Radio 4 Listings for 20/06/2009 - 26/06/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00l2j4j (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00l6c7t (Listen)
SAT       Venus of Empire - The Life of Pauline Bonaparte, Episode 5
SAT       Diana Quick reads from Flora Fraser's biography of Pauline
SAT       Bonaparte, Napoleon's favourite sister.
SAT       While Napoleon's great reign comes to an end, Pauline
SAT       re-establishes herself as a 'little queen' in Roman
SAT       society. But it is not long before she realises that her
SAT       brother's health is poor and that she must do all in her
SAT       power to help him.
SAT       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l2j4m (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l2j4p (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l2j4r (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00l2j4t (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l2j4w (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00l2j4y (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00l2j50 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00l2ltf (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00l2lth (Listen)
SAT       Series 12, Episode 5
SAT       Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind,
SAT       body and soul.
SAT       Clare walks in Cromarty, a name that conjures the dulcet
SAT       tones of the Shipping Forecast and prompts images of
SAT       storm-battered ships wrestling with the sea on a cold,
SAT       dark night. Perched at the top of the Black Isle, a
SAT       peninsular stretching north from Inverness, Cromarty is a
SAT       small, picturesque town of tiny streets and Georgian
SAT       cottages, with a harbour flanked by the Sutors: two hills
SAT       that are believed to be the slumbering forms of two giant
SAT       shoe makers who protected Cromarty from ancient invaders.
SAT       In their heyday, at night, oil platforms would light up
SAT       the shoreline.
SAT       Clare walks with Douglas Willis, a retired geography
SAT       teacher and author who brings to life the spirit of
SAT       Cromarty's most famous son, Hugh Miller - stone mason,
SAT       chronicler of life on the Black Isle, church reformer and
SAT       pioneering, self-taught geologist. Born in 1802 and
SAT       standing at over 6ft tall with a shock of red hair, his
SAT       fossil collection of over 6,000 specimens became the
SAT       founding core of what is today's Scottish national
SAT       collection in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00l2ltk (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       To ease the problem of overfishing, the UN is supporting
SAT       the idea of a huge growth in farmed fish. Worldwide, the
SAT       practice is already worth more than fish caught in open
SAT       water.
SAT       However, Europe lags behind. There has been no growth in
SAT       the industry in the region for ten years. Charlotte Smith
SAT       visits a trout farm in Gloucestershire to explore why
SAT       there are so few farms starting up in the UK and to
SAT       investigate whether concerns over welfare and pollution
SAT       make farming fish unsustainable.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00l2ltm (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00l2ltp (Listen)
SAT       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
SAT       Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00l2ltr (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by film critic
SAT       and television presenter Barry Norman. With poetry from
SAT       Murray Lachlan Young.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00l2ltt (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy talks to three professional travel
SAT       photographers about their different experiences and
SAT       approaches to taking particular kinds of pictures.
SAT       Lisa Young works all over the world for both commercial
SAT       and charitable organisations; Adrian Arbib takes
SAT       politically conscious photographs of threatened tribes and
SAT       ecological protest movements; and Bill Birkett is a
SAT       photographer of hills and climbing, particularly in the
SAT       Lake District.
SAT       They compare notes on techniques, problems and aims in the
SAT       fast changing digital age, and discuss what drives them on
SAT       in difficult and dangerous conditions to capture the
SAT       defining image of a place.
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SAT       10:30 Punt PI b00l2ltw (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 3
SAT       Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little
SAT       mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile.
SAT       Steve turns the spotlight on mind control. Thanks to works
SAT       of fiction, the idea that government agencies have the
SAT       ability to brianwash people to commit dastardly acts has
SAT       firmly lodged itself in the public imagination.
SAT       Punt is assigned to sort fact from fiction, entering a
SAT       murky work of government intelligence, military secrecy
SAT       and wild speculation. From hypnosis to narcotics and now
SAT       microwave technology, Punt calls in expert witnesses to
SAT       ascertain whether it really is possible to get people to
SAT       act against their free will. Can our wily PI track down
SAT       the real Manchurian Candidate?
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00l2lty (Listen)
SAT       The former Commons Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, says that the
SAT       reputation of parliament can be restored after the recent
SAT       expenses scandals. She says the expenses system has been
SAT       'horribly abused' by a handful of MPs. But the majority
SAT       have behaved properly. It's her first interview since the
SAT       recent crisis in confidence in the politicial system.
SAT       Also in the programme, two seasoned commentators assess
SAT       how far a lack of honesty is endemic in political
SAT       argument. Lance Price, who worked for Tony Blair, and
SAT       Danny Finkelstein, who worked for the Conservatives,
SAT       examine claim and counter claim over public spending.
SAT       Finally, two MPs, the Conservative Richard Bacon and
SAT       Labour's Gordon Prentice look forward to Monday's election
SAT       for a new Commons speaker.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00l2lv0 (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00l2mrm (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Take a pay cut or lose your job - what rights do you have
SAT       if your employer puts you under pressure, and how do you
SAT       protect your long term interests?
SAT       Plus beware the latest currency conversion scam when
SAT       paying for goods abroad. And more than one million AVIVA
SAT       'with-profits' policyholders receive their voting packs.
SAT       Should you accept the deal?
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00l213q (Listen)
SAT       Series 68, Episode 8
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists
SAT       include Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton and Francis Wheen.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00l2mrp (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00l2mrr (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00l2gv4 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate at the London
SAT       College of Fashion. Panellists are Tessa Jowell, Minister
SAT       for the Olympics, the Cabinet Office and Paymaster
SAT       General, Shadow Leader of the House Alan Duncan, Liberal
SAT       Democrat peer Julia Neuberger, media entrepreneur Kelvin
SAT       Mackenzie.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00l2mrt (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 b00771j6 (Listen)
SAT       Killing the Butterfly
SAT       In Colin MacDonald's romantic thriller, two murder
SAT       witnesses are put under police protection pending the High
SAT       Court trial. But something goes badly wrong and they have
SAT       to flee for their lives,
SAT       never knowing who it's safe to trust.
SAT       Barker ...... Simon Tait
SAT       Hannah ...... Vicki Liddelle
SAT       DCI Mulhall ...... Gayanne Potter
SAT       DS Whitton ...... James Bryce
SAT       Andrew ...... Kenny Blythe
SAT       Matthew ...... John Paul Hurley
SAT       Kayleigh ...... Laura Smales.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Oh My What A Rotten Song! b00l0yl1 (Listen)
SAT       Michael Rosen revels in songwriting duo RP Weston and Bert
SAT       Lee's uncanny knack for coming up with the catchy tune and
SAT       the witty chorus that everyone loved to sing.
SAT       The pair were among the foremost popular songwriters of
SAT       the 1910s and 1920s, writing separately or together some
SAT       3,000 songs in their 21-year collaboration, many of which
SAT       have passed into the nation's collective musical psyche,
SAT       including Hello, Hello Who's Your Lady Friend?, I'm Henery
SAT       the Eighth I Am and, apparently, Knees Up Mother Brown.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00l2nf9 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey. Including surrogacy and your legal
SAT       rights; Jo Whiley on music and motherhood; what to call
SAT       female parts; the power and influence of the fashion
SAT       editor; the origins of district nursing; bingo wings and
SAT       what to do about them; and what do men talk about with
SAT       their friends?
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00l2nfc (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00l1rxv (Listen)
SAT       Guest presenter Stephanie Flanders discusses the future of
SAT       the airline industry with Stelios Haji-Ioannou, chairman
SAT       of Easygroup Ltd and founder of Easyjet, Lord Digby Jones,
SAT       business entrepreneur and former director of the CBI, and
SAT       Steve Ridgway, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic Airways.
SAT       They discuss the cost conundrum of trying to predict the
SAT       economic future when buying new aircraft, and reveal
SAT       whether they have cut back on their personal air travel as
SAT       environmental concerns get stronger.
SAT       The panel also ask if machines are taking over the
SAT       industry; from computer check-ins and check-outs to
SAT       automated phone services, it is becoming harder to deal
SAT       with real people. It might be cheaper for companies, but
SAT       Stephanie asks if the benefits really get passed onto the
SAT       consumer.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00l2nkr (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00l2nkt (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00l2p7n (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00l2p7q (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by Des O'Connor, Cherie Lunghi
SAT       and American author Malcolm Gladwell.
