09 October, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 10/10/2009 - 16/10/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00n3k00 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00n3wqx (Listen) SAT Get Her Off The Pitch!, Episode 5 SAT Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she SAT spent as a sports reporter. SAT By the autumn of 2000, Lynne has been covering sport for SAT four years, but a combination of events leads her to ask a SAT very simple question - just how important is sport? SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n3k02 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n3k04 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n3k06 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00n3k08 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n3k0b (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris SAT Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00n3k0d (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00n3k0g (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00n3mpp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00n3mpr (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 4 SAT Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in SAT Northumberland. SAT On the fourth leg of the route, Jon Monks explains to SAT Clare why he believes St Oswald's Way is the thinking SAT man's walking route. SAT St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy SAT Island in the north, along 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. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00n3mpt (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00n3mpw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00n3mpy (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00n3mq0 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Fi Glover is joined by the creator and writer of the SAT Bafta-winning In The Night Garden and Teletubbies, Andrew SAT Davenport. SAT With poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00n3mq2 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy travels to Japan and Israel in search of SAT gardening inspiration and to Bogota in Colombia for a SAT knitting experience. SAT SAT 10:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) SAT Patrick Humphries tells the little-known story of Errol SAT Flynn's final year, much of which he spent in Cuba, filing SAT reports to Hearst newspapers and producing two Cuban-based SAT movies. SAT One of the leading Hollywood stars of the time thanks to SAT his roles in a series of swashbuckling epics, Flynn found SAT himself at the epicentre of the Cuban revolution. He spent SAT time with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra Mountains and SAT went on to record the revolution in the documentary film SAT Cuban Story, in which he is seen alongside Castro and Che SAT Guevara. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00n3mq6 (Listen) SAT Are personalities eclipsing politics? With greater SAT emphasis now placed on the role of Prime Minister, Andrew SAT Rawnsley asks whether we are losing sight of the issues in SAT favour of the cult of personality? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00n3mq8 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00n3pmb (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Are you entitled to part of a 60 million-pound Payment SAT Protection Insurance payout? SAT High frequency trading is taking off, but could it bring SAT the market down? SAT And the latest compensation news for Bradford and Bingley SAT shareholders. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00n3jrx (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 3 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists SAT include Jeremy Hardy and Danielle Ward. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00n3pmd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00n3pmg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00n3jxf (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Newcastle. The SAT panellists are government chief whip Nick Brown, shadow SAT foreign secretary William Hague, Sir Menzies Campbell, the SAT former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Gillian Tett, SAT assitant editor of the Financial Times. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00n3ptd (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 b00n3ptg (Listen) SAT Shadowlands SAT Adaptation by Archie Scottney of the play by William SAT Nicholson. The moving true story of the 1950s relationship SAT between Oxford don and author CS Lewis and divorced SAT American writer Joy Gresham. SAT CS 'Jack' Lewis ...... Martin Jarvis SAT Joy Gresham ...... Joanne Whalley SAT 'Warnie' Lewis ...... Kenneth Danziger SAT Rev Harry Harrington ...... Julian Sands SAT Prof Christopher Riley ...... Julian Holloway SAT Douglas ...... Zach Callison SAT Alan Gregg ...... Darren Richardson SAT Registrar ...... Jean Gilpin SAT Doctor ...... Matthew Wolf SAT Priest/Oakley ...... Alan Shearman SAT Nurse ...... Daisy Hydon SAT Directed by Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00n3qln (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Actress Phyllida Law turns the traditional image of the SAT mother-in-law relationship on its head; comedian Jo Brand SAT on her teenage years and surviving stand-up; women on the SAT prowl for younger men; arguments that question the SAT adoption of the veil in western world; the appeal of the SAT 100-mile stroll; can direct action on climate change be SAT justified? SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n3rch (Listen) SAT 10th October 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT In East Germany the morning after the demonstrations, the SAT police violence that people had feared had not occurred; SAT political prisoners including Walter Sislulu are to be SAT released in South Africa but Mandela remains in prison; at SAT the Tory conference Kenneth Baker summons the spirit of SAT Henry V at Agincourt. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00n3qlq (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00n1l9h (Listen) SAT Stephanie Flanders asks her panel of top business guests SAT about the fine art of salesmanship. Now we can all bypass SAT those eager shop assistants and go online, are salesmen on SAT the way out - or just getting a makeover? SAT And training on the job - we've all done it, but does SAT formal training pay dividends in the end? SAT Stephanie is joined by Marko Ilincic, managing director of SAT Lego UK, Michelle Feeney, chief executive of St Tropez and SAT Grant Hearn, chief executive of Travelodge. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n3rck (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00n3rcm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n3rcp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00n3rcr (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by Charlie Brooker, Romola Garai and SAT Allegra McEvedy. With comedy from Russell Kane and music SAT from Noel McKoy and Krystle Warren. SAT Columnist and satirist Charlie Brooker is the man behind SAT BBC Four's Screenwipe. SAT Actress Romola Garai is Emma in BBC One's adaptation of SAT Jane Austen's classic Emma. SAT Chorley's very own Dave Spikey is a comedian familiar to SAT audiences through TV shows and the award-winning sitcom SAT Phoenix Nights. SAT Allegra McEvedy talks to journalist Chris Horrie, who SAT infiltrated Conservative Middle England for his latest SAT book. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00n3rct (Listen) SAT Alexander Lebedev SAT Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian SAT owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's SAT origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London SAT to billionaire businessman, socialite and political SAT liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00n3t6w (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00n3t6y (Listen) SAT When Bailey Met Warhol SAT Jerry Hall, formerly one of Andy Warhol's muses, SAT interviews photographer David Bailey about his SAT relationship to the pop artist and tells the story of the SAT infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol SAT in 1973. Temporarily censored in the UK, it caused the SAT greatest national public row over art and censorship since SAT the trial over the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover. SAT The relationship between Bailey and Warhol was also an SAT encounter of styles: the visual cool of 1960s London met SAT the playful irony of the New York art scene, with Bailey's SAT East End smarts sometimes thwarted by Warhol's elusive SAT musings and those of his Factory acolytes. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00mz9tb (Listen) SAT Beau Geste, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of SAT honour, love and adventure. SAT The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance SAT to join the French Foreign Legion, following the SAT mysterious disappearance of a valuable family heirloom. SAT Beau ...... Chris New SAT John ...... Rob Hastie SAT Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin SAT Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd SAT Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley SAT Isobel ...... Candida Benson SAT Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster SAT Burdon ...... Scott Richards SAT Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday SAT Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill SAT Young John ...... Alex Hockaday SAT Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe SAT Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner SAT Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher SAT Boldini ...... Laurence Possa SAT Hank ...... Greg Wohead SAT Buddy ...... Don Mousseau SAT The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan SAT Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet SAT Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield SAT Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina. SAT Directed by Willi Richards SAT An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00n460l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Afghanistan: Is It Mission Impossible? b00n3lbp (Listen) SAT As President Obama debates whether to send even more SAT troops to the country, and the British death toll there SAT rises, Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in SAT London about how close the west is to achieving its SAT ambitions in Afghanistan. SAT What is its 'mission'? To close down terrorist cells in SAT the country, making the UK a safer place? To introduce SAT democracy, greater freedom for women, more electricity, SAT water? SAT Taking part in the debate are: SAT Francesc Vendrell, who was the European Union's Special SAT Representative for Afghanistan from 2002 to 2008; before SAT that he was the Personal Representative of the UN SAT Secretary-General for Afghanistan. SAT Brigadier Buster Howes, who is the Head of Overseas SAT Operations at the MOD. SAT Eric Joyce, a former major in the army and now a Labour SAT MP. He resigned as an aide to the defence secretary, SAT calling on Gordon Brown to make clear to the British SAT people that the Afghanistan campaign was 'time limited'. SAT Lindsey German, a senior organiser of the Stop the War SAT Coalition. SAT Dr John Mackinlay, a counter-insurgency expert from King's SAT College, London. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00n0qb9 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from the south of England and the north of SAT England, with all of this edition's questions devised by SAT listeners. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00mzdqb (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that chime SAT with the theme of 2009's National Poetry Day, that of SAT heroes and heroines. Including works by poets as varied as SAT Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00n45zy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zg (Listen) SUN Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, You See Patterns When You SUN Close Your Eyes SUN Series of stories by Morven Crumlish. SUN A young woman starts work for a blind poet and becomes SUN absorbed in a strange new world. SUN Read by Daniela Nardini. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n46bv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n46bx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n46bz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00n46c1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00n46fw (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in SUN Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00n3rct (Listen) SUN Alexander Lebedev SUN Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian SUN owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's SUN origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London SUN to billionaire businessman, socialite and political SUN liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard? SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00n474c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00n474f (Listen) SUN The Power of a Name SUN Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our SUN sense of self, our wellbeing, our relationships and our SUN path through life. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00n474h (Listen) SUN An organic farm in Sussex is changing the lives of SUN London's homeless. Adam Henson visits Uckfield near Lewes SUN to meet people who have vowed to stay drink and drug free SUN for a day as they work the land. For some it will be the SUN first time they have left London in years. For others, SUN planting crops and mucking out stalls has become a regular SUN event and has radically altered the way they look at the SUN world. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00n474k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00n474m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00n474p (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news SUN of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00n474r (Listen) SUN APT Enterprise Development SUN Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise SUN Development. SUN Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope APT. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 290836. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00n474t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00n474w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00n474y (Listen) SUN A Sound of Sheer Silence SUN A service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, Manchester, SUN exploring faith through the experiences of those with SUN mental health issues. SUN With Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze and Andrew Graystone. SUN The Daily Service Singers are directed by Paul Leddington SUN Wright. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n3jxh (Listen) SUN Large Blue SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN The Large Blue butterfly died out in Britain in 1979, but SUN why? Investigations pointed to a complex life cycle linked SUN to a single species of ant. With this knowledge the Large SUN Blue was re-introduced into the British countryside, but SUN there is a sinister twist in the tale, in the form of a SUN parasitic wasp. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00n4750 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00n4752 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00n4754 (Listen) SUN Steve Coogan SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve SUN Coogan. SUN As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a SUN talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently SUN he has also found success in films, but is best known for SUN the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The SUN chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe SUN with his crass questions and witless interventions and has SUN remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n0qr8 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 1 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items SUN of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. SUN With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and SUN Shappi Khorsandi. SUN Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00n47px (Listen) SUN Feasts SUN Feasts have been a feature of human life since humans SUN first mastered fire and climbed out of the trees, but what SUN function do feasts have in today's largely urban society? SUN Sheila Dillon visits the Thames Festival Feast, a modern SUN urban harvest festival, bringing food back into the heart SUN of the city and recreating a sense of community. Grape SUN treading, sacred mayonnaise making and mobile food gardens SUN make a vivid modern feast. Central to it a table spanning SUN Southwark Bridge, its tablecloth printed with collections SUN of Londoners' food stories. SUN The traditional feast has been disappearing from rural SUN areas, but the Welcombe community in Devon some years ago SUN introduced a Christmas Salamongundi to bring the community SUN together to celebrate. Poet and author John Moat explains SUN how it came about. SUN Sir Roy Strong, author of Feast outlines the social, SUN political and religious subtext of historical feasting SUN and, with Rev Richard Coles, comments on the dining TV SUN reality show, Come Dine With Me. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00n47pz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00n47q1 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 US Health Reform: Beware of Side Effects! b00n8ss0 (Listen) SUN America is the world leader in medical innovation, and SUN many advances in medicine have been instrumental in SUN helping Americans and people all over the world to live SUN longer and healthier lives. So should we be worried in the SUN UK that healthcare reform in America may impact on the SUN sorts of drugs and technologies that NHS patients have SUN access to? SUN In 2008, the US pharmaceutical industry spent 65 billion SUN dollars on research and development, and they have made it SUN clear that 'reform must protect the US's lead in medical SUN innovation'. SUN Justin Webb investigates whether all that money, SUN prohibitively expensive drugs and cutting-edge technology SUN translates to better healthcare and asks if cuts can been SUN made without stifling innovation. SUN He talks to those who are involved in making the decisions SUN and those who will be affected by them when the health SUN reform bill is delivered to the president, and speaks to SUN leading figures in the NHS to ask if American fears are SUN well founded. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n3jrq (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie join SUN members of the John Innes Conservation Society in London. SUN They find about about the man who posthumously founded the SUN horticultural institute which is responsible for creating SUN the compost which bears his name. SUN Also, after Buckingham Palace joined the RHS Grow Your Own SUN campaign, Matthew is invited to the Queen's allotment for SUN a review of its progress so far. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Food For Thought b00n47q3 (Listen) SUN Jung Chang SUN Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow SUN discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. SUN Settled over a lunch of ma po tofu and bitter melon SUN greens, author Jung Chang recalls a life of adjustments SUN and accommodations to place, identity and food. She SUN describes the powerful memories evoked by a plate of SUN double-cooked pork, spiked with her native Sichuan spice, SUN and discusses her changing tastes since arriving in SUN Britain and the success of her memoir, Wild Swans. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00n47q5 (Listen) SUN Beau Geste, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of SUN honour, love and adventure. SUN The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and SUN hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do SUN wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign SUN Legion. A sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg SUN raiders brings matters to a head and provides the SUN explanation for the disappearance of the Blue Water SUN sapphire. SUN Beau ...... Chris New SUN John ...... Rob Hastie SUN Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin SUN Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd SUN Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley SUN Isobel ...... Candida Benson SUN Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster SUN Burdon ...... Scott Richards SUN Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday SUN Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill SUN Young John ...... Alex Hockaday SUN Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe SUN Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner SUN Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher SUN Boldini ...... Laurence Possa SUN Hank ...... Greg Wohead SUN Buddy ...... Don Mousseau SUN The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan SUN Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet SUN Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield SUN Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina SUN Directed by Willi Richards SUN An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00n48k4 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the thriller writer Robert SUN Harris, whose latest book, Lustrum, set in Ancient Rome, SUN is the second volume of a trilogy about the lawyer, SUN politican and orator Cicero. Harris explains how modern SUN and ancient politics collide, and why this novel about SUN ancient intrigue is dedicated to Lord Mandelson. SUN The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector is the subject of a SUN recent biography; as one of her novels is published in a SUN new translation, Mariella is joined by the biographer SUN Benjamin Moser to discuss why she is revered as one of the SUN greatest writers in the Portugese language. SUN And the masterpieces that never were; the author of a new SUN history of literary hoaxes, Melissa Katsoulis, and the SUN writer Kevin Jackson swap favourite tales of writers who SUN pulled the wool over their readers' eyes. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00n48k6 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday SUN from the Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces SUN a selection of the most frequently-requested poems from SUN the past 30 years. The special guest readers, including SUN Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick Malahide, all SUN have a strong connection with the city. SUN Including poems by Keats, Hardy, Betjeman, Wendy Cope and SUN Carol Ann Duffy. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n48kv (Listen) SUN 11th October 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN Jive Bunny gets on the Juke Box Jury's nerves; the Tory SUN party's environment minister get tough on litter louts but SUN Greenpeace are disappointed; calls continue for Nelson SUN Mandela's release. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00n11w9 (Listen) SUN With a Parliamentary report expected to add to criticism SUN of Whitehall's defence purchasing systems, Gerry Northam SUN asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for SUN our forces. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00n3rct (Listen) SUN Alexander Lebedev SUN Stephen Sackur profiles Alexander Lebedev, the Russian SUN owner of the London Evening Standard. He traces Lebedev's SUN origins, from KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in London SUN to billionaire businessman, socialite and political SUN liberal. Whatever could he want with the Evening Standard? SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n48t4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00n48t6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n48t8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00n48tb (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Get Her Off The Pitch! - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes: Once Upon A Time - Radio 3 SUN Over The Rainbow with Yip Harburg - Radio 4 SUN Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries - Radio 4 SUN 1989: Day By Day - Radio 4 SUN 1989: Simpson Returns - Radio 4 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN Weston's New Pier - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN The Mario Lanza Story - Radio 2 SUN Benny Hill: The Untold Story - Radio 2 SUN I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing - Radio 4 SUN You and Yours - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00n4crr (Listen) SUN Caroline goes into damage limitation. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00n4crt (Listen) SUN Matt Frei is joined by two prominent commentators on the SUN American political landscape: Michelle D Bernard, the SUN president and CEO of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) SUN and an MSNBC political analyst, and Ron Brownstein, the SUN political director for Atlantic Media Company, the SUN publisher of The Atlantic and National Journal. SUN They find out what is going on with the conservative SUN movement these days. Are politicians still wielding power SUN or have the top media voices taken centre stage? And how SUN is it possible that Sarah Palin's book is wracking up such SUN big sales before it has even been released? SUN Syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage tells us just how hot SUN the United States is for a good sex scandal. In light of SUN David Letterman's on-screen announcement about his sexual SUN relations, and the sordid history of major figures SUN transgressing, Matt talks to Dan about the line between SUN the appropriate and the passable in American sexuality. SUN The cold shoulder that the US has given Cuba may be SUN warming up a little. Matt Frei talks to the BBC's Michael SUN Voss in Havana about the changing relationship between the SUN US and its communist neighbour. SUN 90 miles north of Cuba is Miami, Florida, hometown of SUN Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Although he has family SUN relations to Fidel Castro, he is a fervent anti-communist. SUN He argues that the US should not be pandering to the Cuban SUN regime. SUN Owning a home is key to the 'American dream', but how SUN about owning a skyscraper? Matt Frei talks to M Myers SUN Mermel about the surprisingly lucrative skyscraper real SUN estate market. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9r (Listen) SUN Granta Stories, A New World SUN Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most SUN prestigious literary magazine. SUN By VS Pritchett, read by Christopher Hannon. SUN As the autumn of the year and the First World War are SUN calling, a new world is dawning for Private Dunkley. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00n3jrn (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00n3jrs (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00n3pmb (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Are you entitled to part of a 60 million-pound Payment SUN Protection Insurance payout? SUN High frequency trading is taking off, but could it bring SUN the market down? SUN And the latest compensation news for Bradford and Bingley SUN shareholders. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00n474r (Listen) SUN APT Enterprise Development SUN Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise SUN Development. SUN Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope APT. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 290836. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00n0tw4 (Listen) SUN Educating Cinderella SUN With youth unemployment in Britain at its highest level SUN for decades, new evidence shows that only a tiny SUN proportion of school leavers who go on to basic vocational SUN courses find jobs at the end of them. Fran Abrams asks SUN whether further education in this country has got the SUN balance right between a choice-led system and a more SUN paternalistic one. Should we be encouraging young people SUN to follow their dreams or giving them vocational training SUN more closely tied to the job market? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00n4crw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00n4cry (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Conserving What? SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00n4d4f (Listen) SUN Week ending 10th October 1989 SUN Another chance to look back at the events making the news SUN 20 years ago, with Sir John Tusa. SUN Including events in East Germany: the start of Gorbachev's SUN visit to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the GDR, SUN protest marches through East Berlin and the subsequent SUN police crackdown. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00n474f (Listen) SUN The Power of a Name SUN Mark Tully considers the power of a name to shape our SUN sense of self, our wellbeing, our relationships and our SUN path through life. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00n4dsj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00n1jbd (Listen) MON America's social state is withering at the expense of its MON expanding prison system and the UK is heading in the same MON direction, with potentially disastrous consequences. MON That's the argument of Laurie Taylor's guest, Loic MON Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of MON California. MON From 1980 to 1990, spending by the US government on MON operating its prisons and correctional establishments MON doubled while at the same time spending on public housing MON more than halved. According to Wacquant, this process is MON continuing; he says that 'the construction of prisons has MON effectively become the country's main housing programme'. MON Are America's penal policies too harsh, and if prisons and MON correctional facilities are becoming increasingly MON important, what are the social consequences? MON He talks to Laurie about why he believes America is too MON ready to accept a state of poverty for huge sections of MON its population and at the same time see the social state MON obliterated. Is America punishing its poor and is the UK MON at risk of following the same path, overly dependent on MON prisons while eroding its social state? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00n46fw (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Nicholas' church, Sandhurst in MON Kent. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4f00 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dzk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00n4z9l (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g4w (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris MON Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00n4g5b (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00n4z9n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00n4gbp (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00n4z9q (Listen) MON Andrew Marr's guests include writer Audrey Niffenegger on MON her new novel, historian Robert Service on his biography MON of Trotsky and the Economist's Edward Carr on why MON polymaths are an endangered species. Also, with an MON election on the horizon, Anthony Seldon explores the MON nature of trust. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00n4h1p (Listen) MON The Defence of the Realm, Episode 1 MON Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the MON British Security Service, MI5. MON Using material released by the organisation's archives to MON mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and MON failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the MON complex modern world of counter-terrorism. MON How myth gave rise to reality as the rumour mills of MON fiction created a climate of fear and suspicion. MON Introduced by Gordon Corera. MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k5p (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Degrees of Separation. MON MON 11:00 Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover b0076lp0 (Listen) MON Dame Vera Lynn's wartime classic is British, original, but MON not entirely without controversy. Ian Hislop discovers the MON chequered history of this musical mainstay of the British MON nation in its finest hour. Could it really be a song MON weighed down by politics, propaganda and even a touch of MON plagiarism? And what about those bluebirds - have you ever MON seen any in the Dover area? MON Ian meets Dame Vera Lynn, veterans, musicologists and even MON an ornithologist in his quest to find the hidden meaning MON of this classic wartime song. MON MON 11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen) MON The Lord Lieutenant's Lady MON Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty MON Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and MON sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls MON hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed MON milk. We see Britain through her eyes - its overheated MON houses, its disappointing church services and its MON over-fondness for cauliflower cheese. MON Beauty is caught between a warring couple, which is a good MON distraction from her disastrous crush on worship leader MON Wayne. MON Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien MON Nancy Snow ...... Rosemary Leach MON Miss Macleod ...... Anne Reid MON Worship Leader Wayne ...... Javone Prince MON Sally ...... Felicity Montagu MON Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi MON Anil ...... Paul Sharma MON Mrs Daly/Choir Member ...... Nicola Sanderson MON Music by The West End Gospel Choir. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00n4khc (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00n4klq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00n4km1 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00n4zgx (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00n4crr (Listen) MON Caroline goes into damage limitation. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n4zmr (Listen) MON Legacy MON By Cath Staincliffe. Probate detectives Rachel and Dan MON race to find the rightful heirs to an unclaimed estate and MON get a slice of the fortune. MON Rachel ...... Maxine Peake MON Dan ...... Tony Mooney MON Young Bill ...... Thomas Rolinson MON Young Victor ...... Daniel Rogers MON Young Violet ...... Lowri Evans MON Older Violet ...... Eileen O'Brien MON Nun/Secretary ...... Fiona Clarke MON Older Victor ...... Claude Close MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00n3t6y (Listen) MON When Bailey Met Warhol MON Jerry Hall, formerly one of Andy Warhol's muses, MON interviews photographer David Bailey about his MON relationship to the pop artist and tells the story of the MON infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol MON in 1973. Temporarily censored in the UK, it caused the MON greatest national public row over art and censorship since MON the trial over the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover. MON The relationship between Bailey and Warhol was also an MON encounter of styles: the visual cool of 1960s London met MON the playful irony of the New York art scene, with Bailey's MON East End smarts sometimes thwarted by Warhol's elusive MON musings and those of his Factory acolytes. MON MON 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyz (Listen) MON Tea 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 Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins MON in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for MON inspection. MON Thanks to the introduction of tea in the 18th century, MON even people who were not rich and who did not have MON servants could afford to entertain. The home was opened up MON to inspection; suddenly people were arriving to judge your MON china, your curtains, and your manners. 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 b00n47px (Listen) MON Feasts MON Feasts have been a feature of human life since humans MON first mastered fire and climbed out of the trees, but what MON function do feasts have in today's largely urban society? MON Sheila Dillon visits the Thames Festival Feast, a modern MON urban harvest festival, bringing food back into the heart MON of the city and recreating a sense of community. Grape MON treading, sacred mayonnaise making and mobile food gardens MON make a vivid modern feast. Central to it a table spanning MON Southwark Bridge, its tablecloth printed with collections MON of Londoners' food stories. MON The traditional feast has been disappearing from rural MON areas, but the Welcombe community in Devon some years ago MON introduced a Christmas Salamongundi to bring the community MON together to celebrate. Poet and author John Moat explains MON how it came about. MON Sir Roy Strong, author of Feast outlines the social, MON political and religious subtext of historical feasting MON and, with Rev Richard Coles, comments on the dining TV MON reality show, Come Dine With Me. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00n510j (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 2 MON Simon Cox looks into the future of GPS, with the help of a MON four-legged friend. With even our pets sporting the latest MON in GPS tracker units, is there no limit to what we can MON load onto what is after all a 30-year-old satellite system? MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x7h (Listen) MON 12th October 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON Chancellor Nigel Lawson speaks at the Conservative Party MON conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate; East MON German minister for ideology calls for reform of the MON political system; plans for a commercial nuclear bunker MON near Peterborough are scrapped because the world is 'too MON peaceful'. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00n4x9t (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n4xj0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n510l (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00n4w49 (Listen) MON Brian stamps on Lynda's plans for the footpaths. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00n4y1q (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an MON interview with John Irving, whose novels include The World MON According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n4y1s (Listen) MON Degrees Of Separation, Empty Nest MON Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme MON of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's MON Hour listeners. MON When Sheila and Simon's daughter leaves home for a gap MON year trip, Sheila is inconsolable. It is the separation MON she has dreaded, and Simon's attempts to comfort her only MON make things worse. It is not until an eccentric elderly MON neighbour asks for help that she begins to think about MON something other than her own grief. MON Sheila ...... Jilly Bond MON Simon ...... Richard Mitchley MON Edie ...... June Barrie. MON MON 20:00 Brighton: The Bomb That Changed Politics b00n510n (Listen) MON In 1984, the Provisional IRA mounted their most audacious MON terrorist attack - attempting to blow up the British MON cabinet at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. MON Michael Dobbs, a former senior adviser to Margaret MON Thatcher and John Major, was at the Grand Hotel when the MON bomb detonated. MON He believes its legacy has had a profound impact on our MON politics, especially at party conferences and Westminster. MON Revisiting Brighton for the first time since 1984 and MON talking to leading political figures, he asks if we have MON struck the right balance in protecting politicians and MON ensuring they are not cocooned from the people they serve. MON Featuring contributions from Lord Tebbit, Ken Livingstone, MON Alastair Campbell, Charles Clarke, Charles Kennedy and MON Francis Maude. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00n51z3 (Listen) MON Small States MON Bronwen Maddox, chief foreign commentator of The Times, MON asks if small nations can survive as independent states. MON Tiny states like Liechtenstein, Brunei and Monaco give MON hope to independence movements elsewhere that size does MON not matter. Bronwen Maddox asks if the world's smallest MON countries are quite as independent as they appear and MON examines the difficulties of being small but truly MON sovereign. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00n51z5 (Listen) MON Who really makes the biggest difference on climate change MON - those living on the edge or those working firmly within MON the system? Tell us about your experience of environmental MON campaigning via the Costing the Earth Facebook site (link MON below). MON A recent Christian Aid survey found that 93 per cent of MON people think everyone in the UK should have the right to MON peaceful protest, 50 per cent think the police are too MON heavy handed, and 18 per cent are put off protesting in MON the future due to heavy-handed policing. Costing the Earth MON finds out about those who continue to campaign on the MON planet's behalf; is it really getting harder for them to MON make an impact on how we and our governments behave? MON Mark Carter has been on hunger strike for over 46 days to MON highlight the plight of the seal. Some might see his MON actions as mad, but for Mark this is the only way to MON affect the government's proposed marine bills. During the MON last 10 years the common seal population has declined by a MON third but they are still being killed and for Mark, at MON least, the only solution is a ban on these culls. What MON effect will 500 signatures have against the interests of MON the fishing industry, and, whatever the results, how will MON he react? MON Jonathan Porritt recently resigned his post at the Forum MON for the Future with the dire warning that, 'A combination MON of political paralysis, corporate vested interest and our MON conservative-co-opted media' alongside 'basic entitlements MON protecting the rights of dissenting voices being eroded' MON mean tough times for green activists. MON The recent G20 protests saw some of the most draconian MON police tactics for some time. Using laws intended to MON prevent terrorists in the wake of 9/11 like Stop and MON Search, green activists have often found themselves at the MON front line of human rights issues. At the same time, the MON government's recent moves to change planning laws and rush MON through proposals for wind farms and nuclear plants via MON the Infrastructure Planning Commission quango could mean MON that contentious plans go ahead before activists have time MON to launch protests. MON Is it really getting harder for people like Tim, a regular MON at Climate Camp who has been informed that his photo and MON details are on police file, to affect change? MON Equally important is whether the long-used methods of mass MON camps, extreme acts and even advertising really have the MON impact that changing policy and people's behaviour MON requires. A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund MON suggests not. Could Whitehall workers or investment MON bankers be making a bigger difference without even trying, MON and if these methods haven't worked, what next? MON We follow Mark and Tim's stories to find out what one MON individual's efforts can achieve and look at the big MON protests of recent years to find out what the future of MON green activism might hold. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00n4z9q (Listen) MON Andrew Marr's guests include writer Audrey Niffenegger on MON her new novel, historian Robert Service on his biography MON of Trotsky and the Economist's Edward Carr on why MON polymaths are an endangered species. Also, with an MON election on the horizon, Anthony Seldon explores the MON nature of trust. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00n4ybq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00n4yyf (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4z16 (Listen) MON And Another Thing..., Episode 1 MON Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide MON to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter MON Serafinowicz. MON There is very nearly tea and biscuits. MON Abridged by Penny Leicester. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b008w3xp (Listen) MON Brian Patten MON Poet Brian Patten chooses pieces of writing which have MON been inspirational to him in his work and his life. MON Readers are Christian Rodska and Alison Reid. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z5z (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00n4h1p (Listen) TUE The Defence of the Realm, Episode 1 TUE Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the TUE British Security Service, MI5. TUE Using material released by the organisation's archives to TUE mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and TUE failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the TUE complex modern world of counter-terrorism. TUE How myth gave rise to reality as the rumour mills of TUE fiction created a climate of fear and suspicion. TUE Introduced by Gordon Corera. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00n4g2y (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g30 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris TUE Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00n4g4y (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00n4gbc (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b00n52kv (Listen) TUE Stuart Howarth TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill TUE his abusive father. TUE TUE 09:30 The Good Samaritan b00n52kx (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping TUE hand, with varying consequences. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vw7 (Listen) TUE The Defence of the Realm, Episode 2 TUE Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the TUE British Security Service, MI5. TUE Using material released by the organisation's archives to TUE mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and TUE failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the TUE complex modern world of counter-terrorism. TUE The advice of those with access to German informants goes TUE ignored by the Chamberlain government in the months TUE leading up to the Second World War. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2g (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Degrees of Separation. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00n52kz (Listen) TUE Series 3, Migrating Stones TUE Poet and writer Alyson Hallett travels to Australia with a TUE large piece of limestone as a companion, inscribed with a TUE line from one of her poems. This is the third journey TUE Alyson has made with a stone; each destination has been TUE different, each stone has been different, but each has TUE been similarly inscribed by the sculptor and lettering TUE artist Alec Peever. TUE It is a project which began seven years ago, inspired by a TUE dream and an encounter with an erratic - a huge boulder TUE that had broken away from its motherbed centuries ago, TUE lodged in ice and then set off on long, slow journey, TUE until eventually it was deposited on a Welsh mountainside. TUE It was here that Alyson encountered the boulder. TUE Fascinated by the idea that stones are fellow companions TUE and movement is an essential part of their nature, Alyson TUE started to explore the cultural importance of stones, and TUE embarked on her project, The Migration Habits of Stones. TUE Alyson takes a journey with her third stone to Koonawara TUE in Australia. We also hear from stone letterer Alec Peever TUE and Bill Morris, warden of Leigh Woods in Bristol, the TUE site of the first migrating stone. TUE TUE 11:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) TUE Musician and comedian Mitch Benn takes a journey back to TUE the 1970s in search of the symphonic narrative concept TUE album. TUE Meeting some of the leading artists and fans of the genre, TUE including Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne, David Bedford, Brian TUE Blessed and Stuart Maconie, he battles capes and keyboard TUE solos to rediscover the wondrous stories behind these epic TUE musical extravaganzas. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00n4kcw (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00n4khf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00n4kls (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House b00n8swn (Listen) TUE Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has converted a disused TUE garage in Gaborone, Botswana, into an opera house and is TUE training local people to sing in its opening production, a TUE new opera he has written about baboons. TUE Pauline McLean charts the progress of this wacky project TUE with McCall Smith himself, Botswana's ex-minster of health TUE and the country's only semi-professional baritone, a TUE schoolteacher named Gape Motswaledi, who believes that TUE there is a career to be made from the venture. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00n4w49 (Listen) TUE Brian stamps on Lynda's plans for the footpaths. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c50ht (Listen) TUE Dickens Confidential, Dickens and Dizzy 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 In the weeks leading up to Queen Victoria's coronation, TUE Dickens meets Benjamin Disraeli, a journalist and TUE ambitious young politician. There is an instant rivalry TUE and unease between the two men, which only increases when TUE the team believe they have uncovered a secret that TUE Disraeli wants to keep hidden. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens TUE Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell TUE Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan TUE Benjamin Disraeli ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE William Percy ...... Bertie Carvel TUE Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis ...... Liz Sutherland TUE Lady Londonderry ...... Joan Walker TUE Rachel ...... Lydia Leonard TUE Official ...... Ben Crowe TUE Footman ...... Nyasha Hatendi TUE Archbishop ...... Dan Starkey TUE Speaker ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Rabbi ...... Alan Lee TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00n55lz (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. Is the skin that TUE binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a TUE listener's ancestor? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n55n4 (Listen) TUE Lyrical Ballads, Lewti and The Thorn TUE A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 TUE collaboration which marked the beginning of the English TUE Romantic poetry movement. TUE The poems Lewti, Coleridge's 'love chant' to an enigmatic TUE and stony-hearted woman, and The Thorn, Wordsworth's TUE ballad about a mysterious outcast and the superstitions TUE that the locals have attached to her. Recorded on location TUE in Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset, and in TUE the Quantock Hills. TUE Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva TUE William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows TUE The Captain ...... Peter Gruffydd TUE Adapted by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyj (Listen) TUE Domestic Harmony 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 Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins TUE in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for TUE inspection. TUE Family music-making was a way of creating domestic TUE harmony, and it was your best chance of finding a partner. TUE Includes the diary of one hapless bachelor who falls for TUE one girl after another upon hearing them sing and play at TUE musical evenings. 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 Advertising: The Most Fun You Can Have With Your TUE Clothes On! b00gl57t (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Advertising executive Robin Wight presents a history of TUE the advertising industry. TUE How clients watched advertising bosses grow rich in the TUE 1990s and so turned to new media, prompting the rise of TUE internet advertising. Robin also examines how the industry TUE creates memorable advertising campaigns that work away TUE from TV screens. Including contributions from Richard TUE Dawkins, John Hegarty and Gemma Calvert, professor of TUE neuro-imaging at Warwick University. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00n55sn (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to broadcaster Vanessa Feltz and TUE journalist Johann Hari about their favourite books. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5f (Listen) TUE 13th October 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE Margaret Thatcher address the Tory conference on her 64th TUE birthday to chants of '10 more years', Douglas Hurd TUE declares war on the 'scourge of acid house parties', and TUE shares plunge in the last hour of trading on Wall Street, TUE sparking fears of another Black Monday. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00n4x7k (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 b00n4x9w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Too Much Information b00n55sq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre TUE in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever. TUE Waft Tourist Information struggle to attract visitors by TUE promoting their most famous local resident, a local doctor TUE who burps. But when a genuinely famous dissolute TV comic TUE stops off to spend a penny, they are to determined not to TUE let him leave. TUE Warren ...... Jeff Rawle TUE Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Heather ...... Liza Sadovy TUE Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey TUE Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill TUE Ricky ...... Phillip Fox TUE George ...... Stephen Hogan. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00n4w3q (Listen) TUE History repeats itself for Fallon. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00n4xj2 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reviews Terry TUE Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which TUE features the late Heath Ledger. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjw (Listen) TUE Degrees Of Separation, Fatima the Catima TUE Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme TUE of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's TUE Hour listeners. TUE While Karen's husband is fighting in Afghanistan, she TUE tries hard to keep normal family life going and her TUE anxieties at bay for the sake of their children. TUE Karen ...... Alison Reid. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00n569w (Listen) TUE Fears over deep cuts in council jobs and services have TUE brought predictions of a winter of discontent and strife TUE unlike anything seen for 30 years. But as councils prepare TUE to wield the axe, Julian O'Halloran asks if some TUE authorities have added to their budget crises by awarding TUE over-the-top pay, perks and severance terms to their own TUE top executives. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00n569y (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Trials For Life b00n5sxk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in TUE clinical trials. TUE Cystic fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening TUE inherited disease, affecting many areas of the body. TUE Vivienne talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to TUE replace the gene at fault. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b00n52kv (Listen) TUE Stuart Howarth TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill TUE his abusive father. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00n4y85 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybs (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyh (Listen) TUE And Another Thing..., Episode 2 TUE Stephen Mangan reads from Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas TUE Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Read by TUE Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz. TUE An old friend appears. TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00b7qs7 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social TUE observation and nonsense. TUE Guests include Juliet Stevenson, Steve Wright, John TUE Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Ewan Bailey and Jon Culshaw. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z61 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vw7 (Listen) WED The Defence of the Realm, Episode 2 WED Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the WED British Security Service, MI5. WED Using material released by the organisation's archives to WED mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and WED failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the WED complex modern world of counter-terrorism. WED The advice of those with access to German informants goes WED ignored by the Chamberlain government in the months WED leading up to the Second World War. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzq (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dy8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00n4g32 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g34 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris WED Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00n4g50 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00n4gbf (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00n58cr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Maureen Lipman. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvv (Listen) WED The Defence of the Realm, Episode 3 WED Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the WED British Security Service, MI5. WED Using material released by the organisation's archives to WED mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and WED failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the WED complex modern world of counter-terrorism. WED The recruiting of spies was never an exact science, owing WED much to the clubbable atmosphere of Oxbridge and public WED schools. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2j (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation. WED WED 11:00 Home Grown b00n58ct (Listen) WED Yasmeen Khan investigates the growing trend among WED second-generation British Asian men to bypass British WED Asian women and instead marry women from their parents' WED native countries, often leading to culture shock, WED unhappiness and divorce - and a generation of unmarried WED British Asian women. WED WED 11:30 Hut 33 b00n58cw (Listen) WED Series 3, Know Thyne Enemy WED Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in the 1940s. WED It's 1942, the war is not going well and the codebreakers WED of Bletchley Park are under even more pressure than WED before. Hut 33, the worst performing hut, resorts to WED desperate measures to improve results. Archie, Gordon and WED Charles try to think like Germans to help them predict the WED letter combinations on the Enigma machine. Unfortunately WED their experiment in psychological warfare goes very badly WED awry. WED Charles ...... Robert Bathurst WED Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Minka...... Olivia Colman WED Gordon ...... Fergus Craig WED Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen WED Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00n4kcy (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00n4khh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00n4klv (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00n58cy (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00n4w3q (Listen) WED History repeats itself for Fallon. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n58d1 (Listen) WED The Island With No Name WED By Alison Joseph. Hebridean island life isn't for WED everyone, yet when Kathleen decides to sell her family's WED croft and head to Glasgow, her friends are appalled. Her WED decision becomes a catalyst that causes people in the WED small community to re-examine their heart's desires. WED Kathleen ...... Elspeth Brodie WED Martinn ...... Finn Den Hertog WED Wendy ...... Meg Fraser WED Fergus ...... Jamie Lee WED Grandmother ...... Dolina MacLennan WED Trina ...... Sally Reid. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00n58kf (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial WED issues, live from the BBC's Money Matters Roadshow at the WED Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow. WED His guests are: WED Graham Hooper, Bestinvest WED Jackie Coyne, MacDonald Reid Scott Financial Services WED John Douglas, Finesco Financial Services. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k19 (Listen) WED Lyrical Ballads, The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems WED A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 WED collaboration which marked the beginning of the English WED Romantic poetry movement. WED The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which WED he disputes the traditional association of the nightingale WED with melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems WED about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded WED on location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye WED Valley, Monmouthshire. WED Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva WED William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows WED Adapted by Emma Harding. WED WED 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyl (Listen) WED Men at Home 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 Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins WED in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for WED inspection. WED Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette - these are the WED stories of family 'black sheep', and how embarrassing they WED were. And the moving diary of life with an alcoholic WED husband, who brought his servants back with him from the WED alehouse and trashed the parlour. 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 b00n58kh (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead WED and why. From clothes to jewellery, photographs, hats, eye WED glasses, walking sticks, letters and even food, alcohol WED and tobacco, the objects mourners leave in the coffins and WED caskets of their loved ones tells us a huge amount about WED our attitudes to death and the rituals it involves. WED Laurie talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre WED for Death and Society at the University of Bath, whose new WED study about 'modern-day grave goods' reveals fascinating WED insights into our attitudes to death, how we grieve, the WED ritual of death and mourning. She points out that the WED objects we leave today are remarkably similar to the kinds WED of goods uncovered by archaeologists in graves going back WED thousand of years. WED WED 16:30 Trials For Life b00n5sxk (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in WED clinical trials. WED Cystic fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening WED inherited disease, affecting many areas of the body. WED Vivienne talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to WED replace the gene at fault. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5h (Listen) WED 14th October 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED Hungarian-born Estee Lauder opens the first cosmetics shop WED in the new-look socialist Belgrade, Poland faces 1,000 per WED cent inflation and London Fashion Week anticipates the 90s WED look. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00n4x7m (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 b00n4x9y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00n594p (Listen) WED Series 2, Ill Communication WED Sitcom by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, set in the finest, WED feistiest, family-run record shop in Birmingham. WED Adam ...... Lenny Henry WED Rudy ...... Larrington Walker WED Richie ...... Joe Jacobs WED Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey WED Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon WED Doreen/Ms Rogers ...... Claire Benedict WED Policeman ...... Andrew Brooke. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00n4w3s (Listen) WED Three's a crowd for Ed and Mike. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00n4xj4 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjp (Listen) WED Degrees Of Separation, The Boy in the Library WED Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme WED of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's WED Hour listeners. WED Billy lives in the same town as his son and grandson, but WED he has never seen the little boy because of a family WED quarrel. When he sees a boy in the local library who he WED believes is his grandson, he sets in train a series of WED events which threaten to land him in trouble with the WED police. WED Billy ...... Richard Bremner WED Janice ...... Janice Acquah WED Karen ...... Alison Reid. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00n59ww (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie WED Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor WED cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Conserving What? b00n5ngf (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of Conservatism and WED tries to discover where David Cameron sits in its WED intellectual tradition. WED Peter searches for clues in the character of different WED Conservative governments. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00n52kz (Listen) WED Series 3, Migrating Stones WED Poet and writer Alyson Hallett travels to Australia with a WED large piece of limestone as a companion, inscribed with a WED line from one of her poems. This is the third journey WED Alyson has made with a stone; each destination has been WED different, each stone has been different, but each has WED been similarly inscribed by the sculptor and lettering WED artist Alec Peever. WED It is a project which began seven years ago, inspired by a WED dream and an encounter with an erratic - a huge boulder WED that had broken away from its motherbed centuries ago, WED lodged in ice and then set off on long, slow journey, WED until eventually it was deposited on a Welsh mountainside. WED It was here that Alyson encountered the boulder. WED Fascinated by the idea that stones are fellow companions WED and movement is an essential part of their nature, Alyson WED started to explore the cultural importance of stones, and WED embarked on her project, The Migration Habits of Stones. WED Alyson takes a journey with her third stone to Koonawara WED in Australia. We also hear from stone letterer Alec Peever WED and Bill Morris, warden of Leigh Woods in Bristol, the WED site of the first migrating stone. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00n58cr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Maureen Lipman. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00n4y87 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybv (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyk (Listen) WED And Another Thing..., Episode 3 WED Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide WED to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter WED Serafinowicz. WED A deal is struck and there is some bad Vogon poetry. WED Abridged by Penny Leicester. WED WED 23:00 One b00n5ngh (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item WED features more than one voice. WED With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and WED David Quantick. WED WED 23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00n5ngk (Listen) WED Train to Paris WED Series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the WED sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre oddities of human WED behaviour. Rik tells the tale of the Train to Paris. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z63 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00n4dq9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvv (Listen) THU The Defence of the Realm, Episode 3 THU Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the THU British Security Service, MI5. THU Using material released by the organisation's archives to THU mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and THU failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the THU complex modern world of counter-terrorism. THU The recruiting of spies was never an exact science, owing THU much to the clubbable atmosphere of Oxbridge and public THU schools. THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dst (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzs (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dyb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00n4g36 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g38 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris THU Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00n4g52 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00n4gbh (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00n5nqr (Listen) THU The Death of Elizabeth I THU Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen THU Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its THU impact on how Britain was ruled. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvx (Listen) THU The Defence of the Realm, Episode 4 THU Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the THU British Security Service, MI5. THU Using material released by the organisation's archives to THU mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and THU failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the THU complex modern world of counter-terrorism. THU The most publicly turbulent disagreements between the THU spies and the politicians to whom they reported occurred THU during Harold Wilson's final term in office. THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2l (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n5nqt (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 My Yiddisher Mother Tongue b00n5nz2 (Listen) THU Writer and comedian David Schneider goes on a personal THU journey through Yiddish culture and language. THU Schneider, who first came to fame on The Day Today and I'm THU Alan Partridge, is the grandson of a Yiddish playwright THU and a Yiddish actress. He returns to Whitechapel and THU Vienna where his grandparents performed and considers the THU rich thousand-year history of the language. THU Contributors include Yiddish enthusiasts including Michael THU Grade and General Colin Powell, who picked up the language THU in his teens when he worked in a Jewish toy store in New THU York. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00n4kd0 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00n4khk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00n4klx (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00n51z5 (Listen) THU Who really makes the biggest difference on climate change THU - those living on the edge or those working firmly within THU the system? Tell us about your experience of environmental THU campaigning via the Costing the Earth Facebook site (link THU below). THU A recent Christian Aid survey found that 93 per cent of THU people think everyone in the UK should have the right to THU peaceful protest, 50 per cent think the police are too THU heavy handed, and 18 per cent are put off protesting in THU the future due to heavy-handed policing. Costing the Earth THU finds out about those who continue to campaign on the THU planet's behalf; is it really getting harder for them to THU make an impact on how we and our governments behave? THU Mark Carter has been on hunger strike for over 46 days to THU highlight the plight of the seal. Some might see his THU actions as mad, but for Mark this is the only way to THU affect the government's proposed marine bills. During the THU last 10 years the common seal population has declined by a THU third but they are still being killed and for Mark, at THU least, the only solution is a ban on these culls. What THU effect will 500 signatures have against the interests of THU the fishing industry, and, whatever the results, how will THU he react? THU Jonathan Porritt recently resigned his post at the Forum THU for the Future with the dire warning that, 'A combination THU of political paralysis, corporate vested interest and our THU conservative-co-opted media' alongside 'basic entitlements THU protecting the rights of dissenting voices being eroded' THU mean tough times for green activists. THU The recent G20 protests saw some of the most draconian THU police tactics for some time. Using laws intended to THU prevent terrorists in the wake of 9/11 like Stop and THU Search, green activists have often found themselves at the THU front line of human rights issues. At the same time, the THU government's recent moves to change planning laws and rush THU through proposals for wind farms and nuclear plants via THU the Infrastructure Planning Commission quango could mean THU that contentious plans go ahead before activists have time THU to launch protests. THU Is it really getting harder for people like Tim, a regular THU at Climate Camp who has been informed that his photo and THU details are on police file, to affect change? THU Equally important is whether the long-used methods of mass THU camps, extreme acts and even advertising really have the THU impact that changing policy and people's behaviour THU requires. A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund THU suggests not. Could Whitehall workers or investment THU bankers be making a bigger difference without even trying, THU and if these methods haven't worked, what next? THU We follow Mark and Tim's stories to find out what one THU individual's efforts can achieve and look at the big THU protests of recent years to find out what the future of THU green activism might hold. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00n4w3s (Listen) THU Three's a crowd for Ed and Mike. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bz4cm (Listen) THU Dropping Bombs THU A bittersweet generational comedy by Paul Cotter. THU Sixty five years after a bungled bombing raid, a former THU RAF pilot, with wife and son in tow, makes the long drive THU to Germany to deliver an apology. The trip turns out to be THU explosive for all concerned. THU Valerie ...... Rosemary Leach THU Alistair ...... Nigel Anthony THU Ross ...... Ivan Kaye THU German Woman ...... Susan Engel THU Manager/Official ...... Kenneth Collard THU Weert ...... Dan Starkey. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00n3mpr (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 4 THU Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in THU Northumberland. THU On the fourth leg of the route, Jon Monks explains to THU Clare why he believes St Oswald's Way is the thinking THU man's walking route. THU St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy THU Island in the north, along 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 b00n474r (Listen) THU APT Enterprise Development THU Kate Humble appeals on behalf of APT Enterprise THU Development. THU Donations to APT Enterprise Development should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope APT. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If THU you are a UK tax payer, please provide APT with your full THU name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your THU donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not THU currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 290836. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k0l (Listen) THU Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey and Love THU A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 THU collaboration which marked the beginning of the English THU Romantic poetry movement. THU Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, THU Wordsworth's celebrated exploration of the relationship THU between the contemplation of nature and his sense of the THU divine. And Coleridge's pseudo-medieval ballad, Love, in THU which a minstrel woos his beloved with the dramatic tale THU of a knight and his lady. Recorded on location in Tintern THU Abbey, the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire and the Quantock THU Hills in Somerset. THU Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva THU William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows THU The Captain ...... Peter Gruffydd THU Adapted by Emma Harding. THU THU 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyn (Listen) THU Secrets at Home - Illicit Guests 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 Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins THU in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for THU inspection. THU Stories from adultery cases about women sneaking lovers THU into the house and how impossible it was to keep anything THU from prying servants, who were literally peering through THU the keyhole. 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 b00n48k4 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to the thriller writer Robert THU Harris, whose latest book, Lustrum, set in Ancient Rome, THU is the second volume of a trilogy about the lawyer, THU politican and orator Cicero. Harris explains how modern THU and ancient politics collide, and why this novel about THU ancient intrigue is dedicated to Lord Mandelson. THU The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector is the subject of a THU recent biography; as one of her novels is published in a THU new translation, Mariella is joined by the biographer THU Benjamin Moser to discuss why she is revered as one of the THU greatest writers in the Portugese language. THU And the masterpieces that never were; the author of a new THU history of literary hoaxes, Melissa Katsoulis, and the THU writer Kevin Jackson swap favourite tales of writers who THU pulled the wool over their readers' eyes. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00n5psk (Listen) THU 'The ultimate free lunch' is physicist Alan Guth's THU description of the universe. Created out of nothing, the THU universe is now unimagineably large, contains billions of THU stars, and provides home to us. Thirty years after THU Professor Guth first pondered the initial moments that THU fashioned a cosmos, he tells Quentin Cooper how his THU theories are shaping up. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5k (Listen) THU 15th October 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from prison sparking THU nationwide celebrations, the UN agrees a global ban on the THU ivory trade, and Jive Bunny, the cartoon rabbit, reaches THU number one in the charts. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00n4x7p (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 b00n4xb0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00grrzy (Listen) THU Series 4, Pub Quiz 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 Promoting himself to team captain of the Three Musketeers, THU Arthur enters the Shoulder of Mutton pub quiz. Can he win THU the 50 pound rollover, or will it all end in tears? THU With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and THU Alastair Kerr. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00n4w3w (Listen) THU Jazzer has trouble escaping the past. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00n4xj6 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to Peter Hook of THU New Order about his memories of the Hacienda club, and THU reports on the art works being recreated for the House of THU Lords. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjr (Listen) THU Degrees Of Separation, Twins THU Series of five linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme THU of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's THU Hour listeners. THU Janice already has two boisterous boys and is delighted THU when she discovers that one of the twins she is carrying THU is a girl. She dreams of the little dresses she will buy, THU how she'll fix her hair and how lovely it will be to have THU a dainty little creature around. Of course she's looking THU forward to another boy as well, but it's the little girl THU she is really excited about. But when the twins are born THU and she must be separated from one of them, her dreams THU come crashing down around her head. THU Janice ...... Janice Acquah THU Dan ...... Mark Meadows THU Doctor ...... Saikat Ahamed. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00n5qbn (Listen) THU Rob Walker investigates the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. What THU has made it the longest and most expensive inquiry in THU British legal history? THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00n5rc9 (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 b00n5rcc (Listen) THU Geoff Watts meets Richard Holmes, winner of the 2009 THU Science Book Prize, and hears how history and biography THU can reveal the workings of science. THU Also, does technology evolve? According to W Brian Arthur, THU a professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and THU author of The Nature of Technology, machines develop in THU some ways akin to biological organisms. THU Instead of natural selection, humans and markets force the THU changes. Instead of genes, sub-systems and new materials THU come together from diverse sources. And sometimes there THU are innovations rather than incremental developments - jet THU engines did not result from gradual changes to propeller THU engines. But overall, the argument is that technologies do THU indeed evolve. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00n5nqr (Listen) THU The Death of Elizabeth I THU Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen THU Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its THU impact on how Britain was ruled. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00n4y8c (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybx (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yym (Listen) THU And Another Thing..., Episode 4 THU Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide THU to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter THU Serafinowicz. THU A far-off planetoid is in need of a presiding god, as are THU some hitchhikers. THU i THU Abridged by Penny Leicester. THU THU 23:00 Pick Ups b00n5rwp (Listen) THU Series 2, Little Grey Cells THU Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi THU company. THU Dave's marriage proposal is temporarily postponed by an THU omelette. THU Mike ...... Paul Loughran THU Lind ...... Lesley Sharp THU Dave ...... Phil Rowson THU Rebel ..... Parvez Qadir THU Drunk ...... Mark E Smith THU Stevie ...... Suranne Jones THU Pat the Butcher ...... Andrew Grose. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z66 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00n4dqc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvx (Listen) FRI The Defence of the Realm, Episode 4 FRI Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the FRI British Security Service, MI5. FRI Using material released by the organisation's archives to FRI mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and FRI failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the FRI complex modern world of counter-terrorism. FRI The most publicly turbulent disagreements between the FRI spies and the politicians to whom they reported occurred FRI during Harold Wilson's final term in office. FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n4dsy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n4dzv (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n4dyd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00n4g3b (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n4g3d (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris FRI Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00n4g54 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00n4gbk (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00n4754 (Listen) FRI Steve Coogan FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve FRI Coogan. FRI As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a FRI talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently FRI he has also found success in films, but is best known for FRI the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The FRI chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe FRI with his crass questions and witless interventions and has FRI remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00n8vvz (Listen) FRI The Defence of the Realm, Episode 5 FRI Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the FRI British Security Service, MI5. FRI Using material released by the organisation's archives to FRI mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and FRI failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the FRI complex modern world of counter-terrorism. FRI Bringing the story up to date. FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00n4k2n (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Degrees of Separation. FRI FRI 11:00 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n5td6 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved from London to the FRI isolated West Highlands to live with the writer Gavin FRI Maxwell, whose most famous book is Ring of Bright Water. FRI Forty years after Maxwell's death, Terry tells the FRI remarkable story of his life with this mercurial man and FRI his famous otters, Edal and Teko. FRI Ring of Bright Water is regarded by some as the finest FRI book ever written about a man's relationship with FRI landscape and wildlife. Published in 1959, it tells the FRI story of Maxwell's life in the now almost mythical setting FRI of Camusfearna. His poetic observations of otter behaviour FRI and the detailed sketches and photographs in the book FRI helped to change the reputation of these animals, which FRI were widely persecuted at the time. FRI During his time with Maxwell, Terry Nutkins had a Boy's FRI Own adventure with a pet otter in a uniquely beautiful FRI landscape. But he also found himself living a peculiar FRI existence, in virtual isolation, with a man who was as FRI charming as he was difficult, and whose depression led to FRI severe mood swings. As Terry reveals, he had to grow up FRI quickly. FRI FRI 11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n5tzr (Listen) FRI Variation on A Theme FRI Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. FRI Brunswick is back with his dear friends from the station, FRI just in time for the annual cricket match between the FRI villains and the police. But Steine's life continues to be FRI under threat. So if it's not Brunswick, who is reponsible? 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 Albert ...... David Holt. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00n4kd2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00n4khm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00n4klz (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00n5vjq (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00n4w3w (Listen) FRI Jazzer has trouble escaping the past. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n5vjs (Listen) FRI A Dose of Fame FRI By Stephen Wakelam. In the final stages of writing Howards FRI End and nervous of success, EM Forster grapples with a FRI mysterious death, his own sexuality and the seed of an FRI idea for his next novel, Maurice. FRI Morgan ...... Stephen Campbell Moore FRI Lily ...... Diana Quick FRI Masood ...... Navin Chowdhry FRI Malcolm ...... Matt Addis FRI Ernest ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Unwin ...... Sam Dale FRI Edward Arnold ...... Philip Fox FRI Roger Fry ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Hilda ...... Caroline Guthrie FRI Directed by David Hunter. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n5vrf (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood meet FRI the valley gardeners of Itchen Abbas, near Winchester. FRI The country's top groundsman advises on autumn lawn FRI maintenance and keeping the perfect lawn or sports field. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A History of Private Life b00n4wyq (Listen) FRI Domestic Violence 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 Visitors - and new codes of politeness. As visiting begins FRI in the 18th century, so the home is opened up for FRI inspection. FRI The dark side of private life, and how home became a trap. FRI The moving diary of Ellen Weeton, who was duped into FRI marriage with a man who abused her, keeping her locked up FRI in a back room and forbidding her access to their FRI daughter. What were her options for escape? 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 b00n5vt7 (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 b00n5w33 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock presents a special edition of the programme FRI with Terry Gilliam. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n4x5m (Listen) FRI 16th October 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI The financial markets recover after Friday's Wall Street FRI crash, averting another Black Monday; rehearsals begin for FRI the first televised coverage of parliament; 120,000 East FRI Germans gather in Leipzig for the largest anti-government FRI demonstration in the nation's history. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00n4x7r (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 b00n4xb2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00n5w35 (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 4 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans FRI and Sue Perkins. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00n4w3z (Listen) FRI Susan's future hangs in the balance. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00n4xj8 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on FRI Johnny Mad Dog, an award-winning feature film about child FRI soldiers in Africa. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n9kjt (Listen) FRI Degrees Of Separation, Ashes FRI Series of linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme of FRI separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's Hour FRI listeners. FRI Rishi is a doctor whose sister has unexpectedly died, FRI leaving the family, and especially her mother, grief FRI stricken. The old lady turns on Leela's husband Paolo, who FRI is trying to cope with his own loss. FRI Rishi Hussein ...... Saikat Ahamed FRI Vanhi ...... Taru Devani FRI Paolo ...... Andy Morton. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00n5w37 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Cerne Abbas in FRI Dorset. The panel includes the Leader of the House of FRI Lords, Baroness Royall, columnist and comedian Viv Groskop FRI and Howard Davies, Director of the London School of FRI Economics. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n5w39 (Listen) FRI Collecting FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Why do we collect things? Is it a male response to ancient FRI hunting instincts to provide food for the family? Today, FRI collecting by children is in decline, and with it the FRI development of an early fascination with the natural world FRI around them. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n5w7h (Listen) FRI Episode 3 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 How the home was opened up in the 18th century, as FRI visiting began. 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 b00n4y8f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00n4ybz (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n4yyr (Listen) FRI And Another Thing..., Episode 5 FRI Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide FRI to the Galaxy series. Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter FRI Serafinowicz. FRI An immortal challenge must be faced. FRI Abridged by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00n55sn (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to broadcaster Vanessa Feltz and FRI journalist Johann Hari about their favourite books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00n4z68 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI