Radio 4 Listings for 29/08/2009 - 04/09/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00m75lj (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 b00m0tpx (Listen)
SAT       When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 5
SAT       Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said
SAT       Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir.
SAT       Now grown up, Said takes a job in the corporate offices of
SAT       the lifestyle expert Martha Stewart. He loves buying
SAT       designer accoutrements for his tiny apartment and falls in
SAT       love with a co-worker, Karen. His mother comes to visit
SAT       and asks if he has heard from his father. He has not, but
SAT       he reminisces about the last time they met. He was 17 and
SAT       it was a very uncomfortable meal. He hugs his now frail
SAT       mom and rides away on the subway with Karen.
SAT       Abridged by Francois Smit.
SAT       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m75ln (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m75ls (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m75lx (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00m75m1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m75p1 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
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SAT       05:45 Wars of The Roses b00ffvrk (Listen)
SAT       Episode 1
SAT       Welsey Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its
SAT       bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition.
SAT       Taunton joins its rivals at the National Seminar in
SAT       Scarborough to cast a wary eye over the competition.
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00m75p3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00m76gx (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00m82lx (Listen)
SAT       Dunluce Castle
SAT       So many stories are told about Dunluce Castle and its
SAT       surrounds that it is hard to separate fact from fiction.
SAT       Helen Mark visits the ruins on the north Antrim coast to
SAT       try to establish some facts at the first major
SAT       archaeological dig to be held there.
SAT       The archaeological team have been astounded by the wealth
SAT       and quality of their finds, which include an entire lost
SAT       merchants' town and the location of a 13th-century
SAT       settlement.
SAT       Helen also goes underground to find how the sea caves and
SAT       their legends have inspired a photographer to capture
SAT       their image. But does Helen's experience of unexplained
SAT       howls add more to the myths than to dispel them?
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00m82lz (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Birds of Prey are on the rise, and their numbers are now
SAT       back to 19th century levels. Charlotte Smith talks to
SAT       conservationists, gamekeepers and falconers to see how our
SAT       countryside is coping.
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SAT       06:57 Weather b00m82m1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00m83nt (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00m83nw (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by classicist
SAT       Mary Beard. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00m83ny (Listen)
SAT       The Yorkshire seaside town of Filey first attracted
SAT       visitors like Charlotte Bronte and Frederick Delius in the
SAT       19th century, and in the 20th was host to a large Butlin's
SAT       holiday camp. Sandi Toksvig visits Filey to discover how
SAT       it is faring in the 21st century, now that Butlin's has
SAT       closed. Has it managed to retain its individuality while
SAT       attracting visitors in hard economic times?
SAT       Sandi tours the town with former Mayor Marion Wright as
SAT       her guide and looks at how two current holiday
SAT       developments are aiming to keep Filey on the holiday map.
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SAT       10:30 Bryn Terfel Masters Wine b00m83p0 (Listen)
SAT       Opera singer Bryn Terfel explores his love of wine and
SAT       attempts to become a master sommelier. Taking a break from
SAT       the stage, Bryn meets some of the world's finest wine
SAT       experts and finds out what the role of sommelier involves,
SAT       from tasting to service to food matching.
SAT       Featuring contributions from wine writer Sarah Ahmed,
SAT       chief examiner for The Court of Master Sommeliers Brian
SAT       Julyan, managing director of Cullen Wines Vanya Cullen,
SAT       sommelier at Gidleigh Park Restaurant Edouard Oger,
SAT       restaurant manager at High Timber Restaurant Neleen
SAT       Strauss and Master of Wine at Berry Bros Alun Griffiths.
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SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m83p2 (Listen)
SAT       Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster
SAT       parliament.
SAT       Crowded roads, trains and airports blight our transport
SAT       system, so politicians with bright ideas for sorting out
SAT       the mess could be vote winners. But with budgets
SAT       tightening and environmental worries rising, Iain Martin
SAT       asks how radical the main political parties will be.
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SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m83p4 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Including the link between mobile phones and the violence
SAT       in eastern Congo, the confessions of a Colombian petrol
SAT       smuggler, and how to find the best hotels in Africa.
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SAT       12:00 Money Box b00m83p6 (Listen)
SAT       Coping with the Recession, Episode 3
SAT       The housing price crash seems to have entered a different
SAT       phase, with prices in some parts of the UK starting to
SAT       rise again. Paul Lewis asks what this means for first-time
SAT       buyers and for places like Northern Ireland which are
SAT       still seeing steep price falls.
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SAT       12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m74rp (Listen)
SAT       Episode 2
SAT       Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two
SAT       teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The
SAT       show asks both the big and the little questions, and
SAT       provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Andy
SAT       Parsons and Justin Edwards.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00m85ks (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00m85kv (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00m74rr (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Chipping
SAT       Norton, Oxfordshire. The panellists are former
SAT       Conservative deputy leader Lord Heseltine, former Labour
SAT       cabinet minister Tony Benn, columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
SAT       and Professor Colin Mayer, Dean of Oxford University's
SAT       Saïd Business School.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00m85kx (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00760w8 (Listen)
SAT       Lockerbie on Trial
SAT       With the Lockerbie bombing once again in the news, another
SAT       chance to hear Peter Goodchild's dramatised reconstruction
SAT       of the extraordinary story of one of the longest,
SAT       costliest and most complicated trials in legal history.
SAT       Few would have predicted the verdict in February 2001,
SAT       when Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted and Al Amin
SAT       Khalifa Fhimah acquitted of blowing up Pam Am flight 103.
SAT       The prosecution are sure they have got their men, but a
SAT       succession of witnesses who prove to be CIA double agents,
SAT       convicted terrorists and arms dealers with shady histories
SAT       begin to undermine a case which is skilfully and
SAT       passionately contested by the defence.
SAT       Presented by Sheena MacDonald.
SAT       With Ian McDiarmid, Denis Lawson and Hugh Fraser.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00m85wm (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       :ncluding:
SAT       Author Michelle Paver's series for children, Chronicles of
SAT       Ancient Darkness, is a worldwide bestseller. She talks
SAT       about the extensive research she has done to make her
SAT       stories as real as possible, research that has included
SAT       learning the ways of the Inuit people, swimming with
SAT       killer whales, eating seal blubber and getting to know
SAT       some wolves.
SAT       Deaf spouses, and the impact of being deaf on those around
SAT       you. Comedian Steve Day discusses how losing your hearing
SAT       can change a relationship.
SAT       New shoes. As the summer is nearly over and school is
SAT       about to begin, it's that time again. Do you dread that
SAT       visit to the shoe shop with your kids, but continue to
SAT       insist on properly fitted leather shoes? Or have you
SAT       thrown in the towel and given in to cheap trainers and
SAT       ballet pumps? And how much does it really matter?
SAT       Podiatrist Emma Supple and journalist Kathryn Flett
SAT       discuss the rights and wrongs of buying shoes for children.
SAT       And Through the Eye of a Needle: the journalist who cuts
SAT       his child's hair, saves apple pips and makes all his own
SAT       clothes. John-Paul Flintoff joins Jane with his crochet
SAT       hook to talk about his decision to create his own everyday
SAT       outfits, from fitted shirts and jeans, right down to his
SAT       Y-fronts.
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SAT       17:00 PM b00m85wp (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00m85wr (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m85wt (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00m85ww (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m86zy (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00m8700 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by the writer and comedian Alexei Sayle,
SAT       wildlife presenter Kate Humble and author Simon Hoggart.
SAT       Jo Bunting talks to choirmaster Gareth Malone.
SAT       With music from The Bookhouse Boys and Eric Roberson.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00m8702 (Listen)
SAT       Benjamin Netanyahu
SAT       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
SAT       Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that
SAT       could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the
SAT       occupied West Bank.
SAT       Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi
SAT       Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from
SAT       Netanyahu's past.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00m8731 (Listen)
SAT       Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by writer Paul Morley, comedian
SAT       Natalie Haynes and poet Paul Farley to discuss the
SAT       cultural highlights of the week - featuring war as a drug,
SAT       a fictional cult rocker and monkeys in the desert.
SAT       The Hurt Locker follows a three man American bomb disposal
SAT       squad on its tour of duty in Baghdad in 2004. The epigraph
SAT       at the beginning of Kathryn Bigelow's film is 'war is a
SAT       drug' and certainly for Staff Sergeant Will James (Jeremy
SAT       Renner), there seems to be something dreadfully compelling
SAT       about the long walk towards what everybody else is running
SAT       away from. The first Iraq War film to be a US box office
SAT       hit.
SAT       In Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby revisits his familiar
SAT       territory of men, music and obsession. Duncan is devoted
SAT       to the work of cult US singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe,
SAT       although nothing has been heard of Crowe for 20 years.
SAT       Duncan's partner Annie shares his enthusiasm to some
SAT       extent, but when a new album is released, containing demo
SAT       versions of the tracks on his most famous release, their
SAT       lives veer off in unexpected directions.
SAT       After a second album which, almost inevitably, failed to
SAT       achieve the stellar success of their debut, Arctic Monkeys
SAT       evidently decided they should look for a change of
SAT       direction for their third release. This led them to the
SAT       Mojave Desert studio of Queens of the Stone Age frontman
SAT       Josh Homme where they recorded the majority of the songs
SAT       for their third album, Humbug, with Homme at the desk. The
SAT       heavier, darker sound may not be to the taste of all the
SAT       band's fans, but it certainly signals some kind of
SAT       transition.
SAT       Don Paterson's reputation as a poet has been growing
SAT       steadily since his debut collection Nil Nil was published
SAT       in 1993. Born in Dundee, his first job after leaving
SAT       school was as editor of DC Thompson's Commando magazine.
SAT       He also has a parallel career as a respected jazz
SAT       musician. Rain is his latest collection of poems which
SAT       includes Phantom, an extended elegy for fellow poet
SAT       Michael Donaghy.
SAT       When Geraldine McEwan hung up her straw hat as ITV's Miss
SAT       Marple, the baton (or knitting bag) was passed to Julia
SAT       McKenzie. Her first outing as the spinster sleuth is in A
SAT       Pocketful of Rye in which she investigates some rum
SAT       goings-on at Yew Tree Lodge. A star-studded cast mills
SAT       around, dusting off their alibis. Whatever the twists and
SAT       turns along the way, wickedness will not go unpunished.