SAT       Jon Holmes talks to Annabel Croft about her experience of
SAT       life on the streets in a new BBC One series.
SAT       With comedy from Tom Adams and music from Chris Isaak, and
SAT       Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00l2p7s (Listen)
SAT       Series 6, Counting
SAT       As Iran waits for election results to be recounted, and in
SAT       Britain an inquiry is announced into the Iraq War, April
SAT       de Angelis looks at secrecy in the region.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00l2p7v (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00l2p7x (Listen)
SAT       When Courtney Met Chris
SAT       Courtney Pine talks to jazz trombonist Chris Barber about
SAT       his life's work and how his initiative and enthusiasm for
SAT       American blues music helped provide inspiration for a new
SAT       generation of British musicians.
SAT       Barber has been a professional jazz musician for almost 55
SAT       years. Along with the likes of Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk,
SAT       he was an integral part of the 'trad jazz' boom in the
SAT       1950s which swept the dance halls of austere postwar
SAT       Britain.
SAT       However, while others stood still, Barber set about
SAT       acknowledging the huge debt he and his fellow musicians
SAT       owed to the legacy of American blues musicians, and
SAT       engineered tours for artists including Sister Rosetta
SAT       Tharpe, Muddy Waters, and Champion Jack Dupree. These
SAT       visits gave emerging players like Eric Clapton and Van
SAT       Morrison a chance to see their idols, and introduced the
SAT       true stars of blues to a whole new generation. Van
SAT       Morrison talks about the impact that Chris made on his
SAT       music and on the British music scene as a whole, and his
SAT       belief that Chris' contribution should receive wider
SAT       recognition.
SAT       Andy Fairweather-Low explains how rehearsing with Chris
SAT       changed his whole appoach to music, and reveals the man's
SAT       hidden talents as a racing driver. In a newly-discovered
SAT       interview, Chris' ex wife, singer Ottilie Patterson,
SAT       remembers stepping out with Big Bill Broonzy, the pride
SAT       she felt in being compared to Bessie Smith and how she was
SAT       chatted up by Muddy Waters, backstage in Croydon.
SAT       Archive interviews with Chris' business partner Harold
SAT       Pendleton reveal the moment when they knew the blues baton
SAT       had been passed, as thousands of teenage girls rushed into
SAT       their festival to see The Rolling Stones perform.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00kwh7g (Listen)
SAT       Armadale, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of the 1866 mystery novel by
SAT       Wilkie Collins. The machinations of the flame-haired
SAT       temptress Lydia Gwilt are derailed by the workings of fate
SAT       and her own lusts and longings.
SAT       Lydia Gwilt's plan to marry Allan Armadale and secure his
SAT       fortune has run into difficulties and her own passions, as
SAT       well as those around her, are starting to interfere with
SAT       her schemes. She is increasingly attracted to Allan's
SAT       companion Midwinter, and he to her.
SAT       Lydia ...... Lucy Robinson
SAT       Allan ...... Alex Robertson
SAT       Midwinter ...... Ray Fearon
SAT       Neelie ...... Perdita Avery
SAT       Pedgift Snr ...... GeoffreyWhitehead
SAT       Bashwood ...... Richard Durden
SAT       Mrs Benson ...... Rebeccea Saire
SAT       John ...... Robin Brooks
SAT       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 Weather b00l2sm3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 The Reith Lectures b00l0y01 (Listen)
SAT       The Reith Lectures 2009, Morality in Politics
SAT       Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the
SAT       prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series
SAT       is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley.
SAT       Sandel considers the role of moral argument in politics.
SAT       He believes that it is often not possible for government
SAT       to be neutral on moral questions and calls for a more
SAT       engaged civic debate about issues such as commercial
SAT       surrogacy and same-sex marriage.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Quote... Unquote b00l0vl9 (Listen)
SAT       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
SAT       of quotations and anecdotes.
SAT       With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher
SAT       Luscombe and Simon Pearsall.
SAT       The reader is Peter Jefferson.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00kwh7l (Listen)
SAT       Carol Ann Duffy and others pay tribute to the poet UA
SAT       Fanthorpe, who died recently. Describing herself as a
SAT       'middle-aged dropout', Fanthorpe only began writing at 50.
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SUN       SUNDAY 21 JUNE 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00l2z74 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084zty (Listen)
SUN       Ones to Watch (Volume 2), George and the Fly
SUN       A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers.
SUN       By Jennie Rooney, read by Geraldine James.
SUN       Joan's mother always said that George was not to be
SUN       trusted, but she still didn't know what to make of it when
SUN       George took to his bed, permanently.
SUN       A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l2z76 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l2z78 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l2z7b (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00l2z7d (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00l2z7g (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St David's Church,
SUN       Moreton-in-Marsh.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 I Was Put on Trial by Al Qaeda b00hkpvq (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       Allan Little describes his own terrifying interaction in
SUN       November 1993 with a group of mujahideen volunteers who
SUN       were fighting on behalf of Bosnian Muslims during the war
SUN       there.
SUN       He examines what we now know about the presence of
SUN       hundreds of men from other parts of the Muslim world who
SUN       came to train and fight in the Balkans. Known as the
SUN       Bosnian Mujahedeen, some were eventually put on trial at
SUN       the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
SUN       Yugoslavia in the Hague.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00l2z7j (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00l2z7l (Listen)
SUN       A Good Judge
SUN       Mark Tully explores how we judge another person's
SUN       character. It has been estimated that up to a third of our
SUN       judgments about other people's characters are wrong, yet
SUN       many of us pride ourselves on being 'good judges' of
SUN       character. On what clues do we base our assessments, why
SUN       are we so often mistaken and can we learn to read the
SUN       clues more accurately?
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00l2z7n (Listen)
SUN       A home on the range! Elinor Goodman meets Pepe and Colin
SUN       Seaford who farm bison on their land in Wiltshire. In 1986
SUN       Colin realised a life long dream of keeping bison and was
SUN       the first to farm them commercially in Britain. There is
SUN       also a menagerie of exotic creatures which make this farm
SUN       feel like a mid-West American prairie.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00l2z7q (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00l2z7s (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00l2z7v (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 b00l2z7x (Listen)
SUN       Parkinson's Disease Society
SUN       John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's
SUN       Disease Society.
SUN       The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to
SUN       supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families,
SUN       friends and carers.
SUN       Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards:
SUN       Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please
SUN       provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name
SUN       and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
SUN       donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone
SUN       donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197,
SUN       Scotland No: SC037554.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00l2zbk (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00l2zbm (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00l97z9 (Listen)
SUN       Mattins from the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace,
SUN       marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry
SUN       VIII.
SUN       The preacher is the Bishop of London and Dean of the
SUN       Chapel Royal, the Right Rev and Right Honourable Richard
SUN       Chartres.
SUN       The service is led by the Sub-Dean, Prebendary William
SUN       Scott.
SUN       Featuring the voice of Harry Bradford, BBC Radio 2 Young
SUN       Chorister of the Year who is a member of the Choir.
SUN       Director of Music: Andrew Gant.
SUN       Organist: Oliver Waterer.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00l2h9p (Listen)
SUN       Platypus
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Along the soft, muddy river banks of New South Wales, the
SUN       female duck-billed platypus makes a burrow to raise her
SUN       family. Not only is this the strangest of creatures, it is
SUN       also one of the most tricky to film.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00l2zg2 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00l2zg4 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00l2zg6 (Listen)
SUN       Martin Shaw
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw.
SUN       He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and
SUN       television actors of the past forty years and has taken on
SUN       more than a hundred different roles. Yet Martin has spent
SUN       half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his
SUN       earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00l0xxg (Listen)
SUN       Series 51, Episode 1
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from Her
SUN       Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in London, with Stephen Fry
SUN       the first to take on the chairman's role from the late
SUN       Humphrey Lyttelton. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden
SUN       and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Victoria Wood. With
SUN       Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00l30s4 (Listen)
SUN       Britalian Food
SUN       Sheila Dillon investigates the businesses in Britain
SUN       producing ingredients usually only found abroad, including
SUN       mozzarella di bufala, ricotta cheese and salami.
