Radio 4 Listings for 30/05/2009 - 05/06/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 30 MAY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00kkfq6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00klbsg (Listen)
SAT       Radio Head, Episode 5
SAT       Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the
SAT       radio stations of Britain.
SAT       John explores the future of radio - is it digital, is it
SAT       online and what will it sound like?
SAT       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kkfq8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kkfqb (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kkfqd (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00kkfqg (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kkfqj (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00kkfql (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00kkfqn (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00kkg60 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00kmg2r (Listen)
SAT       Series 12, Episode 2
SAT       Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind,
SAT       body and soul.
SAT       Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park - part
SAT       of the Duke of Northumberland's estate - where he shares
SAT       his love of birdsong. Rob regularly joins Alnwick Health
SAT       Walks in Northumberland and delights fellow walkers by
SAT       sharing his extensive knowledge of birdsong, something he
SAT       developed through an online group called 'blind-birders'.
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00kmg2t (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Caz Graham finds Yorkshire cucumbers growing in what looks
SAT       like loft insulation, Lincolnshire strawberries packed so
SAT       cleverly they still taste of English summer after a flight
SAT       to Saudi Arabia, and we witness the highest of hi-tech
SAT       horticulture, under glass and spread over a site the size
SAT       of 80 football pitches in Kent.
SAT       But is all this British know-how and innovation about to
SAT       shrivel in a drought caused by a lack of funding for
SAT       research and development? Caz Graham visits Warwick
SAT       University to find out.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00kmg2w (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00kmg2y (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00kmgrs (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by journalist and
SAT       broadcaster Ed Stourton. With poetry from Susan Richardson.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00kmgrv (Listen)
SAT       Homo sapiens originated in Africa but about 70,000 years
SAT       ago, a small group left the continent and became the rest
SAT       of the globe's ancestors. With Alice Roberts, John
SAT       McCarthy discusses how early man migrated round the globe,
SAT       overcoming climatic and geographic obstacles, and how
SAT       those early travels resulted in the different races.
SAT       Surinam used to be known as Dutch Guyana and, despite
SAT       being the smallest country in South America, is home to
SAT       some of the most unspoiled rainforest in the world. Andrew
SAT       Westoll used to study monkeys there and returned more
SAT       recently to look at the country as a whole. He discovered
SAT       a fascinating mix of peoples, cultures and environments
SAT       and explains how the Surinamese hope ecotourism is the
SAT       answer to protecting their forest.
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SAT       10:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen)
SAT       Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of
SAT       composer Joseph Haydn by over-zealous fans, shortly after
SAT       his death in 1809.
SAT       The man who gave the world The Creation, over a hundred
SAT       symphonies and the blueprint for the string quartet, had
SAT       his head stolen by Karl Rosenbaum, the secretary of
SAT       Haydn's employers, the Esterhazy family, and Johann
SAT       Nepomuk Peter, governor of the provincial prison. Their
SAT       motivation for stealing the skull was, it is believed,
SAT       'scientific': there was at the time a great interest in
SAT       phrenology, a now-discredited scientific movement that
SAT       attempted to associate mental capacities with aspects of
SAT       cranial anatomy.
SAT       Simon tracks down what happened to the famous head in the
SAT       next 145 years, through being displayed for years at the
SAT       Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Vienna in a specially
SAT       made black wooden casket, until it was finally reunited in
SAT       1954 with Haydn's other remains in a marble tomb in the
SAT       Bergkirche in Eisenstadt.
SAT       He finds out exactly what the phrenologists were hoping to
SAT       achieve with the head of the late composer and ponders the
SAT       curious enthusiasm that fans of classical music have for
SAT       busts of their favourite composers.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00kmgrz (Listen)
SAT       After the Parliamentary expenses crisis, Elinor Goodman
SAT       asks why people want to be involved in politics and if
SAT       they can persuade electors that the battle for votes still
SAT       matters.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00kmgs1 (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00kmgs3 (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic
SAT       payments system is working one year on; more complaints
SAT       over financial services; and further planned pension
SAT       protests.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00kkd97 (Listen)
SAT       Series 68, Episode 5
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
SAT       include Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Danielle Ward.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00kmgs5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00kmgs7 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00kkdq8 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion programme
SAT       in Dartmouth, Devon.
SAT       The broadcaster Esther Rantzen, the Shadow Justice
SAT       Secretary Dominic Grieve, the Secretary of State for
SAT       Universities, Innovation and Skills, John Denham, and the
SAT       Liberal Democrat Julia Goldsworthy join the panel for live
SAT       debate, with questions from the audience.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00kmgs9 (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 b00kmh7k (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - A Murder of Quality
SAT       Dramatisation of the novel by John le Carré, his second to
SAT       feature spymaster George Smiley, set in a public school in
SAT       the early 1960s.
SAT       When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to
SAT       death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, finds
SAT       himself investigating her death - an investigation that
SAT       lifts the lid on a world of hidden passions and murderous
SAT       hatreds.
SAT       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Fielding ...... Geoffrey Palmer
SAT       Ailsa ...... Marcia Warren
SAT       Rigby ...... Sam Dale
SAT       Rode ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild
SAT       Ann Snow ...... Alison Pettitt
SAT       Janie ...... Amanda Lawrence
SAT       Shane Hecht ...... Liza Sadovy
SAT       Snow ...... Matt Addis
SAT       D'Arcy ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Hecht/Vicar ...... Malcolm Tierney
SAT       Perkins ...... Benjamin Askew
SAT       Girl ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Directed by Marc Beeby.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00kmh7m (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Jane Garvey visits the home of Marguerite Patten, the
SAT       doyenne of British cookery for more than 60 years. She
SAT       shares some old and contemporary cooking tips.
SAT       The number of MPs standing down at the next election
SAT       appears to grow by the day - but who will take their
SAT       place? To discuss what characteristics are needed to
SAT       embrace and survive a term or more in Parliament, Jane is
SAT       joined by Clare Short, Amanda Platell and Lynn Faulds Wood.
SAT       Biographer Claire Tomalin had always known her mother,
SAT       Muriel Herbert, had been a published composer in the
SAT       1920s. But it was only after Muriel died that Claire
SAT       discovered just what a formidable talent she had
SAT       possessed, and how prolific she had been. Her 'art songs'
SAT       were highly regarded in her day - James Joyce and WB Yeats
SAT       let her set their work to music. Now Claire has put
SAT       together a new recording of her mother's work.
SAT       Roma Tearne was only ten when she fled Sri Lanka with her
SAT       parents. Open war had broken out on the island, and her
SAT       Sinhalese mother had been outcast by her family for
SAT       marrying a Tamil man. The family came to England in search
SAT       of safety. But her parents never managed to integrate
SAT       successfully into British society. In her new novel, Roma
SAT       explores the themes which have marked the lives of her own
SAT       family: identity, homeland and loss.
SAT       For many pregnancies, couples 'go public' at around 12
SAT       weeks. But if a woman has kept quiet about her pregnancy
SAT       and miscarries, how do you deal with the loss without
SAT       friends, family and colleagues' support? Woman's Hour
SAT       explores why women tend to keep quiet about early
SAT       pregnancy and what impact this has if they miscarry.
SAT       Plus another chance to hear a live performance by Little
SAT       Boots.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00kmh7p (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00kk226 (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis and his guests discuss how businesses can
SAT       survive a recession, MPs expenses and the pros and cons of
SAT       having a positive mental attitude in the workplace.
SAT       Evan is joined by Charlotte Hogg, managing director of
SAT       Experian in the UK and Ireland, Dr Mike Lynch, chief
SAT       executive of Autonomy, and Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo!
SAT       Sushi and Yotel.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kmh7r (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00kmh7t (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kmh7w (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00kmh7y (Listen)
SAT       An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Peter Curran is joined by Helen Baxendale, Suggs and Nitin
SAT       Ganatra.
SAT       Jo Bunting finds out about the often perplexing and
SAT       somewhat hilarious government films used to promote
SAT       Britain in the sixties to the eighties with documentary
SAT       maker Jeff Simpson.
SAT       There's comedy from political satirist Andy Zaltzman.
SAT       And music from Madness and Rokia Traore.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00kmh80 (Listen)
SAT       Series 6, Parliament of Rooks
SAT       Party leaders are promising to give power to the people,
SAT       and scientists have discovered that rooks aren't so
SAT       bird-brained. With a nod to Chaucer, playwright Steve
SAT       Waters takes us to the Parliament of Rooks, where the
SAT       birds are having their own crisis of leadership.