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SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00m88t6 (Listen)
SAT       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Clare Short
SAT       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
SAT       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
SAT       re-examination of their lives.
SAT       Clare Short has spent her life in the public eye, never
SAT       less than passionate and never short of opinions. From her
SAT       first appearance as a community activist in the early
SAT       1980s, through to her announcement that she will be
SAT       standing down as an MP at the next election, her career
SAT       has always been controversial. What does she think now of
SAT       her early causes: her opposition to Page 3 and support for
SAT       the legalisation of cannabis? And what of those
SAT       resignations? Was she really, as she claimed at the time,
SAT       'making a sacrifice to a higher purpose' by staying inside
SAT       the Cabinet despite her opposition to the Iraq War?
SAT       As Clare meets herself coming back over nearly 30 years of
SAT       sound recordings, is she proud, pleased, or driven, as she
SAT       says she often is, to think, 'Oh, shut up Clare', for her
SAT       insistance on always speaking up, even when staying quiet
SAT       might be a wiser choice?
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen)
SAT       Two on a Tower, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of
SAT       star-crossed lovers in the West Country.
SAT       When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome
SAT       young astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on
SAT       her estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins.
SAT       Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill
SAT       Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson
SAT       Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson
SAT       Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys
SAT       Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin
SAT       Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson
SAT       Louis ...... Richard Heap
SAT       Joshua ...... Carter Dowland
SAT       Directed by Stefan Escreet.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00m88t8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m6ggf (Listen)
SAT       Episode 2
SAT       Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to
SAT       apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people
SAT       they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion.
SAT       Public debates between those who believe in God and those
SAT       who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever,
SAT       often obscuring central human questions about how we
SAT       should live and how modern ethics should work.
SAT       Here, Professor AC Grayling and Lord Harries of
SAT       Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, visit a faith
SAT       school and then meet the organiser of an atheist summer
SAT       camp to explore where we get our values from and whether
SAT       you need God to be Good.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00m67w3 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from the north of England and the south of
SAT       England.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poems for Infant Minds b0076p8n (Listen)
SAT       Nigel Forde looks at the development of children's poetry,
SAT       from the finger-wagging moral tales of the 18th and 19th
SAT       centuries, which warned girls and boys against the dangers
SAT       of being naughty, to the zany nonsense of the last
SAT       century. Has the moral message wrapped in verse really
SAT       changed all that much? Featuring writing by the Taylor
SAT       sisters, Lear, Stevenson, De La Mere and Dr Seuss.
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SUN       SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00m892c (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088n9j (Listen)
SUN       Telling the World, The Girl Who Fell
SUN       Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the
SUN       world.
SUN       Nick Hennessey tells the creation story from the Karelian
SUN       epic The Kalevala, an ancient myth from the Finno-Ugric
SUN       people of the Baltic. It starts at the very beginning,
SUN       with the ocean and the wind.
SUN       A Watershed Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m892f (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m892h (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m892k (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00m892m (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m8p70 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from the church of St John the Baptist,
SUN       Burford.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00m8702 (Listen)
SUN       Benjamin Netanyahu
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
SUN       Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that
SUN       could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the
SUN       occupied West Bank.
SUN       Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi
SUN       Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from
SUN       Netanyahu's past.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00m8p72 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00m8p74 (Listen)
SUN       The Extraordinary Mary Ward
SUN       Mike Wooldridge explores the life and legacy of an
SUN       extraordinary Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who scandalised
SUN       the Church authorities of the early 17th century by
SUN       redefining religious life for women.
SUN       She walked across the Alps several times to plead her
SUN       cause in Rome, suffered imprisonment and ill-treatment,
SUN       and, when she died, her few remaining companions had to
SUN       bribe a vicar to bury her. But 400 years on, the Orders
SUN       she founded are working throughout the world and vast
SUN       congregations are gathering to celebrate her story.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00m8p76 (Listen)
SUN       Great Bustards
SUN       The Great Bustard has long been extinct from the British
SUN       countryside, but, as Lionel Kelleway discovers, a
SUN       determined re-introduction programme from a captive-born
SUN       stock of animals might change all that. Now, the first
SUN       chicks have been born outside captivity.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00m8p78 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00m8p7b (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00m8p7d (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 b00m8p7g (Listen)
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SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00m8p7j (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00m8p7l (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00m8p7n (Listen)
SUN       A service from Trinity Methodist Church in Penarth, south
SUN       Wales, led by Rev Teddy Kalongo. The preacher is Rev Dr
SUN       Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist
SUN       Church.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m74rt (Listen)
SUN       Coelacanth
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       The Coelacanth is a primitive bony fish thought to be an
SUN       important ancestor to all back-boned animals that ventured
SUN       onto land. David Attenborough brought to television the
SUN       first film of a living fish in Life on Earth. But is it
SUN       the living fossil it was claimed to be?
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00m8p7q (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m8p7s (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 The Reunion b00m8p7v (Listen)
SUN       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
SUN       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
SUN       history.
SUN       In Ethiopia, close to eight million people became famine
SUN       victims during the drought of 1984, and over one million
SUN       died. The international relief effort that followed was
SUN       the largest ever mounted, culminating in the Live Aid
SUN       concert in 1985.
SUN       Reporter Michael Buerk, nurse Claire Bertschinger, former
SUN       head of Oxfam Hugh Goyder, Major Dawit Wolde Giorgis of
SUN       the Ethiopian relief effort and Sir Brian Barder,
SUN       Ambassador to Ethiopia at the time, join Sue to recall the
SUN       events.
SUN       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00m67w9 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 5
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at
SUN       the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The panellists include Paul
SUN       Merton and Sue Perkins.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00m8p7x (Listen)
SUN       Chefs' Choices Number 4: Lemongrass
SUN       Raymond Blanc explains how travelling to Thailand and
SUN       Malaysia led to a culinary love affair with lemongrass,
SUN       and ambitious plans to grow a south-east Asian garden at
SUN       Les Manois Aux Quat' Saisons in Oxford.
SUN       He explains, with the help of chef David Thompson, food
SUN       writer Roger Owen and herb grower Jekka McVicar, why
SUN       lemongrass is such a prized ingredient in Asian cooking.
SUN       It is a herb with many uses; outside the kitchen it is
SUN       regarded as an important medicinal herb and has even been
SUN       used by the SAS as a source of moisture in the Malaysian
SUN       jungle.
SUN       Raymond Blanc has been using lemongrass for decades to
SUN       give dishes a light and fragrant flavour. In the programme
SUN       he prepares two dishes: a fillet of brill on a bed of
SUN       spinach and, for dessert, a summer berry soup infused with
SUN       the flavours of lemongrass.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00m8p7z (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00m8p81 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Garden Room Girls b00lgm1r (Listen)
SUN       Some of the elite band of secretaries who have worked at
SUN       Downing Street over the last 50 years reveal their untold
SUN       stories of life at Number 10 and how it operates.
SUN       Interviewed for the first time, they talk to Naomi Grimley
SUN       about working for Prime Ministers since Churchill, and
SUN       Tony Blair discloses how the PM's office could not work
SUN       without them.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m74gb (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer
SUN       questions posed by gardeners in Hertfordshire.
SUN       Anne Rowe, a landscape historian at Cambridge University,
SUN       discovers the lost gardens of Hertfordshire. Pippa
SUN       Greenwood is joined by a leading bulb expert to reveal
SUN       next year's exciting daffodil trends.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m5rs7 (Listen)
SUN       The Astronomers
SUN       Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied
SUN       disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to
SUN       explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs.
SUN       Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
SUN       For 50 years, astronomers at the Jodrell Bank worked with
SUN       colleagues around an iconic radio telescope that famously
SUN       spotted Sputnik. But now most of the Jodrell tribe are
SUN       leaving their telescope in the middle of the Cheshire
SUN       countryside and moving to Manchester. The telescope will
SUN       survive as it is a listed building, but will the tribe?
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen)
SUN       Two on a Tower, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of
SUN       star-crossed lovers in the West Country.
SUN       Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance
SUN       and convention conspire against them and painful
SUN       sacrifices have to be made.
SUN       Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill
SUN       Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson
SUN       Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson
SUN       Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys
SUN       Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin
SUN       Louis ...... Richard Heap
SUN       Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon
SUN       Joshua ...... Carter Thomas
SUN       Directed by Stefan Escreet.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00m8qwv (Listen)
SUN       Nick Hornby talks to Alex Clark about his new novel,
SUN       Juliet, Naked, and explains his fascination with obsessive
SUN       music fans.
SUN       Fay Weldon and Henry Porter discuss the attractions and
SUN       difficulties of setting a novel in the near future.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 In Search of the Wantley Dragon b00m5t0r (Listen)
SUN       Poet Ian McMillan explores the bawdy 17th-century comic
SUN       poem The Dragon of Wantley. He uncovers long-forgotten
SUN       violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour,
SUN       pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den.
SUN       Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its
SUN       day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of
SUN       Robin Hood.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Says Who? The Rise of the Community Leader b00m6c40 (Listen)
SUN       Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah investigates the
SUN       changing role of the community leader. The media turns to
SUN       them to respond to the latest crisis and they are happy to
SUN       oblige, but on whose authority do community leaders speak?
SUN       Kwame visits Birmingham to meet leaders from the Muslim
SUN       and Afro-Caribbean communities. He discovers how these
SUN       individuals are selected to voice the concerns of others,
SUN       finds out how their agendas have responded to our
SUN       increasingly diverse society and questions whether the
SUN       idea of 'community' is still realistic in a world of
SUN       multiplying lifestyles and opinions.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00m8702 (Listen)
SUN       Benjamin Netanyahu
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
SUN       Prime Minister, who has been in Europe for talks that
SUN       could lead to progress on the issue of settlements in the
SUN       occupied West Bank.
SUN       Interviewees include Malcolm Rifkind MP, journalists Yossi
SUN       Alfer, Gill Hoffman and friends and colleagues from
SUN       Netanyahu's past.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m9h1v (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00m9h1x (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m9h1z (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00m9h21 (Listen)
SUN       Miriam O'Reilly introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00m9h23 (Listen)
SUN       Wayne earns a crust in the kitchens.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00m9h25 (Listen)
SUN       Kevin Connolly asks if the political influence of Irish
SUN       America is over with the death of Ted Kennedy.