SUN       With the fall in the value of the pound against the Euro,
SUN       imports have become more expensive. For years, all over
SUN       Britain, there have been small businesses making authentic
SUN       Italian produce. Will our economic woes create a situation
SUN       in which these firms can now thrive? And how good can
SUN       British versions of authentic Italian food be?
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00l30s6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00l30s8 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Silent Killer b00l30sb (Listen)
SUN       Justin Webb finds out what the future holds for his son,
SUN       Sam, who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the
SUN       millions of other children like him.
SUN       He explores why rates of type 1 are rising in the UK, in
SUN       younger children and more aggressively. Through his own
SUN       experience with Sam, he discovers the complexities
SUN       involved in keeping a diabetic child healthy.
SUN       Justin talks to some of the world's leading figures
SUN       working at the frontier of biomedicine who think they may
SUN       have unlocked the key to curing the disease and those who
SUN       are trying to find a way of preventing it. And he finds
SUN       out what uphill struggles they face when trying to beat a
SUN       disease for which the causes remain unclear.
SUN       As a parent struggling to understand the impact that
SUN       diabetes will have on his son's life, both immediately and
SUN       in the long term, Justin explores what options are
SUN       available to his child, and the thousands of children like
SUN       him.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00l20tj (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer
SUN       questions posed by gardeners in Kent.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 A Guide to Water Birds b00l30sd (Listen)
SUN       Rails
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 introduce Rails, including coot and
SUN       moorhen, as well as a bird which squeals like a pig.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00l30sg (Listen)
SUN       Armadale, Episode 3
SUN       Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of the 1866 mystery novel by
SUN       Wilkie Collins. The machinations of the flame-haired
SUN       temptress Lydia Gwilt are derailed by the workings of fate
SUN       and her own lusts and longings.
SUN       Lydia Gwilt has found a new and more violent way to secure
SUN       Allan Armadale's fortune, by impersonating his widow. Her
SUN       plans now include murder, but will her passion for Allan's
SUN       companion Midwinter help or hinder her?
SUN       Lydia ...... Lucy Robinson
SUN       Allan ...... Alex Robertson
SUN       Midwinter ...... Ray Fearon
SUN       Neelie ...... Perdita Avery
SUN       Bashwood ...... Richard Durden
SUN       Downward ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
SUN       Jemmy ...... Grant Gillespie
SUN       Vincent ...... Robin Brooks
SUN       Girl ...... Rebeccea Saire
SUN       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00l32z1 (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00l32z3 (Listen)
SUN       Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of its author
SUN       and the 150th anniversary of its publication, a
SUN       celebration of Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar
SUN       Khayyam. Gabriel Woolf reads what has been called 'the
SUN       most popular verse translation into English ever made'.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00l0z3b (Listen)
SUN       Gerry Northam investigates allegations of incompetence and
SUN       neglect in England's biggest quango, the Learning and
SUN       Skills Council. As the recession leads to rocketing
SUN       unemployment, apprentices and local college students have
SUN       been hit by a dramatic cash crisis in this government
SUN       agency, which oversees their training.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00l2p7s (Listen)
SUN       Series 6, Counting
SUN       As Iran waits for election results to be recounted, and in
SUN       Britain an inquiry is announced into the Iraq War, April
SUN       de Angelis looks at secrecy in the region.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00l32z5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00l32z7 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00l32z9 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00l32zc (Listen)
SUN       Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00l32zf (Listen)
SUN       The good news is one-sided at Willow Cottage.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00l32zh (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei interviews Sunny Schwartz about her Resolve to
SUN       Stop the Violence Programme (RSVP) for the San Franscisco
SUN       Sheriff's Dept - which has cut violent recidivism by up to
SUN       80 per cent. The programme also reports from Miami on the
SUN       extraordinary story of the 70 sex offenders who sleep
SUN       under the Julia Tuttle bridge.
SUN       Plus a real slice of Americana. Linesville boasts one of
SUN       the biggest tourist attractions in Pennsylvania - ducks
SUN       walking on the back of fish, fed bread by an estimated
SUN       half million tourists each year. The threatened banning of
SUN       bread feeding, and its replacement by pellets, provoked a
SUN       revolt in the town, and inspired a song.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0082b42 (Listen)
SUN       The Closed Door, Cover
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 young wife is unable to free herself from the guilt of
SUN       her scandalous past. Read by Stella Gonet.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00l33kf (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00l213l (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00l2mrm (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Take a pay cut or lose your job - what rights do you have
SUN       if your employer puts you under pressure, and how do you
SUN       protect your long term interests?
SUN       Plus beware the latest currency conversion scam when
SUN       paying for goods abroad. And more than one million AVIVA
SUN       'with-profits' policyholders receive their voting packs.
SUN       Should you accept the deal?
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00l2z7x (Listen)
SUN       Parkinson's Disease Society
SUN       John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's
SUN       Disease Society.
SUN       The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to
SUN       supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families,
SUN       friends and carers.
SUN       Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards:
SUN       Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please
SUN       provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name
SUN       and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
SUN       donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone
SUN       donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197,
SUN       Scotland No: SC037554.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00ksztl (Listen)
SUN       A New Iraq?
SUN       As British forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq and
SUN       the government declares the mission a success, Bronwen
SUN       Maddox considers the prospects of lasting peace for the
SUN       Iraqi people. Have lessons been learnt that will change
SUN       the way in which similar missions are tackled in the
SUN       future?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00l33lc (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00l33lf (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Learning to Love the Microphone.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00l213n (Listen)
SUN       Francine Stock talks to Nic Roeg and Quadrophenia director
SUN       Franc Roddam about opera, cinema and Aria, a portmanteau
SUN       of short films orchestrated by producer Don Boyd.
SUN       Poet Clive Wilmer and Professor Jeffrey Richards cross
SUN       swords over their favourite Errol Flynn swashbuckler.
SUN       Derek Malcolm surveys the career of legendary Polish
SUN       director Andrzej Wajda.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00l2z7l (Listen)
SUN       A Good Judge
SUN       Mark Tully explores how we judge another person's
SUN       character. It has been estimated that up to a third of our
SUN       judgments about other people's characters are wrong, yet
SUN       many of us pride ourselves on being 'good judges' of
SUN       character. On what clues do we base our assessments, why
SUN       are we so often mistaken and can we learn to read the
SUN       clues more accurately?
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 22 JUNE 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00l33q7 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00l14p6 (Listen)
MON       The potato, with just a little bit of milk, can provide
MON       all of the nutrients necessary to sustain human life. Its
MON       wonderful productivity and the fact that it can be grown
MON       in small family plots in urban and rural areas means that,
MON       according to Professor Nancy Ries, it provides subsistence
MON       when local economies fail and other sources of food
MON       disappear.
MON       This fact more than any other explains why Russia, the
MON       home of the vast collective wheat farm, increasingly
MON       relies on the potato. Nearly half of all agricultural
MON       production in the country is potatoes and 90 per cent of
MON       that is in small family plots. Is the potato a tool of
MON       oppression? Does it perpetuate poverty? Laurie Taylor is
MON       joined by Professor Ries and by John Reader, author of The
MON       Untold History of the Potato.
MON       Also, Allison Hui from Lancaster University talks about
MON       her research into the role of travel in people's hobbies,
MON       and how leisure pursuits play an increasing part in global
MON       tourism.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00l2z7g (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St David's Church,
MON       Moreton-in-Marsh.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33vq (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l3429 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33z1 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00l344c (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l3471 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00l347h (Listen)
MON       Charlotte Smith reports on how the amount of milk produced
MON       in the UK last year was the lowest since the 1970s. The
MON       figures comes in a new report which also suggests 13% of
MON       dairy farmers are planning to leave the industry in the
MON       next two years.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00l34c1 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00l348z (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00l53x4 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr talks to Helen Mirren about playing Phedre at
MON       the National Theatre, Martin Jacques about the rise of
MON       China, John Armstrong about civilisation and Anna Minton
MON       about the 21st century city.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00l34hk (Listen)
MON       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Bandanas, Shades and
MON       Penguin Classics
MON       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
MON       century - an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
MON       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
MON       Helmand Province.
