Radio 4 Listings for 12/12/2009 - 18/12/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00p6w7k (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 b00p5ysz (Listen)
SAT       The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Episode 5
SAT       Kenneth Cranham reads from Andrew McConnell Stott's
SAT       account of the life of one of the world's most famous
SAT       clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who became a superstar of
SAT       Georgian pantomime.
SAT       His body crippled by the years of on-stage clowning,
SAT       Grimaldi is forced finally to pass the baton to his son,
SAT       JS. But the young pretender finds the constant comparisons
SAT       with his famous father hard to bear, and seeks solace in
SAT       the hard-drinking, hard-living circle of the great actor
SAT       Edmund Kean. Meanwhile, his father is determined to fill
SAT       the family's pockets with a final farewell performance;
SAT       so, on 28th June 1828, barely able to stand on his
SAT       crippled legs, Grimaldi staggers on to the stage of a
SAT       packed Drury Lane Theatre.
SAT       Abridged by Viv Beeby.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p6w7m (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p6w7p (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p6w7r (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00p6w7t (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p6w7w (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Running Away b00fdf7k (Listen)
SAT       Nitin Sawhney
SAT       Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the
SAT       demands of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for
SAT       a few hours.
SAT       Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney escapes the dark
SAT       confines of his studio to the hustle and bustle of the
SAT       Science Museum and one of his favourite pastimes - the
SAT       search for connections between Hindu philosophy and
SAT       quantum physics.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00p6w7y (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00p6w80 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00nrvrh (Listen)
SAT       Ripples of the Ballinderry River
SAT       Helen Mark visits Northern Ireland to find out about an
SAT       exciting new community project taking place along the
SAT       banks of the Ballinderry River. Along the way Helen meets
SAT       people who have grown up with the Ballinderry and who are
SAT       taking part in a very special project, protecting the
SAT       environment and the wildlife around it and reconnecting
SAT       people with the river.
SAT       Helen begins by going on a hunt for the endangered
SAT       white-clawed crayfish, once a common sight in rivers and
SAT       lakes and now on an ever-increasing list of globally
SAT       threatened species. She also meets local people involved
SAT       with RIPPLE, a project designed to encourage people to get
SAT       more involved in planning the future of their river, and
SAT       takes to the water with canoeing enthusiasts.
SAT       Further along the river, Helen meets local sound artist
SAT       Paul Moore to hears the river sing, before finishing her
SAT       journey on the shores of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in
SAT       the British Isles and the winter home for a huge number
SAT       and variety of birds. But are there as still as many
SAT       arriving as the 90,000 that wintered here in the late
SAT       1980s?
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00p7g80 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       PGIs, PDOs, TSGs might not mean much to most people, but
SAT       they do matter to some food producers who spend years
SAT       striving to achieve protected food name status. This means
SAT       Melton Mowbray pork pies, Cumberland sausages and Stilton
SAT       cheese among others can only be made to certain
SAT       specifications - both culinary and geographical.
SAT       Charlotte Smith meets some of the farmers and producers
SAT       who've fought hard to gain this status, and asks Secretary
SAT       of State, Hilary Benn, why it matters so much.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00p7g82 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00p7g84 (Listen)
SAT       With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
SAT       Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00p7g86 (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them.
SAT       Fi Glover is joined by the grand dame of Fleet Street and
SAT       author of An Education, Lynn Barber.
SAT       With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00p7g88 (Listen)
SAT       Sandi Toksvig with the adventures, frustrations and joys
SAT       of travel.
SAT       Lady Mary Fretwell found out about the difficulties of
SAT       travelling across international borders with dogs during
SAT       her life as a diplomat's wife and resolved to tackle
SAT       Britain's strict quarantine laws. She tells Sandi how her
SAT       organisation 'Passports for Pets' helped achieve this and
SAT       how the current rules work. And Belinda Harley fell in
SAT       love with an unwanted dog in Greece and relates the
SAT       problems she experienced bringing him back to Britain.
SAT       Travel writer Rob Crossan has just returned from the
SAT       Vietnamese capital Hanoi where, despite the single-party
SAT       socialist regime, capitalism flourishes. Among experiences
SAT       to be had are unlikely visits to the impressive Ho Chi
SAT       Minh mausoleum and restaurants that specialise in serving
SAT       up...dog.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Shelved b00p7g8b (Listen)
SAT       Shaun Ley recounts how the political circumstances of the
SAT       late 1970s resulted in three of the most popular TV
SAT       series' of the time - Dr Who, Secret Army and The
SAT       Professionals - each having at least one episode scrapped
SAT       after filming. Interviewees include the then Dr Who, Tom
SAT       Baker.
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SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00p7g8d (Listen)
SAT       Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes
SAT       at Westminster.
SAT       The pre-Budget report is largely seen as the opening
SAT       gambit of the 2010 general election campaign. In 1992,
SAT       Lord Heseltine fought a Conservative general election
SAT       campaign against a background of economic uncertainty, and
SAT       his party won. In the 1997 general election Geoffrey
SAT       Robinson campaigned then for Labour when the economy had
SAT       taken a turn for the better, and his party reaped the
SAT       benefit. They discuss the part the economy plays in these
SAT       battles.
SAT       The bankers are currently so unpopular with voters, that
SAT       the Chancellor this week was forced to reflect the public
SAT       mood by slapping a hefty tax on their bonuses. In the past
SAT       trade unions have been the focus for public anger, so how
SAT       far is the anger justified and is it fair? MPs Kim
SAT       Howells, former Labour minister and member of the miners'
SAT       union during the 1980s, and Andrew Tyrie, once adviser to
SAT       Nigel Lawson, give their judgments.
SAT       Why is climate change becoming a left/right issue? Will
SAT       Straw of the website site Left Foot Forward and Tim
SAT       Montgomerie of ConservativeHome website explain why this
SAT       is.
SAT       And do political novels reflect the real world of
SAT       politics? Steven Fielding of Nottingham Uinversity
SAT       explores this rich seam in literature.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00p7g8g (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00p7g8j (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00p6vlj (Listen)
SAT       Series 29, Episode 3
SAT       Tonight Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis explore the taxing
SAT       complexities of class; Mitch Benn waxes lyrical about the
SAT       twinning of Swindon with Disneyland and Jon Holmes is up
SAT       in arms about Christmas decorations.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00p7gmr (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00p7g8l (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00p6vll (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell,
SAT       Berkshire. The panellists are Northern Ireland secretary
SAT       Shaun Woodward, shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa
SAT       May, David Laws, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on
SAT       children, schools and families, and Dr Ben Goldacre,
SAT       author of Bad Science.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00p7g8n (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00p7g8q (Listen)
SAT       The Middle
SAT       By Amelia Bullmore.
SAT       Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a
SAT       formidable matriarch, Luca. Clare meets and quickly
SAT       marries Martin, who falls just as much in love with her
SAT       fun, sparky family. But Martin makes a mistake and sets in
SAT       train a series of events which brings the family to its
SAT       knees.
SAT       Clare ...... Emma Cunniffe
SAT       Martin ...... Ben Miles
SAT       Nicky ...... Anna Madeley
SAT       Justine ...... Eve Matheson
SAT       Luca ...... Paola Dionisotti
SAT       Karl ...... Nigel Pilkington
SAT       Owen ...... Baxter Willis
SAT       Mick ...... John Biggins
SAT       Ed ...... Piers Wehner
SAT       Donna ...... Melissa Advani
SAT       Directed by Mary Peate.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Tales from the Stave b00p61zj (Listen)
SAT       Series 5, Tippett: A Child of Our Time
SAT       Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores
SAT       of well-known pieces of music.
SAT       Using the pencil-written score and private notebooks and
SAT       letters, Frances unpacks the creative story behind Sir
SAT       Michael Tippett's oratorio, A Child of Our Time. With its
SAT       Spiritual Choruses mixed with the stark modernity of its
SAT       forbidding message, it stands now as one of the most
SAT       powerful statements about man's potential for inhumanity
SAT       to man.
SAT       As the letters and notes reveal, the inspiration for the
SAT       peace was the shooting in 1938 of a German diplomat in
SAT       Paris by an enraged 17-year-old Jewish boy, powerless to
SAT       stop the Nazi atrocities against his family in Germany.
SAT       His actions, twisted by Nazi propaganda, provoked
SAT       Kristalnacht - a rising against Jewish people and property
SAT       which resulted in the burning of synagogues and Jewish
SAT       shops and houses.
SAT       Already a passionate political thinker, Tippett tried to
SAT       express his feelings through a three-part oratorio that
SAT       described the way a man, the child of the title, can be
SAT       coralled into an act of self-destruction. And set against
SAT       this dark journey are the spirituals, one of which -
SAT       'Steal away to Jesue' - he had heard and been inspired by
SAT       on a radio broadcast. Like Bach's chorales, they remain a
SAT       way into the piece for many listeners, commenting on the
SAT       moods and reflecting on the anger, despair and resignation
SAT       of the child's journey.
SAT       As well as revealing Tippett's workings and worryings over
SAT       the music, the British Library's archive also throws light
SAT       on the way the libretto developed, being sent for
SAT       improvement to poet TS Eliot, who promptly sent it back
SAT       advising the composer that he was managing quite well on
SAT       his own.
SAT       Joing Frances are Sarah Walker, who sang the vital mezzo
SAT       soprano role in a recording made in 1991 with the composer
SAT       himself conducting; music scholar and writer Paul Banks
SAT       and graphologist Ruth Rostron.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00p7g8s (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey. Tamzin Outhwaite discusses her stage and
SAT       screen success. Also: fashion and the return of the
SAT       tracksuit bottom; present buying for men; asking if Sally
SAT       Bercow was right to speak out about her past; stillbirth
SAT       and help for parents of babies who die; and, twenty years
SAT       on, the impact of the murders of fourteen women by a man
SAT       who said he hated feminists.
