Radio 4 Listings for 26/12/2009 - 01/01/2010

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SAT       SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00pdjxg (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       00:15 Christmas Meditation b00pdjxj (Listen)
SAT       Michael Morpurgo, former Children's Laureate and
SAT       award-winning author of books including Private Peaceful
SAT       and War Horse, reflects on the magic of storytelling at
SAT       Christmas.
SAT       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
SAT       
SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00pbpcm (Listen)
SAT       Paw Tracks in the Moonlight, Episode 5
SAT       Kevin Whately reads from Denis O'Connor's memoir.
SAT       It's Christmas Day and Denis O'Connor reflects on how much
SAT       better his life has become since he rescued the kitten,
SAT       Toby Jug.
SAT       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
SAT       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pdjxl (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pdjxn (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pdjxq (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00pdjxs (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pdjxv (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Running Away b00f678s (Listen)
SAT       Baroness Julia Neuberger
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       Baroness Julia Neuberger - rabbi, social reformer and
SAT       member of the House of Lords - takes a morning stroll
SAT       through the Victorian gardens and hothouse in the heart of
SAT       Royal Leamington Spa for a brief respite from a full diary
SAT       of engagements.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00pdjxx (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00pdjy1 (Listen)
SAT       Blue Moon
SAT       Helen Mark celebrates December's Blue Moon with artist
SAT       Elspeth Owen, who is living outside and walking every
SAT       night as part of an eccentric and unique project.
SAT       When there are two full moons in one calendar month, the
SAT       second of those moons is called a Blue Moon. Elspeth Owen,
SAT       who is in her 70s, has decided to live outside between the
SAT       first full moon (on the 2nd of December) and the second
SAT       full moon (on the 31st). She wants to discover something
SAT       about the dark, about fear and about using her senses
SAT       differently.
SAT       For this Open Country special, Helen Mark visits Elspeth,
SAT       who lives in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester,
SAT       when the sky is at its darkest - mid-way through her
SAT       project.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00pdjy3 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       The honeybee contributes hundreds of millions of pounds to
SAT       the economy every year through its role as a pollinator of
SAT       crops. But the insect has been under increasing threat
SAT       from disease and unexplained deaths over the past decade.
SAT       Farming Today has been trying to understand more about the
SAT       pressures facing the honeybee and, for the past eight
SAT       months, has been looking after its own hive. Charlotte
SAT       Smith reports on the hive's progress this year; from
SAT       disease control to honey competitions, it's been an
SAT       eventful time.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00pdjy5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00pdjy7 (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00pdjy9 (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by rock star
SAT       physicist Brian May. Maureen MacGregor describes her
SAT       favourite sound. Campbell Gillespie survived being struck
SAT       by lightning but with serious repercussions that he still
SAT       deals with now. Daphne Selfe is enjoying the delights of
SAT       supermodel stardom in her eighties. Inheritance Tracks
SAT       from Bertie Ahern and poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
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SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00pdk2n (Listen)
SAT       Quiz
SAT       Peter Curran hosts a special travel quiz, in front of an
SAT       audience in the BBC Radio Theatre. Regular presenters
SAT       Sandi Toksvig and John McCarthy go head to head, ably
SAT       assisted by television presenter and osteoarchaeologist Dr
SAT       Alice Roberts and comedian and playwright Arthur Smith.
SAT       They scratch their heads over questions concerning twin
SAT       screw steamers, charcoal spitting and Uruguayan pie and
SAT       consider which travel writer carried a leg of mutton on a
SAT       journey and which one packed treacle biscuits.
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SAT       10:30 Brandreth's Pills b00pdk2q (Listen)
SAT       Gyles Brandreth tells the story of how his ancestor made a
SAT       fortune and invented modern marketing, while apparently
SAT       curing all of America's ills. This is a story that takes
SAT       us from Liverpool docks in the 1830s to New York in the
SAT       1880s, with a cast that includes hucksters, quacks,
SAT       politicians, millionaires, the pioneers of modern America
SAT       and the founders of tabloid journalism and modern
SAT       advertising.
SAT       In 1835, Gyles's great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin
SAT       Holmes, left Liverpool for New York. He was 25, had three
SAT       children and not much capital. But by the time of his
SAT       death in 1887 he had changed his name to Benjamin
SAT       Brandreth, was a New York senator, a leading banker, the
SAT       owner of one of New York's biggest hotels and one of the
SAT       richest men in America, after making a fortune with his
SAT       Brandreth's Vegetable Pills, which reputedly cured
SAT       everything. They were sold into the mass market on the
SAT       basis that in two to three months they could help your
SAT       body purge itself of all diseases by 'purifying the
SAT       blood'. In fact, they were an explosively powerful
SAT       laxative, based on sasparilla and other purgatives.
SAT       Brandreth's timing was good. Americans, then as now, were
SAT       big eaters, and what they liked was starchy, fried food,
SAT       without much fruit or veg. In other words, junk food. At
SAT       the same time they were moving from an active rural
SAT       lifestyle to a sedentary urban one with the result that
SAT       constipation and indigestion were rampant. What they
SAT       needed were Brandreth's Pills. Within five years,
SAT       Brandreth had built a big factory at Ossining, he was
SAT       churning out pills by the million and was earning a
SAT       fortune - hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
SAT       But America was full of quack cure-alls and snake oil
SAT       salesmen. What made Brandreth so successful? As one rival
SAT       wrote, 'Dr Brandreth figures larger in the scale of
SAT       quackery than all the rest of the fraternity combined.'
SAT       The answer was that he was the first advertiser to realise
SAT       the power of the new mass market and the sensational penny
SAT       press. In the very month that Brandreth started producing
SAT       his pills, newspaperman Gordon Bennet founded the New York
SAT       Herald. Bennet and Brandreth hit it off. Before long,
SAT       Brandreth was by far the Herald's biggest advertiser.
SAT       Brandreth's advertising budget was the largest in the
SAT       country. With Gordon Bennet, he developed modern mass
SAT       advertising and branding. Some say Dr Benjamin Brandreth
SAT       was a fraud - he wasn't a doctor, Brandreth wasn't his
SAT       name and his pills did very few of the things he claimed.
SAT       Others say he was a genius, who gave comfort to millions
SAT       and made millions in the process. The great showman PT
SAT       Barnum regarded Brandreth as a role model.
SAT       Related Links
SAT       * Westchester County Historical Society
SAT       (www.westchesterhistory.com)
SAT       * Gyles Brandreth (www.gylesbrandreth.net)
SAT       * Roy Greenslade (www.guardian.co.uk)
SAT       * P T Barnum (www.ptbarnum.org)
SAT       * Who was Gordon Bennett? (BBC News)
SAT       * Westchester Archives (www.westchesterarchives.com)
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00pdkbt (Listen)
SAT       A special edition of the programme to mark the bicentenary
SAT       of Gladstone's birth, from St Deiniol's Library in North
SAT       Wales.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00pdkbw (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00pdkby (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00pd6hr (Listen)
SAT       Series 29, Episode 5
SAT       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis go a-carolling; Marcus
SAT       Brigstocke pulls some ethical crackers; Jon Holmes flicks
SAT       through the Radio Times; Mitch Benn thinks he might have
SAT       over done it and the audience tell us what really happens
SAT       at home at Christmas.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00pdkc0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00pdkc2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 News Review of the Year b00pdkqv (Listen)
SAT       2009
SAT       Carolyn Quinn looks back at the stories that hit the
SAT       headlines in 2009.
SAT       This was the year when MPs were booed and jeered over
SAT       their expenses, bankers became reviled, public debt and
SAT       unemployment soared to unimaginable heights, and elections
SAT       in Iraq and Afghanistan proved corrupt while the death
SAT       toll mounted. It was also the year when Joanna Lumley won
SAT       justice for the Gurkhas, England won the Ashes and we all
SAT       became obsessed with Twitter.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Tales from the Stave b00pcjh2 (Listen)
SAT       Chopin: Barcarolle
SAT       Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores
SAT       of well-known pieces of music.
SAT       Frances is joined by Chopin expert Adam Zamoyski and
SAT       pianist Stephen Hough at the British Library to look at
SAT       the autographed score of Chopin's Barcarolle. The library
SAT       is holding a major exhibition in 2010 to mark the 200th
SAT       anniversary of his birth.
SAT       The greater part of Chopin's professional career was spent
SAT       outside his native Poland - most of it in Paris, where he
SAT       established himself as a fashionable teacher and performer
SAT       in the houses of the wealthy. With a background of
SAT       Venetian gondoliers' songs combined with Polish
SAT       references, the Barcarolle for solo piano was completed in
SAT       1846 and meant so much to Chopin that he included it in
SAT       the programme of a concert he gave in Paris in February
SAT       1848. It was to be his last public appearance in his
SAT       beloved adopted city. His body succumbed to lifelong ill
SAT       health a year later at the age of 39.
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00pdkqx (Listen)
SAT       Educating Rita
SAT       By Willy Russell. A comic, sparky and touching portrayal
SAT       of the relationship between a working-class Open
SAT       University student and her middle-aged, alcohol-fuelled
SAT       tutor.
SAT       Rita ...... Laura Dos Santos
SAT       Frank ...... Bill Nighy
SAT       Directed by Kirsty Williams
SAT       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00pdwhf (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       A musical celebration of performers from the stage-diving
SAT       Florence and the Machine, to Maria Friedman in 'The King
SAT       and I', Beth Ditto from Gossip, to Carole King looking
SAT       back on 50 years as a recording artist. Presented by Jane
SAT       Garvey.
SAT       
SAT       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pdwhh (Listen)
SAT       26th December 1989
SAT       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SAT       years ago.
SAT       Romania buries its dead.
SAT       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00pdwhk (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the
SAT       sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00pdwhm (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pdwhp (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00pdwhr (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pdwht (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00m56dz (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation,
SAT       music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festival, in front of
SAT       an audience at The Pleasance Theatre.
SAT       He is joined by writer, actor and broadcaster Griff Rhys
SAT       Jones, cultural maverick Malcolm McLaren and actress Diana
SAT       Quick.
SAT       Arthur Smith talks to agony aunt Virginia Ironside.
SAT       With comedy from Wilson Dixon and music from Edwyn Collins
SAT       and Camille O'Sullivan.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00pdyfl (Listen)
SAT       Series 7, Chocolate
SAT       Katie Hims responds to the threatened takeover of British
SAT       confectionary group Cadbury with a bittersweet love story.
SAT       With Christine Kavanagh and John Biggins
SAT       Directed by Abigail le Fleming.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00pdyfn (Listen)
SAT       2009 was the year that Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar
SAT       for best film, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize and
SAT       Antony Gormley changed the face of Trafalgar Square. Tom
SAT       Sutcliffe, along with guests Deborah Moggach, Matthew
SAT       Sweet and Philip Hensher, selects his cultural highlights
SAT       - and turkeys - from the year that brought us The White
SAT       Ribbon, Enron, Anish Kapoor, Jedward and the end of Big
SAT       Brother.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00pj0y2 (Listen)
SAT       Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes
SAT       Shaun Ley investigates what happened to 108 missing
SAT       episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s, why the tapes were
SAT       wiped and how dedicated fans hunted down copies of other
SAT       episodes in film collections from Cyprus to New Zealand.
SAT       And while we may have lost those early programmes, Shaun
SAT       hears how home recordings ensured all the audio survived.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00pbm1x (Listen)
SAT       Matilda, Episode 1
SAT       Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern
SAT       children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size
SAT       five-year-old genius.
SAT       Narrator ...... Lenny Henry
SAT       Matilda ...... Lauren Mote
SAT       Miss Trunchbull ......Nichola McAuliffe
SAT       Mrs Wormwood ...... Claire Rushbrook
SAT       Mr Wormwood ...... John Biggins
SAT       Miss Honey ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
SAT       Mrs Phelps ...... Kate Layden
SAT       Michael ...... Ryan Watson
SAT       Bruce Bogtrotter ...... Joshua Swinney
SAT       Nobby ...... Rhys Jennings
SAT       Lavender ...... Sinead Michael
SAT       Hortensia ...... Lizzy Watts
SAT       Directed by Claire Grove.
