Radio 4 Listings for 02/05/2009 - 08/05/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 2 MAY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4k (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00k35lw (Listen)
SAT       For All the Tea in China, Episode 5
SAT       By Sarah Rose.
SAT       Robert Fortune travels 250 miles by junk and sedan into
SAT       the interior of China to discover what he can of the
SAT       secrets of black tea. Read by Maureen Beattie.
SAT       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jwy56 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jwy5v (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jwy6p (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
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SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00jwy7d (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jwy81 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
SAT       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 The Estuary b008kmqt (Listen)
SAT       Episode 4
SAT       Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on
SAT       the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against
SAT       a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson.
SAT       As the tide begins to recede, the hundreds of thousands of
SAT       birds which had been roosting inland on the shingle banks
SAT       and lagoons return to the mud flats, providing a noisy and
SAT       wonderful spectacle.
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00k2m79 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00k2m7c (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00k2m7f (Listen)
SAT       Countryside magazine. The extensive survival of historical
SAT       records for the Worcestershire village of Rushock enabled
SAT       historian Peter Edwards to complete his first research
SAT       project in the early 1970s. Helen Mark joins Peter as he
SAT       revisits the village and people and charts the highs and
SAT       lows of farming in the last 400 years.
SAT       In 1972, Peter found a treasure trove of historical
SAT       documents outlining the farming history of the small rural
SAT       parish of Rushock. When he matched the dusty maps and land
SAT       agents' reports to the fields and farms of the village, a
SAT       new interest in social history was born. He spent many
SAT       months traipsing the fields of the parish looking for
SAT       agricultural clues to the past and getting to know the
SAT       people who worked the land. What changes will Peter see on
SAT       his return, and will he find the people who helped his
SAT       research all those years ago?
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00k2m7h (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Charlotte Smith pays her first visit to the Farming Today
SAT       beehive in Warwickshire and finds out the chances of the
SAT       bees surviving for a year.
SAT       The British honeybee may be facing one of its toughest
SAT       years yet. Last year, one in every three colonies in
SAT       Britain died out.
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SAT       06:57 Weather b00k2m7k (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00k2m7m (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00k2m7p (Listen)
SAT       American author Jodi Picoult's new novel, 'Handle with
SAT       Care', explores the impact of 'wrongful birth' litigation
SAT       on an ordinary New Hampshire family and asks a number of
SAT       moral questions.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00k2m7r (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores three very different aspects of
SAT       Italy.
SAT       He hears from travel writer Peter Moore about the scooter
SAT       trip he made around Italy's western coast and the islands
SAT       of Elba, Sardinia and Sicily; places where, he discovered,
SAT       the sight of an old Vespa can still raise the passions of
SAT       the Italians.
SAT       Journalist David Lane tells John how the criminal
SAT       organisations of southern Italy have infiltrated daily
SAT       life there and whether their activities affect tourism.
SAT       And novelist Geoff Dyer reflects on the essentially unreal
SAT       nature of Venice and why that makes it such a perfect
SAT       setting for art, as exemplified by the Biennale.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00jwphw (Listen)
SAT       Episode 3
SAT       Series which seeks to challenge the prevailing atmosphere
SAT       of doom and gloom and dare to be optimistic.
SAT       Comedian Stephen K Amos offers an antidote to grumpiness.
SAT       He is cheerful that school pupils no longer have to wear
SAT       tank tops, classrooms are generally cheerier places and
SAT       that houses are more individual than when he was growing
SAT       up.
SAT       He is also pleased that racism is no longer so overt, and
SAT       talks to former MP Oona King and grumpy comedian Felix
SAT       Dexter, who concedes that things have improved since the
SAT       days of The Black and White Minstrel Show and Love Thy
SAT       Neighbour
SAT       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00k2m7t (Listen)
SAT       Popular opinion on the issue of allowing visas for former
SAT       Ghurkas to enter Britain took the government by surprise
SAT       this week leading to a defeat in a vote in the House of
SAT       Commons. Damian Green Conservative spokesman on
SAT       immigration and Liberal Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell,
SAT       whose party lead the charge on behalf of the Gurkhas
SAT       assess the misjudgement.
SAT       MPs expenses came up again in the Commons, in spite of the
SAT       government having backed a review of the whole question to
SAT       be undertaken by Sir Christopher Kelly. Tony Wright, chair
SAT       of the Public Administration Committee and Sir George
SAT       Young chairman of the Standards and Privileges committee
SAT       put their heads together to chart their way through the
SAT       various proposals.
SAT       Also in the programme:
SAT       Do we need a defence review now that British troops are
SAT       leaving Iraq? Two former defence secretaries Lord
SAT       Robertson and Lord King discuss.
SAT       And two former secretaries of state for health Stephen
SAT       Dorrell and Patricia Hewitt talk of their experiences
SAT       during the health scares of CJD and Avian flu.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00k2m7w (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00k2m7y (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00k0b4f (Listen)
SAT       Series 68, Episode 1
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
SAT       include Andy Hamilton, Fred MacAulay and Jeremy Hardy.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00k2mfc (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00jwy94 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00k1wsq (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Surrey. The
SAT       panellists are neuroscientist and head of the Royal
SAT       Institution Baroness Susan Greenfield, human rights lawyer
SAT       and Labour life peer Baroness Helena Kennedy, shadow
SAT       secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs
SAT       Nick Herbert and Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrats'
SAT       spokesman on home affairs.
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SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00k2mff (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00k2mfh (Listen)
SAT       The Admirable Crichton
SAT       Adaptation of JM Barrie's classic satire about the
SAT       changing fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler. Liberal
SAT       aristocrat Lord Loam favours a return to nature, with
SAT       masters and servants living together as equals, but
SAT       Crichton is the perfect butler and the perfect snob who
SAT       adores the intricacies of the class system. He cannot help
SAT       but be horrified by his master's opinions, and it will
SAT       take a sea change to alter them.
SAT       Crichton ...... Russell Tovey
SAT       JM Barrie ...... David Bannerman
SAT       Lady Mary ...... Beth Chalmers
SAT       Lord Loam ...... David Timson
SAT       Lady Agatha ...... Martha Howe-Douglas
SAT       Ernest Woolley ...... Gunnar Cauthery
SAT       Tweeny ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Rev John Treherne ...... Adrian Grove
SAT       Lord Brocklehurst ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Lady Brocklehurst ...... Tina Gray
SAT       Directed by Fiona Kelcher.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 The Music Group b00jxc7f (Listen)
SAT       Series 3, Episode 3
SAT       Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of
SAT       three guests to play the track of their choice for the
SAT       delight or disdain of the others.
SAT       His guests are BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders,
SAT       whose musical heritage is bound up with the lyrics made
SAT       famous by her father, 'mud, mud, glorious mud' and 'I'm a
SAT       gnu', historian Dominic Sandbrook, author of White Heat: A
SAT       History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, and comic
SAT       broadcaster and author Karl Pilkington.
SAT       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00k2mgy (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey. Including:
SAT       Impressionist Jan Ravens was a founder member of the Dead
SAT       Ringers team, and few females in the public eye have
SAT       avoided her comic attention. Fiona Bruce, Sophie Raworth,
SAT       Ellen MacArthur, the Queen and Ann Widdecombe have all
SAT       featured in the comedy series, and now Jan is taking her
SAT       impressions on a national tour. She talks to Jane about
SAT       her art.
SAT       Jenni Murray interviews the new Poet Laureate, Carol Ann
SAT       Duffy. The post has existed for around 400 years but it
SAT       nis the first time that it has been awarded to a woman.
SAT       In an attempt to create a more open, transparent and
SAT       accountable system, the family courts have been opened to
SAT       the media for the first time. Some campaigners have argued
SAT       that there is very little change, as judges still have
SAT       wide powers to restrict reporting and media access. On the
SAT       other hand, some child solicitors say that this openness
SAT       still poses a risk to vulnerable children. To discuss the
SAT       issues, Jane is joined by The Times' columnist Camilla
SAT       Cavendish and Caroline Little, Joint Chair of the
SAT       Association of Lawyers for Children.
SAT       A new fat-busting pill has gone on sale over the counter.
SAT       Jenni Murray looks at whether dieting mechanisms like
SAT       these can ever work without confronting the pyschological
SAT       and emotional issues that may have caused overeating or
SAT       obesity in the first place.
SAT       Jane meets three women who have been following Arsenal
SAT       football club for nearly 100 years between them. What is
SAT       it that keeps them going back? Jane speaks to them at
SAT       Arsenal's Emirates stadium in north London.
SAT       How to change your life for the better. In these times of
SAT       economic uncertainty, many people are re-evaluating their
SAT       career and goals in life. But taking the plunge and
SAT       changing your situation can be a daunting prospect,
SAT       especially if the years have rolled by in a steady job,
SAT       there is a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed. Jane
SAT       discusses what steps to take to realise your dreams with
SAT       the philosopher Alain de Botton, entrepreneur Sahar
SAT       Hashemi and co-founder of careershifters.org, Catherine
SAT       Roan.
SAT       Plus there is another chance to hear a performance by the
SAT       opera singer Yvonne Howard.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00jwy9x (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00k2mj1 (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00k2mj3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00k2mj5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jwybk (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00k2mw0 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by actor Martin Freeman, comedian
SAT       and Loose Ends regular Arthur Smith and writer Peter
SAT       Flannery.
SAT       Jon Holmes talks about extreme male beauty with Tim Shaw.
SAT       Plus comedy from young stand-up Ahir Shah and music from
SAT       Tom Hickox and Soothsayers.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00k2mw2 (Listen)
SAT       Series 6, Coughs and Sneezes
SAT       Playwright Laura Wade creates a fictional response to a
SAT       story in the week's news.
SAT       With a swine flu pandemic increasingly likely, the
SAT       spotlight is thrown on an anxious couple newly returned
SAT       from Mexico.