SAT       
SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p7g8v (Listen)
SAT       12th December 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de
SAT       facto leader Hans Modrow.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00p7g8x (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 iPM b00p7g8z (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p7g91 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00p7g93 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p7g95 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00p7h3r (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive is joined by the actor Rupert Penry-Jones, I'm Sorry
SAT       I Haven't a Clue's Barry Cryer and Sir Christopher Meyer,
SAT       former Chair of the Press Complaints Commission.
SAT       Jo Bunting talks to the comedian and sex therapist
SAT       Wolfgang Weinberger.
SAT       A fitting tribute to Eric Morecame with comedy from the
SAT       stage show Morecame.
SAT       With music from Sheffield folk-rock duo Slow Club and
SAT       southern Californian singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00p7h3t (Listen)
SAT       Series 7, What is the Custom of Your Grief?
SAT       This week witnessed the death of the 100th British soldier
SAT       to be killed in Afghanistan this year, the 237th since
SAT       2002. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? playwright
SAT       Timberlake Wertenbaker imagines the correspondence between
SAT       two young girls bereaved by the conflict.
SAT       Performed by Betsabeh Emran and Emerald O'Hanrahan.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00p7h3w (Listen)
SAT       John Wilson is joined by novelists Louise Doughty and
SAT       Michael Arditti, and writer James Runcie to discuss the
SAT       cultural highlights of the week - featuring a tortured
SAT       artist, wild things and the re-emergence of silent films.
SAT       The play Red by John Logan, directed by Michael Grandage,
SAT       features the contemporary artist Mark Rothko. Set in his
SAT       New York studio in 1958, under the watchful gaze of his
SAT       young assistant and the threatening presence of a new
SAT       generation of artists, Rothko takes on his greatest
SAT       challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an
SAT       extraordinary setting.
SAT       Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic
SAT       children's story, has been made into a film with a
SAT       screenplay by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. It tells the
SAT       story of Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without
SAT       his supper, who creates his own world - a forest inhabited
SAT       by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
SAT       Has the story made a successful transition from page to
SAT       screen?
SAT       The pantomime season is upon us and our reviewers have
SAT       been to see some of the latest productions including
SAT       Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk. Are they still popular
SAT       among children and adults?
SAT       With reviews of some of the best of the winter's young
SAT       teenage fiction, including The Graveyard Book by Neil
SAT       Gaiman, Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera, and The Ask and The
SAT       Answer by Patrick Ness. All are novels with dark stories;
SAT       is this a trend?
SAT       Sky 1 television is sending filmmakers back to basics.
SAT       They have brought together established writers, actors and
SAT       directors in a series of silent short films to be
SAT       broadcast this festive season on consecutive nights as Ten
SAT       Minutes Tales.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00plt1n (Listen)
SAT       The My Lai Tapes
SAT       Robert Hodierne reveals the truth about the infamous My
SAT       Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, based on the transcript of
SAT       a Pentagon enquiry conducted by Lt General William Peers.
SAT       The findings of the investigation were so uncomfortable
SAT       for the US Military that they were suppressed. Some 400
SAT       hours of tape show that US soldiers raped and murdered
SAT       hundreds of civilians in not just one but three villages
SAT       in an orgy of killing that proved to be a turning point in
SAT       the Vietnam War.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00p3sy6 (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor,
SAT       Soldier, Spy, Part 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic
SAT       novel.
SAT       George Smiley, called back from retirement, tries to piece
SAT       together the events of the past to find the mole he
SAT       believes is tearing apart the British Secret Intelligence
SAT       Service.
SAT       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
SAT       Control ...... John Rowe
SAT       Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey
SAT       Percy Alleline ...... Bill Paterson
SAT       Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman
SAT       Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale
SAT       Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast
SAT       Roy Bland...... David Hargreaves
SAT       Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton
SAT       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as
SAT       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00p7h40 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00p681y (Listen)
SAT       It's that time of year again when the forces of greed and
SAT       conspicuous consumption do battle with guilt and pious
SAT       sentiment. So how do you have a merry and a moral
SAT       Christmas? Michael Buerk and the panel settle down around
SAT       the festive table to try to find out.
SAT       Witnesses:
SAT       Ruth Rosselson, writer, Ethical Consumer Magazine
SAT       Julian Baggini, philosopher and author
SAT       Jonathan Bartley, director of Ekklesia, a web-based
SAT       think-tank promoting theological ideas in the public
SAT       sphere.
SAT       Susie Boyt, author and journalist.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00p5xc4 (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest, with contestants from the south
SAT       of England.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p3v2l (Listen)
SAT       Series 10, My Last Duchess
SAT       Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting
SAT       appeal of some well-loved poems.
SAT       The height of English Gothic, a poem in which an
SAT       aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his
SAT       young wife - a Medici no less. Peggy Reynolds teases out
SAT       the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but
SAT       groundbreaking poem.
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SUN       SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00p7hdm (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fpl3 (Listen)
SUN       Pier Shorts, Ghost Train
SUN       Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier.
SUN       By Ambreen Hameed, read by Nina Wadia.
SUN       A young Muslim girl has a devastating experience on a
SUN       school trip to Brighton. Haunted by the past, she finds
SUN       herself mysteriously drawn back to the pier 20 years later.
SUN       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7hdp (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7hdr (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7hdt (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00p7hdw (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00p7hdy (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton
SUN       in Devon.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Political Roots b00p71ys (Listen)
SUN       Labour
SUN       Richard Reeves delves into the Labour Party and explores
SUN       the background and philosophy of senior cabinet member
SUN       Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00p7hf0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00p7hf2 (Listen)
SUN       The Blizzard's Dance
SUN       Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold
SUN       and deep snow. What is this primal yearning for what is
SUN       described by one writer as 'the thrill of the north coming
SUN       to visit and staying for a while'?
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank
SUN       Stirling.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00p7hf4 (Listen)
SUN       Adam Henson visits Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire to
SUN       learn how Iron Age Britons grew and produced food.
SUN       What can we learn about food and farming from ancient
SUN       times that could help us in the 21st century, as food
SUN       security becomes an increasing concern? The farm also
SUN       keeps some of the ancient breeds of animal that our
SUN       ancestors would have farmed including boar and soay sheep.
SUN       Adam hears how the animals fed small settlements of people
SUN       who stored the meat underground, where it would keep for
SUN       months, and watches David Freeman, an archeologist and
SUN       expert in food, grinding a type of grain used 2,000 years
SUN       ago to make bread.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00p7hf6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00p7hf8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00p7hfb (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00p7hfd (Listen)
SUN       Help the Hospices
SUN       Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices.
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SUN       the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone
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SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00p7hfg (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00p7hfj (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00p7hfl (Listen)
SUN       The People that walked in darkness (Isaiah 9:2-7)
SUN       A service for Advent from St Arvans Parish Church near
SUN       Chepstow, led by Father Michael Gollop.
SUN       With the Polyphonic Choir, directed by Neil Ferris.
SUN       Organist: David Geoffrey Thomas.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00p6vln (Listen)
SUN       A weekly reflection on a topical issue. Clive James
SUN       reflects on the media coverage of man-made global warming
SUN       and the need for minds to be open.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00p7hfn (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00p7hfq (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00p7hfs (Listen)
SUN       Lord Coe
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe.
SUN       It is more than a quarter of a century since his rivalry
SUN       with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett enraptured
SUN       the nation.
SUN       After retiring from the racetrack, he enjoyed a career in
SUN       politics. Now, though, his focus is on the Olympics once
SUN       again - not on individual medals this time, but ensuring
SUN       the 2012 games in London are a success.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p604t (Listen)
SUN       Series 52, Episode 4
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the
SUN       Festival Theatre in Chichester, with Jack Dee taking the
SUN       chairman's role.
SUN       Regulars Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
SUN       are joined by David Mitchell.
SUN       With Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00p7hfv (Listen)
SUN       Food and Art
SUN       Since cavemen first daubed images of bison on cave walls,
SUN       food has proved a source of inspiration for artists.
SUN       Caravaggio, Breugel, Cezanne and others all brought us the
SUN       sensual delight, and symbolism, of food.
SUN       Sheila Dillon finds out what contemporary artists are
SUN       making of this staple of the repetoire, visiting two
SUN       exhibitions: A Net of Eels, created by artist Jake Tilson
SUN       and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and Pot Luck: Food and
SUN       Art, co-curated on the principles of a pot luck dinner by
SUN       Cynthia Morrison-Bell, including works by Antony Gormley,
SUN       Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum and Gayle Chong Kwan.
SUN       Sheila is joined by art historian and critic Frank
SUN       Whitford and Jake Tilson who give their views.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00p7hfx (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00p7hfz (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Music from Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen)
SUN       Prof Paul Robertson examines the claims and counter-claims
SUN       for musical mediumship and asks whether musical
SUN       inspiration comes from within ourselves or if it could
SUN       come from somewhere beyond.
SUN       He recounts the story of how, 40 years ago, a Balham
SUN       housewife and medium with little musical training created
SUN       a sensation when she claimed to have received new works
SUN       from beyond the grave from Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven,
SUN       Rachmaninov and other great composers. Rosemary Brown's
SUN       abilities divided the musical world, with her supporters
SUN       convinced that the works were genuine while her critics
SUN       dismissed them as pastiche.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p6vlb (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer
SUN       questions from gardeners in Wallasey, Merseyside.
SUN       The team investigate the restoration of Liverpool's famous
SUN       Stanley Park, and Matthew Wilson thumbs through some
SUN       all-time classic garden literature.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxp5 (Listen)
SUN       WorldSong
SUN       Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the
SUN       country.