SAT       With David Hargreaves, Alex MacQueen, Sophie Stanton and
SAT       Paul Rider.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00kmh82 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe is joined by historian Tristram Hunt, writer
SAT       Kathryn Hughes and director of the ICA Ekow Eshun to
SAT       discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring a
SAT       haunted house, a shrinking room and some intimate
SAT       animation.
SAT       The Little Stranger is a new novel by Sarah Waters and
SAT       takes us back to the austere world of late 1940s Britain.
SAT       A crumbling stately home in Warwickshire and the family
SAT       which lives in straightened circumstances there become
SAT       objects of increasing fascination for a local doctor. But
SAT       his belief in the rational, scientific world is shaken by
SAT       some strange goings on at the old house.
SAT       Four mathematicians in a room may sound like the set-up
SAT       for a geeky gag, but it's also the starting point for the
SAT       Spanish thriller Fermat's Room, written and directed by
SAT       Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena. The four boffins have
SAT       been brought together by the mysterious Fermat, but soon
SAT       discover that their host plans to crush them in an
SAT       ever-shrinking room unless they can solve a succession of
SAT       puzzles.
SAT       Apart from his work as an actor, Wallace Shawn is also a
SAT       distinguished playwright. A current season of his plays at
SAT       the Royal Court includes a revival of Aunt Dan and Lemon,
SAT       a play which was originally premiered there in 1985. Lemon
SAT       is a reclusive young woman who reminisces about the
SAT       powerful influence that family friend Aunt Dan had on her
SAT       as child. A charismatic academic, Dan's legacy may not be
SAT       what Lemon's liberal parents would have wished for.
SAT       Tracey Emin's first show of new work for four years is
SAT       called Those who suffer Love. The show is intimate both in
SAT       the revealing nature of pages from Emin's diaries and also
SAT       in the content of her drawings. Although she describes it
SAT       as 'essentially a drawings show', the exhibition also
SAT       features animation, neon and sewn work.
SAT       Hope Springs is a family drama on BBC1. Alex Kingston's
SAT       Ellie persuades her gang of four female ex-cons to lie low
SAT       with their swag in a picturesque Highland village until
SAT       they can leave for a life of ill-gotten leisure in
SAT       Barbados. Inevitably nothing goes quite to plan and the
SAT       village isn't quite as sleepy as it seems.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00kmhl4 (Listen)
SAT       Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That?
SAT       Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of
SAT       interviews with world famous writers.
SAT       Between 1980 and 1990, Lynne was a part-time arts
SAT       journalist, meeting and interviewing many giants of the
SAT       theatre, including Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Simon
SAT       Gray, Athol Fugard and Anthony Minghella. For over 20
SAT       years these cassettes gathered dust in her garage, but now
SAT       Lynne airs them and finds out, with horror and humour,
SAT       what her younger self was like as an interviewer, and what
SAT       she learnt from meeting these great talents.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00khky8 (Listen)
SAT       Mugsborough, 1917
SAT       Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of
SAT       Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered
SAT       Philanthropists, picking up the story 10 years on.
SAT       The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views
SAT       of the Great War. The politically aware favour peaceful
SAT       solutions, others are determined to avoid being sent to
SAT       the Western Front. One returns from Flanders terribly
SAT       injured and cannot find work and one child is still
SAT       unaware of the tragic circumstances of her parentage.
SAT       Easton ...... Johnny Vegas
SAT       Old Misery/Hunter ...... Paul Whitehouse
SAT       Ruth ...... Shirley Henderson
SAT       Nora ...... Raquel Cassidy
SAT       Frankie ...... Iain McKee
SAT       Bert White ...... Des O'Malley
SAT       Bundy ...... Tom Pitts
SAT       Barrington ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
SAT       Charlie Linden ...... Carl Rice
SAT       Elsie ...... Nicola Stephenson
SAT       Sweater ...... Rupert Degas
SAT       Slyme ...... Kevin Eldon
SAT       Crass ...... Arthur Smith
SAT       Rushton ...... Bill Bailey
SAT       Young Elizabeth ...... Yasmin Gerrard
SAT       Freddie ...... Jody Latham
SAT       Older Elizabeth ...... Joanna Neary
SAT       Mrs Meadows ...... Anne Waggott
SAT       Directed by Dirk Maggs.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00kmhl6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00kjk0p (Listen)
SAT       The Law and Climate Change
SAT       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
SAT       issues of the day.
SAT       Are our environmental laws robust enough to save the
SAT       planet for humankind? The Climate Change Act 2008 commits
SAT       the UK to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent
SAT       by 2050, but can this be legally enforced? What law and
SAT       penalties are available to force industry, individuals and
SAT       even the government to reduce their carbon footprint?
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Counterpoint b00kj2f2 (Listen)
SAT       Series 23, Episode 12
SAT       Paul Gambaccini chairs the last semi final of the music
SAT       quiz. The contestants are Andrew Feltham from Kent,
SAT       Richard Grothusen from Lancashire and David Roy from
SAT       Hertfordshire.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00khm90 (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough introduces a reading of Samuel Taylor
SAT       Coleridge's classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
SAT       read by Finbar Lynch.
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SUN       SUNDAY 31 MAY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00kmkp2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b007s1vf (Listen)
SUN       Murder She Thought - Series 1, Have a Nice Death
SUN       Compelling crime stories by women writers.
SUN       Antonia Fraser's psychological thriller, in which a
SUN       best-selling author has a wonderful time in New York -
SUN       until he receives a strange phone call.
SUN       Read by Rosalind Ayres.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmkp6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmkp8 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmkpb (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00kmmf1 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00kmn39 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from Tavistock Parish Church.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Letters to Mary b00kjk4b (Listen)
SUN       Episode 3
SUN       Series in which three writers send an informal letter to
SUN       the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,
SUN       updating her on the progress of her often radical ideas in
SUN       the 250 years since her birth.
SUN       Writer and feminist Natasha Walter looks at
SUN       Wollstonecraft's central work, A Vindication of the Rights
SUN       of Woman.
SUN       This was a book written in a hurry, during the turbulent
SUN       years at the end of the 18th century when it seemed to
SUN       some that the Revolution in France might truly be ushering
SUN       in a new age of freedom and equality. Mary completed it in
SUN       just six weeks, taking pages to the printers before the
SUN       book was finished. Loosely argued and sometimes showing
SUN       signs of the speed with which it was composed, her central
SUN       argument is nevertheless as simple and powerful as ever -
SUN       that the existence of inequality between the sexes did not
SUN       prove that women were intrinsically inferior.
SUN       Natasha happily updates Mary on the immense advances that
SUN       have been made in equality of the sexes since her day,
SUN       considering how delighted she would be with the many
SUN       opportunities which women now rightly take for granted in
SUN       terms of education, careers and political engagement. But
SUN       she also looks at Mary's own experience of family life and
SUN       considers how, in this key area, there is still some way
SUN       to go before Mary's dreams are truly achieved.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00kmn3c (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00kmn3f (Listen)
SUN       Ordinary Time
SUN       Mark Tully celebrates what award-winning novelist
SUN       Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary', and
SUN       what GK Chesterton described as, 'the ecstasy of being
SUN       ordinary'.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00kmn3h (Listen)
SUN       Grass Snakes
SUN       Lionel Kelleway tries to get close to the grass snake and
SUN       find out a little more about its private life. Grass
SUN       snakes grow to a surprising five feet long; they are
SUN       Britain's largest native snake, and yet we hear very
SUN       little about them.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00kmn6y (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00kmn70 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00kmn72 (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 b00kmndk (Listen)
SUN       Treloar Trust
SUN       Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust.
SUN       Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical
SUN       support and independence training to young people with
SUN       physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas.
SUN       Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with
SUN       your full name and address so 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: 1092857.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00kmndm (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00kmndp (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00kmndr (Listen)
SUN       The Marvellous Work Behold Amazed
SUN       A service from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London,
SUN       for the Feast of Pentecost.
SUN       Featuring music from Haydn's Creation to mark the 200th
SUN       anniversary of the composer's death.
SUN       Led by Rev Alan Gyle and Rev Richard Coles.
SUN       Director of Music: Stephen Farr.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00kkdqb (Listen)
SUN       Clive James observes that while democracy is the right
SUN       system for governing a country, it's the wrong system for
SUN       choosing a professor of poetry.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00kmndt (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00kmndw (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00kmndy (Listen)
SUN       Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook.
SUN       Caroline has travelled the world to see how different zoos
SUN       worked, spent years living in the jungle and, when she
SUN       returned to Britain, taught herself how to be a farmer.
