Radio 4 Listings for 31/10/2009 - 06/11/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00nh5vp (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 b00nhs7s (Listen)
SAT       Dear Mr Bigelow, Episode 5
SAT       Sophie Thompson reads from the letters of Frances
SAT       Woodsford, a Bournemouth council worker, to wealthy
SAT       American widower, Paul Bigelow, who she never met, written
SAT       between 1949 and his death in 1961. They evoke life in
SAT       postwar Britain, and are introduced by Woodsford herself,
SAT       who is now in her 90s.
SAT       Frances attends the 'wedding of the year' between her
SAT       brother and Audrey and begins to get used to life alone
SAT       with Mother - only to realise, perhaps too late, that the
SAT       most important friend in her life is Mr Bigelow, who has
SAT       now fallen seriously ill.
SAT       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nh5vr (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nh68j (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
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SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nh68l (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
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SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00nh6fk (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nh68n (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00nh6cm (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
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SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00nh6cp (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00nhn1l (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00nhn1n (Listen)
SAT       Brian May's 3-D Village
SAT       Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an
SAT       Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian
SAT       photographic pioneer T.R. Williams.
SAT       May has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting
SAT       cereal packet picture cards as a boy. He was particularly
SAT       intrigued by a set of stereoscopic images of village life
SAT       taken by photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. Further
SAT       investigation revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures
SAT       of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken
SAT       in the 1850s.
SAT       Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of
SAT       the village. Together they discover how the people and
SAT       wildlife of this Thames-side community have changed since
SAT       Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths,
SAT       spinners and farm workers.
SAT       Kerry Lock of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and
SAT       Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust describes the waxing and waning
SAT       of wildlife over the past 160 years, while Nicola Verdon
SAT       of the British Agricultural History Society examines the
SAT       telling detail in photos taken at the height of farming's
SAT       golden age.
SAT       To discuss the past, present and future of 3-D photography
SAT       Helen is also joined by Brian's collaborator, the photo
SAT       historian Elena Vidal and by David Burder of the British
SAT       Stereoscopic Society. Has the boom in 3-D cinema and the
SAT       launch of a 3-D digital camera come at just the right time
SAT       for a revival of interest in T.R. Williams and a re-birth
SAT       of the art of stereoscopic photography?
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00nhn1q (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Every year 6.7 million tonnes of food are thrown away.
SAT       That's about 10 billion pounds-worth. Charlotte Smith
SAT       visits a village where residents are embracing food waste
SAT       recycling and asks the environment secretary Hilary Benn
SAT       if similar schemes could be rolled out across the country.
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SAT       06:57 Weather b00nhn1s (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       07:00 Today b00nhn1v (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00nhn1x (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by clinical psychologist and writer
SAT       Dorothy Rowe.
SAT       With poetry from Elvis McGonagal.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00nhn1z (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores Berlin with the head of tourism and
SAT       a writer who lives there, and finds a forward-looking and
SAT       vibrant city coming to terms with a turbulent past.
SAT       John also meets two former British soldiers who talk about
SAT       their travelling life with the army.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Now Wash Your Hands b00nhn21 (Listen)
SAT       The story of the original Izal Medicated, in the words of
SAT       people who have a soft spot for hard toilet paper.
SAT       Featuring songs written by the presenter, Sally Goldsmith,
SAT       and sung by a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the
SAT       University of Sheffield and locals of the city, where the
SAT       paper was originally made.
SAT       A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00nhn23 (Listen)
SAT       Leaks of what Sir Christopher Kelly is proposing for MPs
SAT       and their allowances increased the sense of gloom amongst
SAT       MPs this week.
SAT       Hilary the former Labour chief whip who is retiring at the
SAT       next election feels the recommendations will deter women,
SAT       especially those with children, from becoming MPs.
SAT       Another topic of conversation at Westminster this week was
SAT       whether or not Tony Blair should become president of the
SAT       European council when the Lisbon Treaty is finally
SAT       ratified. Patricia Hewitt Michael Howard and Ed Davey
SAT       discuss.
SAT       Also in the programme
SAT       How could the government make a misjudgement over the
SAT       funding of the Territorial Army so soon after having their
SAT       climb down over the issue of the Ghurkhas? Lindsey Hoyle
SAT       and Desmond Swayne give their verdict.
SAT       And two parliamentary prospective candidates Claire Kelley
SAT       ( Liberal Democrat) and Sean Bailey (Conservative) talk of
SAT       their expectations of what parliamentary life might
SAT       involve.
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SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nhn25 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       A talk with a night witch in Moscow; fear, suspicion and
SAT       heavy artillery on the streets of Conakry, Guinea; what
SAT       the ancient traditions of Halloween reveal about modern
SAT       America; an insight into the two rivals about to contest
SAT       the second round of the Afghan presidential election.
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SAT       12:00 Money Box b00nhn27 (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Pester power - Halifax Bank of Scotland makes changes to
SAT       its controversial overdraft charges.
SAT       Where there's a will there's a way - don't forget to write
SAT       one.
SAT       How just paying off the minimum on your cards messes with
SAT       your mind.
SAT       National Savings enters the best buy tables, and why that
SAT       is unusual.
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SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00nh0qz (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 6
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, recorded at
SAT       the University of Bedfordshire. The panel includes Jeremy
SAT       Hardy, Paul Sinha and Sue Perkins.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00nhn29 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00nhn2c (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00nh1cm (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cambridge
SAT       University. The panellists are the shadow business
SAT       secretary Kenneth Clarke, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness
SAT       Shirley Williams, UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen and the former
SAT       Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer.
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SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00nhn2f (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
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SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b0090f6x (Listen)
SAT       The Voyage of the Demeter
SAT       Robert Forrest's chilling tale of the supernatural, set on
SAT       a schooner sailing from Bulgaria to England in 1867.
SAT       Something very unpleasant is lurking aboard the ship, and
SAT       the voyage becomes a terrifying ordeal.
SAT       Ripelski ...... Finlay Welsh
SAT       Robash ...... Gary Lewis
SAT       Kanesky ...... Steven McNicoll
SAT       Bretov ...... Grant O'Rourke
SAT       Gentleman ...... Alexander Morton.
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SAT       15:30 Baroque and Roll: Townshend on Purcell b00nf3kr (Listen)
SAT       The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks
SAT       about the band's career and reveals the influence on his
SAT       songwriting of Baroque composer Henry Purcell.
SAT       When Pete was a struggling 20-year-old musician he was
SAT       turned on to Purcell by his manager, Kit Lambert. It was
SAT       Kit's recommendation of Purcell's Gordian Knot Untied that
SAT       struck the loudest chord with Pete, awakening him to a
SAT       lineage in English music that seemed strangely familiar.
SAT       Immersing himself in the music, he soon set about writing
SAT       The Who's first album.
SAT       Pete reveals how he drew on Purcell's dramatic genius for
SAT       his most intriguing compositions. From his first mini-rock
SAT       opera to his masterpiece, Tommy, and from his enduring
SAT       Lifehouse project through to his current musical
SAT       endeavour, there has always been a Purcellian presence.
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SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00nhn6z (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Sheila McClennon.
SAT       The best-selling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell
SAT       talks about her latest book, the 17th to feature Dr Kay
SAT       Scarpetta, the workaholic forensic scientist. She was
SAT       first introduced in 1990, and Patricia explains why Kay
SAT       has been such an enjoyable character to write about for
SAT       the last 20 years.
SAT       Listener Sue Green emailed Woman's Hour recently to say
SAT       that she is something of a running joke among her friends
SAT       because she continues to use cotton handkerchiefs in
SAT       favour of the paper variety. But Sue is not alone: the
SAT       programme hears from another die-hard handkerchief fan,
SAT       Annalisa Barbieri - who goes so far as to iron her beloved
SAT       collection - who talks about the history of this small
SAT       square of cloth.
SAT       Within the next few months, one million young people under
SAT       the age of 24 are going to be out of work. With no
SAT       employment and no direction, the lives of these youngsters
SAT       can quickly spiral into poverty, family disintegration and
SAT       homelessness. This is what happened to Elvige. Struggling
SAT       with a dysfunctional family and the threat of a life on
SAT       the streets, she dropped out of college but is now a
SAT       confident young adult studying for a degree and doing work
SAT       with troubled youngsters.
SAT       The government wants to scrap the defence of provocation
SAT       in murder cases where a spouse or partner has been
SAT       unfaithful. Woman's Hour asks what the bill's defeat in
SAT       the House of Lords means for women.
SAT       Kamilya Jurban is a Palestinian singer, instrumentalist
SAT       and composer, and one of the most prominent contemporary
SAT       artists in the Middle East. Karine Polwart is a Scottish
SAT       folk singer songwriter whose debut album won the Radio 2
SAT       Folk Album of the Year Award in 2005. They were brought
SAT       together to perform for the British Council and they give
SAT       us a taste of their unique collaboration.
SAT       What do clothes mean to women? Why do some of us find it
SAT       so hard to give or throw things away that we no longer
SAT       wear? Justine Picardie, author of My Mother's Wedding
SAT       Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes', Jay Hunt, style
SAT       writer and broadcaster, and Oriole Cullen, the curator of
SAT       fashion and textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
SAT       London share their emotional experience of clothes with
SAT       Jenni Murray.
