young people and MON build up the infrastructure of its cities and welfare MON state, but this is all dependent on the outcome of the MON general election. Imagining India: Ideas for the New MON Century is published by Allen Lane. MON Andrew Feinstein was elected as an ANC Member of MON Parliament in South Africa's first democratic elections, MON but later resigned in protest. He discusses how the MON post-apartheid democratic dream came under pressure and MON considers the prospects for the country as it goes to the MON polls to elect a new government. After the Party: MON Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future is MON published by Verso. MON Writer Petina Gappah is optimistic about Zimbabwe's MON future. In a collection of short stories she highlights MON the many sides of Zimbabwe which are not depicted in the MON news headlines, and shows their humour and resilience. An MON Elegy for Easterly is published by Faber and Faber. MON Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same MON day in 1809. Author Adam Gopnik believes that this is more MON than an 'intriguing coincidence' and that the similarities MON between the two men tell us much about the mid-19th MON century. Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, MON Lincoln and Modern Life is published by Quercus. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00jrpvv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00jrpvx (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jrpvz (Listen) MON Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 6 MON Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about MON life as a single mother in America during the Great MON Depression. MON During the worst of the Great Depression, Betty and her MON sisters have to find cheap ways to have fun. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00jmv1l (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of MON words, language and the way we speak. MON Everyone accepts that it is important for parents to read MON to their children, but, thanks partly to school literacy MON targets, many children actually spend more time reading to MON their parents. Furthermore, some parents suffer from MON 'performance anxiety' over their inability to 'do the MON voices' in stories, so, in these cases, what can be done MON to help keep storytelling alive? MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jrpw1 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00jrt6x (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00jr4tp (Listen) TUE The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 1 TUE RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa TUE went missing from the Louvre. In the Salon Carre there is TUE a gap on the wall where the painting once hung. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jrvdl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jrvjx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jrvjl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00jrz9g (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jrz9j (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00js1jl (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00js1mk (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 On the Ropes b00js7tj (Listen) TUE Gillian Gibbons TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Teacher Gillian Gibbons talks about her arrest in Sudan in TUE 2007 for calling a teddy bear Mohammed. TUE Recently divorced and with her children having left home, TUE Gillian took the opportunity to travel and teach at the TUE same time. She got a job at a primary school in Khartoum TUE and settled into her new life. TUE Everything was going smoothly until, as part of a class TUE project, her pupils decided to name a teddy bear Mohammed. TUE Gillian was arrested and held for two weeks - there were TUE riots in the streets and the world's media reported that TUE she had become a hate figure for Muslims. TUE TUE 09:30 Head To Head b00js7tl (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Edward Stourton presents a series celebrating great TUE debates, combining archive of rare discussions between key TUE figures with analysis by a panel of experts. TUE The panel discusses the 1969 debate between left-wing TUE philosopher Noam Chomsky and conservative commentator TUE William F Buckley about United States foreign policy and TUE how it justifies its objective of spreading 'freedom' TUE around the world. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00k2lzk (Listen) TUE The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 2 TUE RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa TUE went missing from the Louvre. The theft is not detected TUE for over 24 hours, and, once it is, uproar ensues. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jw92g (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00js8cz (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Vogelkop Bowerbird TUE Wildlife film director Stephen Lyle is joined by cameraman TUE Barrie Britton to recall their close encounter with two TUE birds that revealed the sculpting of ornate structures and TUE singing of songs beyond the vocal range of human beings in TUE the courtship performance of the male vogelkop bowerbird. TUE Making sense of the biology is Dr Joah Madden of Exeter TUE University, who has spent the last ten years studying this TUE sexual display. TUE TUE 11:30 Pieces of a Man b00js8d1 (Listen) TUE Poet Lemn Sissay travels to New York to meet influential TUE poet, activist, musician, writer and 'godfather of rap' TUE Gil Scott-Heron. TUE Following in the footsteps of Harlem Renaissance poet TUE Langston Hughes, The Black Arts movement and jazz and TUE blues musicians such as John Coltrane and Billie Holiday, TUE Gil Scott-Heron helped pioneer the plight for racial TUE equality and developed a new way of fusing music with TUE hard-hitting political poetry. His story reflects the TUE modern African-American struggle, from segregation in the TUE South to triumph in the White House. TUE Lemn speaks to Gil about his childhood, spent with his TUE feisty grandmother in Tennessee, and his teenage