Radio 4 Listings for 07/11/2009 - 13/11/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00nlzh1 (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 b00nnnb0 (Listen)
SAT       The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Episode 5
SAT       Barbara Flynn reads from Selina Hastings' biography of
SAT       Somerset Maugham, which sheds new light on his complex
SAT       character.
SAT       When Maugham's companion Gerald Haxton dies, Alan Searle
SAT       becomes a major part of Maugham's life.
SAT       Abridged by Libby Spurrier.
SAT       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nlzh3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nlzh5 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nlzh7 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00nlzh9 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nlzhc (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00nm0lh (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00nm11p (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00nm11r (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00nmz7n (Listen)
SAT       Owenstown
SAT       The philanthropist Robert Owen brought about sweeping
SAT       social reforms in his model village of New Lanark. Workers
SAT       in the mill town were given improved housing and working
SAT       conditions while the children were taken out of the mills
SAT       and schooled instead. But his vision for a self-sufficient
SAT       community was never fully realised in his lifetime.
SAT       Matt Baker explores new plans for Owenstown, a new town of
SAT       20,000 planned just a few miles from New Lanark. The
SAT       co-operative society will be encouraged to foster a sense
SAT       of community and the town will be carbon neutral,
SAT       generating its own power from wind and waste. Matt also
SAT       visits the nearby village of Rigside; once riding high on
SAT       the jobs and prosperity of the coal pit, it is now facing
SAT       severe decline and hopes that some of the excitement and
SAT       prosperity from Owenstown will benefit their area.
SAT       However, the site chosen for the new town has no natural
SAT       resource to provide jobs, unlike Rigside's mine and New
SAT       Lanark's river to power the mills. Matt asks how the
SAT       planners envision starting their town from scratch.
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00nmz7q (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       We're farming fewer breeds than ever before, to feed our
SAT       desire for consistent cuts of meat. Ninety per cent of
SAT       dairy cows are Holsteins, 90 per cent of pig sows are
SAT       Landrace, and 70 per cent of our beef comes from Limosin
SAT       cattle. Last century, the UK lost 26 native breeds of
SAT       livestock, as farmers concentrated on the most productive
SAT       lines. Charlotte Smith visits a research farm in
SAT       Oxfordshire to find out how these breeds have come to
SAT       dominate, and what makes them stand out from the crowd.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00nmz7s (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00nmz7v (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the
SAT       Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00nmz7x (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by businessman Harvey Jacobson.
SAT       With poetry from Susan Richardson.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00nmz7z (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores wild Scotland in the company of
SAT       writers Andrew Greig and Sara Maitland, who live in remote
SAT       places, and talks to them about how the landscape has
SAT       affected their writing.
SAT       He also talks to architectural historian David Heathcote
SAT       about his recent trip on the Orient Express to Venice and
SAT       about the influence of Art Deco on travel.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Where Do You Want Me (A Comic in Continental Crisis)
SAT       b00nmz81 (Listen)
SAT       Johnny Vegas is at a turning point in his professional
SAT       status. He has a thriving career but knows deep down that
SAT       audiences are getting younger and his shelf-life within
SAT       showbusiness could be too close to perishable for comfort.
SAT       What will become of Johnny should The Mighty Boosh demand
SAT       it is time for him to take his final bow? Johnny sees that
SAT       with the demise of working men's clubs and the unforgiving
SAT       nature of popular culture, many household names have
SAT       followed their ageing audiences to the Spanish coast,
SAT       where they are still revered and can play once more to
SAT       packed houses of grateful punters.
SAT       Is Benidorm merely the elephants' graveyard for
SAT       entertainers who just don't know when to call it a day, or
SAT       a shining tribute to the glories of past comedy? Is it a
SAT       fate that awaits Johnny himself? And what if Benidorm
SAT       itself is nearing the end of a golden age, now that it is
SAT       under threat as global recession bites.
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SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00nmz83 (Listen)
SAT       The Week in Westminster - one of the longest-running radio
SAT       programmes - celebrates 80 years of broadcasting.
SAT       November 6th 1929: Wall St had just crashed, bringing the
SAT       Roaring Twenties to an end. In Britain, women achieved
SAT       equal voting rights with men and the May general election
SAT       - sometimes known as the Flapper Election - returned
SAT       Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister for a second time. You
SAT       Were Meant for Me was the hit tune of the day.
SAT       For the benefit of these newly-enfranchised women, the BBC
SAT       introduced a series of talks on the proceedings of
SAT       Parliament presented by women MPs. These talks became The
SAT       Week in Westminster, continuing to the present day, except
SAT       for an 18-month break during the Second World War.
SAT       The first presenter was Mary Agnes Hamilton (Molly), newly
SAT       elected as Labour MP for Blackburn and already an
SAT       experienced broadcaster through her BBC book programme.
SAT       There followed a list of famous names such as Nancy Astor,
SAT       the first woman to take her seat in Parliament, Lady
SAT       Cynthia Mosely, the Duchess of Atholl, Ellen Wilkinson,
SAT       Miss E Rathbone and Megan Lloyd George.
SAT       In 1931, the programme expanded to include male MPs and
SAT       reached out to a wider audience. A young RA Butler was one
SAT       of the first men to take part. By then, it had gained the
SAT       attention of the political parties: MPs taking part had to
SAT       be vetted by their respective party whips.
SAT       In the late 1930s, the programme acquired a new young
SAT       producer tasked with being the BBC's man in Westminster.
SAT       He was none other than Guy Burgess, the spy who later
SAT       defected to the Soviet Union. Author Michael Dobbs talks
SAT       about Burgess' career.
SAT       From its earliest days, the programme sought to balance
SAT       the views of the various parties at Westminster and deal
SAT       fairly with the demands and expectations of politicians.
SAT       Harman Grisewood, political adviser to the Director
SAT       General in the 1950s, gives an account of the developing
SAT       relationship between politicians and the media.
SAT       In the late 1960s, the format of The Week in Westminster
SAT       changed. Political journalists rather than politicians
SAT       were brought in to present. It has remained broadly the
SAT       same ever since - discussing the week's events in
SAT       parliament with backbenchers.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nmz85 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Prague; Budapest; Warsaw. Our correspondent takes the
SAT       train on a journey which illustrates how, in some ways,
SAT       Europe is more joined up than ever before.
SAT       Another is in the slums of Nairobi, trying to find out how
SAT       a friend was murdered. A young soldier is baptised in the
SAT       Helmand River in Afghanistan, and our hypochondriac
SAT       reporter in LA has a close encounter with the US
SAT       healthcare system and, he says, only just survived to tell
SAT       the tale.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00nmz87 (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       Bailed out and up for sale, will the break up of RBS and
SAT       Lloyds benefit customers?
SAT       The FSA claims to put bank customers in the driving seat,
SAT       so we provide a road test.
SAT       The future looks uncertain for Child Trust Funds.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00nlyvh (Listen)
SAT       Series 69, Episode 7
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Danielle Ward, David Mitchell
SAT       and Francis Wheen.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00nmz89 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00nmz8c (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00nlyvk (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from
SAT       Hartlepool. The panellists are Vince Cable, treasury
SAT       spokesman and deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats,
SAT       former Europe minister Caroline Flint, shadow culture
SAT       secretary Jeremy Hunt, and author and documentary maker
SAT       Carol Gould.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00nmz8f (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00nmz8h (Listen)
SAT       All Quiet on the Western Front
SAT       Dramatisation by Dave Sheasby of Erich Maria Remarque's
SAT       haunting, comic, lyrical and desperate story of a group of
SAT       young German soldiers enduring and coming to terms with
SAT       the realities of the First World War.
SAT       Paul Baumer ...... Robert Lonsdale
SAT       Kropp ...... Simon Trinder
SAT       Muller ...... Gunnar Cauthary
SAT       Leer ...... Lloyd Thomas
SAT       Tjaden ...... Joseph Arkley
SAT       Katczinsky ...... Stephen Critchlow
SAT       Cook ...... Malcolm Tierney
SAT       Westhaus ...... Stuart McLoughlin
SAT       Captain Bertinck ...... Dan Starkey
SAT       Kemmerich ...... Luke Walker
SAT       Himmelstoss ...... Tim Treloar
SAT       Detering ...... Nick Sayce
SAT       Mother ...... Janice Acquah
SAT       French girl ...... Donnla Hughes
SAT       Erna ...... Jill Cardo
SAT       Mrs Kemmerich ...... Carolyn Pickles
SAT       Orderly ...... Inam Mirza
SAT       Mittlestaedt ...... Paul Rider
SAT       Major ...... Chris Pavlo
SAT       Nurse ...... Manjeet Mann
SAT       Directed by David Hunter.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00nmz8k (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Tennis ace Serena Williams talks about sisterhood and her
SAT       success on the courts; how the system is coping with a
SAT       jump in applications to take children into care; help for
SAT       male infertility; comedian Miranda Hart on her new BBC TV
SAT       series; psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's legacy to
SAT       motherhood; Sophie Grigson creates a tasty winter soup
SAT       with cod and pineapple.
