Radio 4 Listings for 19/09/2009 - 25/09/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00mm0dy (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00mjmvk (Listen)
SAT       Halfway to Hollywood, Episode 5
SAT       Michael Palin reads from his second volume of memoirs,
SAT       covering his film work and family life in the 1980s.
SAT       Lots of kissing, the rushes look good, and a career swerve
SAT       into world travel beckons.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mm0v9 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mm0vc (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mm0vf (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00mm0vh (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mm0vk (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
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SAT       05:45 Wars of The Roses b00frp64 (Listen)
SAT       Episode 4
SAT       Wesley Kerr follows the Somerset town of Taunton in its
SAT       bid to win the RHS Britain in Bloom competition.
SAT       Wesley finds out who the winners are at the Britain in
SAT       Bloom awards, as dozens of finalists from across the
SAT       country gather for a gala event at Chester Racecourse.
SAT       Will Taunton have done enough to win the prestigious gold
SAT       medal and be crowned Best Large Town in Britain?
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00mm101 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00mp51z (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00mp521 (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 1
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       The first section of the route takes Clare from Holy
SAT       Island to St Cuthbert's Cave. She is joined by local
SAT       clergyman Michael Mountney, the creator of the route, who
SAT       conceived the idea as a millenium project for his parish.
SAT       They are joined by long-distance walking expert Jenny
SAT       Walters, who offers Clare advice on how to keep her feet
SAT       in shape for the miles ahead and the kit she needs to keep
SAT       on track.
SAT       St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy
SAT       Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland
SAT       coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's
SAT       Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St
SAT       Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early seventh
SAT       century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity
SAT       to his people.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00mp5rc (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       It's been an emtional week for many after the e.coli
SAT       outbreak at Godstone Farm in Surrey. As another farm
SAT       closes, Charlotte Smith investiagtes what impact this
SAT       could have on farms which open to the public. A number of
SAT       petting farms have told us they have seen a drop in the
SAT       number of visitors since the outbreak. Charlotte visits a
SAT       farm in Worcester which opens its doors on a regular basis
SAT       to organised school visits, to find out how safe farms
SAT       really are.
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SAT       06:57 Weather b00mp5rf (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       07:00 Today b00mp5rh (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
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SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00mp5wk (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by musician and
SAT       actor Gary Kemp. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00mp5wm (Listen)
SAT       Oil wealth transforms cities but in very different ways.
SAT       Sandi Toksvig hears about Abu Dhabi from Jo Tatchell, who
SAT       was brought up there. Its high-rise glitz and cultural
SAT       aspirations, coupled with caution and reserve, contrast
SAT       vividly with the chaos and corruption - but liveliness -
SAT       of Lagos, Nigeria, as seen by the former Financial Times
SAT       correspondent there, Michael Peel.
SAT       Sandi also finds out from Middle East travel writer
SAT       Matthew Teller about why the ultra-modern Gulf states,
SAT       where there is no shortage of cheap petrol, want to take a
SAT       19th-century lesson and build a railway linking the
SAT       countries.
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SAT       10:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star
SAT       b00mp5zb (Listen)
SAT       Robin Denselow profiles the musician Youssou N'Dour as he
SAT       reaches his 50th birthday, and travels to Senegal to
SAT       interview the singer in his home city of Dakar.
SAT       Denselow analyses not just his music but the way N'Dour
SAT       has used it for the benefit of his country and his
SAT       continent. He had huge success with the duet 7 Seconds
SAT       with Neneh Cherry in 1994, but he has been making music
SAT       for nearly 40 years and has collaborated with many
SAT       international artists.
SAT       Contributors include Peter Gabriel, Branford Marsalis, DJ
SAT       Charlie Gillett and Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab.
SAT       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mp5zd (Listen)
SAT       Ten years after Labour introduced the ASBO, anti-social
SAT       behaviour is still a worry to many voters. With both
SAT       government and opposition promising a crackdown, Ben
SAT       Wright asks how much power politicians really have over
SAT       our behaviour and hears claims that too much interference
SAT       by the state is damaging society.
SAT       Trying to make us behave better has been one of the Labour
SAT       government's missions. Nuisance neighbours, troublesome
SAT       teenagers, yobs and louts have been in the sights of
SAT       successive home secretaries and the government has
SAT       legislated with zeal. It is ten years since the first
SAT       antisocial behaviour order - or ASBO - was issued. Since
SAT       then the government has built up a vast arsenal of
SAT       measures to combat a wide number of problems, from crack
SAT       houses to high hedges. But have the dispersal orders,
SAT       behaviour contracts, parenting orders and noise notices
SAT       made any difference in the worst-affected areas? And how
SAT       has the ASBO industry that has developed over the past
SAT       decade affected our ability to resolve disputes among ou
SAT       He speaks to Assistant Chief Constable Constable Garry
SAT       Shewan of Greater Manchester Police, to Paul Cullen from
SAT       Manchester City Council and to Eric Allison, a long-time
SAT       Gorton resident and the Guardian's prisons correspondent.
SAT       We also hear from the Labour MP Frank Field, who wants
SAT       communities to be given more power to deal with nuisance
SAT       neighbours directly, and from sociologist Stuart Whaiton,
SAT       who thinks politicians who call for more crackdowns on
SAT       antisocial behaviour are indulging in a 'politics of
SAT       fear'. Finally, Home office minister David Hanson and
SAT       Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling debate current policy
SAT       on the issue.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mp5zg (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00mp63v (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00mlxft (Listen)
SAT       Episode 5
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 Will
SAT       Smith, Paul Sinha and Sarah Millican.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00mp63x (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00mp63z (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00mlxpr (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Ashbourne
SAT       in Derbyshire. The panellists are former cabinet minister
SAT       Margaret Beckett, Shadow Secretary of State for
SAT       International Development Andrew Mitchell, broadcaster and
SAT       contestant in The Apprentice Saira Khan and Julia Unwin,
SAT       chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00mp66c (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00mpjnh (Listen)
SAT       Choice of Straws
SAT       Dramatisation by Roy Williams of the novel by ER
SAT       Braithwaite. 1960, London's East End: twins Jack and Dave
SAT       Bennett are a happy-go-lucky, rootless pair. If they do
SAT       occasionally rough-up a black guy it's just a game to them
SAT       - until a victim in Whitechapel fights back and Dave pulls
SAT       a knife.
SAT       Jack ...... Harry Hepple
SAT       Dave ...... Luke Norris
SAT       Michelle ...... Gugu Mbatha-Raw
SAT       Mum ...... Ellie Haddington
SAT       Dad ...... David Hargreaves
SAT       Ruth ...... Annabelle Dowler
SAT       Mr Spencer ...... Alex Lanipekun
SAT       Officer ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Directed by Claire Grove.
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SAT       15:30 Soul Music b00mk6tc (Listen)
SAT       Series 8, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas
SAT       Tallis
SAT       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
SAT       emotional appeal.
SAT       When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910,
SAT       he changed the course of British music. Here at last was a
SAT       piece of music which was no longer under the Teutonic
SAT       influence, but which drew on old English hymn tunes and
SAT       folk idioms for its themes. As the string music builds to
SAT       a climax, interviewees tell how this music has brought
SAT       solace and hope in times of tragedy and changed the course
SAT       of their lives.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00mpjnm (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Including Royal biographer William Shawcross on his
SAT       biography of the Queen Mother, Maeve Binchy on her life as
SAT       a novelist, the popularity and influence of German
SAT       chancellor Angela Merkel, Margaret Drabble on writers'
SAT       relationship with the British landscape; the backlash
SAT       against the sexualisation of young girls, and extended
SAT       paternity leave and whether dads really want to stay at
SAT       home.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00mpjnp (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00mpjnr (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mpjny (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00mpjp2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mpjp4 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00mpjpd (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by Python and traveller Michael Palin, the
SAT       comedians Mitchell and Webb and the actress Jane Horrocks.
SAT       With comedy from Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Tim Key,
SAT       and music from Fiery Furnaces and Duke and the King.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen)
SAT       Christopher Bailey
SAT       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher
SAT       Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York
SAT       and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the
SAT       unwanted attention of the chavs.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00mpjpz (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00mpjq7 (Listen)
SAT       Scott of Slimbridge
SAT       From the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in
SAT       Gloucestershire, Frank Gardner reflects on the career of
SAT       Sir Peter Scott - ornithologist, author, painter,
SAT       sportsman, war hero and broadcaster, whose television
SAT       programme Look ran for over 25 years.
SAT       Born 100 years ago, the son of Scott of the Antarctic, he
SAT       was dubbed the patron saint of conservation. He was the
SAT       first to campaign for the preservation of endangered
SAT       species and to warn against the destruction of natural
SAT       habitats.
