Radio 4 Listings for 26/09/2009 - 02/10/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00mrzz2 (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 b00mq4m1 (Listen)
SAT       Elizabeth's Women, Episode 5
SAT       Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of
SAT       Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with
SAT       the women in her life. These women brought out the best
SAT       and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind
SAT       but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced
SAT       Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The
SAT       Virgin Queen.
SAT       In the final years of her reign, Elizabeth begins to lose
SAT       her grip on matters at court. This state of affairs is
SAT       reflected in the loosening morals of her newer and younger
SAT       Ladies-in-Waiting, who she fittingly terms her 'flouting
SAT       wenches'.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mrzz4 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mrzz6 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mrzz8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00ms0b0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ms0b2 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00ms0b4 (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00ms0b6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00mtm8x (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00mtm8z (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 2
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       The second section of the route takes Clare from Belford
SAT       to Beadnell in the company of Iain Robson and Tom
SAT       Cadwallender, who guide Clare through the highlights of
SAT       this stretch of the route. Iain and Tom both help to
SAT       maintain the area for the Northumberland National Park,
SAT       and the two long-distance paths on their patch help to
SAT       ensure that a steady stream of enthusiastic walkers visit
SAT       the county.
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 b00mtm91 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Charlotte Smith investigates why more people are buying
SAT       food locally. Since 2006, the numbers buying 'local' food
SAT       has more than doubled. Research suggests 27 per cent of
SAT       people buy local, and more than 50 per cent say they would
SAT       if they could. So why isn't more available?
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00mtm93 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00mtm95 (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00mtm97 (Listen)
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by broadcaster, novelist, journalist
SAT       and gardener Alan Titchmarsh. Kevin Duncan tells us why he
SAT       is fascinated by volcanoes. Sarah Graham is intersex and
SAT       explains how she found out. Biddy Carr's sound sculpture
SAT       is her mother's sewing machine. Poet John Hegley reveals
SAT       his inheritance tracks. The poet is Susan Richardson.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00mtm99 (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy asks travel writer and historian William
SAT       Dalrymple what place mysticism has in modern India and
SAT       hears about some of the characters who are trying to keep
SAT       it alive - like the maker of bronze idols whose son wants
SAT       to work in computer engineering.
SAT       JB Priestley's classic 1934 book 'English Journey'
SAT       describes a trip through depression-hit England, from
SAT       Southampton to Newcastle and back to London. On its
SAT       republishing, John speaks to Tom Priestley, JB's son,
SAT       about the impact the book had at the time and how places
SAT       have changed since then.
SAT       Also in the early 1930s, poet John Betjeman helped start
SAT       the Shell Guides to Britain. His daughter Candida Lycett
SAT       Green follows the family tradition of pointing out the
SAT       beautiful and the interesting when she tells John McCarthy
SAT       about her 100 favourite places amongst the small towns,
SAT       buildings and landscapes in England.
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SAT       10:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen)
SAT       To mark Cambridge University's 800th anniversary, David
SAT       Baddiel investigates the events which led to its
SAT       foundation and trace its origins to a crime committed in
SAT       the 13th century.
SAT       With the help of Cambridge University archivist Dr Patrick
SAT       Zutshi, medieval historian Henrietta Leyser and Detective
SAT       Inspector Ted East, David discovers that the reason for a
SAT       mass exodus of scholars from Oxford to Cambridge can be
SAT       traced back to a murder. He walks the very streets where
SAT       the murder took place and visits Oxford Castle, where some
SAT       believe those accused of the murder were hanged.
SAT       He then takes a punt up the River Cam, where he is joined
SAT       by members of the Cambridge Historical Society for a
SAT       discussion about town and gown rivalry and also some of
SAT       the amusing myths surrounding the university's foundation.
SAT       Finally, David visits St Mary's Church, where Cambridge's
SAT       new student body met for their first lectures and
SAT       ceremonies.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mtm9f (Listen)
SAT       Andrew Rawnsley investigates how radically the nation's
SAT       defences will be reshaped when public money is tight.
SAT       The parties face internal splits over Trident and future
SAT       strategy, while service votes and the jobs of contractors
SAT       across the UK mean that politicians tread carefully when
SAT       it comes to defence spending.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mtm9h (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00mtm9k (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Up to 40 per cent of our private pensions are swallowed up
SAT       in fees - are you paying too much?
SAT       A savings boost for ISA savers over 50, but does your
SAT       local savings branch know?
SAT       And you may be offered a tax rebate of several hundred
SAT       pounds, but don't be fooled by the latest scam.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00mrzmw (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 1
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists include Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel and Jeremy
SAT       Hardy.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00mtnpg (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00mtnpj (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00mrzmy (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Wells in
SAT       Somerset. The panellists are the secretary of state for
SAT       culture, media and sport Ben Bradshaw, shadow defence
SAT       secretary Liam Fox, the Liberal Democrats' home office
SAT       spokesperson Chris Huhne, and businesswoman Deborah
SAT       Meaden, from the TV show Dragons' Den.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00mtnpl (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b007t4zn (Listen)
SAT       The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon
SAT       John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real
SAT       events.
SAT       Frederick and Margaret Seddon take wealthy Mrs Barrow into
SAT       their Islington home as a lodger. The summer of 1911
SAT       proves scorchingly hot and when Mrs Barrow dies, leaving
SAT       all her money to Fred, suspicions are aroused. Was her
SAT       death caused by the heatwave, or the 'English Cholera' -
SAT       or could the arsenic-laced fly papers have something to do
SAT       with it?
SAT       Margaret Seddon ...... Lynne Seymour
SAT       Fred Seddon ...... Bertie Carvel
SAT       Miss Barrow ...... Annette Badland
SAT       Hook/Attorney General Isaacs ...... Dick Bradnum
SAT       Benny/Vicar ...... Brendan Charleson
SAT       Dr Sworn/Hangman ...... Dorien Thomas
SAT       Maggie ...... Anwen Carlisle
SAT       Ada ...... Isabel Lewis
SAT       Directed by Nigel Lewis.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Soul Music b00mr2wr (Listen)
SAT       Series 8, You've Got a Friend
SAT       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
SAT       emotional appeal.
SAT       Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor,
SAT       You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this
SAT       programme people tell how this song has affected their
SAT       life.
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SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00mtnpn (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey.
SAT       Including Shirley Williams on the childhood that infuenced
SAT       her career as a politician; an interview with the forensic
SAT       psychiatrist who assessed Joseph Fritzl; why the glass
SAT       ceiling into the boardroom is proving difficult to crack;
SAT       the nostalgic foods of the sixties and seventies that are
SAT       proving to be perennials; are mums or dads stricter when
SAT       it comes to disciplining children; and music from one of
SAT       the country's leading mandolin players.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00mtnpq (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00mrw7w (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis and his guests discuss managing the
SAT       expectations of customers and shareholders, and meetings -
SAT       what makes them effective, and who needs to be in the room?
SAT       His guests are Andrew Cosslett, chief executive of
SAT       Intercontinental Hotels (owners of chains including
SAT       Holiday Inn), Allan Cook chief executive of international
SAT       defence and aerospace company Cobham, and leading
SAT       architect Rafael Vinoly.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mtnpv (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00mtnpx (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mtnpz (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00mtnq1 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by comedy actress June Whitfield,
SAT       infectiously enthusiastic presenter Justin Lee Collins and
SAT       architectural historian Dan Cruickshank.
SAT       Emma Freud talks to the actor Shaun Williamson.
SAT       With music from best-selling opera star Andrea Bocelli and
SAT       Sheffield crooner Richard Hawley.
SAT       Comedy from the singing stand up Isy Suttie.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen)
SAT       Keir Starmer
SAT       Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in
SAT       the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on
SAT       assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's
SAT       progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his
SAT       blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and
SAT       passion for football.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00mtnq5 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen)
SAT       Self on Ballard
SAT       Will Self explores the imagination and work of writer JG
SAT       Ballard, who he came to know in his final years. Will
SAT       draws on the many telling interviews that Ballard gave
SAT       throughout his working life and on Self's own tapes of his
SAT       encounters with him.
SAT       From his life of suburban anonymity, Ballard charted the
SAT       realms of innerspace and the madness of the modern world
SAT       with a cool eye and visionary prose.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00mpn0q (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel,
SAT       the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
SAT       When word reaches The Department that Soviet missiles are
SAT       being installed close to the West German border, they
SAT       seize the opportunity to relive former glories.
SAT       Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
SAT       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
SAT       Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
SAT       Woodford ...... David Hargeaves
SAT       Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
SAT       Control ...... John Rowe
SAT       Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
SAT       Taylor/Sutherland ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Peersen ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Lansen ...... Matt Addis
SAT       Girl ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
SAT       Directed by Marc Beeby
SAT       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as
SAT       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00mtnqy (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Iconoclasts b00mrd9g (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 3
SAT       Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which
SAT       guests set out their strong views on a subject, before
SAT       being challenged by a panel of experts.
SAT       Cambridge lawyer, Prof John Spencer, says that we should
SAT       make it legal for young teenagers to have sex. He says the
SAT       age of consent, fixed at 16 by the Sexual Offences Act
SAT       2003, makes criminals of half the population.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mqhqw (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from Scotland and the Midlands.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00mpndq (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for works with
SAT       an environmental theme, including Alan Brownjohn's
SAT       deceptively simple, unsettling poem from the 1960s, We Are
SAT       Going to See the Rabbit, and two of Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow
SAT       poems, written in response to the BSE crisis.
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SUN       SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00mtnvf (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088w2d (Listen)
SUN       Telling the World, Tortoise and Hunter
SUN       Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the
SUN       world.