SUN       He also explores the continuing love affair between
SUN       Americans and Sir Winston Churchill, and talks to a woman
SUN       who may have met an angel on September 11th.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9m (Listen)
SUN       An Audience with Max Wall, The Crumbling Wall
SUN       Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this
SUN       series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the
SUN       Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden.
SUN       Max describes his invention of the character Prof
SUN       Wallowski, dressed in a ridiculous bald wig, indecent
SUN       black tights, green waistcoat and big shoes. But by the
SUN       1950s, Max's career is in decline.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00m74g6 (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine more numbers
SUN       in the news, including whether Britain's record on
SUN       prosecuting rape is as bad as headlines suggest.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00m74n4 (Listen)
SUN       The lives of Senator Edward Kennedy; geologist and African
SUN       adventurer Campbell Bridges; Gregory's Girl producer Clive
SUN       Parsons; jazz guitarist Lawrence Lucie. With Matthew
SUN       Bannister.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Face the Facts b00m9h27 (Listen)
SUN       The Long Wait for a Law
SUN       John Waite presents the investigative consumer series.
SUN       Imagine a series of arson attacks on the homes next door
SUN       to you, or bulldozers demolishing homes their owners have
SUN       been forced to sell. These ares the antics of some of the
SUN       unscrupulous landlords working in the mobile home
SUN       industry. John Waite investigates why the government is
SUN       only now consulting on new legislation to stop thousands
SUN       of elderly people living in fear.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m8p7g (Listen)
SUN       ClearVision
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SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00m721v (Listen)
SUN       Squeaky Clean
SUN       WD40 is one of those rare products that users deeply
SUN       identify with. In San Diego, Peter Day investigates the
SUN       company's secret formula and finds out how to run an
SUN       international business by using the promise of the
SUN       original brand to navigate into the future.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00m9h29 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00m9h2c (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Britain's White House.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00m74rm (Listen)
SUN       Described by some as the world's greatest living
SUN       cinematographer, Douglas Slocombe has worked on films
SUN       including Kind Hearts and Coronets and Raiders of the Lost
SUN       Ark. Now in his 90s, he talks to Matthew Sweet about his
SUN       extraordinary career.
SUN       Mark Gatiss from The League of Gentlemen concludes his
SUN       alternative guide to British cinema.
SUN       Listeners, screenwriters and directors including Bertrand
SUN       Tavernier, Alex Cox, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Jake Arnott
SUN       nominate the British classics they think have been
SUN       neglected by posterity.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00m8p74 (Listen)
SUN       The Extraordinary Mary Ward
SUN       Mike Wooldridge explores the life and legacy of an
SUN       extraordinary Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who scandalised
SUN       the Church authorities of the early 17th century by
SUN       redefining religious life for women.
SUN       She walked across the Alps several times to plead her
SUN       cause in Rome, suffered imprisonment and ill-treatment,
SUN       and, when she died, her few remaining companions had to
SUN       bribe a vicar to bury her. But 400 years on, the Orders
SUN       she founded are working throughout the world and vast
SUN       congregations are gathering to celebrate her story.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 31 AUGUST 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00m9hgh (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00m6gg9 (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor discusses the life and work of leading
MON       cultural commentator Richard Hoggart, asking why his time
MON       is coming again.
MON       Hoggart's evidence in the Lady Chatterley trial changed
MON       censorship for ever, his influence on the Pilkington
MON       Committee established the norms of public service
MON       broadcasting still in operation today and his academic
MON       work led to the invention of cultural studies in the UK.
MON       He is considered a titan of contemporary culture and his
MON       famous book The Uses of Literacy combined sociology with
MON       literature and biography, going on to have a huge
MON       influence on the way popular culture was viewed. That
MON       influence has been on the wane in recent decades, but now
MON       a new edition of Hoggart's book is about to be published,
MON       a biography is being written and a recent conference was
MON       dedicated to his work.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m8p70 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from the church of St John the Baptist,
MON       Burford.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhf (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hwr (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hph (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00m9hx4 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j09 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00m9jbb (Listen)
MON       Anne-Marie Bullock visits the Cain Valley in
MON       Montgomeryshire to see how farmer Peter Lewis has improved
MON       the water quality of the River Cain and how it has
MON       improved life on his farm.
MON       Just one drop of organophosphate sheep dip could kill off
MON       the insects in a kilometre of river. Farmers can face
MON       prosecution for careless pollution of rivers, but now the
MON       Environment Agency is trying to work alongside farmers to
MON       help prevent the build-up of 'diffuse pollution' such as
MON       slurry and silage being washed into streams. A build-up of
MON       contaminants along a valley can also have an impact on
MON       life in the streams.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00mb9pb (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00m9nyb (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00mb9pf (Listen)
MON       John Varley
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       The chief executive of Barclays Bank, John Varley, gives
MON       an insider's view of how it felt to watch bank after bank
MON       teeter on the brink of collapse over the weekend of
MON       October 11, 2008, and how he feared that, unless the
MON       government intervened, there would be a crisis of
MON       confidence in the whole banking system. He tells Robert
MON       how it felt to watch thousands of Barclays employees
MON       coming in to work on the Monday morning unsure whether or
MON       not the bank had been nationalised.
MON       
MON       09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mb9ph (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Helena Kennedy QC examines the ways in which the best
MON       intentions in legal reform can sometimes produce
MON       unexpected and unpalatable consequences.
MON       The rise of the victims' movement. Helena began her career
MON       championing the victim's voice, but is now worried it has
MON       gained such strength that it is beginning to threaten the
MON       rights of defendants.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00m69k2 (Listen)
MON       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 1
MON       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
MON       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
MON       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
MON       Chaloner.
MON       After nearly 30 years of academic life at Cambridge,
MON       Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint. He was soon in
MON       charge of the colossal task of re-casting all of England's
MON       currency - almost seven million pounds - and took a
MON       hands-on approach to the interrogation of suspected
MON       counterfeiters held in Newgate prison.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph4 (Listen)
MON       Jane Garvey presents a special edition to mark 100 years
MON       of the Girl Guides.
MON       On 4th September 1909 a group of girls, disguised in boys'
MON       uniforms, snuck into a Scout rally in London and demanded
MON       'something for the girls'. A century later the Girl Guide
MON       movement has flourished, and almost half the women in the
MON       UK have been involved in Guiding at some stage in their
MON       lives.
MON       Jane speaks to Guides past and present, and the BBC
MON       Breakfast presenter Kate Silverton recounts her
MON       experiences as a Queen's Guide. We also hear from several
MON       generations at camp in Lancashire, from seven-year-old
MON       Brownies to a lifelong member, Betty Lowe, who is 101.
MON       With badges and activities ranging from air mechanic and
MON       hostess, chocolate and circus skills, to the crate
MON       challenge and abseiling, Jane discusses how the movement
MON       has modernised over the century and its relevance to girls
MON       today.
MON       
MON       11:00 Merry Widows b00mb9pk (Listen)
MON       Women whose much-loved husbands have died describe finding
MON       unexpected happiness late in life, and the challenge of
MON       creating a new identity. Restarting a life when one
MON       suddenly finds oneself alone, having been married for
MON       decades, and for all of one's adult life, is never easy.
MON       There are contributions from women who had never lived on
MON       their own: people who married early, and happily, and
MON       stayed married. But then comes the blow of their husbands'
MON       death; they explain what happened next - and it surprised
MON       everyone
MON       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mbbkh (Listen)
MON       Series 3, Episode 2
MON       Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum.
MON       Walter Brindle has staff to cull and a broken heart to
MON       overcome but, worst of all, his wife has come back to him
MON       and seems intent on pandering to his every whim.
MON       Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
MON       Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
MON       Prunela Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
MON       Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
MON       Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
MON       Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
MON       Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin
MON       Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
MON       Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo
MON       Psychiatrist ...... Stephen K Amos.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00m9v3q (Listen)
MON       Fake UGG Boots
MON       20,000 counterfeit pairs of UGG boots have been seized by
MON       Customs. Complaints to Consumer Direct about fake copies
MON       of the fashionable sheepskin UGG boots have tripled since
MON       last year.
MON       Calgary Avansino, Vogue's executive fashion editor, and
MON       Jim Jarvey of HM Revenue and Customs discuss.
MON       Liverpool Musical Heritage
MON       Is there more to Liverpool's music than the Fab Four?
MON       Stephanie Power reports on attempts to attract tourists to
MON       Merseyside by emphasising a musical culture beyond the
MON       Beatles.
MON       Hotel Ratings
MON       The boss of Jurys Inns has called for the star rating
MON       system to be scrapped. How effective are hotel inspections
MON       and how reliable are the gradings that hotels are given?
MON       Mark Jones, owner of Colson House guest house in Brighton,
MON       and Simon Numphud, manager of AA hotel services, discuss.
MON       Food Crises
MON       In the fifth and final part of our series examining the
MON       food crises which have occurred in recent years, Simon
MON       Parkes tracks the development of BSE and its impact on
MON       consumers and the food industry. We ask how well-protected
MON       today's consumers are. How much confidence can we have in
MON       the safety of the food we eat?
MON       Discussing these questions are Lord Haskins, former chair
MON       of Northern Foods, Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at
MON       London's City University, and Jenny Morris, Principal
MON       Policy Officer at the Chartered Institute of Environmental
MON       Health.
MON       Staycations
MON       Is holidaying in the UK an enjoyable experience? The
MON       so-called 'staycation' has been the buzz word of the
MON       summer. Charlotte Smith is one such 'staycationer', and
MON       she gives her thoughts on her recent trip to Devon.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00m9y0q (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00mfhk7 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mbf7k (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       with the south of England team hoping to get their own
MON       back on the Midlands in a return match.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00m9h23 (Listen)
MON       Wayne earns a crust in the kitchens.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mbf7m (Listen)
MON       What Might Have Been
MON       By Joseph O'Connor. Inspired by the story of Joseph and
MON       Bridget Moore, real-life Irish immigrants, as they
MON       struggle to cope with life in a New York tenement on the
MON       Lower East Side in 1869.
MON       America is not, as anticipated, the land of milk and
MON       honey, but it is most certainly the home of the brave.
MON       With Stephen Rea
MON       Original music composed by Graeme Stewart
MON       Violinist: Ruby Colley.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00m88t6 (Listen)
MON       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Clare Short
MON       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
MON       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
MON       re-examination of their lives.