MON       Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a
MON       war. Helmand Province is where the British Army has allied
MON       with the Afghan National Army to find the Afghan solution
MON       to an Afghan problem, but that is easier said than done.
MON       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34k7 (Listen)
MON       Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey:
MON       Martha Reeves was the lead singer of Martha Reeves and the
MON       Vandellas from 1962 onwards. She started out answering
MON       telephones for the Motown label, but went on to have a
MON       string of hits, including 'Dancing In The Street',
MON       'Nowhere To Run', 'Heatwave', and 'Jimmy Mac'. Martha
MON       still performs regularly, in between working fulltime as
MON       an elected member of the City Council in Detroit. She's
MON       currently touring the UK with some of the other Motown
MON       giants in a 'Once in a Lifetime - Legends Live Tour', as
MON       part of the 50 year celebrations of Motown. She talks to
MON       Jane about a life making music.
MON       There are 700,000 people living with dementia in the UK,
MON       and that number will rise to over a million by 2025, so
MON       more and more couples are taking on the role of carer for
MON       their partner. The development of the illness inevitably
MON       changes the dynamic of their relationship, but what effect
MON       does it have on their social life and friendships? One
MON       listener contacted Woman's Hour about the impact that her
MON       husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's has had on their
MON       network of friends. She describes how she deals with their
MON       friends' reluctance to visit their home. Why are we so
MON       afraid of dementia, and how do we overcome those fears and
MON       communicate with people who have it?
MON       And as Wimbledon starts, Jane is joined by Britain's
MON       number 1 women's tennis hope, Anne Keothavong. Wimbledon
MON       might not be able to guarantee sun, but one thing it can
MON       guarantee - as far as women's tennis goes - is grunting.
MON       Past and present grunters include some of the tournament's
MON       finest players including Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova.
MON       The most recent culprit on the court, however, is the
MON       Portuguese teenager Michelle Larcher de Brito, whose
MON       unusual style of grunting can apparently be heard three
MON       courts away. Now the International Tennis Federation is
MON       discussing whether to add a 'noise hindrance' clause to
MON       its code of conduct which will place grunting in the same
MON       league as verbal abus
MON       That's all in Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey.
MON       
MON       11:00 A Moment Too Soon b00l54wj (Listen)
MON       Vivienne Parry talks to the doctors, researchers and
MON       parents involved in, and who have experienced, pre-term
MON       birth to find out how the UK is going to cope with its
MON       premature future.
MON       Premature birth in the UK is costing the NHS an estimated
MON       extra 1 billion pounds a year, causing distress and
MON       challenges to families and doctors, but science in many
MON       cases still does not seem to know why seven per cent of
MON       babies in the UK are born prematurely.
MON       
MON       11:30 Newfangle b00l54wl (Listen)
MON       Bright Ideas
MON       Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000
MON       years BC among a tribe of proto-humans.
MON       Newfangle has to come up with a spectacular new invention
MON       for the annual feast or he'll end up as the main course,
MON       because Alf's recent hunting was a disaster. Will
MON       inspiration strike or is Newfangle a damp squib?
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       Chef ...... Lewis MacLeod.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00l36j4 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00l36jx (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00l36jz (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Quote... Unquote b00l54wn (Listen)
MON       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
MON       of quotations and anecdotes.
MON       With guests Lucy Mangan, Marcus du Sautoy, Michael Simkins
MON       and Paul Bailey.
MON       The reader is Peter Jefferson.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00l32zf (Listen)
MON       The good news is one-sided at Willow Cottage.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00l54wq (Listen)
MON       Power Play 1
MON       First of two plays by business writer and broadcaster
MON       Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron
MON       in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate
MON       hearings.
MON       It is spring 2000 and new recruit Vanessa, fresh out of
MON       business school, joins the aggressive band of traders on
MON       the trading floor of Enron's Western Power desk, whose
MON       market manipulation, dishonesty and culture of macho
MON       ruthlessness is bringing California to its knees.
MON       Vanessa ...... Andrea LeBlanc
MON       Karl ...... Jin Suh
MON       Hank ...... Hilario Saavedra
MON       Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New
MON       Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.
MON       Directed by Sara Davies.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00l2p7x (Listen)
MON       When Courtney Met Chris
MON       Courtney Pine talks to jazz trombonist Chris Barber about
MON       his life's work and how his initiative and enthusiasm for
MON       American blues music helped provide inspiration for a new
MON       generation of British musicians.
MON       Barber has been a professional jazz musician for almost 55
MON       years. Along with the likes of Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk,
MON       he was an integral part of the 'trad jazz' boom in the
MON       1950s which swept the dance halls of austere postwar
MON       Britain.
MON       However, while others stood still, Barber set about
MON       acknowledging the huge debt he and his fellow musicians
MON       owed to the legacy of American blues musicians, and
MON       engineered tours for artists including Sister Rosetta
MON       Tharpe, Muddy Waters, and Champion Jack Dupree. These
MON       visits gave emerging players like Eric Clapton and Van
MON       Morrison a chance to see their idols, and introduced the
MON       true stars of blues to a whole new generation. Van
MON       Morrison talks about the impact that Chris made on his
MON       music and on the British music scene as a whole, and his
MON       belief that Chris' contribution should receive wider
MON       recognition.
MON       Andy Fairweather-Low explains how rehearsing with Chris
MON       changed his whole appoach to music, and reveals the man's
MON       hidden talents as a racing driver. In a newly-discovered
MON       interview, Chris' ex wife, singer Ottilie Patterson,
MON       remembers stepping out with Big Bill Broonzy, the pride
MON       she felt in being compared to Bessie Smith and how she was
MON       chatted up by Muddy Waters, backstage in Croydon.
MON       Archive interviews with Chris' business partner Harold
MON       Pendleton reveal the moment when they knew the blues baton
MON       had been passed, as thousands of teenage girls rushed into
MON       their festival to see The Rolling Stones perform.
MON       
MON       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37jb (Listen)
MON       America in Retreat?
MON       Series charting the history of America, written and
MON       presented by David Reynolds.
MON       Watergate, Vietnam and an economy sinking under the weight
MON       of the oil crisis drain American vitality and set the
MON       stage for a conservative re-emergence.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00l30s4 (Listen)
MON       Britalian Food
MON       Sheila Dillon investigates the businesses in Britain
MON       producing ingredients usually only found abroad, including
MON       mozzarella di bufala, ricotta cheese and salami.
MON       With the fall in the value of the pound against the Euro,
MON       imports have become more expensive. For years, all over
MON       Britain, there have been small businesses making authentic
MON       Italian produce. Will our economic woes create a situation
MON       in which these firms can now thrive? And how good can
MON       British versions of authentic Italian food be?
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00l0xxd (Listen)
MON       To mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin,
MON       Ernie Rea and guests discuss why this major Protestant
MON       reformer altered the shape and changed the thinking of
MON       Western Europe.
MON       What is the legacy of Calvin and why do his ideas still
MON       influence churches in Britain and around the world today?
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00l37kw (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 b00l37vz (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00l55xk (Listen)
MON       Series 51, Episode 2
MON       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from Her
MON       Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in London, with Stephen Fry
MON       the first to take on the chairman's role from the late
MON       Humphrey Lyttelton.
MON       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
MON       are joined by Victoria Wood.
MON       With Colin Sell at the piano.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00l375g (Listen)
MON       Things move apace for Mike and Vicky.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00l39kr (Listen)
MON       Hosted by John Wilson. Including an interview with poet
MON       Roger McGough, who has written a new version of Moliere's
MON       play The Hypochondriac.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l3bgx (Listen)
MON       The Art of Deception, Episode 1
MON       Detective drama by Philip Palmer. Notorious art forger
MON       Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now
MON       dying, agrees to help art critic Jessica Brown to write a
MON       book about forgery. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that
MON       will have deadly consequences.
MON       Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield
MON       Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma
MON       Ben ...... Matt Addis
MON       Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble
MON       Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang
MON       DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins
MON       Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox
MON       DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew
MON       Directed by Toby Swift.
MON       
MON       20:00 Broken Arrow b00l55xm (Listen)
MON       In the early hours of 5th February 1958, a mid-air
MON       collision forced a badly damaged USAF B47 bomber to drop a
MON       7,600lb nuclear bomb in the shallow waters off the coast
MON       of Georgia. Gerry Northam travels to Mississippi to hear
MON       the pilot's story and find out why the bomb has never been
MON       found.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00lb5lj (Listen)
MON       Doesn't Everyone?