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SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nmz8m (Listen)
SAT       7th November 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       The communist authorities in the GDR are buckling under
SAT       the pounding they are taking in the streets; 8,000 troops
SAT       celebrate 72 years of the Bolshevik Revolution in Red
SAT       Square but protestors carry banners saying '72 years on
SAT       the road to nowhere'; the Church of England Synod votes to
SAT       ordain women priests.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00nmz8p (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 The Bottom Line b00nkv3t (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to
SAT       discuss private equity - the investors who have endured
SAT       boom and bust like no other. He also finds out if English
SAT       is the only real language of business.
SAT       Evan is joined by Keith Clarke, chief executive of Atkins,
SAT       one of the world's largest civil engineering and design
SAT       consultancies, Laura Tenison, founder and managing
SAT       director of Jo-Jo Maman Bebe, a clothing company for
SAT       babies, toddlers and expectant mothers, and Peter Taylor,
SAT       managing partner of the private equity firm Duke Street.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nmz8r (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00nmz8t (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nmz8w (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00nmz8y (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by interior designer and socialite Nicky
SAT       Haslam, actor Nigel Harman and author and screenwriter
SAT       Anthony Horowitz.
SAT       Arthur Smith talks to journalist Tanith Carey about agony
SAT       aunts over the last 100 years.
SAT       With comedy from Manchester's multi-award-winning stand-up
SAT       Jason Manford, and music from Aboriginal roots musician
SAT       Gurrumul and soul funksters The Brand New Heavies.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00nmz90 (Listen)
SAT       Series 7, The Man In The Suit
SAT       Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz creates a fictional response
SAT       to the week's news, prompted by Radovan Karadzic's first
SAT       appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
SAT       former Yugoslavia.
SAT       As Karadzic insisted that he needed more time to prepare
SAT       his defence and claimed that his fundamental rights had
SAT       been violated, there were many with other thoughts on
SAT       their mind.
SAT       With Nigel Anthony, Annette Crosbie, Adam Kotz and Zoe
SAT       Waites.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00nmz92 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests review The Men Who Stare At
SAT       Goats, which stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff
SAT       Bridges and is based on a factual account by journalist
SAT       Jon Ronson of the American military experiments in mind
SAT       control known as 'psych-ops'. In this satirical screwball
SAT       comedy soldiers try to walk through walls and stare at
SAT       goats in order to kill them.
SAT       Philip Roth's 30th novel, and 10th since he turned 60, is
SAT       also out and tells the story of Simon Axler, a world-class
SAT       actor who can no longer act. Is Roth a world-class writer
SAT       still capable of writing a world-class novel?
SAT       The Misfits is the new drama from E4; it follows a group
SAT       of teenagers who are doing community service when they get
SAT       struck by lightning and are bestowed with supernatural
SAT       powers. Subverting the idea of the superhero while
SAT       commenting on the demonization of youth, are The Misfits
SAT       the A Team of the 21st century?
SAT       'Radical' and 'edgy' are words used to describe Green
SAT       Ginger, and their touring show Rust continues their
SAT       reputation. Opening at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington,
SAT       hot on the heels of the London Puppetry Festival, Rust is
SAT       a fast-moving story of piracy, passion and vinyl.
SAT       Grotesque puppets, animated sets and shiploads of absurd
SAT       humour are welded into a dark comic-book vision of low
SAT       life on the high seas.
SAT       The Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in
SAT       Europe, and is re-opening after a 61-million pound
SAT       makeover. The new building, designed by Rick Mather, fits
SAT       seamlessly with the 1845 Charles Cockerell original
SAT       museum, adding 39 new galleries and 100,000 feet of floor
SAT       space, while being invisible from the street.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00nmzp7 (Listen)
SAT       This is the Army Mr Jones
SAT       Actor and entertainer John Barrowman tells the story of
SAT       Irving Berlin's groundbreaking army show, This Is The
SAT       Army, that came to bomb-ravaged London in 1943 before
SAT       setting out on a world tour that raised military morale
SAT       from Glasgow to Guam.
SAT       The show's choreographer, Robert Sydney, and Irving
SAT       Berlin's daughter, Mary Ellin Barrett, recall how the show
SAT       was put together and the effect it had in places as far
SAT       afield as Washington DC and Tehran, via Bristol,
SAT       Birmingham, Glasgow, London and the fiercest area of
SAT       fighting in the south of Italy shortly after the British
SAT       and American landings there. Also remembering the show are
SAT       members of the audience in Birmingham, Glasgow and London,
SAT       where a young airman by the name of Denis Norden was
SAT       spellbound by the show at The Palladium.
SAT       The programme also features archive recordings made
SAT       especially for the BBC in the winter of 1943, including a
SAT       performance from Berlin himself.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00nhv35 (Listen)
SAT       Bel Ami, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Frances Byrnes of Guy de Maupassant's
SAT       story of political corruption in the newspaper world of
SAT       19th-century France and the inexorable rise of Georges
SAT       Duroy - 'Bel Ami' - a charming, ruthless man of little
SAT       talent but plenty of ambition.
SAT       Bel Ami is making the perfect match with a society heiress
SAT       but his past is about to catch up with him, in the shape
SAT       of Mme de Marelle, his long-term mistress.
SAT       Bel Ami ...... Jonathan Slinger
SAT       Marelle ...... Emma Fielding
SAT       Madeleine ...... Mali Harries
SAT       Forestier ...... Kieran Self
SAT       Monsieur Walter ...... Steffan Rhodri
SAT       Rachel ...... Sara McGaughey
SAT       Other roles played by Richard Nichols.
SAT       Directed by Polly Thomas.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 Weather b00nmzp9 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00nkcfk (Listen)
SAT       When does a popular and spontaneous protest become mob
SAT       rule? Fans of Twitter, the micro-blogging site, have
SAT       chalked up a couple of notable victories of late.
SAT       Followers helped to expose a legal injunction against The
SAT       Guardian and Twitter-led protests generated tens of
SAT       thousands of complaints against Jan Moir when she wrote a
SAT       column using the death of Stephen Gately to criticise gay
SAT       marriage. Is this net-based protest a valuable tool to
SAT       demonstrate popular opinion or are we sacrificing
SAT       traditional political engagement for the instant
SAT       gratification direct action?
SAT       Witnesses:
SAT       Professor Andrew Chadwick of the New Political
SAT       Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of
SAT       London, and author of the book Internet Politics
SAT       Brendan O'Neill, journalist, writer and editor of Spiked
SAT       Online
SAT       Nick Cohen, author and Observer journalist
SAT       Ben Locker, 'Twitterer'.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00njxlv (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the fourth heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 High Flight b00nhw26 (Listen)
SAT       When Anglo-American poet John Magee was killed in a
SAT       mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in December 1941, aged
SAT       just 19, he left behind a sonnet started, he claimed, 'at
SAT       30,000 feet and finished soon after (he) landed'. The
SAT       poem, High Flight, has become the most celebrated poem
SAT       about the intoxication of flying.
SAT       Sean Street traces the trajectory of the poem and its poet
SAT       from Rugby School through the Library of Congress and the
SAT       space race to Ronald Reagan's tribute to the victims of
SAT       the Challenger space shuttle disaster and beyond, into a
SAT       unique place in the popular imagination.
SAT       The programme includes contributions from Andrew Motion,
SAT       veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force, composer Bob
SAT       Chilcott and Library of Congress archivist Cheryl Fox.
SAT       A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
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SUN       SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00nn2g5 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Original Shorts b008pvmt (Listen)
SUN       Series 3, Dad's Chair
SUN       New short stories by well-known authors.
SUN       Rob Green's compelling tale of an eccentric family
SUN       bereavement.
SUN       Read by Nicholas Lyndhurst.
SUN       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnlm2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnlm4 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnlm6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00nnlm8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00nnlmb (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nknyx (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our
SUN       lives but which are little known outside the legal world.
SUN       The dramatic 1670 trial of two Quakers which established
SUN       the principle that judges cannot intimidate juries, no
SUN       matter how furious the bench may be.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00nnlmg (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00nnmsl (Listen)
SUN       Words My Mother Taught Me
SUN       Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish
SUN       family, looks at how ancient wisdom is passed down through
SUN       families - what we choose to remember, what we carry with
SUN       us from the previous generation and what we create for the
SUN       next.
SUN       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00nnp03 (Listen)
SUN       Autumn Crickets
SUN       As the days shorten, the classic sound of the summer makes
SUN       an untimely focus for Lionel Kelleway as he heads to
SUN       Dartmoor to get close to the rhythmical autumnal chirping
SUN       of grasshoppers and crickets.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00nnp05 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00nnp07 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00nnp09 (Listen)
SUN       Jane Little 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 b00nnp0c (Listen)
SUN       Bhopal Medical Appeal
SUN       Jon Snow appeals on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal.