SAT       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00mjklh (Listen)
SAT       The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Episode
SAT       2
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       Boswell visits Johnson only intermittently, but relies on
SAT       him more and more. Johnson meets Hester Thrale, who
SAT       becomes his devoted friend and confidante, and the most
SAT       important person in his life.
SAT       Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth Cranham
SAT       James Boswell ...... Paul Higgins
SAT       Hester Thrale ...... Annabelle Dowler
SAT       David Garrick ...... David Hargreaves
SAT       Mrs Desmoulins ...... Susan Jameson
SAT       Joshua Reynolds ...... Matt Addis
SAT       Dilly ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Wilkes ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Directed by Claire Grove.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00mpjqk (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Iconoclasts b00mkbyn (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 2
SAT       Edward Stourton chairs a discussion series in which guests
SAT       set out their strong views on a subject, before being
SAT       challenged by a panel of experts.
SAT       Kenyan economist James Shikwati argues that aid to
SAT       developing countries does more harm than good. He says
SAT       that aid promotes corruption and complacency, damages
SAT       local economies and teaches people to be beggars.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mjrxs (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from Wales and the north of England.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00mjklm (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough presents requests for much-loved poems that
SAT       contrast the joy of living with the experience of memory
SAT       loss.
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SUN       SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00mplq8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088v2z (Listen)
SUN       Telling the World, The Glamoury Ointment
SUN       Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the
SUN       world.
SUN       Hugh Lupton tells a story from English folklore featuring
SUN       the powerful magic of the fair.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mplqb (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mplqd (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mplqg (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00mplqj (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mplql (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat in
SUN       Somerset.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen)
SUN       Christopher Bailey
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher
SUN       Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York
SUN       and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the
SUN       unwanted attention of the chavs.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00mplqn (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00mplqq (Listen)
SUN       Reinventing Ritual
SUN       Mark Tully asks how, in an increasingly secular age, our
SUN       deep need for rituals and rites of passage is being
SUN       expressed and nourished. How do new rituals develop and in
SUN       response to what needs?
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David
SUN       Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00mplqs (Listen)
SUN       Charlotte Smith takes tea with Emma, Duchess of Rutland,
SUN       to talk about the reorganisation at Belvoir Castle estate.
SUN       Aimed at encouraging younger farmers to stay in the area,
SUN       the Home Farm is being redistributed to tenant farmers.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00mplqv (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00mplqx (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00mplqz (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00mplr1 (Listen)
SUN       Elizabeth Finn Care
SUN       Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care.
SUN       Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to
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SUN       envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
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SUN       without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 207812.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00mplr3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00mpmlw (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00mpmly (Listen)
SUN       A Fiery Light
SUN       Early in the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen was given
SUN       into the care of an enclosed religious community. Her
SUN       visions, writings and music speak of the depths of the
SUN       mystery of God.
SUN       Michael Ford travels to Germany with singer Sasha Johnson
SUN       Manning to explore Hildegard's life. The preacher is
SUN       medieval scholar Sister Benedicta Ward.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mlxpv (Listen)
SUN       Bird's Nest Soup
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Filming the birds that make the nests of saliva so prized
SUN       by Chinese gourmet chefs in the total darkness of a Borneo
SUN       cave proved difficult, until a conical mound of bat guano
SUN       provided a natural platform.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00mpmm0 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mpmm2 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 The Reunion b00mpmm4 (Listen)
SUN       Stonewall
SUN       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
SUN       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
SUN       history.
SUN       Sue brings together the men and women who founded the gay
SUN       rights campaign group, Stonewall. She is joined by Sir Ian
SUN       McKellen, Matthew Parris, Lisa Power, Michael Cashman and
SUN       Olivette Cole-Wilson.
SUN       In 1989 a small group joined forces in a campaign against
SUN       a law now known as Section 28. This law banned councils
SUN       from 'promoting homosexuality' or 'promoting the teaching
SUN       in any maintained school of the acceptability of
SUN       homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'.
SUN       The gay rights scene at the time was radical and activist
SUN       and there were no campaign groups engaging both gay men
SUN       and lesbians together. Stonewall aimed to create a
SUN       professional lobbying group that would fight against the
SUN       discrimination of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Dubbed
SUN       Stonewall to signal doggedness and to commemorate the New
SUN       York riots in which gay protestors had fought back against
SUN       police brutality two decades before, it called for full
SUN       legal rights, which still seemed a loony-left pipe dream.
SUN       Stonewall's moderate tone attracted criticism from more
SUN       radical veterans of the gay rights movement, but also lent
SUN       its advocates greater media respectability and a hearing
SUN       from government ministers.
SUN       Since its inception, Stonewall has led the way with an
SUN       impressive number of reforms, pressing ministers and
SUN       taking test cases to court. These reforms include the
SUN       repeal of Section 28, equalising the age of consent,
SUN       permitting civil partnerships and overturning the ban on
SUN       gays in the military. Another legacy has been to allow gay
SUN       and lesbian politicians into the mainstream - not just
SUN       demanding equal rights, but as representatives of the
SUN       wider community.
SUN       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00mk5x7 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 8
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
SUN       panellists are Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth, Paul Merton
SUN       and Suki Webster.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00mpmm6 (Listen)
SUN       Food Myths
SUN       Britain is famed for its many local and national
SUN       traditional dishes, with recipes handed down over
SUN       centuries. But how accurate is the history relating to
SUN       these foods? Some have an association with a particular
SUN       village, county or country and have become icons of
SUN       identity.
SUN       However, many of the stories told about their origins are
SUN       either spurious or exaggerated. Other foods, associated
SUN       with national events, have a curious background with
SUN       interesting changes in their nature and usage. For
SUN       example, simnel cake, which we associate with Easter, was
SUN       actually linked to Mothering Sunday.
SUN       Sheila Dillon delves into the past and explodes a few
SUN       myths along the way, with plenty of surprises in store.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00mpn0j (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00mpn0l (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 If You're Reading This b00c0ltb (Listen)
SUN       Documentary looking at the letters soldiers write, to be
SUN       read only in the event of their death in conflict.
SUN       Featuring letters from the American Civil War, Allied
SUN       forces in both world wars, and Japanese kamikaze pilots.
SUN       The programme also hears from veterans of the Falklands
SUN       and Gulf wars, who wrote letters that never had to be sent
SUN       or read.
SUN       Also focusing on the current conflicts in Iraq and
SUN       Afghanistan, and featuring letters and the last blogs and
SUN       poems from British and American soldiers. Some have used
SUN       their final words to criticise the wars, others to leave
SUN       simple heartfelt messages of love for those left behind.
SUN       The programme also hears from a family whose son was
SUN       killed in Afghanistan, and how his last letters are their
SUN       sole comfort.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mlxfm (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer
SUN       questions posed at the annual Gardeners' Question Time
SUN       Summer Garden Party, which is held at the programme's
SUN       northern garden at RHS Harlow Carr in Yorkshire.
SUN       Set against the hustle and bustle of this all-day event,
SUN       Peter Gibbs offers an expert's guide to running a DIY
SUN       weather station, and Bob Flowerdew faces his very own
SUN       scrapheap challenge - in the process, he grants an old
SUN       bicycle a new lease of life. Listeners are able to extend
SUN       their plant collection at the GQT Plant Swap Shop and seek
SUN       expert advice at Pippa Greenwood's pest and diseases
SUN       clinic.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Food For Thought b00mpn0n (Listen)
SUN       Making Porridge with Erwin James
SUN       Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow
SUN       discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives.
SUN       The bags of oats at one prison where Erwin James was an
SUN       inmate were all stamped 'Canadian pig meal, grade 3'. The
SUN       porridge was made with water. However, as Erwin explains,
SUN       adding full cream milk, honey and pine nuts to his own
SUN       breakfast recipe, they were an important part of his diet
SUN       and rehabilitation, after a chaotic itinerant lifestyle
SUN       and living rough as a child.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00mpn0q (Listen)
SUN       The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel,
SUN       the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
SUN       When word reaches The Department that Soviet missiles are
SUN       being installed close to the West German border, they
SUN       seize the opportunity to relive former glories.
SUN       Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
SUN       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SUN       Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
SUN       Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
SUN       Woodford ...... David Hargeaves
SUN       Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
SUN       Control ...... John Rowe
SUN       Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
SUN       Taylor/Sutherland ...... Philip Fox
SUN       Peersen ...... Stephen Hogan
SUN       Lansen ...... Matt Addis
SUN       Girl ...... Lizzy Watts
SUN       Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
SUN       Directed by Marc Beeby
SUN       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as
SUN       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00mpn62 (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville, winner of the
SUN       2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Since then he
SUN       has branched out into detective fiction with his popular
SUN       novels published under the pen name Benjamin Black. He
SUN       explains how his alter ego influenced his new book, The
SUN       Infinities, and why this tale set in a rambling Irish
SUN       country house is narrated by a Greek god.