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SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nhnxp (Listen)
SAT       31st October 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson tells the House of Commons
SAT       why he resigned; shadow energy secretary Tony Blair
SAT       demands electricity privatisation plans be scrapped; a
SAT       court investigates a fraud case involving the use of sonic
SAT       binoculars to fix horse races.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       17:00 PM b00nhnxr (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
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SAT       17:30 The Bottom Line b00ngzcf (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to
SAT       discuss those silly bits of paper and metal we call money.
SAT       Surely someone can invent a better way to pay for things?
SAT       He also asks what companies are doing to look after their
SAT       low-income consumers.
SAT       Evan is joined by Antony Jenkins, chief executive of
SAT       credit card company Barclaycard, Jim McCarthy, chief
SAT       executive of the UK chain Poundland, and Chris Dedicoat,
SAT       European president of Cisco, the world's largest producer
SAT       of computer network equipment.
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SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nhnxt (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00nhnxw (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nhnxy (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00nhny0 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by drummer Ginger Baker,
SAT       presenter and the new voice of Radio 2's breakfast show,
SAT       Chris Evans, and actor Alun Armstrong.
SAT       Robin Ince finds out what everday things, from teacups to
SAT       memory sticks, can tell us about the universe with
SAT       cosmologist Marcus Chown.
SAT       With comedy from Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Tom
SAT       Wrigglesworth and music from jazz singer-songwriter Jamie
SAT       Cullum and country blues band Hey Negrita.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen)
SAT       Jose Manuel Barroso
SAT       Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career
SAT       of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel
SAT       Barroso.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00nhny4 (Listen)
SAT       Bidisha is joined by comedian Natalie Haynes, historian
SAT       Tristram Hunt and actor and writer Michael Simkins to
SAT       review the cultural highlights of the week - featuring
SAT       hot-headed Mexican revolutionaries, Viennese students in a
SAT       whirl and Romanian chickens in a truck.
SAT       Ferdinand Bruckner's 1926 play Pains of Youth is set in
SAT       Vienna and features a group of bored, disillusioned
SAT       medical students. In the aftermath of the First World War
SAT       they view their youth as a kind of sickness and see the
SAT       future as holding two alternatives: bourgeois existence or
SAT       suicide. Martin Crimp's new version of the play at the
SAT       National Theatre in London is directed by Katie Mitchell
SAT       and features some of her typically striking twists of
SAT       staging.
SAT       Barbara Kingsolver's last novel, The Poisonwood Bible, was
SAT       published more than 10 years ago and became a bestseller.
SAT       The Lacuna is her new novel and the story of its
SAT       protagonist - writer Harrison Shepherd - is told through
SAT       letters and entries in his diary. With a Mexican mother
SAT       and an American father, his life oscillates between the
SAT       two countries. As a young man in revolutionary Mexico, he
SAT       becomes close to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and
SAT       their houseguest Leon Trotsky, something which comes back
SAT       to haunt him in the anti-communist climate of postwar
SAT       America.
SAT       It is almost 20 years since Nicolae Ceasescu's regime in
SAT       Romania came to a violent end, but the Ceasescu era is a
SAT       period which fascinates and inspires the writer and
SAT       director Cristian Mungiu. His previous film 4 Months, 3
SAT       Weeks and 2 Days, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in
SAT       2007, concerned a young woman trying to procur an illegal
SAT       abortion. Tales From The Golden Age is more satirical in
SAT       tone and while there's pathos here, there's also humour.
SAT       Five urban myths from the twilight years of the communist
SAT       era are played out, including a village sent into panic by
SAT       an official visit and a photographer tasked with making
SAT       Ceausescu look taller than Valerie Giscard d'Estaing.
SAT       The title poem of Grace Nichols's poetry collection
SAT       Picasso, I Want My Face Back is written in the voice of
SAT       Dora Maar, the photographer who was Picasso's lover and
SAT       muse for ten years and inspired his 1937 painting Weeping
SAT       Woman. Van Gogh, Munch and Tracey Emin also find their way
SAT       into the verse here, which is understandable given
SAT       Nichols's recent stint as writer in residence at the Tate.
SAT       It's not all art and artists though; there are also poems
SAT       about her native Guyana, India and the English landscape.
SAT       Collision is definitely car-crash TV, but in a literal
SAT       rather than derogatory sense. The ITV1 drama, written by
SAT       Anthony Horowitz and scheduled to be broadcast over five
SAT       successive nights, focuses on a group of characters who
SAT       are involved in a major traffic accident. Douglas Henshall
SAT       plays DI John Tolin, who is investigates the accident and
SAT       tries to determine whether two of his colleagues, who were
SAT       in pursuit of one of the cars, may have been reponsible.
SAT       But Tolin finds many unsuspected secrets hidden in the
SAT       wreckage and also has to come to terms with some skeletons
SAT       in his own closet.
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SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00nhny6 (Listen)
SAT       Capering With Ken Campbell
SAT       Ian McMillan explores the world of the actor and director
SAT       Ken Campbell, who died in 2008.
SAT       Campbell's acting credits included Fawlty Towers, The
SAT       Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brookside, Law and Order
SAT       and In Sickness and In Health, as well as performing
SAT       one-man shows. He also directed theatrical events,
SAT       including the nine-hour Illuminatus trilogy, a 22-hour
SAT       production of The Warp and Macbeth in pidgin English.
SAT       His daughter, Daisy, gives Ian McMillan a tour of Ken's
SAT       home in Essex, where he didn't have a bedroom and had a
SAT       parrot run in every room. He also talks to Campbell's
SAT       manager Colin Watkeys, theatre director Richard Eyre, fan
SAT       and collaborator Ian Potter and fellow actors Julia
SAT       McKenzie and Jim Broadbent.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00ncwzv (Listen)
SAT       Howards End, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel.
SAT       Helen Schlegel is unhappy that her sister Margaret has
SAT       agreed to marry the recently-widowed Henry Wilcox.
SAT       Unbeknown to the sisters, Ruth Wilcox bequeathed the
SAT       Wilcox country home, Howards End, to Margaret, but the
SAT       note has been destroyed by Henry's son, Charles.
SAT       Narrator ...... John Hurt
SAT       Margaret Schlegel ...... Lisa Dillon
SAT       Helen Schlegel ...... Jill Cardo
SAT       Tibby Schlegel ...... Tom Ferguson
SAT       Aunt Juley ...... Alexandra Mathie
SAT       Henry Wilcox ...... Malcolm Raeburn
SAT       Ruth Wilcox ...... Ann Rye
SAT       Charles Wilcox ...... Joseph Kloska
SAT       Leonard Bast ...... Joseph Prospero
SAT       Dolly Wilcox/Jacky Bast ...... Christine Marshall.
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SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00nhpgc (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
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SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00nfqzl (Listen)
SAT       The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
SAT       Karadzic has opened at the UN-backed International
SAT       Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He faces 11
SAT       counts of genocide, including complicity in the Srebrenica
SAT       massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.
SAT       It was one of the worst acts of atrocity in Europe since
SAT       the Second World War. But is what we are about to see
SAT       justice or revenge - A show trial organised by the
SAT       victors, with TV coverage broadcast throughout the world,
SAT       and eagerly viewed, especially in the Balkans. Can there
SAT       ever be any morally certain and globally acceptable
SAT       definition of what constitutes a war crime or will
SAT       pragmatism and real politique always
SAT       Witnesses:
SAT       John Laughland
SAT       Author of Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and
SAT       the Corruption of International Justice, and
SAT       A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam
SAT       Hussein.
SAT       Geoffrey Nice
SAT       The British QC who led the prosecution of the Serbian
SAT       leader Slobodan Milosovic
SAT       Professor David Chandler
SAT       Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the
SAT       Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and editor
SAT       of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
SAT       Mark Ellis
SAT       Executive Director, International Bar Association.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00ndxjr (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies welcomes four more guests to take part in
SAT       the perennial general knowledge contest.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00ncyzd (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough introduces poems about snow and solitude.
SAT       There are splashes of colour too, with Goulash by Myra
SAT       Schneider and Poppies by Carole Satymurti. The readers are
SAT       Mark Meadows, Tanya Moodie and Osi Okerafor.
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SUN       SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00nhpyp (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008v8zk (Listen)
SUN       Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs, Sabotage
SUN       Series of stories by Morven Crumlish.
SUN       Pressed into service as a bridesmaid at a gay wedding,
SUN       Jenny almost expected to be miserable. But weird scenes
SUN       are to follow.
SUN       Read by Siobhan Redmond.
SUN       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nhqd3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nhqd5 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nhqd7 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00nhqd9 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00nhqdc (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in
SUN       London.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen)
SUN       Jose Manuel Barroso
SUN       Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career
SUN       of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel
SUN       Barroso.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00nhqdf (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00nhqdh (Listen)
SUN       Building Bridges
SUN       Writer Christie Dickason considers the physical and
SUN       metaphorical significance of bridges - connecting peoples,
SUN       cultures and countries, but also underlining differences.
SUN       She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous
SUN       bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of
SUN       Emily Dickinson and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart.
SUN       A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00nhqdk (Listen)
SUN       Alex James visits the Isle of Man to meet George
SUN       Steriopulos, the final nominee for the 2009 BBC Farmer of
SUN       the Year award.
SUN       George has been instrumental in re-establishing the
SUN       island's flock of Manx Loughtan sheep. The breed is famous
SUN       for its four horns but nearly became extinct in the 1960s
SUN       as farmers switched to quicker-growing types. The Loughtan
SUN       has just been granted the EU's Protected Designation of
SUN       Origin status, ranking it alongside Stilton Cheese and
SUN       Champagne. Such efforts mean the sheep are once again
SUN       covering the island's hills in their thousands.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00nhqdm (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00nhqdp (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00nhsn4 (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 b00nhsn6 (Listen)
SUN       Meningitis UK
SUN       Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK.
