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SAT SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00jvh72 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00k2lzh (Listen) SAT The Lost Mona Lisa, Episode 5 SAT RA Scotti's account of the day in 1911 when the Mona Lisa SAT went missing from the Louvre. Vincenzo Peruggia is SAT arrested and the painting is returned to France. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jvh78 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jvh7b (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jvh7h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00jvh7m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jvh7t (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. SAT SAT 05:45 The Estuary b008kllk (Listen) SAT Episode 3 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 The birds have been pushed across the mud flats by the SAT advancing tide. They soon run out of space and are forced SAT into the air in one of Britain's greatest natural SAT spectacles. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00jwp86 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00jwp88 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00jwp8b (Listen) SAT Skye Scavengers SAT Matt Baker joins an archaeological dig to find out just SAT how idyllic life was for Mesolithic man on the Isle of SAT Skye. When the ice sheets finally released their grip on SAT Britain, the Isle of Skye was one of the most attractive SAT options for the new human settlers. SAT Until now, evidence of these mesolithic islanders was SAT sparse, rotted by the wet climate and the acidic peat SAT soil. Matt joins a dig which is gradually revealing the SAT lifestyle of these early residents. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00jwp8d (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Charlotte Smith visits a grain storage facility in SAT Staffordshire to find out how much pest damage and control SAT costs farmers, from deer down to weevils. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00jwp8g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00jwp8j (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00jwpd4 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by performance SAT artist Bobby Baker, with poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00jwpd6 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig hears from two regular visitors to the SAT Hungarian capital, Budapest. Nicholas Clapton, visiting SAT professor at the Liszt Music University, fell in love with SAT the city, particularly its musical life, which ranges from SAT the high classical culture of the concert halls to the SAT folk music of the cafes. Chris Maslanka is a writer who SAT loves the different way of thinking there and the fact SAT that in a cafe you are as likely to find a challenge to a SAT game of chess as a gypsy band. But is it a way of life SAT that is changing as Hungary becomes increasingly SAT westernised? SAT And has the way of life changed on the Isle of Wight? SAT Roger George Clark went there regularly during the 1960s SAT to photograph an England that hadn't quite modernised. SAT Sandi hears how the island has changed - or not - after SAT Roger recently went there again for the first time in 25 SAT years. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jwq6f (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Series which seeks to challenge the prevailing atmosphere SAT of doom and gloom and dare to be optimistic. SAT Actress Diana Quick attempts to challenge the culture of SAT nostalgia which threatens to overtake us. She is cheerful SAT about the fact that women have more opportunities than SAT they did in the 1960s and that we live longer, healthier SAT lives. She takes on actress Annette Crosbie who thinks SAT that there is nothing to be said for getting older and SAT that the world really is going to hell in a handcart. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00jwphy (Listen) SAT This week Jackie Ashley looks at the fall-out from the SAT budget. Ruth Kelly, former Treasury minister and Michael SAT Fallon, Conservative member of the Treasury select SAT committee consider its political implications while John SAT Gummer, Conservative MP and environmentalist joins Lord SAT Digby Jones, former government adviser to discuss how far SAT it advances the green agenda. SAT The Prime Minister himself no less has entered the fray SAT over MPs expenses with a set of proposals to reform the SAT system. But is a fair case being made for MPs who need to SAT have two homes in order to serve both parliament and their SAT constituents? Andrew Dismore, Labour and Liberal Democrat SAT Nick Harvey, both members of the committee on standards SAT and privileges, discuss the new proposals. SAT Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has had a rough ride recently SAT with criticisms ranging from her expenses claims to her SAT handling of a number of policing issues. SAT Two former Home Secretaries Charles Clarke (Labour) and SAT Michael Howard (Conservative) look at her record so far. SAT This week Lord Mandelson compared himself to fellow peer SAT and fomer president of the Board of Trade Michael SAT Heseltine. What does Lord Heseltine make of the comparison? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00jwpwx (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00jwpwz (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00jvfg6 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 8 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Lloyd Langford. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00jwpx1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00jwq3b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00jvfjk (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cookham, SAT Berkshire. Panellists are the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, SAT cabinet office minister Liam Byrne, Conservative shadow SAT minister Justine Greening and Liberal Democrat spokesman SAT David Laws. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00jwq3d (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 b00jwq3g (Listen) SAT The Killing of Sister George SAT John Tydeman's adaptation of the stage play by Frank SAT Marcus. The audience ratings for the popular daily serial SAT Applehurst are on the slide. Will the leading character SAT have to be sacrificed to save the show? SAT June Buckridge (Sister George) ...... Sarah Badel SAT Alice 'Childie' McNaught ...... Lucy Whybrow SAT Mrs Mercy Croft ...... Anna Massey SAT Madme Xenia ...... Frances Jeater SAT Bill ...... Tom Bevan SAT Fred ...... Keith Drinkel SAT Directed by John Tydeman. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00jwqhf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. Including: SAT Coping with the death of a pet. Why are people who don't SAT have pets sometimes unsympathetic to those who do, and why SAT do people grieve for them so deeply when they die? What is SAT the best way of explaining the death of a pet to children? SAT Hear from Lydia Cacho, the Mexican journalist set on SAT exposing those involved in the trafficking of women. SAT The one-time child prodigy Sarah Chang talks about how she SAT has got people to accept that, at the age of 28, she is SAT now an adult star violinist. SAT Also looking at women and public speaking; the issue of SAT foetal alcohol syndrome (when women drink too much during SAT pregnancy); the delights of growing lettuce; one woman's SAT victory over age discrimination in the work place; and SAT Sinead O' Connor on her life and music. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00jwqhh (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00jwqhk (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jwqhm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00jwqkh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwqkk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00jwqkm (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT comedy and music. Clive is joined by Elvis Costello, SAT Nicholas Coleridge and Fay Ripley, and Jo Bunting talks to SAT Elaine C Smith. With music from Joe Gideon and the Shark SAT and Elvis Costello. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00jwqkp (Listen) SAT Phillip Blond SAT Chris Bowlby profiles Philip Blond, the theologian who has SAT become an unexpected new influence on Conservative Party SAT policy. SAT He has moved from teaching theology in Cumbria to telling SAT the Tories to abandon free market idolatry and do more for SAT the poor. Chris hears how the man who calls himself a 'Red SAT Tory' hopes to change political debate. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00jwqkr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by columnist David Aaronovitch, SAT director of the ICA Ekow Eshun and anthropologist Kit SAT Davis to discuss the cultural highlights of the week - SAT featuring conspiracy in Washington DC, an unexpected sex SAT change, 160 years of Afghan history and a chef losing the SAT plot. SAT State of Play - originally a critically acclaimed British SAT TV series - gets a Hollywood makeover. Russell Crowe plays SAT a grizzled, old-school newspaper reporter who starts SAT joining the dots between a couple of murders in Washington SAT DC and finds a sinister conspiracy lurking in the SAT background. Scratch the surface and it's also a eulogy to SAT good, old-fashioned print journalism. SAT Suspicious death also features in Monica Ali's third novel SAT In The Kitchen. Set in the cosmopolitan kitchen of a hotel SAT restaurant, head chef Gabriel is confronted by the SAT changing nature of Britain and Britishness as his world SAT unravels. Ali presents a deregulated world in which old SAT certainties have gone and abuses are rife. SAT The Great Game was a phrase coined for the conflict SAT between the British and Russian empires in central Asia. SAT It is also the title of an ambitious series of 12 short SAT plays by various writers which explore the history of SAT Afghanistan from the mid-19th century to the present day. SAT Commissioned by the Tricycle Theatre because 'Afghanistan SAT felt like an untold story that was going terribly wrong'. SAT The ever-popular device of the body swap is revived in the SAT TV comedy Boy Meets Girl, starring Martin Freeman and SAT Rachel Stirling. Danny gets struck by lightning and finds SAT himself in the body of glamorous Veronica. Inevitable SAT problems with high heels ensue. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00jwqlg (Listen) SAT Working for Margaret SAT Matthew Parris, who worked for Margaret Thatcher before SAT becoming a political journalist, delves into the Brook SAT Lapping archive to hear from some of her former staff, SAT ministers, civil servants, speechwriters and advisors SAT about what she was like to work for. SAT Was she any gentler with her staff than she was with her SAT Cabinet colleagues? Matthew finds out about the Margaret SAT Thatcher that only her closest circle saw. SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00jqz5x (Listen) SAT Therese Raquin, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of the novel by Emile SAT Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris. SAT Therese and Laurent have murdered Camille and are free to SAT marry. Their wedding night is not joyous - it is a night SAT of terror, and each night is the same as they feel the SAT ghost of Camille infiltrate their every thought and action. 