SUN       The poet Ian McMillan explains his enthuasiasm for the
SUN       work of Malcolm Lowry, the alcoholic whose masterpiece
SUN       Under The Volcano is cited by some as one of the greatest
SUN       novels of the 20th century.
SUN       As a new biography of Charles Dickens is published - the
SUN       first major survey of his life in almost 20 years -
SUN       Mariella talks to its author, Michael Slater. They discuss
SUN       how Dickens's sometimes troubled childhood prompted his
SUN       social activism and his love of public performance.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00mpndq (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for works with
SUN       an environmental theme, including Alan Brownjohn's
SUN       deceptively simple, unsettling poem from the 1960s, We Are
SUN       Going to See the Rabbit, and two of Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow
SUN       poems, written in response to the BSE crisis.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 Persuading Us to Be Good b00mk7rq (Listen)
SUN       Danny Finkelstein explores how and to what extent the
SUN       increasingly popular and important ideas of social
SUN       psychology and behavioural economics can be exploited to
SUN       make us behave better - to recycle more, conserve energy,
SUN       litter less, eat healthily, drink less, and turn up for
SUN       our medical appointments. It is becoming a more
SUN       significant issue, as the economic situation means that
SUN       politicians are looking for ways of achieving public
SUN       policy outcomes that do not cost a great deal of money.
SUN       The programme examines how these ideas are being
SUN       considered by David Cameron and George Osborne and
SUN       includes interviews with leading American thinkers whose
SUN       ideas are now spreading to Britain - Richard Thaler,
SUN       co-author of Nudge, who has been advising the Tories; and
SUN       Bob Cialdini, author of the best-selling book Influence,
SUN       who spoke at a seminar in Downing Street.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00mpjpj (Listen)
SUN       Christopher Bailey
SUN       Mary Ann Sieghart profiles fashion designer Christopher
SUN       Bailey, the Yorkshire lad who made his mark in New York
SUN       and Milan before returning to rescue Burberry from the
SUN       unwanted attention of the chavs.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mpnds (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00mpndv (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mpndx (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00mpndz (Listen)
SUN       Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Nature - Radio 4
SUN       Scott Of Slimbridge - Radio 4
SUN       David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4
SUN       You're Entering The Twilight Zone - Radio 4
SUN       Inside The Bermuda Triangle - Radio 4
SUN       Titter Ye Not - Radio 2
SUN       The A-Z Of Dr Jonhson - Words, Words, Words - Radio 4
SUN       The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4
SUN       A River Runs Through It - Radio 4
SUN       Great Lives - Radio 4
SUN       Dreams From My Mother - World Service
SUN       That Mitchell And Webb Sound - Radio 4
SUN       Halfway To Hollywood - Radio 4
SUN       Tom Jones - From The Valleys To Vegas - Radio 2.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00mpnjl (Listen)
SUN       Vicky stakes her claim at the Flower and Produce Show.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00mpnjn (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 Tom Friedman about President Obama's
SUN       busy media schedule and Washington's policy promises.
SUN       Thomas L Friedman, author and journalist, joined The New
SUN       York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in
SUN       OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief
SUN       diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics
SUN       correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, his
SUN       foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the
SUN       Times, is syndicated to 100 other newspapers worldwide.
SUN       Americana takes a look at why so many people in the US
SUN       move so often. From Michigan to Arkansas, moving
SUN       companies, storage centres and truck rental services help
SUN       Americans to help themselves move.
SUN       Demographer and sociologist William H Frey breaks down the
SUN       truths about migration across the United States - the
SUN       hotspots and burnt-out locations that motivate relocation.
SUN       William H Frey specialises in US demographics. He is
SUN       currently a Senior Fellow with the Metropolitan Policy
SUN       Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC,
SUN       and Research Professor at the University of Michigan's
SUN       Institute for Social Research. Dr Frey received his PhD
SUN       from Brown University in 1974.
SUN       From coast to coast, Americans think about the so-called
SUN       American Dream, but for some, the goal of owning their own
SUN       home and the obsession with success can distrupt their
SUN       actual slumber. Producer Krissy Clarke probes the American
SUN       dreamworld.
SUN       Matt Frei asks pollster John Zogby if the pulse of America
SUN       is picking up or slowing down these days. Zogby has been
SUN       keeping tabs for 25 years.
SUN       John Zogby is head of Zogby International, an interactive
SUN       polling group that focuses on public opinion. His company
SUN       examines the nuances of language and has successfully
SUN       predicted election results with its unique research
SUN       methods.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9n (Listen)
SUN       Granta Stories, Cary Grant's Suit
SUN       Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most
SUN       prestigious literary magazine.
SUN       Todd McEwan contemplates the suit worn by the star of
SUN       North By North West.
SUN       Read by Nathan Osgood.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00mlxfh (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton is joined by Bob Shennan, the controller of
SUN       Radio 2 to discuss Terry Wogan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans
SUN       and the station's music policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00mlxfp (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.
SUN       BBC Foreign Correspondent Brian Barron - correspondents
SUN       Martin Bell and Michael Nicholson, and cameraman Eric
SUN       Thirer pay tribute; Keith Floyd - Rick Stein and TV
SUN       producer David Pritchard remember the TV chef; memories of
SUN       agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug from his friend Dr
SUN       Ed Runge; and Alan Alda and Stephen Armstrong remember
SUN       comedy writer Larry Gelbart.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00mp63v (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mplr1 (Listen)
SUN       Elizabeth Finn Care
SUN       Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care.
SUN       Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
SUN       Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation
SUN       facilities are not currently available to listeners
SUN       without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 207812.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00ml2r3 (Listen)
SUN       Hard to Credit
SUN       Smaller businesses are still struggling to cope with the
SUN       impact of the credit crunch as banks stay tough on their
SUN       customers and vital trade insurance is hard to get, as
SUN       Peter Day reports.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00mpnjq (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00mpnjs (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00mlxfr (Listen)
SUN       Francine Stock interviews actor Paul Bettany and director
SUN       Sam Mendes about their latest projects.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00mplqq (Listen)
SUN       Reinventing Ritual
SUN       Mark Tully asks how, in an increasingly secular age, our
SUN       deep need for rituals and rites of passage is being
SUN       expressed and nourished. How do new rituals develop and in
SUN       response to what needs?
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David
SUN       Westhead.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00mpnrv (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mkbyj (Listen)
MON       What is the best way to settle a dispute, and if you are a
MON       victim of crime what is the best way to get justice?
MON       Laurie Taylor finds out about an alternative to police and
MON       courts and the conventional criminal justice system.
MON       The idea of restorative justice is to try to find a new
MON       way to settle arguments and bring justice so that
MON       offenders and victims can carry on living side by side.
MON       Can bringing victims and culprits together to talk or
MON       making a guilty party compensate the injured one provide
MON       the answer? And can it work for all crimes, however
MON       serious? Laurie talks to Anna Eriksson and Heather Strang
MON       about the use of restorative justice in Northern Ireland.
MON       For countries with a long history of violence in their
MON       communities, can restorative justice be used to heal the
MON       wounds?
MON       Also in the programme, what lessons can we learn from
MON       history about how to live our lives? Laurie talks to Prof
MON       Fred Inglis about the life of philosopher Robin
MON       Collingwood and how we can live the good life by learning
MON       our lessons from the past.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mplql (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat in
MON       Somerset.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx3 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mppm6 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpp1s (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00mppms (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppyt (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00mq3tc (Listen)
MON       Thanks to a new law, the whole of the English coastline
MON       could soon be open to all, including large areas of
MON       agricultural land. Charlotte Smith hears from coastal
MON       landowners who fear the worst for their business, and from
MON       ramblers, who welcome the new law.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00mqc1c (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00mq4ls (Listen)
MON       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mqc1f (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 2
MON       Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed
MON       to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics.
MON       Peter catches up with 18-year-old Janani, who has become a
MON       key activist in student sit-ins supporting the Tamil
MON       Tigers, all the while trying to reassure her many
MON       concerned uncles that she is still on track with her
MON       studies.
MON       And Danielle, as her first year at university draws to an
MON       end, prepare with her friends to move into their first
MON       house - if only they can decide on who gets which room.
MON       
MON       09:30 Jeopardising Justice b00mqc1h (Listen)
MON       Episode 4
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 examines the rise of litigation and so-called
MON       compensation culture in the UK. It has resulted partly as
MON       a consequence of the campaigns for greater access and
MON       accountability pioneered by those very liberal lawyers who
MON       are now the compensation culture's sternest legal critics.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4m7 (Listen)
MON       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 1
MON       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
MON       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
MON       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
MON       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
MON       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
MON       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
MON       Virgin Queen.