SUN       She attends a rehearsal of WorldSong, a mixed voice choir
SUN       in Coventry which specialises in singing unaccompanied
SUN       songs from across the globe and whose founding principle
SUN       is that anyone can sing. Joan also talks to the scientist
SUN       who believes that singing really is beneficial to our
SUN       health.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00p7kyd (Listen)
SUN       The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor,
SUN       Soldier, Spy, Part 3
SUN       Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic
SUN       novel.
SUN       George Smiley, called back from retirement, is reaching
SUN       the end of his hunt to find the mole he believes is
SUN       tearing the British Secret Intelligence Service apart.
SUN       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SUN       Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
SUN       Control ...... John Rowe
SUN       Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey
SUN       Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf
SUN       Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham
SUN       Magyar ...... Peter Majer
SUN       Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman
SUN       Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale
SUN       Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast
SUN       Karla ...... Philip Fox
SUN       Polyakov ...... Stephen Greif
SUN       Steve Mackelvore ...... Piers Wehner
SUN       Mrs McCraig ...... Kate Layden
SUN       Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson
SUN       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 20th December as
SUN       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00p7m9g (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann about his new
SUN       novel Let The Great World Spin, which won the 2009
SUN       prestigious National Book Award in America. With Philippe
SUN       Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the then
SUN       unfinished World Trade Center Towers at its axis, it
SUN       focuses on the lives of a disparate group of New York
SUN       characters, including the viewpoint of Petit himself,
SUN       whose own story was the subject of the award winning
SUN       documentary Man on Wire. The novel celebrates the richness
SUN       and diversity of New York through a range of rich and
SUN       varied characters.
SUN       After Borders bookshop chain announced it was going into
SUN       administration, the CEO of Hachette UK, Tim Hely
SUN       Hutchinson; editor of The Bookseller, Neill Denny; and
SUN       independent bookseller Patrick Neale discuss the future of
SUN       the bookshop on the high street. Author Patrick Gale
SUN       provides the writers' perspective.
SUN       There are over 1500 independent bookshops and 300
SUN       Waterstones, but the threat from online selling, the
SUN       supermarket and the arrival of the e-book have all had an
SUN       impact on where books are sold, and we consider the
SUN       serious threat to the bookshop.
SUN       Producer Hilary Dunn.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00p7m9j (Listen)
SUN       Series 10, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
SUN       Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting
SUN       appeal of some well-loved poems.
SUN       'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...' Keats'
SUN       sonnet - his first great poem - begins. Keats couldn't
SUN       read Greek and the poem records him touching the ancient
SUN       world through translation and his already fecund
SUN       imagination. Peggy explores the stories behind its
SUN       creation and its enduring appeal.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p7mcj (Listen)
SUN       13th December 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00p66f4 (Listen)
SUN       The government's forensic science service is crucial to
SUN       taclking crime, but is shedding hundreds of jobs and
SUN       closing half its laboratory facilities in a drive to make
SUN       the organisation more commercial. Fran Abrams investigates
SUN       whether or not the aggressive cost-cutting in beginning to
SUN       hit the way the service operates and consequently
SUN       undermine justice.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00p7h3t (Listen)
SUN       Series 7, What is the Custom of Your Grief?
SUN       This week witnessed the death of the 100th British soldier
SUN       to be killed in Afghanistan this year, the 237th since
SUN       2002. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? playwright
SUN       Timberlake Wertenbaker imagines the correspondence between
SUN       two young girls bereaved by the conflict.
SUN       Performed by Betsabeh Emran and Emerald O'Hanrahan.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00p7mdr (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00p7mhb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p7mhd (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00p7mhg (Listen)
SUN       Ernie Rea introduces his selection of highlights from the
SUN       past week on BBC radio.
SUN       The Choice - Radio 4
SUN       In Living Memory - Radio 4
SUN       World on 3 - Radio 3
SUN       The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi - Radio 4
SUN       Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium - Radio 4
SUN       Mind Your Slanguage - Radio 4
SUN       Stuart Hall Night - Radio 5live
SUN       Going to Pieces in the Box - Radio 4
SUN       Winter Storm - Radio 4
SUN       Lead Belly - A Secret History of Rock and Roll - Radio 2
SUN       Between the Ears - The Great Bell - Radio 3
SUN       The Ladies of Pleasure - Radio Scotland
SUN       Tales From the Stave - Radio 4
SUN       Outlook - World Service.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00p7mjw (Listen)
SUN       Annette searches for a safe house.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00p7mjy (Listen)
SUN       What do an American lumberjack, an ocean fisherwoman, a
SUN       Republican senator and an evangelical Christian all have
SUN       in common? They each have an opinion on climate change.
SUN       Host Matt Frei is joined by Jon Meacham, the editor of
SUN       Newsweek, to discuss American views on climate change and
SUN       the week's other top news.
SUN       Matt Frei leads a roundtable discussion with American moms
SUN       about the responsibilities they shoulder in times of
SUN       economic crisis and in times of holiday cheer.
SUN       Hanukah begins this week and according to writer and
SUN       performer Josh Lefkowitz, 'tis the season for Christmas
SUN       envy.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b0080dyw (Listen)
SUN       Sputnik, Gleeking
SUN       A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite
SUN       which started the space race in 1957.
SUN       By Benjamin Markovits, read by Ryan McCluskey.
SUN       All-American Sam is less than thrilled with his new
SUN       Yugoslavian stepbrother, known to his classmates as
SUN       Sputnik.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00p6v3t (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford and the More or Less team ask if claims made
SUN       about energy efficient lightbulbs are true and if
SUN       economies can grow forever. And they meet one of their
SUN       greatest heroes: Sesame Street's Count von Count.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00p6vld (Listen)
SUN       Marking the lives of Irish folk singer Liam Clancy,
SUN       ex-director of Radio Free Europe Jim Brown, campaigner for
SUN       ordination of women Barbara Cawthorne and writer Geoffrey
SUN       Moorhouse.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00p7g8j (Listen)
SUN       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SUN       finance.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00p7hfd (Listen)
SUN       Help the Hospices
SUN       Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices.
SUN       Donations to Help the Hospices should be sent to FREEPOST
SUN       BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Help the Hospices. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Help the
SUN       Hospices with your full name and address so they can claim
SUN       the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone
SUN       donation facilities are not currently available to
SUN       listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity Number 1014851.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00p6t28 (Listen)
SUN       Sugaring the Pill
SUN       Brazil has been pioneering the use of ethanol for its
SUN       vehicles for over three decades. Ethanol emits 90 per cent
SUN       less emissions than gasoline. As world leaders debate
SUN       climate change in Copenhagen, can Brazil convince the rest
SUN       of the globe that sugar really is good for you?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00p7mmn (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00p7mmq (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       The Watchdog and the Feral Beast.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00p7mn9 (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 12th December 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago,
SUN       with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge, East
SUN       Germany elects a new leader and the president of
SUN       Czechoslovakia swears in the country's first non-communist
SUN       majority government in 41 years.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00p7hf2 (Listen)
SUN       The Blizzard's Dance
SUN       Mark Tully explores the lure - for some - of bitter cold
SUN       and deep snow. What is this primal yearning for what is
SUN       described by one writer as 'the thrill of the north coming
SUN       to visit and staying for a while'?
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank
SUN       Stirling.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 14 DECEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00p7n3c (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00p67tq (Listen)
MON       The number of people living in single person households
MON       has doubled since 1971. Why are more people living alone
MON       and what are the consequences for the environment and the
MON       economy? How do ideas in the popular press of the single
MON       lifestlye really match reality? Laurie Taylor talks to
MON       Lynn Jamieson, Professor of Sociology at the University of
MON       Edinburgh, and to Jan MacVarish from the University of
MON       Kent about one of the biggest demographic shifts since
MON       World War Two.
MON       Also in the programme, Laurie discusses anthropological
MON       research into the culture of Wall Street. How much is the
MON       global economy influenced by the culture of bankers; are
MON       wider, brutal economic forces the more powerful player?
MON       Laurie talks to Professor of Sociology Robin Blackburn,
MON       from the University of Essex.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00p7hdy (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton
MON       in Devon.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4q (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n94 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n6n (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00p7nc7 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nhw (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00p7njb (Listen)
MON       What will you be serving this Christmas lunch? Charlotte
MON       Smith hears that goose sales are on the rise as an
MON       alternative to turkey and about plans for all Olympians to
MON       go to work on a free range egg. We also catch up with
MON       Geoff and Sue Nicholls who started farming their
MON       smallholding in January to see how they have fared this
MON       year.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00p87qt (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00p7qlq (Listen)
MON       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00p87qw (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe explores the pitfalls of the web, with
MON       Evgeny Morozov arguing that it's exploited by dictators,
MON       and Andrew Dalby gives his views on Wikipedia. Amanda
MON       Goodall decries the prevalence of the professional
MON       manager, and the art historian David Boyd Haycock talks
MON       about the 'crisis of brilliance' of the Young British
MON       Artists of the early 1900s.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00pcdpk (Listen)
MON       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 1
MON       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
MON       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
MON       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
MON       institutions, the Postie.
MON       Why postmen used to have the best job in the world, and
MON       why it's heading towards becoming the worst.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00p84dy (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to
MON       consider whether reimbursement paid to egg donors should
MON       be increased. This is partly in response to the shortage
MON       of egg donors. But is it a good idea? Jane is joined by
MON       Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the HFEA, to discuss this.
MON       Three-times Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver is
MON       most widely known for playing tough-talking action hero
MON       Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films. Thirty years after
MON       her first appearance in Alien, she plays a lead role in
MON       another science fiction adventure - James Cameron's long
MON       awaited Avatar, said to be the most expensive film ever
MON       made. Sigourney plays two roles: scientist Dr Grace
MON       Augustine and her genetically-bred counterpart, a hybrid
MON       creature who resembles Grace - except for being ten feet
MON       tall and blue. She talks to Jane about her latest role.