SAT       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00pdyh5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:10 Pick of the Year b00pd69k (Listen)
SAT       Rob Brydon unwraps the best of the year's offerings from
SAT       across BBC radio.
SAT       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00pbx24 (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the eleventh heat of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest, featuring contestants from the
SAT       south of England.
SAT       Contestants
SAT       Martin Boult from Basingstoke
SAT       Rosanna Day from Newbury
SAT       Nancy Dickmann from Oxford
SAT       Andrew McNab from London
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Thomas Lynch's Season of Innocence b00pbm21 (Listen)
SAT       Irish-American poet and essayist Thomas Lynch introduces a
SAT       poignant and insightful programme on poetry that has been
SAT       inspired by children, with contributions from Carol Ann
SAT       Duffy, Matthew Sweeney, Frieda Hughes and Robin Robertson.
SAT       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
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SUN       SUNDAY 27 DECEMBER 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00pdyhw (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:15 Street Circus b00jypr3 (Listen)
SUN       Midge Ure travels to Cape Town in South Africa to visit
SUN       Zip Zap School of Circus Arts for Social Change. Midge is
SUN       expecting the big top, bright lights and clowns in comedy
SUN       big shoes and red noses, but this is something entirely
SUN       different.
SUN       Founded in 1992 by Laurence and Brent van Rensburg, the
SUN       vision for the Zip Zap circus school was to teach circus
SUN       skills to South African children from all walks of life -
SUN       from Cape Town's wealthy middle class elite to children
SUN       born in the townships. Boys, girls, wealthy, homeless,
SUN       extroverted, introverted, aged eight to 18, all have their
SUN       places and responsibilities at Zip Zap, which attempts to
SUN       embody Mandela's vision of the Rainbow Nation.
SUN       Midge meets Zip Zap's founders in Cape Town, and joins
SUN       Shannon and Neville, two trainers from Zip Zap who travel
SUN       to Khayelitsha township once a week to run the circus
SUN       outreach programme there for kids born with HIV.
SUN       Shannon and Neville seem to embody what Zip Zap is all
SUN       about. The former is a white American from Minneapolis who
SUN       went over to train with Zip Zap and the latter is a black
SUN       South African from Khayelitsha township - they got
SUN       together at Zip Zap.
SUN       At the Khayelitsha outreach programme, there is no big top
SUN       or paying audiences, just 25 children aged between eight
SUN       and 13 who were all born with HIV. They practise circus
SUN       skills in the street, including juggling, unicycle and
SUN       throwing hoops. Midge is initially a little sceptical
SUN       about how teaching circus skills to kids born with HIV can
SUN       improve their lives. He hears how they have been
SUN       ostracised by their own communities and how the circus
SUN       workshops attempt to enable these children to develop
SUN       their physical strength and abilities, while gaining
SUN       self-confidence.
SUN       Midge says, 'I get it now. It's not about building up
SUN       wonderful performers, it's about integration, it's about
SUN       self-esteem. The circus works - it gives all these kids a
SUN       focus, it gives them something to do, something to learn.
SUN       But most importantly it gives them a little bit of hope.'.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fplc (Listen)
SUN       Pier Shorts, Don't Turn Around
SUN       Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier.
SUN       By Marian Garvey, read by Claire Skinner.
SUN       Encouraged to skive off work and head for a fun weekend in
SUN       Brighton, Lexy discovers that all is not quite as it
SUN       seemed.
SUN       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pdyq0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pdyq2 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pdyq4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00pdyq6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00pdyq8 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from St Margaret's Church, Dunham
SUN       Massey in Cheshire.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00p6820 (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       Sir Christopher Meyer, press watchdog until this year as
SUN       chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former
SUN       press secretary at Number 10, discusses the role of the
SUN       press today. Is the press today freedom's guardian or is
SUN       it a 'feral beast', as Tony Blair described the media at
SUN       the end of his premiership?
SUN       Sir Christopher draws on his personal experience as press
SUN       watchdog and government spokesman. In his six years
SUN       chairing the PCC, where he dealt with complaints against
SUN       newspapers and magazines, he championed a free press and
SUN       self-regulation, but had to contend with controversies
SUN       that sometimes strained people's trust in the press.
SUN       His health check on the press comes at a time when opinion
SUN       is polarised. Is the press out of control, or is it more
SUN       constrained than ever before by the law? Is the press
SUN       destroying trust in our democracy, or are politicians
SUN       giving the press undue importance by courting editors and
SUN       journalists? Is the press too powerful, or is it
SUN       vulnerable because of competition from the internet, much
SUN       of it free and unregulated?
SUN       And now that the printed word and audio-visual content
SUN       appear together on the same website, what is the future
SUN       for self-regulation by the press?
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00pdyqb (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00pdyqd (Listen)
SUN       Born Lucky
SUN       Mark Tully explores how the circumstances of our birth -
SUN       year, era, parents, birth order, star sign, religion -
SUN       shape our personalities and affect the course of our lives.
SUN       The readers are Janice Acquah, Nicholas Boulton and Frank
SUN       Stirling.
SUN       A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       Music
SUN       Music 1: ‘First Born’, by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
SUN       Available on the album Dancer with Bruised Knees. Released
SUN       by Warner.
SUN       Music 2: ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ composed by Morten
SUN       Lauridsen, performed by the Bach Choir. Available on the
SUN       album Noel! A Selection of Carols and Anthems. Released on
SUN       Priory.
SUN       Music 3: ‘Partos Trocados’, performed by Ensemble
SUN       Accentus. Available on the album Sephardic Romances.
SUN       Released on Naxos records.
SUN       Music 4: ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’, performed by Albert
SUN       King. Available on the album I’ll Play the Blues for You.
SUN       Released on Ace Records.
SUN       Music 5: ‘Estonian Lullaby ‘I Sing for My Child’’ by Veljo
SUN       Tormis, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. Available on
SUN       the album Mnemosyne. Released by ECM records.
SUN       Music 6: ‘The Birthnight’ composed by Gerald Finzi,
SUN       performed by Stephen Roberts and Clifford Benson.
SUN       Available on Songs by Finzi & his Friends. Released by
SUN       Hyperion.
SUN       Readings
SUN       Reading 1: ‘Winter Born’ by Patrick Purnell SJ from the
SUN       Book of Furrows, published by Way Books.
SUN       Reading 2: ‘Destiny Vs Free Will’ by David Hamilton.
SUN       Published by Hay house.
SUN       Reading 3: ‘Lucky’ by Roger McGough. Published by Viking.
SUN       Reading 4: “Identity and Violence” by Amartya Sen.
SUN       Published by Allen Lane.
SUN       Reading 5: “How the Children Were Born” from Split World:
SUN       Poems 1990 - 2005 by Moniza Alvi. Published by Bloodaxe.
SUN       Reading 6: “For Your Birthday” by John O’Donahue.
SUN       Published by Bantam Press.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00pdz10 (Listen)
SUN       Adam Henson visits Charbel Akiki, a Lebanese who farms
SUN       biodynamically and grows produce familiar from his
SUN       childhood, to examine how the British conditions are
SUN       favourable to Charbel's methods. Adam also samples the
SUN       sort of foods associated with the festive period.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00pdz12 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00pdz14 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00pdz16 (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 b00pdz18 (Listen)
SUN       Alstrom Syndrome UK
SUN       Kay Parkinson appeals on behalf of Alstrom Syndrome UK.
SUN       Donations to Alstrom Syndrome UK should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Alstrom Syndrome UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800
SUN       404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
SUN       Alstrom Syndrome UK with your full name and address so
SUN       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online
SUN       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
SUN       to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity Number 1071196.
SUN       Related Links
SUN       * Alstrom Syndrome UK (www.alstrom.org.uk)
SUN       Alstrom Syndrome UK
SUN       Alstrom Syndrome is a very rare genetic condition which is
SUN       very devastating for the patient as it can lead to
SUN       progressive blindness, deafness, heart and kidney failure,
SUN       diabetes and many problems to the main organs in the body.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00pdz1b (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00pdz1d (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00g42lw (Listen)
SUN       Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy collaborated with composer
SUN       Sasha Johnson Manning to produce what the Independent
SUN       described as 'the most remarkable suite of new carols to
SUN       be published in decades', first broadcast on Radio 4 in
SUN       2009. Narrated by James Quinn, with the Manchester
SUN       Carollers and choirs from Manchester schools, and the
SUN       Northern Chamber Orchestra, led by Nicholas Ward. Director
SUN       of Music: Richard Tanner.
SUN       No transcript available due to copyright reasons
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00pd6n4 (Listen)
SUN       Clive James reflects on the human condition and the need
SUN       for liberal democracy to spread to allow future
SUN       generations to enjoy the fruits of progress.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00pdz1j (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00pdz1l (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00pdz1n (Listen)
SUN       David Tennant
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant.
SUN       He has been voted the best Dr Who ever and has redefined
SUN       the Time Lord for a generation of parents and children.
SUN       As a child he was a huge fan of the programme; he reckons
SUN       he only ever missed one episode, wore a long stripy scarf
SUN       and queued up to meet Tom Baker and get his autograph. As
SUN       a role, he says, it appealed not just to his adult self
SUN       but to the eight-year-old boy who was just below the
SUN       surface.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00pcb3d (Listen)
SUN       Series 52, Episode 6
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the
SUN       Futurist Theatre in Scarborough, with Jack Dee taking the
SUN       chairman's role.
SUN       Regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by
SUN       Jo Brand and Jeremy Hardy.
SUN       With Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00pdz1q (Listen)
SUN       Bread Skills
SUN       Sheila Dillon celebrates the rise of real bread.
SUN       The majority of Britain's bread is highly processed,
SUN       packed with additives and often made with cost, rather
SUN       than quality, in mind. But countless bakers, amateur and
SUN       professional, are fighting back.
SUN       Sheila finds out about some of the new ventures that are
SUN       making artisan bread more widely available, and at a
SUN       competitive price. Reporter Gerard Baker visits the
SUN       Handmade Bakery in West Yorkshire, a community-supported
SUN       bakery with dozens of local subscribers.
SUN       Sheila also hears about St Mary's Bakery in Frensham in
SUN       Surrey, where Richard Dean started his venture by offering
SUN       his bread to the neighbours. Sunday Telegraph food
SUN       columnist Bee Wilson explains what happened to bakers in
SUN       the Middle Ages when their bread was not up to scratch. In
SUN       the studio, food writer Rose Prince launches her idea for
SUN       extending breadmaking skills to the young as well as
SUN       encouraging more people to enjoy 'real' bread.
SUN       Related Links
SUN       * Apprenticeships (www.apprenticeships.org.uk)
SUN       * Community Supported Bakery (www.loafonline.co.uk)
SUN       * Handmade Bakery (www.thehandmadebakery.coop)
SUN       * Real Bread Campaign (www.sustainweb.org)
SUN       * Great Northumberland Bread Company
SUN       (www.foodloversbritain.com)
SUN       Recipes
SUN       Three-minute Spelt Bread from the The New English Table:
SUN       Over 200 Recipes That Will Not Cost The Earth by by Rose
SUN       Prince published by Fourth Estate Ltd, ISBN-10: 0007250932
SUN       ISBN-13: 978-0007250936
SUN       Making spelt bread is completely different from making
SUN       conventional wheat bread. The grain reacts aggressively to
SUN       yeast, and does not have to be mixed, let alone kneaded,
SUN       for more than a minute. There is also no need to let it
SUN       rise.
SUN       This recipe is from Sibille Wilkinson, whose husband,
SUN       Andrew, grows organic spelt and mills flour on their
SUN       Northumberland farm. It really does take just three
SUN       minutes to prepare.