MON       Clare Short has spent her life in the public eye, never
MON       less than passionate and never short of opinions. From her
MON       first appearance as a community activist in the early
MON       1980s, through to her announcement that she will be
MON       standing down as an MP at the next election, her career
MON       has always been controversial. What does she think now of
MON       her early causes: her opposition to Page 3 and support for
MON       the legalisation of cannabis? And what of those
MON       resignations? Was she really, as she claimed at the time,
MON       'making a sacrifice to a higher purpose' by staying inside
MON       the Cabinet despite her opposition to the Iraq War?
MON       As Clare meets herself coming back over nearly 30 years of
MON       sound recordings, is she proud, pleased, or driven, as she
MON       says she often is, to think, 'Oh, shut up Clare', for her
MON       insistance on always speaking up, even when staying quiet
MON       might be a wiser choice?
MON       
MON       15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00d6zqd (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of
MON       people who were labelled child prodigies.
MON       He meets Mark Bennet, a vicar in Essex who was one of the
MON       brightest schoolboy mathematicians of his generation. He
MON       won a gold medal and scored full marks in the
MON       International Maths Olympiad in 1981. He went on to
MON       Cambridge, intent on staying there to become a professor.
MON       Tiring of academic life, however, he entered the church.
MON       Has he any regrets?
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00m8p7x (Listen)
MON       Chefs' Choices Number 4: Lemongrass
MON       Raymond Blanc explains how travelling to Thailand and
MON       Malaysia led to a culinary love affair with lemongrass,
MON       and ambitious plans to grow a south-east Asian garden at
MON       Les Manois Aux Quat' Saisons in Oxford.
MON       He explains, with the help of chef David Thompson, food
MON       writer Roger Owen and herb grower Jekka McVicar, why
MON       lemongrass is such a prized ingredient in Asian cooking.
MON       It is a herb with many uses; outside the kitchen it is
MON       regarded as an important medicinal herb and has even been
MON       used by the SAS as a source of moisture in the Malaysian
MON       jungle.
MON       Raymond Blanc has been using lemongrass for decades to
MON       give dishes a light and fragrant flavour. In the programme
MON       he prepares two dishes: a fillet of brill on a bed of
MON       spinach and, for dessert, a summer berry soup infused with
MON       the flavours of lemongrass.
MON       
MON       16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mbf7p (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Tracing Your Roots - Wartime Losses
MON       Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice
MON       of researching family history.
MON       For 60 years, Stella Collis has only known her German PoW
MON       father's name, but now she is united with her father's
MON       military records. This is just one of many wartime stories
MON       that Sally explores, in a programme marking the 70th
MON       anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00m9z39 (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 b00mb0q1 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00mbg96 (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 6
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring
MON       performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Panellists
MON       include Paul Merton and Sue Perkins.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00m9yhm (Listen)
MON       There's a cash crisis at The Lodge.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00mb139 (Listen)
MON       Writer William Trevor rarely gives interviews, usually
MON       preferring to let the words on the page speak for him. In
MON       a special edition of Front Row with Mark Lawson, the
MON       author - who celebrated his 81st birthday earlier this
MON       year - reflects on his long career as a novelist, short
MON       story writer and sculptor.
MON       William Trevor's work has won him many awards and he has
MON       just reached the 2009 Man Booker long-list with his
MON       fourteenth novel, Summer and Love. He has also
MON       successfully adapted several short stories - including The
MON       Ballroom of Romance - for television and film.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb13c (Listen)
MON       Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 1
MON       Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and
MON       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
MON       Rosenthal.
MON       The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and
MON       a divorcee 13 years her senior.
MON       It is July 1964 and drama student Stella Kaufman travels
MON       to Israel on a quest to 'find herself', but is left with
MON       more questions than answers.
MON       Stella ...... Rebecca Callard
MON       Tom ...... John Lightbody
MON       Avnair ...... Greg Wood
MON       Maurice ...... Robert Pickavance.
MON       
MON       20:00 Where Did It All Go Right? b00mbg98 (Listen)
MON       The National Minimum Wage
MON       Prof Philip Cowley presents a series examining
MON       initially-controversial political policies which were
MON       later judged by most people to have been a success.
MON       The National Minimum Wage used to have plenty of critics
MON       among business and the Conservative Party, but it is less
MON       well-known that it was unpopular with many on the left,
MON       too. Cabinet minister Ed Balls used to be strongly
MON       opposed, as were most trade unions. Rodney Bickerstaffe
MON       campaigned for decades to persuade the trade unions and
MON       Labour Party to adopt the minimum wage, and finally
MON       succeeded in the mid-1980s.
MON       In the run-up to Labour's election victory in 1997,
MON       business and conservative critics argued that it would
MON       cause many job losses. But once it came into effect, many
MON       business organisations came to support it, and so did the
MON       Tories. Philip Cowley looks back at the early debates, and
MON       examines the impact of the minimum wage.
MON       Interviewees who were formerly critical but later came to
MON       support the minimum wage include Boris Johnson, Michael
MON       Portillo and Jack Dromey, Unite deputy general secretary.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00lyrb4 (Listen)
MON       Bihar
MON       David Goldblatt reports from a small town in the Indian
MON       state of Bihar that has turned into something of an
MON       academic hothouse. More than 50 students from the poor
MON       weaving community of Patwatoli have gained entry to the
MON       IITs, India's scientific equivalent of Oxbridge, in the
MON       last ten years. It is the week before the annual entrance
MON       exam, and the tension among the students is mounting.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00mbgwf (Listen)
MON       Turbines or Tearooms
MON       All over the country renewable energy schemes are being
MON       thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and
MON       bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful
MON       doorsteps in Britain.
MON       In the first of a new series of ‘Costing the Earth’ Tom
MON       Heap asks if radical action is needed to break through the
MON       blockade. Should the new planning laws intended to rush
MON       through urgently needed road and airport projects be
MON       extended to all green energy projects? Or should
MON       developers make more effort to get local people on board?
MON       If locals can see an immediate financial benefit will they
MON       drop their opposition?
MON       Tom Heap travels from Sussex to Orkney to meet the
MON       protestors and find out how they can be brought on board
MON       the green energy revolution.
MON       
MON       21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00mb9pf (Listen)
MON       John Varley
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       The chief executive of Barclays Bank, John Varley, gives
MON       an insider's view of how it felt to watch bank after bank
MON       teeter on the brink of collapse over the weekend of
MON       October 11, 2008, and how he feared that, unless the
MON       government intervened, there would be a crisis of
MON       confidence in the whole banking system. He tells Robert
MON       how it felt to watch thousands of Barclays employees
MON       coming in to work on the Monday morning unsure whether or
MON       not the bank had been nationalised.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00mfkh3 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k6 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb33x (Listen)
MON       Love and Summer, Episode 1
MON       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
MON       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
MON       Ireland.
MON       In the little town of Rathmoye, Miss Connulty has had
MON       years to mourn the youth she never had, and the brief
MON       happiness sundered from her. Now, watching from her
MON       boarding house, she observes a nascent friendship between
MON       Ellie Dillahan, child of an institution, and the
MON       newly-arrived Florian Kilderry, a dark-haired young
MON       photographer.
MON       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
MON       
MON       23:00 From Jean Brodie to Carrie Bradshaw: Spinsters in
MON       Popular Cu b00htl98 (Listen)
MON       Ann Widdecombe explores how single women have been
MON       depicted in popular culture. From Dickens's terrifying
MON       Miss Havisham and Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie to
MON       Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and Bridget Jones, why
MON       are single women so often represented as manipulative,
MON       bitter, or just desperate for a man?
MON       Ann is content with her single status, and wants to know
MON       why it is hard to find examples of truly happy spinsters
MON       in books or on screen. She explores the horror that David
MON       Lean's depiction of Miss Havisham evoked in many of the
MON       generation that came of age in the 1940s. She goes back to
MON       her old school in Bath to meet her former teacher and to
MON       contemplate the reality of life for single women of that
MON       generation.
MON       Ann finds out why the author of Not Married, Not Bothered,
MON       Carol Clewlow, believes that even today Jane Austen is
MON       capable of being a 'spinster heroine' and why many women
MON       seem to loathe the word 'spinster'. She also asks whether
MON       Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones have as much to offer us
MON       as Barbara Pym's 'excellent women' of the 1950s and 60s.
MON       Finally, she discovers that the word 'spinster' might be
MON       loathed, but it is far from defunct, as some journalists
MON       are now referring to single men as 'male spinsters'.
MON       
MON       23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fkw8l (Listen)
MON       Series 4, The Queens of Coal
MON       Documentary series telling original stories about real
MON       lives in Britain today.
MON       Alan Dein meets former Coal Queens at a reunion of these
MON       former beauty queens who were elected by miners to
MON       represent their mines.
MON       In the days of coal, each pit used to elect a Coal Queen
MON       to represent the mine. The daughter or granddaughter of a
MON       miner would be put forward and if she claimed the crown,
MON       she went on to compete in county and even national
MON       championships. A recent reunion of Coal Queens brought
MON       together former beauty queens from all over the coal
MON       mining regions of England, along with their memories and
MON       memorabilia. Alan Dein meets them and explores the lives
MON       of two in particular to hear how that event, in their
MON       youth, changed the course of their lives.
MON       Helen Coleman went on to open a beauty salon and married
MON       the drummer of Britain's leading Queen tribute band.
MON       Maureen Griffiths ran a working men's club and is still
MON       remembered by locals for that golden day in 1951. Both
MON       have watched the changing face of life after coal. The
MON       Miners' Strike of 1984 brought an end to the Coal Queen
MON       tradition and changed pit community life forever, but what
MON       has happened since and why has a tradition like the Coal
MON       Queen beauty pageant endured in the memories of older
MON       generations while the teenagers barely know what coal is?
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc2 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00m69k2 (Listen)
TUE       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 1
TUE       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
TUE       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
TUE       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
TUE       Chaloner.
TUE       After nearly 30 years of academic life at Cambridge,
TUE       Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint. He was soon in
TUE       charge of the colossal task of re-casting all of England's
TUE       currency - almost seven million pounds - and took a
TUE       hands-on approach to the interrogation of suspected
TUE       counterfeiters held in Newgate prison.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgk (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpk (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhh (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00m9hwt (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0c (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5g (Listen)
TUE       A new UK and world record has been set with the sale of a
TUE       sheep for 231,000 thousand pounds. Deveronvale Perfection
TUE       was sold at the Scottish National Texel sale and his price
TUE       beat the previous world record, held by an Australian
TUE       Merino, by around 100,000 pounds. Charlotte Smith talks to
TUE       the farmer who is now nearly a quarter of a million pounds
TUE       better off.