SUN       Jan Blake tells a tale from Ghana which serves as an
SUN       uncompromising warning to those who refuse to hear what
SUN       their ears are telling them.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mtpd0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mtpd2 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mtpd4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00mtpd6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mtpd8 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from the Parish Church of St Thomas in
SUN       Hazel Grove, Stockport.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen)
SUN       Keir Starmer
SUN       Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in
SUN       the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on
SUN       assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's
SUN       progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his
SUN       blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and
SUN       passion for football.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00mtpdb (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00mtpdd (Listen)
SUN       A Precious Commodity
SUN       Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of
SUN       clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much
SUN       more than the mere absence of noise.
SUN       The readers are Ian Masters and Liza Sadovy.
SUN       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00mtq2c (Listen)
SUN       Elinor Goodman meets the Devon farmer who has decided to
SUN       embrace the predictions of warmer and wetter summers by
SUN       climate change experts to grow a diverse range of crops.
SUN       On Otter Farm, Mark Diacono grows guavas, grapes, olives,
SUN       apricots, grinding pepper, kiwis and loquats. He believes
SUN       that not only will growing more exotic foods be possile in
SUN       the future, but by providing these crops from this country
SUN       rather than abroad we will cut down on air miles.
SUN       Elinor finds out how he is getting on and tries to find
SUN       some fruit to taste.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00mtq2f (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00mtq2h (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00mtq2k (Listen)
SUN       Pope Benedict is expected to come to Britain in September
SUN       2010 - we discuss how the landscape has changed since his
SUN       predecessor's visit nearly 30 years earlier.
SUN       The nation's political officianados are busy at party
SUN       conferences; the Communities and Local Government
SUN       secretary, John Denham, talks to Sunday about the part
SUN       faith groups can play in building community cohesion.
SUN       And what does the discovery of the Staffordshire hoard
SUN       tell us about the relationship between paganism and
SUN       Christianity?
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00mtq2m (Listen)
SUN       Primary Trauma Care Foundation
SUN       Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma
SUN       Care Foundation.
SUN       Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
SUN       your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma
SUN       Care Foundation with your full name and address so they
SUN       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and
SUN       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1116071.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00mtq2p (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00mtqcb (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00mtqcd (Listen)
SUN       From Broomhill Parish Church, Glasgow, with the
SUN       congregation and choir and members of the Paisley
SUN       Philharmonic Choir.
SUN       Led by Rev Bill Ferguson.
SUN       Preacher: Rev Valerie Watson.
SUN       Musical Director: Ian Anderson.
SUN       Organist: William Ritchie.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mrzn0 (Listen)
SUN       Adam's Face
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       What are human eyebrows for? Possibly to allow
SUN       communication without the use of words. Testing the value
SUN       of eyebrow communication came into its own when David
SUN       Attenborough met the men of an aboriginal tribe in New
SUN       Guinea where there was no other common language.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00mtqcg (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mtqcj (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00mtqyr (Listen)
SUN       Barry Manilow
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow.
SUN       He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30
SUN       years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it
SUN       was never the career he intended to have. He always knew
SUN       he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind
SUN       the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by
SUN       his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always
SUN       scarce and family life often difficult - but when there
SUN       was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home
SUN       was a happy one.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00mr0rl (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 9
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
SUN       panellists are Tony Hawks, Pam Ayres, Sue Perkins and Tim
SUN       Rice.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00mtqyt (Listen)
SUN       Slow Cheese
SUN       Sheila Dillon travels to Italy to meet producers of rare
SUN       and unusual cheeses from around the world. The biennial
SUN       event, organised by Slow Food, is aimed at keeping
SUN       traditional cheese making alive.
SUN       Among the hundreds of cheese producers who travelled to
SUN       the northern Italian town were three farmers still making
SUN       artisan Somerset Cheddar. It is a cheese which is still
SUN       made using raw milk, with a traditional starter and is
SUN       crafted by hand and matured in lard soaked muslin.
SUN       As Sheila finds out, the Somerset Cheddar makers have
SUN       travelled to Bra in a bid to rescue the name of Cheddar
SUN       from the world of industrial block cheeses now produced
SUN       all over the world.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00mtqyw (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00mtqyy (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Billy Liar: Fifty Years On b00lvh1c (Listen)
SUN       Fifty years after the publication of Keith Waterhouse's
SUN       Billy Liar, writer Blake Morrison goes in search of the
SUN       world it evokes - the north of England on the cusp of the
SUN       1960s. The story of a frustrated young man in a northern
SUN       town who escapes from reality into vivid fantasies of
SUN       power and glory, Billy Liar captured the public
SUN       imagination. It became a play, a film, a musical and even
SUN       a TV series.
SUN       Blake travels to Leeds to explore the way in which
SUN       Waterhouse's life there overlaps with Billy's story, and
SUN       talks to long-term residents and local historians about
SUN       how the city, and the society depicted in the novel, has
SUN       changed. The programme also features contributions from
SUN       Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barry Cryer and Sir Gerald
SUN       Kaufman MP.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mrzf7 (Listen)
SUN       The second of two programmes recorded at the annual
SUN       Gardeners' Question Time garden party, held at RHS Harlow
SUN       Carr in North Yorkshire, GQT's base in the north.
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs and the panel are Anne Swithinbank,
SUN       Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie.
SUN       Peter explores how Harlow Carr is addressing the problems
SUN       posed by future climate change. Pippa puts the fun into
SUN       fungi, and Anne launches the GQT slug deterrent trial.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Food For Thought b00mtvgt (Listen)
SUN       Elevenses With Nigella Lawson
SUN       Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow
SUN       discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives.
SUN       At home in her kitchen, cookery writer Nigella Lawson
SUN       recalls her early experiences of food - as a chamber maid
SUN       in Italy, whisking white sauces for her mother and making
SUN       veal stew and rabbit with prunes on a teenage visit to
SUN       France. She tells Nina how they transformed her from a
SUN       quiet, introverted child who resisted her mother's appeals
SUN       to eat at mealtimes into a passionate cook with a lust for
SUN       food and an incredibly healthy appetite.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00mtvgw (Listen)
SUN       The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel,
SUN       the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
SUN       As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory
SUN       proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what
SUN       it seems.
SUN       Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
SUN       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SUN       Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
SUN       Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
SUN       Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
SUN       Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe
SUN       Anna ...... Ania Sowinski
SUN       Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
SUN       Control ...... John Rowe
SUN       Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
SUN       Official ...... Philip Fox
SUN       Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew
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 b00mtwd1 (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup celebrates fiction from Down Under, in
SUN       conversation with some of Australia's best-known writers.
SUN       Richard Flanagan, the author of the cult bestseller
SUN       Gould's Book of Fish, explains how the sometimes painful
SUN       history of his native Tasmania became the subject of his
SUN       latest novel Wanting.
SUN       Tim Winton, whose books include Dirt Music and Breath,
SUN       describes the Western Australian landscape that has
SUN       inspired most of his work.
SUN       And Thomas Keneally, the Booker-winning author of
SUN       Schindler's Ark, joins the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright
SUN       to discuss a major new anthology of Australian literature
SUN       with the collection's editor, Nicholas Jose.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00mtwd4 (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces requests for Lewis Carroll's
SUN       surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark, told not in verses
SUN       but in eight distinctive 'fits'. Includes archive
SUN       recordings by Ken Campbell and Alec Guinness.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00mr4w5 (Listen)
SUN       As the government's strategy for combating extremism is
SUN       revised to focus on white racist groups as well as Islamic
SUN       radicals, Allan Urry assesses the threat of attacks by
SUN       right-wing extremists and fears that they could lead to a
SUN       rise in racial tensions.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen)
SUN       Keir Starmer
SUN       Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in
SUN       the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on
SUN       assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's
SUN       progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his
SUN       blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and
SUN       passion for football.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mtz44 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00mv0lk (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mv0lm (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00mv0lp (Listen)
SUN       Stuart Maconie introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Programmes featured this week:
SUN       Calvin and Hobbes - Radio 4
SUN       Nature - Radio 4
SUN       That Mitchell and Webb Sound - Radio 4
SUN       Great Lives - Houdini - Radio 4
SUN       Passing the Hat - Radio 4
SUN       Chain Reaction - Radio 4
SUN       The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4
SUN       The Essay - The Scientist and the Naturalist - Radio 3
SUN       I am Emma Humphreys - Radio 4
SUN       Bowling for Love - Radio 4
SUN       The Stanley Baxter Story - Radio 2
SUN       Drama on 3 - Slaughterhouse Five - Radio 3
SUN       Archive on 4 - Self on Ballard - Radio 4
SUN       Book of the Week - Elizabeth's Women - Radio 4
SUN       Graham Coxon's Tracks of My Years - Ken Bruce - Radio 2.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00mv0lr (Listen)
SUN       Ed receives some birthday wisdom.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00mv0lt (Listen)
SUN       Kevin Connolly talks to veteran CBS journalist and
SUN       anchorman Bob Shieffer about how President Obama and his
SUN       predecessors have trimmed their foreign policy initiatives
SUN       to better suit cold reality.
SUN       Imagine Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's delight when he got a call
SUN       from President Obama's office asking whether the city of
SUN       Pittsburgh could host the 2009 G20 summit. Kevin Connolly
SUN       talks to the mayor about how this former steel town is
SUN       handling the influx of guests while emerging from a
SUN       collapsed economy.
SUN       Like The Archers, the American soap opera Guiding Light
SUN       has held a loyal following for many years. Now, 72 years
SUN       since its first radio broadcast, the programme goes off
SUN       the air. Executive director Ellen Wheeler and actor Robert
SUN       Newman talk about the legacy of this radio, then
SUN       television, soap. They explore the good, the bad and the
SUN       supernatural, and what place scripted drama has in the
SUN       changing media landscape.