SUN       Ingredients
SUN       500g/1lb 2oz spelt flour
SUN       10g/1/4oz fast-action dried yeast
SUN       ½ teaspoon sea salt
SUN       55g/2oz sunflower seeds
SUN       55g/2oz sesame seeds**
SUN       55g/2oz linseeds
SUN       500ml/18fl oz warm water
SUN       Method
SUN       Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6. Combine all
SUN       the ingredients in a bowl, adding the water last. Mix
SUN       well, and then turn the dough into a greased 900g/2lb loaf
SUN       tin. Put in the oven immediately and bake for 1 hour,
SUN       until the loaf has risen, lifts out of the tin easily, and
SUN       sounds hollow when tapped underneath. Take the loaf out of
SUN       the tin, and then put it back in the oven for 5–10 minutes
SUN       to crisp up the sides and base. Remove from the oven and
SUN       leave to cool on a wire rack.
SUN       Copyright Sibille Wilkinson
SUN       Doris Grant Loaf
SUN       A super simple, no-knead loaf invented by Mrs Grant in the
SUN       1940’s. Add a handful of seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, poppy
SUN       or a mix) to the dough to accentuate the deliciously nutty
SUN       flavour.
SUN       Ingredients
SUN       1lb/450g strong wholemeal or spelt flour
SUN       1 tsp brown sugar or honey
SUN       ½ sachet easy-blend or easy-bake yeast
SUN       2 tsp salt
SUN       1 tbsp olive oil or melted butter
SUN       Method
SUN       Mix the flour with the sugar or honey, yeast and 2 tsp
SUN       salt. Stir in the oil or butter and 3/4pt/420ml water to
SUN       make loose, sticky dough.
SUN       Scrape the dough into a greased 1lb/450g loaf tin.
SUN       Cover loosely with oiled cling film; leave in a warm place
SUN       for 30 minutes (until dough has risen by a third).
SUN       Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/gas mark 7.
SUN       Bake for half an hour. Slip out of the tin and check that
SUN       the base sounds hollow when tapped (if not, give it
SUN       another 5-10 minutes). Cool on a rack.
SUN       Copyright Doris Grant
SUN       Book: Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee -
SUN       The Dark History of the Food Cheats
SUN       Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The
SUN       Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson, published
SUN       by John Murray, ISBN-10: 0719567769
SUN       ISBN-13: 978-0719567766
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00pdz1s (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00pdz1v (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned
SUN       Police Box b00l59rk (Listen)
SUN       Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, explores the
SUN       hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and
SUN       80s, published by Target books. Featuring some of the best
SUN       excerpts from the books and interviews with publishers,
SUN       house writers, illustrators and the actors whose
SUN       adventures the books tirelessly depicted.
SUN       In an age before DVD and video, the Target book series of
SUN       Doctor Who fiction was conceived as the chance for
SUN       children to 'keep' and revisit classic Doctor Who. They
SUN       were marketed as such, written in a highly visual house
SUN       style. Descriptive passages did the work of the TV camera
SUN       and the scripts were more or less faithfully reproduced as
SUN       dialogue.
SUN       The books were as close to the experience of watching as
SUN       possible, and were adored by a generation of children who
SUN       grew up transfixed by the classic BBC series. Target
SUN       Doctor Who books became a children's publishing phenomenon
SUN       - they sold over 13 million copies worldwide. From 1973
SUN       until 1994, the Target Doctor Who paperbacks were a
SUN       mainstay of the publishing world.
SUN       A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pdz3s (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum, which
SUN       celebrates its Christmas party at the Museum of Garden
SUN       History in south London.
SUN       Bob Flowerdew, John Cushnie and Pippa Greenwood reflect on
SUN       the troubles and trials of the year just passed.
SUN       Including gardening weather forecast.
SUN       The GQT Christmas Special Team (picture)
SUN       (L-R) Howard Shannon ( producer ), Eric Robson, Tim
SUN       Rumball (Editor, Amateur Gardening Magazine), Kathy
SUN       Clugston (Radio 4 Newsreader), Adam Pasco (Editor, BBC
SUN       Gardeners' World Magazine), John Cushnie, Pippa Greenwood
SUN       and Bob Flowerdew.
SUN       Carol Singers at the GQT Christmas Recording
SUN       (L-R) Davina Barron, Rachel McLaughlin, Matt Flinn and Ned
SUN       Stuart-Smith.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs b00bbxp9 (Listen)
SUN       Scunthorpe Co-Op Junior Choir
SUN       Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the
SUN       country.
SUN       Joan meets the young members of the Scunthorpe
SUN       Co-Operative Junior Choir, aged three and upwards, as they
SUN       prepare for the Choir of the Year contest. With Howard
SUN       Goodall, the UK's 'Singing Tsar'.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00pdzg9 (Listen)
SUN       Matilda, Episode 2
SUN       Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern
SUN       children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size
SUN       five-year-old genius.
SUN       Matilda is determined to save the school and her favourite
SUN       teacher Miss Honey from the vicious grip of its terrifying
SUN       headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.
SUN       Narrator ...... Lenny Henry
SUN       Matilda ...... Lauren Mote
SUN       Miss Trunchbull ......Nichola McAuliffe
SUN       Mrs Wormwood ...... Claire Rushbrook
SUN       Mr Wormwood ...... John Biggins
SUN       Miss Honey ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
SUN       Michael ...... Ryan Watson
SUN       Lavender ...... Sinead Michael
SUN       Nigel ...... Bertie Gilbert
SUN       Directed by Claire Grove.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00pf0kb (Listen)
SUN       Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss a generally
SUN       unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor.
SUN       Mariella talks to Diana Athill, the former editor of
SUN       novelists including VS Naipaul, John Updike and Jean Rhys,
SUN       and herself the author of Stet, an acclaimed memoir of her
SUN       life in publishing.
SUN       John Carey, the author of a recent biography of William
SUN       Golding, explains how Golding's masterpiece Lord of the
SUN       Flies was saved from the rejects pile - and extensively
SUN       remodelled - by Golding's first editor.
SUN       The editor and writer Jenny Uglow reveals some of the
SUN       tricks of her trade, and the novelists Giles Foden and DJ
SUN       Taylor discuss how novelists rely on - and sometimes
SUN       ignore - their editors, from Dickens to the present day.
SUN       Book List:
SUN       Diana Athill: Life Class
SUN       Publisher: Granta
SUN       John Carey: William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the
SUN       Flies
SUN       Publisher: Faber
SUN       Giles Foden: Turbulence
SUN       Publisher: Faber
SUN       D J Taylor: Ask Alice
SUN       Publisher: Chatto and Windus
SUN       Jenny Uglow: A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
SUN       Publisher: Faber
SUN       
SUN       16:30 The Kalevala: Finland's National Epic b00pf0kd (Listen)
SUN       Storyteller and musician Nick Hennessey travels to Finland
SUN       to explore the mythical world of the country's national
SUN       poem, The Kalevala.
SUN       First published in 1835, this 50-chapter epic inspired a
SUN       19th-century artistic awakening and remains a cornerstone
SUN       of contemporary Finnish culture. Speaking to musicians and
SUN       critics, Hennessey finds out how the poem helped shape the
SUN       nation.
SUN       
SUN       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pf0kg (Listen)
SUN       27th December 1989
SUN       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
SUN       years ago.
SUN       The world comes to Romania's aid.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 The New Art of Diplomacy b00pckm3 (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       James Naughtie asks if British diplomacy is still fit for
SUN       purpose.
SUN       A century ago, much of the map of the world was coloured
SUN       with the pink of the British Empire. Britain's diplomats
SUN       reigned supreme, with the reassurance of a gunboat to
SUN       support them. Much has changed since that time, and
SUN       continues to change. As Britain faces new threats and new
SUN       priorities across the globe, how are the foreign office
SUN       and its diplomats changing?
SUN       
SUN       17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00pdyfl (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pf0kj (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00pf0kl (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pf0kn (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00pf0kq (Listen)
SUN       Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00pf37t (Listen)
SUN       Helen loses her rose-tinted glasses.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00pf37w (Listen)
SUN       Host Matt Frei is joined by evening news anchor Katie
SUN       Couric to discuss the most striking American stories of
SUN       the past decade.
SUN       As many across the United States enjoy a white Christmas
SUN       weekend, a cappella ensemble Sonos warms up the Americana
SUN       studios with their performance of White Winter Hymnal.
SUN       Matt Frei talks to author Sherman Alexie about Christmas
SUN       in Native American homes, both on and off the American
SUN       Indian reservations. Alexie's most recent book, War
SUN       Dances, explores the many shapes and styles of fatherhood
SUN       found across the United States.
SUN       And Americana hears about one particularly disastrous
SUN       Christmas dinner. A simple sandwich next year might turn
SUN       out to be a better option than this family feast.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t5w (Listen)
SUN       An Italian Bestiary, At Home with Dormice
SUN       Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the
SUN       animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she
SUN       has made her home.
SUN       A family of dormice are sleeping in a crack in the outside
SUN       wall.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Archive on 4 b00lj8zs (Listen)
SUN       Walking on the Moon
SUN       To mark the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing in
SUN       July 1969, Buzz Aldrin relives the dangerous and dramatic
SUN       moments of the final descent to the lunar surface. The
SUN       programme features unique oral archive from NASA,
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00pdkby (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00pdz18 (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.]
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00pd297 (Listen)
SUN       Organising Salvation
SUN       Management guru Peter Drucker called the Salvation Army
SUN       the most 'effective organisation in America'. Peter Day
SUN       asks if that is true in Britain and finds out how the Army
SUN       is bringing innovation to salvation.
SUN       Related Links
SUN       * Salvation Army, The Sandwich People
SUN       (www2.salvationarmy.org.uk)
SUN       * 40/20 Furniture Project (www.safurniture.org.uk)
SUN       * Cass Business School (www.cass.city.ac.uk)
SUN       * Crisis (www.crisis.org.uk)
SUN       Contributors to this programme:
SUN       Bill Cochrane
SUN       Commissioner, Salvation Army’s international headquarters
SUN       Daniel Rous
SUN       Project Manager, 40/20 Project
SUN       Lieut-Colonel Marion Drew
SUN       UK Salvation Army
SUN       Maff Potts
SUN       Director of Homeless Services, Booth House
SUN       Brian Gibbs
SUN       Centre Manager, Booth House
SUN       Lieut-Colonel Alan Burns
SUN       Scottish Secretary and district commander for East
SUN       Scotland, Salvation Army and 40/20 Furniture Project, Perth
SUN       Liz Osbourne
SUN       Business projects coordinator, Booth House
SUN       Leslie Morphy
SUN       Chief executive, Crisis
SUN       Professor Cathy Pharoah
SUN       Co-director of the Centre for Charitable Giving and
SUN       Philanthropy, Cass Business School in London
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00pf3fy (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 News b00pf3jn (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       22:10 News Review of the Year b00pdkqv (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00pf3jq (Listen)
SUN       Week ending 26th December November 1989
SUN       A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago,
SUN       with Sir John Tusa.
SUN       US forces looking for General Noriega invade Panama,
SUN       intense fighting continues in Romania and President
SUN       Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife are captured and executed.
SUN       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00pdyqd (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.]
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 28 DECEMBER 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00pf3sl (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pclfj (Listen)
MON       The new bourgeoisie played an enormously important role in
MON       the history of industrial and imperial Britain. The extent
MON       to which cousin marriage proliferated in the 19th century
MON       relates to the central question as to which people were
MON       going to lead Industrial England.
MON       Close-knit families in Victorian England delivered
MON       enormous advantages. They shaped vocations, generated
MON       patronage, yielded vital commercial information and gave
MON       access to capital; no wonder that marriage within the
MON       family, between cousins or between in-laws, was a
MON       characteristic strategy of this new bourgeoisie.