TUE       Also, the highs and lows of farming. We speak to a family
TUE       selling up after nearly 100 years milking cows.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00m9nxp (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mbhqv (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Baroness Jane Campbell
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy
TUE       back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where
TUE       she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll and
TUE       wanting to be no different from her able-bodied friends.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mbhqx (Listen)
TUE       The Cradle of Civilisation
TUE       Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick
TUE       Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very
TUE       different missing works of art.
TUE       One of the little-reported but culturally significant
TUE       effects of the war in Iraq has been the loss of works of
TUE       antiquity from the country's museums. From the Iraq Museum
TUE       in Baghdad alone, it is estimated that 15,000 objects
TUE       dating from the dawn of civilisation have disappeared.
TUE       Rick Gekoski examines how and why these Mesopotamian
TUE       artefacts were looted and speculates on what may have
TUE       happened to them.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xnz (Listen)
TUE       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 2
TUE       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
TUE       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
TUE       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
TUE       Chaloner.
TUE       The foundation of the Bank of England and the first bank
TUE       notes provide a new business opportunity for
TUE       arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph6 (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey
TUE       Including:
TUE       Seventy years ago, with the outbreak of WWII, as many as
TUE       three million children and their teachers were evacuated
TUE       from Britain's cities to safer places in the countryside.
TUE       Dubbed Operation Pied Piper, the entire process took just
TUE       four days and remains the largest mass movement of people
TUE       in British history. The children left home with no idea of
TUE       where they were going, nor when they would be coming back.
TUE       For some the experience of being billeted with new
TUE       families was deeply traumatic; for others it was more of
TUE       an adventure. Now the sociologist Monica Morris, herself
TUE       an evacuee, has collected testimonies from some of those
TUE       who left their families. She joins Jane to talk about
TUE       evacuees' experiences and the
TUE       Our relationships with brothers and sisters are often the
TUE       longest lasting of our lives. They can outlast marriages,
TUE       survive the death of parents and overcome quarrels that
TUE       would sink a friendship. But what happens if your sibling
TUE       is disabled or suffers from a chronic illness? Whose
TUE       responsibility is it to look after a disabled sibling when
TUE       a parent dies? And where can you turn for support? Jane
TUE       has been to visit the family of Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, who
TUE       has a disabled sister, Frances, and is joined in the
TUE       studio by Monica McCaffrey from the charity Sibs, which
TUE       helps people who grow up with a disabled brother or sister.
TUE       From the start of this month, children reaching their
TUE       seventh birthday will be eligible to receive the second
TUE       payment into their Child Trust Fund. The scheme was
TUE       started by the government in 2005 as a way of encouraging
TUE       parents and children to save for their future, and starts
TUE       every child off with 250 pounds when they are born. But
TUE       since the scheme's launch, around a quarter of parents
TUE       have failed to choose a fund in which to invest their
TUE       child's money, perhaps because many parents are unsure
TUE       about the best way to invest the money. Jane is joined by
TUE       personal finance journalist Sarah Pennells to find out
TUE       more.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00mbkk0 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, The Sea of Cortez
TUE       The Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico, is a whale and
TUE       dolphin hotspot where the widest variety of cetaceans on
TUE       earth can be found in one place. Along with close
TUE       encounters with whales, Tessa McGregor also reflects on
TUE       the prophetic words of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck in
TUE       their book, The Log of the Sea of Cortez.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth
TUE       Williams b00mbkk2 (Listen)
TUE       A special broadcast of a lost script written for Kenneth
TUE       Horne and Kenneth Williams in 1966 by Horne and his ghost
TUE       writer, Mollie Millest. Robin Sebastian and Jonathan Rigby
TUE       take the lead roles as the two Kenneths, with
TUE       contributions from Charles Armstrong, who takes on the
TUE       role as the announcer.
TUE       The plot, evoking memories of Round the Horne, finds the
TUE       two Kenneths working together in advance of their own
TUE       radio programme and follows them as they journey around
TUE       Broadcasting House meeting a weird and wonderful
TUE       assortment of characters.
TUE       The script was discovered by writer and broadcaster Wes
TUE       Butters, who purchased a collection of Kenneth Williams
TUE       memorabilia from Williams's godson. Butters introduces the
TUE       performance, which was recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre
TUE       in London and features old sound effects and props,
TUE       including the famous door from the popular Tommy Handley
TUE       radio series, It's That Man Again.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00m9ty5 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00m9xwg (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00m9y0s (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Soul Music b00mbkk4 (Listen)
TUE       Series 8, Allegri's Miserere
TUE       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
TUE       emotional appeal.
TUE       Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the
TUE       1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It
TUE       then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart,
TUE       Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in
TUE       the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we
TUE       know today.
TUE       The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and
TUE       never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for
TUE       concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe
TUE       Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman
TUE       explain how they have all been deeply affected by this
TUE       beautiful piece of music.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00m9yhm (Listen)
TUE       There's a cash crisis at The Lodge.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mbz1h (Listen)
TUE       Hindenburg
TUE       By Christopher William Hill. Helen Ashbourne, a reclusive
TUE       English former photographer living in New York, is
TUE       approached by gallery owner Josh, who hopes to display her
TUE       collection of photographs taken aboard the airship
TUE       Hindenburg. But as arrangements for the exhibition
TUE       progress, suspicions are aroused about her past and
TUE       exactly what she was doing in Germany in 1937, before she
TUE       boarded the fated airship.
TUE       Helen ...... Sian Phillips
TUE       Josh ...... Corey Johnson
TUE       Annie ...... Fenella Woolgar
TUE       Yusef ...... Raad Rawi.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00mbl58 (Listen)
TUE       We all know that mighty oaks spring from tiny acorns, and
TUE       that some trees can reach a truly massive girth. Why then,
TUE       asks one listener, are so many urban trees planted in
TUE       girdles of concrete with no room to expand? Are they
TUE       doomed to die as they outgrow their constraints, or do the
TUE       planters know something we don't about tree growth?
TUE       Have you ever sat in your car at a traffic light thinking
TUE       that there has to be a better way to manage traffic? One
TUE       listener writes to ask whether it would be possible to
TUE       coordinate traffic control measures to ease vehicles
TUE       through congested areas, reducing carbon emissions at the
TUE       same time.
TUE       Sticking with carbon dioxide release, why is it that,
TUE       despite huge amounts pouring into our atmosphere, global
TUE       temperatures have gone down over the last seven years?
TUE       If you have spent any time on Britain's south coast this
TUE       year you may have noticed huge growths of seaweed
TUE       blanketing beaches, mudflats and harbours. Rather than
TUE       letting it rot, could it be harvested and put to good use
TUE       as fertiliser or fuel for biodigesters? And when does
TUE       planting forests cause more problems than it solves?
TUE       Teasing these questions apart are Prof Philip Stott,
TUE       forestry expert Dr Anna Lawrence, and Prof Andrew
TUE       Watkinson, the chair of Living With Environmental Change.
TUE       As always we want to hear your comments on the topics
TUE       discussed and any questions you might want to put to
TUE       future programmes.
TUE       Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House
TUE       Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have
TUE       they bred successfully?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbl9q (Listen)
TUE       The Heart of Saturday Night, Come On Up to the House
TUE       Series of stories which take their inspiration from the
TUE       unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy
TUE       world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of
TUE       society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and
TUE       longing.
TUE       Written by AL Kennedy and inspired by a Waits song of the
TUE       same name.
TUE       A man finds himself reaching out to a perfect stranger in
TUE       the wee small hours of the morning.
TUE       Read by Peter Capaldi.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00d9l4d (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of
TUE       people who were labelled child prodigies.
TUE       Jocelyn Lavin shone both academically and musically at
TUE       primary school. She won a place at the prestigious
TUE       Chetham's School in Manchester, where she was a classmate
TUE       of Anna Markland, BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1982.
TUE       But she can't find a job and doesn't understand why her
TUE       talents seem to mean nothing to potential employers.
TUE       Jocelyn and Anna reflect on their fortunes since leaving
TUE       school.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 A Small Business b00mbm3d (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners
TUE       of the small businesses which keep our economy running.
TUE       Does keeping it in the family make for better business?
TUE       How do you avoid accusations of nepotism? What happens if
TUE       junior doesn't want to take over the reins? And just how
TUE       do you sack Dad?
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00mbm3g (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Sir Kyffin Williams
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Rolf Harris discusses the life of the Welsh painter Sir
TUE       Kyffin Williams. Famous for his paintings inspired by the
TUE       north Wales landscape, Williams never chose to be a
TUE       painter; he was told by a doctor to take up art for his
TUE       health when he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Prof Derec
TUE       Llwyd Morgan joins the discussion.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00m9z31 (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 b00mb0ml (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mbm3j (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, Episode 2
TUE       Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert
TUE       Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland.
TUE       An exciting new reality show uses soap stars, cutting-edge
TUE       surgery and some horses in Make Me a Celebrity Centaur; we
TUE       learn all about the forecasters' secret weapon, the
TUE       'Weatherbrain'; and the dramatic story of Jeremiah
TUE       Internet and the first ever 'at' sign. And where are we
TUE       going to put all those Gurkhas?
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00m9yh7 (Listen)
TUE       Jim shows Daniel life in the fast lane.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00mb0sp (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
TUE       interview with Booker Prize-winning writer Margaret Atwood.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb13f (Listen)
TUE       Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 2
TUE       Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and
TUE       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
TUE       Rosenthal.
TUE       The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and
TUE       a divorcee 13 years her senior in the mid-1960s.
TUE       Stella Kaufman is a Jewish girl from Manchester studying
TUE       drama in London. Much to the disapproval of her parents,
TUE       she is in a relationship with Gentile Tom Rennard, who is
TUE       older and a divorcee.