SUN       She has become a champion of the countryside and, when a
SUN       supermarket giant announced plans to open a store on her
SUN       doorstep, she decided to take them on.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00kj9yv (Listen)
SUN       Series 2, Episode 4
SUN       John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three
SUN       guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary
SUN       museum. With John Hodgman, Oliver James and Charlotte
SUN       Uhlenbroek.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00kmv0x (Listen)
SUN       School Food
SUN       In September nutrient-based standards - already operating
SUN       in primary schools- will be extended to all secondary
SUN       school food. The aim is to continue the improvement in our
SUN       children's diets started by Jamie Oliver five years ago,
SUN       by ensuring school menus contain a prescribed balance of
SUN       vitamins, minerals and energy sources. However, the Local
SUN       Authority Caterers Association, who provide 90 per cent of
SUN       the meals served in schools, fear it is overcomplicated
SUN       and will create meals so unappealing that they will drive
SUN       even more secondary school pupils out of the school gates
SUN       and into the chippy.
SUN       Sheila Dillon joins delegates at the LACA summit to hear
SUN       both sides of the argument. Previous Chair of LACA Pat
SUN       Fellows puts the case against the nutrient standards. Joe
SUN       Harvey, Director of the Health Education Trust and Chair
SUN       of the Caroline Walker Trust (the body which devised the
SUN       guidelines on which the nutrient standards are based)
SUN       defends this attempt to improve children's diets.
SUN       Professor Jack Winkler and Sarah Sinclair, of the
SUN       Nutrition Unit at London's Metropolitan University,
SUN       recently undertook what appears to be the only independent
SUN       research ever done in Britain on what school children eat
SUN       outside the school gates ('fringe eating') - where
SUN       children graze freely on chips, fizzy drinks and sweets.
SUN       Sheila and Jack visit a north London high street to
SUN       observe the fringe and find out what children don't like
SUN       about school dinners - not, it turns out, the food, but
SUN       the dining areas, the queues, or the lack of freedom.
SUN       What is the alternative? Professor Winkler provides
SUN       examples of successful schemes to provide healthier school
SUN       fringe food. Eileen Steinbock, Head Nutritionist for
SUN       Brakes, a catering company who supply restaurants and
SUN       schools with meals and ingredients, suggests making the
SUN       types of food children want, but with good ingredients.
SUN       So are nutrient standards workable? Judy Hargadon, Chief
SUN       Exec of the School Food Trust, set up by the government in
SUN       2005 to promote the education and health of children by
SUN       improving the quality of food in schools, and the body
SUN       charged with implementing the new school meal standards,
SUN       defends the nutrient standards.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00kmv8j (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00kmv8l (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Britain In Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in
SUN       Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea
SUN       of itself through three controversial public building
SUN       projects.
SUN       In 1961, London's Euston Station and its famous Arch faced
SUN       demolition. A landmark building in the history of railway
SUN       architecture, battle raged over Euston's future. Prime
SUN       Minister Harold Macmillan was lobbied, banners were
SUN       unfurled and British Rail architects drew up plans for a
SUN       new, more modern station.
SUN       As he looks back at Euston's troubled reinvention,
SUN       Tristram dissects the furious debates sparked by the
SUN       demolition and asks what Euston tells us about the
SUN       changing value of Britain's past and our enthusiasm for
SUN       the future.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kkd91 (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are
SUN       guests of Middleton Cheney Garden Club near Banbury.
SUN       The final instalment in our sustainable gardening series
SUN       looks at why rain water is such an invaluable resource.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 A Guide to Water Birds b00kmv8q (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Brett Westwood presents a series of entertaining and
SUN       practical guides to identifying many of the birds found on
SUN       or near freshwater, aided by sound recordist Chris Watson.
SUN       Brett is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the
SUN       Somerset Levels to identify wet meadow waders including
SUN       lapwing, redshank, curlew and snipe.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00kmw7b (Listen)
SUN       Mugsborough, 1926
SUN       Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of
SUN       Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered
SUN       Philanthropists.
SUN       The threat of civil unrest is gripping the country.
SUN       Socialist ideas and talk of revolution are in the air as
SUN       workers and managers come to blows, and an illegitimate
SUN       child with a tragic secret is used as a pawn in a bigger
SUN       game.
SUN       Easton ...... Johnny Vegas
SUN       Old Misery/Hunter ...... Paul Whitehouse
SUN       Ruth ...... Shirley Henderson
SUN       Nora ...... Raquel Cassidy
SUN       Frankie ...... Iain McKee
SUN       Bert White ...... Des O'Malley
SUN       Bundy ...... Tom Pitts
SUN       Barrington ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
SUN       Charlie Linden ...... Carl Rice
SUN       Elsie ...... Nicola Stephenson
SUN       Sweater ...... Rupert Degas
SUN       Slyme ...... Kevin Eldon
SUN       Crass ...... Arthur Smith
SUN       Rushton ...... Bill Bailey
SUN       Young Elizabeth ...... Yasmin Gerrard
SUN       Freddie ...... Jody Latham
SUN       Older Elizabeth ...... Joanna Neary
SUN       Directed by Dirk Maggs.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00kmw7d (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the
SUN       Hay Festival and hears from Monty Don about his five best
SUN       books.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00kmz2c (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces requests for poems by Robert
SUN       Frost and Edward Thomas. Read by Peter Marinker and Philip
SUN       Franks.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00kjjpf (Listen)
SUN       Allan Urry investigates more claims of bad behaviour on
SUN       the part of bankers, and follows the David and Goliath
SUN       struggle of a group of small business owners who are
SUN       battling to force one of the high street giants to take
SUN       responsibility for the decisions that they claim left them
SUN       in ruins.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00kmh80 (Listen)
SUN       Series 6, Parliament of Rooks
SUN       Party leaders are promising to give power to the people,
SUN       and scientists have discovered that rooks aren't so
SUN       bird-brained. With a nod to Chaucer, playwright Steve
SUN       Waters takes us to the Parliament of Rooks, where the
SUN       birds are having their own crisis of leadership.
SUN       With David Hargreaves, Alex MacQueen, Sophie Stanton and
SUN       Paul Rider.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kmz2f (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00kmz2h (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kmz2k (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00kmz2m (Listen)
SUN       Frank Cottrell-Boyce introduces his selection of
SUN       highlights from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00kmz2p (Listen)
SUN       There is big news at Bridge Farm.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00kmz2r (Listen)
SUN       A new series to Radio 4, hosted by Matt Frei from the BBC
SUN       studio in Washington, DC. Americana gets off the beaten
SUN       track to present an insider's guide to the people and the
SUN       ideas shaping the United States today.
SUN       In the first programme, Matt gauges the health of the
SUN       nation in an interview with one of America's top agony
SUN       aunts, and reveals the city you'd least expect to be
SUN       beating America's economic blues, by attracting some of
SUN       the country's top entrepreneurial talent.
SUN       And as politicians in Washington argue over who knew what
SUN       about the use of torture, Americana goes to the grassroots
SUN       and asks what happens when the soldiers who carried out
SUN       the abuse return home to civilian life.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0082b6y (Listen)
SUN       The Closed Door, Wednesday
SUN       Series of stories by Dorothy Whipple, an often overlooked
SUN       writer of the interwar years who was described by JB
SUN       Priestley as 'the Jane Austen of her age'.
SUN       A divorced mother prepares for another painful meeting
SUN       with her estranged children. Read by Stella Gonet.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00kk36n (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy. Topics include MPs expenses and BBC pay; the
SUN       end of Go4It, a tribute to Clement Freud and Bono's poetry.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00kkd93 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Harold Brown and Rachel York
SUN       about the life of physicist Herbert York; Bill Smith about
SUN       diver Carl Spencer; Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn and Nick
SUN       Jones about trade union leader Ken Gill and Professor
SUN       David Bradbury and Pamela Howard about the life of French
SUN       theatre director Roger Planchon.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00kmgs3 (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic
SUN       payments system is working one year on; more complaints
SUN       over financial services; and further planned pension
SUN       protests.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00kmndk (Listen)
SUN       Treloar Trust
SUN       Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust.
SUN       Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical
SUN       support and independence training to young people with
SUN       physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas.