SAT       With Samuel West, Lucy Akhurst and Benjamin Askew.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00k2nkv (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00k2nkx (Listen)
SAT       Pete Seeger at 90
SAT       Vincent Dowd celebrates the life and work of American folk
SAT       singer and activist Pete Seeger, as he turns 90. Drawing
SAT       on BBC archives and new interviews, Vincent explores
SAT       Seeger's continuing efforts to improve the world through
SAT       the power of song.
SAT       He hears Seeger's views on a range of issues and his hopes
SAT       for the future under the leadership of Barack Obama, at
SAT       whose inauguration he performed.
SAT       Featuring some of the musicians who have interpreted
SAT       Seeger's songs, including Marlene Dietrich, Joan Baez and
SAT       Bruce Springsteen, and an unplugged version of This Land
SAT       is Your Land by Seeger himself.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00jwxv2 (Listen)
SAT       Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
SAT       One of the great works of English literature, this
SAT       powerful, compelling story explores love from its first
SAT       tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and
SAT       eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new
SAT       version for radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for
SAT       a modern audience while remaining true to his original
SAT       poetic intention.
SAT       After seeing the beautiful widow Criseyde at the temple in
SAT       Troy, Troilus falls instantly in love with her.
SAT       Inexperienced in love, he is unable to act on his feelings
SAT       and locks himself in his room to compose love songs.
SAT       Pandarus, worried for his friend, eventually persuades
SAT       Troilus to tell him why he is so miserable and is
SAT       delighted to hear that the cause is Troilus' love for his
SAT       niece Criseyde.
SAT       Worried about her reputation, Criseyde is at first
SAT       reluctant to enter into a relationship with Troilus. After
SAT       much cajoling and manipulation, she reluctantly comes
SAT       around to the idea. Pandarus is frustrated that the
SAT       relationship is moving too slowly and engineers a complex
SAT       plan to get Criseyde and Troilus in bed together.
SAT       Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson
SAT       Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake
SAT       Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SAT       Servant/Friend ...... Kathryn Hunt
SAT       Calchas/Servant ...... Kevin Doyle
SAT       Priam/Servant ...... Terence Mann
SAT       Hector/Diomede ...... Declan Wilson
SAT       With music composed by Gary Yershon and performed by Ehsan
SAT       Emam, Tim Williams and Mike Dale.
SAT       Directed by Susan Roberts.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00k2nkz (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00jz1lt (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 4
SAT       Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with
SAT       families, experts and policy-makers.
SAT       Dealing with children who don't fit in easily can be
SAT       challenging for parents and teachers, but if we seek to
SAT       modify behaviour and attitude too much, do we risk
SAT       homogenising children?
SAT       Featuring a mother who feels that her inattentive and
SAT       quirky son is a problem at home and school. She worries
SAT       that she is failing him by trying to mould him to be more
SAT       like her other children, but also feels strongly that he
SAT       needs to fit in to get on in life.
SAT       Mariella's guests are writer and journalist Fiona Millar,
SAT       youth worker Shaun Bailey, Dr Jackie Ravet of Aberdeen
SAT       University and law lecturer Daniel Monk.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Counterpoint b00jwxzx (Listen)
SAT       Series 23, Episode 8
SAT       Paul Gambaccini chairs the eighth heat of the music quiz,
SAT       with contestants from Wales and the north of England. The
SAT       competitors are Paul Grayson from Ripon, David Shields
SAT       from Aberystwyth and David White from Wigan.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Baghdad of the Mind b00jwxvs (Listen)
SAT       An impressionistic portrait of the fantastical city of
SAT       Baghdad, a metropolis at the heart of an empire that for
SAT       more than a thousand years has captured the imagination of
SAT       Western and Arab worlds alike.
SAT       Using the logic of a dream interspersed with music and
SAT       poetry, the broadcast summons up a dusty but glittering
SAT       mosaic of real, dreamt, nostalgic, oriental and
SAT       orientalist poems and melodies inspired by and from
SAT       Baghdad.
SAT       Long before the city was synonymous with tyranny,
SAT       occupation and oppression, Baghdad was a place of learning
SAT       and culture that attracted hundreds of poets. In the
SAT       labyrinthine city of the Arabian Nights, the real and the
SAT       romanced are confused in the iconic figure of the Caliph
SAT       Harun al-Rashid. According to the tales, he would disguise
SAT       himself to go among his people and meet fabulous
SAT       adventures. We re-create this poetic city through a night
SAT       of chanced encounters on the radio.
SAT       In conversation and poetry, contemporary Iraqi poets in
SAT       exile Salah Niazi, Fawzi Karim and Nabeel Yasin reflect on
SAT       the city they left and describe how the City of Peace
SAT       still exerts a powerful pull on their work. The picture
SAT       they paint is fresh and unexpected: a weekly pilgrimage to
SAT       the book market to buy Sartre or Hemingway, poets
SAT       bar-hopping their way across the city and small boys
SAT       spending blissful, endless days swimming in the Tigris.
SAT       With additional contributions from Robert Irwin and
SAT       Professor Geert Jan van Gelder.
SAT       Featured poems:
SAT       Salah Niazi
SAT       The Abode
SAT       Fawzi Karim
SAT       At The Gardenia's Entrance
SAT       two excerpts from The Plague Lands
SAT       (forthcoming Carcanet Press)
SAT       Nabeel Yasin
SAT       New York Baghdad
SAT       Abu Nuwas - Untitled
SAT       trans. Eric Ormsby from Questions For Stones: On Classical
SAT       Arabic Poetry reproduced in Abu Nuwas - A Genius For
SAT       Poetry by Philip F Kennedy, Oneworld 2005.
SAT       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
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SUN       SUNDAY 3 MAY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00k2pjl (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084s1m (Listen)
SUN       The Big Chill, This is How
SUN       Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side
SUN       of life.
SUN       When Patrick Oxtoby is sent down for murder, one of the
SUN       first things he learns in prison is that you don't get to
SUN       choose your cell-mate.
SUN       By MJ Hyland, read by Paul Brennen.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2prz (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2ps1 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2ps3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00k2ps5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00k2ps7 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St George's Church, Poynton in
SUN       Cheshire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Petitioning the Modern Way b00jz2jr (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Journalist and author Jon Ronson examines Number 10's
SUN       e-petitioning system, which allows the public to submit
SUN       petitions directly to the Prime Minister.
SUN       Jon wonders whether the petitions really make an impact.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00k2q80 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00k2q82 (Listen)
SUN       Weaving
SUN       Mark Tully explores weaving as a metaphor for how we
SUN       should live our life, beginning in Gandhi's house. He
SUN       believed that weaving was a necessary spiritual discipline
SUN       and, perhaps surprisingly, many western poets and
SUN       musicians echo this view. With poetry by William Blake,
SUN       Henry Vaughan, Walt Whitman and DH Lawrence and music by
SUN       saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00k2q84 (Listen)
SUN       Charlotte Smith meets Beate Kubitz, who went from being a
SUN       high-flying executive working with charities in London to
SUN       a sheep farmer and running a knitwear firm in Todmorden in
SUN       West Yorkshire.
SUN       Beate had what many would regard a dream job: a high
SUN       flying exeutive who worked with charities, travelling
SUN       aroud the world and earning good money. But Beate Kubitz
SUN       decided to sell her London home and buy a barn and a few
SUN       sheep in Todmorden in West Yorkshire. Initially regarded
SUN       as a 'hobby' farmer, she has survived and now even shears
SUN       her own sheep. With a flock of 70, she uses the wool from
SUN       her sheep to make knitwear. The garments are designed and
SUN       knitted by local people; they regularly attend London
SUN       Fashion Week and have even designed a wedding dress.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00k2q86 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00k2q88 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00k2q8b (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 b00k2q8d (Listen)
SUN       National Benevolent Fund for the Aged
SUN       Baroness Betty Boothroyd appeals on behalf of the National
SUN       Benevolent Fund for the Aged. Donations: Freepost BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       This charity tackles the issues of loneliness, physical
SUN       pain and isolation, all of which can leave older people
SUN       feeling excluded from our society.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide NBFA with your
SUN       full name and address so that they can claim the Gift Aid
SUN       on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and
SUN       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 243387.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00k2q8g (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00k2q8j (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00k2q8l (Listen)
SUN       A choir and congregation of workers in the financial
SUN       sector gather at Wesley's Chapel in the City of London to
SUN       find Christian hope in the current financial crisis.
SUN       Address: Philip Robinson, the FSA's Director of Financial
SUN       Crime and Intelligence.
SUN       With Rev Dr Fiona Stewart-Darling, Bishop's Chaplain in
SUN       Docklands and Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths; Director of Music:
SUN       John Tripp.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00k1wsv (Listen)
SUN       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00k2q8n (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00k2q8q (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 The Reunion b00k2q8s (Listen)
SUN       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
SUN       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
SUN       history.
SUN       Beirut hostages John McCarthy, Brian Keenan and Terry
SUN       Waite discuss their shared experiences and are joined by
SUN       campaigner Jill Morrell, who was the girlfriend of John
SUN       McCarthy at the time.
SUN       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00jwy1d (Listen)
SUN       Series 3, Episode 6
SUN       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
SUN       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
SUN       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
SUN       With Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Jack Dee and Will Self.
SUN       A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00k2qr3 (Listen)
SUN       Brogdale
SUN       Sheila Dillon explores Brogdale in Kent, home of the
SUN       National Fruit Collection, updating a story covered by the
SUN       programme in the early 1990s and in 2007 when one of the
SUN       greatest of our living food plant collections was under
SUN       threat. They are to remain there following a reversal of a
SUN       government decision two years ago to move over 4,000 trees
SUN       and plants to another site. Since then Brogdale has
SUN       flourished in many different ways. Sheila revisits the
SUN       site and explores some of the new food-related businesses
SUN       that have developed in the 'Market Place' with new
SUN       investment and refurbishment.
SUN       In addition to the food businesses, there are educational
SUN       tours and a laboratory that can analyse the nutrient value
SUN       of different soils and diagnose plant problems. The Plant
SUN       Centre, which can identify different varieties for
SUN       Brogdale, boasts over 2,000 different varieties of apples,
SUN       including 60 different varieties of cooking apples. It
SUN       remains of global as well as national significance.
SUN       Sheila meets Joan Morgan of the Friends of Brogdale, who
SUN       campaigned to save Brogdale, and talks to Tony Hillier of
SUN       Hillreed Land and landscape architect Tom le Dell. She
SUN       drops in on food businesses including the Tiddly Pomme,
SUN       selling ciders, wines and fruit juices, and events
SUN       caterers, Scott Anderson.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00k2qr5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00k2qr7 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Catholics and Jews b00k9ppm (Listen)
SUN       From Pogroms to Pius XII
SUN       Edward Stourton examines the history of the complex
SUN       relationship between Catholics and Jews.
SUN       He looks at claims that Christian theology paved the way
SUN       for modern anti-Semitism, visiting Rome and Poland as he
SUN       explores an often violent relationship.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k01gc (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. Pippa
SUN       Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs are guests of
SUN       Tunstall Gardeners' Society in Sittingbourne. They also
SUN       answer questions sent in by post and email.
SUN       Plus news of a trial to see if it is possible to grow a
SUN       crop of olives in the UK.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Lights, Camera, Landmark b00fgblq (Listen)
SUN       Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
SUN       Matthew Sweet visits parts of the man-made landscape which
SUN       have been used in films over the years.
SUN       Not used as a prison since 1924, from the 1960s onwards it
SUN       has been used for films such as In the Name of the Father,
SUN       Michael Collins and The Italian Job.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00k2qr9 (Listen)
SUN       Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 2
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       Criseyde's Uncle Pandarus has been the matchmaker for the
SUN       Trojan hero Troilus and young widow Criseyde, who are
SUN       desperately in love. But what will happen when Criseyde is
SUN       handed over to the Greeks at the gates of Troy to join her
SUN       'traitor' father?
SUN       Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson
SUN       Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake
SUN       Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SUN       Servant/Friend ...... Kathryn Hunt
SUN       Calchas/Servant ...... Kevin Doyle
SUN       Priam/Servant ...... 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 Bookclub b00k2sdt (Listen)
SUN       Xiaolu Guo
SUN       James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo
SUN       to talk about her novel A Concise Chinese-English
SUN       Dictionary for Lovers. It is a story about discovery,
SUN       language and understanding, and how cultural differences
SUN       can sometimes be too great for a relationship to last.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Ossian b00k2vz6 (Listen)
SUN       Kenneth Steven tells the story of one of the greatest
SUN       hoaxes in the history of poetry and literature. James
SUN       MacPherson's apparent 'discovery' of the ancient poems of
SUN       Ossian in the 1760s transformed the image and acceptance
SUN       of Highland Scottish life throughout the world and helped
SUN       to inspire the Romantic movement, but very quickly doubts
SUN       were voiced about the authenticity of the poems.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Hacked to Pieces b00jyyl0 (Listen)
SUN       Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we have lost the war
SUN       on cybercrime and looks at a new criminal economy which
SUN       has grown to feed the demand for our most private details.
SUN       Jolyon finds that the security details of ordinary members
SUN       of the public - their bank details, passwords, and secret
SUN       security questions are being openly traded in cybercrime
SUN       forums. He hands over his own laptop computer to an
SUN       'ethical hacker' and finds that it takes two minutes for
SUN       its password to be cracked. Within a few more minutes, the
SUN       hacker has installed a key-logging Trojan that secretly
SUN       passes all his computer activity - passwords, emails and
SUN       all - back to the hacker's own computer.
SUN       He finds that we are all vulnerable to criminals who trade
SUN       on our human weaknesses: our magpie-like obsession with
SUN       gaudiness and trivia, and our willingness to click the OK
SUN       button without thinking through the consequences.
SUN       Ever since the internet became mainstream, we have been
SUN       hearing warnings about hackers, spammers and other
SUN       renegades of the online world. The internet security
SUN       business now threatens to overtake the Chinese army as the
SUN       largest employer on earth. But what has this army of
SUN       consultants achieved, apart from spending billions of
SUN       dollars? Every year the situation gets steadily worse.
SUN       The threat comes not from lone hackers, but from networks
SUN       of criminals who have developed an astonishingly complex
SUN       and mature organisational infrastructure that the
SUN       authorities seem virtually powerless to deal with.
SUN       Entire internet relay chat rooms are controlled by the
SUN       criminal underground economy and the turnover of
SUN       cybercrime is possibly as big as that of the global
SUN       illegal drugs trade. And as many as one billion computers
SUN       - 12 per cent of the world's total internet-connected
SUN       machines - could be hiding malware of one type or another.
SUN       Some experts think it's only a matter of time before every
SUN       PC in the world is infected.
SUN       The anti-hacking world is almost entirely privatised - its
SUN       growth mirroring the rise of the opposition. Frequently,
SUN       criminal networks have been closed down not by law
SUN       enforcement authorities but thanks to investigations
SUN       carried out by dedicated volunteers.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00k2mw2 (Listen)
SUN       Series 6, Coughs and Sneezes
SUN       Playwright Laura Wade creates a fictional response to a
SUN       story in the week's news.
SUN       With a swine flu pandemic increasingly likely, the
SUN       spotlight is thrown on an anxious couple newly returned
SUN       from Mexico.
SUN       With Samuel West, Lucy Akhurst and Benjamin Askew.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00k2vz8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00k2vzb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k2vzd (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00k2vzg (Listen)
SUN       Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00k2vzj (Listen)
SUN       It's wrong place, wrong time for Will.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Go4it b00k2vzl (Listen)
SUN       Children's magazine. Barney Harwood talks tactics and fair
SUN       play with a young go-kart racer and cricketer Rosalie
SUN       Birch.
SUN       He also hears from some runners-up who are doing really
SUN       well - Faryl Smith came second in Britain's Got Talent but
SUN       is now beating all records in the classical charts, and
SUN       she is only 13; Giorgos came third from bottom in Junior
SUN       Eurovision but is the star of the film Sounds Like Teen
SUN       Spirit.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cm7h0 (Listen)
SUN       Stories with Latitude, Episode 2
SUN       Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in
SUN       Suffolk. AL Kennedy's piece of comedy is on the
SUN       troublesome subject of teeth.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00k00tq (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
SUN       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00k01nw (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00k2m7y (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00k2q8d (Listen)
SUN       National Benevolent Fund for the Aged
SUN       Baroness Betty Boothroyd appeals on behalf of the National
SUN       Benevolent Fund for the Aged. Donations: Freepost BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       This charity tackles the issues of loneliness, physical
SUN       pain and isolation, all of which can leave older people
SUN       feeling excluded from our society.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide NBFA with your
SUN       full name and address so that they can claim the Gift Aid
SUN       on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and
SUN       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 243387.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00jzx33 (Listen)
SUN       Network News
SUN       What happens to leading-edge high technology companies
SUN       when their customers are plunged into recession? Peter Day
SUN       puts the question to two top business leaders on both
SUN       sides of the Atlantic: John Chambers, chairman of the
SUN       networking giant Cisco Systems, and Mike Lynch, the
SUN       founder of Britain's biggest software company, Autonomy.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00k2vzn (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00k2vzq (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Petitioning the Modern Way.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00k01ny (Listen)
SUN       Francine Stock talks to Michael Caine, who reveals the
SUN       reason why his wife banned their daughter from seeing his
SUN       new film, Is Anybody There? The star of Get Carter, Alfie
SUN       and The Italian Job also admits that he partly based his
SUN       character on an old friend.
SUN       British director Terence Davies waxes lyrical about the
SUN       Alistair Sim comedy, The Happiest Days Of Your Life.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00k2q82 (Listen)
SUN       Weaving
SUN       Mark Tully explores weaving as a metaphor for how we
SUN       should live our life, beginning in Gandhi's house. He
SUN       believed that weaving was a necessary spiritual discipline
SUN       and, perhaps surprisingly, many western poets and
SUN       musicians echo this view. With poetry by William Blake,
SUN       Henry Vaughan, Walt Whitman and DH Lawrence and music by
SUN       saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 4 MAY 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00k2w4w (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00jz10v (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Simone about her new study
MON       of the families of suicide victims, and hears how
MON       retelling stories of the experience can help people
MON       enormously.
MON       Also, how the 'mid-riff' has become a professional term in
MON       the advertising industry to signal a post-feminist
MON       generation who see no contradiction between sexiness and
MON       equality. The 'midriffs' get their name from the late
MON       1980s Madonna-influenced style for exposed abdomens and
MON       pierced belly buttons. Laurie talks to Rosalind Gill about
MON       her study of the depiction of women in advertising, and
MON       asks whether the ad industry has rejected or merely
MON       repackaged its old sexism.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00k2ps7 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St George's Church, Poynton in
MON       Cheshire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2w56 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2x16 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2x41 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00jgzjg (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k35tf (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
MON       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00k3612 (Listen)
MON       Anna Hill visits an intensive broiler farm producing
MON       800,000 chickens and asks what the future holds for
MON       British chicken growers.
MON       Chicken is the UK's favourite meat and we are eating 62
MON       per cent more than we were 20 years ago. However, UK
MON       production has only risen 42 per cent in that time so we
MON       are importing more from Europe, Brazil and Thailand. Anna
MON       visits an intensive chicken farm in Norfolk which produces
MON       800,000 birds a year. Farmer Nigel Joice says that his
MON       five million-pound high-tech sheds have allowed him to
MON       farm efficiently, but others with older equipment have
MON       made sustained losses and cannot afford to reinvest. With
MON       new costs and legislation round the corner he says the
MON       next generation of farmers are questioning whether it is
MON       really worth farming British chicken. So where will our
MON       roast chicken come from?
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00k3n05 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00k3dtt (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00k3n07 (Listen)
MON       Journalist David Aaronovitch on the dangerous seduction of
MON       conspiracy theories, from 9/11 to swine flu. Voodoo
MON       Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping
MON       Modern History is published by Jonathan Cape.
MON       Monica Ali stirs the melting pot in her new novel set in a
MON       multi-national hotel restaurant, where a dead body is
MON       discovered in the cellar. In The Kitchen is published by
MON       Doubleday.
