Radio 4 Listings for 17/10/2009 - 23/10/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00n5w91 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00n8vvz (Listen)
SAT       The Defence of the Realm, Episode 5
SAT       Peter Firth reads from Christopher Andrew's history of the
SAT       British Security Service, MI5.
SAT       Using material released by the organisation's archives to
SAT       mark its centenary year, this charts MI5's successes and
SAT       failures through the two World Wars, the Cold War and the
SAT       complex modern world of counter-terrorism.
SAT       Bringing the story up to date.
SAT       A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n5w93 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n5w95 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n5w97 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00n5w99 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n5w9c (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00n5w9f (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00n5w9h (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00n6tc7 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Ramblings b00n6tc9 (Listen)
SAT       Series 13, Episode 5
SAT       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
SAT       Northumberland.
SAT       Former hill shepherd Russell Tait, Northumberland's answer
SAT       to George Clooney, is Clare's guide as she walk's the
SAT       fifth leg of the route from Rothbury to Simonside.
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.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00n6v43 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       It's troubled times for the organic sector. The recession
SAT       means fewer people are prepared to pay a premium - income
SAT       for the sector is down 13 per cent on 2008.
SAT       Now some supermarkets have decided to cut organic lines by
SAT       a third. The cause hasn't been helped by a recent report
SAT       from the Food Standards Agency which said organic is not
SAT       nutritionally any better than conventionally grown food.
SAT       Charlotte Smith is in Warwickshire to find out how one
SAT       organic farmer is coping.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00n6v45 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00n6v47 (Listen)
SAT       With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the
SAT       Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00n6v49 (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Rev Richard Coles is joined by five-time Olympic gold
SAT       medal winner Sir Steve Redgrave.
SAT       With poetry from Luke Wright.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00n6v4c (Listen)
SAT       The urge to visit the scene of a family member's wartime
SAT       experiences often follows the realisation of what dangers
SAT       they have been through. Journalist Tom Carver's father
SAT       escaped from a prison camp in Italy in 1943 and went on
SAT       the run behind German lines. Tom found himself tracking
SAT       down the Italian family who had helped him and exploring
SAT       the cave in the Abruzzi countryside where his father had
SAT       hidden out. Julie Summers's grandfather was the senior
SAT       British officer building the bridge on the River Kwai, and
SAT       when she went there she found the real story very
SAT       different from the image given in the famous film - most
SAT       notably the fact that it is still in use.
SAT       John McCartthy also talks to Diego Torres, an
SAT       award-winning tour guide from Ecuador, who explains that,
SAT       although his country lies firmly on the Equator, it is far
SAT       from being just Equatorial. It has a dazzling variety of
SAT       landscapes from jungle to mountain plains, as well as the
SAT       renowned Galapagos Islands.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth
SAT       Williams b00mbkk2 (Listen)
SAT       A special broadcast of a lost script written for Kenneth
SAT       Horne and Kenneth Williams in 1966 by Horne and his ghost
SAT       writer, Mollie Millest. Robin Sebastian and Jonathan Rigby
SAT       take the lead roles as the two Kenneths, with
SAT       contributions from Charles Armstrong, who takes on the
SAT       role as the announcer.
SAT       The plot, evoking memories of Round the Horne, finds the
SAT       two Kenneths working together in advance of their own
SAT       radio programme and follows them as they journey around
SAT       Broadcasting House meeting a weird and wonderful
SAT       assortment of characters.
SAT       The script was discovered by writer and broadcaster Wes
SAT       Butters, who purchased a collection of Kenneth Williams
SAT       memorabilia from Williams's godson. Butters introduces the
SAT       performance, which was recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre
SAT       in London and features old sound effects and props,
SAT       including the famous door from the popular Tommy Handley
SAT       radio series, It's That Man Again.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00n6v70 (Listen)
SAT       This week the Week In Westminster devotes most of the
SAT       programme to an extended interview with the speaker of the
SAT       House of Commons John Bercow.
SAT       In his first full length interview since elected to his
SAT       new role, he talks to Steve Richards about the ongoing
SAT       saga of MPs expenses, the reform of that system, and how
SAT       to modernise parliamentary procedures to make the
SAT       institution more accessible to the public at large.
SAT       Also in the programme:
SAT       Andrew Cooper, of the polling organisation Populus, and
SAT       the BBC’s head of political research, David Cowling,
SAT       discuss the main parties’ current standing in the polls
SAT       after the party conference season.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00n6v72 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Alan Little reports from Bosnia, as a date is set for the
SAT       war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic.
SAT       A mad cow adds to the woes of American soldiers on patrol
SAT       in Iraq, as Gabriel Gatehouse discovers in Kirkuk.
SAT       Venezuelan police try to shed a dubious reputation, as
SAT       Will Grant observes.
SAT       Kevin Connolly tells of how the modern world is taking on
SAT       an all-American hero on the Great Plains.
SAT       And is the Russian car manufacturer Lada nearing the end
SAT       of the road? Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out, on the
SAT       banks of the Volga River.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00n6wfj (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       We reveal a major loophole in one bank's chip and PIN
SAT       security.
SAT       How to find the best low-cost pension schemes.
SAT       Could a high court ruling help hundreds of thousands of
SAT       Equitable Life policyholders?
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00n5w35 (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 4
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Simon Evans
SAT       and Sue Perkins.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00n6wfl (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00n6wfn (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00n5w37 (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Cerne Abbas in
SAT       Dorset. The panellists are the Leader of the House of
SAT       Lords, Baroness Royall, columnist and writer Viv Groskop,
SAT       Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics,
SAT       and Grant Shapps, shadow minister for housing, communities
SAT       and local government.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00n6wfq (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 b00n6wfs (Listen)
SAT       Emil and the Detectives
SAT       Dramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's
SAT       detective novel by Erich Kaestner.
SAT       Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first
SAT       time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to
SAT       help him catch a thief.
SAT       Emil ...... Joshua Swinney
SAT       Kaestner ...... Bruce Alexander
SAT       Grundeis ...... Ewan Hooper
SAT       Gustav ...... Daniel Cooper
SAT       Professor ...... Neil Reynolds
SAT       Traut ...... Bertie Gilbert
SAT       Peters ...... Josh Robinson
SAT       Tuesday ...... Harry Child
SAT       Pony ...... Agnes Bateman
SAT       Mrs Tischbein ...... Melissa Advani
SAT       Cashier ...... Tessa Nicholson
SAT       Jeschke ...... John Biggins
SAT       Guard ...... Rhys Jennings
SAT       Taxi Driver ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
SAT       Grandma ...... Kate Layden
SAT       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House b00n8swn (Listen)
SAT       Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has converted a disused
SAT       garage in Gaborone, Botswana, into an opera house and is
SAT       training local people to sing in its opening production, a
SAT       new opera he has written about baboons.
SAT       Pauline McLean charts the progress of this wacky project
SAT       with McCall Smith himself, Botswana's ex-minster of health
SAT       and the country's only semi-professional baritone, a
SAT       schoolteacher named Gape Motswaledi, who believes that
SAT       there is a career to be made from the venture.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00n6wfv (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey.
SAT       Singer Leona Lewis on her rise to fame; Sheryl Gascoigne
SAT       talks about life before and after Gazza; one woman's story
SAT       of transforming the lives of children in the Philippines;
SAT       opera singer Rachel Nicholls performs the work of Handel;
SAT       the experience of being the first in a family to go to
SAT       university; can you ever be too old to wear jeans?
SAT       
SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n6wfx (Listen)
SAT       17th October 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       The Guildford Four have their sentence overturned after 14
SAT       years in prison, ambulance workers threaten hunger strike
SAT       to demand higher pay, and an earthquake measuring seven on
SAT       the Richter scale strikes San Francisco in the evening
SAT       rush hour, causing a double-decker motorway to collapse.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00n6wfz (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the
SAT       sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00n5rc9 (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis presents a special edition of the business
SAT       magazine from the University of Derby. He asks his panel
SAT       of guests about the role played by lawyers in business and
SAT       how we can fill the hole left by financial services in the
SAT       UK.
SAT       Evan is joined by:
SAT       Ian Livingstone, life president of Eidos Interactive, the
SAT       company that produced Lara Croft, one of the best-selling
SAT       video games of all time
SAT       Colin Walton, chairman of Bombardier Transportation, who
SAT       runs the only train factory left in the UK
SAT       David Gold, senior partner at Herbert Smith, one of
SAT       Britain's leading law firms.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n6wg1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00n6wg3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n6wg5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00n6wg7 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive talks to Katherine Jenkins, Liverpudlian actor David
SAT       Morrissey talks about directing his first feature film and
SAT       David Heathcote discusses his new series, Art Deco Icons.