SUN       Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with
SUN       your full name and address so 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: 1092857.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 The Report b00kk0xr (Listen)
SUN       Simon Cox gets behind the headlines engulfing MPs about
SUN       their expenses and explores how the system of allowances
SUN       was allowed to get out of control. The programme charts
SUN       the origin of the row back to the enactment of freedom of
SUN       information laws and reveals how proposed changes, which
SUN       could have averted the crisis, were repeatedly thwarted by
SUN       MPs themselves.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00kmz3s (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00kmz3v (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
SUN       Including The Condensed History of Big Ben:
SUN       The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster is
SUN       celebrating 150 years of almost continuous time telling.
SUN       To mark the occasion Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced
SUN       Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and
SUN       Giles Terera take a whirlwind musical tour of all things
SUN       Ben.
SUN       It's a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept
SUN       cracking and the invention of something called a double
SUN       three-legged gravity escapement mechanism.
SUN       So join Adam for a quirky look back at a century and a
SUN       half of faithful ticking.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00kkd95 (Listen)
SUN       Francine Stock takes a look back at the 1960s with a man
SUN       who gave us some of its defining images - director Richard
SUN       Lester. He made the Beatles' films Help and Hard Day's
SUN       Night and the quintessential 60s sex comedy The Knack.
SUN       But by the end of the decade, it was all very different.
SUN       And two of Lester's films - Petulia and The Bed Sitting
SUN       Room - dared to say that. Now, after years of neglect,
SUN       those films are available again. Lester revisits the 60s
SUN       as they lost their swing.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00kmn3f (Listen)
SUN       Ordinary Time
SUN       Mark Tully celebrates what award-winning novelist
SUN       Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary', and
SUN       what GK Chesterton described as, 'the ecstasy of being
SUN       ordinary'.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00kmz6j (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00kjjyw (Listen)
MON       The betting shop is an egalitarian space; unlike pubs
MON       there is no necessity to buy, and as long as your
MON       behaviour does not impact on anyone else's you can do what
MON       you want. It also brings people of different backgrounds
MON       and ethnicities together in a unique way. Although
MON       gambling carries a stigma and people often campaign
MON       against opening more betting shops in their communities,
MON       Rebecca Cassidy tells Laurie that they are incredibly
MON       cosmopolitan and tolerant, and are emblematic of changes
MON       that are happening in Britain.
MON       Laurie also hears from Miriam Glucksmann, who has updated
MON       a study of women working on assembly lines which she first
MON       published anonymously nearly 30 years ago.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00kmn39 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from Tavistock Parish Church.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7t (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmzbn (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz97 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00kmzcy (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzdb (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00kmzk2 (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00kn8vw (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00kmztq (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00knpc9 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His
MON       guests include historian Antony Beevor on his new book, D
MON       Day; creator of the hit TV series The Wire, David Simon;
MON       and leading physicist Michio Kaku on 'The Physics of the
MON       Impossible'.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen)
MON       Jane's Fame, Episode 1
MON       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
MON       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
MON       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
MON       The myth of Jane Austen is of a demure spinster,
MON       unobtrusively writing masterpieces in the corner of the
MON       family sitting room. The reality was of an ambitious and
MON       spirited young woman who was part of a lively, bookish
MON       family and keenly attuned to the literary world of her
MON       time.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0kj (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Millions watched the final of Britain's Got Talent with
MON       Susan Boyle. But is the way in which women are portrayed
MON       on such TV shows always fair? Is there too much emphasis
MON       on appearance and does the media demand more of female
MON       participants? Jane is joined by TV critic Andrew Billen
MON       and psychologist Professor David Wilson to discuss these
MON       questions.
MON       Jane is also joined by the all-girl, electric string
MON       quartet Escala, who first appeared on Britain's Got Talent
MON       in 2008. They tell Jane about their mission to break down
MON       the barriers to classical music and perform live in the
MON       studio.
MON       Honey bees play a crucial role in biodiversity with their
MON       vital task of pollinating plants. But the UK is losing its
MON       bee population at an increasing rate. At their AGM,
MON       members of the Women's Institute will debate a resolution
MON       - SOS For Honey Bees - calling for increased funding for
MON       research into bee health. Jane finds out about the
MON       mysterious disappearance of our bees, and what can be done
MON       about it.
MON       We hear about Hanan Al-Shaykh's new book The Locust and
MON       the Bird: My Mother's Story.
MON       And Jayne Zito, whose husband, Jonathan was stabbed to
MON       death nearly 17 years ago by a schizophrenic, talks about
MON       why the Trust set up in his name is closing.
MON       Including drama: Writing the Century.
MON       
MON       11:00 Governors Needed b00knpcc (Listen)
MON       State Schools
MON       Reeta Chakrabati sets out to discover what is involved in
MON       being a school governor and how influential their work is
MON       on the success or failure of a school. They are the
MON       largest volunteer body in the UK but in certain areas
MON       there is a severe shortage; it involves a lot of work and
MON       its commitment in unpaid and largely unseen.
MON       Reeta examines the role of governors in state schools. She
MON       talks to Phil Revell, chief executive of the National
MON       Governors Association, who is deeply concerned about the
MON       number of governing bodies who do not operate as
MON       effectively as they should. Reeta visits several schools
MON       to find out how the system works and whether it always
MON       follows that a successful school has a successful
MON       governing body.
MON       
MON       11:30 Newfangle b00knpvw (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set hundreds of
MON       thousands of years ago among a tribe of proto-humans.
MON       Newfangle is bottom of the tree; despised by his mother,
MON       savaged by alpha male Alf on a daily basis and ignored by
MON       Snaggle, his favourite female. But Newfangle is a hominid
MON       with big ideas. He invents language, which he hopes will
MON       transform his situation, only to find that words have a
MON       way of being twisted to new and unpleasant uses.
MON       Newfangle ...... Russell Tovey
MON       Snaggle ...... Pippa Evans
MON       Crag ...... Gabriel Vick
MON       Coco ...... Maureen Lipman
MON       Alf ...... Hugh Bonneville
MON       Lucy ...... Amy Shindler
MON       An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kv (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00kn1bb (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00kn1bq (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Counterpoint b00knqp7 (Listen)
MON       Series 23, Episode 13
MON       Paul Gambaccini chairs the final of the music quiz. The
MON       contestants are Alan Douglas from Worcestershire, David
MON       Roy from Hertfordshire and Peter Whitehead from Kent.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00kmz2p (Listen)
MON       There is big news at Bridge Farm.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00knv8n (Listen)
MON       The Tent
MON       Comedy by Tom Green. Gavin and Fay bravely attempt to plan
MON       their long-overdue wedding. It could be in a 19th century
MON       'medieval' castle or it could be the zoo, but it
MON       definitely won't be the church.
MON       Fay ...... Sian Reeves
MON       Gavin ...... Jeremy Swift
MON       Anna ...... Joanna Scanlan
MON       Rebecca ...... Janice Acquah
MON       Ukulele played by Hester Goodman
MON       Directed by Toby Swift.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00kmhl4 (Listen)
MON       Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That?
MON       Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of
MON       interviews with world famous writers.
MON       Between 1980 and 1990, Lynne was a part-time arts
MON       journalist, meeting and interviewing many giants of the
MON       theatre, including Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Simon
MON       Gray, Athol Fugard and Anthony Minghella. For over 20
MON       years these cassettes gathered dust in her garage, but now
MON       Lynne airs them and finds out, with horror and humour,
MON       what her younger self was like as an interviewer, and what
MON       she learnt from meeting these great talents.
MON       
MON       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2xs (Listen)
MON       Red or Dead?
MON       Series charting the history of America, written and
MON       presented by David Reynolds.
MON       How the powerful Second World War alliance between the
MON       United States and the Soviet Union hardened into the Cold
MON       War.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00kmv0x (Listen)
MON       School Food
MON       In September nutrient-based standards - already operating
MON       in primary schools- will be extended to all secondary
MON       school food. The aim is to continue the improvement in our
MON       children's diets started by Jamie Oliver five years ago,
MON       by ensuring school menus contain a prescribed balance of
MON       vitamins, minerals and energy sources. However, the Local
MON       Authority Caterers Association, who provide 90 per cent of
MON       the meals served in schools, fear it is overcomplicated
MON       and will create meals so unappealing that they will drive
MON       even more secondary school pupils out of the school gates
MON       and into the chippy.
MON       Sheila Dillon joins delegates at the LACA summit to hear
MON       both sides of the argument. Previous Chair of LACA Pat
MON       Fellows puts the case against the nutrient standards. Joe
MON       Harvey, Director of the Health Education Trust and Chair
MON       of the Caroline Walker Trust (the body which devised the
MON       guidelines on which the nutrient standards are based)
MON       defends this attempt to improve children's diets.