SUN       Donations to Bhopal Medical Appeal should be sent to
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SUN       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online
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SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00nnp0f (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00nnp0h (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00nnp0k (Listen)
SUN       On Remembrance Sunday, a programme specially recorded at
SUN       Camp Bastion, the main base for British forces in
SUN       Afghanistan.
SUN       Presented by army chaplain Rev Andrew Martlew.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00nlyvm (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the seductive allure of illegal
SUN       narcotics, and lays the blame for their attractions at the
SUN       door of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his trip to Xanadu.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 News and Papers b00nnp0m (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       09:15 The Archers Omnibus b00nnp0p (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph b00nnpgj (Listen)
SUN       In the year when the UK bade farewell to its last First
SUN       World War veteran Harry Patch and marked the 70th
SUN       anniversary of the beginning of Second World War, Nicholas
SUN       Witchell sets the scene in Whitehall as the nation
SUN       remembers the sacrifices made by so many in two World Wars
SUN       and more recent conflicts.
SUN       The traditional music of remembrance is played by the
SUN       massed bands and, after the Last Post and two minutes'
SUN       silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath on
SUN       behalf of the nation and Commonwealth.
SUN       The Bishop of London leads a short Service of Remembrance.
SUN       During the March Past, veterans and those serving in the
SUN       armed forces today share their thoughts.
SUN       
SUN       11:45 Poppies Are Red, Cornflowers Are Blue b00nnqpg (Listen)
SUN       Mark Whitaker tells the stories behind the British and
SUN       French flowers of remembrance, the poppy and the
SUN       cornflower, recorded on location in Ypres, Verdun, London
SUN       and Paris.
SUN       The adoption of the poppy in Britain is a particularly
SUN       intriguing story, and one which has rarely been told in
SUN       full. Through these contrasting symbols, and assisted by
SUN       historians of the Great War, Whitaker gives an insight
SUN       into the two countries' different approaches to
SUN       remembrance.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00nk0g7 (Listen)
SUN       Series 4, Episode 5
SUN       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
SUN       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
SUN       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
SUN       With Clive Anderson, Dom Joly, Fi Glover and Henning Wehn.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00nnqpj (Listen)
SUN       The National Honey Show
SUN       There was a lot going on in Weybridge as Sheila Dillon
SUN       joined beekeepers, enthusiasts and scientists from all
SUN       over the world at the 78th National Honey Show.
SUN       We hear the latest on the well-publicised problem of
SUN       honeybee colony collapse disorder, meet a beekeeper who
SUN       first attended the show in 1936 at the old Crystal Palace,
SUN       and get inside an observation hive with Reigate
SUN       Beekeepers' Association.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00nnrcj (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00nnrcl (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Brian Hanrahan.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Selling Cheese to the Chinese b00lyvz5 (Listen)
SUN       Mukul Devichand travels to Shanghai to tell the story of
SUN       the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's expanding
SUN       middle class that it is worth ditching their noodles and
SUN       soya, and paying for pricey European fine foods instead.
SUN       He explores a world of classes in western table manners,
SUN       Single Malt Karaoke and Shanghai jazz DJs who broadcast
SUN       shows about brie and camembert. Beneath the colourful
SUN       marketing, Mukul discovers that the story of food helps to
SUN       reveal who the new Chinese middle classes really are.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nlxzr (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and John Cushnie are
SUN       guests of Linkinhorne Horticultural Society in Cornwall.
SUN       Chris meets the man collecting over 200 varieties of
SUN       Cornish apples, cherries and pears, and Anne celebrates
SUN       the office plant, revealing the Office Plant of the Year.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Two-Minute Silence b00nnrcn (Listen)
SUN       2009 sees the 90th anniversary of the Remembrance Day
SUN       two-minute silence, which was first observed on what was
SUN       then called Armistice Day on the orders of King George V,
SUN       as a tribute to those who had died during the First World
SUN       War.
SUN       Clare Jenkins hears from five people with their own, very
SUN       personal, reasons for observing the silence.
SUN       A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00nnrcq (Listen)
SUN       Bel Ami, Episode 2
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's first wife and mistress are in the church to see
SUN       him marry again, but will their knowledge of his past
SUN       threaten his glittering future?
SUN       Duroy ...... Jonathan Slinger
SUN       Marelle ...... Emma Fielding
SUN       Madeleine ...... Mali Harries
SUN       Msr Walter ...... Steffan Rhodri
SUN       Rachel ...... Sara McGaughey
SUN       Suzanne ...... Catrin Morgan
SUN       Mme Walter ...... Nickie Rainsford
SUN       The Bishop ...... Richard Nichols
SUN       Directed by Polly Thomas.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00nnrcs (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup announces the hotly-anticipated result
SUN       of Neglected Classics, Open Book's quest for literature's
SUN       most unfairly overlooked masterpiece - and the winner
SUN       joins her to celebrate victory. John Mullan and Jenny
SUN       Hartley also survey the hundreds of other books mentioned
SUN       by listeners in response to the vote.
SUN       Plus, Mariella talks to the Australian novelist David
SUN       Malouf, whose novel Ransom is based on an incident from
SUN       the Trojan War. He explains how a story he first heard
SUN       aged nine in wartime Canberra made a lifelong impression
SUN       on him, and why he thinks Australia's greatest writer is
SUN       Shakespeare.
SUN       And the gothic fiction expert Robert Mighall discusses the
SUN       Terrific Register, a collection of exciting, odd and
SUN       sometimes gory stories which was the favourite reading
SUN       material of the young Charles Dickens.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nnsrk (Listen)
SUN       Series 10, Adlestrop
SUN       Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting
SUN       appeal of some well-loved poems.
SUN       Written in 1915 about a two-minute stop at a railway
SUN       station in the Cotswolds, this poem has long been loved
SUN       for its evocation of high summer, rural England and the
SUN       intimation of changes to come.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nnv4c (Listen)
SUN       8th November 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       The Politburo resigns in East Germany - could the Berlin
SUN       Wall fall next? The ambulance workers' dispute escalates
SUN       as the government calls in the army to answer emergency
SUN       calls; Santa Claus battles high street gloom with a mere
SUN       39 shopping days until Christmas.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00nk55r (Listen)
SUN       The head of the Financial Services Authority, Lord Turner,
SUN       has questioned the social usefulness of what banks do. But
SUN       as he and other regulators wrestle with ways of
SUN       controlling so-called 'casino operations', Michael
SUN       Robinson lifts the lid on the latest tricks of the trade
SUN       which some banks are now using to increase profits.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00nmz90 (Listen)
SUN       Series 7, The Man In The Suit
SUN       Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz creates a fictional response
SUN       to the week's news, prompted by Radovan Karadzic's first
SUN       appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
SUN       former Yugoslavia.
SUN       As Karadzic insisted that he needed more time to prepare
SUN       his defence and claimed that his fundamental rights had
SUN       been violated, there were many with other thoughts on
SUN       their mind.
SUN       With Nigel Anthony, Annette Crosbie, Adam Kotz and Zoe
SUN       Waites.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nnvqp (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00nnvqr (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nnvqt (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00nnvqw (Listen)
SUN       Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Book of the Week: The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham -
SUN       Radio 4
SUN       The Essay: A Five Day Journey - Radio 3
SUN       Archive on 4: This Is The Army Mr Jones - Radio 4
SUN       Behind Enemy Lines - Radio 2
SUN       The Singer Behind The Glasses - Radio 2
SUN       The Bell Boys - Radio 4
SUN       M1 Modernist Marvel - Radio 4
SUN       Victoria Derbyshire - 5 Live
SUN       Where Do You Want Me? - Radio 4
SUN       The Tony Kay Scandal - Radio 4
SUN       The Day The Wall Fell - Radio 2
SUN       The World Tonight - Radio 4
SUN       Night Witches - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00nnvqy (Listen)
SUN       Susan's loyalties are put to the test.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00nnvr0 (Listen)
SUN       Americana heads west to sun-soaked Los Angeles. Guest host
SUN       David Willis is joined by satirist, comedian and
SUN       commentator Harry Shearer to examine the week's top news
SUN       through lively discussion, and maybe even a song.
SUN       David takes flight with Amelia Earhart, but this Earhart
SUN       has no record of crashing - she sticks to reporting the
SUN       traffic over the packed streets of Los Angeles. David
SUN       rides in the news helicopter with this distant relative of
SUN       the first lady in flight.
SUN       It's a thin line between loving the entertainment world
SUN       and causing trouble. David Willis tags along with the LA's
SUN       paparazzi to learn more about the industry and to discuss
SUN       how much is too much love of the stars - even for
SUN       Hollywood.
SUN       American country music singer Toby Keith visits Americana
SUN       with songs that embody the spirit of the USA. Keith's
SUN       music tackles topics from beer, to trucks, to romance, and
SUN       discusses how politics, too, can become intertwined.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0090mt8 (Listen)
SUN       Stories from the Bath Literature Festival, Big Boys Don't
SUN       Fly
SUN       4/5. Big Boys Don't Fly, by Paul Dodgson.