MON       Journalist Christopher Caldwell argues that mass
MON       immigration across Europe post-WWII has been an expensive
MON       mistake. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe:
MON       Immigration, Islam and the West is published by Allen Lane.
MON       According to the international strategist Joshua Cooper
MON       Ramo, our society's models are hopelessly out of date as
MON       we face an era of instability and constant change. He
MON       calls for some creative thinking - and fast. The Age of
MON       the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly
MON       Surprises Us and What to Do About It is published by
MON       Little, Brown.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00k3fg7 (Listen)
MON       From Harvey River, Episode 1
MON       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
MON       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
MON       Jamaica.
MON       Lorna remembers her remarkable great-grandfathers. The
MON       Englishman William Harvey, who is shunned by his peers for
MON       marrying a black Jamaican woman. Then George Wilson, an
MON       Irish sailor who jumps ship and finds himself at home
MON       among the wattle-and-daub rum shops and brothels of
MON       Jamaica - until he is bewitched by a beautfiful young
MON       Creole woman.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00k3fx1 (Listen)
MON       With Sheila McClennon.
MON       Discussing family feuds. What do you do if you have fallen
MON       out with your parents, your in-laws or a sibling? What are
MON       the causes of family estrangement - is it one big thing or
MON       the slow drip, drip of annoyance and irritation? How many
MON       people fall out over money? Perhaps most importantly of
MON       all: what can you do to heal the rift? Is talking about it
MON       the best cure or should we just move on and pretend it
MON       never happened?
MON       
MON       11:00 A Tale of Two Emirates b00k3vkh (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Jenny Clayton visits Dubai and Abu Dhabi to see how these
MON       two emirates are coping with the credit crisis.
MON       As the less well-known, wealthier neighbour of Dubai, Abu
MON       Dhabi has never sought the limelight. But, with
MON       potentially disastrous timing in the light of the global
MON       economic crisis, the emirate has embarked on a massive
MON       cultural development programme including beach resorts,
MON       housing, art galleries, museums and an opera house.
MON       
MON       11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b0092bz1 (Listen)
MON       Roots Manoeuvres
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       Francis ...... Michael Fenton-Stevens
MON       Customer ...... Doc Brown.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00k3gg6 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00k3gh5 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00k3gqh (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Counterpoint b00k3vkk (Listen)
MON       Series 23, Episode 9
MON       Paul Gambaccini chairs the ninth and final heat of the
MON       music quiz to decide the remaining semi final place. The
MON       competitors are Ian Bayley from Oxford, David Saxon from
MON       Northwood in Middlesex and Gary Williams from
MON       Weston-super-Mare.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00k2vzj (Listen)
MON       It's wrong place, wrong time for Will.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b0081n8b (Listen)
MON       Annapurna
MON       By Jod Mitchell. Tension mounts as a young English couple
MON       trek their way across a treacherous Himalayan mountain
MON       range and realise that a mysterious Nepali is stalking
MON       them, getting closer by the day.
MON       Tim ...... Ben Crowe
MON       Emma ...... Clare Corbett
MON       Sher; Krishna ...... Padam Chhetri
MON       Director Conor Lennon.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00k2nkx (Listen)
MON       Pete Seeger at 90
MON       Vincent Dowd celebrates the life and work of American folk
MON       singer and activist Pete Seeger, as he turns 90. Drawing
MON       on BBC archives and new interviews, Vincent explores
MON       Seeger's continuing efforts to improve the world through
MON       the power of song.
MON       He hears Seeger's views on a range of issues and his hopes
MON       for the future under the leadership of Barack Obama, at
MON       whose inauguration he performed.
MON       Featuring some of the musicians who have interpreted
MON       Seeger's songs, including Marlene Dietrich, Joan Baez and
MON       Bruce Springsteen, and an unplugged version of This Land
MON       is Your Land by Seeger himself.
MON       
MON       15:45 Sacrifices b00k3j0r (Listen)
MON       Josh
MON       Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices
MON       they make to help them fulfil their potential.
MON       Josh wants to dance, but when he gets a coveted place at
MON       Elmhurst dance school, associated with Birmingham Royal
MON       Ballet, his parents have to dig deep to ensure that his
MON       dream comes true.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00k2qr3 (Listen)
MON       Brogdale
MON       Sheila Dillon explores Brogdale in Kent, home of the
MON       National Fruit Collection, updating a story covered by the
MON       programme in the early 1990s and in 2007 when one of the
MON       greatest of our living food plant collections was under
MON       threat. They are to remain there following a reversal of a
MON       government decision two years ago to move over 4,000 trees
MON       and plants to another site. Since then Brogdale has
MON       flourished in many different ways. Sheila revisits the
MON       site and explores some of the new food-related businesses
MON       that have developed in the 'Market Place' with new
MON       investment and refurbishment.
MON       In addition to the food businesses, there are educational
MON       tours and a laboratory that can analyse the nutrient value
MON       of different soils and diagnose plant problems. The Plant
MON       Centre, which can identify different varieties for
MON       Brogdale, boasts over 2,000 different varieties of apples,
MON       including 60 different varieties of cooking apples. It
MON       remains of global as well as national significance.
MON       Sheila meets Joan Morgan of the Friends of Brogdale, who
MON       campaigned to save Brogdale, and talks to Tony Hillier of
MON       Hillreed Land and landscape architect Tom le Dell. She
MON       drops in on food businesses including the Tiddly Pomme,
MON       selling ciders, wines and fruit juices, and events
MON       caterers, Scott Anderson.
MON       
MON       16:30 Traveller's Tree b00k3vsv (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Raising the Iron Curtain
MON       Katie Derham presents the programme which examines our
MON       holiday and travel trends.
MON       As the countries of the former Soviet bloc prepare to
MON       celebrate 20 years of democracy, Katie and the team look
MON       at how our curiosity to travel and experience Eastern
MON       Europe has affected those countries. Former tour leader
MON       and travel writer Neil Taylor reflects on the momentous
MON       changes that were precipitated by the fall of the Berlin
MON       Wall in November 1989.
MON       Plus a report from 20-year-old Mike Copus, who visits
MON       Berlin as a cold war tourist.
MON       A Just Radio/Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00k3kkt (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00k3ksf (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00k3x21 (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 1
MON       John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three
MON       distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast
MON       imaginary museum.
MON       John and Sean's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and
MON       Dave Gorman.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00k3gv3 (Listen)
MON       Revenge is sweet for David.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00k3kw1 (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews.
MON       Armando Iannucci discusses the combination of luck and
MON       judgement which led his film In The Loop to be released in
MON       the week that strikingly similar events unfolded in UK
MON       politics.
MON       The producer of TV spy drama Spooks explains how writers
MON       aim to predict events when planning storylines - for
MON       example, an episode about financial turmoil which aired at
MON       the moment when real banks were collapsing. He also
MON       reveals some of the programme makers' tricks of the trade.
MON       Through new and archive interviews with screenwriter Simon
MON       Beaufoy, the late novelists JG Ballard and Michael
MON       Crichton, ITV Director of Television Peter Fincham and a
MON       nun whose book predicted the credit crunch with uncanny
MON       accuracy, Mark Lawson looks at the films, books, plays and
MON       TV programmes which, intentionally or by chance, achieve
MON       great topical resonance.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k3lqh (Listen)
MON       Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit, Episode 1
MON       By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
MON       Financial problems force Vera to live on her allotment
MON       while Irene finds a rich friend reduced to begging.
MON       Irene ...... Prunella Scales
MON       Vera ...... Patricia Routledge.
MON       
MON       20:00 France's Forgotten Concentration Camps b00k3x23 (Listen)
MON       Philip Sweeney travels to southern France to investigate a
MON       network of concentration camps set up 70 years ago when
MON       hundreds of thousands of refugees fled over the Pyrenees
MON       after the Spanish Civil War. Since then thousands of
MON       others have been detained: Jews, gypsies, Algerians and
MON       more recently immigrants escaping persecution in their own
MON       countries.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00jts6m (Listen)
MON       Hard Times in Middletown, USA
MON       Stephen Smith finds out how the city of Muncie in Indiana
MON       reflects the impact of the economic crisis on the American
MON       middle class.
MON       In 1929, the Rockefeller Institute published Middletown: A
MON       Study in Modern American Culture, a scientific study of a
MON       'typical American city' which examined church, school,
MON       family and work in Muncie. The book was an instant hit and
MON       is still in print. It launched Muncie's reputation as the
MON       most widely studied small town in the world.
MON       Today it is a rust-belt city grappling with
MON       de-industrialisation and deepening recession.
MON       A co-production with American RadioWorks for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00k3x25 (Listen)
MON       Raising a Stink
MON       Tom Heap investigates the potential savings available by
MON       harnessing the power of sewage through anaerobic digestion
MON       and the fertilisation of farms using human waste. Some
MON       experts believe that millions of pounds could be saved if
MON       we could overcome fecophobia, a fear of human waste.
MON       Each flush of the toilet chain sends upto 13 litres of
MON       purified drinking water racing down the u-bend into the
MON       vast, largely Victorian sewage system that comprises of
MON       300,000km of sewers that serve 9,000 wastewater treatment
MON       plants that receive 10 billion litres of sewage every
MON       single day.
MON       With the UK producing approximately 25 million tonnes of
MON       wet sewage sludge each year, Dr Stephen Smith, director of
MON       the Centre for Environmental Control and Waste Management
MON       at Imperial College, London, estimates that the nitrogen
MON       and phosphorus content of digested sewage sludge could be
MON       worth 20 million pounds in terms of the artificial farm
MON       fertilisers it would replace.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00k3n07 (Listen)
MON       Journalist David Aaronovitch on the dangerous seduction of
MON       conspiracy theories, from 9/11 to swine flu. Voodoo
MON       Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping
MON       Modern History is published by Jonathan Cape.
MON       Monica Ali stirs the melting pot in her new novel set in a
MON       multi-national hotel restaurant, where a dead body is
MON       discovered in the cellar. In The Kitchen is published by
MON       Doubleday.