MON       Anne Boleyn takes centre stage, and the influence of her
MON       life and death on Elizabeth's future.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mq4qd (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Alan Clark died in 1999 and is best remembered for his
MON       political career, military history and sensational
MON       diaries, along with his passion for cars and women. Ion
MON       Trewin edited his diaries and has now written the
MON       authorised biography of his fascinating life story. Alan's
MON       widow, Jane, gave her full co-operation, along with
MON       unrestricted access to papers, diaries and letters
MON       contained at their family home of Saltwood Castle in Kent.
MON       She gives Jane Garvey her side of the story.
MON       Alison Stephens was just seven years old when she first
MON       asked to play the mandolin. The instrument was deeply
MON       unfashionable in this country and it was no easy task to
MON       find her a teacher. But Alison persisted, she became the
MON       first graduate of mandolin from Trinity College of Music,
MON       London and is now our leading exponent of classical
MON       mandolin. She joins Jane to talk about the history and the
MON       cultural eclecticism of the instrument - it is hugely
MON       popular in countries as diverse as Latin America, Germany
MON       and Japan - and her performances with Louis de Bernieres.
MON       She plays from her latest CD - a mix of solos and mandolin
MON       and guitar duos of music from around the world.
MON       Bedwetting is a hidden but distressing problem for many
MON       children, making them anxious about normal activities like
MON       sleepovers and school trips. The British Medical Journal
MON       says that by age seven, most children have stopped wetting
MON       the bed but about five per cent of ten-year-olds, and
MON       three per cent of 15-year-olds have difficulty controlling
MON       their bladders at night. Jane hear about what it's like
MON       for a child who bedwets and some possible solutions.
MON       The recent string of child neglect cases has brought into
MON       sharp focus the need to consider the way children are
MON       monitored and protected. But a new report argues that the
MON       needs of parents are being overlooked. Could children reap
MON       the benefits if the parent is targeted? Yvonne Roberts, a
MON       senior associate at the Young Foundation and co-author of
MON       the report, and Eileen Hayes, a parenting expert and
MON       advisor to the NSPCC, discuss whether we've swung too far
MON       in focusing on the child.
MON       
MON       11:00 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen)
MON       Jolyon Jenkins explores the world of street performance
MON       and busking, and takes to the streets of Cardiff as part
MON       of a course with the School of Busking, founded by Mario
MON       Morris. Jolyon meets fellow students, including a German
MON       juggler and a naked unicyclist, and learns tips from the
MON       Great Soprendo and Gazzo, the world's finest exponent of
MON       the cups and balls.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mqhqt (Listen)
MON       Series 3, Episode 5
MON       Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum.
MON       The museum is due to send an exhibition of its finest
MON       artefacts around Europe, but can Walter find a suitably
MON       experienced and diplomatic staff member to curate it?
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/Van Driver ...... Chris Pavlo
MON       Barman ...... Stephen Hogan.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00mq503 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00mq529 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00mq554 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mqhqw (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from Scotland and the Midlands.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00mpnjl (Listen)
MON       Vicky stakes her claim at the Flower and Produce Show.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mqhqy (Listen)
MON       Blame the Parents, Episode 1
MON       Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about
MON       teenagers caught up in a violent crime outside their
MON       school.
MON       How much do parents really know about what their teenagers
MON       are up to? As far as the parents of Ben, Rory and Kris are
MON       concerned, their children have the world at their feet.
MON       But behind the promise of university and sporting
MON       achievement lies a much darker reality.
MON       Lekha Balaji ...... Bharti Patel
MON       Nitin Balaji ...... Paul Bhattacharjee
MON       Kris Balaji ...... Ashwin Bolar
MON       Millie Balaji ...... Chandeep Uppal
MON       Shona Peattie ...... Deborah McAndrew
MON       Malcolm Peattie ...... Tom Roberts
MON       Rory Peattie ...... James Rastall
MON       Linda Swann ...... Claire Benedict
MON       Ben Swann ...... Daniel Anderson
MON       Directed by Steven Canny and Peter Leslie Wild.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00mpjq7 (Listen)
MON       Scott of Slimbridge
MON       From the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in
MON       Gloucestershire, Frank Gardner reflects on the career of
MON       Sir Peter Scott - ornithologist, author, painter,
MON       sportsman, war hero and broadcaster, whose television
MON       programme Look ran for over 25 years.
MON       Born 100 years ago, the son of Scott of the Antarctic, he
MON       was dubbed the patron saint of conservation. He was the
MON       first to campaign for the preservation of endangered
MON       species and to warn against the destruction of natural
MON       habitats.
MON       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved
MON       b00mq5x8 (Listen)
MON       Episode 6
MON       Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the
MON       Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this
MON       mysterious area.
MON       Tom tracks down one of the original Bermuda Triangle
MON       authors and discovers that the pursuit of truth was not
MON       necessarily the priority when the story was first told.
MON       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00mpmm6 (Listen)
MON       Food Myths
MON       Britain is famed for its many local and national
MON       traditional dishes, with recipes handed down over
MON       centuries. But how accurate is the history relating to
MON       these foods? Some have an association with a particular
MON       village, county or country and have become icons of
MON       identity.
MON       However, many of the stories told about their origins are
MON       either spurious or exaggerated. Other foods, associated
MON       with national events, have a curious background with
MON       interesting changes in their nature and usage. For
MON       example, simnel cake, which we associate with Easter, was
MON       actually linked to Mothering Sunday.
MON       Sheila Dillon delves into the past and explodes a few
MON       myths along the way, with plenty of surprises in store.
MON       
MON       16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mr0rj (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 4
MON       Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice
MON       of researching family history.
MON       Sally and resident genealogist Nick Barratt explore the
MON       roots of Britain's immigrant families. John Millar's
MON       father never talked about his Lithuanian roots after
MON       starting a new life with a new name in Scotland, but
MON       family research revealed that he is still a hero in his
MON       native country.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00mq6b4 (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 b00mq6bj (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00mr0rl (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 9
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
MON       panellists are Tony Hawks, Pam Ayres, Sue Perkins and Tim
MON       Rice.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00mq58p (Listen)
MON       Jolene gets her priorities in order.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00mq833 (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review
MON       of Joe Wright's film The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx as a
MON       gifted musician confronting homelessness and mental
MON       illness.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mq835 (Listen)
MON       The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 1
MON       Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane
MON       Gardam.
MON       Barrister Edward Feathers and his wife Elizabeth's lives
MON       are intertwined with that of his hated rival, Terry
MON       Veneering, as their relationships play out from 1950s Hong
MON       Kong to present-day Dorset.
MON       Eddie ...... Michael York
MON       Betty ...... Olivia Williams
MON       Terry ...... Lloyd Owen
MON       Amy ...... Moira Quirk
MON       Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour
MON       Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu
MON       Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon
MON       Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger
MON       Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf
MON       Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis
MON       Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
MON       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:00 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen)
MON       Under pressure, when we are on our own, many of us hear
MON       the words or songs we learnt by heart as a child. This
MON       programme features people discussing how these songs have
MON       helped them in situations of extreme pressure and danger.
MON       Heidi Vincent is a secondary school teacher in Devon whose
MON       son Theo was born prematurely at 23 weeks. She describes
MON       her four months of waiting in intensive care as being
MON       'like in some kind of shifted reality'.
MON       Ghias Aljundi was a political prisoner of conscience who
MON       was tortured and held in a Syrian prison cell for four
MON       years without charge. He was comforted by a poem he had
MON       memorised called My Mother.
MON       Peter Shaw from south Wales was kidnapped while working in
MON       Georgia and held underground for four months. He found
MON       that music and songs which he had learned from his father
MON       helped him.
MON       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00mr16g (Listen)
MON       In Defence of Targets
MON       As NHS targets fall out of political fashion, journalist
MON       Michael Blastland argues that they could be good for our
MON       health.
MON       Targets, once seen by New Labour as the key to improving
MON       public services, look as if they may be on the way out.
MON       The devolved health services of Wales and Scotland have
MON       already retreated from their previous target regimes, the
MON       Conservative Party has pledged to scrap them in England
MON       and there are signs that some of Gordon Brown's ministers
MON       are losing faith in them, too.
MON       Why then does Michael believe that there is still a case
MON       for targets?
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00mr1wc (Listen)
MON       Supergrid
MON       Carbon-free energy could become a greater possibility if
MON       we help to form a Europe-wide 'Supergrid', but what is it,
MON       how will it work and who will pay for it? Tom Heap finds
MON       out.
MON       Even if it does sound like science fiction, the European
MON       Union want to be able to power the entire continent with
MON       green energy: from solar panels to wind and wave turbines,
MON       from geothermal to hydroelectric power stations. The
MON       'Supergrid' project will lie from the North Sea, going
MON       down to the Sahara Desert, from Iceland's volcanoes to the
MON       tides of Finland, from the winds of Scotland to the Black
MON       Sea and to the sun of the Middle East.