MON       There are always the occasional shocking headlines about
MON       irresponsible parents disappearing on holiday and leaving
MON       their children behind, but would you leave an
MON       eight-year-old in the house while you went to the corner
MON       shop? Would you leave a twelve-year-old in charge of a
MON       six-year-old? Author Amanda Craig and the NSPCC's
MON       parenting advisor Eileen Hayes discuss the issues of
MON       leaving children home alone.
MON       Christmas is coming, and on the day itself the kitchen can
MON       become either a battlefield or a refuge of warmth and
MON       sharing. Some people will gather the family round and
MON       share out the tasks of peeling and scrubbing. Others turn
MON       downright nasty at the thought of someone invading their
MON       domain. So is there a happy medium? Jane is joined by
MON       author Sophie King and Masterchef finalist Fiona Bird to
MON       debate how best to organise the cooking harmoniously on
MON       Christmas Day.
MON       
MON       11:00 Policing Britain b00p87qy (Listen)
MON       Policing for the 21st Century
MON       Andy Hayman, former assistant commissioner of the
MON       Metropolitan Police, examines the challenges facing
MON       policing in Britain today.
MON       When Andy Hayman left the Metropolitan Police in 2008 he
MON       was assistant commissioner, Special Operations, in overall
MON       charge of counter-terrorism. He had to deal with the
MON       suicide bomb attacks on London and the tragedy of the de
MON       Menezes shooting. Andy's 30-year career started straight
MON       out of school with the police in Essex and took him to the
MON       position of chief constable of Norfolk. In this series he
MON       takes a critical look at the challenges facing the police
MON       service in Britain today. He goes back on the beat and
MON       talks to former colleagues and those who work with the
MON       police at every level to ask the question, 'Do we have the
MON       policing we need in Britain today?'
MON       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       11:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00p87r0 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 1
MON       Comedy series by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby.
MON       A struggle takes place between the Apollonian and
MON       Dionysian principles, as Giles travels to Greece on a
MON       desperate rescue mission and eats far too much halloumi.
MON       Giles ...... Marcus Brigstocke
MON       Professor Bakoyannis ...... Jack Klaff
MON       Mr Timmis ...... Adrian Scarborough
MON       Charlotte Wemmbley-Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd
MON       Jeremy ...... James Bachman
MON       Luke ...... Mark Evans
MON       Aphrodite ...... Nina Millns
MON       Colonel Yiannis ...... Chris Pavlo
MON       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00p84qk (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00p84v9 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00p84y5 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00p87r2 (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the tenth, heat of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest, with four contestants from
MON       Wales.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00p7mjw (Listen)
MON       Annette searches for a safe house.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00p8hk4 (Listen)
MON       The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer
MON       By Iain Heggie. Glasgow, 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington
MON       detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchant princes, but
MON       can't resist being bought off by them. That's when he's
MON       not busy being distracted by his daughter Euphemia, his
MON       sceptical housekeeper Widow McKay and her spiritual
MON       advisor, the startlingly prescient soothsayer Madam Zapata.
MON       Dalmellington ...... Ian McDiarmid
MON       Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00p03hw (Listen)
MON       Lord Clark - Seeing Through The Tweed
MON       Kenneth Clark is remembered as a tweedy patrician who
MON       lectured on the arts from a position of immense privilege.
MON       But Richard Weight argues that Clark was in fact a toff
MON       with a democratic mission, and that the BBC's
MON       Civilisation, first broadcast in 1969, was the culmination
MON       of a career that reveals much about 20th-century Britain.
MON       
MON       15:45 My Mile of the River b00hhfcj (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
MON       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
MON       Mid Wales.
MON       Chris investigates a fungus which offers nature's
MON       vegetarian alternative to chicken, strolls through ancient
MON       woodland on the banks of the Wye, hunts for a yaffle and
MON       listens to the dusk chorus. He finds you don't have to be
MON       in the middle of nowhere to get away from it all.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00p7hfv (Listen)
MON       Food and Art
MON       Since cavemen first daubed images of bison on cave walls,
MON       food has proved a source of inspiration for artists.
MON       Caravaggio, Breugel, Cezanne and others all brought us the
MON       sensual delight, and symbolism, of food.
MON       Sheila Dillon finds out what contemporary artists are
MON       making of this staple of the repetoire, visiting two
MON       exhibitions: A Net of Eels, created by artist Jake Tilson
MON       and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and Pot Luck: Food and
MON       Art, co-curated on the principles of a pot luck dinner by
MON       Cynthia Morrison-Bell, including works by Antony Gormley,
MON       Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum and Gayle Chong Kwan.
MON       Sheila is joined by art historian and critic Frank
MON       Whitford and Jake Tilson who give their views.
MON       
MON       16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p87r6 (Listen)
MON       Episode 3
MON       Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty,
MON       irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world
MON       according to science.
MON       Physicist turned comedian Ben Miller joins Brian and Robin
MON       to discuss quantum physics, and if astrology really shares
MON       its roots with more scientific pursuits. They also discuss
MON       the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken,
MON       currently storming ahead in a large underground tunnel
MON       just outside Geneva.
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qn (Listen)
MON       14th December 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       Chile elects a civilian president to replace Augusto
MON       Pinochet.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00p85sv (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 b00p85v0 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00p885p (Listen)
MON       Series 52, Episode 5
MON       The perennial antidote to panel games pays a visit to the
MON       Futurist Theatre in Scarborough, with Jack Dee taking the
MON       chairman's role.
MON       Regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by
MON       Jo Brand and Jeremy Hardy.
MON       With Colin Sell at the piano.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00p8501 (Listen)
MON       Will's temper explodes at the shoot.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00p86bw (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the
MON       verdict on James Cameron's epic and expensive 3D film
MON       Avatar.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00p86by (Listen)
MON       Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 1
MON       Financial thriller by Mike Walker.
MON       When disgraced City trader Tim Ng is offered immunity from
MON       prosecution by the FSA, he is alarmed to discover what it
MON       is they want in return.
MON       Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing
MON       Angela Chapman ...... Lizzie McInnerny
MON       Kathy ...... Michelle Tate
MON       Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim
MON       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
MON       
MON       20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00p8998 (Listen)
MON       Series 5, 'Peace for Our Time'
MON       Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great
MON       moments of history to discover that they often conceal
MON       other events of equal but forgotten importance.
MON       Michael examines one of the most notorious events in
MON       Britain's 20th century history, Neville Chamberlain's
MON       declaration of 'peace for our time' to jubilant crowds on
MON       30th September 1938.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00p6b3m (Listen)
MON       Nablus
MON       Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada - or
MON       uprising - was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus.
MON       This was an era when Palestinian militants regularly
MON       battled the Israeli Defence Force in the streets. The
MON       BBC's Alan Johnston reported from Nablus in those dark,
MON       dangerous days. Now, on his first assignment back in the
MON       Middle East since he was kidnapped in Gaza, he returns to
MON       the town to find out how life has changed.
MON       He finds a community transformed: Israeli checkpoints have
MON       been dismantled, Palestinian troops patrol their own
MON       streets, and the economy is on the up; Nablus is breathing
MON       once more. But in the absence of a more lasting Middle
MON       East peace settlement, the mood is far from optimistic,
MON       and the outlook is complicated by disturbing allegations
MON       of human rights abuses within the occupied territories
MON       emanating from the Fatah/Hamas split in Palestinian
MON       politics.
MON       
MON       21:00 Frontiers b00p89f4 (Listen)
MON       The Border Agency is part way through its Human Provenance
MON       Pilot Project, trialling suggestions that DNA and isotope
MON       data can test asylum seekers' credentials. But scientific
MON       experts in these techniques say the science cannot
MON       deliver. Gerry Northam investigates.
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00p87qw (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe explores the pitfalls of the web, with
MON       Evgeny Morozov arguing that it's exploited by dictators,
MON       and Andrew Dalby gives his views on Wikipedia. Amanda
MON       Goodall decries the prevalence of the professional
MON       manager, and the art historian David Boyd Haycock talks
MON       about the 'crisis of brilliance' of the Young British
MON       Artists of the early 1900s.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00p86h0 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00p86ml (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00p86mn (Listen)
MON       The Ingoldsby Legends, The Lady Rohesia
MON       Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection
MON       of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly
MON       written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but
MON       actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published
MON       in book form in 1840.
MON       A distraught husband sits at the foot of his dying wife's
MON       bed, and considers who he might marry next.
MON       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00p62jn (Listen)
MON       Michael Rosen meets the consultants who will teach you how
MON       to speak more clearly, write more grammatically and even
MON       become a published author - at a price.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qk (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Sean Curran.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 15 DECEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1t (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00pcdpk (Listen)
TUE       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 1
TUE       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
TUE       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
TUE       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
TUE       institutions, the Postie.
TUE       Why postmen used to have the best job in the world, and
TUE       why it's heading towards becoming the worst.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3f (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6q (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4s (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00p7n96 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nc9 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00p7nhy (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00p7qhk (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk,
TUE       Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 Defining The Decade b00p89jk (Listen)
TUE       A Googling We Go
TUE       Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which
TUE       history has been put on fast forward. There has been a
TUE       revolution in the way we communicate, widespread alarm
TUE       about the planet's very survival and a challenge to the
TUE       world order. What does it mean for the way we live as we
TUE       head into 2010?
TUE       The impact of the internet - dreamt up by visionaries,
TUE       embraced by commerce and full of (not always welcome)
TUE       surprises.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm8l (Listen)
TUE       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 2
TUE       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
TUE       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
TUE       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
TUE       institutions, the Postie.