SAT       Jon Holmes interviews surrealist comedian Rich Fulcher,
SAT       star of The Mighty Boosh.
SAT       With music from Seasick Steve and Mumford and Sons, and
SAT       comedy from teenage stand-up Daniel Sloss.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen)
SAT       Sir Thomas Legg
SAT       Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through
SAT       the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent
SAT       out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered
SAT       many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the
SAT       retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the
SAT       centre of a media and political storm.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00n6wgc (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00n6wgf (Listen)
SAT       The Anniversary Anniversary
SAT       Dominic Sandbrook explores the compelling appeal of the
SAT       anniversary. How often on the radio, on television or in
SAT       print is our attention enticed by the simple fact that an
SAT       event, a birth or a death happened a year, or five or ten,
SAT       fifty, even several hundred years ago?
SAT       There is a huge category of archive material dedicated to
SAT       particular happenings or personalities which would never
SAT       have been produced without the prompt of an anniversary.
SAT       Remembering war predates broadcasting, but in the past the
SAT       remembering was cast in stone, unchanging even as the
SAT       memories of those involved frayed and faded. In
SAT       broadcasting, that increasing remoteness results in the
SAT       memories being endlessly reworked with a different slant
SAT       and attitude. Ten years after the end of Second World War,
SAT       the response was limited but jovially triumphal. Sixty
SAT       years on and there is a far greater energy in remembering
SAT       and rediscovering, particularly of the details that didn't
SAT       seem to matter at the time. A perfect example is The Radio
SAT       Four series Coming Home.
SAT       Dominic also looks at artistic, literary, sporting and
SAT       musical anniversaries. In music there seems to be a
SAT       constant stream of anniversary commemorations, fuelled by
SAT       the recording industry. For example, there is the 200th
SAT       anniversary of Mozart's death or the 250th anniversary of
SAT       his birth; and, if that's not enough, then there are
SAT       similar anniversaries for each of his operas.
SAT       At the very heart of all this is the simple business of
SAT       marking the turning of the years, best illustrated by the
SAT       birthday, that most domestic of anniversaries.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00n47q5 (Listen)
SAT       Beau Geste, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of
SAT       honour, love and adventure.
SAT       The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and
SAT       hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do
SAT       wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign
SAT       Legion. A sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg
SAT       raiders brings matters to a head and provides the
SAT       explanation for the disappearance of the Blue Water
SAT       sapphire.
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 b00n6wgh (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00n59ww (Listen)
SAT       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
SAT       behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie
SAT       Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor
SAT       cross-examine witnesses.
SAT       When should we forgive and should we ever forget? It's the
SAT       25th anniversary of the Brighton Bomb and the man who
SAT       planted it will be sharing a platform in Parliament with
SAT       the daughter of one of the people he killed - talking
SAT       about forgiveness. Is anyone ever beyond redemption? Are
SAT       any crimes ever too heinous to forgive? How do we balance
SAT       the desire for retribution with society's need to pursue
SAT       wider understanding and reconciliation?
SAT       Witnesses:
SAT       Paul Bowman
SAT       Father of Sally Anne Bowman who was murdered in 2005
SAT       Bishop Peter Price
SAT       Bishop of Bath and Wells
SAT       Ruth Dudley Edwards
SAT       Historian, commentator and author of Aftermath: The Omagh
SAT       Bombings and The Families Pursuit of Justice
SAT       Hon Timothy Knatchbull
SAT       Lost his grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, and twin brother
SAT       30 years ago in IRA bombing.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00n4zgx (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the first heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00n48k6 (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday
SAT       from the Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces
SAT       a selection of the most frequently-requested poems from
SAT       the past 30 years. The special guest readers, including
SAT       Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick Malahide, all
SAT       have a strong connection with the city.
SAT       Including poems by Keats, Hardy, Betjeman, Wendy Cope and
SAT       Carol Ann Duffy.
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SUN       SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00n6wq0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zh (Listen)
SUN       Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, Day to Day Dilemmas of Modern
SUN       Martyrs
SUN       Series of stories by Morven Crumlish.
SUN       After a day spent consoling a stressed-out single mum,
SUN       Rebecca sets about addressing some issues of her own.
SUN       Read by Neve McIntosh.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n6wq2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n6wq4 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n6wq6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00n6wq8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00n6x6f (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow on the
SUN       Wold in Gloucestershire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen)
SUN       Sir Thomas Legg
SUN       Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through
SUN       the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent
SUN       out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered
SUN       many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the
SUN       retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the
SUN       centre of a media and political storm.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00n6x6h (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00n6x6k (Listen)
SUN       The Bullying Circle
SUN       Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and
SUN       the circle of bystanders and followers who make bullying
SUN       possible.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead, Frank
SUN       Stirling and Jordan Scowen.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00n6x6m (Listen)
SUN       Alex James visits Woodlands Organic Farm in Boston to meet
SUN       one of the nominees for the 2009 BBC Farmer of the Year
SUN       award. Andrew Dennis does organic on a big scale with
SUN       cereals, traditional livestock and vegetables. But the
SUN       decision in the mid-1990s to make the conversion from
SUN       conventional agriculture was a risk. Alex discovers how
SUN       Andrew has made it a success and whether the recession
SUN       threatens such large-scale organic farming.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00n6x6p (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00n6x6r (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00n6x6t (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00n6x6w (Listen)
SUN       Fauna & Flora International
SUN       Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora
SUN       International.
SUN       Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to
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SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI with your full
SUN       name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your
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SUN       Registered Charity No: 1011102.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00n6x6y (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00n6x70 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00n6x72 (Listen)
SUN       From the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast,
SUN       conducted by Rev David Neilands. Preacher: Rev Dr Ruth
SUN       Patterson. Director of Music: Ruth McCartney.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00n5w39 (Listen)
SUN       Collecting
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Why do we collect things? Is it a male response to ancient
SUN       hunting instincts to provide food for the family? Today,
SUN       collecting by children is in decline, and with it the
SUN       development of an early fascination with the natural world
SUN       around them.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00n6x74 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00n6x76 (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00n6x78 (Listen)
SUN       Jan Pienkowski
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski.
SUN       He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and
SUN       lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood
SUN       in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his
SUN       home in England more than 60 years ago.
SUN       The folk traditions of central Europe are still much in
SUN       evidence in his work though; twice winner of the Kate
SUN       Greenaway Medal, his illustrations see childhood terrors
SUN       realised in gothic scenes, with witches a constant
SUN       presence.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n510l (Listen)
SUN       Series 4, Episode 2
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 Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00n6x7b (Listen)
SUN       Duck Shoots
SUN       Eaten any duck recently? More duck is being cooked at
SUN       home, served in gastro pubs and used in the ubiquitous Hoi
SUN       Sin duck wrap. It is now the second most bred species in
SUN       the world. So where is all this meat coming from? How is
SUN       it being reared? How have factory systems changed in
SUN       recent years, and is the gap in taste between wild and
SUN       farmed birds changing?
SUN       As the duck shooting season gets underway, and consumption
SUN       climbs steadily towards Christmas, Sheila Dillon
SUN       investigates the culinary value and welfare conditions of
SUN       wild and farmed duck.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00n6x7d (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00n6x7g (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Beyond This Life b00n6x7j (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford,
SUN       confronts our response to death in 21st-century Britain.
SUN       He reflects on how we deal with death as a society and
SUN       considers the relationship between those who have gone and
SUN       those who are left behind.
SUN       Most people can remember their first funeral - everyone
SUN       can remember the first time they saw someone who had died.
SUN       But how we respond to death and our own mortality varies
SUN       greatly in multicultural Britain?
SUN       Two teenagers face the unexpected death of their
SUN       schoolfriend and seek the comfort of an afterlife despite
SUN       not believing in God. And a 70-year-old British Hindu
SUN       takes his fight to have an open funeral pyre to the High
SUN       Court, believing that, if he doesn't, his soul will haunt
SUN       those left behind.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n5vrf (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood meet
SUN       the valley gardeners of Itchen Abbas, near Winchester.