TUE       Stella ...... Rebecca Callard
TUE       Tom ...... John Lightbody
TUE       Dr Kaufman ...... David Fleeshman
TUE       Mrs Kaufman ...... Olwen May
TUE       Susie ...... Fiona Clarke.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 Divided Britain b00mbm3l (Listen)
TUE       Gerry Northam follows headteacher Mike Tull as he
TUE       continues his attempts to bridge ethnic divisions through
TUE       education, as part of a radical scheme to tackle
TUE       underachievement and segregation in Lancashire mill towns.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00mbm3n (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00mbm3q (Listen)
TUE       Ultrasound
TUE       Dr Mark Porter traces the rise of the use of ultrasound in
TUE       medicine. He visits Dr Kypros Nicolaides's foetal medicine
TUE       clinic, where he finds out how state-of-the-art ultrasound
TUE       is being used to check the development of pregnancies.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mbhqv (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Baroness Jane Campbell
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy
TUE       back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where
TUE       she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll and
TUE       wanting to be no different from her able-bodied friends.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00mb2hx (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2jy (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb33z (Listen)
TUE       Love and Summer, Episode 2
TUE       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
TUE       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
TUE       Ireland.
TUE       Ellie Dillahan, child of an institution, married too young
TUE       to a good man haunted by a moment's misjudgement, has been
TUE       disturbed by the arrival of a dark-haired young
TUE       photographer in Rathmoye. While for Florian Kilderry, the
TUE       child of exiles, about to go into exile himself, the girl
TUE       on the bicycle might offer a moment's friendship and the
TUE       chance to forget.
TUE       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00jhvn6 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 1
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Panellists are David Baddiel, Germaine
TUE       Greer and Rufus Hound.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 The Hollow Men b008ds14 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 5
TUE       Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand,
TUE       Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy
TUE       Brand.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc4 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xnz (Listen)
WED       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 2
WED       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
WED       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
WED       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
WED       Chaloner.
WED       The foundation of the Bank of England and the first bank
WED       notes provide a new business opportunity for
WED       arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgm (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpm (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhm (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00m9hww (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0f (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5j (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00m9nxr (Listen)
WED       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Between Ourselves b00mbynr (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 5
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two personal columnists, Katherine
WED       Whitehorn, who wrote for The Observer, and Liz Jones, who
WED       writes for You magazine. They discuss when getting
WED       personal is too personal, how their friends and families
WED       react to being written about and what the changing face of
WED       columns in the last 50 years tells us about women's lives.
WED       
WED       09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
WED       b00mbynt (Listen)
WED       Episode 5
WED       Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's
WED       Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform
WED       itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing'
WED       modern museum.
WED       Rosie joins V & A curators in India to consider the
WED       museum's growing international work.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp1 (Listen)
WED       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 3
WED       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
WED       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
WED       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
WED       Chaloner.
WED       Newly released from Newgate prison, William Chaloner
WED       advises Parliament on corruption at the heart of the Royal
WED       Mint.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9ph8 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10
WED       - Tom and Stella.
WED       
WED       11:00 Random Edition b00mbynw (Listen)
WED       Outbreak of War Special
WED       Peter Snow presents a special edition of the history
WED       series in which the stories are provided by archive
WED       newspapers.
WED       He revisits the pages of The Guardian for September 4,
WED       1939 to re-create stories from the previous day, when
WED       Neville Chamberlain announced Britain's declaration of war
WED       on Germany. Within hours a U-boat had sunk the passenger
WED       liner Athenia. London taxi drivers rushed to join the
WED       Auxiliary Fire Service. Novelist Jilly Cooper describes
WED       how pets fared in the crisis, and singer Gracie Fields was
WED       back home but heading for trouble.
WED       
WED       11:30 Ayres on the Air b00mbz1c (Listen)
WED       Series 3, On Yer Bike
WED       Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry,
WED       anecdotes and sketches.
WED       Pam is joined by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu
WED       for poems about French cycling holidays, the up-side to
WED       riding a tandem, getting fit on gym bikes and how to
WED       banish the middle-age blues by getting kitted out with a
WED       motorbike and leathers.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00m9tyh (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00m9xwj (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00m9y0v (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00mbz1f (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00m9yh7 (Listen)
WED       Jim shows Daniel life in the fast lane.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b007nthz (Listen)
WED       Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 1
WED       Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester
WED       legal practice.
WED       When Dee Dee's estranged son is arrested for shoplifting,
WED       only his stepfather Frank Twist can come to the rescue.
WED       Frank ...... David Schofield
WED       Dee Dee ...... Denise Welch
WED       Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah
WED       James ...... Mikey North
WED       Johnny ...... Andrew Schofield
WED       McGregor/Milo ...... Rod Matthew
WED       DC Highton ...... James Quinn
WED       DC Price ...... Deborah McAndrew.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box b00m83p6 (Listen)
WED       Coping with the Recession, Episode 3
WED       The housing price crash seems to have entered a different
WED       phase, with prices in some parts of the UK starting to
WED       rise again. Paul Lewis asks what this means for first-time
WED       buyers and for places like Northern Ireland which are
WED       still seeing steep price falls.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbxfb (Listen)
WED       The Heart of Saturday Night, Muriel
WED       Series of stories which take their inspiration from the
WED       unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy
WED       world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of
WED       society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and
WED       longing.
WED       By Willy Vlautin.
WED       A small-town forklift truck driver returns to his old
WED       neighbourhood and the bar he used to drink in before his
WED       breakdown. All the characters are still there, but he
WED       cannot help but notice how they all do their best to avoid
WED       mentioning his dead wife Muriel.
WED       Read by Ed Stoppard.
WED       
WED       15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00djcgl (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of
WED       people who were labelled child prodigies.
WED       Demis Hassabis was once the highest-ranked twelve-year-old
WED       chess player in the world. He wanted a career in chess and
WED       hoped one day to become world champion. Then he gave up
WED       playing the game seriously, a decision he doesn't regret.
WED       Why does chess have such a hold on so many bright young
WED       people? International Masters Bill Hartston and Malcolm
WED       Pein join the debate.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mbz1k (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00mbm3q (Listen)
WED       Ultrasound
WED       Dr Mark Porter traces the rise of the use of ultrasound in
WED       medicine. He visits Dr Kypros Nicolaides's foetal medicine
WED       clinic, where he finds out how state-of-the-art ultrasound
WED       is being used to check the development of pregnancies.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00m9z33 (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 b00mb0mn (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Chain Reaction b00h8q40 (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Dave Gorman
WED       Chat show in which last week's interviewee becomes this
WED       week's interviewer.
WED       Robert Llewellyn interviews Dave Gorman, the comedian
WED       responsible for shows like Are You Dave Gorman?,
WED       Googlewhack Adventure and Genius. Robert asks Dave about
WED       cycling across Britain, online stalkers and
WED       life-threatening trips to Mexico.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00m9yh9 (Listen)
WED       Lynda and Elizabeth turn secret gardeners.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00mb0sr (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
WED       interview with Julia McKenzie as she takes on the role of
WED       Agatha Christie's renowned sleuth Miss Marple on TV.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb19f (Listen)
WED       Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 3
WED       Series exploring the 20th century through diaries and
WED       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
WED       Rosenthal.
WED       The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and
WED       a divorcee 13 years her senior.
WED       It is 1965 and Stella gets her first professional job as
WED       an actress, but it means more separation for her and Tom.
WED       Stella ...... Rebecca Callard
WED       Tom ...... John Lightbody
WED       Frankie ...... Christine Brennan
WED       Nigel ...... Greg Wood
WED       Bank Manager ...... Roger Morlidge.
WED       
WED       20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00mbzvw (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to
WED       apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people
WED       they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion.
WED       Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford,
WED       and Dr Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers'
WED       Magazine, take on power and wealth.
WED       They visit a church which is challenging the Establishment
WED       on the treatment of the homeless, hear from a social
WED       entrepreneur who is creating wealth for poor communities
WED       in India and Nepal, and visit the House of Lords to
WED       examine the role of religion in public life.
WED       
WED       20:45 Britain's White House b00mbzvy (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Sadiq Khan MP remembers the careers of Britain's first
WED       Asian MPs. Dadabhai Naoroji and Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee
WED       Bhownaggree entered the House of Commons in 1892 and 1895,
WED       but, as Sadiq finds out, some of the challenges they faced
WED       are still relevant to today's political world.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00mbkk0 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, The Sea of Cortez
WED       The Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico, is a whale and
WED       dolphin hotspot where the widest variety of cetaceans on
WED       earth can be found in one place. Along with close
WED       encounters with whales, Tessa McGregor also reflects on
WED       the prophetic words of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck in
WED       their book, The Log of the Sea of Cortez.
WED       
WED       21:30 Between Ourselves b00mbynr (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 5
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two personal columnists, Katherine
WED       Whitehorn, who wrote for The Observer, and Liz Jones, who
WED       writes for You magazine. They discuss when getting
WED       personal is too personal, how their friends and families
WED       react to being written about and what the changing face of
WED       columns in the last 50 years tells us about women's lives.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00mb2hz (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k0 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb341 (Listen)
WED       Love and Summer, Episode 3
WED       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
WED       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
WED       Ireland.
WED       For Ellie Dillahan, the arrival of Florian Kilderry in
WED       Rathmoye has opened up a whole new world. For Florian,
WED       about to leave behind all he knows and the crumbling house
WED       in which he has always lived, the girl in the blue dress
WED       offers a summer's friendship and a chance to forget the
WED       love of his life.
WED       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED       
WED       23:00 Cowards b007772j (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 2
WED       Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key
WED       and Lloyd Woolf.
WED       
WED       23:30 Kicking the Habit b007x6jb (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Nights to Remember
WED       Comedy-drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite
WED       monastery where the brown habit is no protection against
WED       the problems and temptations of the modern world.
WED       Brother Butterscotch's Fresh Whip turns out to be a
WED       commercial success, but Father Michael's plan to make the
WED       lives of the older brothers more comfortable might not be
WED       such a good idea.
WED       Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina
WED       Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice
WED       Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis
WED       Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson
WED       Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres
WED       Directed by Pete Atkin.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc6 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xp1 (Listen)
THU       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 3
THU       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
THU       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
THU       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
THU       Chaloner.
THU       Newly released from Newgate prison, William Chaloner
THU       advises Parliament on corruption at the heart of the Royal
THU       Mint.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgp (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpp (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhp (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00m9hwy (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0h (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5l (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00m9nxt (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00mcv5q (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter meets US army helicopter pilot Major Tammy
THU       Duckworth. She recounts the ambush in Iraq which led to
THU       her helicopter being shot down, resulting in her losing
THU       both legs. While recovering in the Walter Reed Hospital,
THU       she tells how she counted backwards using an old clock to
THU       convince herself that she was still alive. She says that
THU       she went five days without sleep, wracked with guilt that
THU       she had crashed her helicopter.