SUN       This is the story of a man who is stuck on the ground. He
SUN       used to be able to fly, but he has forgotten about that
SUN       now.
SUN       Read by Michael Maloney.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00nlx8j (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00nlxzt (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 b00nmz87 (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       Bailed out and up for sale, will the break up of RBS and
SUN       Lloyds benefit customers?
SUN       The FSA claims to put bank customers in the driving seat,
SUN       so we provide a road test.
SUN       The future looks uncertain for Child Trust Funds.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nnp0c (Listen)
SUN       Bhopal Medical Appeal
SUN       Jon Snow appeals on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal.
SUN       Donations to Bhopal Medical Appeal should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Bhopal Medical Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone
SUN       0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
SUN       Bhopal Medical Appeal with your full name and address so
SUN       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online
SUN       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
SUN       to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1117526.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00nk0gc (Listen)
SUN       The Economist's New Clothes
SUN       Many have said that the near collapse of the global
SUN       financial system exposed the failures of 30 years of
SUN       economic thinking. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics
SUN       editor, examines the arguments raging within and outside
SUN       the world of economics and asks what future students
SUN       should learn from the 'great recession'.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00nnvr2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00nnvr4 (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 b00nnvy0 (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 7th November 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago,
SUN       with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       President Bush agrees to meet Chairman Gorbachev on his
SUN       boat in the Mediterranean, protests in East Germany force
SUN       the resignation of the Mayor of Leipzig, and ex-Chancellor
SUN       Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for Margaret
SUN       Thatcher by spilling the beans on TV.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00nnmsl (Listen)
SUN       Words My Mother Taught Me
SUN       Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish
SUN       family, looks at how ancient wisdom is passed down through
SUN       families - what we choose to remember, what we carry with
SUN       us from the previous generation and what we create for the
SUN       next.
SUN       A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00nnw82 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nkb0b (Listen)
MON       In a series of special programmes in association with the
MON       Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of
MON       white collar crime, from its late addition to the statute
MON       books to the increasing difficulty in securing a
MON       conviction. He speaks to the key academic experts in the
MON       field, explores the latest sociological research and hears
MON       from professionals on both sides of the law about the
MON       culture, the practice and most often the non-prosecution
MON       of white collar crime.
MON       In this edition, Laurie considers the culture of the
MON       crime. What exactly is white collar crime, who commits it
MON       and why?
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00nnlmb (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnwb7 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnwhk (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnwbp (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00nnww8 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nnwz7 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00np17n (Listen)
MON       Farmers and landowners are lining up to offer their land
MON       for wind turbines; each turbine can earn the landowner
MON       around 20,000 pounds a year - but only if planning
MON       permission is granted. Charlotte Smith kicks off the
MON       programme's in-depth coverage on wind power by speaking to
MON       a company which advises farmers how to get the best deals
MON       out of wind turbines.
MON       Also, it may have been a poor summer for sunbathers but
MON       the English cider apple crop has done very well, as
MON       Charlotte finds out.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00npjng (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00np1y9 (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00npjnj (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. He
MON       talks to writer Tony Marchant about crime, law and
MON       Georgian London, Hans Ulrich Obrist about the art of the
MON       curator, Shlomo Sand about his controversial unravelling
MON       of Jewish history, and Sue Brown about Keats's deathbed
MON       companion, Joseph Severn.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00np1yc (Listen)
MON       The Magnetic North, The Arctic Defined
MON       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
MON       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
MON       Wheeler considers what the Arctic means to the rest of the
MON       world and begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes
MON       of Asian Russia, nine time zones from Moscow.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00npdj7 (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Can you beat the recession by entering competitions?
MON       Probably not, but some people, known as 'compers', give it
MON       a good try, entering up to 50 competitions a day. Jane
MON       hears from members of the Kompers Korner club in the West
MON       Midlands and Jenny Keefe, an analyst from the website
MON       moneysavingexpert.com.
MON       50,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the UK,
MON       one of the highest rates in Europe - and the figure is
MON       still rising. So what causes premature births? Coronation
MON       Street actress Kym Marsh gave birth to a baby boy at just
MON       21 weeks, who died after a few moments of life. She joins
MON       Jane to talk about her experiences, and Jane is also
MON       joined by two premature baby experts to talk about who is
MON       most at risk of giving birth prematurely and the latest
MON       research.
MON       The city of Durham is set to be enthralled in a festival
MON       of light and music as The Lumiere festival fills the city.
MON       Jane is joined by the directors Helen Marriage and Nicky
MON       Webb to talk about the festival and their previous
MON       projects, including the Sultan's Elephant, which brought
MON       London to a standstill in 2006, and La Machine, the spider
MON       that crawled across buildings in Liverpool in 2008. They
MON       discuss taking art to the people and the significance of
MON       audience participation in their work.
MON       A new report shows that parents who combine a warm and
MON       responsive approach to child rearing with clear and
MON       consistent boundaries, especially in the early years, are
MON       more likely to give them the skills they need for success
MON       and wellbeing in later life. So what is the impact on
MON       children whose parents are more laissez faire, hands-off
MON       or authoritarian in their approach? Jane speaks to the
MON       author of the report and the head of a leading parents'
MON       charity, and hears from parents of pre-school children.
MON       
MON       11:00 Calling Time On Student Bars b00npr8d (Listen)
MON       Alcohol sales in student unions have halved in past
MON       decade; some bars have closed, and others have downsized.
MON       Comedian Ed Byrne returns to the city of his student days,
MON       Glasgow, to find out if that notorious institution, the
MON       student union bar, has had its day.
MON       
MON       11:30 Beauty of Britain b00npr8g (Listen)
MON       Beauty and the Beast
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 is looking after the elderly Mr Easterby, who has a
MON       new girlfriend and is behaving like a lovestruck teenager.
MON       She is also trying to get to the Aspire to Dream retreat.
MON       Meanwhile Anil is on a big cat stakeout, as several have
MON       been spotted in the region.
MON       Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
MON       Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
MON       Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
MON       Anil ...... Paul Sharma
MON       Mr Easterby ...... Leslie Phillips
MON       Mrs Mason ...... Liz Fraser
MON       Kevin/Cab Man/Steve ...... Christopher Douglas
MON       Girl on Stretcher ...... Nicola Sanderson
MON       Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00npdly (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00npdnz (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00npdpk (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00npr8j (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the fifth heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00nnvqy (Listen)
MON       Susan's loyalties are put to the test.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nprdf (Listen)
MON       Gilda and Her Daughters
MON       Comedy drama by Carine Adler about a mother and her three
MON       daughters who gather at their family home after the death
MON       of the father. A compelling and comic story about sibling
MON       rivalry, maternal love and lies, and the illusiveness of
MON       'truth'.
MON       Gilda ...... Sian Thomas
MON       Amy ...... Pippa Haywood
MON       Natalie ...... Kathryn Hunt
MON       Clarissa ...... Claire Bleasdale
MON       Therapist/Frank ...... Jonathan Keeble
MON       Trumpet player: Jamie Prophet
MON       Directed by Pauline Harris.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00nmzp7 (Listen)
MON       This is the Army Mr Jones
MON       Actor and entertainer John Barrowman tells the story of
MON       Irving Berlin's groundbreaking army show, This Is The
MON       Army, that came to bomb-ravaged London in 1943 before
MON       setting out on a world tour that raised military morale
MON       from Glasgow to Guam.
MON       The show's choreographer, Robert Sydney, and Irving
MON       Berlin's daughter, Mary Ellin Barrett, recall how the show
MON       was put together and the effect it had in places as far
MON       afield as Washington DC and Tehran, via Bristol,
MON       Birmingham, Glasgow, London and the fiercest area of
MON       fighting in the south of Italy shortly after the British
MON       and American landings there. Also remembering the show are
MON       members of the audience in Birmingham, Glasgow and London,
MON       where a young airman by the name of Denis Norden was
MON       spellbound by the show at The Palladium.
MON       The programme also features archive recordings made
MON       especially for the BBC in the winter of 1943, including a
MON       performance from Berlin himself.
MON       
MON       15:45 Whatever Happened To The Teapots? b00npf9t (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to
MON       Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher
MON       teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the
MON       craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00nnqpj (Listen)
MON       The National Honey Show
MON       There was a lot going on in Weybridge as Sheila Dillon
MON       joined beekeepers, enthusiasts and scientists from all
MON       over the world at the 78th National Honey Show.
MON       We hear the latest on the well-publicised problem of
MON       honeybee colony collapse disorder, meet a beekeeper who
MON       first attended the show in 1936 at the old Crystal Palace,
MON       and get inside an observation hive with Reigate
MON       Beekeepers' Association.