MON       Laurie Taylor discusses private life in 19th-century
MON       England with Adam Kuper, the author of Incest and
MON       Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England, and
MON       Catherine Hall, professor of modern British social and
MON       cultural history at University College, London.
MON       Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University
MON       Incest and Infuence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
MON       Publisher: Harvard University Press
MON       ISBN-10: 0674035895
MON       ISBN-13: 978-0674035898
MON       Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class
MON       1780-1850
MON       Publisher: Routledge
MON       ISBN-10: 0415290651
MON       ISBN-13: 978-0415290654
MON       Henrietta Garnett, writer, biographer and a descendent of
MON       the Bloomsbury Group
MON       Family Skeletons
MON       Publisher: Sceptre
MON       ISBN-10: 0340417285
MON       ISBN-13: 978-0340417287
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00pdyq8 (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3xz (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf410 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3zq (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00pf43n (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43z (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00pf4wt (Listen)
MON       Farming Today takes an in-depth look at pig production,
MON       following one sow on a Yorkshire farm from pregnancy to
MON       progeny. From artificial insemination to electronic
MON       feeders controlled by the sows themselves, modern pig
MON       breeding is a hi-tech business driven by market forces.
MON       Sarah Falkingham also finds out why some boars are on
MON       farms but never mate, how pigs develop a hierarchy and can
MON       even, it seems, measure time.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00pfp8g (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00pf4xq (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00pfp8j (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr looks at the ideas and issues that have
MON       dominated the world of science in the past year, and those
MON       that will be vitally important in the year ahead.
MON       Sir Roy Anderson looks at the developments and mutations
MON       of swine flu and how the world deals with global
MON       pandemics. As a former government advisor, he also
MON       explores that thorny issue of when politics and science
MON       collide. Richard Dawkins reflects on a year dominated by
MON       Darwin, Professor John Shepherd on the blue-sky thinking
MON       to combat climate change with a report on geoengineering,
MON       and Barbara Sahakian considers whether taking pills to
MON       make us clever, well-behaved and sociable will become the
MON       norm in the years ahead.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00pfs2w (Listen)
MON       Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 1
MON       Mark Rylance and Julius D'Silva read from a new edition of
MON       Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence.
MON       This selection illustrates the artist's contradictions and
MON       complexities: his self-doubt and his passionate ambition;
MON       his close bond with his brother Theo; and his sometimes
MON       troubled relationships with other family members and
MON       fellow artists. What emerges above all is his overriding
MON       passion for his art.
MON       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
MON       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
MON       Related Links
MON       * Read all 902 letters to and from Van Gogh
MON       (vangoghletters.org)
MON       * Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (English version)
MON       (www.vangoghmuseum.nl)
MON       * Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, 23 January -
MON       18 April 2010 (www.royalacademy.org.uk)
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nn (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       A special edition devoted to the role of men on the
MON       programme, who make up almost 40 per cent of listeners.
MON       Joining Jane to reflect on the past year's output are the
MON       writer Tony Parsons, the musician and poet Benjamin
MON       Zephaniah and the writer John O'Farrell. They share their
MON       personal opinions and experiences on subjects ranging from
MON       fatherhood to fertility, inspirational women who've had an
MON       influence on their lives, and they discuss the notion of
MON       the male mid-life crisis.
MON       Several male listeners share their thoughts; Roy Hudd
MON       describes why he owes much of his irrepressible sense of
MON       humour to the grandmother who brought him up, and Nicky
MON       Campbell reveals what inspired him to write a swing album.
MON       
MON       11:00 Living with the In-Laws b00pfp8l (Listen)
MON       Perminder Khatkar explores the realities for Asian women
MON       who move in with their in-laws when they get married. For
MON       some the advantages of free childcare and shared living
MON       costs work out well, but others move out as the friction
MON       becomes unbearable.
MON       
MON       11:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00pfp8n (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Episode 3
MON       Comedy series by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby.
MON       Giles Wemmbley-Hogg returns, having set up his own travel
MON       company.
MON       Giles takes four cross ladies and a piece of lead piping
MON       on a septuagenarian trans-Balkan hen party with an Agatha
MON       Christie theme.
MON       Giles ...... Marcus Brigstocke
MON       Lady Flench ...... Alison Steadman
MON       MrsHadleigh-Broome ...... Morwenna Banks
MON       Mrs Gunthorne ...... Janet Henfrey
MON       Mr Timmis ...... Adrian Scarborough
MON       Charlotte Wemmbley-Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd
MON       Hugo ...... Ben Willbond
MON       David ...... David Armand
MON       Mehmet ...... Nej Adamson.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00pf5y5 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00pf71b (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00pfksl (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00pfpdb (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the twelfth and final heat of the
MON       perennial general knowledge contest, with contestants from
MON       the north of England.
MON       Contestants
MON       Richard Beatty from Edinburgh
MON       Anne Hegerty from Manchester
MON       David Smith from Nantwich
MON       Martin Wyatt from Accrington
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00pf37t (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00pfpdd (Listen)
MON       McLevy - Series 6, End of the Line
MON       Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective
MON       based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James
MON       McLevy.
MON       Two ladies make an unusual discovery on Waverley station:
MON       the body of a drunken Italian aristocrat. What on earth
MON       was he doing on a late-night train from Newcastle?
MON       McLevy ...... Brian Cox
MON       Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond
MON       Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
MON       Roach ...... David Ashton
MON       Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil
MON       Pettigrew ...... Paul Young
MON       Senga ...... Wendy Seager
MON       Margaret ...... Monica Gibb
MON       Jennie ...... Eliza Langland
MON       Angus ...... Jimmy Chisholm
MON       Directed by Patrick Rayner.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00pj0y2 (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.]
MON       
MON       15:45 A View Through a Lens b00ghrfd (Listen)
MON       Seals
MON       Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in
MON       isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe
MON       filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the
MON       uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the
MON       fragility of life and the connections which unite society
MON       and nature across the globe.
MON       Despite a raging storm, John struggles across the rocky
MON       shore of Brownsman Island off the coast of Northumberland
MON       to film grey seals giving birth at night.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00pdz1q (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00pfpdg (Listen)
MON       Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the popularity of angels
MON       in contemporary culture. Angels appear in almost every
MON       religious tradition; what are they and why are so many
MON       people prepared to believe in angels but not in God?
MON       
MON       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl5n (Listen)
MON       28th December 1989
MON       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
MON       years ago.
MON       Jimi Hendrix is deployed against General Noriega.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00pfl7j (Listen)
MON       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
MON       Quinn. Plus Weather.
MON       
MON       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl92 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgj (Listen)
MON       Episode 3
MON       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
MON       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
MON       happening this 'once upon a time'.
MON       Food campaigner Jack Spratt and the Tooth Fairy debate the
MON       nation's nutrition.
MON       With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Charlotte Green, Lewis
MON       MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell.
MON       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
MON       
MON       18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00pfr4w (Listen)
MON       New Year Special
MON       David Mitchell hosts a special New Year's edition of the
MON       game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies
MON       and compete to see how many items of truth they are able
MON       to smuggle past their opponents. The panel includes Rob
MON       Brydon, John Lloyd and Stephen Fry.
MON       A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00pfkvv (Listen)
MON       Pip has a crisis of confidence.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00pflxt (Listen)
MON       Mark Lawson examines the lives of three acclaimed writers
MON       as revealed in three major new biographies.
MON       The novelist and playwright Somerset Maugham enjoyed
MON       immense literary success and wealth during his lifetime,
MON       but as his biographer Selina Hastings reveals, his
MON       personal life led to a 2009 newspaper headline describing
MON       him as possibly the most debauched man of the 20th century.
MON       John Carey's biography of Nobel Laureate William Golding
MON       also attracted headlines, in the light of details
MON       discovered in Golding's previously unseen journals. John
MON       Carey reflects on whether or not this new information
MON       changed his opinion of Golding as a writer.
MON       The complex life of Muriel Spark presented considerable
MON       problems for biographer Martin Stannard. He discusses his
MON       approach to the novelist still perhaps best known for The
MON       Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Muriel Spark herself
MON       remembers key incidents from her life from a Front Row
MON       archive interview recorded in 2004, just two years before
MON       she died.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflyb (Listen)
MON       My Mad Grandad, Episode 1
MON       By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels
MON       and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in
MON       Lancashire.
MON       After being moved away from bad influences to live in a
MON       quiet village, 12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is
MON       the oldest, blackest sheep in his family - his grandad,
MON       just released from the asylum, who thinks boys need
MON       catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer.
MON       Mum ...... Alison Steadman
MON       Dad ...... Matthew Kelly
MON       Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill
MON       Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham
MON       Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas
MON       Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell
MON       Gil ...... Stephen Rac
MON       Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney
MON       Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan
MON       Directed by Dirk Maggs
MON       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00pfr4y (Listen)
MON       Series 5, The Glorious Revolution
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       The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is remembered for
MON       establishing the supremacy of Parliament over the Crown,
MON       setting Britain on the path towards constitutional
MON       monarchy and parliamentary democracy. Yet what's forgotten
MON       is that the events of 1688 actually constituted a foreign
MON       invasion of England by another European power, the Dutch
MON       Republic.
MON       When William of Orange landed at Torbay in Devon on 5
MON       November 1688, with a fleet four times the size of the
MON       Armada of the previous century, it was ostensibly at the
MON       invitation of seven Whig supporters who were anxious to
MON       avoid a Catholic succession to James II's reign. But
MON       William's invasion was central to his plan of war with
MON       France, ensuring that England would not add her armed
MON       force to that of the French; he was set on becoming king
MON       himself and was leading his troops as an occupying force.
MON       The last comparable event was a previous William's
MON       invasion in 1066.
MON       Even though bloodshed in England was limited - though far
MON       from the entirely 'Bloodless' revolution that has been
MON       mythologised - the revolution was only secured in Ireland
MON       and Scotland by force and with much loss of life. Michael
MON       investigates the uncomfortable facts of invasion and
MON       occupation which lie behind the popular celebration of
MON       1688.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00pcn0y (Listen)
MON       Sweden
MON       Writer Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart
MON       of Sweden still lives on in the modern age. In an
MON       entertaining and unpredictable journey he goes in search
MON       of wolves, egg-tossing merrymakers and the ideal of the
MON       Swedish summer.
MON       
MON       21:00 The Dragons' Lab b00pfr50 (Listen)
MON       What happens when economists, neuroscientists, biologists,
MON       engineers and psychologists spend a week in the same room
MON       trying to think of ways to spend a few of million pounds?
MON       Trevor Cox lifts the lid on the funding game as he spends
MON       a week with some hopeful researchers out to win their
MON       share of several million pounds of public money in a
MON       unique funding event called The Ideas Factory - or, as he
MON       dubs it, The Dragons' Lab.
MON       Each year the UK research councils share out 2.8 billion
MON       pounds of taxpayers' money. But how do they decide who
MON       should get it? With grants dwindling under new government
MON       spending plans, research funding squabbles are getting
MON       more fraught.
MON       But the UK research council model for funding science is
MON       often intrinsically conservative: if you know what the
MON       outcome of research will be, why do you need to spend all
MON       that money on it? Furthermore, grants are awarded by the
MON       cognoscenti to the cognoscenti, and there is often little
MON       space for fresh perspectives or interdisciplinary overlap.
MON       There is a also a gap in the public's awareness of how
MON       these important decisions are taken on its behalf.
MON       Related Links
MON       * EPSRC - IDEAS Factory (www.epsrc.ac.uk)
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00pfp8j (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00pfmmb (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00pfms9 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Roger
MON       Hearing.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pfmsc (Listen)
MON       The True Deceiver, Episode 1
MON       Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
MON       Winter settles over the Swedish fishing village of
MON       Västerby. Katri offers to run errands for the ageing
MON       artist who lives on the outskirts. But what does this
MON       strange young woman want in return from Anna Aemelin?