years in TUE New York at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Gil's TUE adolescence was bookended by the assassinations of Malcolm TUE X and Martin Luther King. TUE We also hear about the highs and lows of Gil's four TUE decades in the music business, from his involvement with TUE Stevie Wonder's Martin Luther King Holiday campaign to a TUE long battle with drug addiction and the birth of hip hop. TUE As he approaches 60, Gil Scott-Heron is back writing music TUE that sounds as fresh and hard-hitting as ever. TUE With contributions from Benjamin Zephaniah and Chuck D. TUE An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00js1t8 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00js1vk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00js1x3 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music Group b00js8d3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of TUE three guests to play the track of their choice for the TUE delight or disdain of the others. TUE His guests include actor Don Warrington, Guardian TUE journalist Decca Aitkenhead and Professor Martyn TUE Poliakoff, a pioneer in the field of green chemistry, who TUE reveals a liking for Tom Lehrer. TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00jrpq4 (Listen) TUE It's a bittersweet day at Keeper's Cottage. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00js8m5 (Listen) TUE Available Means TUE By Nick Warburton. TUE Poet David witnesses the dark underbelly of an East TUE European city and is forced, at a lecture he gives, to TUE choose his words particularly carefully. TUE David ...... Philip Jackson TUE Adam ...... Anton Lesser TUE Oksana ...... Lia Williams TUE Directed by Gordon House TUE A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00js9fx (Listen) TUE Military historian Professor Richard Holmes explains how TUE the militia worked in the 18th century, and Andy Cassell TUE reports from Scotland on Britain's only private army. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00js222 (Listen) TUE Penelope's People, Divorcing Grandpa TUE Series of monologues performed by Penelope Keith, TUE presenting resourceful characters responding very TUE differently to big changes in their lives. TUE By Roy Apps. With her husband in prison for a white-collar TUE crime, Eleanor must find new ways to pay her TUE granddaughter's school fees. Should she break the law TUE herself? TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrnxc (Listen) TUE Teddy Boys - Fashion for the Youthquake TUE Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and TUE male peacockery through the ages. TUE In the 1950s, working-class men set the fashion agenda for TUE the first time when Teddy Boys aped and subverted the TUE styles of their social superiors with the New Edwardian TUE look. TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00js9fz (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen explores the teenage use and abuse of the TUE word 'like', finds out why latin lessons are making a TUE comeback and listens in as a school teaches literacy by TUE giving pupils the chance to run their own radio station. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00js9g1 (Listen) TUE Series 18, Sir Thomas Beecham TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Politician and broadcaster David Mellor promotes the life TUE of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and founder of the Royal TUE Philharmonic Orchestra. He was known for his wit and TUE energy, which spawned a huge number of anecdotes, but TUE which of them are true? TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00js5xf (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00js5yj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00js9g3 (Listen) TUE A one-off special edition of the spoof phone-in show on TUE the subject of the credit crunch, starring Rhys Thomas as TUE Gary Bellamy. TUE With Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie TUE Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse. Plus special TUE guest Mark Gatiss. TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00js1xk (Listen) TUE Brian faces a crisis of conscience. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00js5zr (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an TUE interview with members of the band Manic Street Preachers. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jwy2f (Listen) TUE Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary TUE Elizabeth Braddon. TUE Young lawyer Robert Audley bumps into his old school TUE friend George Talboys, who has made his fortune in TUE Australia. George is returning home to the wife he left TUE behind, but there is an unexpected letter waiting for him TUE in London. TUE Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan TUE Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson TUE Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham TUE George Talboys ...... Joseph Kloska TUE Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale TUE Alicia Audley ...... Perdita Weeks TUE Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. TUE TUE 20:00 Twin Sisters, Two Faiths b00jsw51 (Listen) TUE Identical twins, Elizabeth and Caroline, talk to Anna TUE Scott-Brown about their choices to follow two very TUE different faiths - Islam and Christianity. They discuss TUE their strongly-held but separate beliefs, and how this TUE affects their relationship within the family. As their own TUE lives unfold, they also have to confront their mother's TUE terminal illness and come to terms with what her death TUE will mean to them. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00js9jk (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00jsxh4 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores health issues of the day. He TUE visits Glasgow where doctors have pioneered a new TUE treatment for strokes, which is common in older people. TUE They are calling the clot-busting therapy the Lazarus TUE effect because it has such a dramatic result. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00js7tj (Listen) TUE Gillian Gibbons TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Teacher Gillian Gibbons talks about her arrest in Sudan in TUE 2007 for calling a teddy bear Mohammed. TUE Recently divorced and with her children having left home, TUE Gillian took the opportunity to travel and teach at the TUE same time. She got a job at a primary school in Khartoum TUE and settled into her new life. TUE Everything was going smoothly until, as part of a class TUE project, her pupils decided to name a teddy bear Mohammed. TUE Gillian was arrested and held for two weeks - there were TUE riots in the streets and the world's media reported that TUE she had become a hate figure for Muslims. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00js617 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00js61k (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00js6r7 (Listen) TUE Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 7 TUE Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about TUE life as a single mother in America during the Great TUE Depression. TUE Betty discovers that the Friendly Loan Company is not all TUE that friendly when she cannot keep up her payments. TUE TUE 23:00 The Secret World b00jsxh6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Comedy series that offers an insight into the private TUE lives of the famous. With Jon Culshaw, Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton, Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson TUE and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jrpx6 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00jrt6l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00k2lzk (Listen) WED The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 2 WED RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa WED went missing from the Louvre. The theft is not detected WED for over 24 hours, and, once it is, uproar ensues. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jrvc1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jrvjn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jrvdn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00jrz89 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jrz9l (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00js0ch (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00js1m8 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00jsxp0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00k2lzc (Listen) WED The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 3 WED RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa WED went missing from the Louvre. Why has the painting WED beguiled us through the ages? WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jw928 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. WED WED 11:00 Life's Soundtrack b00cqhd2 (Listen) WED Trevor Cox explores how our voice and our hearing develop WED and change through our lives, from the vague rumblings WED that first greet us in the womb to our last gasping breath. WED WED 11:30 Safety Catch b00jsxp2 (Listen) WED Series 2, There Will Be Paint WED Sitcom by Laurence Howarth about a man who has reluctantly WED drifted into the arms dealing trade. WED Simon decides it is time that he and his colleagues prove WED that they understand the true horrors of war by organising WED a paintballing trip. WED Simon McGrath ...... Darren Boyd WED Anna Grieg ...... Joanna Page WED Boris Kemal ...... Lewis Macleod WED Judith McGrath ...... Sarah Smart WED Angela McGrath ...... Brigit Forsyth WED Madeleine Turnbull ...... Rachel Atkins WED Roger/Dave ...... Philip Fox WED Guide ...... Gus Brown. WED WED 12:04 Budget Special b00jsxqm (Listen) WED Live from Westminster, Alistair Darling presents his WED Budget to the House of Commons. WED WED 13:57 Weather b00js1tb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00js1xk (Listen) WED Brian faces a crisis of conscience. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jsxxk (Listen) WED The Gallery WED Comedy by Alan Plater. The opening night of a Newcastle WED art gallery dissolves into chaos when a greyhound runs WED amok. WED With Deka Walmsley, Chris Connel, Phillippa Wilson, Joe WED Caffrey. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00jsxxm (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on WED mortgages, plus Vincent Duggleby on the Budget. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00js5t6 (Listen) WED Penelope's People, Making Ends Meet WED Series of monologues performed by Penelope Keith, WED presenting resourceful characters responding very WED differently to big changes in their lives. WED By Cathy Feeny. Lonely widow Cora has been made redundant. WED Cash is tight, but she still cannot resist the tempting WED knick-knacks from the mail order catalogues. A chance WED meeting offers her a way to beat the credit crunch and get WED out of mounting debt. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrnxt (Listen) WED The King's Road - Granny Takes a Trip...into Punk WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and WED male peacockery through the ages. WED The story of how fashion and music formed an insoluble WED partnership, from the influence of Elvis Presley to the WED pretty hippies and the punks of the King's Road. With WED Malcolm McLaren. WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00jsxxp (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00jsxh4 (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter explores health issues of the day. He WED visits Glasgow where doctors have pioneered a new WED treatment for strokes, which is common in older people. WED They are calling the clot-busting therapy the Lazarus WED effect because it has such a dramatic result. WED WED 17:00 PM b00js5w4 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00js5xh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00jsykr (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates WED a stand-up show for a local audience based on what he WED finds out about the area. WED Mark records a show on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, WED celebrating the area and its people. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00js1x5 (Listen) WED Annette tries Service with a Smile. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00js5yl (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets James WED Patterson, the most-borrowed author from British libraries WED in the past two years. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jwy27 (Listen) WED Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary WED Elizabeth Braddon. WED Curious to meet his uncle's beautiful young wife, Robert WED Audley travels to Essex. He invites his widowed friend WED George Talboys to distract him from his grief. But Lady WED Audley is most reluctant to receive them. WED Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan WED Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham WED George Talboys ...... Joseph Kloska WED Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale WED Alicia Audley ...... Perdita Weeks WED Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts WED Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00jsxxr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with WED families, experts and policy-makers. WED Exploring step-parenting and 'blended families' from the WED point of view of parents, children and society. WED By the age of 16, one in eight children has been through WED parental separation and is living with a 'new' parent. For WED some children such changes can be problematic, while WED others thrive in stepfamilies. How can parents help their WED children to adapt and what do we know about the impact of WED blended families on children? WED Featuring the story of Darren, who has two teenage WED children, as does his partner. However, the children do WED not get on and Darren is worried that the situation is WED putting strain on all involved. WED With guests Christine Tufnell of Care for the Family, WED Penny Mansfield from the relationship charity One Plus WED One, Nick Woodall from the Centre for Separated Families, WED and Elly Farmer, a clinical psychologist who also speaks WED for the Centre for Social Justice on family issues. WED WED 20:45 A Wonderful Way to Make a Living b00d0sj6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED US satirist Joe Queenan presents a series on people with WED highly unusual occupations. WED He meets penetration testers of first base technologies. WED Their job is to test the security systems of banks or WED mortgage companies by attempting to steal information. WED This is not only done by electronic means - they attempt WED to gain access to sites by disguising themselves as WED plumbers or pizza delivery boys. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00js8cz (Listen) WED Series 2, The Vogelkop Bowerbird WED Wildlife film director Stephen Lyle is joined by cameraman WED Barrie Britton to recall their close encounter with two WED birds that revealed the sculpting of ornate structures and WED singing of songs beyond the vocal range of human beings in WED the courtship performance of the male vogelkop bowerbird. WED Making sense of the biology is Dr Joah Madden of Exeter WED University, who has spent the last ten years studying this WED sexual display. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00jsxp0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00js5zt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00js619 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:40 Budget Statement b00jtcwy (Listen) WED The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, WED explains his Budget. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00js6r9 (Listen) WED Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 8 WED Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about WED life as a single mother in America during the Great WED Depression. WED Mary gets Mother an unlikely job as a radio dramatist and WED Betty has to work with the sinister Dorita. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b00jtpwm (Listen) WED Steve Hall WED Rufus Hound invites comedians to revisit their formative WED years by dusting off their teenage diaries and reading WED them out in public for the very first time. Will they WED experience the warm glow of nostalgia or the hot flush of WED embarrassment? WED With Steve Hall. WED WED 23:15 Bespoken Word b00cxr1z (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 5 WED Mister Gee presents the performance poetry series, WED recorded at London's Troubadour Coffee House. Featured WED performers include Murray Lachlan Young. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jrpxg (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00jrt6n (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00k2lzc (Listen) THU The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 3 THU RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa THU went missing from the Louvre. Why has the painting THU beguiled us through the ages? THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jrvc3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jrvjq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jrvdq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00jrz8c (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jrz9n (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00js0ck (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00js1mb (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00jts6k (Listen) THU The Building of St Petersburg THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St THU Petersburg, Peter the Great's showcase city for a modern, THU European Russia. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00k2lzf (Listen) THU The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 4 THU RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa THU went missing from the Louvre. Vincenzo Peruggia is THU believed to be the thief. What are his motives and is he THU believable? THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jw92b (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00jz7c9 (Listen) THU Thailand THU Violent clashes in Bangkok have revealed a deep political THU divide in Thailand. As the Red Shirts prepared to descend THU on the capital, Lucy Ash joined them in their heartland in THU the north east of the country. THU She watched the build up to the massive protest in Bangkok THU and discovered who the Red Shirts are, how they organise THU themselves and why poor villagers and rice farmers are now THU demanding to be heard. THU THU 11:30 The Hull Truck Story b00jts6p (Listen) THU Charting the build-up to the move of the Hull Truck THU Theatre company from its intimate home in a former chapel THU to a new and larger, purpose-built venue in the centre of THU Hull. THU The programme also tells the story of how the company and THU its joint-artistic director, playwright John Godber, have THU come to occupy a special place in the hearts of many THU theatregoers. THU THU 12:00 Budget Call b00k2s4w (Listen) THU Vincent Duggleby discusses the implications of the THU Chancellor's Budget speech and an expert panel answers THU listeners' calls on how the Budget will affect them. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00js1td (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00js1vp (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00jrpvs (Listen) THU Obama's Green Dream THU Tom Heap asks whether political and vested interests will THU shatter President Obama's dream of leading the United THU States and the world towards a greener future. THU Obama campaigned for a low-carbon economy and as soon as THU he came to power he set about laying the foundations for THU one. He wants to create green jobs in traditional THU industries like car making - electric cars of course - and THU construction, making American homes and offices more THU energy efficient. His biggest challenge will be to wean THU the country off its dependence on fossil fuels and make THU 'clean' energy profitable. For that he needs to bring in a THU system called carbon cap and trade and needs the support THU of senators and members of congress to do so. However, THU even members of his own party are reluctant to back what THU they see as a vote-losing policy and energy companies with THU investments in coal, gas and oil are THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00js1x5 (Listen) THU Annette tries Service with a Smile. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jtsl7 (Listen) THU The Iceman Goeth THU Drama documentary by Steve Jacobi about actor Ian Holm. THU Featuring a candid interview with Holm, who talks about THU his childhood, his acting and the death of his brother. It THU is intercut with a drama set in the summer of 1976, in the THU build-up to Howard Davies' production of Eugene O'Neill's THU The Iceman Cometh, which Holm had to leave after suffering THU a sudden attack of stage fright. THU Ian Holm ...... Ian Glen THU Bee Gilbert ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Howard Davies ...... Malcolm Raeburn THU Norman Rodway/Doctor ...... David Fleeshman THU Patti Love ...... Kathryn Hunt THU Joel Grey ...... Stephen Hogan. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00jpyw1 (Listen) THU Border Mires of Keilder THU Matt Baker investigates the work of the Border Mires THU Project, which has spent one million pounds and uses THU 21st-century machinery to undertake the difficult work of THU restoring the fragile ecosystem of the 10,000-year-old THU Border Mires of the Keilder Forest in Northumberland. THU Home to rare dragon flies, damselflies and plantlife, the THU Border Mires may also store carbon more efficiently than THU the many trees of the forest that surround them. THU With so much attention now focused on the benefits of THU trees in storing carbon it seems a harsh decision to cut THU them down but for the ecologists and forestry THU professionals of Keilder the rare habitat that can be THU recovered makes harvesting trees worthwhile. THU In fact as Matt discovers the forest has only been here a THU shortwhile. Planted after the first and second world wars THU to provide timber this is a landscape shaped by conflict. THU Hadrian's Wall runs between the recovered Mires and at RAF THU Spadeadam the need to prepare for battle continues. THU Spadeadam is the only facility in Europe where aircrews THU can practise manoeuvres and tactics against a variety of THU threats and targets that they face in contemporary warfare THU and it is also home to some of the best preserved bog THU habitat in the country. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00jqxjw (Listen) THU Cerebra THU Jules Hudson appeals on behalf of Cerebra. Donations to THU this appeal should be sent to Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, THU please mark the back of your envelope Cerebra. Credit THU cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Or you can give via the THU website. THU Cerebra supports children with a wide range of THU neurological conditions. Their grant scheme funds THU expensive equipment that parents often cannot afford. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Cerebra with THU your full name and address so that they can claim the Gift THU Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online THU and phone donation facilities are not currently available THU to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1089812. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00js5t8 (Listen) THU Penelope's People, Pills THU Series of monologues performed by Penelope Keith, THU presenting resourceful characters responding very THU differently to big changes in their lives. THU By Eric Pringle. Alice's life has not fulfilled its early THU promise, but the determination that first drove her to THU pursue a career on the stage gives her the strength to THU face an uncertain future. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrny6 (Listen) THU The New Man? Fashion in the 80s THU Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and THU male peacockery through the ages. THU First the New Romantics, then the arrival of big hair, big THU shoulders, big salaries and big hangovers. How did fashion THU in the 1980s reflect the greedy consumerism of the times, THU and what happened when the bubble burst? THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00jqz5z (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to American crime novelist Elmore THU Leonard, whose work has found heavyweight fans such as THU Saul Bellow and Martin Amis as well as enjoying success in THU film adaptations such as Get Shorty. He talks about his THU new book, Comfort To The Enemy, and explains why he thinks THU he has made the most of his limitations. THU With a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies THU becoming an unexpected bestseller, Mariella and her guests THU discuss Jane Austen's continuing cultural significance. THU Claire Harman, the author of Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen THU Conquered the World, and Deborah Moggach, who adapted THU Pride and Prejudice for the 2005 film starring Kiera THU Knightley, look at Austen's rediscovery in the 19th THU century and reinvention in the 20th. THU Plus the novelist Andrey Kurkov, author of the cult THU classic Death and the Penguin, celebrates another THU satirical masterpiece, Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 novel The THU Heart of a Dog. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00jtsl9 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests discuss how machines are THU learning to recognise and express emotions. THU THU 17:00 PM b00js5w6 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00js5xk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 4 Stands Up b00jv9mw (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU Chris Addison hosts the stand-up comedy show featuring THU some of the top names on the circuit. He is joined by Josh THU Howie, Dan Antopolski and Zoe Lyons. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00js1x7 (Listen) THU Phil takes a trailer ride down memory lane. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00js5yn (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jwy29 (Listen) THU Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary THU Elizabeth Braddon. THU Robert Audley continues his search for his lost friend THU George. He follows the trail to Southampton, but believes THU the answer to all his questions actually lies at Audley THU Court. THU Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan THU Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham THU Alicia Audley ...... Perdita Weeks THU Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale THU Lieutenant Maldon ...... Jonathan Tafler THU Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00jv9my (Listen) THU Simon Cox presents the current affairs series combining THU original insights into major news stories with topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00jv9n0 (Listen) THU Grand Design THU Peter Day hears from some influential people who are THU convinced that designers can radically improve the way a THU whole company works. THU THU 21:00 Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister? THU b00jv9n2 (Listen) THU Kati Whitaker talks to people in the UK and the USA about THU the ways in which children conceived through a sperm donor THU can make contact, and forge a familial bond, with their THU potential half-brothers and sisters. She hears about the THU difficult choices that both parents and children have to THU make, and how for some there is the reward of discovery of THU a half-sibling, but for others the search proves to be a THU journey into the unknown. THU A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00jts6k (Listen) THU The Building of St Petersburg THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St THU Petersburg, Peter the Great's showcase city for a modern, THU European Russia. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00js5zw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00js61c (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:40 Budget Response by the Shadow Chancellor b00jvb1d (Listen) THU The Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, responds to the THU Budget. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00js6rc (Listen) THU Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 9 THU Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about THU life as a single mother in America during the Great THU Depression. THU Betty resolves never to go to another office party. THU THU 23:00 The Personality Test b007vt9q (Listen) THU Series 3, Eve Pollard THU Eve Pollard chairs the comedy quiz in which all the THU questions are about the guest host. Panellists are Sue THU Perkins, Caroline Quinlan and Will Smith. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jrpxs (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00jrt6q (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00k2lzf (Listen) FRI The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 4 FRI RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa FRI went missing from the Louvre. Vincenzo Peruggia is FRI believed to be the thief. What are his motives and is he FRI believable? FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jrvc5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jrvjs (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jrvds (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00jrz8f (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jrz9q (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection, with Bishop George Stack. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00js0cm (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00js1md (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00jqxl5 (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor brings together some of the young artists FRI who emerged in the 1990s to create the Brit Art movement - FRI Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Mat Collishaw and FRI Gregor Muir. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00k2lzh (Listen) FRI The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 5 FRI RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa FRI went missing from the Louvre. Vincenzo Peruggia is FRI arrested and the painting is returned to France. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jw92d (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. FRI FRI 11:00 Anthropology at War b00jvdh8 (Listen) FRI Mark Whitaker reports from Washington DC on the recent FRI policy of the United States army to embed anthropologists FRI and other social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq FRI and Afghanistan. FRI The hope is that they will teach the military to behave in FRI more 'culturally appropriate' ways and reduce the need for FRI lethal force. However, three young academics have died FRI during the 18 months that the policy has been operation, FRI and the American Anthropological Association has condemned FRI the initiative as unethical. FRI A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Chain Reaction b00772r1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI Talk show in which the previous guest becomes the FRI interviewer and chooses the next guest. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00js1rx (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00js1tg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00js1vr (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00jvdhb (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00js1x7 (Listen) FRI Phil takes a trailer ride down memory lane. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jvdhd (Listen) FRI 3000 FRI By Anna Symon. Fact-based dramatisation of the experiences FRI of one of the 3,000 unaccompanied displaced children who FRI arrive in the UK every year: that of Mehrab, an Afghan boy FRI who arrives in London in the back of a truck aged 15. FRI Mehrab Dasani ...... Donald Slack FRI Jahandar Dasani ...... Qaseem Ansari FRI Uncle Farrid ...... Tahmoures Tehrani FRI Mr Fielding ...... Jot Davies FRI Immigration Officer ...... Sudha Bhuchar FRI Tam ...... Romesh Navaratnasingham FRI Young Mehrab ...... Parsa Tehrani FRI With original music by David Chilton FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jvdhg (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions sent in by post and email. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrnzd (Listen) FRI The Clothes We're In - The State of Men's Fashion Now FRI Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and FRI male peacockery through the ages. FRI In women's fashion the hemline acts as a social barometer, FRI going up and down with the fortunes of the stock market. FRI Laurence finds out what current men's fashion says about FRI the state we are in. FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00jvfg2 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00jvfg4 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock presents a special edition about the FRI renaissance in British cinema. As well as the success of FRI Slumdog Millionaire, there has been a raft of impressive FRI films by first-time directors, such as Unrelated, The FRI Escapist and Better Things. FRI Francine's guests include film-maker Kevin Macdonald, who FRI found success with his first fiction film, The Last King FRI of Scotland, and who is releasing his first Hollywood FRI film, State of Play. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00js5w8 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00js5xm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00jvfg6 (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 8 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Lloyd Langford. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00js1x9 (Listen) FRI Lilian calls in the professionals. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00js5yq (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jwy2c (Listen) FRI Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary FRI Elizabeth Braddon. FRI Robert leaves the splendour of Audley Court to continue FRI his search for his missing friend at a draughty hilltop FRI inn. When he interviews Lady Audley's former maid, he FRI provokes a surprising result. FRI Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan FRI Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson FRI Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham FRI Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00jvfjk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cookham, FRI Berkshire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00jvfjm (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b0076yw7 (Listen) FRI Consideration FRI By Robert Messik. Eleanor did not hesitate to donate a FRI kidney to her husband when he needed it. But two years FRI later Peter left her and their children for another woman. FRI Now she is suing him for the return of her kidney. FRI Eleanor ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Peter ...... Paul Bown FRI Eleanor's barrister/Simon ...... Richard Derrington FRI Peter's barrister/Mary ...... Tracy Wiles FRI Alexia/Miss Tonnel ...... Alison Pettitt FRI Tony/Judge ...... Andrew Sachs FRI Dr Rosen/Ben Grant ...... David Bannerman FRI Directed by David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00js5zy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00js61f (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:40 Budget Response b00jvb2w (Listen) FRI The Liberal Democrats' Treasury Spokesman, Vincent Cable, FRI responds to the Budget. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00js6rf (Listen) FRI Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 10 FRI Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about FRI life as a single mother in America during the Great FRI Depression. FRI Mary tells a publisher about Betty's wonderful new book, FRI which is news to Betty, too. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00js9g1 (Listen) FRI Series 18, Sir Thomas Beecham FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Politician and broadcaster David Mellor promotes the life FRI of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and founder of the Royal FRI Philharmonic Orchestra. He was known for his wit and FRI energy, which spawned a huge number of anecdotes, but FRI which of them are true? FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jrpxx (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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