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 Pierre/Beggar ...... Drew Carter Cain SAT Music consultancy: Philip Tagney SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00jwqnm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00jsxxr (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with SAT families, experts and policy-makers. SAT Exploring step-parenting and 'blended families' from the SAT point of view of parents, children and society. SAT By the age of 16, one in eight children has been through SAT parental separation and is living with a 'new' parent. For SAT some children such changes can be problematic, while SAT others thrive in stepfamilies. How can parents help their SAT children to adapt and what do we know about the impact of SAT blended families on children? SAT Featuring the story of Darren, who has two teenage SAT children, as does his partner. However, the children do SAT not get on and Darren is worried that the situation is SAT putting strain on all involved. SAT With guests Christine Tufnell of Care for the Family, SAT Penny Mansfield from the relationship charity One Plus SAT One, Nick Woodall from the Centre for Separated Families, SAT and Elly Farmer, a clinical psychologist who also speaks SAT for the Centre for Social Justice on family issues. SAT SAT 22:55 Budget Statement: Scottish National Party b00jwqnp (Listen) SAT The Scottish National Party respond to the Budget. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00jrnw6 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 7 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the seventh heat of the music quiz, SAT with contestants from the south of England. The SAT competitors are David Dean from London, Gillian SAT Hensley-Gray from Croydon and Peter Whitehead from Bromley. SAT SAT 23:30 Blood, Sweat, Tears and Poetry b00dsk23 (Listen) SAT Patience Agbabi and some of her fellow poets explore the SAT relationship between poetry and the workplace. 2008's SAT National Poetry Day theme was 'Work', and Patience talks SAT to poets and the people who welcomed them into the SAT workplace to find out what the experience meant to both SAT parties. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 APRIL 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00jwqv2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084s1l (Listen) SUN The Big Chill, The Sofa SUN Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side SUN of life. SUN When Nathan inherits an old Chesterfield sofa from his SUN mother, his first thought is to throw it out. But his SUN friend points out that 'you can't discard your history - SUN however grim'. SUN By Salley Vickers, read by Paul Rhys. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwrr8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwrrb (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwrrf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00jwrrh (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00jwrrk (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Nicholas' Church, Durweston in SUN Dorset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00jwqkp (Listen) SUN Phillip Blond SUN Chris Bowlby profiles Philip Blond, the theologian who has SUN become an unexpected new influence on Conservative Party SUN policy. SUN He has moved from teaching theology in Cumbria to telling SUN the Tories to abandon free market idolatry and do more for SUN the poor. Chris hears how the man who calls himself a 'Red SUN Tory' hopes to change political debate. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00jwrrm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00jwrrp (Listen) SUN The Currency Exchange SUN As the global financial crisis bites deeper, Canadian SUN radio producer Chris Brookes explores the nature of SUN exchange in our day-to-day lives, comparing the value of SUN two currencies that we deal in - money and kindness. SUN Featuring extracts from Benjamin Zephaniah's What If and SUN the Jewish Lamed-Vavniks. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00jwrrr (Listen) SUN Alex James visits Oxfordshire to see how pheasants are SUN reared for the game shooting industry. The increase in SUN popularity of the pursuit means shoots are demanding huge SUN numbers of the birds and farms are now rearing them in the SUN same way as intensive chicken producers. Alex meets one SUN farmer who is determined to stick to the traditional SUN methods. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00jwrrt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00jwrrw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00jwrry (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 b00jwrs0 (Listen) SUN RedR SUN Mike Wooldridge appeals on behalf of RedR. Donations: SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. SUN While you will rarely hear RedR mentioned in the SUN headlines, the charity plays a vital role in ensuring that SUN there are skilled people, trained in anything from shelter SUN to health, ready to respond whenever there is a disaster. SUN If you are a UK taxpayer, please provide RedR with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation worth another 25 per cent per cent. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1079752. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00jwrs2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00jwrs4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00jwrs6 (Listen) SUN A service from Holy Trinity Church, Cookham, on the banks SUN of the Thames, celebrating the spirituality of painter SUN Stanley Spencer, who died in 1959. SUN Preacher: Canon David Winter; leader: Father Michael SUN Smith; organist and director of music: Sara Wood. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00jvfjm (Listen) SUN Clive James wonders what Susan Boyle, the Britain's Got SUN Talent singing sensation, has to tell us about the SUN progress of feminism and how far appearance still matters SUN - even in the world of serious singing. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00jwrs8 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00jwrsb (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00jwrsd (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor brings together a group of people to tell SUN the story of the 1960s 'wonder drug' Thalidomide, which SUN caused so much damage and distress. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00jrpq2 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 5 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 Sean Lock, Arthur Smith, Sue Perkins and Miranda Hart. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00jwxm3 (Listen) SUN Slow Fish SUN Sheila Dillon follows two Cornish oyster fisherman, Rob SUN Searle and Tim Vinnicombe, as they travel to the 'Slow SUN Fish' gathering in Genoa - the world's largest gathering SUN of fishermen and women from around the world, organised by SUN the Slow Food movement. SUN Rob and Tim are part of a team attempting to save the SUN tradition of gathering native oysters from the Fal SUN Estuary. The oysters are fished in 200-year-old sailing SUN boats as no mechanical power is permitted on the fishery. SUN By taking their catch to Genoa, they hope to raise the SUN profile of the native oyster and create a market that will SUN help ensure the survival of a traditional and sustainable SUN form of fishing. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00jwxm5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00jwxm7 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Music Feature b00bc2r4 (Listen) SUN Gershwin's Horns SUN Rainer Hersch explores the musical significance of unusual SUN instruments, including cannons, car horns, anvils, SUN typewriters and salad bowls. All have featured in concert SUN performances over the last two hundred years, but who SUN plays them? SUN With the help of two leading British percussion players, SUN Mick Doran and Neil Percy, Rainer explores the soundscape SUN that can conjured up by bowing a cymbal, rubbing a plastic SUN cup on a gong or hitting a car suspension spring with a SUN hammer. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jvdhg (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions sent in by post and email. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Lights, Camera, Landmark b00fg9zv (Listen) SUN Battersea Power Station SUN Matthew Sweet visits parts of the man-made landscape which SUN have been used in films over the years. SUN Matthew discovers how cinema has used the cavernous SUN interior and decaying brickwork of Battersea Power Station SUN as a symbol of post-industrial decline in films including SUN RocknRolla and The Dark Knight. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00jwxv2 (Listen) SUN Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. SUN One of the great works of English literature, this SUN powerful, compelling story explores love from its first SUN tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and SUN eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new SUN version for radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for SUN a modern audience while remaining true to his original SUN poetic intention. SUN After seeing the beautiful widow Criseyde at the temple in SUN Troy, Troilus falls instantly in love with her. SUN Inexperienced in love, he is unable to act on his feelings SUN and locks himself in his room to compose love songs. SUN Pandarus, worried for his friend, eventually persuades SUN Troilus to tell him why he is so miserable and is SUN delighted to hear that the cause is Troilus' love for his SUN niece Criseyde. SUN Worried about her reputation, Criseyde is at first SUN reluctant to enter into a relationship with Troilus. After SUN much cajoling and manipulation, she reluctantly comes SUN around to the idea. Pandarus is frustrated that the SUN relationship is moving too slowly and engineers a complex SUN plan to get Criseyde and Troilus in bed together. SUN Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson SUN Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake SUN Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn SUN Servant 1/Woman 1 ...... Kathryn Hunt SUN Calchas/Servant 3/Man 2 ...... Kevin Doyle SUN Priam/Servant 2/Man 3/General 1 ...... Terence Mann SUN Hector/Diomede ...... Declan Wilson SUN With music composed by Gary Yershon and performed by Ehsan SUN Emam, Tim Williams and Mike Dale. SUN Directed by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00jwxvq (Listen) SUN British author Hilary Mantel explains why Thomas Cromwell, SUN the hero in her new historic novel Wolf Hall - far from SUN being Henry VIII's Machiavellian advisor - just had an SUN image problem. SUN Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava's debut novel Harare SUN North inspires a discussion about recurrent themes visited SUN by expatriated African writers. SUN Will Self's Reader's Guide to the late JG Ballard is SUN revisited. SUN And Professor John Sutherland takes a look at fictional SUN dentists in this week's Reading Clinic. SUN SUN 16:30 Baghdad of the Mind b00jwxvs (Listen) SUN An impressionistic portrait of the fantastical city of SUN Baghdad, a metropolis at the heart of an empire that for SUN more than a thousand years has captured the imagination of SUN Western and Arab worlds alike. SUN Using the logic of a dream