MON       
MON       21:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b00mqc1f (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 2
MON       Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed
MON       to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics.
MON       Peter catches up with 18-year-old Janani, who has become a
MON       key activist in student sit-ins supporting the Tamil
MON       Tigers, all the while trying to reassure her many
MON       concerned uncles that she is still on track with her
MON       studies.
MON       And Danielle, as her first year at university draws to an
MON       end, prepare with her friends to move into their first
MON       house - if only they can decide on who gets which room.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00mq86r (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00mqbrs (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbs5 (Listen)
MON       Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 6
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       Adam's hiding place by Chelsea Bridge has been discovered,
MON       so he becomes a lodger in Mhouse's flat.
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b00cxr9l (Listen)
MON       Will Hutton
MON       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
MON       Will Hutton, chief executive of the Work Foundation,
MON       shares his admiration for not just JM Keynes but also
MON       writers such as Dickens and Umberto Eco. Readers are
MON       Michelle Terry and William Hope.
MON       
MON       23:30 Black Screen Britain b00jck88 (Listen)
MON       Ambassadors for the Race
MON       Burt Caesar's series exploring how British film and
MON       television drama portrayed post-war African-Caribbean
MON       migrants and created opportunities for pioneering black
MON       actors such as Earl Cameron, Cy Grant and Mona Hammond.
MON       How the first generation of African-Caribbean immigrants
MON       were portrayed in early British television and film dramas.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqj (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4m7 (Listen)
TUE       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 1
TUE       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
TUE       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
TUE       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
TUE       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
TUE       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
TUE       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
TUE       Virgin Queen.
TUE       Anne Boleyn takes centre stage, and the influence of her
TUE       life and death on Elizabeth's future.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnrx (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1v (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx5 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00mppm8 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp2 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nj (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00mq3tf (Listen)
TUE       With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mr232 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Kwame Kwei-Armah
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to
TUE       Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian
TUE       childhood there in the 1970s.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Good Samaritan b00mr234 (Listen)
TUE       Sylvia's Story
TUE       Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping
TUE       hand, with varying consequences.
TUE       After serving just two days of her prison sentence for
TUE       failing to pay her full council tax, pensioner Sylvia
TUE       Hardy had her protest ruined when an anonymous benefactor
TUE       paid her arrears and she was released.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lv (Listen)
TUE       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 2
TUE       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
TUE       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
TUE       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
TUE       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
TUE       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
TUE       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
TUE       Virgin Queen.
TUE       Elizabeth's stepmother Katherine Parr sets an inspiring
TUE       example, but an ill-judged flirtation threatens all.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbx (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden
TUE       Hat.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00mr2fg (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Calf of Man
TUE       It has taken many years for the BBC Natural History Unit
TUE       to get onto the Calf of Man, a rugged island to the south
TUE       of the Isle of Man. The weather and tides need to be right
TUE       to get on and off the Calf, and for this programme it also
TUE       had to be a new moon in order to meet a particularly
TUE       enigmatic seabird which is yet to breed on the island.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Calvin and Hobbes b00mr2fj (Listen)
TUE       Phill Jupitus celebrates Calvin and Hobbes, the comic
TUE       strip about the little boy and his stuffed tiger named
TUE       after eminent philosphers.
TUE       Over the course of ten years, the strip became an
TUE       international phenomenon, being syndicated in 2,500
TUE       newspapers worldwide. It tells the tale of a young boy
TUE       whose stuffed tiger is as real to him as the people around
TUE       him, and deals in the process with philosophical issues
TUE       about free will and the meaning of life, via the
TUE       perspective of a child with an extraordinary imagination.
TUE       Its creator, the reclusive Bill Watterson, could have
TUE       become a multi-millionaire through merchandising deals and
TUE       film offers, but turned them all down without hesitation.
TUE       Phill sets out to discover more about the characters and
TUE       the man behind them. In Watterson's absence, Jupitus heads
TUE       to Oxford to speak with artists, merchandisers,
TUE       booksellers and philosophers to find out what makes the
TUE       strip so popular, over a decade after Watterson drew the
TUE       final frame.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00mq4x8 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00mq505 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00mq52c (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Soul Music b00mr2wr (Listen)
TUE       Series 8, You've Got a Friend
TUE       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
TUE       emotional appeal.
TUE       Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor,
TUE       You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this
TUE       programme people tell how this song has affected their
TUE       life.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00mq58p (Listen)
TUE       Jolene gets her priorities in order.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mr31n (Listen)
TUE       Blame the Parents, Episode 2
TUE       Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about
TUE       teenagers caught up in a violent crime outside their
TUE       school.
TUE       In the days after the knifing, the three sets of parents
TUE       try to comprehend how their children could have become
TUE       involved.
TUE       Lekha Balaji ...... Bharti Patel
TUE       Nitin Balaji ...... Paul Bhattacharjee
TUE       Kris Balaji ...... Ashwin Bolar
TUE       Millie Balaji ...... Chandeep Uppal
TUE       Shona Peattie ...... Deborah McAndrew
TUE       Malcolm Peattie ...... Tom Roberts
TUE       Rory Peattie ...... James Rastall
TUE       Linda Swann ...... Claire Benedict
TUE       Ben Swann ...... Daniel Anderson
TUE       Directed by Steven Canny and Peter Leslie Wild.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00mr37s (Listen)
TUE       There's a distinctly avian hue to this programme as we
TUE       reveal the results of our summer-long house martin survey.
TUE       Just how have these birds fared in 2009? How do they
TUE       manage to live alongside the apparently similar swifts and
TUE       swallows, are they competing for a limited supply of food,
TUE       or is there something else going on? And just why did one
TUE       listener's house become a magnet for little owls?
TUE       We also keep our gaze upwards to answer two astronomical
TUE       queries. Does the Moon appear different to observers in
TUE       the southern hemisphere and are there really more stars in
TUE       the universe than grains of sand on the beach?
TUE       On the panel are astronomer Dr Carolin Crawford,
TUE       ornithologist Graham Appleton and Prof Philip Stott, an
TUE       environmental scientist from the University of London.
TUE       As always we want to hear your comments on the topics
TUE       discussed and any questions you might want to put to
TUE       future programmes.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc8t (Listen)
TUE       Countryman's Cooking, Of Pigeon and Pastry
TUE       Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery
TUE       manual for men.
TUE       First sold 40 years ago by Willie Fowler in his local pub
TUE       and recently rediscovered in a charity shop, these
TUE       joyfully wicked musings retain a surprising relevance
TUE       today.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved
TUE       b00mq5t8 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 7
TUE       Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the
TUE       Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this
TUE       mysterious area.
TUE       Tom pursues the truth about Charles Berlitz, the man who
TUE       wrote the all-time Bermuda Triangle bestseller. He hears
TUE       from critics of Berlitz's para-science and speaks to
TUE       Berlitz's biggest fan, his surviving daughter, Lin Hilton.
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 b00mr3qm (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
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 birth of progressive and informal
TUE       teaching methods in the 1960s. The landmark Plowden Report
TUE       banished the Victorian concept of children as 'vessels to
TUE       be filled', bringing in instead the idea of the
TUE       'developmental age' - the notion that children are
TUE       individuals who develop at different and uneven rates.
TUE       Calling on archive recordings and the personal
TUE       reminiscences of pupils, parents and teachers, plus an
TUE       interview with the only surviving member of the Plowden
TUE       Committee, Mike hears how progressive teaching was loved
TUE       by some and reviled by others. He also traces the fierce
TUE       political backlash in the 1980s, as public concerns grew
TUE       over school standards and fears that anarchy was taking
TUE       over in primary school classrooms.
TUE       Key contemporary policy-makers, including Baroness Shirley
TUE       Williams, Lord Ken Baker and David Blunkett, help to
TUE       explain why arguments over curriculum, teaching methods
TUE       and testing are deeply rooted in our ideas about the
TUE       nature, development and role of the youngest members of
TUE       society.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00mr4w1 (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Harry Houdini
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini. They are
TUE       joined by Houdini biographer William Kalush, who argues
TUE       that the master escapologist may have been murdered by
TUE       spiritualists.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00mq68v (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mq6b6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mr4w3 (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, Episode 5
TUE       Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert
TUE       Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland.
TUE       Including how to leave your body to evil, a date with a
TUE       slightly disappointing superhero, the perils of compulsory
TUE       workplace drinking, and the god of Easter Island puts a
TUE       brave face on an unwanted gift.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00mq58f (Listen)
TUE       Matt tests the patience of his legal team.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00mq7nn (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an
TUE       interview with actor and musician Harry Shearer, whose
TUE       many credits include Spinal Tap and The Simpsons.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbmy (Listen)
TUE       The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 2
TUE       Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane
TUE       Gardam.