MON       Journalist Christopher Caldwell argues that mass
MON       immigration across Europe post-WWII has been an expensive
MON       mistake. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe:
MON       Immigration, Islam and the West is published by Allen Lane.
MON       According to the international strategist Joshua Cooper
MON       Ramo, our society's models are hopelessly out of date as
MON       we face an era of instability and constant change. He
MON       calls for some creative thinking - and fast. The Age of
MON       the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly
MON       Surprises Us and What to Do About It is published by
MON       Little, Brown.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00k3m82 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00k3m8d (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k3mdq (Listen)
MON       The House of Special Purpose, Episode 6
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       Georgy and Anastasia steal out of the Winter Palace in
MON       disguise to see the White Nights, but are they being
MON       watched?
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00jxhdb (Listen)
MON       Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of
MON       words, language and the way we speak.
MON       
MON       23:30 M Is for Maxwell Knight b00h30nq (Listen)
MON       Writer and historian Christopher Lee tells the story of
MON       the popular 1950s radio and television naturalist Maxwell
MON       Knight, who led a secret existence as an MI5 spy runner.
MON       He discovers what it was about this quietly spoken and
MON       gentle man that made him such a successful spymaster and
MON       inspired Ian Fleming to use him as a model for the
MON       character of M in his James Bond novels.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00k2w34 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00k3fg7 (Listen)
TUE       From Harvey River, Episode 1
TUE       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
TUE       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
TUE       Jamaica.
TUE       Lorna remembers her remarkable great-grandfathers. The
TUE       Englishman William Harvey, who is shunned by his peers for
TUE       marrying a black Jamaican woman. Then George Wilson, an
TUE       Irish sailor who jumps ship and finds himself at home
TUE       among the wattle-and-daub rum shops and brothels of
TUE       Jamaica - until he is bewitched by a beautfiful young
TUE       Creole woman.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2w4y (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2wzn (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2x18 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00k2x43 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k35rk (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
TUE       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00k35th (Listen)
TUE       Charlotte Smith asks why there will be less British
TUE       chicken in the future.
TUE       Farmers say that the British chicken industry has doubled
TUE       in the last 20 years, but we are also importing more. Now
TUE       many farmers say that they face a crossroads as to whether
TUE       to continue with a prospect of low returns for big
TUE       investments. They say this will mean British chicken is
TUE       more scarce but imports might not always be available to
TUE       us.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00k3dth (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
TUE       Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 On the Ropes b00k3x7h (Listen)
TUE       Marjorie Lambert
TUE       John Humphrys talks to successful people who have
TUE       weathered storms in their careers. Marjorie Lambert talks
TUE       about how her foster daughter shattered her life.
TUE       Marjorie took on difficult teenagers and tried to give
TUE       them a better life, but when one foster child made
TUE       accusations of sexual abuse and began a string of
TUE       threatening phone calls, her life was sent into turmoil.
TUE       It took a further 10 years to discover that vital and
TUE       disturbing information about the girl's past had been
TUE       withheld - information which would have stopped her
TUE       fostering the girl in the first place.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Head To Head b00k3x7k (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
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       Clive James' debate with Gore Vidal on how Christianity
TUE       has affected mankind's ability to think and live freely.
TUE       Professors AC Grayling and Alister McGrath unpick both
TUE       standpoints.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00k3fq5 (Listen)
TUE       From Harvey River, Episode 2
TUE       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
TUE       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
TUE       Jamaica.
TUE       Lorna recalls the lives of her mother, Doris, and her four
TUE       sisters, who dazzle the locals with their finery and
TUE       genteel manners on their weekly trips into town. Life in
TUE       Harvey River is good, until tragedy strikes when Doris'
TUE       proud elder sister Cleodine finds herself marrying a man
TUE       she doesn't love and their beloved brother Howard succumbs
TUE       to the temptations of a pepper-eating redhead who looks
TUE       like fire itself.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00k3fvr (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. In Michelle Pfeiffer's latest film,
TUE       'Cheri', she plays a successful courtesan in
TUE       turn-of-the-century Paris. But her affair with a spoilt
TUE       young man, Cheri, is forced to change when he enters into
TUE       an arranged marriage. Jane meets Michelle and talks to her
TUE       about love, youth and fading beauty.
TUE       Ever since the law changed in 2005 allowing same-sex
TUE       couples to adopt, an increasing number of gay and lesbian
TUE       couples has come forward. But are they still facing
TUE       resistance despite the number of children looking for a
TUE       loving family every year? And what has their experience
TUE       been so far? The author of a new guide to same-sex
TUE       adoption, Nicola Hill, and Jeffrey Coleman from the
TUE       British Association for Adoption and Fostering, join Jane.
TUE       The soprano Kate Royal won the prestigious Kathleen
TUE       Ferrier Award when she was 25. She'll be discussing her
TUE       technique, her influences and how she chose the 20th
TUE       century arias included on her second album.
TUE       And as part of the BBC's Dig In campaign, Alys Fowler of
TUE       Gardener's World joins Jane to show her how to grow
TUE       beetroot.
TUE       Including drama: Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit (2/5).
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00k3x7m (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, The Future of the Amazon
TUE       Paul Evans investigates the Amazon. It has always been an
TUE       evocative and mysterious place, but over the last few
TUE       years it has become better known for deforestation and
TUE       concern about its future. Paul looks at what makes the
TUE       Amazon so special, what is threatening it and how those
TUE       threats are affecting the wildlife that we still know so
TUE       little about.
TUE       Writers and explorers have always found the Amazon a place
TUE       of inspiration and fascination. Hummingbirds, howler
TUE       monkeys, vast rivers and mosquitoes are common images
TUE       conjured up by the phrase 'the Amazon jungle', but that is
TUE       fast disappearing. Future generations are more likely to
TUE       think of soy bean plantations, cattle ranches and sugar
TUE       cane rather than green frogs and towering trees.
TUE       60 per cent of the Amazon sits within Brazil, one of the
TUE       fastest growing economies in the world, and so the
TUE       pressure to convert much of this vast natural ecosystem
TUE       into beef and beans that are transported around the world
TUE       is huge. Big money talks loudly, and the call of the
TUE       howler monkey and the flutter of the butterflies wings are
TUE       barely heard amidst the cries for growth and development.
TUE       Counterbalance that with the worldwide concern for climate
TUE       change. 20 per cent of all greenhouse gases put into the
TUE       atmosphere are caused by deforestation and so the world is
TUE       putting pressure on countries like Brazil to protect the
TUE       forests. It is a complicated picture of competing powers,
TUE       but sitting in the middle is the rich and little studied
TUE       wildlife of Amazonia.
TUE       Researchers at Oregon State University have found that
TUE       hummingbirds are very wary about crossing areas of cleared
TUE       forest, even though that area can be only a few metres
TUE       across. This has serious implications for pollination of
TUE       the plants and flowers of the forest because hummingbirds
TUE       along with other flying insects and mammals are vitally
TUE       important transporters of pollen. If we clear forest and
TUE       do not leave large enough corridors for the animals to
TUE       move through then the forest will become more and more
TUE       inbred and depleted.
TUE       This is just one example of how we are deforesting the
TUE       Amazon with little concern for the wildlife that lives
TUE       there, and we do so at our peril.
TUE       The Amazon is rich in life, an important source of
TUE       medicine, home to many thousands of indigenous people and
TUE       crucial for the healthy functioning of our climate. Never
TUE       before has the world been so interested in its future and
TUE       never before has there been the opportunity to save or
TUE       destroy it as there is today.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 God and the Movies b00h8n6n (Listen)
TUE       Journalist and vicar Richard Coles travels to Hollywood to
TUE       explore how major film studios are trying to cash in on
TUE       the success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ by
TUE       placing Christian themes and values at the heart of major
TUE       blockbusters.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00k3g1p (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00k3gg8 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00k3gn2 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 The Music Group b00k3xlb (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 4
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 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Neil Innes;
TUE       Graham Linehan, writer of The IT Crowd, Black Books and
TUE       Father Ted; and actress Felicity Finch, who plays Ruth
TUE       Archer in The Archers.
TUE       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00k3gv3 (Listen)
TUE       Revenge is sweet for David.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b0084zr7 (Listen)
TUE       Solo behind the Iron Curtain
TUE       Tracy Spottiswoode's thriller is based on real events in
TUE       1968.
TUE       Actor Robert Vaughn, famous at the time as TV spy Napoleon
TUE       Solo, is making a movie in Prague with several other
TUE       Hollywood stars. Filming stops abruptly, however, when
TUE       Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia. Cast and crew find
TUE       themselves trapped. The Man from UNCLE must find a way to
TUE       escape, and quickly.
TUE       Robert Vaughn ...... Himself
TUE       Pepsi ...... Vesna Stanojevic
TUE       George Segal ...... Robert Glenister
TUE       Ben Gazzara ...... John Guerrasio
TUE       Bradford Dillman ...... Richard Laing
TUE       David Wolper ...... Garrick Hagon
TUE       Honzo ...... Robert Luckay
TUE       Sadovsky ...... Rad Lazar
TUE       Directed by Kate McAll.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00k3xzy (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past. Could a leaf
TUE       collection in Southport provide valuable historical
TUE       research for climate researchers in the future?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3y00 (Listen)
TUE       A Friend of the Family, Coming Round
TUE       New stories reflecting some of the unexpected ways in
TUE       which modern families work.
TUE       A serious accident throws together two men who had never
TUE       met before - Sue's first and second husbands. In time,
TUE       several old wounds and resentments are aired and begin to
TUE       heal.
TUE       By Phoebe Gibson, read by David Collins.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Sacrifices b00k3jxt (Listen)
TUE       David
TUE       Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices
TUE       they make to help them fulfil their potential.
TUE       David wants to play tennis, but the travelling to
TUE       tournaments every weekend takes its toll on the rest of
TUE       the family and the financial pressures build up when he
TUE       gets a place at a tennis academy to train full time.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00k3znq (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 b00k3zns (Listen)
TUE       Series 18, Frank Sinatra
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Broadcaster and DJ Colin Murray chooses Frank Sinatra.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00k3kkh (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 b00k3kr9 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Heresy b00k3zzb (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 4
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Panellists include journalists Euan
TUE       Ferguson and Tanya Gold, and comedian David Mitchell.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00k3gqk (Listen)
TUE       Mike gets bitten by the bug.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00k3kvq (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the
TUE       verdict on Michelle Pfeiffer in the film Cheri and news of
TUE       the shortlist for the Art Fund Prize for museums and
TUE       galleries.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k3ly8 (Listen)
TUE       Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit, Episode 2
TUE       By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
TUE       Vera discovers she is not the only person living on her
TUE       allotment, while Irene nurses her vagrant friend back to
TUE       health.
TUE       Irene ...... Prunella Scales
TUE       Vera ...... Patricia Routledge
TUE       Howard Small ...... Christopher Kelham
TUE       Judith Brain ...... Francis Jeater.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 The New Hindu Fundamentalists b00k3zzd (Listen)
TUE       Navdip Dhariwal investigates the rise of Hindu
TUE       fundamentalism in Britain. Hindutva - the belief that
TUE       India should exclusively follow the laws and principles of
TUE       the majority Hindu faith - has been evolving and
TUE       developing on the sub-continent for many decades.
TUE       Navdip explores the history of the Hindu right wing in
TUE       India and its power and influence within Hindu communities
TUE       outside India. She asks why increasing numbers of Hindus
TUE       are being drawn to the fundamentalist agenda, which some
TUE       regard as anti-Muslim and anti-Christian.
TUE       Her investigation leads her to British Hindus who are
TUE       giving seemingly charitable donations that are, in
TUE       reality, ending up in the coffers of the Hindu right.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00k3zzg (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00k3zzj (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter discusses the causes and treatments for
TUE       cerebral palsy. One in 400 births are affected by cerebral
TUE       palsy. Mark visits the Bobath Centre in London to find out
TUE       how their joined-up approach to treatment can help.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 On the Ropes b00k3x7h (Listen)
TUE       Marjorie Lambert
TUE       John Humphrys talks to successful people who have
TUE       weathered storms in their careers. Marjorie Lambert talks
TUE       about how her foster daughter shattered her life.
TUE       Marjorie took on difficult teenagers and tried to give
TUE       them a better life, but when one foster child made
TUE       accusations of sexual abuse and began a string of
TUE       threatening phone calls, her life was sent into turmoil.
TUE       It took a further 10 years to discover that vital and
TUE       disturbing information about the girl's past had been
TUE       withheld - information which would have stopped her
TUE       fostering the girl in the first place.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00k3m6g (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00k3m84 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k3mds (Listen)
TUE       The House of Special Purpose, Episode 7
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       Fear blights Georgy's mind as he recounts the dread that
TUE       Rasputin would betray him, and the panic of almost losing
TUE       his beloved wife, Zoya.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 The Secret World b00k3zzl (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
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 b00k3mgj (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00k2w36 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00k3fq5 (Listen)
WED       From Harvey River, Episode 2
WED       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
WED       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
WED       Jamaica.
WED       Lorna recalls the lives of her mother, Doris, and her four
WED       sisters, who dazzle the locals with their finery and
WED       genteel manners on their weekly trips into town. Life in
WED       Harvey River is good, until tragedy strikes when Doris'
WED       proud elder sister Cleodine finds herself marrying a man
WED       she doesn't love and their beloved brother Howard succumbs
WED       to the temptations of a pepper-eating redhead who looks
WED       like fire itself.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2w50 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2wzq (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2x1b (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00k2x45 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k35rm (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
WED       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00k35tk (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00k3dtk (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00k40l1 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00k3fq7 (Listen)
WED       From Harvey River, Episode 3
WED       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
WED       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
WED       Jamaica.
WED       A cricket match brings Lorna's mother and father, Doris
WED       and Marcus, together. After a chaste but whirlwind
WED       romance, the newlyweds return to Marcus' hometown, where
WED       the marriageable local women all turn out to judge the
WED       stranger he chose over them.
WED       They are immediately won over by their beautiful and
WED       sophisticated rival, and life for the young couple and
WED       their children in those early years is good - until
WED       everything is changed by the outbreak of war in 1939.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00k3fvt (Listen)
WED       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters
WED       Crunch Credit.
WED       
WED       11:00 It's My Story b00fm5s2 (Listen)
WED       Earfull - From Silence into Sound
WED       Tim has made his living as an actor for more than 40
WED       years. All this time he has been deaf. This programme
WED       follows him over more than a year as he has tests,
WED       consultations and finally a cochlea implant operation, and
WED       can hear again.
WED       Tim tells his story of emerging from silence into sound,
WED       and interwoven with this is a performance of Earfull, his
WED       one-man play which chronicles his move from soldier to
WED       actor, and, as he loses his hearing, from sound to silence.
WED       Tim, who is in his 70s, grew up in Blackpool, joined the
WED       army and just before he was posted overseas his girlfriend
WED       called to say she loved him. He could not make out what
WED       she said because his new rifle had damaged his hearing.
WED       Later he did marry, had two children and with only six
WED       years to go to qualify for a pension, came back to London
WED       on leave. He went to a matinee of The Mousetrap. There
WED       cannot be many whose lives were changed by this
WED       pot-boiler, but Barlow's was. He realised that what he
WED       really wanted to be was not an army officer but an actor.
WED       Despite his deafness (Olivier wrote that he too had
WED       hearing problems and Barlow should go for it anyway) he
WED       trained at the Old Vic in Bristol. It cost him - his wife
WED       left, taking the children, and he didn't get the army
WED       pension. But for 40 years now he has been an actor:
WED       working with Complicité, the RSC, Manchester Royal
WED       Exchange; he has made a living, so has been fairly
WED       successful.
WED       But Tim's life is changing again. Over the past year or so
WED       he has been advised, assessed, tested and finally has had
WED       a cochlea implant, the insertion of an electro-magnet that
WED       directly stimulates his nerves to produce sound images.
WED       Throughout the process, from the initial tests at St
WED       Thomas's Hospital to the final tuning up, recordings were
WED       made. As the drill goes through his skull to place the
WED       device the microphone is only inches away. And the moment
WED       when it was switched on is captured too, and for the first
WED       time after four decades Tim hears someone speaking to him.
WED       At every stage Tim reflects on what is happening to him.
WED       He has been deaf for so long the prospect of hearing is
WED       daunting. Will it work? How will it affect his acting, and
WED       his life? Woven into this narrative is that of his play
WED       Earfull, a recorded live performance. The story is of
WED       falling into silence, but at the same time into acting,
WED       and the emergence from silence back into sound.
WED       But the programme does not simply tell Tim Barlow's story.
WED       At first a cochlea implant gives the aural equivalent of a
WED       pixilated visual image. Voices sound, Tim says, like Darth
WED       Vader's, and this is worked on to make it clearer and more
WED       subtle. Radio recreates this process so, rather than
WED       having it described, the listener experiences what Tim
WED       hears.
WED       
WED       11:30 Murder Unprompted: A Charles Paris Mystery b0082g3r (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Simon Brett's thespian sleuth returns in a dramatisation
WED       by Jeremy Front.
WED       Charles is understudying in a West End production. Star
WED       Michael Banks seems unable to master the script, leaving
WED       several people wanting him dead.
WED       Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy
WED       Frances ...... Suzanne Burden
WED       Michael Banks ...... Leslie Philips
WED       Alex ...... Danny Webb
WED       Maurice/Man 1 ...... Jon Glover
WED       Lucy ...... Jemima Rooper
WED       Val/Woman 1 ...... Liza Sadovy
WED       Paula Lexington/SM ...... Rachel Bavidge
WED       Mal Benson ...... Nitin Ganatra
WED       George Birkett ...... Simon Treves
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00k3g1r (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00k3ggb (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00k3gn4 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00k40l5 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00k3gqk (Listen)
WED       Mike gets bitten by the bug.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00k49s3 (Listen)
WED       Fifteen
WED       By Deborah Wain. Neglected and secretly pregnant,
WED       15-year-old foster child Ellie looks for love in the wrong
WED       place until it finds her with a power she never expected.
WED       Ellie ...... Jemima Foxtrot
WED       Gavin ...... Neil Dudgeon
WED       Sharon ...... Deborah McAndrew
WED       Jeremy ...... Darragh Mortell
WED       Directed by Nadia Molinari.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00k49s5 (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3yh5 (Listen)
WED       A Friend of the Family, Just One of the Girls
WED       New stories reflecting some of the unexpected ways in
WED       which modern families work.
WED       Rich and Dan are friends, united closely by the death of
WED       Dan's wife Milly. But Milly had a very different sort of
WED       intimacy with Rich, and it will take him some time to
WED       recover from her loss.
WED       By Chrissie Gittins, read by Phyllida Nash.
WED       
WED       15:45 Sacrifices b00k3jxx (Listen)
WED       Cyril
WED       Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices
WED       they make to help them fulfil their potential.
WED       Eight-year-old Cyril plays the piano, but his talent
WED       requires a big commitment from his family. They practise
WED       with him for at least two hours a day, before and after
WED       school, and take him once a week for a day at the Royal
WED       College of Music.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00k49s7 (Listen)
WED       Laurie Talyor asks if the buildings built today cater for
WED       modern life or merely reflect idealistic dreams. He hears
WED       a savage indictment of architecture, and also discusses
WED       the enduring influence of class.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00k3zzj (Listen)
WED       Dr Mark Porter discusses the causes and treatments for
WED       cerebral palsy. One in 400 births are affected by cerebral
WED       palsy. Mark visits the Bobath Centre in London to find out
WED       how their joined-up approach to treatment can help.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00k3kkk (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 b00k3krc (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 Elvenquest b00k49s9 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
WED       The heroes go in search of Amis when he is kidnapped by
WED       Lord Darkness.
WED       Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
WED       Dean the Dwarf/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 b00k3gqm (Listen)
WED       The knives are out at Borchester Land.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00k3kvs (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
WED       on the latest version of Star Trek to arrive in British
WED       cinemas.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k3lyb (Listen)
WED       Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit, Episode 3
WED       By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
WED       Vera causes chaos when she attempts to rescue Irene from a
WED       sinister fate.