interspersed with music and SUN poetry, the broadcast summons up a dusty but glittering SUN mosaic of real, dreamt, nostalgic, oriental and SUN orientalist poems and melodies inspired by and from SUN Baghdad. SUN Long before the city was synonymous with tyranny, SUN occupation and oppression, Baghdad was a place of learning SUN and culture that attracted hundreds of poets. In the SUN labyrinthine city of the Arabian Nights, the real and the SUN romanced are confused in the iconic figure of the Caliph SUN Harun al-Rashid. According to the tales, he would disguise SUN himself to go among his people and meet fabulous SUN adventures. We re-create this poetic city through a night SUN of chanced encounters on the radio. SUN In conversation and poetry, contemporary Iraqi poets in SUN exile Salih Niazi, Fawzi Karim and Nabeel Yasin reflect on SUN the city they left and describe how the City of Peace SUN still exerts a powerful pull on their work. The picture SUN they paint is fresh and unexpected: a weekly pilgrimage to SUN the book market to buy Sartre or Hemingway, poets SUN bar-hopping their way across the city and small boys SUN spending blissful, endless days swimming in the Tigris. SUN With additional contributions from Robert Irwin and SUN Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. SUN Featured poems: SUN Salih Niazi SUN The Abode SUN Fawzi Karim SUN At The Gardenia's Entrance SUN two excerpts from The Plague Lands SUN (forthcoming Carcanet Press) SUN Nabeel Yasin SUN New York Baghdad SUN Abu Nuwas - Untitled SUN trans. Eric Ormsby from Questions For Stones: On Classical SUN Arabic Poetry reproduced in Abu Nuwas - A Genius For SUN Poetry by Philip F Kennedy, Oneworld 2005. SUN SUN 17:00 Twin Sisters, Two Faiths b00jsw51 (Listen) SUN Identical twins, Elizabeth and Caroline, talk to Anna SUN Scott-Brown about their choices to follow two very SUN different faiths - Islam and Christianity. They discuss SUN their strongly-held but separate beliefs, and how this SUN affects their relationship within the family. As their own SUN lives unfold, they also have to confront their mother's SUN terminal illness and come to terms with what her death SUN will mean to them. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00jwqkp (Listen) SUN Phillip Blond SUN Chris Bowlby profiles Philip Blond, the theologian who has SUN become an unexpected new influence on Conservative Party SUN policy. SUN He has moved from teaching theology in Cumbria to telling SUN the Tories to abandon free market idolatry and do more for SUN the poor. Chris hears how the man who calls himself a 'Red SUN Tory' hopes to change political debate. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jwxw5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00jwxw7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwxw9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00jwxwk (Listen) SUN A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00jwxwm (Listen) SUN Usha's competitiveness is put to the test. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00jwxwp (Listen) SUN Kirsten O'Brien discovers the truth about Henry VIII and SUN explores the treasures of the Mary Rose, which sank in the SUN Solent in 1545. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cm7qz (Listen) SUN Stories with Latitude, Episode 1 SUN Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in SUN Suffolk. Milton Jones' story reveals the trials and SUN tribulations of a comedian on the road. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00jvdhb (Listen) SUN Tim Harford examines how the arithmetic behind sustainable SUN energy adds up, asks whether putting in 100 per cent SUN effort is enough and declares a dictatorship in an attempt SUN to explain the national debt. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00jvfg2 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister talks to Bea Ballard, David Cronenberg SUN and Brian Aldiss about the life of writer JG Ballard SUN Mick and Jack Jones, Lord Morris and Rodney Bickerstaffe SUN on the trade union leader Jack Jones SUN Actor Leslie Phillips on Carry On film producer Peter SUN Rogers. SUN The Right Hon Ken Clarke and Howard Davies on the former SUN governor of the Bank of England, Lord George SUN Plus the music of trumpet player Zeke Zarchey. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00jwpwz (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00jwrs0 (Listen) SUN RedR SUN Mike Wooldridge appeals on behalf of RedR. Donations: SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. SUN While you will rarely hear RedR mentioned in the SUN headlines, the charity plays a vital role in ensuring that SUN there are skilled people, trained in anything from shelter SUN to health, ready to respond whenever there is a disaster. SUN If you are a UK taxpayer, please provide RedR with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation worth another 25 per cent per cent. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1079752. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00jv9n0 (Listen) SUN Grand Design SUN Designers are getting tired of being pigeon-holed into the SUN role of making products look better and work better. Peter SUN Day argues that it is high time that designers are given a SUN far larger role in all sorts of organisations. He hears SUN from some influential people who are convinced that SUN something called Design Thinking can help companies cope SUN with a wide variety of great big business uncertainties, SUN not just the shape of the box they come in. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00jwxx0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00jwxx2 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Petitioning the Modern Way. SUN SUN 22:55 Budget Response b00jwxx4 (Listen) SUN By Elfyn Llwyd MP, of Plaid Cymru. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00jvfg4 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock presents a special edition about the recent SUN renaissance in British cinema. After Slumdog Millionaire SUN swept the Oscars, the green shoots of recovery are evident SUN in low-budget, critically-acclaimed films like Hunger, SUN Shifty, Helen, Unrelated and The Escapist. Francine asks SUN why the industry is doing so well and wonders if it can SUN last. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00jwrrp (Listen) SUN The Currency Exchange SUN As the global financial crisis bites deeper, Canadian SUN radio producer Chris Brookes explores the nature of SUN exchange in our day-to-day lives, comparing the value of SUN two currencies that we deal in - money and kindness. SUN Featuring extracts from Benjamin Zephaniah's What If and SUN the Jewish Lamed-Vavniks. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 APRIL 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00jwxx8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00jsxxp (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON Laurie discusses the history of murder, from duelling to MON drive-by killings, with Pieter Spierenburg, author of A MON History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the MON Middle Ages to the Present and Joanna Bourke, author of An MON Intimate History of Killing. Why was the murder rate MON higher in the Middle Ages than it is now? What factors MON have pushed the practice of killing men down the social MON order and should we worry about the first increase in the MON murder rate for over 200 years? MON Laurie also hears of the surprise of Antje Bednarek, a MON German sociologist pursuing an ethnography of Young MON Scottish Conservatives. She had not realised that tracking MON them down would be such a tricky business. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00jwrrk (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Nicholas' Church, Durweston in MON Dorset. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwxxx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwxxz (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwxy1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00jwxy3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwxy5 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00jwxy7 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith launches the Farming Today beehive, with a MON chance for listeners to join in. Over the next 12 months MON the programme will be tracking its progress. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00jwxy9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00jwxyc (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00jwxz0 (Listen) MON Financial journalist Gillian Tett explains how she MON predicted the economic downtown from her background in MON social anthropology. Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed MON Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed MON a Catastrophe is published by Little, Brown. MON Historian Tristram Hunt believes that it is time to MON re-evaluate the writings of Friedrich Engels, 20 years MON after the Berlin Wall came down. He argues that the MON diversity of Engels's writing has perhaps more relevance MON today than his colleague Karl Marx. The Frock-Coated MON Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels is MON published by Allen Lane. MON Director of The Queen, Stephen Frears's latest film is MON Chéri. An adaptation of Colette's novel, it addresses the MON power of strong women and how to age with elegance. MON The Marshall Plan aimed to rebuild Europe after WWII, MON which was partly achieved through educational films. MON Sandra Schulberg has rediscovered these films and suggests MON that they tell us much about that time and now. Banned in MON the USA! Re-discovering the Lost Films of the Marshall MON Plan, 1948-1953 is at the Barbican, organised by Sandra MON Schulberg and curated with Ed Carter of the Academy Film MON Archive. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00jwxz2 (Listen) MON For All the Tea in China, Episode 1 MON By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a MON Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior MON of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by MON Maureen Beattie. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jwxz4 (Listen) MON The government is publishing the widely-anticipated MON Equality Bill, nearly forty years after the passage of MON this country's first Equal Pay Act. Woman's Hour discusses MON the implications for women. What are the proposed MON measures? Will they narrow the gender pay gap - which MON still stands at 17.1 per cent? MON In these times of economic uncertainty many people are MON re-evaluating their career and goals in life. But taking MON the plunge and changing your situation can be a daunting MON prospect, especially if the years have rolled by in a MON steady job, there's a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed. MON The Woman's Hour panel discusses how to realise your MON dreams, what steps to take, and why it could be the best MON or worst decision you've ever made. Jane is joined by the MON philosopher and author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of MON Work, Alain de Botton, entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi, and MON co-founder of careershifters.org, Catherine Roan. MON The English Touring Opera is celebrating their 30th MON anniversary by presenting a concert performance of Norma, MON Bellini's classic bel canto. Set in Roman-occupied Gaul, MON it is a tale of betrayal, jealousy, near-infanticide and MON druid sacrifice. The protagonist, Norma, is played by MON Yvonne Howard, who was recently celebrated by the MON international press for her role in the film of John MON Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer and the title role MON in Beethoven's Fidelio. Yvonne talks to Jane about her MON role as the druid priestess in what is considered to be MON one of the most difficult in the soprano repertoire. MON Jan Ravens has been doing impressions of people ever since MON she was at school. She was a founder member of the Dead MON Ringers team, and few females in the public eye have MON avoided her comic attention. Fiona Bruce, Sophie Raworth, MON Ellen MacArthur, The Queen and Ann Widdecombe have all MON featured in the comedy series and now Jan is taking her MON impressions on a national tour. She talks to Jane about MON the art of the impressionist. MON MON 11:00 A Tale of Two Emirates b00jwxz6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Jenny Clayton visits Dubai and Abu Dhabi to see how these MON two emirates are coping with the credit crisis. MON The shiny towers of Dubai sprouted from the sand at an MON alarming rate, turning it into the world's fastest-growing MON tourist destination and biggest building site. Now the MON credit crisis has hit, and the future looks increasingly MON precarious. Jenny speaks to nervous expats and locals to MON find out how the boomtown in the desert is coping. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b0090qv7 (Listen) MON Take Me Home, Country Roads MON Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in a MON Birmingham record shop. MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Alison ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen ...... Claire Benedict MON Customers ...... Doc Brown, Colin Hoult. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00jwxzj (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00jwxzl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00jwxzv (Listen) MON National and international news Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00jwxzx (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 8 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the eighth heat of the music quiz, MON with contestants from Wales and the north of England. The MON competitors are Paul Grayson from Ripon, David Shields MON from Aberystwyth and David White from Wigan. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00jwxwm (Listen) MON Usha's competitiveness is put to the test. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jxyrh (Listen) MON Two Pipe Problems, Episode 1 MON Michael Chaplin's drama returns to The Old Beeches MON retirement home for elderly thespians and the company of MON William and Sandy, two actors who still nurse a certain MON affectionate animosity towards one another since they MON starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s TV series. MON The pair become embroiled in making sure that the course MON of true love does run smooth. It begins with a proposal of MON marriage, but they are once again pressed into service to MON solve a mystery. Just why does the bridegroom suddenly MON call the wedding off? MON Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter MON William Parnes ...... Richard Briers MON Dolores Sweet ...... Julia McKenzie MON Sir Trelawney Hope ...... John Rowe MON Godfrey ...... Joseph Mydell MON Mary Winter ...... Jillie Meers MON Isadora Klein ...... Susan Wooldridge MON Hugo ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00jwqlg (Listen) MON Working for Margaret MON Matthew Parris, who worked for Margaret Thatcher before MON becoming a political journalist, delves into the Brook MON Lapping archive to hear from some of her former staff, MON ministers, civil servants, speechwriters and advisors MON about what she was like to work for. MON Was she any gentler with her staff than she was with her MON Cabinet colleagues? Matthew finds out about the Margaret MON Thatcher that only her closest circle saw. MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 Picturing Britain b00jwy0t (Listen) MON UK Instantaneous MON Adil Ray views Britain through the lens of five different MON types of photographer. MON Adil spends a day watching top fashion photographer Rankin MON in action as he tries to capture members of the public MON with 'the look' that defines Britain today. The only MON stipulation is to dress to impress. His portfolio of MON celebrity subjects has included Britney Spears, Kate Moss MON and the Queen, and he was co-founder in 1991 of Dazed and MON Confused magazine. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00jwxm3 (Listen) MON Slow Fish MON Sheila Dillon follows two Cornish oyster fisherman, Rob MON Searle and Tim Vinnicombe, as they travel to the 'Slow MON Fish' gathering in Genoa - the world's largest gathering MON of fishermen and women from around the world, organised by MON the Slow Food movement. MON Rob and Tim are part of a team attempting to save the MON tradition of gathering native oysters from the Fal MON Estuary. The oysters are fished in 200-year-old sailing MON boats as no mechanical power is permitted on the fishery. MON By taking their catch to Genoa, they hope to raise the MON profile of the native oyster and create a market that will MON help ensure the survival of a traditional and sustainable MON form of fishing. MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00jwy0y (Listen) MON Series 5, Homestay/Homeswap MON Katie Derham presents the programme which examines our MON holiday and travel trends. MON Staying with local people or swapping your house or flat MON for theirs is an economical solution that can deliver a MON prize holiday. The programme follows the Gordon family as MON they swap with the Coppolas in Italy, veteran swapper Sara MON Wheeler discusses her experiences and a listener report MON from Morocco where Rose and Mick Hart have booked in with MON a local Berber family in the foothills of the Atlas MON mountains. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00jwy12 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwy1b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00jwy1d (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 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 Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Jack Dee and Will Self. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00jwy1g (Listen) MON Has Chalkman's campaign gone up a gear? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00jwy1n (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an MON interview with the children's writer KM Peyton. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jwy1q (Listen) MON Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 6 MON Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary MON Elizabeth Braddon. MON Robert Audley gets closer to the truth in his quest to MON uncover Lady Audley's secret. Everything begins to fall MON into place as he questions Lucy Audley's first employers MON and, at last, he uncovers a vital clue. MON Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan MON Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham MON Mr Dawson ...... Paul Rider MON Mrs Vincent ...... Charlotte West-Oram MON Tonks ...... Deborah McAndrew MON Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts MON Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. MON MON 20:00 The Wonder Cure? b00jwy34 (Listen) MON Matthew Hill investigates the drug Champix, available on MON prescription in the UK to smokers who want to kick the MON habit. Since approving the drug in 2006, the US Food and MON Drug Administration has issued a safety warning about MON prescribing Champix to people with a history of MON psychiatric illness. MON To explore fears that the drug is linked to depression and MON even suicidal tendencies, Hill travels to the United MON States. He meets critics of Champix, asks why the clinical MON trials did not include people with a history of mental MON illness and questions the manufacturer Pfizer about the MON drug's safety. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00jz7c9 (Listen) MON Thailand MON Violent clashes in Bangkok have revealed a deep political MON divide in Thailand. As the Red Shirts prepared to descend MON on the capital, Lucy Ash joined them in their heartland in MON the north east of the country. MON She watched the build up to the massive protest in Bangkok MON and discovered who the Red Shirts are, how they organise MON themselves and why poor villagers and rice farmers are now MON demanding to be heard. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00jrpvs (Listen) MON Obama's Green Dream MON Tom Heap asks whether political and vested interests will MON shatter President Obama's dream of leading the United MON States and the world towards a greener future. MON Obama campaigned for a low-carbon economy and as soon as MON he came to power he set about laying the foundations for MON one. He wants to create green jobs in traditional MON industries like car making - electric cars of course - and MON construction, making American homes and offices more MON energy efficient. His biggest challenge will be to wean MON the country off its dependence on fossil fuels and make MON 'clean' energy profitable. For that he needs to bring in a MON system called carbon cap and trade and needs the support MON of senators and members of congress to do so. However, MON even members of his own party are reluctant to back what MON they see as a vote-losing policy and energy companies with MON investments in coal, gas and oil are MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00jwxz0 (Listen) MON Financial journalist Gillian Tett explains how she MON predicted the economic downtown from her background in MON social anthropology. Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed MON Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed MON a Catastrophe is published by Little, Brown. MON Historian Tristram Hunt believes that it is time to MON re-evaluate the writings of Friedrich Engels, 20 years MON after the Berlin Wall came down. He argues that the MON diversity of Engels's writing has perhaps more relevance MON today than his colleague Karl Marx. The Frock-Coated MON Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels is MON published by Allen Lane. MON Director of The Queen, Stephen Frears's latest film is MON Chéri. An adaptation of Colette's novel, it addresses the MON power of strong women and how to age with elegance. MON The Marshall Plan aimed to rebuild Europe after WWII, MON which was partly achieved through educational films. MON Sandra Schulberg has rediscovered these films and suggests MON that they tell us much about that time and now. Banned in MON the USA! Re-discovering the Lost Films of the Marshall MON Plan, 1948-1953 is at the Barbican, organised by Sandra MON Schulberg and curated with Ed Carter of the Academy Film MON Archive. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00jwy3n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00jwy3q (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jwy3s (Listen) MON The House of Special Purpose, Episode 1 MON David Warner reads John Boyne's haunting novel which MON travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young MON imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the MON secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his circle. MON As Georgy visits his wife Zoya in hospital he remembers MON their life together and his early life in Russia. At the MON age of 16, Georgy steps out in front of a bullet intended MON for a member of the Russian Imperial family, an event MON which changes the course of his life forever. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00js9fz (Listen) MON Michael Rosen explores the teenage use and abuse of the MON word 'like', finds out why latin lessons are making a MON comeback and listens in as a school teaches literacy by MON giving pupils the chance to run their own radio station. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jwy3x (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 APRIL 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00jwxz2 (Listen) TUE For All the Tea in China, Episode 1 TUE By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a TUE Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior TUE of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by TUE Maureen Beattie. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwy58 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwy5x (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwy6r (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00jwy7g (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwy83 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00jwy8m (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00jx9xc (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 On the Ropes b00jxb02 (Listen) TUE Andy Kershaw TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Andy Kershaw talks about rebuilding his life and career TUE after losing his BBC radio show and spending time in TUE prison for breaking a restraining order. TUE Andy has enjoyed a highly successful broadcasting career, TUE winning a brace of Sony Radio awards and receiving TUE critical acclaim for his reports from Rwanda, Angola, TUE Haiti and Iraq. However, his outspoken opinions led to him TUE being dropped by Radio One; he openly attacked Bob Geldof TUE over his stance on Africa and in 2007 his personal life TUE began to suffer. TUE He was arrested trying to break into the home of his TUE former girlfriend and was found guilty of drink driving. A TUE restraining order was placed on Andy, and his Radio 3 show TUE was taken off air. In 2008 he breached this restraining TUE order in an attempt to see his two children and ended up TUE in jail. He is attempting to rebuild his life and career. TUE TUE 09:30 Head To Head b00jxb04 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 battle between Milton Friedman and Lord Balogh on the TUE relative merits of free-market economics at a time when TUE Britain was in financial crisis. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00k35lp (Listen) TUE For All the Tea in China, Episode 2 TUE By Sarah Rose. TUE Scottish plant hunter Robert Fortune disguises himself as TUE a mandarin and sets sail on a junk for the famed green tea TUE district of northern China. Read by Maureen Beattie. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00k2rgt (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00k3x9n (Listen) TUE Series 2, Access For All? TUE Paul Evans visits Dorset to find out why heathland birds TUE don't welcome hordes of visitors. TUE Some wildlife organisations advocate the importance of TUE 're-connecting' with the natural world, which means TUE encouraging people onto nature reserves and other places TUE rich in wildlife to experience it first hand. But whether TUE people go as naturalists, horse-riders, dog-walkers or TUE mountain-bikers, they all have an impact on the places TUE they visit. TUE Paul tramps the heaths to find out why nightjars and TUE woodlarks are averse to hordes of visitors. TUE TUE 11:30 There's More Here Than I Thought b00jxc77 (Listen) TUE Writer Kate Mosse explores the extraordinary life of TUE Winifred Gill. She was an artist, craftswoman, puppeteer TUE and social reformer, and a friend and supporter of TUE painters such as LS Lowry, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, TUE Vanessa Bell and poet Walter de la Mare, as well as being TUE a tireless letter writer. TUE Gill died in 1981 and her name has been little known. But TUE thanks to the hard work and persistence of her niece TUE Margaret Bennett and Margaret's cousin Chrystine Bennett, TUE that is about to change. Gill's papers are now in the TUE Bodleian Library in Oxford and, in June 2009, the TUE Courtauld Gallery in London devotes a whole room to her TUE work. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00jxc79 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00jxc7c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00jwy96 (Listen) TUE National and international news Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music Group b00jxc7f (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 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 are BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders, TUE whose musical heritage is bound up with the lyrics made TUE famous by her father, 'mud, mud, glorious mud' and 'I'm a TUE gnu', historian Dominic Sandbrook, author of White Heat: A TUE History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, and comic TUE broadcaster and author Karl Pilkington. TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00jwy1g (Listen) TUE Has Chalkman's campaign gone up a gear? TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jxfql (Listen) TUE Two Pipe Problems, Episode 2 TUE Michael Chaplin's drama returns to The Old Beeches TUE retirement home for elderly thespians and the company of TUE William and Sandy, two actors who still nurse a certain TUE affectionate animosity towards one another since they TUE starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s TV series. TUE Sandy appears in the Honours List, but a trip to TUE Buckingham Palace to collect his award provides another TUE mystery for the veteran sleuths to solve. TUE Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter TUE William Parnes ...... Richard Briers TUE Karen ...... Tracy Wiles TUE Postman ...... David Shaw-Parker TUE Charles, Equerry to HRH ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Doctor Mortimer ...... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Marvin ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Elsie ...... Linda Broughton TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00jxfqn (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge explores ordinary people's links with TUE the past. Professor Mark Stoyle goes in search of the TUE Civil War dead from the bitter siege of Lyme Regis. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jxh0z (Listen) TUE Red Herrings, Mangia, Mangia, Ti Fa Bene! TUE The red herring inspires a new story by leading crime TUE writer Donna Leon. The pleasure of a sumptuous meal TUE beguiles a taciturn husband. Read by Greta Scacchi. TUE TUE 15:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dwr (Listen) TUE Street View TUE Adil Ray views Britain through the lens of five different TUE types of photographer. TUE Adil joins street photographer Nick Turpin in the heart of TUE London as he tries to capture the buzz of the nation's TUE capital at work and play. TUE Nick is worried about recent changes in the anti-terror TUE laws which mean that you can now be arrested simply for TUE taking pictures on the streets. He has been stopped and TUE searched many times by the police and has had several TUE legal warnings. He talks to Adil about the impact of this TUE new legislation on his life. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00jxhdb (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of TUE words, language and the way we speak. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00jxhdd (Listen) TUE Series 18, Carl Gustav Jung TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Ruby Wax discusses the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung, TUE who has been called 'the father of analytical psychology'. TUE Along with author and Jungian analyst Professor Andrew TUE Samuels, Ruby discusses Jung's theories of personality and TUE psychological types, and reveals how his work has affected TUE her own life. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00jwy9z (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwybm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Heresy b00jyc77 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists include comedians Frank TUE Skinner and Arthur Smith, and journalist Lucy Mangan. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00jwycq (Listen) TUE Annette finds friends closer to home. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00jwycz (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an TUE interview with director Mike Figgis, who is making a TUE series of short films in which people from Liverpool TUE discuss art works from the Tate Gallery collection. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jyjk0 (Listen) TUE Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 7 TUE Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary TUE Elizabeth Braddon. TUE Robert is determined to find a link between George TUE Talboys's dead wife Helen and his beautiful aunt Lady TUE Audley. His search takes him across the country, where he TUE finds an extremely helpful witness. TUE Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan TUE Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham TUE Landlord ...... Paul Rider TUE Lieutenant Maldon ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. TUE TUE 20:00 Hacked to Pieces b00jyyl0 (Listen) TUE Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we have lost the war TUE on cybercrime and looks at a new criminal economy which TUE has grown to feed the demand for our most private details. TUE Jolyon finds that the security details of ordinary members TUE of the public - their bank details, passwords, and secret TUE security questions are being openly traded in cybercrime TUE forums. He hands over his own laptop computer to an TUE 'ethical hacker' and finds that it takes two minutes for TUE its password to be cracked. Within a few more minutes, the TUE hacker has installed a key-logging Trojan that secretly TUE passes all his computer activity - passwords, emails and TUE all - back to the hacker's own computer. TUE He finds that we are all vulnerable to criminals who trade TUE on our human weaknesses: our magpie-like obsession with TUE gaudiness and trivia, and our willingness to click the OK TUE button without thinking through the consequences. TUE Ever since the internet became mainstream, we have been TUE hearing warnings about hackers, spammers and other TUE renegades of the online world. The internet security TUE business now threatens to overtake the Chinese army as the TUE largest employer on earth. But what has this army of TUE consultants achieved, apart from spending billions of TUE dollars? Every year the situation gets steadily worse. TUE The threat comes not from lone hackers, but from networks TUE of criminals who have developed an astonishingly complex TUE and mature organisational infrastructure that the TUE authorities seem virtually powerless to deal with. TUE Entire internet relay chat rooms are controlled by the TUE criminal underground economy and the turnover of TUE cybercrime is possibly as big as that of the global TUE illegal drugs trade. And as many as one billion computers TUE - 12 per cent of the world's total internet-connected TUE machines - could be hiding malware of one type or another. TUE Some experts think it's only a matter of time before every TUE PC in the world is infected. TUE The anti-hacking world is almost entirely privatised - its TUE growth mirroring the rise of the opposition. Frequently, TUE criminal networks have been closed down not by law TUE enforcement authorities but thanks to investigations TUE carried out by dedicated volunteers. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00jyyl2 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00jyyl4 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter talks to Sir Harold Ellis, one of Britain's TUE leading surgeons, about how his practice has changed since TUE he began, just as the NHS came into being. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00jxb02 (Listen) TUE Andy Kershaw TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Andy Kershaw talks about rebuilding his life and career TUE after losing his BBC radio show and spending time in TUE prison for breaking a restraining order. TUE Andy has enjoyed a highly successful broadcasting career, TUE winning a brace of Sony Radio awards and receiving TUE critical acclaim for his reports from Rwanda, Angola, TUE Haiti and Iraq. However, his outspoken opinions led to him TUE being dropped by Radio One; he openly attacked Bob Geldof TUE over his stance on Africa and in 2007 his personal life TUE began to suffer. TUE He was arrested trying to break into the home of his TUE former girlfriend and was found guilty of drink driving. A TUE restraining order was placed on Andy, and his Radio 3 show TUE was taken off air. In 2008 he breached this restraining TUE order in an attempt to see his two children and ended up TUE in jail. He is attempting to rebuild his life and career. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00jwydh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00jyyl6 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k2ydk (Listen) TUE The House of Special Purpose, Episode 2 TUE David Warner reads John Boyne's haunting novel which TUE travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young TUE imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the TUE secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his circle. TUE Georgy relates his arrival in St Petersburg to take up his TUE position as companion to the Tsar's son, Alexei. TUE TUE 23:00 The Secret World b00jyyl8 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 b00jyylb (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Rachel Byrne. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00jwxz2 (Listen) WED For All the Tea in China, Episode 1 WED By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a WED Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior WED of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by WED Maureen Beattie. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwy50 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwy5n (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwy6h (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00jwy76 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwy7v (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00jwy8f (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00jyylj (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00jyyln (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00k35lr (Listen) WED For All the Tea in China, Episode 3 WED By Sarah Rose. WED Robert Fortune reaches the gates of a green tea factory in WED the Wu Yi Shan Mountains and is the first westerner to see WED the secret process that turns the leaves into delicate WED brews. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jz0xg (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. WED WED 11:00 Losing the Habit b00jz57x (Listen) WED British nuns tell the story of the dramatic Vatican WED reforms 40 years ago that forced them to abandon a life of WED seclusion and adapt to the modern world. WED The Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Renewal of WED Religious Life in October 1965 may not have dominated the WED world's news agenda at the time, but it resulted in a WED revolution. Instead of a flight from the world, women's WED religious orders found themselves pressured into WED experimenting with new freedoms in the way they lived and WED worked. The end result was a 'new religious woman' in a WED cultural age when women were claiming their voice. But for WED many, it was a bruising journey: 'I've felt like a WED chameleon for the past 40 years,' says Sister Dorothy Bell. WED We hear the testimonies of four women: Sister Dorothy WED Bell, June Raymond, Gemma Simmons and Sister Christine WED Charlesworth talk to Moyra Tourlamain about their initial WED decisions on entering the church and the subsequent WED upheaval when the Vatican reassessed its place and image WED in 20th-century society. WED For some, the new encouragement towards freedom and WED individual decision making was empowering and refreshed WED their vocation; for others, it felt almost like betrayal. WED The results are still difficult to gauge. Numbers have WED dropped significantly, but that was already a trend in the WED 1960s. WED WED 11:30 Murder Unprompted: A Charles Paris Mystery b0081lqq (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Simon Brett's thespian sleuth returns in a dramatisation WED by Jeremy Front. WED A murder occurs backstage in a West End production. WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances ...... Suzanne Burden WED Alex ...... Danny Webb WED Maurice ...... Jon Glover WED Lucy ...... Jemima Rooper WED Val ...... Liza Sadovy WED Paula Lexington ...... Rachel Bavidge WED Mal Benson ...... Nitin Ganatra WED Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Miles/Intercom Voice ...... Thomas Arnold WED Mugger/Fireman ...... Jot Davies WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00jyzj1 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00jyzj3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00jyzjc (Listen) WED National and international news Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00jyzjk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00jwycq (Listen) WED Annette finds friends closer to home. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b007znb5 (Listen) WED Suing Mr Spargo WED By Christopher William Hill. WED When a student gets abysmal A-level results, her parents WED attempt to sue her school. But who is really to blame? WED Mike Spargo ...... Geoffrey Hutchings WED Connie Young ...... Penelope Wilton WED Harry Kitto ...... Philip Jackson WED Gwen Kitto ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel WED Harriet Kitto ...... Joannah Tincey WED Kevin Childs ...... Sam Pamphilon WED Colin Barnes ...... Simon Treves. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00jz0xl (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jzwnp (Listen) WED Red Herrings, The Difference WED The red herring inspires new stories by leading crime WED writers. WED A young murderer's confession, on the eve of his hanging, WED has far reaching consequences. By Reginald Hill, read by WED David Ryall. WED WED 15:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dwt (Listen) WED Less is More WED Adil Ray views Britain through the lens of five different WED types of photographer. WED Adil talks to brides-to-be as they nervously prepare for WED their big moment - their first ever photo shoot involves WED wearing little more than their finest underwear. WED There are a number of companies which specialise in WED wedding portraits with a difference - artfully lit shots WED of brides-to-be in posh knickers and veils, and even the WED odd football shirt. Visiting one of them as the semi-naked WED wives-to-be prepare for the camera, Adil listens in to the WED women's conversations about the past and their hopes and WED fears about the future. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00jz10v (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00jyyl4 (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter talks to Sir Harold Ellis, one of Britain's WED leading surgeons, about how his practice has changed since WED he began, just as the NHS came into being. WED WED 17:00 PM b00jwy9q (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwybc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Elvenquest b00hpm2k (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. WED A small band of heroes set out to defeat Lord Darkness and WED his forces of evil by finding The Chosen One - who happens WED to be the dog of a misanthropic science fiction author. WED Vidar ...... Darren Boyd WED Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon WED Amis ...... Dave Lamb WED Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan WED Sam ...... Stephen Mangan WED Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00jwyc2 (Listen) WED Lynda grinds for victory at Glebe Cottage. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00jwycs (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jz1kv (Listen) WED Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 8 WED Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary WED Elizabeth Braddon. WED Cornered by her cousin Robert's accusations, Lucy, Lady WED Audley, fights back. She is willing to dare anything to WED preserve the security and wealth that her marriage to Sir WED Michael has brought. WED Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan WED Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson WED Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham WED Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale WED Alicia Audley ...... Perdita Weeks WED Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00jz1lt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with WED families, experts and policy-makers. WED Dealing with children who don't fit in easily can be WED challenging for parents and teachers, but if we seek to WED modify behaviour and attitude too much, do we risk WED homogenising children? WED Featuring a mother who feels that her inattentive and WED quirky son is a problem at home and school. She worries WED that she is failing him by trying to mould him to be more WED like her other children, but also feels strongly that he WED needs to fit in to get on in life. WED Mariella's guests are writer and journalist Fiona Millar, WED youth worker Shaun Bailey, Dr Jackie Ravet of Aberdeen WED University and law lecturer Daniel Monk. WED WED 20:45 Petitioning the Modern Way b00jz2jr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Journalist and author Jon Ronson examines Number 10's WED e-petitioning system, which allows the public to submit WED petitions directly to the Prime Minister. WED Jon wonders whether the petitions really make an impact. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00k3x9n (Listen) WED Series 2, Access For All? WED Paul Evans visits Dorset to find out why heathland birds WED don't welcome hordes of visitors. WED Some wildlife organisations advocate the importance of WED 're-connecting' with the natural world, which means WED encouraging people onto nature reserves and other places WED rich in wildlife to experience it first hand. But whether WED people go as naturalists, horse-riders, dog-walkers or WED mountain-bikers, they all have an impact on the places WED they visit. WED Paul tramps the heaths to find out why nightjars and WED woodlarks are averse to hordes of visitors. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00jyyln (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00jwyd9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00jz57z (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k2ydn (Listen) WED The House of Special Purpose, Episode 3 WED David Warner reads John Boyne's haunting novel which WED travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young WED imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the WED secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his circle. WED A newcomer to the royal household, Georgy finds himself WED accompanying the Tsarevich on a train journey to the WED Russian army headquarters. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b00jz581 (Listen) WED Josie Long 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 Josie Long. WED WED 23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007vl24 (Listen) WED Rene Fortesque-Spencer-French WED Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. WED Legendary broadcaster Roydon Postlethwaite looks back at WED the life of a quintessentially British celebrity chef. WED Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern WED Rene Fortesque-Spencer-French ...... Elizabeth Spriggs WED Brian French ...... Marcus Brigstocke WED Mrs Hough ...... Chris Chantler WED Felicity Butcher ...... Liz Fraser WED Cruikshank ...... Richard Glover WED Nurse ...... Josie Long WED Gary Whatever ...... Howard Read WED Jenny Beardsmore ...... Laura Solon. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jz59s (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00jwxz2 (Listen) THU For All the Tea in China, Episode 1 THU By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a THU Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior THU of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by THU Maureen Beattie. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwy52 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwy5q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwy6k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00jwy78 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwy7x (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00jwy8h (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00jz5ln (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00jz5t3 (Listen) THU The Vacuum of Space THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Frank Close and Jocelyn THU Bell Burnell discuss the Vacuum of Space. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00k35lt (Listen) THU For All the Tea in China, Episode 4 THU By Sarah Rose. THU Having procured tea seeds and young plants from the fabled THU Wu Yi Shan Mountains, Robert Fortune has to transport them THU to India in order to kickstart a new industry in the THU Himalayan mountains. Read by Maureen Beattie. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jz7c7 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00jts6m (Listen) THU Hard Times in Middletown, USA THU Stephen Smith finds out how the city of Muncie in Indiana THU reflects the impact of the economic crisis on the American THU middle class. THU In 1929, the Rockefeller Institute published Middletown: A THU Study in Modern American Culture, a scientific study of a THU 'typical American city' which examined church, school, THU family and work in Muncie. The book was an instant hit and THU is still in print. It launched Muncie's reputation as the THU most widely studied small town in the world. THU Today it is a rust-belt city grappling with THU de-industrialisation and deepening recession. THU A co-production with American RadioWorks for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:30 The Balancing Bluebottle b00jz7cc (Listen) THU Tim Boon of the Science Museum tells the story of Percy THU Smith, a pioneer in the art of the natural history film. THU He made dozens of short but brilliant films on subjects THU like flies and slime mould in his principal studio, the THU back garden of his home in north London, and in the 1920s THU developed innovative microscope and time-lapse THU photography. Featuring contributions from Sir David THU Attenborough. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00jz7cf (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00jz7ch (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00jwy90 (Listen) THU National and international news 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 b00jwyc2 (Listen) THU Lynda grinds for victory at Glebe Cottage. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k3xld (Listen) THU A King's Speech THU By Mark Burgess. It is 1937, the day of the Coronation, THU and the newly-crowned George VI must broadcast to the THU nation and the empire - a terrifying prospect for perhaps THU the most notable Briton to have suffered from a stammer. THU This play focuses on the close working relationship THU between the King and his speech therapist. THU King George VI ...... Alex Jennings THU Queen Elizabeth ...... Joan Walker THU Lionel Logue ...... Trevor Littledale THU Myrtle Logue ...... Moya O'Shea THU Sir John Reith ...... Crawford Logan THU Robert Wood ...... Chris Stanton THU Patrick ...... John Evitts THU Queen Mary ...... Jean Trend THU Princess Elizabeth ...... Emma Yeomans THU Princess Margaret ...... Agnes Fouch THU Directed by David Blount. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00jwp8b (Listen) THU Skye Scavengers THU Matt Baker joins an archaeological dig to find out just THU how idyllic life was for Mesolithic man on the Isle of THU Skye. When the ice sheets finally released their grip on THU Britain, the Isle of Skye was one of the most attractive THU options for the new human settlers. THU Until now, evidence of these mesolithic islanders was THU sparse, rotted by the wet climate and the acidic peat THU soil. Matt joins a dig which is gradually revealing the THU lifestyle of these early residents. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00jwrs0 (Listen) THU RedR THU Mike Wooldridge appeals on behalf of RedR. Donations: THU Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 THU 404 8144. THU While you will rarely hear RedR mentioned in the THU headlines, the charity plays a vital role in ensuring that THU there are skilled people, trained in anything from shelter THU to health, ready to respond whenever there is a disaster. THU If you are a UK taxpayer, please provide RedR with your THU full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on THU your donation worth another 25 per cent per cent. The THU online and phone donation facilities are not currently THU available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1079752. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jzwn5 (Listen) THU Red Herrings, Episode 3 THU The red herring inspires stories by leading crime writers. THU The tensions and rivalries between three travellers, on a THU business trip to Shetland, spark a local woman's THU curiosity. By Ann Cleeves, read by Marnie Baxter. THU THU 15:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dww (Listen) THU Animal Magic THU Adil Ray views Britain through the lens of five different THU types of photographer. THU Adil joins Tim Flach as he attempts to photograph two THU contrasting types of dog, pedigree Chinese Crested show THU dogs and Stafforshire Bull Terriers from Battersea Dogs THU Home. As they struggle to pose the dogs, Adil talks to the THU owners and carers about their contrasting lives. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00jwxvq (Listen) THU British author Hilary Mantel explains why Thomas Cromwell, THU the hero in her new historic novel Wolf Hall - far from THU being Henry VIII's Machiavellian advisor - just had an THU image problem. THU Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava's debut novel Harare THU North inspires a discussion about recurrent themes visited THU by expatriated African writers. THU Will Self's Reader's Guide to the late JG Ballard is THU revisited. THU And Professor John Sutherland takes a look at fictional THU dentists in this week's Reading Clinic. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00jzww6 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00jwy9s (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwybf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 4 Stands Up b00jzww8 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 THU Chris Addison hosts the stand-up comedy show featuring THU some of the top names on the circuit. Featuring John THU Gordillo, Francesca Martinez and Andrew Lawrence. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00jwyc4 (Listen) THU David does some accidental moonlighting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00jwycv (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a report THU from the opening night of a new staging of Rookery Nook, THU the classic farce by Ben Travers. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jzwwb (Listen) THU Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 9 THU Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary THU Elizabeth Braddon. THU Phoebe Marks visits Lady Audley late at night, demanding THU money. In desperation, Lady Audley sets out across the THU country lanes at midnight to face up to her tormentors. THU Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan THU Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham THU Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts THU Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew THU Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00jzx30 (Listen) THU Cyber-attacks on international networks have targeted the THU computers used by the Dalai Lama's followers and the US THU power grid. THU Reporter and web expert Ben Hammersley assesses how THU serious these threats really are, how well protected the THU UK is against foreign cyber war and asks whether we should THU be developing our own aggressive military 'botnet' for use THU in future conflicts. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00jzx33 (Listen) THU Network News THU What happens to leading-edge high technology companies THU when their customers are plunged into recession? Peter Day THU puts the question to two top business leaders on both THU sides of the Atlantic: John Chambers, chairman of the THU networking giant Cisco Systems, and Mike Lynch, the THU founder of Britain's biggest software company, Autonomy. THU THU 21:00 The New Galileos b00jzx36 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU First of two programmes in which Andrew Luck-Baker meets THU today's telescope builders and astronomers. THU He meets the scientists behind the James Webb Space THU Telescope, the gigantic successor to the Hubble Telescope. THU From 2013, its mission will be to find the first stars THU born at the dawn of the universe. It will have by far the THU largest mirror on a space telescope, some 6.5 metres THU across. It needs to sit behind a giant sunshield, which THU covers the area of a tennis court, so that it can chill to THU the temperature of deep space. THU One chief goal is be to see deeper into the cosmos than THU even Hubble has allowed. The further astronomers can see, THU the further back through the universe's history they are THU able to voyage. With JWST, NASA scientists hope to see the THU very first stars to light up after the Big Bang, almost 14 THU billion years ago. Before these primordial stars, the THU universe was just a void of cool, gaseous darkness. JWST THU should reveal how and when these stars transformed the THU infant universe into a place where planets and human life THU became possible. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00jz5t3 (Listen) THU The Vacuum of Space THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including Frank Close and Jocelyn THU Bell Burnell discuss the Vacuum of Space. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00jwydc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00jzx38 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k2ydq (Listen) THU The House of Special Purpose, Episode 4 THU David Warner reads John Boyne's haunting novel which THU travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young THU imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the THU secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his circle. THU Painful memories flood Georgy's mind as he remembers a THU betrayal by Zoya and a terrifying accident which befell THU Alexei while in his care. THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b008md92 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU Spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy. THU With Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie THU Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse. THU With special guests Julia Davis and Lee Mack. THU A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00jzx3b (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 1 MAY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00jwxz2 (Listen) FRI For All the Tea in China, Episode 1 FRI By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a FRI Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior FRI of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by FRI Maureen Beattie. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwy54 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwy5s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwy6m (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00jwy7b (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwy7z (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00jwy8k (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00jzxkl (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00jwrsd (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor brings together a group of people to tell FRI the story of the 1960s 'wonder drug' Thalidomide, which FRI caused so much damage and distress. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00k35lw (Listen) FRI For All the Tea in China, Episode 5 FRI By Sarah Rose. FRI Robert Fortune travels 250 miles by junk and sedan into FRI the interior of China to discover what he can of the FRI secrets of black tea. Read by Maureen Beattie. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jzxkn (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret. FRI FRI 11:00 Calling Time on the Binge Drinkers b00jzy2s (Listen) FRI Frenchman, former Millennium Dome supremo and giant of the FRI UK leisure industry PY Gerbeau examines our cultural FRI obsession with drinking to excess and tries to find FRI solutions to the problem. FRI The French businessman first came to prominence in 2000 FRI when PY was brought in by the government to run the FRI troubled Millennium Dome. A huge fan of Britain then and FRI now, he is still puzzled by one national trait - the habit FRI of binge drinking. FRI PY remembers the shock of his first encounter with the FRI British weakness for excessive boozing. Shortly after FRI arriving in London he came across a group of teenagers FRI reeling about in the street surrounded by dozens of empty FRI bottles. He soon discovered that drinking to excess is FRI commonplace in towns and cities across the UK. It came as FRI a double shock for Gerbeau because, despite his Gallic FRI roots, PY himself rarely drinks, preferring to limit his FRI own alcohol consumption to the occasional glass of dessert FRI wine or champagne. FRI But now the issue of binge drinking is very much on PY's FRI own doorstep. The Frenchman heads X-Leisure, the largest FRI leisure owner in the UK. Every Friday and Saturday night, FRI thousands of people visit bars and restaurants at FRI operators inside his entertainment complexes. His team has FRI worked closely with tenants to limit alcohol promotions, FRI trying to achieve a best code of practice, but PY admits FRI they have had limited success. FRI He now has broader concerns about the regulation of FRI alcohol use and says: 'It's time for a prise de conscience FRI - an awakening. The government has proved the case for FRI tobacco, but the same needs to be done for binge drinking'. FRI FRI 11:30 Chain Reaction b0077315 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Clive Anderson interviews John Lloyd FRI Series in which public figures choose others to interview. FRI The previous week's guest Clive Anderson grabs the FRI microphone to interview his selected guest, John Lloyd, FRI the man responsible for programmes such as Not the Nine FRI O'Clock News, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI. Clive FRI asks John about co-writing and falling out with Douglas FRI Adams and the key to creating great comedy. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00jzzxg (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00k00tn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00jwy92 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00k00tq (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 b00jwyc4 (Listen) FRI David does some accidental moonlighting. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k010w (Listen) FRI On the Field - Endgame FRI A sequel to the comic drama On the Field about British FRI troops in Iraq, by Annie Caulfield. FRI Life on the army base in Basra is closing down - they FRI would all rather be in Afghanistan. Terry has got no FRI money, the CO wants him to sing in a talent contest to FRI boost morale and he has got woman trouble. But he is just FRI about to get his lucky break. FRI Mahmoud ...... Paul Chahidi FRI Terry ...... Ricardo Coke-Thomas FRI Padre ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Conor ...... Rasmus Hardiker FRI Angie ...... Helen Longworth FRI Jocelyn ...... Endy McKay FRI Sgt Billy ...... Paul Mundell FRI CO ...... Paul Rider FRI Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k01gc (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. Pippa FRI Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs are guests of FRI Tunstall Gardeners' Society in Sittingbourne. They also FRI answer questions sent in by post and email. FRI Plus news of a trial to see if it is possible to grow a FRI crop of olives in the UK. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dwy (Listen) FRI Brand Britannia FRI Adil Ray views Britain through the lens of five different FRI types of photographer. FRI Adil dresses up to meet Richard Foster, the photographer FRI behind glitzy boots and glittering watches in glossy FRI magazines. He finds a man recovering from an accident that FRI has left him partially immobile. Adil meets him as he FRI shoots swirling sheets of chocolate to find out how he has FRI recovered, and how a luxury brand photographer faces up to FRI a recession. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00k01nw (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 b00k01ny (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Michael Caine, who looks back at FRI his movie career and his role as an old magician in Is FRI Anybody There? Plus British director Terence Davies waxes FRI lyrical about one of his favourite films, the Alastair Sim FRI comedy The Happiest Days of Your Life. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00jwy9v (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwybh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00k0b4f (Listen) FRI Series 68, Episode 1 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists FRI include Andy Hamilton, Fred MacAulay and Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00jwyc6 (Listen) FRI Eddie looks for buried treasure. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00jwycx (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k0jcx (Listen) FRI Lady Audley's Secret, Episode 10 FRI Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary FRI Elizabeth Braddon. FRI In a thrilling climax, Robert Audley uncovers the truth FRI and confronts the beautiful Lucy, determined to avenge the FRI crime against his friend. FRI Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan FRI Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson FRI Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham FRI Sir Michael Audley ...... Sam Dale FRI George Talboys ...... Joseph Kloska FRI Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00k1wsq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Surrey. FRI Panellists include neuroscientist Susan Greenfield and FRI human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00k1wsv (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00k1wsx (Listen) FRI Des Res FRI Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV FRI job and has to downsize from a bohemian terrace in a leafy FRI Manchester suburb to the dark heart of Salford. The house FRI is a bargain and he's lived in worse; and he can handle FRI those scallies that use his front doorstep as a youth FRI club, can't he? FRI Luke ...... Ian Puleston-Davies FRI Toto ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey FRI Kenny ...... Luke Broughton FRI Adele ...... Michelle Tate FRI Ryan ...... Warren Brown FRI Lotta ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Script Editor ...... Natasha Byrne FRI Policeman ...... Greg Wood FRI Directed by Gary Brown. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00jwydf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00k1wsz (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k2yds (Listen) FRI The House of Special Purpose, Episode 5 FRI David Warner reads John Boyne's haunting novel which FRI travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young FRI imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the FRI secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his circle. FRI In wartime London, Georgy finds himself recruited by an FRI intelligence agency to translate Russian documents. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00jxhdd (Listen) FRI Series 18, Carl Gustav Jung FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Ruby Wax discusses the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung, FRI who has been called 'the father of analytical psychology'. FRI Along with author and Jungian analyst Professor Andrew FRI Samuels, Ruby discusses Jung's theories of personality and FRI psychological types, and reveals how his work has affected FRI her own life. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00k1wxl (Listen) FRI In a special report ahead of the European Parliament FRI elections, Chris Mason explores what it is that MEPs FRI actually do. FRI FRI FRI

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