TUE       The special relationship between the postman and his
TUE       clients, and what it's like to be up at the crack of dawn.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pcht4 (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Sable Island: A Dune Adrift b00p8c15 (Listen)
TUE       One hundred miles east of Nova Scotia lies a 30-mile-long
TUE       sand dune, Sable Island. It has a population of just two,
TUE       who work in the weather and research station, and is also
TUE       home to 300 wild horses. Sean Street reveals how this
TUE       remote place is providing information vital to us all, and
TUE       how it has gained a powerful presence in the imagination.
TUE       In the middle of the world's worst weather systems, held
TUE       tentatively in place by ocean currents, Sable Island is
TUE       the perfect place to monitor climate change, and air and
TUE       sea pollution. More than 500 ships have been wrecked here.
TUE       There have been several attempts at colonisation, by the
TUE       Portuguese, the French (Sable is the French word for Sand)
TUE       and even a group of prominent Bostonians, and all have
TUE       failed. The story is cultural as well. Thomas Raddell,
TUE       Nova Scotia's finest writer, was a radio operator on Sable
TUE       for a year, and this inspired his novel The Nymph and the
TUE       Lamp. The poet Elizabeth Bishop visited and wrote about
TUE       the island.
TUE       Sean examines wreckage from some of more than 500 ships
TUE       that have come to grief on the island. There is poignant
TUE       baby's crib made from wreck wood, there being no trees. At
TUE       the Natural History Museum in Halifax, he witnesses the
TUE       unpacking of the latest consignment of bones and specimens
TUE       - extraordinary ancient walrus skulls - collected as they
TUE       are exposed in storms by Zoe Lucas, who has been on the
TUE       island for decades. Sean meets artist Roger Savage, who
TUE       had to tie his easel down, clamp his paper and battle with
TUE       the scouring sand as he captured the landscape of the
TUE       place in his paintings. And he meets a man who dedicated
TUE       years to studying the rare Ipswich Sparrow, which nests
TUE       only on Sable Island.
TUE       What emerges is that Sable Island is for the Canadians
TUE       what the Galapagos are for the people of Ecuador, or
TUE       Easter Island for Chileans. It is important scientifically
TUE       and historically, but more than this it is important
TUE       culturally, as part of their identity, even though hardly
TUE       any of the Canadian population will ever go there.
TUE       Indeed, because of concern about climate change and damage
TUE       to a unique and fragile ecosystem, people are now anxious
TUE       not to go there. Which is just as well, because getting
TUE       to, and from, Sable is difficult, with there being no
TUE       harbour or regular air service. The wind blows almost
TUE       constantly, and there is often thick fog. Access is
TUE       restricted by the Canadian government as well as by nature.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Harry Worth: The Man in the Window b00p8c17 (Listen)
TUE       Glenn Mitchell pays tribute to the master of comic
TUE       confusion, Harry Worth, one of the most popular - and
TUE       subsequently most neglected - comedians of the 1960s.
TUE       Mitchell interviewed Worth in 1987 and his recording forms
TUE       the backbone of this tribute, in the 20th anniversary year
TUE       of the comedian's death.
TUE       Harry Worth's television and radio shows drew comparisons
TUE       with Tony Hancock, and the famous opening gag of his TV
TUE       series, that of Harry posing beside a shop window so that
TUE       his reflection suggests a man spreadeagled in mid-air, is
TUE       still fondly remembered - and imitated - by public and
TUE       professionals alike.
TUE       The programme tells his story through interviews with
TUE       Harry and his friends and colleagues and, perhaps for the
TUE       first time, explains why his career lost direction for
TUE       over a decade before getting back on track shortly before
TUE       his death. Including contributions from producers John
TUE       Ammonds and William G Stewart and actor Jonathan Cecil.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00p84j9 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00p84qm (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00p84vc (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Tales from the Stave b00p8c19 (Listen)
TUE       Series 5, Holst: The Planets
TUE       Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores
TUE       of well-known pieces of music.
TUE       Holst apparently hated the popularity of The Planets. He
TUE       sat down to compose it in 1914 and it had its first
TUE       performance in 1918. Given that English audiences were
TUE       used to Elgar, this massive 'modern' orchestral work came
TUE       as a huge surprise to concert goers, and they loved it.
TUE       From the opening 5/4 tempo of the first movement of Mars,
TUE       this could be considered one of the first great pieces of
TUE       20th-century English music.
TUE       Holst had recently heard the revolutionary compositions of
TUE       Schoenberg and Stravinsky and in The Planets, he mixes
TUE       harmonies and rhythms in the most dramatic way. Not all of
TUE       the score is in his own hand, as he suffered from
TUE       neuritis, so he sometimes used copyists to help with his
TUE       composition.
TUE       Frances' guests select their favourite movements from the
TUE       score, which is held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford,
TUE       and they are joined by the curator Martin Holmes, who
TUE       looks after the precious manuscripts there.
TUE       The seven movements don't include Pluto; that was only
TUE       discovered in 1930, four years before his death. The
TUE       success of The Planets overshadowed Holst's other
TUE       compositions, which are quite different in style from his
TUE       astrological depictions. While the piece is still popular
TUE       in concert halls around the UK, its also familiar to film
TUE       fans as it is frequently used in movies. What would Holst
TUE       have made of its enduring popularity, 75 years after his
TUE       death, and what would he have made of its use in computer
TUE       games?
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00p8501 (Listen)
TUE       Will's temper explodes at the shoot.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00p8c1c (Listen)
TUE       High-Lites
TUE       Farce by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, set in and
TUE       around Bev's hairdressing salon, High-Lites, where a
TUE       little lie spreads through the village like wildfire.
TUE       Beverley ...... Lorraine Ashbourne
TUE       Shirley ...... Rosie Cavaliero
TUE       Matthew ...... Rhys Jennings
TUE       Alice ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
TUE       Enid ...... Kate Layden
TUE       Nigel ...... John Biggins
TUE       Lois ...... Joannah Tincey
TUE       Butt ...... Ewan Hooper
TUE       Paramedic ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
TUE       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00p8c1f (Listen)
TUE       It's a biology based programme as we tackle your questions
TUE       on insects and sea life. What, for example, killed the
TUE       large number of bumblebees whose corpses were found
TUE       beneath a tree last summer? Why are moths placid and easy
TUE       to handle while their fluttery cousins, butterflies, are
TUE       skittish and difficult to trap? And why do butterflies
TUE       flit rather than simply flying in a straight line to their
TUE       destination?
TUE       Then there's the challenge of taxonomy. Identifying
TUE       closely related species is difficult, but getting it wrong
TUE       can have dire implications for their conservation. Also, a
TUE       question about evolution in action. Is anything evolving
TUE       to eat the mountain of plastic pollution sloshing around
TUE       in the oceans?
TUE       On the panel are marine biologist Dr Helen Scales;
TUE       entomologist Richard Jones and environmental scientist
TUE       from the University of London, Professor Philip Stott.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8cph (Listen)
TUE       Too Much Happiness, Free Radicals
TUE       Series of short stories from the new collection by
TUE       Canadian author Alice Munro.
TUE       A newly widowed woman, who is herself dying, is alone in
TUE       the home she and her husband made their own after she had
TUE       played the role of 'home wrecker' and replaced his first
TUE       wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when
TUE       a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table.
TUE       Read by Barbara Barnes.
TUE       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 My Mile of the River b00hmpzh (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
TUE       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
TUE       Mid Wales.
TUE       It is summer on the River Wye, and Chris reports on the
TUE       two-person wheelbarrow championship as it races through a
TUE       ford, listens to the Wye Valley Axemen and witnesses the
TUE       coronation of the Carnival Queen.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00p8dk8 (Listen)
TUE       George Orwell left us a set of rules for writing about
TUE       politics and public affairs - do they still apply? Michael
TUE       Rosen and a panel of critics offer an Orwellian
TUE       perspective on just one day in the discourse of the nation.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00p8dkb (Listen)
TUE       Series 20, Tennessee Williams
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       American stand-up comedian Rich Hall discusses the life of
TUE       playwright Tennessee Williams, whose work he first
TUE       remembers seeing at a Kentucky drive-in cinema, rather
TUE       than the theatre. With their vivid portrayal of the
TUE       American south, poetic language and dark themes, works
TUE       such as Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire
TUE       were snapped up by Hollywood as well as changing the
TUE       direction of American theatre.
TUE       Rich Hall is joined by Williams' friend and biographer
TUE       Dotson Rader to talk about the man himself: the early
TUE       unhappiness that shaped his creative life, the prejudice
TUE       he encountered due to his homosexuality, and his later
TUE       unpopularity and decline into drink and prescription
TUE       drugs. They discover a writer with a strong sense of
TUE       humour, a devotion to his family and a desire to
TUE       experiment with writing throughout his career. Was
TUE       Williams' life a wasted one?
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qd (Listen)
TUE       15th December 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Soviet human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov dies.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00p85rm (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
TUE       Mair.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p85sx (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00p8dkd (Listen)
TUE       Storm Warning
TUE       Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of
TUE       inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
TUE       Beagle Team are tasked with the surveillance of a Russian
TUE       billionaire. The nation's security and gas supply are at
TUE       stake.
TUE       Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
TUE       Sharla ...... Nina Conti
TUE       Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
TUE       Captain Le Clerc ...... Kevin Eldon
TUE       Bolkonski ...... Shaban Arifi
TUE       Boris ...... John Biggins
TUE       Russian Girls ...... Alex Tregear, Kate Layden
TUE       Russian Crew ...... Nigel Hastings, Ewan Hooper.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00p84y7 (Listen)
TUE       Fallon gives some lessons in love.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00p85v4 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a
TUE       jukebox jury who give their verdict on the hits and misses
TUE       among the 2009 sack of Christmas releases.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv9 (Listen)
TUE       Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 2
TUE       Financial thriller by Mike Walker.