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SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00nhsn8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00nht55 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00nht57 (Listen)
SUN       A Great Cloud of Witnesses
SUN       A service on All Saints Day from St Michael's Church in
SUN       Aberystwyth.
SUN       The preacher is Canon Stuart Bell, Rector of Aberystwyth.
SUN       Musical Director: Andy Herrick.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00nh1cp (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the postal workers' dispute and
SUN       gives his personal view of the modern history of labour
SUN       relations.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00nht59 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Kevin Connolly.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00nht5c (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00nht5f (Listen)
SUN       Jerry Springer
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is Jerry Springer.
SUN       His life has been split between serving the public and
SUN       outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as
SUN       a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working
SUN       with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his
SUN       controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show.
SUN       He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always
SUN       on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a
SUN       philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They
SUN       were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August
SUN       1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the
SUN       entire family.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00nf01t (Listen)
SUN       Series 4, Episode 4
SUN       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
SUN       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
SUN       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
SUN       With Adam Hills, Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter and
SUN       Shappi Khorsandi.
SUN       Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00nhtk2 (Listen)
SUN       Yoghurt
SUN       Central Asia was the birthplace of yoghurt, as Golden
SUN       Crescent nomadic tribes domesticated sheep and goats and
SUN       began to curdle milk. Aylin Bozyap grew up in Istanbul,
SUN       and as a child used to take the ferry with her family to
SUN       the port town of Kanlica to eat yoghurt.
SUN       Recreating the journey, she takes as her guide the
SUN       political scientist, food historian and author Professor
SUN       Artun Unsal, who finds the yoghurt a poor immitation of
SUN       its former self. In search of something better they visit
SUN       the artisan yoghurt maker Mehmet Nazli, whose family has
SUN       been making yoghurt for many years, and who still makes it
SUN       the traditional way. His son and grandson also work in the
SUN       business, but the work is hard and they don't make much
SUN       money, with the profits staying mainly with the middlemen
SUN       and shops.
SUN       On the other side of Istanbul they visit an artisan
SUN       yoghurt maker who has had to stop producing; the quality
SUN       of the milk is no longer good enough, nor the city clean
SUN       enough, to make real yoghurt any more.
SUN       Finally they go to the Silivri Yoghurt Festival, an annual
SUN       celebration of traditional yogurt, and meet one of the
SUN       winners. They also meet the deputy mayor of Silivri, who
SUN       takes them to visit a disused yoghurt house that Professor
SUN       Unsal is keen to see turned into a yoghurt museum.
SUN       In the studio Sheila Dillon and Aylin taste a range of
SUN       plain yoghurts, as well as a typical British style yoghurt.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00nhtk4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00nhtk6 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Deighton File b00kjh8g (Listen)
SUN       Novelist Len Deighton talks to Patrick Humphries about his
SUN       life and writing career, which began with the publication
SUN       of his spy novel The Ipcress File in 1962.
SUN       Deighton has written cookery books and Second World War
SUN       histories, as well as turning his hand to book
SUN       illustration and film production. But he is best known for
SUN       his influential spy novels, including Funeral in Berlin
SUN       and Billion Dollar Brain.
SUN       Deighton fan Henrietta Green talks about the writer's
SUN       Action Cook Book, and Deighton biographer Edward
SUN       Milward-Oliver and historian Sir Max Hastings discuss
SUN       Deighton's acclaimed non-fiction work, such as Fighter and
SUN       Blitzkrieg.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nh06t (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are
SUN       guests of the Weald Horticultural Society in Sevenoaks,
SUN       Kent.
SUN       Bob explores the vineyards in the 'Garden of England',
SUN       discussing which varieties are best suited to winemaking
SUN       and how best to care for them.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7h2 (Listen)
SUN       Global Differences
SUN       Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural
SUN       attitudes towards siblings.
SUN       Islamic countries see sibling relationships develop via
SUN       wet-nurses. China's one-child policy is having
SUN       controversial consequences.
SUN       A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00nhv35 (Listen)
SUN       Bel Ami, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Frances Byrnes of Guy de Maupassant's
SUN       story of political corruption in the newspaper world of
SUN       19th-century France and the inexorable rise of Georges
SUN       Duroy - 'Bel Ami' - a charming, ruthless man of little
SUN       talent but plenty of ambition.
SUN       Bel Ami is making the perfect match with a society heiress
SUN       but his past is about to catch up with him, in the shape
SUN       of Mme de Marelle, his long-term mistress.
SUN       Bel Ami ...... Jonathan Slinger
SUN       Marelle ...... Emma Fielding
SUN       Madeleine ...... Mali Harries
SUN       Forestier ...... Kieran Self
SUN       Monsieur Walter ...... Steffan Rhodri
SUN       Rachel ...... Sara McGaughey
SUN       Other roles played by Richard Nichols.
SUN       Directed by Polly Thomas.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Bookclub b00nhv5s (Listen)
SUN       Linda Grant
SUN       James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her
SUN       novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange
SUN       Prize for Fiction in 2000.
SUN       Linda is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to
SUN       most of her writing. 'Scratch a Jew and you've got a
SUN       story', remarks the main character Evelyn Sert on the
SUN       story's first page as she looks over her life. The novel
SUN       follows Evelyn - hairdresser, spy, lover - on her voyage
SUN       from post-war London to Tel Aviv, where the British are
SUN       preparing to leave Palestine and the new state of Israel
SUN       is about to be born.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 High Flight b00nhw26 (Listen)
SUN       When Anglo-American poet John Magee was killed in a
SUN       mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in December 1941, aged
SUN       just 19, he left behind a sonnet started, he claimed, 'at
SUN       30,000 feet and finished soon after (he) landed'. The
SUN       poem, High Flight, has become the most celebrated poem
SUN       about the intoxication of flying.
SUN       Sean Street traces the trajectory of the poem and its poet
SUN       from Rugby School through the Library of Congress and the
SUN       space race to Ronald Reagan's tribute to the victims of
SUN       the Challenger space shuttle disaster and beyond, into a
SUN       unique place in the popular imagination.
SUN       The programme includes contributions from Andrew Motion,
SUN       veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force, composer Bob
SUN       Chilcott and Library of Congress archivist Cheryl Fox.
SUN       A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nhw28 (Listen)
SUN       1st November 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       President Bush agrees to meet Chairman Gorbachev on his
SUN       boat in the Mediterranean for unofficial talks; President
SUN       Ortega of Nicaragua breaks a 19-month ceasefire with
SUN       US-backed Contra rebels; a coroner overseeing the inquest
SUN       into the death of Beverly Lewis demands better community
SUN       care for the mentally ill.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 1989: How The Wall Fell b00nfn2j (Listen)
SUN       The fall of the Berlin Wall made revolution look easy. But
SUN       behind the scenes, people power and the sudden end of Cold
SUN       War certainties posed all kinds of challenges. As part of
SUN       Radio 4's 1989 season, John Tusa discovers what happened
SUN       with key insiders from the British, German, Soviet and
SUN       other governments of the time.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00nhny2 (Listen)
SUN       Jose Manuel Barroso
SUN       Edward Stourton takes a closer look at the life and career
SUN       of the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel
SUN       Barroso.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nhw2b (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00nj7vs (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nj7vv (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00nj7vx (Listen)
SUN       Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past
SUN       seven days of BBC Radio.
SUN       Analysis - Radio 4
SUN       The Fantastic Book of Everyone's Secrets - Radio 4
SUN       Dear Mr Bigelow - Radio 4
SUN       Parting Shots - Radio 4
SUN       Being Jewish - Blood or Belief - Radio 4
SUN       Baroque and Roll - Radio 4
SUN       Night Waves - Radio 3
SUN       M1 Magic - Radio 4
SUN       Bleak Expectations - Radio 4
SUN       Capering With Ken Campbell - Radio 4
SUN       The Verb - Radio 3
SUN       Maida Vale at 75 - Radio 1 & Radio 2
SUN       Now Wash Your Hands - Radio 4
SUN       The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4
SUN       In Tune - Radio 3.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00nj7vz (Listen)
SUN       The Grundys come back down to earth.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00nj7w1 (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       Americans love golf and President Obama is no exception.
SUN       Matt Frei takes a swing of the club and a look at how
SUN       exactly the 44th President of the United States, Barak
SUN       Obama, manages to make so much time to play. He is
SUN       squeezing in more golf than his predecessor, even in the
SUN       midst of juggling the challenges of economic recovery and
SUN       international diplomacy.
SUN       Matt Frei talks to former White House press secretary Dana
SUN       Perino about life on the other side of the podium. After a
SUN       few years fielding questions on behalf of the George W
SUN       Bush administration, Perino tells Americana how she feels
SUN       the Obama administration is handling the media storm so
SUN       far.
SUN       If she looks like Sarah Palin and talks like Sarah Palin,
SUN       does that mean that Michele Bachmann will be the new Sarah
SUN       Palin? Bachmann has represented Minnesota in the United
SUN       States House of Representatives for three years. In that
SUN       short time she has managed to become a well-known voice
SUN       within the Republican Party. Matt Frei talks to her about
SUN       how she has amplified her opinions so effectively and what
SUN       her hopes are for the Republican Party in the future.