WED       Irene ...... Prunella Scales
WED       Vera ...... Patricia Routledge
WED       Chris Thorogood ...... Stephen Hogan.
WED       
WED       20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00k4bgq (Listen)
WED       The Law and the Unborn
WED       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
WED       issues of the day.
WED       Developments in human reproductive technologies give rise
WED       to a range of legal and ethical controversies around
WED       fertilization, cloning, surrogacy and abortion. The new
WED       Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act makes legal the
WED       creation of 'saviour siblings' and hybrid animal-human
WED       embryos for scientific research. Does the law provide
WED       enough protection for the unborn? Clive considers who
WED       decides what can be done to an embryo and when, in law,
WED       life begins.
WED       An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:45 Petitioning the Modern Way b00k4bl6 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
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 how this fits in with our notions of democracy.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00k3x7m (Listen)
WED       Series 2, The Future of the Amazon
WED       Paul Evans investigates the Amazon. It has always been an
WED       evocative and mysterious place, but over the last few
WED       years it has become better known for deforestation and
WED       concern about its future. Paul looks at what makes the
WED       Amazon so special, what is threatening it and how those
WED       threats are affecting the wildlife that we still know so
WED       little about.
WED       Writers and explorers have always found the Amazon a place
WED       of inspiration and fascination. Hummingbirds, howler
WED       monkeys, vast rivers and mosquitoes are common images
WED       conjured up by the phrase 'the Amazon jungle', but that is
WED       fast disappearing. Future generations are more likely to
WED       think of soy bean plantations, cattle ranches and sugar
WED       cane rather than green frogs and towering trees.
WED       60 per cent of the Amazon sits within Brazil, one of the
WED       fastest growing economies in the world, and so the
WED       pressure to convert much of this vast natural ecosystem
WED       into beef and beans that are transported around the world
WED       is huge. Big money talks loudly, and the call of the
WED       howler monkey and the flutter of the butterflies wings are
WED       barely heard amidst the cries for growth and development.
WED       Counterbalance that with the worldwide concern for climate
WED       change. 20 per cent of all greenhouse gases put into the
WED       atmosphere are caused by deforestation and so the world is
WED       putting pressure on countries like Brazil to protect the
WED       forests. It is a complicated picture of competing powers,
WED       but sitting in the middle is the rich and little studied
WED       wildlife of Amazonia.
WED       Researchers at Oregon State University have found that
WED       hummingbirds are very wary about crossing areas of cleared
WED       forest, even though that area can be only a few metres
WED       across. This has serious implications for pollination of
WED       the plants and flowers of the forest because hummingbirds
WED       along with other flying insects and mammals are vitally
WED       important transporters of pollen. If we clear forest and
WED       do not leave large enough corridors for the animals to
WED       move through then the forest will become more and more
WED       inbred and depleted.
WED       This is just one example of how we are deforesting the
WED       Amazon with little concern for the wildlife that lives
WED       there, and we do so at our peril.
WED       The Amazon is rich in life, an important source of
WED       medicine, home to many thousands of indigenous people and
WED       crucial for the healthy functioning of our climate. Never
WED       before has the world been so interested in its future and
WED       never before has there been the opportunity to save or
WED       destroy it as there is today.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00k40l1 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00k3m6j (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00k3m86 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k3mdv (Listen)
WED       The House of Special Purpose, Episode 8
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       When the Tsar renounces the throne and is captured, Georgy
WED       finds himself a fugitive.
WED       
WED       23:00 My Teenage Diary b00k4bph (Listen)
WED       Jenny Eclair
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 Jenny Eclair.
WED       
WED       23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007w0s1 (Listen)
WED       Sir Matthias Blaggard
WED       Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read.
WED       Renowned broadcaster Roydon Postlethwaite impartially
WED       examines the disastrous career of the maverick MP who was
WED       so right wing that the Monday Club agreed to meet on a
WED       different day, just to avoid him.
WED       Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern
WED       Sir Matthias Blaggard ...... Richard Briers
WED       Chin Lau ...... Benedict Wong
WED       Simone Hillsnaps ...... Nina Sosanya
WED       Jim Pigg ...... Paul Putner
WED       Translator ...... Richard Glover
WED       Lionel Freeman ...... Robin Ince
WED       Sir Redford Hopechest ...... Rupert Vansittart.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00k3mgn (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Sean Curran.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 7 MAY 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00k2w38 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00k3fq7 (Listen)
THU       From Harvey River, Episode 3
THU       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
THU       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
THU       Jamaica.
THU       A cricket match brings Lorna's mother and father, Doris
THU       and Marcus, together. After a chaste but whirlwind
THU       romance, the newlyweds return to Marcus' hometown, where
THU       the marriageable local women all turn out to judge the
THU       stranger he chose over them.
THU       They are immediately won over by their beautiful and
THU       sophisticated rival, and life for the young couple and
THU       their children in those early years is good - until
THU       everything is changed by the outbreak of war in 1939.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2w52 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2wzs (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2x1d (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00k2x47 (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k35rp (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
THU       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00k35tm (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00k3dtm (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00k4fg7 (Listen)
THU       The Magna Carta
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta, the
THU       charter issued by King John in 1215 that is often seen as
THU       the basis of English liberties.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00k3fq9 (Listen)
THU       From Harvey River, Episode 4
THU       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
THU       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
THU       Jamaica.
THU       After losing their business and home, Marcus and Doris
THU       make their way to Kingston Town. Surrounded by boxes of
THU       finery from her former existence, Doris prepares for the
THU       harsh realities of life in a small apartment. Working
THU       barefoot at her sewing machine, she reinvents herself as
THU       the matriarch Mama Goodie, supporting her nine children
THU       with her inexhaustible love and strength but always
THU       dreaming of the good times back in Harvey River.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00k3fvw (Listen)
THU       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters
THU       Crunch Credit.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kbyk0 (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 The Keskidee b00k4fv9 (Listen)
THU       Oral historian Alan Dein uncovers the story of the
THU       Keskidee in London, Britain's first black arts centre.
THU       Founded in the early 1970s and tucked away in a church
THU       hall in the backstreets of Islington, it forged new ground
THU       for a generation of black British poets, actors, artists
THU       and directors. Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson was the
THU       educational officer at the Keskidee and Bob Marley shot
THU       the music video for 'Is This Love?' there.
THU       It had its own drama company, artists in residence and was
THU       a hub for African and Afro-Caribbean politics and arts, as
THU       well as a creative nursery for homegrown talent. It also
THU       catered for the needs of local youth and gave a generation
THU       of black teenagers a space of their own.
THU       But this massively influential cultural centre also has a
THU       fascinating earlier history, when it served as a
THU       progressive mission hall with a musical pastor and a
THU       legendary silver band.
THU       Today the building has reverted to being a religious base,
THU       housing an African church and a devout and joyous
THU       congregation. Alan joins up the hidden history of Gifford
THU       Hall which has played host to three different communities,
THU       all of which have much in common.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00k3g1t (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00k3ggd (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00k3gn6 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00jrpvs (Listen)
THU       Obama's Green Dream
THU       Tom Heap asks whether political and vested interests will
THU       shatter President Obama's dream of leading the United
THU       States and the world towards a greener future.
THU       Obama campaigned for a low-carbon economy and as soon as
THU       he came to power he set about laying the foundations for
THU       one. He wants to create green jobs in traditional
THU       industries like car making - electric cars of course - and
THU       construction, making American homes and offices more
THU       energy efficient. His biggest challenge will be to wean
THU       the country off its dependence on fossil fuels and make
THU       'clean' energy profitable. For that he needs to bring in a
THU       system called carbon cap and trade and needs the support
THU       of senators and members of congress to do so. However,
THU       even members of his own party are reluctant to back what
THU       they see as a vote-losing policy and energy companies with
THU       investments in coal, gas and oil are
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00k3gqm (Listen)
THU       The knives are out at Borchester Land.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00899ll (Listen)
THU       A City Full of Swindlers
THU       By Jenny Howarth.
THU       Cassandra Austen narrates the shocking story of her aunt's
THU       arrest and imprisonment for stealing a piece of lace, a
THU       story which reveals Georgian Bath to be a far less
THU       decorous place than it appears in her sister Jane's novels.
THU       Jane Leigh Perrot ...... Pamela Miles
THU       James Leigh Perrot ...... Tim Pigott-Smith
THU       Cassandra Austen ...... Lucy Black
THU       Mr Bond ...... Robert Gwilym
THU       Miss Gregory ...... Alison Reid
THU       Mr Filby ...... Howard Coggins
THU       Mr Gibbs ...... David Collins
THU       Mrs Scadding ...... Heather Williams
THU       Judge ...... Ross Harvey
THU       Mayor ...... Tom Sherman
THU       Directed by Sara Davies.
THU       
THU       15:02 Open Country b00k2m7f (Listen)
THU       Countryside magazine. The extensive survival of historical
THU       records for the Worcestershire village of Rushock enabled
THU       historian Peter Edwards to complete his first research
THU       project in the early 1970s. Helen Mark joins Peter as he
THU       revisits the village and people and charts the highs and
THU       lows of farming in the last 400 years.
THU       In 1972, Peter found a treasure trove of historical
THU       documents outlining the farming history of the small rural
THU       parish of Rushock. When he matched the dusty maps and land
THU       agents' reports to the fields and farms of the village, a
THU       new interest in social history was born. He spent many
THU       months traipsing the fields of the parish looking for
THU       agricultural clues to the past and getting to know the
THU       people who worked the land. What changes will Peter see on
THU       his return, and will he find the people who helped his
THU       research all those years ago?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00k2q8d (Listen)
THU       National Benevolent Fund for the Aged
THU       Baroness Betty Boothroyd appeals on behalf of the National
THU       Benevolent Fund for the Aged. Donations: Freepost BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
THU       This charity tackles the issues of loneliness, physical
THU       pain and isolation, all of which can leave older people
THU       feeling excluded from our society.