MON       
MON       16:30 Click On b00npwh0 (Listen)
MON       Simon Cox looks at one rural community that isn't willing
MON       to wait on the telecoms industry and is building its own
MON       high-speed broadband network.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00npfr2 (Listen)
MON       9th November 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       East Berlin's party chief declares that all citizens can
MON       leave immediately - the first border crossings take place
MON       at 9.00pm. Reporter Graham Leach joins the first East
MON       Germans crossing through Checkpoint Charlie.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00npfvp (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
MON       Mair. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00npfxh (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00npwh2 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 6
MON       David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are
MON       encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items
MON       of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
MON       With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme
MON       Garden.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00npf65 (Listen)
MON       Matt gets a tough ultimatum.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00npfzc (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review
MON       of Ang Lee's film Taking Woodstock.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00npgh1 (Listen)
MON       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 1
MON       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
MON       novel.
MON       A father and daughter on the Thames at night, and tied to
MON       their boat a lifeless shape bobs in the water.
MON       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
MON       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
MON       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
MON       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
MON       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
MON       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
MON       Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
MON       Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
MON       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
MON       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
MON       Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold
MON       Gaffer Hexam ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
MON       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
MON       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
MON       With Paul Rider and Janice Acquah.
MON       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer.
MON       
MON       20:00 Child of the State b00npwh6 (Listen)
MON       Between the ages of two months and 18 years old, poet Lemn
MON       Sissay was a child of the state. In this programme he
MON       tracks down the staff, social workers and old friends who
MON       remember him from that time, and looks for the lost
MON       memories of his years in social care.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00npwh8 (Listen)
MON       Death to the Deficit!
MON       Frances Cairncross explores the UK's options in the face
MON       of a growing deficit, and asks if the coming cuts in
MON       public service spending might afford us an opportunity
MON       rather than represent an unmitigated disaster.
MON       
MON       21:00 Aping Evolution b00npwhd (Listen)
MON       Episode 2
MON       Professor of Genetics Steve Jones challenges the
MON       controversial science of evolutionary psychology. Can
MON       Stone Age man's behaviour explain modern social problems?
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00npjnj (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. He
MON       talks to writer Tony Marchant about crime, law and
MON       Georgian London, Hans Ulrich Obrist about the art of the
MON       curator, Shlomo Sand about his controversial unravelling
MON       of Jewish history, and Sue Brown about Keats's deathbed
MON       companion, Joseph Severn.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00nphk9 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00npjcp (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00npjdh (Listen)
MON       The Glass Room, Episode 1
MON       Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer.
MON       It is the beginning of the 1930s and Victor and Liesel
MON       Landauer are on honeymoon in Venice. Soon they will return
MON       to newly-formed Czechoslovakia, inspired to build an
MON       extraordinary family home.
MON       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
MON       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 With Great Pleasure b00npwhj (Listen)
MON       Robert Webb
MON       Comedian Robert Webb presents a selection of his favourite
MON       prose and poetry in a special edition recorded at the
MON       University of Bedfordshire. It includes the first piece of
MON       writing to make him laugh out loud and a poem that best
MON       captures his feelings in his newly-acquired role as a
MON       father.
MON       The readers are Abigail Burdess and Jonathan Dryden Taylor.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00npjlx (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Susan Hulme.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00nnw64 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00np1yc (Listen)
TUE       The Magnetic North, The Arctic Defined
TUE       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
TUE       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
TUE       Wheeler considers what the Arctic means to the rest of the
TUE       world and begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes
TUE       of Asian Russia, nine time zones from Moscow.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnw84 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnwh1 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnwb9 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00nnwnh (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nnwwd (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00np0th (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00np17q (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk,
TUE       Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Choice b00nq9ym (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 Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to
TUE       change sex.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Parting Shots b00nq9yp (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
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       Despatches which changed the course of history, including
TUE       Nicholas Henderson's 1979 valedictory lament to a Britain
TUE       'poor and unproud', in economic decline and losing ground
TUE       to her European rivals.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00npdg7 (Listen)
TUE       The Magnetic North, Alaska and Canada
TUE       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
TUE       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
TUE       Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in
TUE       the wide spaces of Alaska and visits a bedrock-mapping
TUE       project on an isolated Canadian island.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnkp (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 1989: A German Story b00nq9yr (Listen)
TUE       The Sad Death of Mack the Knife
TUE       Series in which German programme-makers reflect and report
TUE       on aspects of the country that rarely, if ever, find their
TUE       way into the British media.
TUE       Helmut Kopetzky tells the story of East German actor Wolf
TUE       Kaiser.
TUE       At the Berliner Ensemble theatre, Kaiser played Mack the
TUE       Knife in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera.
TUE       He was perhaps the GDR's biggest star on film and TV; he
TUE       had a fortune and a mantlepiece full of awards and state
TUE       honours, including the GDR's gold Patriotic Order of
TUE       Merit. But in October 1992, Kaiser jumped to his death
TUE       from his Berlin apartment window.
TUE       Helmut Kopetzky, who had a few days earlier conducted a
TUE       long and searching interview with Kaiser, uncovered a
TUE       story of a man raised and feted by the communist regime
TUE       who suddenly found himself utterly out of joint with
TUE       society.
TUE       Now in his late 60s and still a prolific 'author' (as the
TUE       Germans describe producer/presenters), Kopetzky is the
TUE       doyen of German radio feature-makers, the winner of
TUE       several Prix Italia and Prix Europa and Premios Ondas top
TUE       international awards for documentary.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Britain's Other Music Hall: The Story of the
TUE       Blackface Minst b00nq9yt (Listen)
TUE       Musician Tony Etoria explores the strange world of
TUE       blackface minstrelsy, the Victorian forebear of the Black
TUE       and White Minstrel show, and its continuing impact on
TUE       popular music, dance, comedy and racial stereotypes.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00npdkn (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00npdm0 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00npdp1 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 A Cymbal Tale b00n87sj (Listen)
TUE       Writer, comedian and rock drummer Andrew McGibbon, aka
TUE       Andrew Paresi, tells the story of a 175-year-old cymbal
TUE       and explores the history of the instrument.
TUE       He traces the earliest cymbals from ancient Assyria and
TUE       China, their development by Avedis Zildjian in Turkish
TUE       military bands, to their arrival in Europe in the 1670s
TUE       and their unlimited deployment by modern orchestral
TUE       composers and jazz musicians. Andrew also discovers why
TUE       cymbals became so popular in the 1960s and today form part
TUE       of every rock drummer's kit.
TUE       Featuring contributions from British Museum
TUE       archeomusicologist Richard Dumbrill, Heather Corbett,
TUE       chief percussionist with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
TUE       and John Keeble from Spandau Ballet.
TUE       The show also includes interviews with manufacturers and
TUE       metallurgists who help to unravel the intriguing delights
TUE       of this evocative, iconic idiophone.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00npf65 (Listen)
TUE       Matt gets a tough ultimatum.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nq9yw (Listen)
TUE       Albert's Boy
TUE       By James Graham. How can Albert Einstein find a unified
TUE       theory of everything when he can't even match his socks? A
TUE       funny, touching look at the eccentric genius' last years
TUE       and the personal grief that prevented him from making one
TUE       great final breakthrough.
TUE       Albert Einstein ...... Victor Spinetti
TUE       Peter ...... Richard Laing
TUE       Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00nqb7m (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring
TUE       ordinary people's links with the past.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl3 (Listen)
TUE       The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 1
TUE       Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of
TUE       Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line
TUE       during the First World War.
TUE       It is 1915 and Edie is based at Casualty Clearing Station
TUE       Number 3 near Ypres, where she witnesses first-hand the
TUE       horrors of war. In these dark days, small pleasures mean
TUE       everything and the rare chance to have a bath is most
TUE       welcome.
TUE       Read by Rachel Atkins.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Whatever Happened To The Teapots? b00nt9cy (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to
TUE       Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher
TUE       teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the
TUE       craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.
TUE       Roger visits the Barleston Estate to find out if there is
TUE       anything left of Wedgwood apart from its award-winning
TUE       museum.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Law in Action b00nqbth (Listen)
TUE       The programme visits the mental health court pilot in
TUE       Brighton and takes a wider look at Mental Health Treatment
TUE       orders and the problems faced by defendants with mental
TUE       health problems in the criminal justice system.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00nqbtk (Listen)
TUE       Sue MacGregor talks to Michael Mansfield QC and blogger
TUE       Molly Flatt about their favourite books.
TUE       Michael selects a heart-wrending tale of Parisians fleeing
TUE       occupied France, and discusses latter-day occupation and
TUE       human nature. Molly chooses a book set in the vineyards of
TUE       France which explores the relationship between a man and
TUE       angels. Sue opts for a tale of a 12-year-old girl living
TUE       in small-town America.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00npfmd (Listen)
TUE       10th November 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Hundreds of thousands of East Germans arrive in West
TUE       Berlin amid scenes of shock and joy. East Germany will
TUE       hold free, democratic and universal elections, but will it
TUE       be enough to keep its citizens? Moscow and Washington join
TUE       in welcoming the reforms.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00npfr4 (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00npfvr (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nqc54 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       She came, she saw, she criticised: stand-up comedian Jo
TUE       Caulfield holds forth with a glorious mixture of bitchy
TUE       friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism.