TUE       News that a plane carrying schoolchildren to England has
TUE       crashed over the Indian Ocean provokes surprising
TUE       reactions.
TUE       Eddie ...... Michael York
TUE       Betty ...... Olivia Williams
TUE       Terry ...... Lloyd Owen
TUE       Amy ...... Moira Quirk
TUE       Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour
TUE       Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu
TUE       Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon
TUE       Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger
TUE       Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf
TUE       Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis
TUE       Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
TUE       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00mr4w5 (Listen)
TUE       As the government's strategy for combating extremism is
TUE       revised to focus on white racist groups as well as Islamic
TUE       radicals, Allan Urry assesses the threat of attacks by
TUE       right-wing extremists and fears that they could lead to a
TUE       rise in racial tensions.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00mr52m (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00mr52p (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter sorts out the good from the bad in terms of
TUE       health advice online. As more people turn to self
TUE       diagnosis on the internet, he asks where we can find
TUE       helpful and accurate information. And will chronic
TUE       conditions be monitored over the web in the future?
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mr232 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Kwame Kwei-Armah
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to
TUE       Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian
TUE       childhood there in the 1970s.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00mq85g (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86t (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrv (Listen)
TUE       Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 7
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       The killer is still on Adam's trail, so he has moved in to
TUE       live with Vladimir.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00jyc77 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 3
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. The panellists are comedians Frank
TUE       Skinner and Arthur Smith and journalist Lucy Mangan.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007cnxp (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 2
TUE       Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his
TUE       field, with no ability whatsoever.
TUE       This programme finds him in the guise of a world-famous
TUE       explorer. Clad only in his trusty cagoule, he tries to
TUE       find the source of the longest zip in the world.
TUE       Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy
TUE       Montgomery.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00mpnql (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lv (Listen)
WED       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 2
WED       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
WED       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
WED       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
WED       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
WED       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
WED       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
WED       Virgin Queen.
WED       Elizabeth's stepmother Katherine Parr sets an inspiring
WED       example, but an ill-judged flirtation threatens all.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpnrz (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1x (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx7 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00mppmb (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp4 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nl (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00mq3th (Listen)
WED       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00mr5n8 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lx (Listen)
WED       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 3
WED       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
WED       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
WED       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
WED       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
WED       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
WED       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
WED       Virgin Queen.
WED       The public world of Elizabeth's court as she begins her
WED       reign, and the more intimate realm of her private
WED       apartments, where she is attended by her Ladies in Waiting.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbj (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden
WED       Hat.
WED       
WED       11:00 Bowling For Love b00mr5r6 (Listen)
WED       Following a bowls community, and the friendships and
WED       romances formed on and off the green. When Brian and Meryl
WED       joined Adastra Bowls Club in Hassocks, they were looking
WED       for a new hobby. But as their lives changed, the crown
WED       green became the setting for another sort of interest.
WED       
WED       11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b008nw1c (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro
WED       Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.
WED       By Rona Munro.
WED       An Italian cafe owner in Glasgow employs a little guile
WED       and cunning to defend the honour and the environment of
WED       his beloved native land.
WED       Sandy ...... Stanley Baxter
WED       Antonia ...... Luisa Pretolani
WED       Christina ...... Tracy Wiles
WED       Christopher ...... John Kazek
WED       Rockafella ...... John Guerrasio
WED       Radio Interviewer ...... Gordon Kennedy
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
WED       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xb (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00mq507 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00mq52f (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00mr5tn (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00mq58f (Listen)
WED       Matt tests the patience of his legal team.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b007s1b7 (Listen)
WED       Brief Lives - Series 1, Episode 4
WED       Series by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester
WED       legal practice.
WED       Frank gets Debbie out of trouble, but Sarah is
WED       unsympathetic.
WED       Frank ...... David Schofield
WED       DeeDee ...... Denise Welch
WED       Ben ...... Kwame Kwei Armah
WED       Sarah ...... Gina Bellman
WED       Debbie ...... Emma Atkins
WED       Doug ...... Rod Matthew
WED       Julie ...... Sue Kelly
WED       DS Perry ...... David Fleeshman
WED       Music by Carl Harms.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00mrc8j (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on tax
WED       and self assessment.
WED       Guests are:
WED       Leonie Kerswill, tax partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
WED       Mike Warburton tax partner, Grant Thornton
WED       Anita Monteith, technical manager, Tax Faculty, The
WED       Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc92 (Listen)
WED       Countryman's Cooking, Of Poultry and Poison
WED       Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery
WED       manual for men.
WED       Willie realises that the jolly, bucolic animal-loving
WED       Farmer Giles is a myth.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved
WED       b00mq5tb (Listen)
WED       Episode 8
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 examines the relationship between the supposedly
WED       inexplicable disappearance of hundreds of seamen and
WED       aviators in the Bermuda Triangle, and the mythical lost
WED       kingdom of Atlantis.
WED       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mrc8l (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00mr52p (Listen)
WED       Dr Mark Porter sorts out the good from the bad in terms of
WED       health advice online. As more people turn to self
WED       diagnosis on the internet, he asks where we can find
WED       helpful and accurate information. And will chronic
WED       conditions be monitored over the web in the future?
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00mq68x (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 b00mq6b8 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Chain Reaction b00mrc8n (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Alastair Campbell
WED       Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the
WED       following week's interviewer.
WED       Eddie Izzard interviews former Labour spin doctor Alastair
WED       Campbell. He asks him about his breakdown, working for
WED       Tony Blair and his beginnings as a soft porn writer.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00mq58h (Listen)
WED       Jim and Kenton hit the road.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00mq7nt (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report
WED       on Moctezuma, a major British Museum exhibition examining
WED       Aztec civilisation and culture.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn0 (Listen)
WED       The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 3
WED       Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane
WED       Gardam.
WED       Difficulties for Betty and Eddie in London and phone calls
WED       from Hong Kong.
WED       Eddie ...... Michael York
WED       Betty ...... Olivia Williams
WED       Terry ...... Lloyd Owen
WED       Amy ...... Moira Quirk
WED       Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour
WED       Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu
WED       Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon
WED       Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger
WED       Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf
WED       Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis
WED       Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:00 Iconoclasts b00mrd9g (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Episode 3
WED       Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which
WED       guests set out their strong views on a subject, before
WED       being challenged by a panel of experts.
WED       Cambridge lawyer, Prof John Spencer, says that we should
WED       make it legal for young teenagers to have sex. He says the
WED       age of consent, fixed at 16 by the Sexual Offences Act
WED       2003, makes criminals of half the population.
WED       
WED       20:45 Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It b00mrd9j (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       It is 40 years since the Troubles started and ten since
WED       they stopped, but has that decade brought Northern Ireland
WED       ten years closer to normality? Are headlines dominated by
WED       race, health and education issues, or is terrorism a black
WED       hole from which the news agenda can never fully escape?
WED       Reporter Tara Mills talks to the generations of
WED       journalists and politicians who have had their
WED       professional lives dominated by violence. She looks at
WED       their efforts to find a way out of it and asks how they
WED       have made the transition to peacetime roles.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00mr2fg (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Calf of Man
WED       It has taken many years for the BBC Natural History Unit
WED       to get onto the Calf of Man, a rugged island to the south
WED       of the Isle of Man. The weather and tides need to be right
WED       to get on and off the Calf, and for this programme it also
WED       had to be a new moon in order to meet a particularly
WED       enigmatic seabird which is yet to breed on the island.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00mr5n8 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00mq85j (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86w (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrx (Listen)
WED       Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 8
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       The chairman of Calenture-Deutz has discovered that Keegan
WED       had a meeting with Philip Wang hours before he was
WED       murdered.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Cowards b007h55q (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 5
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       b00g38n0 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett.
WED       Charles heads for America to investigate a lead in the
WED       case.
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       Jamie ...... Alex Lanipekun
WED       Toby ...... Paul Rider
WED       Customs Officer ...... Jill Cardo
WED       Fat Freddy ...... Gunnar Cauthrey
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqn (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lx (Listen)
THU       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 3
THU       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
THU       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
THU       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
THU       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
THU       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
THU       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
THU       Virgin Queen.
THU       The public world of Elizabeth's court as she begins her
THU       reign, and the more intimate realm of her private
THU       apartments, where she is attended by her Ladies in Waiting.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpns1 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp1z (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnx9 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00mppmd (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp6 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nn (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00mq3tk (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00mrfwq (Listen)
THU       The Invention of Calculus
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and
THU       Jackie Stedall discuss the dispute between Sir Isaac
THU       Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4lz (Listen)
THU       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 4
THU       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
THU       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
THU       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
THU       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
THU       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
THU       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
THU       Virgin Queen.
