01 May, 2009

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

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SAT SATURDAY 2 MAY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00jwy4k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT 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. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00jwy7d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT 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? SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT 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? SAT 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. SAT 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. SAT SAT 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. FRI FRI FRI