THU       Out of hospital, Tammy became an opponent of the war and
THU       decided to run for Congress, just a few months into her
THU       rehabilitation. Although she was narrowly beaten in the
THU       election, she is now working in President Obama's team to
THU       improve the welfare of veterans.
THU       Tammy describes how she rejected a realistic-looking
THU       feminine leg, which only reminded her of what she had
THU       lost, in favour of a robotic machine which would enable
THU       her to fly solo, drive and dive again, all of which she
THU       has now achieved.
THU       
THU       09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00mcv5s (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have
THU       been shaped by the media.
THU       Kenan discusses Islamophobia with Inayat Bunglawala of the
THU       Muslim Council of Britain and others. Kenan questions the
THU       concept of Islamophobia, while acknowledging the reality
THU       of anti-Muslim prejudice and the dangers of
THU       self-censorship in an increasingly heated debate.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp3 (Listen)
THU       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 4
THU       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
THU       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
THU       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
THU       Chaloner.
THU       The Warden of the Royal Mint sets out to crush his
THU       accuser, the self-appointed counterfeiting expert William
THU       Chaloner.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9phb (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10
THU       - Tom and Stella.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00mcvgd (Listen)
THU       Gangland in Paradise
THU       With a spectacular natural setting and a prosperous but
THU       laid-back lifestyle, Vancouver is routinely named one of
THU       the best communities in the world in which to live.
THU       But this west coast Canadian city, host to the 2010 Winter
THU       Olympics, is quickly developing another reputation. Bill
THU       Law tells the story of the young gangsters who are
THU       exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar
THU       illicit drugs industry using a combination of business
THU       savvy and bullets.
THU       
THU       11:30 Biggles: Adventures Through Time b00mcvgg (Listen)
THU       Alexander Armstrong explores the lasting appeal of action
THU       hero Biggles and examines the life of his creator, Captain
THU       WE Johns.
THU       Captain James Bigglesworth could easily have been found in
THU       any Royal Flying Corps mess during the grand days of 1917
THU       and 1918 when air combat had become the order of the day
THU       and air duelling was a fine art. The 'spirit' of Biggles
THU       still exists today, and his influence and impact can be
THU       seen on screen, music and in numerous comic parodies.
THU       Biggles memorabilia is much sought after by collectors,
THU       who bid thousands of pounds on internet auction sites.
THU       His adventures through time total almost 100 books, which
THU       have seen him journey through two world wars, finally
THU       ending with the Special Air Police. He first took to the
THU       skies in 1916 in his FE2 'pusher' and made his final
THU       descent, 50 years later, in a Hawker Hunter.
THU       Armstrong examines Biggles' origins and how the character
THU       contrasts with that of his creator. He reveals why the
THU       Biggles books were also surprisingly enjoyed by women,
THU       considering their negative portrayal in them. He also
THU       considers whether some of Biggles' stories, with their
THU       perceived imperialist and alleged racist content, are
THU       still acceptable reading in public libraries and schools
THU       today.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00m9typ (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00m9xwl (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00m9y0x (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00mbgwf (Listen)
THU       Turbines or Tearooms
THU       All over the country renewable energy schemes are being
THU       thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and
THU       bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful
THU       doorsteps in Britain.
THU       In the first of a new series of ‘Costing the Earth’ Tom
THU       Heap asks if radical action is needed to break through the
THU       blockade. Should the new planning laws intended to rush
THU       through urgently needed road and airport projects be
THU       extended to all green energy projects? Or should
THU       developers make more effort to get local people on board?
THU       If locals can see an immediate financial benefit will they
THU       drop their opposition?
THU       Tom Heap travels from Sussex to Orkney to meet the
THU       protestors and find out how they can be brought on board
THU       the green energy revolution.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00m9yh9 (Listen)
THU       Lynda and Elizabeth turn secret gardeners.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mcvyc (Listen)
THU       Fireflies
THU       By Tena Štivicic. Chance encounters and strange
THU       revelations abound as six people wait in a
THU       weather-stricken airport.
THU       Martin ...... James Fleet
THU       Clara ...... Helena Breck
THU       Olga ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       Oliver ...... David Hargreaves
THU       Jeanne ...... Annabelle Dowler
THU       Nate ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Customs Officer/Felipe (bartender) ...... Benjamin Askew
THU       Loud speaker announcer/Charles ...... Philip Fox
THU       Music composed and peformed by Russell Taylor and Steve
THU       Cooke.
THU       Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00m82lx (Listen)
THU       Dunluce Castle
THU       So many stories are told about Dunluce Castle and its
THU       surrounds that it is hard to separate fact from fiction.
THU       Helen Mark visits the ruins on the north Antrim coast to
THU       try to establish some facts at the first major
THU       archaeological dig to be held there.
THU       The archaeological team have been astounded by the wealth
THU       and quality of their finds, which include an entire lost
THU       merchants' town and the location of a 13th-century
THU       settlement.
THU       Helen also goes underground to find how the sea caves and
THU       their legends have inspired a photographer to capture
THU       their image. But does Helen's experience of unexplained
THU       howls add more to the myths than to dispel them?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m8p7g (Listen)
THU       ClearVision
THU       Gary O'Donoghue appeals on behalf of ClearVision.
THU       Donations to ClearVision should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
THU       ClearVision. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you
THU       are a UK tax payer, please provide ClearVision with your
THU       full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on
THU       your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
THU       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
THU       postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 1012850.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mbxdw (Listen)
THU       The Heart of Saturday Night, Step Right Up
THU       Series of three stories which take their inspiration from
THU       the unique music of Tom Waits; a distinctive and a sleazy
THU       world peopled by down-at-heel characters on the edge of
THU       society, or outcasts and deadbeats singing of loss and
THU       longing.
THU       By Ian Rankin. A young Jack-the-lad finds himself taken
THU       under the wing of a London market trader, known locally as
THU       Saviour. Soon he begins to wonder how his mentor got his
THU       name.
THU       Read by Dominic Cooper.
THU       
THU       15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00dghmg (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of
THU       people who were labelled child prodigies.
THU       Jonathan Cocking could read Shakespeare and remember long
THU       sequences of numbers at the age of three. In 1950, he
THU       featured in the national press. But Jonathan firmly denies
THU       that he was a prodigy and has been living down the label
THU       ever since.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00m8qwv (Listen)
THU       Nick Hornby talks to Alex Clark about his new novel,
THU       Juliet, Naked, and explains his fascination with obsessive
THU       music fans.
THU       Fay Weldon and Henry Porter discuss the attractions and
THU       difficulties of setting a novel in the near future.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00mcvyf (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00m9z35 (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 b00mb0mq (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 4 at the Fringe b00mcw5v (Listen)
THU       2009, Episode 2
THU       Micky Flanagan introduces comedy and music from the
THU       Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Pleasance
THU       Theatre and featuring John Gordillo, Lucy Porter, Alistair
THU       McGowan and Tom Basden.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00m9yhc (Listen)
THU       Wayne hits the bullseye with the darts team.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00mb0st (Listen)
THU       Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb199 (Listen)
THU       Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 4
THU       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
THU       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
THU       Rosenthal.
THU       The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and
THU       a divorcee 13 years her senior.
THU       It is 1966 and Stella's love for Tom grows stronger, but
THU       so too does her parents' pressure to prevent the
THU       relationship.
THU       Stella ...... Rebecca Callard
THU       Tom ......John Lightbody
THU       Dr Kaufman ......David Fleeshman
THU       Mrs Kaufman ...... Olwen May
THU       Frankie ...... Christine Brennan
THU       Richard III/Simon ...... Dermot Daly.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00mcw5x (Listen)
THU       Bombings on the holiday island of Mallorca by the Basque
THU       separatist group ETA have brought a nationalist conflict
THU       to the door of British tourists and expats. Linda Pressly
THU       investigates whether the latest bombings are the
THU       resurgence of an organisation whose cause has been in
THU       decline or the actions of a desperate band who know their
THU       time is running out.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00mcw5z (Listen)
THU       Media Mayhem
THU       The twin pincers of global recession and technology
THU       upheaval are putting traditional newspapers and
THU       broadcasters through the ringer. Peter Day asks what the
THU       shape of the new media might be once the troubles are over.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00mcwc0 (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts meets Lord May, President of the British
THU       Science Association, who has held many of the most senior
THU       scientific offices in the land, having been government
THU       chief science advisor and President of the Royal Society.
THU       Never afraid of speaking his mind - perhaps a product of
THU       his Australian upbringing - Bob May famously accused
THU       President George W Bush of being a modern-day Nero over
THU       climate change.
THU       His address at this year's Science Festival in Guildford
THU       will focus on his own subject of population biology and
THU       the apparent problem of natural selection; why do we do
THU       things for the common good when 'survival of the fittest'
THU       is a key principle of evolutionary theory?
THU       Also, insect art comes to London's South Bank in a
THU       'Pestival' of the amazing, inventive and sometimes
THU       artistic world of six-legged creatures.
THU       
THU       21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00mcv5q (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter meets US army helicopter pilot Major Tammy
THU       Duckworth. She recounts the ambush in Iraq which led to
THU       her helicopter being shot down, resulting in her losing
THU       both legs. While recovering in the Walter Reed Hospital,
THU       she tells how she counted backwards using an old clock to
THU       convince herself that she was still alive. She says that
THU       she went five days without sleep, wracked with guilt that
THU       she had crashed her helicopter.
THU       Out of hospital, Tammy became an opponent of the war and
THU       decided to run for Congress, just a few months into her
THU       rehabilitation. Although she was narrowly beaten in the
THU       election, she is now working in President Obama's team to
THU       improve the welfare of veterans.
THU       Tammy describes how she rejected a realistic-looking
THU       feminine leg, which only reminded her of what she had
THU       lost, in favour of a robotic machine which would enable
THU       her to fly solo, drive and dive again, all of which she
THU       has now achieved.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00mb2j1 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k2 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb343 (Listen)
THU       Love and Summer, Episode 4
THU       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
THU       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
THU       Ireland.