SUN       The country's top groundsman advises on autumn lawn
SUN       maintenance and keeping the perfect lawn or sports field.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Runaway Train b00n6ygv (Listen)
SUN       March 9th 1987 began as a normal day for railwayman Wesley
SUN       MacDonald as he made up a train of 50 cars of ore at a
SUN       mine in northern Canada. But that all changed when the
SUN       brakes failed to hold the load and Wesley suddenly found
SUN       himself aboard a runaway train. This programme tells the
SUN       story of what happened next, featuring actual audio
SUN       footage of the radio communication between him and the
SUN       rail traffic controller as he wrestles with the decision
SUN       on whether to jump or take his chances onboard.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00n6yws (Listen)
SUN       Howards End, Episode 1
SUN       Two-part dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel.
SUN       When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End, the
SUN       country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along
SUN       with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever.
SUN       Narrator ...... John Hurt
SUN       Margaret Schlegel ...... Lisa Dillon
SUN       Helen Schlegel ...... Jill Cardo
SUN       Tibby Schlegel ...... Tom Ferguson
SUN       Aunt Juley ...... Alexandra Mathie
SUN       Henry Wilcox ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SUN       Ruth Wilcox ...... Ann Rye
SUN       Charles Wilcox ...... Joseph Kloska
SUN       Leonard Bast ...... Joseph Prospero
SUN       Dolly Wilcox/Jacky Bast ...... Christine Marshall.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00n6z0d (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup presents the first of two programmes in
SUN       which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have
SUN       been unfairly neglected. In this edition William Boyd,
SUN       Ruth Rendell, Colm Toibin, Hari Kunzru and Susan Hill
SUN       unveil their choices.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00n6z0g (Listen)
SUN       A second programme celebrating the 30th birthday of Poetry
SUN       Please in the show's home town of Bristol. Roger McGough
SUN       is joined at Bristol Old Vic by special guest readers,
SUN       including Stephanie Cole and Patrick Malahide, for some of
SUN       the best-loved poems in its history.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n702x (Listen)
SUN       18th October 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       Erich Honecker, the East German leader of 18 years and
SUN       architect of the Berlin Wall, resigns; all Commonwealth
SUN       countries agree on sanctions against South Africa - except
SUN       for the UK; the Atlantis Space Shuttle launches
SUN       successfully from Cape Canaveral, initiating a six-year
SUN       research mission to Jupiter.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00n569w (Listen)
SUN       Fears over deep cuts in council jobs and services have
SUN       brought predictions of a winter of discontent and strife
SUN       unlike anything seen for 30 years. But as councils prepare
SUN       to wield the axe, Julian O'Halloran asks if some
SUN       authorities have added to their budget crises by awarding
SUN       over-the-top pay, perks and severance terms to their own
SUN       top executives.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00n6wg9 (Listen)
SUN       Sir Thomas Legg
SUN       Sir Thomas Legg is the lawyer who has been combing through
SUN       the past five years of MPs' expenses. The letters he sent
SUN       out to MPs about their claims have surprised and angered
SUN       many of them. Chris Bowlby takes a closer look at the
SUN       retired, unknown civil servant, who is suddenly at the
SUN       centre of a media and political storm.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00n7031 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00n7033 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n7035 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00n70bx (Listen)
SUN       John Waite introduces his selection of highlights from the
SUN       past week on BBC radio.
SUN       The Mario Lanza Story - Radio 2
SUN       Brighton: The Bomb That Changed Politics - Radio 4
SUN       Terry Nutkins: in the Ring of Bright Water - Radio 4
SUN       Archive on 4: The Anniversary Anniversary - Radio 4
SUN       The Choice - Radio 4
SUN       Nature - Radio 4
SUN       Lyrical Ballads - Radio 4
SUN       Beyond This Life - Radio 4
SUN       Legacy - Radio 4
SUN       The No. 1 Ladies Opera House - Radio 4
SUN       My Yiddisher Mother Tongue - Radio 4
SUN       Le Chanson de Serge - Radio 2
SUN       The Essay - Radio 3
SUN       World Routes - Radio 3.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00n70bz (Listen)
SUN       Lynda masters the art of compromise.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00n70c1 (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       President Barack Obama makes his first visit to New
SUN       Orleans since becoming president. Matt Frei talks to New
SUN       Orleans-born trumpeter Irvin Mayfield about what life is
SUN       like these days in the city still coming back to life from
SUN       the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
SUN       As major news networks scramble to innovate and meet the
SUN       changing demands of their audiences, Matt Frei talks to
SUN       former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather about the ways
SUN       Americans consume news.
SUN       Many American big-city newspapers are holding on for dear
SUN       life - and sometimes not holding on at all - but some
SUN       small-town papers are doing just fine. Matt Frei talks to
SUN       publisher Gloria Trotter in Oklahoma, who has co-published
SUN       the Tecumseh Countywide News and Sun for the last 26
SUN       years. She explains how small papers like hers are
SUN       managing to continue going strong.
SUN       After 40 years of Monty Python humour, many Americans can
SUN       still quote a trove of the troupe's lines, verbatim, and
SUN       with very bad English accents. Hayes Davenport, editor of
SUN       the Harvard Lampoon, tries to explain why.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt5 (Listen)
SUN       Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Zippin' Up Your
SUN       Boots
SUN       By Gill Edwards.
SUN       Every middle-aged person needs to know certain things when
SUN       asked to a school reunion, especially if they are planning
SUN       to lie about almost everything they have done since
SUN       leaving.
SUN       Read by Alison Reid.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00n5vjq (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00n5vt7 (Listen)
SUN       John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and
SUN       celebrating the life stories of people who have recently
SUN       died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and
SUN       interest from many walks of life, some famous and some
SUN       less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00n6wfj (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       We reveal a major loophole in one bank's chip and PIN
SUN       security.
SUN       How to find the best low-cost pension schemes.
SUN       Could a high court ruling help hundreds of thousands of
SUN       Equitable Life policyholders?
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00n6x6w (Listen)
SUN       Fauna & Flora International
SUN       Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora
SUN       International.
SUN       Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope FFI. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI 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: 1011102.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00n51z3 (Listen)
SUN       Small States
SUN       Bronwen Maddox, chief foreign commentator of The Times,
SUN       asks if small nations can survive as independent states.
SUN       Tiny states like Liechtenstein, Brunei and Monaco give
SUN       hope to independence movements elsewhere that size does
SUN       not matter. Bronwen Maddox asks if the world's smallest
SUN       countries are quite as independent as they appear and
SUN       examines the difficulties of being small but truly
SUN       sovereign.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00n70c3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00n70c5 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Conserving What?
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00n70c7 (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 17th October 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago.
SUN       Chancellor Nigel Lawson speaks at the Conservative party
SUN       conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate,
SUN       Douglas Hurd declares war on the 'scourge of acid house
SUN       parties', and ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from
SUN       prison, sparking nationwide celebrations.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00n6x6k (Listen)
SUN       The Bullying Circle
SUN       Mark Tully considers bullying - the bully, the bullied and
SUN       the circle of bystanders and followers who make bullying
SUN       possible.
SUN       The readers are Emily Raymond, David Westhead, Frank
SUN       Stirling and Jordan Scowen.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00n7cyf (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00n58kh (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead
MON       and why. From clothes to jewellery, photographs, hats, eye
MON       glasses, walking sticks, letters and even food, alcohol
MON       and tobacco, the objects mourners leave in the coffins and
MON       caskets of their loved ones tells us a huge amount about
MON       our attitudes to death and the rituals it involves.
MON       Laurie talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre
MON       for Death and Society at the University of Bath, whose new
MON       study about 'modern-day grave goods' uncovers the
MON       fascinating, touching and often moving examples of our
MON       gifts to the dead and why the objects we leave today are
MON       remarkably similar to the kinds of items uncovered by
MON       archaeologists in graves going back thousand of years.
MON       Duncan Sayer, archaeologist from the Centre for Death and
MON       Society, discusses how human society has buried their dead.
MON       Also in the programme: alcohol as a lens to understand
MON       social change. The links between drink, national identity
MON       and economic prosperity.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00n6x6f (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Edward's church, Stow on the
MON       Wold in Gloucestershire.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7czv (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f9q (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d0c (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00n7fcz (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fmj (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmz (Listen)
MON       It's costing farmers and taxpayers tens of thousands of
MON       pounds every day as organised crime muscles in on
MON       fly-tipping in the countryside.