MON       Professor Jack Winkler and Sarah Sinclair, of the
MON       Nutrition Unit at London's Metropolitan University,
MON       recently undertook what appears to be the only independent
MON       research ever done in Britain on what school children eat
MON       outside the school gates ('fringe eating') - where
MON       children graze freely on chips, fizzy drinks and sweets.
MON       Sheila and Jack visit a north London high street to
MON       observe the fringe and find out what children don't like
MON       about school dinners - not, it turns out, the food, but
MON       the dining areas, the queues, or the lack of freedom.
MON       What is the alternative? Professor Winkler provides
MON       examples of successful schemes to provide healthier school
MON       fringe food. Eileen Steinbock, Head Nutritionist for
MON       Brakes, a catering company who supply restaurants and
MON       schools with meals and ingredients, suggests making the
MON       types of food children want, but with good ingredients.
MON       So are nutrient standards workable? Judy Hargadon, Chief
MON       Exec of the School Food Trust, set up by the government in
MON       2005 to promote the education and health of children by
MON       improving the quality of food in schools, and the body
MON       charged with implementing the new school meal standards,
MON       defends the nutrient standards.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00knv8q (Listen)
MON       As British troops are withdrawn from Iraq, Ernie Rea
MON       discusses whether Just War Theory, expounded by St
MON       Augustine, is rendered null and void by modern forms of
MON       warfare.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00kn32d (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn342 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00knwyq (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 5
MON       John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three
MON       guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary
MON       museum. With Kate Adie, Jon Richardson and Roger Law.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00kn2wk (Listen)
MON       Matt's conscience takes a battering.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00kn34g (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the
MON       verdict on the fourth Terminator film, starring Christian
MON       Bale.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn3s7 (Listen)
MON       Writing the Century 9, Episode 1
MON       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
MON       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
MON       Rosenthal.
MON       Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor
MON       of The Yorkshire Post.
MON       It is 1954, and Linton's rise from provincial to national
MON       prominence continues through his work as chairman of the
MON       Press Council and his respected editorials. But his wife
MON       Pinkie hankers after the quieter life of retirement.
MON       Linton ...... Russell Dixon
MON       Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie
MON       Rebecca West ...... Ann Rye
MON       Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey
MON       Henry Bate ...... Martin Oldfield
MON       Stan ...... Matt McGuirk
MON       Directed by Gary Brown.
MON       
MON       20:00 Hearts and Minds b00knxmx (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Nick Fraser considers the proper role of intellectuals in
MON       relation to world events and world conflict.
MON       The Cold War was fought on intellectual as well as
MON       strategic grounds, but did intellectuals abandon their own
MON       standards in the battle for 'hearts and minds'? Nick
MON       considers the matter in the run-up to the centenary of the
MON       birth of Isaiah Berlin, one of Britain's foremost
MON       political philosophers and opponents of Soviet communism,
MON       and takes the figures known as 'liberal anti-communists'
MON       during the Cold War as an historic peak of the Western
MON       intellectual's power and influence.
MON       A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00kp7yg (Listen)
MON       No Escape
MON       Richard Weight asks why prison policy is so difficult to
MON       unlock and whether anyone has the key. Crime is not
MON       getting any worse but the number of inmates has almost
MON       doubled in the last 20 years. What is more, the majority
MON       of prisoners reoffend, with an annual cost to the Treasury
MON       of more than 12 billion pounds.
MON       Featuring contributions from:
MON       Jonathan Aitken, former MP and prison inmate
MON       Professor Andrew Coyle, Professor of Prison Studies
MON       Baroness Corston, author of the Corston report on women's
MON       prisons
MON       Frances Crook, Director, Howard League for Penal Reform
MON       David Hanson MP, prisons minister
MON       Kenny MacAskill MSP, Scottish cabinet secretary for justice
MON       Ex-offenders from the Open Book Project, Goldsmith's
MON       College.
MON       
MON       21:00 Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means
MON       Business b00kp806 (Listen)
MON       Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open
MON       source' computer software. Much has been said about the
MON       likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system
MON       Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers
MON       scattered around the world collaborate in a 'virtual
MON       anthill' to create products that rival more commercial
MON       offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how
MON       its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business,
MON       with some startling results.
MON       A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00knpc9 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His
MON       guests include historian Antony Beevor on his new book, D
MON       Day; creator of the hit TV series The Wire, David Simon;
MON       and leading physicist Michio Kaku on 'The Physics of the
MON       Impossible'.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00kn54c (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00kn62h (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6hb (Listen)
MON       The Outlander, Episode 6
MON       Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in
MON       Canada in 1903.
MON       Widowed by her own hand, Mary Boulton is a fugitive. For
MON       now she has stopped running, in the care of Rev
MON       Bonnycastle. But her brothers-in-law are still on her
MON       trail.
MON       
MON       23:00 Off the Page b00cm9p8 (Listen)
MON       Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover
MON       Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series.
MON       Studio guests are Catherine Townsend, author of the
MON       Sleeping Around column in the Independent, the Telegraph's
MON       music critic Neil McCormick and Australian novelist Kathy
MON       Lette, author of How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy
MON       Household Hints. They discuss all aspects of relationship
MON       heartache and liberation.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7ty (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Susan Hulme.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00kmz56 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen)
TUE       Jane's Fame, Episode 1
TUE       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
TUE       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
TUE       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
TUE       The myth of Jane Austen is of a demure spinster,
TUE       unobtrusively writing masterpieces in the corner of the
TUE       family sitting room. The reality was of an ambitious and
TUE       spirited young woman who was part of a lively, bookish
TUE       family and keenly attuned to the literary world of her
TUE       time.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6l (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz99 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7w (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbq (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd0 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjl (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00kmztd (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
TUE       Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 What's the Point of ... b00kp822 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, The British Zoo
TUE       Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at
TUE       the British Zoo.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On
TUE       b00gkrty (Listen)
TUE       Sister, Guard Your Veil
TUE       Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian
TUE       writer David Mattin about leaving their homeland and
TUE       family behind to make a new life in Britain.
TUE       David hears how women's lives changed dramatically under
TUE       the Ayatollah's regime and why, with modifications to
TUE       family law and enforced adoption of the hijab in public,
TUE       some women felt they had to leave. That included a bookish
TUE       young girl who had been educated abroad and found herself
TUE       on trial when she applied for a job at the university.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen)
TUE       Jane's Fame, Episode 2
TUE       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
TUE       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
TUE       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
TUE       The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of
TUE       concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though
TUE       largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her
TUE       fame was nonetheless beginning to spread.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gc (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing The Century.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00kp9jc (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Seabirds - Canaries on the Cliffs
TUE       Chris Sperring explores declining seabird numbers and asks
TUE       if it represents a crisis or just a blip.
TUE       Visit any windy, spray laden seabird colony in the spring
TUE       and early summer and every sense is fired by the sound,
TUE       sight and smell of thousands upon thousand of birds flying
TUE       to and fro with fish to feed their young that are perched
TUE       precariously on every ledge.
TUE       Or that is how it should be. In many seabird colonies it
TUE       is now much quieter and many traditional nesting ledges
TUE       are empty. Seabird ecologists are increasingly concerned
TUE       about how many species are fledging young, and in some
TUE       areas none are successful in raising chicks at all.
TUE       These worrying signs are increased by looking at the
TUE       number of birds that are washed up dead on beaches during
TUE       the winter months. Once the seabirds have left the cliffs
TUE       in the summer they spend the rest of the year out at sea.
TUE       But many are now succumbing to starvation and end up
TUE       washed ashore. There are definitely signs that the North
TUE       Sea is changing and that seabirds are finding it harder to
TUE       cope.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Vienna and the Shadow of The Third Man b00kp9jk (Listen)
TUE       Sixty years on from the release of The Third Man, tour
TUE       guide Dr Brigitte Timmermann uncovers Graham Greene's
TUE       Vienna and takes us in the footsteps of his film.
TUE       Walking through the city, she tells the stories that have
TUE       fascinated generations of film buffs, from Soviet master
TUE       spy Kim Philby's role in the film to tales of Sir Carol
TUE       Reed and Graham Greene's late night visits to Vienna's
TUE       seediest bars.
TUE       With the help of fellow devotees, Brigitte explores
TUE       Vienna's hidden history and examines why The Third Man has
TUE       remained largely unpopular in the place which inspired it.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kl (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00kn0qm (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00kn1bd (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Performing to the Red Light b00kp9jy (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Terence Curran goes behind the scenes to experience the
TUE       recording process as different classical performers
TUE       prepare for the studio. Among them is the pianist Kathryn
TUE       Stott. There are also interviews with notable performers
TUE       including Emma Johnson and Stephen Hough, producers and
TUE       record company executives who discuss the little-known
TUE       psychological aspects behind making a classical recording.