TUE       Though disgraced City trader Tim Ng has been offered
TUE       immunity from prosecution, his ransacked apartment
TUE       suggests he is not quite out of the woods.
TUE       Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing
TUE       Kathy ...... Michelle Tate
TUE       Grant Brunner ...... Nigel Hastings
TUE       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 The New Art of Diplomacy b00p8dz6 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       James Naughtie asks if British diplomacy is still fit for
TUE       purpose.
TUE       A century ago, much of the map of the world was coloured
TUE       with the pink of the British Empire. Britain's diplomats
TUE       reigned supreme, with the reassurance of a gunboat to
TUE       support them. Much has changed since that time, and
TUE       continues to change. As Britain faces new threats and new
TUE       priorities across the globe, how are the foreign office
TUE       and its diplomats changing?
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00p8fv8 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00p8fvb (Listen)
TUE       Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring the latest
TUE       scientific research about the brain and the mind.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Defining The Decade b00p89jk (Listen)
TUE       A Googling We Go
TUE       Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which
TUE       history has been put on fast forward. There has been a
TUE       revolution in the way we communicate, widespread alarm
TUE       about the planet's very survival and a challenge to the
TUE       world order. What does it mean for the way we live as we
TUE       head into 2010?
TUE       The impact of the internet - dreamt up by visionaries,
TUE       embraced by commerce and full of (not always welcome)
TUE       surprises.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00p86fs (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h2 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8p (Listen)
TUE       The Ingoldsby Legends, The Leech of Folkestone, Part 1
TUE       Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection
TUE       of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly
TUE       written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but
TUE       actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published
TUE       in book form in 1840.
TUE       In the depths of Romney Marsh, an avaricious woman, bored
TUE       with her tedious husband, plots with her doctor to get rid
TUE       of her spouse. But it seems that more than normal
TUE       medication is to be employed.
TUE       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Vent b00p8g0h (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Victoria
TUE       Comedy series by Nigel Smith about a man in a coma,
TUE       travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own
TUE       unconscious mind.
TUE       Ben is beginning to resent being pushed around. He
TUE       imagines a different life back in Victorian times when he
TUE       might have got things his own way a bit more often - until
TUE       he gets into an argument with Benjamin Disraeli.
TUE       Ben ...... Neil Pearson
TUE       Mary ...... Fiona Allen
TUE       Mum ...... Josie Lawrence
TUE       Blitz ...... Leslie Ash
TUE       Nurse ...... Jo Martin
TUE       Derek ...... Stephen Frost
TUE       Marley ...... Spencer Brown
TUE       Disraeli/Karl ...... Matthew Kelly
TUE       Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith
TUE       Grocer ...... Nigel Hastings
TUE       Directed by Nigel Smith.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qc (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Susan Hulme.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1w (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm8l (Listen)
WED       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 2
WED       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
WED       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
WED       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
WED       institutions, the Postie.
WED       The special relationship between the postman and his
WED       clients, and what it's like to be up at the crack of dawn.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3h (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6s (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4v (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00p7n98 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7ncc (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj0 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00p7qhm (Listen)
WED       With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day, Yesterday in
WED       Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00p8hjs (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Val Doonican.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7m (Listen)
WED       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 3
WED       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
WED       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
WED       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
WED       institutions, the Postie.
WED       Delivering letters is just the tip of the iceberg - how
WED       does the right letter end up in the right letterbox?
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsm (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires.
WED       
WED       11:00 In Living Memory b00p8hjw (Listen)
WED       Series 11, The Afghan Crisis
WED       Contemporary history series.
WED       Jolyon Jenkins talks to the pilots, passengers and
WED       policemen involved in the UK's longest plane hijack, in
WED       February 2000, when an airliner on a routine internal
WED       flight in Afghanistan was forced at gunpoint to fly to
WED       Britain.
WED       
WED       11:30 Ballylenon b00p8hjy (Listen)
WED       Series 7, Episode 4
WED       Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the
WED       1950s in a Donegal town.
WED       It is 1959. Monsignor McFadden has declared that Miss
WED       McConkey's alleged 'vision' at Lourdes needs careful
WED       investigation, jeopardising Phonsie Doherty's plans for a
WED       festival of light.
WED       Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy
WED       Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker
WED       Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy
WED       Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney
WED       Rev Samuel Hawthorne ...... Miche Doherty
WED       Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley
WED       Aubrey Frawley ...... Matthew Addis
WED       Daniel O'Searcaigh ...... James Greene
WED       Pianist: Michael Harrison
WED       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
WED       This episode is available until 11.30am on 6th January
WED       2010 as part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00p84jc (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00p84qp (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00p84vf (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00p8hk2 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00p84y7 (Listen)
WED       Fallon gives some lessons in love.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00p87r4 (Listen)
WED       Guilty Until Proved Innocent
WED       By Deborah Davis. When Dina and Jake rush their baby
WED       daughter to hospital, little do they realise that it is
WED       the beginning of a Kafkaesque nightmare from which it
WED       seems there is no escape.
WED       Dina ...... Maxine Peake
WED       Jake ...... Dan Stevens
WED       With Kate Layden, David Hargreaves, Melissa Advani, Joseph
WED       Cohen-Cole, Tessa Nicholson, Rhys Jennings, Piers Wehner
WED       and Nigel Pilkington.
WED       Directed by Tracey Neale.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00p8hk6 (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal
WED       finance questions, including credit cards, loans and
WED       repairing your credit report.
WED       Guests:
WED       James Jones, Consumer Education Manager, Experian
WED       Peter Harrison, Cards Channel Manager, Moneysupermarket
WED       David Black, Banking Specialist, Defaqto.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8d9s (Listen)
WED       Too Much Happiness, Some Women
WED       Series of short stories from the new collection by
WED       Canadian author Alice Munro.
WED       Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water
WED       to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia
WED       went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a
WED       tragic atmosphere, they died.'
WED       At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at
WED       work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the
WED       young girl brought in to help care for him begins to
WED       understand the complexities of adult life.
WED       Read by Barbara Barnes.
WED       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED       
WED       15:45 My Mile of the River b00hs8xl (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
WED       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
WED       Mid Wales.
WED       Chris walks the banks of the Wye and discovers how
WED       important the river has been to the economy of the town of
WED       Rhayader - legally and not so legally. Stories of
WED       tanneries, mills, flannel works, electricity and poaching.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00p912j (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the history of clothing behind bars.
WED       From broad arrows on prisoners suits in the 19th century
WED       to the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of the Guantanamo
WED       Bay detention camp, the uniform prisoners wear is used by
WED       penal institutions to weild power over, punish, and
WED       sometimes humiliate their prisoners. Prison uniforms
WED       reveals the culture of the time.
WED       Laurie is joined by Juliet Ash from the Royal Collge of
WED       Art to undress the history of prison clothing and discuss
WED       what it reveals about the social cultural and political
WED       context of the time.
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00p8fvb (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 b00p85qg (Listen)
WED       16th December 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       East Germany discusses what do to after dismantling the
WED       Stasi.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00p85rp (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 b00p85sz (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p912l (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 5
WED       Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a
WED       series of sketches, monologues and one-liners.
WED       Naive office worker Adrian is offered a job as the new
WED       Robson and Jerome, the United Planetary Super Council is
WED       invaded by a space-fiend and a strange German woman takes
WED       over the Shipping Forecast.
WED       With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00p84y9 (Listen)
WED       Jazzer's good intentions miss the mark.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00p85v6 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a
WED       selection of the best new crime fiction of 2009, for
WED       anyone hoping to track down a gift in the bookshop.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv1 (Listen)
WED       Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 3
WED       Financial thriller by Mike Walker.
WED       After Tim's visit to Grant Brunner, someone ran him off
WED       the road and tried to kill him. He decides to pay Brunner
WED       another visit to find out why.
WED       Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing
WED       Angela Chapman ...... Lizzie McInnerny
WED       Kathy ...... Michelle Tate
WED       Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim
WED       Grant Brunner ...... Nigel Hastings
WED       Spook ...... Rhys Jennings
WED       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
WED       
WED       20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00p91qf (Listen)
WED       European Law: After Lisbon
WED       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
WED       issues of the day.
WED       European law has been described as an incoming tide which
WED       cannot be held back. Will the coming into force of the
WED       Lisbon Treaty generate a legal tsunami which will
WED       overwhelm British sovereignty? Are we governed by our own
WED       laws or the law of Europe?
WED       
WED       20:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00p2z8p (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Sir Christopher Meyer, ex-chairman of the Press Complaints
WED       Commission and a former press secretary at Number 10,
WED       examines the press.
WED       Does the press act as freedom's guardian or is it a 'feral
WED       beast', in Tony Blair's phrase?
WED       
WED       21:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00p87r6 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty,
WED       irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world
WED       according to science.
WED       Physicist turned comedian Ben Miller joins Brian and Robin
WED       to discuss quantum physics, and if astrology really shares
WED       its roots with more scientific pursuits. They also discuss
WED       the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken,
WED       currently storming ahead in a large underground tunnel
WED       just outside Geneva.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00p8hjs (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including Val Doonican.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00p86fv (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h4 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8r (Listen)
WED       The Ingoldsby Legends, The Leech of Folkestone, Part 2
WED       Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection
WED       of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly
WED       written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but
WED       actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published
WED       in book form in 1840.
WED       In the depths of Romney Marsh, an avaricious woman, bored
WED       with her tedious husband, plots with her doctor to rid
WED       herself of her spouse. But it seems that more than normal
WED       medication is to be employed.
WED       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Bespoken Word b00lh2dp (Listen)
WED       Mr Gee presents the performance poetry series. Scroobius
WED       Pip gives his update on a classic theme with his poem Mr
WED       Otis Regrets. Also appearing are Dockers MC and Matthew
WED       Duffy.