MON       With 10 rural pub closing each week, Charlotte Smith hears
MON       many are now growing their own veg and rearing their own
MON       animals to help make ends meet.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00n7ym8 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00n7gf3 (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00n7ymb (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr discusses game theory with CIA advisor Bruce
MON       Bueno de Mesquita, Charles II with Jenny Uglow, the
MON       Russian holocaust with historian Orlando Figes and Kwame
MON       Kwei-Armah's new play Seize the Day.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00n7gf5 (Listen)
MON       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 1
MON       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
MON       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
MON       The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange
MON       interview with Michael Heseltine.
MON       Abridged by Polly Coles.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gl4 (Listen)
MON       Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. Including:
MON       The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson has said
MON       that it is important for pregnant women to be immunised
MON       against swine flu as they have a particularly high risk of
MON       complications. Why are pregnant women so at risk from the
MON       infection? Is swine flu any more dangerous than seasonal
MON       flu? And when in the pregnancy should women be vaccinated?
MON       How much should you ration your children's screen time -
MON       their use of computers, games consoles, TVs and all the
MON       other electronic gadgets on the market? Are we in danger
MON       of rearing a generation of emotionally stunted children
MON       with deficient attention spans, no creativity and an
MON       inability to interact in the real world, all because of
MON       the excessive time they've spent in front of a screen? Or
MON       do computer games teach essential life skills to children?
MON       'Dear Mr Bigelow'. In 1949, Frances Woodsford started
MON       writing letters to a wealthy American widower called
MON       Commodore Paul Bigelow. There was no romance between the
MON       two, and they never met, but in the twelve years that
MON       followed they delighted in receiving each other's letters.
MON       Frances talks about her correspondence, and about becoming
MON       a published author for the first time at the age of 94.
MON       In 2002, Jennifer Pike became the youngest ever winner of
MON       the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, when she scooped
MON       the prize aged just twelve. She'll be playing live and
MON       talking about finding success so young.
MON       
MON       11:00 How to Run a City b00lb26t (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present
MON       and future stars of English local authorities who are
MON       bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the
MON       water.
MON       Shari meets some of the trainees on the National Graduate
MON       Development Programme, set up to encourage bright
MON       graduates to do a job they might not previously have
MON       considered - working for council.
MON       She follows Saima Khan, an ambitious and idealistic
MON       trainee in Stafford, as she goes about setting up a scheme
MON       to help council workers volunteer. Shari also meets
MON       Natalie Howard, who swapped a glamorous career with a high
MON       street fashion retailer for a job in local government, and
MON       is trying to bring the dynamism of the business world into
MON       her new role. On the other hand, she also meets Dominic
MON       Campbell, who was running a team of more than 20 people by
MON       the age of 26 yet left to set up a consultancy business.
MON       So can the brightest graduates thrive in local government
MON       and help change the sector, or will they be lured away -
MON       particularly in the face of coming cuts?
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen)
MON       Girl With A Polycotton Tabard
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.
MON       Beauty wonders why so many British men get stuck in the
MON       emotional wilderness and find it hard to communicate with
MON       each other, as she deals with an elderly gentleman and his
MON       son. Beauty's dreams of becoming a model are given a boost
MON       when she applies to be the Face of the Social Services.
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Mr Clark ...... Geoffrey Palmer
MON       Julian ...... Christopher Douglas
MON       Georgie ...... Emma Fryer
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Anil ...... Paul Sharma
MON       Race Commentator ...... Christopher Douglas
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00n7gp7 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00n7h54 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00n7jcz (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00n7zhg (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the second heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00n70bz (Listen)
MON       Lynda masters the art of compromise.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n7zq2 (Listen)
MON       Filthy Rich
MON       Black comedy by Michael Butt. Max is set to inherit a
MON       small fortune when he turns 25, but standing between him
MON       and the money is his sister Katrin. And then there's the
MON       grandmother. It's dog-eat-dog on the mean streets of
MON       Weston-super-Mare.
MON       Max ......William Beck
MON       Katrin ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
MON       Maria ......Anna Massey
MON       Susie ...... Rachel Spence
MON       Dougie ...... Piers Wehner
MON       Man ...... Rhys Jennings
MON       Young Katrin ...... Isadora Dooley Hunter
MON       Young Max ...... Joshua Swinney
MON       Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00n6wgf (Listen)
MON       The Anniversary Anniversary
MON       Dominic Sandbrook explores the compelling appeal of the
MON       anniversary. How often on the radio, on television or in
MON       print is our attention enticed by the simple fact that an
MON       event, a birth or a death happened a year, or five or ten,
MON       fifty, even several hundred years ago?
MON       There is a huge category of archive material dedicated to
MON       particular happenings or personalities which would never
MON       have been produced without the prompt of an anniversary.
MON       Remembering war predates broadcasting, but in the past the
MON       remembering was cast in stone, unchanging even as the
MON       memories of those involved frayed and faded. In
MON       broadcasting, that increasing remoteness results in the
MON       memories being endlessly reworked with a different slant
MON       and attitude. Ten years after the end of Second World War,
MON       the response was limited but jovially triumphal. Sixty
MON       years on and there is a far greater energy in remembering
MON       and rediscovering, particularly of the details that didn't
MON       seem to matter at the time. A perfect example is The Radio
MON       Four series Coming Home.
MON       Dominic also looks at artistic, literary, sporting and
MON       musical anniversaries. In music there seems to be a
MON       constant stream of anniversary commemorations, fuelled by
MON       the recording industry. For example, there is the 200th
MON       anniversary of Mozart's death or the 250th anniversary of
MON       his birth; and, if that's not enough, then there are
MON       similar anniversaries for each of his operas.
MON       At the very heart of all this is the simple business of
MON       marking the turning of the years, best illustrated by the
MON       birthday, that most domestic of anniversaries.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kth (Listen)
MON       Servants
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       When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences
MON       of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of
MON       those who had no family or home of their own?
MON       Many servants in the 18th century didn't even have a bed
MON       of their own, sleeping in passageways or across their
MON       masters' doors like guard dogs. And maids were notoriously
MON       vulnerable to sexually predatory men, to their master's
MON       droit de seigneur.
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 b00n6x7b (Listen)
MON       Duck Shoots
MON       Eaten any duck recently? More duck is being cooked at
MON       home, served in gastro pubs and used in the ubiquitous Hoi
MON       Sin duck wrap. It is now the second most bred species in
MON       the world. So where is all this meat coming from? How is
MON       it being reared? How have factory systems changed in
MON       recent years, and is the gap in taste between wild and
MON       farmed birds changing?
MON       As the duck shooting season gets underway, and consumption
MON       climbs steadily towards Christmas, Sheila Dillon
MON       investigates the culinary value and welfare conditions of
MON       wild and farmed duck.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00n809z (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Episode 3
MON       Simon Cox delves into the world of augmented reality; what
MON       can a digitally-enhanced landscape offer that the real one
MON       can't? He also speaks to a man who is creating an online
MON       archive of his entire life.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7ml6 (Listen)
MON       19th October 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       The Guildford four are released; volunteers help to deal
MON       with the effects of the recent San Francisco earthquake;
MON       ANC leader Walter Sisulu considers the end of the armed
MON       struggle in South Africa.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00n7mls (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00n7nmd (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 3
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 Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme
MON       Garden.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00n7jd9 (Listen)
MON       Jazzer reveals his softer side at The Bull.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00n7p1r (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the newly
MON       redeveloped Ulster Museum and reviews Jane Horrocks on
MON       stage in a new production of Annie Get Your Gun.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00n7p1t (Listen)
MON       The Dead Hour, Episode 1
MON       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
MON       set in Glasgow in 1984.
MON       Cub reporter Paddy Meehan is called to a domestic dispute
MON       in a wealthy suburb where a female lawyer has been
MON       injured. A well-dressed man at the house slips 50 pounds
MON       into Paddy's hand and shuts the door. Next day the lawyer
MON       is found murdered.
MON       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
MON       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
MON       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
MON       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
MON       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
MON       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
MON       JT ...... Finlay McLean
MON       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
MON       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
MON       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
MON       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
MON       Other parts played by the cast.
MON       Directed by Bruce Young.
MON       
MON       20:00 Morecambe: Chill Winds on the Bay b00n0qrb (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Following 12 months in the life of the seaside town of
MON       Morecambe.
MON       The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season, but
MON       in the chill of recession, its fortunes will depend on the
MON       vagaries of the British weather.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00n80b5 (Listen)
MON       Ayatollogy
MON       It is Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's belief in a
MON       radical strand of Shia Islam that, according to some
MON       critics, makes him a danger to the world. He is said to be
MON       intent on a confrontation with the West, believing that
MON       any resulting chaos will only hasten the return of Islam's
MON       prophesied saviour, the Mahdi.
MON       Edward Stourton explores the extent to which millenarian
MON       populism motivates Iran's leader, at tensions between
MON       Ahmadinejad and Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, and at the
MON       prospects for the more traditional ayatollahs' vision of a
MON       society that is less totalitarian, more secular but
MON       nonetheless Islamic.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00n80vl (Listen)
MON       Guilt-Free Flying
MON       Can technology turn aviation green? A new report suggests
MON       that flying has a 4.9 per cent share of the overall
MON       contribution to climate change. That is a figure that
MON       seems certain to rise once the dampening effects of
MON       recession disappear.
MON       Tom Heap asks if this means that the era of cheap flights
MON       is over, or can man's infinite capacity for invention keep
MON       the industry alive? Tom explores the options with Iron
MON       Maiden singer, professional pilot and keen enthusiast for
MON       'green aviation', Bruce Dickinson.
MON       They examine the use of lighter materials for aircraft,
MON       changes in air traffic control to cut down time spent in
MON       the air and more radical solutions, from biofuels to the
MON       rebirth of the airship.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00n7ymb (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr discusses game theory with CIA advisor Bruce
MON       Bueno de Mesquita, Charles II with Jenny Uglow, the
MON       Russian holocaust with historian Orlando Figes and Kwame
MON       Kwei-Armah's new play Seize the Day.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00n7pm9 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00n7y3k (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3m (Listen)
MON       And Another Thing..., Episode 6
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       The dangers of posting videos on the Sub-Etha.
MON       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b008xh3z (Listen)
MON       Martha Kearney
MON       Martha Kearney chooses pieces of writing which have a
MON       special meaning for her, either personally or in her work
MON       as a broadcaster. Readers are Niamh Cusack and David
MON       Morrissey.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y51 (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Susan Hulme.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwk (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00n7gf5 (Listen)
TUE       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 1
TUE       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
TUE       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
TUE       The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange
TUE       interview with Michael Heseltine.
TUE       Abridged by Polly Coles.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyh (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7q (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7czx (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9s (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd1 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00n7fml (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00n7fzh (Listen)
TUE       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Choice b00n811n (Listen)
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       He talks to Father Aidan Troy about his decision to face
TUE       sectarian violence and death threats in Belfast.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Parting Shots b00n85qk (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Matthew Parris marks the passing of the valedictory
TUE       despatch, the traditional final telegram home in which
TUE       British ambassadors could let their hair down and settle a
TUE       few scores. The series features newly declassified Foreign
TUE       Office files alongside interviews with the diplomats who
TUE       wrote them.
TUE       Matthew delves into the archives to find valedictories in
TUE       which ambassadors heading into retirement poked fun at
TUE       foreign nations where they had served.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00ncttt (Listen)
TUE       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 2
TUE       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
TUE       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
TUE       The advent of the TV satellite link made interviews
TUE       possible with people like Tammy Faye Bakker and Willie
TUE       Nelson.
TUE       Abridged by Polly Coles.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj4 (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 How to Run a City b00n86h2 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present
TUE       and future stars of English local authorities who are
TUE       bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the
TUE       water.
TUE       Shari meets two dynamic, innovative chief executives who
TUE       explode the stereotypical image of a local authority boss
TUE       - Katherine Kerswell in Northamptonshire, and Sean Harriss
TUE       in Bolton, who became a chief executive at 38.
TUE       With access to the inner workings at the top of both
TUE       authorities, Shari explores how Harriss and Kerswell are
TUE       each bringing business methods, and people, into their
TUE       authorities to help drive up performance.
TUE       Shari watches Harriss joust with leading Bolton
TUE       councillors and map out tactics for handling senior staff
TUE       undergoing a pay review. In Northamptonshire she asks
TUE       Kerswell why, when she was so upset by her staff's lack of
TUE       pride in their work, she tackled it by inviting them to
TUE       'taste the strawberry' via an online video.
TUE       But, Shari asks, are they paid too much, do they have too
TUE       much power, and how well do their new methods work?
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Gormley on Epstein b00n86t3 (Listen)
TUE       Artist Jacob Epstein attracted criticism during his
TUE       turbulent career - his work was seen as too graphic or
TUE       hard hitting, too 'ugly' or 'distorted', even 'cannibal'.
TUE       After his death, the younger sculptor Henry Moore paid
TUE       tribute to his courage as a pioneering artist who bore the
TUE       brunt of critical derision, but even today, Epstein has
TUE       never been properly celebrated for his work at the
TUE       vanguard of British art.
TUE       In this programme, which marks the 50th anniversary of
TUE       Epstein's death, contemporary artist Antony Gormley
TUE       redresses the balance, to show Epstein's vital position in
TUE       art.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00n7gl6 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00n7gp9 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00n7j35 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 The Sound of Magnolias b00n5404 (Listen)
TUE       Writer Irma Kurtz travels to Paris and Madrid to
TUE       investigate the period just before the war when blind
TUE       Spanish composer Rodrigo composed his famous Concerto de
TUE       Aranjuez. She goes to the gardens of Aranjuez with his
TUE       only daughter, Cecelia, and talks to guitarist Pepe Romero
TUE       about the music's lasting impact.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00n7jd9 (Listen)
TUE       Jazzer reveals his softer side at The Bull.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c833g (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, The Deal
TUE       Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the
TUE       head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the
TUE       news to the masses.
TUE       By Rob Kinsman.
TUE       When a timid doctor is accused of murdering his wealthy
TUE       older lover, Dickens alone is convinced of his innocence.
TUE       His journalistic team's investigations descend into the
TUE       harsh territory of the debtors' prison. Everything, it
TUE       seems, comes down to money.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Brickman ...... Gerard McDermott
TUE       Harper ...... Stephen Critchlow
TUE       Blind Bill ...... John Rowe
TUE       Maria ...... Liz Sutherland
TUE       Dr Widdershins ...... Simon Treves
TUE       Prosecutor ...... Nyasha Hatendi
TUE       Turnkey ...... Dan Starkey
TUE       Judge ...... Chris Pavlo
TUE       Directed by David Hunter.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00n87sl (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge joins the residents of Mildenhall in
TUE       Suffolk as they remember the early aviators who took part
TUE       in an air race to Melbourne in 1934. On the coast she
TUE       meets the team from the University of East Anglia that is
TUE       mapping Second World War defences, and near Norwich she
TUE       sees the human remains that may well shine a new light on
TUE       the world of Boudicca.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881p (Listen)
TUE       A Glimpse of Stocking, Hold-ups
TUE       Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings.
TUE       By Jojo Moyes, read by Siobhan Redmond.
TUE       Alice Herring seems like the perfect witness, but all is
TUE       not as it seems in this comic tale of robberies, romance
TUE       and cubic zirconia.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kt7 (Listen)
TUE       Bachelors
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       When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences
TUE       of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of
TUE       those who had no family or home of their own?
TUE       In the 17th and 18th century, bachelorhood was supposed to
TUE       be a temporary state best solved by marriage. This
TUE       programme tells the poignant and hilarious story of law
TUE       student Dudley Ryder and his search for a wife.
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 Law in Action b00n88cz (Listen)
TUE       Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has
TUE       created a more open society and changed the culture of
TUE       government.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00n88d1 (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to environmental campaigner Tony
TUE       Juniper and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins
TUE       about their favourite books.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjg (Listen)
TUE       20th October 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Nuns lose their fight to save 5,000 chickens, and actors
TUE       pay a final tribute to Sir Laurence Olivier at Westminster
TUE       Abbey.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00n7ml8 (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 b00n7msm (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 The Music Group b00nd105 (Listen)
TUE       In a special edition from the courtroom at the University
TUE       of Derby, the musical tastes of NUS president Wes
TUE       Streeting, agony aunt Anna Raeburn and comedian and
TUE       'Inbetweener' Simon Bird are rigorously put on trial. Dr
TUE       Phil Hammond grills his guests about a record of their
TUE       choosing and hears what the jury has to say.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00n7jd1 (Listen)
TUE       The pressure takes its toll on Matt.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00n7nr2 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
TUE       interview with architect David Chipperfield.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncbyt (Listen)
TUE       The Dead Hour, Episode 2
TUE       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
TUE       set in Glasgow in 1984.
TUE       Cub reporter Paddy Meehan is pursuing the biggest scoop of
TUE       her career, but it is a story the police don't want her to
TUE       report.
TUE       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
TUE       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
TUE       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
TUE       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
TUE       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
TUE       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
TUE       JT ...... Finlay McLean
TUE       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
TUE       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
TUE       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
TUE       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
TUE       Other parts played by the cast.