SUN       What exactly does a Governor do? Matt Frei talks with
SUN       Governor Brian Schweitzer, who moved from ranching to
SUN       running one of the largest states in the US, Montana.
SUN       Governor Schweitzer took office in 2009 and shares his
SUN       insight on what it takes to be one of the 50 most powerful
SUN       state leaders in the nation.
SUN       Matt Frei invites the a cappella group Sonos, who are
SUN       currently touring around the United States, into the
SUN       Americana studio. With FX pedals and well-known indie
SUN       tunes, Sonos makes the studio vibrate with a whole new
SUN       sound.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt7 (Listen)
SUN       Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Mathilde
SUN       3/5. Mathilde, by Hattie Naylor.
SUN       “I was born in the worst winter ever. It was said that the
SUN       ground was so hard, the air so cold, the snow so thick, my
SUN       heart froze the moment I was brought into the world. And
SUN       then I was brought up by a cat.”
SUN       Read by Alison Reid.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00nh06r (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00nh0qv (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00nhn27 (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Pester power - Halifax Bank of Scotland makes changes to
SUN       its controversial overdraft charges.
SUN       Where there's a will there's a way - don't forget to write
SUN       one.
SUN       How just paying off the minimum on your cards messes with
SUN       your mind.
SUN       National Savings enters the best buy tables, and why that
SUN       is unusual.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nhsn6 (Listen)
SUN       Meningitis UK
SUN       Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK.
SUN       Donations to Meningitis UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
SUN       Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Meningitis UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
SUN       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Meningitis UK with
SUN       your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid
SUN       on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
SUN       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
SUN       postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No:1076774.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00nf0my (Listen)
SUN       Knowing Too Much
SUN       As a campaigning investigative journalist, Martin Bright
SUN       has devoted much of his energy into uncovering things
SUN       people in power want to be kept secret. He calls himself a
SUN       'freedom of information fundamentalist'. But in this
SUN       programme, he plays devil's advocate and asks if the truth
SUN       is really always desirable or always in the wider public
SUN       interest.
SUN       Through interviews with psychologists, intelligence
SUN       officers, whistleblowers and academics, he explores the
SUN       importance of institutional and personal secrecy, and asks
SUN       what happens when these two areas overlap, or even collide.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00nj7w3 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00nj7w5 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       The Cases That Changed Our World.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00nj7w7 (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 31st October 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago,
SUN       with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       Nigel Lawson resigns after six years as Chancellor, Walter
SUN       Sisulu addresses 70,000 people at the biggest ever ANC
SUN       rally, and riots in Moscow follow a demonstration outside
SUN       the KGB headquarters.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00nhqdh (Listen)
SUN       Building Bridges
SUN       Writer Christie Dickason considers the physical and
SUN       metaphorical significance of bridges - connecting peoples,
SUN       cultures and countries, but also underlining differences.
SUN       She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous
SUN       bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of
SUN       Emily Dickinson and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart.
SUN       A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00nj8j4 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nfqzg (Listen)
MON       While nine out of ten people agree organ donation is a
MON       good thing, a recent audit found 40 per cent of bereaved
MON       families, when approached, didn't agree to donate. Laurie
MON       Taylor discusses new research which uncovers some of the
MON       reasons behind this apparent anomaly.
MON       Magi Sque, from the University of Southampton, was part of
MON       a team who interviewed families who had declined organ
MON       donation. While many agreed in principle, carried organ
MON       donor cards and knew their relatives desire to donate,
MON       they still didn't feel able to let their loved ones organs
MON       be used. The most common reason families gave for this was
MON       a simple desire to keep the body intact. They didn't want
MON       the dead to be 'hurt' any more.
MON       Magi explains why the research reveals some of our
MON       deep-seated cultural beliefs, and how those beliefs have
MON       their roots in wider society's values and, at times of
MON       grief, can completely overcome our pre-existing views.
MON       We also hear from Professor Caroline Knowles of Goldsmiths
MON       College, London who has researched the history, meaning
MON       and journey of the flip flop sandal.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00nhqdc (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in
MON       London.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qv (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj90f (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8wp (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00nj99b (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00njkl2 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00nj9b3 (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00njkl4 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00nj9fr (Listen)
MON       With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00njkl6 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr discusses memory, secrets, failed states and
MON       snobbery with his guests.
MON       Academic Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks about his new book
MON       Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age.
MON       Director Daniel Kramer talks secrets, psychology and the
MON       accessability of opera as his new production of Bluebeard
MON       opens at the ENO. Clare Lockhart, Director of the
MON       Institute for State Effectiveness, talks about how to fix
MON       failed states by building markets, and Quentin Letts gives
MON       his thesis on how snobbery will save us.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00nj9jc (Listen)
MON       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 1
MON       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
MON       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
MON       character.
MON       In 1892, at the age of 18, Somerset Maugham enrolled at St
MON       Thomas' medical school, but his heart wasn't in it. What
MON       he really wanted to do was write.
MON       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
MON       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9pl (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Martine McCutcheon started her career as a six-week-old
MON       baby, when her photo was used for a national political
MON       poster campaign. She went on to play the part of the much
MON       loved Tiffany in EastEnders, won a best actress Olivier
MON       Award for her role in Trevor Nunn's My Fair Lady, and
MON       starred in Richard Curtis's film Love Actually. She also
MON       forged a successful music career with a number one single
MON       and album. Now she has brought out her first novel, The
MON       Mistress. Martine joins Jane to discuss her newest
MON       venture. Why turn to writing? What was her inspiration?
MON       And what's next for the ex-soap star?
MON       Applications to take children into care have risen by 47
MON       per cent since last year say recent figures published by
MON       Cafcass, the organisation that represents children's
MON       interests in the family courts. So what is behind this
MON       enormous increase and what needs to be done to support a
MON       family justice system already under great strain,
MON       responsible for supporting some of the youngest and most
MON       vulnerable in our society? Jane is joined by Parliamentary
MON       Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and
MON       Families Baroness Dyleth Morgan, Anthony Douglas, chief
MON       executive of Cafcass, and children's solicitor Christina
MON       Blacklaws.
MON       More than 10,000 people in the UK currently need an organ
MON       transplant, and of these, 1,000 die every year before they
MON       receive an organ. Last year 28-year-old singer-songwriter
MON       Sarah Springett donated one of her kidneys to her
MON       boyfriend Paul Shepherd after his kidney condition
MON       worsened. As the NHS launches a new campaign to encourage
MON       more people to sign the Organ Donor Register, Woman's Hour
MON       talks to Sarah and Paul about their experience, and to
MON       their consultant and NHS organ transplant czar Chris Rudge.
MON       And Grace Nichols's poetry has been described as 'rich in
MON       music, but also grit and earthy honesty'. The novelist
MON       Jeannette Winterson admires her work for 'its wit, acidity
MON       and tenderness'. Grace explains what drew her to write
MON       about Picasso's muse, Dora Maar, in her latest collection,
MON       Picasso, I Want My Face Back, and why she wants to
MON       celebrate the power of laughter.
MON       
MON       11:00 Repossessions in the Sun b00njwd7 (Listen)
MON       Ray Furlong visits Spain's Mediterranean resorts to hear
MON       how members of the country's one million-strong British
MON       expatriate community are weathering the recession. High
MON       unemployment in the construction and tourist sectors means
MON       that boom-time on the Costas is over, translating into
MON       increased home repossessions and divorce rates.
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00njwd9 (Listen)
MON       Colour Me Wow
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 has a particularly difficult client, but is
MON       distracted by her latest business venture. Lynette assures
MON       Beauty that 'Colour Me Wow' is no pyramid scheme, while
MON       Anil shows a surprising new side to himself.
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Lynette ...... Doon Mackichan
MON       Sandra ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Anil ...... Paul Sharma
MON       Dr Kavanagh ...... Phyllida Law
MON       Hilary ...... Rachel Atkins
MON       Clare ...... Doon Mackichan
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00njbfv (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00njcns (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00njcpt (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00njxlv (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the fourth heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00nj7vz (Listen)
MON       The Grundys come back down to earth.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00cqdz9 (Listen)
MON       Goldengrove
MON       Frances Byrnes' story of the relationship between a young
MON       working-class girl and the woman who transforms her.
MON       Margaret, a spinster, teaches Narn, a city child, how to
MON       shake hands firmly, polish silver and identify birds. Most
MON       of all, she teaches her how to speak.
MON       Margaret ...... Jill Balcon
MON       Narn ...... Jessica Jolleys
MON       Narn Now ...... Siriol Jenkins
MON       Josie ...... Beccy Alexander
MON       Fred ...... Brendan Charleson
MON       Directed by Kate McAll.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00nhny6 (Listen)
MON       Capering With Ken Campbell
MON       Ian McMillan explores the world of the actor and director
MON       Ken Campbell, who died in 2008.
MON       Campbell's acting credits included Fawlty Towers, The
MON       Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brookside, Law and Order
MON       and In Sickness and In Health, as well as performing
MON       one-man shows. He also directed theatrical events,
MON       including the nine-hour Illuminatus trilogy, a 22-hour
MON       production of The Warp and Macbeth in pidgin English.
MON       His daughter, Daisy, gives Ian McMillan a tour of Ken's
MON       home in Essex, where he didn't have a bedroom and had a
MON       parrot run in every room. He also talks to Campbell's
MON       manager Colin Watkeys, theatre director Richard Eyre, fan
MON       and collaborator Ian Potter and fellow actors Julia
MON       McKenzie and Jim Broadbent.