WED       
WED       23:15 All Bar Luke b00dkgrz (Listen)
WED       Series 3, The Cruise
WED       Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key.
WED       Luke gets stranded on his way home from Calais with a
WED       people-carrier full of wedding booze and a comatose
WED       groom-to-be.
WED       An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qf (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with David Wilby.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00p7n1y (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm7m (Listen)
THU       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 3
THU       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
THU       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
THU       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
THU       institutions, the Postie.
THU       Delivering letters is just the tip of the iceberg - how
THU       does the right letter end up in the right letterbox?
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3k (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6v (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4x (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00p7n9b (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7ncf (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj2 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00p7qhp (Listen)
THU       With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
THU       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
THU       Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 1989: Simpson Returns b00p91x6 (Listen)
THU       Episode 3
THU       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the
THU       story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal
THU       stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany,
THU       the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
THU       John witnessed at first hand the bloody overthrow of the
THU       Ceausescu regime. The brutal dictator and his wife were
THU       executed on Christmas Day 1989, with the dramatic scenes
THU       played out on TV. John returns to Bucharest 20 years later
THU       to assess what has happened since.
THU       
THU       09:30 Avoiding the Question b00nfqzn (Listen)
THU       Jon Sopel explores the techniques used by different
THU       politicians to avoid questions in interviews and how it
THU       affects their public image.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7p (Listen)
THU       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 4
THU       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
THU       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
THU       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
THU       institutions, the Postie.
THU       The end of the team talk and the beginning of new-fangled
THU       machinery.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsp (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00p91x8 (Listen)
THU       Rio Law
THU       Brazil is booming economically and growing in confidence
THU       on the world stage, but in the city of Rio de Janeiro law
THU       and order have been turned upside down. Gangs run the
THU       prisons and ruthless militias - often made up of former
THU       police officers - control many shanty towns, killing with
THU       impunity. Lucy Ash asks if the authorities can end the
THU       rule of gangs, guns and greed.
THU       
THU       11:30 Protected by Faith b00p928z (Listen)
THU       John Waite investigates the restoration and conservation
THU       work undertaken by the Vatican Secret Archives laboratory,
THU       one of the world's most technologically advanced
THU       conservation labs.
THU       John visits the lab and asks how cutting-edge science and
THU       religion sit side by side, why the Vatican undertakes this
THU       task, what types of documents are hidden away in the
THU       Archive and who has access to them.
THU       Away from the Vatican, he discovers how the work of the
THU       Secret Archives compares to other conservation and
THU       preservation teams.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00p84jf (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00p84qr (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00p84vh (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00p93sw (Listen)
THU       How's My Driving?
THU       Having a driving licence used to be proof you'd grown up
THU       and could move about on your own; now it is almost a
THU       guilty pleasure.
THU       Dominic Arkwright borrowed a car to get to the studio to
THU       meet entrepreneur Alison Larkman (who walked), broadcaster
THU       Chris Serle (on his motor scooter) and actor Patrick Field
THU       (bike, train and bike) to consider the point of driving in
THU       the 21st century.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00p84y9 (Listen)
THU       Jazzer's good intentions miss the mark.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b007w0j2 (Listen)
THU       Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, Truth Makes All Things
THU       Plain
THU       Another case for John Mortimer's foxy barrister.
THU       If one man can be counted on to fight injustice and insist
THU       on a fair and decent trial for everyone, whatever their
THU       circumstances, Horace Rumpole is he. So when beautiful
THU       Tiffany Khan learns that her husband has been arrested on
THU       suspicion of terrorism, she calls on him right away.
THU       Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West
THU       Hilda Rumpole ...... Prunella Scales
THU       Judge Bullingham ...... Christopher Benjamin
THU       Tiffany Khan ...... Lily Bevan
THU       'Soapy Sam' Ballard ...... Michael Cochrane
THU       Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander
THU       Dr Mahmood Khan ...... Shiv Grewal
THU       Barrington Whiteside ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
THU       Will Timson ...... Ben Crowe
THU       Peter Plaistow ...... Christopher Scott
THU       Mrs Justice Templett ...... Joanna David
THU       Fred Sugden ...... Kim Durham
THU       Ian Antrim ...... Nigel Anthony
THU       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
THU       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00nrvrh (Listen)
THU       Ripples of the Ballinderry River
THU       Helen Mark visits Northern Ireland to find out about an
THU       exciting new community project taking place along the
THU       banks of the Ballinderry River. Along the way Helen meets
THU       people who have grown up with the Ballinderry and who are
THU       taking part in a very special project, protecting the
THU       environment and the wildlife around it and reconnecting
THU       people with the river.
THU       Helen begins by going on a hunt for the endangered
THU       white-clawed crayfish, once a common sight in rivers and
THU       lakes and now on an ever-increasing list of globally
THU       threatened species. She also meets local people involved
THU       with RIPPLE, a project designed to encourage people to get
THU       more involved in planning the future of their river, and
THU       takes to the water with canoeing enthusiasts.
THU       Further along the river, Helen meets local sound artist
THU       Paul Moore to hears the river sing, before finishing her
THU       journey on the shores of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in
THU       the British Isles and the winter home for a huge number
THU       and variety of birds. But are there as still as many
THU       arriving as the 90,000 that wintered here in the late
THU       1980s?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00p7hfd (Listen)
THU       Help the Hospices
THU       Dr Ros Taylor appeals on behalf of Help the Hospices.
THU       Donations to Help the Hospices should be sent to FREEPOST
THU       BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
THU       Help the Hospices. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
THU       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Help the
THU       Hospices with your full name and address so they can claim
THU       the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone
THU       donation facilities are not currently available to
THU       listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity Number 1014851.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p8d9v (Listen)
THU       Too Much Happiness, Wood
THU       Series of short stories from the new collection by
THU       Canadian author Alice Munro.
THU       The story of a marriage and a moment in time when what was
THU       lost is regained, and the mixed emotions that engenders. A
THU       late afternoon in a snowy wood and a casual, careless slip
THU       are all it takes
THU       Read by Barbara Barnes.
THU       Abridged by Sally Marmion.
THU       
THU       15:45 My Mile of the River b00hy5yr (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
THU       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
THU       Mid Wales.
THU       On a freezing autumn morning, Chris watches at dawn for
THU       otters. And on a freezing morning, he invokes the sights
THU       and sounds of his patch as the town wakes up.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00p7m9g (Listen)
THU       Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann about his new
THU       novel Let The Great World Spin, which won the 2009
THU       prestigious National Book Award in America. With Philippe
THU       Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the then
THU       unfinished World Trade Center Towers at its axis, it
THU       focuses on the lives of a disparate group of New York
THU       characters, including the viewpoint of Petit himself,
THU       whose own story was the subject of the award winning
THU       documentary Man on Wire. The novel celebrates the richness
THU       and diversity of New York through a range of rich and
THU       varied characters.
THU       After Borders bookshop chain announced it was going into
THU       administration, the CEO of Hachette UK, Tim Hely
THU       Hutchinson; editor of The Bookseller, Neill Denny; and
THU       independent bookseller Patrick Neale discuss the future of
THU       the bookshop on the high street. Author Patrick Gale
THU       provides the writers' perspective.
THU       There are over 1500 independent bookshops and 300
THU       Waterstones, but the threat from online selling, the
THU       supermarket and the arrival of the e-book have all had an
THU       impact on where books are sold, and we consider the
THU       serious threat to the bookshop.
THU       Producer Hilary Dunn.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00p337y (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper dissects the week's science.
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85qj (Listen)
THU       17th December 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       Labour select Peter Mandelson to stand as an MP.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00p85rr (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 b00p85t1 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium,
THU       Series 1 of b00p940t (Listen)
THU       The Global Economy
THU       Political comedian Andy Zaltzman presents a
THU       decade-by-decade comic analysis of the third millennium,
THU       covering the 2000-2009 period of what is already shaping
THU       up to be a troubled thousand years.
THU       Andy applies his twisted logic to subjects including
THU       banking, corporate fraud and the credit crunch. Where did
THU       it all go wrong?
THU       With Rory Bremner, Bridget Christie, Lucy Montgomery and
THU       Kim Wall.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00p84yc (Listen)
THU       Kirsty goes on the defensive.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00p85vb (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review
THU       of the new staging of the children's classic The Cat in
THU       the Hat, and the pick of the year's best audio books.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv3 (Listen)
THU       Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 4
THU       Financial thriller by Mike Walker.
THU       Disgraced City trader Tim Ng has been offered immunity
THU       from persecution by the FSA, but it soon becomes clear
THU       that the real subject of their investigations is Tim's
THU       father, a billionaire banker living in Hong Kong.
THU       Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing
THU       Kathy ...... Michelle Tate
THU       Mother ...... Pik-sen Lim
THU       Father ...... Lobo Chan
THU       Politician ...... Nigel Hastings
THU       Spook ...... Rhys Jennings
THU       Restaurateur ...... Kate Layden
THU       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00p944h (Listen)
THU       On the eve of what 999 ambulance crews have dubbed Black
THU       Friday - traditionally their busiest day of the year -
THU       Gill Dummigan investigates how they are meeting tough new
THU       government targets for response times. Critics say it's
THU       resulting in some areas getting inadequate cover with
THU       critically ill patients enduring long waits for medical
THU       help.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00p944k (Listen)
THU       Let Me Entertain You
THU       What can business leaders learn from rock musicians and
THU       improvisational comedians? Peter Day finds out.
THU       
THU       21:00 What Scientists Believe b00p945q (Listen)
THU       Episode 2
THU       Philosopher Stephen Webster investigates the links between
THU       scientists' personal beliefs and their scientific work. He
THU       wants to know how an individual scientist's personal,
THU       psychological and intellectual qualities map onto their
THU       chosen area of science. How much of a scientist's
THU       personality is reflected in their work? Should subjective
THU       private beliefs be a part of objective scientific
THU       outcomes? What happens if tensions develop between a
THU       scientist's beliefs and the formal demands of science? If
THU       tensions arise, how can they be resolved?