TUE       Directed by Bruce Young.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 Return from Guantanamo b00ncb0x (Listen)
TUE       In 2001 a journalist called Sami al-Hajj was arrested on
TUE       the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For more than
TUE       six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay
TUE       detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released.
TUE       In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about
TUE       what happened to him, and why.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00n89k4 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Trials For Life b00n89kx (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
TUE       Vivienne Parry explores the world of clinical trials.
TUE       Doctors can offer traditional treatments or places on
TUE       clinical trials, but, when all else fails, what can
TUE       patients do for themselves? Vivienne visits a Challenging
TUE       Pain course run by Arthritis Care in Plymouth and hears
TUE       how patients are trialling their own pain relieving
TUE       techniques at home.
TUE       Rheumatoid arthritis affects the whole body, but
TUE       especially the joints, and it can be so painful that a
TUE       normal life is not possible. Even the newest 'biologic'
TUE       drugs - which target individual molecules that cause the
TUE       inflammation and damage in the joints - don't work for
TUE       everybody, and so ongoing research is needed. Patients who
TUE       volunteer for such studies are closely monitored and often
TUE       hope for success for future patients, as well as relief of
TUE       their own pain.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Choice b00n811n (Listen)
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       He talks to Father Aidan Troy about his decision to face
TUE       sectarian violence and death threats in Belfast.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00n7pkt (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxj (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3p (Listen)
TUE       And Another Thing..., Episode 7
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       Discovering the importance of the Cheese.
TUE       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Strictly Dave Podmore b00nct5b (Listen)
TUE       Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds, with
TUE       Nick Newman.
TUE       The behind-the-scenes story of Strictly Come Dancing
TUE       series seven when Dave Podmore, England's least
TUE       co-ordinated cricketer, gets the nod to appear on the
TUE       show, stumbling in the footsteps of Messrs Ramprakash,
TUE       Gough and Tuffnell. But has journeyman Pod, never known
TUE       for his footwork and timing on the field, got what it
TUE       takes to impress the Strictly judges?
TUE       Dave Podmore ...... Christopher Douglas
TUE       Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds
TUE       With Nicola Sanderson and Simon Greenall.
TUE       A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4s (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwm (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00ncttt (Listen)
WED       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 2
WED       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
WED       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
WED       The advent of the TV satellite link made interviews
WED       possible with people like Tammy Faye Bakker and Willie
WED       Nelson.
WED       Abridged by Polly Coles.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyk (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7s (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7czz (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9v (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd3 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmn (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00n7fzk (Listen)
WED       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00n8b3d (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk3 (Listen)
WED       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 3
WED       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
WED       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
WED       The TV postcard series saw Clive travelling the world. He
WED       remembers Las Vegas, San Francisco and a surreal stay at
WED       the mansion owned by Hugh Hefner.
WED       Abridged by Polly Coles.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj6 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
WED       
WED       11:00 How to Run a City b00n8b3g (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Series in which Shari Vahl meets some of the past, present
WED       and future stars of English local authorities who are
WED       bidding to blow the cliches and stereotypes out of the
WED       water.
WED       Shari meets chief executives who have left local
WED       authorities for the national stage, to find out what they
WED       have brought with them from local government, and why they
WED       left.
WED       Sir Bob Kerslake used to run Sheffield City Council - now
WED       he runs the Homes and Communities Agency. Walking through
WED       rainswept central London streets, he takes Shari to see an
WED       impoverished part of Pimlico which to him embodies the
WED       local causes at the heart of his national job.
WED       Carolyn Downs, meanwhile, went from running Shropshire
WED       County Council to becoming Deputy Permanent Secretary at
WED       the Ministry of Justice. So how different is her new role?
WED       Lin Homer succeeded Sir Michael Lyons as chief executive
WED       of Birmingham's huge city council. Shari visits each of
WED       them in their current roles - Homer is now head of the UK
WED       Borders Agency, and Sir Michael is chair of the BBC Trust.
WED       Each explains how the sometimes punishing experience of
WED       running a city has prepared them for their present work.
WED       And Shari asks Sir Howard Bernstein, chief executive of
WED       Manchester City Council, another of the country's biggest
WED       authorities, why, even after 40 years with the same
WED       authority, he finds the prospect of working in London
WED       utterly untempting.
WED       
WED       11:30 Hut 33 b00n8b3j (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Big Machine
WED       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Three
WED       code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as
WED       they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate
WED       each other.
WED       Gordon invents a new form of computing device to help
WED       break codes.
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       Ian Trent ...... Stephen Hogan.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00n7gl8 (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00n7gpc (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00n7j37 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00n8b3l (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00n7jd1 (Listen)
WED       The pressure takes its toll on Matt.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n8b3n (Listen)
WED       Those Hard to Reach Places
WED       Comedy by Daniel Thurman. 'Cleaner...only dirtier' is a
WED       slogan unlikely to be used by your average domestic
WED       cleaner. But Rita is anything but your average domestic
WED       cleaner, as an unfortunate former mayor is about to
WED       discover.
WED       Fawcett ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
WED       Mrs Randle ...... Anne Reid
WED       Rita ...... Janet Dibley
WED       Bus Driver ...... Piers Wehner
WED       Phone voice ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
WED       Directed by Toby Swift.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00n8b3q (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on energy
WED       saving.
WED       Guests:
WED       Clare Corbett, energy campaigner, Which?
WED       Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy, Uswitch
WED       Rob Bell, Energy Saving Trust.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881r (Listen)
WED       A Glimpse of Stocking, The Hostess with the Mostest
WED       Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings.
WED       By Laura Marney, read by Gayanne Potter.
WED       If bus hostess Jill is to afford a summer holiday, she has
WED       to win the monthly customer satisfaction bonus. All that
WED       stands in her way are some curling sandwiches, a
WED       top-loading video cassette player and a pair of American
WED       Tan tights. Well, it is 1984.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7kt9 (Listen)
WED       Spinsters
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       When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences
WED       of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of
WED       those who had no family or home of their own?
WED       Probably as many as one in five women never married in
WED       18th-century England. What about their story? What did the
WED       comforts of home mean for them? Prof Vickery tells the
WED       story of one admirable and disabled spinster, whose
WED       letters she discovered in a record office in Reading.
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 b00n8m2s (Listen)
WED       From suburbs to housing estates, Laurie Taylor explores
WED       the history and future of urban planning and asks if where
WED       we live affects how we live.
WED       How do housing estates and suburbs serve their residents
WED       and what is the future for planning our towns and cities?
WED       Social housing has its roots in Victorian philanthropy,
WED       and in 1979 nearly half of Britain's population lived in
WED       local authority housing. Many suburbs grew as cities and
WED       their populations expanded.
WED       Laurie is joined by Paul Barker and Lynsey Hanley to
WED       discuss housing estates and suburbs. Will urban planning
WED       ever be able to fulfill Aneurin Bevan's dream of social
WED       integration?
WED       
WED       16:30 Trials For Life b00n89kx (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Vivienne Parry explores the world of clinical trials.
WED       Doctors can offer traditional treatments or places on
WED       clinical trials, but, when all else fails, what can
WED       patients do for themselves? Vivienne visits a Challenging
WED       Pain course run by Arthritis Care in Plymouth and hears
WED       how patients are trialling their own pain relieving
WED       techniques at home.
WED       Rheumatoid arthritis affects the whole body, but
WED       especially the joints, and it can be so painful that a
WED       normal life is not possible. Even the newest 'biologic'
WED       drugs - which target individual molecules that cause the
WED       inflammation and damage in the joints - don't work for
WED       everybody, and so ongoing research is needed. Patients who
WED       volunteer for such studies are closely monitored and often
WED       hope for success for future patients, as well as relief of
WED       their own pain.
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjj (Listen)
WED       21st October 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       Thousands of protestors march through East Germany; a BBC
WED       survey suggests one third of British muslims believe
WED       Salman Rushdie should be killed because of his book, The
WED       Satanic Verses.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00n7mlb (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 b00n7msp (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00n8nk9 (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Oh Carolina
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 b00n7jd3 (Listen)
WED       Old habits die hard for Ed and Will.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00n7nr4 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
WED       interview with novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby5 (Listen)
WED       The Dead Hour, Episode 3
WED       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
WED       set in Glasgow in 1984.
WED       Paddy decides to tell the police that she has been bribed
WED       by the killer.