SUN       American folk culture is about apple pie, grilled cheese
SUN       sandwiches and how to pack a suitcase. That's according to
SUN       The Old Farmer's Almanac, anyway. Inside its covers are
SUN       scarily accurate weather reports as well as tips, tricks
SUN       and legends which could make toes curl. Kevin Connolly
SUN       picks up some age-old wisdom from Almanac's editor, Janice
SUN       Stillman.
SUN       Kevin Connolly takes a stroll among the war memorials of
SUN       Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to sample American views on the
SUN       war in Afghanistan. Is the president is on the right
SUN       track, or could the conflict become the next Vietnam?
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9p (Listen)
SUN       Granta Stories, Never Never Land
SUN       Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most
SUN       prestigious literary magazine.
SUN       By Rodrigo Fresan.
SUN       A fascinating story of how the tragic childhood of JM
SUN       Barrie inspired the creation of his most famous work,
SUN       Peter Pan.
SUN       Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Read by Peter Guinness.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00mrygc (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton asks the editor of PM to answer charges that
SUN       the programme is turning into a light entertainment show,
SUN       valuing listeners' opinions more than its own journalists'
SUN       reporting.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00mrzf9 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Including:
SUN       Ultrasound pioneer John Wild - Dr John Reid and Professor
SUN       Kit Hill pay tribute; scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin
SUN       remembered by producers Ted Child and Michael Dealey and
SUN       by writer Keith Dewhurst; a picture of French photographer
SUN       Willy Ronis by his agent Kathleen Grosset and friend Paul
SUN       Ryan; Patti Smith shares her memories of punk poet Jim
SUN       Carroll; and radio producer Leonie Cohn - a tribute from
SUN       her son Paul Finlay and colleague Judith Bumpus.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00mtm9k (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Up to 40 per cent of our private pensions are swallowed up
SUN       in fees - are you paying too much?
SUN       A savings boost for ISA savers over 50, but does your
SUN       local savings branch know?
SUN       And you may be offered a tax rebate of several hundred
SUN       pounds, but don't be fooled by the latest scam.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mtq2m (Listen)
SUN       Primary Trauma Care Foundation
SUN       Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma
SUN       Care Foundation.
SUN       Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent
SUN       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
SUN       your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma
SUN       Care Foundation with your full name and address so they
SUN       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and
SUN       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1116071.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00mr16g (Listen)
SUN       In Defence of Targets
SUN       As NHS targets fall out of political fashion, journalist
SUN       Michael Blastland argues that they could be good for our
SUN       health.
SUN       Targets, once seen by New Labour as the key to improving
SUN       public services, look as if they may be on the way out.
SUN       The devolved health services of Wales and Scotland have
SUN       already retreated from their previous target regimes, the
SUN       Conservative Party has pledged to scrap them in England
SUN       and there are signs that some of Gordon Brown's ministers
SUN       are losing faith in them, too.
SUN       Why then does Michael believe that there is still a case
SUN       for targets?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00mv0m8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00mv0nf (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 b00mrzmt (Listen)
SUN       Atonement director Joe Wright on the effect of the
SUN       recession on Hollywood, and why he wouldn't be able to
SUN       make The Soloist now, even though it was only filmed last
SUN       year.
SUN       Sally Potter on Jude Law in drag and why the love of
SUN       celebrity has become an epidemic.
SUN       Francine Stock makes Neil Brand an offer he can't refuse:
SUN       to play the theme tune from The Godfather.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00mtpdd (Listen)
SUN       A Precious Commodity
SUN       Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of
SUN       clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much
SUN       more than the mere absence of noise.
SUN       The readers are Ian Masters and Liza Sadovy.
SUN       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00mvbvl (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mrc8l (Listen)
MON       Many of us will exchange intimate details of our lives
MON       with our hairdesser or chat to the person on the same
MON       train platform as us every morning on the way to work, but
MON       we probably don't think of either as a friend. Laurie
MON       Taylor discusses the role of acquaintances, and why the
MON       people who are neither friend nor stranger are incredibly
MON       important.
MON       He talks to sociologist David Morgan and anthroplogist
MON       Henrietta Moore about the role of acquaintances in our
MON       lives and finds out why, without them, the very fabric of
MON       society could break down.
MON       Also in the programme, why more than one million tea rooms
MON       opened in the early 20th century and gave American women
MON       their first taste of business and financial freedom.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mtpd8 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from the Parish Church of St Thomas in
MON       Hazel Grove, Stockport.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxb (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc9s (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvc4r (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00mvcdr (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvckm (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00mvcl0 (Listen)
MON       Schools should be doing more to incorporate farming into
MON       the national curriculum. That's according to a recent
MON       study. Charlotte Smith finds out why many children do not
MON       get first hand experience of life on a farm and whether
MON       the recent scare over E.coli will deter more schools from
MON       taking pupils to farms.
MON       Also, the British farmer who sprayed thousands of litres
MON       of milk on her fields explains why she took this protest
MON       action.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00mvr2p (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00mvct1 (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 A History of Private Life b00mvr2r (Listen)
MON       A History of Private Life: Discussion
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion with historian Amanda
MON       Vickery, Simon Jenkins of the National Trust,
MON       anthropologist Daniel Miller and sociologist Elizabeth
MON       Silva. Responding to Amanda Vickery's new series about the
MON       history of private life, they debate the meaning of home
MON       today.
MON       Together they look at the concerns which have dominated
MON       life inside the home for hundreds of years. Why are
MON       tussles over who rules the roost a persistent theme? Are
MON       modern homes increasingly atomised, separated from local
MON       communities and housing an army of home-workers and
MON       divorcing couples unable to afford to sell their houses?
MON       Or are they predominantly a safe refuge from which
MON       householders can show off their exquisite taste and
MON       treasured possessions, while leading harmonious and
MON       socially integrated lives?
MON       The panel examine which of these and many other views
MON       might shape how historians of the future will view the
MON       private lives we lead at the beginning of the 21st century.
MON       
MON       09:30 Einstein's Fiddle b008fcf4 (Listen)
MON       Physicist Brian Foster explores the role of music in the
MON       life of Albert Einstein.
MON       Although best known for his towering scientific
MON       achievements, Einstein was a fine amateur violinist and
MON       occasionally played in public. Indeed, he once said that
MON       he got the most joy in his life from playing the violin.
MON       When he was due to receive his Nobel Prize in 1922, he was
MON       in Japan, not only meeting other physicists but also
MON       giving performancesof the Kreuzer Sonata, one of the most
MON       challenging pieces in the repertoire.
MON       Music also played a role in his work as a physicist. He
MON       would often break off from a particularly difficult piece
MON       of work to play his violin in the hope of seeking
MON       inspiration. And he found parallels between the beauty and
MON       harmony he saw in scientific laws and the music of
MON       composers such as Mozart, which he felt reflected the
MON       inner beauty of the universe itself.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00mvct3 (Listen)
MON       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 1
MON       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
MON       Williams' early life and the enormous influence of her
MON       mother, Vera Brittain, and her father, George Caitlin -
MON       not to mention the permanent house guest, Winifred Holtby.
MON       Abridged by Polly Coles.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvczr (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey. Including:
MON       According to a survey by the Association of Teachers and
MON       Lecturers (ATL), nearly a quarter of school and college
MON       staff have endured physical violence from a student, and
MON       just under 40 per cent have been confronted by an
MON       aggressive parent or guardian. Whilst there are many
MON       schools who don't suffer these problems, teachers in
MON       schools that do appear powerless in the face of ongoing
MON       classroom challenges, pushing some to breaking point. So
MON       do teachers need more powers to discipline children? Jane
MON       is joined by Christine Blower, General Secretary of the
MON       NUT, and journalist Allison Pearson.
MON       Delhi's first single sex train serving a growing number of
MON       female commuters has recently been introduced, with eight
MON       more planned for other major Indian cities. Since India
MON       began economic reforms in the early 1990s, women have
MON       entered the urban work force, initially as government
MON       office workers, but now increasingly as employees in the
MON       booming services sector or in professional jobs. Overall,
MON       the number of working women has roughly doubled in 15
MON       years. But what effect does this increase have on the
MON       traditional family structure and how do working mothers
MON       cope with juggling a demanding job and childcare
MON       responsibilities? Radhika Chopra is a sociologist from the
MON       University of Delhi and Rupa Jha is a BBC Hindi
MON       The English marriage has a long and eccentric history.
MON       Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland
MON       reformed their marriage laws, England continued to stick
MON       to the chaotic laws of the medieval Church making it all
MON       too easy to enter into a marriage, and virtually
MON       impossible to end an unhappy one. Until the second half of
MON       the 19th century, when a woman married, she gave up her
MON       legal rights and literally became the property of her
MON       husband. With a few notable exceptions, people very rarely
MON       married for love. Social historian and author Maureen
MON       Waller talks to Jane about her latest book, The English
MON       Marriage, that covers the fascinating story of marriage's
MON       evolution from medieval times right up until t
MON       Lynne Truss, the best-selling author of Eats, Shoots and
MON       Leaves, talks about her new book, Get Her off the Pitch.
MON       
MON       11:00 Bristol: Cycling City b00mx6bc (Listen)
MON       In 2008 Bristol won the bid to be the demonstration
MON       'Cycling City' for the rest of the country, despite having
MON       lots of hills, narrow roads and a huge level of car
MON       dependency.
MON       A year into the launch of Cycling City, Miles Warde bikes
MON       round Bristol to find out how the initiative is working on
MON       the streets, where the 22.8 million pounds that has been
MON       ringfenced for the project is going, and the chances of
MON       reaching the highly ambitious target of doubling the
MON       number of cyclists in the area within three years.