TUE       In this episode, Jo fails to shut up about relationships,
TUE       love and Tony Benn.
TUE       With Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell, Simon Greenall.
TUE       Written by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson, with
TUE       additional material by Michael Beck, James Branch, Dan
TUE       Evans, Jules Gregg, Nick Revell and Matt Ross
TUE       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00npf5x (Listen)
TUE       Susan calls in the experts.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00npfxk (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
TUE       interview with Vladmiri Jurowski about Schnittke.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00npggq (Listen)
TUE       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 2
TUE       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
TUE       novel.
TUE       How old John Harmon made his money out of rubbish, and the
TUE       will he left to spite his son.
TUE       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
TUE       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
TUE       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
TUE       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
TUE       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
TUE       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
TUE       Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
TUE       Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
TUE       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
TUE       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
TUE       Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold
TUE       Gaffer Hexam ...... Malcolm Tierney
TUE       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
TUE       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
TUE       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
TUE       With Paul Rider and Janice Acquah.
TUE       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00nqcy5 (Listen)
TUE       Some of Britain's police forces are warning of a funding
TUE       crisis, with staff cuts, stations closing and parts of the
TUE       motorway network left unpatrolled. Allan Urry investigates
TUE       the effects on the frontline and asks if the police could
TUE       still do more to deliver better value from the money they
TUE       get.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00nqcy7 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00nqcy9 (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 b00nq9ym (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 Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to
TUE       change sex.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00nph36 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00nphtp (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00npjcr (Listen)
TUE       The Glass Room, Episode 2
TUE       Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer.
TUE       Viktor has commissioned modernist architect Rainer von Abt
TUE       to design his family home. Meanwhile, Liesel's best friend
TUE       Hana has lost none of her talent to shock.
TUE       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 As Told to Craig Brown b00bbnxt (Listen)
TUE       Episode 5
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 b00npjld (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00nnw66 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00npdg7 (Listen)
WED       The Magnetic North, Alaska and Canada
WED       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
WED       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
WED       Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in
WED       the wide spaces of Alaska and visits a bedrock-mapping
WED       project on an isolated Canadian island.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnw86 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnwh3 (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnwbc (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00nnwnk (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nnwwl (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00np0tk (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00np17s (Listen)
WED       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the
WED       Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00nqcyz (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Jayne Torvill.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00npdg9 (Listen)
WED       The Magnetic North, Greenland
WED       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
WED       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
WED       Sara is struck by some of the paradoxes of climate change
WED       as she flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnkc (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
WED       
WED       11:00 Armistice Day Silence b00nsl70 (Listen)
WED       The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day.
WED       
WED       11:02 Find Me A New York Jewish Princess b00nqf4s (Listen)
WED       A light-hearted look at the New York Jewish dating scene
WED       through the eyes of presenter Tim Samuels, a London-based
WED       single Jew desperate to find the girl of his dreams.
WED       Tim has always thought he would settle down with a nice
WED       Jewish girl in Britain, but with his single Jewish friends
WED       taking the plunge one after another and no sign of love in
WED       his life, Tim, at 33, takes decisive action. He is heading
WED       for the bright lights of New York City. He wants to find a
WED       Jewish princess with that NY get-up-and-go, someone who
WED       will get British humour - and still have lovely teeth
WED       (think Cheryl David from Curb Your Enthusiasm or comic
WED       Sarah Silverman).
WED       He puts the word out on the NY Jewish singles circuit by
WED       way of an advert announcing that he is coming over for a
WED       week on an intense dating mission. He scrambles around for
WED       something impressive to say in the advert, before setting
WED       off for a week of power-dates. Will he find a New York
WED       girl who isn't averse to rainy weekends and watching
WED       soccer on the box?
WED       
WED       11:30 Hut 33 b00nqhsx (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Unlucky for Some
WED       Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Three
WED       code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as
WED       they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate
WED       each other.
WED       Gordon is convinced that Hut 33's recent run of luck is
WED       thanks to his lucky mascot, Mr Pickles. But Archie is
WED       determined to prove that it's all down to natural
WED       intelligence and decides to put an end to Gordon's
WED       childish superstitions. At which point their luck promptly
WED       runs out; none of the codes make even the slightest sense.
WED       They are forced to move into Hut 13 - although a mystery
WED       surrounds the whereabouts of the former inhabitants.
WED       Perhaps the rumours about the Devil's Equation are true
WED       after all.
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 b00npdkq (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00npdm2 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00npdp3 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00nqhsz (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00npf5x (Listen)
WED       Susan calls in the experts.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nqht1 (Listen)
WED       28
WED       By Dawn King. Nathan, a schoolteacher tainted by
WED       connection with a terrorist, is detained for 28 days and
WED       then released without charge. In the 28 days following his
WED       release he tries to recover his former life with his
WED       family, his girlfriend, his job and his social life.
WED       Nathan ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
WED       Juliet ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
WED       Maggie ...... Gillian Wright
WED       Tom ...... Rhys Jennings
WED       Miss Warren ...... Tessa Nicholson
WED       David ...... Philip Fox
WED       Libby ...... Kate Layden
WED       Police Officers ...... Piers Wehner and David Hargreaves
WED       Lucie ...... Jade Beaty
WED       Tiru ...... Matthew Hall
WED       Brona ...... Stefanie Walker
WED       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00nqht3 (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on
WED       wills and estate planning.
WED       Guests:
WED       Alan Barr, partner, Brodies and director of Legal Practice
WED       at University of Edinburgh
WED       Ian Johnson, tax partner, Grant Thornton
WED       Nicola Plant, partner, Thomas Eggar.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl5 (Listen)
WED       The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 2
WED       Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of
WED       Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line
WED       during the First World War.
WED       It is 1915 and Edie has been moved to a hospital in
WED       Etretat on the Normandy coast, where she must supervise
WED       members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment. These are
WED       well-meaning but relatively untrained girls and, at times,
WED       Edie finds their presence somewhat trying.
WED       Read by Rachel Atkins
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 Whatever Happened To The Teapots? b00nt9c3 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to
WED       Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher
WED       teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the
WED       craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.
WED       Roger finds out who is winning in the battle for ceramic
WED       supremacy, Stoke or China. The Far East may have notched
WED       up a high score but Stoke-on-Trent have some key players
WED       in reserve.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00nqht5 (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 explores the culture of corporate
WED       crime and how regulatory bodies serve to keep the police
WED       at arm's length. In the UK, people are twice as likely to
WED       suffer a serious injury at work than to be a victim of
WED       violent crime, yet only a fraction of safety crimes are
WED       actually prosecuted.
WED       Globally, more people are killed at work each year than
WED       are killed in war. Why has corporate crime had a low
WED       priority, why has it been so hard to prosecute
WED       corporations and will the new crimes of corporate
WED       manslaughter and corporate murder make firms more
WED       responsible for the crimes they commit?
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00nqcy9 (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 b00npfmg (Listen)
WED       11th November 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       Bulldozers tear down sections of the Berlin Wall to make
WED       more crossing points; 129 are injured in a riot between
WED       police and protestors in Moldavia and Moscow sends in the
WED       troops to enforce calm; reformist foreign secretary Petur
WED       Mladenov is sworn in as the new leader of Bulgaria.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00npfr6 (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
WED       Mair. Plus Weather.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00npfvt (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Nick Mohammed: Apollo 21 b00nqht7 (Listen)
WED       Mockumentary by Nick Mohammed, recorded at Bedford
WED       University.
WED       Forty years after man first landed on the moon, the
WED       surviving astronauts tell us what it was like to be part
WED       of the moon mission.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00npf5z (Listen)
WED       It's a long way home for Lilian.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00npfxm (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
WED       on the opening of the new arts venue, Nottingham
WED       Contemporary.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00npggs (Listen)
WED       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 3
WED       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
WED       novel.
WED       With young John Harmon presumed drowned, the Boffins have
WED       inherited old Harmon's fortune.
WED       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
WED       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
WED       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
WED       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
WED       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
WED       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
WED       Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
WED       Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
WED       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
WED       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
WED       Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold
WED       Gaffer Hexam ...... Malcolm Tierney
WED       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
WED       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
WED       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
WED       With Paul Rider and Janice Acquah.
WED       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00nqj80 (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Melanie
WED       Phillips and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nqj82 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our
WED       lives but which are little known outside the legal world.
WED       The curious saga of the Carbolic Smoke Ball, a bizarre
WED       Victorian quack medicine. The case established important
WED       principles about truth in advertising and the relationship
WED       between companies and their customers.
WED       
WED       21:00 Supersize Surgeries b00j3xd3 (Listen)
WED       Penny Marshall asks if new super-sized polyclinics will
WED       mean the end of the family GP at the core of the NHS.
WED       She hears from a GP in Hereford who is worried that a new
WED       polyclinic will destroy his own highly-regarded practice
WED       and doctors in London who cannot wait for their own
WED       on-site x-rays and blood tests, saving time for both them
WED       and their patients.