WED       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
WED       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
WED       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
WED       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
WED       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
WED       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
WED       JT ...... Finlay McLean
WED       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
WED       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
WED       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
WED       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
WED       Other parts played by the cast.
WED       Directed by Bruce Young.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00n8nkc (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk and the team travel to Derby University for
WED       an edition of the programme recorded on campus.
WED       With higher education more popular than ever, there is no
WED       better time to ask what a degree is worth and what our
WED       universities are for. With a new emphasis on vocational
WED       studies and employability, have we sacrificed the idea of
WED       scholarship for its own sake?
WED       Michael Buerk is joined by panel members Melanie Philips,
WED       Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor.
WED       
WED       20:45 Conserving What? b00n8nkf (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Series in which Peter Oborne investigates the meaning of
WED       Conservatism through its philosophical roots and the
WED       character of different Conservative governments.
WED       Peter tries to discover where David Cameron sits in
WED       Conservatism's intellectual and emotional tradition.
WED       
WED       21:00 The Plight of the Bumblebee b00n8pdk (Listen)
WED       It is commonly known that honeybees have been dying in
WED       large numbers, but much less well known that bumblebees
WED       are just as important when it comes to pollinating crops
WED       and flowers, and that they too are in serious decline.
WED       Louise Batchelor investigates the reasons for their plight
WED       and looks at efforts to conserve the most threatened
WED       species - and even reverse the last extinction. The
WED       programme also features the world's first working
WED       bumblebee sniffer dog, trained to find their elusive
WED       nests, which is a vital part of the research.
WED       A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00n8b3d (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00n7pkw (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxm (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3r (Listen)
WED       And Another Thing..., Episode 8
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       An immortal battle is waged.
WED       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00n8pdm (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 3
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 b00n8pdp (Listen)
WED       The 22nd of May
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 22nd of May.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4v (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Sean Curran.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwp (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00nctk3 (Listen)
THU       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 3
THU       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
THU       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
THU       The TV postcard series saw Clive travelling the world. He
THU       remembers Las Vegas, San Francisco and a surreal stay at
THU       the mansion owned by Hugh Hefner.
THU       Abridged by Polly Coles.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cym (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7v (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d01 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9x (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd5 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00n7fmq (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00n7fzm (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00n8t48 (Listen)
THU       The Geological Formation of Britain
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and
THU       Sanjeev Gupta discuss the geological formation of Britain.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk6 (Listen)
THU       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 4
THU       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
THU       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
THU       The star interview became a regular feature and Clive
THU       gained revealing insights about Katharine Hepburn, Roman
THU       Polanski and Luciano Pavarotti.
THU       Abridged by Polly Coles.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gj8 (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00n8t4q (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 Texting Andy Warhol b00n9097 (Listen)
THU       Novelist Bidisha considers the role of text in art. Does a
THU       picture made from words count as literature or art? She
THU       talks to gallery visitors reading Richard Long's words on
THU       the walls, asks how it is different from a book by Dali,
THU       and considers text as art with Keith Tyson, Fiona Banner,
THU       Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00n7glb (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00n7gpf (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00n7j39 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00n80vl (Listen)
THU       Guilt-Free Flying
THU       Can technology turn aviation green? A new report suggests
THU       that flying has a 4.9 per cent share of the overall
THU       contribution to climate change. That is a figure that
THU       seems certain to rise once the dampening effects of
THU       recession disappear.
THU       Tom Heap asks if this means that the era of cheap flights
THU       is over, or can man's infinite capacity for invention keep
THU       the industry alive? Tom explores the options with Iron
THU       Maiden singer, professional pilot and keen enthusiast for
THU       'green aviation', Bruce Dickinson.
THU       They examine the use of lighter materials for aircraft,
THU       changes in air traffic control to cut down time spent in
THU       the air and more radical solutions, from biofuels to the
THU       rebirth of the airship.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00n7jd3 (Listen)
THU       Old habits die hard for Ed and Will.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00n90tt (Listen)
THU       The Decoy
THU       Thriller by Matthew Broughton. Daniel is plucked from the
THU       factory floor and groomed by the state as a body-double.
THU       Daniel ...... Ifan Meredith
THU       Victor ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Katrina ......Abigail Hollick
THU       Adam ...... Joseph Cohen Cole
THU       Simon ...... Rhys Jennings
THU       Other parts played by Kate Layden, Piers Wehner, Rhys
THU       Jennings, Emerald O'Hanrahan, Tessa Nicholson and Melissa
THU       Advani.
THU       Directed by Faith Collingwood.
THU       
THU       15:00 Ramblings b00n6tc9 (Listen)
THU       Series 13, Episode 5
THU       Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in
THU       Northumberland.
THU       Former hill shepherd Russell Tait, Northumberland's answer
THU       to George Clooney, is Clare's guide as she walk's the
THU       fifth leg of the route from Rothbury to Simonside.
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 b00n6x6w (Listen)
THU       Fauna & Flora International
THU       Sir David Attenborough appeals on behalf of Fauna & Flora
THU       International.
THU       Donations to Fauna & Flora International should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope FFI. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
THU       you are a UK tax payer, please provide FFI 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: 1011102.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00n881t (Listen)
THU       A Glimpse of Stocking, A Silly Gigolo
THU       Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings.
THU       By Shena Mackay, read by Joanna Tope .
THU       A shy schoolgirl feels the pull of the stage after a
THU       humiliating encounter with a glamorous fellow pupil.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7ktc (Listen)
THU       Widows
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       When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences
THU       of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of
THU       those who had no family or home of their own?
THU       Widows had enormous status and power in the 18th century.
THU       And for some women, the death of a spouse was a fairytale
THU       release. This programme tells the story of the richest
THU       widow in England, Elizabeth Montagu, and how she spent her
THU       late husband's coal fortune.
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 b00n6z0d (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup presents the first of two programmes in
THU       which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have
THU       been unfairly neglected. In this edition William Boyd,
THU       Ruth Rendell, Colm Toibin, Hari Kunzru and Susan Hill
THU       unveil their choices.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00n90tw (Listen)
THU       NASA plans to launch its massive Ares 1 rocket, the first
THU       test flight of its vehicle planned to replace the Shuttle
THU       in the next decade. Quentin Cooper looks forward to this
THU       first step in NASA's Constellation programme for human
THU       space exploration.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjl (Listen)
THU       22nd October 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       Margaret Thatcher causes consternation at the Commonwealth
THU       over sanctions against South Africa, and, following the
THU       release of the Guildford Four, the Irish prime minister
THU       calls for a review of the Birmingham Six case.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00n7mld (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 b00n7msr (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen)
THU       Series 4, Coach Trip
THU       Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur
THU       Strong is an expert in everything from the world of
THU       entertainment to the origins of the species, all false
THU       starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a
THU       delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
THU       After an attempted coach trip to Bridlington goes terribly
THU       wrong, Arthur decides the only way out of a sticky
THU       situation is to go 'native'.
THU       With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and
THU       Alastair Kerr.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00n7jd5 (Listen)
THU       Jack and Peggy get a glimpse of the future.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00n7nr6 (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports on Richard
THU       Wilson's debut for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as
THU       Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby7 (Listen)
THU       The Dead Hour, Episode 4
THU       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
THU       set in Glasgow in 1984.
THU       As redundancies loom at the newspaper, Paddy tries to sell
THU       her murder investigation to the new editor.
THU       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
THU       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
THU       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
THU       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
THU       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
THU       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
THU       JT ...... Finlay McLean
THU       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
THU       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
THU       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
THU       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
THU       Other parts played by the cast.
THU       Directed by Bruce Young.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00n88cz (Listen)
THU       Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has
THU       created a more open society and changed the culture of
THU       government.
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00n911b (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 b00n911d (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts meets robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey
THU       and explores the relationship between humans and robots -
THU       past, present and future. They look at how 'human' robots
THU       can seem and at the essential differences between 'them'
THU       and 'us'.
THU       One day in the early 1940s, a boy playing in the basement
THU       of his house discovered a robot; it became his secret
THU       playmate. A few years later the robot disappeared, and
THU       they didn't meet again for 50 years. The robot, called
THU       Elektro, was built by Westinghouse corporation in 1937.
THU       Over two metres tall, it was remarkably advanced for the
THU       time. Although he was actually intended as a PR stunt, he
THU       was designed by some of the finest engineers of the time
THU       and represented the forefront of technology. Elektro
THU       rapidly became a superstar, and received a rapturous
THU       welcome at the New York World's Fair in 1939. For a couple
THU       of years he lived the high life - then everything changed.