THU       Elizabeth is compelled to confront that 'bosom serpent',
THU       Mary Queen of Scots, and much anguish follows.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbl (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden
THU       Hat.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00mrgrd (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen)
THU       Nick Barraclough delves into the world of backing
THU       vocalists, from the fluffy 50s to the stunning
THU       sophistication of today's jazzers, the innovations brought
THU       by The Beatles and The Beach Boys and the multi-tracked
THU       world of Joni Mitchell and The Carpenters.
THU       A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xd (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00mq509 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00mq52h (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00mr1wc (Listen)
THU       Supergrid
THU       Carbon-free energy could become a greater possibility if
THU       we help to form a Europe-wide 'Supergrid', but what is it,
THU       how will it work and who will pay for it? Tom Heap finds
THU       out.
THU       Even if it does sound like science fiction, the European
THU       Union want to be able to power the entire continent with
THU       green energy: from solar panels to wind and wave turbines,
THU       from geothermal to hydroelectric power stations. The
THU       'Supergrid' project will lie from the North Sea, going
THU       down to the Sahara Desert, from Iceland's volcanoes to the
THU       tides of Finland, from the winds of Scotland to the Black
THU       Sea and to the sun of the Middle East.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00mq58h (Listen)
THU       Jim and Kenton hit the road.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b009ts31 (Listen)
THU       Good Evening
THU       Roy Smiles' celebration of the Beyond the Fringe team
THU       takes a funny and affectionate look at how four young men
THU       from Oxbridge changed the face of British comedy.
THU       Alan Bennett ...... Matt Addis
THU       Peter Cook ...... Rory Kinnear
THU       Jonathan Miller ...... Jonathan Aris
THU       Dudley Moore ...... Benedict Cumberbatch
THU       A CPL production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00mp521 (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 1
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       The first section of the route takes Clare from Holy
THU       Island to St Cuthbert's Cave. She is joined by local
THU       clergyman Michael Mountney, the creator of the route, who
THU       conceived the idea as a millenium project for his parish.
THU       They are joined by long-distance walking expert Jenny
THU       Walters, who offers Clare advice on how to keep her feet
THU       in shape for the miles ahead and the kit she needs to keep
THU       on track.
THU       St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy
THU       Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland
THU       coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's
THU       Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St
THU       Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early seventh
THU       century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity
THU       to his people.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mplr1 (Listen)
THU       Elizabeth Finn Care
THU       Jenni Murray appeals on behalf of Elizabeth Finn Care.
THU       Donations to Elizabeth Finn Care should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope EFC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
THU       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Elizabeth Finn Care
THU       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
THU       Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation
THU       facilities are not currently available to listeners
THU       without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 207812.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b009mc9b (Listen)
THU       Countryman's Cooking, Of Gin and Soft-Soap
THU       Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery
THU       manual for men.
THU       Willie reveals why kissing the pastry-maker too early can
THU       be disastrous.
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved
THU       b00mq5td (Listen)
THU       Episode 9
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 returns to the peculiar story of British South
THU       American Airways and the last flight of Star Ariel, which
THU       disappeared without trace in the Bermuda Triangle in 1949.
THU       He uncovers new evidence suggesting that, far from being a
THU       mystery, the disappearance was in fact down to one small,
THU       but fatal, flaw.
THU       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00mpn62 (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville, winner of the
THU       2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Since then he
THU       has branched out into detective fiction with his popular
THU       novels published under the pen name Benjamin Black. He
THU       explains how his alter ego influenced his new book, The
THU       Infinities, and why this tale set in a rambling Irish
THU       country house is narrated by a Greek god.
THU       The poet Ian McMillan explains his enthuasiasm for the
THU       work of Malcolm Lowry, the alcoholic whose masterpiece
THU       Under The Volcano is cited by some as one of the greatest
THU       novels of the 20th century.
THU       As a new biography of Charles Dickens is published - the
THU       first major survey of his life in almost 20 years -
THU       Mariella talks to its author, Michael Slater. They discuss
THU       how Dickens's sometimes troubled childhood prompted his
THU       social activism and his love of public performance.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00mrgvg (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00mq68z (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 b00mq6bb (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Electric Ink b00lh5pd (Listen)
THU       Episode 6
THU       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
THU       media in the newspaper industry.
THU       With newspaper circulation dropping, a round of swingeing
THU       job cuts are predicted. But who will survive the bloodbath?
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       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00mq58k (Listen)
THU       Brian asserts his authority in the boardroom.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00mq7nx (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn2 (Listen)
THU       The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 4
THU       Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane
THU       Gardam.
THU       After more than 20 years in Hong Kong, are Betty and Eddie
THU       destined to be lifetime expats?
THU       Eddie ...... Michael York
THU       Betty ...... Olivia Williams
THU       Terry ...... Lloyd Owen
THU       Amy ...... Moira Quirk
THU       Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour
THU       Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu
THU       Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon
THU       Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger
THU       Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf
THU       Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis
THU       Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
THU       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00mrw7t (Listen)
THU       Simon Cox explores the US healthcare debate. Why has the
THU       path towards reform been so difficult and what forces are
THU       at work, as various groups in the lobbying battle compete
THU       to get their voices heard?
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00mrw7w (Listen)
THU       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
THU       and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to
THU       their companies and their customers.
THU       
THU       21:00 Leading Edge b00mrw7y (Listen)
THU       Violinist and music psychologist Paul Robertson tells
THU       Geoff Watts about his lifelong journey to find out why
THU       humans have always been a musical species, a quest that
THU       has introduced him to neuroscientists and therapists as
THU       well as musicians, and taken him from concert hall to
THU       brain scanner.
THU       Musicality, he believes, is more than a form of 'brain
THU       candy', an accidental side effect of our biological
THU       evolution. Perhaps it is central to highly-prized human
THU       capacities such as verbal and emotional communication,
THU       abstract and symbolic representation, memory and even
THU       identity.
THU       Geoff hears, from discussion and performance, how music
THU       transforms the life of gifted autistic musicians, how it
THU       can play a key role in child development, and how musical
THU       appreciation maps our minds.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00mrfwq (Listen)
THU       The Invention of Calculus
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and
THU       Jackie Stedall discuss the dispute between Sir Isaac
THU       Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00mq85l (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00mq86y (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbrz (Listen)
THU       Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 9
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 has discovered that all the children who died during
THU       the drug trials were moved out of the de Vere Wing before
THU       they passed away.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Poetry Slam b00mrwng (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Episode 1
THU       The first of two semi-finals from the Radio 4 poetry
THU       competition, in which spoken word performers from all
THU       around the country battle it out for the title of Radio 4
THU       Slam Winner 2009. Hosted by poetry performer Dreadlock
THU       Alien and recorded at The Bluecoat in Liverpool.
THU       Nine regional heats have been held, from Exeter to
THU       Edinburgh via Birmingham, Belfast, Brighton, Newport,
THU       Newcastle, Manchester and London, with two performers from
THU       each heat getting through to the semi-finals.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076pmb (Listen)
THU       How to Be Invisible
THU       Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson tries to find out
THU       how to be invisible with the help of a collection of
THU       extraordinary stories which try to illuminate the human
THU       condition.
THU       He talks to Frank Ahearn, whose job it is to make people
THU       vanish; comedian Jon Holmes, whose parents are 'invisible'
THU       to him as he is adopted; and Maggie O'Farrell who recalls
THU       her time as a chamber maid, cleaning hotel rooms while
THU       guests carried on extremely personal activities.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00mpnqq (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4lz (Listen)
FRI       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 4
FRI       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
FRI       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
FRI       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
FRI       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
FRI       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
FRI       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
FRI       Virgin Queen.
FRI       Elizabeth is compelled to confront that 'bosom serpent',
FRI       Mary Queen of Scots, and much anguish follows.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mpns3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mpp21 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mpnxc (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00mppmg (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mppp8 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00mq3nq (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00mq3tm (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 The Reunion b00mpmm4 (Listen)
FRI       Stonewall
FRI       Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group
FRI       of people intimately involved in a moment of modern
FRI       history.
FRI       Sue brings together the men and women who founded the gay
FRI       rights campaign group, Stonewall. She is joined by Sir Ian
FRI       McKellen, Matthew Parris, Lisa Power, Michael Cashman and
FRI       Olivette Cole-Wilson.
FRI       In 1989 a small group joined forces in a campaign against
FRI       a law now known as Section 28. This law banned councils
FRI       from 'promoting homosexuality' or 'promoting the teaching
FRI       in any maintained school of the acceptability of
FRI       homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'.
FRI       The gay rights scene at the time was radical and activist
FRI       and there were no campaign groups engaging both gay men
FRI       and lesbians together. Stonewall aimed to create a
FRI       professional lobbying group that would fight against the
FRI       discrimination of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Dubbed
FRI       Stonewall to signal doggedness and to commemorate the New
FRI       York riots in which gay protestors had fought back against
FRI       police brutality two decades before, it called for full
FRI       legal rights, which still seemed a loony-left pipe dream.