TUE       Terence explores how performers cope with the demands of
TUE       making their first recording.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00kn2wk (Listen)
TUE       Matt's conscience takes a battering.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00kphpk (Listen)
TUE       On Ego
TUE       Collaboration between neuropsychologist Paul Broks and
TUE       theatre director and writer Mick Gordon.
TUE       Lecturer Alex is convinced that people are just a bundle
TUE       of neurons. When his wife falls ill, he finds he has basic
TUE       questions to answer about what it really means to be a
TUE       person. But that is just part of an unfolding experience
TUE       that questions not only his identity but his very
TUE       existence.
TUE       Derek ...... Henry Goodman
TUE       Alex ...... Elliot Levey
TUE       Alice ...... Susan Lynch
TUE       Directed by Mick Gordon.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00kpjhs (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kpv72 (Listen)
TUE       Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Gramigna's Mistress
TUE       Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian
TUE       writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour.
TUE       Peppa is due to marry Finu, then runs off to join some
TUE       hot-shot she has never even met. Apparently it's his
TUE       reputation that does it!
TUE       Read by Dermot Crowley.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yk (Listen)
TUE       A World Half-Slave, Half-Free
TUE       Series charting the history of America, written and
TUE       presented by David Reynolds.
TUE       Truman and Stalin square off over the Berlin blockade and
TUE       the Soviet Union tests a nuclear bomb.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 The Eureka Years b007yvyq (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, 1905
TUE       Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history
TUE       of science. Albert Einstein develops a theory of
TUE       relativity with some help from his shaving mirror and a
TUE       passing train.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00kpvbq (Listen)
TUE       Kate Mosse's guests are comedian Natalie Haynes, whose
TUE       performances at places like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
TUE       have made her a must-see act, and Monty Halls, the marine
TUE       biologist and explorer who has presented television
TUE       programmes about land and sea, most recently Monty Hall's
TUE       Great Escape about the remote west coast of Scotland.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00kn301 (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 b00kn32g (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Reminds Me b00ks4hl (Listen)
TUE       Another chance to hear the late Sir Clement Freud
TUE       entertain an audience at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe
TUE       Festival with reminiscences, jokes and anecdotes.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00kn2w5 (Listen)
TUE       Ruth lays down the law for Joe.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00kn344 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
TUE       interview with Canadian writer Anne Michaels, best known
TUE       for her novel Fugitive Pieces, which has been adapted for
TUE       the cinema.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4km (Listen)
TUE       Writing the Century 9, Episode 2
TUE       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
TUE       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
TUE       Rosenthal.
TUE       Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor
TUE       of The Yorkshire Post.
TUE       Linton has an important engagement in London, and hearty
TUE       celebrations are in order.
TUE       Linton ...... Russell Dixon
TUE       Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie
TUE       Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey
TUE       The Queen ...... Victoria Brazier
TUE       Edith/Mrs Mann ...... Martine Dunn
TUE       Arthur Mann/Hugh Cudlip ...... Martin Oldfield
TUE       Courtier ...... Matt McGuirk
TUE       Directed by Gary Brown.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00kpvfs (Listen)
TUE       Jenny Cuffe asks if the government policy of tightening
TUE       immigration rules to help preserve jobs for British
TUE       workers is being undermined by employers who are intent on
TUE       bringing overseas workers as a way of driving down pay.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00kpvfv (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00kpvfx (Listen)
TUE       Claudia Hammond speaks to the UK's first Mental Health
TUE       Liaison Officer, Richard Harwin, to see how he can help
TUE       those with mental health problems to have better
TUE       experiences when dealing with the police.
TUE       People with mental health problems are often reluctant to
TUE       report crimes. Richard Harwin discusses examples of
TUE       vulnerable people having their houses taken over by drug
TUE       dealers. They are often bullied and intimidated into not
TUE       reporting to the police, or fear they may be held
TUE       accountable for the crimes taking place in their homes.
TUE       Richard's job is to work with the police and those with
TUE       mental health problems in the Hackney area of London. He
TUE       was a psychiatric nurse before becoming a police officer
TUE       and he trains other officers about mental illness.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 What's the Point of ... b00kp822 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, The British Zoo
TUE       Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at
TUE       the British Zoo.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00kn53j (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zd (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6f9 (Listen)
TUE       The Outlander, Episode 7
TUE       Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in
TUE       Canada in 1903. With horse dealers from Montana in town,
TUE       Mary and McEchern hit upon a new business venture.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better
TUE       b00d0sjl (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Patience
TUE       Mark Watson turns his wit to the subject of virtue, with
TUE       stand-up comedy on patience. Assistants Tim Key and Tom
TUE       Basden wait politely in line to perform their poems and
TUE       songs.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v0 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00kmz58 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen)
WED       Jane's Fame, Episode 2
WED       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
WED       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
WED       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
WED       The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of
WED       concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though
WED       largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her
WED       fame was nonetheless beginning to spread.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6n (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9c (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7y (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbs (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd3 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjp (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00kmztg (Listen)
WED       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00kpw1x (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves, and
WED       guests including Jerry Springer and Mary Portas.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen)
WED       Jane's Fame, Episode 3
WED       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
WED       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
WED       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
WED       The 19th century taste for the great, sprawling novels of
WED       Dickens, Thackeray and others left Jane Austen in relative
WED       obscurity for some decades. But public interest flared up
WED       again with her nephew's publication of the first biography
WED       in 1870, and gained a momentum that was now unstoppable.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gf (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century.
WED       
WED       11:00 The Race To Dover b00kpw1z (Listen)
WED       BBC cricket correspondent and keen pilot Jonathan Agnew
WED       tells the story of the competition held in July 1909 to
WED       become the first pilot to fly across the English Channel.
WED       Louis Bleriot, a 37-year-old engineer with a badly burned
WED       foot, took the prize offered by Lord Northcliffe, owner of
WED       the Daily Mail. Jonathan finds out what happened to the
WED       favourite, the young international playboy and sportsman
WED       Hubert Latham, and climbs into the cockpit of the first
WED       flying machine to make the crossing, the Bleriot XI.
WED       
WED       11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00knp6s (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a
WED       Yorkshire sandwich bar.
WED       Another day at the breadface, but now Jodie's anxieties
WED       aren't just about her sandwich business. Though she rather
WED       likes having Hope around, her husband Dave isn't so keen.
WED       Hope ...... Suranne Jones
WED       Jodie ...... Susan Cookson
WED       Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon
WED       Milkman ...... Shaun Prendergast
WED       Workman ...... Ben Crowe
WED       Directed by Chris Wallis.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kn (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00kn0qw (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00kn1bg (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00kpw5b (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00kn2w5 (Listen)
WED       Ruth lays down the law for Joe.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00jz0xj (Listen)
WED       Places Where They Sing
WED       Written and directed by Ellen Dryden.
WED       Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir
WED       he founded. The performance is imminent. Thomas'
WED       unpredictable behaviour is upsetting the choir - and his
WED       wife Joanna.
WED       Thomas ...... Anton Lesser
WED       Joanna ...... Phoebe Nicholls
WED       Vicky ...... Claire Rushbrook
WED       Angela ...... Abigail Thaw
WED       Matthew ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor
WED       Music composed by Derek Bourgeois.
WED       A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00kpw5d (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on
WED       financial issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1x (Listen)
WED       Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Getting to Know The King
WED       Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian
WED       writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour.
WED       It should be an honour taking the King in your wagon, but
WED       after the fireworks and trumpets die down and the journey
WED       beckons, Cosimo begins to worry. Read by Dermot Crowley
WED       Read by Dermot Crowley.
WED       
WED       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2ym (Listen)
WED       The Suburban Republic
WED       By David Reynolds. After the war, Americans turn their
WED       attentions back home, building homes and highways and
WED       creating suburbs.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00kpw9j (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00kpvfx (Listen)
WED       Claudia Hammond speaks to the UK's first Mental Health
WED       Liaison Officer, Richard Harwin, to see how he can help
WED       those with mental health problems to have better
WED       experiences when dealing with the police.
WED       People with mental health problems are often reluctant to
WED       report crimes. Richard Harwin discusses examples of
WED       vulnerable people having their houses taken over by drug
WED       dealers. They are often bullied and intimidated into not
WED       reporting to the police, or fear they may be held
WED       accountable for the crimes taking place in their homes.