THU       When war came he was packed away and ended up in a
THU       basement where the boy found him. After the war, he (the
THU       robot that is) fell in with the wrong people and ended up
THU       playing a randy robot called Thinko in a 1960 porn movie.
THU       After that he disappeared, only to be rediscovered
THU       recently by his playmate, now in his 70s.
THU       Now, robots are taking on new tasks beyond assembly lines
THU       and science fiction films. Can robot nannies look after
THU       our child care and befriend the elderly? Should they be
THU       left in charge of our weapons systems?
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00n8t48 (Listen)
THU       The Geological Formation of Britain
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and
THU       Sanjeev Gupta discuss the geological formation of Britain.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00n7pky (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxp (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3t (Listen)
THU       And Another Thing..., Episode 9
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       More fighting, but thankfully no Vogon poetry.
THU       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
THU       
THU       23:00 Pick Ups b00n911g (Listen)
THU       Series 2, The Angel of Death
THU       Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi
THU       company.
THU       Mike ...... Paul Loughran
THU       Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Dave ...... Phil Rowson
THU       Rebel ..... Parvez Qadir
THU       Carol-Ann ...... Anne Hornby.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4x (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Robert Orchard.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00n7cwr (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00nctk6 (Listen)
FRI       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 4
FRI       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
FRI       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
FRI       The star interview became a regular feature and Clive
FRI       gained revealing insights about Katharine Hepburn, Roman
FRI       Polanski and Luciano Pavarotti.
FRI       Abridged by Polly Coles.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00n7cyp (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00n7f7x (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00n7d03 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00n7f9z (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00n7fd7 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaunaka Rishi Das.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00n7fms (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00n7fzp (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00n6x78 (Listen)
FRI       Jan Pienkowski
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski.
FRI       He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and
FRI       lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood
FRI       in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his
FRI       home in England more than 60 years ago.
FRI       The folk traditions of central Europe are still much in
FRI       evidence in his work though; twice winner of the Kate
FRI       Greenaway Medal, his illustrations see childhood terrors
FRI       realised in gothic scenes, with witches a constant
FRI       presence.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00nctk9 (Listen)
FRI       The Blaze Of Obscurity, Episode 5
FRI       Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs,
FRI       charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye.
FRI       Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to
FRI       drive, tutored by Stirling Moss, and makes a postcard in
FRI       Rome where he only just escapes the advances of Leonard
FRI       Bernstein.
FRI       Abridged by Polly Coles.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00n7gjb (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Dead Hour.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n9l1h (Listen)
FRI       Episode 2
FRI       When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved from London to the
FRI       isolated West Highlands to live and work with writer Gavin
FRI       Maxwell, whose most famous book is Ring of Bright Water.
FRI       Forty years after Maxwell's death, Terry tells in detail,
FRI       and for the first time, of the years he spent at Sandaig.
FRI       The romantic setting of Camusfearna (as Sandaig was called
FRI       in the book) has become almost mythical since Ring of
FRI       Bright Water was written - it is now a place of pilgrimage
FRI       for people who love the otters, the landscape and the
FRI       wildlife it describes.
FRI       But, according to Terry, the purity of this little white
FRI       cottage in pristine surroundings was sullied after Maxwell
FRI       made his money from the book - the cottage was extended,
FRI       pools were constructed for the otters and Maxwell himself
FRI       became a reluctant celebrity, under constant pressure to
FRI       live up to the reputation he had established for himself.
FRI       Maxwell, a homosexual, entered into an unhappy marriage,
FRI       the otters began a series of savage attacks and a fire
FRI       devastated Sandaig House.
FRI       Terry speaks to Maxwell's former wife, Lavinia Hankinson,
FRI       to naturalist and writer Sir John Lister Kaye, who knew
FRI       Maxwell shortly before his death, and to Maxwell's
FRI       biographer, Douglas Botting.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n9llk (Listen)
FRI       In Praise of Love
FRI       Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton.
FRI       Inspector Steine is compering a beauty pageant on Brighton
FRI       seafront. But when Brunswick's old flame Doris reappears
FRI       as a contestant, Brunswick is thrown into emotional
FRI       turmoil - which is probably why he doesn't notice that the
FRI       south east's big-shot criminals are converging on Brighton.
FRI       Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
FRI       Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
FRI       Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green
FRI       Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro
FRI       Doris/Maisie ...... Rachel Atkins
FRI       Roy ...... Douglas Hodge
FRI       Diamond Tony ...... David Holt.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00n7gld (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00n7gph (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00n7j3c (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00n9llm (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00n7jd5 (Listen)
FRI       Jack and Peggy get a glimpse of the future.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c5j0n (Listen)
FRI       The Day the Planes Came
FRI       Romantic comedy by Caroline and David Stafford.
FRI       The events of 9/11 cause many American flights to be
FRI       diverted to Canada. The sleepy town of Gander in
FRI       Newfoundland finds itself accommodating over 6,000
FRI       stranded passengers, including Sarah and her teenage
FRI       daughter Polly. A selfless and put-upon divorcee, Sarah is
FRI       seduced by the local people's hospitality. Finally, she
FRI       learns to let her hair down. She has her first kiss in
FRI       years, catches a fish, meets Crazy Pete, dabbles in a bit
FRI       of karaoke and finally gets the few hours of sleep that
FRI       have eluded her for so long.
FRI       Sarah ...... Rosie Cavaliero
FRI       Polly ...... Jade Williams
FRI       Gary ...... William Hope
FRI       Chris ...... Stephen Critchlow
FRI       Airport Announcer ...... Peter Marinker
FRI       Directed by Marc Beeby.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00n9llp (Listen)
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are guests
FRI       of the Aileymill Primary Group in Greenock.
FRI       Matthew Wilson discusses how to achieve multi-coloured
FRI       autumn brilliance in your garden.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00n7ktf (Listen)
FRI       Widowers
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       When we think of the history of home, the cosy experiences
FRI       of the nuclear family spring easiest to mind. But what of
FRI       those who had no family or home of their own?
FRI       The story of two different widowers and their desperate
FRI       search for a new wife, based on original material from two
FRI       unusual sets of diaries which Prof Vickery found in
FRI       Lincoln.
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 b00n9llr (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 b00n9llt (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to director John Landis about his
FRI       cult horror comedy An American Werewolf in London, which
FRI       is being re-released in cinemas.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00n7mjn (Listen)
FRI       23rd October 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       A quarter of a million East Germans march in Leipzig in
FRI       the country's biggest-ever demonstration; in Hungary, tens
FRI       of thousands of people remember the victims of their 1956
FRI       anti-communist uprising; Garry Kasparov beats the computer
FRI       Deep Thought at chess.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00n7mlg (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 b00n7mst (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00n9llz (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 5
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panel
FRI       includes Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner and Francis Wheen.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00n7jd7 (Listen)
FRI       The truth comes out for Matt and Lilian.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00n7nr8 (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ncby9 (Listen)
FRI       The Dead Hour, Episode 5
FRI       Dramatisation by Chris Dolan of the novel by Denise Mina,
FRI       set in Glasgow in 1984.
FRI       Paddy refuses to accept the police theory that the murder
FRI       was committed by an ex-boyfriend.
FRI       Paddy Meehan ...... Amy Manson
FRI       Billy ...... Stevie Hannan
FRI       Neilson ...... Simon Donaldson
FRI       Trisha ...... Cara Kelly
FRI       Gourlay ...... Laurie Ventry
FRI       Sean ...... Paul Thomas Hickey
FRI       JT ...... Finlay McLean
FRI       Kate ...... Patricia Kavanagh
FRI       Sullivan ...... Andrew Clark
FRI       Burns ...... Grant O'Rourke
FRI       Ramage ...... Mark McDonnell
FRI       Other parts played by the cast.
FRI       Directed by Bruce Young.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00n9lm1 (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Burgess
FRI       Hill in West Sussex. The panellists are former home
FRI       secretary Jacqui Smith, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries,
FRI       journalist and historian Anthony Howard and Sir John Tusa,
FRI       chairman of the University of the Arts, London.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00n9lm3 (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00n9lm5 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 4
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       What life was like for those who had no family or home of
FRI       their own.
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 b00n7pl0 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00n7xxr (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n7y3w (Listen)
FRI       And Another Thing..., Episode 10
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       We come to an end.
FRI       Abridged by Penny Leicester.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00n88d1 (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to environmental campaigner Tony
FRI       Juniper and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins
FRI       about their favourite books.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00n7y4z (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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