MON       Michael Blastland asks if 'group-think' is distancing
MON       policy from the public and asks if our political elite
MON       have forgotten how most voters live. People measure their
MON       behaviour and beliefs by those around them, so MPs might
MON       have thought that the expenses system was reasonable.
MON       Might it also mean they have lost touch with what Britain
MON       is really like?
MON       
MON       21:00 Frontiers b00l55xr (Listen)
MON       Origins of Childhood
MON       Andrew Luck-Baker asks why humans, unlike other primates,
MON       have such a long childhood. Chimp infants can look after
MON       themselves when they are weaned, but young humans have to
MON       rely on their parents for years. What advantages does a
MON       long childhood bring to us as a species?
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00l53x4 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr talks to Helen Mirren about playing Phedre at
MON       the National Theatre, Martin Jacques about the rise of
MON       China, John Armstrong about civilisation and Anna Minton
MON       about the 21st century city.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00l560d (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00l560q (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f8 (Listen)
MON       The Spy Game, Episode 1
MON       Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in
MON       1960s England.
MON       Eight-year-old Anna waves goodbye to her mother one
MON       morning, unaware that she is disappearing forever. All is
MON       not as it seems in 1960s Britain: the Portland spy case
MON       has rocked the Establishment and official secrets
MON       documents nestle in the shopping baskets of respectable
MON       housewives as Cold War paranoia takes hold. In the midst
MON       of all this, Anna and her brother begin a quest for the
MON       truth about their mother that will last a lifetime.
MON       Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
MON       
MON       23:00 Off the Page b00l1qvz (Listen)
MON       Trivia
MON       What turns a fact into knowledge, and did you know that
MON       Pete Conrad was the first man to dance on the moon?
MON       Dominic Arkwright debates elitism in education with
MON       Kathryn Hughes, Francis Gilbert and Mark Mason, author or
MON       The Importance of Being Trivial.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57kc (Listen)
MON       A special edition of the programme to report the election
MON       of a new Speaker of the House of Commons. For the first
MON       time, MPs will choose their Speaker using a secret ballot.
MON       Susan Hulme and a team of reporters explain the rules,
MON       profile the candidates and report on the debates as
MON       Britain's lawmakers vote for Michael Martin's successor.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 23 JUNE 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00l33q9 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00l34hk (Listen)
TUE       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Bandanas, Shades and
TUE       Penguin Classics
TUE       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
TUE       century - an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
TUE       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
TUE       Helmand Province.
TUE       Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a
TUE       war. Helmand Province is where the British Army has allied
TUE       with the Afghan National Army to find the Afghan solution
TUE       to an Afghan problem, but that is easier said than done.
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sj (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z3 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vs (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00l342c (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344f (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00l3473 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00l348n (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Reith Lectures b00l59hf (Listen)
TUE       The Reith Lectures 2009, Genetics and Morality
TUE       Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the
TUE       prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series
TUE       is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley.
TUE       Recorded at the Centre for Life in Newcastle, Sandel
TUE       considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific
TUE       knowledge. New genetic technologies hold great promise for
TUE       treating and curing disease, but how far we should go in
TUE       using them to manipulate muscles, moods and gender?
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pns (Listen)
TUE       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Marking Time and Making
TUE       Friends
TUE       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
TUE       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
TUE       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
TUE       Helmand Province.
TUE       With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he
TUE       arrived in Afghanistan. An English graduate at Oxford, the
TUE       transition to Sandhurst was a difficult one
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jn (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Art of Deception.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 The Age of Ming b00l59m3 (Listen)
TUE       Robert Orchard tells the story of Sir Menzies Campbell's
TUE       battle to shake off media claims that he was too old for
TUE       the job as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Robert asks
TUE       how far it is acceptable for journalists to poke fun at
TUE       someone on the grounds of age?
TUE       
TUE       11:30 On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned
TUE       Police Box b00l59rk (Listen)
TUE       Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, explores the
TUE       hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and
TUE       80s, published by Target books. Featuring some of the best
TUE       excerpts from the books and interviews with publishers,
TUE       house writers, illustrators and the actors whose
TUE       adventures the books tirelessly depicted.
TUE       In an age before DVD and video, the Target book series of
TUE       Doctor Who fiction was conceived as the chance for
TUE       children to 'keep' and revisit classic Doctor Who. They
TUE       were marketed as such, written in a highly visual house
TUE       style. Descriptive passages did the work of the TV camera
TUE       and the scripts were more or less faithfully reproduced as
TUE       dialogue.
TUE       The books were as close to the experience of watching as
TUE       possible, and were adored by a generation of children who
TUE       grew up transfixed by the classic BBC series. Target
TUE       Doctor Who books became a children's publishing phenomenon
TUE       - they sold over 13 million copies worldwide. From 1973
TUE       until 1994, the Target Doctor Who paperbacks were a
TUE       mainstay of the publishing world.
TUE       A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00l36gn (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00l36j6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00l36yt (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen)
TUE       Music writer Michael White tells the life story of
TUE       composer Gian Carlo Menotti and assesses why his music has
TUE       fallen from grace.
TUE       Menotti was a star - he partied at the White House with
TUE       the Kennedys and sailed on yachts with Maria Callas. His
TUE       music was celebrated, but today has been largely
TUE       forgotten. This programme tells his story through music,
TUE       memories, Menotti's own words, interviews with
TUE       musicologists and singers who worked with him. Michael
TUE       often visited Menotti in both his Scottish castle and in
TUE       Italy, and had rare access to the composer's private
TUE       papers.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00l375g (Listen)
TUE       Things move apace for Mike and Vicky.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00l59xg (Listen)
TUE       Power Play 2 - Wilful Blindness
TUE       Second of two plays by business writer and broadcaster
TUE       Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron
TUE       in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate
TUE       hearings.
TUE       It is now the summer of 2006. Kenneth Lay, the former
TUE       chairman of Enron, has been convicted of conspiracy to
TUE       commit securities and wire fraud and is awaiting
TUE       sentencing at his home in Aspen, Colorado.
TUE       On the day before Independence Day a new gardener arrives,
TUE       a young woman with a business background who has made a
TUE       recent career change. Lay doesn't know her, but she knows
TUE       him - she once worked for his company. Vanessa is
TUE       determined to confront her ex-employer, and in the course
TUE       of one intense day, she demands that he face up to a
TUE       responsibility he has refused to recognise for four years.
TUE       Kenneth Lay ...... John Fleck
TUE       Vanessa ...... Andrea LeBlanc
TUE       Linda Lay ...... Mary Lou Rosato
TUE       Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New
TUE       Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.
TUE       Directed by Sara Davies.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00l59xj (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       Featuring a listener's search for justice for an ancestor
TUE       who was a hero during a dramatic mine rescue in
TUE       19th-century Wales.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59xl (Listen)
TUE       Excused Games, Rematch
TUE       Series of three short stories by leading writers,
TUE       performed by star readers, in which sports and games have
TUE       some surprising effects on both children and adults.
TUE       By Rob Greene. 10-year-old Tom discovers that notes sent
TUE       to his PE teacher by his mother aren't quite what they
TUE       seem. His attempts to sort out family life involve
TUE       games-playing of all kinds. Read by Martin Freeman.
TUE       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j2 (Listen)
TUE       A Constitutional Abortion
TUE       Series charting the history of America, written and
TUE       presented by David Reynolds.
TUE       In 1973 the Supreme Court determines a framework for legal
TUE       abortion, marking out a fault line in American politics
TUE       for years to come.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Law in Action b00l5b6p (Listen)
TUE       With a report due on the findings of an inquiry into the
TUE       nuclear industry's use of organs from dead workers for
TUE       medical research, Clive Coleman examines the law governing
TUE       what happens to your body when you are dead and what it
TUE       means for people who want to give away - or even sell -
TUE       bits of themselves. Who owns your body - you or the state?
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00l5b6r (Listen)
TUE       Kate Mosse talks to two scientists, the writer and
TUE       presenter Vivienne Parry and Professor Jocelyn Bell
TUE       Burnell, head of the Institute of Physics, about their
TUE       favourite books. The books under discussion are a classic
TUE       novel, a piece of 20th century history and a romance
TUE       described by one of the guests as 'Mills and Boon with
TUE       vampires'.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00l37ky (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 b00l37w1 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 The Secret World b00jyyl8 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Comedy series that offers an insight into the private
TUE       lives of the famous.
TUE       The Arctic Monkeys reveal their love for Woman's Hour.
TUE       With Jon Culshaw, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton,
TUE       Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00l36yy (Listen)
TUE       Jennifer takes some decisive action.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00l39kc (Listen)
TUE       With Kirsty Lang, who reports on a major exhibition of
TUE       works by Pre-Raphaelite artist JW Waterhouse.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7w (Listen)
TUE       The Art of Deception, Episode 2
TUE       Detective drama by Philip Palmer.
TUE       Suspicions are raised over Ballantyne's involvement in the
TUE       death of the ageing enfant terrible of British art,
TUE       Gilbert Reynolds.
TUE       Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield
TUE       Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma
TUE       Ben ...... Matt Addis
TUE       Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble
TUE       Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang
TUE       DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins
TUE       Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox
TUE       DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew
TUE       Directed by Toby Swift.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00l5gm4 (Listen)
TUE       The government's flagship policy for public investment,
TUE       the Private Finance Initiative, has always relied on big
TUE       loans from banks. But now, as lenders demand far more for
TUE       their money, Michael Robinson investigates disturbing
TUE       increases in the cost of building our schools, hospitals
TUE       and roads.
TUE       In today's economic climate, does PFI represent value for
TUE       money for hard-pressed taxpayers?
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00l5gm6 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00l5gm8 (Listen)
TUE       Claudia Hammond and guests discuss ways of dealing with
TUE       self harm, something that more teenagers do in the UK than
TUE       anywhere else in Europe.
TUE       The programme hears about a Sheffield clinic which has
TUE       significantly reduced incidents of adolescents cutting and
TUE       harming themselves by introducing a new 'zero tolerance'
TUE       rule. But this has proved to be a controversial measure,
TUE       because many believe that accepting and working with
TUE       self-harming behaviours is the best approach in the long
TUE       term.
TUE       The doctor behind the Sheffield experiment tells Claudia
TUE       what led him and his team to introduce this new policy and
TUE       Marjorie Wallace from SANE explains why she doesn't think
TUE       that banning self harm works.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Unseen Britain b00jcdb9 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Peter White goes in search of those who monitor how we
TUE       spend our money, where we travel and the state of our
TUE       health, while remaining unseen themselves.
TUE       Peter meets forensic scientists and talks to them about
TUE       their work. A 'questioned documents' specialist examines
TUE       Peter's signature and reveals some of its secrets, and
TUE       Peter also learns about some of the methods used to match
TUE       crime scene marks with suspected shoes and tools.
TUE       Plus Peter Dean, a police doctor and television
TUE       consultant, discusses real crime compared to what we see
TUE       on TV programmes.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00l55z1 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00l560g (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57dw (Listen)
TUE       The Spy Game, Episode 2
TUE       Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in
TUE       1960s England.
TUE       Peter points out to Anna that their mother disappeared on
TUE       the same day that the news broke of the arrests in the
TUE       Portland spy case. They realise that they actually know
TUE       very little about their mother - can they even be certain
TUE       that she is dead?
TUE       Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better
TUE       b00db05r (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Diligence
TUE       Mark Watson turns his wit to the subject of virtue, with
TUE       stand-up comedy on the subject of diligence. Tim Key and
TUE       Tom Basden pay great attention to detail in their poems
TUE       and songs.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k3 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00l33qc (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pns (Listen)
WED       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Marking Time and Making
WED       Friends
WED       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
WED       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
WED       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
WED       Helmand Province.
WED       With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he
WED       arrived in Afghanistan. An English graduate at Oxford, the
WED       transition to Sandhurst was a difficult one
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sl (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z5 (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vv (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00l342f (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344j (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00l3475 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00l348q (Listen)
WED       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00l5hcc (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnj (Listen)
WED       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Tower, Windsor, Buck
WED       and Jimmys
WED       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
WED       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
WED       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
WED       Helmand Province.
WED       Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and is
WED       straining at the leash to get to the Middle East. But the
WED       British army has other plans for him - parading and
WED       primary school teaching.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jq (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception.
WED       
WED       11:00 Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister?
WED       b00jv9n2 (Listen)
WED       Kati Whitaker talks to people in the UK and the USA about
WED       the ways in which children conceived through a sperm donor
WED       can make contact, and forge a familial bond, with their
WED       potential half-brothers and sisters.
WED       She hears about the difficult choices that both parents
WED       and children have to make, and how for some there is the
WED       reward of discovery of a half-sibling, but for others the
WED       search proves to be a journey into the unknown.
WED       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00l5hcf (Listen)
WED       Episode 5
WED       Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a
WED       Yorkshire sandwich bar.
WED       The word is spreading like meat paste and business is
WED       booming, but there is a teenage fly in the soup de jour.
WED       Hope ...... Suranne Jones
WED       Jodie ...... Susan Cookson
WED       Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon
WED       Gavin ...... Ralph Brown
WED       Eve ...... Joanne Froggatt
WED       Carrie ...... Elizabeth Godber
WED       Mrs Cummings ...... Sherry Baines
WED       Woman ...... Jane Purcell
WED       Directed by Chris Wallis.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00l36gq (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00l36j8 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00l36k1 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00l5hch (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00l36yy (Listen)
WED       Jennifer takes some decisive action.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00l5hck (Listen)
WED       The Chosen One
WED       By Edson Burton. A conservative black family are shocked
WED       to discover that younger sibling Aaron has joined a Muslim
WED       prayer group. His sister Maya discovers that the roots of
WED       Aaron's conversion lie in his fractious relationship with
WED       his father and a terrible family secret.
WED       Aaron Skinner ...... Alex Lanipekun
WED       Maya Skinner ...... Nadia Williams
WED       Gregory Skinner ...... Burt Caesar
WED       Sylvia Williams ...... Lorna Easy
WED       Jamal ...... Saikat Ahamed
WED       Jay Andrews ...... Osi Okerafor
WED       Shantelle ...... Alex Tregear
WED       Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00l5hdx (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis takes your questions about ethical investment.
WED       Paul is joined by a panel of experts - Mark Hoskin,
WED       partner at Holden and Partners; Robin Keyte, director of
WED       Towers of Taunton; and Mark Robertson, communications and
WED       development manager at the Ethical Investment Research
WED       Service.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59zt (Listen)
WED       Excused Games, At the Crease
WED       Series of short stories by leading writers, performed by
WED       star readers, in which sports and games have some
WED       surprising effects on both children and adults.
WED       By Robert Shearman. An adult remembers how his obsessive
WED       father was determined he should become an England
WED       cricketer. But the games being played don't make it easy
WED       for either of them. Read by Adam Godley.
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j4 (Listen)
WED       The 'Silent Majority' Finds Its Voice
WED       Series charting the history of America, written and
WED       presented by David Reynolds.
WED       Conservative reaction to the civil rights and women's
WED       liberation movements galvanises America's political system.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00l5hdz (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works. How Victorian geographer Halford
WED       Mackinder's theories of Empire are back in vogue.
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00l5gm8 (Listen)
WED       Claudia Hammond and guests discuss ways of dealing with
WED       self harm, something that more teenagers do in the UK than
WED       anywhere else in Europe.
WED       The programme hears about a Sheffield clinic which has
WED       significantly reduced incidents of adolescents cutting and
WED       harming themselves by introducing a new 'zero tolerance'
WED       rule. But this has proved to be a controversial measure,
WED       because many believe that accepting and working with
WED       self-harming behaviours is the best approach in the long
WED       term.
WED       The doctor behind the Sheffield experiment tells Claudia
WED       what led him and his team to introduce this new policy and
WED       Marjorie Wallace from SANE explains why she doesn't think
WED       that banning self harm works.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00l37l0 (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 b00l37w3 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 I Was... b00fzblz (Listen)
WED       Douglas Adams' Flatmate
WED       Andrew McGibbon presents a series of interviews analysing
WED       great artists from the perspective of someone who knew
WED       them.