WED       Richard's job is to work with the police and those with
WED       mental health problems in the Hackney area of London. He
WED       was a psychiatric nurse before becoming a police officer
WED       and he trains other officers about mental illness.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00kn303 (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 b00kn32j (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 Elvenquest b00kpw9l (Listen)
WED       Episode 6
WED       Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
WED       The Quest seems near its end as the noble band reach the
WED       Rock of Sorrows. But Sam is tempted by Lord Darkness and
WED       has to decide between his friends and his home.
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 b00kn2w7 (Listen)
WED       Clarrie keeps Eddie's conscience in check.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00kn346 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an
WED       interview with the Barcelona-born writer Carlos Ruiz
WED       Zafon, who won international fame with his best-selling
WED       novel The Shadow of the Wind.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kp (Listen)
WED       Writing the Century 9, Episode 3
WED       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
WED       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
WED       Rosenthal.
WED       Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor
WED       of The Yorkshire Post.
WED       Linton is insensitive about Pinkie's loss, which creates
WED       tension when they visit Downing Street.
WED       Linton ...... Russell Dixon
WED       Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie
WED       Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey
WED       Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn
WED       Edith/Mrs Mann ...... Martine Dunn
WED       Anthony Eden ...... Martin Oldfield
WED       Lady Eden ...... Victoria Brazier
WED       Directed by Gary Brown.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00kpw9n (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. With Claire Fox, Melanie Philips,
WED       Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik.
WED       
WED       20:45 Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben b00ksk4j (Listen)
WED       The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster is
WED       celebrating 150 years of almost continuous time telling.
WED       To mark the occasion Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced
WED       Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and
WED       Giles Terera, take a whirlwind musical tour of all things
WED       Ben.
WED       It's a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept
WED       cracking and the invention of something called a double
WED       three-legged gravity escapement mechanism.
WED       So join Adam for a quirky look back at a century and a
WED       half of faithful ticking.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00kp9jc (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Seabirds - Canaries on the Cliffs
WED       Chris Sperring explores declining seabird numbers and asks
WED       if it represents a crisis or just a blip.
WED       Visit any windy, spray laden seabird colony in the spring
WED       and early summer and every sense is fired by the sound,
WED       sight and smell of thousands upon thousand of birds flying
WED       to and fro with fish to feed their young that are perched
WED       precariously on every ledge.
WED       Or that is how it should be. In many seabird colonies it
WED       is now much quieter and many traditional nesting ledges
WED       are empty. Seabird ecologists are increasingly concerned
WED       about how many species are fledging young, and in some
WED       areas none are successful in raising chicks at all.
WED       These worrying signs are increased by looking at the
WED       number of birds that are washed up dead on beaches during
WED       the winter months. Once the seabirds have left the cliffs
WED       in the summer they spend the rest of the year out at sea.
WED       But many are now succumbing to starvation and end up
WED       washed ashore. There are definitely signs that the North
WED       Sea is changing and that seabirds are finding it harder to
WED       cope.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00kpw1x (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves, and
WED       guests including Jerry Springer and Mary Portas.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00kn53l (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zh (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fc (Listen)
WED       The Outlander, Episode 8
WED       Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in
WED       Canada in 1903. The landslide has left the town in ruins;
WED       who has survived and who has perished?
WED       
WED       23:00 Self-Storage b00807r1 (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Job Hunting
WED       Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.
WED       Dave tries to get his life back on track by getting a job,
WED       but help from fellow Storage Garden tenant Geoff makes it
WED       harder than he expected.
WED       Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith
WED       Geoff ...... Mark Heap
WED       Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
WED       Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero
WED       Sarah ...... Susan Earl.
WED       
WED       23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007ycdm (Listen)
WED       Sister Cecilia of Caracas
WED       Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read.
WED       Roydon Postlethwaite charts the many munificent
WED       achievements of the lifelong humanitarian peace worker who
WED       campaigned tirelessly against landmines yet smoked like a
WED       chimney.
WED       Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern
WED       Sister Cecilia ...... Liza Sadovy
WED       Actor ...... Chris Chantler
WED       Colin ...... Dan Antopolski
WED       David Something ...... Howard Read
WED       Gloria Blamly ...... Janice Connolly
WED       Stanley Cashew ...... Geoffrey Whitehead.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v2 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Sean Curran.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00kmz5b (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen)
THU       Jane's Fame, Episode 3
THU       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
THU       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
THU       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
THU       The 19th century taste for the great, sprawling novels of
THU       Dickens, Thackeray and others left Jane Austen in relative
THU       obscurity for some decades. But public interest flared up
THU       again with her nephew's publication of the first biography
THU       in 1870, and gained a momentum that was now unstoppable.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6q (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9f (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz80 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbv (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd5 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjr (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00kmztj (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00kpzd6 (Listen)
THU       The Trial of Charles I
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the English Civil War
THU       culminated in courtroom drama.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen)
THU       Jane's Fame, Episode 4
THU       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
THU       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
THU       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
THU       By the early years of the 20th century, the cult of
THU       'Divine Jane' had seized Britain and America. For the
THU       soldiers of the First World War, she came to represent an
THU       Englishness that was far removed from the terrible
THU       realities of life in the trenches.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gh (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kpzd8 (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 Scum b00kpzdb (Listen)
THU       Critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode examines the history
THU       of and controversy surrounding the film Scum.
THU       Originally made by the BBC in 1977, its brutal depiction
THU       of life in the borstal system was deemed to be too
THU       controversial for broadcast and it was banned by the
THU       Corporation. However, it was then re-made for the cinema
THU       two years later and became one of the most infamous
THU       British films of the 1980s. Mark investigates the accuracy
THU       of the film and offers a portrait of its uncompromising
THU       director Alan Clarke.
THU       Featuring new interviews, including screenwriter Roy
THU       Minton, actor Mick Ford, former director of BBC television
THU       Alasdair Milne and the producers of both the BBC and
THU       theatrical versions.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kq (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00kn0r0 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00kn1bj (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00kpzdd (Listen)
THU       Welcome to the Real World
THU       Dominic Arkwright is joined by clinical psychologist
THU       Oliver James, author of The Selfish Capitalist and Britain
THU       on the Couch; French journalist Agnes Poirier; and Annie
THU       Caulfield, creator of the Radio 4 series Reasons to be
THU       Cheerful, to discuss why people avoid confronting reality,
THU       and what happens when they do.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00kn2w7 (Listen)
THU       Clarrie keeps Eddie's conscience in check.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00kpzdg (Listen)
THU       Avenues of Eternal Peace
THU       By Lucy Caldwell. Kai-Liang and Chang Li meet and fall in
THU       love in their first year at university. Becoming
THU       increasingly involved in the world of student politics,
THU       they join the protests in Tiananmen Square, where their
THU       passions and ideas are put to the ultimate test.
THU       Kai-Liang ...... David Tse
THU       Student Kai-Liang ...... David Lee
THU       Chang Li ...... Ping Ping Wong
THU       Xie Huan Yue ...... Gabby Wong
THU       Zhao Ziyang ...... Richard Woo
THU       Mother/Woman ...... Su Lin Looi
THU       Grandmother ...... Pik-Sen Lim
THU       Young Kai-Liang ...... James Ang
THU       Documentary Producer ...... Nick Hardin
THU       Students played by May Chan, Jonathan Chan-Pensley, Steven
THU       Lim, Monica Sayer, Alan Wai
THU       Directed by Heather Larmour.
THU       
THU       15:02 Ramblings b00kmg2r (Listen)
THU       Series 12, Episode 2
THU       Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind,
THU       body and soul.
THU       Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park - part
THU       of the Duke of Northumberland's estate - where he shares
THU       his love of birdsong. Rob regularly joins Alnwick Health
THU       Walks in Northumberland and delights fellow walkers by
THU       sharing his extensive knowledge of birdsong, something he
THU       developed through an online group called 'blind-birders'.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00kmndk (Listen)
THU       Treloar Trust
THU       Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust.
THU       Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical
THU       support and independence training to young people with
THU       physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas.
THU       Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope
THU       Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If
THU       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with
THU       your full name and address so 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: 1092857.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1q (Listen)
THU       Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Wolf-hunt
THU       Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian
THU       writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour.
THU       Lollo says he is setting a trap for a local animal but
THU       really it will be for a human, someone close to his heart.
THU       Read by Dermot Crowley.
THU       
THU       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yp (Listen)
THU       Korea - The Cold War Turns Hot
THU       Series charting the history of America, written and
THU       presented by David Reynolds.