MON       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
MON       A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00pck26 (Listen)
MON       Michael Rosen takes apart some jokes to try to find out
MON       why they're funny. After he puts them back together, they
MON       don't seem to work very well.
MON       
MON       23:30 A Life With ... b00lk12y (Listen)
MON       Series 5, Microbes
MON       Writer and naturalist Paul Evans meets Prof Lynn Margulis,
MON       whose study of the Earth's smallest creatures led to a
MON       revolutionary theory for all life on Earth. The cell,
MON       symbiosis, Gaia and a row with Richard Dawkins all combine
MON       to offer a new perspective on evolution.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 29 DECEMBER 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nb (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:15 Dear Darwin b00g9xhy (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin,
TUE       expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy.
TUE       Dr Craig Venter, one of the men who first successfully
TUE       mapped the human genome, tells Darwin about his own
TUE       experiences as a collector and hands-on biologist, from
TUE       boyhood toad fascination to his Sorcerer II voyage, which
TUE       circumnavigated the globe in the manner the young Darwin
TUE       did aboard HMS Beagle. Nowadays, however, Craig collects
TUE       genes rather than pickled specimens. He tells Darwin of
TUE       his Institute's current efforts to produce the world's
TUE       first synthetic lifeform, completely fabricated by man,
TUE       yet otherwise untouched by nature and therefore arguably
TUE       unevolved.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00pfs2w (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.]
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sn (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zs (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y3 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00pf412 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43q (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tr (Listen)
TUE       Farms are well known to be dangerous places and the
TUE       countryside in general is not a good place to have a
TUE       serious accident because you could be a long way from your
TUE       nearest paramedic. But help is at hand from a group of
TUE       ex-army survival experts who are putting the the medical
TUE       skills they learned on battlefields from the Falkland
TUE       Islands and Afghanistan into practice on farms and country
TUE       estates. Steve Peacock joins one of their training courses
TUE       to find out how to survive a serious accident when the
TUE       ambulance is more than an hour away.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00pf4ww (Listen)
TUE       With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 Defining The Decade b00pfrmm (Listen)
TUE       Mission Accomplished
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       A decade which began with untrammelled American power and
TUE       ended with America's reputation damaged and its dominance
TUE       challenged by the rise of China.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xk (Listen)
TUE       Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 2
TUE       Mark Rylance reads from a new edition of Van Gogh's
TUE       prodigious correspondence.
TUE       Vincent begins his artistic studies in earnest under the
TUE       guidance of the artist Anton Mauve. He also embarks on a
TUE       relationship with a pregnant prostitute, Christien, whom
TUE       he decides to take under his wing. But this brings him
TUE       into conflict with his family.
TUE       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nd (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey.
TUE       Best known as Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw in Sex
TUE       and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker stars in a new romantic
TUE       comedy, Did You Hear About the Morgans? with Hugh Grant.
TUE       She talks to Jane about the film, the new twins in her
TUE       life and why Carrie Bradshaw means so much to women.
TUE       There's an increase in the number of women, including
TUE       young mums, who are addicted to gambling. To combat this,
TUE       a clinic in London is offering childcare to encourage
TUE       sufferers to get treatment. The programme hears from a
TUE       former addict receiving treatment at the Soho Clinic, and
TUE       Jane talks to the clinic's director, Dr Henrietta Bowden
TUE       Jones, and to Liz Karter from the charity Gamcare, which
TUE       helps problem gamblers.
TUE       In August 1920 Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, which
TUE       went on to sell a million copies in one year alone. Mamie
TUE       Smith paved the way for the better-known women blues
TUE       singers who followed her and as such is one of the most
TUE       influential of the iconic black women singers collected on
TUE       Document Records. In the last of the series on these
TUE       iconic women, Judi Herman talks to the husband and wife
TUE       team behind the record label to learn more about Mamie
TUE       Smith.
TUE       And what do you like to wear in bed - a sexy nighty, warm
TUE       pyjamas or absolutely nothing? And how would you respond
TUE       to the latest trend in nightwear - the slanket, a soft
TUE       blanket with sleeves? Jane discusses the ins and outs of
TUE       nightwear with Beatrice Behlen, Curator of Fashion and
TUE       Decorative Arts at the Museum of London, and Kerry Potter,
TUE       features director at Elle magazine.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Where Do You Want Me (A Comic in Continental Crisis)
TUE       b00nmz81 (Listen)
TUE       Johnny Vegas is at a turning point in his professional
TUE       status. He has a thriving career but knows deep down that
TUE       audiences are getting younger and his shelf-life within
TUE       showbusiness could be too close to perishable for comfort.
TUE       What will become of Johnny should The Mighty Boosh demand
TUE       it is time for him to take his final bow? Johnny sees that
TUE       with the demise of working men's clubs and the unforgiving
TUE       nature of popular culture, many household names have
TUE       followed their ageing audiences to the Spanish coast,
TUE       where they are still revered and can play once more to
TUE       packed houses of grateful punters.
TUE       Is Benidorm merely the elephants' graveyard for
TUE       entertainers who just don't know when to call it a day, or
TUE       a shining tribute to the glories of past comedy? Is it a
TUE       fate that awaits Johnny himself? And what if Benidorm
TUE       itself is nearing the end of a golden age, now that it is
TUE       under threat as global recession bites.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Van Gogh: Seeing Red b00pfrzs (Listen)
TUE       Richard Cork explores the mind of Vincent van Gogh through
TUE       his correspondence, which will form a vital part of a new
TUE       exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
TUE       A keen and expressive correspondent who regaled
TUE       acquaintances with his views on love, religion and sex, he
TUE       put pen to paper with the same creative vigour as he put
TUE       paintbrush to canvas. By the time he walked into a field
TUE       in the town of Auvers-sur-Oise and shot himself in the
TUE       chest, the 37-year-old van Gogh had left behind a rich
TUE       literary legacy that would, like his painting, outlive his
TUE       short and tortured life.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wk (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00pf5y7 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00pfks6 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Bach Fever! b00pfsln (Listen)
TUE       Exploring the uses and abuses of Bach's music, from the
TUE       jazz Bach craze of the 1960s to the electronic edifice of
TUE       Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach recordings. It has provided
TUE       an incredible resource for pop invention, jazz
TUE       improvisation, acapella swing, electronic futurism, rock
TUE       guitar and plain kitsch.
TUE       A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00pfkvv (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.]
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00pfslq (Listen)
TUE       Cattle Market
TUE       By Shane Connaughton. Deep in rural Northern Ireland, cows
TUE       are two a penny; sadly, for one farming community, finding
TUE       love and the perfect partner is proving more elusive. If
TUE       only these eligible farmers could find a way to advertise
TUE       themselves.
TUE       Kate ...... Geraldine Hughes
TUE       Ryan ...... Liam McMahon
TUE       Evie ...... Emma Kearney
TUE       Alfie ......Stephen Darcy
TUE       Betty ...... Frances Tomelty
TUE       Ben ...... Miche Doherty
TUE       Bill Turner ...... James Greene
TUE       Simon ...... PAtrick Fitzsymons
TUE       Maureen ...... Myrtle Johnson
TUE       Directed by Gemma McMullan.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00pfsls (Listen)
TUE       Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions
TUE       about the environment and the natural world.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfslv (Listen)
TUE       Bright Young Things, Jeeves and the Yuletide Sprit
TUE       Series of three classic short stories celebrating the
TUE       riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the
TUE       1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'.
TUE       By PG Wodehouse. An unexpected invitation to spend the
TUE       festive season in the country throws Jeeves's plans for a
TUE       yuletide break in Monte Carlo into disarray. But as the
TUE       halpess Bertie Wooster gaily wreaks havoc in the season of
TUE       goodwill, his loyal manservant soon has Monte Carlo back
TUE       in his sights.
TUE       Read by Julian Rhind Tutt.
TUE       Abridged by Richard Hamilton
TUE       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 A View Through a Lens b00gq4nb (Listen)
TUE       Shadows
TUE       Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view
TUE       of life as he finds himself in isolated and often
TUE       dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife.
TUE       Squatting on a tiny platform 30 metres offshore, John
TUE       waits for young black-footed albatrosses to embark on
TUE       their first flight from the shore. Below him in the water,
TUE       shadows are patrolling back and forth, waiting for the
TUE       birds to land on the waves.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00pftm5 (Listen)
TUE       A sweet relief for some and painfully uncomfortable for
TUE       others, silence can be one of the most powerful tools in
TUE       speech. From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael
TUE       Rosen investigates the times when staying silent can speak
TUE       volumes.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00pftm7 (Listen)
TUE       Series 20, Hannah Arendt
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Munira Mirza, the London Mayoral advisor on arts and
TUE       culture, chooses the influential political philosopher
TUE       Hannah Arendt.
TUE       She is regarded as a highly influential 20th-century
TUE       political philosopher, although Arendt would have refuted
TUE       the title 'philosopher' herself. Born into a secular
TUE       German Jewish family, she grew up in what is now Hanover
TUE       and Berlin. A student with Heidegger (with whom she had a
TUE       tumultuous relationship; they divorced in 1929), Arendt
TUE       survived being interrogated by the Gestapo and moved to
TUE       Paris, where she lived for a number of years before
TUE       immigrating to America in the 1940s, settling in New York.
TUE       Arendt was a lively part of an intellectual circle and
TUE       held a number of academic posts until her death. Little
TUE       known in the UK, Arendt is chosen by Munira Mirza, the
TUE       London Mayoral advisor on arts and culture and a founding
TUE       member of the Manifesto Club.
TUE       
TUE       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl32 (Listen)
TUE       29th December 1989
TUE       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
TUE       years ago.
TUE       Playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of
TUE       Czechoslovakia.
TUE       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00pfl5q (Listen)
TUE       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
TUE       Quinn. Plus Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7l (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgl (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
TUE       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
TUE       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
TUE       happening this 'once upon a time'.
TUE       Jim reports live from the launch site of the Nurseyland
TUE       space programme as preparations are finalised to put a cow
TUE       over the moon.
TUE       With Peter Donaldson, Lewis MacLeod, Alex MacQueen, Lucy
TUE       Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell.
TUE       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pfv03 (Listen)
TUE       Special Relationship
TUE       Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of
TUE       inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
TUE       Beagle Team are joined by a CIA operative on an exchange
TUE       visit.
TUE       Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
TUE       Sharla ...... Nina Conti
TUE       Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
TUE       Colonel ...... Ewan Bailey
TUE       Bristow ...... John Biggins
TUE       Sean ...... Joseph Cohen Cole
TUE       Lenny ...... Piers Wehner
TUE       Ignatius/Fuego ...... Nigel Hastings.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00pfkvj (Listen)
TUE       David and Ruth face a parenting challenge.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00pfl94 (Listen)
TUE       According to some predictions, the rise of e-readers -
TUE       electronic devices which can contain hundreds of books
TUE       digitally - mark the end of the traditional book. In a
TUE       special edition of Front Row, Mark Lawson speaks to
TUE       readers, writers, publishers and e-book manufacturers
TUE       about whether methods of consuming and producing
TUE       literature - which we now take for granted - are coming to
TUE       an end.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflxw (Listen)
TUE       My Mad Grandad, Episode 2
TUE       By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels
TUE       and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in
TUE       Lancashire.
TUE       Gil takes his first trip in a car and Grandad finds
TUE       something to laugh at in the crematorium.
TUE       Mum ...... Alison Steadman
TUE       Dad ...... Matthew Kelly
TUE       Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill
TUE       Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham
TUE       Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas
TUE       Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell
TUE       Gil ...... Stephen Rac
TUE       Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney
TUE       Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan
TUE       Directed by Dirk Maggs
TUE       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 From Tsunami to Drought b00pfv05 (Listen)
TUE       Andrea Catherwood chairs a series of presentations at the
TUE       Royal Geographical Society organised by conservation
TUE       charity Earth Watch, each offering novel solutions to
TUE       global drought, with a Dragons' Den-style panel and an
TUE       audience quizzing them about their ideas.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00pg4xg (Listen)
TUE       Peter White meets Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of
TUE       Devonshire, at her home in Derbyshire. She has lived there
TUE       since leaving Chatsworth House, which she and her late
TUE       husband Andrew, the Duke of Devonshire, lived for almost
TUE       50 years.