MON       
MON       15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctx (Listen)
MON       Education in the Moral Home
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       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
MON       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
MON       pollution, and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
MON       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
MON       world.
MON       Until the late-19th century, home was the only schoolroom
MON       many British children were to experience, especially if
MON       they were girls. But was domestic education really so
MON       inferior to formal schooling? Drawing on diaries she has
MON       discovered, Prof Vickery explores home education from the
MON       perspective of both mother and child.
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 b00nhtk2 (Listen)
MON       Yoghurt
MON       Central Asia was the birthplace of yoghurt, as Golden
MON       Crescent nomadic tribes domesticated sheep and goats and
MON       began to curdle milk. Aylin Bozyap grew up in Istanbul,
MON       and as a child used to take the ferry with her family to
MON       the port town of Kanlica to eat yoghurt.
MON       Recreating the journey, she takes as her guide the
MON       political scientist, food historian and author Professor
MON       Artun Unsal, who finds the yoghurt a poor immitation of
MON       its former self. In search of something better they visit
MON       the artisan yoghurt maker Mehmet Nazli, whose family has
MON       been making yoghurt for many years, and who still makes it
MON       the traditional way. His son and grandson also work in the
MON       business, but the work is hard and they don't make much
MON       money, with the profits staying mainly with the middlemen
MON       and shops.
MON       On the other side of Istanbul they visit an artisan
MON       yoghurt maker who has had to stop producing; the quality
MON       of the milk is no longer good enough, nor the city clean
MON       enough, to make real yoghurt any more.
MON       Finally they go to the Silivri Yoghurt Festival, an annual
MON       celebration of traditional yogurt, and meet one of the
MON       winners. They also meet the deputy mayor of Silivri, who
MON       takes them to visit a disused yoghurt house that Professor
MON       Unsal is keen to see turned into a yoghurt museum.
MON       In the studio Sheila Dillon and Aylin taste a range of
MON       plain yoghurts, as well as a typical British style yoghurt.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00njxwm (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Episode 5
MON       As Bonfire Night approaches, Simon Cox discovers the role
MON       computers play in creating spectacular fireworks displays.
MON       He also learns how technology used in mobile phones is
MON       helping researchers in Cambridge to monitor pollution.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4p (Listen)
MON       2nd November 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       In an unprecedented move, KGB officers take questions from
MON       the public on live TV; price rises on British Rail fill
MON       commuters with woe; the Met's first black police officer
MON       talks about the 'fun and games' in the early days.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00njdbb (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
MON       Quinn. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00njg1l (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00nk0g7 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 5
MON       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
MON       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
MON       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
MON       With Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00njcq8 (Listen)
MON       Reality bites for Lilian.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00njgdq (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an
MON       interview with the crime writer James Ellroy, whose books
MON       include LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njgds (Listen)
MON       Singleparentpals.com, You Are Not Alone
MON       Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between
MON       two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice
MON       website.
MON       When a nervous Tom logs on to a website for lone parents
MON       for the first time, he finds new friends and an impatient
MON       response from the formidable Rosie.
MON       Rosie ...... Maxine Peake
MON       Tom ...... Kris Marshall
MON       Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux
MON       Gill ...... Janice Acquah
MON       Scott ...... Matt Addis
MON       Robin ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler
MON       Directed by David Hunter.
MON       
MON       20:00 Night Witches b00nk0g9 (Listen)
MON       Lucy Ash tells the extraordinary but little-known tale of
MON       Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than
MON       30,000 missions on the Eastern Front during Second World
MON       War. At home they were celebrated as Stalin's Falcons, but
MON       terrified German troops called them the Night Witches.
MON       Lucy travels to Moscow and Rostov-on-Don to meet a number
MON       of these formidable women, who are now grandmothers in
MON       their 80s and 90s. She discovers that their bravery has
MON       inspired aerobatic champions, comic book artists and even
MON       a Dutch heavy metal band.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00nk0gc (Listen)
MON       The Economist's New Clothes
MON       Many have said that the near collapse of the global
MON       financial system exposed the failures of 30 years of
MON       economic thinking. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics
MON       editor, examines the arguments raging within and outside
MON       the world of economics and asks what future students
MON       should learn from the 'great recession'.
MON       
MON       21:00 Aping Evolution b00nk0wl (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Professor of Genetics Steve Jones challenges evolutionary
MON       psychology, the controversial new science of how our
MON       brains and minds developed.
MON       Girls like pink better because in Stone Age times they
MON       needed to be good at picking berries and women have better
MON       sex with rich men - or so some evolutionary psychologists
MON       would have us believe. Critics say this isn't science, but
MON       conjecture.
MON       Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain human behaviour
MON       from the hunter-gatherers or our nearest relatives, the
MON       chimpanzee, and has some seductively simple theories. One
MON       argument is that we have Stone Age brains in 21st-century
MON       skulls, from which we can account for everything from the
MON       violence that men show to their stepchildren to why racism
MON       exists. Is evolutionary psychology a truly useful addition
MON       to the canon of ideas to come out of Darwinian evolution
MON       or a just-so science that can be adjusted to suit the
MON       researchers' prejudices?
MON       Steve Jones examines the history of the new science, the
MON       methods used and asks if it can explain the human drive to
MON       language, religion and culture.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00njkl6 (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr discusses memory, secrets, failed states and
MON       snobbery with his guests.
MON       Academic Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks about his new book
MON       Delete - the dangers of remembering in the digital age.
MON       Director Daniel Kramer talks secrets, psychology and the
MON       accessability of opera as his new production of Bluebeard
MON       opens at the ENO. Clare Lockhart, Director of the
MON       Institute for State Effectiveness, talks about how to fix
MON       failed states by building markets, and Quentin Letts gives
MON       his thesis on how snobbery will save us.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00njhwg (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00njj5t (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj5w (Listen)
MON       Heartland, Episode 6
MON       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
MON       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
MON       community of Cinderheath.
MON       Jasmine catches up with some friends in London.
MON       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b008wr7x (Listen)
MON       Sir John Major
MON       Former prime minister Sir John Major chooses some of the
MON       pieces of writing which have sustained, inspired and
MON       entertained him. The readers are Nigel Anthony and Lucy
MON       Briers.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00njkhg (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Sean Curran.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dm (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00nj9jc (Listen)
TUE       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 1
TUE       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
TUE       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
TUE       character.
TUE       In 1892, at the age of 18, Somerset Maugham enrolled at St
TUE       Thomas' medical school, but his heart wasn't in it. What
TUE       he really wanted to do was write.
TUE       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8j6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8wr (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qx (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00nj90h (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99d (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00nj99g (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00nj9f5 (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Choice b00nk2c2 (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       Michael talks to former banking executive Paul Moore about
TUE       his choice to blow the whistle on HBOS.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Parting Shots b00nk2c4 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 3
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       The privations of embassy life. In their valedictories,
TUE       diplomats recount the hardships of foreign service - rat
TUE       infested rooms, defunct plumbing and death threats.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9t (Listen)
TUE       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 2
TUE       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
TUE       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
TUE       character.
TUE       Still struggling to make ends meet, Maugham has a change
TUE       of fortune when the manager of the Royal Court Theatre
TUE       decides to stage his play, Lady Frederick.
TUE       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p2 (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 1989: A German Story b00nk2c6 (Listen)
TUE       Under One Flag
TUE       Series in which German programme-makers reflect and report
TUE       on aspects of the reunified country that rarely, if ever,
TUE       find their way into the British media.
TUE       Thomas Franke explores the German armed forces, the
TUE       Bundeswehr.
TUE       When reunification took place in Germany after the fall of
TUE       the Berlin Wall in 1989, one of the most painful
TUE       institutional mergers was of the former East and West
TUE       German armies. Ex-GDR forces were often obliged to accept
TUE       lower grades in the united force. Yet today, having had to
TUE       engage together in combat during the NATO Yugoslav
TUE       operation of 1999, the Bundeswehr is, perhaps
TUE       surprisingly, one of the success stories of the reunited
TUE       nation. Yet, routinely, the annual swearing in ceremony in
TUE       front of the Reichstag in Berlin is disrupted by noisy
TUE       protests by those exercised by the notion of an army
TUE       fighting under the German flag.
TUE       Thomas goes on patrol with the army around the Kosovan
TUE       city of Prizren, where they are a part of the
TUE       peace-keeping force, and visits the annual swearing-in
TUE       ceremony where new members of the forces take the oath
TUE       before Chancellor Merkel. But echoes remain of the horror
TUE       inflicted on Europe by another German army, and such
TUE       solemn moments are never far from controversy and protest
TUE       - especially when former peaceniks are now members of a
TUE       government which sends its young men to bear arms in both
TUE       Europe and Afghanistan.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Series investigating the history of attacks on art works,
TUE       from the earliest times to the present day.
TUE       When does destruction become an act of creation? Lawrence
TUE       Pollard explores what lies behind some of the more bizarre
TUE       assaults on contemporary art, including an exploding shed,
TUE       an artist who destroyed every one of his possessions and
TUE       art that has been both urinated on and whacked with a
TUE       hammer.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00njb1p (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00njcb6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00njcnv (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 The Bell Boys b00nk2xt (Listen)
TUE       In the heart of London's East End, a team of craftsmen
TUE       preserves a set of skills dating back to the 1500s,
TUE       turning out bells for churches and cathedrals across
TUE       Britain and around the world. Poet and closet
TUE       campanologist Ian McMillan spends a day among
TUE       Whitechapel's foundrymen, and follows the birth of a new
TUE       ring of bells set to bring back life to a church tower
TUE       which has stood silent since the Second World War.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00njcq8 (Listen)
TUE       Reality bites for Lilian.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00chp3n (Listen)
TUE       Dickens Confidential, Why Are We in Afghanistan?
