11 September, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 12/09/2009 - 18/09/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00mj172 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00mffs3 (Listen) SAT William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, SAT Episode 5 SAT Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the SAT prize-winning author. SAT In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mj1py (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Shipping Forecast b00mj1q0 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mj1q2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00mj1q4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mj1q6 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. SAT SAT 05:45 Wars of The Roses b00fn89s (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Wesley Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its SAT bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. SAT It is judgment day in Taunton, as the town makes SAT last-minute preparations before the final tour. Will SAT Taunton have done enough to impress the judges and win the SAT gold medal? SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00mj1q8 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00mj1qb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00mj3xq (Listen) SAT Haweswater SAT The village of Mardale was flooded in 1935 to create SAT Haweswater reservoir to provide for the needs of SAT Manchester. When water levels are really low the walls of SAT Mardale reappear. Helen Mark meets Booker-nominated SAT novelist Sarah Hall to talk about the power the landscape SAT has had on her writing, including her first novel, SAT Haweswater. SAT Helen joins Ian Winfield from the Centre for Hydrology and SAT Ecology as his team count the fish in the lake using SAT hydroacoustic equipment. Haweswater is now managed to SAT protect the rare Shelley and Arctic Char which are found SAT in its waters. John Gorst from United Utilities explains SAT that the fish are recovering in numbers since it was SAT realised that low lake levels in summer were having a SAT detrimental effect on their ability to breed. SAT Helen also meets Spike Webb from the RSPB in the only SAT valley in England which is a permanent home to a golden SAT eagle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00mj3xs (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Our countryside is getting noisier. Wind farms, airports, SAT bird scarers and increasing traffic noise are all SAT impacting on the rural idyll. Charlotte Smith looks at SAT whether the countryside is getting a rough deal, or SAT whether it is just playing its part in modern life. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00mj4fx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00mj4fz (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00mj4g1 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by businesswoman SAT Martha Lane Fox. With poetry from Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00mj4g3 (Listen) SAT Alan Whicker has been making television programmes from SAT all over the world for decades. Sandi Toksvig asks him SAT about the appeal of travelling and whether it ever wears SAT off. He tells her about revisiting some of the people and SAT places that featured in his earlier reports, and reflects SAT on the way the world has changed in the intervening years. SAT Stephen Fry is not a man who likes to rough it, but he is SAT forced to do just that in visiting the remoter parts of SAT the world to see some of the most endangered species. SAT Sandi asks him whether seeing the aye-aye, the blue whale SAT and the komodo dragon was really worthwhile - especially SAT as it involved not just discomfort but seriously SAT fracturing his arm. SAT SAT 10:30 Give Us A Job b00mj4g5 (Listen) SAT Michael Portillo, one-time Conservative Secretary of State SAT for Employment, looks back at the history of the SAT institutions that are now called Job Centre Plus but SAT opened as Labour Exchanges 100 years ago. Featuring SAT contributions from Yvette Cooper and Mark Serwotka. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mj4g7 (Listen) SAT As trade unions gather for the TUC Congress, Jim Hancock SAT examines calls from some activists to end the political SAT levy to the Labour Party. They claim that the party has SAT not done enough to protect jobs and services. What impact SAT would reducing or even ending their political funding have SAT on the government, just months away from having to call a SAT general election? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mj4g9 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00mj571 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Tempted by a golden opportunity? We look at the pros and SAT cons of buying and selling gold. SAT If it's time to pick an annuity, how do you get the best SAT deal for your retirement? SAT Plus the latest news for customers of collapsed holiday SAT company XL Leisure Group. SAT SAT 12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mj10k (Listen) SAT Episode 4 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 Justin SAT Edwards, Paul Sinha and Justin Moorhouse. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00mj573 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00mj575 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00mj16f (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from SAT Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex. The panellists are armed SAT forces minister Bill Rammell, shadow security minister SAT Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, former chief scientific SAT adviser to the UK government, Sir David King, and senior SAT politics editor at the New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00mj577 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00mj579 (Listen) SAT The Conflict is Over SAT Dramatisation by Michael Eaton of the events that led to SAT the signing of the Downing Street Declaration in December SAT 1993 and the subsequent IRA ceasefire in August 1994, told SAT through the relationship between John Major and Albert SAT Reynolds. SAT John Major ...... Michael Maloney SAT Albert Reynolds ...... Dermot Crowley SAT Martin Mansergh ...... Patrick Drury SAT Robin Butler ...... Thomas Wheatley SAT Patrick Mayhew ...... Michael Cochrane SAT Martin McGuinness ...... Lloyd Hutchinson SAT Bill Clinton ...... Matthew Marsh SAT Directed by Nicolas Kent SAT A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00mg3yv (Listen) SAT Series 8, The Look of Love SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their SAT emotional appeal. SAT Hal David discusses writing The Look of Love with Burt SAT Bacharach, for the soundtrack of the spoof 1967 James Bond SAT film Casino Royale. This classic track, sung by Dusty SAT Springfield, provided the musical backdrop for a love SAT scene between Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress. SAT Dusty Springfield's former backing singer, Simon Bell, SAT remembers being on stage at the Albert Hall when Dusty SAT laughed her way through a performance of the song, and SAT musician Jonathan Cohen describes how the samba rhythm SAT underscoring Dusty's smooth vocals combine to make this an SAT enduringly popular love song. SAT It has been covered many times by artists including Isaac SAT Hayes, Gladys Knight and the French singer Mirielle SAT Mathieu. This programme hears from people whose personal SAT memories of love and loss are forever linked with The Look SAT of Love. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00mj5r8 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Including author Barbara Taylor Bradford on her latest SAT novel; design guru Stephen Bayley on the inspiration of SAT the female form; Beth Ditto on music and fashion; rape and SAT whether it should ever be a subject for comedy; the SAT progress of the battle against the drug trade in SAT Afghanistan; breast cancer and how far women go in SAT reducing their risk; and trumpeter Alison Balsom ahead of SAT her performance at The Last Night of the Proms. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00mj64d (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00mj64g (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mj64j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00mj64l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mj64n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00mj64q (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by the founding member and drummer of The SAT Police, Stewart Copeland, 'The Black Farmer' Wilfred SAT Emmanuel-Jones, and the actor Danny Dyer. SAT With music from three musical greats: the American Grammy SAT Award-winning country-rock singer-songwriter Steve Earle, SAT New York bohemian Amanda Palmer and 89-year-old bluesman SAT T-Model Ford, who talks to Gideon Coe. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00mj64s (Listen) SAT Angela Merkel SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela SAT Merkel. SAT She has gone from being Helmut Kohl's 'little girl' to one SAT of the world's most influential stateswomen. Forbes SAT Magazine recently declared Ms Merkel to be the most SAT powerful woman in the world for the fourth time. All the SAT opinion polls indicate that she will remain as Chancellor SAT after the latest elections. SAT So how did this physicist from a small town in East SAT Germany become a world leader? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00mj64v (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mj64x (Listen) SAT Agatha Christie's Life in Her Words SAT Crime writer Val McDermid listens to recordings made by SAT Agatha Christie which have never before been broadcast. SAT A panel of guests, including dramatist Kevin Elyot, SAT biographer Laura Thompson, archivist John Curran, who has SAT recently deciphered Christie's notebooks, director Enyd SAT Williams and writer Michael Bakewell, discuss their SAT approach to dramatising her novels for TV and radio and SAT the light that these recordings shed on Christie's working SAT methods. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00mf2mj (Listen) SAT The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode SAT 1 SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography SAT of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of SAT Johnson's birth. SAT Young Boswell comes to London to seek out his hero. He SAT wants to write a biography of the great man 'in scenes', SAT with Johnson's conversation cast as dialogue. Nothing SAT quite like this has ever been attempted before. SAT Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins SAT King George ...... David Hargreaves SAT Louisa ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis SAT Oliver Goldsmith ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Lady Di ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT Davies ...... Philip Fox SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00mj6ff (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b00mgwhy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which SAT guests set out their strong views on a subject, before SAT being challenged by a panel of experts. SAT Economist and writer Philippe Legrain argues that Britain SAT should abolish all immigration controls. The movement of SAT people across our borders should, he says, be as free as SAT the movement of goods and services. SAT Legrain's views are challenged by Sir Andrew Green, SAT chairman of Migrationwatch UK, Labour MP for Keighley and SAT Ilkeley Ann Cryer and Tony Saint, a writer and former SAT immigration officer. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mg0wr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. SAT SAT 23:30 The Poet of Sparty Lea: In Search of Barry SAT MacSweeney b00mf3ds (Listen) SAT Young poet Tom Chivers reclaims the reputation of SAT counter-cultural poet Barry MacSweeney, who wrote his SAT first poem at seven, began a lifelong struggle with SAT solitary hard drinking at 16 and was nominated for the SAT Oxford Poetry Chair at 18. SAT A protégée of Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, he was a SAT regular at the Morden Tower in Newcastle along with Ted SAT Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Dorn. SAT MacSweeney was a man of contradictions; a Romantic poet, a SAT political journalist who raged against the world but also SAT a naturalist whose writing was rooted in the Northumbrian SAT landscape. His refusal to engage with the Establishment SAT was incompatible with commercial or mainstream success, SAT and he died an alcoholic's death, on the fringes of the SAT poetry scene. SAT A 16-year-old Tom Chivers encountered MacSweeney at what SAT would turn out to be his final poetry reading; a week SAT later he was dead. Now Tom goes on a personal journey to SAT explore the life and work of his hero. Travelling to the SAT Northumbrian landscape which anchored MacSweeney's work, SAT Tom investigates why his radical style was never palatable SAT to the mainstream but also why his work still appeals to a SAT new generation of poets today. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00mj7rp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088s8k (Listen) SUN Telling the World, Baucis and Philemon SUN Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the SUN world. SUN Daniel Morden tells one of Ovid's timeless tales of SUN transformation, drawing on classical mythology to SUN illustrate the power of enduring love. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mj7rr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mj7rt (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mj7rw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00mj7ry (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mj7s0 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Whichford in SUN South Warwickshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00mj64s (Listen) SUN Angela Merkel SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela SUN Merkel. SUN She has gone from being Helmut Kohl's 'little girl' to one SUN of the world's most influential stateswomen. Forbes SUN Magazine recently declared Ms Merkel to be the most SUN powerful woman in the world for the fourth time. All the SUN opinion polls indicate that she will remain as Chancellor SUN after the latest elections. SUN So how did this physicist from a small town in East SUN Germany become a world leader? SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00mj7s2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00mj7s4 (Listen) SUN Understanding Prayer SUN Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan SUN Williams, about his personal understanding of prayer, once SUN described by the poet George Herbert as 'something SUN understood'. SUN The readers are Frank Stirling and David Westhead. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00mj7s6 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham meets Hamish Wilson, a former camel boy in SUN Somalia. He now runs a Welsh hill farm helping inner-city SUN Somali communities learn about their heritage. SUN 'I just come alive when I come here' is the response of SUN one visitor to Hamish Wilson's Welsh hill farm. He has SUN adapted the farm in Radnorshire to become a 'Degmo'. Based SUN on nomadic settlements, his family host Somalian families SUN and community groups from inner-city Britain. While SUN camping in the countryside, they learn about the way the SUN farm is run, how its produce can be used and compare this SUN with Somali methods. For the very young, many of whom have SUN only lived in the UK, it's a way to learn about their SUN heritage and for the elders a chance to show off their SUN skills and reconnect with the past. For Hamish, though, SUN the 'Degmo' was also a fulfilment of a long-standing SUN friendship and c SUN Caz Graham visits along with a large group from Ocean SUN Somali Community Association as, despite the cold, they SUN fall in love with the Welsh hills. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00mj7s8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00mj7sb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00mj7sd (Listen) SUN Jane Little 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 b00mjjv7 (Listen) SUN Epilepsy Research SUN Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Research. SUN Donations to Epilepsy Research UK should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Epilepsy Research UK. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Epilepsy Research UK with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1100394. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00mjjv9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00mjjvc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00mjjvf (Listen) SUN A service from Lichfield Cathedral celebrating the 300th SUN anniversary of the birth of the author and devout Anglican SUN Dr Samuel Johnson. SUN Led by Canon Pete Wilcox and Canon Wealands Bell with the SUN Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir, directed by Martyn SUN Rawles. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mj16h (Listen) SUN Tracks SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Following the tracks left by animals is a great craft SUN owned by many aboriginal people. Doing the same with SUN fossilised tracks is much the same skill, but with a whole SUN new set of extraordinary revelations. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00mjk5g (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mjk5j (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00mjk5l (Listen) SUN Nelson Mandela Release SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN Sue gathers together the core negotiators and key SUN campaigners involved in the secret talks which ultimately SUN led to the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 SUN and the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa. SUN She is joined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who led the Free SUN Mandela Campaign throughout the 1980s; Dr Niel Barnard, SUN who was the head of South Africa's National Intelligence SUN Service and who had dozens of clandestine meetings with SUN Mandela; Professor Willie Esterhuyse, an Afrikaner SUN academic who liaised between the government and the ANC; SUN Aziz Pahad, who was a core member of the ANC and led many SUN of its delegations; former President Thabo Mbeki, who was SUN a lead negotiator for the ANC; and journalist and SUN political commentator Allister Sparks, who chronicled the SUN negotiations in a revealing book. SUN Former President FW de Klerk also contributes to the SUN programme, describing the surprise that he and other SUN cabinet figures felt when they learnt of the years of SUN secret meetings. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00mg2v4 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 7 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. SUN Jenny Eclair and Stephen Fry compare what they shop for SUN online and Paul Merton and Charles Collingwood discuss how SUN best to go about making an impression. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00mjk5n (Listen) SUN Indigenous Veg SUN Africa has hundreds of indigenous vegetables, which have SUN been grown, gathered and eaten for centuries. But in the SUN past half century 'exotic' imports have started to SUN displace them; the likes of cabbage, kale and carrots were SUN associated with being more developed, and cosmopolitan, SUN while the traditional foods became food for the poor. SUN So does it matter? Aren't all vegetables healthy? Sheila SUN Dillon looks at a project run by Bioversity International SUN in Kenya to increase the availability and consumption of SUN Africa's indigenous green leafy vegetables. She finds out SUN what role many people believe they can play in solving SUN some of the continent's most pressing problems, including SUN malnutrition and crop failures due to global warming. SUN Indigenous vegetables are nutrient-dense compared to their SUN replacements. They are particularly helpful in supplying SUN vitamin A and iron - both of which are commonly lacking in SUN the African diet, which has become increasingly SUN westernised - and lacking in nutrients. Indigenous plants SUN are also perfectly adapted to the local weather and SUN landscape, able to withstand the droughts common to many SUN parts of the continent, and likely to become more SUN widespread with global warming. SUN Getting the plants to urban shoppers today requires SUN involving commercial farmers, and they require more SUN reliable and uniform seeds than have been traditionally SUN gathered from the wild. Peter Hanson is leader of SUN Vegetable Breeding at AVRDC World Vegetable Centre in SUN Taiwan, responsible for overseeing the breeding of these SUN new seeds. SUN Sheila is joined in discussion by Pablo Eyzaguirre, senior SUN scientist at Bioversity International, which is carrying SUN out work in Kenya and around the world promoting SUN biodiversity of agriculture and diet, and Dr Einir M SUN Young, head of sustainable development at the the Welsh SUN Institute for Natural Resources at Bangor University, SUN which is involved in the production of the SUN recently-published African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban SUN Agriculture. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00mjk5q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00mjk5s (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Ireland: From Boom to Bust b00ktdb0 (Listen) SUN Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the biggest economic SUN crisis Ireland has ever known and its search for a SUN post-crash identity. SUN For the last 20 years the Irish economy was the pride of SUN Europe. If the rush to riches was very un-Irish, Olivia SUN tries to find out if her country is now reverting to a SUN more familiar state of penance. William Butler Yeats SUN described the indigenous character trait as an abiding SUN sense of tragedy that sustained people through temporary SUN periods of joy. SUN For many younger people, who were told that they had more SUN money and more freedom than any previous generation, the SUN maudlin emigration songs with their tales of yearning and SUN aching loneliness felt like stories from a distant era. SUN Suddenly, though, they no longer feel so remote. As the SUN shutters are pulled down on job opportunities at home, the SUN harsh prospect of having to find work abroad is all too SUN real for thousands of young people. SUN Olivia finds that Ireland's economic crisis is far from SUN over and finds out how the country is re-imagining itself SUN anew. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mh2yp (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions sent in by post at the Gardeners' Question Time SUN potting shed at Sparsholt College in Hampshire. SUN If you are eternally battling the dreaded Japanese SUN Knotweed, Dr Richard Shaw has some ideas about a new bio SUN control. SUN Plus the latest news on the garden trials with Sparsholt SUN College's Rosie Yeomans, including an update on our SUN treasured courgettes and plans for over-wintering Dahlias. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Food For Thought b00mjk5v (Listen) SUN Afternoon Tea at The Ritz with Joan Rivers SUN Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow SUN discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. SUN Over tea and chocolate tart in a suite at the Ritz, SUN comedian Joan Rivers recounts a lifetime of self-loathing SUN and fear of being fat. She recalls the shock of SUN discovering she wasn't beautiful, her mother's advice on SUN dinner parties and an extraordinary daily diet of vitamin SUN pills, low-calorie ice cream sandwiches and cereal with SUN whipped cream. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00mjklh (Listen) SUN The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode SUN 2 SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography SUN of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of SUN Johnson's birth. SUN Boswell visits Johnson only intermittently, but relies on SUN him more and more. Johnson meets Hester Thrale, who SUN becomes his devoted friend and confidante, and the most SUN important person in his life. SUN Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham SUN James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins SUN Hester Thrale ...... Annabelle Dowler SUN David Garrick ...... David Hargreaves SUN Mrs Desmoulins ...... Susan Jameson SUN Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis SUN Dilly ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Wilkes ...... Philip Fox SUN Directed by Claire Grove. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00mjklk (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist William Boyd about his SUN latest book, Ordinary Thunderstorms. In an extended SUN interview, he looks back at a career which now includes 11 SUN novels, and discusses his interest in biography, both real SUN and imagined. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00mjklm (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents requests for much-loved poems that SUN contrast the joy of living with the experience of memory SUN loss. SUN SUN 17:00 Top Dogs: Britain's New Supreme Court b00mg8mz (Listen) SUN The UK Supreme Court is replacing the House of Lords as SUN the highest court in the land. Yet hardly anyone knows who SUN its justices are, why the reform has been made and how it SUN will change our lives. Joshua Rozenberg goes behind the SUN scenes to talk to the judges and to visit their new court, SUN and discovers from leading politicians how the new court SUN was created. He also asks if Parliament will find the new SUN judicial top dogs to be dangerous rivals for power. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00mj64s (Listen) SUN Angela Merkel SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Germany's Chancellor, Angela SUN Merkel. SUN She has gone from being Helmut Kohl's 'little girl' to one SUN of the world's most influential stateswomen. Forbes SUN Magazine recently declared Ms Merkel to be the most SUN powerful woman in the world for the fourth time. All the SUN opinion polls indicate that she will remain as Chancellor SUN after the latest elections. SUN So how did this physicist from a small town in East SUN Germany become a world leader? SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mjl4x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00mjl4z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mjl51 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00mjl53 (Listen) SUN John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN Wake Up To Wogan - Radio 2 SUN Ena - Radio 4 SUN Lost, Stolen or Shredded, Radio 4 SUN Agatha Christie's Life in Her Words - Radio 4 SUN What Became of the Bank Manager - Radio 4 SUN Peston and the Money Men - Radio 4 SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN Au Pairs - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN Where Did It All Go Right? - Radio 4 SUN Uncle Sam Goes Pop - Radio 2 SUN Simpson in Afghanistan - Radio 4 SUN Islam, Mullahs and the Media - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00mjl77 (Listen) SUN The peace is restored at Home Farm. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00mjl79 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN Matt Frei talks to Shannon Brownlee, the author of the SUN book Overtreated, about the challenges and priorities of SUN healthcare reform in the United States. She says that, SUN 'About 20,000 Americans die prematurely each year from SUN lack of access. But getting unnecessary care isn't any SUN better for you. In fact, about 30,000 Medicare recipients SUN die each year from overtreatment.' SUN President Obama kicked off the academic school year with a SUN speech directed at students aged four to eighteen and was SUN full of advice and encouragement. Americana speaks to high SUN school senior Casey Tong about her impressions of Obama's SUN speech. Tong attends the same school that President Obama SUN attended in Honolulu, Hawaii, and she has some of her own SUN advice to offer the President. SUN Producer Dan Collison offers a montage of Hawaiian voices SUN telling of the impact of a foreigner who came to Hawaii, SUN stayed, and is causing significant impact: a frog called SUN the Coqui. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008m6nn (Listen) SUN Granta Stories, The Death of a Chair SUN Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most SUN prestigious literary magazine. SUN By Doris Lessing, read by Barbara Marten. SUN A lived-in chair is bought at auction, where it begins its SUN final journey towards discovery and destruction. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00mh27z (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine reports that SUN the world will cool over the next two decades, before SUN global warming resumes. They also examine a claim that SUN beautiful people have more daughters, and use maths to SUN decode a Beatles musical mystery. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00mh2yr (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. SUN Lord Hattersley, Sir Michael Parkinson and Bill Hagerty SUN remember journalist and writer Keith Waterhouse; SUN disability campaigner Baroness Chapman - her brother Dan SUN and Baroness Finlay pay tribute; Hollywood film director SUN Andrei Konchalovsky remembers his father, Soviet writer SUN Sergei Mikhalkov; DJ Chris Goldfinger recalls reggae SUN producer and musician Wycliffe 'Steely' Johnson; and SUN memories of hang-gliding innovator Francis Rogallo. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00mj571 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Tempted by a golden opportunity? We look at the pros and SUN cons of buying and selling gold. SUN If it's time to pick an annuity, how do you get the best SUN deal for your retirement? SUN Plus the latest news for customers of collapsed holiday SUN company XL Leisure Group. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mjjv7 (Listen) SUN Epilepsy Research SUN Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Research. SUN Donations to Epilepsy Research UK should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Epilepsy Research UK. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Epilepsy Research UK with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1100394. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00mgy5k (Listen) SUN Student Start-Ups SUN Britain's universities are alive with a new wave of SUN business activity, and in many of them the largest student SUN societies are the ones which bring would-be entrepreneurs SUN together with potential backers and mentors. SUN Peter Day samples some of the start-up ideas on show at SUN Cambridge University and hears how academic attitudes to SUN business have changed over the past few decades. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00mjl7c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00mjl7f (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Scotland's Colony. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00mj10h (Listen) SUN When Harry Met Sally creator Nora Ephron discusses her SUN biopic of America's first celebrity chef, Julia Child. SUN Julie And Julia, starring Meryl Streep, shows how the SUN housewife superstar got America cooking. Ephron reveals SUN the effect that Child had on her own life and lets us in SUN on a secret about writing romantic comedies. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00mj7s4 (Listen) SUN Understanding Prayer SUN Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan SUN Williams, about his personal understanding of prayer, once SUN described by the poet George Herbert as 'something SUN understood'. SUN The readers are Frank Stirling and David Westhead. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00mjlq9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mgd81 (Listen) MON New research on a group of high achieving 12 and MON 13-year-old children could provide insight into why MON children underachieve in school. Laurie Taylor talks to MON Becky Francis from Roehampton University, one of the MON authors of a new report into the uneasy relationship MON between being clever and popular. MON Laurie finds out how children negotiate being both MON academically successful and liked by their peers, and the MON differences in classroom experience for boys and girls. MON While a boy can avoid being bullied if he is both sporty MON and successful, girls are more likely to be picked on and MON seen as asexual if they do well in school. Does the risk MON of being bullied or labelled a 'swot' prompt children of MON both sexes to avoid performing to their best ability? MON Also, Laurie explores the letters sent home by soldiers in MON WWI and what they reveal about the emotional experience of MON war. He talks to Michael Roper and Joanna Bourke about the MON role of the connection between the home front and the MON battlefield, and why it was critical in helping soldiers MON cope with the horrors of war. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mj7s0 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Whichford in MON South Warwickshire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mjlr8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mjlzn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mjlwt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00mjm1g (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mjm6k (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00mjmf3 (Listen) MON Despite the summer not turning out to be one for MON barbecues, it has been a very good year for British MON oysters. Traditionally they start being harvested as soon MON as there is an R in the month, and September's crop is MON proving to be big thanks to this summer's weather. MON Charlotte Smith finds out why. MON Also, there are calls for landowners to be forced to give MON up land to be turned into allotments. MON And Charlotte hears about something very unusual: a happy MON dairy farmer. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00mjrbq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00mjmv9 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mjrbs (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed MON to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. MON Peter catches up with promising athlete Jessica Manning, MON who, at the time of London's 2012 bid, was widely thought MON to be a real contender for the London games. But since MON then she has found it hard to commit to training, MON following a move with her family to Canada. However, she MON has just been selected to take part in the opening MON ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in January MON 2010 and is thrilled to see how preperations there have MON been going. MON Thomas Brown, a promising swimmer who narrowly missed out MON on competing in Beijing, is facing a make or break race MON for a place in the British swim squad. With everything MON resting on a selection event in Sheffield, he has to try MON and put his break-up with girlfriend Zaira behind him. MON Leisje has left the comfort of home for a scholarship MON sixth-form place at a specialist boarding school, where MON she hopes to boost her chances in the sport she loves. MON MON 09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mjrjn (Listen) MON Episode 3 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 Helena looks at the development of alternative systems of MON justice that bypass the courts. Restraining orders to MON protect the victims of domestic violence, once championed MON by liberal lawyers like Helena, have in recent years been MON broadened in scope and application by politicians, with MON possibly troubling results. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00mjn13 (Listen) MON Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 1 MON Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, MON covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. MON Quirky Python business, challenging railway journeys and MON daughter Rachel is about to start school. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mjn15 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey - including: MON 'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I MON have the heart and stomach of a King'. With these words MON Queen Elizabeth I showed her distaste for the shortcomings MON associated with her sex. But despite this apparent MON dismissal of women's capabilities, her life would be MON profoundly influenced by the women who surrounded her. MON From her mother Anne Boleyn and a succession of doomed MON stepmothers, to her half sister Mary, the fates of these MON women set the course of Elizabeth's life. Tracy Borman is MON the author of Elizabeth's Women, and she joins Jane to MON discuss this fascinating aspect of the monarch's history MON With Germany's general election looming, the Christian MON Democrats, Angela Merkel's party, has shifted into top MON gear with a new campaign that focuses on probably its best MON asset - Mrs Merkel herself. The German Chancellor's MON personal popularity is said to comfortably exceed that of MON her party. But she also has a reputation for being MON uncharismatic, boring and dowdy to the point of MON frumpiness. Jane is joined by Labour MP Gisela Stuart and MON journalist Anne McElvoy to discuss what makes Angela MON Merkel such an important politician. MON The Darwin Centre will house over 20 million plant and MON insect specimens and will reveal to the public for the MON first time the collections, scientists and research that MON has been going on behind the scenes for over 100 years. To MON discuss some of the work that is carried out there, Jane MON is joined by Yvonne Linton - an entomologist working on MON the mosquito bar-coding project; and Amoret Whittaker, a MON forensic entomologist who studies fly larvae and their MON development within decaying flesh - and often gives MON essential evidence in court in hearings for cases of MON suspicious deaths. MON The Butterfly Garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, is a home for MON the ashes of any deceased baby, whether it is one that has MON died in the womb or has been aborted. Hospital Chaplain, MON Canon Jane Lloyd, performs a regular monthly service for MON the very young babies that have not lived. She scatters MON their ashes in the Butterfly Garden. Ruth Oliver goes to MON watch one of the memorial services. MON MON 11:00 A River Runs Through It b00mjrtg (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Edward Stourton explores the Jordan, one of the most MON powerfully symbolic rivers in the world. MON In the Bible the River Jordan is 'deep and wide', a divide MON between this world and the Promised Land. The reality MON today is that at many points the river has been reduced to MON little more than a contaminated trickle. Can the Jordan, MON which is revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, be MON saved? MON Edward's journey starts on the melting snows of Mount MON Hermon, the source of the water of the Jordan. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mjrxp (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON Museum cleaner Eva Tattle has been interviewed 'in depth' MON by Cleaners' Weekly (incorporating The Scrubbers' Gazette) MON and has managed to offend the entire museum in the process. MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer MON Prunella 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 Mike ...... Stephen K Amos MON Hypnotist ...... Julia Deakin. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00mjn59 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00mjnb6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mjndd (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mjrxs (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Wales and the north of England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00mjl77 (Listen) MON The peace is restored at Home Farm. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cj8db (Listen) MON I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse MON Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the MON world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her MON husband who falls back in love with her. MON Keith ...... Bill Nighy MON Tilda ....... Amelia Bullmore MON Oscar ...... Harry Child MON With Sarah Adams, Stephen Critchlow, Ben Crowe, Nyasha MON Hatendi, Helen Longworth, Chris Pavlo, Liz Sutherland and MON Joan Walker. MON Directed by Sam Hoyle. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mj64x (Listen) MON Agatha Christie's Life in Her Words MON Crime writer Val McDermid listens to recordings made by MON Agatha Christie which have never before been broadcast. MON A panel of guests, including dramatist Kevin Elyot, MON biographer Laura Thompson, archivist John Curran, who has MON recently deciphered Christie's notebooks, director Enyd MON Williams and writer Michael Bakewell, discuss their MON approach to dramatising her novels for TV and radio and MON the light that these recordings shed on Christie's working MON methods. MON MON 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved MON b00mjpc9 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the MON Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this MON mysterious area. MON What is the genesis of the Bermuda Triangle story, how did MON it grow and why does it persist to this day? MON A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00mjk5n (Listen) MON Indigenous Veg MON Africa has hundreds of indigenous vegetables, which have MON been grown, gathered and eaten for centuries. But in the MON past half century 'exotic' imports have started to MON displace them; the likes of cabbage, kale and carrots were MON associated with being more developed, and cosmopolitan, MON while the traditional foods became food for the poor. MON So does it matter? Aren't all vegetables healthy? Sheila MON Dillon looks at a project run by Bioversity International MON in Kenya to increase the availability and consumption of MON Africa's indigenous green leafy vegetables. She finds out MON what role many people believe they can play in solving MON some of the continent's most pressing problems, including MON malnutrition and crop failures due to global warming. MON Indigenous vegetables are nutrient-dense compared to their MON replacements. They are particularly helpful in supplying MON vitamin A and iron - both of which are commonly lacking in MON the African diet, which has become increasingly MON westernised - and lacking in nutrients. Indigenous plants MON are also perfectly adapted to the local weather and MON landscape, able to withstand the droughts common to many MON parts of the continent, and likely to become more MON widespread with global warming. MON Getting the plants to urban shoppers today requires MON involving commercial farmers, and they require more MON reliable and uniform seeds than have been traditionally MON gathered from the wild. Peter Hanson is leader of MON Vegetable Breeding at AVRDC World Vegetable Centre in MON Taiwan, responsible for overseeing the breeding of these MON new seeds. MON Sheila is joined in discussion by Pablo Eyzaguirre, senior MON scientist at Bioversity International, which is carrying MON out work in Kenya and around the world promoting MON biodiversity of agriculture and diet, and Dr Einir M MON Young, head of sustainable development at the the Welsh MON Institute for Natural Resources at Bangor University, MON which is involved in the production of the MON recently-published African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban MON Agriculture. MON MON 16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mk58r (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice MON of researching family history. MON Sally and resident genealogist Nick Barratt explore family MON roots in India. Sam Merry's Indian great-grandmother was MON disowned by her family when she married a British soldier. MON Moving with him to Nottinghamshire, she never spoke of her MON homeland again. Now, more than a 100 years later, Sam MON wants to trace his family's Indian roots, and wonders what MON his ancestor's new life in Mansfield would have been like. MON MON 17:00 PM b00mjphn (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 b00mjpm0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00mk5x7 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 8 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The MON panellists are Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth, Paul Merton MON and Suki Webster. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00mjnf1 (Listen) MON The battle lines are drawn for Adam and Lynda. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mjpzm (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mjq3y (Listen) MON Liam, Short Trousers MON By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old MON boy who goes missing in Sussex. MON Liam's parents are suspects in the case of his MON disappearance, and his mother feels guilty. MON Liam ...... Ryan Watson MON Susan ...... Amanda Lawrence MON Tony ...... Paul Rider MON Inspector ...... Steve Hogan MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON MON 20:00 Where Did It All Go Right? b00mk5x9 (Listen) MON Inward Investment into the Japanese Car Industry MON Prof Philip Cowley presents a three-part series examining MON initially controversial political policies which were MON later judged by most people to have been a success. MON The Conservative government's wooing of Japanese car MON makers to invest in Britain in the early 1980s. Japanese MON investment was vigorously opposed at the time, but brought MON lots of jobs and made a valuable contribution to our MON economy. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00mgx83 (Listen) MON Egypt MON Magdi Abdelhadi explores what kind of society Egyptian MON president Hosni Mubarak, who has no obvious successor in MON place, will leave behind when he dies. MON Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and MON is pivotal for stability in the region and beyond, but MON after nearly three decades in power, the absence of a MON potential successor to the 81-year-old President Mubarak, MON has raised fears of a succession crisis. MON Magdi finds, to his surprise, that nearly 60 years after MON the military seized power and abolished the monarchy, MON Egyptians still look to the army for a saviour. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00mk5xc (Listen) MON Buildings MON The places where we live and work account for well over a MON third of the energy the world uses - our homes, offices, MON cinemas and sports centres are a much bigger problem for MON the planet than cars, lorries, planes and ships. Does that MON mean we can fly as much as we like as long as we sort out MON the problems on the ground? Tom Heap investigates. MON A recent report backed by some of the world's leading MON corporations identified buildings as major contributors to MON problems of climate change. The even worse news is that MON most of the homes, offices and public buildings that will MON be standing in the middle of the century have already been MON built, so they will have to be expensively adapted if they MON are to be made green enough to meet even modest MON energy-saving targets. The business leaders behind the MON report have said that although the work is expensive, it MON will pay for itself in reduced energy bills in a MON surprisingly short time. MON But they also say that it simply won't get done until MON governments make it compulsory. Have the politicians got MON the bottle? Do the numbers really work? Tom Heap visits MON homes, offices and experts to ask whether payback time has MON arrived, who is footing the bill, and how much disruption MON it will mean at home, at work and at play. MON MON 21:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mjrbs (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed MON to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. MON Peter catches up with promising athlete Jessica Manning, MON who, at the time of London's 2012 bid, was widely thought MON to be a real contender for the London games. But since MON then she has found it hard to commit to training, MON following a move with her family to Canada. However, she MON has just been selected to take part in the opening MON ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in January MON 2010 and is thrilled to see how preperations there have MON been going. MON Thomas Brown, a promising swimmer who narrowly missed out MON on competing in Beijing, is facing a make or break race MON for a place in the British swim squad. With everything MON resting on a selection event in Sheffield, he has to try MON and put his break-up with girlfriend Zaira behind him. MON Leisje has left the comfort of home for a scholarship MON sixth-form place at a specialist boarding school, where MON she hopes to boost her chances in the sport she loves. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00mjqd0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00mjqmn (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mjqp4 (Listen) MON Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 1 MON David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam MON Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is MON pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. MON When Adam Kindred tries to return some papers to a MON scientist he has met in a restaurant, he doesn't realise MON that his act of kindness is about to set off a train of MON events that will threaten his life. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b00ctlhk (Listen) MON Dominic Dromgoole MON Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. MON Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare's MON Globe Theatre, where this programme is recorded, shares MON his passion for poetry and prose, without so much as a MON word by the Bard. Readers are Michelle Terry and John MON Light. MON MON 23:30 Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico b00gd1t0 (Listen) MON Marc Riley tells the story of Christa Paffgen, the German MON model and actress who would become better known as Nico, MON the singer with influential 1960s rock band The Velvet MON Underground. Featuring interviews with her son Ari, her MON manager during her time in Manchester, Alan Wise, her MON biographer Richard Witts and John Cale, one of her MON colleagues in The Velvet Underground. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00mjlp4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00mjn13 (Listen) TUE Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 1 TUE Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, TUE covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. TUE Quirky Python business, challenging railway journeys and TUE daughter Rachel is about to start school. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mjlqc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mjlww (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mjlrb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00mjlzq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mjm1j (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00mjm6m (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00mjmf5 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mk6dl (Listen) TUE Series 3, Erin Pizzey TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Campaigner, author and founder of the women's refuge TUE movement, Erin Pizzey, explores her troubled childhood in TUE post-war Dorset. TUE TUE 09:30 The Good Samaritan b00mk6dn (Listen) TUE Hassan's Story TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping TUE hand, with varying consequences. TUE When a group of Jewish commuters were attacked on the New TUE York subway, a slightly-built accountancy student decided TUE it was time to act. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00mjmvc (Listen) TUE Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 2 TUE Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, TUE covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. TUE Bedroom frolics in The Missionary and a confusing scene at TUE the ear specialist, where life reflects comic art. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqg61 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Liam. TUE TUE 11:00 A River Runs Through It b00mk6dq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Edward Stourton explores the Jordan, one of the most TUE powerfully symbolic rivers in the world. TUE Its unique mix of faith, politics and beauty has intrigued TUE and inspired writers and travellers from Biblical times to TUE the present day. In a region where water is said to be TUE more precious than oil, it is understandable that the TUE River Jordan has also, for centuries, been at the centre TUE of conflicts that have swept through the Middle East. But TUE that may now be starting to change, as Edward discovers TUE when he visits the Jordan valley. TUE TUE 11:30 You're Entering The Twilight Zone b00mk6t9 (Listen) TUE Alan Dein explores the classic American television series TUE The Twilight Zone, as well as the life and imagination of TUE its creator, Rod Serling. TUE Fifty years ago, Serling ushered audiences into a new TUE realm of light and shadow. He had already electrified the TUE new medium of television with his powerful dramas and TUE their explorations of race, morality and capitalism, but TUE now he offered glimpses of American dreams and nightmares. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00mjn42 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00mjn5c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00mjnb8 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00mk6tc (Listen) TUE Series 8, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas TUE Tallis TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their TUE emotional appeal. TUE When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910, TUE he changed the course of British music. Here at last was a TUE piece of music which was no longer under the Teutonic TUE influence, but which drew on old English hymn tunes and TUE folk idioms for its themes. As the string music builds to TUE a climax, interviewees tell how this music has brought TUE solace and hope in times of tragedy and changed the course TUE of their lives. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00mjnf1 (Listen) TUE The battle lines are drawn for Adam and Lynda. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b1ny6 (Listen) TUE The Playwright and the Grammarian TUE Comedy by Marcy Kahan. TUE A playwright and a retired civil servant confront one TUE another over a Radio 4 microphone and go on to transform TUE eachother's lives, to the consternation of their best TUE friends. TUE Tricia Ketchworth ...... Penelope Wilton TUE Scarlet MacNamara ...... Alison Pettit TUE Moo ...... Carl Prekopp TUE Jasper ...... Malcolm Sinclair TUE Roger Bolton ...... Himself TUE Peter Donaldson ...... Himself TUE Directed by Gordon House. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00mk71b (Listen) TUE Wood is, according to many, one of the greenest fuels TUE available. If more trees are planted to replace those TUE burnt for heat then it has a very small carbon footprint. TUE Yet burning wood can also produce large amounts of noxious TUE smoke, some elements of which can cause major health TUE problems. So how can these two observations be reconciled? TUE Are we swapping low carbon for high pollution? TUE And what about aircraft contrails? They are visible from TUE almost all parts of the planet, so are they blocking out TUE sunlight and having an effect on global temperatures? Then TUE there's the story of acid rain: did it really go away? TUE Plus concerns over carbon capture and storage, and what TUE causes the mysterious lights reported during earthquakes? TUE On the panel are Dr Lynn Dicks, Ehsan Masood and Pro TUE Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from the TUE University of London. As always we want to hear your TUE comments on the topics discussed and any questions you TUE might want to put to 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 b00mk71d (Listen) TUE Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Coming of Mr Quin TUE Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha TUE Christie in the 1920s featuring her personal favourite TUE character, the mysterious Mr Harley Quin. TUE Guests at a house party recall the unexpected suicide of TUE the previous owner. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, Mr TUE Quin, who throws new light on the case. But there is TUE another mystery - who is Mr Harley Quin himself? TUE A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved TUE b00mkx5f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the TUE Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this TUE mysterious area. TUE In 1948, British South American Airways flight Star Tiger TUE vanished into the Triangle, becoming one of its best-known TUE disappearances. But digging around for some long-neglected TUE facts, the mist begins to clear. TUE A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the TUE Primary S b00mk74t (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Education journalist Mike Baker traces the controversial TUE changes to the ways we have educated our youngest children TUE over the past 150 years, from the rigidity of the TUE Victorian age to the occasionally anarchic, experiential TUE learning of the progressive 1970s. TUE Mike explores the strict, no-nonsense Victorian schoolroom TUE and hears from former pupils about their experience of TUE primary schools from the 1930s to the 1960s, including TUE Baroness Shirley Williams, who recalls the poverty of her TUE fellow pupils in her London elementary shool in the 1930s. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00mk7rl (Listen) TUE Series 19, Miriam Makeba TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Kate Humble discusses her heroine, the South African TUE singer and anti-apartheid activist, Miriam Makeba. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00mjpg7 (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 b00mjphq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mk7rn (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 4 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE Including a plea for donations to Britain's only sanctuary TUE for balloon animals, the heartbreaking story of a little TUE wooden boy who is ever so slightly annoying, and what to TUE do at work if you suspect you have a decadent colleague. TUE Plus a clip from the lazy writers' exciting new drama, TUE Thatcher: The Years They Haven't Done Yet. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00mjndg (Listen) TUE Lilian stands by her man at Court. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mjpnk (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mjpzp (Listen) TUE Liam, Mutual Trust TUE By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old TUE boy who goes missing in Sussex. TUE The police interview Liam's mother, then a report comes in TUE that Liam's bag has been found in some woods. TUE Inspector ...... Steve Hogan TUE Wife ...... Janice Acquah TUE Susan ...... Amanda Lawrence TUE Tony ...... Paul Rider TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE TUE 20:00 Persuading Us to Be Good b00mk7rq (Listen) TUE Danny Finkelstein explores how and to what extent the TUE increasingly popular and important ideas of social TUE psychology and behavioural economics can be exploited to TUE make us behave better - to recycle more, conserve energy, TUE litter less, eat healthily, drink less, and turn up for TUE our medical appointments. It is becoming a more TUE significant issue, as the economic situation means that TUE politicians are looking for ways of achieving public TUE policy outcomes that do not cost a great deal of money. TUE The programme examines how these ideas are being TUE considered by David Cameron and George Osborne and TUE includes interviews with leading American thinkers whose TUE ideas are now spreading to Britain - Richard Thaler, TUE co-author of Nudge, who has been advising the Tories; and TUE Bob Cialdini, author of the best-selling book Influence, TUE who spoke at a seminar in Downing Street. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00mk7rs (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00mk7rv (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter finds out what the future holds for school TUE nurses. No longer searching for nits and handing out TUE plasters, school nurses now help children with complex TUE diseases cope in the classroom and give advice about TUE healthy lifestyles to children and families. TUE TUE 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mk6dl (Listen) TUE Series 3, Erin Pizzey TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Campaigner, author and founder of the women's refuge TUE movement, Erin Pizzey, explores her troubled childhood in TUE post-war Dorset. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00mjqbp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00mjqd2 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mjqmq (Listen) TUE Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 2 TUE David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam TUE Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is TUE pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. TUE After discovering Philip Wang dying in his flat, Adam has TUE fled the scene, aware that he has traces of the dead man's TUE blood on his clothes and that his fingerprints are on the TUE murder weapon. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00k8t4w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are Dave Gorman, Jeremy TUE Hardy and Sue Perkins. TUE TUE 23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007779x (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his TUE field, with no ability whatsoever. This programme finds TUE him as a famous barrister who gets tangled up in the case TUE of the missing Bayeux Tapestry and the curse of the Da TUE Vinci Code. TUE Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy TUE Montgomery. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00mjlp6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00mjmvc (Listen) WED Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 2 WED Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, WED covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. WED Bedroom frolics in The Missionary and a confusing scene at WED the ear specialist, where life reflects comic art. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mjlqf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mjlwy (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mjlrd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00mjlzs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mjm1l (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00mjm6p (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00mjmf7 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00mk82k (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00mjmvf (Listen) WED Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 3 WED Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, WED covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. WED Mother makes it big in America, grappling with Betty and a WED crucial meeting with George Harrison. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqg63 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Liam. WED WED 11:00 A River Runs Through It b00mk82m (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Edward Stourton explores the Jordan, one of the most WED powerfully symbolic rivers in the world. WED Edward reaches the end of his journey. The Jordan flows WED into the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth. But by the WED time it gets there the Jordan is a sad shadow of what it WED once was. So diminished, in fact, that it raises a WED paradoxical question - is the Dead Sea dying? WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b008m5xj (Listen) WED Series 2, The King's Kilt WED Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. WED By Rona Munro. WED A recalcitrant Highland kilt maker is faced with the task WED of producing a garment for George IV to wear on his first WED visit to Edinburgh in 1822. WED Donald Nicholson ...... Stanley Baxter WED Walt Silver ...... John Guerrasio WED Miss/Mistress MacEvoy ...... Alison Peebles WED Sir Walter Scott ...... Gordon Kennedy WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00mjn44 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00mjn5f (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00mjnbb (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00mk89q (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00mjndg (Listen) WED Lilian stands by her man at Court. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b007s76s (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 3 WED Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester WED legal practice. WED Ben defends a suspected wife beater, to Sarah's annoyance. WED Frank ...... David Schofield WED DeeDee ...... Denise Welch WED Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah WED Sarah ...... Gina Bellman WED Debbie ...... Emma Atkins WED Scott ...... Mark Chatterton WED Armstrong/Townsend ...... Jeff Hordley WED DS Sandra Morgan ...... Becky Hindley WED Music by Carl Harms. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00mkbyg (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mp4fv (Listen) WED Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Soul of the WED Croupier WED Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha WED Christie in the 1920s featuring her personal favourite WED character, the mysterious Mr Harley Quin. WED Can Mr Quin assist his friend Satterthwaite to solve a WED conundrum concerning a beautiful Countess and a brash WED young American, amid the roulette tables of Monte Carlo? WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved WED b00mkx4n (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the WED Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this WED mysterious area. WED Tom visits Lloyds Register in London to fathom two of the WED Triangle's most enduring maritime mysteries. The files WED reveal that they were not inexplicable events, but WED entirely predictable and tragic accidents. WED A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mkbyj (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00mk7rv (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter finds out what the future holds for school WED nurses. No longer searching for nits and handing out WED plasters, school nurses now help children with complex WED diseases cope in the classroom and give advice about WED healthy lifestyles to children and families. WED WED 17:00 PM b00mjpg9 (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 b00mjphs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00mkbyl (Listen) WED Series 5, Eddie Izzard WED Chat show in which a previous week's interviewee becomes WED this week's interviewer. WED Frank Skinner interviews Eddie Izzard, asking him about WED performing up lamp-posts, the secret to improvising and WED (literally) breaking in to Hollywood. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00mjndj (Listen) WED Wayne endears himself to the locals. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mjpnm (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mjpzr (Listen) WED Liam, Caveman WED By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old WED boy who goes missing in Sussex. WED Liam's mother breaks down at a press conference. His WED father secretly blames her for Liam's disappearance. WED Liam ...... Ryan Watson WED Susan ...... Amanda Lawrence WED Tony ...... Paul Rider WED Inspector ...... Steve Hogan WED Justin ...... Matt Addis WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00mkbyn (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Edward Stourton chairs a discussion series in which guests WED set out their strong views on a subject, before being WED challenged by a panel of experts. WED Kenyan economist James Shikwati argues that aid to WED developing countries does more harm than good. He says WED that aid promotes corruption and complacency, damages WED local economies and teaches people to be beggars. WED WED 20:45 Scotland's Colony b00mkbyq (Listen) WED Iain MacWhirter investigates why the Scottish government WED has gone beyond its remit to set up a strong international WED development policy with Malawi, the country stumbled upon WED by David Livingstone 150 years ago. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00mkbys (Listen) WED Series 3, Mud, Birds and Tides: The Severn Estuary WED The Severn Estuary is the largest, muddiest and most WED dynamic estuary in Britain, and thousands of birds use it WED every year as a stopping-off point on their migrations to WED and from Africa. Other migrants, including butterflies and WED fish, make use of it, too. WED In fact, as Chris Sperring discovers, the Severn Estuary WED is a vital nursery ground for some of our most WED commonly-eaten marine fish; tiny sea bass make it as far WED as Gloucester before heading off back to sea. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00mk82k (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00mjqbr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00mjqd4 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mjqms (Listen) WED Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 3 WED David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam WED Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is WED pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. WED Having discovered that the man he is wrongly suspected of WED murdering was involved with a research project at St WED Botolph's Hospital, Adam decides to pay a visit. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b007d5bl (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key WED and Lloyd Woolf. WED WED 23:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of The Mic WED b00fzw4v (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. WED Charles has a chance meeting with Charlotte Green. WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden WED Juliet Paris ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Maurice ...... Jon Glover WED Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson WED Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond WED Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo WED Charlotte Green ...... Herself WED Jamie ...... Alex Lanipekun WED Nick/Train Driver ...... Dan Starkey WED Kasia/Beth ...... Jill Cardo WED Verity ...... Donnla Hughes WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00mjlp8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00mjmvf (Listen) THU Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 3 THU Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, THU covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. THU Mother makes it big in America, grappling with Betty and a THU crucial meeting with George Harrison. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mjlqh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mjlx0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mjlrg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00mjlzv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mjm1n (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00mjm6r (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00mjmf9 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00mkd63 (Listen) THU St Thomas Aquinas THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas, the THU Catholic Church's foremost western philosopher and THU theologian. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00mjmvh (Listen) THU Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 4 THU Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, THU covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. THU Michael's fond recollections of his sister, Angela, and THU the germ of A Fish Called Wanda. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqg65 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Liam. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00mkgmz (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Words, Words, Words b00mkgn1 (Listen) THU Comedian Sue Perkins explores the house of Dr Johnson, THU author of the great English dictionary, which would set THU the standard for all future dictionaries and yet still led THU to his being sent to debtor's prison. THU The towering figure of Dr Johnson has dominated the THU classification of English. The publication in 1755 of his THU dictionary has traditionally been seen as the starting THU point of the defining of our language, but this was by no THU means the first dictionary. THU Sue gets her hands on a precious first edition of the THU Johnson's Dictionary and, along with biographer Henry THU Hitchens, meets the editor of the Oxford English THU Dictionary, John Simpson, to find out how Johnson set THU about his monumental task, which he completed in just nine THU years. Sue also visits the British Library in the company THU of antiquarian book seller Karen Thomson, who gives her a THU whirlwind tour of our earliest dictionaries, with all THU their attendant quirks and oddities. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00mjn46 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00mjn5h (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00mjnbd (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00mk5xc (Listen) THU Buildings THU The places where we live and work account for well over a THU third of the energy the world uses - our homes, offices, THU cinemas and sports centres are a much bigger problem for THU the planet than cars, lorries, planes and ships. Does that THU mean we can fly as much as we like as long as we sort out THU the problems on the ground? Tom Heap investigates. THU A recent report backed by some of the world's leading THU corporations identified buildings as major contributors to THU problems of climate change. The even worse news is that THU most of the homes, offices and public buildings that will THU be standing in the middle of the century have already been THU built, so they will have to be expensively adapted if they THU are to be made green enough to meet even modest THU energy-saving targets. The business leaders behind the THU report have said that although the work is expensive, it THU will pay for itself in reduced energy bills in a THU surprisingly short time. THU But they also say that it simply won't get done until THU governments make it compulsory. Have the politicians got THU the bottle? Do the numbers really work? Tom Heap visits THU homes, offices and experts to ask whether payback time has THU arrived, who is footing the bill, and how much disruption THU it will mean at home, at work and at play. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00mjndj (Listen) THU Wayne endears himself to the locals. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mkh7z (Listen) THU Ruminations upon Mortality THU By Nigel Baldwin. When a prominent Bishop's private life THU is suddenly in the tabloids, his psychiatrist knows that THU the blame lies with his vengeful daughter. But whom is she THU taking vengeance on, and why? THU Phil Gilpin ...... Roger Lloyd Pack THU Francis Hargreaves ...... Philip Jackson THU Helen Gilpin ...... Lizzy Watts THU Gunter ...... Orlando James THU Fritz ...... Michael Shelford THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00mj3xq (Listen) THU Haweswater THU The village of Mardale was flooded in 1935 to create THU Haweswater reservoir to provide for the needs of THU Manchester. When water levels are really low the walls of THU Mardale reappear. Helen Mark meets Booker-nominated THU novelist Sarah Hall to talk about the power the landscape THU has had on her writing, including her first novel, THU Haweswater. THU Helen joins Ian Winfield from the Centre for Hydrology and THU Ecology as his team count the fish in the lake using THU hydroacoustic equipment. Haweswater is now managed to THU protect the rare Shelley and Arctic Char which are found THU in its waters. John Gorst from United Utilities explains THU that the fish are recovering in numbers since it was THU realised that low lake levels in summer were having a THU detrimental effect on their ability to breed. THU Helen also meets Spike Webb from the RSPB in the only THU valley in England which is a permanent home to a golden THU eagle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mjjv7 (Listen) THU Epilepsy Research THU Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Research. THU Donations to Epilepsy Research UK should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope Epilepsy Research UK. Credit cards: Freephone THU 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide THU Epilepsy Research UK with your full name and address so THU they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online THU and phone donation facilities are not currently available THU to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1100394. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mp4fj (Listen) THU Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, At the Bells and THU Motley THU Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha THU Christie in the 1920s featuring her personal favourite THU character, the mysterious Mr Harley Quin. THU Mr Satterthwaite encounters Mr Quin at a country inn. Quin THU invites his friend to re-examine the strange case of a THU wealthy young local woman and her new husband's THU disappearance. Was it murder, or is there some other game THU afoot? THU A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved THU b00mkx4q (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the THU Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this THU mysterious area. THU Tom meets the most recent of the many Bermuda Triangle THU authors who have perpetuated the myth since the 1950s, and THU puts his ideas and theories to the test. THU A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00mjklk (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist William Boyd about his THU latest book, Ordinary Thunderstorms. In an extended THU interview, he looks back at a career which now includes 11 THU novels, and discusses his interest in biography, both real THU and imagined. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00mkz8y (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU As international negotiations approach for the replacement THU for the Kyoto climate protocol, it is a sobering thought THU that the greatest reduction in greenhouse gases comes from THU a completely different treaty. The Montreal Protocol, THU which came into force 20 years ago to protect the ozone THU layer, also managed to remove huge quantities of THU heat-trapping CFC gases from the atmosphere. THU To mark World Ozone Day, Quentin Cooper examines the THU lessons from this most successful of environmental THU treaties. THU THU 17:00 PM b00mjpgc (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 b00mjphv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00lc7f6 (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU While Freddy introduces buzzwords to the paper, Maddox THU uncovers a top story about the PM. But will it be THU suppressed? THU Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay THU Oliver ...... Alex Jennings THU Freddy ...... Ben Willbond THU Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar THU Masha ...... Debbie Chazen THU PM's Wife ...... Janice Acquah THU With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00mjndl (Listen) THU Emma indulges in some possessive parenting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mjpnp (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mjpzt (Listen) THU Liam, The Truth THU By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old THU boy who goes missing in Sussex. THU As the nationwide search for Liam intensifies, his father THU lashes out at a journalist. THU Justin ...... Matt Addis THU Tony ...... Paul Rider THU Flatmate ...... Benedict Sandiford THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00mkz90 (Listen) THU As the Conservatives intensify their campaign to highlight THU what they describe as 'broken Britain', Phil Mackie THU travels to Birmingham to examine the reality on the ground. THU The government says it has been reducing unemployment and THU improving the lot of the country's poorest communities. THU The Tories, however, accuse the government of failing to THU tackle long-term unemployment and deliberately attempting THU to hide the true scale of the problem. THU In at least one district in Birmingham, four out of five THU people of working age are without a job, and that picture THU is set to worsen with the economy deep in recession. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00ml2r3 (Listen) THU Hard to Credit THU Smaller businesses are still struggling to cope with the THU impact of the credit crunch as banks stay tough on their THU customers and vital trade insurance is hard to get, as THU Peter Day reports. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00ml2r5 (Listen) THU Geoff Watts talks to anthropologist Prof Tim Ingold, who THU has lived with reindeer herders in Lapland, and is now THU working with artists and designers to discover how to live THU truly sustainable lives. THU According to Ingold, design can change our relationship THU with our environment. Central to understanding that THU relationship, he says, is anthropology. THU He lived for several years with reindeer herders in THU Lapland, studying their relationship with animals and THU nature. Fascinated by how people make their place in their THU environment, he then worked with artists, architects and THU even hillwalkers to study how they learned through their THU daily activities, improvising along the way. This led to THU his rather curious latest passion, lines - the lines we THU draw, the paths we walk, the threads we weave, and even THU the storylines we tell. THU He talks about what enthuses him about anthropology, the THU study of the culture and practices of people at all times THU and in all places. Is it a true science, or an arts and THU humanities discipline? What about the 'sideways glance' he THU says that every anthropologist needs, 'questioning the THU taken-for-granted, making the familiar strange and the THU strange familiar'? THU Ingold has just launched a new project in Glasgow called THU Designing Environments for Life. This brings together THU anthropologists, architects, artists and designers to THU bridge the gap between our familiar everyday environments THU and the abstract 'environment' of government-speak and THU global warming messages. If they can convince us that they THU are one and the same, we might manage a more sustainable THU life. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00mkd63 (Listen) THU St Thomas Aquinas THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas, the THU Catholic Church's foremost western philosopher and THU theologian. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00mjqbt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00mjqd6 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mjqmv (Listen) THU Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 4 THU David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam THU Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is THU pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. THU Adam is lying low, suspected of murdering the scientist THU Philip Wang. But it is not only the police who want to THU find him, the real killer is also onto his trail. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00f06vr (Listen) THU Series 1, Esther Rantzen THU Marcus Brigstocke invites Esther Rantzen to try new THU experiences. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00db64g (Listen) THU Series 4, States of Mind THU Jon Ronson looks at how we all exist in different states THU of reality, according to the balance of our minds. THU He talks to ex-Labour spin doctor and psychoanalyst Derek THU Draper about the sociopathic behaviour in Parliament. Jon THU also interviews the ex-Norwegian prime minister who THU resigned after announcing he was depressed and who later THU went on to be re-elected. THU There is also an update on a previous story involving THU ex-MI5 officer David Shayler, who announced he is the THU Messiah and invites Jon along to his first press THU conference. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00mjlpb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00mjmvh (Listen) FRI Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 4 FRI Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, FRI covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. FRI Michael's fond recollections of his sister, Angela, and FRI the germ of A Fish Called Wanda. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mjlqk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mjlx2 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mjlrj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00mjlzx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mjm1q (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Twaddle. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00mjm6t (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00mjmfc (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00mjk5l (Listen) FRI Nelson Mandela Release FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI Sue gathers together the core negotiators and key FRI campaigners involved in the secret talks which ultimately FRI led to the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 FRI and the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa. FRI She is joined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who led the Free FRI Mandela Campaign throughout the 1980s; Dr Niel Barnard, FRI who was the head of South Africa's National Intelligence FRI Service and who had dozens of clandestine meetings with FRI Mandela; Professor Willie Esterhuyse, an Afrikaner FRI academic who liaised between the government and the ANC; FRI Aziz Pahad, who was a core member of the ANC and led many FRI of its delegations; former President Thabo Mbeki, who was FRI a lead negotiator for the ANC; and journalist and FRI political commentator Allister Sparks, who chronicled the FRI negotiations in a revealing book. FRI Former President FW de Klerk also contributes to the FRI programme, describing the surprise that he and other FRI cabinet figures felt when they learnt of the years of FRI secret meetings. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00mjmvk (Listen) FRI Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 5 FRI Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs, FRI covering his film work and family life in the 1980s. FRI Lots of kissing, the rushes look good, and a career swerve FRI into world travel beckons. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqg67 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Liam. FRI FRI 11:00 The Men with the Golden Feet b00mlvvg (Listen) FRI Jim White speaks to present and former professional FRI footballers about the money they earn and the choices they FRI face with what to do with it. FRI A Fabian Society report on attitudes to pay has revealed FRI that the public thought footballers were the least FRI deserving of their wealth. A footballer starting his FRI career in the Premier League today, assuming he is lucky FRI enough to play for ten years, could expect to earn at FRI least 15 million pounds and probably a lot more, and the FRI money sloshing around in the game shows no sign of FRI diminishing. FRI Today, footballers are retiring with capital, not savings, FRI but what are they doing with it? Are they in any shape to FRI make sensible decisions about how they use their wealth? FRI And who else is gaining? FRI FRI 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mlw59 (Listen) FRI Crispin Biggerstaffe 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 Pickerskill is forced by the warden, ARF FRI Somerset-Stephenson, to intercept intimate letters left FRI carelessly by a lovesick pupil, as they threaten to expose FRI and embarrass the boy's father, a well-known Conservative FRI MP. FRI Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid FRI Crispin Biggerstaffe ...... James Rowland FRI ARF Somerset-Stephenson ...... Mike Sarne FRI Chadwick ...... Tom Kane FRI Calman ...... Williams FRI Mrs Pickerskill/Bernadette Feane ...... Abigail Hollick FRI Directed by Andrew McGibbon FRI A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00mjn48 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00mjn5k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00mjnbg (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00mlxfh (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00mjndl (Listen) FRI Emma indulges in some possessive parenting. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mlxfk (Listen) FRI The Milk Race FRI Comedy by Mark Tuohy. FRI Two west London milkmen race each other to Bognor Pier in FRI their milk floats to decide which of them wins exclusive FRI rights to their local round. FRI Declan ...... Ivan Kaye FRI Indarjit ...... Amarjit Bassan FRI Kay ...... Kate Binchy FRI Roisin ...... Mairead Conneely FRI Kiran ...... Melissa Advani FRI Farmer ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Fox Man ...... David Hargreaves FRI Landlady ...... Kate Layden FRI Other parts played by Piers Wehner, Rhys Jennings, Tessa FRI Nicholson and Emerald O'Hanrahan. FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mlxfm (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer FRI questions posed at the annual Gardeners' Question Time FRI Summer Garden Party, which is held at the programme's FRI northern garden at RHS Harlow Carr in Yorkshire. FRI Set against the hustle and bustle of this all-day event, FRI Peter Gibbs offers an expert's guide to running a DIY FRI weather station, and Bob Flowerdew faces his very own FRI scrapheap challenge - in the process, he grants an old FRI bicycle a new lease of life. Listeners are able to extend FRI their plant collection at the GQT Plant Swap Shop and seek FRI expert advice at Pippa Greenwood's pest and diseases FRI clinic. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved FRI b00mkx4s (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the FRI Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this FRI mysterious area. FRI Tom's scepticism is challenged by a pilot whose experience FRI in the Triangle suggests that something strange may, in FRI fact, be out there. FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00mlxfp (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 b00mlxfr (Listen) FRI Francine Stock interviews actor Paul Bettany and director FRI Sam Mendes about their latest projects. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00mjpgf (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 b00mjphx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mlxft (Listen) FRI Episode 5 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 Will FRI Smith, Paul Sinha and Sarah Millican. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00mjndn (Listen) FRI Sid strikes while the iron's hot at the Bull. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mjpnr (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mjpzw (Listen) FRI Liam, Pets FRI By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old FRI boy who goes missing in Sussex. FRI Reports come in that missing Liam has been found. Police FRI question a teenage girl. FRI Becky ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Liam ...... Ryan Watson FRI Susan ...... Amanda Lawrence FRI Tony ...... Paul Rider FRI Inspector ...... Steve Hogan FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00mlxpr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Ashbourne FRI in Derbyshire. The panellists are Shadow Secretary of FRI State for Defence Liam Fox, former cabinet minister FRI Margaret Beckett, broadcaster Saira Khan and Julia Unwin, FRI chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mlxpv (Listen) FRI Bird's Nest Soup FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Filming the birds that make the nests of saliva so prized FRI by Chinese gourmet chefs in the total darkness of a Borneo FRI cave proved difficult, until a conical mound of bat guano FRI provided a natural platform. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b00fjd0n (Listen) FRI Murder Every Monday FRI Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Pamela Branch's comedy. FRI Asterisk Club founder Clifford Flush hasn't murdered FRI anyone for years, but when the urge comes on him to bump FRI off his bridge partner, he and the rest of the Club are FRI forced to leave London in a hurry. Once out of harm's way FRI in the rural hamlet of Krunte Abbas, they acquire FRI dilapidated Dankry Manor, where they establish themselves FRI as 'homicide consultants'. FRI Armitage/Paget ...... Simon Williams FRI Clifford Flush ...... John Castle FRI Mrs Barratt ...... Barbara Kirby FRI Colonel Quincey ...... Graham Crowden FRI Creaker ...... David Ryall FRI Cyril Revere ...... Mark Gatiss FRI Chloe Carlisle ...... Stephanie Beacham FRI Manelli ...... Mark Benton FRI Bill Thurlow ...... Ian Hallard FRI Dina Parrish ...... Cal Jaggers. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00mjqbx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00mjqd8 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mjqmx (Listen) FRI Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 5 FRI David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam FRI Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is FRI pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman. FRI Reduced to begging for coppers and depressed at the way FRI his life has turned out, Adam decides to seek some FRI friendly human contact. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00mk7rl (Listen) FRI Series 19, Miriam Makeba FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Kate Humble discusses her heroine, the South African FRI singer and anti-apartheid activist, Miriam Makeba. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b00ft3nq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the past week of radio. FRI FRI FRI