THU       Stephen meets Clare Lloyd, Professor of Respiratory
THU       Immunology, who runs a busy medical research lab at
THU       Imperial College, London. Her lab investigates asthma and
THU       how allergens can inflame nasal airways, especially in
THU       small babies. Clare talks to Stephen about the pressures
THU       of running a research lab, and how she goes about
THU       providing her team with a productive working environment.
THU       As a Principal Investigator, Clare has to encourage and
THU       inspire her researchers. She also has to secure finance
THU       for her research projects and make sure the lab runs
THU       smoothly and effectively, because ultimately, Clare's
THU       success as a scientist will be judged by her academic
THU       results.
THU       
THU       21:30 1989: Simpson Returns b00p91x6 (Listen)
THU       Episode 3
THU       The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the
THU       story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal
THU       stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany,
THU       the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
THU       John witnessed at first hand the bloody overthrow of the
THU       Ceausescu regime. The brutal dictator and his wife were
THU       executed on Christmas Day 1989, with the dramatic scenes
THU       played out on TV. John returns to Bucharest 20 years later
THU       to assess what has happened since.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00p86fx (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h6 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
THU       Shah.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8t (Listen)
THU       The Ingoldsby Legends, Bloudie Jacke
THU       Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection
THU       of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly
THU       written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but
THU       actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published
THU       in book form in 1840.
THU       A grisly and comic poetic tale concerning a local
THU       Bluebeard, intent on causing havoc wherever he roams.
THU       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Chain Reaction b0092j13 (Listen)
THU       Series 4, Richard Wilson interviews Arabella Weir
THU       Chat show in which one week's interviewee becomes the next
THU       week's interviewer. Richard Wilson talks to Arabella Weir.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00p86qh (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Mark D'Arcy.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00p7n20 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00pgm7p (Listen)
FRI       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 4
FRI       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
FRI       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
FRI       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
FRI       institutions, the Postie.
FRI       The end of the team talk and the beginning of new-fangled
FRI       machinery.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00p7n3m (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00p7n6x (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00p7n4z (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00p7n9d (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00p7nch (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00p7nj4 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00p7qhs (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00p7hfs (Listen)
FRI       Lord Coe
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe.
FRI       It is more than a quarter of a century since his rivalry
FRI       with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett enraptured
FRI       the nation.
FRI       After retiring from the racetrack, he enjoyed a career in
FRI       politics. Now, though, his focus is on the Olympics once
FRI       again - not on individual medals this time, but ensuring
FRI       the 2012 games in London are a success.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00pgm7r (Listen)
FRI       Dear Granny Smith, Episode 5
FRI       A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall and
FRI       delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the
FRI       past, present and future role of one of the oldest British
FRI       institutions, the Postie.
FRI       The tale of Tom and Jerry and the big grey boxes.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pchsr (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Scumdog Millionaires.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 The Silent Killer b00l30sb (Listen)
FRI       Justin Webb finds out what the future holds for his son,
FRI       Sam, who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the
FRI       millions of other children like him.
FRI       He explores why rates of type 1 are rising in the UK, in
FRI       younger children and more aggressively. Through his own
FRI       experience with Sam, he discovers the complexities
FRI       involved in keeping a diabetic child healthy.
FRI       Justin talks to some of the world's leading figures
FRI       working at the frontier of biomedicine who think they may
FRI       have unlocked the key to curing the disease and those who
FRI       are trying to find a way of preventing it. And he finds
FRI       out what uphill struggles they face when trying to beat a
FRI       disease for which the causes remain unclear.
FRI       As a parent struggling to understand the impact that
FRI       diabetes will have on his son's life, both immediately and
FRI       in the long term, Justin explores what options are
FRI       available to his child, and the thousands of children like
FRI       him.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00p94fm (Listen)
FRI       Series 5, Beer Cruise
FRI       Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur
FRI       Strong is an expert in everything from the world of
FRI       entertainment to the origins of the species, all false
FRI       starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a
FRI       delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
FRI       It's an early start for Arthur as he sets off on a day
FRI       trip to France with his old friends Wilf, Sally and
FRI       Geoffrey. Having brushed up on his French the night
FRI       before, Arthur shows them all just how to communicate in a
FRI       foreign tongue. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be
FRI       many French people about to converse with. Still, there's
FRI       always the wine!
FRI       With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and
FRI       Alastair Kerr.
FRI       A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for
FRI       BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00p84jh (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00p84qt (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00p84vk (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00p94fp (Listen)
FRI       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
FRI       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
FRI       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00p84yc (Listen)
FRI       Kirsty goes on the defensive.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b007wh3p (Listen)
FRI       Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, The Past Catches up with
FRI       us All
FRI       Abother case for John Mortimer's foxy barrister.
FRI       As he struggles to win justice for his client, Rumpole
FRI       also becomes embroiled in the mysterious ways of She Who
FRI       Must Be Obeyed. His marriage, rather like his waistcoat,
FRI       suddenly appears to be straining at the seams.
FRI       Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West
FRI       Hilda Rumpole ...... Prunella Scales
FRI       Claude Erskine-Brown ...... Nigel Anthony
FRI       Fred Sugden ...... Kim Durham
FRI       Dr Mahmood Khan ...... Shiv Grewal
FRI       Will Timson ...... Ben Crowe
FRI       Judge Bullingham ...... Christopher Benjamin
FRI       Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander
FRI       Barrington Whiteside ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
FRI       Peter Plaistow ...... Christopher Scott
FRI       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
FRI       A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00p959x (Listen)
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and John Cushnie answer
FRI       questions from gardeners in Cuffley, Hertfordshire.
FRI       Authors Beth Chatto and Christine Walkden join Matthew
FRI       Wilson to discuss contemporary garden literature.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 My Mile of the River b00j2j2d (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the
FRI       River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in
FRI       Mid Wales.
FRI       Chris enjoys the extremes of weather as winter grips the
FRI       Wye.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00p99n1 (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 b00p99n3 (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to artist Sam Taylor-Wood about her
FRI       feature film debut, Nowhere Boy.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00p85ql (Listen)
FRI       18th December 1989
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       Troops have fired on protestors in Romania.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00p85rt (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie
FRI       Mair. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00p85t3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00p99n5 (Listen)
FRI       Series 29, Episode 4
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00p84yf (Listen)
FRI       Father Christmas is a no-show at Lower Loxley.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00p85vd (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pbqv5 (Listen)
FRI       Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 5
FRI       Financial thriller by Mike Walker.
FRI       Tim's father appeals to stop the investigations into his
FRI       alleged unlimited derivatives, but it appears that Tim may
FRI       already know too much for his own safety.
FRI       Tim Ng ...... David Tse Ka-Shing
FRI       Kathy ...... Michelle Tate
FRI       Father ...... Lobo Chan
FRI       Gerry ...... Nigel Hastings
FRI       Selma Giddings ...... Kate Leyden
FRI       York ...... Rhys Jennings
FRI       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00p99n7 (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Masham,
FRI       North Yorkshire. The panel includes housing minister John
FRI       Healey and Conservative MP David Davis.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00p99nb (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00p99nd (Listen)
FRI       The Dependent
FRI       By Angela Clarke. When Sonia, full-time carer to her
FRI       disabled son Jack, injures herself and is forced to call
FRI       on support services, Jack gets a taste of what he's been
FRI       missing.
FRI       Sonia ...... Julia Ford
FRI       Jack ...... Paul Henshall
FRI       Les ...... Paul Wyett
FRI       Lil ...... Angela Clarke
FRI       Stephanie ...... Annabelle Dowler
FRI       Directed by Nadia Molinari.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00p86fz (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00p86h8 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pbv8w (Listen)
FRI       The Ingoldsby Legends, Jerry Jarvis' Wig
FRI       Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection
FRI       of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly
FRI       written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but
FRI       actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published
FRI       in book form in 1840.
FRI       Is it possible for a wig to be possessed? And can it, in
FRI       turn, possess a person foolish enough to wear it?
FRI       Abriged by Robin Brooks.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00p8dkb (Listen)
FRI       Series 20, Tennessee Williams
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       American stand-up comedian Rich Hall discusses the life of
FRI       playwright Tennessee Williams, whose work he first
FRI       remembers seeing at a Kentucky drive-in cinema, rather
FRI       than the theatre. With their vivid portrayal of the
FRI       American south, poetic language and dark themes, works
FRI       such as Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire
FRI       were snapped up by Hollywood as well as changing the
FRI       direction of American theatre.
FRI       Rich Hall is joined by Williams' friend and biographer
FRI       Dotson Rader to talk about the man himself: the early
FRI       unhappiness that shaped his creative life, the prejudice
FRI       he encountered due to his homosexuality, and his later
FRI       unpopularity and decline into drink and prescription
FRI       drugs. They discover a writer with a strong sense of
FRI       humour, a devotion to his family and a desire to
FRI       experiment with writing throughout his career. Was
FRI       Williams' life a wasted one?
FRI       
FRI       23:30 O Lucky Man! b00djtj2 (Listen)
FRI       John Harris presents a documentary investigating the life
FRI       and work of the film director Lindsay Anderson. The
FRI       programme focuses on If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia
FRI       Hospital, the trilogy of films Anderson made with Malcolm
FRI       McDowell featuring the character Mick Travis.
FRI       With contributions from McDowell himself, Stephen Frears,
FRI       Helen Mirren and writer David Sherwin, Harris examines
FRI       Anderson's vision of Britain and his contradictory
FRI       character.
FRI       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
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