TUE       Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the
TUE       head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the
TUE       news to the masses.
TUE       By Mike Walker.
TUE       Dickens and his team find themselves in the midst of
TUE       spies, intrigue and dark goings-on at the Russian Embassy,
TUE       culminating in a heroic balloon chase across the London
TUE       skyline.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens
TUE       Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell
TUE       Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan
TUE       Nadia Durova ...... Rachel Atkins
TUE       Alex Burns ...... Dan Starkey
TUE       Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall
TUE       Bishop ...... John Rowe
TUE       Ivan Vitkovich ...... Chris Pavlo
TUE       Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00nk4k4 (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nk4lm (Listen)
TUE       Tales From The Low Countries, My Father's Photo Album
TUE       Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands,
TUE       Belgium and Luxembourg.
TUE       By Abdelkader Benali.
TUE       When a Dutch-Moroccan man learns that his mother is ill,
TUE       he is compelled to make a long-overdue visit to his
TUE       parents' house in Rotterdam. The visit proves to be the
TUE       start of a journey through his dreams, childhood and
TUE       family history.
TUE       Read by Khalid Abdalla.
TUE       Translated by David McKay.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A History of Private Life b00njct8 (Listen)
TUE       The Garden Indoors
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       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
TUE       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
TUE       pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
TUE       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
TUE       world.
TUE       By the mid-19th century, the majority of the British
TUE       population lived in filthy polluted towns. Yet the
TUE       Victorians contrived increasingly ingenious ways to
TUE       domesticate nature, capturing ferns and sea anemones under
TUE       glass in their parlours.
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 b00nk4wp (Listen)
TUE       Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former
TUE       Director of Public Prosecutions, about his five years in
TUE       the position from 2003 to 2008.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00nk4wr (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to novelists Catherine O'Flynn and
TUE       Kate Pullinger at the Birmingham Book Festival about their
TUE       favourite books, including titles by Gordon Burn, Don
TUE       DeLillo and Alaa Al Aswany.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4f (Listen)
TUE       3rd November 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Protests in East Germany force the resignation of the
TUE       Mayor of Leipzig and five government hardliners; trouble
TUE       for Gorbachev as Russian miners down tools; and a high
TUE       speed link between London and the Channel Tunnel? 'Not in
TUE       my back yard', say people in Swanley.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00njdb2 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
TUE       Quinn. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00njfwk (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Too Much Information b00nk4wt (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
TUE       Comedy by Neil Warhurst about a tourist information centre
TUE       in a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever.
TUE       Waft Tourist Information resurrects an old Waft tradition,
TUE       The Day of the Pie, in which the ugliest boy of the
TUE       village eats a pork pie on the village green.
TUE       Warren ...... Jeff Rawle
TUE       Douglas ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Heather ...... Liza Sadovy
TUE       Lucy ...... Joannah Tincey
TUE       Bryan ...... Paul Barnhill
TUE       Tourist Information Machine ...... Philip Fox
TUE       Tyler (Piggy) ...... Rhys Jennings.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00njcpw (Listen)
TUE       Eddie's good intentions go to pot.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00njg1n (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an
TUE       interview with director Penny Woolcock, whose work ranges
TUE       from opera to a new hip-hop musical filmed in Birmingham.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh98 (Listen)
TUE       Singleparentpals.com, Getting Back on the Horse
TUE       Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between
TUE       two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice
TUE       website.
TUE       Rosie has an interview for promotion and Tom has his first
TUE       date for years. Who is the most nervous of the two?
TUE       Rosie ...... Maxine Peake
TUE       Tom ...... Kris Marshall
TUE       Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux
TUE       Gill ...... Janice Acquah
TUE       Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler
TUE       Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler
TUE       Directed by David Hunter.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00nk55r (Listen)
TUE       The head of the Financial Services Authority, Lord Turner,
TUE       has questioned the social usefulness of what banks do. But
TUE       as he and other regulators wrestle with ways of
TUE       controlling so-called 'casino operations', Michael
TUE       Robinson lifts the lid on the latest tricks of the trade
TUE       which some banks are now using to increase profits.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00nk55t (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00nk5t4 (Listen)
TUE       Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest
TUE       scientific research about the brain and the mind.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Choice b00nk2c2 (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       Michael talks to former banking executive Paul Moore about
TUE       his choice to blow the whistle on HBOS.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00njhnc (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00njj38 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj5y (Listen)
TUE       Heartland, Episode 7
TUE       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
TUE       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
TUE       community of Cinderheath.
TUE       Jasmine unexpectedly bumps in to an old friend from
TUE       primary school.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00b71ds (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
TUE       Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social
TUE       observation and nonsense.
TUE       Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright, with John
TUE       Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally
TUE       Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8c (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Susan Hulme.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dq (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9t (Listen)
WED       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 2
WED       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
WED       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
WED       character.
WED       Still struggling to make ends meet, Maugham has a change
WED       of fortune when the manager of the Royal Court Theatre
WED       decides to stage his play, Lady Frederick.
WED       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8j8 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8wy (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8qz (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00nj90k (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99j (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00nj99l (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00nj9f7 (Listen)
WED       With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00nk9hx (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Lawrence Dallaglio.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9w (Listen)
WED       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 3
WED       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
WED       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
WED       character.
WED       In 1915, with the codename Somerville, Maugham is
WED       despatched to Geneva to work for British intelligence.
WED       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p4 (Listen)
WED       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com.
WED       
WED       11:00 M1: The Modernist Marvel b00nk9hz (Listen)
WED       As the M1, Britain's first major motorway, celebrates its
WED       50th year, performance poet and musician John Hegley
WED       presents a poetic meditation on the 200-mile stretch of
WED       road that is the transport backbone of Britain.
WED       With his mandolin in tow, John slows down, turns off and
WED       seeks out the overlooked sights and sounds of the M1. He
WED       learns why there is no Junction 3, discovers that there
WED       was a scientific formula to the loo break that determined
WED       how far apart service stations should be built, and
WED       admires the road for the glimpse on the modern world it
WED       offers us.
WED       
WED       11:30 Hut 33 b00nk9j1 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Spitfire Poker
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       The codebreakers of Bletchley Park are in the doghouse
WED       again, so to make amends they help raise money for the
WED       town's Spitfire fund. Unfortunately Charles promptly loses
WED       the money in a card game, trying to impress an old school
WED       chum, so the hut must try to win it back somehow. Archie
WED       can't believe Charles is so desperate to curry favour with
WED       a former prefect and Minka has trouble understanding the
WED       rules of gentlemen's clubs.
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       Byron ...... Alex Lowe
WED       Butler ...... Phillip Fox.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00njb1r (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00njcb8 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00njcnx (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00nk9j3 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00njcpw (Listen)
WED       Eddie's good intentions go to pot.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nk9j5 (Listen)
WED       Ivan and the Dogs
WED       By Hattie Naylor. The extraordinary true story of Ivan
WED       Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the
WED       age of four and spent two years living on the city streets
WED       where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
WED       Ivan ...... Tom Glenister
WED       Cellist: Sarah Moody
WED       Directed by Paul Dodgson.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00nkb08 (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and guests answer listeners' questions on
WED       the subject of mortgages.
WED       Guests:
WED       Paula John, Your Mortgage
WED       Ray Boulger, mortgage brokers John Charcoal
WED       Louise Cuming, mortgage specialist, Cuming Associates Ltd.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nmt87 (Listen)
WED       Tales From The Low Countries, The Fortress at Bruges
WED       Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands,
WED       Belgium and Luxembourg.
WED       By Gregory Norminton, set in the not-so-distant future in
WED       'what remains of Belgium'.
WED       Following floods caused by global warming, most of the Low
WED       Countries are now under the sea, but the medieval city of
WED       Bruges has survived due to a feat of engineering called
WED       The Fortress. The solidarity of two old friends - a
WED       Walloon historian and a Fleming engineer - is tested by
WED       the arrival on the scene of Jean's new girlfriend,
WED       Magdalena.
WED       Read by Stephen Campbell Moore.
WED       
WED       15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctb (Listen)
WED       Exporting the Home
WED       Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals
WED       the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on
WED       first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of
WED       which have never been heard before. Including songs which
WED       have been specially recorded for the series.
WED       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
WED       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
WED       pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
WED       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
WED       world.
WED       Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British
WED       struggled to create in India, using the diaries and
WED       letters of colonial settlers.
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 b00nkb0b (Listen)
WED       In a series of special programmes in association with the
WED       Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of
WED       white collar crime, from its late addition to the statute
WED       books to the increasing difficulty in securing a
WED       conviction. He speaks to the key academic experts in the
WED       field, explores the latest sociological research and hears
WED       from professionals on both sides of the law about the
WED       culture, the practice and most often the non-prosecution
WED       of white collar crime.
WED       In this edition, Laurie considers the culture of the
WED       crime. What exactly is white collar crime, who commits it
WED       and why?
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00nk5t4 (Listen)
WED       Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest
WED       scientific research about the brain and the mind.