THU       The US army clashes with Chinese and Soviet-backed forces
THU       in Korea, while Senator Joseph McCarthy stokes up fears of
THU       communist spies back in America.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00kmw7d (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the
THU       Hay Festival and hears from Monty Don about his five best
THU       books.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00kpzdj (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper reports from the Cheltenham Science
THU       Festival. From the origins of evolution to the future of
THU       computing, by way of happiness and heresy, the Festival is
THU       a feast from the frontiers of research.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00kn305 (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 b00kn32l (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 Hut 33 b00bz9z8 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Where Boffins Dare
THU       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941.
THU       Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden
THU       hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately,
THU       they hate each other.
THU       Having made a total hash of a message, Hut 33 are
THU       threatened with being posted to Burma. When a message
THU       indicates that a German spy is going to be parachuted
THU       nearby, they see a chance to redeem themselves. But the
THU       spy turns out to be an old friend of Charles.
THU       Charles ...... Robert Bathurst
THU       Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
THU       Minka...... Olivia Colman
THU       Gordon ...... Fergus Craig
THU       Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley
THU       Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00kn2wb (Listen)
THU       Matt gets caught in the act.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00kn348 (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kr (Listen)
THU       Writing the Century 9, Episode 4
THU       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
THU       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
THU       Rosenthal.
THU       Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor
THU       of The Yorkshire Post.
THU       Linton worries about the situation in Hungary and Suez,
THU       while Pinkie argues for his retirement from The Yorkshire
THU       Post.
THU       Linton ...... Russell Dixon
THU       Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie
THU       Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn
THU       Annie ...... Ann Rye
THU       Scott ...... Lloyd Peters
THU       Directed by Gary Brown.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00kq560 (Listen)
THU       Rob Walker travels to Somaliland to uncover the truth
THU       behind the hijack and ransom of a Danish ship, and asks
THU       who benefits from modern-day piracy.
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00kq562 (Listen)
THU       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
THU       and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to
THU       their companies and their customers.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00kq564 (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts examines attitudes to Darwin and his theory of
THU       evolution, both during his own time and now. Even today,
THU       150 years after it was first published, Darwin's theory of
THU       evolution by natural selection arouses passions. Indeed,
THU       for some it seems just as controversial now as it was in
THU       Victorian times.
THU       Including reports from a Darwin exhibition in Turkey and a
THU       creationist museum in the USA. We hear reactions to Darwin
THU       in his own time and how nervous he was about offending the
THU       Church and even his own wife.
THU       Plus news of an initiative this year to 'rescue Darwin'
THU       and his theory from the cross-fire between atheists and
THU       creationists.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00kpzd6 (Listen)
THU       The Trial of Charles I
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the English Civil War
THU       culminated in courtroom drama.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00kn53n (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zl (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with David
THU       Eades.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fh (Listen)
THU       The Outlander, Episode 9
THU       Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in
THU       Canada in 1903.
THU       The railroad is up and running again after the landslide
THU       and, rifles across their backs, Mary's brothers-in-law are
THU       in town.
THU       
THU       23:00 Down the Line b008xh43 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Episode 6
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 b00kn7v4 (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Robert Orchard.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00kmz5d (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen)
FRI       Jane's Fame, Episode 4
FRI       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
FRI       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
FRI       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
FRI       By the early years of the 20th century, the cult of
FRI       'Divine Jane' had seized Britain and America. For the
FRI       soldiers of the First World War, she came to represent an
FRI       Englishness that was far removed from the terrible
FRI       realities of life in the trenches.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6s (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9h (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz82 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbx (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd7 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjt (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00kmztl (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00kmndy (Listen)
FRI       Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook.
FRI       Caroline has travelled the world to see how different zoos
FRI       worked, spent years living in the jungle and, when she
FRI       returned to Britain, taught herself how to be a farmer.
FRI       She has become a champion of the countryside and, when a
FRI       supermarket giant announced plans to open a store on her
FRI       doorstep, she decided to take them on.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9j (Listen)
FRI       Jane's Fame, Episode 5
FRI       Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane
FRI       Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family
FRI       scribblings to Hollywood movies.
FRI       The use of Jane Austen's name knows no generic boundaries.
FRI       At the beginning of the 21st century we are witness to the
FRI       spectacle of the young woman who happily limited her scope
FRI       to 'three or four families in a country village' being
FRI       marketed as a global brand.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gk (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 The Shock of the Knee b00gmdxp (Listen)
FRI       Fashion writer Colin McDowell recalls the rise of the
FRI       miniskirt and Yves Saint Laurent's 1959 House of Dior
FRI       collection, which introduced hemlines above the knee, and
FRI       the shocked reactions of society.
FRI       The press were agog at these developments, and even some
FRI       Dior staff thought that Saint Laurent's designs had gone
FRI       too far. At the same time in Britain, short skirts became
FRI       increasingly popular with young women.
FRI       McDowell talks to one of the most important designers of
FRI       the period, Mary Quant, as well as representatives of
FRI       today's fashion industry, and wonders if womenswear will
FRI       ever be as shocking again.
FRI       An All Out production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Electric Ink b00kq62n (Listen)
FRI       Episode 1
FRI       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
FRI       media in the newspaper industry.
FRI       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
FRI       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
FRI       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
FRI       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
FRI       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
FRI       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
FRI       Press Officer (Barry) ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Announcer ...... Matt Addis
FRI       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00kn0ks (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00kn0r6 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00kn1bl (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00kn2wb (Listen)
FRI       Matt gets caught in the act.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 On Mardle Fen b00kr6hj (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Top Dog
FRI       Series of four plays by Nick Warburton, set in an
FRI       idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens.
FRI       A well-dressed stranger turns up with an unusual request.
FRI       He is a rough diamond, the salt of the earth, but Jack
FRI       doesn't like the look of him.
FRI       Warwick ...... Trevor Peacock
FRI       Jack ...... Sam Dale
FRI       Marcia ...... Kate Buffery
FRI       Samuel ...... John Rowe
FRI       Zofia ...... Helen Longworth
FRI       Mulloway ...... Malcolm Tierney
FRI       Bernard ...... Paul Rider
FRI       Directed by Claire Grove.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kr7bc (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer
FRI       questions sent in by post and email.
FRI       Including 3.40 Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yr (Listen)
FRI       Defended to Death
FRI       Series charting the history of America, written and
FRI       presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       In the 1950s the country enters a period of unprecedented
FRI       prosperity, despite the growing threat of nuclear war.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00kr7bf (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 b00kr7bh (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00kn307 (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 b00kn32n (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00kr7bk (Listen)
FRI       Series 68, Episode 6
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
FRI       are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton and Sue
FRI       Perkins.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00kn2wf (Listen)
FRI       Jazzer finds the new girl in town.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00kn34b (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kt (Listen)
FRI       Writing the Century 9, Episode 5
FRI       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
FRI       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
FRI       Rosenthal.
FRI       Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor
FRI       of The Yorkshire Post.
FRI       It is 1957 and Linton is finally resigned to retiring.
FRI       Pinkie is delighted and relieved, but then something
FRI       happens to ruin their plans.
FRI       Linton ...... Russell Dixon
FRI       Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie
FRI       Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn
FRI       Commander Colville ...... Martin Oldfield
FRI       Directed by Gary Brown.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00kr7bm (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in
FRI       Billingshurst, West Sussex. Panellists include the
FRI       Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00kr7bp (Listen)
FRI       Sloths
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       David muses on the natural history of the sloth - perhaps
FRI       the most lethargic beast in the animal world, and one that
FRI       he has admitted to wanting to be.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00kr7br (Listen)
FRI       Red or Dead?
FRI       Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of
FRI       America, written and presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       After Second World War, America rebuilds its economy and
FRI       moves out into the suburbs, while facing up to Soviet
FRI       communism and the threat of nuclear war.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00kn53q (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zn (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with David
FRI       Eades.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fk (Listen)
FRI       The Outlander, Episode 10
FRI       Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in
FRI       Canada in 1903. Pregnant, arraigned for murder and certain
FRI       to hang, surely Mary is beyond help?
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00kpvbq (Listen)
FRI       Kate Mosse's guests are comedian Natalie Haynes, whose
FRI       performances at places like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
FRI       have made her a must-see act, and Monty Halls, the marine
FRI       biologist and explorer who has presented television
FRI       programmes about land and sea, most recently Monty Hall's
FRI       Great Escape about the remote west coast of Scotland.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v6 (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
FRI       
FRI       
FRI