MON       He hears from a range of cyclists, some of the people
MON       responsible for the budget, and a couple of cycling
MON       visionaries who sense that a better world is within our
MON       grasp.
MON       
MON       11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mvr2w (Listen)
MON       Series 3, Episode 6
MON       Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum.
MON       Walter continues to be suspicious of his wife's attempts
MON       at reconciliation, and the Crumb-Looselys' long-distance
MON       relationship steers towards the rocks.
MON       Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
MON       Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
MON       Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
MON       Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
MON       Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
MON       Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
MON       Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin
MON       Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
MON       Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo
MON       Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson-Wood
MON       Vicar ...... Stephen K Amos.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00mvd1r (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00mvd46 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00mvd4x (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mvs8r (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern
MON       Ireland, versus Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead of Wales.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00mv0lr (Listen)
MON       Ed receives some birthday wisdom.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mw15p (Listen)
MON       Hoffnung - Drawn to Music
MON       Comedy by Alan Stafford exploring the bizarre world of
MON       musical humorist Gerard Hoffnung.
MON       It is 1956, and the fruity-voiced raconteur, tuba player
MON       and occasional Quasimodo impersonator Gerard Hoffnung is
MON       about to unveil his latest madcap scheme, a Hoffnung Music
MON       Festival: a full-scale symphonic concert that will bring
MON       many of his cartoon creations to life and poke fun at the
MON       pomposities of classical music. Will he succeed in filling
MON       the Royal Festival Hall with laughter, or will the whole
MON       enterprise come crashing to earth like a barrel of bricks?
MON       Gerard Hoffnung/Psychiatrist 2 ...... Matt Lucas
MON       Annetta Hoffnung ...... Gina McKee
MON       Donald Swann/Ian Messiter ...... Stephen Boswell
MON       Malcolm Arnold/Bean ...... Nicholas Jones
MON       John Amis/Roy Plomley/Richard Dimbleby ...... Jon Glover
MON       Arthur Drummer ...... Hugh Bonneville
MON       Susan Drummer/Announcer ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Annetta Hoffnung (present day) ...... Herself
MON       Directed by Lissa Evans
MON       An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen)
MON       Self on Ballard
MON       Will Self explores the imagination and work of writer JG
MON       Ballard, who he came to know in his final years. Will
MON       draws on the many telling interviews that Ballard gave
MON       throughout his working life and on Self's own tapes of his
MON       encounters with him.
MON       From his life of suburban anonymity, Ballard charted the
MON       realms of innerspace and the madness of the modern world
MON       with a cool eye and visionary prose.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvf9x (Listen)
MON       The Bed
MON       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
MON       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
MON       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
MON       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
MON       have been specially recorded for the series.
MON       The series begins at the very heart of private life: in
MON       the deep comfort of the matrimonial bed, curtains drawn
MON       round the four-poster. What happened next is revealed by
MON       16th-century diaries - 'curtain lectures', in which the
MON       wife gave her husband a good talking to, and the pleasure
MON       of making up afterwards.
MON       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
MON       and Simon Tcherniak.
MON       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
MON       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
MON       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00mtqyt (Listen)
MON       Slow Cheese
MON       Sheila Dillon travels to Italy to meet producers of rare
MON       and unusual cheeses from around the world. The biennial
MON       event, organised by Slow Food, is aimed at keeping
MON       traditional cheese making alive.
MON       Among the hundreds of cheese producers who travelled to
MON       the northern Italian town were three farmers still making
MON       artisan Somerset Cheddar. It is a cheese which is still
MON       made using raw milk, with a traditional starter and is
MON       crafted by hand and matured in lard soaked muslin.
MON       As Sheila finds out, the Somerset Cheddar makers have
MON       travelled to Bra in a bid to rescue the name of Cheddar
MON       from the world of industrial block cheeses now produced
MON       all over the world.
MON       
MON       16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mw15r (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 5
MON       Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice
MON       of researching family history.
MON       Researching the life of an adoptive relative, living or
MON       deceased, is often challenging. Sally and resident
MON       genealogist Nick Barratt hear listeners' stories about the
MON       emotional process of searching for biological roots and
MON       offer advice on how best to proceed.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00mvgcl (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mvgfq (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00mw196 (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 10
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Featuring
MON       Graham Norton and Paul Merton on how to outdo the other
MON       panellists, Gyles Brandreth on the subject of pretentious
MON       vocabulary, and Pauline McLynn on junk mail.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00mvdwq (Listen)
MON       Jim's charms don't wash with Kathy.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00mvj30 (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
MON       interview with Ricky Gervais about his film The Invention
MON       of Lying, which he has co-written and co-directed.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvkd0 (Listen)
MON       Craven, Episode 1
MON       Police drama by Amelia Bullmore.
MON       DCI Sue Craven's new job starts with a new partner, DS
MON       Watende Robinson, and a burnt-out corpse. But before the
MON       day is out her secret past starts to become a professional
MON       problem that isn't going to go away.
MON       DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake
MON       DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora
MON       Macca ...... Jack Deam
MON       DI Bird ...... David Crellin
MON       DSI Price ...... James Quinn
MON       Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi
MON       Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward
MON       A Red production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:00 Morecambe: Chill Winds on the Bay b00mw25h (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Following 12 months in the life of the seaside town of
MON       Morecambe as it fights a decline into deprivation and
MON       neglect in the teeth of recession. Millions of pounds of
MON       public money is being spent and private investors are
MON       staking their futures on a revival, but will their gamble
MON       pay off?
MON       Preparations for the make-or-break 2009 holiday season.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00mw2nh (Listen)
MON       Who's Afraid of the BNP?
MON       With the BNP hitting the headlines over their 2009 success
MON       in the European elections, Kenan Malik asks what the
MON       liberal response should be. Is it simply enough to
MON       demonise this far-right party, or has the time arrived for
MON       us all to open up to a more sophisticated debate which
MON       allows for a greater understanding of what the BNP stands
MON       for?
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00mw2nk (Listen)
MON       The Great Mineral Heist
MON       Over the past 70 years the levels of crucial minerals in
MON       our basic foods have declined significantly. This is bad
MON       news for consumers in the west, but potentially deadly
MON       news for those in the developing world who cannot afford a
MON       perfectly balanced diet.
MON       Alice Roberts sets out to uncover the culprit and find a
MON       solution. Do we need to shorten our food chains,
MON       de-intensify our agriculture, or simply turn to the
MON       varieties of fruit and veg enjoyed by our grandparents?
MON       In Perthshire, Moira and Cameron Thomson spread their own
MON       mixture of compost and rock dust onto their poor Highland
MON       soils. They are convinced that the rock dust is replacing
MON       the lost minerals from the soil, resulting in enormous and
MON       very tasty broccoli, parsnips and carrots.
MON       Meanwhile at the University of Nottingham, Dr Martin
MON       Broadley uses a combination of mathematics and applied
MON       biology to find a way to breed crop roots that extract
MON       more of the minerals that are available in the soil.
MON       From the Cotswold kitchen of food writer Diane Purkiss to
MON       the world's largest potting shed at the National Soil
MON       Archive in Aberdeen, Alice compares and contrasts the
MON       diet, soils and plants of the 1930s and the present day in
MON       her search for the world's lost minerals.
MON       
MON       21:30 A History of Private Life b00mvr2r (Listen)
MON       A History of Private Life: Discussion
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion with historian Amanda
MON       Vickery, Simon Jenkins of the National Trust,
MON       anthropologist Daniel Miller and sociologist Elizabeth
MON       Silva. Responding to Amanda Vickery's new series about the
MON       history of private life, they debate the meaning of home
MON       today.
MON       Together they look at the concerns which have dominated
MON       life inside the home for hundreds of years. Why are
MON       tussles over who rules the roost a persistent theme? Are
MON       modern homes increasingly atomised, separated from local
MON       communities and housing an army of home-workers and
MON       divorcing couples unable to afford to sell their houses?
MON       Or are they predominantly a safe refuge from which
MON       householders can show off their exquisite taste and
MON       treasured possessions, while leading harmonious and
MON       socially integrated lives?
MON       The panel examine which of these and many other views
MON       might shape how historians of the future will view the
MON       private lives we lead at the beginning of the 21st century.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00mvm0l (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmhg (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mvmq6 (Listen)
MON       Fathers and Sons, Episode 1
MON       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
MON       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
MON       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
MON       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
MON       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
MON       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
MON       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
MON       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
MON       the eternal difficulties between generations.
MON       Arkady returns to his doting father and uncle in the
MON       country. But the guest he brings with him looks set to
MON       ruffle feathers.
MON       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b00d0wns (Listen)
MON       Jude Kelly
MON       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
MON       Jude Kelly, artistic director of London's refurbished
MON       Southbank Centre, where this programme is recorded, uses
MON       extracts from her favourite poetry and literature to argue
MON       the case for the central role of creativity and the arts
MON       in society. Readers are Diana Quick and John Shrapnel.
MON       
MON       23:30 Black Screen Britain b00jhpj7 (Listen)
MON       Reclaiming Our Image
MON       Burt Caesar explores how British film and television drama
MON       portrayed post-war African-Caribbean migrants and created
MON       opportunities for pioneering black actors such as Earl
MON       Cameron, Cy Grant and Mona Hammond.
MON       In the 1970s, a growing number of black writers and film
MON       makers started to challenge the prevailing stereotypes of
MON       black people and to tell their own stories. Burt examines
MON       some of the landmark screen dramas that presented an
MON       alternative view of black lives in Britain.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqv (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00mvct3 (Listen)
TUE       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 1
TUE       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
TUE       Williams' early life and the enormous influence of her
TUE       mother, Vera Brittain, and her father, George Caitlin -
TUE       not to mention the permanent house guest, Winifred Holtby.