TUE       The Duchess has had macular degeneration for about five
TUE       years and says the thing she most struggles with is
TUE       reading. She says she is fortunate to have many friends
TUE       and helpers at the house who read things to her, although
TUE       sometimes what they read to her from the newspapers isn't
TUE       always the bit she might choose. Magnifiers help her only
TUE       for the odd word or two and she prefers to use people
TUE       rather than gadgets to help her.
TUE       The Duchess talks about her life as the youngest of the
TUE       famous Mitford sisters and tells Peter about the time she
TUE       went to Austria with her mother to see her sister Unity,
TUE       and together they were invited to have tea with Hitler in
TUE       his flat. The Duchess said it was strange as she remembers
TUE       he rang a bell, but nobody came. She also speaks of her
TUE       passion for Elvis Presley and says she has visited his
TUE       former home, Graceland, twice. She also has an Elvis
TUE       novelty phone and a piece of his garden fence as souvenirs.
TUE       The Duchess thought her family was quite normal when she
TUE       was younger, and only later reaslied that maybe it was a
TUE       little different - one of the differences being that the
TUE       man she called Uncle Harold was known to the rest of the
TUE       country as prime minister Harold MacMillan. The Duchess
TUE       takes Peter to see her hens, for which she also has a
TUE       passion, and has owned her own hens since she was six
TUE       years old.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00pg4xj (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter reports on the unique study that is
TUE       tracking obesity from childhood. Researchers in Plymouth
TUE       have been following the progress of a group of 300
TUE       children since they were born. Now they are teenagers, and
TUE       data from taking blood samples and weighing them has
TUE       helped the scientists to reveal that obesity follows
TUE       gender lines and that diet is more important than exercise
TUE       when it comes to losing weight.
TUE       Related Links
TUE       * The Earlybird Diabetes Trust
TUE       (www.earlybirddiabetes.org)
TUE       * BBC - Childhood obesity
TUE       * Possible obesity gene (www.telegraph.co.uk)
TUE       * Every Child Matters, govt programme (www.dcsf.gov.uk)
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Defining The Decade b00pfrmm (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00pfmkj (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmd (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv9c (Listen)
TUE       The True Deceiver, Episode 2
TUE       Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
TUE       As Katri visits the rabbit house more often, Anna gets
TUE       first sight of the young woman's unusual qualities.
TUE       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
TUE       A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Vent b00pg50h (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, The Stand-In
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 stages a sit-in at the post office. Meanwhile a shiny
TUE       new Ben is trying to write him out of his own life.
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       Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith
TUE       Assistant 1 ...... Kate Leyden
TUE       Assistant 2 ...... Tara Lynch
TUE       Lorraine ...... Tessa Nicholson
TUE       Mr Shah ...... Bruce Alexander
TUE       Martin ...... Nigel Hastings
TUE       Copper 1 ...... Tom Price
TUE       Copper 2 ...... Abigail Burdiss
TUE       Ten-year-old Boy ...... Lizzy Watts
TUE       Directed by Nigel Smith.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 A Life With ... b00lpkd7 (Listen)
TUE       Series 5, Loons
TUE       Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to Maine to meet
TUE       David Evers, a conservation biologist who has spent a life
TUE       with loons, the enigmatic bird of northern lakes known in
TUE       the UK as the Great Northern Diver.
TUE       Related Links
TUE       * BioDiversity Research Institute - Loon conservation
TUE       project (www.briloon.org)
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nd (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvwv (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin,
WED       expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy.
WED       Sir Jonathan Miller takes issue with Darwin's thoughts on
WED       reproduction. Darwin had no conception of modern genetics,
WED       but by the very nature of his work was tempted to
WED       speculate on the mechanism of reproduction. Jonathan
WED       questions why in this, one of the most central problem of
WED       biology, Darwin deviated from his otherwise exacting
WED       empirical standards, and support a just-so story of
WED       reproduction that could not even explain why circumcision
WED       was not inherited.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xk (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sq (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zv (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y5 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00pf414 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43s (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tt (Listen)
WED       Charlotte Smith follows a year in the life of four
WED       brothers who are new to farming. Economics, animal disease
WED       and the weather have all been obstacles. Charlotte
WED       discovers if they overcame these and managed to make
WED       farming pay.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00pf4wy (Listen)
WED       With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00pg52c (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with guests including
WED       Fiona Shaw and Billy Childish.
WED       Related Links
WED       * Wilton's Music Hall (www.wiltons.org.uk)
WED       * Billy Childish (www.billychildish.com)
WED       * Eva Jiricna (www.ejal.com)
WED       * UK Friends of Czech Historic Buildings
WED       (www.ukczechfriends.org)
WED       * The Congregation of Jesus (www.cjengland.org)
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xm (Listen)
WED       Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 3
WED       Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read
WED       from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence.
WED       Vincent leaves Paris for the light and warmth of Arles in
WED       the south of France. His new surroundings quickly revive
WED       both his spirits and his zest for painting, and he plans
WED       to establish a new artistic community there. But his hopes
WED       to persuade Paul Gauguin to move south and join him in the
WED       little yellow house appear, at first, to be met with some
WED       resistance.
WED       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5ng (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including:
WED       At this time of year, with New Year's Eve coming up,
WED       babysitters are much in demand. Traditionally the job has
WED       been a way for teenage girls to make a bit of extra money,
WED       but more and more boys are also keen to take on the role.
WED       Louise Adamson went along to a training course set up by a
WED       mother of two to find out what the boys are learning and
WED       what they feel they have to offer as babysitters.
WED       Although hard-partying Amy Winehouse may not seem like
WED       ideal mentor material for a young schoolgirl, she's
WED       certainly a good person to have as your godmother if you
WED       have pop stardom on your mind. So impressed was Amy by
WED       13-year-old Dionne Bromfield's powerfully soulful singing
WED       voice that she made her the first signing on her own
WED       record label. Dionne tells Jenni how she balances concerts
WED       and photo shoots with her schoolwork, and performs live in
WED       the studio.
WED       In December 1919, the first piece of equal opportunities
WED       legislation entered the statute book. The Sex
WED       Disqualification (Removal) Act enabled women to join the
WED       professions for the first time. They could now become
WED       lawyers, vets and accountants; they could sit on juries
WED       and become magistrates. But not all feminists were happy
WED       with the legislation. Ninety years after the Act was
WED       passed, Woman's Hour explores both the jubilation and the
WED       frustration it caused and considers the case of Helena
WED       Normanton, the first woman to be called to the Bar.
WED       This last decade, words like Twitter, blogging, iPhone,
WED       X-box, MySpace, Facebook, message boards, have entered the
WED       English language and become daily parlance. The online
WED       world used to be seen as a geeky male domain, but now
WED       we're hearing a lot about female social networking sites
WED       such as Mumsnet, which infiltrated politics with the
WED       'Biscuitgate' affair. How much is new technology
WED       benefitting the 'ordinary' woman, and are these
WED       developments all positive news? Jenni talks to writer
WED       India Knight and clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Bryon.
WED       
WED       11:00 UK Confidential b00pg52f (Listen)
WED       As tens of thousands of previously secret government files
WED       are released to the public, Martha Kearney, in
WED       conversation with former government ministers, reveals the
WED       truth behind the headlines from 1979.
WED       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4
WED       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wm (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00pf5y9 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00pfks8 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00pg52h (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett looks back over the media year with former
WED       Times editor Simon Jenkins, The Sun's former political
WED       editor Trevor Kavanagh, Mehdi Hasan, the senior politics
WED       editor for the New Statesman, and Emily Bell of The
WED       Guardian. They discuss the Telegraph's handling of the MPs
WED       expenses scandal, the coverage of the BBC executive pay
WED       revelations, libel laws and privacy, and The Sun changing
WED       sides from Labour to the Conservatives.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00pfkvj (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5cx (Listen)
WED       What Did I Say?
WED       By Mark Lawson. When Max Coleman is suspended from work
WED       for an allegedly offensive remark, he just can't figure
WED       out what on earth he might have said.
WED       Max Coleman ...... Neil Pearson
WED       Juliet Coleman ...... Amy Marston
WED       Chubbs ...... Piers Wehner
WED       Tom Neades ...... Chris McHallem
WED       Susan Brogan ...... Aine McCartney
WED       Alice Irvine ...... Tessa Nicholson
WED       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00pg5cz (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on saving
WED       and investing.
WED       Guests:
WED       Graham Hooper, head of marketing, Bestinvest
WED       Clare Francis, site editor, Moneysupermarket
WED       Justin Urquhart Stewart, managing director, Seven
WED       Investment Management.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqt (Listen)
WED       Bright Young Things, The Garden Party
WED       Series of three classic short stories celebrating the
WED       riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the
WED       1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'.
WED       By Katherine Mansfield. A lavish party at the luxurious
WED       Sheridan family home is jeopardised when a local workman
WED       meets with a tragic death.
WED       Read by Romola Garai.
WED       Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
WED       
WED       15:45 A View Through a Lens b00gsv4v (Listen)
WED       Poyang Lake
WED       Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view
WED       of life as he finds himself in isolated and often
WED       dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife.
WED       Having set up his hide at the edge of Poyang Lake in
WED       China, John waits for dawn and watches the birds nearby as
WED       he reflects on everyday miracles like feathers, boatmen
WED       and Chinese worms.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00pg5d1 (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00pg4xj (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl35 (Listen)
WED       30th December 1989
WED       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
WED       years ago.
WED       The lavish home of Romanian dictator Ceausescu is revealed
WED       to the world.
WED       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00pfl5s (Listen)
WED       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
WED       Quinn. Plus Weather.
WED       
WED       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7n (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgn (Listen)
WED       Episode 5
WED       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
WED       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
WED       happening this 'once upon a time'.
WED       Mary Mary reports on a medical mystery involving and old
WED       woman who swallowed a fly.
WED       With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Fi Glover, Lewis MacLeod,
WED       Alex MacQueen, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan
WED       Tetsell.
WED       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
WED       
WED       18:30 Ayres on the Air b00m19m6 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Passion
WED       Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry,
WED       anecdotes and sketches.
WED       Featuring poems about the difficulty of getting a new
WED       mattress up the stairs - the heartfelt plea Don't Ask Me
WED       to the Wedding - and a poem dedicated to her husband,
WED       entitled I Still Haven't Given Up Hope.
WED       Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and
WED       Felicity Montagu for sketches about speed dating, trying
WED       to inject a bit of excitement into a relationship and how
WED       to pay your husband back when he interrupts your favourite
WED       Bruce Springsteen DVD.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00pfkvm (Listen)
WED       Ruth and Pip strike a deal.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00pfl96 (Listen)
WED       John Wilson reports on the new generation of British
WED       female singers and songwriters, who have celebrated
WED       success in 2009. He talks to Florence and the Machine's
WED       Florence Welch, Lily Allen, Natasha Khan, aka Bat for
WED       Lashes, La Roux front-woman Elly Jackson and Mercury Prize
WED       winner Speech Debelle.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pflxy (Listen)
WED       My Mad Grandad, Episode 3
WED       By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels
WED       and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in
WED       Lancashire.
WED       Grandad scares the life out of Gil with his tales of the
WED       trenches.
WED       Mum ...... Alison Steadman
WED       Dad ...... Matthew Kelly
WED       Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill
WED       Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham
WED       Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas
WED       Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell
WED       Gil ...... Stephen Rac
WED       Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney
WED       Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan
WED       Directed by Dirk Maggs
WED       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00pg5d3 (Listen)
WED       Justice Denied in the Civil Courts?