WED       Jon Canter shared a flat with his friend Douglas Adams
WED       while the latter struggled for success and then coped with
WED       the fame he found following the success of The
WED       Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Jon reveals the business
WED       of sharing a flat with his fiercely loyal, manically
WED       obsessive, loveable giant of a friend, who is still
WED       greatly missed after his sudden death ten years ago.
WED       Featuring contributions from other flatmates and Douglas'
WED       friend Professor Richard Dawkins.
WED       A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00l36z6 (Listen)
WED       Bridge building doesn't come easily to Brenda.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00l39kf (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7m (Listen)
WED       The Art of Deception, Episode 3
WED       Detective drama by Philip Palmer.
WED       Art critic and journalist Jessica Brown finds herself in
WED       the firing line as her book on forgery starts to ruffle
WED       feathers.
WED       Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield
WED       Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma
WED       Ben ...... Matt Addis
WED       Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble
WED       Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang
WED       DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins
WED       Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney
WED       Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox
WED       DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew
WED       Directed by Toby Swift.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00l5hhy (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 Matthew Taylor.
WED       
WED       20:45 Learning to Love the Microphone b00l5hj0 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Anne Perkins explores how politicians at the dawn of mass
WED       democracy utilised the new media of radio and newsreel.
WED       As mass democracy and new mass media were born in the
WED       1920s, the first spin doctors were on hand to help
WED       politicians use them. Anne Perkins asks what today's
WED       politicians could learn about using new media.
WED       
WED       21:00 The Greening of the Deserts b00l5j3j (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Ayisha Yahya explores predictions from some scientists and
WED       meteorologists that some deserts, including the Sahara,
WED       could get greener in the future and experience more
WED       rainfall.
WED       This runs contrary to more usual predictions about the
WED       future of global warming in Africa that envisage more
WED       drought, floods, land degradation, epidemics and resource
WED       wars. Ayisha travels to Mali and Egypt to explore the
WED       arguments.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00l5hcc (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00l55z3 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00l560j (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57dy (Listen)
WED       The Spy Game, Episode 3
WED       Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in
WED       1960s England.
WED       As Peter's obsession with spy rings deepens, he encourages
WED       Anna to use code to allow them to communicate secretly. In
WED       their search for clues into the disappearance of their
WED       mother, they begin to make lists of her possessions and
WED       acquaintances - they are beginning to think like spies.
WED       Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
WED       
WED       23:00 Self-Storage b0082dxc (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Leaving
WED       Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.
WED       Dave is finally moving out of The Storage Garden. But
WED       Geoff and Ron are determined to make him stay, and
WED       brother-in-law Mickey is clearly less keen on Dave moving
WED       in than Judy is.
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 Strangers on Trains b00db0x3 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Series of character comedies by Nat Segnit and Stewart
WED       Wright, in which Nat talks to people sitting alone on
WED       trains. He asks strangers about sex and dating.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k5 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with David Wilby.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 25 JUNE 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00l33qf (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pnj (Listen)
THU       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Tower, Windsor, Buck
THU       and Jimmys
THU       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
THU       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
THU       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
THU       Helmand Province.
THU       Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and is
THU       straining at the leash to get to the Middle East. But the
THU       British army has other plans for him - parading and
THU       primary school teaching.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sn (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z7 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vx (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00l342h (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344m (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00l3477 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00l348s (Listen)
THU       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00l5mhl (Listen)
THU       Sunni and Shia Islam
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Amira Bennison and Hugh
THU       Kennedy, discuss the historical roots of the division
THU       between Sunni and Shia in Islam.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnl (Listen)
THU       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Cleaning Your Room
THU       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
THU       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
THU       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
THU       Helmand Province.
THU       The Guards are ecstatic - rumour becomes reality and they
THU       head to Iraq. The surge is ongoing, but it is not their
THU       surge. Instead they are listening to Elvis and Johnny
THU       Cash, as they throw anything but parties at the Iraqi jail.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34js (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00l5mhn (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 The Spirit of Grunge b00l5mhq (Listen)
THU       Twenty years on from the birth of grunge, Miranda Sawyer
THU       examines how the movement shaped a generation of British
THU       youth and changed mainstream youth culture forever.
THU       Including contributions from music journalists John
THU       Harris, Keith Cameron, Caitlin Moran and Charles Cross;
THU       and Megan Jasper of influential record label Sub Pop.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00l36gs (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00l36jb (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00l36k3 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00l5mhs (Listen)
THU       Vegas
THU       Michael Simkins, American satirist Joe Queenan and Karen
THU       Marchbank, author of A Brit's Guide to Vegas, discuss Las
THU       Vegas.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00l36z6 (Listen)
THU       Bridge building doesn't come easily to Brenda.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00l5mhv (Listen)
THU       Qualms
THU       Bittersweet comedy by Jonathan Myerson.
THU       When teenager Alex is diagnosed with a terminal condition,
THU       his local Primary Care Trust refuse to finance the
THU       operation which might extend his life, basing their
THU       decision on a financial formula, the Quality Adjusted Life
THU       Year, or QALY. So now Alex's parents know precisely what
THU       his life is worth. Don't they?
THU       Tom ...... Toby Jones
THU       Isabel ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Alex ...... Ben Galpin
THU       Boris ...... Philip Fox
THU       Chairman ...... Jonathan Tafler
THU       Shanna ...... Annabelle Dowler
THU       Other parts played by Lizzy Watts.
THU       Directed by Jonquil Panting.
THU       
THU       15:02 Ramblings b00l2lth (Listen)
THU       Series 12, Episode 5
THU       Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind,
THU       body and soul.
THU       Clare walks in Cromarty, a name that conjures the dulcet
THU       tones of the Shipping Forecast and prompts images of
THU       storm-battered ships wrestling with the sea on a cold,
THU       dark night. Perched at the top of the Black Isle, a
THU       peninsular stretching north from Inverness, Cromarty is a
THU       small, picturesque town of tiny streets and Georgian
THU       cottages, with a harbour flanked by the Sutors: two hills
THU       that are believed to be the slumbering forms of two giant
THU       shoe makers who protected Cromarty from ancient invaders.
THU       In their heyday, at night, oil platforms would light up
THU       the shoreline.
THU       Clare walks with Douglas Willis, a retired geography
THU       teacher and author who brings to life the spirit of
THU       Cromarty's most famous son, Hugh Miller - stone mason,
THU       chronicler of life on the Black Isle, church reformer and
THU       pioneering, self-taught geologist. Born in 1802 and
THU       standing at over 6ft tall with a shock of red hair, his
THU       fossil collection of over 6,000 specimens became the
THU       founding core of what is today's Scottish national
THU       collection in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00l2z7x (Listen)
THU       Parkinson's Disease Society
THU       John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's
THU       Disease Society.
THU       The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to
THU       supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families,
THU       friends and carers.
THU       Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards:
THU       Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please
THU       provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name
THU       and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
THU       donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone
THU       donation facilities are not currently available to
THU       listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197,
THU       Scotland No: SC037554.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59zx (Listen)
THU       Excused Games, Boy's Own Story
THU       Series of short stories by leading writers, performed by
THU       star readers, in which sports and games have some
THU       surprising effects on both children and adults.
THU       By Christopher Matthew. A grandfather is persuaded to tell
THU       his story of a long-ago school boxing competition to his
THU       sports-mad grandson. But is Grandpa's choice of tale a
THU       good idea? Read by Martin Jarvis.
THU       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j6 (Listen)
THU       Putting God Back into Politics
THU       Series charting the history of America, written and
THU       presented by David Reynolds.
THU       Evangelical Christians get involved in public life to
THU       fight against what they see as the liberal excesses of the
THU       1960s and 70s.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00l32z1 (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00l5nbc (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00l37l2 (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 b00l382p (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00fm3lj (Listen)
THU       Episode 1
THU       Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's
THU       Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and
THU       then getting them to vote for the best.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00l36zb (Listen)
THU       The wait is over for Lilian.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00l39kh (Listen)
THU       Presented by Kirsty Lang. With Tehran-born comedian Shappi
THU       Khorsandi, who has written a memoir about her family's
THU       British life in exile after the 1979 revolution in Iran.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7p (Listen)
THU       The Art of Deception, Episode 4
THU       Detective drama by Philip Palmer.