TUE       Abridged by Polly Coles.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvn (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc4v (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxd (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9v (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdt (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00mvckp (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00mvcq2 (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mw5n3 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Jonathan Aitken
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken,
TUE       convicted of perjury in 1999, takes Wendy to Dublin to
TUE       talk about his childhood there, where he remembers his
TUE       unconventional early home - a hospital ward run by
TUE       Catholic nuns for children with TB. They also visit his
TUE       second home in Halesworth in Suffolk, where Jonathan
TUE       learned to walk again, as did his father, who had been
TUE       severely injured during the Second World War.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 The Good Samaritan b00mw5n5 (Listen)
TUE       The Butterfields' Story
TUE       Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping
TUE       hand, with varying consequences.
TUE       Jane and Ashley Butterfield used to organise railway tours
TUE       of India. Distressed by the sight of children living rough
TUE       near railway lines, they set up their own charity to run a
TUE       home for girls on the outskirts of Delhi.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsvp (Listen)
TUE       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 2
TUE       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
TUE       During the Second World War, Williams and her brother are
TUE       sent to America as evacuees. When she returns, she is one
TUE       of the first young people to visit war-shattered Germany.
TUE       Abridged by Polly Coles.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxc (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Craven.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00mw5n7 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, In Search of Jenny
TUE       Gorillas first came to the attention of the western world
TUE       in 1847 when the missionary, Thomas Savage, travelling in
TUE       west Africa, was shown a skull he was convinced belonged
TUE       to a new species of ape. Eight years later gorillas
TUE       remained little known; only a few people had even glimpsed
TUE       them in the wild and the species was recognised only from
TUE       its bones. But, unknown to anyone, was a young gorilla
TUE       already living anonymously in England?
TUE       In 1855, Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie exhibited a
TUE       chimpanzee called Jenny. Jenny was not kept with the other
TUE       wild beasts but lived in her own apartment. She had her
TUE       own governess and was dressed in human clothes. Was Jenny
TUE       a chimpanzee or was she, in reality, a gorilla? Karen
TUE       Partridge goes in search of the evidence.
TUE       Jenny's journey out of Africa a little over 150 years ago
TUE       marked the beginning of our tortuous and often misguided
TUE       association with gorillas. In this International Year of
TUE       the Gorilla, Karen Partridge uncovers Jenny's story and
TUE       explores our changing relationship with gorillas, both in
TUE       captivity and in the wild.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration b00mwl6s (Listen)
TUE       Children's writer Michael Morpurgo travels to the Isles of
TUE       Scilly to explore their myths and legends, and how they
TUE       have been a huge source of inspiration to his writing.
TUE       He reluctantly visited Scilly for the first time over 30
TUE       years ago, but the experience was a revelation to him as
TUE       he discovered that, 'every rock and wreck has a story to
TUE       tell'. Morpurgo speaks to Scillonians about life there and
TUE       considers the islands' exceptional natural beauty, rich
TUE       history and sense of community.
TUE       He also investigates some of the local stories which have
TUE       provided source material for some of his best known
TUE       novels, including Why the Whales Came.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00mvczt (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00mvd1t (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00mvd48 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Soul Music b00mw5v5 (Listen)
TUE       Series 8, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs
TUE       Series exploring famous pieces of music and their
TUE       emotional appeal.
TUE       Richard Strauss was 84 when he completed his last work. It
TUE       was the Four Last Songs, which, although about death,
TUE       convey a sense of calm acceptance. It was written of its
TUE       time in 1948, but it still touches the hearts of many
TUE       listeners today.
TUE       As the soprano voice delves ever deeper into the richness
TUE       of the music, interviewees tell how the Four Last Songs
TUE       have brought calm and beauty at key moments in their lives.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00mvdwq (Listen)
TUE       Jim's charms don't wash with Kathy.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00byn74 (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, Gangs of London
TUE       Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the
TUE       head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the
TUE       news to the masses.
TUE       By Mike Walker.
TUE       New criminal gangs are active on the streets of London. A
TUE       mugging of their financier Joseph Paxton points Dickens
TUE       and his investigative team to a connection between the
TUE       gangs and a plot to rock the very heart of the financial
TUE       world.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Jack Marshall ...... Freddy White
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall
TUE       Mickey's Jim ...... Gerard Murphy
TUE       Iron Billy ...... John Rowe
TUE       Gasman ...... Ben Crowe
TUE       Harry ...... Stephen Critchlow
TUE       Thug ...... Chris Pavlo
TUE       Woman ...... Liz Sutherland
TUE       Directed by David Hunter.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00mw7dq (Listen)
TUE       Sea levels are rising. Its a slow rise on a human scale
TUE       but inexorable. Within a few decades we are likely to see
TUE       significant amounts of coastal land disappear. But just
TUE       what will this mean for the ecology of the Earth. Will a
TUE       more watery world have a radically different climate? Will
TUE       it become a soggier place to live overall?
TUE       A wetter world might make it harder to get around but
TUE       until that happens, one Home Planet listener wants to put
TUE       trucks and lorries under curfew to reduce the congestion
TUE       on our busy roads. Is this a good idea and will it really
TUE       make it easier to travel?
TUE       We return to the thorny issue of disposing of unwanted
TUE       wood. Isn't it, asks one listener, a good idea to bury it
TUE       in landfill and lock the carbon it contains safely away
TUE       from the atmosphere? And we look again at hemp. It seems
TUE       that much has happened in the few short weeks since we
TUE       last discussed the potential of this plant.
TUE       On the panel are planning expert Professor Yvonne Rydin,
TUE       sustainable development specialist Dr Ros Taylor and
TUE       Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from
TUE       the University of London.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwcyy (Listen)
TUE       Welsh Rarebits, Golden Swirls
TUE       Series of new short stories from Wales by established and
TUE       lesser-known authors.
TUE       By Anna Smith, read by Matthew Gravelle.
TUE       Seventeen-year-old Gavin does not enjoy being a carpet
TUE       fitter - especially when he has to placate Mrs Leopold, an
TUE       unsatisfied customer with a swirly coffee-coloured carpet.
TUE       But when they feel the wool/nylon mix beneath their bare
TUE       feet, both are surprised at where it leads them.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvfp9 (Listen)
TUE       Things That Go Bump in the Night
TUE       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
TUE       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
TUE       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
TUE       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
TUE       have been specially recorded for the series.
TUE       Outside the home, dark forces gathered: witches and
TUE       ghosts, who came through the windows and doors at night
TUE       and threatened people in bed. Testimonials from witchcraft
TUE       trials reveal people's darkest fears and fantasies about
TUE       what happened outside at night, and how their homes
TUE       protected them.
TUE       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
TUE       and Simon Tcherniak.
TUE       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
TUE       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
TUE       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the
TUE       Primary S b00mwm63 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
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 parallels between the Victorian
TUE       'payment-by-results' approach and the pressures of league
TUE       tables and the national test targets set by Tony Blair's
TUE       New Labour government. It reveals how teachers lost the
TUE       trust of government and how politicians 'nationalised'
TUE       teaching. Calling on vivid views and reminiscences of
TUE       parents and teachers, the programme hears how some
TUE       welcomed the new focus on a centralised curriculum and
TUE       test targets while others hated it.
TUE       Through interviews with key policy makers and experts,
TUE       including David Blunkett, Sir Tim Brighouse and Prof Robin
TUE       Alexander, the programme explains why arguments over
TUE       curriculum, teaching methods and testing are deeply rooted
TUE       in our ideas about the nature, development and role of
TUE       young people in society.
TUE       The former Chief Inspector of Schools in England, Chris
TUE       Woodhead, who helped devise the national curriculum,
TUE       reveals that he now thinks that a centrally-set timetable
TUE       is the wrong approach. Instead, he advocates a market
TUE       system based on parental vouchers. After several swings of
TUE       the pendulum between the extremes of formality versus
TUE       informality, facts versus skills and basics versus
TUE       creativity, the programme asks where the balance should
TUE       lie now and in the future.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00mwm65 (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Rudyard Kipling
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to
TUE       the British Empire. They are joined by Kipling biographer
TUE       Andrew Lycett.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00mvgb5 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mvgcn (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mwm67 (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, Episode 6
TUE       Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert
TUE       Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland.
TUE       Including Britain's top police tortoise, why you need to
TUE       eat an enormous amount of yoghurt, the short-lived history
TUE       of the Tudor salad, and a panel of old ladies give David
TUE       and Robert some career advice.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00mvddk (Listen)
TUE       The battle lines are drawn for Neil and Lynda.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00mvgfs (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang reports from Tate
TUE       Modern on Pop Life, a new exhibition about the
TUE       relationship between art, money and fame.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4s (Listen)
TUE       Craven, Episode 2
TUE       Police drama by Amelia Bullmore.
TUE       DCI Sue Craven and DS Watende Robinson unite against
TUE       bigotry and rising racial tensions, both in the office and
TUE       on their murder cases, as things get personal and
TUE       compromised.