WED       Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal
WED       issues of the day.
WED       Civil Court cases, from personal injury to unlawful
WED       detention, are increasingly being settled out of court.
WED       The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has warned that the
WED       civil justice system is failing. But can the system afford
WED       to give everyone their day in court?
WED       An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Watchdog and the Feral Beast b00pg5df (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Sir Christopher Meyer, press watchdog until this year as
WED       chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former
WED       press secretary at Number 10, discusses the role of the
WED       press today. Is the press today freedom's guardian or is
WED       it a 'feral beast', as Tony Blair described the media at
WED       the end of his premiership?
WED       Sir Christopher draws on his personal experience as press
WED       watchdog and government spokesman. In his six years
WED       chairing the PCC, where he dealt with complaints against
WED       newspapers and magazines, he championed a free press and
WED       self-regulation, but had to contend with controversies
WED       that sometimes strained people's trust in the press.
WED       His health check on the press comes at a time when opinion
WED       is polarised. Is the press out of control or is it more
WED       constrained than ever before by the law? Is the press
WED       destroying trust in our democracy or are politicians
WED       giving the press undue importance by courting editors and
WED       journalists? Is the press too powerful or is it vulnerable
WED       because of competition from the internet, much of it free
WED       and unregulated?
WED       And now that the printed word and audio-visual content
WED       appear together on the same website, what is the future
WED       for self-regulation by the press?
WED       
WED       21:00 The Eureka Years b00g3t1f (Listen)
WED       Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of
WED       Christmas, with balloons, stars and a stockingful of toys.
WED       He travels to the town of Lauscha in Germany, where glass
WED       baubles are still blown by hand, a tradition that goes
WED       back to the mid-1830s. Adam finds a dizzying description
WED       of the first Christmas tree lit by electric light bulbs,
WED       looks at X-rays of teddy bear skeletons and pulls a
WED       cracker in the name of scientific investigation.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00pg52c (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00pfmkl (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmg (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
WED       Shah.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8g (Listen)
WED       The True Deceiver, Episode 3
WED       Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
WED       Eyebrows are raised in the village as Katri and Mats spend
WED       more and more time at the rabbit house.
WED       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
WED       A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 All Bar Luke b00pg5dh (Listen)
WED       Christmas Special
WED       Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key.
WED       Luke ferries Lee and Hayley between Christmas dinners with
WED       their parents nursing family conflict, marital breakdown
WED       and his own broken heart in typically fumbling style.
WED       An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:30 A Life With ... b00lsyql (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Ospreys
WED       Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to the Highlands of
WED       Scotland to meet Roy Dennis OBE, statesman of British
WED       conservation, who has spent a life with ospreys - the
WED       iconic fish hawks which are slowly returning to Britain.
WED       Paul asks Roy what other creatures he would like to see
WED       back in the British countryside.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00pf3ng (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvws (Listen)
THU       Episode 3
THU       Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin,
THU       expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy.
THU       Prof Jerry Coyne's main research scours the heart of
THU       Darwin's great work, On the Origin of Species. Using the
THU       humble fruit fly, case study of so much modern biology,
THU       Jerry's team seek to understand the mechanism by which
THU       related generations first become 'reproductively
THU       isolated'; in other words, how does a new species emerge?
THU       Over the years Jerry has, therefore, been embroiled in
THU       plenty of the discussion surrounding Intelligent Design.
THU       He tells Darwin about the huge body of evidence that has
THU       been discovered in the century since that supports his
THU       theory.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xm (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.]
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3ss (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zx (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y7 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00pf416 (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43v (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00pf4tw (Listen)
THU       Geoff and Sue Nicholls began farming their 25 acre
THU       smallholding in Devon back in January 2009, and throughout
THU       the year Farming Today has been following their progress.
THU       From a humble beginning with a handful of cattle, some
THU       chickens and the beginnings of a small orchard, we
THU       discover how the agricultural year has gone for Geoff and
THU       Sue as they endeavoured to forge their new beginning.
THU       Sarah Swadling pays a final visit to their smallholding as
THU       Geoff and Sue reflect on their first year in farming.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00pf4x0 (Listen)
THU       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00pg5dr (Listen)
THU       Mary Wollstonecraft
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and
THU       Barbara Taylor discuss the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xp (Listen)
THU       Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 4
THU       Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read
THU       from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence.
THU       Gauguin finally joins Vincent in the yellow house in
THU       Arles. Initially the arrangement is beneficial to both
THU       artists but their relationship soon begins to deteriorate,
THU       in parallel with Vincent's state of mental health.
THU       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nj (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Celebrating women poets and their
THU       writing. Including drama: My Mad Grandad.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00pg5fg (Listen)
THU       The documentary series that gives a human dimension to the
THU       big international stories making the headlines.
THU       
THU       11:30 The Frost Collection b00pg5fj (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Episode 2
THU       Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most
THU       memorable interviews of his long career. With Sir Tim
THU       Rice, Imogen Stubbs and Anne Atkins.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00pf5wp (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00pf5yc (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00pfksb (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Questions, Questions b00pg5fl (Listen)
THU       Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from
THU       everyday life.
THU       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00pfkvm (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.]
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5fn (Listen)
THU       Fireworks at the Villa Lucia
THU       Comedy drama by Paul Mendelson.
THU       When Pete, a struggling TV writer, and his wife Julie find
THU       themselves staying in the same Italian villa as cult movie
THU       director David Joe Jakes, he tries to sell his dog-eared
THU       screenplay as the true story of how he met his wife. The
THU       fireworks begin when he pressgangs his wife into
THU       pretending to be a fiery, psychotic, Venezuelan ex-soap
THU       star, while he masquerades as her psychoanalyst.
THU       With Philip Whitchurch, Samantha Bond, Kerry Shale, Megg
THU       Nicol.
THU       Pete ...... Philip Whitchurch
THU       Julie/Julia ...... Samantha Bond
THU       David ...... Kerry Shale
THU       Cassie ...... Megg Nicol
THU       Lucia/Mrs Booth ...... Flamina Cinque
THU       Elio/Eric ...... Dan Starkey
THU       Directed by David Ian Neville.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00pdjy1 (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.]
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00pdz18 (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.]
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqw (Listen)
THU       Bright Young Things, Bernice Bobs Her Hair
THU       Series of three classic short stories celebrating the
THU       riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the
THU       1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'.
THU       By F Scott Fitzgerald. The dowdy Bernice becomes a
THU       'society vampire' after guidance from her popular cousin
THU       Marjorie. But when the new party girl Bernice begins to
THU       threaten her cousin's own popularity, Marjorie lays a
THU       fiendish trap for her gullible cousin.
THU       Read by Laurel Lefkow.
THU       Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
THU       
THU       15:45 A View Through a Lens b00h4d2v (Listen)
THU       Flying Elk
THU       Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view
THU       of life as he finds himself in isolated and often
THU       dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife.
THU       John films a flight from Sweden to Scotland. But this is
THU       no ordinary flight as his companions include two moose,
THU       and in order to fit the moose in the plane the toilet had
THU       to be removed and the moose seduced.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00pf0kb (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.]
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00pg5g5 (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper looks into the continuing role of
THU       enthusiasts at the front line of research.
THU       Related Links
THU       * The British Trust for Ornithology (www.bto.org)
THU       * 'Nature’ journal (www.nature.com)
THU       * British Science Association CREST Awards
THU       (www.britishscienceassociation.org)
THU       * Society for Amateur Scientists (USA) (www.sas.org)
THU       * Society for Popular Astronomy (www.popastro.com)
THU       * Tom Boles’ observatory (myweb.tiscali.co.uk)
THU       
THU       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl37 (Listen)
THU       31st December 1989
THU       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
THU       years ago.
THU       A new Europe sees in a new year.
THU       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00pfl5v (Listen)
THU       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
THU       Quinn. Plus Weather.
THU       
THU       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7q (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgq (Listen)
THU       Episode 6
THU       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
THU       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
THU       happening this 'once upon a time'.
THU       Mary Mary has shocking news of an egg on a wall.
THU       With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Lewis MacLeod, Alex
THU       MacQueen, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell.
THU       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
THU       
THU       18:30 Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium,
THU       Series 1 of b00pg5g7 (Listen)
THU       Planet Earth
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       As the decade teeters on the edge of its own existence,
THU       Andy looks at the planet we live on and the people who
THU       live on it and judges whether or not the world is still
THU       fit for purpose.
THU       With Rory Bremner, Bridget Christie, Lucy Montgomery and
THU       Kim Wall.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00pfkvp (Listen)
THU       Jazzer finally cuts to the chase.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00pfl98 (Listen)
THU       Mark Lawson talks to leading actors about their choices of
THU       work and the power of directors, with guests including
THU       Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins and Clint Eastwood.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pfly0 (Listen)
THU       My Mad Grandad, Episode 4
THU       By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels
THU       and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in
THU       Lancashire.
THU       Gil gets his Saturday gobstopper and discovers why parents
THU       like Sunday school.
THU       Mum ...... Alison Steadman
THU       Dad ...... Matthew Kelly
THU       Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill
THU       Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham
THU       Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas
THU       Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell
THU       Gil ...... Stephen Rac
THU       Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney
THU       Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan
THU       Directed by Dirk Maggs
THU       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00pg5pg (Listen)
THU       The home secretary has admitted that the government had
THU       been 'maladroit' in its past handling of immigration.
THU       Ministers hope what they call their 'tough' new
THU       points-based system of allocating visas will restore the
THU       public's faith in their ability to manage migration. Phil
THU       Kemp investigates claims that, far from strengthening our
THU       borders, the new rules have made it easier to play the
THU       system.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00pg5pj (Listen)
THU       Project Alcatraz
THU       What makes a businessman turn gangsters into employees?
THU       Peter Day talks to Alberto Vollmer of the Santa Teresa Rum
THU       Company in Venezuela. He tells Peter how the theft of a
THU       security guard's gun led him to set up a project which has
THU       cut crime in his area by 40 per cent and has now become an
THU       integral part of this 200-year-old family business.
THU       Related Links
THU       * Project Alcatraz (www.proyectoalcatraz.org)
THU       * Alo Presidente (www.alopresidente.gob.ve)
THU       Contributors to this programme:
THU       Alberto Vollmer
THU       Santa Teresa Rum Company
THU       Jordan Piper
THU       Employee and Project Alcatraz member
THU       Willman Gustares
THU       Employee and Project Alcatraz member
THU       Julie Ball, Alberto Vollmer and Peter Day
THU       
THU       21:00 Legion Of Swine b00pgn1b (Listen)
THU       Telling the story of the 2009 swine flu epidemic - from
THU       the point of view of the virus itself. A mixture of poetry
THU       and science reveals the devious route this strain of
THU       influenza has followed from its distant relative, the
THU       Spanish Flu which killed millions after the First World
THU       War, into birds and pigs and back into humans and around
THU       the world. What has the virus got to say for itself?
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00pg5dt (Listen)
THU       Mary Wollstonecraft
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and
THU       Barbara Taylor discuss the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00pfmkn (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmmj (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Felicity
THU       Evans.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8j (Listen)
THU       The True Deceiver, Episode 4
THU       Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
THU       Katri takes action which changes the lives of Mats and
THU       Anna as well as her own.
THU       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
THU       A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 UK Confidential b00pg52f (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday.]
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 1 JANUARY 2010
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00pf3nj (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:15 Dear Darwin b00gdvx8 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 4
FRI       Five leading scientists address letters to Charles Darwin,
FRI       expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy.
FRI       Dr Peter Bentley, who works at the cutting edge of digital
FRI       biology, tells Darwin about the emerging field of
FRI       evolutionary computing. Peter tells of how Darwin's
FRI       elegantly simple algorithm lies at the heart of so much
FRI       complexity in our world, and how abstracting it from 'wet'
FRI       biology and into the digital realm allows this most
FRI       powerful of natural processes to be harnessed in industry,
FRI       finance, medicine and even one day perhaps to construct
FRI       true artificial life; self replicating, self-designing,
FRI       self-adapting, self-repairing, self-everything devices.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00ph6xp (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.]