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4h (Listen)
WED       4th November 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       Margaret Thatcher is the least popular prime minister
WED       since polling began - she will stand down after the next
WED       election; SDLP leader John Hume throws down the gauntlet
WED       to the IRA; and, he may have a 'Vision of Britain', but
WED       Prince Charles is compared to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00njdb4 (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
WED       Quinn. Plus Weather.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00njfwm (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00nkb2s (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Ride With Me
WED       Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest,
WED       family-run record shop in Birmingham.
WED       Adam takes his mortality a little too seriously, and finds
WED       himself confronted with a little too much lycra.
WED       Adam ...... Lenny Henry
WED       Rudy ...... Larrington Walker
WED       Richie ...... Joe Jacobs
WED       Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
WED       Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
WED       DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00njcpy (Listen)
WED       Lilian calls in the experts.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00njg1q (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
WED       interview with Ben Elton whose new novel, Meltdown, charts
WED       the rise and fall of a City trader.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh8w (Listen)
WED       Singleparentpals.com, Coming Clean
WED       Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between
WED       two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice
WED       website.
WED       The honesty game backfires on Tom. Is this the end of a
WED       short but beautiful friendship with Rosie?
WED       Rosie ...... Maxine Peake
WED       Tom ...... Kris Marshall
WED       Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux
WED       Gill ...... Janice Acquah
WED       Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler
WED       Directed by David Hunter.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00nkcfk (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips,
WED       James Panton and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nknyx (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our
WED       lives but which are little known outside the legal world.
WED       The dramatic 1670 trial of two Quakers which established
WED       the principle that judges cannot intimidate juries, no
WED       matter how furious the bench may be.
WED       
WED       21:00 A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake b00grftd (Listen)
WED       Adam Lusekelo tells the story of the MV Ilala, a boat
WED       built 60 years ago by Yarrow and Company in Glasgow as a
WED       passenger and cargo ship destined for Lake Nyasa,
WED       modern-day Lake Malawi. In a remarkable feat of
WED       engineering, it was shipped out in pieces via Mozambique
WED       and transported overland to be reconstructed on the shores
WED       of the inland lake, which has no navigable outlet to the
WED       sea. Today, it is still sailing the lake, providing a
WED       vital lifeline to remote communities in Malawi and
WED       Mozambique.
WED       A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00nk9hx (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Lawrence Dallaglio.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00njhnf (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3b (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
WED       Shah.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj60 (Listen)
WED       Heartland, Episode 8
WED       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
WED       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
WED       community of Cinderheath.
WED       Rob is unsettled by the new crowd hanging out in his old
WED       drinking haunt.
WED       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00nkp1w (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 5
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 b00nkp1y (Listen)
WED       Red Coat
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 Red Coat.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8f (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with David Wilby.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00nj8ds (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9w (Listen)
THU       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 3
THU       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
THU       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
THU       character.
THU       In 1915, with the codename Somerville, Maugham is
THU       despatched to Geneva to work for British intelligence.
THU       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8jb (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8x0 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8r1 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00nj90m (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99n (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00nj99q (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00nj9f9 (Listen)
THU       With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00nkqrv (Listen)
THU       The Siege of Münster
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding
THU       and Charlotte Methuen discuss the Siege of Münster in
THU       1534, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New
THU       Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific
THU       consequences.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00nnn9y (Listen)
THU       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 4
THU       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
THU       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
THU       character.
THU       With his marriage to Syrie imploding, Maugham escapes to
THU       the south of France with Gerald and buys the Villa
THU       Mauresque.
THU       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p6 (Listen)
THU       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00nkqrx (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House b00nkqrz (Listen)
THU       Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas
THU       Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty
THU       illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience
THU       inside the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney.
THU       Reece examines classic scary moments from the movies and
THU       looks back at some of the great horror actors.
THU       He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic
THU       Reeves, Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00njb1t (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00njcbb (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00njcnz (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00nks89 (Listen)
THU       Leaving the Comfort Zone
THU       Is leaving your comfort zone a form of masochism, or the
THU       only way to develop in life? Dominic Arkwright is joined
THU       by comedian Rhona Cameron, mountaineer Andy Cave and
THU       journalist Agnes Poirier to write about and discuss
THU       comfort and pain.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00njcpy (Listen)
THU       Lilian calls in the experts.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nks8c (Listen)
THU       The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes
THU       What exactly is it that we’re asked to remember on the 5th
THU       of November? As the nation prepares for Bonfire Night;
THU       highly acclaimed comedy trio, The Penny Dreadfuls, take a
THU       fresh and timely look at a familiar story with a comedic,
THU       stirring and sometimes graphic exploration of the build-up
THU       to and aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot for The Afternoon
THU       Play.
THU       Recorded in front of an audience at the Radio Theatre in
THU       London, there's plenty of laughs in places where you least
THU       expect them – from the boisterously optimistic meetings of
THU       the conspirators through to Fawke’s internment in the
THU       Tower of London.
THU       Starring Kevin Eldon as Guy, The Penny Dreadfuls will also
THU       be joined on stage by Miles Jupp and Andrew Pugsley.
THU       The Penny Dreadfuls are David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom
THU       Tuck.
THU       The Penny Dreadfuls have previously written and performed
THU       two series of the Victorian themed Brothers Faversham for
THU       Radio 7 have just finished their fourth highly successful
THU       year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
THU       Guy Fawkes ...... Kevin Eldon
THU       Thomas Percy ...... Miles Jupp
THU       John Wright ...... David Reed
THU       Robert Catesby ...... Thom Tuck
THU       Thomas Winter ...... Andrew Pugsley
THU       Sir William Waad ...... Humphrey Ker.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00nhn1n (Listen)
THU       Brian May's 3-D Village
THU       Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an
THU       Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian
THU       photographic pioneer T.R. Williams.
THU       May has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting
THU       cereal packet picture cards as a boy. He was particularly
THU       intrigued by a set of stereoscopic images of village life
THU       taken by photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. Further
THU       investigation revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures
THU       of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken
THU       in the 1850s.
THU       Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of
THU       the village. Together they discover how the people and
THU       wildlife of this Thames-side community have changed since
THU       Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths,
THU       spinners and farm workers.
THU       Kerry Lock of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and
THU       Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust describes the waxing and waning
THU       of wildlife over the past 160 years, while Nicola Verdon
THU       of the British Agricultural History Society examines the
THU       telling detail in photos taken at the height of farming's
THU       golden age.
THU       To discuss the past, present and future of 3-D photography
THU       Helen is also joined by Brian's collaborator, the photo
THU       historian Elena Vidal and by David Burder of the British
THU       Stereoscopic Society. Has the boom in 3-D cinema and the
THU       launch of a 3-D digital camera come at just the right time
THU       for a revival of interest in T.R. Williams and a re-birth
THU       of the art of stereoscopic photography?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nhsn6 (Listen)
THU       Meningitis UK
THU       Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK.
THU       Donations to Meningitis UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC
THU       Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
THU       Meningitis UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If
THU       you are a UK tax payer, please provide Meningitis UK with
THU       your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid
THU       on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities
THU       are not currently available to listeners without a UK
THU       postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No:1076774.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nmt7y (Listen)
THU       Tales From The Low Countries, In Landlocked Frontiers
THU       Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands,
THU       Belgium and Luxembourg.
THU       By Georges Hausemer.
THU       A nostalgic story about a childhood lived alongside the
THU       Luxembourgeois railway with a father who worked as a
THU       pointsman.
THU       Translated by Michael Hoffman, read by Michael Pennington.
THU       
THU       15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctd (Listen)
THU       Dunroamin
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       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
THU       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
THU       pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
THU       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
THU       world.
THU       The roots of the suburb lie very deep; but for snobs and
THU       bohemians, the adjective 'suburban' has always been the
THU       ultimate put-down. Prof Vickery listens to the experiences
THU       of those who moved there.
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 Bookclub b00nhv5s (Listen)
THU       Linda Grant
THU       James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her
THU       novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange
THU       Prize for Fiction in 2000.
THU       Linda is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to
THU       most of her writing. 'Scratch a Jew and you've got a
THU       story', remarks the main character Evelyn Sert on the
THU       story's first page as she looks over her life. The novel
THU       follows Evelyn - hairdresser, spy, lover - on her voyage
THU       from post-war London to Tel Aviv, where the British are
THU       preparing to leave Palestine and the new state of Israel
THU       is about to be born.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00nkv3p (Listen)
THU       DNA is celebrated as the molecule that carries our genes
THU       from generation to generation. But a small group of
THU       pioneering chemists are using DNA to build the
THU       nano-engines of the future. Quentin Cooper hears about
THU       these miniature biological machines.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4k (Listen)
THU       5th November 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more
THU       difficult for Margaret Thatcher by spilling the beans on
THU       TV; the Sony Walkman celebrates its 10th birthday but the
THU       Noise Abatement Society doesn't; the greatest romantic
THU       pianist of his generation, Vladimir Horowitz, dies.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00njdb6 (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 b00njfwp (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nkv3r (Listen)
THU       Series 3, A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified
THU       Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans.
THU       Pip Bin faces his most gruelling fate yet at the hands of
THU       his evil undead ex-guardian and an enormous quantity of
THU       cheese. But can the spirits of Harvest Festival past,
THU       present and future show him a way to redemption?