THU       Caught in the middle of a long-standing feud, Jessica
THU       comes face to face with the darker side of the art world.
THU       Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield
THU       Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma
THU       Ben ...... Matt Addis
THU       Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble
THU       Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang
THU       DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins
THU       Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney
THU       Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox
THU       DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew
THU       Directed by Toby Swift.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00l5b6p (Listen)
THU       With a report due on the findings of an inquiry into the
THU       nuclear industry's use of organs from dead workers for
THU       medical research, Clive Coleman examines the law governing
THU       what happens to your body when you are dead and what it
THU       means for people who want to give away - or even sell -
THU       bits of themselves. Who owns your body - you or the state?
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00l5nt1 (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 b00l5nt3 (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts meets Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and
THU       President of the Royal Society, who shares his perspective
THU       on how he has adapted to the role and the influence it can
THU       have on the international stage.
THU       Lord Rees discusses the role that science academies have
THU       in setting international standards for things like carbon
THU       emissions, nuclear test bans, the protection of wilderness
THU       areas such as Antarctica and the freedom of scientists to
THU       travel and communicate across political boundaries.
THU       The Royal Society, which celebrates its 350th birthday in
THU       2010, is the nation's science academy, rewarding those it
THU       sees as the greatest living scientists with fellowships as
THU       well as giving out research grants, holding meetings and
THU       publishing journals. Increasingly, it is issuing
THU       statements of opinion, often of its President, on
THU       science-based political issues such as climate change, GM
THU       food or sustainable energy.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00l5mhl (Listen)
THU       Sunni and Shia Islam
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Amira Bennison and Hugh
THU       Kennedy, discuss the historical roots of the division
THU       between Sunni and Shia in Islam.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00l55z5 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00l560l (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f0 (Listen)
THU       The Spy Game, Episode 4
THU       Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in
THU       1960s England.
THU       Anna and Peter adopt ever more furtive observation
THU       techniques to help them develop their theories about their
THU       mother's disappearance.
THU       Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
THU       
THU       23:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00jjn19 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, The Man in the Garden
THU       Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.
THU       A lonely lady on a holiday in the remote West Highlands of
THU       Scotland finds herself falling in love with two members of
THU       the same family, born 60 years apart. By Rona Munro.
THU       Duncan ...... Stanley Baxter
THU       Ellie ...... Penelope Wilton
THU       Receptionist ...... Bill Paterson
THU       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
THU       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k7 (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00l33qh (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pnl (Listen)
FRI       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Cleaning Your Room
FRI       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
FRI       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
FRI       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
FRI       Helmand Province.
FRI       The Guards are ecstatic - rumour becomes reality and they
FRI       head to Iraq. The surge is ongoing, but it is not their
FRI       surge. Instead they are listening to Elvis and Johnny
FRI       Cash, as they throw anything but parties at the Iraqi jail.
FRI       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sq (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z9 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33w0 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00l342k (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344p (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00l3479 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00l348v (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
FRI       Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00l2zg6 (Listen)
FRI       Martin Shaw
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw.
FRI       He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and
FRI       television actors of the past forty years and has taken on
FRI       more than a hundred different roles. Yet Martin has spent
FRI       half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his
FRI       earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnn (Listen)
FRI       The Junior Officer's Reading Club, The Road to Sangin
FRI       Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st
FRI       century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and
FRI       then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's
FRI       Helmand Province.
FRI       From Iraq to Helmand Province and the road to Sangin.
FRI       Battle contact, so long anticipated, proves satisfying for
FRI       Hennessey and Operation Silicon is a success. But they
FRI       must now fight their way up to Sangin, as the casualties
FRI       mount.
FRI       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jv (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Three Rivers b00l62ps (Listen)
FRI       The Clyde
FRI       Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three
FRI       major rivers that are being regenerated after years of
FRI       neglect and industrial use.
FRI       Hardeep begins beside a stream in Lanarkshire which swells
FRI       to become the mighty Clyde, dividing Glasgow into north
FRI       and south and defining the city's industry, heritage and
FRI       character.
FRI       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Electric Ink b00l63v8 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 4
FRI       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
FRI       media in the newspaper industry.
FRI       The paper hires a reality star as a columnist and Maddox
FRI       must find a way of rewriting her copy without upsetting
FRI       her.
FRI       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
FRI       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
FRI       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
FRI       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
FRI       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
FRI       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
FRI       Debbie ...... Lizzy Watts
FRI       Announcer ...... Matt Addis
FRI       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00l36gv (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00l36jd (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00l36k5 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00l63vl (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00l36zb (Listen)
FRI       The wait is over for Lilian.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 On Mardle Fen b00l67zr (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Silver Ribbon
FRI       Series of four plays by Nick Warburton, set in an
FRI       idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens.
FRI       Eccentric chef Warwick Hedges challenges his son Jack to a
FRI       race, with Jack to go on his bike by road, Warwick on his
FRI       skates by waterway, and the first man to arrive at the
FRI       cathedral door wins.
FRI       Warwick ...... Trevor Peacock
FRI       Jack ...... Sam Dale
FRI       Marcia ...... Kate Buffery
FRI       Samuel ...... John Rowe
FRI       Zofia ...... Helen Longworth
FRI       Bernard ...... Paul Rider
FRI       Directed by Claire Grove.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00l67zt (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw answer
FRI       questions posed by gardeners in Wiltshire.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j8 (Listen)
FRI       Keeping Faith
FRI       Series charting the history of America, written and
FRI       presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       Evangelical Christian and Washington outsider Jimmy Carter
FRI       is elected president, but his liberal values doom his
FRI       administration in the face of the right-wing surge of the
FRI       Reagan revolution.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00l67zw (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 b00l68wx (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock dips into The Pool of London, a classic
FRI       British noir made in 1951 and released on DVD for the
FRI       first time. She talks to its star, Caribbean actor Earl
FRI       Cameron, about his debut and subsequent career.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00l37l4 (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 b00l37w5 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00l6fzl (Listen)
FRI       Series 28, Episode 1
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00l36zj (Listen)
FRI       Family loyalties are tested at the Stables.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00l39kk (Listen)
FRI       Presented by Mark Lawson. Including a report on how
FRI       dramatists select the titles for their plays, with writers
FRI       Charlotte Keatley, Jez Butterworth and David Edgar.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7r (Listen)
FRI       The Art of Deception, Episode 5
FRI       Detective drama by Philip Palmer.
FRI       Master forger and art criminal Daniel Ballantyne continues
FRI       to pull the strings from beyond the grave.
FRI       Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield
FRI       Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma
FRI       Ben ...... Matt Addis
FRI       Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble
FRI       Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang
FRI       DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins
FRI       Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney
FRI       Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox
FRI       DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew
FRI       Directed by Toby Swift.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00l68v7 (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Birmingham.
FRI       Panellists include Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for
FRI       environment, food and rural affairs, writer and journalist
FRI       Sir Max Hastings and the classicist, Professor Mary Beard.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00l6g8s (Listen)
FRI       Giant Birds
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa, is the
FRI       largest continental island in the world. It is also the
FRI       place where the largest egg known to have existed was
FRI       laid, and the bird that laid it was also a giant.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00l6j0k (Listen)
FRI       Detente and Discontent
FRI       Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of
FRI       America, written and presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       As America reels from Watergate, Vietnam and a sagging
FRI       economy, conservative and evangelical movements born in
FRI       the country's heartland move to the forefront of public
FRI       life.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00l55z7 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00l560n (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f2 (Listen)
FRI       The Spy Game, Episode 5
FRI       Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in
FRI       1960s England.
FRI       Peter has made Anna think the unthinkable about their
FRI       mother, and the pair redouble their surveillance efforts.
FRI       Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00l5b6r (Listen)
FRI       Kate Mosse talks to two scientists, the writer and
FRI       presenter Vivienne Parry and Professor Jocelyn Bell
FRI       Burnell, head of the Institute of Physics, about their
FRI       favourite books. The books under discussion are a classic
FRI       novel, a piece of 20th century history and a romance
FRI       described by one of the guests as 'Mills and Boon with
FRI       vampires'.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k9 (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
FRI       
FRI       
FRI