FRI       Stonewall's moderate tone attracted criticism from more
FRI       radical veterans of the gay rights movement, but also lent
FRI       its advocates greater media respectability and a hearing
FRI       from government ministers.
FRI       Since its inception, Stonewall has led the way with an
FRI       impressive number of reforms, pressing ministers and
FRI       taking test cases to court. These reforms include the
FRI       repeal of Section 28, equalising the age of consent,
FRI       permitting civil partnerships and overturning the ban on
FRI       gays in the military. Another legacy has been to allow gay
FRI       and lesbian politicians into the mainstream - not just
FRI       demanding equal rights, but as representatives of the
FRI       wider community.
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00mq4m1 (Listen)
FRI       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 5
FRI       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
FRI       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
FRI       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
FRI       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
FRI       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
FRI       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
FRI       Virgin Queen.
FRI       In the final years of her reign, Elizabeth begins to lose
FRI       her grip on matters at court. This state of affairs is
FRI       reflected in the loosening morals of her newer and younger
FRI       Ladies-in-Waiting, who she fittingly terms her 'flouting
FRI       wenches'.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mqgbn (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Man in the Wooden
FRI       Hat.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Lost Souls of Ireland b00mrwzc (Listen)
FRI       As a new and damning report into institutional abuse in
FRI       Ireland's Catholic state schools is published, reporter
FRI       Ruth McDonald examines the scandal's impact on Irish
FRI       society.
FRI       Cathy Spillane, 48, sent a letter from her Norfolk home to
FRI       the Irish Times in which she documented the horrific abuse
FRI       her father had suffered as a child brought up in one of
FRI       Ireland's institutional schools, and her anger towards the
FRI       Catholic Church, which had failed to admit culpability.
FRI       She is not alone. The earlier Ryan Report, published in
FRI       May 2009, exposed a secret which many had refused to
FRI       believe about how widespread the abuse was. It is
FRI       estimated that a third of all survivors now live in the
FRI       UK, having fled Ireland. Many among this group of exiles
FRI       had never spoken of what happened to them until recently.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mrwzf (Listen)
FRI       While The Sun Shines
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       Back from a secondment at Scotland Yard, Twitten is
FRI       alarmed to find Brunswick in a deep depression. To cheer
FRI       him up he arranges for Brunswick's favourite crime
FRI       reporter, Harry Jupiter, to interview him. But when Steine
FRI       takes Jupiter to Brighton Pier, disaster ensues and
FRI       Brunswick's thoughts turn to murder.
FRI       Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
FRI       Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
FRI       Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green
FRI       Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro
FRI       Harry Jupiter ...... Philip Jackson
FRI       Cecil/Pierre/Albert ...... David Holt.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00mq4xg (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00mq50c (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00mq52k (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00mrygc (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00mq58k (Listen)
FRI       Brian asserts his authority in the boardroom.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mrygf (Listen)
FRI       Wednesdays With Strangers
FRI       Comedy by Nick Leather.
FRI       When a welcome pack to the UK offers advice on how to talk
FRI       to strangers, a migrant worker decides to spend his one
FRI       day off each week attempting to get to know the people of
FRI       Britain and prove to his disillusioned flatmate that there
FRI       is such a thing as the British Dream after all.
FRI       Mirek ...... Matt McGuirk
FRI       Alex ...... Eddie Capli
FRI       Andy ...... James Quinn
FRI       Frank ...... Greg Wood
FRI       Joy ...... Sue Kelly.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mrzf7 (Listen)
FRI       The second of two programmes recorded at the annual
FRI       Gardeners' Question Time garden party, held at RHS Harlow
FRI       Carr in North Yorkshire, GQT's base in the north.
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs and the panel are Anne Swithinbank,
FRI       Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie.
FRI       Peter explores how Harlow Carr is addressing the problems
FRI       posed by future climate change. Pippa puts the fun into
FRI       fungi, and Anne launches the GQT slug deterrent trial.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Inside The Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved
FRI       b00mq5tg (Listen)
FRI       Episode 10
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 concludes his rigorous investigation into the
FRI       mysteries of the Triangle by visiting Bermuda itself. The
FRI       extraordinary experiences of local fishermen and treasure
FRI       divers seem at odds with the empirical evidence collected
FRI       by oceanographers, air traffic controllers and air sea
FRI       rescue officers. So where does the truth lie?
FRI       A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00mrzf9 (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 b00mrzmt (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Sally Potter about her latest
FRI       film, Rage, a humorous exposé of the inner lives of people
FRI       working at a New York fashion house.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00mq691 (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 b00mq6bd (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00mrzmw (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 1
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
FRI       panellists include Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel and Jeremy
FRI       Hardy.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00mq58m (Listen)
FRI       Kenton kick-starts his social life.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00mq7nz (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an
FRI       interview with the virtuoso violinist Sarah Chang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvbn4 (Listen)
FRI       The Man in the Wooden Hat, Episode 5
FRI       Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane
FRI       Gardam.
FRI       Does old age mean that Hong Kong secrets will finally be
FRI       revealed?
FRI       Eddie ...... Michael York
FRI       Betty ...... Olivia Williams
FRI       Terry ...... Lloyd Owen
FRI       Amy ...... Moira Quirk
FRI       Delilah ...... Carolyn Seymour
FRI       Albert Ross ...... Jon David Yu
FRI       Young Harry ...... Oliver Dillon
FRI       Expat ...... Kenneth Danziger
FRI       Older Harry ...... Matthew Wolf
FRI       Narrator ...... Martin Jarvis
FRI       Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
FRI       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00mrzmy (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Wells in
FRI       Somerset. The panellists are the secretary of state for
FRI       culture, media and sport Ben Bradshaw, shadow defence
FRI       secretary Liam Fox, the Liberal Democrats' home office
FRI       spokesperson Chris Huhne, and businesswoman Deborah
FRI       Meaden, from the TV show Dragons' Den.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mrzn0 (Listen)
FRI       Adam's Face
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       What are human eyebrows for? Possibly to allow
FRI       communication without the use of words. Testing the value
FRI       of eyebrow communication came into its own when David
FRI       Attenborough met the men of an aboriginal tribe in New
FRI       Guinea where there was no other common language.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00mrzrm (Listen)
FRI       I Am Emma Humphreys
FRI       Dramatisation by Shelley Silas of the true story of Emma
FRI       Humphreys, who in 1985, aged 16, murdered her pimp, Trevor
FRI       Armitage, who had found her homeless on the streets of
FRI       Nottingham.
FRI       Emma's case changed the law and may yet contribute to
FRI       further controversial changes in the defence laws for
FRI       murder.
FRI       Emma Humphreys ...... Joanne Froggatt
FRI       Trevor Armitage ...... Stephen Critchlow
FRI       Stuart ...... Delroy Brown
FRI       Vera Baird ...... Susan Jameson
FRI       Harriet Wistrich ...... Lynne Verrall
FRI       Lord Justice Hirst ...... David Hargreaves
FRI       Nottingham Judge ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Directed by Claire Grove.
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FRI       21:58 Weather b00mq85n (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00mq870 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
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FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mqbs1 (Listen)
FRI       Ordinary Thunderstorms, Episode 10
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       Jonjo has been taken off the hunt for Adam Kindred but he
FRI       still feels he has a score to settle.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00mr4w1 (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Harry Houdini
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Paul Daniels explores the life of Harry Houdini. They are
FRI       joined by Houdini biographer William Kalush, who argues
FRI       that the master escapologist may have been murdered by
FRI       spiritualists.
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FRI       23:30 Misfits in France b00f24f8 (Listen)
FRI       Wilde about Dieppe
FRI       Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the
FRI       connections between a group of Victorian writers and
FRI       artists who crossed the English Channel for different
FRI       reasons.
FRI       Examining the differing fortunes of Oscar Wilde and the
FRI       painter Walter Sickert, who both flouted Victorian moral
FRI       conventions, during their time in the French town of
FRI       Dieppe.
FRI       At 4am on May 20th 1897, Sebastian Melmoth, better known
FRI       as Oscar Wilde, arrived at Dieppe Docks seeking refuge
FRI       following his release from Reading Gaol, but he quickly
FRI       moved out of town.
FRI       Walter Sickert is known as a Camden Town painter but his
FRI       painter friend Jaques Emile Blanche called him 'the
FRI       Canaletto of Dieppe'. His long association with the resort
FRI       began with childhood holidays and included an affair with
FRI       one of the local fishwives.
FRI       Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale
FRI       Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow
FRI       Arthur Symons ...... Jonathan Tafler.
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