THU       As Miss Connulty observes the nascent friendship between
THU       Ellie and Florian, the memory of her own tragedy stirs in
THU       her anew. Meanwhile, in the streets of Rathmoye, Florian
THU       and Ellie meet again.
THU       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
THU       
THU       23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dp4w9 (Listen)
THU       Series 1, Mark Steel
THU       Marcus Brigstocke invites Mark Steel to try new
THU       experiences.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076wm8 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Living in the Past
THU       Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson looks at the human
THU       condition with the help of interviewees and reporters from
THU       the world of writing and performance.
THU       Jon investigates why often it is so difficult to leave a
THU       particular incident in the past. He he looks back to the
THU       time when he was thrown into a lake by his school friends,
THU       and confronts his bullies at his school reunion. Father
THU       Ted writer Graham Linehan remembers his own bully, and
THU       comedians Dan Tetsell and Robert Popper discover that they
THU       have parallel stories: one has a Nazi grandfather, the
THU       other a Jewish evacuee grandmother.
THU       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00m9hc8 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00m5xp3 (Listen)
FRI       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 4
FRI       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
FRI       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
FRI       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
FRI       Chaloner.
FRI       The Warden of the Royal Mint sets out to crush his
FRI       accuser, the self-appointed counterfeiting expert William
FRI       Chaloner.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m9hgr (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m9hpr (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m9hhr (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00m9hx0 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m9j0k (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Robert Tosh.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00m9j5p (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00m9nxw (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
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FRI       09:00 The Reunion b00m8p7v (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
FRI       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
FRI       history.
FRI       In Ethiopia, close to eight million people became famine
FRI       victims during the drought of 1984, and over one million
FRI       died. The international relief effort that followed was
FRI       the largest ever mounted, culminating in the Live Aid
FRI       concert in 1985.
FRI       Reporter Michael Buerk, nurse Claire Bertschinger, former
FRI       head of Oxfam Hugh Goyder, Major Dawit Wolde Giorgis of
FRI       the Ethiopian relief effort and Sir Brian Barder,
FRI       Ambassador to Ethiopia at the time, join Sue to recall the
FRI       events.
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00m5xp5 (Listen)
FRI       Newton And The Counterfeiter, Episode 5
FRI       Crawford Logan reads from Thomas Levenson's biography of
FRI       Isaac Newton and his rivalry with one of 17th-century
FRI       London's most accomplished and daring criminals, William
FRI       Chaloner.
FRI       Chaloner faces trial at the Old Bailey and the threat of
FRI       the gallows at Tyburn.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m9phd (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10
FRI       - Tom and Stella.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b00mcwv1 (Listen)
FRI       The Sinking Islands
FRI       The 2009 winner of the BBC/Royal Geographical Society's
FRI       annual competition for the most enterprising dream travel
FRI       idea, Dan Box, attempts to reach the remote Carteret
FRI       Islands in the South Pacific, where, with sea levels
FRI       rising, the world's first mass evacuation as the result of
FRI       climate change is now taking place.
FRI       These low-lying islands, part of Papua New Guinea, rise
FRI       barely a metre above the level of the surrounding ocean,
FRI       and with what are known as King Tides threatening every
FRI       year, rising sea levels as a result of global warming are
FRI       a threat that is already a reality for the Carteret
FRI       Islanders. Last winter's great storm resulted in the
FRI       islands being badly flooded, their productive soil
FRI       rendered useless by the salt in the water. Now the
FRI       Carteret people have no way of growing crops in their
FRI       plots, or 'gardens', and the local authorities have
FRI       started a process of mass evacuation. Eventually thousands
FRI       of men, women and children will be resettled in the
FRI       neighbouring island community of Bougainville.
FRI       Dan Box was determined to watch the world's first
FRI       organised exodus as a result of climate change as it got
FRI       underway. But first he had to negotiate the tricky journey
FRI       - diplomatic as well as physical - that would take him to
FRI       these tiny spikes of coral amid the vastness of the
FRI       Pacific Ocean.
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FRI       11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mcwv3 (Listen)
FRI       Kaws and Effect
FRI       By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the
FRI       highly-respected, now retired, English master of
FRI       Haunchurst School for boys, looks back on his favourite
FRI       pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on
FRI       school reports and their letters to him after they left.
FRI       Dr Pickerskill encourages Francis Kaws, whose great
FRI       engineering talents are being wasted on clever and
FRI       inventive school pranks, putting him in danger of being
FRI       expelled. Pickerskill harnesses the boy's gifts and
FRI       encourages him to adapt an old tractor to run on
FRI       Haunchurst's defunct narrow-gauge railway line.
FRI       Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid
FRI       Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ...... Philip Madoc
FRI       Francis Kaws ...... Louis Williams
FRI       The Colonel ...... Richard Johnson
FRI       Mike Poulson Jabby ...... Mike Feast
FRI       Stanislaw ...... Mike Sarne
FRI       Jack Rousseau ...... Tony Gardner
FRI       A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00m9tyy (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00m9xwn (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00m9y0z (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00mcwv5 (Listen)
FRI       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
FRI       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
FRI       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00m9yhc (Listen)
FRI       Wayne hits the bullseye with the darts team.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mcwv7 (Listen)
FRI       Sons
FRI       By Nell Leyshon. Teacher Elizabeth and stay-at-home mum
FRI       Jane have just one thing in common: they each have a son.
FRI       Gabriel and Ryan met at the local secondary school, where
FRI       they fell in love. The mothers reacted very differently to
FRI       their sons' relationship. Then something happens which
FRI       forces Elizabeth to confront Jane.
FRI       Jane ...... Noreen Kershaw
FRI       Elizabeth ...... Lorraine Ashbourne.
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FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mcwv9 (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer
FRI       questions posed by gardeners in Essex.
FRI       John presents a guide to coastal shelter-belts and
FRI       explains how these are created with the help of a local
FRI       gardener.
FRI       Matthew reports from the Fruit Focus industry event, where
FRI       he unveils a new super-yielding crop and reveals how we
FRI       are soon to benefit from new extra water-efficient
FRI       strawberry plants.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 I Was a Child Prodigy b00dnhtd (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of
FRI       people who were labelled child prodigies.
FRI       Retired civil servant David Heigham spent years looking
FRI       for someone to explain why his schooling left him
FRI       incapable of fulfilling his intellectual talents. Then he
FRI       found Professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University, whose
FRI       theories David believes offer important lessons to anyone
FRI       dealing with a gifted child.
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FRI       16:00 Last Word b00mcxcj (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 b00mcxcl (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Janet Suzman about the 1972 movie
FRI       A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which has finally been
FRI       released on DVD. Award-winning actor Michael Fassbender
FRI       discusses his career, from Hunger to Inglourious Basterds
FRI       to Fish Tank.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00m9z37 (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 b00mb0ms (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
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FRI       18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mcxcn (Listen)
FRI       Episode 3
FRI       Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two
FRI       teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The
FRI       show asks both the big and the little questions, and
FRI       provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Justin
FRI       Edwards and Russell Kane.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00m9yhf (Listen)
FRI       Fallon confides in an old flame.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00mb0sw (Listen)
FRI       Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mb19c (Listen)
FRI       Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella, Episode 5
FRI       Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and
FRI       correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa
FRI       Rosenthal.
FRI       The relationship between a young Jewish drama student and
FRI       a divorcee 13 years her senior.
FRI       It is 1966 and Stella is engaged to Tom. But will her
FRI       parents ever accept him or the marriage?
FRI       Stella ...... Rebecca Callard
FRI       Tom ......John Lightbody
FRI       Avnair ...... Greg Wood
FRI       Maurice ...... Robert Pickavance.
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FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00mcxcq (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Lichfield
FRI       in Staffordshire, marking the 300th anniversary of the
FRI       birth of Dr Samuel Johnson.
FRI       On the panel facing questions from the audience are Lord
FRI       Adonis, Secretary of State for Transport; Shadow Secretary
FRI       of State for Universities and Skills, David Willetts;
FRI       novelist and broadcaster, Sarah Dunant; literary scholar,
FRI       Professor Jonathan Bate.
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FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mcxcs (Listen)
FRI       The Dodo
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       The dodo is the caricature of extinction. This
FRI       turkey-sized flightless pigeon lived on a remote island
FRI       and was slaughtered by seafarers for its meat. The same
FRI       fate has met other flightless species. Can we learn this
FRI       lesson from history?
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b009tzcl (Listen)
FRI       An Unhappy Countess
FRI       Documentary film maker Paul Watson's play is based on the
FRI       story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a sensual young woman who
FRI       inherited a legacy of 600,000 pounds, a huge sum in 1786.
FRI       Every adventurer in the land was seeking a slice of her
FRI       good fortune, and she was to discover that nobody could be
FRI       trusted.
FRI       Lady Strathmore ...... Susannah Harker
FRI       Stoney Bowes ...... John Lynch
FRI       Paddy's Progress ...... Robert Glenister
FRI       Walker ...... Russell Floyd
FRI       Gray ...... Nicholas Farrell
FRI       Mary Morgan ...... Joanne Froggatt
FRI       Mingay/Bate ...... Ian McNeice
FRI       Dorothey/Landlady ...... Sara Markland
FRI       Battie/Erskine ...... Ian Masters
FRI       Judge/Peacock ...... Keith Drinkel
FRI       Constable Smith/Vicar ...... Andrew Branch
FRI       Lucas/Witness Hull ...... Sam Dale
FRI       Witness Foot/Landlord ...... Ian Shaw
FRI       Servant ...... Tom Watson.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00mb2j3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00mb2k4 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mb345 (Listen)
FRI       Love and Summer, Episode 5
FRI       Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor
FRI       about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of
FRI       Ireland.
FRI       Watching from her boarding house, Miss Connulty has
FRI       observed Ellie and Florian's tentative friendship,
FRI       conjuring within it a reflection of her own youthful
FRI       tragedy. For Ellie, the quiet pattern of her life with
FRI       Dillahan offers no solace and little distraction.
FRI       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00mbm3g (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Sir Kyffin Williams
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Rolf Harris discusses the life of the Welsh painter Sir
FRI       Kyffin Williams. Famous for his paintings inspired by the
FRI       north Wales landscape, Williams never chose to be a
FRI       painter; he was told by a doctor to take up art for his
FRI       health when he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Prof Derec
FRI       Llwyd Morgan joins the discussion.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b00fl0gk (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Episode 2
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the past week of radio.
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