WED       Penny hears the aims behind the overhaul of primary care,
WED       pioneered by acclaimed surgeon Lord Darzi, who has now
WED       become a target of criticism by politicians and doctors
WED       alike.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00nqcyz (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Jayne Torvill.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00nph38 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00nphtr (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00npjct (Listen)
WED       The Glass Room, Episode 3
WED       Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer.
WED       The Glass Room in the Landauers' new house is nearly
WED       complete, but Liesel and Viktor's relationship is growing
WED       strained.
WED       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 One b00nqj84 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 6
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 b00nqj86 (Listen)
WED       Wake Up
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 Wake Up.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00npjlg (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Sean Curran.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00nnw68 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00npdg9 (Listen)
THU       The Magnetic North, Greenland
THU       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
THU       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
THU       Sara is struck by some of the paradoxes of climate change
THU       as she flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnw88 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnwh5 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnwbf (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00nnwnm (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nnwws (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00np0tm (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00np17v (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00nqljy (Listen)
THU       The Discovery of Radiation
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the
THU       discovery of radiation.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00npdgc (Listen)
THU       The Magnetic North, Svalbard and the North East Passage
THU       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
THU       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
THU       Sara remembers some of the explorers who have sought the
THU       North Pole - by boat, on foot and even by hot air balloon.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnkf (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00nqmf2 (Listen)
THU       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
THU       stories behind the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 Brel et Moi: Alastair Campbell on Jacques Brel
THU       b00d7nrz (Listen)
THU       Alastair Campbell, former director of communications for
THU       Tony Blair, reveals his little-known but lifelong passion
THU       for the music of Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel.
THU       Campbell happened across Brel's music during the time he
THU       spent hitchhiking across France as a student in the late
THU       1970s, and has been hooked ever since. Now, over 30 years
THU       after Brel's death, Campbell travels to Paris to delve
THU       into the secrets of the singer's life and music. Though he
THU       is revered in France, Brel is still little known in
THU       Britain. With songs like Ne Me Quitte Pas he was willing
THU       to explore much deeper, darker emotions than most pop
THU       music. On stage, he was hugely popular for his intense,
THU       ferocious live performances. But behind his public image,
THU       he led a complicated personal life.
THU       Campbell meets Brel's friends and family to find out more
THU       about the personality that produced his powerful,
THU       emotional music. The programme includes contributions from
THU       Brel's co-writer Jean Corti, journalist and author Olivier
THU       Todd and another Brel fanatic, comedian Mel Smith.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00npdks (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00npdm4 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00npdp5 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00ny8gr (Listen)
THU       I'm H.A.P.P.Y.
THU       From absolute euphoria to a state of contentment, positive
THU       psychologist Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil Hammond and writer
THU       Lucy Mangan describe what makes them H.A.P.P.Y.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00npf5z (Listen)
THU       It's a long way home for Lilian.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nrrd1 (Listen)
THU       The Railway Siding
THU       By Jonathan Holloway. When struggling architect Jack is
THU       forced to take the overnight train from Haverfordwest to
THU       Paddington, he encounters a garrulous guard and a spookily
THU       familiar young woman. All is not quite what it seems.
THU       Jack ...... Sam Dale
THU       Train Guard ...... Ewan Hooper
THU       Hope ...... Lydia Leonard
THU       Stationmaster/Tom ...... Mark Lewis
THU       Directed by David Hunter.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00nmz7n (Listen)
THU       Owenstown
THU       The philanthropist Robert Owen brought about sweeping
THU       social reforms in his model village of New Lanark. Workers
THU       in the mill town were given improved housing and working
THU       conditions while the children were taken out of the mills
THU       and schooled instead. But his vision for a self-sufficient
THU       community was never fully realised in his lifetime.
THU       Matt Baker explores new plans for Owenstown, a new town of
THU       20,000 planned just a few miles from New Lanark. The
THU       co-operative society will be encouraged to foster a sense
THU       of community and the town will be carbon neutral,
THU       generating its own power from wind and waste. Matt also
THU       visits the nearby village of Rigside; once riding high on
THU       the jobs and prosperity of the coal pit, it is now facing
THU       severe decline and hopes that some of the excitement and
THU       prosperity from Owenstown will benefit their area.
THU       However, the site chosen for the new town has no natural
THU       resource to provide jobs, unlike Rigside's mine and New
THU       Lanark's river to power the mills. Matt asks how the
THU       planners envision starting their town from scratch.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nnp0c (Listen)
THU       Bhopal Medical Appeal
THU       Jon Snow appeals on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal.
THU       Donations to Bhopal Medical Appeal should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope Bhopal Medical Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone
THU       0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
THU       Bhopal Medical Appeal with your full name and address so
THU       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online
THU       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
THU       to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 1117526.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl7 (Listen)
THU       The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 3
THU       Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of
THU       Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line
THU       during the First World War.
THU       It is 1918 and Edie is based at a grand hotel which has
THU       been turned into a military hospital, on the cliffs above
THU       Treport. Anticipation is growing that the war could be
THU       coming to an end.
THU       Read by Rachel Atkins
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 Whatever Happened To The Teapots? b00nt9c5 (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to
THU       Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher
THU       teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the
THU       craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.
THU       Designer pottery and the bottom line. Roger talks to
THU       artists about the division in ceramics between art and
THU       industry to find out if the two can ever be reconciled.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00nnrcs (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup announces the hotly-anticipated result
THU       of Neglected Classics, Open Book's quest for literature's
THU       most unfairly overlooked masterpiece - and the winner
THU       joins her to celebrate victory. John Mullan and Jenny
THU       Hartley also survey the hundreds of other books mentioned
THU       by listeners in response to the vote.
THU       Plus, Mariella talks to the Australian novelist David
THU       Malouf, whose novel Ransom is based on an incident from
THU       the Trojan War. He explains how a story he first heard
THU       aged nine in wartime Canberra made a lifelong impression
THU       on him, and why he thinks Australia's greatest writer is
THU       Shakespeare.
THU       And the gothic fiction expert Robert Mighall discusses the
THU       Terrific Register, a collection of exciting, odd and
THU       sometimes gory stories which was the favourite reading
THU       material of the young Charles Dickens.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00nrrd3 (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper presents a special edition from Cardiff
THU       University. Including the latest thoughts on the
THU       ecological impact of the proposed Severn Barrage.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00npfmj (Listen)
THU       12th November 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       The mayors of East and West Berlin shake hands at a new
THU       border crossing at Potsdamerplatz; El Salvador declares a
THU       curfew as fighting between troops and leftist rebels
THU       leaves 78 dead in the capital, San Salvador; pianist
THU       Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to Moscow for the first time in
THU       26 years to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00npfr8 (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 b00npfvw (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nrrd5 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, A Sort of Fine Life De-Niced Completely
THU       Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans.
THU       Pip Bin strives to improve working conditions in his Bin
THU       factory, and to end poverty once and for all using Harry
THU       Biscuit's anti-poverty cannon. But will his quest distract
THU       him from a dastardly plan to steal London and sell it to
THU       the French?
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 b00npf61 (Listen)
THU       Matt and Lilian face a race against time.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00npfxp (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an
THU       interview with singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00npggv (Listen)
THU       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 4
THU       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
THU       novel.
THU       Silas Wegg, a literary man with a wooden leg, finds
THU       employment with the Golden Dustman.
THU       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
THU       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
THU       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
THU       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
THU       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
THU       Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
THU       Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
THU       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
THU       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
THU       Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold
THU       Gaffer Hexam ...... Malcolm Tierney
THU       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
THU       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
THU       With Paul Rider and Janice Acquah.
THU       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00nqbth (Listen)
THU       The programme visits the mental health court pilot in
THU       Brighton and takes a wider look at Mental Health Treatment
THU       orders and the problems faced by defendants with mental
THU       health problems in the criminal justice system.
THU       
THU       20:30 The Bottom Line b00nrrd7 (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 b00nrrd9 (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts follows an archaeological theme, beginning at
THU       a critical stage of human evolution about 1.9 million
THU       years ago. Our ancestors then were unlike any other ape.
THU       Not only were they walking upright, but their mouths and
THU       teeth were smaller and their digestive tracts shorter -
THU       just like modern humans. Harvard anthropologist Richard
THU       Wrangham thinks that was possible because of cooking.
THU       Cooked food is easier to chew and digest, freeing up time
THU       for other activities, and requiring patience, ingenuity
THU       and division of labour around the cooking fire.
THU       Another revolution occurred a mere 10,000 years ago, when
THU       settled agriculture made the first cities possible.
THU       Archaeologists are now exploring the oldest 'Atlantis', a
THU       Mycenaean city submerged beneath the Mediterranean. The
THU       underwater search continues almost to modern times with
THU       the quest to trace the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's
THU       ill-fated 1845 expedition to the frozen waters of the
THU       North West Passage.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00nqljy (Listen)
THU       The Discovery of Radiation
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the
THU       discovery of radiation.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00nph3b (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00nphtt (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00npjcw (Listen)
THU       The Glass Room, Episode 4
THU       Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer.