TUE       DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake
TUE       DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora
TUE       Macca ...... Jack Deam
TUE       DI Bird ...... David Crellin
TUE       DSI Price ...... James Quinn
TUE       Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi
TUE       Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward
TUE       A Red production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00mwms4 (Listen)
TUE       Following criticism of the NHS over the system failures
TUE       which allowed a man with schizophrenia to kill two people,
TUE       Miriam O'Reilly investigates claims of widespread problems
TUE       in community mental health services which are allowing
TUE       dangerous patients to commit violent offences or to harm
TUE       themselves.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00mwms6 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Adults With Autism b00mwms8 (Listen)
TUE       With an estimated half a million adult autistics in this
TUE       country, Mike Embley explores the autistic mind and asks
TUE       why so many people are diagnosed later in life. He finds
TUE       out about the help and support available as well as the
TUE       latest scientific research, from the investigation of
TUE       genes and hormones to MRI scans to look inside the
TUE       autistic brain.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mw5n3 (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Jonathan Aitken
TUE       Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood
TUE       neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
TUE       Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken,
TUE       convicted of perjury in 1999, takes Wendy to Dublin to
TUE       talk about his childhood there, where he remembers his
TUE       unconventional early home - a hospital ward run by
TUE       Catholic nuns for children with TB. They also visit his
TUE       second home in Halesworth in Suffolk, where Jonathan
TUE       learned to walk again, as did his father, who had been
TUE       severely injured during the Second World War.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00mvm0b (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh4 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jm (Listen)
TUE       Fathers and Sons, Episode 2
TUE       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
TUE       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
TUE       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
TUE       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
TUE       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
TUE       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
TUE       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
TUE       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
TUE       the eternal difficulties between generations.
TUE       The powerful influence that Arkady's new friend Bavarov
TUE       exerts on the young graduate, and the radical views he
TUE       holds, begin to become clear to both Arkady's doting
TUE       father, Nikolay, and his fastidious uncle, Pavel.
TUE       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Child's Play b00mwr6b (Listen)
TUE       Comedy by Lucy Clarke, set in a children's nursery.
TUE       After an indiscretion involving OAPS, MRSA and mint
TUE       humbugs, Harry, a chirpy City boy, is banished to the
TUE       country by his boss and told to turn a village nursery
TUE       into a money-making machine, or face the sack. There, he
TUE       comes head to head with Pen, who used to run the nursery
TUE       before her husband sold it and ran off to South America
TUE       with a stripper.
TUE       Pen ...... Olivia Colman
TUE       Harry ...... Nicholas Burns
TUE       Ruth ...... Daisy Haggard
TUE       Rex ...... Matthew Holmes
TUE       Vicar ...... Rachel Atkins
TUE       Rabbi ...... Geoffrey McGivern
TUE       Catholic priest/Imam ...... Ewan Hooper
TUE       Joanne ...... Barbara Smith
TUE       Darren ...... Bradley Ford.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007gyxy (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 3
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       jockey who begins his career on the sands of Blackpool
TUE       beach and ends in a thrilling photo-finish in Dubai.
TUE       Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy
TUE       Montgomery.
TUE       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqx (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsvp (Listen)
WED       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 2
WED       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
WED       During the Second World War, Williams and her brother are
WED       sent to America as evacuees. When she returns, she is one
WED       of the first young people to visit war-shattered Germany.
WED       Abridged by Polly Coles.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvq (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc4x (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxg (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9x (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdw (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00mvckr (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00mvcq5 (Listen)
WED       With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00mwrh7 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Timothy Knatchbull.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv5 (Listen)
WED       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 3
WED       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
WED       In 1964, Williams is elected as Labour MP for Hitchin. She
WED       examines the difficulties facing a woman MP, many of which
WED       continue even today.
WED       Abridged by Polly Coles.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxf (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven.
WED       
WED       11:00 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen)
WED       For the last 30 years, staff at the world's largest earth
WED       satellite station in Herefordshire have watched global
WED       news unfold - immediate, uncensored and unedited. Foreign
WED       correspondent Hugh Sykes visits the site and meets the
WED       workers who have seen world history in the raw.
WED       
WED       11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00jf3hl (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Fife Circle
WED       Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.
WED       Two elderly brothers meet at Waverley station and set out
WED       on a journey of discovery involving lost mothers, fathers,
WED       brothers and sisters, and learn just whom they really
WED       belong to.
WED       By Michael Chaplin.
WED       Sir Hugh Dundas/Alex Kelly ...... Stanley Baxter
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
WED       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00mvczw (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00mvd1w (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00mvd4b (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00mwrhc (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00mvddk (Listen)
WED       The battle lines are drawn for Neil and Lynda.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bw6vp (Listen)
WED       Take One Night
WED       By Rachel Joyce.
WED       On the eve of their son's 10th birthday, Alan and Alice
WED       start work assembling his present. The only instruction
WED       they can find simply says, 'Take one night'.
WED       Alan ...... Robert Bathurst
WED       Alice ...... Felicity Montagu
WED       William ...... Charlie Rowe
WED       Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00mwrhf (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on
WED       financial issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwfcc (Listen)
WED       Welsh Rarebits, Moving On
WED       Series of new short stories from Wales by established and
WED       lesser-known authors.
WED       By Catrin Gerallt, read by Sara McGaughey.
WED       Now that Gareth has left, Bethan is on her own again,
WED       quietly terrified at finding herself in the category
WED       'newly single mother-of-two'. But an encounter in an Irish
WED       bar makes her realise that life is full of possibilities.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvg03 (Listen)
WED       The State in Miniature
WED       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
WED       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
WED       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
WED       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
WED       have been specially recorded for the series.
WED       The hierarchy within the home was supposed to reflect the
WED       well-ordered society outside it. That was the theory,
WED       anyway. But what do letters and diaries from the 16th and
WED       17th centuries tell us about who was really in charge?
WED       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
WED       and Simon Tcherniak.
WED       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
WED       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
WED       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mwrhh (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor discusses the language of crime and the
WED       codes of criminal communication with Diego Gambetta, mafia
WED       scholar and criminal sociologist. He finds out why, in
WED       order to survive in the criminal underworld, language
WED       requires subtle, coded and sometimes gruesome modes of
WED       communication.
WED       From horses heads in bed to scars and tattoos, Laurie
WED       finds out why the language of the criminal underworld is
WED       often written in code.
WED       
WED       16:30 Adults With Autism b00mwms8 (Listen)
WED       With an estimated half a million adult autistics in this
WED       country, Mike Embley explores the autistic mind and asks
WED       why so many people are diagnosed later in life. He finds
WED       out about the help and support available as well as the
WED       latest scientific research, from the investigation of
WED       genes and hormones to MRI scans to look inside the
WED       autistic brain.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00mvgb7 (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 b00mvgcq (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Chain Reaction b00mwrhk (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Alistair McGowan
WED       Chat show in which the one week's interviewee becomes the
WED       following week's interviewer.
WED       Alastair Campbell interviews impressionist, comedian and
WED       actor Alistair McGowan.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00mvddm (Listen)
WED       Tony feels usurped at Home Farm.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00mvgfv (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review
WED       of a new stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring
WED       Anna Friel.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4v (Listen)
WED       Craven, Episode 3
WED       Police drama by Amelia Bullmore.
WED       Craven risks exposure as Robinson gets nearer to the
WED       intimate truth of the Fenton murder case. As Craven
WED       promises to look into racial harassment by the force in
WED       the past, DI Bird's sloppy policing threatens its future.
WED       DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake
WED       DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora
WED       Macca ...... Jack Deam
WED       DI Bird ...... David Crellin
WED       DSI Price ...... James Quinn
WED       Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi
WED       Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward
WED       A Red production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: The Primary School
WED       Debate b00mws3r (Listen)
WED       Following education journalist Mike Baker's three-part
WED       series on the history of primary schools, Jane Garvey
WED       chairs a debate on the future of education for the under
WED       11s.
WED       2009 sees a critical and uncertain time in primary
WED       schooling. The 'root and branch reform' of the curriculum
WED       promised by schools secretary Ed Balls has led to the
WED       publication of Sir Jim Rose's review. The wider-ranging
WED       Cambridge Primary Review, led by Prof Robin Alexander, is
WED       also due. Add to the mix a possible change of political
WED       leadership before the new system is implemented in
WED       September 2011, and the only real certainty is that major
WED       change will come to a primary school near you.
WED       The programme is recorded at the Institute of Education in
WED       London, in front of an audience. The expert panel, made up
WED       of primary practictioners, educationalists and parents,
WED       take questions and comments from the audience and set out
WED       to address the question, 'What is the purpose of primary
WED       education, and how can we best provide it?'.
WED       
WED       20:45 Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It b00mws3t (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
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? Is the news agenda now
WED       about race, health and education issues, or is terrorism a
WED       black hole from which the headlines can never fully escape?
WED       Reporter Tara Mills finds out how journalists and
WED       politicians have made the leap from being feted by
WED       presidents and prime ministers to having to deal with the
WED       backlog of 'normal' politics.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00mw5n7 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, In Search of Jenny
WED       Gorillas first came to the attention of the western world
WED       in 1847 when the missionary, Thomas Savage, travelling in
WED       west Africa, was shown a skull he was convinced belonged
WED       to a new species of ape. Eight years later gorillas
WED       remained little known; only a few people had even glimpsed
WED       them in the wild and the species was recognised only from
WED       its bones. But, unknown to anyone, was a young gorilla
WED       already living anonymously in England?
WED       In 1855, Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie exhibited a
WED       chimpanzee called Jenny. Jenny was not kept with the other
WED       wild beasts but lived in her own apartment. She had her
WED       own governess and was dressed in human clothes. Was Jenny
WED       a chimpanzee or was she, in reality, a gorilla? Karen
WED       Partridge goes in search of the evidence.
WED       Jenny's journey out of Africa a little over 150 years ago
WED       marked the beginning of our tortuous and often misguided
WED       association with gorillas. In this International Year of
WED       the Gorilla, Karen Partridge uncovers Jenny's story and
WED       explores our changing relationship with gorillas, both in
WED       captivity and in the wild.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00mwrh7 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Timothy Knatchbull.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00mvm0d (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh6 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
WED       Shah.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jf (Listen)
WED       Fathers and Sons, Episode 3
WED       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
WED       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
WED       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
WED       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
WED       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
WED       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
WED       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
WED       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
WED       the eternal difficulties between generations.