THU       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide NBFA with your
THU       full name and address so that they can claim the Gift Aid
THU       on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and
THU       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
THU       listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 243387.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3yh7 (Listen)
THU       A Friend of the Family, Going to Ireland
THU       New stories reflecting some of the unexpected ways in
THU       which modern families work.
THU       Marcia enters the life of a tired writer to do his
THU       cleaning, with the unexpected bonus that she manages to
THU       shift his writer's block. However, there is an unforeseen
THU       price to be paid and Marcia's family is coming to collect
THU       it.
THU       Written and read by Frank Dunne.
THU       
THU       15:45 Sacrifices b00k3jy0 (Listen)
THU       Daniel
THU       Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices
THU       they make to help them fulfil their potential.
THU       When Daniel Neilson wanted to ride horses as a small
THU       child, his parents did all they could to help him realise
THU       his dream. Now aged 19, Daniel is an Olympic hope for 2012.
THU       
THU       16:00 Bookclub b00k2sdt (Listen)
THU       Xiaolu Guo
THU       James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo
THU       to talk about her novel A Concise Chinese-English
THU       Dictionary for Lovers. It is a story about discovery,
THU       language and understanding, and how cultural differences
THU       can sometimes be too great for a relationship to last.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00k4g52 (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00k3kkm (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 b00k3krf (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 4 Stands Up b00k4g55 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Episode 6
THU       Chris Addison hosts the stand-up comedy show featuring
THU       some of the top names on the circuit. With Matt Kirshen,
THU       Tim Vine and Pippa Evans as twisted country singer Loretta
THU       Maine.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00k3gqp (Listen)
THU       Reality bites Helen - hard.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00k3kvv (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report
THU       from the 2009 Brighton Festival, where artist Anish Kapoor
THU       is guest director.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k3lyd (Listen)
THU       Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit, Episode 4
THU       By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
THU       Vera fears that Irene has ended up in the hospital
THU       psychiatry ward.
THU       Irene ...... Prunella Scales
THU       Vera ...... Patricia Routledge.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00k4g57 (Listen)
THU       In the wake of controversy over police tactics at the G20
THU       demonstrations, Simon Cox investigates how far the right
THU       to protest is being eroded in Britain.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00k8bhz (Listen)
THU       Iceland Feels the Chill
THU       The credit crunch has caused big problems to countries
THU       round the world, but in Iceland it has been disastrous.
THU       Peter Day finds out what it is like when a whole country
THU       goes bust, and what happens afterwards.
THU       
THU       21:00 The New Galileos b00k4g9l (Listen)
THU       The Large Binocular Telescope
THU       Second of two programmes in which Andrew Luck-Baker meets
THU       today's telescope builders and astronomers.
THU       He meets the scientists behind the Large Binocular
THU       Telescope, which will image the universe in even greater
THU       detail than the Hubble telescope.
THU       Andrew talks to the astronomers who expect to see planets
THU       orbiting and being born around distant stars with the
THU       telescope. He also meets the technologists who designed
THU       and constructed the revolutionary observatory with its
THU       twin 8.4 metre diameter mirrors, and visits the spinning
THU       furnaces in which the giant reflectors were made. The LBT
THU       is a trailblazer for astronomical technologies in the next
THU       generation of super-massive telescopes.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00k4fg7 (Listen)
THU       The Magna Carta
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta, the
THU       charter issued by King John in 1215 that is often seen as
THU       the basis of English liberties.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00k3m6l (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00k3m88 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k3mdx (Listen)
THU       The House of Special Purpose, Episode 9
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       On the run, Georgy tracks the Imperial Royal Family - and
THU       Anastasia - to a house in Yekaterinburg.
THU       
THU       23:00 Down the Line b008p50m (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Episode 2
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       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00k3mgq (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 8 MAY 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00k2w3b (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00k3fq9 (Listen)
FRI       From Harvey River, Episode 4
FRI       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
FRI       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
FRI       Jamaica.
FRI       After losing their business and home, Marcus and Doris
FRI       make their way to Kingston Town. Surrounded by boxes of
FRI       finery from her former existence, Doris prepares for the
FRI       harsh realities of life in a small apartment. Working
FRI       barefoot at her sewing machine, she reinvents herself as
FRI       the matriarch Mama Goodie, supporting her nine children
FRI       with her inexhaustible love and strength but always
FRI       dreaming of the good times back in Harvey River.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00k2w54 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00k2wzv (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00k2x1g (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00k2x49 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00k35rr (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev David
FRI       Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00k35tp (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00k3dtp (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 b00k2q8s (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
FRI       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
FRI       history.
FRI       Beirut hostages John McCarthy, Brian Keenan and Terry
FRI       Waite discuss their shared experiences and are joined by
FRI       campaigner Jill Morrell, who was the girlfriend of John
FRI       McCarthy at the time.
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00k3fqc (Listen)
FRI       From Harvey River, Episode 5
FRI       Dona Croll reads from Lorna Goodison's portrait of past
FRI       generations of her unconventional family in Harvey River,
FRI       Jamaica.
FRI       Lorna looks back on her extraordinary childhood in
FRI       Kingston as the daughter of Mama Goodie, whose bottomless
FRI       cooking pot and endless words of wisdom sustain the
FRI       locals. But times are changing in Jamaica, as the hypnotic
FRI       chants and drums of the Rastafarians echo over the city
FRI       and independence for the country finally arrives.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00k3fvy (Listen)
FRI       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters
FRI       Crunch Credit.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Ladies of Leisure b00k4gtg (Listen)
FRI       Felicity Finch travels to Saudi Arabia to find out about a
FRI       controversial women-only hotel. With its own bell-women
FRI       and female management team, the Luthan Hotel aims to take
FRI       advantage of a new rule allowing women in Saudi Arabia to
FRI       stay in hotels without a male chaperone.
FRI       Felicity meets some of the staff and guests to hear about
FRI       their lives and experiences. Some people see the hotel as
FRI       a sign of progress, but others say that it simply
FRI       reinforces gender segregation in a nation where women are
FRI       not even allowed to drive.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Chain Reaction b00773b4 (Listen)
FRI       Series 3, John Lloyd interviews Phill Jupitus
FRI       Series in which public figures choose others to interview.
FRI       The previous week's guest John Lloyd grabs the microphone
FRI       to interview his guest Phill Jupitus, comedian, radio
FRI       presenter and Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00k3g1w (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00k3ggg (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00k3gn8 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00k4kkj (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 b00k3gqp (Listen)
FRI       Reality bites Helen - hard.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00k4kkl (Listen)
FRI       Do's and Don'ts for the Mentally Interesting
FRI       By Louise Ramsden, based on Seaneen Molloy's blog The
FRI       Secret Life of a Manic Depressive, her account of learning
FRI       to live and love with bipolar disorder.
FRI       Seaneen ...... Séainín Brennan
FRI       Rob ...... Joseph Kloska
FRI       Psychiatrist ...... Janice Acquah
FRI       CPN ...... Toni Midlane
FRI       Therapist/Shopkeeper ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Directed by Fiona Kelcher.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00k4kkn (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw are
FRI       guests of Somerfords Garden Club and The Great Somerford
FRI       Allotments Bicentenary Committee near Malmesbury.
FRI       In the first in a new series looking at how we can carry
FRI       out sustainable gardening, the panel discover the benefits
FRI       and reasons for growing native plants.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Sacrifices b00k3jy2 (Listen)
FRI       Eleanor
FRI       Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices
FRI       they make to help them fulfil their potential.
FRI       Ellie Simmonds won two gold medals at the Paralympics in
FRI       Beijing. Her parents talk about the big decisions they
FRI       made to help her realise her dreams. When Swansea offered
FRI       the best training opportunies for Ellie almost three years
FRI       ago, her mum, Val, moved Ellie there and stays with her
FRI       during the week while dad Steve stayed in Walsall.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00k4l28 (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 b00k4l2b (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to the creator of Lost, JJ Abrams,
FRI       about his big-screen revival of Star Trek, which stars
FRI       Simon Pegg as Scotty. Stephen Wolley, the producer of The
FRI       Crying Game and The Company of Wolves, discusses his
FRI       unlikely new release - a documentary about the Eurovision
FRI       Song Contest for children called Sounds Like Teen Spirit.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00k3kkp (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 b00k3krh (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00k4l2d (Listen)
FRI       Series 68, Episode 2
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
FRI       are Andy Hamilton, Francis Wheen, Sue Perkins and Jeremy
FRI       Hardy.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00k3gqr (Listen)
FRI       Lilian and Jennifer go to war.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00k3kvx (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00k3lyg (Listen)
FRI       Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit, Episode 5
FRI       By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
FRI       Irene is horrified that her whole family are now living in
FRI       Vera's compound.
FRI       Irene ...... Prunella Scales
FRI       Vera ...... Patricia Routledge
FRI       Michaela Thorogood ...... Caroline Guthrie.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00k4l2g (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Edinburgh.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00k4l2j (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00k4l2l (Listen)
FRI       Tough Love
FRI       By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark don't see the
FRI       warning signs: bottles not taken to the bottle bank,
FRI       missing bank cards, tumbling grades at school. Then
FRI       everything falls into place as they learn the truth about
FRI       their son Danny, the 'golden boy'.
FRI       Laura ...... Maureen Beattie
FRI       Mark ...... Liam Brennan
FRI       Danny ...... Richard Madden
FRI       Paul ...... Iain Robertson
FRI       Dr Robb/Rita ...... Julie Austin
FRI       Tom ...... Jimmy Chisholm
FRI       Jeannie ...... Meg Fraser
FRI       Mr Brown ...... Paul Young.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00k3m6n (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00k3m8b (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00k3mdz (Listen)
FRI       The House of Special Purpose, Episode 10
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       As he recalls the fate of the Russian Imperial Family,
FRI       Georgy must face another loss, that of his beloved wife.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00k3zns (Listen)
FRI       Series 18, Frank Sinatra
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Broadcaster and DJ Colin Murray chooses Frank Sinatra.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00k3mgs (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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