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pf3sv (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pf3zz (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pf3y9 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00pf418 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pf43x (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00pf4ty (Listen)
FRI       Anna Hill follows the progress of Dameon Layt, a new
FRI       entrant to farming. He began keeping sheep at the
FRI       beginning of 2009 and producing gourmet lamb burgers. But
FRI       the transition to full time farmer is not yet complete, as
FRI       he cannot afford to give up his other paid employment.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00pf4x2 (Listen)
FRI       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00pdz1n (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.]
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00ph6xr (Listen)
FRI       Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Episode 5
FRI       Mark Rylance, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Julius D'Silva read
FRI       from a new edition of Van Gogh's prodigious correspondence.
FRI       Vincent is recovering in hospital following the incident
FRI       in which he severed his own earlobe. Gauguin has left the
FRI       yellow house in Arles for good, but the two artists still
FRI       correspond. Although Vincent recovers physically from the
FRI       incident, he decides to commit himself to a mental asylum
FRI       only weeks after leaving hospital.
FRI       Abridged by Doreen Estall.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00pf5nl (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Julian Fellowes and Jenny Uglow discuss
FRI       life above and below stairs and Ivan Day cooks food fit
FRI       for a society dinner. Including drama: My Mad Grandad.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Spitting In Russian b00pg5pn (Listen)
FRI       At the height of its success in the 1980s, Spitting Image
FRI       commanded audiences from around the world. The Russians
FRI       decided that they would like to have their own version of
FRI       the show and came to London to learn the magical art of
FRI       making political puppets. Now Roger Law heads to Moscow to
FRI       track them down and find out what happened to their risky
FRI       satirical venture.
FRI       Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pg5r6 (Listen)
FRI       Series 5, Keep Fit
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       Not one to turn down a free dinner, when Arthur sees an
FRI       advert in the paper for free trial membership of a new
FRI       gym, there's no stopping him. There's just one thing - to
FRI       qualify he has to get the doctor to give him a clean bill
FRI       of health. Still, that won't be a problem. Or will it?
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 Food and Farming Awards b00nz1bf (Listen)
FRI       A special 10th anniversary edition of the BBC Food and
FRI       Farming Awards with an all-star line up including Raymond
FRI       Blanc, Alex James and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
FRI       After sifting through thousands of nominations a team of
FRI       judges has spent the last few weeks travelling around the
FRI       UK visiting this year's finalists, watching them at work
FRI       and tasting their food.
FRI       In the programme the winners in nine different categories
FRI       will be revealed. Find out who is producing the nation's
FRI       Best Takeaway, which pupils are being served the best
FRI       school meals and who has won the much coveted title of BBC
FRI       Food Personality of The Year.
FRI       Sheila Dillon, presenter of The Food Programme, hosts the
FRI       awards, and is joined by two special guests.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00pf5yf (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00pfksd (Listen)
FRI       National and international news.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00pg5r8 (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 b00pfkvp (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.]
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5rb (Listen)
FRI       Lamia
FRI       Adaptation of Keats's sensual narrative poem about the
FRI       ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the
FRI       innocent mortal Lycius.
FRI       Narrator ...... Paterson Joseph
FRI       Lamia ...... Charlotte Emmerson
FRI       Lycius ...... Tom Ferguson
FRI       Hermes ...... Jonathan Keeble
FRI       With original music by John Harle
FRI       Singer: Sarah Leonard.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pg5rd (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are
FRI       guests of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in
FRI       Edinburgh.
FRI       They explore the delights of Alpines and meet members of
FRI       the Scottish Rock Garden Club.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 A View Through a Lens b00h9vgy (Listen)
FRI       Wolves
FRI       Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view
FRI       of life as he finds himself in isolated and often
FRI       dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife.
FRI       John travels to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to
FRI       film wolves hunting elk, something that has rarely been
FRI       seen let alone filmed. It is a hugely challenging task, as
FRI       temperatures plummet below freezing, but the results are
FRI       both exhilarating and shocking.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00pg5rg (Listen)
FRI       John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and
FRI       celebrating the life stories of people who have recently
FRI       died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and
FRI       interest from many walks of life, some famous and some
FRI       less well known.
FRI       
FRI       16:30 The Film Programme b00pg5rj (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock revisits some of her favourite interviews
FRI       and looks forward to the year ahead in cinema.
FRI       
FRI       16:56 1989: Day by Day b00pfl39 (Listen)
FRI       1st January 1990
FRI       Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20
FRI       years ago.
FRI       Gorbachev and Bush welcome a new decade.
FRI       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00pfl5x (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
FRI       Quinn. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pfl7s (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgs (Listen)
FRI       Episode 7
FRI       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
FRI       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
FRI       happening this 'once upon a time'.
FRI       It's New Year's Day and riot police are called in as the
FRI       Teddy Bears try to have their picnic.
FRI       With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Kate
FRI       Leyden, Lewis MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine,
FRI       Dan Tetsell.
FRI       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00pg5rl (Listen)
FRI       Series 29, Episode 6
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by the usual gang
FRI       plus lots of special guests, including Jon Culshaw, Jon
FRI       Richardson and Paul Sinha. Together they look back at the
FRI       big issues from the last twelve months – not least custard
FRI       probes, thieving seagulls and poisonous frogs
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00pfkvr (Listen)
FRI       Helen makes a New Year's resolution.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00pg5tl (Listen)
FRI       Kirsty Lang reports on a new generation of British
FRI       playwrights, with guests including Lucy Prebble, Polly
FRI       Stenham, Chloe Moss, Lucy Kirkwood, Ella Hickson and Alia
FRI       Bano.
FRI       FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS
FRI       Image: Toby Regbo and Bel Powley in the Royal Court's
FRI       production of Polly Stenham's Tusk Tusk. Photo by Johan
FRI       Persson.
FRI       ALIA BANO
FRI       Alia has recently won The Charles Wintour Award for Most
FRI       Promising Playwright for her play Shades, at The 2009
FRI       London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. It is about a
FRI       young, single Muslim woman living in modern London.
FRI       According to the theatre critic Charles Spencer, who was
FRI       one of the judges, ‘Shades turns out to be something both
FRI       special and unexpected - a Muslim Bridget Jones's Diary’.
FRI       Alia teaches A-Level and GCSE English in Haringey in
FRI       London. Shades is her first play. Her early work was read
FRI       at Theatre Royal, Stratford East during the BritAsia
FRI       Festival in 2005. She was subsequently invited to join
FRI       Soho Theatre’s Core Writing Group, and took part in the
FRI       Royal Court’s Unheard Voices programme in 2008. Alia is
FRI       currently part of the National Theatre’s New Connections
FRI       Programme 2011.
FRI       POLLY STENHAM
FRI       Polly was 19 when she wrote her first play That Face which
FRI       received
FRI       its world premiere in 2007 at the Royal Court, starring
FRI       Lindsay Duncan.
FRI       When the play transferred to the West End, Polly became at
FRI       the age of 21, the youngest playwright since Christopher
FRI       Hampton in 1966 to achieve such a feat.
FRI       She went on to win both the Evening Standard’s Charles
FRI       Wintour Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising
FRI       Playwright as well as the TMA Award for Best Play. The
FRI       original cast of That Face were nominated for the Laurence
FRI       Olivier Outstanding Achievement in an Affliliate Theatre
FRI       Award, and the West End transfer was recently nominated
FRI       for the Laurence Olivier Best New Play Award.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pfly2 (Listen)
FRI       My Mad Grandad, Episode 5
FRI       By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels
FRI       and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in
FRI       Lancashire.
FRI       Gil's mysterious and mischievous Grandad reveals a miracle
FRI       egg and cons the local Conservative Club.
FRI       Mum ...... Alison Steadman
FRI       Dad ...... Matthew Kelly
FRI       Old Gil ...... Bernard Hill
FRI       Grandad ...... Kenneth Cranham
FRI       Haryley ...... Johnny Vegas
FRI       Mercy ...... Gwyneth Powell
FRI       Gil ...... Stephen Rac
FRI       Kenny ...... Joshua Swinney
FRI       Muffin ...... Tomas Brennan
FRI       Directed by Dirk Maggs
FRI       A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Correspondents Look Ahead b00pg5tn (Listen)
FRI       Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top
FRI       correspondents to give their predictions about what will
FRI       shape our world in the year ahead. Will the global economy
FRI       turn the corner and rejoin the path to growth? Will the US
FRI       and its allies defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan or will
FRI       they pull out? And will China start to assert its
FRI       new-found power across Asia?
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00pg5tq (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Afternoon Play b00pg5ts (Listen)
FRI       Big in Samoa
FRI       By Marcy Kahan. Dog walker Caleb's life is about to
FRI       change: an album he cut in his twenties and forgot about
FRI       now has a huge online following.
FRI       Caleb Swander ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
FRI       Rafe Swander ...... Hugh Bonneville
FRI       Lori Swander ...... Barbara Barnes
FRI       Theo Swander ...... Jack Crutch
FRI       Dina ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo
FRI       Jez ...... Sani Muliaumaseali'I
FRI       Molly ...... Janice Acquah
FRI       Guitarist ...... Louis Bamber
FRI       Original songs by Tarek Merchant.
FRI       Directed by Sally Avens.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00pfmkq (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00pfmml (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Felicity
FRI       Evans.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00phv8l (Listen)
FRI       The True Deceiver, Episode 5
FRI       Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
FRI       After the 'break-in' Anna adjusts to life in the rabbit
FRI       house with Katri and Mats.
FRI       Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
FRI       A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00pftm7 (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.]
FRI       
FRI       23:30 The Music Group b00kdtq0 (Listen)
FRI       Series 3, Episode 6
FRI       Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of
FRI       three guests to play the track of their choice for the
FRI       delight or disdain of the others.
FRI       Phil is joined by poet Grace Nichols and former Slade
FRI       frontman Noddy Holder. Noddy uses the record he brings in
FRI       to help explain his love of rock'n'roll, and Grace's
FRI       record offers a Caribbean take on Don Juan.
FRI       A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       Related Links
FRI       * Grace Nichols (www.bloodaxebooks.com)
FRI       * Derek Walcott (nobelprize.org)
FRI       * Galt MacDermott (www.galtmacdermot.com)
FRI       * The Trinidad Theatre Workshop (www.ttw.org.tt)
FRI       * The Patron Saint of Losers (www.johnotway.com)
FRI       This week's Music Group.
FRI       Come on feel the noise. In the last programme of the
FRI       present series, Phil Hammond finally gets to talk about
FRI       his own choice of music, at length. Cue laughter from
FRI       former Slade frontman Noddy Holder who is very familiar
FRI       with the object of Phil’s adoration and polite
FRI       appreciation of the comedy punk rock aesthetic from
FRI       Caribbean poet, Grace Nichols.
FRI       The other songs up for analysis include a cinematic slice
FRI       of shiny-suit-wearing rock’n’roll and a Trinidadian take
FRI       on Don Juan. Talk turns to calypso, standing up at the
FRI       piano and some toilet rolls are thrown in for good
FRI       measure. At times it gets a bit raucous, a bit wop bop a
FRI       loo bop a lop bam bam.
FRI       (The Joker of Seville, with words by Nobel prize winner
FRI       Derek Walcott, was written by Galt MacDermott and
FRI       performed by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1974.)
FRI       Music choices
FRI       The Girl Can’t Help It by Little Richard – Noddy Holder’s
FRI       choice
FRI       Sans Humanité by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop – Grace
FRI       Nichol’s choice
FRI       Beware Of The Flowers (Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You
FRI       Yeh!) and Geneve by John Otway – from Phil
FRI       
FRI