WED       Increasingly irritated by Bavarov's dismissal of the older
WED       generation and all they stand for, Pavel Petrovich
WED       determines to have a set-to with him - but the results are
WED       not as he would have hoped.
WED       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED       
WED       23:00 Cowards b007jf0x (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Episode 6
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       b00g4zgx (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett.
WED       Charles comes face to face with the murderer in the BBC
WED       sound effects store.
WED       Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy
WED       Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden
WED       Juliet Paris/Pixie ...... Tilly Gaunt
WED       Maurice ...... Jon Glover
WED       Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson
WED       Jamie ...... Alex Lanipekun
WED       Toby ...... Paul Rider
WED       Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond
WED       Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo
WED       Directed by Sally Avens.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqz (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv5 (Listen)
THU       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 3
THU       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
THU       In 1964, Williams is elected as Labour MP for Hitchin. She
THU       examines the difficulties facing a woman MP, many of which
THU       continue even today.
THU       Abridged by Polly Coles.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvs (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc50 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxj (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9z (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdy (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00mvckt (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00mvcq7 (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00mwsly (Listen)
THU       Akhenaton
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson
THU       and Kate Spence discuss Akhenaton, the ruler who brought
THU       revolutionary change to ancient Egypt.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv7 (Listen)
THU       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 4
THU       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
THU       The launch of the Social Democratic Party in 1981.
THU       Determined not to be seen as merely a London initiative,
THU       the four new leaders went on a whirlwind tour of the
THU       country. It looked like the dawning of a new political age.
THU       Abridged by Polly Coles.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxh (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00mwsm0 (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 Encore! b00mw5nc (Listen)
THU       Singer Guy Garvey explores the development of the musical
THU       encore, from the spontaneous demand for a repeat
THU       performance to the predictable delivery of a closing party
THU       piece.
THU       Speaking to fellow performers and hearing from historians,
THU       he discovers how the encore has progressed over time. In
THU       the 17th and 18th century orchestras would be applauded
THU       after each movement of a symphony, often repeating the
THU       most popular movements a number of times before moving on
THU       the rest of the concert. The demand for more seemed to be
THU       spontaneous and unexpected. Nowadays, however, all encores
THU       are saved for the end of an evening and are hardly, if
THU       ever, a repeat of what has been heard before.
THU       Guy asks how acts choose their encores, if there is an art
THU       to the good encore and if there are any artists today who
THU       are trying to breath new life into the practice.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00mvczy (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00mvd1y (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00mvd4d (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00mw2nk (Listen)
THU       The Great Mineral Heist
THU       Over the past 70 years the levels of crucial minerals in
THU       our basic foods have declined significantly. This is bad
THU       news for consumers in the west, but potentially deadly
THU       news for those in the developing world who cannot afford a
THU       perfectly balanced diet.
THU       Alice Roberts sets out to uncover the culprit and find a
THU       solution. Do we need to shorten our food chains,
THU       de-intensify our agriculture, or simply turn to the
THU       varieties of fruit and veg enjoyed by our grandparents?
THU       In Perthshire, Moira and Cameron Thomson spread their own
THU       mixture of compost and rock dust onto their poor Highland
THU       soils. They are convinced that the rock dust is replacing
THU       the lost minerals from the soil, resulting in enormous and
THU       very tasty broccoli, parsnips and carrots.
THU       Meanwhile at the University of Nottingham, Dr Martin
THU       Broadley uses a combination of mathematics and applied
THU       biology to find a way to breed crop roots that extract
THU       more of the minerals that are available in the soil.
THU       From the Cotswold kitchen of food writer Diane Purkiss to
THU       the world's largest potting shed at the National Soil
THU       Archive in Aberdeen, Alice compares and contrasts the
THU       diet, soils and plants of the 1930s and the present day in
THU       her search for the world's lost minerals.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00mvddm (Listen)
THU       Tony feels usurped at Home Farm.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bfyc8 (Listen)
THU       A Wedding in Krakow
THU       Ewa Banaszkiewicz's tender story offers a fresh
THU       perspective on the lives of Polish people living in
THU       England.
THU       Staszek returns to Krakow for his daughter's wedding. He
THU       has been dreading the visit, having abandoned his pregnant
THU       girlfriend 20 years before. Not only is he tortured by
THU       guilt at having never lived up to being a father, he also
THU       has a secret that he would like to keep.
THU       Staszek ...... Peter Czajkowski
THU       Sandra ...... Helen Longworth
THU       Zuza ...... Aneta Piotrowska
THU       Wojtek ...... Sebastian Palka
THU       Ela ...... Joanna Kanska
THU       Stefan ...... Wojtek Piekarski
THU       Maria ...... Ruth Posner
THU       Directed by Pam Marshall.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00mtm8z (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 2
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       The second section of the route takes Clare from Belford
THU       to Beadnell in the company of Iain Robson and Tom
THU       Cadwallender, who guide Clare through the highlights of
THU       this stretch of the route. Iain and Tom both help to
THU       maintain the area for the Northumberland National Park,
THU       and the two long-distance paths on their patch help to
THU       ensure that a steady stream of enthusiastic walkers visit
THU       the county.
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 b00mtq2m (Listen)
THU       Primary Trauma Care Foundation
THU       Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma
THU       Care Foundation.
THU       Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent
THU       to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of
THU       your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
THU       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma
THU       Care Foundation with your full name and address so they
THU       can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and
THU       phone donation facilities are not currently available to
THU       listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 1116071.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwfcf (Listen)
THU       Welsh Rarebits, Hurry On Sundown
THU       Series of new short stories from Wales by established and
THU       lesser-known authors.
THU       By Dan Anthony, read by Iestyn Jones.
THU       In a police cell, Cliff tries to work out just what is
THU       worst about his situation - the fact that he is about to
THU       be charged for drunk and disorderly behaviour or that he
THU       appears to have time-travelled nearly 40 years.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvfzz (Listen)
THU       Into the Closet
THU       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
THU       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
THU       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
THU       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
THU       have been specially recorded for the series.
THU       By the 17th century, privacy meant withdrawing into a
THU       closet - a tiny private space in the corner of a room.
THU       There people could pray, read, play music and escape from
THU       the rest of the household. For women, it was often their
THU       only private space, as revealed by the shocking diary of a
THU       woman married to a psychopath, who managed to lock herself
THU       into her closet to escape from him.
THU       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
THU       and Simon Tcherniak.
THU       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
THU       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
THU       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00mtwd1 (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup celebrates fiction from Down Under, in
THU       conversation with some of Australia's best-known writers.
THU       Richard Flanagan, the author of the cult bestseller
THU       Gould's Book of Fish, explains how the sometimes painful
THU       history of his native Tasmania became the subject of his
THU       latest novel Wanting.
THU       Tim Winton, whose books include Dirt Music and Breath,
THU       describes the Western Australian landscape that has
THU       inspired most of his work.
THU       And Thomas Keneally, the Booker-winning author of
THU       Schindler's Ark, joins the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright
THU       to discuss a major new anthology of Australian literature
THU       with the collection's editor, Nicholas Jose.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00mwtcn (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00mvgb9 (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 b00mvgcs (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gd4sy (Listen)
THU       Series 4, Alf Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare
THU       Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur
THU       Strong is an expert in everything from the world of
THU       entertainment to the origins of the species, all false
THU       starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a
THU       delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
THU       After Gerry takes a tumble over a bucket mysteriously left
THU       in his cafe, Arthur steps in and offers to 'do an Alf
THU       Ramsey' by running the cafe in Gerry's absence. Culinary
THU       experimentation, customer service... Arthur's a natural.
THU       Or is he...?
THU       With Steve Delaney, Sue Perkins, Dave Mounfield and
THU       Alastair Kerr.
THU       A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for
THU       BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00mvddp (Listen)
THU       Mike gives Brenda a mixed blessing.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00mvgfx (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
THU       interview with the leading bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4x (Listen)
THU       Craven, Episode 4
THU       Police drama by Amelia Bullmore.
THU       Happiness is short-lived as Craven is blamed in the press
THU       for DI Terry Bird's failings. Robinson discovers Craven's
THU       secret relationship with a witness, compromising both the
THU       investigation and her job.
THU       DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake
THU       DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora
THU       Macca ...... Jack Deam
THU       DI Bird ...... David Crellin
THU       DSI Price ...... James Quinn
THU       Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi
THU       Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward
THU       A Red production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00mwtcq (Listen)
THU       Sarah Rainsford investigates the mysterious disappearance
THU       of The Arctic Sea, the Russian-operated cargo ship which
THU       went missing off the coast of Britain.
THU       Was it the first modern case of piracy in Europe? Was the
THU       vessel part of a smuggling operation by the Russian mafia?
THU       Or was it an arms shipment on the way to the Middle East?
THU       Sarah explores the different theories as she retraces the
THU       ship's journey.
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00mwty5 (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 b00mwwgc (Listen)
THU       If two unknown young scientists came to the funding
THU       agencies today and said they wanted to try building wire
THU       models of molecules, would they get support? Unlikely
THU       perhaps, but in 1952, the young Crick and Watson were
THU       supported for just that and, as everyone knows, they went
THU       on to discover the secret of life: the structure of DNA.
THU       Today, the chief executive of Britain's Medical Research
THU       Council is Sir Leszek Botysiewicz, and he tells Geoff
THU       Watts about his prorities for funding basic research.