THU       Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
THU       Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen
THU       Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
THU       Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
THU       Mr Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
THU       Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland
THU       Pippa ...... Susy Kane.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00njcq0 (Listen)
THU       Bonfire night keeps its sparkle for Vicky.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00njg1s (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who discusses the
THU       newly-published and long awaited second volume of TS
THU       Eliot's letters.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh8y (Listen)
THU       Singleparentpals.com, The Other Man
THU       Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between
THU       two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice
THU       website.
THU       Rosie has a new boyfriend but still seeks Tom's advice.
THU       Rosie ...... Maxine Peake
THU       Tom ...... Kris Marshall
THU       Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux
THU       Gill ...... Janice Acquah
THU       Scott/Mark ...... Matt Addis
THU       Directed by David Hunter.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00nk4wp (Listen)
THU       Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former
THU       Director of Public Prosecutions, about his five years in
THU       the position from 2003 to 2008.
THU       
THU       20:30 The Bottom Line b00nkv3t (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 b00nkwz1 (Listen)
THU       The oldest rocks on Earth are aliens! They are the
THU       left-over building rubble from the formation of the solar
THU       system and can be dated to an incredible 4,567 million
THU       years old. A surprising number fall to Earth each year as
THU       meteorites.
THU       November 5th is probably the worst night of the year for
THU       spotting incandescent rocks streaking through the sky, but
THU       tracking down a fresh meteorite, before it gets
THU       contaminated by terrestrial chemicals, is the ultimate
THU       prize for the hunters. A rare few carry complex carbon
THU       compounds - perhaps remnants of the material out of which
THU       the first life on Earth formed.
THU       Geoff Watts hears from meteorite hunters who scour the
THU       deserts of Arizona and Australia and the ice of Canada and
THU       Antarctica to seek out extra-terrestrial rocks and meets
THU       those who analyse them, using traces of rare elements to
THU       track their history and reveal their origins.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00nkqrv (Listen)
THU       The Siege of Münster
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding
THU       and Charlotte Methuen discuss the Siege of Münster in
THU       1534, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New
THU       Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific
THU       consequences.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00njhnh (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3d (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj62 (Listen)
THU       Heartland, Episode 9
THU       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
THU       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
THU       community of Cinderheath.
THU       Rob hears some worrying news at school.
THU       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Pick Ups b00nrrdc (Listen)
THU       Series 2, All Bar Nun
THU       Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi
THU       company.
THU       Alan and Lind reveal hidden talents, while Dave seeks a
THU       nun's advice on infidelity.
THU       Mike ...... Paul Loughran
THU       Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Dave ...... Phil Rowson
THU       Alan ...... Parvez Qadir
THU       Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
THU       Drunk ...... Mark E Smith
THU       Tanya ...... Janie Connolly.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8h (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Sean Curran.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00nj8dv (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00nnn9y (Listen)
FRI       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 4
FRI       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
FRI       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
FRI       character.
FRI       With his marriage to Syrie imploding, Maugham escapes to
FRI       the south of France with Gerald and buys the Villa
FRI       Mauresque.
FRI       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
FRI       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nj8jd (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nj8x2 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nj8r3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00nj90p (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nj99s (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00nj99v (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00nj9fc (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00nht5f (Listen)
FRI       Jerry Springer
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is Jerry Springer.
FRI       His life has been split between serving the public and
FRI       outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as
FRI       a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working
FRI       with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his
FRI       controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show.
FRI       He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always
FRI       on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a
FRI       philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They
FRI       were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August
FRI       1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the
FRI       entire family.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00nnnb0 (Listen)
FRI       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 5
FRI       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
FRI       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
FRI       character.
FRI       When Maugham's companion Gerald Haxton dies, Alan Searle
FRI       becomes a major part of Maugham's life.
FRI       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
FRI       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00nj9p8 (Listen)
FRI       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Singleparentpals.com.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nkz1r (Listen)
FRI       Series 5, Play for Tomorrow
FRI       Documentary series telling original stories about real
FRI       lives in Britain today.
FRI       Three sixth formers have the summer to get their band back
FRI       on track after the bass player and best mate walks out on
FRI       them.
FRI       Nick, Christian and Lawrence are all 17 and have lived
FRI       most of their lives in Grimsby. The closest of friends,
FRI       they had hoped to spend the summer gigging with their
FRI       band, Socio Republic. But bassist Reece has just decided
FRI       he no longer wants to be part of the group. The remaining
FRI       trio are left shell-shocked by their friend's decision and
FRI       the future of the band is cast into serious doubt.
FRI       Alan Dein presents an intimate story of friendship under
FRI       pressure as the three 'in-betweeners' - not yet men, no
FRI       longer boys - spend a long wet summer trying to fill
FRI       Reece's shoes and get some gigs. Yet the weeks pass and
FRI       the lads - heartbroken and mystified by Reece's departure
FRI       - are still without a new bass player. But, as Lawrence
FRI       says, 'good things have to end for better things to
FRI       begin'. The relentless rain brings on severe boredom and
FRI       the lads seem paralysed.
FRI       The three are aware that the clock is ticking. University
FRI       beckons in a year - when, once again, their friendships
FRI       will be put to the test.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nlx7p (Listen)
FRI       Episode 1
FRI       Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock
FRI       star and his search for fulfilment.
FRI       Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt is persuaded to preview
FRI       his 'drums-only' version of 1970s classic album, Temple of
FRI       the Human Mind.
FRI       Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams
FRI       Dom ...... Russell Tovey
FRI       Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham
FRI       Jane the Guardian journalist ...... Kerry Fox.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00njb1w (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00njcbd (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00njcp1 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Edward Stourton.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00nlx8j (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00njcq0 (Listen)
FRI       Bonfire night keeps its sparkle for Vicky.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nlxph (Listen)
FRI       The Tony Kay Scandal
FRI       By Michael McLean.
FRI       The true story of the case of footballer Tony Kay, who, in
FRI       1965, was convicted of match fixing, sent to prison and
FRI       banned for life by the FA. The play follows the course of
FRI       events leading up to Kay's trial, imprisonment and
FRI       release, and features recently-recorded observations from
FRI       Kay himself.
FRI       Tony Kay ...... Mikey North
FRI       Peter Swan ...... Carl Prekopp
FRI       'Bronco' Layne ...... Karl Davies
FRI       Solicitor ...... Andrew Branch
FRI       Harry Catterick ...... Tom Bevan
FRI       Jimmy Gauld ...... Ross Sutherland
FRI       Judge ...... Alan Leith
FRI       Prison Governor ...... Ian Masters
FRI       Directed by Martin Jenkins
FRI       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nlxzr (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and John Cushnie are
FRI       guests of Linkinhorne Horticultural Society in Cornwall.
FRI       Chris meets the man collecting over 200 varieties of
FRI       Cornish apples, cherries and pears, and Anne celebrates
FRI       the office plant, revealing the Office Plant of the Year.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A History of Private Life b00njctg (Listen)
FRI       Alternative Homes
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       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
FRI       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
FRI       pollution, and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
FRI       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
FRI       world.
FRI       'Home means a place to go to when you are in trouble. A
FRI       place sadly altered by war. A place to glorify when away
FRI       and rely on always...' So reported one woman to the Mass
FRI       Observation survey. Prof Vickery explores the enduring
FRI       pull of a home of one's own.
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 b00nlxzt (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 b00nlyvf (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Matthew Sweet as he continues his
FRI       campaign to rewrite the history of British cinema and
FRI       bring to light some neglected classics. Plus, Portuguese
FRI       director Pedro Costa talks about his trilogy of films set
FRI       in a Lisbon slum, starring some of its residents.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00njd4m (Listen)
FRI       6th November 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       A backlash against East German refugees begins in West
FRI       Germany; supporters of women's ordination hold an
FRI       overnight vigil outside Lambeth Palace; and it's nuns
FRI       versus vicars on the rugby field!
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00njdb8 (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 b00njfwr (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00nlyvh (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 7
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
FRI       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Danielle Ward, David Mitchell
FRI       and Francis Wheen.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00njcq4 (Listen)
FRI       Jennifer finds the truth is hard to take.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00njg1v (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an
FRI       interview with the American novelist Paul Auster.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00njh90 (Listen)
FRI       Singleparentpals.com, We Can't Go on Meeting Like This
FRI       Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between
FRI       two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice
FRI       website.
FRI       Tom has a conference in Manchester - is this a chance to
FRI       meet Rosie in the flesh?
FRI       Rosie ...... Maxine Peake
FRI       Tom ...... Kris Marshall
FRI       Spp.com/Tash ...... Laura Molyneux
FRI       Gill ...... Janice Acquah
FRI       Jo-C ...... Annabelle Dowler
FRI       Bazz ...... Jonathan Tafler
FRI       Lily ...... Isadora Dooley Hunter
FRI       Directed by David Hunter.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00nlyvk (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from
FRI       Hartlepool. The panel includes author and documentary
FRI       maker Carol Gould and Vince Cable, treasury spokesman and
FRI       deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00nlyvm (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00nlz4c (Listen)
FRI       Episode 6
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       Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th
FRI       and 20th century, responding to industrialisation,
FRI       pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores
FRI       how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty
FRI       world.
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 b00njhnk (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00njj3g (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00njj64 (Listen)
FRI       Heartland, Episode 10
FRI       Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony
FRI       Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country
FRI       community of Cinderheath.
FRI       It is finally polling day in the local elections.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00nk4wr (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to novelists Catherine O'Flynn and
FRI       Kate Pullinger at the Birmingham Book Festival about their
FRI       favourite books, including titles by Gordon Burn, Don
FRI       DeLillo and Alaa Al Aswany.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00njk8k (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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