THU       The Landauer House is the envy of Czech society. Hitler is
THU       beginning his rise to power but Liesel and Viktor are
THU       distracted by new love.
THU       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Pick Ups b00nkxfc (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Carpe Diem
THU       Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi
THU       company.
THU       Lind endures a dinner date in a bid to secure the future
THU       of Irwell Cars, while Mike's pick-up is on a quest for
THU       sexual and personal liberation.
THU       Mike ...... Paul Loughran
THU       Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
THU       Dave ...... Phil Rowson
THU       Alan ...... Parvez Qadir
THU       Simon De Vere ...... James Quinn
THU       Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
THU       Johnny ...... Peter Keeley.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00npjlj (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Robert Orchard.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00nnw6b (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00npdgc (Listen)
FRI       The Magnetic North, Svalbard and the North East Passage
FRI       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
FRI       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
FRI       Sara remembers some of the explorers who have sought the
FRI       North Pole - by boat, on foot and even by hot air balloon.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nnw8b (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nnwh7 (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nnwbh (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00nnwnp (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nnwwz (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Lesley Carroll.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00np0tp (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00np17x (Listen)
FRI       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00nrrhr (Listen)
FRI       Anthony Julius
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the lawyer and writer Anthony
FRI       Julius.
FRI       He was already renowned in legal circles when, in 1996, he
FRI       moved into the public arena, representing Princess Diana
FRI       in her divorce. He became her confidante and, after her
FRI       death, one of the founders of her memorial fund.
FRI       Of the high profile cases he has fought, he says. 'You're
FRI       on a higher wire, stared at by a larger number of people,
FRI       but in the end, the only audience that matters is your own
FRI       client.'.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00npdgf (Listen)
FRI       The Magnetic North, The Gulag
FRI       Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her
FRI       journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.
FRI       Sara journeys to a remote archipelago, visiting the
FRI       ancient holy site which became one of the most feared
FRI       places in 20th-century Russia.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ntnkh (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nrrq6 (Listen)
FRI       Series 5, Tilting at Windmills
FRI       Windfarms, Earth-destroying asteroids and raining fish -
FRI       apocalyptic visions run surprisingly high in the sleepy
FRI       beauty of the Welsh borders, as Alan Dein discovers when
FRI       he visits the village of Knighton on the route of Offa's
FRI       Dyke.
FRI       Situated with one foot in Wales and the other in England,
FRI       Knighton is known for its picture-postcard tranquillity.
FRI       Yet today all is far from calm, as a new windfarm, with
FRI       its giant slowly rotating turbines, is planned for the
FRI       hill on the edge of town. Some people look on this as
FRI       their part in saving the Earth from the threat of climate
FRI       change, others as the destruction of the ancient
FRI       landscape. Meanwhile, on the hill itself stands an
FRI       observatory, the Spaceguard Centre, whose director sees
FRI       its role as drawing attention to the dangers lurking in
FRI       space, and the likelihood of the world's destruction by
FRI       asteroid strike.
FRI       So did a strange shower of fish over the town hint at
FRI       apocalypse? Alan Dein visits the town, reads the omens and
FRI       tries to understand why the sky over Knighton is filled
FRI       with portents.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nrrq8 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 2
FRI       Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock
FRI       star and his search for fulfilment.
FRI       Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt introduces ex-lead
FRI       singer Andy to his new best friend and personal assistant,
FRI       Mr Tumble the elephant.
FRI       Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams
FRI       Dom ...... Russell Tovey
FRI       Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham
FRI       Andy ...... Noddy Holder
FRI       The Lawyer ...... Gus Brown.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00npdkv (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00npdm7 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00npdp7 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Edward Stourton.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00nrs1k (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00npf61 (Listen)
FRI       Matt and Lilian face a race against time.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00nrs1m (Listen)
FRI       Number 10, Be A Good Chap...
FRI       Series of plays by Jonathan Myerson depicting life inside
FRI       Downing Street.
FRI       After a general election, the Tories have won more seats
FRI       but Labour got the biggest vote. Both need help from the
FRI       Lib Dems, which will come at a cost. So who will get to
FRI       form the next government?
FRI       Adam ...... Antony Sher
FRI       Monica ...... Sasha Behar
FRI       Polly ...... Penny Downie
FRI       Bill ...... Bill Paterson
FRI       Steve ...... Stephen Mangan
FRI       Sir Cosmo ......Nicholas Woodeson
FRI       Simon Laity ...... Damian Lewis
FRI       Lewis Smiley MP ...... Nigel Lindsay
FRI       Peter Chadwick ...... Clive Russell
FRI       Palace equerry/TV producer ...... Joseph Kloska
FRI       Assorted reporters ...... Scott Cherry, Theo Fraser Steele
FRI       Directed by Clive Brill
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nrs1p (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are
FRI       guests of Transport for London at the London Transport
FRI       Museum.
FRI       Pippa talks to recent contestants of the Underground in
FRI       Bloom competition about how to get the best out of
FRI       container gardening of the most challenging kind.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Whatever Happened To The Teapots? b00nt9c7 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to
FRI       Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher
FRI       teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the
FRI       craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.
FRI       After a week in Stoke-on-Trent, Roger reads the tea leaves
FRI       to see what the future holds for the city of six towns.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00nrs1r (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 b00nrs1t (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to critic Barry Norman about the
FRI       directorial career of his father, Leslie Norman.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00npfml (Listen)
FRI       13th November 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       The East German Politburo elects Hans Modrow as prime
FRI       minister; he will oversee universal, democratic elections.
FRI       President Mitterand calls an urgent EU summit to forge
FRI       consent on the future of Europe. The leading Bulgarian
FRI       opposition party, Ecoglasnost, is formally recognised.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00npfrb (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Edward
FRI       Stourton. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00npfvy (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00nrs1w (Listen)
FRI       Series 69, Episode 8
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, recorded at
FRI       Cardiff University. The panellists include Jeremy Hardy,
FRI       Holly Walsh and Andy Parsons.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00npf63 (Listen)
FRI       Leon shows off his attributes.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00npfxr (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report
FRI       on comic books and a new poem about light sculptures in
FRI       Durham from Katrina Porteous.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00npggx (Listen)
FRI       Our Mutual Friend, Episode 5
FRI       Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic
FRI       novel.
FRI       There is a rumour on the river that Gaffer Hexam might
FRI       have had a hand in John Harmon's death.
FRI       Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
FRI       Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
FRI       Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
FRI       John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
FRI       Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
FRI       Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
FRI       Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
FRI       Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
FRI       Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
FRI       Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler
FRI       Charlie Hexam ...... Adam Arnold
FRI       Gaffer Hexam ...... Malcolm Tierney
FRI       Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross
FRI       Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman
FRI       With Paul Rider and Janice Acquah.
FRI       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer.
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FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00nrs1y (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cardiff
FRI       University. The panel includes Zac Goldsmith, Conservative
FRI       parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park; Chuka Umunna,
FRI       Labour parliamentary candidate for Streatham; and Daily
FRI       Telegraph columnist Bryony Gordon.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00nrs20 (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00nxc15 (Listen)
FRI       A Night with Johnny Stompanato
FRI       Jonathan Holloway's hard-boiled Hollywood drama is based
FRI       on a true story.
FRI       One night in 1958, police were called to the home of
FRI       'sweater girl' Lana Turner. The actress' current boyfriend
FRI       Johnny Stampanato lay in a pool of blood, stabbed to death
FRI       by Lana's daughter Cheryl. At the subsequent inquest,
FRI       Turner gave the performance of her life.
FRI       Lana Turner ...... Laurence Bouvard
FRI       Johnny Stampanato ...... John Guerrasio
FRI       Cheryl ...... Georgie Moffett
FRI       Del ...... Demetri Goritsas
FRI       McGinley ...... John Chancer
FRI       Geisler ...... Paul Mohan
FRI       Langhauser ...... John Telfer
FRI       Bill Brooks ...... Oliver Millingham
FRI       Annie ...... Kim Baker
FRI       Directed by Sara Davies.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00nph3d (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00nphtw (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00npjcy (Listen)
FRI       The Glass Room, Episode 5
FRI       Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer.
FRI       Refugees from Nazi-controlled Austria are flooding into
FRI       Czechoslovakia. One of these refugees arrives at the
FRI       Landauer House, with profound consequences for Viktor and
FRI       Liesel.
FRI       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
FRI       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00nqbtk (Listen)
FRI       Sue MacGregor talks to Michael Mansfield QC and blogger
FRI       Molly Flatt about their favourite books.
FRI       Michael selects a heart-wrending tale of Parisians fleeing
FRI       occupied France, and discusses latter-day occupation and
FRI       human nature. Molly chooses a book set in the vineyards of
FRI       France which explores the relationship between a man and
FRI       angels. Sue opts for a tale of a 12-year-old girl living
FRI       in small-town America.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00npjll (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
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