THU       They discuss if there is a place among all the urgent
THU       needs of clinical medicine for fundamental research that
THU       may not bear practical fruit for decades. Sir Leszek also
THU       describes his own research into viral immunity, which is
THU       already bringing very practical health gains in the form
THU       of one of the world's first anti-cancer vaccines.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00mwsly (Listen)
THU       Akhenaton
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson
THU       and Kate Spence discuss Akhenaton, the ruler who brought
THU       revolutionary change to ancient Egypt.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00mvm0g (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh8 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jh (Listen)
THU       Fathers and Sons, Episode 4
THU       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
THU       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
THU       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
THU       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
THU       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
THU       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
THU       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
THU       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
THU       the eternal difficulties between generations.
THU       Arkady and Bavarov abandon the older generation for the
THU       delights of town, the governor's ball and independent
THU       women.
THU       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
THU       
THU       23:00 Poetry Slam b00mx3y7 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Episode 2
THU       The second 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 South Street Arts Centre in
THU       Reading.
THU       Nine contestants from all around the country battle it out
THU       for three places in the final.
THU       For free tickets for the recording of the Poetry Slam
THU       final, at the Conservatoire in Birmingham on Tuesday 6th
THU       October at 7pm, please visit the Birmingham Book Festival
THU       website or ring 0121 303 2323.
THU       
THU       23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076pzj (Listen)
THU       The Comfort of Strangers
THU       Jon Ronson collects a series of extraordinary stories to
THU       illuminate the human condition.
THU       Jon talks to Abdullah Redpath, who found and then lost the
THU       love of his life in a remarkable 12-hour period. Comedian
THU       Danny Robins tries to make new friends in Amsterdam and
THU       Miranda Sawyer interviews Mark Pilkington, who hitch-hiked
THU       and found himself in the company of helpful strangers who
THU       turned out to be criminals.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00mvbr1 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv7 (Listen)
FRI       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 4
FRI       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
FRI       The launch of the Social Democratic Party in 1981.
FRI       Determined not to be seen as merely a London initiative,
FRI       the four new leaders went on a whirlwind tour of the
FRI       country. It looked like the dawning of a new political age.
FRI       Abridged by Polly Coles.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvv (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc52 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxl (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00mvcb1 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcf0 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00mvckw (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00mvcqb (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00mtqyr (Listen)
FRI       Barry Manilow
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow.
FRI       He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30
FRI       years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it
FRI       was never the career he intended to have. He always knew
FRI       he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind
FRI       the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by
FRI       his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always
FRI       scarce and family life often difficult - but when there
FRI       was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home
FRI       was a happy one.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv9 (Listen)
FRI       Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 5
FRI       Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography.
FRI       Despite its initial huge promise, the SDP finally wound
FRI       down and merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the
FRI       Liberal Democrats.
FRI       Abridged by Polly Coles.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxk (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Black Men Can't Swim b00mvr2t (Listen)
FRI       Actor, comedian and non-swimmer Matt Blaize investigates
FRI       why fewer black people swim in the UK than the population
FRI       as a whole.
FRI       He examines physiological theories and training methods
FRI       and assesses the effect of cultural influences. Is it a
FRI       case of 'can't swim' or 'don't swim'? Does the lack of
FRI       role models dampen the desire to succeed at this sport
FRI       rather than at football or basketball, for example?
FRI       Matt travels to the United States to meet black swimmer
FRI       and Beijing Olympic gold medallist Cullen Jones, and, at
FRI       the age of 39, starts to learn to swim himself.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mx6bf (Listen)
FRI       Separate Tables
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       Brunswick has been sent undercover indefinitely in the
FRI       hope that it will make him forget his deadly grudge
FRI       against Inspector Steine. But Mrs Groynes seems more
FRI       interested in Twitten's criminal records.
FRI       Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
FRI       Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
FRI       Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green
FRI       Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro
FRI       Unknown Villain ...... Adrian Bower
FRI       Ventriloquist Vince ...... Ewan Bailey
FRI       BBC Announcer/Tony ...... David Holt.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00mvd00 (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00mvd20 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00mvd4g (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00mx8rf (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00mvddp (Listen)
FRI       Mike gives Brenda a mixed blessing.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00mx8rh (Listen)
FRI       Love in A Glass Jar
FRI       Comedy by Nancy Harris.
FRI       Eve and Patrick are two strangers who begin chatting on a
FRI       dating website and agree to meet face-to-face in a hotel
FRI       room in order to carry out an unofficial sperm donation.
FRI       They both know why they are there, but do they know what
FRI       they want?
FRI       Eve ...... Niamh Cusack
FRI       Patrick ...... Lorcan Cranitch
FRI       Seamus Kenny ...... Stephen Hogan.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mx963 (Listen)
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer
FRI       questions posed by the gardeners of New Waltham, near
FRI       Grimsby.
FRI       John meets some of the characters behind Grimsby in Bloom,
FRI       including the man responsible for galvanising the
FRI       community into gardening action.
FRI       Jeffrey Bates from the RHS offers some tips on how your
FRI       town or village could enter next year's Britain in Bloom
FRI       campaign.
FRI       Pippa Greenwood meets some green-fingered kids in
FRI       Hampshire who are taking part in the Tree Council's Seed
FRI       Gathering Season.
FRI       And Matthew explains how simple it is to sow green manure
FRI       and so avoid exposing the bare earth to winter weather.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvg01 (Listen)
FRI       Every Man's Home is His Castle
FRI       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
FRI       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
FRI       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
FRI       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
FRI       have been specially recorded for the series.
FRI       Elaborate rituals of locking up at night protected the
FRI       house from burglars. Records from Old Bailey trials reveal
FRI       how widespread burglary was, and how the law enshrined
FRI       that, 'the Englishman's home is his castle'.
FRI       Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly
FRI       and Simon Tcherniak.
FRI       Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David
FRI       Owen Norris at the keyboard.
FRI       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00mx965 (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 b00mydlf (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to French film-maker Agnes Varda
FRI       about her career, from the French New Wave to her latest
FRI       documentary, The Beaches of Agnes.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00mvgbc (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 b00mvgcv (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00mydlh (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 2
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
FRI       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and
FRI       Sue Perkins.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00mvddr (Listen)
FRI       Jack goes on a downward spiral.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00mvgfz (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to artist Damien
FRI       Hirst as he paints at his easel, cooks in his kitchen, and
FRI       visits the Wallace Collection in London, where his
FRI       paintings will hang along with Old Masters.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4z (Listen)
FRI       Craven, Episode 5
FRI       Police drama by Amelia Bullmore.
FRI       With Robinson demanding Craven's resignation and refusing
FRI       to work with her, Craven and DI Bird are forced into an
FRI       uncomfortable pretence at teamwork to solve the JJ case.
FRI       With Macca's trust betrayed, can Craven's mistakes, past
FRI       and present, ever be forgiven?
FRI       DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake
FRI       DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora
FRI       Macca ...... Jack Deam
FRI       DI Bird ...... David Crellin
FRI       DSI Price ...... James Quinn
FRI       Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi
FRI       Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward
FRI       A Red production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00mydlk (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Altrincham in
FRI       Cheshire. The panellists include Jo Swinson, Liberal
FRI       Democrat junior spokesperson on foreign affairs, and Eric
FRI       Pickles, chairman of the Conservative Party.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mydlm (Listen)
FRI       Amber
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       As a boy, David Attenborough had a piece of amber in which
FRI       lay a blood-sucking fly; he still has it today. Would it
FRI       be possible to extract the DNA from one of these insects
FRI       caught in the resin and, maybe, recreate a dinosaur?
FRI       
FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00mydlq (Listen)
FRI       Episode 1
FRI       Omnibus edition of Prof Amanda Vickery's series revealing
FRI       the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on
FRI       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
FRI       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
FRI       have been specially recorded for the series.
FRI       The search for privacy, safety and comfort in the 16th and
FRI       17th centuries.
FRI       The readers are Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine
FRI       Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.
FRI       The singers are Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with
FRI       David Owen Norris at the keyboard.
FRI       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00mvm0j (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmhb (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jk (Listen)
FRI       Fathers and Sons, Episode 5
FRI       Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First
FRI       published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from
FRI       university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov,
FRI       shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of
FRI       the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older
FRI       generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was
FRI       both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing
FRI       times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of
FRI       the eternal difficulties between generations.
FRI       Arkady and Bavarov carry out their proposed visit to Anna
FRI       Sergeyevna Odintsova's country estate and find that time
FRI       flies in good company.
FRI       Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00mwm65 (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Rudyard Kipling
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to
FRI       the British Empire. They are joined by Kipling biographer
FRI       Andrew Lycett.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Misfits in France b00f4prv (Listen)
FRI       Broken in Berneval, Soaked in the Sea
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       Julian and Hermione travel to the north coast of France,
FRI       where, in the late 1860s, the poet Algernon Swinburne
FRI       spent time, as did the exiled Oscar Wilde some 30 years
FRI       later. They examine French attitudes to the life and work
FRI       of both men and the religious themes that link their
FRI       writing.
FRI       In the summer of 1868, local fishermen saved a drunken
FRI       Swinburne from drowning off the cliffs of Etretat. The
FRI       bizarre lunch to celebrate his survival was attended by
FRI       the teenage French writer Guy de Maupassant.
FRI       In 1897, an exiled Oscar Wilde held a fete for the locals
FRI       in Berneval and invited friends including Ernest Dowson to
FRI       distract him from working on his poem, The Ballad of
FRI       Reading Gaol. But as Wilde became progressively more
FRI       lonely, he started corresponding once more with Lord
FRI       Alfred Douglas.
FRI       Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale
FRI       Algernon Swinburne ...... Jonathan Tafler
FRI       Guy de Maupassant ...... Stephen Critchlow.
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